Hackers have launched a wave of cyberattacks on large Wall Street hedge funds, with Citadel Securities and Two Sigma targeted for attempted intrusions.

Strategy has released a video titled "Strategy's Ambition is to be the World's Largest Company In terms of market cap", stating its goal to become the world's largest company by market cap by holding the most capital (BTC), issuing the strongest credit (STRC), and creating the best equity (MSTR). Founder Michael Saylor remarked, "Think ?igger." Strategy plans to issue STRC to support its digital credit business, which will help generate higher-quality MSTR equity. This equity, in turn, will enhance the company’s ability to accumulate more BTC, forming a triple flywheel that continuously increases the number of BTC per share. Its core targets include achieving a 30% BTC annualized rate of return (ARR), selling digital credit equivalent to 10-20% of its BTC reserves annually, and doubling its Bitcoin Per Share (BPS) metric within 7 years through its digital credit operations.

Strategy has released a video titled "Strategy's Ambition is to be the World's Largest Company In Terms of Market Cap", outlining its goal to become the world’s largest firm by market capitalization through three core pillars: holding the most capital (Bitcoin, BTC), issuing the strongest credit instrument (STRC), and creating the best equity (MSTR). Founder Michael Saylor emphasized: "Think ?igger." The company plans to issue STRC to back its digital credit business, which will help generate stronger MSTR equity—enhancing Strategy’s ability to accumulate more BTC and ultimately drive a continuous increase in the number of bitcoins per share.

Coinbase released its Q2 2026 Solana Validator Performance Report, disclosing key metrics for its Solana staking operations. As of the end of Q2, Coinbase staked a total of 41.63 million SOL across 23 validators in 7 countries, accounting for 9.72% of the network’s total staked SOL. In terms of yield performance, Coinbase’s validators posted an annualized yield of 6.52%, outperforming the network average of 6.38% by roughly 14 basis points. Its reliability metrics were even more impressive: the block skip rate stood at just 0.035%, approximately a quarter of the network average of 0.136%, meaning it missed around 75% fewer blocks than the average validator. Coinbase attributed this strong performance to its use of only Solana Foundation-audited client software and its avoidance of aggressive MEV timing strategies that harm end users. On the infrastructure and security front, Coinbase disclosed several technical details: its client strategy covers four options—Harmonic, Jito, JitoBAM, and Firedancer—all 100% audited by the Solana Foundation; for security, it has deployed a dual-signature protection mechanism and near-zero downtime deployment protocols. Looking ahead, the entire validator cluster has been integrated into the DoubleZero network, with a session uptime of approximately 99.9%, and is prepared for the Alpenglow mainnet upgrade in the second half of the year.

Coinbase has announced it will suspend trading for six non-U.S. dollar trading pairs on August 6. The affected pairs are LSETH-ETH, MINA-EUR, GRT-GBP, MASK-GBP, CHZ-USDT, and CRO-USDT. The platform stated that the suspension only impacts these non-USD denominated trading pairs, adding that eligible Coinbase Advanced Trade users in supported regions can still trade these assets via USD order books.

Jeff Dean, one of Google’s earliest employees and a core figure who has overseen the company’s AI strategy design for the past 15 years, is leaving to launch an AI startup focused on scientific discovery. Dean joined Google in 1999 as its 30th employee. He will serve as CEO of the new non-profit entity Discovery Loop, which aims to accelerate technological progress by automating complex, multi-step scientific and engineering tasks. Joining Dean in the venture are fellow senior Google staff members Oriol Vinyals, Quoc Le, and Sanjay Ghemawat. The four have together driven major advances in mathematics and protein structure research, and rank among the most highly cited researchers globally. The departure of these talents, including Dean, further fuels Google’s recent trend of AI talent exodus. According to market data from BIT (bit.com), Google’s stock plunged 3% in the short term.

According to BIT (bit.com) market data, Strategy’s perpetual preferred stock STRC surged past $94 during U.S. trading hours, jumping roughly 30% from its June low. The recent rally is driven by multiple factors: Strategy’s sale of Bitcoin to pay dividends, its repurchase of $106 million in preferred shares, and its increase in U.S. dollar reserves to $4 billion. Additionally, Strategy has not added to its Bitcoin holdings for six consecutive weeks. Strategy founder Michael Saylor emphasized last week that the company will not issue new STRC shares when the stock trades below $100. To date, the firm has repurchased 288,930 STRC preferred shares for a total of roughly $25 million, at an average price of $86.52 per share. Strategy plans to remain a "regular and disciplined buyer," continuing repurchases when STRC trades below $100. It will increase its buying activity when the stock is far from $100, and reduce repurchase volumes as it approaches that level. Currently, Strategy has approximately $975 million available for preferred share repurchases. Funds for STRC repurchases will not come from its U.S. dollar reserves; instead, they will be raised via sales of MSTR stock and Bitcoin, depending on market conditions, with the goal of stabilizing STRC’s price around $100.