QCP: Geopolitical Premium Rises, Crypto Market Position Vulnerabilities Increase

A whale who bought 257,928 $HYPE($902K at the time) at only $3.5 ~2 years ago is selling $HYPE for profit. Over the past week, he deposited 131,421 $HYPE ($11.77M) into #Kraken at $89.56 and still holds 140,506 $HYPE ($12.2M). Total profit: over $23M, with a 26x return.

Beating AI Express News: Ghostty creator Mitchell Hashimoto has announced scalability tests for his new terminal, Rex. Designed for long-lived sessions and remote connections, Rex allows terminal tasks to run continuously in the background. During the test, Rex maintained 10,000 active terminal sessions simultaneously, consuming approximately 3.8GB of memory while remaining responsive. The team has paused further scaling for now, with the next target being 100,000 sessions. At the 10,000-session mark, much of the overhead no longer stemmed from the terminal itself. The first bottleneck came from Linux’s file descriptor table, the system’s record of files and connections opened by processes. After terminal sessions exceeded around 5,000, each new process added roughly 512KB of overhead for this table alone, even though only about 4 file descriptors were actually used. Rex has since added a segment of C code to shrink this allocated space to the actual required size. Another issue was threads: Previously, Rex assigned one thread per active terminal session to wait for data, leading to excessive memory overhead at scale. Now, if a terminal has no read activity for 2 consecutive seconds, it is handed over to a shared thread for unified monitoring.

Crypto exchange Bitget held an offline event today to mark its 8th anniversary. Xie Jiayin, head of Bitget’s Greater China region, while reviewing the platform’s eight-year development journey, stated that Bitget has evolved from a single cryptocurrency trading platform into a panoramic exchange (UEX) covering diverse scenarios including stocks, commodities, and AI trading. As of the second quarter, non-crypto asset trading volume accounts for 40% of the platform’s total, with roughly one in four new users starting their Bitget journey via rToken. Looking ahead, Xie noted that Bitget will continue advancing its UEX strategy, expanding into more diverse assets and trading scenarios, and enhancing institutional-grade custody and over-the-counter (OTC) settlement infrastructure. The platform will leverage varied custody and settlement models to meet the distinct needs of different types of institutions, with institutional services remaining a key strategic focus for Bitget in the next phase. During the event, Bitget also disclosed progress on the third batch of rewards under its "Peer Program": total distributed rewards have reached $3,495,658, benefiting 2,277,318 users. Xie added that the platform aims to put "user first" into practice through product development, service upgrades, and user-centric initiatives.

Dongcha Beating AI News Flash: Semiconductor research firm SemiAnalysis has released a survey on China’s data centers, tracking over 1,000 facilities from more than 60 operators. The report estimates that by the end of 2026, China’s data center capacity will exceed 24GW, ranking second globally behind the U.S.’s 56GW. ByteDance alone accounts for roughly one-fifth, making it China’s largest data center tenant. ByteDance has leased over 4GW of data center capacity, with suppliers including ChinaNetCenter, China United Network Data, and 21Vianet. The report notes that as of early 2026, ByteDance still contributes around 90% of ChinaNetCenter’s revenue. ByteDance has also accelerated self-built data center projects, constructing large facilities in Shanxi, Anhui, and Inner Mongolia to reduce reliance on external suppliers. While China’s data centers have long been viewed as having high vacancy rates, AI server rooms remain in tight supply. This is because many old data centers lack sufficient power and cooling capacity, making it difficult to directly deploy high-power AI servers. Newly built large AI data centers are being leased up rapidly. Taking a 100MW data center as an example, excluding IT equipment such as servers, China’s construction cost is approximately $300 million, compared to $1.5 billion in the U.S. Facilities of the same scale in China are typically delivered in around 12 months. Compared to the U.S., which faces power supply and approval hurdles, the more prominent bottleneck for expanding AI data centers in China is the supply of advanced chips.

Bitcoin mining pool operator Foundry announced that its founder and CEO Mike Colyer is set to step down after seven years in the role. He will remain at Foundry as a strategic advisor for the next six months, assisting the company with its transition and CEO selection process.

Circle has partnered with Tereina, a financial services firm backed by SAP, to integrate USDC and EURC stablecoins into SAP’s enterprise payment software ecosystem. The integration will kick off with SAP Cloud ERP and be made available to eligible enterprise customers via SAP Pay. The collaboration aims to enable businesses to send and receive stablecoins within their existing SAP business applications and payment workflows without switching to a separate crypto asset system. USDC will be primarily used for USD-denominated payment scenarios, while EURC is intended for euro-denominated operations. Circle and Tereina plan to launch a customer validation project in the coming months, testing stablecoin payment functions for use cases including global payments and corporate treasury management.