MicroStrategy bought another 2,530 $BTC($243M) at an average price of $95,972 last week!

Zcash co-founder zooko (@zooko) has published a post stating that external concerns over potential secret ZEC supply inflation are unfounded. Anyone can verify the current total ZEC supply of 16,848,458 coins on their local computer, with no need to wait months for such verification. The background is that Zcash is undergoing a protocol migration from Orchard to Ironwood, a process that led some users to mistakenly believe they must wait for the migration to complete to confirm whether an inflation issue exists. In response, Boston Zcash pointed out that Zcash’s "rotating wheel" mechanism is designed such that 100% of Orchard funds will never be fully migrated to Ironwood (due to factors like lost private keys), so "migration completion" itself is not the correct standard to judge inflation.

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions on Persian Gulf Marine Insurance and HormuzSafe Maritime Services Administration. The two entities provide insurance policies approved by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) for commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz, and accept digital assets such as Bitcoin to evade sanctions. OFAC also sanctioned eight shadow fleet vessels transporting Iranian crude oil and petroleum products, along with their affiliated companies. Since the start of this year, OFAC has sanctioned more than 100 vessels linked to Iran’s shadow fleet.

According to an official announcement, Binance’s US stock trading service will be temporarily unavailable as part of system upgrades for its partner broker program. During the upgrade window, users will not be able to submit stock trading orders. The system upgrade is scheduled to run from 18:50 to 21:30 on August 1, 2026 (East Eight Zone Time).

Per Bitget market data, South Korea’s KOSPI (Korea Composite Stock Price Index) erased over 5% of its intraday gains to fall into negative territory. SK Hynix is down 3.7%, while Samsung Electronics is up 2.6%.

The A-share ChiNext Index fell to 3200 points, down 5.3% on the day, erasing all its year-to-date gains after rallying nearly 35% earlier. (Jinshi)

According to EmberCN’s monitoring, following the U.S. stock market correction, a whale address has just opened a long position on Hyperliquid, totaling roughly $85.66 million. The position comprises $74 million in SP500, $6.8 million in MU (Micron) and $4.86 million in SNDK (SanDisk), and is currently facing an unrealized loss of about $370,000.