The USD/JPY pair saw a sharp short-term plunge, with an intraday decline of 0.5%.

According to South Korean media reports, on the first day that South Korea’s financial regulators imposed restrictions on individual stock leveraged ETFs, the trading volume of related products plunged to a quarter of the prior day’s level. Data from South Korea’s exchange KRX shows that on the first day of the new rules, the combined turnover of 16 individual stock leveraged and inverse ETFs reached 3.3071 trillion won, a sharp 75.3% drop from the previous day’s 12.4485 trillion won. Compared with the average daily turnover of 12.27 trillion won in July, the regulators’ strict control measures have clearly had an immediate effect in curbing capital flows. Excluding inverse products, the turnover of 14 major individual stock leveraged ETFs also fell by 64.4%, from 6.9354 trillion won the day before to 2.4686 trillion won.

According to a report by The Daily Telegraph, the United States and Israel are discussing a possible land blockade on Iran. Trump and Netanyahu are exploring multiple options to intensify economic pressure on Iran, and this plan is one of them.

According to Hyperinsight’s monitoring, the "Big Three" storage tokens have rebounded in sync with US stock indices today, but funding rates for SKHX, SNDK, MU, S&P 500, and XYZ100 have all turned negative. Converted based on current hourly rates, the 8-hour funding rates for SKHX, SNDK, and MU stand at -0.2544%, -0.0242%, and -0.0032% respectively; for S&P 500 and XYZ100, they are -0.0139% and -0.0075% respectively. In terms of position structure, the total nominal open interest (OI) of the Big Three storage tokens fell from $1.022 billion to $853 million, a decrease of roughly $170 million, or 16.6%. SKHX alone shrank by 29.5%; by contract count, SKHX, SNDK, and MU’s open interest dropped by 39.3%, 5.3%, and 4.2% respectively. In contrast, the total nominal positions of S&P 500 and XYZ100 rose from $752 million to $781 million, up 3.9%; their contract counts increased by approximately 1.0% and 6.6% respectively. With indices rising, positions expanding, and funding rates turning negative, new short positioning has become more pronounced. SKHX continues deleveraging: 43 multi-million-dollar long positions on SKHX cut their holdings by around $175 million, with 34 addresses liquidating their entire positions; net long reduction stood at roughly $117 million. Across the five assets, multi-million-dollar addresses recorded a net long reduction of approximately $161 million and a net short reduction of $271 million over the past 24 hours.

Tokyo-listed Quantum Solutions sold 1,000 Ethereum for $1.9 million and more than doubled its disposal cap to raise funds for its AI data center operations. Meanwhile, another crypto financial firm, Hyperscale Data, sold roughly 100 Bitcoin and established a Bitcoin-backed line of credit to support its AI data center project in Michigan.

According to Bitget market data, the USD/JPY currency pair has halted its downward trend. Earlier, it plunged sharply in the short term to a low of 158.53, with a total drop of over 150 pips. It has now rebounded to 159.43, erasing its intraday losses, and is currently up approximately 0.04% on the day.

Hyperliquid HIP-3 has completed the auction for the Naver transaction code, with the final transaction totaling 516.99 HYPE. The Naver in question refers to South Korea’s largest internet tech company, often dubbed “South Korea’s Google,” which boasts a strong local ecosystem advantage in the country, with highly integrated services spanning search, shopping, payments, and content.