Elon Musk shares a video of a laser-eyed raccoon, driving meme coin Jimothy to soar, with its market capitalization once topping $18 million.

According to a report by The Korea Economic Daily, SK Hynix is preparing a shareholder return package totaling approximately 100 trillion won (around $71 billion), including share repurchases and cash dividends. The share repurchase portion is estimated at 40 trillion won (about $28.4 billion), accounting for just over 2% of total outstanding shares—close to the 2.5% stake the company issued for its U.S. ADR listing. This figure marks a roughly seven-fold surge from last year’s combined shareholder returns of around 14.3 trillion won, which included 2.1 trillion won in cash dividends and 12.2 trillion won in share cancellations. SK Hynix’s dominant position in the high-bandwidth memory (HBM) market, a core component of AI infrastructure, underpins its confidence in launching such a large-scale return program. The company forecasts this year’s revenue will reach around 345.6 trillion won, with operating profit of approximately 266.4 trillion won, representing year-on-year growth of about 256% and 464% respectively. During its July earnings call, SK Hynix stated that HBM4 shipments will officially ramp up in the second half of the year, while shipments of advanced-process general-purpose DRAM will also increase, pushing total second-half shipments higher than the first half. Earlier, HSBC noted that the implied earnings cycle for SK Hynix’s stock had plummeted from roughly six years to 2.7 years, describing its valuation as “excessively pessimistic.” The early, accelerated implementation of this shareholder return package could serve as a direct catalyst for a valuation recovery.

Citrini analyst Jukan wrote in a recent report that the market will shift to a short-term "bearish on storage, bullish on optical interconnects" trend, with some hedge funds already executing this strategy. The three key reasons are: First, South Korean leveraged ETFs have largely become ineffective, bringing additional selling pressure from concentrated redemptions by limited partners; Second, NVIDIA is reducing HBM configurations for Rubin Ultra, opting instead for optical interconnects to connect multiple racks. Even without improving single-rack performance, clusters can still maintain advantages, a logic that holds whether the HBM reduction stems from supply or demand issues; Third, the market has formed a consensus that storage prices will peak in the next two quarters. Jukan clarified that he remains bullish on storage in the medium to long term but slightly bearish in the short term, and currently holds no storage positions.

According to GMGN monitoring, Elon Musk today posted an AI-generated video of a giant raccoon with laser eyes, without directly naming any token. Crypto KOL Ansem replied "is that jimothy?", which drove Jimothy's attention and price rally. Solana ecosystem meme coin Jimothy has surged again, with its market cap once topping $18 million today, now standing at $15.4 million, up 257.3% in 24 hours and boasting a trading volume of $15.9 million. Jimothy is modeled after a real raccoon in Seattle, US, that has physical abnormalities due to a rare congenital condition. A local resident posted a video of it on July 14, which went viral with nearly 8 million views, spawning community creations including memes, murals and merchandise. BlockBeats reminds users that meme coins are highly volatile, primarily driven by market sentiment, community hype and narratives, and lack stable fundamental support, so investors should note the risks.

Berkshire Hathaway A (BRK.A.N) announced its Q2 2026 financial results, reporting revenue of $12.983 billion. Net profit reached $25.667 billion, a substantial increase from $12.37 billion in the year-ago period. The company’s 2026 investment income includes $10.9 billion in Q2 earnings. Earnings per share (EPS) for Q2 stood at $17,868. As of June 30, 2026, its insurance float totaled approximately $177.5 billion.

MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor published a post noting that only 2.6% of miners have signaled support for BIP-110, meaning the proposal has failed to secure widespread backing. At block height 961,632, nodes will reject blocks that do not signal support for the proposal. As a result, BIP-110 is expected to stall or potentially fork into an irrelevant entity, while Bitcoin will continue operating normally, functioning as designed. BIP-110 is a temporary soft fork proposal that would add seven consensus limits over its approximately one-year validity period, including restrictions on the length of new script public keys, the size of certain push data and witness items, and disabling some Taproot extension paths. The proposal aims to drastically reduce arbitrary non-payment data embedded in transactions—such as inscriptions and runes—thereby lowering node burdens, curbing spam data, and refocusing Bitcoin on its core monetary purpose.

According to GMGN market data, the Robinhood chain meme coin STONKBROKER once hit a new all-time high with a market cap exceeding $80 million, and has since pulled back to $75 million. It has recorded a 24-hour gain of over 43% and a 24-hour trading volume of $5.7 million. STONKBROKER, a Robinhood ecosystem project, has recently rolled out several major updates, including a launchpad for incubating ecosystem projects and Broker Box — an FWA-like feature that enables stock tokenization and card-drawing mechanics. These updates have drawn attention from KOLs including Ansem and the community, driving the coin’s market cap to consecutive new highs. Separately, OpenSea data shows that the floor price of NFT project StonkBrokers has risen to 9.75 ETH, with a 24-hour increase of over 28.8% and cumulative trading volume reaching 1,763 ETH. The project has a fixed supply of 4,444 pixel-style "stock broker" PFP NFTs (ERC-721 standard). Each NFT is bound to an ERC-6551 token-bound wallet, which is preloaded with tokenized stocks (such as TSLA, AMZN, NVDA, AAPL, etc.) at minting and can continue to receive rewards. BlockBeats reminds users that relevant projects carry significant uncertainty and high price volatility, so investors should exercise caution.