Bitcoin retail investor demand is near its highest level in two years, signaling renewed downside risk.

Garrett Jin, agent of the "BTC OG Insider Whale", commented on Arthur Hayes' comeback to lead a crypto AI project, stating: "His timing is impressive. Cryptocurrency is a game of cycles. Understand the cycles and ride the tailwinds."

According to Bitget’s market data, South Korea’s SK Hynix stock price’s decline widened to 10% in the late trading session. Affected by this, the Southern 2x Leveraged Long SK Hynix product dropped by 19.3%.

Unitree Robotics' trading volume exceeds 20 billion yuan, its price increase has fallen back to 463.66%, and its current share price is quoted at 850 yuan.

Newly released 13F regulatory filings show that Peter Thiel’s Thiel Macro LLC significantly built new positions in power, utilities, and energy-related stocks during the second quarter, indicating that as AI data center electricity demand continues to surge, some tech investors are viewing energy supply as a key bottleneck in the next phase. As of June 30, the fund’s U.S. stock holdings were valued at approximately $419 million. Of this, energy, power, and utilities-related positions totaled around $301 million, accounting for roughly 70% of the portfolio, making it the most prominent allocation in the second quarter. Specifically, Thiel Macro’s new positions include Argentine shale oil and gas company Vista Energy (valued at ~$75.91 million), U.S. power generation firm Vistra (~$59.13 million), American Electric Power (~$42.22 million), DTE Energy (~$40.29 million), FirstEnergy (~$39.90 million), and CMS Energy (~$39.56 million). Additionally, the fund holds approximately $3.67 million in nuclear energy-related firm X-Energy. Amazon remains its largest single holding, valued at around $118 million. Vistra is one of the representative targets in this year’s AI power trade. As major cloud providers continue expanding data centers, the market expects power generation assets, grid capacity, power purchase agreements, and nuclear energy revival to become key components of AI infrastructure investment. However, 13F filings only disclose long U.S. stock positions at quarter-end, and do not reflect short positions, full derivative exposures, or that current positions remain unchanged. Still, based on the portfolio structure at the end of Q2, Thiel Macro’s concentrated allocation to energy and utilities sends a clear signal for AI infrastructure trades: amid the ongoing expansion of computing power demand, power constraints will become increasingly hard for investors to ignore.

TikTok is developing a peer-to-peer (P2P) payment feature that allows users to transfer funds via direct messages. The development is evidenced by code from the U.S. version of TikTok, which reveals the feature has a fairly complete interaction design. Recipients can "click to accept" payments before they expire, while senders can check transaction status via push notifications or their inboxes. The feature also supports adding notes to payments, similar to PayPal’s Venmo function. A TikTok spokesperson stated that the feature is not being tested in any market yet and remains in early development. Currently, TikTok Pay is only available in Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand for payments on TikTok Shop, and there is no guarantee that the P2P payment feature will ultimately launch.

Former Ava Labs President John Wu announced a leadership adjustment on X, appointing Charley Cooper as the new president and Lydia as CFO, while Wu transitions to a senior advisor role to focus on long-term strategy and institutional relations. Cooper, who has backgrounds in the U.S. Department of Defense, CFTC and traditional financial institutions, plus over a decade of blockchain experience, is seen as the right person to drive Avalanche’s next phase of growth. As of press time, AVAX’s market capitalization stands at $2.77 billion per HTX market data, with its all-time peak hitting nearly $30 billion in 2021.