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Citadel Founder: Has Eliminated Over 80% of Risks from Original Situational Awareness Portfolio

Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin has issued an investor letter to investors regarding the firm’s AI fund Situational Awareness, noting that he has eliminated more than 80% of the fund’s original portfolio risk via nearly 100 block trades. The fund has a total market value exceeding $4 billion, and Griffin has rapidly exited most of its vega risk. (CNBC)

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Tom Lee: BitMine stock has an 80% correlation with ETH, and ETH will outperform BTC in this cycle.

BitMine Chairman Tom Lee has published a post listing 17 large-cap stocks (each with a market capitalization exceeding $2 billion) that exhibit high correlation to cryptocurrencies, for stock investors seeking crypto exposure. Among these, BMNR has the highest correlation with Ethereum (ETH) at 80%, followed by COIN at 74%; MicroStrategy (MSTR) shows the highest correlation with Bitcoin (BTC) at 78%, with COIN ranking second at 74%. Lee stated that he expects ETH to outperform BTC in the current cycle, driven by tokenization and AI applications, noting that this rationale is far more significant than the factors that fueled ETH’s outperformance in previous cycles.

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A crypto whale holding BTC and ETH worth $80 million has generated an unrealized profit of $21.1 million over a month and a half.

According to monitoring by crypto analytics platform Yu Jing, a large whale entered long positions worth $80 million in Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) on July 6, when MicroStrategy’s announcement of selling its crypto holdings sparked a market sell-off, and has held the positions ever since. The BTC long position was opened at $62,353, while the ETH long position was opened at $1,762. Following the market rebound over the past two days, the long positions established by this whale a month and a half ago now hold an unrealized profit of $21.1 million.

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Hyperliquid Policy Center: Perpetual Contracts Are an Effective Supplement to Traditional Futures

The Hyperliquid Policy Center released a new research report stating that perpetual contracts act as an effective complement to traditional delivery futures. By analyzing weekend trading data of 205 Bitcoin and 19 on-chain crude oil contracts, the report found that perpetual contracts eliminate forced rollover costs, lower the crude oil trading threshold to 1/100 of that of traditional WTI, and deliver accurate price discovery functions during non-trading hours of traditional markets. The policy center also cited data to prove that the growth of the perpetual market has not caused statistically significant harm to existing benchmark markets.

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Citadel’s founder has issued an open letter, stating that over 80% of the risks of its original Situational Awareness portfolio have been eliminated.

Citadel founder and CEO Ken Griffin has issued an investor letter to investors regarding the firm’s AI fund Situational Awareness, stating that he has eliminated more than 80% of the original portfolio risk for Situational Awareness through nearly 100 block trades, with the portfolio’s total market value exceeding $40 billion, and has rapidly exited most vega risk. (CNBC)

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Tom Lee: More optimistic about Robinhood than Kalshi, as regulatory issues surrounding prediction markets are complex.

，Tom Lee 在接受播客采访时被问及「如果只能持有十年，你会选择 Robinhood 还是 Kalshi？」Tom Lee 回答表示，「会选择 Robinhood。他们拥有一种护城河，建立了真正与客户的联系。有时投资者低估了 Robinhood 用户界面的重要性。」Tom Lee 认为，预测市场上的监管风险是一个非常复杂的问题。它涉及地方监管机构和法院判决。

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