Data: Web3 social application Towns has over 400,000 total users, with over 200,000 token holders

According to HTX market data, Bitcoin briefly rallied past $82,000 this morning before pulling back to $81,100. Its 24-hour gain reached 5.19%, and its market capitalization rose to $1.63 trillion.

Flash News from Insight Beating AI: OpenAI has launched GPT-6 Astra, its new flagship model focused on computer operations and long sequential tasks. The model can independently operate web pages and software, completing tasks including information retrieval, form filling, spreadsheet creation, coding, and test execution in sequence. OpenAI claims this is currently the "world's smartest and most aligned" model. In official evaluations, Astra scored 97.6% on FrontierMath Tier 4. On the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark, it achieved 99.9% when paired with OpenAI's context management mechanism, and 62.7% under a unified standard framework. It earned 57.9% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, slightly outperforming Claude Fable 5.1's 55.8%. For computer operations, Astra's score on OSWorld 2.0 rose to 72.6% from GPT-5.6 Sol's 65.7%, while simulated task time dropped from around 75 minutes to 40 minutes. When paired with the new Codex, Mind2Web task speed reached 1.9 times the previous level. OpenAI President Greg Brockman stated that looking back in a few years, people may regard Astra or this time point as the starting point of AGI. However, the "world's smartest" label remains OpenAI's own positioning. In independent testing by Artificial Analysis, Astra max has an Intelligence Index score of 61, ranking 8th currently; Claude Fable 5.1 max scores 66, still leading. Astra is also OpenAI's first model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold. During testing, it discovered and exploited two previously unknown zero-day vulnerabilities. The initial release is limited to a small number of organizations. Access will be gradually extended to Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, API, and AWS users in the coming days.

Crypto trader Ansem says the hardest part of transitioning from a bear market to a bull market is that the strategies that helped you survive and profit in a bear market will end up losing you money in a bull market. If you’re still making money from short-term, high-frequency trading right now, that demonstrates strong trading skills. But to capture the largest gains of a bull market, you need to re-learn to "dream"—meaning daring to hold spot assets and embrace long-term positions. Ansem’s advice for those already profitable is to allocate a portion of their positions to long-term holdings, while using the remaining capital to continue short-term trading as usual. Meanwhile, Ansem once again posted to call for buying ZEC, stating that purchasing ZEC at $948 is equivalent to buying Bitcoin at $948. Per HTX market data, ZEC is currently trading at $948, with a 24-hour increase of over 16%.

According to GMGN market data, Robinhood Chain’s crypto-stock meme token ICOIN has hit a market cap of over $5.5 million, reaching a recent high and approaching its all-time peak of $5.8 million. The token has rallied more than 28 times in 24 hours, with a trading volume of $8.9 million. ICOIN is paired with tokenized U.S. stock Apple (AAPL). BlockBeats Note: Crypto-stock meme (Stock Meme) is an emerging concept merging traditional meme coins with tokenized U.S. stocks. Unlike standard meme coins paired with USDT or ETH, these tokens form trading pairs directly with on-chain U.S. stock tokens (e.g., NVDA, TSLA, AAPL). This model retains meme coins’ high volatility and community-driven speculative traits while leveraging real stocks’ popularity and narratives. A portion of transaction fees often flows back to the community treasury to accumulate corresponding U.S. stock tokens, creating a dual-driven framework of "sentiment speculation + real asset anchoring". Price volatility is significant; investors should exercise caution.

According to GMGN data, the stock-meme project NUDES on Robinhood Chain has hit a new all-time high with a market cap exceeding $23 million, surging over 113% in 24 hours and logging a trading volume of $13.9 million. NUDES is paired with tokenized US stock Snap, trading under the ticker SNAP. BlockBeats Note: Stock Meme is an emerging concept that combines traditional meme coins with tokenized US stocks: instead of pairing meme coins with USDT or ETH, they are matched directly with on-chain US stock tokens (such as NVDA, TSLA, AAPL, etc.). This model retains meme coins’ high volatility and community-driven speculative traits while leveraging the popularity and narrative of real stocks. A portion of transaction fees often flows back to the community treasury to accumulate corresponding US stock tokens, forming a dual-driven model of "sentiment speculation + real asset anchoring". Prices are highly volatile; investors should exercise caution.

According to TradingBeats’ monitoring, trader Loracle has opened 3x leveraged short positions on CASHCAT and PONS, with a combined short position value of roughly $13 million. As CASHCAT’s market cap breaks through $300 million to a new all-time high, and PONS nears its own $600 million peak, the trader’s unrealized loss has climbed to approximately $2.4 million. The CASHCAT short position is valued at around $6.6 million, with an average entry price of $0.23, leading to an unrealized loss of about $1.1 million. The PONS short position is worth roughly $6.3 million, with an average entry price of $0.47, and an unrealized loss of approximately $1.3 million. On-chain perpetual contract and address analysis tool TradingBeats is now live, supporting real-time access to Hyperliquid data, with in-depth analysis covering everything from address tracing to whale operations, all available at a glance.