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🔥BNB Chain's new Layer 1: Expanding the ecosystem or competing with itself?
🔴BNB Chain has just announced its H2/2026 roadmap, focusing on a brand new layer-1 for high-frequency AI Agent transactions. Testnet end of 2026, mainnet early 2027.
🔴Target specifications:
- Over 100,000 TPS via parallel execution, with a long-term target of 1 million TPS
- Pre-confirmation under 50ms, finality under 1 second
- TxStream: remove public mempool, block MEV and front-running from the root
- PriorityLane: dedicated bandwidth for oracles, bridges, liquidations
🔴Will the new chain drain liquidity from BS

🔥Big Tech's AI CapEx is about to surpass US defense spending
AI CapEx of Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle is expected to reach 2.5% of US GDP in 2026, up from 1.5% in 2025.
By 2027, this figure is expected to rise to 3.2% of US GDP - surpassing US defense spending (~2.7% of GDP) for the first time in history.
5 tech CEOs are deciding to allocate capital for AI infrastructure on a scale larger than the national defense budget - a sign that the AI race has moved beyond the ordinary "corporate spending" category, becoming a factor shaping the structure of US GDP.

🇻🇳Vietnam launches AI model V-LLM: Leading in political analysis, topping V-Bench ranking
On July 6, VinUni announced V-Bench - a benchmark set evaluating Vietnamese language capability of LLMs, built on over 40,000 questions. Initial results with 15 models:
- V-LLM v1 (Vingroup): 68.00 points - ranked first
- Gemini-2.5-Flash (Google): 58.80
- Qwen3-235B Thinking (Alibaba): 58.23
Vietnam officially has a name on the LLM map. Detailed scorecard
- Basic Politics: 99.7 - near perfect, highest in the table
- Logic: 32.9 - lowest in the top 7.
The model is nearly perfect in textbook knowledge, b

🇻🇳Vietnam joins the AI model race: V-LLM launches, tops V-Bench ranking
On July 6, VinUni announced V-Bench - a benchmark set to evaluate the Vietnamese language capabilities of LLMs, built on over 40,000 questions. Initial results with 15 models:
- V-LLM v1 (Vingroup): 68.00 points - ranked first
- Gemini-2.5-Flash (Google): 58.80
- Qwen3-235B Thinking (Alibaba): 58.23
Vietnam officially has a name on the LLM map. Detailed score card
- Basic Politics: 99.7 - near perfect, highest in the table
- Logic: 32.9 - lowest in the top 7.
The model is nearly perfect on curriculum content, but reasoni

🔥Lean Ethereum - Vitalik has truly gotten serious about reviving $ETH
Vitalik announces the 'Lean Ethereum' roadmap update - a fan calls it the third biggest 'protocol overhaul' in Ethereum history, after only The Merge.
🔴Three core changes:
- Verification switches to recursive STARKs instead of direct re-execution, becoming an official core component of the protocol - while all parts vulnerable to quantum computers will be replaced with post-quantum secure solutions. The priority for quantum security has increased sharply; quantum-safe blob design becomes an urgent item.
- State structure i

🔥Aave explodes on Monad, attracting over $100M user deposit in just 48 hours
Aave V3 has just officially launched on Monad - a layer-1 EVM developed by former Jump Trading engineers, with a speed of about 10,000 TPS and a transaction finality time of about 800ms.
In just the first 24 hours, Aave surpassed $75M deposits. By 48 hours after launch, this figure exceeded $100M. For comparison, the total network TVL of Monad at the beginning of June was only about $359.5M - meaning Aave alone accounted for over 1/4 of the chain's TVL in just 2 days.
The main driver comes from incentives; the Monad

🔥First time in this cycle: The amount of $BTC loss position has become the majority
🔴According to Glassnode, 10.83M BTC are in a state of loss compared to 9.22M still in profit. The crossover signal appeared on 4/6 when the price touched $61.3K and so far the gap shows no signs of reversing.
BTC is currently around $61K, 51% lower than the all-time high of $126K October 2025.
🔴Why did this signal come earlier than previous cycles?
In 2022, the amount of loss only exceeded the amount of profit when BTC had fallen ~70% from the peak. This time, only -51% was needed to achieve that state.
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🔥SOL is about to undergo the biggest tokenomics overhaul in history
Solana currently issues ~65K SOL per day but only burns ~650 SOL. Hundreds of millions of transactions are processed on-chain daily while the token barely retains any value.
Two proposals, SIMD-550 + 553, were created to fix that, and Anza's CEO confirmed both will be deployed within 2026.
🔴SIMD-550: Halve supply reduction pace:
- Inflation reduction rate increases from 15%/year to 30%/year
- Inflation reaches the floor of 1.5% in 2.8 years instead of 5.7 years
- ~19M SOL will not be issued in the next 6 years (~$1.5B)
🔴SIM

🔴Gold and Bitcoin have been moving in tandem since late Q2
This is a notable reversal from the dominant trend across the whole of 2026. Throughout most of 2026, the market story was a strong divergence between gold and $BTC as the correlation coefficient between the two assets fell to its most negative level in years (at one point hitting -0.88, the lowest since 2022).
The correlation coefficient turning positive again since mid-June suggests that both are responding to the same factor—most likely overall market liquidity—rather than Gold continuing to play the safe-haven role while BTC i

🔴US IG Bond Issuance Hits Record - AI CapEx is the Main Driver
Total US Investment Grade (IG) bond issuance is forecast to reach $2.25T in fiscal year 2026, the highest in history - surpassing the previous record of $1.943T in 2020 (+15.8%) and up 24.3% from $1.81T in 2025.
Specific breakdown:
- Maturities: $940B
- Calls/Tenders: $310B
- Net supply: $1T - highest in data since 2012
Net supply $1T is the largest figure since 2012, far exceeding the $637B level of 2025 (+57%). This is a signal that US companies are ramping up long-term borrowing to finance capex - and the wave of data center/AI

🔴Disappointing June payrolls: +57K, lowest in 4 months, "fake" unemployment rate
June NFP only +57K jobs, far below the forecast of +115K - the weakest increase in 4 months, after 3 straight months of beating expectations.
The data for the previous two months were also heavily revised:
- April: +179K → +148K (-31K)
- May: +172K → +129K (-43K)
-> -74K jobs were removed from previously published figures.
🔴By industry breakdown:
- Professional & business services: +36K - still the main driver
- Social assistance: +25K
- Healthcare: +22K
- Leisure & hospitality: -61K - the main reason pulling NF

🔴US M2 money supply hits record $23.1T in May
US M2 money supply increased +$247.8B in May 2026, reaching a record $23.1T - the largest monthly increase since May 2021 (from Fed H.6 data):
- Year-to-date (YTD), M2 has increased +$698.6B - the largest increase in the first five months of a year in half a decade
- M2 is now $1.3T higher than the previous peak in March 2022 - the period before the Fed started aggressive QT
- Since 2000, the money supply has grown an average of +6.3% per year (CAGR)
In theory, the Fed is still in the process of quantitative tightening (QT) and keeping interest ra

🔴Americans are 'coping' with inflation by taking on debt
The Fed's recently released G.19 report shows U.S. consumer credit accelerating again after 1 year - Americans have been forced to rely on 'debt' to spend:
- Total consumer credit +$25B in March, rising to a record $5.14T (from $5.12T in February) - the largest monthly increase since 03/2025.
- Auto loans and student loans (nonrevolving) +$15B to $3.80T, growing at an annual rate of 4.7% (from 2.7% the previous month). Student loan debt alone hit ~$1.87T.
- Credit card debt (revolving) +$10B to $1.34T - the highest since 11/2024. This i

⚡️China's M2 money supply sets record at 242.75% of GDP - highest among major global economies
China's M2/GDP reached 242.75% in 2025, up from 232.38% in 2024. As of May 2026, M2 stood at 353.67 trillion CNY (~$51-52T), up 8.6% YoY.
In the US, this M2/GDP ratio is only around 100-110%.
This ratio is a legacy of the credit expansion program after the 2008-2009 crisis, with excess debt never fully resolved. The biggest problem is that despite liquidity easing, money still doesn't flow anywhere (including into risk assets).
Real estate, which has been the main credit absorption channel for decade