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😱 Fake job interview led to $11,800,000 stolen from a crypto company Scammers posed as recruiters, ran fake interviews, sent a "test task" with malware - employee ran it on a work computer, hackers bypassed MFA and drained the treasury Never run code from a job interview on your work computer - ever 🫡

🍿 Peter Schiff says "sell everything" - STRC still below $95 despite Strategy selling Bitcoin and MSTR shares to buy it back Says Saylor will need to sell more BTC and MSTR at a discount to push STRC back to $100 The gold guy has been saying sell for 15 years - but this time the math actually checks out 👀

☠️ "Crypto is dead" sentiment hitting peak levels - words like dead, dying, over and finished flooding social media Fear and Greed at 29 - deep fear zone. Santiment says extreme retail pessimism historically signals accumulation opportunities as weak hands exit Crypto has died 473 times and counting 🗡

🇳🇴 Norway’s sovereign wealth fund quietly gets ETH exposure The Government Pension Fund Global disclosed 6.15M BitMine shares worth ~$81.9M, giving one of the world’s largest sovereign funds indirect exposure to Ethereum They didn’t buy ETH. They just found the TradFi button for it 😌

✏️ We are going up, 34, but still at Fear

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🚬Gate rolling out AI stock picks and Gate Card tokenized-stock redemptions 🔼 Gate Futures Stock Section debuts 5 new perpetuals including LG Electronics, NAVER and KODEX200 🔼 Executive Director Edwin Cheung: crypto and TradFi are converging faster - Asian demand for global AI stocks drives new growth 🔼 Gate Card expands rewards to XAUT and tokenized stocks - redeem points for NVDAG, AAPLG, TSLAG and more 🔼 USD1 holdings surpass $600M - Soft Staking pays an estimated 8% APR 🔼 gStocks tech names rally as SNXXG gains 26.66% - SanDisk and Circle tokens follow higher 🔼 Gate launches AI Picks for pre-market stock selection - AI-scanned ideas across US, HK and Korean markets 🔼 Gate launches Convert Lucky Draw Phase 20 and a New User Bonus - up to 200 USDT plus 100 USDT for first Convert 🔼 Gate brings GATE ZONE to Coinfest Asia 2026 - Bali sessions on AI, Pre-IPO and multi-asset investing 🔼 DOS Launchpool dual pools top $199M staked - GUSD pool combined APR of 11.11% as GUSD hits a record $256M 🔼 July Wealth Report: GUSD grows fast, Dual Investment tops 110% APY - SK Hynix leads holdings at 59.3% 🔼 Gate to launch Pipedog (PIPEDOG) spot and Convert trading 🔼 CryptoQuant: Gate leads July equity perp growth up 308% MoM - three straight months of triple-digit growth 🔼 CryptoQuant: Gate's $15B equity perp volume is led by AI memory and semis 🔼 Gate launches SOL and XRP Event Contracts - directional trades across four timeframes Gate is layering AI stock research and tokenized-stock card rewards on top of momentum the data already confirms 😮

🤪 Standard Chartered says their $100 UNI target for 2030 might actually be too low Daily revenue jumped 2.4x to $244k, burning ~$90M worth of UNI annually - about 4% of circulating supply per year Bank raises price target on DeFi token right after DEX volume hits all-time highs - makes sense 🤙

❔ VanEck says Bitcoin is approaching a cyclical bottom and is starting to accumulate positions Two of three GEO model indicators in neutral zone, leverage situation positive, sees current dip as normal 4-year cycle not a structural break. Also sees AI spending approaching $1T, gold consolidating not reversing, energy demand exploding from AI Asset manager with a Bitcoin ETF says Bitcoin is near the bottom - buy signal or obvious bias? 🤔

😱 Chinese Kimi AI scanned 501 Bitcoin ecosystem projects and found 8,000 potential issues - 1,280 confirmed critical or serious vulnerabilities AI is finding more Bitcoin bugs in weeks than humans found in 15 years 🤷‍♂️

😱 Hyperliquid user lost $550,000 USDC after clicking a Google ad that led to a phishing site Paid $550k to learn that Google ads are not security guarantees 👍

🕵️‍♀️ The U.S. wants private companies to help fight cybercrime Private contractors could be authorized to track and disrupt infrastructure used by foreign cybercriminals, under government supervision.A major target: transnational scam centers Cybersecurity is becoming a team sport 💊

👀 Nearly half of all Bitcoin is now underwater According to CryptoQuant, around 48.6% of BTC supply is currently held at an unrealized loss. Historically, getting close to 50% has been associated with deep capitulation, when weaker holders sell and long-term investors start accumulating again Half the market is underwater. The other half is calling it an entry 🐸

🤓 Oracle is integrating Quantinuum's Helios quantum computer into its cloud - rent quantum computing by the hour Combining quantum and AI for drug discovery, materials science and financial modeling Quantum computers going from classified labs to cloud subscriptions - the timeline keeps accelerating 😥

🇺🇸 Crypto is heading back to the White House On August 19, the White House is expected to host executives from the crypto and prediction market industries, with major Wall Street players potentially joining the meeting. The agenda and attendee list remain undisclosed When crypto, prediction markets and Wall Street meet at the White House, it's probably not for small talk 🚬

✊ Tether just completed its first full independent financial audit Conducted by KPMG U.S., the audit resulted in an unqualified opinion - the highest standard audit outcome. Tether calls it the largest inaugural financial audit in history Crypto Twitter just lost one of its favorite arguments 🚬