According to Hong Kong's Sing Tao Daily News, Anchorpoint Financial Technology, led by Standard Chartered Bank, is expected to launch a stablecoin HKDAP pegged to the Hong Kong dollar as early as the end of this month, which will be distributed through platforms such as OSL Group and HashKey Exchange.
[Ark Invest Increases Holdings by 170,600 Shares of SpaceX, Reduces 41,300 Shares of Robinhood]
According to The Block, Ark Invest purchased 170,600 shares of SpaceX on Monday, valued at approximately $20.5 million, as SpaceX's stock price dropped 3.3% that day. Meanwhile, Ark Invest sold 41,300 shares of Robinhood stock, valued at approximately $4.1 million.
[BlackRock Leads $12 Billion Financing to Support Meta's Texas Data Center Project]
According to The Wall Street Journal, BlackRock is leading at least $12 billion in debt financing to support a large-scale data center project in El Paso, Texas, in collaboration with Meta Platforms. BlackRock, along with its infrastructure and private credit business units, holds an 80% stake in the project, while Meta Platforms holds a 20% stake. The campus is expected to have approximately 1 gigawatt of computing capacity. JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley are underwriting the debt issuance. BlackRock previously spent $40 billion to acquire Aligned Data Centers. Recently, Meta agreed to lease an under-construction Aligned Data Centers facility in Hedgesville, Pennsylvania.
Grayscale has submitted a registration application for the Grayscale Worldcoin ETF to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, intending to launch the first ETF linked to Worldcoin (WLD). The fund will directly hold the World Network native token WLD and track its value through passive investment. If approved for launch, the ETF will be traded on NASDAQ. Bank of New York Mellon intends to serve as the transfer agent, while BitGo Bank&Trust intends to serve as the asset custodian. The current market value of WLD is approximately 1.3 billion US dollars. Worldcoin was later renamed World and co founded by OpenAI CEO Altman.
According to Bloomberg, the suspicious transaction amount marked on Polymarket from January 1st to June 30th this year was approximately $200 million. Polysights analysis shows that related transactions have characteristics such as creating new accounts and placing large bets, with geopolitical and war related markets driving abnormal trading volume growth. The top 1% of profitable wallets generate more than half of their profits, and 57% of related wallets are created less than 24 hours before transactions. Some traders have made a total profit of $1.6 million in the relevant markets of Iran and Venezuela through multiple associated wallets and order splitting operations, such as 38 associated addresses. Polymarket has handed over nearly 100 wallets to law enforcement agencies, and Kalshi has also strengthened identity and employment information checks.
Leading Solana MEV infrastructure protocol Jito experienced downtime early on Wednesday morning, causing base fees on the Layer 1 blockchain to jump.The protocol was quickly brought back to full functionality, the team said on X.