According to BIT (bit. com) market data, Strategy perpetual preferred stock STRC broke through $94 during trading, up about 30% from its June low. Strategy sold Bitcoin to pay dividends, repurchased $106 million in preferred stock, and increased its US dollar reserves to $4 billion. Strategy has not increased its holdings of Bitcoin for six consecutive weeks. Michael Sellers stated that Strategy will not issue new shares when the STRC falls below $100. The company has repurchased 2889300 STRC preferred shares for a total amount of approximately $25 million at an average price of $86.52 per share. Strategy plans to continue repurchasing when STRC falls below $100, and currently there is still approximately $975 million available for preferred stock repurchases. The repurchase funds will be raised through the sale of MSTR stocks and Bitcoin, with the goal of stabilizing the STRC price around $100.

Coinbase has released its Q2 2026 Solana Verification Node Operations Report, which shows that its Solana verification nodes outperform the network average in terms of profitability, stability, and infrastructure distribution. Coinbase pledged approximately 41.63 million SOLs through 23 verification nodes, accounting for 9.72% of Solana's total network staking volume. The nodes are distributed in 7 countries including the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, and Singapore.

Coinbase announced that it will suspend trading of six non US dollar trading pairs, LSETH-ETH, MINA-EUR, GRT-GBP, MASK-GBP, CHZ-USDT, and CRO-USDT, on August 6th. Coinbase Advanced Trade users in eligible regions can still trade these assets through the US dollar (USD) trading order book.

The S&P 500 index wiped out all intraday gains and turned downwards. （Watcher.Guru）

Cantor sees positive read-through for crypto custody providers, while FRNT says the breach could drive some investors toward bitcoin ETFs.