According to BlockBeats, three major central banks, including the Federal Reserve, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England, will hold policy meetings this week, and the results of each central bank are expected to be at least different. The Bank of Japan will be the first to announce its decision on Wednesday, and analysts are currently divided on whether the Bank of Japan will raise its policy rate from the current 0%-0.1% or signal an upcoming rate hike. The Federal Reserve will announce its interest rate decision in the early hours of Thursday morning, Eastern Time 8. Although few people think that the Fed will start cutting interest rates immediately, almost everyone expects the Fed to indicate that it will cut interest rates at its next meeting in mid-September. The Bank of England will announce its policy decision early Thursday afternoon, and even if the Bank of England does cut interest rates, it may indicate that it is taking a very cautious approach, that is, suggesting to the market that a series of loose policies should not be expected.
According to Odaily Planet Daily, Bloomberg analyst James Seyffart clarified that Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust (BTC) is currently only expected to start trading tomorrow, but it still needs to obtain final approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The regulator needs to confirm that the relevant prospectus documents are valid, and the results are expected to be given after the market closes today or before and after the close.
● QCP Capital: Market may be immune to Ethereum ETF outflows
According to Odaily Planet Daily, QCP Capital released a research report stating that after Trump's speech, BTC tested $70,000, but then fell below $67,000 as the US government transferred about $2 billion worth of BTC. Compared with BTC, ETH performed better, with ETH/BTC up 5%. Despite four consecutive days of outflows from spot ETFs, ETH's volatility premium widened from 4% last week to 8%. The market may be immune to capital outflows, and investors will shift from more expensive ETHE to cheaper ETFs. In the coming week, the FOMC meeting, earnings reports of large technology companies, and unemployment data will be the focus.
According to Odaily Planet Daily, Glassnode data shows that the number of bitcoins currently allocated to Mt.Gox creditors has reached about 59,000, accounting for 41.5% of the total 141,686 bitcoins. However, Mt.Gox creditors did not sell a large number of bitcoins, and only a small part of them were actually sold on the market.
● Report: Half of Latin American cryptocurrency users see it as a long-term investment
According to Golden Finance, a survey conducted by Binance shows that more than half of cryptocurrency users in Latin America regard cryptocurrency as a long-term investment and choose to hold digital assets. The survey surveyed 10,000 users from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico, and the results showed that 50.3% of the surveyed users (one in every two customers) prefer to use cryptocurrency as an investment tool. 18.8% of the surveyed users said they use these assets for transactions every day.
● Binance Labs announces investment in Monad ecosystem project aPriori
According to a Binance blog post, Binance Labs announced an investment in aPriori, a liquidity staking platform, with an undisclosed amount. The project focuses on developing a liquidity staking solution driven by miner extractable value (MEV) on Monad. The new round of financing will enable aPriori to expand its team, accelerate R&D efforts, strengthen security protocols, and further optimize blockchain performance for large-scale adoption.
● Binance Launchpool will support decentralized BNB assets on Binance Web3 wallet
According to the Binance announcement, starting from the next Launchpool, the decentralized BNB assets of the Binance Web3 wallet will be included in the Launchpool reward calculation. If the user holds a supported decentralized BNB asset in the Binance Web3 MPC wallet, then the asset will be counted as part of the Launchpool BNB holdings to receive rewards. At this stage, decentralized BNB assets support Staked Lista BNB (slisBNB) liquidity staking tokens.
● Binance Labs announces the first batch of projects to be incubated in the seventh season
Binance Labs announced the first batch of projects to be incubated in the seventh season, including the pledge asset liquidity protocol Astherus, the chain abstraction liquidity aggregation protocol CYCLE NETWORK, the scalable data availability network DILL, and the EigenLayer-based data and DeFi system EigenExplorer.
● OpenAI launches advanced speech mode for some ChatGPT Plus users
According to Foresight News, OpenAI announced that it has begun rolling out advanced speech mode to a small number of ChatGPT Plus users. The advanced speech mode provides more natural, real-time conversations, allows interruptions at any time, and senses and responds to emotions.
