Odaily Planet Daily reported that BlackRock's official data showed that the Ethereum holdings of its Ethereum exchange-traded fund ETHA have exceeded 3 million, reaching 3,018,770.6834 ETH as of July 29, worth approximately US$11,358,336,010.07.

Odaily Planet Daily reported that after the Japanese listed company Metaplanet increased its holdings of 780 BTC today, the company's total Bitcoin holdings have risen to 17,132, with a total investment of approximately US$1.73 billion and an average purchase price of US$101,030. The current market value of Metaplanet's Bitcoin holdings has exceeded US$2 billion, currently reaching US$2,030,005,469.

Odaily Planet Daily reported that Michael Saylor wrote that Strategy has determined the issuance price of its Stretch Perpetual preferred stock (STRC) and increased the issuance size from the original US$500 million to US$2.521 billion.

Odaily News Coinbase has completed its sixth acquisition this year in the form of talent acquisition (acqui-hire), introducing two core members of DeFi options protocol Opyn: CEO Andrew Leone and research director Joe Clark. The two will join Coinbase's on-chain market team and participate in the development of Verified pools and other on-chain products. Coinbase said that Leone and Clark are experienced in the DeFi field and have a deep understanding of the future development of the on-chain market. The Opyn team launched the first DeFi options protocol and developed Power Perpetuals and Squeeth products. It is worth mentioning that Opyn was sued by the CFTC in 2023 for allegedly operating an unregistered trading platform and eventually settled. This recruitment is part of Coinbase's strategy to promote the on-chain trading business. Since the beginning of this year, Coinbase has successively acquired projects or teams such as Roam, Spindl, Iron Fish team, Deribit and Liquifi. (BlockWorks)

Odaily News Coinbase International Exchange and Coinbase Advanced have officially opened PUMP-PERP perpetual contract trading.

Odaily News Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced on the X platform that the company has partnered with Perplexity to help traders obtain real-time trusted encrypted data information to make better decisions. The first phase has been launched today. Perplexity is currently obtaining Coinbase's market data, including COIN50, and using it to support market analysis. Users can double-click to view price changes and make more informed trading decisions. The second phase is coming soon, which will allow traders to monitor market activity, screen trading ideas and analyze the trends of specific tokens in an artificial intelligence dialogue interface.

Odaily News Coinbase International announced the launch of SAHARA and SYRUP perpetual contracts.

Odaily News According to official news from the Bureau, Coinbase Derivatives plans to launch a perpetual contract business in the United States on July 21. It is reported that this is a US futures product suite that will closely track spot prices, provide leverage, and comply with the regulations of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). This will be one of the first such products in the United States, aiming to fill a key gap in the domestic derivatives market.

Odaily News According to people familiar with the matter, Apple executives have discussed internally about acquiring Perplexity AI. If an agreement is reached, it will help Apple develop an AI-based search engine. Apple also has a backup plan. If the acquisition fails, it will "form a group" to make Perplexity a search engine option for Apple Safari. Previously, Zuckerberg's Meta gave up negotiations to advance the acquisition of Perplexity and instead invested approximately $14 billion in Scale AI to acquire a 49% stake. (Bloomberg)

Odaily News The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has taken its first action against a tech company for alleged copyright infringement, threatening legal action against artificial intelligence search engine startup Perplexity, saying it has evidence that Perplexity's "default AI model" was trained using BBC content. The BBC said it may seek a court injunction unless Perplexity stops crawling all BBC content and proposes a "financial compensation plan" to make up for the intellectual property infringement. (Financial Times)