U.S. stocks opened, and the S & P 500 index fell 0.37%.

White House official: European Union trade talks continue, optimistic that a deal will be reached soon.

Brian Armstrong, chief executive of Coinbase, wrote: "Banks in the US are closed today [July 4th is Independence Day], and crypto works for you every day."

On the 4th local time, the spokesperson of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Naini, warned Israel that if Israel launched another attack, Iran would no longer have any "red lines". He said that Iran's rapid response had disrupted the enemy's calculations, and it was necessary to look at the target of the war to know who won and who lost.

According to the Financial Times, three sources said the US threatened to impose a 17% tariff on European Union agricultural exports, sharply escalating its trade conflict with the European Union. The US made the last-minute demand ahead of a July 9 deadline to reach a trade deal. The US has said it will impose a 20% tariff on all European Union goods if no deal is reached. European Union Trade Commissioner Sefcovic's meeting in Washington on Thursday...

Market news: European Union negotiators failed to make a breakthrough in US trade talks, European Union diplomats said the talks will continue until the weekend. European Union diplomats revealed that the size of the second round of countermeasures by the European Union has been reduced from the original 95 billion euros to 72 billion euros. European Union negotiators said that if a more comprehensive trade deal is not reached, the European Union will seek to extend the tariff suspension period.

According to OnchainLens, "insider whale" @qwatio has once again increased his short positions in Bitcoin (40x leverage) and Ethereum (25x leverage) after being partially liquidated 10 times in a row. He has lost $16 million on this trade, and overall, his total loss is now more than $14 million. The current size of its bitcoin short order position is $55,854,244, with a floating profit of $129,125.46. The Ethereum short order position reached $11,052,100.83, with a floating loss of $138,595.90.

Ethereum founder Vitalik wrote, "An interview with Roman Storm, co-founder of Tornado Cash (the 2019 FinCEN (US Financial Crimes Enforcement Network) guidelines that we rely on very much makes it clear that services that provide anonymization software are not covered by the license regulation of money transfer business...

Gold experienced temporary pressure in the previous session after non-farm payrolls data showed that the U.S. economy added significantly more jobs than expected and the unemployment rate unexpectedly fell. However, XS.com analyst Linh Tran said in a note that the report did not indicate overheating, but rather showed a relatively stable growth rate. Tran said that this was not enough to force the Federal Reserve to reconsider its wait-and-see stance on monetary policy, which is why gold prices ...

According to on-chain analyst EmberCN, a giant whale/institution has extracted 7.03 million FORM (about $19.82 million) from Binance to the on-chain address in the last half hour.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, on July 4th, 10 US Bitcoin ETFs had a net inflow of 2617 BTC (283.23 million US dollars), of which BlackRock inflows 2044 BTC (221.28 million US dollars) in a single day, the current total holdings reached 698,919 BTC (75.65 billion US dollars), and 9 Ethereum ETFs had a net inflow of 36,439 ETH (92.19 million US dollars).

Japanese clothing chain Mac House has reached a comprehensive cooperation with local crypto miner Zero Field to enter the bitcoin mining field. According to the agreement, Mac House will add mining business to the original "buy-hold" strategy to balance risks and increase profits. In the future, the two sides will negotiate specific operating plans and consider expanding into NFT and other fields. Previously, it was reported that Japanese clothing retailer Mac House plans to purchase $11.70 mill...

According to the chain analyst ai_9684xtpa analysis, the ancient giant whale that transferred more than 80,000 BTC today is not a roast cat, it is reported that the roast cat seems to have only started to make mining machines in 2012, and its public BTC address has BTC transfer dynamics in November last year.