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Alibaba AI Music Model "HappyShrimp" 1.0 Launches, Supports Full Song Generation Alibaba announced today the official launch of the AI music model HappyShrimp 1.0 (Chinese name "Happy Shrimp"), supporting end-to-end full song generation. The model can accurately understand natural language, transforming emotions, stories, or memories into complete music. Addressing pain points such as mechanical vocals and lyrics-melody misalignment, the model achieves breakthroughs in sound details and musicality, and can understand professional expressions such as "Lo-fi R&B" as well as emotions, scenes, and narratives. Effective immediately, the model is available simultaneously on the PC web platform domestically and overseas.
Harmony has released a rollback plan, planning to retain Shard 0 Block 92,730,034 and Shard 1 Block 94,978,278, both corresponding to 23:25:37 UTC on August 11, 2026. Validators will use a replacement database, and the new client version will reject the relevant anomalous block hashes, subsequently continuing block production from the new block height.
According to the official announcement, the Bitget TradFi Quanto Perpetual Contract has listed LENOVO (Lenovo), supporting up to 20x leverage and 7×24-hour trading. The TradFi Quanto Perpetual Contract supports users in directly using USDT to trade Hong Kong stocks and other non-USD denominated overseas stocks, without the need to exchange foreign currency throughout the process. The contract itself is quoted in local currencies such as HKD or JPY, while margin deposits and profit and loss settlements are both completed in USDT, effectively avoiding additional risks caused by exchange rate fluctuations while simplifying the trading process.
According to the official announcement, Huobi HTX launched ZHONGJI/USDT and NET/USDT perpetual contracts on August 17, supporting 1-20x long and short trading.
Odaily News: According to the official announcement, Bitget's stock perpetual contracts have been listed for CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies). These contracts are settled in USDT and support up to 20x leverage with 7×24 trading. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 273 stock contract instruments.
Baidu announced at AI Day that the official Chinese name of the AI product GenFlow is "Kuku AI". Official disclosures reveal that GenFlow's monthly active users in April exceeded 100 million, with monthly active users of workplace AI tools reaching over 25 million. To meet the rapidly growing AI demand in work scenarios, GenFlow is launching desktop, web, and enterprise versions, bringing general AI into professional workflows. This information was released by Baidu's official account.
According to the official announcement, OKX will list MOONSHOT/USDT Pre-IPO pre-market perpetual contracts on August 17 at 17:00.
Odaily News, the official interface shows that predict.fun has launched a Hang Seng Index up/down prediction market, allowing users to participate in daily Hang Seng Index movement markets, with settlement at 16:00 daily. Among these, the probability of the Hang Seng Index rising on August 17, 2026, has reached 99%.
According to The Guardian, the core report supporting Australia's teenage social media ban has been identified as containing multiple AI hallucination errors. The report was commissioned by the UK agency Age Check Certification Scheme (ACCS) at a cost of $3.48 million to test age verification technology. The Guardian's analysis revealed at least six errors in academic citations within the report, including links to non-existent papers and DOIs pointing to the wrong articles. ACCS initially denied using AI, then admitted to using ChatGPT to rewrite some paragraphs, but insisted that all citations were manually verified. Relevant Australian government departments have now intervened in the investigation, and experts warn that false citations could lead to incorrect decisions and damage public trust in government agencies.
According to Binance's official announcement, Binance will support cash dividends for Applied Materials (AMAT) and Microsoft (MSFT) to be distributed to holders of AMATB and MSFTB in the form of bStocks. After deducting withholding tax and related fees, the dividends will be reinvested and returned in the form of corresponding bStocks tokens. The snapshot time is 00:00 on August 20, 2026 (UTC), and users holding AMATB or MSFTB at that time are eligible to participate. The AMATB/USDT and MSFTB/USDT trading pairs will remain unaffected; however, deposit, withdrawal, and 1:1 token conversion services will be suspended at 23:30 on August 19, 2026 (UTC) and will resume after the distribution is completed.
According to Cointelegraph, AI company Higgsfield has completed $400 million in funding at a valuation of $5.4 billion. This round was jointly supported by Goldman Sachs and Intel, with news sourced from the UK Financial Times (FT).
Odaily News According to the official announcement, Gate's Event Market has recently launched a leaderboard incentive system, alongside the debut of an esports zone and the "Top Five Leagues Kickoff" campaign, further expanding diversified interactive scenarios such as sports and esports. The first phase of the points campaign will officially begin on August 17 at 18:00 (UTC+8). Users can participate after upgrading the Gate App to version v8.32 or above. The campaign adopts a "trade to earn cards—scratch cards for prizes—climb the points leaderboard—weekly settlement" mechanism. Users who complete valid event contract trades can earn scratch cards and have the opportunity to win USDT, event points, and experience vouchers. Additionally, the top 100 users on the weekly leaderboard will share the points prize pool based on their rankings.Meanwhile, the Gate esports zone aggregates popular tournaments such as Dota 2, League of Legends, CS2, and Valorant, providing centralized access to matchups, live scores, prediction odds, and trading information. It also supports event subscriptions and match start reminders, helping users easily browse and engage in event interactions.Furthermore, from August 12 at 16:00 to August 31 at 16:00 (UTC+8), Gate is hosting the "Top Five Leagues Kickoff Carnival" campaign with a total prize pool of 200,000 USDT. Users who participate in designated football event contracts can enjoy benefits such as kickoff gifts, loss compensation, and leaderboard rewards, further enhancing the interactive experience between football events and event contracts.
Odaily News, August 14 — The Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) announced a €70,000 fine against crypto asset trading platform Bitpanda. The FMA stated that this is the first legally binding penalty case under the MiCA framework. The FMA noted that Bitpanda violated Article 8 of MiCA by failing to notify the authority and submit a whitepaper at least 20 days before the relevant crypto assets were approved for trading. Additionally, Bitpanda issued marketing notices without first publishing the required whitepaper, in violation of Article 1 of MiCA. The FMA stated that MiCA has moved from mere regulation to the enforcement phase, emphasizing that even though Bitpanda is the first publicly penalized case, it will not receive special treatment. Markus Miller stated that a license can only build trust if the relevant rules are continuously complied with. (Bitcoin.com News)
According to the official announcement, the Binance Futures platform will sequentially launch 6 USDT perpetual contracts based on traditional finance underlying assets from August 17 to 18, 2026, as follows: • GDXUSDT (Underlying: VanEck Gold Miners ETF) — August 17, 13:30 UTC • NETUSDT (Underlying: Cloudflare Class A Common Stock) — August 17, 13:35 UTC • VSTUSDT (Underlying: Vistra Corp Common Stock) — August 17, 13:40 UTC • SHOPUSDT (Underlying: Shopify Class A Shares) — August 17, 13:45 UTC • LYTEUSDT (Underlying: Roundhill Photonics & Optical ETF) — August 17, 13:50 UTC • CXMTUSDT (Underlying: ChangXin Memory Technologies, SSE 688825) — August 18, 05:00 UTC The above contracts all support up to 20x leverage, 24/7 trading, and multi-asset mode, with funding rates settled every 8 hours, capped at ±2%.
Odaily News Pons announced on the X platform that since its launch one month ago, the platform's cumulative trading volume has approached $2.5 billion, with over 290,000 tokens issued and more than $15 million in rewards distributed to token creators. Additionally, Pons allocates 80% of protocol revenue to buy back PONS, and has so far burned over $9 million worth of PONS, accounting for nearly 30% of the total token supply.Furthermore, Pons expressed optimism about NFTs and their applications in combination with tokens, and is currently developing related products with two partners. In addition, Pons plans to open migration features for communities looking to conduct a CTO on Pons v1 tokens, as well as for projects hoping to migrate from Solana to Robinhood via Pons. Pons also stated that its iOS App has entered the testing phase.
Odaily News: Brian Armstrong posted on X, stating that agents now have access to credit lines and can complete work on behalf of users through the x402 protocol, while congratulating the Vaya AI team on their launch.
Stable releases version 2.0 whitepaper, positioned as institutional-grade stablecoin settlement infrastructure, where the mainnet will use USDT as native Gas and primary settlement asset, and support PYUSD. STABLE total supply is 100 billion tokens, with the remaining 82% to be unlocked in phases starting from the end of 2027.
Odaily News: Stable has released an updated whitepaper, with its core design philosophy centered on rebuilding blockchain infrastructure around stablecoins. Unlike traditional public chains that treat stablecoins as application-layer assets, Stable uses USDT as its native gas asset and primary settlement asset, allowing users to complete transactions without holding additional volatile tokens. Additionally, the network supports PayPal-issued PYUSD as a first-tier settlement asset.In terms of tokenomics, the total supply of STABLE is 100 billion tokens. Of this, approximately 18 billion (18%) entered circulation at token generation, including 10% from the Genesis Distribution and 8% from the Foundation's first-day unlock; the remaining 82 billion (82%) are placed into a consolidated lock-up pool (Universal Lock).According to the whitepaper, the 82 billion locked tokens will adopt a unified release mechanism, unlocking gradually across 7 phases:Phase 1: 5% (4.1 billion) released on December 8, 2027Phase 2: 5% (4.1 billion) released on March 8, 2028Phase 3: 10% (8.2 billion) released on June 8, 2028Phase 4: 15% (12.3 billion) released on September 8, 2028Phase 5: 15% (12.3 billion) released on December 8, 2028Phase 6: 20% (16.4 billion) released on March 8, 2029Phase 7: 30% (24.6 billion) released on June 8, 2029All locked tokens will be unlocked through a daily linear release mechanism, with all tokens expected to fully enter circulation by December 8, 2029 at the latest. In addition, the whitepaper includes a price protection mechanism: if the 30-day volume-weighted average price of the token falls below $0.025 before the designated release date, the corresponding unlock phase may be delayed by up to 9 months.
Odaily News: CZ posted a SafePal security incident alert on platform X, reminding the community to beware of phishing attacks. He also disclosed that SafePal is one of YZi Labs' (formerly Binance Labs) portfolio companies, and YZi Labs is currently a minority shareholder of SafePal.
Odaily News: Crypto wallet service provider SafePal recently issued a security announcement stating that the company discovered a vulnerability in its order tracking plugin, which led to unauthorized access to certain customer information.SafePal stated that the incident affects approximately 39,798 users, involving customers who placed orders between March 2, 2025, and April 11, 2026. The leaked information includes names, email addresses, shipping addresses, phone numbers, and order-related data such as purchase records.The company emphasized that the incident did not involve users' wallet security data, including seed phrases, private keys, wallet passwords, other wallet credentials, bank account information, payment card numbers, and government-issued identification documents, all of which remain unaffected.SafePal stated that the relevant vulnerability has now been fixed, and additional security measures have been implemented to strengthen the order system's protection. Affected users have received individual notifications via email. Users can also check whether they have been affected through the official page by entering their order number and shipping country.SafePal reminds users to remain vigilant, not to disclose seed phrases, private keys, or passwords to anyone, and to be cautious of phishing emails or fraudulent activities such as impersonated customer service that may arise in connection with this incident.