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Bitfinex noted that the S&P 500 Index continues to hit record highs, while Bitcoin still hovers around $64,000. The stock rally is primarily driven by expectations of interest rate cuts, but Bitcoin relies more heavily on actual liquidity support. Since mid-May, stablecoin supply has decreased by $14 billion; before stablecoin supply resumes growth, Bitcoin's rebound still lacks funding support.
BitcoinTreasuries.NET 发文称，Strive（ASST）首席执行官 Matt Cole 表示，比特币在当前价格区间处于历史性低估水平，公司认为在此承担风险并增持 BTC 具有建设性意义。他还称，Strategy 仅出售 BTC 以支持 STRC 回归面值，从而长期以增厚收益的方式买入 BTC。
According to monitoring by the PPP Prediction Market Tool, in the Polymarket "OpenAI Astra Release Date" prediction market, the probability of OpenAI releasing Astra before September 15 has dropped to 42%, down 18% in 24 hours; the probability of a release before August 31 is currently at 10%, down 8% in 24 hours.If OpenAI officially releases Astra before the specified date in the title (Eastern Time), or releases a product confirmed to be the same model as the previously disclosed Astra and makes it available to the public, the market will settle as Yes; otherwise, it will settle as No.The model can be named Astra, Astra 1, GPT-6 Astra, or any other name, but it must be confirmed by OpenAI's official channels or credible media that it is indeed Astra. Models such as GPT-5.7 and GPT-6 will only count if they are confirmed to be the same model as Astra.A public beta or opening a waitlist counts as an official release; closed beta or private access does not. Settlement will primarily rely on official information from OpenAI, with consistent reports from credible media also considered.Join the PPP Signal Push Community to stay ahead of the curve and seize the initiative.
Odaily News: The KITE Foundation has provided an update on the handling of a token security incident. A new KITE ERC-20 contract has been deployed on the Ethereum mainnet, with the total token supply remaining unchanged. Old KITE tokens will be migrated to the new contract at a 1:1 ratio. Addresses confirmed to be controlled by the attacker will be excluded and will not receive new tokens.The migration snapshot is based on Ethereum mainnet block height 25,692,498. Regular self-custody wallet users will receive the new tokens directly without needing to redeem or authorize anything. Exchange users will have their migration coordinated between the exchange and the KITE team. Cross-chain channels will remain paused until migration and verification are complete.Previously, KITE detected abnormal transfers on August 6 and confirmed it had been attacked by hackers. The team stated that this incident did not result in any asset losses for users or the project, and the impact is currently under control.
Odaily News: According to the official announcement, Bitget's stock perpetual contracts have been listed for UNITREE (Unitree). The contract is settled in USDT and supports up to 20x leverage with 7×24-hour trading. To date, Bitget supports a total of 277 stock contract trading pairs.
Mantle officially launches its new website (mantle.xyz) and simultaneously initiates a brand narrative upgrade. Mantle's new positioning focuses on "powering borderless access to global capital markets," aiming to build an open finance network connecting global market participants with on-chain institutional-grade capital market assets. This Mantle upgrade is not a rebranding or narrative pivot, but a natural evolution based on RWA product practices over the past year. Over the past year, Mantle has launched various types of RWA assets such as tokenized stocks, money markets, treasury yields, and commodities, and from this has derived a core insight: tokenization itself cannot solve the problem of "who can truly reach and use the assets"; liquidity and distribution are key. The new narrative "powering borderless access to global capital markets" is precisely the core theme running through all important product launches this year. The Mantle ecosystem already hosts 710+ RWA assets, enabling 7×24-hour non-stop trading; its dual liquidity model features xChange's Atomic RFQ fixed quotes operating alongside Fluxion's AMM deep liquidity, ensuring assets can be traded at real scale, not just passively listed. According to RWA.xyz data, in July, RWA price on Mantle
Odaily Odaily News: Hyperliquid founder Jeff Yan stated that the latest paper by Davide Barone and Fabrizio Lillo studies the execution performance of on-chain visible TWAP orders on Hyperliquid. The data shows that when on-chain TWAP orders are made public, market liquidity actually tends to tighten, thereby improving the average execution performance of TWAP orders.Jeff Yan stated that he has always believed that for non-toxic order flow, transparent trading can improve execution efficiency, and this research provides data support for this view. He believes that compared to traditional private trading venues, transparency and fair access can lead to more efficient trade execution.
According to GoPlus monitoring, the VSCode extension Solidity Pro was previously poisoned, with historical versions containing malicious capabilities such as data theft and remote execution. Developers are advised to immediately check the relevant extensions they have installed and remain vigilant against third-party plugins.
H100 released its second quarter 2026 report. The pre-tax loss for the reporting period was 98.2 million Swedish kronor, approximately 9.82 million US dollars, most of which were non-cash items, primarily from Bitcoin impairment. The company stated that actual business cash consumption was 5.1 million Swedish kronor, approximately 510,000 US dollars, in the second quarter, and 12.7 million Swedish kronor, approximately 1.27 million US dollars, for the first half of the year. As of the end of June, the company held cash of 18.1 million Swedish kronor, approximately 1.81 million US dollars.
According to the official announcement, Huobi HTX listed KR200/USDT, SKUU/USDT, and SKDD/USDT perpetual contracts on August 19, supporting 1-20x long and short positions. Meanwhile, from now until August 25, 15:00 (UTC+8), Huobi HTX is launching a new coin perpetual contract trading competition. Users who complete registration, participate in contract trading of the event coins, and reach specified thresholds will have the opportunity to share a total prize pool of 1 billion $HTX tokens.
Odaily News, X-Agent recently published a technical article titled "An OPC Is a Stack, Not a Headcount Story," arguing that as AI significantly reduces R&D and operational costs, the competitiveness of a One Person Company (OPC) should no longer be measured by how much work a single person can complete.The article points out that an OPC with true commercial capability needs to establish a complete closed loop spanning demand discovery, AI production, capability infrastructure, distribution, economic systems, and market feedback.And this is precisely the problem X-Agent aims to solve.At the capability layer, X-Agent leverages MCP to help individual developers productize their capabilities, transforming a project into a service that can be discovered, invoked, and verified by Agents. At the commercial layer, X-Agent further connects Agent distribution and payment infrastructure, enabling services to enter real Agent workflows, with usage-based billing, budget management, payment, and settlement.Meanwhile, the X-Agent MCP Hackathon is also driving this model into practice: developers do not need to start by building an "MCP server" from scratch. Instead, they first prove that a real capability can solve a practical problem, then convert it into a production-grade Agent service through standardization, deployment verification, and security checks.Therefore, what X-Agent is building is not just a development tool, but a framework that helps OPCs complete:Demand discovery → Capability building → MCP productization → Agent distribution → Commercial settlement → Market feedbackUltimately forming a self-reinforcing AI business closed loop.The OPC of the future is not one person taking on all the work, but one person using AI and Agents to organize a complete set of company-level capabilities.
Bitget CFD has officially launched its sub-account feature, aimed at providing institutional clients, professional trading teams, and high-net-worth users with more refined multi-strategy management, achieving 100% physical isolation between different strategies and positions. Sub-accounts share the master account's KYC status with no need for repeated verification. By default, users can create up to 5 independent CFD accounts with one click, supporting the deployment of different strategies—such as EA, high-frequency scalping, long-term trend, and hedging—into separate accounts, ensuring each strategy operates in a clean, independent environment.At the same time, the master account can centrally view real-time equity, margin ratio, current orders, and historical orders of all sub-accounts, while retaining the authority to reset sub-account trading passwords and read-only passwords, catering to professional teams' needs in account management, permission control, and internal risk management. Risk notifications for each sub-account, including margin top-ups and liquidation warnings, will also be independently sent to corresponding emails and app pushes, further enhancing the efficiency of multi-strategy collaboration and risk response.
Odaily News: Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase's x402 payment protocol has processed approximately 14 million AI agent transfers over the past 30 days, with the Base network handling 7.3 million transfers and the Polygon network processing 5.6 million. USDC covers nearly all of these transfers. x402 utilizes the HTTP 402 "Payment Required" mechanism, enabling software to automatically request and complete payments. Coinbase has expanded its related payment services to the Base, Solana, and Polygon networks, supporting USDC as the settlement asset. In July, Coinbase launched Coinbase Business, allowing enterprises to directly receive USDC payments from AI agents, with support for payment collection, reconciliation, and withdrawals. Coinbase has described agent payments as one of its "high-conviction bets." (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily News: South Korea's venture capital investment reached 8.87 trillion KRW in the first half of this year, setting a new all-time high. Policy financing contributions increased 58.3% year-on-year, while the private sector grew 28.1%, with private funds accounting for over 80% of total venture capital fund commitments. Among them, private financial institutions such as banks contributed 2.61 trillion KRW, up 54.9% year-on-year. The risk weight (RW) for policy-oriented venture capital funds has been reduced from 400% to 100%, thereby lowering the capital burden on financial companies. AI solutions, AI chips, memory chips, and humanoid robots have emerged as new investment destinations, with ICT manufacturing investment surging 143.3% year-on-year and electrical, machinery, and equipment investment rising 90.4%. Companies established within the last three years received 1.83 trillion KRW in investments, up 56.4% year-on-year, while non-capital region investments increased 104.7%. The gaming sector was the only industry to see a decline in investment, with a reduction in large-scale projects and a drop in new business formations cited as the main reasons. The VC industry noted that the KOSDAQ IPO market has not sufficiently absorbed investment exits, and South Korea's Ministry of SMEs and Startups plans to expand support for M&A and secondary share funds. (ETNews Electronics)
Odaily News Bybit today released its H1 2026 Risk and Security Report. Following the security incident in February 2025, Bybit has comprehensively upgraded its security architecture, transitioning toward a new defense model characterized by earlier detection, faster response, and continuous adaptation. Key highlights from the report are as follows:User Fund Protection: In H1, over 30,000 suspicious withdrawals were intercepted, protecting nearly 20,000 users from potential losses exceeding $700 million. The average initial review time was just 4.7 minutes (with 95% completed within 10 minutes).100% On-Chain Monitoring: Monitoring covers all business-related on-chain activities (including listed tokens, ecosystem contracts, and hot/cold wallets). In H1, 10 security incidents involving listed token projects were handled with zero platform losses; of these, responses to 8 incidents were faster than other major exchanges, and 2 attacks were detected before the project teams themselves. Additionally, approximately $212 million in potentially fraudulent on-chain funds was identified, and over 10,000 malicious addresses were blacklisted.AI-Driven Security Operations: More than 100,000 security alerts were processed. AI-assisted audits identified critical vulnerabilities at an efficiency 3-5 times that of manual efforts; the automated red team platform reduced the time from asset discovery to initial testing to within 24 hours (compared to weeks with traditional manual methods), and the cycle from security assessment to testing was shortened from two weeks to two hours.Accountability and Asset Recovery: In collaboration with law enforcement agencies and blockchain intelligence firms, stolen assets are being traced, and legal action has been taken against North Korea and the Lazarus Group to hold them accountable and recover funds.David Zong, Head of Risk Control and Security at Bybit Group, stated: "The cybersecurity arms race has entered the era of 'minute-level' response. Leveraging AI to strengthen risk control capabilities and ensuring the security of AI systems themselves is our top priority, but critical security decisions remain centered on human judgment."
Monitoring by the PPP Prediction Market Tool shows that in the Polymarket event "Will the Fed hold interest rates steady in September?", an account (0xfbe66593e49c4e7a7180a2582f041158bfb800f8) that has earned over $160,000 in profit over the past month purchased $278,000 worth of shares betting the Fed will keep rates unchanged in September, at an average entry price of 50.7¢, holding 389,715.1 shares.According to the settlement rules, this market will settle based on the interest rate change following the Fed's September 2026 FOMC meeting. If the rate adjustment magnitude does not fall within existing options, it will be rounded up to the nearest 25 basis points—for example, a 12.5 basis point rate cut or hike would be calculated as 25 basis points. If no relevant statement is released before the meeting concludes, the event will settle as "unchanged."The Fed's next FOMC meeting is scheduled for September 15-16, 2026. Previously, at its July meeting, the FOMC voted 9 to 3 to hold interest rates steady.Join the PPP Signal Push Community to stay ahead of the curve and seize the initiative.
Odaily News: Cryptocurrency platform Bitcoin.com has announced the integration of USDU into its self-custody Bitcoin.com Wallet, serving millions of wallet users. USDU, issued by Universal Digital Intl Limited (Universal), is the first USD stablecoin registered as a foreign payment token by the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE). USDU is an Ethereum ERC-20 token, with each token backed 1:1 by liquid USD reserves held by regulated banks in the UAE. The reserves are independently attested monthly by a third-party accounting firm, with reports published on Universal's official website. Bitcoin.com Wallet's web and mobile versions will support self-custody holding, sending, and receiving of USDU. Bitcoin.com will accept USDU as payment for designated services and plans to enable its use for payments between users and merchants within its products. The wallet will also offer stablecoin education and Learn-to-Earn content. Exchange and buy/sell functionalities will be launched after support from third-party service providers, with availability varying by jurisdiction. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily News: The meme coin "Niu Lai" was listed on Binance Alpha yesterday. After a brief pullback following the news-driven surge, it rebounded in the early hours of today, briefly surpassing a $40 million market cap and currently standing at $38.03 million. DeGods founder Frank has been steadily accumulating, with his current holdings exceeding $500,000 in "Niu Lai." He mentioned that the movie "Niu Lai" will soon be screened in the United States, which is actually a viewing party organized by Polymarket. Qwerty, the top address on the "Niu Lai" profit leaderboard, reduced some of its position yesterday afternoon and has not made any further moves to reduce or increase holdings since then.
According to TechFlow Research, Goldman Sachs' research report on August 18 noted that ahead of Broadcom (AVGO)'s Q2 earnings release, it maintained a "Buy" rating and a $525 price target, representing 34% upside from the current stock price. Goldman Sachs expects Broadcom's FY2026 AI revenue to be approximately $57 billion, basically in line with consensus; FY2027 AI revenue forecast reaches $133 billion, 12% higher than consensus. FY2027 total revenue is expected to be $186.986 billion, with EPS of $21.40. Goldman Sachs believes that market concerns regarding competition from MediaTek and AMD entering the ASIC custom chip sector have been overly reflected in the stock price; Broadcom's current PE is approximately 38 times, which does not fully account for FY2027 AI revenue potential. Broadcom's barriers in mass production delivery and customer relationships, as well as the volume increase of Tomahawk 6 switch chips driven by data center expansion, are two key drivers ignored by the market. Goldman Sachs suggests focusing on three major topics during the earnings conference call: FY2027 AI revenue guidance, ASIC share changes, and data center deployment readiness.
According to BeInCrypto, a field research report recently released by the Bank of Italy shows that stablecoins do not possess a systemic cost advantage in cross-border remittances. Researchers tested USDC transfers of $200 through 10 actual remittance corridors, covering routes between Italy and Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, the UAE, and Japan, with total fees ranging from 0.3% to nearly 9%, showing a significant disparity. The study found that on-chain transfers themselves accounted for an average of only 0.4% of the total cost; what truly drove up fees were steps still reliant on banks and exchanges, such as funding, currency conversion, and withdrawal. Taking the UAE-to-Italy corridor as an example, where bank transfers were unavailable and credit card funding was forced, fees alone reached as high as 3.8%. Meanwhile, transfer speeds also differed significantly due to variations in destination payment infrastructure. Instant payment systems like Brazil's Pix could complete settlement within 20 minutes, while South Africa required 1 to 2 business days, no different from traditional bank wire transfers. The report pointed out that stablecoins currently still heavily rely on the banking system they attempt to replace, and the narrative that "stablecoins are quietly replacing traditional payment rails" remains unsubstantiated.