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Odaily News – On August 3 local time, U.S. President Trump answered reporters' questions at the White House, stating that negotiations with Iran are currently underway. Trump said that regarding talks with Iran, the first phase is the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and the second phase is denuclearization. Trump emphasized that the U.S. maintains a firm stance: Iran cannot possess nuclear weapons. Additionally, Trump disclosed progress in the negotiations concerning the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Trump stated that the Strait of Hormuz could potentially be reopened as soon as tomorrow. He also noted that the talks were initiated at Iran's request, with support from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and several other countries. He said that originally, "the U.S. was going to strike Iran with overwhelming force—more severe than any previous attack," but then Iran called, and Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar also called. Iran did not want to be hit, so it said it wanted to negotiate; they wanted to discuss the issue of the strait. Trump said, "This is Iran's last chance." Trump also said he would not allow Iran to charge fees for vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz. (CCTV News)
Odaily News: Lookonchain posted on X platform, August 3 update: Bitcoin ETF single-day net outflow of 3,321 BTC, valued at $210 million; 7-day net outflow of 297 BTC, valued at $18.8 million. Ethereum ETF single-day net outflow of 3,515 ETH, valued at $6.52 million; 7-day net inflow of 1,573 ETH, valued at $2.92 million.
Bitget launches a new round of CandyBomb, with a total prize pool of 10 rSNDK. This event is exclusive to new stock contract users, and the participation period is from 21:00 on August 3 to 21:00 on August 13 (UTC+8). During the event, users trading designated stock contracts such as TSLAUSDT and AAPLUSDT can unlock corresponding candies once cumulative trading volume requirements are met, with a maximum of 0.1 rSNDK per user. Detailed rules have been published on the Bitget official platform; eligible users must click "Join Now" to complete registration before participating.
According to PR Newswire, AI data center company Hyperscale Data (NYSE: GPUS) announced the successful implementation of a Bitcoin-backed DeFi financing strategy via the Morpho protocol. As of August 2, 2026, the company has completed approximately $30 million in Bitcoin-collateralized borrowing through the protocol, with a current variable interest rate of approximately 4.9%. The raised funds will be used to support the continued construction of its Michigan AI data center campus, as well as general corporate purposes such as daily working capital. The company stated that this move aims to transform its Bitcoin treasury from a passive reserve asset into a source of low-cost growth capital, while retaining exposure to Bitcoin's long-term appreciation and reducing reliance on dilutive equity financing.
According to an official media announcement, the South African National Treasury and the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) jointly released the "Draft Manual on Cross-Border Crypto Asset Activities" on August 3, 2026, which is now open for public consultation with a deadline of September 30, 2026. The manual is implemented in conjunction with the previously released "Draft Regulations on Capital Flow Management 2026," aiming to strengthen supervision over cross-border financial activities and prevent risks related to illicit financial flows associated with crypto assets. The manual clarifies the trigger points for cross-border crypto asset transactions—when crypto assets are transferred between a domestic authorized CASP and a foreign CASP, or from a domestic authorized CASP to a non-custodial wallet, it constitutes cross-border capital inflow or outflow and must be reported to the Financial Supervision Department (FinSurv). It is worth noting that at this stage, only individuals are allowed to conduct crypto asset outflow operations through authorized CASPs within the single discretionary allowance or foreign capital allowance; South African entities are temporarily not allowed to conduct related cross-border operations. In addition, the manual currently does not distinguish between different types of crypto assets, nor does it list crypto assets as official South African currency.
Bitget Launches VIP Exclusive Stock Contract Event. The participation period runs from 18:00 on August 3 to 18:00 on August 16 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of 88 Apple stock tokens (rAAPL). During the event, VIP users who have not previously completed any stock contract transactions can receive rAAPL equivalent to 20 USDT upon completing their first trade and meeting the cumulative trading volume requirement. Additionally, if the cumulative stock contract trading volume reaches specified thresholds, extra rewards can be unlocked, with a maximum of rAAPL worth 300 USDT. The prize pool is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more details, please refer to the official Bitget platform.
: Bitget PoolX has launched the Bubblemaps (BMT) project. Users can lock BMT to share in a pool of 600,000 BMT, with a personal lock-up limit of 25 million BMT. The lock-up channel will be open from 20:00 on August 3rd to 20:00 on August 8th (UTC+8). For more details, please refer to Bitget's official platform.
According to the official announcement, Binance Alpha will list Squid (QUID) on August 4. Eligible users can visit the Alpha event page to claim the airdrop using Binance Alpha points after Alpha trading opens. Specific details will be announced separately.
CSOP Asset Management issued an announcement regarding a total of 12 single-stock leveraged and inverse products under its management, linked to underlying individual stocks such as SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics in the Korean stock market, and Tesla, Nvidia, Coinbase, etc. in the US stock market. These products will adopt a flexible leverage structure on August 3. Under this structure, the leverage multiple of each leveraged product or each inverse product will be adjusted based on market conditions. The upper limit of the leverage multiple shall not exceed 2x (applicable to leveraged products) or 2x inverse (-2x) (applicable to inverse products).
Odaily News: According to official sources, MGBX will launch spot trading for AAOI (Applied Optoelectronics), ARM (ARM), AVGO (Broadcom), and BABA (Alibaba) at 18:00 (SGT) on August 3, 2026.Trading opening time: 18:00 (SGT) on August 3, 2026.
According to the official announcement, HTX listed GRVT/USDT, GILD/USDT, and UNH/USDT perpetual contracts on August 3, with a maximum leverage of 10x for all.
official data shows Gate's yield-bearing stable asset GUSD has surpassed $224 million in cumulative subscription volume. Currently, users holding GUSD can enjoy five-fold yield benefits, including deposit rewards, GUSD demand deposit subscription yield, 1:1 lossless redemption, and stacked rewards from Launchpool dual staking pools, offering multiple asset appreciation opportunities across various scenarios.Among these, Gate GUSD demand deposit treasury product supports users holding GUSD to earn an annualized yield of 3.8%, with yields distributed daily and supporting flexible deposits and withdrawals; the original subscribed currency can be redeemed 1:1 without loss, with no redemption fees. Additionally, new users participating in GUSD demand deposit treasury subscriptions can enjoy a limited-time 100% annualized yield.In terms of ecosystem yield, Gate Launchpool currently has multiple staking pools open simultaneously, including SPCX and ANTFUN. Data shows that the SPCX GUSD pool currently has a total liquid staking amount of 44,679,086.85 GUSD with an APR of 4.85%; the ANTFUN GUSD pool currently has a total liquid staking amount of 76,454,030.14 GUSD with an APR of 5.06%. After users stack GUSD demand deposit yield, the combined annualized yields of the two pools can reach 8.65% and 8.86%, respectively.In addition, Gate is launching a deposit trading carnival event from July 27 at 18:00 to August 11 at 18:00 (UTC+8). Users who complete designated net deposits and trading tasks can receive deposit rewards and participate in trading challenges, with a maximum reward of 8,938 USDT per individual.
PPP Prediction Market Tool monitoring shows that in Polymarket's "WTI Crude Oil Price Hit in August" prediction event, the probability of WTI crude falling to $75/barrel rose to 77%, up 11% in 24 hours; the probability of falling to $70/barrel rose to 45%, up 12% in 24 hours.Earlier, oil prices were driven up by escalating tensions in the Middle East, but after Trump announced a halt to military action against Iran and indicated that the U.S. and Iran would enter a new round of negotiations, market concerns over supply disruptions began to ease, causing the risk premium on crude to quickly retreat. WTI crude prices have now fallen to around $80/barrel.Join the PPP Signal Push Community to stay one step ahead and seize the opportunity.
Odaily News — According to official sources, OKX.AI has announced that registration for its inaugural trading hackathon is now open. Following the previous Genesis hackathon for Agent Service Providers (ASP), this hackathon focuses on AI Agent live trading capabilities. Participants are required to deploy their trading strategies as Trading ASPs and conduct live trading with no less than 300 USDT in equivalent funds. Rankings will be updated in real time based on yield (PnL %). The total prize pool is $20,000, with the champion receiving a $5,000 reward.It is reported that OKX.AI is an economic system built specifically for Agents, where users and Agents can discover and utilize professional services provided by ASPs. This event supports two development frameworks: Onchain OS and Agent Trade Kit. Registration runs from July 31 to August 11 at 12:00 (UTC+8), and the competition will take place from August 11 to August 25.
Odaily News: According to an official announcement, Binance Futures will list the GIGADEVUSDT perpetual contract on August 3, 2026 at 13:30 (UTC+8), supporting up to 20x leverage and multi-asset mode.
: Bitgo CEO Mike Belshe deposited 100 BTC into a public Bitcoin address on August 1, worth approximately $6.3 million at the time, and invited Anthropic's Claude model to attempt to move the funds out of the address. On-chain records show the wallet received the funds on July 31, and the balance had not been transferred out as of August 2. Anthropic previously disclosed that during 141,006 cybersecurity assessment runs, 3 incidents were found, with 6 evaluation sessions involving 3 models inadvertently interacting with real organizational systems. The models involved include Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5, and an unreleased internal research model. The cause was a configuration error by third-party testing partner Irregular, which led to the test environment being connected to the internet. Anthropic stated that Claude Opus 4.7, during one evaluation, located a real website with the same name as a simulated company, exploited weak passwords and exposed services to recover infrastructure credentials, and accessed a production database containing hundreds of records. The company said the model was attempting to complete assigned tasks, not actively breaking constraints or pursuing independent goals. Belshe's challenge involves Bitgo's institutional custody platform, which uses multi-signature or multi-party computation technology to distribute signing authority across multiple independent keys. As of August 2, Anthropic had not publicly responded to the challenge.
Odaily News: In the Coldcard security incident involving hardware wallet company Coinkite, the amount of stolen bitcoin has risen to approximately 1,359.882 BTC. According to statistics from the Coldcard Sweep Watch dashboard, most of the identified bitcoin remains in a small number of addresses controlled by the attacker. On August 1, one of the attacker's holding addresses received a transaction containing an OP_RETURN message. The message publicly offered a 10% fee for "washing" bitcoin, KYC assistance, and withdrawal services for stolen funds, along with a Telegram contact. Coinkite has released an urgent firmware update to fix the weak random number generation issue that caused the original vulnerability. The company stated that the new firmware only protects wallets created in the future and cannot fix seeds already generated on affected versions. Some users have reported that after installing the update, their devices remain stuck on an error screen, fail to boot, or appear bricked. This mainly affects Mk4 and Q devices, though some Mk3 users have also reported similar issues. As of August 2, Coinkite has not publicly confirmed a widespread firmware defect.
Odaily News: HyperliquidNews announced on X that the 7-day (168-hour) TWAP orders went live at 09:00 UTC on August 1.
On August 2, Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor posted "Bitcoin Drive engaged" along with a chart tracking the company's Bitcoin reserves. The chart shows that Strategy holds 843,775 BTC, with a market value of approximately $53.25 billion, an average cost of $75,653 per coin, and an unrealized loss of $10.58 billion. Strategy's real-time ledger shows that the company has had a total of 116 disclosed treasury events, purchasing 843,775 BTC for approximately $63.69 billion, at an average price of $75,476 per coin. The ledger also shows that Strategy recently sold a total of 3,588 BTC in two transactions—1,363 and 2,225 coins respectively—reducing its holdings from 847,363 to 843,775 BTC. Strategy disclosed in an SEC filing that the BTC sales were used to pay preferred stock distributions and replenish dollar reserves. Recent disclosures also show that the company did not purchase BTC during the week ending July 26, and increased its dollar reserves to approximately $3.75 billion, enough to cover about 2.1 years of preferred stock dividends and debt interest.
According to Yonhap News Agency, data released by the National Investigation Headquarters of the Korean National Police Agency shows that during the concentrated crackdown campaign in the first half of this year (March to June), a total of 5,203 drug suspects were caught and 1,039 were detained, representing a year-on-year increase of 1.8% and 7.8% respectively. Among them, suspects involved in online drug transactions reached 2,178, accounting for 41.9% of the total number of suspects caught, an increase of 300 people compared to the same period last year; there were 848 foreign nationals involved in drug-related activities, an increase of 114 people year-on-year, with supply-related crimes accounting for up to 47.2%. During this period, the police also successfully extradited Philippine drug lord Park Wang-yeol and recovered criminal proceeds of 3.84 billion Korean won. In the second half of the year (August to December), the police will focus on strengthening crackdowns on drug sales channels on social platforms such as Telegram, and establish a 41-member special tracking team for virtual assets, while jointly strengthening efforts to crack down on drug crimes involving foreign personnel with international law enforcement agencies.