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Odaily News: According to on-chain analyst Ember's monitoring, after purchasing $24 million worth of HYPE at $68.7 in June, the largest HYPE holder suspected to be associated with a16z has once again bought and staked HYPE. Within the past day, the entity deposited 36 million USDC into Hyperliquid through 12 addresses to purchase HYPE. So far, it has used 24 million USDC to buy 282,090 HYPE at an average price of $81.5. The entity currently holds and stakes a total of 4.679 million HYPE, valued at $381 million, with an average price of approximately $65.6, resulting in a profit of $74.4 million.
According to Digital Asset, Hyperliquid launched the AQAv2 (Aligned Quote Asset v2) mechanism on August 26, allocating a portion of the returns generated by USDC reserves on the platform toward capital accumulation, which will ultimately be directed to the Assistance Fund for secondary market repurchases and burns of HYPE to reduce its circulating supply. Under this mechanism, Circle is responsible for USDC technical deployment, while Coinbase handles reserve management; stablecoin issuers are expected to share approximately 90% of the relevant reserve returns with the protocol after deducting operating costs. Returns are accumulated on a 30-day cycle, with the initial fund transfer expected on October 3. Market estimates indicate that, based on current USDC outstanding balances and yield rates, annualized returns could reach $135 million to $160 million, although the actual repurchase scale will ultimately depend on the platform's USDC supply and reserve yields.
Odaily News: As of August, cumulative top-ups on USDC- and USDT-linked stablecoin cards have reached $13.8 billion, an increase of nearly $10 billion over the past 12 months. Stablecoin cards are shifting USDC and USDT from trading balances toward everyday consumer use cases.USDC currently leads in tracked card spending, while USDT is accelerating its catch-up. The two follow different adoption paths: USDC benefits more from fintech integrations and payment infrastructure, whereas USDT is more active across exchanges, remittances, and emerging markets.On-chain settlement also reflects a multi-chain distribution, with Base leading at approximately $1.2 billion, followed by Solana at $635 million, Polygon at $544 million, and Optimism at $509 million. Networks such as Arbitrum, Scroll, Ethereum, and Stellar are also carrying significant activity.Stablecoin cards still rely on traditional payment networks like Visa and Mastercard, shifting the competitive focus toward custody, FX costs, cashback, and capital efficiency. Meanwhile, Circle has renewed its USDC partnership with Coinbase under the original terms, excluding any dividend arrangements. (Bitcoin.com News)
According to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), Circle has minted approximately 5 billion USDC over the past week.
According to Cointelegraph, Bernstein analysts see signs of "digital dollar reflation" in USDC, with its supply surging by $2 billion over seven days. The firm maintains an Outperform rating on Circle (CRCL) with a $140 price target, noting that USDC's trading volume share has surpassed that of USDT.
According to Odaily, on-chain analyst Ember monitoring revealed that half an hour ago, a whale transferred 8 million USDC to Hyperliquid and subsequently opened long positions in Bitcoin and ETH valued at $71.8 million. Among these, the long position in 600 BTC was valued at $46.94 million, with an entry price of $78,032; the long position in 10,000 ETH was valued at $24.89 million, with an entry price of $2,479.
Odaily News: Bernstein analysts have assigned Circle an “Outperform” rating with a price target of $140, noting that its growth cycle does not depend on the progress of the Clarity Act. The analysts pointed out that USDC supply grew by $1.7 billion over the past week, and the stablecoin trading volume market share continues to expand. (The Block)
According to on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), after depositing 136.5 million USDC into Binance, Ceffu withdrew BTC and ETH worth $264 million. This includes 1,524 BTC (worth $117.9 million) and 59,484 ETH (worth $145.9 million).
Odaily News: Cathie Wood recently posted on X discussing the comparison between CRCL and Visa and Mastercard, stating: "Despite CRCL (Circle) rising 84% since its IPO, this one-year chart fully reflects the short-term inefficiency of public equity markets. Many financial services analysts have built their professional reputations by tracking V (Visa) and MA (Mastercard) over the long term, which is why they cannot understand Circle as a disruptor. Since MA and V went public in 2006 and 2008 respectively, both have risen approximately 150-fold and 33-fold, making those analysts who recommended buying on dips back then extremely profitable. However, today, it is the underlying technology—not the playbook these analysts follow—that is disrupting the traditional world order. CRCL should be a core beneficiary of this transformation."
Odaily News According to on-chain analyst Ember Monitor, the TRUMP token team address (BDNB...mx66) transferred 3.837 million tokens to OKX yesterday, valued at $9.33 million. Since early this morning, the address has sold another 1.1 million tokens by adding unilateral liquidity, receiving 2.94 million USDC at an average selling price of $2.68.
Odaily News: According to HyperliquidNews monitoring, total stablecoin inflows this week have surpassed $668 million, recording the third-highest weekly figure in stablecoin inflow history. The USDC contract address 0xa0b...eb48 on the Ethereum blockchain accounts for 97.98% of the share. AQAv2 will use 90% of the income generated by these USDC inflows to buy back and burn Hyperliquid's native tokens.
Odaily News, SlowMist Security Team disclosed that the cross-chain bridge project Allbridge suffered an attack on August 19, 2026, with losses of approximately $190,000. Notably, this attack was not executed instantaneously—the attacker began laying the groundwork nearly a month in advance, bypassing the verification mechanism through forged cross-chain messages.According to SlowMist's analysis, on July 26, the attacker directly called Circle's MessageTransmitterV2.sendMessage function on the Polygon chain, constructing a cross-chain message disguised as CCTP-style, claiming a transfer of 1 million USDC, despite no actual USDC burn operation occurring. Subsequently, Circle generated a valid attestation for this complete message following standard procedures.Approximately 24 days later, on August 19, the attacker waited for the Base Router to receive a genuine CCTP deposit, bringing its balance to approximately 191,000 USDC, then launched the attack just 6 seconds later. Using the previously forged message and attestation, the attacker called Allbridge's receiveCctpMessage function. Due to the project's lack of critical validation, the system mistook the fraudulent cross-chain message for a genuine deposit and recorded a 1 million USDC credit.Subsequently, the attacker borrowed approximately 809,000 USDC temporarily via an Aave flash loan to match the Router's balance with the forged amount, then utilized the internal credit record to call the transfer function, ultimately moving out approximately 999,000 USDC (after deducting a 0.1% fee). After repaying the flash loan and fees, the attacker netted approximately $189,800 in profit. The root cause of this vulnerability lies in Allbridge's failure to verify the identity of the cross-chain message sender and receiver, as well as its failure to confirm whether USDC was genuinely minted or whether the balance actually increased—instead directly trusting the amount and message hash data constructed by the attacker.SlowMist emphasized that on-chain message verification does not equate to actual asset arrival. Cross-chain protocols must not only verify message authenticity but also ensure the message source is trustworthy, confirm the receiver is Circle's official TokenMessengerV2, and only record assets after confirming actual minting and balance changes. This incident once again highlights the security risks in cross-chain bridges' message verification and asset settlement processes.
Odaily News – Hyperliquid's native token HYPE is approaching $73. Crypto trader Pentosh1 noted that its fee burn mechanism will expand after the AQAv2 upgrade, potentially supporting continued outperformance in the next bull cycle.Since November 2024, Hyperliquid has repurchased and burned 462 million HYPE, worth approximately $1.27 billion, with about 99% of protocol fees allocated to buybacks. The platform's annualized protocol revenue currently stands at roughly $600 million to $950 million.AQAv2, or Aligned Quote Asset v2, is scheduled to begin on August 26, channeling approximately 90% of the yield generated from the platform's over $5 billion in USDC reserves into the Assistance Fund, with the first payment expected to arrive on October 3.Market observers estimate that AQAv2 could add an additional $135 million to $160 million in annual buyback volume. Coinbase and Circle—designated as Hyperliquid's official USDC fund deployment partners in May—have both committed to staking a significant amount of HYPE to help launch the mechanism. (Bitcoin.com News)
According to on-chain analyst Ember's monitoring, a whale spent 20 million USDC to purchase 10,501 ETH at a price of $1,904 one month ago and has now fully closed the position. The whale sold 5,250 ETH yesterday and another 5,250 ETH early this morning, at an average price of $2,257, netting 23.7 million USDC in total—a $3.7 million profit in one month.
Odaily News: CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost posted on X platform, stating that Solana ecosystem data shows the total scale of stablecoins on the Solana chain has reached $16.3 billion. Among them, USDC accounts for approximately $6.8 billion, representing 42.8%; USDT accounts for approximately $2.9 billion, representing 18.2%; USDG accounts for approximately $1.2 billion, representing 7.4%.Meanwhile, the number of active stablecoin addresses on Solana has reached 1.7 million, setting a new historical record, indicating that the demand for stablecoins on the network continues to grow.
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)
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.
Odaily News: According to Lookonchain monitoring, a whale (0x6910...feda) deposited $2 million USDC into Hyperliquid and placed a limit order to go long on 55,556 UNITREE at $90 per token, with a notional value of approximately $5 million.
Odaily News: Payment app Cash App is expanding its cryptocurrency services through crypto payment platform MoonPay, allowing 50 million users to purchase tokens such as ETH, SOL, XRP, and USDT. Additionally, users can top up major wallets like Ledger, BitPay, Trust Wallet, MetaMask, and Uniswap through Cash App. Previously, Cash App's crypto services only supported Bitcoin, with USDC support added earlier this year. (CoinDesk)
According to an official tweet from Coinbase (@coinbase), Coinbase has officially launched a series of financial services for AI Agents, declaring that "the era of Agent Finance (AiFi) has arrived." This agent economy encompasses three participants: users who use agents, businesses that sell to agents, and developers who build tools for agents. Specific products include: • Coinbase for Agents: AI agents can access the platform via Claude or ChatGPT, and after setting guardrails, autonomously conduct research, decision-making, and trading on assets such as cryptocurrencies, stocks, and derivatives; • Coinbase Advisor: An AI investment advisor built into the App, it is one of the first AI advisors globally registered with the SEC, offering services such as real-time portfolio analysis and automatic tax-loss harvesting, launched for Coinbase One members; • Coinbase Business: Supports receiving USDC and USDT payments from AI agents via the native x402 protocol, featuring no chargeback risk, idle USDC earning 3.35% yield, and supporting one-stop management, reconciliation, and withdrawal.