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CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost posted on the X platform, stating that the Solana ecosystem data shows that the total scale of stablecoins on the Solana chain has reached 16.3 billion USD, of which USDC accounts for about 6.8 billion USD, or 42.8%; USDT accounts for about 2.9 billion USD, or 18.2%; and USDG accounts for about 1.2 billion USD, or 7.4%.At the same time, the number of active addresses for Solana stablecoins has reached 1.7 million, setting a historical record, indicating that the demand for stablecoins in this network continues to grow.

According to Bloomberg, AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li stated that the tech industry needs to better explain the value of artificial intelligence to the public and warned that the growing anti-AI sentiment in the United States could pose risks to global AI development. In an interview with Bloomberg, Fei-Fei Li mentioned that tech practitioners need to strengthen communication with the public to showcase the positive impacts that AI technology can bring.She pointed out, "If we do not demonstrate a positive attitude and a positive direction for development, everyone will be affected." The United States has significant influence in the global tech sector, and if the U.S. cannot show a "positive attitude and development path for AI," it will ultimately affect the entire world.

The enterprise-level AI data platform Prevalent AI announced the completion of a $22 million financing round, with participation from the Los Angeles investment firm Integrity Growth Partners (IGP).Founded in 2017, the company focuses on developing AI-driven data platforms that help businesses build continuously updated "sovereign knowledge graphs" by connecting and integrating data from multiple internal systems, and supports the deployment of AI Agents and automation systems.

Well-known crypto KOL Ansem posted that institutional funds are shifting towards a bullish outlook on the crypto market, including billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller buying HYPE, Robinhood launching its own L2, and hedge fund giant Paul Tudor Jones increasing his Bitcoin position.He also pointed out that the regulatory environment in the crypto industry is significantly improving, while crypto-native investors still generally maintain a strong bearish and pessimistic sentiment. Ansem believes that the combination of institutional funds turning bullish, the improving regulatory environment, and the still extremely pessimistic internal market sentiment constitutes a typical condition for the market to form a bottom.

According to Cointelegraph, the asset tokenization platform Centrifuge announced the integration of the Liquid Lane liquidity network launched by Symbiotic, providing on-chain liquidity support for its three tokenized funds, covering fund products with an asset management scale of approximately $1.6 billion.This integration involves JAAA (AAA-rated mortgage bond strategy fund) under Janus Henderson, JTRSY (short-term U.S. Treasury strategy fund), and HYB (U.S. high-yield corporate bond fund) under New York Life Investment Management (NYLIM). Through Symbiotic Liquid Lane, eligible fund holders can exchange fund tokens for USDC via the on-chain request for quote (RFQ) market, achieving instant liquidity.This mechanism allows market makers to access funds from the liquidity vault to meet investor redemption demands, and then redeem fund tokens from the issuer or sell them in other RFQ transactions. Centrifuge stated that this solution separates instant USDC liquidity for investors from the traditional fund redemption process, enabling tokenized funds to better adapt to the trading demands of on-chain financial markets.

Strive Vice President Joe Burnett posted on platform X, stating that the Strategy's BTC holdings per share data is as follows: In 2020, it was 0.000566 BTC; in 2021, it was 0.000834 BTC, an increase of 47.3%; in 2022, it was 0.000849 BTC, an increase of 1.8%; in 2023, it was 0.000911 BTC, an increase of 7.3%; in 2024, it was 0.001588 BTC, an increase of 74.3%; in 2025, it was 0.00195 BTC, an increase of 22.8%; and from 2026 to now, it has been 0.001967 BTC, an increase of 0.9%.

The UAE has announced the suspension of all trade, commercial exchanges, and financial transactions with Iran, with the resumption time to be notified later. Retired U.S. Army Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt stated that the UAE's importance to the Iranian economy may make this embargo more impactful than the U.S. maritime blockade.The UAE is Iran's largest source of imports, with about one-third of imported goods needing to be transshipped through Dubai.

According to ChainCatcher information and the official announcement, Bitget's stock perpetual contracts have been launched for UNITREE (Yushu Technology). The contract is settled in USDT, supports up to 20 times leverage, and allows trading 24/7. So far, Bitget supports a total of 277 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov stated that Telegram has applied to ICANN for the .gram domain zone. If the application is approved, approximately one billion Telegram users will be able to obtain exclusive second-level domains, such as yourname.gram.Users will be able to quickly build interactive websites under Telegram's hosting with a single prompt. This initiative aims to further expand Telegram's ecological service capabilities, combining instant messaging with personal domains and website hosting.

Binance Wallet announced that users can prepare to receive the Binance Alpha airdrop and participate in trading today at 19:00. Users with at least 243 Binance Alpha Points can claim tokens on a first-come, first-served basis until the airdrop pool is exhausted or the event expires. Specific airdrop tokens and related details will be announced separately. The official reminder for users is to follow Binance's official channels for the latest updates and complete rules.

According to official news, the TRON community is expected to initiate a proposal vote for the activation of network parameters #95 and #96 on the mainnet on August 25, aiming to enable the Prague and Osaka upgrade features introduced in GreatVoyage - v4.8.2 (Pyrrho), further enhancing the compatibility of TVM with the Ethereum ecosystem. Currently, the Nile testnet has passed the relevant proposal on August 13, and developers can go experience the new features and conduct DApp joint debugging and compatibility testing.TRON reminds that nodes that have not completed the upgrade need to update to v4.8.2 or v4.8.2.1 by August 25, otherwise, they may not be able to synchronize blocks properly after the relevant parameters are activated. The community also welcomes developers to participate in proposal discussions and continue to pay attention to subsequent voting and official implementation progress.

According to Forbes, blockchain pioneers Scott Stornetta and Stuart Haber have joined the prediction market platform SafeBets as advisors. The platform allows users to make predictions without investing real money, using free points instead, with correct predictions earning Unicoin token rewards. SafeBets positions its business as "market research" rather than betting, distinguishing itself from competitors like Polymarket and Kalshi, which face legal risks.SafeBets Executive Director J. Tennyson Singer stated that the platform's long-term plan is to monetize users' collective prediction data by providing trading signals to affiliated brokerage firms, and it has already attracted thousands of participants for the World Cup events, with plans to expand into political prediction areas such as the U.S. elections.According to Unicoin Inc.'s quarterly report submitted to the SEC, SafeBets is wholly owned by Unicoin CEO Alex Konanykhin. Unicoin has been facing an SEC lawsuit since May 2025, accused of inflating fundraising amounts in token sales and falsely advertising its "SEC registered" status. Unicoin claims that the allegations are "baseless" and will actively defend itself. The Unicoin tokens awarded to users come from this litigated entity. Unicoin is currently conducting equity financing at a price of 25 cents per share, targeting $20 million.

Kaito AI founder Yu Hu responded to the community's privacy concerns regarding the Pulse browser extension. Yu Hu stated that Pulse's verification feature is based on zkTLS technology and generates encrypted proofs only when users actively initiate verification. Kaito only receives the final proof and not the complete account data or browsing history. The interactive data collection of Pulse on the X platform (such as content exposure, duration of stay, interactions) has been clearly authorized at the time of user installation and will not send browsing activities from other web pages to Kaito.Regarding the Chrome prompt "can read and write all website data," Yu Hu acknowledged that its displayed scope is broader than actual use and will be corrected in the next version to "can read and write X website data," which critics like Ultra have recognized. Kaito Pulse will be open-sourced this week for community review. Yu Hu stated that Pulse's device fingerprinting feature is only used to prevent abuse behaviors such as click fraud and witch attacks, and is not used for analysis or other purposes. This statement serves as Kaito's official response to recent community concerns, with the specific features of Pulse to be confirmed by the open-source code.

According to Xinhua News Agency, the U.S. has sent a letter to the signatories of the "Joint Statement on the Opportunities of Artificial Intelligence Partnership," requesting that all parties refrain from simultaneously joining U.S.-related initiatives and other mechanisms that conflict with U.S. initiatives. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian stated at a regular press conference on the 19th that countries have the right to choose their partners based on their own national conditions and development needs. China firmly opposes taking sides and creating confrontations on artificial intelligence issues, and hopes that all parties will abandon zero-sum thinking, adhere to mutual cooperation, respect the digital sovereignty of all countries, and work together to build a fair and reasonable global governance system for artificial intelligence, making artificial intelligence an important driving force for promoting common prosperity and maintaining common security.

At the opening ceremony of the 2026 World Robot Conference, Xin Guobin, Vice Minister of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, stated that in 2025, the operating income of enterprises above designated size in the robotics industry exceeded 300 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of over 20% in the past five years. In the first half of this year, it reached 165.5 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 24.5%. Robot technology and products have been widely applied in various aspects of the national economy and social development, becoming an important force in promoting high-quality development.The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will focus on key industries with broad application spaces and strong demonstration effects, such as agriculture, healthcare, elderly care, and emergency response. It will organize targeted efforts for production and application pairing, on-site application verification, and promotion of mature scenarios, accelerating the iteration and upgrading of new technologies and new products through large-scale applications in new scenarios.

According to Yahoo Finance, SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci stated in a CNBC interview that the current narrow fluctuations in Bitcoin are due to three factors: miners shifting resources to AI, capital flowing into AI investments, and the position of cryptocurrency in the four-year market cycle.He still expects Bitcoin to rise to $100,000, but the next catalyst may take 20 months to arrive. He pointed out that Bitcoin is in a "clear bear market," but the current decline is only about 55%, far lower than the previous cycles' 75%-80%, which is actually a positive signal—indicating that there are many net buyers preparing for the next bull market. Over the past three months, Bitcoin has only outperformed the S&P 500 on about one-third of trading days, but on Monday and Tuesday of this week, it outperformed the major U.S. stock indices for two consecutive days.

Due to investors remaining cautious before the release of the Federal Reserve's July meeting minutes, the dollar weakened.Recently, weak U.S. labor market data and moderate inflation data have led the market to lower its expectations for a rate hike by the Federal Reserve.The dollar index DXY fell by as much as 0.2% to 99.472.

AI chip startup Etched recently completed a $700 million financing round at a valuation of $21 billion, but its technology claims are facing industry skepticism. The well-known hacker George Hotz's AI computing team, the tiny corp, publicly criticized Etched's marketing approach: there are many investors, orders, and hardware photos, but there is too little third-party data to truly verify performance.Etched's core selling point is LVI (Low Voltage Inference) technology, claiming it allows trillion-parameter sparse MoE chips to run at over 80% of theoretical peak computing power (MFU). Chip design professional Wesley Yue raised technical doubts about this: high MFU does not necessarily represent absolute performance—if the chip's peak computing power is low, even with an 80% utilization rate, actual performance may still lag behind competitors. Yue believes that Etched's design "does not make sense from first principles" and may be a result of repackaging after its early Transformer ASIC faced power consumption issues.Etched has not yet disclosed complete computing power, power consumption, and third-party benchmark data; the official website only states that "early customer tests have reached leading levels," and detailed performance data will be "released later." There is currently no evidence to prove that Etched is fraudulent. Etched has not publicly responded to this matter.