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Market expectations for the Bank of Japan tightening monetary policy are heating up, with weak demand for Japan's two-year government bond auction, the bid-to-cover ratio at 2.97, lower than last time's 3.63 and the past 12 months' average of 3.74. The tail difference is 0.034, higher than last month's 0.007, marking the weakest since 2016. The government led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi supports an interest rate hike as early as September, with overnight index swaps indicating a probability of about 84% for a rate hike in September.

According to the official announcement, Websea celebrates its third anniversary. The platform announced that it will resume withdrawal services starting from August 28 and officially launch a long-term user incentive program, allocating 15% of the platform's revenue to the user incentive pool each month. The three-year anniversary points redemption event will also be launched simultaneously.In the three years since its establishment, Websea has continuously focused on product capabilities, user services, and global ecological layout. Recently, it completed a comprehensive upgrade of its copy trading product and launched the "Websea Star Goddess Community" IP; it co-hosted the global RWA summit in Almaty, Kazakhstan, deepening the Central Asian market and promoting connections with the RWA ecosystem.In terms of transparency and asset security, Websea has launched PoR (Proof of Reserves) and Merkle Tree self-verification tools to provide users with verifiable on-chain asset information.

According to GMGN quotes, the market capitalization of Robinhood's meme coin Artificial Inu (AI) briefly surpassed $96 million, setting a new historical high, and has now fallen back to $83.2 million, with a 24-hour increase of 48% and a 24-hour trading volume of $15.2 million.Stock Meme is an emerging play that directly combines traditional meme coins with tokenized U.S. stocks: meme coins are no longer paired with USDT or ETH, but instead form trading pairs directly with on-chain U.S. stock tokens (such as NVDA, TSLA, AAPL, etc.), retaining the speculative attributes of meme coins characterized by high volatility and community-driven dynamics, while also leveraging the popularity and narrative of real stocks. Transaction fees often partially flow back to the community treasury to accumulate corresponding U.S. stock tokens, creating a dual-driven model of "sentiment speculation + real asset anchoring." Artificial Inu combines narratives related to Shiba Inu, AI, and NVIDIA, and has a pairing mechanism with tokenized NVDA.ChainCatcher reminds users that the prices of related tokens are highly volatile, and users should invest cautiously.

Analysis of the AI semiconductor and infrastructure cycle indicates that the demand for AI infrastructure will continue to exceed that of the internet era, as user penetration and per capita token are multiplied and converted into tokens, significantly raising the ceiling. User penetration has surpassed 50%, with growth primarily coming from the still-early per capita token; the median monthly AI spending per employee in U.S. companies is about $12, which could long-term approach around 10% of white-collar salaries, approximately $1,000 per month, leaving nearly two orders of magnitude of space in between. Unlike the flat subscriptions and extremely low marginal hardware consumption of the internet, the high costs of inference make the marginal cost of a single access higher, requiring greater infrastructure intensity.After developers program, the next ARR growth will still mainly come from broad programming: non-programmers use programming infrastructure to complete non-programming tasks across industries, with programming becoming the default execution kernel for agents. Tasks related to broad programming account for about 60% to 70% of ARR. As of June 2026, Codex accounted for 64% of the total output tokens from Codex and ChatGPT among OpenAI's enterprise clients; since February, Codex has seen a much higher weekly growth in verticals such as law, sales recruitment, and marketing compared to engineering. In Anthropic's revenue, narrow development/software accounts for about 40%, while finance and insurance exceed 20%, with law, life sciences, retail, and others also having considerable shares.The demand-side token growth logic remains, with a high overlap between funders and beneficiaries.

According to data from the Solana governance platform, the "SGP-0002 Double Deflation" proposal is currently in the voting stage, with about 12 hours left until the voting deadline. This proposal was initiated by Helius (HEL1...e2TU) and suggests increasing the deflation rate in Solana's inflation plan from the current -15% to -30% to accelerate the reduction of network inflation.The current voter participation rate is 47.29%, meeting the requirement of 1/3 of the quorum. The vote distribution is as follows: For: 140.6M SOL (68.58%), Against: 47.39M SOL (23.12%), Abstain: 17.01M SOL (8.3%). Among the main voting parties, validators such as Helius, Jupiter, and Staking Facilities voted in support, while Figment, Everstake, and P2P.org voted against.

According to Coinglass data, the current whale holdings on the Hyperliquid platform amount to $7.29 billion, with long positions totaling $3.49 billion, accounting for 47.87% of the holdings, and short positions totaling $3.8 billion, accounting for 52.13%. The profit and loss for long positions is $456 million, while the profit and loss for short positions is -$501 million.Among them, the whale address 0x92ea..e9 has taken a 3x leveraged long position on BTC at a price of $77,089.9, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of $6.3094 million.

The Public Security Bureau of Hongkou District, Shanghai, China, recently solved a case involving cross-border illegal settlement and illegal foreign exchange trading using virtual currency, arresting 9 criminal suspects and involving an amount of over 200 million yuan. The suspects, including a person named Li, established a technology company at the beginning of 2024 to seek illegal profits, building two platforms online: "Cross-Border Fund Exchange" and "Virtual Credit Card Issuance and Settlement." They solicited customers both online and offline, illegally conducting exchange and settlement services for virtual currency and cross-border funds, profiting through transaction fees, service fees, card issuance fees, withdrawal fees, and other means.Investigators stated, "The uniqueness of this case lies in the fact that the criminals developed two apps and publicly solicited customers on such a large scale, which has never been seen before. The platforms built in this case are themselves a closed-loop illegal financial service system, with all transactions settled internally on the platform. This mode of crime has a higher degree of scale, a longer chain, and is more deceptive." Reports indicate that on the "Cross-Border Fund Exchange" platform, the criminal gang collected customers' virtual currency overseas and exchanged it for foreign currency, forming a "fund pool," and then realized cross-border settlement through fabricated contracts, achieving the exchange and transfer of virtual currency to RMB. On the "Virtual Credit Card Issuance and Settlement" platform, the criminal gang "cooperated" with several overseas private banks to issue virtual credit cards to customers, who could use the card for consumption, but the repayment process had to be settled in virtual currency; the gang exchanged virtual currency for foreign currency overseas, relying on false cross-border settlements to complete clearing with overseas card merchants.

According to CoinDesk, Nvidia announced the acquisition of the open-source AI platform Hugging Face for $12.9 billion. NBA star Kevin Durant initially invested $250,000, and after this acquisition, his stake may be worth over $60 million, yielding a return on investment of about 240 times.Hugging Face has now become an important aggregation platform for AI models and has extended into the crypto space through decentralized AI-related projects. This acquisition may further promote the integration of the AI and crypto industries.

The fourth largest party in the New Zealand Parliament, the Association of Consumers and Taxpayers (ACT), proposed to exempt individual retail investors who hold compliant crypto assets for more than one year from capital gains tax, while assets held for less than one year, as well as professional traders and businesses, will still be taxed according to current tax regulations.ACT also proposed tax exemption for small personal consumption using crypto assets, and to establish clear regulatory and tax rules for compliant payment stablecoins, tokenized securities, and real-world assets, while setting up a regulatory sandbox for startups to test new products. ACT Deputy Leader Nicole McKee stated that clear rules, moderate protective measures, and reduced cumbersome regulations will help New Zealand develop digital finance, modern capital markets, and financial innovation. The New Zealand government has introduced a bill to implement the Economic Cooperation and Development Organization's Crypto Asset Reporting Framework (CARF).

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the "Bitcoin August 27 Price Prediction" event on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Yes" option for the sub-market "81,000 USD" experienced significant fluctuations in winning probability, soaring from 20% an hour ago to the current 48.5% (a fluctuation of 28.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to The Block, XRP treasury company Evernorth announced that its SEC S-4 form related to the merger with Armada has become effective, advancing the Nasdaq listing process.CEO Asheesh Birla stated, "We believe institutional finance will increasingly build on-chain, and Evernorth aims to accelerate XRP's role in this process."

According to South Korean media Chosun Biz, SK Hynix's NAND is lagging in the transition of old process lines, making it difficult to narrow the efficiency gap. As of the second quarter of this year, its 176-layer products still account for about 50%, while Samsung has completed the transition mainly to 236 layers. Omdia data shows that Micron's 232-layer products account for 53%, and YMTC reaches 68%.During the rising cycle of NAND prices, companies with a higher proportion of advanced processes see better cost and profit improvements. SK Hynix (including Solidigm) saw its NAND revenue share drop from 21.4% in the fourth quarter of last year to 16.4% in the first quarter of this year, while YMTC increased from 11.5% to 16.2%. SK Hynix prioritizes equipment investment in DRAM and HBM, with NAND investments decreasing for three consecutive years, from $3.5 billion in 2023 to $2.9 billion in 2025, slowing down the transition. It is currently considering impairing old NAND assets to optimize costs.

According to sources, Anthropic has discussed acquiring the artificial intelligence chip startup MatX for about $7 billion to accelerate the development of customized hardware in its AI business. The merger negotiations have evolved into discussions about a partnership.MatX is seeking a new round of financing, with a valuation of approximately $4 billion.

On August 25, OpenAI announced the addition of proxy browsing capabilities for ChatGPT Work, enabling it to take over tasks on websites that require login and continue working. Users only need to enter their credentials or security codes once at the login interface, and the proxy can continue executing tasks, with sessions potentially remaining logged in for subsequent tasks without the need to log in again. OpenAI stated that this browser supports password managers, and the model cannot see usernames or passwords; this information will not be stored or used for training.However, one-time authentication effectively leaves a foothold for the proxy to maintain continuous access to the account. OpenAI's own models have previously exhibited boundary-crossing behavior, with approximately 1,200 OpenAI proxies (including GPT-5.6 Sol and a pre-release model) breaching the testing environment and invading Hugging Face's production servers to cheat benchmark tests, with about 700 proxies participating in the attack. This feature has been launched on the web and mobile browsers of ChatGPT Work, allowing users to clear sessions by site individually in the cloud browser settings.

According to market news, SATA has raised enough funds today to purchase 429 bitcoins, with a trading volume of 50 million USD, marking the highest single-day volume this week.This week, SATA has raised funds to buy 1,084 bitcoins, which is more than 5% of its total holdings in four days, equivalent to Strategy buying 42,659 bitcoins in a week.

AI education company Genius Group, listed on the NYSE, announced a new plan to build dual vaults for AI and Bitcoin, aiming for total assets of $2 billion. The company previously liquidated all its Bitcoin in April this year to repay $8.5 million in debt.Genius Group first adopted a "Bitcoin-first" strategy at the end of 2024, with holdings peaking at 440 BTC, but due to a court injunction preventing financing, it was forced to reduce its holdings multiple times, leaving only about 84 BTC by February 2026. The company now plans to utilize a $1.2 billion SEC registration limit to issue perpetual preferred securities, with an initial fundraising target of $12.5 million. The funds will be allocated to the AI vault, Bitcoin vault, and cash reserves.This plan emulates the financing model of Strategy, which has raised over $16 billion through perpetual preferred shares for Bitcoin holdings. Genius Group stated that the excess returns generated from preferred capital will directly enhance the net asset value of common shareholders.

Japan Bitcoin Industry Co., Ltd. launched the self-custody Bitcoin payment platform Aurora at the Bitcoin Asia conference held in Hong Kong, aiming to help Japanese businesses sell content such as anime, manga, and games to international fans. The company stated that the overseas Japanese anime content market is expected to reach 21.7 trillion yen in 2024, a year-on-year increase of 26%, but traditional payment systems often keep overseas consumers at bay.Aurora allows international customers to make Bitcoin payments via the Lightning Network while providing Japanese merchants with a simple point of sale (POS) and API layer for managing invoices, payment tracking, and integration. The core design principle of the platform is that JBI does not touch the funds; each merchant operates their own self-custody Lightning Network node, directly receiving Bitcoin from customers, which provides merchants with a clearer regulatory foundation.JBI stated that Aurora draws on the experience of its existing consumer business UseBitcoin.jp, which has allowed customers to purchase digital gift cards including au PAY, V-Preca, and Kyash using the Lightning Network for the past two years. The company invites media, potential merchants, and wallet providers to contact the team at the 2026 Hong Kong Bitcoin Asia conference.

The Ethena Foundation announced significant reforms to its tokenomics, with the ENA token rising 23% to $0.17 within 24 hours. The reforms include the cancellation of the monthly VC unlock schedule and a proposal to use protocol revenue to buy back ENA. ENA holders are voting to decide on the "fee switch," where 95% of the net income from Ethena's brand business will be used for programmatic purchases of ENA when the circulation of USDe reaches $7.5 billion, with the remaining 5% allocated for growth.Ethena Labs and the Foundation have also reached a principled agreement to assign most of the intellectual property and economic benefits of the Ethena protocol to the Foundation and ecosystem, rather than to Ethena Labs shareholders. This agreement is expected to be announced in October. The reforms come as the supply of USDe has decreased from a peak of nearly $15 billion in October to below $5 billion, with part of its revenue relying on derivative funding rates, which have diminished as the crypto market cools.In search of new sources of growth, Ethena announced last week a $1 billion facility with FalconX to bring USDe collateral into over-collateralized institutional loans. Additionally, Janus Henderson invested in ENA in June and is exploring USDe distribution, while Coinbase has also launched a savings product in collaboration with Ethena.

According to Cointelegraph, Bitcoin's rebound in August has driven a surge in the stock prices of some previously underperforming mining companies, reversing the market preference that had shifted towards artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC) mining firms. The latest report from BlocksBridge Consulting shows that Bitcoin's approximately 23% increase over the past week has outperformed most AI-related infrastructure stocks.The stock prices of three mining companies, Canaan, American Bitcoin, and Cango, rose between 41% and 67%, while CoreWeave increased by about 21%, Nebius by 17%, and IREN by 15%. Some mining companies with higher exposure to AI and HPC remained flat or declined. BlocksBridge pointed out that the three main catalysts for Bitcoin's rise include: the U.S. Treasury's announcement on August 19 to at least double the liquidity support for long-term Treasury repurchase agreements; a rise in regulatory optimism following a meeting between the White House and crypto executives, with Trump urging Congress to pass the CLARITY Act; and a short squeeze triggered after Bitcoin's breakout, leading to over $1.6 billion in crypto positions being liquidated within 24 hours.Additionally, BlocksBridge's previous analysis found that publicly listed Bitcoin mining companies' investments in AI data centers are about 15 times their AI-related revenue. From 2026 to date, the AI and HPC revenue of nine listed mining companies has reached $341.2 million, while related capital expenditures have amounted to $5.11 billion.

According to CNBC, Goldman Sachs analyst Jim Schneider stated in an interview with CNBC that Nvidia's latest announcement of its second-quarter performance for fiscal year 2027 exceeded market expectations, and the revenue guidance for the next quarter is also higher than analysts' estimates. Driven by the company's optimistic outlook for revenue growth in the next fiscal year, Nvidia's stock price rose about 4% in after-hours trading.Schneider pointed out that Nvidia expects revenue for fiscal year 2028 to still achieve about 70% growth, indicating that the demand for AI infrastructure remains strong. The current focus of the market has shifted from short-term performance to whether the AI computing investment cycle can be sustained, and whether Nvidia's high growth expectations for the next few years can be realized.