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The proposed soft fork BIP-54 (Consensus Cleanup) specification for Bitcoin was completed in May 2026, aimed at fixing four consensus rule boundary issues without adding new Bitcoin features. Wang Chun, co-founder of the digital asset mining pool F2pool, stated that they do not support BIP-54 and mentioned that if the proposal obtains the required majority through the standard BIP-9 process, F2pool will upgrade its mining nodes but will not issue a support signal in advance.BIP-54 has been tested in the Signet-based testing environment Bitcoin Inquisition, and the mining pools MARA and ViaBTC have voluntarily produced compatible coinbase transactions; the formal activation parameters have not yet been determined, and the mainnet voting is still incomplete. Previously, BIP-110, which attempted to restrict certain non-financial data in Bitcoin transactions, did not receive enough support from miners and stalled around block height 961635; BIP-54 does not involve restricting general script functionality.

According to on-chain detective Specter, the attacker exchanged all assets including WBTC, cbBTC, LDO, USDS, and CRV for DAI and ETH. The same wallet was previously hacked in September 2023 due to malicious token authorization, resulting in a theft of 24.23 million USD, with the attacker ultimately returning about 90% of the stolen funds. The attacker's address is 0x8fEB...F95Ae.

After the Coldcard hardware wallet firmware vulnerability was exploited, approximately 2,100 bitcoins were stolen, resulting in a loss of nearly $130 million. On-chain data shows that long-term holders transferred about 233,000 bitcoins from their wallets in the days before and after the incident, worth approximately $15 billion.Casa CEO Nick Neuman stated that some of the transferred funds came from Coldcard users migrating to multi-signature wallets, and Ledger and Trezor users also took similar measures after the incident. During the same period, about 22,000 bitcoins were transferred to exchanges. Coinkite has requested that users who generated recovery phrases using firmware versions 4.1 to 4.1.9 consider the related wallets compromised and immediately migrate to new recovery phrases. The aforementioned versions cover from March 2021 to July 2026.

Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan announced on August 12 on the X platform that Travis VanderZanden has joined Polymarket as Chief Growth Officer.It was reported that Travis V. previously served as the Head of Driver Growth at Uber, Chief Revenue Officer at Yammer, and founded and served as CEO of the bike-sharing company Bird.

SKALE Labs announced the launch of Agent Pit on August 12. This platform is a paper trading prediction market sandbox running on the SKALE zero Gas blockchain, fully mirroring Polymarket's order book, settlement mechanism, and real-time event data, allowing developers and AI agents to test and train trading strategies without real financial risk.Agent Pit is the first product of the SKALE Agentic Venture Studio. Developers can fine-tune agents here, participate in simulated ROI leaderboard competitions, and deploy models to real markets like Polymarket after completing training. SKALE Labs CEO Jack O'Holleran stated that there is a clear demand in the market for a prediction market strategy training environment aimed at agents.

Japan's largest banking group, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), plans to utilize blockchain technology to provide instant settlement services for certain Japanese Government Bonds (JGB) transactions.According to reports, MUFG plans to conduct blockchain-based Japanese Government Bond repurchase transactions using tokenized money market funds and stablecoins to shorten the settlement process of traditional securities transactions.

According to The Block, a couple in the Somme department of France faced three break-ins in less than a month after purchasing the former home of a cryptocurrency millionaire. The incidents were triggered by the previous owner's tax information and address being leaked to the dark web, leading criminals to mistakenly believe that the new residents held approximately 1 million euros in cryptocurrency assets.The first break-in was thwarted by a dog, the second intruder subdued the residents and live-streamed the attack on Snapchat, and after confirming the target was incorrect, fled; the third break-in was scared off by the alarm system. The Amiens Criminal Court subsequently convicted two men (aged 20 and 21) involved in the third break-in, sentencing them to 3 years and 18 months in prison, respectively.

According to the official announcement, Coinbase will suspend trading of the following perpetual contracts around 21:00 on August 26: Memecoin (MEME-PERP), The Sandbox (SAND-PERP), Moonbirds (BIRB-PERP), Blur (BLUR-PERP), Katana (KAT-PERP), SPX6900 (SPX-PERP), ZORA (ZORA-PERP), Axie Infinity (AXS-PERP), Gensyn (AI-PERP), and LayerZero (ZRO-PERP).At that time, any remaining open positions will be automatically settled, with the final settlement price being the average index price for the 60 minutes prior to the suspension of trading, and the rate for the last funding rate period will be set to zero.

According to Bloomberg, amid the recent downturn in digital asset prices, cryptocurrency asset management company Bitwise Asset Management Inc. has cut approximately 14% of its staff.It is reported that the San Francisco-based Bitwise confirmed in an email statement sent to Bloomberg that its workforce has been reduced from about 180 people to around 155.CEO Hunter Horsley stated that even after the layoffs, Bitwise's workforce remains the largest in its eight-year history.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a certain whale established a short position the day before Changxin Technology (CXMT) went public, and has held the position for about half a month without closing it. Currently, the scale of the short position is approximately 22.86 million USD, with an opening price of about 6.5 USD.During the holding period, this address has paid approximately 3.4 million USD in funding fees, while the unrealized loss on the short position is about 4 million USD, resulting in a total loss of approximately 7.4 million USD.Yu Jin stated that even if the price of Changxin falls back to its opening price of 6.5 USD, this address will still have to bear the high funding fee costs incurred during the holding period.

According to Bloomberg, Trump is being sued for planning to sell quick access to Truth Social posts.

According to Cointelegraph, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) updated the MiCA registration list this Wednesday, with the Slovenian electronic money institution Dinaro officially joining the list of electronic money token (EMT) issuers, becoming the first institution from Slovenia to enter this list. Dinaro is regulated by the Bank of Slovenia and provides payment services including issuing and acquiring, and holds principal membership with Mastercard.After this update, the total number of EMT registrations has reached 43, the asset-referenced token (ART) list remains empty, and the list of non-compliant entities remains unchanged at 167. In terms of crypto asset service provider (CASP) registrations, the Czech Partners Banka and Germany's Volksbank Beilstein-Ilsfeld-Abstatt have been added, bringing the total number of registrations to 325; the Czech company Altlift, which was added to the list in early July, has been removed.

Renowned trader Killa posted that during the last bull market, Bitcoin began to recover from its lows before the ETF rumors and official approvals, emphasizing that the market often reflects positive news in advance.Therefore, this round may be similar; the current "Clarity Act" is forming a new narrative. "If it indeed becomes a catalyst, it is likely to mark the beginning of the first meaningful upward phase for BTC after the first bear market recovery, and the approval itself will soon push BTC towards a new ATH (just like the ETF approval)."Killa, a quantitative trader focused on BTC, predicted the peak of this bull market in May 2025 and has over 200,000 followers on the X platform. In mid-April, he shorted Bitcoin at $74,688 and turned bullish during the market-wide decline on June 5.

According to Bloomberg, the AI code review platform CodeRabbit announced the completion of a $143 million financing round, with a valuation of $1.5 billion. This round of financing was co-led by Atomico and Smash Capital, with participation from institutions such as BMW i Ventures and Datadog. So far, CodeRabbit has raised over $200 million in total financing.CodeRabbit primarily utilizes artificial intelligence to automatically review software code, helping developers identify code defects, security risks, and potential issues. Its product can automatically review both AI-generated and manually written code during the development process, providing developers with feedback on problems and suggestions for improvement.

The B.AI platform is now offering a limited-time 40% discount on the GLM-5.2 model for all users.During the event, whether deploying through the API or interacting on the web, all calls can enjoy a 40% settlement price. The discounted prices are: Input 0.84, Cache Write 0.84, Cache Read 0.168, Output 2.64 (Unit: Credits/Token).As a next-generation open-source flagship model, GLM-5.2 features a 1M ultra-long context window, designed for high-performance scenarios such as large-scale code development, complex reasoning, and agent tasks. Users can directly use it through the official API standard channel or the web interface, achieving seamless integration across all workflow scenarios. This event aims to unleash top-tier AI productivity at a lower cost, and users can log in to the B.AI platform to experience it starting today.

According to Thrive Holdings, the AI investment platform Thrive Holdings announced the completion of a $2 billion financing round, with the company's valuation reaching $12 billion, with participation from SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital.Thrive Holdings was founded in 2025 by Thrive Capital founder Joshua Kushner. Unlike traditional investment firms, it does not directly invest in AI large model research and development companies, but primarily acquires traditional service companies and integrates AI technology into business processes to achieve efficiency improvements. Its goal is to build platforms and products that bring cutting-edge artificial intelligence into key industries that millions of businesses and individuals rely on daily. The company had previously secured approximately $1 billion in initial funding.

According to Coinglass data, the current whale holdings on the Hyperliquid platform amount to $5.001 billion, with long positions totaling $2.479 billion, accounting for 49.57% of the holdings, and short positions totaling $2.522 billion, accounting for 50.43%. The profit and loss for long positions is -$84.4771 million, while for short positions it is $15.4502 million.Among them, the whale address 0x66f8..a9 has shorted BTC with a full position at 40 times leverage at a price of $64,038.7, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of -$151,700.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the event "LoL: DN SOOPers vs Nongshim Red Force LCK Round 3 - Round 4 Promotion Group" on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Yes" option win rate for the sub-market "Both teams kill a dragon" has experienced a sharp fluctuation, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

In July, the seasonally adjusted core CPI in the United States recorded a month-on-month increase of 0.2%, rebounding from the previous month and meeting market expectations.

The U.S. July seasonally adjusted core CPI year-on-year is 2.5%, expected 2.50%, previous value 2.60%.