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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.

According to Bloomberg, informed sources revealed that JPMorgan Chase has begun preliminary discussions with potential lenders to seek a $5 billion debt financing plan to support Volta Infra Holdings Ltd. in building artificial intelligence data centers.Volta AI completed a $300 million venture capital financing earlier this month, with a valuation of $2.4 billion, aiming to help more tech companies access the costly resources of artificial intelligence chips.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, BlackRock has consecutively purchased large amounts of BTC and ETH for 8 trading days, accumulating 27,722 BTC (approximately $2.2 billion) and 385,633 ETH (approximately $961 million), with a total amount of approximately $3.161 billion.

According to Santiment Intelligence monitoring, since June 3, the ETH exchange platform balance has decreased from approximately 7.69 million to about 6.28 million, a reduction of about 1.4 million, representing a decline of about 18%. Since August 19, another approximately 275,000 ETH has flowed out of the exchange platform, bringing the current balance to the lowest level of this statistical period.During the same period, the BTC exchange platform balance has increased by about 0.25%, currently nearing recent range highs. In this regard, Santiment stated that the decline in ETH exchange platform balance has not stopped due to the price increase; while the ETH price has risen by about 27% since August 16, a large amount of ETH continues to flow out of the exchange platform.

According to Gate market data, Salesforce (CRM.N) has increased by 19%, marking the largest increase since August 2020.

According to official news, Lido announced an adjustment to the EarnETH Vault fee structure, reducing the fixed management fee from the original 1% to 0.2%, while increasing the performance fee from 10% to 15%.In the future, the maximum fee will be 0.5% management fee + 20% performance fee, and the specific rates will be adjusted based on Vault performance. The current actual fees charged will continue to be displayed on the EarnETH Vault interface.

For the week ending August 22, the number of initial jobless claims in the United States was 203,000, lower than the expected 208,000, and the previous value was revised from 206,000 to 207,000.

Jing Tian Studio issued a solemn statement: "Reputation is the life of an artist and also their Achilles' heel. But we have the courage to say no to the extortionate behavior that threatens the reputation of artists. Upholding the principle of believing in the law and following legal procedures, we have no intention of occupying public resources, and we will leave everything to the court to handle. Apart from announcing the progress of our rights protection, we will not respond to other issues."

The Sandbox released an update on the security vulnerability attack incident involving the SAND cross-chain bridge, stating that the attacker modified the verification mechanism to forge cross-chain deposit messages and mint unbacked SAND. This incident resulted in approximately 14.7423 million SAND being withdrawn, valued at about $697,000. Additionally, some uncollateralized SAND was profited through market trading, leading to an overall economic impact of approximately $1.497 million, of which the attacker actually obtained about $987,000.The Sandbox stated that the attack did not affect the supply of SAND on Ethereum and Polygon, with the total amount of SAND on Ethereum remaining unchanged at 3 billion. There were also no super administrator privileges stolen, and the attack stemmed from a vulnerability caused by the combination of the general call function in the token contract and the design of bridge permissions. Currently, the related addresses have been marked, and collaboration has begun with exchanges, security agencies, and the LayerZero team.For affected users, The Sandbox promises to compensate wallets holding legitimate bridged SAND with a 1:1 ratio of SAND on the Ethereum chain based on an on-chain snapshot taken before the attack. The compensation application process is expected to open within two weeks and will last for two weeks.

Japanese cryptocurrency exchange service provider Coincheck announced that it has completed the registration for electronic payment methods and other transactions on August 27, 2026, becoming the second company in Japan to obtain a license related to stablecoins.Coincheck stated that it will gradually develop stablecoin and on-chain financial related businesses based on its previous cooperation with the American company Circle to expand the use cases of USDC in Japan. The company claims that stablecoins have price stability linked to fiat currencies, which can be used for around-the-clock, fast, and low-cost transfers and payments.

HashKey Holdings Limited announced its unaudited consolidated interim results for the six months ended June 30, 2026, on August 27. During the reporting period, revenue was HKD 342.5 million, a year-on-year increase of 20.6%; gross profit was HKD 207.5 million, a year-on-year increase of 12.5%; gross margin improved from 51.0% in the second half of 2025 to 60.6%; adjusted losses narrowed by 21.0% to HKD 314.8 million.Revenue from transaction facilitation services was HKD 267.9 million, a year-on-year increase of 38.6%. Platform transaction volume reached HKD 2,822 billion, a year-on-year increase of 31.8%, of which institutional transaction volume was HKD 2,315 billion, a year-on-year increase of 58.8%, accounting for 82.0% of total transaction volume. The on-chain RWA TVL reached HKD 2,678.5 million, a year-on-year increase of 167.8%, and completed Hong Kong's first real estate RWA project and the first regulated silver RWA token. The asset management scale was HKD 5,941.2 million, with segment revenue of HKD 38.84 million, launching stablecoin and Bitcoin financial products as well as the industry's first Bitcoin mining power fund.HashKey was established in 2018 and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on December 17, 2025. Its business covers transaction facilitation, on-chain services, and asset management. During the period, its wholly-owned subsidiary signed a framework agreement for the acquisition of Singapore's Asia Pacific Exchange, HashKey Capital made a strategic investment in Vietnam's CAEX and led the B+ round of SignalPlus, while deepening cooperation with JPMorgan, DBS, and others.

The U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF has recorded net inflows for eight consecutive trading days, totaling $2.8 billion. Bitcoin traded around $79,520 on Thursday, rising 1.1% in the past 24 hours, and at one point reached a high of $80,475.BlackRock's IBIT contributed $2.02 billion of this, accounting for 72% of the total inflow; Grayscale's GBTC, on the other hand, saw net outflows during the same period, with $50.4 million flowing out on Wednesday alone. Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas stated on Twitter that in the past week, gold and Bitcoin ETFs combined saw inflows of $7 billion, setting a record for a five-day period, and noted that IBIT's inflows have turned positive year-to-date.HashKey senior researcher Tim Sun indicated that continuous inflows for over five trading days signify sustained spot demand, with the current trend occurring after a significant pullback in the $60,000 to $70,000 range. However, daily inflows have decreased from a peak of $606.3 million on August 20, with Wednesday's $232.2 million being the lowest during this period, showing that marginal buying power is weakening. Stephen Wundke from Algoz Technologies mentioned that weekly trading volume surpassed $90 billion, about twice the average level.

On August 27, B.AI announced that the latest open-source Qwen3.8-Flash model from Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen has officially landed on the platform, with the API official group fully open for free calls. This multimodal MoE model serves as a forward-looking preview of the Qwen4 architecture, featuring a total of 125B parameters and 51B N-gram Embedding, activating 6B parameters per token.The model integrates the GDN and QSA mixed attention mechanisms for the first time, natively supporting 262K context and can be extended to 1M via YaRN. Developers can start calling it at zero cost for tasks such as programming assistance, agent workflows, and document analysis.

GoPlus Security issued a security alert stating that realio[.]fund, a subsidiary of Realio Network, was attacked. The attacker took over the platform's signature system and transferred assets from the treasury and custodial wallets on Ethereum, BNB Chain, Algorand, Stellar, and the Realio native chain.This incident involved approximately 127.9 million RIO, valued at around 6.2 million dollars, and the attacker has currently cashed out about 317,000 dollars.

The Sandbox released an incident analysis report on the vulnerability on August 22. The report shows that attackers exploited vulnerabilities in cross-chain configuration contracts on the Base and BNB Smart Chain (BSC) to steal 14,742,341.84 SAND from the Ethereum treasury, accounting for approximately 0.5% of the maximum supply, with an estimated economic impact of about $1.4968 million, of which approximately $987,000 was actually intercepted by the attackers. The Ethereum mainnet and Polygon network were not affected.Please do not purchase or send SAND on Base or BNB Smart Chain until further notice. The contracts deployed on Base and BNB Smart Chain have been permanently disabled and will not be reopened. The Sandbox stated that the team has reported the attackers' wallet addresses to blockchain analysis companies TRM Labs and Chainalysis and is in direct communication with relevant exchanges.The Sandbox also announced a compensation plan, which will compensate wallets that legally held cross-chain SAND on Base or BSC before the incident at a 1:1 ratio with Ethereum SAND. The compensation funds will come from The Sandbox treasury, and no new tokens will be issued. The application process will open in the next two weeks and will remain open for two weeks.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "LoL Nongshim Red Force vs BNK FEARX LCK Playoffs" on the prediction market Polymarket, the option "Nongshim Red Force" in the sub-market "Match Winner" has experienced a drastic fluctuation in win rate, plummeting from 74.5% an hour ago to the current 56.5% (a fluctuation of 18%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to a post by Santiment, Grayscale has converted its Zcash trust established in 2017 into a spot ETF, trading on NYSE Arca since August 25. The price of ZEC rose from about $509 on August 18 to about $852 on August 23, an increase of approximately 65%.Santiment stated that social mentions peaked at 232 times on August 22, about six times the baseline level for August, and then fell back to baseline on the day the ETF launched. Interest peaked the day before the price topped, and enthusiasm had waned before the fund opened. As of the post, ZEC is about $796, down approximately 6% from its peak. The market is more in a "rumor" phase, and when the news landed, funds had already begun to exit.

U.S. Republican Senator Bernie Moreno from Ohio urged the U.S. Trade Representative to consider imposing tariffs on South Korea due to its treatment of the American e-commerce company "Coolpeng." Moreno pointed out in his letter that Seoul takes hostile actions against foreign companies, including heavy compliance requirements and biased regulatory enforcement, and requested an investigation under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. South Korea denies discriminating against Coolpeng compared to domestic companies.

TokenPocket's cross-chain aggregation trading product Transit Finance announced an upgrade to its token information page, deeply integrating project and token data from the Web3 data platform RootData. Users can verify trading data, liquidity, security risks, position structure, and project background on the same page before trading.It is reported that the integrated RootData data covers more than 20 fields, including detailed project descriptions, financing information, news reports, calendar events, etc., to enrich the project profile and dynamic information on the Transit token information page, providing structured data support for users' trading decisions. Currently, the number of partners accumulated by RootData has exceeded 245.