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According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the Polymarket event "LoL T1 Academy Team vs KT Challengers," the "Any Player Quadra Kill" sub-market's "Yes" option win rate has experienced significant fluctuations, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, significant capital movements are predicted in the Polymarket market. A large whale sold $59,962.1 in a single transaction regarding the event "Traffic in the Strait of Hormuz Returns to Normal" on "August 31." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning rate for this subject is 80.71%.

According to Bloomberg, the current venture capital market is experiencing significant structural differentiation. As funds concentrate on top artificial intelligence startups, many small and medium-sized venture capital funds are facing severe challenges such as fundraising difficulties, declining performance, and narrowing exit channels.The report points out that the excessive hype around artificial intelligence has distorted the venture capital market. Data shows that just five companies—OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Waymo, and Nscale—accounted for 78% of all venture capital transaction volume in the first quarter of this year. A large amount of capital has flowed to a few top investors who made early bets on AI, such as Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz, while small emerging fund managers find it difficult to compete with these leading institutions.This differentiation is directly reflected in fundraising data. Last year, newly established management companies (managing three or fewer funds) raised only about $62 billion, a significant drop of about 60% compared to the pandemic peak of $163.4 billion in 2022. Even experienced management teams raised only $84 billion last year, which is just one-third of the amount in 2022. Many LPs are facing liquidity pressures and are more inclined to demand returns on existing investments rather than commit new funds.

According to TradingBeats (formerly Hyperinsight) monitoring, the whale starting with 0xf17 began synchronously selling HYPE spot today and buying to close an equivalent amount of perpetual short positions, planning to continue exiting the carry trade positions. This address previously held HYPE spot and contract short positions at a nearly 1:1 ratio, earning positive funding rates by hedging against price fluctuations. Based on a pre-reduction position of approximately 146,800 units, both legs have now been reduced to about 107,900 units, each decreasing by nearly 39,000 units, a reduction of about 26.5%.Currently, two sets of TWAP orders still in execution plan to handle a total of 90,000 HYPE: approximately 33,200 units have been sold on the spot side, with a transaction amount of about 1.8 million USD; approximately 33,100 units have been closed on the contract side, with a transaction amount of about 1.795 million USD. Including previously completed orders, the current round of contract short positions has cumulatively decreased by about 39,000 units, with the current nominal value of spot and short positions each around 5.87 million USD, and the total scale of both legs approximately 11.74 million USD, reduced by about 4.24 million USD compared to before the reduction.As the whale withdraws, the HYPE carry trade yield has also fallen from its high. According to daily statistics: the cumulative funding rate for HYPE dropped from +0.0279% on August 1 to +0.02227% on August 3, a decrease of about 20.2%; in the last 4 hours: the cumulative funding rate also decreased by 19.1% compared to the previous 4 hours. Based on the current short position size, its daily gross funding income has fallen from about 1,638 USD to 1,308 USD. Weekly statistics: from July 28 to August 3, the cumulative rate was about +0.17803%, down 16.9% from the high week of +0.21425% from July 14 to 20. The HYPE funding rate is currently reported at +0.0013%, with an expected annualized yield of about 10.9%.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, the whale 0x2e80 has once again withdrawn 19,000 ETH ($35.44 million) from Gemini and staked it.In the past three weeks, this whale has withdrawn a total of 112,000 ETH ($208 million) from Gemini and staked it.

According to Coinglass data, the current whale holdings on the Hyperliquid platform amount to $4.708 billion, with long positions of $2.354 billion, accounting for 50% of the holdings, and short positions of $2.354 billion, also accounting for 50% of the holdings. The profit and loss for long positions is -$120 million, while the profit and loss for short positions is $55.4201 million.Among them, the whale address 0x0ddf..02 has shorted ETH with a full position at a price of $1700.06, currently realizing an unrealized profit and loss of -$8.3817 million.

According to Jinshi reports, court documents show that 25 states in the United States have filed lawsuits challenging Trump's latest tariff measures.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, the "Yes" option win rate in the sub-market "Both Teams Kill a Dragon" for the event "LoL LCK Challenger League" on the prediction market Polymarket has experienced a sharp fluctuation, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a mysterious whale has accumulated over $220 million in ETH and WBTC since July, withdrawing 200 BTC from Binance four hours ago.As of now, it has withdrawn a total of 74,265 ETH and 1,400 WBTC, with an average cost of approximately $1,770 and $63,887.37, respectively, realizing a profit of $3.8 million, with ETH in a profitable state and WBTC in a loss state.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, an address holding 500 BTC was activated after being dormant for 12.7 years. These bitcoins are currently worth $31,315,572, whereas in 2013 they were only worth $507,500.

According to Mlm onchain monitoring, the whale trader Loracle has currently established and is continuously increasing a gold long position worth over 23 million USD, while opening a short position in ETH worth over 28 million USD and a short position in SNDK worth over 8 million USD.

According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), a trader opened a BTC long position of approximately $25.16 million (400.88 BTC) with 40x leverage, and an ETH long position of approximately $18.51 million (10,000 ETH) with 25x leverage on the Hyperliquid platform within the last hour, totaling a position size of $43.68 million.

J.P. Morgan strategists believe that as market performance spreads to more sectors, technology stocks or AI-related stocks are unlikely to be the main drivers of market returns in the second half of the year.The team led by Mislav Matejka stated that the sell-off in momentum trading is likely mostly over, and semiconductor stocks are currently close to oversold levels. The team wrote in the report: "As earnings momentum remains upward, this should help stabilize the related stocks." However, they expect market performance to continue spreading to more sectors and reiterated that due to geopolitical tensions, investors are advised to buy on dips.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a certain whale wallet, after being inactive for 7 months, transferred all 16,400 BTC it held to a new wallet 1 hour ago, worth 1.04 billion dollars.

According to monitoring by Hyperinsight, the current hourly funding rate for Changxin has dropped to -0.2430%. A negative rate means that shorts pay longs; based on the current rate, the simple annualized return is approximately 2129%.Calculating with a position of $10,000, shorts need to pay about $24.3 per hour, while longs receive an equivalent income; if the rate is maintained for 24 hours, the corresponding funding fee is about $583.3.The largest long position starting with 0x9a8 is the main beneficiary of this round of negative rates. Records show that since the morning of July 15, it has completed 183 funding fee settlements for CXMT, with a cumulative net income of about $991,400, achieving a return rate of about 45.9% on the initial capital.This whale currently holds a leveraged long position of 1,633,200 CXMT at 5 times, with a position value of about $12,742,000 and an average entry price of $6.6156. CXMT is currently priced at $7.80, with an unrealized profit of about $1,938,000 (89.7%), and the liquidation price is only $0.507.Based on the current position and a static rate of -0.2430%, this whale can earn about $31,000 in funding fees in the next hour; if maintained for 24 hours, this corresponds to about $743,000.This whale currently still has 7 buy orders not labeled as "only reducing positions" between $6.01 and $6.41, planning to continue buying 98,000 CXMT, with a nominal amount of about $609,000, and has not chosen to cash out the existing long position.

According to monitoring by Hyperinsight, the whale starting with 0xc278 has completed 61 rounds of BRENTOIL trading since March 19, when it traded Brent crude oil, with 59 rounds being long positions and only 2 rounds being short positions, resulting in a long position ratio of 96.7%. The total net loss from all 61 trades amounts to approximately $2.431 million, with million-dollar level positions contributing 99.4% of the losses.Yesterday, its Brent long positions triggered a system liquidation again. The entire liquidation closed 47,600 BRENTOIL long positions, with a liquidation transaction amount of approximately $4.046 million and a weighted liquidation price of about $84.99, resulting in a total loss of approximately $275,000. After the liquidation, there were no Brent positions left in that address.Before the liquidation, BRENTOIL on Hyperliquid fell from a high of $91.68 on Sunday to a low of $82.81, with a maximum drop of 9.7%; the last backup liquidation price was about 7.6% lower than the high point. This round of decline mainly occurred after Trump announced a pause on launching a new round of strikes against Iran and stated that a ceasefire agreement in the Middle East was close to being reached.This whale had previously incurred losses of approximately $882,000, $513,000, and $460,000 on three long positions at the beginning of April, but thereafter continued to primarily take long positions in crude oil, repeatedly recording the largest single liquidation across the network.

According to Coinglass data, the current whale holdings on the Hyperliquid platform amount to $4.74 billion, with long positions totaling $2.327 billion, accounting for 49.1% of the holdings, and short positions totaling $2.413 billion, accounting for 50.9%. The profit and loss for long positions is -$147 million, while the profit and loss for short positions is $84.2899 million.Among them, the whale address 0x0ddf..02 has shorted ETH with a 3x leverage at a price of $1,700.06, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of -$8.3117 million.

Binance co-founder CZ retweeted user Rager's experience about hardware wallet failures on the X platform. CZ stated that protecting the wallet backup seed phrase is a highly challenging task.The seed phrase cannot be seen by others, or it may be copied or exploited, and it must not be accidentally damaged by fire, flood, or other incidents, while also preventing hackers from gaining access. More importantly, users themselves must not lose the seed phrase.

Bitgo CEO Mike Belshe deposited 100 BTC into a public Bitcoin address, valued at approximately $6.3 million at the time, and invited the Claude model under Anthropic to attempt to transfer the funds from that address. On-chain records show that the wallet received the funds on July 31, and the balance has not been transferred out.Anthropic previously disclosed that during 141,006 cybersecurity assessment runs, 3 incidents were found, with 6 assessment sessions involving 3 models unexpectedly interacting with real organizational systems. The relevant models include Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5, and an unpublished internal research model, due to configuration errors by third-party testing partner Irregular that caused the testing environment to connect to the internet.Anthropic stated that Claude Opus 4.7 identified a real website sharing the same name as a simulated company during one assessment, exploited weak passwords and exposed services to recover infrastructure credentials, and accessed a production database containing hundreds of records. The company claimed that the model was attempting to complete assigned tasks and was not actively breaking restrictions or pursuing independent goals. Belshe's challenge involved the Bitgo institutional custody platform, which uses multi-signature or multi-party computation technology to distribute signing authority across multiple independent keys. Anthropic has not publicly responded to this challenge.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale deposited 873,160 wstHYPE (approximately 47.37 million USD) and 627,810 kHYPE (approximately 33.71 million USD) into Hyperlend, and then borrowed 20.57 million USDC.