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According to The Information, Nvidia (NVDA.O) is in discussions to fund its AI data provider Mercor at a valuation of $20 billion.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, after ETH rose to $2100 tonight, Longling Capital (0x83E...E4Bd8) transferred 1800 ETH to Binance for sale, worth $3.67 million.

The contract whale "Set 10 big goals first" shared on social media a 5x leveraged long position of 3425.239 BTC, with a margin of about 46.52 million USD, currently showing a floating profit of over 13.04 million USD, achieving an investment return rate of 28.04%.

According to Bloomberg, Prosus NV plans to invest $100 million in Indian fintech company Navi Ltd., marking Navi's first introduction of institutional capital. This round of investment requires regulatory approval, including from the Competition Commission of India, to be completed.Navi is headquartered in Bangalore and operates in payments, credit, insurance, and mutual funds. Its UPI payment application ranked fourth in India by scale for the fiscal year ending in March; its subsidiary Navi Finserv has surpassed an asset management scale of approximately 130 billion rupees.

According to CoinDesk, Rob Nichols, President and CEO of the American Bankers Association (ABA), stated that the goal is to strengthen rather than block the passage of the CLARITY Act. He believes that the digital asset industry needs a clear regulatory framework, but a key provision in the bill regarding stablecoin rewards still needs to be tightened further. Nichols pointed out that the GENIUS Act, set for 2025, has already prohibited stablecoin issuers from paying interest or returns to holders, and the current controversy revolves around whether related parties, such as cryptocurrency exchanges, can offer similar interest-like rewards.He believes that if stablecoin wallets attract bank deposits out through such mechanisms, it could weaken the funding base that banks use for small business loans, housing mortgages, and agricultural financing. The American Bankers Association suggests amending the relevant statements in the bill to prohibit stablecoin rewards that are "substantially similar" to interest payments and to remove certain wording that may cause ambiguity. Nichols stated that these modifications would not prevent crypto companies from offering other reward programs but could avoid the reward mechanism evolving into a disguised form of deposit interest.He also mentioned that the American Bankers Association is pushing for senators to amend the relevant provisions before the vote in September and believes that the U.S. can be both a global banking center and a global crypto center, provided that clear and consistent regulatory rules are established.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, two whales are shorting ETH on Hyperliquid, with a total short position of 50,838 ETH, worth approximately 98 million USD.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a certain whale opened a long position of 500,000 SOL worth $37.93 million at $76.368, using 20x leverage. Five minutes ago, the whale took profit on 246,000 SOL at $78.297, earning $475,000.The remaining position worth $20 million is still up $486,000, with a total profit of $960,000 over the past 10 days. The pending order has been canceled.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, influenced by the news of the United States increasing the scale of long-term Treasury bond repurchases, both the U.S. stock market and the cryptocurrency market saw an increase before the market opened.He pointed out that a Bitcoin short whale, which had just experienced a liquidation, is once again approaching the liquidation threshold. The value of the Bitcoin short position it holds is approximately $93.24 million, with a liquidation price of $65,045, which is about $200 away from the current price.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, citing the latest views from Fidelity Digital Assets, the current volatility of Bitcoin (BTC) has fallen below approximately 98.5% of its historical trading day levels. The institution pointed out that this compression state can be likened to a compressed spring; the longer the volatility remains low, the greater the potential for significant market movements once a clear direction is chosen.Fidelity Digital Assets, as the digital asset services division of Fidelity, has been tracking the market structure and risk indicators of Bitcoin for a long time. This commentary focuses on the phenomenon of recent volatility being at historically low percentiles, emphasizing that prolonged suppression of volatility often signals the possibility of larger price fluctuations in the future, but it did not provide specific directional judgments or time expectations.The related statements reflect the institution's observations of the current microstructure of the BTC market, indicating that under the background of continuous volatility contraction, the accumulation of market energy may provide conditions for subsequent breakthroughs. This viewpoint is based on historical percentile statistics, offering investors a reference perspective for understanding the current volatility environment.

According to Bitcoin.com, on-chain data analysis platform CryptoQuant shows that in the past 60 days, large Bitcoin holders have increased their holdings by approximately 43,000 Bitcoins, worth about $2.75 billion. This group excludes exchange and mining pool wallets, and this increase ends a months-long period of net selling.After Bitcoin dropped to around $60,000, large holders resumed buying; subsequently, Bitcoin rebounded to around $65,000, trading mainly in the $62,000 to $65,000 range in recent weeks. During the same period, the balance of "dolphin" holders defined by CryptoQuant also increased, indicating that the accumulation is not only coming from the largest wallets. In August, spot trading volume fell to the lowest monthly level since August 2021.

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.

According to Curve.finance Governance, Swiss Stake AG submitted a progress report for H1 2026 stating that Llamalend V2 has passed the ChainSecurity audit and has launched on Optimism and the Ethereum mainnet, supporting LP Token and PT collateral while introducing new admin fee revenue for Curve DAO.FXSwap has entered the production optimization phase, focusing on research around liquidity concentration, price_scale, and dynamic fees. FastBridge has launched on Arbitrum, Optimism, and Fraxtal, reducing the time to withdraw crvUSD from Layer 2 to Ethereum from about 7 days to approximately 15 minutes. The team has secured the second phase of 8.725 million CRV and additional CRV and crvUSD funds to support operations until the end of 2026, and plans to submit a proposal to increase the DAO protocol fee share from 10% to 30%.

According to CryptoQuant monitoring, Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) has increased its dollar reserves to $4.8 billion, which is enough to cover approximately 33 months of preferred stock dividends and debt interest expenses.This week's related operations show that the company raised $333.7 million through MSTR, added $149.1 million to its reserves, and used $132.2 million to repay $138.9 million of STRC debt. During this period, there were zero Bitcoin purchases and zero sales, and the dollar duration was extended by 41 days.

The Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) has ordered the freezing of approximately SGD 75 million worth of Bitcoin and USD Coin, involving a transfer dispute between a global major cryptocurrency exchange operator (the plaintiff and related companies) and a long-term customer. In a ruling made in March 2026 by Singapore High Court Judge Aidan Xu and SICC international judges Anthony Meagher and David Goddard, the court granted the plaintiff a temporary injunction, prohibiting the defendant from disposing of 816,773 USDC and 780 BTC transferred from two dedicated wallets on the platform and the corresponding profits, and required the defendant to disclose the whereabouts of the assets, but did not allow the plaintiff to use that information to apply for similar injunctions in other jurisdictions.The defendant had held 2,500 BTC and 2,500 BCH in the dedicated wallet. The plaintiff claimed that due to technical reasons, the internal ledger did not record the defendant's transfer operation in March 2020, and the wallet appeared empty. Based on this misunderstanding, the plaintiff transferred 2,500 BTC and 2,500 BCH to the defendant's other wallet in July 2024. The defendant subsequently exchanged 20 BTC for approximately 816,773 USDC and transferred it along with 780 BTC to a non-plaintiff custodial wallet between July and November 2024. After discovering the ledger error in January 2025, the plaintiff froze the defendant's wallet and recovered the remaining 1,700 BTC and 2,500 BCH.

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.

H100 released its second-quarter report for 2026, reporting a pre-tax loss of 98.2 million Swedish Krona, approximately 9.82 million USD, most of which was due to non-cash items, primarily from Bitcoin impairment.The company stated that the actual cash consumption for business in the second quarter was 5.1 million Swedish Krona, approximately 510,000 USD; for the first half of the year, it was 12.7 million Swedish Krona, approximately 1.27 million USD. As of the end of June, the company held cash of 18.1 million Swedish Krona, approximately 1.81 million USD.

According to GoPlus monitoring, the VSCode extension Solidity Pro has been poisoned, and historical versions have malicious capabilities such as data theft and remote execution.It is recommended that developers immediately check the relevant extensions they have installed and increase their vigilance towards third-party plugins.

According to Hyperliquid News, a whale has maintained its position for 24 days since opening on July 26, with its CXMT holdings increasing from 2.3909 million to 2.9006 million, valued at approximately 24.52 million USD.Currently, the unrealized profit and loss for this position is 5.65 million USD, with approximately 4.044 million USD paid in funding fees. This wallet holds 37.2% of the open contracts for this trading pair, and it is still far from liquidation.

The cross-chain liquidity protocol Maya Protocol was attacked on August 18, with the attacker exploiting six interconnected software vulnerabilities to create false account balances, stealing approximately 20.83 BTC (about $1.34 million) and other assets, resulting in a total direct loss of about $1.65 million. The incident led to the suspension of trading on the MAYAChain network, with its token CACAO plummeting nearly 89% from $0.115 to $0.013, before recovering to around $0.03.Technical reviews show that the attack began when MAYAChain mistakenly judged a transaction to be lost and triggered a compensation mechanism, but the mechanism miscalculated, adding about 49 million CACAO to a small liquidity pool, while the protocol's reserves only held about 168,000 CACAO. After the transfer failed, the system incorrectly saved the new balance, and the attacker subsequently deposited a very small amount into the liquidity pool, acquiring over 99% of the pool's share and immediately withdrawing 48.87 million CACAO, which was then exchanged for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other assets.The incident caused the total value of the Maya Protocol liquidity pool to decrease by about $10.9 million, of which approximately $6.4 million was due to the depreciation of CACAO, and about $2.9 million came from arbitrage trading. The team expressed hope that the attacker would return the funds in the form of a bug bounty; otherwise, they would seek to recover losses through investments in channels like Aztec Chain. Maya Protocol has not yet announced a specific time for resuming trading. This incident once again exposed the security risks within the complex logic of DeFi protocols.

The long-established public chain Gnosis Chain's proposal GIP-153 to transform from a sovereign independent L1 to a highly aligned Ethereum L2 has officially been approved. On the eve of the voting deadline, several official affiliated addresses, including Gnosis co-founder StefanDGeorge, concentrated their votes in favor, successfully meeting the quorum requirement. This proposal was jointly initiated by Gnosis founder tw_tter and core members, aiming to free Gnosis Chain from the traditional PoS L1's insufficient security and inflation subsidy drawbacks, directly inheriting the security of Ethereum validators, and becoming the first to achieve synchronous composability as an Ethereum L2.