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According to btctreasuries, Canada's largest bank, the Royal Bank of Canada, recently increased its holdings in the Bitcoin treasury company Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy, $MSTR) by 46,001 shares, valued at approximately $4.45 million. After the increase, the bank holds a total of 385,002 shares of Strategy, with a total value of about $37.2 million, representing a 13.5% increase in its shareholding ratio.Strategy is known for its corporate treasury strategy of holding large amounts of Bitcoin, and its stock price performance often correlates with Bitcoin prices. As a leading financial institution in Canada by asset size, the disclosed increase in holdings has drawn market attention to traditional banks' attitudes toward allocating Bitcoin-related assets.

a16z crypto posted on platform X that monthly spending on crypto payment cards reached approximately $759 million in July this year, an increase of about 2.5 times compared to approximately $306 million a year ago, and a significant rise from less than $1 million in October 2023, with an average transaction amount of about $86.The report states that users can hold stablecoins through custodial or self-custodial methods and spend globally using traditional card networks like Visa, with merchants settling in local fiat currencies. Currently, about 58% of spending is settled in USDC, approximately 26% in USDT, and the share of the euro stablecoin EURe has dropped from about 88% to around 2%.In terms of chain distribution, Optimism, Solana, and Base each account for over 20%, while Gnosis's share has significantly declined.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a suspected insider address (0x0d9...751d0) transferred 9.1 million LAB, worth $720,000, to 10 new addresses three hours ago; the receiving addresses have not yet transferred or sold.

According to Bloomberg, Standard Bank is negotiating to acquire a stake in Nigerian fintech company OPay, with plans to complete the transaction before its IPO in the U.S. OPay, supported by SoftBank Group, Sequoia Capital, and others, is working with Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan to advance its listing in New York. Reports indicate that the two parties have not yet reached a final agreement, and the transaction carries uncertainties.Founded in 2018, OPay has approximately 50 million users in markets such as Nigeria, with plans to double its transaction volume to $35.8 billion and achieve profitability by 2025. It is also operating in countries like Egypt and Pakistan.McKinsey estimates that Africa's fintech revenue could reach $47 billion by 2028, with mobile payments in sub-Saharan Africa reaching $1.4 trillion, accounting for about 66% of the global total.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the government of the Kingdom of Bhutan transferred 300 bitcoins to a new wallet a few minutes ago, worth approximately $19.28 million.In addition, the Bhutanese government also deposited 66 bitcoins into Binance last month, worth approximately $4.12 million.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a wallet suspected to be associated with the Ethena team deposited 17 million ENA to FalconX one hour ago, worth approximately 14.09 million USD, possibly for over-the-counter (OTC) sales.This wallet previously received ENA from Ethena's Gnosis Safe last year.

According to Chainwire, global crypto platform Blockchain.com has been approved to join the Nigerian Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Accelerated Regulatory Incubation Program (ARIP). As a result, the company meets the SEC's preliminary participation requirements and can operate within the established sandbox framework, while continuously fulfilling compliance, testing parameters, and regulatory conditions. Through ARIP, Blockchain.com will work directly with the SEC to assess digital asset business models, test safeguards, and assist in refining the long-term regulatory framework. ARIP is aimed at virtual asset service providers and fintech innovators to evaluate emerging models, operational risks, and investor protection and anti-money laundering standards.Owen Odia, General Manager of Blockchain.com Africa, stated that Nigeria is one of the most important digital asset markets in Africa, and participating in ARIP is a significant step in the company's long-term commitment to the country, helping to introduce global experience in a controlled environment that supports a framework that protects consumers while encouraging responsible innovation. Over the past year, the company has obtained registration with the UK FCA, authorization under the EU MiCA framework, and a VASP license from the Cayman Islands CIMA. Founded in 2011, Blockchain.com serves over 70 jurisdictions, with more than 94 million wallets and 44 million confirmed accounts, processing over $1.1 trillion in crypto transactions.

Xiaomi Group released its Q2 2026 financial report, with revenue of 108.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 6.1%, and a quarter-on-quarter increase of 9.9%; adjusted net profit was 6.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 42.6%, and a quarter-on-quarter increase of 2.4%. The revenue from the Mobile × AIoT segment was 84 billion yuan, with a gross margin of 20.0%; the revenue from the smart electric vehicle and AI innovation business segment was 24.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 17.1%, with a gross margin of 19.2%, and this segment incurred an operating loss of 2.6 billion yuan.Smartphone shipments reached 31.2 million units, maintaining a top-three global ranking for 24 consecutive quarters, with ASP increasing by 25.9% year-on-year to a historic high of 1,351 yuan. Revenue from IoT and lifestyle consumer products was 31.3 billion yuan, and internet service revenue was 9 billion yuan, with a gross margin of 76.8%. The AIoT platform has connected devices totaling 1.161 billion, a year-on-year increase of 17.4%, with the Mi Home APP having 124 million monthly active users and Xiao Ai having 175 million monthly active users.The automotive business delivered 104,200 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 28.2%, with cumulative deliveries of the SU7 series exceeding 500,000 units. R&D expenditure was 9.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 18.9%, with R&D personnel accounting for 47.2%. The Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 base model ranked first in weekly usage on the OpenRouter platform. The group has accumulated over 47,000 global patents. Since 2026, the stock repurchase amount has been approximately 11.7 billion Hong Kong dollars.

According to Bloomberg, Singapore hedge fund Dymon Asia Capital has received approximately $1 billion in tranches from the Abu Dhabi Investment Council (ADIC) for expansion into markets from London to Hong Kong. Dymon’s assets under management have increased to about $9 billion as of July, far exceeding the previous expectation of $5 billion by the end of 2026, with its multi-strategy fund yielding about 7.5% this year.Dymon is focusing on expanding its commodities and London team, bringing in Amir Ravan from Jain Global as head of commodities, Jay Radia from BlueCrest as chief operating officer of commodities, and recruiting former Schonfeld macro trader Manas Baveja in London. ADIC is systematically increasing its allocation to global hedge funds, planning to raise its related exposure to about $15 billion.

CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. stated that the supply of Bitcoin long-term holders (LTH) is currently 16.35 million BTC, which is only 58,000 BTC lower than the historical peak of 16.41 million BTC set on July 30, having increased by 1.38 million BTC in the past 90 days. Meanwhile, in the past 15 days, there were only 2 days when the LTH supply decreased, with the frequency of decline approaching the lowest level, indicating no significant selling pressure.In terms of price, Bitcoin is currently around $64,200, with the LTH cost basis at about $49,400, corresponding to 1.3 times. It has been in a lower risk zone between the LTH cost basis and 1.5 times ($74,100) for 78 consecutive days. If it breaks through $74,100, it will enter a normal risk zone; if it falls below $49,400, the overall LTH will fall into a loss. The analyst pointed out that the current supply structure is constructive, but it cannot yet confirm that demand is strong enough to drive a new round of increases.

The Korea Communications Standards Commission (KCSC) held a meeting of the Communications Review Subcommittee and determined that the overseas prediction market platform Polymarket provided illegal betting, deciding to implement access blocking measures against it. The committee judged that Polymarket's business model is based on the outcomes of events that users cannot control, such as politics, sports, elections, and weather, adopting a "winner takes all" profit and loss structure that fosters speculative psychology; the platform operator is responsible for market establishment, trading rule setting, and overall operational management, providing a virtual asset acceptance and settlement system, which effectively creates an environment for raising and delivering user funds, and profits by charging transaction fees through share trading, violating South Korea's Criminal Law and the National Sports Promotion Act.Polymarket argued that the platform operates based on non-custodial peer-to-peer trading and smart contracts, and does not directly raise funds, manage funds, or issue sports promotion voting rights. However, the committee responded that one cannot evade the applicability of domestic laws in South Korea based on technical characteristics such as whether Korean language services are provided, decentralized technology, or centralized trading interfaces. Given that the platform has actually provided illegal betting to South Korean users, access blocking is unavoidable to protect domestic users.

On August 18, WEEX announced that it will implement 0 fee trading for all spot pairs in the bStocks area, with all participants receiving 100% rewards and a chance to share a $100,000 prize pool. Activity period: 8/17 20:00 - 8/24 19:59:59 (UTC+8).During the event, all users who complete any spot transaction in the bStocks area will receive a 10 USDT bonus. If the cumulative spot trading volume is ≥ 2,000 USDT, they can share a bonus of 25,000 USDT based on their trading volume proportion.

The PPP prediction market tool monitoring shows that in the Polymarket "OpenAI Astra Release Date" prediction market, the probability of OpenAI releasing Astra before August 31 has risen to 24%, an increase of 8% in 24 hours; the probability of it being released before September 15 is currently reported at 61%, an increase of 6% in 24 hours. According to the settlement rules, if OpenAI releases Astra before the corresponding deadline, or releases a product confirmed to be the same model as Astra and makes it publicly available, the market will settle as "Yes."Public testing or open waitlists qualify, but closed testing and private access do not count; the main settlement basis is OpenAI's official information. Previously, OpenAI disclosed that it would slow down the development process of Astra until appropriate safety measures are established. However, OpenAI founder Sam Altman also stated that Astra is a powerful model, and the company is working hard to make it available to a broader range of users.

Coinbase Markets announced on its official X account that it has added Cluster Protocol (token code CP) to the Coinbase asset listing roadmap today.Inclusion in the roadmap means that the asset has entered Coinbase's internal evaluation and compliance review process, but it does not equate to confirmation of listing. The specific listing time and trading pair arrangements still depend on the progress of subsequent reviews.

The blockchain protocol Harmony Protocol announced a complete network rollback due to a security vulnerability incident. Shard 0 and Shard 1 will roll back to block heights 92,730,034 and 94,978,278, corresponding to the state on August 11 at 23:25:37 UTC. The attacker exploited vulnerabilities in cross-shard receipt validation and quorum validation to mint ONE. A single wallet initiated 534 fraudulent transfers of 5 billion ONE each within 106 seconds, of which 477 were successful, illegally minting and transferring 2.385 trillion ONE, causing the price of ONE to drop by over 30%.Harmony has deployed emergency patch Mainnet v2026.1.1, suspended cross-chain bridge services, and requested exchanges to freeze related addresses. Over 99.9% of the counterfeit token flow has been tracked, and validators will regenerate blocks from the target block, permanently discarding 141,628 blocks during the rollback period, including 109,126 ordinary transactions and 315 staking transactions.

Ethereum developer kevaundray submitted the EIP-12188 proposal, suggesting to shorten the consensus layer block retention window to reduce storage pressure on nodes. The proposal is currently in the public review stage and has received support from some Ethereum client developers.Developer DApplion expressed support for the proposal, while Lighthouse client contributor michaelsproul believes that this adjustment will not significantly impact Lighthouse's operation. The proposal points out that as the demand for Ethereum historical data changes, reducing the retention time for historical blocks in the consensus layer can optimize node resource usage.It was mentioned in the discussion that historical data pruning in the execution layer may affect some long-running nodes' ability to provide old block data, but developers believe this will not threaten network security or the normal operation of nodes. Currently, EIP-12188 has not yet been merged and still requires further review and community discussion.

According to the token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, ChainOpera (COAI) will unlock approximately 8.32 million tokens at 00:00 Beijing time on August 25, worth about 2.53 million USD.

According to Cointelegraph, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is preparing to seek public input on artificial intelligence (AI) computing power futures. Meanwhile, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) plan to launch related products linked to computing power.This move aims to explore the feasibility of incorporating AI computing resources into the regulated futures market, reflecting traditional financial infrastructure's attention to emerging computing power demands. If these related products are implemented, they may provide institutions with tools to hedge against fluctuations in computing power costs.

According to DefiLlama data, the total value of RWA (real-world assets) deposited in DeFi protocols has increased from 12 million dollars three years ago to nearly 4 billion dollars today, an increase of more than 300 times.