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According to CoinDesk, U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune officially submitted a procedural motion for the Clarity Act after an all-night voting session on Saturday morning, initiating the first procedural voting process for the bill in the Senate. This move makes it possible for the Clarity Act to enter procedural voting immediately after the September recess, but the bill has already missed the voting window before the August recess, and passing in September still faces challenges.The Clarity Act requires at least 60 votes in support, and currently needs the backing of at least 10 Democratic senators, but there are still disagreements over the ethical clause that prohibits senior government officials (including President Trump) from participating in cryptocurrency projects. Bipartisan senators have submitted a revised proposal to the White House, but it has been on hold for at least a week without a response. Additionally, controversies surrounding illegal financial protections and stablecoin earnings remain unresolved. If the procedural vote fails in September, the chances of the Clarity Act passing this year will be extremely slim, and the new Congress in 2027 will need to reintroduce the legislation.

Bitcoin mining company BitFuFu released its unaudited Bitcoin production and operational data for July. In July, a total of 112 BTC were produced, including 72 BTC from self-mining and 40 BTC from cloud mining, with an average daily output of 3.6 BTC; the Bitcoin holdings decreased from 1,671 BTC in June to 1,314 BTC, a month-on-month decline of about 21%. According to its disclosure, the reduction in holdings was mainly due to prepayments made for future computing power capacity starting from August 2026 for a duration of 330 days, rather than selling off.In terms of operational metrics, the total hosted computing power in July was 14.2 EH/s, down from 15.3 EH/s in June, with self-owned computing power rising to 3.6 EH/s, a month-on-month increase of 2.9%, and computing power from third-party suppliers and hosting clients at 10.6 EH/s; the average fleet efficiency was 18.0 J/TH, and the total hosted power capacity decreased from 273 MW to 255 MW.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale has withdrawn a total of 30,000 ETH from Coinbase Prime, worth approximately 57.21 million USD, and has dispersed the funds into three new wallets.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the Polymarket event "Baltimore Orioles vs. Texas Rangers," the "Over" option in the sub-market "O/U 4.5" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win probability, dropping from 72% an hour ago to the current 15.5% (a fluctuation of 56.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, WLFI transferred a total of 100 million WLFI to Binance today in two transactions, worth approximately 5.3 million USD.Of these, 50 million WLFI were transferred to Binance after being routed through a new address, while another 50 million WLFI were transferred directly to Binance.

The X platform has announced the launch of the Original Content Rewards Program, aimed at rewarding creators who bring original perspectives, expertise, reporting, creativity, and commentary to the platform.X stated that, effective immediately, new users will no longer be able to join the original revenue sharing program. Existing revenue sharing program users can continue to earn revenue until September 7, during which three final payments will be made on August 14, August 28, and approximately September 11.Starting September 8, eligible existing creators can apply to join the new Original Content Rewards Program. The new program will distribute earnings based on the qualified exposure generated by the creator's original content, with rewards issued every two weeks, and the first payment expected to be issued on August 28.To apply for the Original Content Rewards Program, the following conditions must be met:Must be at least 18 years old;Reside in a country or region supported by the program;Account must be in good standing, with no multiple violations of revenue standards or service terms;Must have a personal or business account;Must subscribe to X Premium, Premium+, or Premium Business;Must have at least 500 verified followers;Must have achieved at least 500,000 impressions from verified users on the home timeline in the past 90 days (excluding reply impressions);Must continuously publish original content.

VeChain Foundation announced the entry into the next phase of the Renaissance roadmap, Interstellar. Previously, Galactica completed the EVM foundational upgrade, and Hayabusa completed the transformation of consensus and token economics. Interstellar aims to deepen the EVM compatibility of VeChainThor with the Ethereum ecosystem and expand developer capabilities.The first upgrade proposal, VIP-255, will introduce execution layer improvements compatible with Ethereum versions such as Cancun, Prague, and Osaka, including transient storage, MCOPY instruction, and cryptographic support for BLS12-381 and secp256r1. Voting will take place from August 10, 2026, 00:00 UTC to August 17, 2026, 00:00 UTC via the VeVote platform, allowing validators and eligible StarGate NFT holders to participate. This upgrade does not affect the VET and VTHO token economics, and regular holders do not need to take any action.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Hyperliquid has burned approximately $1.12 million worth of HYPE in the past 24 hours, generating $1.41 million in fees during the same period.Hyperliquid has cumulatively burned 47.57 million HYPE, worth approximately $2.64 billion, accounting for 4.76% of the maximum supply of 1 billion tokens.

According to Hyperliquid News monitoring, HypeStrat DAT spent $13.7 million to purchase 2.1 million PURR, valued at approximately $14.19 million.It still holds $132.9 million in cash, with an mNAV of 0.93 times.

According to the Financial Times, Jane Street is negotiating with several investors, including Pimco, to transfer its approximately $11 billion in debt from the public market to private instruments through a private credit deal.Analysis indicates that this debt transfer by Jane Street aims to reduce the quarterly financial disclosure requirements to a large number of creditors while providing greater flexibility for the company to further invest in AI infrastructure (such as data centers and related technologies).

Glassnode released a market outlook stating that the sentiment in the Bitcoin options market is improving, with the short-term downside skew significantly retreating. The 1-week 25 Delta Skew has dropped to about 7%, indicating that recent panic has eased. However, the longer-term skew remains around 10%--12%, and the demand for downside protection still exists.Currently, the open interest for BTC call options is about $15 billion, higher than the approximately $10 billion for put options; recent funds are mainly concentrated in the $61,000 to $67,000 range, with a noticeable buying of $65,000 call options. Glassnode believes that the market is shifting towards more aggressive positions but has not yet abandoned risk hedging.

Before and after the release of the non-farm payroll data, Bitcoin rebounded. The whale "set 10 big targets" and shared its recent Bitcoin long position profits. The attached image shows that it opened a position below $64,000, with unrealized gains exceeding $4 million.

Aave founder Stani Kulechov recently stated that SharpLink Gaming opposes Ethereum Improvement Proposal EIP-8363, claiming that SharpLink is one of the largest supporters and financial contributors to the Ethereum ecosystem. Stani mentioned that SharpLink executive Joseph Chalom raised some reasonable points regarding the feasibility and implementation timeline of the proposal.He also called on the community to "protect ETH staking," emphasizing that the interests and long-term impacts of staking ecosystem participants need to be fully considered when advancing improvements to the Ethereum protocol. EIP-8363 has recently sparked discussions in the Ethereum community, with related controversies mainly focusing on its potential impacts on the ETH staking mechanism, validator economic model, and ecological security. Community members are assessing the necessity of the proposal, its implementation pace, and the possible consequences it may bring.

PPP prediction market tool monitoring shows that before the non-farm data release, the probability of "Federal Reserve raising interest rates by 25 basis points in September" on Polymarket has risen to 48%, up 5% in 24 hours, and up 24% for the month; the probability of maintaining the interest rate unchanged in September has fallen to 49%, down 21% for the month.The U.S. July non-farm payroll report will be released today at 20:30 Beijing time, with Wall Street institutions predicting a data range from 18,000 to 83,000, showing significant divergence. Market participants believe that if the final data significantly deviates from expectations, there could be severe fluctuations in the stock, bond, and dollar markets. The unemployment rate remains a core variable of concern for the Federal Reserve. Bank of America economist Aditya Bhave pointed out that if the data shows "everything is safe" in the labor market, the Federal Reserve may raise interest rates up to three times this year, but the federal funds futures market is currently only pricing in one rate hike for the year.

According to the "China Securities Journal," at the online investor communication meeting for the Sci-Tech Innovation Board listing of Yushu Technology, an investor asked, what impact does the U.S. robot sales ban have? Fu Fenghua, the secretary of the board of Yushu Technology, responded that the main models currently on sale include humanoid robots G1, H2, R1, and quadruped robots Go2, B2, A2, all of which have obtained FCC certification and fall under the advanced robotic equipment mentioned in the previous announcement. Therefore, the aforementioned policy change will not affect the continued sales of the company's existing main products in the U.S. market.

On August 6, OpenAI first released usage data of ChatGPT across various countries, showing significant differences in usage across different scenarios, ages, and regions. In work scenarios, users utilizing ChatGPT for execution tasks (writing, editing, analyzing, etc.) accounted for over 50%, more than twice that of non-work scenarios; non-work scenarios are still primarily focused on "information retrieval." By age group, the proportion of messages from users over 35 years old globally increased by 5 percentage points year-on-year, with France and the Czech Republic seeing increases of over 10 percentage points. Nearly three-quarters of European countries exceeded the global average increase, while some regions in Southeast Asia saw smaller increases.Regionally, Latin America, Africa, and Oceania are narrowing the gap with early adopters, with Peru, Uruguay, and Costa Rica showing the fastest rankings rise. Multimodal (such as image generation and analysis) is the fastest-growing use case, with its global share rising to 7.8%, exceeding 10% in countries like Brazil and Colombia. OpenAI stated that the relevant data has been made public through the OpenAI Signals platform, aimed at helping policymakers and researchers understand the usage trends of over 1 billion users.

Bank of America strategists indicate that investor bullish sentiment has reached extreme levels, suggesting a reduction in exposure to risk assets. The Bull-Bear Index rose from 9.4 to 9.7, marking the highest level since 2021. The rise in the stock market, inflows into high-yield bond funds, and narrowing credit spreads are the reasons for the optimistic sentiment.Hartnett stated that we are still in the summer "withdrawal/rotation" phase, advising investors to reduce allocations to risk assets and shift towards defensive assets and the dollar.

According to Gate market data, Microchip Technology rose 9% in pre-market trading as the company forecasted that both revenue and profit for the second quarter would exceed expectations.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Chainlink repurchased 139,956.08 LINK, worth approximately 1.13 million USD, and transferred the tokens to its reserve wallet.This batch of LINK was accumulated through multiple exchanges on CoWSwap, then consolidated and sent to its reserve wallet. Chainlink's reserves currently hold 5.35 million LINK, worth approximately 43.9 million USD, with an average acquisition cost of 11.19 USD per LINK.