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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.

Websea officially announced the launch of the Proof of Reserves (PoR) mechanism on August 18, using a Merkle tree scheme to publicly disclose platform reserve data, while also opening up open-source verification tools. Users can view verification dates, covered currencies, user asset balances, on-chain wallet balances, wallet address files, and historical reports, as well as download personal verification data to locally verify whether their assets are fully accounted for in the platform reserves.According to the introduction, the reserve ratio is the ratio of the platform's on-chain assets to the total user assets, and a reserve ratio of no less than 100% means that the assets held on-chain by the platform are not less than the total amount of user assets. Websea stated that it will continue to update reserve data periodically, promoting asset transparency and the construction of a user self-verification mechanism.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, the Solana whale GvHYQQ (GvHY...1idXgUce) has purchased 47,535 SOL again after being inactive for over 2 years, worth 3.6 million dollars.This whale had previously bought 291,800 SOL during the price corrections in August and October 2023, spending a total of 6.82 million dollars at an average price of 23.37 dollars. Subsequently, as SOL rose, the whale sold 191,800 SOL, earning a total of 24.62 million dollars, with an average selling price of 128.36 dollars, realizing a profit of over 20 million dollars.

According to BBX data, yesterday and in recent days, global publicly listed companies in the U.S. stock market disclosed the latest official real data on increasing cryptocurrency asset reserves, treasury structure, and mining production operations. The core updates are as follows:Strive (NASDAQ: $ASST) increased its holdings by 79 bitcoins, with total holdings exceeding 20,200: According to the 8-K document submitted by Strive to the U.S. SEC, the company purchased 79 bitcoins at an average price of approximately $63,231 between August 10 and 14, 2026. As of August 14, Strive's total bitcoin holdings reached 20,246. Additionally, the company's balance sheet holds 505,000 shares of Strategy STRC preferred stock (fair value approximately $47.86 million) and about $154.8 million in cash, ensuring ample liquidity.BitMine increased its holdings by nearly 10,000 ETH last week, with total holdings reaching 5.815 million: Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: $BMNR) disclosed that it increased its holdings by 9,926 Ethereum last week. As of August 16, 2026, its total Ethereum holdings rose to 5,815,164 ETH, accounting for approximately 4.8% of the total circulating supply of Ethereum across the network.Canaan Inc. (NASDAQ: $CAN) released July mining data, with nearly 2,000 BTC in reserves: Mining machine manufacturer and computing power operator Canaan Inc. announced its unaudited operational data for July. In July, the company self-mined 46 BTC; by the end of the month, its balance sheet held a total of 1,917 BTC and 3,952 ETH. In terms of operational metrics, the company's global operating hash rate reached 14.24 EH/s (installed hash rate 14.89 EH/s), with an average energy efficiency of 17.9 J/TH for non-joint venture mines in North America, and the comprehensive electricity cost for the month was approximately $0.043 per kilowatt-hour.

According to official news, GoPlus announced a comprehensive upgrade of DeepScan, launching an AI-based smart contract security solution. GoPlus stated that as hackers begin to leverage AI to dig deeper into contract vulnerabilities, the traditional "one-time audit, go live and it's done" security model is struggling to cope with the continuously evolving attack risks.DeepScan constructs a complete security closed loop around the entire lifecycle of smart contracts, consisting of AI contract auditing, continuous security monitoring, and Token security self-checks, providing ongoing security assurance for developers, project parties, and trading platforms. Among them, AI contract auditing can analyze contract source code, permission management, and business logic based on AI deep analysis, identifying security risks such as syntax vulnerabilities and business logic vulnerabilities, and outputting a structured audit report that includes security scores, key findings, problem details, and remediation suggestions. Continuous security monitoring targets contracts that are already live and have completed audits, tracking newly disclosed vulnerabilities, on-chain attack events, and changes in external dependencies such as oracles and cross-chain bridges in real-time, and using AI to determine whether the project is affected, conducting timely reviews and alerts. Token security self-checks are aimed at projects that are about to be launched or applying for listing, quickly detecting risks such as P2P pools/honeypots, malicious issuance permissions, blacklist mechanisms, abnormal transaction taxes, Owner permissions, and transaction restrictions.In addition, the GoPlus DeepScan team also released an open-source Benchmark dataset built on real smart contract attack events, used to assess AI's actual capabilities in vulnerability identification, attack path understanding, contextual reasoning, and audit stability. Currently, it has included nearly a hundred typical attack events since May 2025 and continues to be updated. GoPlus stated that DeepScan can be used for low-cost security scanning by developers, security reviews before project launches, and continuous monitoring during operations, while also serving as a supplement to security assessments before listing on trading platforms, helping all parties to more promptly identify new vulnerabilities and attack risks.

The Offchain Labs research team has released advancements in zero-knowledge proof technology, covering areas such as proof acceleration, verifiable AI, and recursive security. Among them, the vector commitment scheme has reduced the proof generation time for 64,000 data entries from about 2 minutes to 32 milliseconds, achieving a speedup of approximately 4000 times; the new proof system Zaratan has achieved native full succinct proofs for integers for the first time, which can reduce the computational overhead of operations like RSA by about 5000 times; in terms of verifiable AI, a lightweight verification protocol can shorten the inference verification time for large models from several minutes to milliseconds.Arbitrum is exploring a multi-prover architecture that combines ZK proofs with fraud proofs and TEE to eliminate single points of failure and shorten L1 settlement cycles.