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U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune has moved to terminate the debate procedure on advancing the Clarity for Digital Assets Markets Act (CLARITY Act) into Senate consideration, with the Senate scheduled to hold a procedural vote on September 15. The vote is expected to take place at 2:15 PM Eastern Time after the Senate reconvenes that day.The motion requires 60 votes in support, meaning Republican senators will need Democratic support to pass the procedural threshold. The two parties are currently negotiating on issues such as ethical standards and stablecoin reward rules, with related disagreements causing the bill to fail to reach consensus before the August recess.This vote only concerns whether to initiate the bill's consideration process and does not represent a final vote on the bill or guarantee its passage in the Senate. The CLARITY Act aims to establish a federal market structure for digital assets and clarify the conditions under which certain crypto assets are subject to securities or commodities laws, as well as the regulatory responsibilities of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

According to TheDataNerd monitoring, recently a whale with a 40x leverage short position of 102 million dollars in Bitcoin faced partial liquidation, with a loss of 1.46 million dollars in the past week.Currently, the margin call has reduced the short position to approximately 60,000,000 dollars, with an opening price of 64,212.5 dollars and a liquidation price of 65,310.2 dollars.

Zach Pandl, the head of research at Grayscale, published an analysis stating that although the Clarity Act may still reach an agreement on a technical level, the Senate schedule and the political reality of an election year make the likelihood of passing it this year very low, but the impact is limited. The failure of the bill will not immediately affect the operation of major blockchains, the demand for Bitcoin as a store of value, or the growth of stablecoin payments— the industry has been developing without this bill for nearly 17 years. However, the lack of comprehensive market structure legislation may hinder new investment activities in the U.S., including the development of the tokenized securities market and the regulatory framework for digital asset intermediaries. Under the current administration, regulatory guidance has supported the industry through measures such as new rules for institutional custody, improved bank access, staking policies, and the crypto ETP framework. The SEC and other regulatory agencies are expected to continue filling gaps through rulemaking. The lack of comprehensive regulation may lead to more entrepreneurial activities flowing overseas.

Berkshire Hathaway today released its Q2 2026 financial report, with the most market attention focused on the cash reserves dropping to $36.551 billion in the second quarter, down from about $39.74 billion in the first quarter. This marks the end of Berkshire's 14 consecutive quarters of net selling, turning into a significant net buying for the first time since the fourth quarter of 2022.In the financial report, Berkshire's net stock purchases in the second quarter were nearly $20 billion, including about $10 billion in a private placement from Google's parent company Alphabet to support investments such as its AI data centers. Approximately $6.8 billion was spent to acquire homebuilder Taylor Morrison, which was a complete acquisition and not entirely a public market stock transaction. About $4.5 billion was used to repurchase its own shares. After deducting the above major items, there remains about $3 billion of "unexplained" net purchases of public market equities, with specific stocks to be disclosed in the 13F filing around August 14. Currently, Alphabet officially enters Berkshire's top five holdings, alongside American Express, Apple, Bank of America, and Coca-Cola, with the top five holdings accounting for about 66% of the stock portfolio.Buffett previously stated that the long net selling period was mainly due to high market valuations, making it difficult to find sufficiently attractive opportunities. This shift is seen as a clear signal of more aggressive capital allocation under Abel's leadership as CEO, with Berkshire moving from "patient waiting" to "starting to act."

According to Decrypt, Robinhood's head of cryptocurrency business, Johann Kerbrat, stated in an interview that Robinhood Chain has performed strongly in its first month. He pointed out that the chain is positioned to balance traditional financial products (tokenized stocks, derivatives) with meme coins—this is exactly what CEO Vlad Tenev expressed in his "two wolves" post. One month after its launch, Robinhood Chain's total value locked (TVL) has approached $800 million, processing over 200 million transactions.Kerbrat stated that the choice of Ethereum Layer-2 was to concentrate resources on product development while relying on existing security and decentralization. Robinhood's ultimate goal is to reach users who have never used cryptocurrency, rather than competing for existing users with other chains. "If we can see tens of millions of customers trying to use this chain, that would be a huge success for us."

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "LoL: Nongshim Red Force vs DN SOOPers - LCK Third to Fourth Round Promotion Group," the "Yes" option win rate for the sub-market "Both teams kill a dragon" has experienced a sharp fluctuation, rising from 51% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 39%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to the Korea Economic Daily, SK Hynix is preparing a shareholder return plan that includes stock buybacks and cash dividends, with a total scale expected to be about 100 trillion won (approximately 71 billion USD).Among them, the stock buyback scale is expected to reach 40 trillion won (approximately 28.4 billion USD), accounting for more than 2% of the company's total issued shares. This scale is close to the proportion of new shares issued for the American Depositary Receipts (ADR) listing previously by SK Hynix.Compared to last year's shareholder return scale of about 14.3 trillion won (including about 2.1 trillion won in cash dividends and about 12.2 trillion won in stock cancellations), this plan's scale has increased by about 7 times.Behind SK Hynix's large-scale return plan is its leading position in the AI infrastructure core storage HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) market. The company expects revenue of about 345.6 trillion won this year, with operating profit of about 266.4 trillion won, representing year-on-year growth of approximately 256% and 464%, respectively.Previously, SK Hynix stated in its earnings call that HBM4 shipments will officially ramp up in the second half of the year, while advanced process DRAM shipments will also increase, with overall shipments expected to be higher than in the first half.Market institutions believe that as the demand for AI computing power continues to grow, SK Hynix's improved profitability may drive a recovery in the company's valuation. HSBC previously pointed out that the market's pricing of SK Hynix's profit cycle has been relatively pessimistic, and this shareholder return plan may become one of the important factors for valuation improvement.

According to SlowMist monitoring, the decentralized exchange Atomic protocol was attacked due to a signature replay vulnerability, resulting in a loss of approximately 29,984 USDC.The vulnerability originated from contract 0xa806010f, which lacked binding of position ID, position manager, caller, nonce, deadline, and chain ID in the signature hash, allowing the same manager's signature to be replayed on 21 different position IDs, executing unauthorized full LP destruction under flash loan price manipulation, and without TWAP or slippage checks.

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.