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According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a dormant whale for 4 years recently sold 1,400 BTC, worth approximately 111.61 million USD.This whale received 2,200 BTC at an average price of 45,024 USD 4 years ago, with a total value of about 99.05 million USD, and did not sell during the period when unrealized profits peaked at 178 million USD. Currently, it has begun to sell BTC, with cumulative profits of approximately 76.5 million USD.

The TRON network super representatives (SR) have initiated a proposal vote for the mainnet Committee No. 107, which is expected to conclude on August 28 at 14:00 (Singapore time).The proposal aims to enable features related to the TVM compatibility with Ethereum Prague and Osaka upgrades in GreatVoyage-v4.8.2, including support for historical block hash queries, the addition of the CLZ instruction, support for Passkey verification with the secp256r1 precompiled contract, and optimization of MODEXP energy consumption. If the proposal vote passes, it will further enhance the compatibility of TVM with the latest upgrade features of Ethereum, strengthening smart contract development and cross-ecosystem adaptation capabilities.

He Xiaopeng, Chairman of XPeng Inc., stated at the 2026 semi-annual financial report meeting that the humanoid robot IRON plans to enter large-scale production by the end of this year and will implement commercial scenarios in XPeng stores and parks. In 2027, IRON will officially launch, targeting external customers in the retail and service industries, with large-scale deliveries in China and overseas, and monthly production capacity can quickly increase to several thousand units. He has also served as the CEO of the robotics business since June of this year, integrating resources such as the automotive supply chain, automotive-grade manufacturing, global layout, and Turing AI chips to promote mass production and commercialization.On the same day, XPeng announced that its humanoid robot business has secured over $900 million in its first round of financing, with a post-investment valuation exceeding $6.3 billion. IDG led the investment, with Gao Rong Venture Capital, Tencent, Alibaba, and others subscribing for $600 million, while XPeng Inc. and senior executives including He Xiaopeng subscribed for $300 million. He Xiaopeng believes that the technical threshold for advanced general-purpose robotics is at least 20 times that of smart cars, and the revenue and gross profit over the entire lifecycle of a single unit will be significantly higher than that of cars, expecting considerable gross profit after mass production to support physical AI research and development.The pre-installed mass-produced Robotaxi equipped with the second-generation VLA has completed over 2,000 internal test orders in Guangzhou, and XPeng has completed the development of the cloud takeover platform, aiming to achieve passenger operations without safety personnel next year. The automotive business generated total revenue of 32.78 billion yuan in the first half of the year, delivering 166,000 vehicles, with a gross margin of 20.6%; it is expected to deliver between 115,000 and 121,000 vehicles in the third quarter, with total revenue between 21.7 billion and 23.4 billion yuan.

According to CryptoQuant analyst MorenoDV_, after Bitcoin rebounded above the new whale cost basis of around $70,000, new whales realized profits reaching a record $1.2 billion.If Bitcoin can maintain above the new whale cost basis of around $70,000, while realized profits return to normal, it will indicate that new demand is effectively absorbing market selling pressure.

As investor enthusiasm for AI trading cools and regulators strengthen measures to curb demand, leveraged ETFs linked to chip manufacturers in South Korea have seen nearly $1 billion in outflows this month. So far, leveraged products tracking Samsung Electronics have experienced outflows of $381 million in August, while related products tracking SK Hynix have seen outflows of $601 million, marking the first monthly outflow for these products since their launch at the end of May.Especially during the global AI trading sell-off in July, when the South Korean Kospi index experienced a historic plunge, with a monthly decline of 22%. Subsequently, South Korean regulators raised the minimum margin requirements for new investors purchasing such products and required investors to undergo a 5-day simulated trading period.

According to reports from The Paper and others, on August 24, consumers claimed that the Taobao Tmall store "SKhynix Flagship Store" suddenly announced the termination of its operations, raising concerns about the after-sales warranty of the purchased memory modules. The store's homepage indicated that it plans to voluntarily terminate operations on September 9, 2026, and has removed all products, making it currently impossible to search for the store directly on Taobao.Customer service on the Taobao platform stated that if an order is still within the after-sales validity period after the store closes, customers can apply for repairs or refunds on the order details page; if there is no after-sales entry or the seller has not processed it, customers can contact platform customer service for assistance or check if they are entitled to the brand's official warranty. On August 25, SK Hynix's stock price opened lower and continued to decline, falling more than 4% as of the related report.In another report, members of the SK Hynix union voted against a preliminary wage agreement reached after two months of negotiations, with 50.08% of the 15,045 employees who participated in the vote opposing it, with only a 25-vote difference between approval and disapproval. The agreement originally included a 6.3% wage increase and adjusted the profit-sharing bonus to 40% cash and 60% company shares, whereas it was previously distributed entirely in cash.

The engineering collective Shipyard, focused on IPFS and libp2p technologies, announced that Protocol Labs will not renew its funding. As a result, Shipyard will gradually cease its engineering, maintenance, and infrastructure operations related to IPFS, with a final deadline of September 30, 2026.Shipyard stated that several core projects it maintains (including Kubo, Helia, Boxo, Rainbow, IPFS Desktop, etc.) will no longer have dedicated maintainers responsible for new features, fixes, and releases; contributions to go-libp2p and js-libp2p will stop; and the public infrastructure it operates (such as ipfs.io, dweb.link, IPFS bootstrap nodes, etc.) will also cease, with the future of related domains and infrastructure to be determined by Protocol Labs. The team will assist with the transition before the end of September.

According to CoinGecko data, in the past 24 hours, Upbit's trading volume was approximately $1.446 billion, an increase of 138.2% compared to the previous 24 hours.The top five trading pairs by trading volume are: XRP/KRW (accounting for 20.16% of the trading volume, with a transaction amount of approximately $338 million); BTC/KRW (accounting for 12.09% of the trading volume, with a transaction amount of approximately $203 million); USDT/KRW (accounting for 11.57% of the trading volume, with a transaction amount of approximately $194 million); ETH/KRW (accounting for 6.89% of the trading volume, with a transaction amount of approximately $116 million); PROM/KRW (accounting for 5.31% of the trading volume, with a transaction amount of approximately $89.18 million).

Research institution Digitimes stated that with the surge in AI-driven infrastructure spending, major cloud service providers are expected to place greater emphasis on operational efficiency and financial discipline in the second half of 2026. Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft reported a combined cloud business revenue of $106.3 billion in the second quarter, with an annual growth rate accelerating to 43%. These companies are expected to increase their total capital expenditures to $74.5 billion.

PPP prediction market tool monitoring shows that the probability of "BTC reaching $85,000 during the remaining period of August" on Polymarket has risen to 44%, an increase of 26% in 24 hours. Additionally, the probability of it reaching $90,000 has risen to 12%, an increase of 6% in 24 hours.According to the settlement rules, this market is based on the Binance BTC/USDT trading pair. Within the specified month in the title (from 00:00 on the 1st of the month to 23:59 on the last day, Eastern Time), if the highest price of any 1-minute candlestick is equal to or higher than the specified price in the title, it will be settled as Yes immediately; otherwise, it will be No. This market only considers the 1-minute candlestick High price of Binance BTC/USDT, and prices from other exchanges, trading pairs, or spot markets are not included.

Theo Hourmouzis, General Manager of Anthropic for Australia and New Zealand, stated at an event hosted by the National Australia Bank that the company's Australian clients lag behind their global counterparts in utilizing the programming capabilities of the Claude chatbot, but are more inclined to use it for simple tasks.Hourmouzis cited Anthropic data indicating that approximately 5.8% of Claude's usage in Australia pertains to basic tasks such as invoice processing, inventory management, and general administration, which is higher than the global level of about 4.7%. He pointed out that local usage tends to lean more towards backend and practical work.

Bitget launches the 4th phase of the VIP Guardian Program, running from August 24 to September 13, with a total prize pool of 55,000 USDT. This phase of the event is aimed at a specific user group: users whose VIP level has dropped since May 18 and have not reached VIP1 as of August 16.The event includes three main sections: return benefits, level recovery rewards, and trading volume rewards. Eligible users who complete registration will automatically receive a 30-day VIP2 experience card and a 200 USDT contract position voucher based on the type of VIP level they lost. In addition, users who complete specified stock spot or contract trading tasks can receive rewards of up to 1,600 USDT. Rewards can be accumulated and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. For more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.

Decred, a blockchain, stated that between August 16 and 17, its mainnet inflation vulnerability was exploited, resulting in the generation of approximately 2077.97 DCR. This vulnerability has existed in the consensus code since the mainnet launch in February 2016, stemming from improper edge case handling during the interaction between the regular transaction tree and the stake transaction tree, allowing double-spending inputs.The vulnerability was reported on August 12 through a bounty program but was exploited before a fix could be implemented. Decred has decided not to roll back to minimize the impact on users. The issuance of approximately 2000 additional DCR does not affect the hard cap of 21 million coins and is far below the historical subsidies lost due to underissuance, which exceeded 215,000 coins. Currently, the team has developed additional double-spending monitoring services and plans to improve the emergency upgrade signaling mechanism.

Stablecoin issuer Tether entered Uruguay in May 2023, planning to engage in sustainable Bitcoin mining and invest in energy production with local licensed companies. The project has two mining sites in the Florida province, with an estimated investment of 60 million USD each, totaling approximately 120 million USD.Uruguay's state-owned electricity company UTE had a disagreement with Tether regarding the electricity supply contract amount. Tether's Uruguayan entity Microfin stopped paying electricity bills in May 2025 and notified of its intention to terminate the contract in June; on July 25, UTE cut off power to the mining site, with Microfin owing nearly 5 million USD and monthly electricity costs of about 2 million USD.On November 25, 2025, Tether notified the Uruguayan labor department of its cessation of operations, with 30 out of 38 local positions being eliminated. UTE stated that Microfin had settled its debts by December; in 2025, 98% of Uruguay's electricity generation came from renewable energy.

According to monitoring by SolanaFloor, Circle minted approximately 1 billion USDC on the Solana chain in the past 24 hours.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, two addresses suspected to belong to the same whale closed their BTC long positions one hour ago, having held them for nearly two months, with a profit of 11.6 million dollars.

The Ethereum community has released a deposit contract EIP proposal that supports post-quantum computing. The proposal aims to introduce a new contract that supports variable-length public keys and credential metadata, along with a clear scheme identifier, where scheme 0 is reserved for the current BLS deposits.The new contract no longer relies on the Merkle tree structure of the old deposit contract but instead passes deposit information to the consensus layer through execution requests derived from EIP-7685 logs. This contract features an irreversible mode controlled by protocol system calls: deposits are initially disabled, BLS deposits are enabled at a specified timestamp, and BLS deposits are permanently disabled at a later timestamp, with no option for re-enabling. During the migration period, the execution client must merge deposit requests from the new and old contracts.

AI market prediction project Fortune Protocol officially announces the integration of liquidity from Polymarket and, together with the previously integrated Predict.fun, provides more prediction markets and liquidity for Fortune Markets.After this update, users can directly explore markets from different liquidity sources within Fortune Markets and discover and compare the liquidity, trading volume, and probabilities of different markets more quickly through a brand new market interface. Fortune Protocol has optimized the trading and asset management experience, adding a streamlined trading process that supports result selection and position browsing; the Portfolio feature is unified, allowing users to view their current positions, settled markets, and complete trading history in one place.Fortune Protocol states that by continuously integrating liquidity from various mainstream prediction markets, Fortune Markets will further build a unified market layer, providing users with a more open, efficient, and integrated prediction market trading experience.

According to on-chain analysis platform Lookonchain, a trader deposited $90,000 into the decentralized trading platform Aster and opened 49 BTC long positions with 50x leverage, with a nominal position value of approximately $3.95 million.Currently, the address has not realized a profit of about $810,000, with a return rate of approximately 1025%, and the account equity has increased to about $966,000.