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Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that Strive Asset Management purchased 1,110 bitcoins for approximately $81.5 million, increasing its bitcoin holdings to 21,356 bitcoins. Based on a bitcoin price of about $80,000, the holdings are valued at approximately $1.7 billion, making it the seventh largest company by bitcoin reserves among publicly traded companies.According to documents submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Strive completed the purchase between August 17 and 21, with an average purchase price of $73,409 per bitcoin, including fees and related expenses. This purchase increased its bitcoin holdings by approximately 5.5% from the previous 20,246 bitcoins.Strive raised funds through the issuance of ASST common stock and SATA preferred stock to execute its bitcoin reserve strategy. During the same period, its Class A shares increased by approximately 3.65 million shares, reaching 79.89 million shares, and it issued 441,313 shares of SATA preferred stock. Due to the increase in the number of shares, Strive's total bitcoin holdings grew by approximately 5.5%, but the bitcoin holdings per fully diluted share only increased by about 1.4%.Strive CEO Matt Cole posted on the X platform that the company added 1,110 bitcoins at an average cost of $73,409 per bitcoin, bringing the total holdings to 21,356 bitcoins.Previously, in August, Strive purchased 147 bitcoins at an average price of over $64,800 per bitcoin, and subsequently purchased 79 bitcoins at an average price of $63,231 per bitcoin, totaling 226 bitcoins. In June, Strive purchased 2,500 bitcoins for $185.2 million, increasing its holdings to 19,000 bitcoins.As of August 21, Strive's cash and cash equivalents increased from approximately $154.8 million to $171.9 million. The price of SATA preferred stock is approximately $100, and the annualized dividend yield was raised to 13% in April.

Bubblemaps posted on platform X that attackers exploited a vulnerability in the Cosmos EVM shared module to steal $50 million worth of NES tokens, but ultimately only profited about $60,000. Previously, Cosmos Labs reported security vulnerabilities in its shared Cosmos EVM software, affecting multiple chains built on this module, including Nesa.According to disclosures, the main attacker with an address starting with 0x9AE7 previously spent $250,000 to purchase NES and cross-chain to Nesa Chain, then exploited the vulnerability to inflate the account balance by 200 times and transferred $50 million NES back to Ethereum, with the initial funds coming from Monero. The attacker then dispersed the tokens to multiple wallet addresses, exchanged NES for ETH on a DEX, and deposited the profits into a centralized exchange.Due to the rapid withdrawal of funds from the liquidity pool, most of the attacker’s exchange transactions encountered severe slippage, resulting in an actual expenditure of $255,000 to initiate the attack, cashing out only $315,000, with a net profit of about $60,000.Bubblemaps stated that although another Cosmos EVM chain had also suffered a similar attack of $1.4 million the day before, the differences in funding sources and operational methods suggest that the two incidents may have originated from different attackers. The report also mentioned that the price of NES tokens once plummeted by 90%, but has since significantly rebounded, with the team believing that the rebound is mainly due to arbitrage activities caused by price mismatches between DEX and CEX after the attack.

According to Cointelegraph, the SEC has released proposed rules for the "Regulation Crypto Assets," setting two exemptions for specific investment contracts involving crypto assets: allowing startups to raise up to $5 million in a one-time financing within four years; and allowing qualified issuers to raise up to $75 million within any 12-month period, with the possibility of conducting different rounds of issuance in subsequent years.Drew Hinkes, a partner at Winston & Strawn, stated that as long as each round of financing is an independent issuance, projects could theoretically raise $75 million every 12 months. Lilya Tessler, head of Sidley's fintech and blockchain practice, noted that subsequent financing is not automatically approved; issuers must resubmit offering documents, undergo SEC staff review, continuously submit annual and semi-annual reports, and disclose funds raised through the exemption in the past 12 months to confirm they have not exceeded the financing cap. The proposed rules also limit the participation scale of non-qualified investors, with their purchase amount not exceeding 10% of the higher of their personal income or net worth.Lee Reiners, a financial regulation expert at Duke University, indicated that the limited first-round cap may make early token allocations more attractive, but the rule is unlikely to replicate the ICO boom of 2017. Among projects that raised funds through ICOs from 2017 to 2019, as many as 90% ultimately failed.The SEC expects that approximately 130 issuances per year will utilize the above two exemptions, with about 475 issuers potentially using a broader investment contract safe harbor. The proposed rules will provide token issuers with a clearer path for financing in the U.S. compared to the current system, but secondary market trading may still exist in a gray area of securities attributes. The proposal stipulates that investment contracts related to crypto assets may continue to trade in the secondary market along with token transfers until the asset is separated from the issuer's statements or commitments.Drew Hinkes stated that if non-security tokens transfer investment contracts from seller to buyer, such transactions may still be considered securities transactions, impacting trading platforms. Lee Reiners also mentioned that some issuers may meet the formal requirements for exemptions but still influence token value through team management efforts, concentrated insider holdings, and aggressive promotion.

The 21Shares report shows that Solana is advancing two governance proposals, SIMD-550 and SIMD-553, which may significantly change the SOL holding economic model in the next two years.SIMD-550 proposes to increase Solana's annual inflation reduction rate from 15% to 30%, allowing it to reach a terminal inflation rate of 1.5% more quickly, with nominal staking yields expected to drop to about 2.25% within three years.SIMD-553 was approved and merged on July 20, and will introduce a destruction fee for compute unit requests, increasing the daily SOL burn amount from about 600-800 to about 7500-9000.The report believes that although the decline in staking income will directly affect the earnings of validators and stakers, a lower issuance combined with a higher burn rate may improve the long-term supply and demand structure of SOL, and could drive some capital towards the decentralized finance ecosystem on the Solana chain.

According to CoinDesk, Ethereum researchers have proposed rebuilding the validator deposit contract to support a new cryptographic system and ultimately stop accepting deposits protected by the existing BLS signatures. This proposal targets the deposit contract, aiming to add a switch that prevents the network from accepting the currently relied-upon signature format.Currently, the contract only accepts BLS keys because their exact size is hardcoded, while the new draft allows for different key sizes, with each deposit tagged by the cryptographic system used, where BLS receives a tag of zero, reserving space for future schemes.If the proposal is approved, it will initially operate with BLS deposits, while other schemes can be registered simultaneously. Future decisions may permanently disable new BLS deposits, at which point validators who have staked using BLS keys will not disappear, but new validators will not be able to join using this method. Ethereum will ultimately need to change separately to inform validators how to check new signatures. This is part of the migration for validators, while another part is already in progress—EIP-8141 framework transaction proposals will allow regular Ethereum accounts to change the cryptographic method for approving transactions without changing their address.The urgency stems from research released in March by Google's Quantum AI research department, which outlined five quantum attack paths against Ethereum, putting over $100 billion in assets at potential risk. The Ethereum Foundation is advancing core protocol changes with a target around 2029. Currently, the amount of ETH staked in Ethereum is approximately 42.4 million, valued at about $10.4 billion.

Piero Cipollone, a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, stated in an interview with the Italian media ilsussidiario.net on August 10 that the digital euro will provide the highest level of privacy protection achievable with current technology. Offline payments will be made directly between individuals, with transaction details visible only to the payer and the payee; during online payments, the euro system will not be able to identify the payer or payee, only the commercial banks involved in the transaction will be able to identify them, including for anti-money laundering purposes.The European Parliament reached a negotiating position on the regulation of the digital euro in July, with the negotiation goal with member states to reach an agreement by the end of 2026. The European Central Bank has designated 36 payment service providers, including Deutsche Bank, UniCredit, and Revolut, to participate in a 12-month pilot starting in the second half of 2027, with the first issuance targeted for 2029. Meanwhile, the "21st Century Road Act" signed in July in the United States prohibits the Federal Reserve from issuing central bank digital currency before the end of 2030, unless explicitly authorized by Congress.

According to official news, BNB Chain announced its participation in the Mastercard Crypto Partner Program, collaborating with the Mastercard ecosystem to promote the application of digital assets in global payments and everyday business scenarios.

At the 2026 Wyoming Blockchain Conference, Zhao Changpeng stated that Trump mentioned Hyperliquid and that Mike Selig, the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), will seek a path for the platform to enter the U.S. market.Zhao Changpeng believes that if this progress can be realized, it will be a significant boon for the entire cryptocurrency industry. Zhao stated that the outside world tends to view him as a supporter of centralized trading platforms due to his holdings in Binance, but the fundamental reason he entered the cryptocurrency industry is his belief in decentralization.He pointed out that some users choose Hyperliquid because the platform can be used through wallets without the need for traditional accounts and KYC processes; if Hyperliquid can operate in the U.S. in a compliant manner, it will open up space for perpetual contracts and more decentralized services to enter the U.S. market.He believes this is not only related to Hyperliquid itself. "Hyperliquid is just the tip of the iceberg; once this tip enters, other projects can follow suit." Related developments will benefit more decentralized products and their portfolio companies, and will also bring more liquidity to international centralized trading platforms, allowing U.S. users to obtain more competitive prices when buying and selling crypto assets.Zhao Changpeng stated that the current cryptocurrency market is far from saturated, so competition between platforms is not the main issue. Hyperliquid's entry into the U.S. will not only benefit itself but will also expand the market size of the entire industry, "what is beneficial for them will also be beneficial for us."

European Central Bank (ECB) Executive Board member Piero Cipollone stated in a recent interview that the digital euro will provide stronger privacy protection than regular bank transfers. He pointed out that the euro system is structurally unable to associate specific individuals with their digital euro transactions, whether online or offline.Cipollone stated that offline payments will be conducted entirely directly between individuals, with transaction details visible only to the payer and payee, equivalent to cash transactions; only banks participating in online transactions will be able to identify user identities, and this will only be used for anti-money laundering purposes. He also refuted concerns that the digital euro would replace physical cash, citing the ECB's recent public consultation on the design of the new euro banknotes as an example, stating, "If institutions intend to eliminate cash, it makes no sense to do so."Cipollone's remarks come at a time when public opposition to the digital euro is rising. Civil society groups such as the Austrian digital rights organization Epicenter.works warned in a joint statement earlier this month that the privacy protections of the digital euro "over-rely on institutional commitments rather than technical execution," and that legislative commitments may be weakened in implementation, reinterpreted in court, or even broken. The digital euro regulation was approved by the European Parliament last month, with plans to launch in 2029. ECB President Lagarde previously stated that the digital euro will coexist with physical cash.

SenseTime Group (0020.HK / 80020.HK) announced its unaudited interim results for the six months ended June 30, 2026. During the period, revenue was approximately 2.911 billion RMB, a year-on-year increase of 23.4%; gross profit was approximately 1.206 billion RMB, with a gross margin of 41.4%, an increase of 2.9 percentage points year-on-year; profit for the period was approximately 617 million RMB, marking the first time a net profit was recorded according to IFRS standards, compared to a loss of approximately 848 million RMB in the same period last year. EBITDA was approximately 1.388 billion RMB, with an adjusted net loss of approximately 386 million RMB, narrowing by 67.3% year-on-year.By business segment, revenue from generative AI was approximately 2.327 billion RMB, a year-on-year increase of 79.9%; revenue from visual AI was approximately 497 million RMB, a year-on-year increase of 13.9%; overseas business revenue increased by 127.0% year-on-year. Recurring revenue was approximately 1.145 billion RMB, a year-on-year increase of 124.4%, accounting for 39.3% of the group's revenue. The company stated that in the first half of the year, it advanced system-level AI capabilities around "one model, one Token factory, and one intelligent agent control system," continuously iterating the daily updated SenseNova multimodal large model, and promoted the strategy from providing models and computing power to scaling the delivery of reliable multimodal intelligent agent capabilities.

Jiang Zhuoer, the founder of the Liebit Mining Pool (B.TOP), stated in a post that on the first trading day of U.S. stocks after a weekend surge, ETF fund flows have become a key observation indicator. Data shows that Bitcoin ETF net inflows reached $314 million, while Ethereum ETF net inflows were $180 million. U.S. stock funds are chasing long positions, which means that this round of increases has further confirmed funding, and the probability of Bitcoin falling back below the $67,000 starting point is very low.At the same time, the inflow of funds into the Ethereum ETF is equivalent to 57.2% of Bitcoin, significantly higher than the ETH/BTC total market capitalization ratio of 18.8%. Based on this, he believes that ETH will continue to play the role of the "engine" in this bull market. With Trump significantly embracing blockchain and the advancement of the CLARITY Act, financial assets such as the U.S. dollar, U.S. stocks, and U.S. bonds may further go on-chain, be tokenized, and become smart contract-enabled in the future. He believes this will drive more traditional financial professionals to understand and invest in the related blockchain ecosystem.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a certain address has accumulated 6,000 ETH since August 17, with a cost price range of $1,894 to $2,505. It currently holds ETH worth $14.56 million, with an average purchase price of $2,427.29, resulting in an unrealized profit of $130,000. The most recent increase in holdings occurred 3 hours ago.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, the trader 0x13da, with a 100% win rate in SOL trades, is going long on SOL again.This trader previously completed 3 long trades on SOL, all of which were profitable, with a total profit of 1.23 million dollars. Currently, they are going long on 143,890 SOL with 3x leverage, worth approximately 14 million dollars.

According to market news, the Phantom wallet has earned over $25 million through builder codes, with a total profit of $27.2139 million after excluding the $2.21 million referral fee.

ARK Invest's Director of Digital Asset Research, Lorenzo, stated that the latest improvement proposals from Solana and Ethereum are surprising. The market has indicated that Hyperliquid and others are posing strong competition, but the relevant communities are still taking time to adjust inflation arrangements and CU restrictions, which may further decrease the competitiveness of applications. He believes that L1 should prioritize how proposals can enhance network competitiveness, promote growth, and attract more consumer-grade applications and users.Lorenzo pointed out that for Solana, this is certainly not the time to be entangled in the value accumulation of token holders versus cash flow, or to increase the costs for application developers. It is essential to first prove that the pie can be expanded 100 times before discussing how to allocate it. Although in the future, it will be necessary to price high resource-consuming transactions more finely and address token value accumulation, if market share is seized by HYPE, there will be no value to accumulate. The current priority should be to expand the pie 100 times.

Tencent Group Senior Executive Vice President, CEO of Cloud and Smart Industries Group, Tang Daosheng, published an article in Tencent's internal publication, responding to external doubts about "Tencent being slow in AI." He stated that it is impossible to be completely untroubled; the Hunyuan large model has undergone multiple reconstructions, and Hunyuan Hy3 has shown outstanding performance among large models with equivalent parameters. However, due to the company's overall lack of computing power, the training of models and product development has been significantly slowed down, resulting in a considerable impact.Tang Daosheng mentioned that waking up early may not be the most critical factor; the second half of AI has just begun, and enduring longer provides the opportunity to seize the continuously emerging new opportunities.

According to official news, the on-chain structured product infrastructure City Protocol announced the completion of seed and Pre-A round financing, with a total financing amount reaching 11 million USD. Investors include Dragonfly, Jump Crypto, CMT Digital, Stratified Capital, Adaverse, Mirana, and others.City Protocol is committed to bringing structured products on-chain, providing integrated infrastructure for the issuance, operation, and acquisition of structured products through the tokenization layer, vault layer, and issuance operation layer. Its flagship product is the on-chain structured product platform Venzo, which has currently launched 4 strategy vaults with a TVL of 40 million USD, covering strategies such as quantitative hedging, cross-exchange arbitrage, and private credit, which were previously mainly aimed at institutional and professional investors. Venzo will also soon launch thematic vaults, divided into character tracking and sector themes, where a basket of underlying assets will be directly purchased and adjusted in users' wallets by the program according to public rules.

Bitwise CEO posted on the X platform that approximately $45 million flowed into the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF BSOL in the first two days of this week, with its assets under management approaching $1 billion, and stated that Solana should not be underestimated.