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According to CoinDesk, as crude oil prices retreat, refined oil prices continue to rise, with the "crack spread" between U.S. diesel and crude oil reaching $102.2 per barrel, a record high.Due to disruptions in global energy supply from the Iran and Ukraine conflicts, diesel supply is tightening, and with the current agricultural harvest season, the demand for fuel for agricultural equipment such as tractors is strong, further pushing up diesel prices, which may transmit inflation through food, transportation, and heating costs.Meanwhile, WTI crude oil prices have broken through the downward trend line formed since the peak in April, indicating that the four-month downward trend may be coming to an end. If oil prices continue to rise, market inflation expectations may heat up again. The combination of energy prices and inflation risks, along with concerns about government debt, is driving up U.S. Treasury yields and the yields of other developed economy bonds, increasing the opportunity cost of holding risk assets like Bitcoin, which may limit further upside for BTC.However, the weakening dollar still provides some support for Bitcoin. The dollar index fell to 99.29 on Monday, a two-and-a-half-month low, and broke below the previous upward trend line. Currently, Bitcoin is being influenced by multiple factors including oil prices, bond yields, and dollar trends, with the macro environment showing clear divergence.

According to Decrypt, blockchain forensics company Chainalysis Government Solutions filed a procurement protest on July 27 in the U.S. Federal Claims Court, opposing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) awarding a contract worth approximately $94.6 million to competitor TRM Labs through a sole-source method.The contract period is from July 1, 2026, to June 30, 2027, involving blockchain forensics software and support services for Homeland Security Investigations into fraud, cybercrime, and sexual extortion cases. Chainalysis believes that ICE's decision is arbitrary and unreasonable. TRM Labs joined the case as an intervenor defendant on July 28, defending the contract alongside the U.S. government.The court allowed Chainalysis to temporarily seal the complaint, with oral arguments scheduled for September 2; ICE stated that after approximately 6 days of market research, it determined that none of the 8 responding companies could meet the requirements.

According to a report by the Korea United News Agency, the Gwangju Police Agency's Cyber Crime Investigation Team will arrest and transfer three suspects led by A (in their 60s), who are suspected of establishing offices in Seoul, Gwangju in South Jeolla Province, and Gunsan in North Jeolla Province since November 2024. They allegedly deceived over 100 elderly individuals aged 70 to 80 into investing in virtual assets with false promises such as "guaranteed principal" and "potential profits of hundreds of billions of Korean won," accumulating approximately 500 million Korean won in fraud.The police stated that there are likely still unreported victims and are continuing to expand the investigation, reminding the public to remain vigilant against investment offers that promise guaranteed principal and high returns.

According to Bloomberg, Alibaba has reached an agreement to sell its gaming business Lingxi Interactive Entertainment to the Asian private equity firm Trustar Capital, with the deal valued at least $1.5 billion. Lingxi Interactive Entertainment CEO Zhou Bingshu stated in an internal memo that this move aims to allow Alibaba to better focus on strategic priorities.Alibaba is accelerating its strategic transformation in AI and cloud computing, aiming for AI revenue to reach $100 billion within five years. This month, Alibaba released its largest AI model ever, claiming performance comparable to Anthropic. This sale is the latest initiative by Alibaba to divest non-core assets and focus on its AI strategy.

Coinbase announced the launch of the US500 perpetual contract product, allowing users to go long or short on the overall performance of the 500 largest companies by market capitalization in the United States through a single contract. This product is designed to provide traders with a convenient tool for exposure to U.S. stock index risk without the need to trade individual component stocks separately.The US500 perpetual contract supports leveraged trading, enabling users to express their bullish or bearish views on the overall performance of large U.S. companies in a more efficient manner. Coinbase continues to expand its product line of derivatives and traditional financial assets to meet the diverse trading needs of institutional and retail users.

According to official news, the Gate stock derivatives section will launch on August 18 at 14:00 (UTC+8) with perpetual contract trading for SHENHUA (China Shenhua 601088.SH), YANGTZE (Yangtze Power 600900.SH), HYGON (Haiguang Information 688041.SH), MIDEA (Midea Group 000333.SZ), BEIGENE (BeiGene 688235.SH), MOUTAI (Kweichow Moutai 600519.SH), HENGRUI (Hengrui Medicine 600276.SH), BIWIN (Biwin Storage 688525.SH), DEMINGLI (Demingli 001309.SZ), and TAIJI (Taiji Industry 600667.SH) (settled in USDT), supporting 1-20x leverage.In addition, Gate will hold the 15th phase of the new coin airdrop event for the stock derivatives section from August 18 at 16:00 to August 27 at 16:00 (UTC+8). New users who complete their first contract trade will receive 5 USDT; daily trading volume of the participating coins can accumulate up to 35 USDT; trading the participating coins will share a prize pool of 30,000 USDT. The total prize pool for the event is 50,000 USDT, with a maximum of 240 USDT that can be claimed by a single person.

According to the official announcement, to meet the diverse investment needs of users, Bitget has launched perpetual contracts for 3 stocks and ETFs: GDX (Gold Mining ETF), NET (Cloudflare), and LYTE (Photonics and Optical ETF).The above contracts are all settled in USDT, supporting up to 20 times leverage and 24/7 trading. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 276 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

Consumer-grade blockchain Abstract announces the launch of Builder XP, an extension of its XP system, aimed at rewarding builders who contribute to the Abstract ecosystem. This mechanism allocates Builder XP weekly based on the project's overall impact on the chain.Builder XP will further incentivize developers and project parties to continue building, promoting the development of the Abstract ecosystem. Abstract is created by the Pudgy Penguins team, focusing on consumer-grade crypto applications and on-chain experiences.

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.

Galaxy Research released the Q2 2026 Crypto Leverage Market Report, showing that the total amount of crypto collateralized lending decreased by 16.78% month-on-month to $56.16 billion, down 40.13% from the Q3 2025 peak of $78.69 billion. Among them, DeFi lending shrank by 27.61% month-on-month to $20.43 billion, while CeFi borrowing decreased by 9.62% month-on-month to $22.98 billion, marking the first time since Q3 2023 that CeFi volume has surpassed DeFi. Tether continues to dominate the CeFi market with a 58.54% share.The report points out that the current deleveraging differs from previous bear markets in its "orderly and moderate" pace: with consecutive quarterly declines of only 10%, 5%, and 17%, rather than the cliff-like collapse of over 55% in a single quarter as seen in 2022. In the futures market, open interest in Q2 slightly decreased by 3.08% month-on-month to $103.2 billion, but rebounded to about $114 billion in July. Regarding institutional corporate debt, Strategy completed a $1.5 billion debt buyback in May, reducing the total outstanding debt in the DAT industry to $16.1 billion. The report believes that if the market does not experience severe liquidations or counterparty defaults, deleveraging is expected to continue in a gradual step-down pattern.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire stated on X that the company has recently released a short-term roadmap for agentic capabilities and related standards. This roadmap covers multiple capabilities being built, with a focus on expanding support for agents as work sellers, and involves mechanisms such as agent identity, reputation, verification, and trusted discovery.Allaire pointed out that the above planning aims to promote the implementation of agent-related standards and functionalities, enabling agents to participate in work transactions and service provision. As the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, Circle continues to pay attention to the integration of infrastructure such as payments and on-chain identity with emerging agent scenarios.

AI voice interaction startup Wispr announced the completion of a $280 million Series B financing, with the company's valuation reaching $2 billion.This round of financing was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Notable Capital, NEA, Neo Ventures, 8VC, MVP Ventures, as well as Acrew, Peak XV, Together Fund, and PLUS Capital.

According to The Block, Bitcoin mining company HIVE Digital Technologies has signed a five-year GPU cloud service agreement worth approximately $350 million through its subsidiary BUZZ High-Performance Computing, with a client that has not been disclosed as an investment-grade enterprise.The contract is expected to add approximately $70 million in annual revenue for HIVE, bringing BUZZ HPC's total annual revenue to about $180 million.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, a certain whale transferred 32,400 ETH to the Ethereum staking deposit contract (Beacon Depositor), worth approximately 61.46 million USD, for staking.

According to the official announcement, Bitget's stock perpetual contracts have been launched for CXMT (Changxin Storage). The contract is settled in USDT, supports up to 20 times leverage, and allows trading 24/7. So far, Bitget supports a total of 273 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

On August 17, WEEX announced the official launch of the sixth phase of "Contract Mining," with the event running from 8/17 14:00 to 9/6 23:59:59 (UTC+8), and a total prize pool valued at 1 million USDT. During the event, users can earn real-time fee rebates in WXT by engaging in contract trading. The larger the cumulative contract trading volume, the higher the miner level, and the higher the rebate ratio.While continuing the core gameplay of "Contract Mining," the sixth phase introduces a new "Treasure Map" exploration feature: users can complete tasks such as recharging, trading, upgrading miner levels, and inviting friends to earn treasure map fragments. Collecting fragments can unlock the treasure map and claim corresponding rewards. Additionally, users can participate in leaderboard competition based on their cumulative trading volume during the event to share in extra USDT rewards.

According to reports from Blue Whale Technology, Alibaba and CITIC have officially reached a transaction agreement, in which Alibaba will transfer its shares in Lingxi Interactive Entertainment, and Xincheng Capital will become the new shareholder. Xincheng Capital supports the existing team to operate stably under the leadership of the management team, which will remain stable and continue to develop alongside the company.Lingxi Interactive Entertainment is a gaming brand under Alibaba, and its gaming business can be traced back to the integration of the 9Game channel business after the acquisition of UC in 2014. In 2017, Alibaba fully acquired Guangzhou Jianyue for approximately 1 billion yuan, which later became the predecessor of Lingxi Interactive Entertainment. The self-developed game "Three Kingdoms Strategy Edition" became a top hit in the SLG category in 2019. Since 2023, Lingxi has undergone multiple adjustments, and in March 2024, founder Zhan Zhonghui stepped down as CEO, with producer Zhou Bingshu of "Three Kingdoms Strategy Edition" taking over.The new shareholder, Xincheng Capital, is a private equity investment business under CITIC Capital, which has completed over 100 investments since 2002, managing a total of 10.5 billion USD in funds. Lingxi Interactive Entertainment CEO Zhou Bingshu expressed gratitude in an internal letter, stating that Alibaba "nurtured and grew Lingxi," and that the new shareholder Xincheng Capital will "inject new momentum" into the company's development. The specific amount of the transaction has not yet been disclosed.