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The digital asset advocacy organizations Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI) and Blockchain Association (BA) have filed a lawsuit against Illinois officials, opposing the state's 0.2% cryptocurrency tax. This tax is expected to take effect from January 2027, taxing based on transaction volume rather than income.The two organizations submitted the lawsuit in the Sangamon County Seventh Judicial Circuit Court, claiming that the tax violates the U.S. Constitution, the Illinois Constitution, federal and state due process laws, and the Internet Tax Freedom Act, and may result in double taxation. The lawsuit also states that the tax regulations are overly vague, placing compliance responsibilities on residents and brokers, and exposing them to civil and criminal penalties.Blockchain Association CEO Summer Mersinger stated that Illinois cannot implement a tax system that discriminates against digital businesses and increases uncertainty for consumers and enterprises. The Digital Chamber filed a similar lawsuit in July regarding the same tax, claiming it discriminates against digital asset traders.

According to TradingBeats monitoring, after Bitcoin returned to $80,000 after 101 days, Huang Licheng opened a long position roll-over, adding another $12 million long position in nearly 10 minutes. His current positions are as follows:BTC long position approximately $87.44 million, floating profit approximately $50,000, opening price $79,449.30, liquidation price $72,419.26;ETH long position approximately $57.40 million, floating profit approximately $2.49 million, opening price $2,392.66, liquidation price $2,159.41;HYPE long position approximately $19.39 million, floating loss approximately $80,000, opening price $79.46, liquidation price $46.14;PUMP long position approximately $14.69 million, floating loss approximately $740,000.

According to Coinglass data, in the past 4 hours, the total liquidation across the network was $185 million, with long positions liquidated at $69.5361 million and short positions liquidated at $116 million.In addition, in the last 24 hours, a total of 85,345 people were liquidated globally, with a total liquidation amount of $378 million. The largest single liquidation occurred on Binance - ETHUSDT, valued at $6.8602 million.

Galaxy Research tweeted that its running Bitcoin Core v29 node observed an orphan block at block height 963,853. Relevant monitoring screenshots have been released.An orphan block typically refers to a valid block that was not adopted by the longest chain due to reasons such as network propagation delays or miners producing blocks almost simultaneously. This event was captured in real-time by the node of Galaxy Research and disclosed to the public.

NVIDIA officially announced that SpaceXAI will deploy the NVIDIA Vera CPU to accelerate its next-generation agent-based AI applications. Vera is the first CPU specifically built for AI agents, featuring 88 NVIDIA self-developed Olympus cores, utilizing spatial multithreading technology and LPDDR5X high-bandwidth memory, with a bandwidth of up to 1.2TB/s. In scenarios such as agent-based AI, reinforcement learning, and data processing, the task completion speed can be improved by up to 1.8 times compared to x86 CPUs.Mike Nicolls, President of SpaceXAI, stated that the CPU performance and memory bandwidth of Vera are sufficient to support large-scale task orchestration, code execution, and data processing, allowing GPUs to operate at peak efficiency, thus gaining more effective output per watt of computation.SpaceXAI also plans to expand the AI infrastructure behind Grok based on the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform, moving towards gigawatt-level computing capacity. Vera Rubin integrates NVIDIA accelerated computing, NVLink interconnect, Spectrum-X networking, and BlueField data processing technologies, aiming to reduce the cost per token and improve the overall energy efficiency of AI factories.More notably, SpaceXAI will send an optimized version of the Vera Rubin NVL72 system into space, with its first-generation Starmind AI satellite adopting this rack-level architecture, becoming the first iconic deployment of NVIDIA accelerated computing extending from ground data centers to orbital computing.

According to TradingBeats monitoring, the largest long position address on-chain for Ethereum has started to take profits. This address is associated with BIT and reduced its holdings by 14,000 ETH, approximately worth 34.15 million USD, 5 minutes ago.The remaining position size is about 25.24 million USD, with an average opening price of 2,340.86 USD, and the remaining position has an unrealized profit of about 1.83 million USD.This address has received funds transferred from Matrixport (now renamed BIT) multiple times and is currently the largest long position on-chain for ETH, with two associated addresses collaborating to build the position; this address is the main address.

Arthur Hayes forwarded a detailed airdrop tutorial for his new startup Flop Network, which is divided into four steps:Generate an Ed25519 DID key pair for the AI agent, formatted as did:key:z6Mk..., which will become the agent's identity on-chain and the future airdrop receiving address;Publish the public key to the Technocore registry to allow the network to recognize the identity;The agent signs a check-in message with the private key and sends an HTTP GET request to /lobby;Finally, securely store the private key locally to claim the airdrop share during the Q4 snapshot.Arthur Hayes previously announced on the 19th that he would end his retirement and "come out" to lead Flop Labs, launching the token FLOP. He stated that FLOP will serve as "food for AI Agents," and the project will not conduct a presale or introduce VC, adopting a 100% fair distribution model aimed at creating the currency for the Agentic Economy. More details about the project will be announced later, with a large-scale airdrop expected in the fourth quarter of 2026.

The one-stop AI infrastructure platform B.AI has set new operational data records: yesterday's single-day computing power throughput exceeded 456.94 billion tokens, with 7,913 new registered users and 7,402 API users, all three metrics breaking historical records.This achievement fully validates the exceptional stability of the B.AI platform architecture under ultra-high concurrency and heavy load, and demonstrates that its inclusive computing vision is accelerating the attraction of global developers to access production-level AI agents and automated workflows at extremely low costs. B.AI will continue to optimize its one-stop AGI infrastructure, lower the threshold for AI applications, and drive cutting-edge intelligence efficiently into real productivity.

According to Bloomberg, Trade.xyz and Hyperliquid are inspired by their success and are pursuing grander goals. They are lobbying regulators in hopes of opening pre-IPO perpetual contracts in the United States, claiming that these tools can help modernize the traditional IPO process by improving price discovery. Hyperliquid operates outside the United States and has not officially opened to U.S. traders. Trade.xyz is also subject to the same restrictions.

On-chain detective ZachXBT stated that after reviewing relevant evidence, he found that two American investment platforms, BitcoinIRA and iTrustCapital, allegedly experienced data breaches this year, but neither seems to have publicly disclosed it yet. The leaked information reportedly includes personal details, portfolio, bank and custody account information, verification status, and more.He cited an example where the attacker "Tiffany" targeted a BitcoinIRA user using the relevant database in June this year and stole over $1.2 million. ZachXBT indicated that he contacted both companies for comments on August 21, but had not received a response by the time of publication.

Przemysław Kral, the head of the Polish cryptocurrency exchange Zondacrypto, is reportedly facing criminal charges for involvement in a large-scale fraud and has begun cooperating with Polish prosecutors. According to Polish media Onet, Kral is seeking a reduced sentence in exchange for testimony, which may involve Zondacrypto's funding of right-wing political figures.Prosecutors estimate that Zondacrypto customers have lost at least 2.4 billion Polish złoty (approximately 650 million USD). Investigators claim that the exchange only used a portion of customer funds to purchase cryptocurrencies, while the remaining funds were transferred to private accounts controlled by Zondacrypto's management. Kral has remained silent on X since mid-April when he publicly disclosed that Zondacrypto could not access a cold wallet holding approximately 4,500 bitcoins. He denies misappropriating funds, stating that the private keys for the wallet were supposed to be handed over by Zonda's founder and former CEO Sylwester Suszek, who has been missing since 2022.Reports also state that Zondacrypto was a major sponsor of the Polish CPAC conference, which took place before the second round of the presidential election, ultimately won by Karol Nawrocki. The exchange spent 37 million złoty on advertising with the broadcasting station Telewizja Republika in the last year, while Kral's company also made payments to foundations associated with politicians Zbigniew Ziobro and Przemysław Wipler.

TAC posted on platform X that an attacker exploited a vulnerability in the Cosmos EVM precompiled layer to transfer 2,985,651,403 TAC from a single account on the TAC network.The project team subsequently paused the network at block height 24,671,475 to prevent the attack from continuing.

According to CoinDesk, Goldman Sachs disclosed in its second quarter 13F filing that it holds positions in five XRP ETFs, with a total value of approximately $86.5 million, indicating that it has re-established exposure after liquidating its positions in the first quarter.The 13F filing is a report that requires institutional investors to disclose their holdings as mandated by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Goldman Sachs' disclosure this time indicates that the institution has reallocated its investments in XRP spot ETF products, involving multiple related funds.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks opened with the Dow Jones up 0.13%, the S&P 500 index down 0.19%, and the Nasdaq down 0.4%.The storage concept declined, with SanDisk down about 6% and Micron Technology down about 3%. Xpeng Motors fell about 3%, with third-quarter revenue guidance below expectations.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a total of 10 addresses associated with BIT hold ETH and BTC long positions worth over $323 million, currently with an unrealized profit exceeding $41.95 million.Among them, the ETH long position holds 65,977.9684 coins, valued at $165 million, with an unrealized profit exceeding $15.08 million; the BTC long position holds 2,000 coins, valued at $158 million, with an unrealized profit exceeding $26.87 million. Additionally, a certain address (0x6c8...d84f6) previously closed a position with a profit of $9.897 million.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Ceffu transferred 3.706 million TRUMP from its custodial hot wallet to Binance about 5 hours ago, worth approximately 9.27 million USD.

Bitget launches DOS flexible wealth management, with the event running from August 24, 19:00 to September 23, 19:00 (UTC+8). Users can go to the "Easy Coin Earnings" section to subscribe to DOS, with a maximum APR of 20% and a subscription limit of 400,000 DOS per person. For more details, please refer to the official Bitget platform.

Yili Hua posted on platform X, stating that the market's rapid rebound is in line with expectations, and the bears are resisting over the weekend; shorting should not be done in a bull market trend.Yili Hua believes that the core opportunities in this round of the bull market include BTC and ETH returns exceeding 3 times, ETH rebounding more than BTC, on-chain finance being continuously driven by demand, and the development of the AICrypto field, where AI products provide demand and revenue, and Crypto serves as a market incentive.

According to Reuters, Xiaopeng Group's humanoid robot business has signed equity financing agreements with multiple investors, raising over $900 million, with a post-investment valuation exceeding $6.3 billion, setting a record for single-round private equity financing in China's embodied intelligence industry.This round of financing was led by IDG Capital, with participation from Gao Rong Capital, and received support from two strategic investors, Tencent and Alibaba. The funds raised in this round will primarily be used for software and hardware research and development of Xiaopeng's robot business, physical AI model training and iteration, high-quality data collection, construction of a full-chain mass production base, and global commercialization expansion.

According to PRNewswire, BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) disclosed that as of August 23, it holds 5,847,611 ETH, which accounts for approximately 4.8% of the total ETH supply at the price of $2,440 at that time. The company purchased an additional 32,447 ETH in the past week and stated that it has been continuously buying ETH every week since launching its ETH treasury strategy in June 2025.BitMine currently has a total value of approximately $14.9 billion in cryptocurrency assets, cash, and securities, which includes 210 BTC, as well as $308 million in cash and securities. The company has already staked 5,067,309 ETH, accounting for about 87% of its ETH holdings, with an expected current annual staking income of approximately $330 million.