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According to official news, the decentralized AI infrastructure network DGrid AI announced that its token $DGAI will launch its TGE on August 24, 2026, at 16:00, and will simultaneously open spot trading on multiple exchanges including OKX Boost, Kraken, Bitget, Gate.io, Kucoin, and MEXC.According to previous news, DGrid AI has announced the $DGAI token economics, of which 50% will be used for node network operation and node incentives, 8% will be used for airdrop rewards, and the $DGAI airdrop will be distributed to users' linked exchange accounts on the day of TGE.

According to CryptoSlate, after the approval of proposal 365, the privacy public chain Secret Network based on Cosmos upgraded to v1.26.0 on August 21, minting approximately 1.079 billion SCRT in a one-time issuance to maintain network operations before SCRT Labs stops support on September 1. After the upgrade, the total supply increased to approximately 1.443 billion, with the absolute balance of original holders remaining unchanged, but their total proportion decreasing to about one-quarter, resulting in a dilution of approximately 75%.The distribution of the new issuance includes: 299 million for the foundation and core development program each, 178 million for the ecological fund, 72 million for advisors, research and development, and validators each, 43 million for builders and relayers, and 44 million for remedial purposes. The v1.26 economic model allows approximately 308.4 million SCRT to be circulated on the first day and sets a continuous inflation rate of 5%. The community previously rejected SCRT Labs' proposal 360 regarding the migration to Arbitrum snapshots.SCRT Labs has indicated that regardless of the voting results, it will end development and related support for this Cosmos-based L1 on September 1. The chain itself has no plans to halt, and subsequent development, infrastructure, and validator participation will need to be undertaken by the community. This new issuance aims to provide resources and incentives for continued operations.

According to the latest data from RootData's tokenized asset dashboard, the top three TradiFi assets by trading volume in the past 24 hours are Binance, OKX, and Gate.Binance ranks first with a trading volume of approximately $6.41 billion and a market share of 58.1%. OKX ranks second with a trading volume of approximately $1.09 billion and a market share of 9.9%. Gate ranks third with a trading volume of approximately $987 million and a market share of 8.9%. The combined market share of the three is approximately 76.9%.It is reported that this statistical scope only includes native crypto asset types such as contracts and tokenized assets, excluding data from traditional stock brokers.

According to TradingBeats (formerly Hyperinsight), a whale starting with 0xf517 currently has 190 BTC sell orders in the range of $79,654 to $108,888, planning to sell 951.3 BTC, with a nominal amount of approximately $91.787 million and a weighted average sell price of about $96,488. BTC is currently reported at $77,351, with the sell order range being about 3% to 40.8% higher than the current price. Since the above orders are not "only for reducing positions," if the transaction volume exceeds its existing long position, it will directly lead to a short position.This whale currently holds 94.1 BTC long positions with a 40x leverage, valued at approximately $7.277 million, with an average entry price of $77,330.3; it has reduced its previous holding of 109.4 BTC by about 15.3 BTC. About 10% of the 951.3 BTC sell orders are used to close long positions, while the remaining approximately 857.2 BTC will be converted into new short positions. If all are executed, the theoretical size of the short position would be about $82.7 million. Meanwhile, this address still has a buy order for 133.7 BTC at $74,088, valued at approximately $99.08 million.It also has 108 open orders in other cryptocurrencies, with a total nominal amount of about $89.32 million, mainly including: HYPE replenishment orders: it currently holds 197,800 HYPE long positions, valued at approximately $15.44 million, with an average entry price of $62.52, and has placed a buy order for $5 million at $62.2, which is about 20.2% lower than the current price. LIT has 71 sell orders in the range of $3.8081 to $6, planning to add short positions of 362,200, amounting to about $1.84 million; ZEC has 29 sell orders in the range of $890.71 to $999, planning to open about 1,560 short positions, amounting to about $1.484 million. It is reported that this whale's layout spans both the US stock and cryptocurrency markets, often participating in the hottest targets, and has repeatedly become a major whale in S&P 500, AMZN, SPCX, etc., with a historical total profit of nearly $30 million.

Lei Jun announced that Xiaomi's new generation of the Xuanjie family of chips, Xuanjie O3, Xuanjie O100, and Xuanjie D100, have all completed back-plate verification. Xuanjie O3 is an AI flagship SoC aimed at the highest-end products and will debut on the Xiaomi 18 Fold; Xuanjie O100 is a 1.22TB/s high-bandwidth AI acceleration chip, and Xuanjie D100 is the first domestic 3nm intelligent driving high-performance AI chip, with the latter two set to officially launch next year. The three chips cover the AI computing power needs of Xiaomi's entire ecosystem of people, vehicles, and homes.Xuanjie O3 uses a 3nm process, has an area of 133mm², and a transistor count of 24 billion, which is a 26% increase over the previous generation, with an AnTuTu extreme score reaching 5.22 million. The CPU features a ten-core all-large-core design, with a maximum frequency of 4.35GHz, Geekbench single-core score of 3945, and multi-core score exceeding 15000; the GPU has 16 cores and supports ray tracing, with significant improvements in multiple graphics performance metrics and a 64% reduction in power consumption compared to the previous generation. This chip is the industry's first to support LPDDR6, with an NPU tensor computing power of 200TOPS, and is specifically optimized for large language model inference.Xuanjie O100 is the world's first 6nm 3D wafer-level stacked AI acceleration chip, utilizing wafer-on-wafer packaging and hybrid bonding, with two layers of AI-specific high-speed DRAM and one layer of high-performance NPU stacked vertically, achieving a bandwidth of 1.22TB/s. Together with O3, it can achieve a maximum local AI inference speed of 330 Tokens/s. Xiaomi has restarted its large chip research and development for over five years, with a cumulative investment exceeding 21 billion yuan and a chip team of nearly 3000 people.

According to the latest ranking of stock derivatives exchanges published by RootData, the three exchanges with the largest spreads among the listed exchanges are HTX, Crypto.com, and OrangeX, with spreads of 0.904%, 0.452%, and 0.357% respectively.Among them, HTX ranks first with a spread of 0.904%, which is about 90 times that of the exchange with the smallest spread on the list. Currently, the exchanges with the smallest spreads on the list are Binance, Gate, and OKX, all with a spread of 0.01%.It is reported that this spread is the 24h transaction volume weighted spread, and a higher value typically indicates higher trading costs.

Tencent Interactive Entertainment Group (IEG) is integrating ARC Lab and the Game AI Engine Department to establish a new AI gaming department (tentatively named ARC Lab), led by Chen Dong, the head of Tencent Games Public Technology. The aim is to explore AI-native games. The department currently has about 100 people, with plans to expand to 400 to 500, and is actively recruiting on a large scale for top multimodal generation teams, covering areas such as audio and video foundational models, video world models, Agents, etc.According to informed sources, the early formation model of the department references the talent and data supply chain paths of Seedance and Keling, focusing on exploring the possibility of directly generating games from video models. Tencent IEG has a cash flow of 130.1 billion yuan in game revenue for the first half of the year and approximately 10,000 H card computing power reserves, as well as exclusive game data that cannot be accessed by the mixed Yuan large model. Currently, Tencent's AI game development is showing a parallel multi-system situation: TEG provides basic capabilities, the IEG middle platform integrates tools, and the four major studios are advancing independently, with no unified standards yet. The specific organizational structure is still being refined, and the final plan will be subject to official announcement.

The Ethereum client Besu has fixed five security vulnerabilities discovered by the blockchain security company CertiK in version 26.7.1 released on July 27, and published four detailed security announcements on August 14. The details of the vulnerabilities were disclosed later to allow node operators to complete the upgrade deployment.Jialiang Chang, CertiK's Director of Security Engineering and Senior Audit Partner, stated that the arrangement of releasing patches first and details later provides an 18-day buffer period, allowing node operators to identify affected deployments, test the new version, and coordinate with validators or consortium participants to complete the upgrade. The relevant vulnerabilities involve block broadcasting processing, future height consensus proposal caching, WebSocket subscription limits, and JSON-RPC filter creation. If not fixed, attackers could exhaust node memory or thread resources, affecting node availability and consensus processing.CertiK conducted adversarial testing on peer-to-peer, HTTP RPC, WebSocket RPC, and consensus interfaces in a private multi-node test network using the Chain Scan method, and provided reproducible testing tools to the Besu team. CertiK is updating Chain Scan to expand around-the-clock multi-node testing for public chain networks.

At last week's Bubble Mart 2026 mid-year performance press conference, Bubble Mart founder Wang Ning stated, "The first half of 2026 is a very special year for Bubble Mart. Despite the pressure and challenges, we have still delivered a satisfactory report card. We achieved over 20% growth in the first half of the year, with significant improvements in our IP matrix and organizational health. The performance of our new amusement park and dessert business exceeded expectations, and the brand's global recognition, favorability, and reputation continue to rise. The management team maintains long-term confidence in the group's future development."In addition, he stated, "The difficulties this year may be greater than we imagined, but we are confident in overcoming short-term challenges. In the next six months, we will initiate a share repurchase plan of no less than 2 billion yuan and no more than 5 billion yuan, which also proves our increasing confidence in the company's long-term development."

Web3 fitness application BRTFit announced that it is preparing for significant expansion in the Southeast Asia region and reiterated the arrangement for the distribution of 1 million BRT genesis airdrops. The final weighting will be 50% tBRT snapshot and 50% valid invited users. The genesis airdrop is not only aimed at early users; new joiners can also improve their ranking by staying active, exercising continuously, and inviting real users.Regarding the testnet rules, according to the latest iOS application version, if users stop exercising and do not meet the specified activity conditions, the testnet mechanism may deduct 10% of their total tBRT holdings. BRTFit calls on users to exercise more, invite more, and stay active to compete for shares of the genesis airdrop, and it states that the Southeast Asian market is coming soon.BRTFit is an application based on the BNB Chain's Move to Earn and DePIN direction, combining exercise data with token incentives, allowing users to join the ecosystem by searching for relevant entry points.

According to Coinglass data, the cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index is currently at 74, up 7 points from yesterday. The average over the past 7 days is 61, and the average over the past 30 days is 36.

According to BBX data, last weekend, global asset management giants, traditional financial groups, and listed treasury departments disclosed the latest official updates on cryptocurrency asset allocation, licensing access, and merger adjustments. The core information is as follows:BlackRock ETF increased its holdings of BTC and ETH by over $1.1 billion in two days: On-chain data tracking shows that the world's largest asset management giant BlackRock's ETF address has continuously accumulated large amounts over the past two days, purchasing a total of 11,098 Bitcoins (worth approximately $852 million) and 132,769 Ethereum (worth approximately $316 million), with the total net purchase amount of these two core cryptocurrency assets exceeding $1.168 billion in a single day.Nomura's Laser Digital Japan approved for cryptocurrency trading license in Japan: Laser Digital Japan, the digital asset subsidiary of Japan's top financial group Nomura Holdings, has officially completed the registration procedures for cryptocurrency trading operators, with registration number Kanto Financial Bureau No. 00032. This is the first new exchange to successfully obtain this registration in Japan since 2022, nearly four years ago. The cryptocurrencies supported for trading on the platform initially include Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Ripple (XRP), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Litecoin (LTC), and SHIB, totaling six assets.Adam Back's BSTR terminates business merger agreement with Cantor: BSTR Holdings, the Bitcoin treasury company founded by Adam Back, announced that it has amicably agreed with Cantor Equity Partners I (NASDAQ: $CEPO) to officially terminate the SPAC business merger agreement signed on July 16, 2025. BSTR's official statement pointed out that Bitcoin and publicly listed Bitcoin treasury tools currently face significant market pricing pressure, and macro misalignment has limited the effective implementation of leveraged strategy tools such as convertible bonds and perpetual preferred stocks; however, the company firmly believes that as the market stabilizes, opportunities for Bitcoin treasury allocation and leveraged investments in the public capital market will re-emerge.

Blue Cloud Software Technology Solutions Company has signed a master service agreement worth $150 million with SpaceX Malaysia.

According to GMGN market data, Robinhood's on-chain ecological tokens have collectively risen, with Index increasing over 140% during the day, currently valued at $16.3 million; AI rising over 72% during the day, currently valued at $28.3 million; PONS rising over 70% during the day, currently valued at $50.4 million; StonkBroker rising over 36% during the day, currently valued at $44.8 million; and CASHCAT rising over 21% during the day, currently valued at $145 million.On-chain token prices are highly volatile and can be easily affected by market sentiment and hot events, please be aware of trading risks.

According to SoSoValue data, during the last trading days (Eastern Time from August 17 to August 21), the net inflow of XRP spot ETF was $39.7808 million. The XRP spot ETF with the highest net inflow last week was Bitwise ETF XRP, with a weekly net inflow of $30.2177 million, bringing the historical total net inflow of XRP to $543 million; followed by Franklin Templeton ETF XRPZ, with a weekly net inflow of $7.6223 million, bringing the historical total net inflow of XRPZ to $434 million.As of the time of publication, the total net asset value of XRP spot ETF is $1.33 billion, with an ETF net asset ratio (market value compared to total market value of XRP) reaching 1.54%, and the historical cumulative net inflow has reached $1.55 billion.

According to The Information, Nvidia is discussing an investment in Perplexity with a valuation of over $30 billion and is considering reaching a technology licensing agreement.

According to Bitcoin.com News, the Central Bank of Russia has launched a special financial literacy test to lower the threshold for residents to qualify as accredited investors, in order to expand their cryptocurrency trading limits.

Binance Wallet announced that Binance Alpha will be the first platform to launch TermMax (TMX), with the launch date set for August 25. After trading opens, eligible users can use Binance Alpha Points to claim airdrops on the Alpha Events page.The official statement mentioned that more details will be announced separately and reminded users to follow Binance's official channels for the latest updates.

According to the token unlock data from the Crypto asset data platform RootData, GUNZ (GUN) will unlock approximately 36.857 million tokens at 1 PM Beijing time on August 31, worth about 1.16 million USD.