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According to the monitoring by the head of Galaxy Research, attacks targeting Coldcard are still ongoing. Users who continue to use Coldcard should remain vigilant and verify their device settings.They continue to assist victims and gather intelligence about the attackers, and they express hope that victims seeking help to track stolen funds can contact them via private message.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng stated at Binance Square: Too many people are trying to overinterpret "What does this mean?" Today, I tested Trust Wallet and found too many Meme tokens in the wallet, so many that it was hard to even find BNB, so I tried to burn some tokens. As a result, even this action sparked quite a bit of community discussion. I realized that I could never "clean up" the meme coins on this address. The more I burn, the more people will send coins to this address. The transparent nature of blockchain means that any action on this address will be overinterpreted by the community.I even considered asking the Trust Wallet team to create an "Ignore Coin" feature to avoid cluttering the interface, but 99.99% of people wouldn't use this feature at all. So the plan is as follows: I will donate BNB and the "Binance Life" tokens purchased with BNB to Giggle Academy. After that, I will stop using this address and turn it into a burn address.

On-chain detective Specter posted on the X platform, stating that considering the time period covered by the stolen data, this could mean that the data breach occurred as early as April, and no later than early May. However, the parties involved chose to remain silent until recently, roughly at the same time Trezor announced its own data breach.Some users had already received phishing attacks and suffered asset losses at that time, but the parties involved did not maintain transparency, warn users, or provide risk alerts, instead denying the data breach.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform, stating that the Bitcoin community deserves recognition for promoting the development of related technological concepts, including Utreexo and other UTXO (Unspent Transaction Output) state optimization solutions. The scaling route currently being explored by Ethereum is integrating the advantages of different blockchain state models in practice.Vitalik Buterin pointed out that Ethereum hopes to simultaneously leverage the advantages of UTXO model states, dynamic states, and solutions between the two, enabling the vast majority of network activities to achieve "hyperscale" while not sacrificing decentralization, ease of node operation, and censorship resistance.Vitalik Buterin stated that future Ethereum scaling is not simply about copying a certain architecture, but rather aims to enhance throughput while maintaining the openness and security of the network by combining different design philosophies. Among them, Utreexo is a state compression solution proposed by the Bitcoin ecosystem, which reduces the storage burden on nodes by introducing accumulator technology, making full node operation more lightweight, and is considered beneficial for enhancing Bitcoin's long-term scalability.

According to Coinglass data, if ETH breaks through $1,962, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $233 million. Conversely, if ETH falls below $1,801, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $233 million.

According to The Hacker News, the Netherlands National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned that a recently patched severe authentication vulnerability (CVE-2026-65400, CVSS score 9.8) in Apple's macOS screen sharing component has been exploited in the wild, allowing attackers to access Macs exposed to the internet (port 5900) and implant Monero mining software without valid credentials.Apple has fixed the vulnerability with an emergency update on August 6, alongside macOS Tahoe 26.6.1, Sequoia 15.7.9, and Sonoma 14.8.9, by enhancing credential verification through improved state management. The NCSC confirmed that in multiple attacks, the attackers gained root access and deployed mining software. Security researcher @osxreverser disclosed another pre-authentication vulnerability in the same component (also patched in 26.6), which allows bypassing password authentication with just the target IP, without needing a username.According to Calif, researchers developed usable attack programs for both vulnerabilities using AI in just 4 hours, demonstrating that AI is significantly shortening the time from vulnerability discovery to the development of attack code. Users are advised to update their systems immediately; if unable to update, they should disable the screen sharing feature.

According to three informed sources, in mid-May, when U.S. negotiators attempted to reach an agreement to end the war with Iran, they encountered a problem: they could not determine whether the Iranian representatives across the negotiating table truly represented the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which holds significant influence in the country. The report stated that, as a result, officials from the Trump administration took an unusual approach—bypassing the Iranian negotiating representatives and directly contacting senior leaders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.The U.S. chose Nechirvan Barzani, the President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, to handle this secret communication channel. He possesses a rare advantage: he has gained the trust of both the U.S. and the leadership of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. This incident highlights that one of the significant reasons for the difficulties in U.S.-Iran negotiations is Washington's inability to determine who truly holds decision-making power in Iran. The U.S. and Iran did eventually reach a memorandum of understanding, but it quickly fell apart.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "Dota 2 LGD Gaming vs Team Yandex Elimination Match" on the prediction market Polymarket, the "LGD Gaming" option in the submarket "Match Winner" experienced a drastic fluctuation in win probability, dropping from 63.5% an hour ago to the current 37.5% (a fluctuation of 26%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Binance spot data, the market has experienced significant fluctuations. VIC has dropped 34.22% in 24 hours, and PIVX has dropped 39.22%, showing a "high and then low" state.In addition, RARE, USTC, XAI, NIL, NXPC, and HUMA have also shown a "high and then low" state, with declines of 15.65%, 7.36%, 11.97%, 10.22%, and 9.46%, respectively.On the other hand, VANRY and EDEN have risen by 23.94% and 5.11%, respectively, showing a "bottoming out and rising" state.

According to GoPlus monitoring, a Bitcoin holder just securely transferred assets from a Coldcard MK4 hardware wallet to a centralized exchange, avoiding the risk of the hardware wallet itself being stolen. However, within less than 12 hours after the transfer was completed, their Google account was hacked. Due to enabling Google verification cloud synchronization, the exchange account was logged into, and approximately $750,000 worth of Bitcoin was emptied.GoPlus pointed out that such attacks typically do not rely on brute force but are achieved through social engineering phishing and weak password cracking. Common methods include: phishing pages inducing the input of Google passwords, malicious browser plugins or cracking software stealing cookies and passwords, weak password reuse being cracked, and password resets after recovery email or phone number takeover.

According to token unlocking data from the Crypto asset data platform RootData, Spacecoin (SPACE) will unlock approximately 25.521 million tokens at 20:00 Beijing time on August 23, worth about 1.27 million USD.

According to on-chain data monitoring, CZ's public donation address has shown unusual activity. About five minutes ago, 4444 "Binance Life" coins were burned, worth approximately 2130 USD.In addition, the address also burned 4444 Meme coins MarsCoin, worth approximately 271 USD.

Ethereum developer Toni Wahrstätter posted on the X platform that Ethereum core developers are planning the next annual upgrade "Hegotá," with 66 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) currently on the candidate list. Future core developer meetings will screen these proposals to finalize the upgrade content that can be implemented, tested on the development network, deployed on the test network, and has the potential to go live in 2027. Proposals that do not make it into Hegotá will be postponed until the next hard fork, making the current screening process significantly impactful for Ethereum's future development direction.Currently, FOCIL (Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists) has been identified as one of the important upgrade contents for Hegotá. Developers believe that combining framework transactions (EIP-8141), keying Nonce (EIP-8250), and root references (EIP-8272) will help build native privacy capabilities, allowing privacy applications to operate without relying on third-party intermediaries. Additionally, enhancing scalability is also a crucial direction for Hegotá. Developers propose that it is necessary to prepare for a future increase in the Gas limit to 600 million by repricing data resources (EIP-8131, EIP-8279) and state growth costs (EIP-8368). Although these improvements are not as intuitive as privacy features, they are considered key work to promote Ethereum's scalability in the short term.Other candidate upgrades include shorter block times (EIP-8198), adjustments to the issuance mechanism (EIP-8363), anti-correlation penalty mechanisms (EIP-7716), EVM optimization and simplification, as well as discussions on the first EIPs related to zkEVM and quantum-resistant cryptography. It is reported that Hegotá cannot incorporate all the features the community expects, and the core team needs to make trade-offs between "future vision" and "near-term deliverable upgrades," with most candidate EIPs likely not making it into this upgrade. Currently, it has been 256 days since the launch of the current Glamsterdam upgrade, with the goal of completing deployment by the end of this year. Hegotá is planned to go live in 2027, and in the coming months, core developers and the community will discuss the priorities of various EIPs. Community opinions will still play a role in the screening process, and participants who support or oppose a certain EIP entering Hegotá can present their views to the core development team through public discussions.

On-chain data shows that three wallets associated with Multicoin currently hold approximately 1.777 million HYPE, valued at about 10.2 million USD.Previously, some related HYPE was transferred to Coinbase Prime and Galaxy OTC, but it cannot be confirmed whether the sale has been completed.

According to Cointelegraph, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe) has submitted an application to list a 3x leveraged ETF for Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold, silver, crude oil, and natural gas.The aforementioned products cover both crypto assets and traditional commodities. If approved, they will provide investors with higher leveraged trading tools, further enriching the ETF product line in the relevant markets.

According to Coinglass data, the cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index is currently at 35, an increase of 0 points from yesterday. The average over the past 7 days is 30, and the average over the past 30 days is 28.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reviewing the rule change application submitted by Cboe BZX Exchange, involving six leveraged commodity ETFs that track the benchmark's daily performance by three times. The initial review period set by the SEC is 45 days after publication in the Federal Register.Volatility Shares LLC is the sponsor of the relevant funds, which include 3x Gold, Silver, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crude Oil, and Natural Gas ETFs, all intended to operate under a commodity pool and not classified as investment companies. Among them, the Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs will primarily invest in near-month and next-month futures contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), rather than directly holding Bitcoin or Ethereum, and will allocate cash and cash equivalents as collateral or margin.Before the relevant products are listed, the SEC must approve the exchange rule changes, and the trust's Form S-1 registration statement must also become effective. Each fund must have at least 100,000 shares at the time of listing, and authorized participants can subscribe or redeem cash at a rate of 1,000 shares per 10,000 shares.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, in the past day, a certain whale transferred 884.55 ETH to two new wallets, worth approximately 1.66 million dollars.Before the transfer, the whale also exchanged 493.02 ETH for 928.6 thousand USDT through CoW Protocol, worth approximately 927 thousand dollars.

As SpaceX went public on June 12 on Nasdaq, the Q2 13F reports first focused on disclosing institutional holdings after its listing. According to third-party 13F platform Giantsight, as of June 30, approximately 1,697 reporting entities disclosed their positions in SpaceX, covering various types of funds including pre-listing investors, venture capital, asset management institutions, and pensions.SEC filings show that Alphabet, Google's parent company, reported holding 551 million shares of SpaceX (valued at $94.18 billion), making it the largest 13F reported position currently; Valor Management holds 503 million shares ($86.01 billion), FMR LLC holds 303 million shares ($51.66 billion), Gigafund Management holds 172 million shares ($29.36 billion), and the Saudi Public Investment Fund holds 154 million shares ($26.34 billion), while BAMCO under Baron holds 146 million shares ($24.91 billion).Other key reporting entities include Nvidia holding 123 million shares ($20.98 billion), Baillie Gifford holding 51.4 million shares ($8.78 billion), BlackRock holding 51.04 million common shares ($8.72 billion), Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan holding 50.68 million shares ($8.66 billion), and Harvard University's endowment holding 12.935 million shares ($2.21 billion).In terms of source of holdings, Alphabet and Gigafund are pre-listing investors in SpaceX; Nvidia's position in SpaceX comes from its prior investment in xAI. FMR, BAMCO, BlackRock, and Baillie Gifford mainly represent asset management funds. The aforementioned positions first appeared in the 13F and do not imply that the related institutions all purchased from the secondary market after SpaceX's listing.The amounts mentioned are the end-of-period reported values as of June 30. On that day, SpaceX closed at $170.86, and as of August 14, it closed at $140, a decline of approximately 18.1% from the end of the quarter. If the number of shares held has not changed, the current market value of the related common stock positions would correspondingly decrease. The 13F primarily reflects long positions in reportable securities at the end of the quarter and some held options, without disclosing short stock positions, option sell positions, specific purchase times, transaction costs, or trades after the end of the quarter.

IREN Co-Founder and Co-CEO Daniel Roberts stated that each new AI data center will further increase rather than decrease AI demand.Roberts believes that simply comparing the current AI infrastructure cycle to past technology booms is misleading. More powerful AI requires more computing power, and lower-cost AI will drive more users and applications to use AI.He pointed out that each leap in AI capabilities creates a large number of new application scenarios that did not exist before, so demand can grow rapidly at the pace of software development, but the supply of computing power cannot expand at the same speed.The construction of computing power infrastructure is limited by real-world conditions such as power access, transmission lines, concrete, steel, and construction personnel, making it difficult to quickly increase the speed of supply expansion.Roberts stated that in past technology boom cycles, technological advancements often helped the supply side catch up with demand, but the current AI technology itself is driving demand to grow exponentially, while the speed of infrastructure construction in the real world struggles to keep up.