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Chainalysis organized a multi-day operation called "Operation Lighthouse," utilizing blockchain intelligence to investigate networks distributing child sexual abuse materials. The operation was headquartered at the National Cyber Crime Forensics and Training Alliance in New York and collaborated with global law enforcement agencies such as Europol, the Australian Federal Police, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the UK's National Crime Agency.The operation investigated over 29,000 cryptocurrency addresses and digital identifiers, identified more than 100 related forums and hubs, generated over 14,000 investigative leads, and the suspects were spread across 125 countries, some of whom were registered sex offenders. Several cryptocurrency companies participated, including payment company Block and nonprofit organizations like the Internet Watch Foundation.Gavin Sather, Senior Project Manager for Anti-Child Exploitation at Binance, stated that the transparency of blockchain makes it difficult for criminals to hide their crimes for long periods.

JPMorgan reiterated its "overweight" rating on SpaceX (SPCX.O) and a target price of $240, citing increasing confidence in the prospects of Grok artificial intelligence. The firm highlighted SpaceX's acquisition of Cursor, which reportedly has an annual recurring revenue (ARR) of about $4 billion, with 75% coming from enterprise business.JPMorgan expects that Cursor will enhance SpaceX's enterprise artificial intelligence strategy, model training data, and the performance of Grok.

According to the SpaceX stock unlocking schedule, the first batch of shares for Gate Pre-IPOs project SpaceX (SPCX) will be unlocked on August 26 at 20:00 (UTC+8). The total amount of the first batch to be unlocked is 33,900 SPCX, with 20% of the shares being unlocked based on the actual holdings at the time of the user’s spot account snapshot, and the corresponding shares will be directly credited to the Gate stock account at a 1:1 ratio.Gate is the first platform in the industry to support Pre-IPO share unlocking and directly distribute listed company stocks to users. This unlocking includes SPCX that users previously acquired and held through Pre-IPOs, as well as SPCX purchased subsequently; SPCX that has been sold will not be included in this round of unlocking. Users need to check their SPCX holdings and open orders in advance to ensure that the SPCX used for this unlocking is in an available state.Gate will continue to provide users with an asset participation experience from Pre-IPOs subscription before listing, internal trading, to stock unlocking entering the U.S. stock market. This is the first 20% stock unlocking for SpaceX (SPCX), and the remaining portion will be processed according to the unlocking rules of the target company as soon as possible, subject to the official announcement from Gate.

Cisco and NVIDIA collaborate to expand secure artificial intelligence factories to embrace the era of rack-scale.

CryptoQuant analyst ArabxChain stated that the estimated leverage ratio for XRP on the Binance platform has risen to its highest level in over 7 months. Data shows that this metric is currently around 0.213, the highest level since January of this year.The analysis suggests that if the leverage ratio increases alongside a rise in XRP prices and an increase in open contracts, it may reflect enhanced trader confidence and the continuous establishment of new positions, thereby providing support for subsequent upward trends. However, a higher leverage also means that the market is more sensitive to price fluctuations, necessitating caution regarding potential chain liquidation risks.

WEEX Exchange Announcement: We have now implemented a 0 fee rate for stock token spot trading, allowing users to win multiple rewards and share a prize pool of $100,000. Event duration: 8/24 20:00 - 8/31 19:59:59 (UTC+8).During the event, new users who net deposit ≥ 100 U and choose any stock token for their first spot trade (no limit on trading volume) will receive a bonus of 100 USDT; all users who complete any stock token spot trade will receive a bonus of 10 USDT; all users whose cumulative spot trading volume reaches the specified threshold will unlock corresponding lucky blind boxes, with a maximum bonus of 800 USDT.

According to Cointelegraph, former X product head Nikita Bier stated that the X platform is about to add a cryptocurrency trading button. Once this feature is launched, users can expect to perform related cryptocurrency asset operations more directly within the platform.

According to sources, as Alibaba initiated a placement financing, Alibaba founder Jack Ma has been increasing his holdings in Alibaba's Hong Kong stocks for several consecutive days, with a total exceeding 600 million Hong Kong dollars.The related increase in holdings is said to express a strong optimism about Alibaba's AI prospects.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "LoL: Kiwoom DRX Challengers vs BNK FearX Youth - LCK Challenger League Playoffs" on the prediction market Polymarket, the option "Kiwoom DRX Challengers" in the sub-market "Match Winner" has experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 50% an hour ago to the current 33% (a fluctuation of 17%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites.

On August 25, according to Hong Kong Stock Exchange documents, Alibaba Group Chairman Cai Chongxin purchased another 720,000 shares of Alibaba on Tuesday, costing 82 million Hong Kong dollars, following his initial purchase of 720,000 shares.After Alibaba announced a new share placement plan of 80 billion Hong Kong dollars, Group Chairman Cai Chongxin and CEO Wu Yongming increased their holdings by a total of approximately 120 million Hong Kong dollars in Alibaba shares. Among them, CEO Wu Yongming bought 350,000 shares of Alibaba's Hong Kong stock at an average price of about 111.6 Hong Kong dollars, costing approximately 40 million Hong Kong dollars. Together, the two increased their holdings by 1.07 million shares, totaling about 120 million Hong Kong dollars.The proceeds from Alibaba's 80 billion Hong Kong dollar new share placement will be fully invested in full-stack AI capabilities and AI infrastructure construction. The placement received active subscriptions from long-term investors such as global sovereign wealth funds, ultimately achieving nearly 3 times oversubscription.

According to Binance spot market data, the market has experienced significant fluctuations. STX has increased by 21.63% in the last 24 hours and has reached a rebound state.On the other hand, PORTAL has decreased by 14.34% in the last 24 hours and has shown a "high to low" state. RAY, JASMY, ORDI, and VIRTUAL have also shown a "high to low" state, with declines of 5.22%, 5.79%, 5.02%, and 5.22% respectively. Meanwhile, ARB and LTC have reached new lows today, with declines of 6.25% and 5.84% respectively. MUBARAK has slightly decreased by 10% within 2 hours.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a dormant whale for 4 years recently sold 1,400 BTC, worth approximately 111.61 million USD.This whale received 2,200 BTC at an average price of 45,024 USD 4 years ago, with a total value of about 99.05 million USD, and did not sell during the period when unrealized profits peaked at 178 million USD. Currently, it has begun to sell BTC, with cumulative profits of approximately 76.5 million USD.

He Xiaopeng, Chairman of XPeng Inc., stated at the 2026 semi-annual financial report meeting that the humanoid robot IRON plans to enter large-scale production by the end of this year and will implement commercial scenarios in XPeng stores and parks. In 2027, IRON will officially launch, targeting external customers in the retail and service industries, with large-scale deliveries in China and overseas, and monthly production capacity can quickly increase to several thousand units. He has also served as the CEO of the robotics business since June of this year, integrating resources such as the automotive supply chain, automotive-grade manufacturing, global layout, and Turing AI chips to promote mass production and commercialization.On the same day, XPeng announced that its humanoid robot business has secured over $900 million in its first round of financing, with a post-investment valuation exceeding $6.3 billion. IDG led the investment, with Gao Rong Venture Capital, Tencent, Alibaba, and others subscribing for $600 million, while XPeng Inc. and senior executives including He Xiaopeng subscribed for $300 million. He Xiaopeng believes that the technical threshold for advanced general-purpose robotics is at least 20 times that of smart cars, and the revenue and gross profit over the entire lifecycle of a single unit will be significantly higher than that of cars, expecting considerable gross profit after mass production to support physical AI research and development.The pre-installed mass-produced Robotaxi equipped with the second-generation VLA has completed over 2,000 internal test orders in Guangzhou, and XPeng has completed the development of the cloud takeover platform, aiming to achieve passenger operations without safety personnel next year. The automotive business generated total revenue of 32.78 billion yuan in the first half of the year, delivering 166,000 vehicles, with a gross margin of 20.6%; it is expected to deliver between 115,000 and 121,000 vehicles in the third quarter, with total revenue between 21.7 billion and 23.4 billion yuan.

According to Cointelegraph, Galaxy Research has updated the tracking data of the Coldcard hardware wallet attack, confirming that 1,789.28 BTC (worth approximately $114.7 million at the time of the incident) was stolen from 8,865 addresses. Alex Thorn, head of Galaxy Research, stated that 87.3% (approximately 1,561 BTC) remains unspent in addresses controlled by the attackers, with all Bitcoin stolen in the first three waves of attacks still untouched.In subsequent attacks, some Bitcoin has been transferred through CoinJoin mixing transactions and small splits. The statistics are based on 221 victim reports, covering losses of 790.72 BTC, with a median loss of 1.04 BTC, and more than half of the reports involve losses exceeding 1 BTC. Galaxy has shared the attackers' addresses with exchanges, compliance companies, and law enforcement agencies, hoping that funds can be frozen when they flow into centralized intermediaries.

Xpeng Motors (NYSE: XPEV) robotics subsidiary has signed a share purchase agreement with investors, aiming to raise over $900 million, with a post-investment valuation exceeding $6.3 billion. Xpeng stated that this is the largest single financing completed by a Chinese company in the robotics field to date. The financing round was led by IDG Capital, with strategic follow-on investments from Tencent and Alibaba, and participation from Gao Rong Capital and others.In terms of financing structure, external investors contributed approximately $600 million, Xpeng's subsidiary contributed about $200 million, and CEO He Xiaopeng along with co-president Gu Hongdi's related entities contributed around $100 million. Xpeng will retain about 82% of the controlling stake and consolidate this business. The funds will be used for the research and development of the flagship humanoid robot IRON, the construction of embodied intelligence and data capabilities, as well as mass production and business expansion aimed for the end of 2026. IRON is equipped with Xpeng's self-developed robotics and AI-specific chips.This subsidiary is part of Xpeng's robotics platform Dogotix (Xpeng robotic dog/humanoid robot related entities). Alibaba and Tencent had previously participated as Pre-IPO investors in the financing of the Chinese humanoid robotics company Yushu Technology.

The decentralized AI infrastructure DGrid AI completed its TGE yesterday at 16:00, with $DGAI simultaneously launching on multiple exchanges including OKX Boost, Gate, Bitget, KuCoin, Kraken, MEXC, and PancakeSwap.According to CoinMarketCap data, the opening price of $DGAI was $0.1, reaching a high of $0.85 within 12 hours after launch, an increase of 8.5 times. As of today at 16:00, $DGAI is priced at $0.72, with a current FDV of approximately $720 million.$DGAI is the native token of the decentralized AI network DGrid, primarily used for node staking, AI service payments, ecosystem incentives, and governance.

According to the Gate platform's Hong Kong stock market data, Yingxing Holdings (01440) rose by 18.55%, currently reported at HK$16.10; Kantarong (01912) rose by 18.23%, currently reported at HK$2.01; Kylin Pharmaceutical (06821) increased by 18.18%, currently reported at HK$131.30.