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According to official news, Mantle Vault has officially expanded from CeFi to DeFi, collaborating with Grove, CIAN, and Fluxion to launch a non-custodial yield vault aimed at stablecoin holders. Users can deposit USDC/USDT into Mantle to obtain institutional-level floating yields through the underlying strategy of sUSDS, along with incentives of Fluxion Points and 5.14 million GROVE tokens (with a target APY of up to 6.5%).The vault adopts a conservative non-leveraged structure, with strategies built by CIAN, capital base provided by Grove's Sky Savings Rate, and liquidity entry managed by Fluxion. Previously, Mantle Vault's AUM on Bybit had exceeded $200 million, and Mantle RWA TVL increased from $22 million to $257 million within the year, with DeFi TVL surpassing $755 million.Mantle stated that by expanding into the DeFi space through Mantle Vault, Mantle and its collaborators are committed to enabling all stablecoin holders to access institutional-level yields without borders, free from geographical restrictions and without the need for intermediary access, and all these components can be combined within Mantle's open financial network.

NVIDIA announced that Cognex, Cat, and the American Silicon Valley home cleaning robot startup Matic will adopt Jetson Orin Nano 2.

According to CoinDesk, citing informed sources, the cryptocurrency custody company Copper, which was once valued at up to $2.5 billion, has attracted the interest of potential buyers, but the offers are only $200 million, far below the $500 million offer made by Cantor Fitzgerald a few months ago.Informed sources revealed that the company is facing challenges related to preferred stock after completing over $300 million in financing at a high valuation.

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

Indian AI infrastructure company AM Intelligence has ordered 9,000 sets of NVIDIA Vera Rubin systems, planning to deploy them in southern India next year. The company's clients include large cloud service providers, AI laboratories, and institutions developing local AI models.

Strive Chairman and CEO Matt Cole stated that February 19 was the bear market bottom for the company's stock $ASST, when the company's CFO, CLO, and several executives and directors bought shares in the open market, and three independent directors transitioned to full-time within six months. There is high confidence internally regarding the Bitcoin exposure held, the amplification structure, and team chemistry.Cole mentioned that despite the external sentiment being low at that time, the internal morale was high, and the execution capability was validated in the following six months. Now, $ASST has surged, and market sentiment has improved, but the team's focus remains unchanged: the Bitcoin bull market has just begun, and Strive has built the corresponding amplification structure and will push forward with full force.Market data shows that $ASST has risen over 50% in the last four trading days, with a current market capitalization of approximately $1.686 billion.

The U.S. Treasury Department has expanded its sanctions framework against Iran to include the digital asset sector, stating that the relevant cryptocurrency payments exceed $100 million, which were used to assist in the sale of Iranian oil. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), a division of the U.S. Treasury, has also imposed sanctions on nearly 60 entities, individuals, and vessels involved in nuclear energy, missiles, cyber activities, and the oil network.The sanctions in the digital asset sector allow OFAC to sanction foreign individuals and companies operating in Iran's digital asset sector or providing support services to the relevant field. The U.S. Treasury stated that Iran is increasingly using cryptocurrencies to evade sanctions, including transactions related to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and insiders within the government. The U.S. Treasury noted that Ukrainian broker Ivan Obukhov, a UAE national, has processed over $100 million in cryptocurrency payments since 2023 to assist the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force in oil sales. OFAC has added Ivan Obukhov and his UAE company Foscom FZE to the sanctions list.

AI market prediction project Fortune Protocol officially announces the integration of liquidity from Polymarket and, together with the previously integrated Predict.fun, provides more prediction markets and liquidity for Fortune Markets.After this update, users can directly explore markets from different liquidity sources within Fortune Markets and discover and compare the liquidity, trading volume, and probabilities of different markets more quickly through a brand new market interface. Fortune Protocol has optimized the trading and asset management experience, adding a streamlined trading process that supports result selection and position browsing; the Portfolio feature is unified, allowing users to view their current positions, settled markets, and complete trading history in one place.Fortune Protocol states that by continuously integrating liquidity from various mainstream prediction markets, Fortune Markets will further build a unified market layer, providing users with a more open, efficient, and integrated prediction market trading experience.

According to Nikkei Asia, the Japanese government is promoting the creation of a data-sharing platform that leverages artificial intelligence to analyze data shared by manufacturers, aiming to increase the speed of new material development by about 10 times. This plan is led by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, and aims to accelerate the discovery of new chemical compositions and formulations by aggregating materials-related data from companies using AI.The report states that the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry aims to launch this platform as early as the fiscal year 2027. Currently, the practice of using AI to explore new material combinations is gradually becoming common in the materials industry, and Japan hopes to shorten the traditional trial-and-error cycle and improve industrial R&D efficiency by unifying data and computing infrastructure.

According to Bloomberg, the Taiwanese research institution TeamT5 stated that the scale of cyberattacks linked to China has significantly increased after incorporating DeepSeek and other open-source AI models into their operations. Since they began delegating daily tasks to AI and using it to develop more advanced malware, the number of attacks carried out by the relevant organizations has more than doubled.Researchers noted that it is not always possible to accurately identify the specific AI models used by attackers, but products related to DeepSeek are popular among hacker groups in the country due to their high performance and ease of customization. The report indicates that experienced attackers are leveraging relatively limited AI tools to scale up their operations and achieve breakthroughs, highlighting the attackers' ability to use basic AI tools to target overseas objectives.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, the Bitcoin mining company Metaplanet purchased 43,000 BTC at an average price of $96,191, investing $3.48 billion.And 1 hour ago, it deposited 1,000 BTC, worth $79.77 million, into Coinbase Prime.

According to South Korean media NATE, Dunamu, the parent company of South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, responded to rumors of a U.S. listing, stating that the company has indeed been in contact with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), but has not yet confirmed a U.S. listing and has not converted its financial statement accounting standards to U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (US GAAP).Dunamu stated that it had previously only compared and understood the differences between Korean accounting standards and US GAAP, and is currently planning to complete a share exchange with Naver Financial by December 31. After the transaction is completed, both parties plan to establish an IPO committee and promote the listing within a year, but the specific country and market for the listing have not yet been determined. Market analysts believe that if a U.S. listing ultimately occurs, Dunamu and Upbit's Korean legal entity and existing business will remain unchanged, and it is expected that they may adopt the American Depositary Receipt (ADR) method.

According to the Chosun Ilbo, in the context of the U.S. government increasing pressure on investment in South Korea, the U.S. has recently made demands to the South Korean government and companies to build storage semiconductor production facilities in the U.S. and ensure a stable supply of storage chips. In response to South Korea's promotion of a 800 trillion won semiconductor cluster plan, the U.S. has also informally expressed dissatisfaction, believing that South Korea is actively supporting domestic semiconductor investments while showing a negative attitude towards investing in the U.S. This is the first time the U.S. has mentioned the South Korean government's "super project" while pressuring for investment.Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Lee Chang-yang also discussed related matters during his recent visit to the U.S. for investment negotiations. The South Korean government believes that the U.S. semiconductor investment demands are independent of the previously agreed $350 billion investment arrangement with the U.S., and plans to announce its first investment project in the U.S. in September. Domestic semiconductor companies are concerned that if they formally accept the U.S. request to establish factories while promoting the Hunan cluster, it may create a dual burden. Additionally, it is reported that Foreign Minister Park Jin spoke with U.S. Secretary of State Rubio that evening to exchange views on investments in the U.S. and bilateral relations.

According to the Nikkei, Japan's Financial Services Agency plans to relax regulatory restrictions on trust banks issuing stablecoins, opening up space for individuals to conduct stablecoin transactions exceeding 1 million yen, and intends to include relevant content in the upcoming tax reform proposals.If implemented, stablecoins could further be used in large consumption scenarios such as automobiles and housing, indicating that the application of stablecoins in Japan is expanding from small payments to higher amount settlements.

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.

The U.S. Department of Defense will invest $750 million in US SIIE to promote the rare earth program.

According to SoSoValue data, as of 8 AM Eastern Time on August 24, 2026, the total net purchase of Bitcoin by global listed companies (excluding mining companies) for the week was $81.48 million, an increase of 1,431.6% compared to last week.Strategy did not buy or sell Bitcoin last week but sold 18,261,118 shares of MSTR common stock, generating $2.007 billion.The Japanese listed company Metaplanet did not purchase Bitcoin last week, marking six consecutive weeks without a purchase.Additionally, two other companies announced Bitcoin purchases last week. Asset management company Strive announced on August 24 that it spent $81.48 million to purchase 1,110 Bitcoins at a price of $73,409, bringing its total holdings to approximately 21,356 Bitcoins; Ethereum asset company Bitmine announced on August 24 that it purchased 1 Bitcoin, without disclosing the specific purchase amount, bringing its total holdings to 210 Bitcoins.Furthermore, Boyaa Interactive announced on August 20 that it spent $7.35 million in the second quarter of 2026 to purchase 108 Bitcoins at a price of approximately $68,047, bringing its total holdings to 4,201 Bitcoins as of June 30, 2026.As of the time of publication, the total amount of Bitcoin held by global listed companies (excluding mining companies) in the statistics is 1,140,751 Bitcoins, an increase of 0.1% compared to last week, with a current market value of approximately $8.952 billion, accounting for 5.7% of Bitcoin's circulating market value.

According to CNBC, two senior officials from the U.S. Treasury revealed that the Treasury may utilize a fiscal general account (TGA) close to $1 trillion to fund its recently announced expansion of the government bond purchase program. Using the TGA account will give the Treasury greater ability to influence long-term bond yields.Last week, the U.S. Treasury unexpectedly announced that it would increase the repurchase scale of long-term "off-the-run securities" from $2 billion to at least $4 billion. U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellen stated that the scale of such operations could even exceed this new minimum level. However, the Treasury did not specify how it would fund these purchases at that time.Most market participants previously believed that the Treasury would raise funds by increasing the issuance of short-term Treasury bills. If the TGA account is utilized, the market's perception of this plan may change.The TGA is essentially a "checking account" that the U.S. government has with the Federal Reserve, similar to an emergency fund pool for the government. The funds in this account come from existing tax revenues.

According to CoinDesk, the cryptocurrency platform Gemini, founded by the Winklevoss twins, announced that it has signed a letter of intent with Apex Fintech Solutions to distribute regulated crypto prediction market contracts to brokerage clients through Apex's futures commission merchant (FCM). Under the arrangement, the subsidiary Gemini Titan will become the exclusive regulated trading venue for distributing crypto event contracts via Apex FCM, with Gemini responsible for execution and clearing, allowing brokers using Apex to offer related products without having to build their own connections to the prediction market exchange.This collaboration builds on Gemini's efforts to advance regulated prediction market layouts. Gemini Titan received a CFTC-designated contract market license in December 2025, and Gemini Olympus obtained a derivatives clearing organization license in April 2025. The two parties already have a foundation for cooperation, as Gemini launched commission-free stock trading for some U.S. clients in July, with Apex Clearing Corporation serving as the custodian and clearing broker. The company expects to finalize details in the coming weeks.Gemini CEO Tyler Winklevoss stated that he believes prediction is the future of the market. The report also mentioned the overall growth in trading volume in prediction markets, as well as the prediction market-related Command Center AI feature previously launched by Gemini.