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According to Gate market data, Workday (WDAY.O) has expanded its gains to 25.79%. Due to stock price fluctuations, its shares have been suspended from trading again.

According to Gate market data, the Nasdaq index rose by 1%, with SanDisk (SNDK.O) and SK Hynix both increasing by over 4%.

ChianCatcher news, Terence Lee, one of the early co-founders of BitMart (GBM Global Holding Company Limited), stated, "In recent years, I have not been responsible for the main business of the exchange, and my work has mainly focused on exploring new products and new business. I will withdraw from all company affairs on July 31, 2026, and will not participate in any operations, management, or asset-related matters of the company or any of its affiliated entities. The procedures for resigning from relevant positions and canceling registrations are currently being processed. I deeply regret the difficulties and impacts caused to users by the platform's cessation of operations. However, I currently have no authority to handle matters related to platform assets, accounts, or user funds, nor can I answer questions related to platform operations or asset disposal. Relevant requests should be made through the channels indicated in the official announcement and through legal means. Recently, my identification information, photos, and several false pieces of information have been circulated, and I have reported this to law enforcement and reserved the right to pursue legal responsibility. This statement is my only public explanation regarding this matter, and I will no longer respond to related inquiries individually."

According to Bloomberg, as a large number of high-growth startups emerge in fields such as artificial intelligence and biotechnology, private equity and Pre-IPO investment tools aimed at ordinary investors are rapidly increasing. Billionaire investor Bill Ackman's investment firm Pershing Square is preparing to launch a new fund to provide investors with the opportunity to participate in high-growth companies that are not yet publicly listed.Currently, Pershing Square has initiated the process to establish "Pershing Square Ventures." This fund will adopt a "permanent capital" model, allowing for long-term holding of investment targets and continuing to hold shares after the invested companies go public.Ackman and Pershing Square Chief Investment Officer Ryan Israel stated in a letter to shareholders that the new fund aims to capture investment opportunities in Pre-IPO companies and expand the company's investment scope beyond the public markets. At present, Pershing Square has not disclosed the target size of the fund, investment strategy details, or specific fundraising timeline.

According to Finsmes, AI architecture development company Pathway announced the completion of a $30 million seed round financing, with participation from Id4 Ventures, TQ Ventures, Red Bridge Ventures, Kadmos Capital, and WS Investment, an investment institution under Wilson Sonsini. Databricks Chief AI Scientist Jonathan Frankle also joined as an angel investor.Pathway is developing the "Post-Transformer" architecture called BDH (Biologically-inspired Dynamic Hierarchy), aiming to address the limitations of current Transformer models that continuously rely on more data, GPUs, energy, and capital expansion. Unlike traditional large models that require periodic retraining, BDH can continuously learn with less data and achieve ongoing adaptation.It is reported that the company has appointed former Google DeepMind Gemini product head Adam Kurzrok as Chief Product Officer, responsible for the product direction based on the BDH model, including model packaging, evaluation systems, and commercial deployment.

According to GlobeNewswire, Sharplink (Nasdaq: SBET), an Ethereum treasury company, announced that it will stake $200 million worth of ETH through Lido, the largest liquid staking protocol on Ethereum, to enhance the yield capability of the company's ETH assets. Sharplink stated that after this staking, the company will receive wrapped staked ETH (wstETH) representing the staked ETH and its yields, which will be custodied by institutional-grade digital asset custodian Anchorage Digital.This configuration will further expand Sharplink's existing ETH staking and restaking strategies. Lido is currently one of the largest liquid staking protocols on Ethereum, with approximately $16.5 billion staked on the platform. Its wstETH token has been integrated by over 100 protocols, with about $10 billion used as collateral in DeFi. While users hold wstETH, the underlying ETH continues to earn staking rewards and can be used within the Ethereum DeFi ecosystem.Sharplink CEO Joseph Chalom stated that the introduction of Lido will further enhance the production efficiency of the company's ETH assets, leveraging the composability of wstETH while maintaining institutional-grade risk management standards. This collaboration will diversify the company's treasury strategy and connect to one of the most liquid and widely used assets in the Ethereum DeFi ecosystem. Vasiliy Shapovalov, Executive Director of Lido Labs Foundation, stated that Sharplink's increased use of Ethereum's native staking protocol and DeFi ecosystem reflects support for the Ethereum application ecosystem.

According to the Nikkei News, individual investors in the Japanese stock market are accelerating their use of leverage to bet on AI trends. As of July, the amount of credit trading by individual investors in the Japanese stock market reached 123 trillion yen (approximately 1.09 trillion yuan), doubling since the beginning of the year and reaching the highest level since related statistics began in 2016.Data shows that in June, the scale of credit trading by Japanese individual investors hit a historical high, and in July it continued to maintain a high level. At the same time, the proportion of credit trading in the overall trading amount of individual investors rose to 83%, also setting a new record.AI concept stocks have become the main driving force behind the surge in credit trading, among which the credit buy balance of AI storage concept stock Kioxia reached 13.23 million shares as of August 7, making it one of the popular targets.Benefiting from the recent rise in the Japanese stock market, the overall performance of leveraged investors has been decent. The floating yield of credit trading investors briefly turned positive in June, although it fell back to a loss of 8.4% by the end of July, it is still better than the average loss level of the past 10 years (-10.2%).

AI Economic Settlement Agreement AEON announced its integration with Colombia's national instant payment system Bre - B, allowing users to complete payments using cryptocurrency through the Bre - B standard QR code, while merchants receive payments in Colombian pesos (COP). AEON has supported over 50 million merchants globally, and this integration further extends the AI settlement network into the local payment systems of Latin America, providing the infrastructure support for AI and AI Agents to access real commercial scenarios and complete transactions and fiat currency settlements through local payment networks.

Brazilian Bitcoin treasury company OranjeBTC (B3: OBTC3) announced the launch of the Digital Yield ETF (DIGY11), which is created in collaboration with 3R Investimentos and MarketVector, and is expected to be listed on the Brazilian Stock Exchange B3 in early September.DIGY11 will initially invest in preferred shares issued by Strategy through STRC and preferred shares issued by Strive through SATA, distributing returns to investors in Brazilian reais on a monthly basis while providing daily liquidity and currency hedging. Under current market conditions, DIGY11 is expected to provide an annualized distribution yield equivalent to CDI plus approximately 3% to 5%, but this estimate does not include fluctuations in the fund share price and does not constitute a guarantee of returns. This ETF does not directly invest in Bitcoin but provides Brazilian investors with a localized channel to access USD returns and exposure to Bitcoin ecosystem assets by holding preferred shares related to Bitcoin treasury companies.

Tencent Holdings fell 4.46%, with a market value of 4 trillion Hong Kong dollars, approximately 3.44 trillion yuan. Changxin Technology's closing market value today is 3.5 trillion yuan, surpassing Tencent Holdings to become the largest listed company by market value in China.

According to Gate market data, the Nikkei 225 index closed up 784.53 points on August 13, an increase of 1.16%, reporting at 68,308.59 points.The South Korean KOSPI index also closed up 210.97 points on the same day, an increase of 3.21%, reporting at 6,790.01 points, with SK Hynix rising 5.9% and Samsung Electronics rising 3.9%.

According to News1, South Korea will expand the registration review scope of Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP) to include major shareholders starting from August 20. If there are changes to the major shareholders or the company's legal compliance framework, operators must notify the financial authorities 30 days in advance.The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) announced the revised registration manual at a briefing held in Seoul for virtual asset service providers and potential operators. The review targets not only the largest shareholders and major shareholders holding more than 10% of shares but also shareholders with special connections to the largest shareholders. If the largest shareholder is a legal entity, the largest shareholder of that entity and its representatives may also be included in the review scope.

According to the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, deep-sea robotics company Deep Sea Intelligent has announced the completion of over 500 million yuan in Series A financing. New shareholders include Guanghe Venture Capital, Dacheng Financial Intelligence, Jiyuan Capital, Yida Capital, Zhongbao Investment, China Electronics Technology Group Investment, and Total Energy as the funding entity of the energy technology fund managed by Kaihui Fund Management.At the same time, a number of existing shareholders, including Zhengxuan Investment, Yunze Capital, Yunshi Capital, Gaojie Capital, and Xingzhi Capital, have significantly increased their investments.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi supports the Bank of Japan's recent interest rate hike, with the next action possibly in September or October. Due to concerns about the weak yen driving up prices, both sides are increasingly aligned on the necessity of raising interest rates. The Prime Minister's Office believes that specific monetary policy measures should be decided by the Bank of Japan, but both sides should work closely together to "stabilize" the achievement of the 2% inflation target.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin (@EmberCN), an early holder who participated in the Ethereum token issuance transferred all 2,000 ETH to Coinbase about 4 hours ago, valued at approximately $3.77 million at the current price.Based on its participation price of about $0.311 at that time, the initial cost of this asset was approximately $622, and the book return as of this transfer is about 6,060 times.

The Trump administration will revise the new artificial intelligence guidelines to expand regulation of AI models. The White House has developed a set of AI frameworks that require U.S. laboratories to undergo safety testing by the federal government before public release. In the coming months, this framework is expected to cover open-source models, which will be included in testing once their capabilities reach the same level as Anthropic's Mythos-level models and OpenAI's GPT-5.6.

On August 12, institutional digital asset lending technology provider Digital Prime Technologies announced a strategic investment from global institutional digital asset prime broker LTP. LTP will become its chief strategic partner in the Asia-Pacific region, helping the Tokenet platform expand institutional participation in the Asia-Pacific market.Tokenet is Digital Prime Technologies' institutional-grade digital asset and tokenized asset lending platform. Following this investment, LTP will work alongside previously joined EquiLend, Galaxy Digital, and Marex to promote the global institutional infrastructure development of Tokenet. LTP stated that it will leverage its network of institutional clients, prime brokerage capabilities, and financing expertise to accelerate the adoption of Tokenet among financial institutions in the Asia-Pacific region.

According to Gate market data, SpaceX rose to an intraday high, with an increase of 8.5%.

According to Cointelegraph, Hyperliquid will expand a deployer-controlled scaleWei function for HIP-1. This function can proportionally adjust the balances of a certain token among all holders, equivalent to an on-chain version of a stock split, and can also be used to handle airdrops, dividends, repricing, and reverse mergers.According to the announcement, during the execution of the rescheduling, unfilled orders will be canceled and replaced according to the effective rescheduling ratio, rounded down, while totalWei is allowed to be negative, enabling reverse rescheduling. The initiating address can be a system address from Core to EVM, or a treasury address specified and signed by the deployer.

Japan's largest banking group, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), plans to utilize blockchain technology to provide instant settlement services for certain Japanese Government Bonds (JGB) transactions.According to reports, MUFG plans to conduct blockchain-based Japanese Government Bond repurchase transactions using tokenized money market funds and stablecoins to shorten the settlement process of traditional securities transactions.