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Nasdaq-listed e-cigarette wholesaler Greenlane Holdings shifted to a corporate crypto treasury strategy by the end of 2025, focusing on the Berachain native token BERA instead of Bitcoin, and emulating the Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) model to accumulate a single asset through equity and debt financing, disclosing per-share assets. In October 2025, it completed approximately $110.7 million in private placement for the "BERA Strategy." By the end of 2025, it held 51.6 million BERA (costing about $58 million, with a market value of about $36.6 million), and continued to increase its holdings to 81.3 million in the first half of 2026, with a total cost of about $70 million.The second-quarter report disclosed on August 14, 2026, showed a net loss of $24.8 million, of which about $19.1 million came from non-cash impairment of BERA; cash and equivalents fell to $6.1 million, with an additional approximately $8.1 million in aUSDC and sUSDe reserves, and current liabilities of $6.5 million. As of June 30, the fair value of BERA holdings was approximately $16 million, down about 77% from cost in less than a year. The traditional e-cigarette business has shrunk to a nearly revenue-free agency model, and Proof of Liquidity staking returns are insufficient to offset treasury losses.In March 2026, Nasdaq issued a delisting decision due to minimum bid price, the company appealed and regained compliance on April 27 after implementing a 1-for-8 reverse stock split in April. Additionally, there is a Nasdaq minimum listing security market value of $5 million.

According to Cointelegraph, U.S. companies' spending in the field of artificial intelligence is rapidly increasing. Data shows that the top 1% of companies are currently spending a record $7,400 per employee per month on AI-related expenses, which is 600 times higher than the median company spending level.Related statistics reflect a significant divergence in AI investment between leading companies and average companies, with top firms significantly increasing their investment in AI applications and infrastructure at a rate far above the industry average.

According to BBX data, last weekend, publicly listed companies in the U.S. stock market disclosed the latest real accounts regarding digital asset treasury adjustments, staking yields, and computing power infrastructure financial data. The core dynamics are as follows:Hyperscale Data ( NYSE : $ GPUS ) sold 685 BTC for $43 million: AI data center company Hyperscale Data officially announced that it has sold approximately 685 bitcoins in the open market, obtaining about $43 million in cash. After this reduction, the company still holds approximately 275 BTC. The funds will mainly be used for the ongoing development and expansion of its Michigan data center, as well as to optimize its debt and equity capital structure to support its computing power transformation strategy.Solana concept stock HSDT ( NASDAQ : $ HSDT ) recorded 31,200 SOL staking yields in Q2: Nasdaq-listed Solana treasury and ecosystem company HSDT disclosed its performance for the second quarter of 2026. The company's total revenue for the quarter was $2.5 million, mainly contributed by the 31,200 SOL staking rewards obtained during the quarter; the net loss for the quarter was $30.3 million. As of June 30, HSDT's total assets reached $176.1 million, including $147.3 million in long-term digital assets, related positions, and fund investments.Soluna ( NASDAQ : $ SLNH ) Q2 revenue increased by 145% year-on-year, repaid $19.1 million loan early: Green data center listed company Soluna released its Q2 financial report, with total revenue reaching $15.1 million (a year-on-year increase of 145%). Among them, data hosting revenue surged to $12.65 million, while cryptocurrency mining revenue decreased to $1.72 million; the net loss was $22.6 million, with an adjusted EBITDA loss of $1.6 million. As of the end of the quarter, the company held unrestricted cash of $113.4 million. The financial report disclosed that the company fully repaid approximately $19.1 million of Generate debt early on August 10.

According to Crypto Briefing, Bits of Gold, Israel's largest compliant crypto broker, has suffered a data breach, with approximately 200,000 customers' personal information stolen by hackers, putting all users of the platform at risk.The company obtained Israel's first virtual asset service provider (VASP) license in September 2022 and was approved to issue the BILS stablecoin, pegged 1:1 to the shekel, in April 2026. The types of stolen data have not been disclosed, but crypto brokers typically collect sensitive information such as identification documents, proof of address, and financial information in accordance with KYC regulations. While cold wallets can protect digital assets, they cannot safeguard customer identity documents on servers. Historical cases show that similar data breaches are often used for phishing, SIM card swapping, and targeted social engineering attacks, with security risks extending beyond the platform itself.

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.

Coinbase announced the construction of a complete financial and payment infrastructure for AI Agents. The official statement claims that AI Agents can conduct research, decision-making, and trading on its platform, including cryptocurrencies, stocks, and derivatives, through "Coinbase for Agents," and can access Coinbase Advisor for personalized investment advice and tax-loss harvesting services.On the payment layer, Coinbase launched the open standard x402, enabling agent-to-agent machine payments without human involvement. Related transactions are primarily settled on the Base chain, while Coinbase Business supports businesses in receiving payments from AI Agents in USDC and provides discovery and marketplace access for x402 payable services on Agentic.Market.

According to Ledger Insights, Africa Finance Corporation issued digital bonds worth 350 million Swiss francs (approximately 431 million USD) through the SDX platform of the Swiss Stock Exchange (SIX). This marks the first time an African institution has issued digital bonds through a Central Securities Depository (CSD) and an exchange.The five-year bond has a coupon rate of 1.4925% and is one of the larger digital bonds on the platform, although UBS had previously issued bonds worth 375 million Swiss francs in 2022. This transaction was arranged by Commerzbank AG (technical lead) and Deutsche Bank.

According to Techtimes, AI model evaluation company Vals AI completed a $40 million Series A funding round with a valuation of $400 million, led by a16z, with participation from 8VC, Pear VC, Bloomberg Beta, as well as new investors HRT Ventures and Next Ladder Ventures.Vals AI uses an independent system to evaluate cutting-edge models launched by companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and xAI, rather than using traditional public benchmark tests. The new funding will be used to expand evaluation infrastructure and launch testing tools for creating programming benchmarks based on enterprise GitHub code repositories.

Solana Company (Nasdaq: HSDT) announced its financial data for the second quarter of 2026. The revenue for the quarter was $2.5 million, primarily from the 31,200 SOL rewards obtained through staking during the quarter; the net loss was $30.3 million.As of June 30, the company's total assets were $176.1 million, which included approximately $147.3 million in related assets. Solana Company is a publicly traded company associated with the Solana ecosystem in the open market, and its performance is significantly affected by SOL staking yields and fluctuations in the value of its holdings.

According to Ai Yi's monitoring, @Skylinee participated in the LAB public offering in October 2025 with $5,000. Subsequently, based on the token price, the value of their holdings once reached approximately $5.6 million, with a paper return of about 1,120 times.However, after the project team unilaterally postponed the token unlocking time, this participant recently finally received the unlocked tokens, which are currently worth only about $3,219, a decrease of approximately 99.94% from the previous paper peak.

According to Gate market data, the panic index VIX continues to decline, reaching a new low during the session since December 30 of last year.

Elon Musk stated that due to insufficient power supply and difficulties in ground facility approvals, orbital computing (i.e., space computing platforms) may be the only way to scale AI on a large scale by around 2029.

South Korean enterprise-level AI data infrastructure company GraphAI announced the completion of a $12 million Series A financing round, led by K2 Investment Partners, with participation from A-Ventures and Jiyu Investment, as well as previous participants in the Pre-A round, Quad Ventures, Kiwoom Investment, and We Ventures. To date, the company has raised a total of $14.7 million.GraphAI was founded in 2022 by Professor Min-Soo Kim from the KAIST School of Computing, with the goal of providing next-generation data infrastructure for enterprise AI applications by integrating the capabilities of graph databases, vector databases, and relational databases. Its Akasic platform offers an integrated solution covering enterprise data connectivity, collection, transformation, AI inference, and intelligent agent execution environments.

According to Fintechnews, Malaysian stablecoin company BLOX announced the completion of a $1 million seed round financing, led by the technology investment division of Singapore's venture capital fund Kivo Technology. The new funds will be used to expand the development of its Malaysia Ringgit (MYR) backed stablecoin MYRC.It is reported that BLOX has participated in a domestic blockchain payment proof-of-concept project in Malaysia, exploring blockchain-based local payment scenarios through MYRC.

Documents from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission show that Mubadala Investment Company of the UAE has completely sold its shares in Apple (AAPL.O) and holds 65,326 shares in NVIDIA (NVDA.O).

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that since 2026, publicly listed Bitcoin mining companies have sold 28,000 Bitcoins, worth 1.78 billion dollars.

According to Bloomberg, EdgeConneX Inc., a data center operator supported by EQT, is seeking banks to provide a power cost guarantee of up to $2.5 billion to support its global data center expansion plans.EdgeConneX is negotiating a letter of credit financing arrangement with several banks, including France's Natixis and Spain's BBVA. This arrangement will help the company lock in power supply costs for its data center projects.With the rapid growth in demand for artificial intelligence training and inference, global data center construction has entered an accelerated phase, and operators are exploring new financing tools to cope with rising power procurement costs and infrastructure investment needs. EdgeConneX's request for bank support reflects that AI infrastructure companies are shifting from traditional real estate and equipment financing models to establishing new financing structures around energy supply, long-term power contracts, and other assets.In recent years, major cloud computing companies and AI infrastructure firms have increased their investments in data centers, while power supply has become a significant bottleneck constraining the expansion of AI computing power. Securing future power costs through bank credit support is becoming a new way for data center operators to obtain expansion funding.

According to PR Newswire, AI data center company Hyperscale Data (NYSE: GPUS) announced that it has completed the sale of approximately 685 bitcoins, cashing out about 43 million dollars at recent market prices.The funds will primarily be used for the ongoing development and expansion of the Michigan data center, while repaying approximately 30 million dollars in debt to optimize the capital structure. After the sale, the company still holds about 275 bitcoins. The company's Executive Chairman Todd Ault stated that this move is part of a capital allocation decision and not a abandonment of the long-term bitcoin accumulation strategy. The company will continue to engage in bitcoin mining and plans to gradually rebuild its bitcoin holdings over time.

According to official news, Gate will upgrade the Gate Card points reward program on August 14, 2026. After the upgrade, the assets that can be redeemed with Gate Card points will expand from primarily supporting USDT and GT to include USDT, GT, BTC, ETH, GUSD, as well as tokenized stock assets such as NVDAG, AAPLG, GOOGLG, SPCXG, TSLAG, MUG, SNDKG, and SKHYG, corresponding to Nvidia, Apple, Google, SpaceX, Tesla, Micron Technology, SanDisk, and SK Hynix. The newly added tokenized stock assets cover several popular fields such as AI, semiconductors, and consumer technology. After earning points through eligible daily spending, users can redeem mainstream crypto assets like BTC and ETH according to their preferences, or they can redeem corresponding tokenized stock assets like Nvidia, Apple, Tesla, and SpaceX. In addition, Gate Card points will also support the redemption of gold-backed stablecoins (XAUT), effectively enriching users' options for point redemption.The redemption ratio for Gate Card points remains at 100 points = 1 USDT equivalent asset, and points are permanently valid, with other core rules unchanged. Users can still earn cashback points through eligible Gate Card spending, with the cashback ratio continuing to be calculated based on the user's T0--T5 / VIP level. This upgrade will not affect the existing point acquisition mechanism but will provide users with more asset choices at the redemption end, expanding the application scenarios for Gate Card points. By upgrading the points reward program, Gate Card will further connect payment consumption with asset accumulation, offering users richer rights options and a more flexible asset management experience.