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Sparrow Wallet v2.5.4 has been released after extensive AI-assisted review, containing multiple security enhancement updates aimed at reducing users' reliance on external servers such as Electrum.In addition, this version strengthens Ledger, Keycard, Trezor, Payjoin, PSBT, and multi-signature handling, removes Bitcoin Core credentials and other confidential information from debug logs, restricts existing wallet and backup directory permissions to owner access only, closes local DNS resolution leaks when using Tor, and enhances wallet import, signing, downloading, and server response verification. This update expands Sparrow Wallet's scope for independently verifying transaction data, hardware devices, and other inputs, reducing reliance on external servers for data provision.

Japanese cryptocurrency exchange service provider Coincheck announced that it has completed the registration for electronic payment methods and other transactions on August 27, 2026, becoming the second company in Japan to obtain a license related to stablecoins.Coincheck stated that it will gradually develop stablecoin and on-chain financial related businesses based on its previous cooperation with the American company Circle to expand the use cases of USDC in Japan. The company claims that stablecoins have price stability linked to fiat currencies, which can be used for around-the-clock, fast, and low-cost transfers and payments.

SMIC (Hong Kong Stock 00981, A Share 688981) released its semi-annual report for 2026. The reporting period is from January 1, 2026, to June 30, 2026, and is unaudited. The company achieved operating revenue of 38.635 billion RMB, a year-on-year increase of 19.4%; total profit of 7.133 billion RMB, a year-on-year increase of 96.7%; net profit attributable to shareholders of the listed company of 4.467 billion RMB, a year-on-year increase of 94.2%; net profit attributable to the parent company after deducting non-recurring gains and losses of 2.994 billion RMB, a year-on-year increase of 57.2%.During the same period, the net cash flow generated from operating activities was 20.760 billion RMB, a year-on-year increase of 252.0%; earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (EBITDA) was 24.511 billion RMB, a year-on-year increase of 40.7%. The gross profit margin was 23.2%, an increase of 1.3 percentage points compared to the same period last year; the net profit margin was 16.7%, an increase of 6.3 percentage points; basic and diluted earnings per share were both 0.56 RMB, a year-on-year increase of 93.1%. The board of directors approved the submission of this report on August 27, 2026, and the company has no profit distribution or capital reserve transfer plan.

According to Politico, the United States is considering expanding the scope of tariffs to include laptops and servers.

Zhao Changpeng stated at the "Bitcoin Asia 2026" conference in Hong Kong that both the RWA and AI sectors are currently very strong. Stablecoins, centralized exchanges, decentralized exchanges, and Meme tokens, which have been growing, will continue to grow, and NFTs may return in some form. It is difficult to predict what the next breakout point will be, just as it was impossible to predict the coin issuance craze at the beginning of 2017 and the NFT craze six months before it exploded; these all require entrepreneurs to create.He also mentioned that the funds used by billions of AI agents for automated buying, selling, negotiating, and trading in the future will definitely be cryptocurrencies, likely starting with stablecoins, and then gradually integrating other public chain assets like Bitcoin. He has discussed the possibility of issuing tokens with several top AI companies, as building data centers requires huge amounts of capital, with the cost of 1 GW of computing power being about $30 billion to $50 billion. Some AI companies plan to build hundreds of GW of computing power in the coming years, so they are considering issuing data center tokens that would allow holders to gain rights to use computing power in the future. Additionally, the payment scenarios for AI agents may be implemented later than trading scenarios; currently, AI companies are more focused on helping agents find optimal trading solutions, while trading scenarios require AI to process information quickly, which can increase trading efficiency by about ten times.

At a closed-door sharing session held in Hong Kong, Binance founder CZ responded to questions about entrepreneurship among university students, emphasizing that there is no need to rush into starting a business. He suggested that young people should first work at a good large company for a few years, stating, "Two years should be the minimum," with 2 to 5 years being ideal. He cited his own four years at Bloomberg as an example, noting that the complete management system of a large company is something that university students cannot experience immediately upon graduation, which will be very helpful for future entrepreneurship.CZ believes that young people must focus on cultivating "a specialized skill." He stated that this is a world of global competition, "If you broadly say programming, there are millions of programmers worldwide, and it is impossible to be twice as good as everyone else. However, if you can become the best 1% or even 0.1% in the world, the returns you receive may be several times, dozens of times, or even hundreds of times more than others. The treatment of the first place and the second place will be very different."

According to CoinDesk, Binance co-founder Zhao Changpeng (CZ) and He Yi used the cartoon characters from "The Simpsons," with the aliases "Homer" and "Marge," in company meetings and internal communications. He Yi currently serves as co-CEO of Binance alongside Richard Teng, and according to people who have worked with her at Binance, she still uses the alias "Marge" in meetings and chats. The skin color of the Simpsons characters is yellow, which coincidentally echoes the corporate primary color scheme of Binance's logo and marketing.CZ resigned as CEO of Binance in November 2023, after the U.S. Department of Justice charged him with violating the Bank Secrecy Act. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four months in prison in April 2024. In October 2025, President Trump granted him a pardon. According to Forbes data, Zhao Changpeng is the richest person in Canada, with a net worth of approximately $111.1 billion as of April 2026. He Yi previously served as Binance's Chief Marketing Officer for a long time and has been the head of YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs) since August 2022. Following the news, the crypto meme coin ecosystem quickly created a meme token in tribute to this "Simpsons alias" couple.

According to Yonhap News Agency, Park Hyun-joo, Chairman of Mirae Asset Group, stated that the cryptocurrency trading platform Digital X will be the core pillar of "Mirae Asset 3.0." Based on the group's customer assets exceeding 1,500 trillion won, the initial goal is to expand the digital asset business to 150 trillion won and aim for profitability by 2027.Mirae Asset plans to expand its products around four major directions: crypto assets, stablecoins, RWA, and STO, and promote the digitization of assets such as gold, silver, and electricity, as well as on-chain financial services. Digital X was formerly the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Korbit, which was renamed after Mirae Asset Group acquired 97.15% of its shares.

According to Bitcoin.com, Strategy (MSTR) Executive Chairman Michael Saylor proposed the concept of "Bitcoin Reform" in a published article, advocating that Bitcoin should break free from the dogmatic understanding of early concepts such as Satoshi Nakamoto, the white paper, and "must self-custody," and further integrate into banks, exchanges, enterprises, securities markets, and government systems.Saylor stated that self-custody remains an important right for holders to freely exit the intermediary system, but it should not be a mandatory obligation for everyone; users can also evaluate institutional services based on dimensions such as custodial isolation, collateral, audits, insurance, and withdrawal rights. He believes that Bitcoin has gradually evolved from peer-to-peer electronic cash and "digital gold" into "digital capital" that can support credit, equity, currency, and machine economies.

According to Nikkei Asia, storage chip manufacturer Kioxia Holdings plans to build new production facilities at its factory in northern Japan, with project investments expected to exceed 1 trillion yen (approximately 6.27 billion USD).Kioxia currently ranks third in the global NAND flash memory market, behind Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. The company's move aims to follow its South Korean competitors in increasing production capacity to meet market demand.

According to monitoring by BitcoinTreasuries.NET, Sharplink SBET obtained 586 ETH this week through staking rewards, currently holding a total of 890,376 ETH, making it the second largest ETH treasury company in the world.

Amazon and NVIDIA announced that Amazon will deploy approximately 2 million high-end NVIDIA chips in 2027 and 2028 for training and running artificial intelligence models. Additionally, Amazon stated in March this year that it would install 1 million NVIDIA chips in AWS data centers. The chips involved in this transaction include Blackwell Ultra, Rubin, and Rubin Ultra graphics cards.

NVIDIA's Chief Financial Officer stated that NVIDIA is expanding its partnership with Amazon Web Services.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "LoL: Eintracht Spandau vs Kaufland Hangry Knights - Prime League 1st Division Playoffs," the "Odd" option in the sub-market "Odd/Even Total Kills" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win rate, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

DeFi Development Corp, a publicly traded company in the United States, announced the launch of State of Solana, a free public data dashboard that aggregates market, network, staking, and ecosystem metrics for Solana. The company is the first publicly traded firm in the U.S. to establish a treasury strategy around accumulating SOL, currently holding 2,294,576 SOL, valued at approximately $208 million, making it the second-largest holder of Solana treasury after Forward Industries.Pete Humiston, Chief Marketing Officer of DeFi Development Corp, stated that the company has spent considerable time explaining why they believe Solana is one of the most important networks in the crypto space, but this argument goes far beyond the price of SOL. State of Solana allows investors and ecosystem participants to view the underlying data themselves. The dashboard tracks SOL returns over five time windows, rainbow chart price history, real-time epoch progress and block times, transactions per second throughput, estimated staking yield and inflation rate, top yields in Solana DeFi, cross-chain activity comparisons, and validator staking distribution (including the Nakamoto coefficient).The company's stock, DFDV, is currently trading at approximately $4.50, with a market capitalization of about $140 million, down about 16% since the beginning of the year and down about 72% from $16 a year ago.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that Strive Asset Management purchased 1,110 bitcoins for approximately $81.5 million, increasing its bitcoin holdings to 21,356 bitcoins. Based on a bitcoin price of about $80,000, the holdings are valued at approximately $1.7 billion, making it the seventh largest company by bitcoin reserves among publicly traded companies.According to documents submitted to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Strive completed the purchase between August 17 and 21, with an average purchase price of $73,409 per bitcoin, including fees and related expenses. This purchase increased its bitcoin holdings by approximately 5.5% from the previous 20,246 bitcoins.Strive raised funds through the issuance of ASST common stock and SATA preferred stock to execute its bitcoin reserve strategy. During the same period, its Class A shares increased by approximately 3.65 million shares, reaching 79.89 million shares, and it issued 441,313 shares of SATA preferred stock. Due to the increase in the number of shares, Strive's total bitcoin holdings grew by approximately 5.5%, but the bitcoin holdings per fully diluted share only increased by about 1.4%.Strive CEO Matt Cole posted on the X platform that the company added 1,110 bitcoins at an average cost of $73,409 per bitcoin, bringing the total holdings to 21,356 bitcoins.Previously, in August, Strive purchased 147 bitcoins at an average price of over $64,800 per bitcoin, and subsequently purchased 79 bitcoins at an average price of $63,231 per bitcoin, totaling 226 bitcoins. In June, Strive purchased 2,500 bitcoins for $185.2 million, increasing its holdings to 19,000 bitcoins.As of August 21, Strive's cash and cash equivalents increased from approximately $154.8 million to $171.9 million. The price of SATA preferred stock is approximately $100, and the annualized dividend yield was raised to 13% in April.

According to businesswire, Nasdaq-listed Avalanche Treasury Company (AVAT) disclosed that as of June 30, it held approximately 15.3 million AVAX, with a book value of about 100 million dollars; the net staking income for the second quarter was 1.5 million dollars, totaling 3.6 million dollars for the first half of the year.The company reported a net loss of 44.7 million dollars in the second quarter, of which approximately 35.7 million dollars came from the fair value changes, realized losses, and impairments of its AVAX holdings, while about 15.2 million dollars were one-time transaction costs incurred from completing the business combination. The company's board also approved a Class A common stock repurchase plan of up to 10 million dollars.

According to TechCrunch, AI Agent development company Runable has completed a $21 million Series A funding round, led jointly by usquehanna Venture Capital and Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Together Fund and Array VC.The AI Agent currently being developed by the company is capable of generating websites, applications, and presentations through natural language, and can also handle foundational tasks such as deployment and data analysis. The new funding will be used to optimize AI inference costs and integrate infrastructure, marketing, and distribution capabilities.

In the latest podcast, SemiAnalysis founder Dylan Patel predicts that by 2028, OpenAI and Anthropic may account for 70% to 80% of the world's new AI computing power, with the total computing power scale potentially exceeding 100GW. Patel stated that the two companies currently account for about 30% of the world's annual new computing power, and this proportion is still rising rapidly.Patel pointed out that the business model of leading AI laboratories is changing, with a significant increase in the efficiency of AI computing power output. Currently, Anthropic's revenue per megawatt of computing power has reached about $50 million and may further rise to $100 million. This allows OpenAI and Anthropic to procure or lease computing power at high prices ranging from $25 million to $50 million per megawatt.Patel expects that global AI-related capital expenditures will reach about $11 trillion from 2024 to 2029, with over $5 trillion needing to be financed through debt. Due to the potential return on investment of AI infrastructure being far higher than that of traditional industries, tech giants may accept higher financing costs, thereby pushing up overall credit rates and squeezing the valuations of traditional assets and highly leveraged economies. Additionally, Patel believes that the new computing power may not primarily be used for providing model inference services externally, but may instead flow more towards internal research and development and self-improvement of models within AI laboratories.