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According to data from the official page, the Gate Launchpool's first project, DOS staking mining activity, is currently ongoing. At present, the total amount of liquid staking in the USDT staking pool exceeds 118 million USDT, with an estimated annual percentage rate (APR) of 7.26%; the total amount of liquid staking in the GUSD staking pool exceeds 81.39 million GUSD, with an estimated annual percentage rate reaching 7.31%. Adding the base 3.80% interest from GUSD's current subscription yield, the comprehensive estimated annual yield rate for the GUSD pool is approximately 11.11%. Currently, the cumulative staking scale of the two major staking pools has exceeded 199 million USD. This activity will last until August 24 at 19:00 (UTC+8), with a total reward of 1,410,000 DOS.In addition, the cumulative subscription scale of Gate's yield-generating stable asset GUSD has currently reached 256 million USD, setting a historical high and continuously expanding stable returns and ecological application scenarios.

According to regulatory documents, Switzerland's largest bank UBS has increased its holdings in BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), raising its total position to over $83 million, corresponding to approximately 2.5 million shares. The bank has gradually increased its Bitcoin exposure since the approval of BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF in 2024, with the total holdings in related cryptocurrency ETFs amounting to about $90 million.BlackRock IBIT manages assets totaling approximately $47.3 billion. UBS also holds a position of about $1.5 million in the Bitcoin mining company American Bitcoin Corp., supported by Eric and Donald Trump Jr. Previously, there were reports that UBS plans to offer Bitcoin trading services to some private clients in Switzerland.

Bitget's latest data shows that in July, the platform's TradFi contract trading volume exceeded $100 billion, with a single-day peak trading volume reaching $10 billion, reflecting the growing demand from global users for trading traditional financial assets in the crypto derivatives market.As the core growth engine of the TradFi sector, Bitget's stock perpetual contracts demonstrate a high market penetration rate. Currently, about one in every three contract trades on the platform comes from stock perpetual contracts. As of the time of writing, Bitget has supported 272 popular US stock and ETF contract targets.

Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich disclosed that the company's revenue for the first half of the fiscal year 2026 was 4.94 billion yen, a year-on-year increase of 134%; operating profit was 3.33 billion yen, a year-on-year increase of 136%; and net assets were 340.88 billion yen, a decrease of 25.7% compared to the end of the fiscal year 2025.

Sources reveal that Goldman Sachs is in discussions with potential investors to participate in Nvidia's $500 billion artificial intelligence financing plan.

According to a report by Reuters, influenced by multiple factors such as the tense Sino-U.S. relations, China's push for domestic software alternatives, and U.S. export controls, Microsoft has closed at least 15 branches and joint ventures in China over the past five years, executing a strategic contraction. In 2023, the company internally considered exiting the Chinese market, as some executives believed that "the geopolitical risks outweighed the limited economic returns," but ultimately did not proceed with the exit. Microsoft disclosed in 2024 that its business in China accounted for only about 1.5% of its global revenue.The report states that Microsoft's final decision to remain in China was primarily due to the establishment of a profitable path—providing Azure cloud and AI services to Chinese companies like ByteDance and Shein, helping them operate compliantly in overseas markets. Additionally, the company believes that retaining its business in China remains strategically significant for acquiring engineering talent. However, analysts question the sustainability of this AI business model: the service relies on third-party models like OpenAI, and Chinese companies are increasingly adopting domestic alternatives like Kimi, which offer comparable performance at lower costs.Microsoft's research and development presence in China is also contracting. Its predecessor, Microsoft Research Asia, has successively established new labs in Vancouver, Singapore, and Tokyo. In 2024, the company offered job opportunities to 1,000 top engineers to relocate to the U.S. and three other countries, but only about one-third accepted, with most senior engineers moving to domestic universities and tech companies. A Microsoft spokesperson responded that the company will continue to commit to the Chinese market but did not comment on specific decision details. ByteDance and Shein did not respond to related inquiries.

According to the latest ranking of stock derivatives exchanges released by RootData, Binance, Gate, and Hyperliquid are in the top three.Binance ranks first with a score of 95.6, holding approximately $4.008 billion, a 24h trading volume of about $22.385 billion, and a market share of 43.22%.Gate surpasses Hyperliquid to rise to second place, with a score of 93.8, holding approximately $994 million, a 24h trading volume of about $3.283 billion, and a market share of 6.34%.Hyperliquid drops to third place with a score of 93.3, holding approximately $2.184 billion, a 24h trading volume of about $4.184 billion, and a market share of 8.08%.Compared to yesterday's data, Gate has surpassed Hyperliquid to rise to second place, while Hyperliquid has dropped to third.

According to Binance spot data, the market has seen several tokens experiencing a rise and fall. DODO has dropped 7.13% in the last 24 hours, MOVR has decreased by 8.24%, PROM has fallen by 8.09%, and EDEN has declined by 9.76%.In addition, EUL has reached a new low today, with a drop of 6.87%. MTL and KAIA have both hit new lows for the week, with declines of 7.73% and 5.17%, respectively. LA has also reached a new low today, with a decrease of 6.66%.EDEN has slightly increased by 3.13% within 5 minutes, while TUT has slightly decreased by 3.06%.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched the ANET (Arista Networks) stock perpetual contract. This contract is settled in USDT, supports up to 20 times leverage, and is available for trading 24/7. So far, Bitget supports a total of 272 stock perpetual contracts.

Harmony Protocol released an event update stating that an unauthorized ONE minting incident occurred. Investigations show that the attacker exploited a cross-shard receipt replay vulnerability, allowing processed cross-shard receipts to be executed multiple times, and minted ONE in empty blocks.The team is currently verifying two sets of impact data: early analysis indicates that the first round of minting involved 4 billion ONE, while the latest on-chain reconstruction shows that approximately 3.01 trillion ONE were issued to four attacker wallets through six forged cross-shard transactions. Harmony Protocol confirmed the first round of minting of 4 billion ONE, generated through two empty block accounting transactions that produced 1 billion and 3 billion ONE respectively, of which 2.8 billion ONE were subsequently transferred to other attacker addresses.The team has fixed the cross-shard receipt verification and pre-staking committee quorum verification vulnerabilities and deployed Mainnet v2026.1.1. Bridge services have been suspended, and Harmony Protocol is coordinating with validators, trading platforms, and LayerZero to freeze related funds, preparing to roll back the network to block 92,730,034 before the attack occurred. Currently, Shard 0 has been paused at block 92,753,555, and the official RPC may return a 502 error as a result.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "Clacton By-Election: Farage's Vote Share" on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Yes" option in the sub-market "Farage 60--70%" has experienced significant fluctuations in winning probability, soaring from 28.85% an hour ago to the current 67.75% (a fluctuation of 38.9%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Cointelegraph, asset management company VanEck stated that Bitcoin is approaching the cycle bottom, which may mean that investors should start to gradually rebuild their positions.

Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser stated that although she remains concerned about how the CLARITY Act handles the rewards mechanism for stablecoins, overall, she hopes the bill will pass and believes it will benefit the financial system. Fraser indicated that Citigroup is still pushing for improvements to the bill.Fraser pointed out that if stablecoin platforms can offer rewards for user deposits, it may lead to a loss of deposits in traditional banks, thereby weakening banks' ability to provide loans and credit services in certain regions of the United States. Currently, the bill stipulates that platforms cannot offer rewards solely for users holding stablecoins, but they can provide rewards for trading and payment activities. This issue remains at the core of the controversy between the banking industry and the cryptocurrency sector as the bill progresses.

ChianCatcher news, former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan stated during an interview on a blog program under Cypherpunk that cryptocurrency is not only a business matter but also an ideological one. The banking and political systems have failed and need to withdraw to self-sovereignty, and the missing part is privacy.He pointed out that the two major innovations of Bitcoin are programmability represented by Ethereum and privacy represented by Zcash. From 2009 to 2017, Bitcoin's viability was proven; from 2017 to 2025, programmability's viability will be proven; and now, from around 2025 to 2030, is the privacy phase. Privacy means using ZK encryption for everything, including ZKYC, ZK DEX, and ZK smart contracts, to achieve the minimum necessary information. This may require modifications to the base layer, new L1, or entirely new companies, and ZK can technically attract high-IQ talent like AI.

According to Coinglass data, if ETH breaks through $1,975, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $788 million. Conversely, if ETH falls below $1,791, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $697 million.

According to Coinglass data, if BTC breaks through $66,499, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on major CEXs will reach $1.273 billion. Conversely, if BTC falls below $60,389, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on major CEXs will reach $1.033 billion.

According to monitoring by Bitcoin News, new research published by @PraveenPerera shows that Coldcard attackers seem to first identify addresses with vulnerabilities, then sort them by the amount of Bitcoin held, starting to transfer in batches from the addresses with the highest holdings. The transfer software used was relatively crude.One address had 225 spendable UTXOs, and the attackers extracted exactly the latest 200, leaving the earliest 25, which included a UTXO worth 0.16 BTC. This aligns perfectly with the limitation of a blockchain API investigated by researchers, which defaults to returning 200 records, indicating that the attackers may have failed to load the next page of data. The software even spent a UTXO of 294 satoshis, reportedly increasing the transaction fee by about 2040 satoshis, with the spent amount significantly higher than the value of the UTXO itself.The authors of the study believe that the builders of this tool may have a better understanding of the account balance system than of the Bitcoin UTXO model. Although the attackers seem to have obtained the complete seed of the victims, at least 75 BTC still remain in other addresses derived from the same seed. The biggest suspicion currently is that among the 153 stolen addresses, there are still 132.95 BTC, and researchers have been unable to reproduce the seed behind these addresses, so it cannot be ruled out that the attackers obtained undisclosed private device data or candidate data.

Documents from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) show that as of June 30, Musk held 48.4% of SpaceX's passive shares.