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According to Gate market data, the Dow Jones Index closed down 107.46 points on August 14, a decrease of 0.2%, at 53,732.53 points; the S&P 500 Index fell 13.3 points, a decrease of 0.17%, at 7,785.69 points; the Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 73.86 points, a decrease of 0.28%, at 26,729.16 points.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "St. Louis Cardinals vs. Chicago Cubs" on the prediction market Polymarket, the winning probability of the "Chicago Cubs" option in the sub-market "Spread -1.5" has experienced significant fluctuations, soaring from 45.5% an hour ago to the current 83.5% (a fluctuation of 38%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to the Wall Street Journal, payment giant Stripe is in talks with private equity firm Advent to acquire PayPal.

Broadcom fell nearly 7% during Friday's trading, as the market expressed concerns about the financing model behind its AI infrastructure expansion. Bank of America analysts estimate that the financing platform built by Broadcom for AI chip customers could accumulate up to $370 billion in preferred debt by mid-2029. Broadcom has provided guarantees for lease payments for some customers, with the first transaction guarantee amounting to approximately $29 billion.

Tiger Global Fund made significant adjustments in the second quarter, reducing its holdings in Broadcom by 51.1% to 1.8 million shares, Google A by 45.4% to 5.8 million Class A shares, TSMC by 12.3% to 4.9 million ADS, Microsoft by 9.3% to 2.3 million shares, Meta Platforms by 8.5% to 2.8 million Class A shares, NVIDIA by 6.8% to 11.2 million shares, and JD.com by 41.5% to 201,500 ADS.Increased holdings in Intel to 4.3 million shares, established new positions in AMD with 674,000 shares and SpaceX with 375,000 shares, and completely exited Netflix.

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.

The SEC has postponed the "innovation exemption" plan for tokenized securities and canceled the cryptocurrency rules meeting, causing concept stocks such as Bullish, Coinbase, and the UNI token to drop.

SpaceXAI launches the Grok 4.6 model in GitHub Copilot.

The UK's Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards has resumed the investigation into Reform Party leader Nigel Farage's acceptance of donations from the cryptocurrency industry, involving an amount of 6.7 million dollars.

According to Coinglass data, if Bitcoin falls below $62,000, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $803 million. Conversely, if Bitcoin breaks through $64,000, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $888 million.The liquidation chart does not show the exact number of contracts to be liquidated or the exact value of contracts being liquidated. The bars on the liquidation chart actually represent the importance of each liquidation cluster relative to nearby liquidation clusters, that is, the intensity. Therefore, the liquidation chart shows to what extent the underlying price reaching a certain position will be affected. A higher "liquidation bar" indicates that once the price reaches that point, there will be a stronger reaction due to liquidity waves.

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.

Fixed-rate lending and revolving strategy protocol TermMax announced that its governance and utility token TMX's Token Generation Event (TGE) is scheduled for August 25, 2026.According to the official introduction, TermMax currently has a TVL of over $90 million, more than 1.5 million registered wallets, and over 90,000 daily active users. It has been deployed on 10 EVM chains including Ethereum, BNB Chain, Arbitrum, Base, and Berachain, and has integrated with Morpho, Aave, Venus, Pendle, and others. The total supply of tokens is fixed at 1 billion, and rewards obtained through XP, AP, and MP will be claimable after the TGE, with specific allocation, lock-up, and staking details to be announced in advance.Previously, TermMax received support from Cumberland DRW, Decima Fund, HashKey Capital, Longling Capital, and MZ Web3 Fund.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) documents show that SoftBank Group has reduced its stake in TSMC by 71.5%, down to 565,000 American Depositary Receipts.

The crypto investment firm YZi Labs announced the launch of EASY Residency Season 5, a 10-week acceleration program for early-stage innovative projects, which includes 5 weeks of online phase and 5 weeks of offline residency in Thailand, culminating in a Demo Day. Accommodation, meals, and workspace are fully covered, allowing founders to focus on building.Priority investment directions include programmable capital and on-chain markets, stablecoin payment infrastructure, computing and trusted agent systems, embodied AI, emerging AI interfaces, and AI × Bio. Selected projects can receive up to $500,000 in investment (including a $150,000 SAFE for 5% equity and an additional $350,000 unlimited SAFE), with the opportunity to secure up to $2 million in additional investment. The application deadline is September 13 at 23:59 (GMT-7).

The digital financial platform ABFinance, founded by former Bybit co-CEO Helen Liu, announced on platform X that its original launch plan will not continue, and the project is currently undergoing an orderly shutdown and liquidation arrangement.The team expressed heartfelt gratitude to the participants, community members, and partners who have built together for their trust, support, and recognition, and thanked them for the direction previously pursued together.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "LoL: Anyone's Legend vs JD Gaming - LPL Group Stage," the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Any Player Quadra Kill" 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.

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 Fortune, an analysis of executive compensation by the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) shows that Elon Musk's total compensation from Tesla in 2025, calculated based on the fair value on the date of restricted stock grants, is approximately $158.3 billion, which is about 2.52 million times the median annual salary of Tesla employees at $57,243. Based on this calculation, Musk earns compensation equivalent to a Tesla employee's annual salary approximately every 4.23 seconds.The AFL-CIO stated that Musk's 2025 compensation package is at a "historic level" that has been "unprecedented" since it began tracking CEO compensation in 1997. His compensation is about 14 times the total compensation of all other S&P 500 company CEOs, while the average CEO compensation in the S&P 500 is approximately 312 times that of employees.It is important to note that the $158.3 billion is not the actual cash Musk will receive that year, but rather the fair value calculated based on the restricted stock granted by Tesla in 2025 on the grant date. This batch of stock could ultimately be worth up to $1 trillion, provided that Tesla meets the corresponding performance requirements.

According to HyperliquidNews monitoring, TradeXYZ has purchased CRWD, NET, and IREN three HIP-3 trading codes with 500 HYPE each, with each trading code valued at approximately $27,800, totaling 1500 HYPE, valued at approximately $83,300.

According to The Block, StablecoinX (USDE) announced its first quarterly performance report after going public. As of the end of the second quarter of 2026, the company holds approximately 3 billion ENA, accounting for about 20% of the total ENA supply. At current prices, this is worth over $250 million; based on 24 million Class A shares outstanding at the end of the quarter, this corresponds to about $9.09 per share.After the news was released, StablecoinX's stock price rose by more than 12% during Friday's morning session. StablecoinX reported a net loss of $34.2 million in the second quarter, most of which came from a $36.2 million impairment of digital assets related to its ENA holdings. The company's operating business is still in its early stages, with infrastructure service revenue of only $62,372 in the last two weeks of June, while its decentralized validation nodes have accumulated cross-chain transaction volumes exceeding $3 billion.StablecoinX began trading on Nasdaq under the ticker USDE on June 26. Approximately 285 million ENA in its treasury comes from the Ethena Foundation, with another approximately 2.75 billion coming from cash and physical investments from PIPE financing.