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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.

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 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.

Documents from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission show that the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) disclosed holding 154.1 million shares of Class A stock in SpaceX.

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).

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, BlackRock transferred 249.16 BTC, worth approximately $15.65 million, and 301.76 ETH, worth approximately $566,000, from its IBIT and ETHA wallets to Coinbase Prime 3 hours ago.

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.

U.S. Democratic Senator Warren asked Treasury Secretary Basent to explain the basis for the Trump administration's intervention in the yen. In a letter dated August 13, Warren pointed out that the government has not provided detailed justification and has not disclosed how much money was used to purchase yen.Basent confirmed that the U.S. and Japan jointly intervened in the foreign exchange market for the first time since 1998 to support the yen, but did not specify the amount of funds.

According to Coinpedia, JPMorgan, with an asset management scale of approximately $5.1 trillion, submitted its Q2 13F filing to the SEC, showing significant adjustments in its crypto-related ETF holdings. In terms of Bitcoin, the bank held approximately 10.4 million shares of BlackRock's IBIT as of June 30, valued at about $355.7 million, up from about 8.3 million shares and nearly $162 million in Q1; the number of IBIT call options increased to about 3.94 million, while put options decreased from about 4.75 million to about 3.5 million.Regarding Ethereum, JPMorgan held nearly 1.17 million shares of BlackRock's ETHA, valued at approximately $14.3 million, a significant increase of 338% compared to the previous quarter, but the value of Bitcoin positions still exceeds that of ETHA by more than twenty times. For XRP, after the related positions were reduced to zero in Q1, the bank re-established its holdings, holding small shares of Bitwise XRP ETF and Grayscale XRP Trust ETF, as well as approximately 19,900 shares of Armada Acquisition Corp II related to Ripple-supported trading, valued at about $207,000.In addition, the filing also showed that JPMorgan established a new position in Bitwise Solana Staking ETF, holding about 47,500 shares. The article also mentioned that there has been a recent net outflow from the U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF, with the next 13F covering Q3 expected to be disclosed in November.

According to Pulse2, the AI agent platform Moss announced its entry into the "unicorn club" after completing a €30 million Series C funding round, led by Portage and Cherry Ventures.The new funding will support its expansion into a broader Finance AI product system, creating AI agent workflows aimed at corporate finance departments. Users can configure AI agents based on different financial functions, retaining visibility and control over the agent's operational steps and decision-making processes while automating tasks.

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 Coinglass data, the current whale holdings on the Hyperliquid platform amount to $5.165 billion, with long positions of $2.536 billion, accounting for 49.1% of the total holdings, and short positions of $2.629 billion, accounting for 50.9%. The profit and loss for long positions is -$124 million, while the profit and loss for short positions is $51.412 million.Among them, the whale address 0xff84..1d has shorted BTC with a 40x leverage at a price of $63,581.5, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of $1.7325 million.

According to the official announcement, Bitget CFD will adjust the leverage and margin tier rules for XAUUSD (gold against the US dollar) and USDCNH (US dollar/offshore RMB) starting from August 15.Among them, when the nominal value of the XAUUSD contract is below $100,000, a maximum leverage of 800 times can be supported; when the nominal value of the USDCNH contract is below $1,000,000, a maximum leverage of 100 times can be supported. For positions exceeding the corresponding range, the platform will adopt a tiered margin calculation method, and the margin rate will be adjusted as the nominal value of the position increases. Users can reasonably allocate their positions according to their asset needs.

Venture capital fund Team8 announced the completion of a new fundraise of $365 million. This round of fundraising includes $265 million for Team8 Capital's third fund, as well as over $100 million for follow-on investments in existing portfolio companies.The new fund will focus on investing in seed and Series A stage AI-native companies, covering areas such as cybersecurity, AI infrastructure, and fintech, with a particular emphasis on infrastructure projects that help businesses deploy AI while ensuring security, governance, and control capabilities. Team8 currently manages assets close to $2 billion.Previously, Team8 has co-invested in several cryptocurrency and AI companies, including cryptocurrency institutional wallet developer Curv, AI compliance platform IVIX, and AI data leak prevention company Jazz.

According to monitoring by The Data Nerd, the whale address starting with 0x90B38 transferred approximately 924,000 HYPE to exchanges in the last 11 hours.Among them, 692,807 coins (approximately $39.77 million) were transferred to Coinbase Prime, and 230,936 coins (approximately $13.26 million) were transferred to FalconX, accounting for about two-thirds of its original holdings. It currently still holds 969,595 HYPE (approximately $55.5 million), and the transfer process was smooth, showing no signs of concentrated selling.

According to the official announcement, Gate has officially launched SOL and XRP event contracts, simultaneously opening multi-cycle rise and fall trading channels. Users can log into the Gate App or the official website and enter the event contract section in the contract area to participate.Event contracts focus on rise and fall prediction trading, requiring no complex parameters such as leverage or margin, making the operational threshold low. The product covers four types of short cycles: 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 1 hour, and 4 hours, currently supporting four major cryptocurrencies: BTC, ETH, SOL, and XRP. Users only need to predict the rise and fall of the asset during the corresponding period, choose to place a bullish or bearish order, and the system will automatically settle at the end of the cycle. Positions can also be closed early for flexible profit-taking and loss-cutting.

According to reports from South Korean media, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won received a salary of 1.75 billion won in the first half of this year.According to the Financial Supervisory Service, SK Corporation disclosed this information in its semi-annual report released that day. The chairman's salary level in the first half of this year is the same as the same period last year, and he did not receive any bonuses apart from his salary. The chairman's younger brother, SK Group Vice Chairman Chey Jae-won, received a salary of 1.5 billion won during the same period. SK Corporation President Chang Yong-ho received a total of 1.8 billion won, including 1 billion won in salary and 800 million won in bonuses.In addition, SK Supex Pursuit Council Chairman Yoon Bong-yong was disclosed to have received a total of 7.715 billion won, which includes 500 million won in salary, 800 million won in bonuses, and 6.415 billion won in compensation from 12,103 performance stock units (PSUs) granted three years ago. SK Hynix's sales from Nvidia in the first half of this year exceeded 17 trillion won, accounting for about 13% of the company's total sales.The average salary of SK Hynix employees reached 144 million won (approximately $104,000) in the first half of this year, an increase of 23% year-on-year. SK Hynix significantly increased its capital expenditures and research and development (R&D) investments in the first half of this year. Cash expenditures for acquiring tangible assets exceeded 18 trillion won, an increase of over 70% year-on-year. The number of small shareholders of SK Hynix has grown more than fivefold in a year, surpassing 3.46 million.

According to Coinglass data, on August 14 at 18:23, 39.8 million USDT was detected transferring from an unknown wallet to Binance.

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 ChainCatcher, Guangdong Province's first special financial product for the token economy, "Token Loan," was launched in the Haizhu District of Guangzhou. Taking Bank of China Guangzhou Branch as an example, a dedicated financing product specifically developed for small and micro enterprises in Haizhu's computing power sector—the Computing Power Token Loan—has been introduced. The credit limit is determined based on the contract/token consumption amount and can provide guarantees mainly through credit, accounts receivable pledges, and order financing. It can also combine guarantees, mortgages, and other forms of collateral to further expand the credit limit. New companies can apply for financing based on orders if they provide continuous operation proof materials from their original operating enterprises or offer guarantees. It is reported that the initial credit funding from Bank of China has reached 28 million yuan.