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According to a Reuters report on August 13, court documents show that the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is in settlement negotiations with Huobi HTX regarding related allegations. The FCA filed a lawsuit against Huobi HTX in October 2025, and in March of this year, both parties began a three-month settlement negotiation, which was extended again on June 25; the High Court of London has suspended the litigation process, giving both parties two months until the end of August to reach a settlement.A spokesperson for Huobi HTX stated that the platform is committed to maintaining high standards of compliance, transparency, and user protection, and will continue to collaborate with regulators to support the sustainable development of the crypto ecosystem.

According to Digital Asset, Park Soo-young, a member of the Korean National Power Party, criticized the government's plan to tax virtual asset gains, stating that it is "a threat of a tax bomb if one does not invest in the domestic stock market," and demanded an immediate withdrawal.Member Park Soo-young stated on her YouTube channel: "I hope this punitive tax plan that puts 13 million digital asset users in danger can be withdrawn immediately." She added, "This does not mean that people will invest in domestic stocks; on the contrary, it will only accelerate the outflow of national wealth." She cited that approximately 124 trillion won flowed into overseas digital asset exchanges from January to September last year.

According to Decrypt, the decentralized finance platform Ether.fi announced that its self-custody application has added tokenized stock, metal, and cryptocurrency trading, and supports collateralized lending with multiple holdings. Users can lend assets and borrow against collateralized portfolios through the Aave integrated market based on Optimism, allowing them to transfer or spend borrowed funds without selling their holdings.Ether.fi stated that fiat accounts support global deposits and withdrawals, covering over 30 currencies and payment methods, but tokenized stock and metal trading is not open to users in the United States and some other markets. Fiat accounts are only available to users who have completed payment card identity verification, and the speed of deposits and withdrawals varies.Ether.fi will also launch ETHFI automatic buybacks and provide 3% cash back for card spending. Ether.fi founder and CEO Mike Silagadze stated that initially, it will support Ethereum, Bitcoin, Hyperliquid, ETHFI, and some tokenized stocks and gold, with plans to add more collateral assets in the future.

A study published at USENIX Security '26 shows that researchers identified 65,340 high-risk crypto addresses associated with abuse on Ethereum and BNB Chain, with associated native token losses amounting to 126,982.94 ETH and 17,726.7 BNB.The study estimates that the total losses associated with these addresses exceed $574.8 million, with two newly described active attack vectors directly leading to approximately $15.7 million in losses (accounting for 2.7%).The first type involves misuse of contract accounts and exploitation of deterministic contract addresses; the second type uses EIP-7702 to delegate accounts exposing keys to malicious code for direct fund transfers. The research team extracted over 16.3 million deduplicated private keys by mining 63,004 GitHub repositories from January 2015 to May 2025, with an overall detection accuracy of 99.11%.

According to The Block, Japanese listed company Metaplanet disclosed that as of June 30, its unrealized losses on Bitcoin reached $1.15 billion over the six months.The company reported holding 43,000 BTC at the end of the quarter.

According to TradingBeats (formerly Hyperinsight), a whale starting with 0x519c initiated a large TWAP buy order during the pre-market period, planning to purchase 74,500 SPCX within 150 minutes, with a nominal amount of approximately $9.998 million based on the current price. As of the time of writing, 4,420.1 of this TWAP has been executed, with a transaction amount of approximately $593,000 and an average transaction price of $134.26, currently achieving about 5.9% completion.Including the executed portion, this whale is currently long on approximately 21,600 SPCX with a 10x full position, with a position value of about $2.9 million, an average entry price of $120.28, and an unrealized profit of about $301,000. If the remaining TWAP is fully executed, it will be completed just before the market opens, increasing their SPCX long position to approximately 91,700, with a position value of about $12.305 million based on the current price.

On August 12, WEEX Exchange announced that the platform launched Rain Protocol (RAIN) spot trading on August 10 and has started a limited-time zero transaction fee promotion. Rain Protocol is a decentralized prediction market protocol deployed on Arbitrum. To celebrate the launch of RAIN, WEEX, in collaboration with Rain Protocol, is launching airdrop activity of 785,600 RAIN. Activity period: 8/11 18:00 - 8/18 18:00 (UTC+8).During the event, any first spot trading of RAIN, ARB, or ZRO (no trading volume limit) will receive an additional reward of 393 RAIN.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Abraxas Capital (0x73f...32E) has transferred 10,100 XAUT (worth approximately $43.92 million) to another wallet.In the past 3 days, this entity has transferred 25,400 XAUT (worth approximately $110 million) between wallets, most of which was previously accumulated from Bitfinex. The associated wallet cluster holds 137,920 XAUT, worth approximately $600 million.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have filed civil lawsuits against Goliath Ventures and its founder Christopher Delgado, accusing them of operating a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme with a scale of approximately $400 million. The SEC stated that the company raised at least $425 million from over 1,300 investors through unregistered securities offerings.The SEC indicated that Goliath Ventures promised to invest the funds into cryptocurrency liquidity pools and provide returns of 3% to 10% per month, but did not invest any funds or cryptocurrency assets, and Christopher Delgado misappropriated at least $51 million for personal expenses. The CFTC reported that approximately 1,600 clients invested at least $397 million in Bitcoin and Ethereum trading. Christopher Delgado has agreed to settle the SEC case, with specific terms pending court approval; the CFTC is seeking the return of funds, restitution, civil penalties, and a permanent injunction. Previously, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit telecommunications fraud, telecommunications fraud, and money laundering, admitting to causing investors a loss of at least $250 million.

According to Bloomberg, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), has launched the issuance of U.S. investment-grade bonds, just two weeks after the company announced its acquisition of the bond electronic trading platform MarketAxess for approximately $6 billion.Insiders revealed that ICE's bond issuance plan is divided into up to five parts, with maturities ranging from 3 to 10 years. The preliminary pricing guidance for the longest maturity bonds is about 1.15 percentage points above U.S. Treasury yields. ICE previously announced that it would acquire MarketAxess Holdings for approximately $6 billion to further expand its presence in the fixed income trading market. MarketAxess is one of the world's leading electronic bond trading platforms, primarily serving institutional investors and providing trading services for fixed income products such as corporate bonds and government bonds.This acquisition is seen as an important move by ICE to strengthen the infrastructure of the bond market. ICE currently owns the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), futures exchanges, clearinghouses, and data services, while MarketAxess's electronic bond trading network will help ICE further expand its ecosystem for trading fixed income assets.Market participants indicate that as bond trading gradually becomes electronic, traditional exchange operators are competing for institutional investment market share by acquiring trading platforms and data companies. This financing also reflects the trend of large financial infrastructure companies supporting strategic mergers and acquisitions through the debt market.

According to monitoring by The Data Nerd, a certain whale held 40,000 ETH a week ago, and 2 hours ago withdrew 50,000 ETH from Binance and immediately staked it, increasing the holding size to 90,000 ETH, worth approximately $170 million.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a wallet associated with Maven11 Capital withdrew 202,705 HYPE from OKX about 4 hours ago, worth approximately 11.17 million USD.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "LoL: Leviatan Esports vs RED Canids - CBLOL Regular Season" on the prediction market Polymarket, the option "Leviatan Esports" in the sub-market "First Blood in Game 1?" experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win rate, plummeting from 99.95% an hour ago to the current 50.05% (a fluctuation of 49.9%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "National Bank Open: Diana Schneider vs. Iga Swiatek," the sub-market "National Bank Open: Diana Schneider vs. Iga Swiatek" option "Diana Schneider" has experienced significant fluctuations in winning probability, dropping from 27.5% an hour ago to the current 10.5% (a fluctuation of 17%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

GnosisDAO is initiating a governance proposal GIP-152 on whether to split the Gnosis App into an independent company led by the original team. The proposal is now live on Snapshot, and voting will close on August 12 at 14:19 (UTC), with a required quorum of 75,000 votes to take effect. Community members can vote on whether to support the separation of the Gnosis App from the GnosisDAO ecosystem through Snapshot.The proposal outlines that GnosisDAO will invest $1.5 million in cash and inject a product and IP valued at $1 million, obtaining at least 25% equity through SAFE at a post-money valuation of $10 million, while completely separating the Gnosis App from Gnosis Ltd's annual budget of $3.1 million. The new company will focus on self-custody payments and card services, using the Circles protocol as its core, with 18 months of funding primarily allocated for the team, compliance operations, and customer acquisition, and will continue to drive on-chain and payment network usage through Gnosis Pay and Gnosis Chain. Current Snapshot voting results show that approximately 66% are in favor.

Supported by the uncertainty of the reopening prospects of the Strait of Hormuz and the ongoing tensions in the Middle East, both WTI and Brent crude oil prices continued to rise in the U.S. trading session. Iran reiterated several conditions before agreeing to fully reopen the strait. According to Al Jazeera, the conditions proposed by the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, Zolghadr, include: ending the U.S. maritime blockade and the withdrawal of the U.S. Navy and Air Force from around Iran.Tehran also demanded compensation for damages caused by recent conflicts, the lifting of sanctions, and the unconditional unfreezing of Iranian assets. These demands currently reduce the likelihood of a swift return to normal shipping and help maintain the risk premium in WTI prices. Meanwhile, negotiations with Oman to establish a secure shipping route through the Strait of Hormuz seem to be making progress.However, due to the failure to reach an agreement on full reopening, investors remain cautious about the risks of long-term disruptions to oil supply. Regional tensions are not limited to the Strait of Hormuz. The Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen claimed responsibility for a drone attack on Saudi Aramco's refinery in Saudi Arabia. The latest attacks on major energy infrastructure have heightened market concerns about the security of regional oil supplies.

According to Gate market data, the stock price of the Trump family-associated mining company ABTC has risen over 13%, currently reported at $7.38, with a market capitalization increasing to $533 million.On the news front, last week, Justin Mateen, a director of the Bitcoin mining company American Bitcoin (ABTC) supported by the Trump family and co-founder of Tinder, bought company stock for two consecutive days after the company announced its quarterly financial report, with a total investment of approximately $1.93 million.Regulatory documents show that Mateen purchased approximately 145,000 shares of ABTC Class A common stock on August 5 for about $925,000, with an average purchase price of approximately $6.40 per share; on August 6, he bought approximately 162,000 shares again for about $1 million, with an average price of approximately $6.19 per share. The two transactions totaled 306,981 shares, increasing Mateen's holdings in ABTC to 492,297 shares.

According to Gate market data, Boeing plans to acquire shares of Archer Aviation, and the company's stock price surged 15% in pre-market trading.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, there is a prediction of significant capital movement in the Polymarket. A large whale sold $83,715.86 on the event "National Bank Open: Diana Schneider vs. Iga Swiatek." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this subject is 26%.