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Digital asset company Tether announced that it has completed a full independent audit conducted by KPMG U.S. on the financial statements of Tether International, S.A. de C.V. as of December 31, 2025. KPMG U.S. issued an unqualified audit opinion.The audit covered transactions, systems, ownership records, valuations, counterparties, and financial statement evidence, and reviewed the balance sheet, income statement, statement of changes in equity, and cash flow statement. KPMG U.S. also physically counted and inspected each gold bar held by Tether. Tether's Chief Financial Officer Simon McWilliams stated that the audited financial statements for 2025 show that its reserve assets exceed liabilities by $6.814 billion. Tether stated that this audit is an important step in fulfilling its long-term commitment to financial transparency.

The number of initial jobless claims in the United States for the week ending August 8 was 209,000, the highest since the week of July 11, with an expectation of 202,000, and the previous value revised from 199,000 to 200,000.The number of continuing jobless claims in the United States for the week ending August 1 was 1.777 million, lower than the expected 1.795 million, and the previous value revised from 1.801 million to 1.799 million.

The number of initial jobless claims in the U.S. for the week ending August 8, as well as the July PPI month-on-month and year-on-year rates, will be announced in ten minutes.

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 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 CoinMarketCap data, CYS reached a high of 1.38 USDT, currently reported at 1.37 USDT, with a 24-hour increase of 38.51%.CYS currently has a circulating market value of approximately 222 million USD, with a 24-hour trading volume of about 95.72 million USD. According to previous reports, Upbit launched the CYS/BTC and CYS/USDT trading pairs yesterday.

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.

Standard Chartered Bank set a target price of $200 for the Chainlink token LINK by the end of 2030, indicating significant upside potential from the current level of around $8.The bank believes that the development of asset tokenization will continue to increase the demand for reliable on-chain data, and Chainlink is expected to play a key role in the infrastructure of traditional finance and decentralized finance.

According to SBS, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) of South Korea has begun a comprehensive reform of its system to address compensation issues related to financial fraud, including voice phishing involving virtual assets. The FSS launched the "Financial Fraud Loss Compensation System Improvement Project" on August 6. This project aims to reform the existing compensation calculation system centered on the Korean won, in preparation for including virtual asset losses in the compensation scope starting in October this year.The current system primarily calculates compensation amounts based on losses valued in Korean won, but after the reform, a compensation ratio will be adopted, taking into account the type and quantity of virtual assets involved. Additionally, during payment suspensions, the Korean won exchange value of virtual assets will also be included in the calculations.

Christopher Smith, founder of the blockchain startup Quantus, stated that the first quantum attack may manifest as a series of unexplained thefts of cryptocurrency wallets, rather than directly stealing the approximately $63 billion worth of dormant Bitcoin expected from Satoshi Nakamoto. He pointed out that sufficiently powerful quantum computers could derive private keys from public keys exposed on the blockchain, allowing attackers to transfer funds without needing to breach wallets, devices, or internal systems of exchanges.In theft incidents at highly secure institutions, the only forensic evidence may be the absence of intrusion traces. Smith indicated that the initial targets of quantum attacks could be military systems and national secrets; in the blockchain space, the minting keys of stablecoin issuer Tether may be of greater value. Attackers could mint tokens out of thin air through managed wallets and sell them off before the issuer responds. Google has accelerated its post-quantum migration timeline to 2029; Smith believes the probability of quantum computers breaking modern cryptography around 2028 is "50-50." Relevant blockchains have begun migrating to post-quantum signatures.

Bank of America and Wells Fargo plan to launch tokenized deposits for select corporate and commercial clients in the fall of 2026, initially supporting transactions in USD and GBP, with plans to expand to more clients and currencies in 2027. Tokenized deposits remain a liability of the bank but enable continuous transfers, programmable payments, faster settlements, and transaction visualization through blockchain.Wells Fargo is not the only bank positioning itself in this business. JPMorgan has expanded its blockchain payment services for institutional clients, and other large financial institutions are also developing similar products and shared networks. Meanwhile, the circulation and transaction volume of stablecoins like USDC continue to grow, being used for settlements in the crypto market, payment networks, and tokenized financial platforms.Tokenized deposits allow funds to remain within the regulated banking system while supporting cross-timeframe transfers and condition-triggered payments. Stablecoins have already covered transactions, remittances, cross-border payments, decentralized finance, and tokenized asset settlements. The adoption of these two types of products will also be influenced by accounting treatments, regulatory rules, and cross-network interoperability.

According to CoinDesk, U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune officially submitted a procedural motion for the Clarity Act after an all-night voting session on Saturday morning, initiating the first procedural voting process for the bill in the Senate. This move makes it possible for the Clarity Act to enter procedural voting immediately after the September recess, but the bill has already missed the voting window before the August recess, and passing in September still faces challenges.The Clarity Act requires at least 60 votes in support, and currently needs the backing of at least 10 Democratic senators, but there are still disagreements over the ethical clause that prohibits senior government officials (including President Trump) from participating in cryptocurrency projects. Bipartisan senators have submitted a revised proposal to the White House, but it has been on hold for at least a week without a response. Additionally, controversies surrounding illegal financial protections and stablecoin earnings remain unresolved. If the procedural vote fails in September, the chances of the Clarity Act passing this year will be extremely slim, and the new Congress in 2027 will need to reintroduce the legislation.

For the week ending August 1, the number of initial jobless claims in the United States was 199,000, lower than the expected 202,000, and the previous value was revised from 197,000 to 198,000.

According to CCTV Finance, based on a previous announcement, the preliminary inquiry date for the IPO of Yushu Technology on the Sci-Tech Innovation Board is today. After the inquiry is completed, subscription will begin on August 10, with both online and offline subscription dates being August 10, and the payment deadline being August 12.The preliminary inquiry period is from 9:30 to 15:00, during which the sponsor (lead underwriter) will conduct verification of offline investors, and investors participating in the strategic placement will pay the subscription funds. On August 6, the issuance price will be determined, valid bidding investors and their subscription shares will be confirmed, and the final allocation quantity and ratio for investors participating in the strategic placement will be determined. This IPO of Yushu Technology aims to raise 4.202 billion yuan, publicly issuing 40.4464 million new shares, accounting for 10% of the total share capital after issuance, which will be 404 million shares. The market estimates that the IPO market value of Yushu Technology will exceed 40 billion yuan. Based on the new share subscription unit of 500 shares on the Sci-Tech Innovation Board and the estimated market value of the issuance, the IPO issuance price of Yushu Technology is approximately 104 yuan per share, with a single subscription requiring about 52,000 yuan, but the specific deviation of the IPO inquiry still needs to be determined by market participants.

The Gate stock derivatives section will launch on August 4 at 13:30 (UTC+8) with the following perpetual contract trading (settled in USDT) for CAMBRICON (寒武纪 688256.SH), EOPTOLINK (新易盛 300502.SZ), IEIT (浪潮信息 000977.SZ), MONTAGE (澜起科技 688008.SH), FII (工业富联 601138.SH), NAURA (北方华创 002371.SZ), AMEC (中微公司 688012.SH), SUNGROW (阳光电源 300274.SZ), CMOC (洛阳钼业 603993.SH), BLUEFOCUS (蓝色光标 300058.SZ), supporting 1-20x leverage.In addition, Gate will launch the 12th phase of the new coin airdrop event in the stock derivatives section from August 4 at 16:00 to August 13 at 16:00 (UTC+8). New users who complete their first contract trade will receive 5 USDT; daily trading volume of the participating coins can accumulate up to 35 USDT; trading the participating coins will share a prize pool of 30,000 USDT. The total prize pool for the event is 50,000 USDT, with a maximum of 240 USDT available for each individual.

According to CCTV News, the international standard led by China, "Technical Framework and Functional Requirements for Blockchain as a Service in Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology," has recently been successfully initiated by the International Organization for Standardization. Countries such as Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, and Uganda will send representatives to participate in the formulation.This standard will clarify three aspects of technical requirements: in terms of infrastructure and network, it will standardize the construction and operation and maintenance of underlying resources and blockchain networks. In terms of service management and smart contracts, it will unify the platform service catalog and the contract lifecycle management process. In terms of data interaction and security protection, it will clarify on-chain data access, privacy protection, and security compliance mechanisms.

According to Jinshi, the preliminary GDP price index for the United States in the second quarter is 6.2%, higher than the market expectation of 4%, and the previous value was 3.6%.

According to Jinshi reports, the initial value of the annualized quarterly real GDP for the United States in the second quarter is 1.5%, lower than the market expectation of 2.1%, and the previous value was 2.1%.

According to Jinshi, the number of initial jobless claims in the United States for the week ending July 25 was recorded at 197,000, the lowest since the week of April 25, 2026.