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According to the latest data from RootData's tokenized asset dashboard, the top three exchanges ranked by TradiFi asset contract OI size are Binance, Hyperliquid, and Gate.Binance ranks first with an approximate contract OI of $3.5 billion, holding a market share of 39.5%. Hyperliquid ranks second with an approximate contract OI of $2.07 billion, holding a market share of 23.4%. Gate ranks third with an approximate contract OI of $1 billion, holding a market share of 11.4%. The combined market share of the three is approximately 74.3%.It is reported that this TradiFi asset statistics only include contract and tokenized native asset types in cryptocurrency, excluding traditional stock brokerage data.

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.

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.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Becerra stated that sanctions on the Iranian economy will continue, and a persistent blockade will be maintained in the Strait of Hormuz, prohibiting any goods from entering or leaving Iranian ports.

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.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the Polymarket event "Boston Red Sox vs. Toronto Blue Jays," the "Overtime" sub-market's "Yes" option probability has experienced a sharp fluctuation, soaring from 14.5% an hour ago to the current 50% (a fluctuation of 35.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

The on-chain data visualization analysis platform Bubblemaps has issued a warning that the Meme coin XST, which is being heavily promoted on TikTok, has a high risk of supply concentration—74% of its total supply is controlled by a small group, exhibiting typical Rug token characteristics. The current market value of this token is approximately 70 million USD.Bubblemaps urges investors to stay away from such projects and to ignore similar content if seen on TikTok's recommendation page.In recent years, TikTok has become an important distribution channel for low-quality Meme coins, creating an illusion of credibility through AI-generated celebrity videos and false associations, combined with the token's concentrated holding structure, resulting in typical high-risk Rug tokens after the hype fades.

Iran's state television quoted a spokesman for the Iranian Joint Military Command as saying that Iran has fully controlled the Strait of Hormuz.

According to the Nikkei News, individual investors in the Japanese stock market are accelerating their use of leverage to bet on AI trends. As of July, the amount of credit trading by individual investors in the Japanese stock market reached 123 trillion yen (approximately 1.09 trillion yuan), doubling since the beginning of the year and reaching the highest level since related statistics began in 2016.Data shows that in June, the scale of credit trading by Japanese individual investors hit a historical high, and in July it continued to maintain a high level. At the same time, the proportion of credit trading in the overall trading amount of individual investors rose to 83%, also setting a new record.AI concept stocks have become the main driving force behind the surge in credit trading, among which the credit buy balance of AI storage concept stock Kioxia reached 13.23 million shares as of August 7, making it one of the popular targets.Benefiting from the recent rise in the Japanese stock market, the overall performance of leveraged investors has been decent. The floating yield of credit trading investors briefly turned positive in June, although it fell back to a loss of 8.4% by the end of July, it is still better than the average loss level of the past 10 years (-10.2%).

In July, the US CPI rose by 0.1% month-on-month and 3.4% year-on-year, while the core CPI increased by 2.5% year-on-year, overall in line with market expectations. As the market continues to assess the Federal Reserve's subsequent policy path, the impact of macro changes on asset allocation and trading strategies is continuously strengthening, further enhancing institutions' focus on liquidity management and trading execution efficiency.Against this backdrop, Gate institutions are continuously improving professional trading infrastructure. According to the transparency report released by the platform in July, Gate CrossEx added one mainstream exchange and 23 trading pairs, launched RPI Orders, reduced the highest fees of multiple exchanges by 50%, and introduced new APIs for market data, funding rates, batch order cancellations, and several WebSocket features; by optimizing concurrent order placement and execution feedback delays, system performance improved by 50%, while the launch of Colo services further reduced trading latency.In addition, SuperLink continues to optimize Fireblocks Gas management and settlement processes, further enhancing institutions' cross-platform asset management and trading collaboration capabilities. In the future, Gate institutions will continue to advance infrastructure upgrades around core capabilities such as trading execution, liquidity, and cross-platform collaboration, providing professional investors with more efficient and stable institutional-level trading services.

A man in Anshun, Guizhou, used the name of a virtual currency airdrop project as a pretext to lure friends into investing with the bait of guaranteed high returns, ultimately crossing the legal red line. The People's Procuratorate of Pingba District, Anshun City, Guizhou Province, filed a public prosecution, and the court sentenced Zhao to seven months in prison for fraud, along with a fine of 5,000 yuan.Zhao had been paying attention to the field of virtual currency investment for many years and had long been posting investment insights and financial management tips on social media platforms. Zhang was also a virtual currency enthusiast, and the two met on a social platform due to their common interests, gradually becoming friends and frequently discussing investment strategies online. Through long-term communication, Zhao gained Zhang's trust with seemingly professional investment analysis. Subsequently, Zhao proposed a joint investment, to which Zhang agreed. However, after a period of investment, Zhang experienced significant losses and expressed his intention to stop further investments.On August 23, 2025, Zhao claimed that a certain app had launched an airdrop project (to promote a new project, encourage user participation, or reward loyal users, distributing native tokens of the project for free to eligible users), persuading Zhang to invest the remaining funds in his account into this project, promising a return of 100 to 200 U coins (virtual currency) within two days. Zhao also guaranteed that if there were any losses during this period, he would bear the responsibility. To further alleviate Zhang's concerns, Zhao claimed that all investment funds would be transferred to a public chain (the public address of the virtual currency). Believing Zhao, Zhang exchanged 1,757 dollars in his account for Ethereum and completed the transfer according to the wallet link provided by Zhao. In reality, the wallet corresponding to that link was a personal account registered using his girlfriend's identity information, not a public chain. The agreed time for the return of funds had passed, but Zhao had not fulfilled his promise. Zhang urged for repayment multiple times, but Zhao evaded responsibility with excuses such as sending the wrong link and needing time to track it down. On September 7 of the same year, Zhang reported the situation to the police after noticing something was wrong.On April 2 of this year, the Pingba District Procuratorate filed a public prosecution against Zhao for suspected fraud. The procuratorial agency believed that Zhao deceived others out of property by concealing the truth, with a significant amount involved, constituting the crime of fraud. Given that Zhao truthfully confessed to the criminal facts after being apprehended, showed signs of remorse, and had fully compensated the victim for their losses while voluntarily admitting guilt, he could be punished leniently according to the law.

Binance's tokenized stock product bStocks has been online for less than two months and has surpassed the tokenized stock value of the cryptocurrency trading platform Kraken's xStocks, becoming the second largest issuer. bStocks has a scale of approximately $624 million, xStocks about $579 million, and Ondo Finance about $927 million. As of Tuesday, bStocks' scale has decreased to $610.6 million, still ranking second, slightly above xStocks' $601.2 million.In the past year, the total value of the tokenized stock market, according to issuers, has increased from about $8 million to approximately $2.7 billion. Binance launched bStocks on June 11, allowing investors to gain exposure to U.S. stocks through blockchain tokens without directly holding the underlying stocks. Binance co-founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao stated that the rapid growth of bStocks is attributed to Binance's user base.

Bitget's latest data shows that approximately one out of every three contract trades on the platform comes from stock perpetual contract trading. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 271 stock perpetual contracts.Previous data indicated that Bitget's monthly trading volume for stock perpetual contracts in July reached $85.445 billion, with a single-day peak trading volume of $6.674 billion; during the same period, the monthly trading volume increased by 30.6% month-on-month, the number of traders increased by 31.4% month-on-month, and the number of trades increased by 130% month-on-month. Multiple trading indicators have shown steady growth.

According to the latest ranking of stock derivatives exchanges released by RootData, the three exchanges with the largest spreads among the listed exchanges are HTX, BingX, and OrangeX, with spreads of 0.582%, 0.292%, and 0.269%, respectively. Among them, the spread between HTX and BingX has reached a new high, with HTX's spread nearly doubling compared to yesterday.It is reported that this spread is the weighted spread based on the 24-hour trading volume, and a higher value usually indicates higher trading costs.

The Binance contract platform will launch multiple U-based TradFi perpetual contracts on August 14, including ZHONGJIUSDT, SAMSUNGEMUSDT, HANMIUSDT, LGELECTRONICSUSDT, NAVERUSDT, and KODEX200USDT.The launch times for each contract will be from 10:00 to 10:25, with a maximum leverage of 20 times.

Trader Murphy (@Murphychen888) posted on the X platform that the realized price for Bitcoin short-term holders (holding period < 3m) is currently about $67,900. Since June 20, BTC has been continuously suppressed after rebounding close to this cost line, and it has been nearly 2 months now. Meanwhile, the slope of this cost curve has approached zero, indicating that the related chip turnover activity continues to decline.Analysis points out that a similar situation occurred at the end of the bear markets in 2018 and 2022, when BTC was suppressed by the < 3m realized price for about 3 consecutive months, followed by severe fluctuations due to the BCH hash war and the FTX incident, respectively. Continuous suppression by this cost line may reflect that the market is in a structurally weak equilibrium state, and any external force could break this weak equilibrium.

According to The Defiant, Circle's wrapped Bitcoin product cirBTC has been live on Ethereum since June 8, but its circulation is currently only about 40 coins. According to Etherscan, its maximum supply is approximately 40.02 cirBTC, with only 11 holding addresses. Circle's reserve dashboard (data as of August 11) shows that there are about 40.02 cirBTC in circulation, corresponding to reserves of approximately 42.51 BTC.cirBTC is issued by Circle International Bermuda Limited, backed by a 1:1 BTC collateral, with the underlying assets held in trust by Circle National Trust and isolated from company assets, supporting Chainlink reserve proofs for on-chain real-time verification. Qualified institutions can mint and redeem through Circle Mint. Currently, it is only deployed on Ethereum, with Arc as the next target chain, and plans to expand to multi-chain.In comparison, WBTC has a circulation of over 116,000 coins, and cbBTC has about 97,000 coins. CoinGecko currently marks cirBTC as "preview" status, and it has not yet been listed for trading on mainstream centralized and decentralized exchanges.

Bitget launches a crypto & TradFi contract trading competition, running from August 12 to August 22, with a total prize pool of 50,000 USDT. During the event, users can trade designated crypto and TradFi contracts to earn chances to win in a blind box lottery. The prize pool includes rewards in popular tokens such as rSNDK, XAUT, HYPE, as well as experience vouchers worth up to 1,000 USDT.In addition, the event features a trading volume ranking competition. The top 1,000 users by trading volume who have a cumulative trading volume of at least 10,000 USDT can share a prize pool of 30,000 USDT, with the first place on the leaderboard receiving 3,000 USDT. For more details, please refer to the official Bitget platform.

The Gate stock derivatives section will launch on August 13 at 14:00 (UTC+8) with perpetual contract trading for MO (Altria Group), CIFR (Cipher Mining), NET (Cloudflare), VRTX (Vertex Pharmaceuticals), BIIB (Biogen), CLSK (CleanSpark), and REGN (Regeneron Pharmaceuticals) (settled in USDT), supporting 1-20x leverage.