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Z.ai released GLM-5.3, which is based on the same foundational model as GLM-5.2, achieving capability improvements through expanded post-training. The official statement claims that GLM-5.3 has improved by 50% on the internal Z.ai Code Bench coding benchmark compared to GLM-5.2, and has reached leading levels among open models in public benchmarks such as Terminal Bench 3 and Agents' Last Exam.In terms of cybersecurity, GLM-5.3 achieved a score of 84.5% in the CyberGym vulnerability discovery test, and showed significant improvements in exploitation chain-related tests such as ExploitBench and ExploitGym compared to its predecessor.

DeepSeek announced the new pricing for the V4 API, effective August 17. The V4-Pro peak period price for cache misses on input has increased from 3 yuan to 9 yuan per million tokens, and the output has risen from 6 yuan to 27 yuan, representing increases of 3 times and 4.5 times, respectively.During off-peak hours, although the price is only half of the peak rate, it is still more expensive than the current rates. The V4-Pro input is 4.5 yuan, and the output is 13.5 yuan; the V4-Flash input is 1.5 yuan, and the output is 4.5 yuan.Peak hours are from 9:00 to 12:00 and 14:00 to 18:00 Beijing time. The remaining hours are charged at off-peak prices.

Glassnode published a market perspective stating that Bitcoin is currently caught between the median realized price (around $63,000) and the cost basis of short-term holders (around $68,700). Spot trading volume has hit its lowest level since 2019, and the market is in an extremely quiet compression state. Despite core inflation falling to 2.5% in July and the stock market reaching new highs, Bitcoin has shown almost no reaction and even weakened, indicating a clear lack of demand.On the other hand, selling pressure is easing: profit supply is approaching the past bear market bottom area, the seller exhaustion indicator has hit a cycle low, and the adjusted SOPR has been rejected near the breakeven line nine times. Meanwhile, buyers continue to be absent, with minimal net inflows into ETFs, and coins are still flowing into exchanges; however, derivatives leverage has already massively gone long, with open interest relative to trading volume being high, and the order book's buy side is also thinning. Glassnode believes that the key observation points are the upper level of $68,700 and the lower level of about $58,500: effectively standing above the former with accompanying volume and ETF inflows recovering may confirm improvement, while losing the latter could easily lead to accelerated declines under thin buy support and crowded longs. Glassnode remains cautious overall, believing this is the late-stage bear market compression phase, and real demand signals have yet to appear.

According to the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, the official version of DeepSeek V4 Pro has been updated to API, with the model name unchanged. The new version significantly enhances Agent capabilities, supporting Responses API and Codex integration. The API documentation shows that the official version of V4 Pro is priced at 3 yuan per million Token input and 6 yuan per million Token output, with cache hit input costing 0.025 yuan per million Token.Benchmark tests for the official version of DeepSeek V4 Pro show that its score in the terminal Agent test Terminal Bench is 87.9 points, approaching Fable 5's score of 88 points. In the AI safety agent evaluation benchmark CyberGym, as well as in the challenging agent evaluation benchmark AutomationBench, its performance even surpasses that of Fable 5.

According to ChianCatcher news, GSR Content Director Frank Chaparro tweeted that Nasdaq is hiring a RWA Principal Protocol Engineer, who will serve as the primary technical author for the "Nasdaq Token Design Standard."This standard is the authoritative specification for the on-chain representation of publicly traded stocks. Responsibilities include issuance, compliance, corporate actions, chain selection, and institutional trading infrastructure. The base salary ranges from $155,000 to $287,000, plus bonuses and equity.

Renowned trader Doctor Profit posted that a historical indicator for Bitcoin is signaling that "the bottom has either formed or is very close." In 2015, 2019, and 2022, the bear market bottom formation phase began when the realized price of holders for 3 to 6 months fell below the realized price of holders for 1 to 2 years. He believes this indicates that newer buyers are capitulating and selling at a loss, with Bitcoin gradually transferring to longer-term holders.Currently, this crossover is appearing for the fourth time, while the BTC price is below the average cost of both categories of holders. However, historically, this signal does not immediately lead to a reversal; Bitcoin typically experiences several months of sideways movement to complete the bottoming process, so this phase can also be seen as a long-term accumulation range. He believes we are currently in the bottom formation and long-term accumulation phase of the bear market. Doctor Profit stated that over the past few weeks, he has been gradually buying BTC in batches within the range of $54,000 to $64,000, continuing to build his position incrementally with 5% of his portfolio each time.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has lowered its global oil demand forecast for this year, primarily due to ongoing export disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and high fuel prices. The IEA expects global oil demand to decline by 1.56 million barrels per day by 2026, reaching 103.29 million barrels per day. It is anticipated that global oil demand will decrease by 4.9 million barrels per day year-on-year in the second quarter, with a recovery in the fourth quarter, increasing by approximately 580,000 barrels per day.

CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. stated that Bitcoin's current volatility has compressed to very low levels, and the market has not yet formed a clear direction. The Bollinger Band width is currently around 3.8% to 3.9%, one of the lowest levels in the past two years, while it was still at double-digit levels at the beginning of July. He pointed out that a significant narrowing of the Bollinger Bands usually indicates that the market is entering a compression phase before volatility expansion, but this indicator alone cannot determine the direction of the next market trend.In terms of trend strength, the Bitcoin ADX indicator has currently dropped to 11, close to recent lows, and is significantly below the 25 threshold used by its model to confirm trends. Currently, TrendActive has not yet been activated, and neither bullish nor bearish signals have appeared; the last directional signal at the beginning of July was bearish, but the current market structure no longer confirms this signal. Adler stated that for the market to enter a new trend phase, the Bollinger Band width needs to expand again from the current compressed state, while the ADX breaks above 25. Subsequently, the direction can be judged based on the relationship between +DI and -DI: if one side leads by more than 5 points, it may trigger the corresponding bullish or bearish signal. He believes that Bitcoin is still in a consolidation phase, with both volatility and trend strength at low levels, and the risk of a false breakout in the short term still exists. The current structure increases the possibility of significant volatility expansion in the future, but it is still unclear whether the price will ultimately break upwards or downwards.

According to Cointelegraph, Ravencoin was attacked due to a consensus vulnerability, causing the price to drop to a historical low of $0.002754, down about 22% from the 24-hour high. The vulnerability allowed weak nodes to accept invalid blocks, with the first known exploit occurring at block height 4,487,776.Mining pools 2Miners and RavenMiner, which control the majority of the network's hash power, are building a competing chain that excludes the affected branch. If this chain becomes dominant, the network may undergo a chain reorganization of about three days, and transactions confirmed after block 4,487,775 may be reversed. Ravencoin has advised exchanges to suspend deposits and withdrawals until the chain stabilizes, and Upbit and Bitget have already suspended RVN transfers.

According to ChosunBiz, Samsung Electronics' System LSI Division has introduced Anthropic's AI programming tool Claude Code for semiconductor design and verification work, with some task cycles shortened to less than one-tenth of the original time. In the verification of data connection structures for customer-customized SoCs, work that was originally expected to take over a month was completed in two days; an engineer with two years of experience completed USB device model development and Android driver adaptation in one day using Claude Code, whereas similar work typically required a month.Samsung opened Claude Code to software developers in May this year and later expanded it to the semiconductor professional development field. The System LSI Division has about 6,000 employees, while its main competitor Qualcomm has about 52,000 employees. Samsung is trying to bridge the manpower gap with AI tools. Meanwhile, Samsung's DS Division is promoting an "AI transformation," extending generative AI from research and development to the entire business process, including production, marketing, and support. The report also pointed out that Claude has exhibited behavior in some verification tasks where it disguised erroneous information as ordinary messages or modified design code without authorization. Samsung emphasized the need for strict control and manual review of the scope and results of AI tasks.

CryptoQuant analyst MorenoDV_ stated that data shows the Ethereum Unspent Net Profit and Loss (NUPL) on the Binance platform has fallen back to around -0.35, entering a range that has historically corresponded to significant price bottoms multiple times.This indicator reflects the unrealized profit and loss status of a specific group of holdings, and the current negative value indicates that the overall Ethereum holdings are in a relatively deep unrealized loss.

Dongfang Gangwan Chairman Dan Bin responded to investors' doubts, stating that Changjiang Dongfang Gangwan No. 2 is still fully invested. Before the deep correction in July, the fund heavily invested in AI industry chain targets, maintaining its positions without significant reductions, and has experienced a considerable pullback following the AI sector.In 2023, Dongfang Gangwan seized the global AI core opportunities represented by Nvidia, but started its layout in the domestic A-share AI industry chain relatively late, fully committing to heavy investments only by 2026.During the significant market drop in July, Dongfang Gangwan did not panic sell or make large reductions, only making very minor structural adjustments.

Coinbase posted on the X platform stating that the company has designated the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) as its international tokenization center. After obtaining the new FSRA license, the company can now offer global securities to any user with a wallet.Coinbase stated that the next frontier of global finance is the on-chain space, and the company is advancing related developments from the UAE.

Federal Reserve Chairman Waller has sold all financial assets he committed to divest. Waller signed an ethics compliance certification with the government ethics office last Thursday, which was made public on the agency's website on Saturday. Waller had previously submitted a divestiture certification to the ethics office, showing that he had sold most of the assets he committed to divest. The latest disclosure document indicates that he has sold the remaining holdings involved in the agreement.Waller is one of the wealthiest officials in Federal Reserve history. He had committed to divesting holdings in several investments, the underlying assets of which were not disclosed due to confidentiality agreements—some of which are valued at least $100 million.

With the easing of the situation in the Middle East, weakening oil prices, and strong corporate earnings, the U.S. stock market continues to strengthen. The S&P 500 index rose 5.8% in the first four trading days before August 4, and the options market simultaneously released the strongest bullish signals in recent years.Data shows that the average daily ratio of bullish to bearish options for the S&P 500 index has risen to 0.9, the highest level in at least four years; the skew indicator for short-term bullish options has also reached a two-year high, indicating that investors are paying higher premiums betting on a rapid market rise.Analysts believe that the current "fear of missing out" sentiment is heating up, with some institutional investors more worried about missing out on the upward trend rather than the risk of a downturn. However, there are also views that the extreme optimism in the options market may amplify short-term volatility, and caution is needed regarding the risk misjudgment driven by technical factors.

According to The Information, Microsoft's self-developed artificial intelligence chip project has shown signs of recovery after experiencing a slow start.

Intel stated that the progress of artificial intelligence represents a significant growth opportunity.

DeepSeek's parent company, DeepSeek, completed the first round of signing for a new financing round on August 10 in Hangzhou. This round of financing has a scale of 50 billion yuan, corresponding to a pre-investment valuation of about 500 billion yuan, which is an increase of over 40% compared to the first round of financing completed in June (with a valuation of about 350 billion yuan). The earliest deadline for the first batch of fund delivery is August 30.This round of financing has a minimum investment threshold of 5 billion yuan, and the funds will mainly be used for computing power investment, model research, human resource expansion, and potential preparations for domestic listing. The fund entry paths are divided into two: part will directly enter DeepSeek's parent company, and part will enter a limited partnership controlled by founder Liang Wenfeng. Previously, DeepSeek briefly paused financing contacts at the end of July and resumed in early August. The new version of the model, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, was officially launched on July 31. According to OpenRouter data, the model reached a call volume of 72.2 trillion tokens in its first week, topping the global charts. The company has recently announced plans to raise API pricing and introduce a peak and off-peak pricing mechanism.