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According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a certain whale (0x117...baeb) opened a 4x ASTER long position on Aster DEX, involving 7.2 million ASTER, worth 4.33 million USD.At the same time, 4.02 million ASTER were staked, worth 2.42 million USD, for a duration of 4 years.

On August 11, Fidelity submitted a registration statement amendment to the SEC, applying to add ETH staking functionality to its spot Ethereum ETF, Fidelity Ethereum Fund (FETH). Under normal circumstances, FETH can stake up to 100% of its held ETH, but there is no minimum staking ratio.If approved by the SEC, the investment objective of FETH will also change. Currently, the fund primarily tracks the Fidelity Ethereum Reference Rate, deducting related fees; after adding staking, the fund's objective will shift to tracking that index while accounting for the income generated from staking.

Token Terminal data shows that approximately 34.4% of ETH is currently staked, reaching a historical high. At the beginning of this year, the staking ratio of Ethereum was about 30%, and it has since continued to rise to 34.4%.Industry opinions suggest that large-scale staking restricts the circulating supply of ETH while locking more ETH on-chain for long-term earnings.

Marinade Finance posted on platform X that the Solana network nearly came to a halt this morning, with 28.83% of staked SOL going offline, approaching the 33.34% halt trigger threshold, involving 90 validator nodes, resulting in a loss of approximately 333 SOL rewards.The fault originated from a routing error by the service provider Teraswitch: the erroneous routing from the Miami node was broadcast to Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, causing 12 nodes (LON1, AMS1-3, DUB1-2, FRA2, SGP1-2, TYO1-3) to lose effective routing, while North America was unaffected, and the fault was resolved after 10 minutes.Marinade Finance pointed out that ASN AS20326 hosts more than a quarter of the total staking volume on the network, and during the fault, 94% of that staking volume was offline simultaneously, accounting for 27.34%, which has exceeded the 25% limit set by SFDP. The second-largest node on the network, Helius, was offline for 33 minutes, with only a few nodes achieving smooth failover. Marinade Finance stated that it will review the staking concentration limit and promote the disclosure of failover capability information by validator nodes.

The TRON DeFi Summer S2 event is currently ongoing. Users can stake TRX through JustLend DAO to exchange for sTRX, continuously accumulating returns while maintaining asset liquidity; the Energy generated from staking can also be rented to users with on-chain demand, forming a revenue cycle within the TRX ecosystem.As the largest single prize pool of this season, the 1.2 million USD TRX incentive pool remains open. Users can enter JustLend DAO through the Binance Wallet DeFi section, and by depositing 500 TRX, they can unlock basic staking returns and a Boosted APR of over 20%, and additionally share rewards daily. The S2 season covers core asset pools such as TRX, USDD, JST, and SUN.

According to CNBC, Norway's sovereign wealth fund, which has a scale of $2.34 trillion, recorded a profit of over $18.2 billion in the first half of the year, setting a historical high for the same period, with an investment return rate of 9.4%. Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), stated that the performance was mainly driven by the strong performance of the stock market, particularly the rise of Asian technology stocks.In the latest semi-annual report, the fund disclosed its holdings in SpaceX for the first time, with a stake of about 0.05%, valued at just over $1.2 billion as of June 30. In comparison, it holds about 1.3% of Nvidia shares, valued at $61.8 billion; and about 1.2% of Apple shares, valued at $52.7 billion. The sovereign wealth fund managed by NBIM was established in the 1990s and primarily invests the country's oil and gas revenues. Currently, the fund invests in over 7,000 companies across more than 50 countries globally, holding about 1.5% of shares in publicly listed companies worldwide. Stock assets account for more than two-thirds of its overall investment portfolio, with U.S. stocks making up about 40% of the total investment portfolio.

According to the latest data from the Gate platform, the total staking amount of its SOL mining (staking) products has reached 661,200 SOL, setting a new historical high, with a reference annualized yield of 7.91%. Users staking SOL can receive an equivalent amount of GTSOL assets, achieving asset appreciation.This service supports instant redemption, releasing liquidity and obtaining stable returns. In addition to SOL, the platform also offers multi-currency staking options. As of the time of publication, the reference annualized yields are: GUSD 3.80%, BTC 2.67%, ETH 4.03%, USD1 7.64%, and USDT 3.27%.

According to Arkham monitoring, Bitmine staked $289.4 million ETH in the past week and currently holds 4.2% of the Ethereum supply as staked ETH.In the past week, Bitmine also purchased $14.25 million ETH, totaling 4.8% of the total Ethereum supply.

Documents from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) show that Musk's close friend Gracia holds a passive stake of 6.5% in SpaceX (SPCX.O) as of June 30, 2026.

According to Hyperliquid News, Hyper Foundation received 50,000 HYPE through unstaking 7 days ago, worth approximately $2.723 million at the current price.

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 Onchain Lens monitoring, Alameda Research's bankruptcy wallet has unstaked 201,740 SOL after staking for 5 years, worth approximately $15.27 million.This position initially held 164,380 SOL, earning approximately 37,360 SOL in staking rewards, currently valued at about $2.83 million; the value of this staked asset has increased from around $352,000 at that time to the current approximately $15.27 million.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale has withdrawn 50,000 ETH from Binance again, worth approximately 93.6 million USD.The total withdrawal amount has reached 90,000 ETH, worth about 170 million USD, of which 40,000 ETH has been staked.

CryptoQuant founder Ki Young Ju posted on the X platform, correcting the previous analysis of CME Bitcoin futures positions, stating that "Total Reportables (large institutional traders)" was mistakenly labeled as "Leveraged Funds," leading to the belief that CME hedge funds rarely turned into net long positions in BTC futures. However, the actual situation is that leveraged funds still maintain net short positions in BTC futures.Ki Young Ju provided CFTC futures position data as of August 4: 1. Large institutional traders overall show a slight net long position, which includes asset management institutions, market makers, dealers, etc. Ki Young Ju stated that although the net long extent is limited, the previous judgment about institutional direction being bullish still holds. 2. Leveraged funds still maintain net short positions in BTC futures, but over the past year, their standard BTC futures net short position has decreased by about 50% (measured in BTC), mainly due to the decline in basis trading returns. When the futures basis returns fell below U.S. Treasury yields, the arbitrage space narrowed. Leveraged funds currently show a net long position in Micro BTC futures, but the scale is small, only about +394 BTC, which is approximately 1% of the standard BTC futures net short position. Ki Young Ju indicated that leveraged funds overall have not yet turned into net long positions, but their long-term structural shorts are clearly weakening, which may reflect the closing of arbitrage trades and adjustments in directional positions.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale withdrew 9,000 ETH from Gemini, worth approximately 16.87 million USD.In the past month, this whale has accumulated about 121,000 ETH, worth approximately 227 million USD, and transferred it to a self-custody wallet, most of which has been staked.

Yushu Technology was founded in 2016 and received seed round investment from early angel investor Yin Fangming, who invested 2 million yuan for a 15% equity stake, marking Yushu Technology's first external investment at that time.After several rounds of financing dilution, as of the IPO, Jun Wan Hong Yi, controlled by Yin Fangming, held 11,174,900 shares, with a shareholding ratio of approximately 2.76%, making him the tenth largest shareholder of Yushu Technology. Based on an issuance market value of 61 billion yuan, the market value of his shares is approximately 1.685 billion yuan. Compared to his initial investment of 2 million yuan, he netted 1.683 billion yuan, achieving a return rate of 841.5 times.

According to the latest data from the Gate platform, the total amount of SOL staked in its SOL mining (staking) product has reached 660,600 SOL, with a reference annualized yield of 7.91%. Users staking SOL can receive an equivalent amount of GTSOL assets, achieving asset appreciation.This service supports instant redemption, releasing liquidity and obtaining stable returns. In addition to SOL, the platform also offers multi-currency staking options. As of the time of publication, the reference annualized yields are as follows: GUSD new user reward up to 100%, BTC 2.67%, ETH 4.14%, USD1 7.22%, and USDT 3.11%.

According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, Purpose Investments' Ether ETF has staked 42,000 ETH, approximately 80 million USD, to the Ethereum Beacon Deposit Contract in the past 3 hours, accounting for 36.6% of the ETF's total holdings.The ETF's holdings amount to 114,900 ETH.

Coinbase released its Solana validator node operation report for the second quarter of 2026, stating that its operated Solana validator nodes outperform the network average in terms of yield, stability, and infrastructure distribution.Data shows that Coinbase currently stakes approximately 41.63 million SOL through 23 validator nodes, accounting for 9.72% of the total staked amount on Solana, with nodes distributed across 7 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Singapore, and others.Key operational data is as follows: Staking scale: 41.63 million SOL, accounting for 9.72% of the total staked amount; staking yield: Q2 2026 APY is 6.52%, higher than the network average of 6.38%, leading by 14 basis points; block skip rate: 0.035%, lower than the network average of 0.136%, about one-fourth of the network average.Coinbase stated that its validator nodes adopt a multi-client architecture, currently running 4 clients including Harmonic, Jito, JitoBAM, and Firedancer. All solutions have been reviewed by the Solana Foundation, and aggressive MEV time strategies that may affect user experience are not used.In terms of infrastructure, Coinbase has deployed its validator nodes on two independent bare-metal service providers and configured off-site backups for each node to reduce single points of failure risk. At the same time, the company stated that it has migrated the entire validator node cluster to the DoubleZero network, achieving approximately 99.9% session availability.Coinbase also revealed that it is preparing for the Alpenglow consensus upgrade expected to be advanced by Solana later in 2026, including running community test nodes, developing new consensus health monitoring tools, and completing related voting account upgrade verification.