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According to the official announcement, Bitget CFD will adjust the leverage and margin tier rules for XAUUSD (gold against the US dollar) and USDCNH (US dollar/offshore RMB) starting from August 15.Among them, when the nominal value of the XAUUSD contract is below $100,000, a maximum leverage of 800 times can be supported; when the nominal value of the USDCNH contract is below $1,000,000, a maximum leverage of 100 times can be supported. For positions exceeding the corresponding range, the platform will adopt a tiered margin calculation method, and the margin rate will be adjusted as the nominal value of the position increases. Users can reasonably allocate their positions according to their asset needs.

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.

According to GMGN market data, the market capitalization of the Binance Wallet stock meme token UTILITY has fallen back to $7.3 million, with a 24-hour increase narrowing to 18.5 times, and a 24-hour trading volume reaching $20.3 million. Last night, the market capitalization of UTILITY once broke through $10 million.CZ previously stated on January 30 that GME should issue a utility token on the blockchain, preferably on BSC. bStocks officially retweeted CZ's old post and announced that GMEB (the tokenized stock version of GameStop) is now trading on the platform.The trading pair for UTILITY is UTILITY/GMEB, rather than the common BNB or USDT as the liquidity pair, belonging to the current popular "stock meme" play on BSC, using bStocks' US stock token (here GMEB) as the base, focusing on the classic narrative of retail investors battling Wall Street and meme stocks. Users are reminded that meme coins often have no practical use cases, and price fluctuations can be significant, so investment should be approached with caution.

According to the Financial Times, JPMorgan Chase terminated its banking services for Polymarket last October due to regulatory concerns, requiring the company to seek new banking institutions. Previously, Polymarket was banned from providing services to U.S. customers after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission took enforcement action in 2022.Currently, Polymarket has partnered with a new bank, but the specific name has not been disclosed. JPMorgan Chase still maintains business dealings with Polymarket and invited its CEO Shayne Coplan to participate in a private banking client meeting held in Miami this February, where he spoke alongside former NFL player Tom Brady. Polymarket stated that the two parties continue to maintain a close and active relationship in various areas, including multiple entities, operational integration, and customer fund flow management.Since 2026, prediction market platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi have faced legal actions from multiple U.S. states regarding their alleged operation as illegal sports bookmakers, while the relevant platforms argue that they operate as exchanges facilitating trades between buyers and sellers, rather than as bookmakers. According to user aggregated data, the nominal trading volume of prediction markets has exceeded $250 billion since 2026.Meanwhile, Polymarket is seeking over $1 billion in financing, with a target valuation of $20 billion, more than doubling from the approximately $8 billion valuation during the last round of financing in 2025.

According to The Defiant, the Government Pension Fund Global of Norway disclosed in its quarterly holdings document for the period ending June 30 that it holds 6,151,062 shares of BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), with a market value of approximately $81.87 million.The fund did not list BitMine in its holdings report as of December 31, indicating this is a new disclosure, and the specific purchase time and cost have not been announced. It is reported that the total size of the fund reached 22.683 trillion Norwegian kroner as of June 30, with 72.1% allocated to stocks.

Former senior foreign exchange diplomat from Japan, Mitsuhiro Furusawa, stated that the yen is currently too weak, which may lead to a joint intervention in the foreign exchange market by Japan and the United States again.He expects the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates in September and to raise them again in December or January next year, with a target rate of 1.5% to 1.75%.

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.

Freddie Mac stated that the average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage in the United States decreased from 6.69% a week ago to 6.67%, ending five consecutive weeks of increases.The U.S. job market is cooling, with price increases in July slowing down, and core inflation indicators dropping to a five-year low. The market expects the probability of a 25 basis point rate hike in September to fall to 38%. Stalled negotiations in the Strait of Hormuz have raised concerns about high oil prices, and U.S. home sales in July decreased by 4.1% compared to June.

According to official news, the Turf team has joined Polymarket.This team of 6 has built a real-time NFL prediction game over the past year, allowing users to predict the next play, the next score, and more while watching live broadcasts. The team has now joined the Polymarket US website and app team.Polymarket stated that it will continue to seek outstanding talent, committed to creating a world-class product, design, and engineering team.

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.

The digital asset trading platform Gate has completed the functional upgrade of the Gate Card product, officially launching the card balance withdrawal feature. After users recharge to the Gate Card, in addition to being used for global consumption, they can also exchange the card balance for USDT at real-time exchange rates and transfer it to the Gate spot account, which can be used for subsequent trading, wealth management, or other asset allocation, further enhancing the flexibility of fund usage and management with the card.Currently, the Gate Card has integrated with the Visa and Mastercard global payment networks, covering over 200 countries and regions, and can be used at approximately 150 million merchants worldwide. It supports online consumption, offline payments, ATM withdrawals, and payment methods such as Apple Pay and Google Pay. With the launch of this withdrawal feature, the Gate Card further connects the complete chain from fund recharge, consumption use to balance return, providing users with a more flexible digital asset payment and fund management experience.

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will open over 170 derivative contracts to eligible professional investors in the UK, covering cryptocurrencies, commodities, stocks, and foreign exchange, with perpetual contracts supporting up to 50 times leverage. The services will be gradually rolled out over the coming weeks to months.The products include futures, perpetual contracts, and cryptocurrency options. Perpetual contracts have no expiration date and support long, short, and neutral strategies; fixed-term futures support up to 20 times leverage and have a fixed settlement date. Coinbase previously obtained authorization for investment services in the UK in July, and the related derivatives business will operate under the investment services license of CB Payments Ltd. The first phase is limited to eligible professional investors in the UK, and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will impose requirements on financial soundness, capital, stress testing, and market integrity.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a certain whale with a position value of 114 million USD has incurred a substantial loss of 978,000 USD from shorting BTC, having reduced their position three times within a week to stop losses.Last night at 20:30, the whale reduced their position by another 650 BTC, incurring a loss of 167,000 USD; subsequently, at 23:00, they added 269.35 BTC, increasing their position to 89.79 million USD, or 1,412 BTC, currently with an unrealized profit of 456,000 USD.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin (@EmberCN), an early holder who participated in the Ethereum token issuance transferred all 2,000 ETH to Coinbase about 4 hours ago, valued at approximately $3.77 million at the current price.Based on its participation price of about $0.311 at that time, the initial cost of this asset was approximately $622, and the book return as of this transfer is about 6,060 times.

According to The Block, a couple in the Somme department of France faced three break-ins in less than a month after purchasing the former home of a cryptocurrency millionaire. The incidents were triggered by the previous owner's tax information and address being leaked to the dark web, leading criminals to mistakenly believe that the new residents held approximately 1 million euros in cryptocurrency assets.The first break-in was thwarted by a dog, the second intruder subdued the residents and live-streamed the attack on Snapchat, and after confirming the target was incorrect, fled; the third break-in was scared off by the alarm system. The Amiens Criminal Court subsequently convicted two men (aged 20 and 21) involved in the third break-in, sentencing them to 3 years and 18 months in prison, respectively.

According to Decrypt, the prediction market platform Kalshi announced a partnership with DoubleZero to provide real-time market data subscription services to trading institutions through DoubleZero Edge.The initial data covers Kalshi sports event contracts and cryptocurrency perpetual futures, including Level 1 (best quotes and transaction records) and Level 2 (multiple buy and sell orders) data, which can be directly used for pricing, hedging, and automated trading strategies. DoubleZero uses a multicast system to synchronize and push machine-readable data to all connected parties, significantly lowering the access threshold.

According to Cointelegraph, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) updated the MiCA registration list this Wednesday, with the Slovenian electronic money institution Dinaro officially joining the list of electronic money token (EMT) issuers, becoming the first institution from Slovenia to enter this list. Dinaro is regulated by the Bank of Slovenia and provides payment services including issuing and acquiring, and holds principal membership with Mastercard.After this update, the total number of EMT registrations has reached 43, the asset-referenced token (ART) list remains empty, and the list of non-compliant entities remains unchanged at 167. In terms of crypto asset service provider (CASP) registrations, the Czech Partners Banka and Germany's Volksbank Beilstein-Ilsfeld-Abstatt have been added, bringing the total number of registrations to 325; the Czech company Altlift, which was added to the list in early July, has been removed.

The B.AI platform is now offering a limited-time 40% discount on the GLM-5.2 model for all users.During the event, whether deploying through the API or interacting on the web, all calls can enjoy a 40% settlement price. The discounted prices are: Input 0.84, Cache Write 0.84, Cache Read 0.168, Output 2.64 (Unit: Credits/Token).As a next-generation open-source flagship model, GLM-5.2 features a 1M ultra-long context window, designed for high-performance scenarios such as large-scale code development, complex reasoning, and agent tasks. Users can directly use it through the official API standard channel or the web interface, achieving seamless integration across all workflow scenarios. This event aims to unleash top-tier AI productivity at a lower cost, and users can log in to the B.AI platform to experience it starting today.

The Beta version of the tokenized asset on the Web3 asset data platform RootData is now online. This page aggregates and displays the market share of the tokenized stock market, popular activities, stock derivatives, and tokenized stock data based on publicly verifiable exchange quotes, order books, on-chain, and issuer data.It is reported that users can view the 24-hour trading volume, liquidity depth, open interest (OI), and the number of active underlying assets on platforms such as Binance, OKX, Gate, Bitget, Hyperliquid, and Bybit. Additionally, users can compare prices, spreads, depth, OI, and other indicators of stock derivatives across different platforms on a single stock detail page, as well as the trading volume, AUM, issuance, and circulation of the corresponding tokenized stocks. This page aims to help exchanges, issuers, and investors more intuitively track the popularity, liquidity distribution, and potential trading opportunities in the tokenized stock market.

Market research firm Counterpoint released data indicating that in the second quarter of 2026, the NAND flash memory market by shipment volume saw Samsung, SK Hynix, and Yangtze Memory Technologies holding shares of 25%, 22%, and 14% respectively, marking the first time Yangtze Memory Technologies has entered the top three.However, based on revenue, Yangtze Memory Technologies ranks fifth in the industry, trailing behind Micron and Kioxia. The reason is that its product mix is concentrated on consumer applications, with a relatively low proportion of high-priced enterprise-grade solid-state drives for data centers.