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Solana's double deflationary governance voting is now live. The related proposal aims to adjust the network's inflation arrangement by increasing the deflation rate to reduce the overall inflation pace.According to the introduction, the proposal plans to raise the deflation rate from the current -15% to -30%, thereby achieving a greater reduction in inflation. Voting has officially begun, and the community can participate in the related governance decisions.

Zhao Changpeng posted on the X platform stating that Giggle's second-largest anonymous donor is its previous "public address," thanking everyone who contributed to this.CZ previously stated that the BNB in the "public address" and the "Binance People" tokens purchased with BNB will be donated to Giggle Academy. After that, this address will stop being used and will be turned into a burn address to avoid the community overinterpreting the operations of the public address.

Jiang Zhuoer released a historical cycle comparison chart of Bitcoin on platform X, stating that if the low point of this cycle is around $57,800, based on historical cycle trends, the current market adjustment in terms of magnitude and duration is already quite close to the previous three cycles, and a large number of investors may currently be in a "missed out" state.Jiang Zhuoer mentioned that as the market continues to consolidate and fluctuate, the anxiety of investors missing out on the market (FOMO) may gradually intensify. Once capital flows back in, the space for further market decline may be limited. He believes that the subsequent trend may reference the "golden pit" in the market at the end of 2021, at which point a brief buying opportunity during a pullback may arise.

According to GMGN market data, BNB has rebounded today, showing a dazzling rise among mainstream coins. Meanwhile, the BSC ecosystem Meme coins continue the strong upward trend from yesterday: MUBARAK has increased by 43.95% in the last 24 hours, with a market cap rising to $30 million; Binance Life has increased by 21.85% in the last 24 hours, with a market cap rising to $579 million; I’m Coming has increased by 7.31% in the last 24 hours, with a market cap rising to $10.5 million; BROCCOLI714 has increased by 12.88% in the last 24 hours, with a market cap rising to $6.83 million; BROCCOLIF3B has increased by 12.14% in the last 24 hours, with a market cap rising to $19.6 million.ChainCatcher reminds users that Meme coins generally have no practical use cases, and their prices are highly volatile, so investment should be approached with caution.

According to CryptoBriefing, Texas-based Bitcoin mining infrastructure company Bitari Inc. submitted an S-1 registration statement to the U.S. SEC on August 21, seeking to raise $30 million through an initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq Global Market, with the stock ticker BIAI.This offering will issue 4,285,715 shares of common stock, priced at $7 per share, with expected total proceeds of approximately $30 million, and net proceeds of about $27 million after underwriting and related expenses. Bitari is responsible for building and operating the physical infrastructure required for Bitcoin mining. Its current core facility is a 20-megawatt operational mine located in Wheeler, Texas. A second 20-megawatt mine is under construction in Dumas, Texas, and the company also has a contracted 20-megawatt mine in Marion, Indiana.

According to The Block, Grayscale submitted its fifth amendment application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on August 21, further advancing its plans for the listing of the Zcash ETF. The latest application indicates that the product will officially be renamed "The Zcash ETF," with an annual management fee set at 2.5%, and plans to list on the New York Stock Exchange Arca under the code "ZCH," with Coinbase Custody Trust Company as the custodian and BNY Mellon as the transfer agent.This ETF will be converted from Grayscale's existing Zcash trust, which has been operating since 2017 and currently has assets under management exceeding $260 million. In the previous fourth amendment application, a subsidiary of Grayscale's parent company, Digital Currency Group, had negotiated to inject approximately 200,000 ZEC into the fund.

The head of Galaxy Research posted on platform X stating that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed the Regulation Crypto Assets, abbreviated as Reg Crypto. This proposal aims to establish a legal pathway for the issuance of certain tokens to the U.S. public and to set up a mechanism for terminating investment contracts. The scope is limited to crypto assets that are not themselves securities but have been issued or sold as part of an investment contract; tokenized stocks, bonds, and arrangements that bundle tokens with equity or other securities are not included in the framework.The proposal sets four stages: financing, disclosure, construction, and exit. A one-time startup exemption allows issuers to raise up to $5 million over a maximum of four years; a higher exemption limit set by Regulation A allows for raising $20 million or $75 million within 12 months.Related financing must undergo qualification review by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and continuous disclosure, with the investment cap for unaccredited investors being the greater of 10% of their annual income or net worth. Issuers must also disclose the token supply and release plan, minting and burning mechanisms, governance and smart contract permissions, source code, as well as project construction commitments and progress.When the issuer completes or permanently ceases relevant construction obligations, makes no new construction commitments, and submits a transition report, the related investment contracts will be deemed terminated, and the crypto assets will no longer be subject to securities laws under that investment contract. Issuers that do not use the above financing exemptions can also utilize this safe harbor. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission estimates that approximately 475 issuers will use the investment contract safe harbor each year, with about 130 issuers utilizing the two new exemptions. Qualified issuances may not be considered restricted securities and can be resold immediately without contractual restrictions.The proposal will also exclude initial offerings and certain secondary transactions within its scope from state registration and qualification requirements, but it does not involve exchanges, brokers, dealers, custodians, nor is it an independent innovation exemption for tokenized securities and on-chain transactions. The comment period is 60 days after publication in the Federal Register. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Paul Atkins and Commissioners Hester Peirce and Mark Uyeda have all issued supportive statements.

On August 18, 2026, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) issued a proposed Accounting Standards Update (ASU) aimed at clarifying how the current definition of "cash equivalents" applies to certain digital assets, such as stablecoins, and enhancing the transparency of disclosures regarding important components of cash equivalents. Stakeholders are encouraged to submit comments by November 19, 2026.In the 2025 FASB agenda consultation project and other feedback, stakeholders pointed out that there is uncertainty regarding whether certain digital assets, including stablecoins, meet the definition of cash equivalents under current Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), leading to differences in practical treatment. The proposed ASU will provide illustrative examples to promote a more consistent application of this definition and enhance comparability among entities choosing to report qualifying digital assets as cash equivalents, but it will not change the current definition of "cash equivalents."At the same time, the proposed rules require all entities reporting assets as cash equivalents, regardless of whether they include digital assets, to enhance disclosures regarding the important components of cash equivalents and related amounts, so that investors and other financial statement users can obtain more transparent information. The relevant proposed ASU and methods for submitting comments can be found on the FASB website.

Fox News reporter Aishah Hasnie cited sources revealing that Trump will begin to utilize approximately $400 million from his personal super PAC "MAGA Inc" to support Republicans facing campaign pressure in the midterm elections this November.

On August 21, China Merchants Yonglong Bank issued a notice to customers, stating that it is cooperating with the latest risk management and account compliance guidelines from the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Securities and Futures Commission to conduct a comprehensive optimization and review of investment accounts for mainland investors. Upon verification, all investment accounts held by relevant customers (including wealth management, securities, and/or paper gold passbook accounts) as of May 22, 2026, have no asset balance, and there have been no investment transaction records in the past 12 months, which have been classified as "zero balance non-active investment accounts."To maintain normal account operations, the bank requires customers to submit the "Non-Active Investment Account Declaration" as soon as possible. Customers can complete the submission through the pop-up in the personal account section of the China Merchants Yonglong Bank mobile app; joint account holders or those who have not registered for the mobile app can call the customer service hotline for guidance, and each joint account holder must submit separately. The main content of the declaration includes confirming the accuracy of personal information, the legality of the source of funds, that the account has not been closed or suspended due to suspicious documents, and timely notification of any changes in information.The bank reminds that if customers fail to complete the submission in a timely manner, new investment transactions (including buying stocks, subscribing to wealth management products, etc.) will be suspended accordingly; if the submission continues to be delayed, it is expected that starting from November 2026, relevant "non-active investment accounts" may be closed. Once an account is suspended or closed, no new securities or wealth management product investment transactions can be conducted.

UBS Global Wealth Management has raised its mid-2027 target price for the S&P 500 Index from 8,200 points to 8,400 points.

Leading RWA trading platform MSX announced that the platform will open subscriptions for the MSX Pre-IPO Phase 3 project on August 31, 2026, at 18:00 (UTC+8). This phase will exclusively feature two globally high-profile AI unicorns—Neuralink, the brain-computer interface leader under Elon Musk, and Anduril Industries, a top AI defense technology unicorn in the United States.Previously, the MSX Pre-IPO Phase 2 project Polymarket has opened for redemption, with subscriptions yielding high returns. The introduction of Neuralink and Anduril in this third phase further expands the range of cutting-edge technology assets in the platform's Pre-IPO projects. Users participating in this subscription must hold $MSX, and the subscription amount will be allocated based on the user's effective holdings. Specific allocation tiers and participation rules will be subject to the information published by the MSX official platform.

On August 21, 3D storage-computing integrated chip company Qianhe Yibang announced that its self-developed global first 4-layer 3D DRAM stacked storage-computing integrated chip successfully returned to the wafer and was powered on, marking the transition of this technology from validation to the engineering implementation stage. This chip adopts a three-dimensional integrated native computing architecture, with data access and storage bandwidth improved by an order of magnitude compared to traditional solutions, while access and storage power consumption, latency, and single data processing costs have all decreased by an order of magnitude.Qianhe Yibang was established in January 2024, incubated by NetEase, and recently completed over 2 billion yuan in Series B financing.

On August 21, OpenAI responded to the differences in Codex usage limits, stating that it would not unilaterally change the relevant rules without communicating with the community first. An official investigation found that affected users often converted subscriptions into API traffic through sub2api and redistributed it, which would be flagged by the fraud prevention system.OpenAI pointed out that using subscriptions normally through Sign in With ChatGPT on official or OSS clients (such as Pi, OpenCode) poses no issues at all.

Sun Yuchen stated that his lawyer recently appeared in federal court in California to oppose World Liberty Financial (@worldlibertyfi)'s request to force the dispute into confidential arbitration and seal documents. The court ruled that all of Sun Yuchen's personal claims will continue to be heard in open court; at the same time, it rejected the suggestion to submit all company-related claims to arbitration and required both parties to negotiate which claims will remain in court and which will go to arbitration. Sun Yuchen called this a significant victory, emphasizing that token holders have the right to know how the project treats its trusters.Sun Yuchen stated that as one of the earliest and largest investors in World Liberty, he invested $45 million to obtain $WLFI tokens. The lawsuit alleges that after this investment helped raise approximately $550 million in token sales, the project secretly embedded a backdoor in the smart contract that could unilaterally freeze, restrict, or destroy token holders' tokens, and based on this, illegally seized his tokens, even threatening him with criminal reports during his rights protection efforts. The lawsuit claims damages amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars. He has previously obtained a court injunction prohibiting the other party from destroying or disposing of his tokens.Sun Yuchen also stated that World Liberty similarly embedded backdoor capabilities in its USD1 stablecoin and mentioned that the project had pledged a large amount of $WLFI tokens as collateral in Dolomite lending, as well as public information regarding co-founder past lawsuits related to Dough Finance, expressing concerns about the project's solvency and transparency, urging investors to conduct their own due diligence and remain cautious. The above content is all his unilateral statements and accusations.

According to on-chain detective Specter, the victim claims to have transferred funds from Bitcoin to Ethereum due to a hack on Coldcard. However, on-chain data shows that 73 BTC (worth $4.6 million) originally came from the Whirlpool mixer two weeks ago, with some of it crossing over to Ethereum and subsequently deposited through a phishing Tornado Cash interface.Two mixers were used during the related fund transfer process. The individual was also found to be present in Telegram groups related to private key searches and brute force cracking. On-chain detective Specter indicates that the victim may be a threat actor, and their funds may have also been stolen by another threat actor.

According to Forbes, Bitcoin has rebounded strongly and surpassed $69,000, with $1.29 billion in short positions liquidated within about an hour. On the same day, the U.S. Treasury announced it would at least double the scale of long-term Treasury bond repurchases to $4 billion each time, to be executed from September 9 to November 4. Geoff Kendrick, head of digital asset research at Standard Chartered Bank, stated that investors should position themselves for Bitcoin to rise to $100,000 by the end of 2026, and noted that the Treasury's measures are "exactly the type favored by Bitcoin."Standard Chartered had previously lowered its year-end target from $150,000 to $100,000 and postponed its $500,000 expectation from 2028 to 2030. Bitcoin ETFs recorded a net inflow of $298 million, reversing three consecutive days of outflows. The Federal Reserve's meeting minutes were hawkish, keeping interest rates at 3.50%-3.75%, with three members advocating for rate hikes due to concerns that AI could drive inflation. Kendrick pointed out that $65,500 needs to be maintained to confirm the bottom.

On August 19, 2026, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a request for comments to better understand and regulate the compute derivatives market. CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig stated that for the U.S. to win the AI race, a robust compute derivatives market is needed, just as the U.S. market once established standards for commodity trading required by the industrial economy, it will also establish corresponding markets for core commodities of the intelligent economy. This request for comments is the first step in establishing clear rules for the U.S. computing market.The request for comments focuses on the scale, liquidity, and other considerations of the compute spot market, as well as issues related to market regulation and manipulation risks, customer protection, perpetual compute futures, and welcomes opinions on all aspects of the compute market. The comment period is 60 days from the publication in the Federal Register.

Uber launches Baidu's fully driverless Apollo Go in Dubai, marking the birth of the world's first multi-party cooperative autonomous driving network.