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According to reports from South Korean media, SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won received a salary of 1.75 billion won in the first half of this year.According to the Financial Supervisory Service, SK Corporation disclosed this information in its semi-annual report released that day. The chairman's salary level in the first half of this year is the same as the same period last year, and he did not receive any bonuses apart from his salary. The chairman's younger brother, SK Group Vice Chairman Chey Jae-won, received a salary of 1.5 billion won during the same period. SK Corporation President Chang Yong-ho received a total of 1.8 billion won, including 1 billion won in salary and 800 million won in bonuses.In addition, SK Supex Pursuit Council Chairman Yoon Bong-yong was disclosed to have received a total of 7.715 billion won, which includes 500 million won in salary, 800 million won in bonuses, and 6.415 billion won in compensation from 12,103 performance stock units (PSUs) granted three years ago. SK Hynix's sales from Nvidia in the first half of this year exceeded 17 trillion won, accounting for about 13% of the company's total sales.The average salary of SK Hynix employees reached 144 million won (approximately $104,000) in the first half of this year, an increase of 23% year-on-year. SK Hynix significantly increased its capital expenditures and research and development (R&D) investments in the first half of this year. Cash expenditures for acquiring tangible assets exceeded 18 trillion won, an increase of over 70% year-on-year. The number of small shareholders of SK Hynix has grown more than fivefold in a year, surpassing 3.46 million.

According to Binance spot market data, the market has experienced significant fluctuations. TUT has risen by 32.67% in 24 hours, and LINK has increased by 11.11%, reaching a new high for the week.At the same time, MOVR has shown a "high pullback" state, with a 24-hour decline of 14.11%. SCRT has also exhibited a "high pullback" state, with a 24-hour decline of 21.55%. The other tokens PIVX, SOXLB, CRWVB, and MVLLB have also shown a "high pullback" state, with declines of 7.08%, 5.58%, 8.85%, and 5.06%, respectively.On the other hand, PROM and TST have shown a "bottom rebound" state, with increases of 19.77% and 5.78%.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), the largest on-chain Bitcoin short has increased its position to $125 million, with an unrealized profit of $1.794 million.The whale added another 258 BTC 5 minutes ago, bringing the latest position update to 1,900 BTC, with an opening price of $63,582.

According to on-chain analysis platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), the whale address 19pFLW has once again purchased 300 BTC, worth approximately 19.03 million USD.This address currently holds a total of 1,120 BTC, with a total market value of about 70.43 million USD, and an average acquisition price of 69,294 USD.

According to regulatory documents, Switzerland's largest bank UBS has increased its holdings in BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), raising its total position to over $83 million, corresponding to approximately 2.5 million shares. The bank has gradually increased its Bitcoin exposure since the approval of BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF in 2024, with the total holdings in related cryptocurrency ETFs amounting to about $90 million.BlackRock IBIT manages assets totaling approximately $47.3 billion. UBS also holds a position of about $1.5 million in the Bitcoin mining company American Bitcoin Corp., supported by Eric and Donald Trump Jr. Previously, there were reports that UBS plans to offer Bitcoin trading services to some private clients in Switzerland.

The Nanya Plastics Electronic Materials Division has issued a price increase notice due to a severe imbalance in supply and demand in the global electronic materials market, with core raw material prices continuously rising across the board. The shortage of glass fabric is particularly severe, and procurement costs are uncontrollably rising. The company has decided to increase the prices of copper foil substrates (CCL) and prepreg by 20% to 25%, effective September 1. This is one of the larger-scale price adjustments in the upstream materials industry for PCBs recently. Copper foil substrates are core raw materials for printed circuit boards, and their price fluctuations will directly impact the PCB and downstream electronic terminal industries. The notice is based on the shipping date and will take effect from September 1. Nanya Plastics stated that it will continue to monitor supply chain dynamics and respond to changes in the market environment.

Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich disclosed that the company's revenue for the first half of the fiscal year 2026 was 4.94 billion yen, a year-on-year increase of 134%; operating profit was 3.33 billion yen, a year-on-year increase of 136%; and net assets were 340.88 billion yen, a decrease of 25.7% compared to the end of the fiscal year 2025.

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 on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a certain whale previously shorted Bitcoin with a scale of 114 million dollars. After three stop-losses, it added 330 BTC again in the early morning, pushing the long position to exceed 110 million dollars, reaching 1742 BTC, with an opening average price updated to 63709 dollars.Currently, the floating profit is 292,000 dollars, and it has earned 118,000 dollars through funding fees.

Zhao Haijun, Co-CEO of SMIC, stated that the demand for AI-supported chips has increased by 40%.

ChianCatcher news, cryptocurrency exchange Gemini announced its Q2 2026 financial report, with total revenue of $45.5 million, a year-on-year increase of 37%. Revenue from credit card operations surged 231% year-on-year to $16.2 million, helping to offset the impact of a 38% year-on-year decline in exchange business revenue to $12.5 million. Trading volume fell from $11.3 billion to $3.8 billion year-on-year. Forecast market trading volume nearly doubled quarter-on-quarter (up 93%), contributing $500,000 in revenue. The net loss for the quarter was $107.7 million, narrowing by 19% year-on-year.Gemini's stock price fell over 7% in after-hours trading. CEO Tyler Winklevoss stated that the company still has work to do, and the results for this quarter reflect ongoing efforts to reduce operating expenses and diversify revenue.

According to Gate market data, Workday (WDAY.O) has expanded its gains to 25.79%. Due to stock price fluctuations, its shares have been suspended from trading again.

GMGN data shows that influenced by Zhao Changpeng's retweet of related content, the utility of BSC Meme coins surged rapidly for a short time, with a market cap once exceeding 9 million USD, currently reported at about 8 million USD, with an intraday increase of over 900%.According to market news, the prices of Meme coins are highly volatile, and most lack practical use cases, please pay attention to asset protection.

According to Watcher.Guru, Switzerland's largest bank, UBS Group, has increased its Bitcoin spot ETF holdings by 230%, reaching $90 million.

According to Gate market data, the Nasdaq index rose by 1%, with SanDisk (SNDK.O) and SK Hynix both increasing by over 4%.

According to Gate market data, the Nasdaq 100 Index rose by 1%; the S&P 500 Index increased by nearly 0.6.

Market pricing shows that the probability of the Federal Reserve maintaining the interest rate in the range of 3.5%-3.75% in September is about 65%, up from about 60% before the release of the PPI report.

According to PR Newswire, Ethereum Treasury Company and AI/HPC infrastructure operator Bit Digital announced their financial performance report for the second quarter of 2026. The data shows that the company purchased 8,568 ETH for $20 million during the second quarter, with an average cost of approximately $2,334.25 per coin, and did not sell any ETH during the quarter.As of the end of the second quarter, Bit Digital held approximately 164,310.5 ETH, valued at about $258 million based on the ETH price on that day. Among them: 75,757.5 ETH were held directly, with a fair value of approximately $118.9 million; 73,235 ETH were staked for liquidity, earning 66,192 LsETH; 49,000 LsETH were used for collateral financing, corresponding to collateral receivables of approximately $105.6 million; the remaining 17,192 LsETH were held as margin buffer assets.

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.

Lenovo Group released its Q1 financial report for the fiscal year 2026/27, with revenue of $26.9 billion, a year-on-year increase of 43%, setting a new record for a single quarter; gross margin at 16.5%, up 1.8 percentage points year-on-year; loss attributable to equity holders of $609 million, primarily due to a non-cash fair value loss from the revaluation of $1.7 billion in warrants. Adjusted profit attributable to equity holders was $1.075 billion, a year-on-year increase of 176%, surpassing the $1 billion mark for the first time; adjusted diluted earnings per share were 7.39 cents, a year-on-year increase of 176%.All three business groups achieved record revenue in the first fiscal quarter. The Intelligent Devices Group reported revenue of $17.1 billion, a year-on-year increase of 27%, with a global PC market share of 24.2% and an AI PC market share of 25.1%; smartphone revenue also reached a record high in the first fiscal quarter. The Infrastructure Solutions Group reported revenue of $8.5 billion, a year-on-year increase of 98%, with an operating profit margin rising to 9.1%, and AI server order backlog reaching $54 billion, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 157%. The Solutions and Services Group reported revenue of $2.9 billion, a year-on-year increase of 28%, with an operating profit margin of 24.2%.AI-related revenue grew by 60% year-on-year, accounting for 35% of total revenue. As the official technology partner of the FIFA World Cup, the group deployed AI technology and over 25,000 devices for all 104 matches. Regionally, revenue in the Americas grew by 58% year-on-year, the Central and Eastern European market grew by 53%, and China grew by 25%. The group ranked in the top five in Gartner's global supply chain rankings and rose to 153rd place in the Fortune Global 500 rankings.