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According to data from the official page, the Gate Launchpool's first project, DOS staking mining activity, is currently ongoing. At present, the total amount of liquid staking in the USDT staking pool exceeds 118 million USDT, with an estimated annual percentage rate (APR) of 7.26%; the total amount of liquid staking in the GUSD staking pool exceeds 81.39 million GUSD, with an estimated annual percentage rate reaching 7.31%. Adding the base 3.80% interest from GUSD's current subscription yield, the comprehensive estimated annual yield rate for the GUSD pool is approximately 11.11%. Currently, the cumulative staking scale of the two major staking pools has exceeded 199 million USD. This activity will last until August 24 at 19:00 (UTC+8), with a total reward of 1,410,000 DOS.In addition, the cumulative subscription scale of Gate's yield-generating stable asset GUSD has currently reached 256 million USD, setting a historical high and continuously expanding stable returns and ecological application scenarios.

Financial giant Charles Schwab announced that it has launched direct trading services for Bitcoin and Ethereum for approximately 40 million brokerage accounts. The product is named Schwab Crypto, covering 48 states in the U.S. (excluding New York and Louisiana), with a trading fee rate of 0.75%, operated by Charles Schwab Premier Bank and Paxos.Joe Vietri, head of digital assets at Charles Schwab, stated that the company aims to become the preferred platform for retail investors to allocate digital assets, supporting users to trade crypto assets alongside other investment types through its services, education, and research advantages. The company also maintains a risk warning, stating that even if Bitcoin or Ethereum only accounts for 1% to 3% of a portfolio, it can have a significant impact, and both have previously dropped over 70% in past cycles.

According to official news, Gate has launched the AI Potential Stocks feature. This feature will scan market volume and price anomalies, major events, industry news, and related news clues through AI before each trading day, helping users quickly understand the main themes that the market may focus on that day, the relevant reasons, and the subsequent transmission direction. The AI Potential Stocks feature is the first to introduce AI research capabilities and supply chain analysis into the cryptocurrency industry market research scenario, upgrading the AI-driven pre-market investment research experience. This feature will focus on markets such as US stocks, Hong Kong stocks, and Korean stocks, selecting 2-3 stock clues that have capital verification, news support, and may not have been fully noticed yet. The content will revolve around three dimensions: "what to pay attention to, why to pay attention, and how the impact extends," helping users efficiently complete pre-market information screening.AI Potential Stocks focuses on market theme rotation, volume and price anomalies, and major news signals, helping users understand the logic behind changes in market focus rather than simply displaying popular stocks. In addition, Gate will continue to improve its push notification capabilities around AI Potential Stocks, forming a mechanism for timely pre-market summaries, major event reminders, and personalized attention updates. The AI Potential Stocks feature is now supported on Gate App v8.31.0 and above; users can access this feature through the bottom navigation bar [TradFi] - [Stocks] list; web users can enter through the market page or directly visit the feature page to use it. In the future, Gate will continuously deepen the construction of AI research capabilities, improve the AI-driven investment research analysis system, and continuously optimize event version content, major event reminders, and personalized summaries around AI Potential Stocks, gradually forming a mechanism for information delivery that combines pre-market summaries, event reminders, and user attention updates, providing users with more timely and clear market references.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched the ANET (Arista Networks) stock perpetual contract. This contract is settled in USDT, supports up to 20 times leverage, and is available for trading 24/7. So far, Bitget supports a total of 272 stock perpetual contracts.

Market news says that LG will release the next generation humanoid robot based on the NVIDIA ISAAC GR00T platform.

Solstice Finance launches strcUSX on Solana, splitting the dividend income and price risk of the Nasdaq-listed company Strategy's Series A perpetual preferred stock STRC into two types of tokens: senior and junior. The annual dividend yield of STRC is 12%.The senior tranche SR-strcUSX targets an annual yield of approximately 7%, with priority for dividend income and principal repayment; the junior tranche JR-strcUSX bears the first loss from market value fluctuations and receives the remaining income after payments to the senior tranche, targeting an annual yield of over 20%. Users can deposit USX into the strcUSX vault to receive tokens corresponding to the risk level. Both types of tokens are native assets on Solana, tradable, usable as collateral, or accessible for DeFi applications.Solstice Finance will also integrate USX into Zebec Network's payroll infrastructure, which processes over $500 million in payroll annually and has over 50,000 monthly active users.

Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich stated that the company has launched a new bond issuance program called BitBonds and has completed its first issuance.This issuance, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Metaplanet Securities, involves the issuance of Series 21 to 24 unsecured ordinary bonds under Japan's small-scale private placement system, raising a total of approximately 200 million yen. The scale is pilot in nature, aimed at establishing a framework for subsequent bond issuance, distribution, and management.

Micron Ventures launches a $250 million fund focused on investing in next-generation artificial intelligence technologies.

According to Decrypt, the decentralized finance platform Ether.fi announced that its self-custody application has added tokenized stock, metal, and cryptocurrency trading, and supports collateralized lending with multiple holdings. Users can lend assets and borrow against collateralized portfolios through the Aave integrated market based on Optimism, allowing them to transfer or spend borrowed funds without selling their holdings.Ether.fi stated that fiat accounts support global deposits and withdrawals, covering over 30 currencies and payment methods, but tokenized stock and metal trading is not open to users in the United States and some other markets. Fiat accounts are only available to users who have completed payment card identity verification, and the speed of deposits and withdrawals varies.Ether.fi will also launch ETHFI automatic buybacks and provide 3% cash back for card spending. Ether.fi founder and CEO Mike Silagadze stated that initially, it will support Ethereum, Bitcoin, Hyperliquid, ETHFI, and some tokenized stocks and gold, with plans to add more collateral assets in the future.

Binance's tokenized stock product bStocks has been online for less than two months and has surpassed the tokenized stock value of the cryptocurrency trading platform Kraken's xStocks, becoming the second largest issuer. bStocks has a scale of approximately $624 million, xStocks about $579 million, and Ondo Finance about $927 million. As of Tuesday, bStocks' scale has decreased to $610.6 million, still ranking second, slightly above xStocks' $601.2 million.In the past year, the total value of the tokenized stock market, according to issuers, has increased from about $8 million to approximately $2.7 billion. Binance launched bStocks on June 11, allowing investors to gain exposure to U.S. stocks through blockchain tokens without directly holding the underlying stocks. Binance co-founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao stated that the rapid growth of bStocks is attributed to Binance's user base.

Brazilian Bitcoin treasury company OranjeBTC (B3: OBTC3) announced the launch of the Digital Yield ETF (DIGY11), which is created in collaboration with 3R Investimentos and MarketVector, and is expected to be listed on the Brazilian Stock Exchange B3 in early September.DIGY11 will initially invest in preferred shares issued by Strategy through STRC and preferred shares issued by Strive through SATA, distributing returns to investors in Brazilian reais on a monthly basis while providing daily liquidity and currency hedging. Under current market conditions, DIGY11 is expected to provide an annualized distribution yield equivalent to CDI plus approximately 3% to 5%, but this estimate does not include fluctuations in the fund share price and does not constitute a guarantee of returns. This ETF does not directly invest in Bitcoin but provides Brazilian investors with a localized channel to access USD returns and exposure to Bitcoin ecosystem assets by holding preferred shares related to Bitcoin treasury companies.

Leaker blogger leo claims that Google will launch Gemini 3.7 Flash as early as today. The API price may drop to $0.75 per million tokens for input and $3.75 for output. Currently, the standard prices for Gemini 3.6 Flash are $1.50 and $7.50, respectively. If the new prices are accurate, it would mean a direct cut in half.Gemini 3.7 Flash did not come out of nowhere. Google's official Python GenAI SDK had previously included gemini-3.7-flash, but then renamed the related PR to "internal" and closed it. The community has long speculated that the new model is nearing release.Even more concerning is Gemini 3.5 Pro. SemiAnalysis reported last week that Google has internally canceled this flagship model, with the team shifting focus to the larger-scale Gemini 4. leo also stated that he heard the same news.

B.AI platform announces the official launch of Grok 4.6 on the B.AI API. Compared to Grok 4.5, the new version achieves a comprehensive leap in complex task handling, deep reasoning, and overall intelligence level, demonstrating significant leading performance in the GPDVal-AA V2 evaluation, further expanding the application boundaries in large-scale reasoning and high-difficulty task scenarios. This launch simultaneously opens up dual-channel access for "official" and "self-selected service providers," and introduces an exclusive 40% discount for both official and self-selected service providers, enabling developers to easily access Grok 4.6 with more flexible choices and lower costs, enjoying cutting-edge AI computing power. Starting today, users can experience the upgraded capabilities through the B.AI API.

On May 13, 2026, the American financial services company Charles Schwab began to gradually open spot trading for Bitcoin and Ethereum to retail customers, with a transaction fee rate of 75 basis points. The company disclosed that customer assets reached $13.1 trillion, with 39.8 million brokerage accounts, and Paxos is responsible for execution and sub-custody.During the earnings call in July, Charles Schwab stated that the progress of the related business is on track and launched a pilot for cryptocurrency asset transfers, while also taking a stake in Paxos. Initially, only Bitcoin and Ethereum are supported, with no support for deposits and withdrawals, and no SIPC protection, except for New York and Louisiana. Charles Schwab customers hold approximately $25 billion in crypto ETP.Morgan Stanley's E*Trade launched Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana trading through Zerohash on July 16, with a fee rate of 50 basis points; Fidelity's rate is 1%, and Coinbase's consumer trading implied fee rate is about 1.75%.

Bitget has launched the US stock bottom-fishing interest-earning product FCN (Fixed Coupon Note), allowing users to use USDT to subscribe to structured products linked to US stock rToken and set target purchase prices. According to the product rules, if the observation price at maturity is greater than or equal to the exercise price, users will receive the USDT principal and the agreed USDT interest; if the observation price at maturity is lower than the exercise price, the USDT principal will be converted into the corresponding number of US stock rToken at the exercise price, while also receiving the agreed USDT interest.At the same time, the platform has launched a first-time rebate activity. Users who successfully subscribe to FCN for the first time with a single amount of no less than 1,000 USDT can receive up to 20 USDT; if the cumulative subscription amount reaches the specified threshold, an individual can receive a maximum cashback reward of 10,000 USDT. For more details, please refer to the official Bitget platform.

On August 13, WEEX announced the launch of the "Global Asset Trading Season" event. Users trading gold and stock perpetual contracts can participate in a prize pool of $100,000. Event duration: 8/13 16:00 - 8/31 23:59:59 (UTC+8).During the event, the first spot trade (GOLDXAUT or SPCXX) with a trading volume of ≥ 50 U will receive a bonus of 10 USDT; any stock perpetual contract trade with a volume of ≥ 100 U will receive an additional 100 USDT position airdrop. During this period, new users' first TradFi contract trade that results in a loss will be covered; both new and existing users whose cumulative TradFi contract trading volume reaches 100,000 U can participate in sharing a cash prize pool of 50,000 USDT and unlock VIP2 membership benefits. Trading volumes of 300,000 U and 500,000 U will unlock VIP3 and VIP4 membership benefits, respectively.

The Binance contract platform will launch multiple U-based TradFi perpetual contracts on August 14, including ZHONGJIUSDT, SAMSUNGEMUSDT, HANMIUSDT, LGELECTRONICSUSDT, NAVERUSDT, and KODEX200USDT.The launch times for each contract will be from 10:00 to 10:25, with a maximum leverage of 20 times.

The CEO of Lenovo stated that Lenovo will collaborate with NVIDIA (NVDA.O) and plans to launch AI PCs equipped with RTX chips later this year.

According to the official announcement, on the occasion of the 13th anniversary of Huobi HTX, the platform will launch the "13th Anniversary Carnival Month - Resilient Future" event from August 13 at 13:13 to September 13 at 13:13 (UTC +8), inviting global users to participate in the growth challenge. During the event, users can complete designated tasks to light up future gems and unlock anniversary benefits step by step. The ultimate prizes include a 2,000 USDT Future Exploration Fund, a chartered trip to TOKEN2049 in Singapore, and exclusive high-end gifts for the 13th anniversary.In addition, Huobi HTX is also launching a million-dollar prize pool recommendation event, covering trading scenarios such as spot, contracts, and leverage. Users can participate in the reward sharing by completing designated tasks.

B.AI platform officially announces that the DeepSeek V4 series Web Chat and API have been fully upgraded to the latest official version, covering two major versions: V4-Flash-0731 and V4-Pro-0813. Among them, V4-Flash-0731 has comprehensively enhanced Agent collaboration, code generation, and multi-tool invocation capabilities through specialized post-training while maintaining the original efficient architecture and model scale, resulting in significant improvements in execution efficiency and task completion; V4-Pro-0813 has shown significant improvements in test scores such as DeepSWE and CyberGym, further consolidating its leading advantage in complex engineering and agent tasks.Both models retain the original model ID and calling interface, allowing developers to switch seamlessly without any configuration changes, maintaining consistent compatibility and stability. Starting today, the new capabilities are fully open for experience, and you are welcome to log in to the B.AI platform to use them immediately.