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The Offchain Labs research team has released advancements in zero-knowledge proof technology, covering areas such as proof acceleration, verifiable AI, and recursive security. Among them, the vector commitment scheme has reduced the proof generation time for 64,000 data entries from about 2 minutes to 32 milliseconds, achieving a speedup of approximately 4000 times; the new proof system Zaratan has achieved native full succinct proofs for integers for the first time, which can reduce the computational overhead of operations like RSA by about 5000 times; in terms of verifiable AI, a lightweight verification protocol can shorten the inference verification time for large models from several minutes to milliseconds.Arbitrum is exploring a multi-prover architecture that combines ZK proofs with fraud proofs and TEE to eliminate single points of failure and shorten L1 settlement cycles.

Galaxy Research released the Q2 2026 Crypto Leverage Market Report, showing that the total amount of crypto collateralized lending decreased by 16.78% month-on-month to $56.16 billion, down 40.13% from the Q3 2025 peak of $78.69 billion. Among them, DeFi lending shrank by 27.61% month-on-month to $20.43 billion, while CeFi borrowing decreased by 9.62% month-on-month to $22.98 billion, marking the first time since Q3 2023 that CeFi volume has surpassed DeFi. Tether continues to dominate the CeFi market with a 58.54% share.The report points out that the current deleveraging differs from previous bear markets in its "orderly and moderate" pace: with consecutive quarterly declines of only 10%, 5%, and 17%, rather than the cliff-like collapse of over 55% in a single quarter as seen in 2022. In the futures market, open interest in Q2 slightly decreased by 3.08% month-on-month to $103.2 billion, but rebounded to about $114 billion in July. Regarding institutional corporate debt, Strategy completed a $1.5 billion debt buyback in May, reducing the total outstanding debt in the DAT industry to $16.1 billion. The report believes that if the market does not experience severe liquidations or counterparty defaults, deleveraging is expected to continue in a gradual step-down pattern.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "Cincinnati Open: Thiago Agustin Tirante vs. Martin Landaluce," the option "Thiago Agustin Tirante" in the sub-market "Cincinnati Open: Thiago Agustin Tirante vs. Martin Landaluce" has experienced significant fluctuations in winning probability, soaring from 55.5% an hour ago to the current 78.5% (a fluctuation of 23%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to The Block, Bitcoin mining companies CleanSpark, BitFuFu, and Canaan saw their Bitcoin production decline again in July, decreasing by approximately 5%, 10%, and 28% compared to June, respectively. The stock tickers for these companies are CLSK, FUFU, and CAN.Meanwhile, the price of Bitcoin rebounded in July, starting at around $58,500 at the beginning of the month and nearing $63,000 by the end. The production data reflects a month-on-month decline in output for the aforementioned mining companies, while the coin price showed a recovery trend during the same period.

According to Gate market data, SanDisk (SNDK.O) stock price rose over 10%, Micron Technology (MU.O) increased by 5.6%, SK Hynix (SKHY.O) and Western Digital (WDC.O) rose over 6%.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, after GPS rose over 50% today, OKX Ventures transferred 48.611 million GPS (approximately $750,000) to Binance one hour ago.Yu Jin stated that OKX Ventures is an investment institution for GPS, and this token transfer comes from investment unlocks, or because OKX has not launched spot trading for this token, hence it was transferred to Binance for sale.

According to SoSoValue data, as of 8:00 AM Eastern Time on August 17, 2026, the total net purchase of Bitcoin by global listed companies (excluding mining companies) for the week was $5.32 million, a decrease of 90.34% compared to last week.Strategy did not buy or sell Bitcoin last week but spent $132 million to repurchase 1,388,720 shares of STRC preferred stock.The Japanese listed company Metaplanet did not purchase Bitcoin last week, marking five consecutive weeks without buying Bitcoin.In addition, two other companies purchased Bitcoin last week. The French Bitcoin company Capital B announced on August 17 that it bought 5 Bitcoins at a price of $64,395.60, bringing its total holdings to 3,145 Bitcoins; asset management company Strive announced on August 17 that it spent $5 million last week to purchase 79 Bitcoins at a price of $63,231, bringing its total holdings to approximately 20,246 Bitcoins.As of the time of writing, the total amount of Bitcoin held by the global listed companies (excluding mining companies) in the statistics is 1,139,641 Bitcoins, an increase of 0.007% compared to last week, with a current market value of approximately $72.42 billion, accounting for 5.7% of the circulating market value of Bitcoin.

AI voice interaction startup Wispr announced the completion of a $280 million Series B financing, with the company's valuation reaching $2 billion.This round of financing was led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Notable Capital, NEA, Neo Ventures, 8VC, MVP Ventures, as well as Acrew, Peak XV, Together Fund, and PLUS Capital.

According to PRNewswire, Ethereum treasury company Bitmine Immersion Technologies disclosed that it increased its holdings by 9,926 ETH last week. Currently, the company's cryptocurrency asset holdings include 5,815,164 ETH, 210 BTC, equity in Eightco Holdings worth $73 million, and shares in Beast Industries worth $180 million.Currently, Bitmine has staked 5,067,309 ETH (worth approximately $9.6 billion).

According to the 8-K document submitted by Strive to the SEC, the company purchased 79 bitcoins at an average price of approximately $63,231 from August 10 to 14, 2026.As of August 14, Strive held a total of 20,246 bitcoins, along with 505,000 shares of Strategy STRC preferred stock (with a fair value of approximately $47.86 million) and about $154.8 million in cash.

BitcoinTreasuries.NET posted on platform X that Renaissance Technologies has newly acquired 422,881 shares of Strategy, worth 40.1 million USD, increasing their total holdings to 2.55 million shares, with a total value of 242.3 million USD, representing a 20% increase in holdings.

According to Caixin, Yushu Technology has not yet officially gone public, but trading around this popular new stock has already begun in advance. On second-hand trading platforms like Xianyu, there are multiple pieces of information regarding the acquisition and sale of Yushu Technology's new stock subscription rights. Currently, several intermediaries are acquiring this new stock through various channels, with significant discrepancies in pricing. Some intermediaries are offering 520 yuan/share (the issue price is 150.8 yuan/share), while others are quoting 410 yuan/share. Among some investors and intermediary groups, this type of trading is also referred to as "dark trading."At present, this trading remains a very small-scale activity. Many market participants, including brokers and public funds, have stated that they had not heard of any so-called "dark trading" related to new stock subscriptions on the Sci-Tech Innovation Board before. Its sudden emergence may be related to Yushu Technology's extremely low subscription rate and high expectations for listing gains. The recent private acquisitions of new stocks in the A-share market are based on informal verbal agreements and are not legally protected.

According to Ember Monitoring, addresses related to the significant drop of SIREN in June have transferred 1.324 billion XPIN, worth approximately $1.71 million, to Binance Alpha in the past two hours.Subsequently, the price of XPIN fell from $0.0017 to $0.0012, a decrease of about 29%.

According to Gate market data, the S&P 500 E-Mini futures rose by 0.18%, the Nasdaq 100 futures increased by 0.54%, and the Dow futures fell by 0.09%.

Capital B, a Bitcoin treasury company, confirmed the acquisition of 5 Bitcoins for 280,000 euros, currently holding a total of 3,145 Bitcoins, with a year-to-date Bitcoin return of 2.14%.

AI company Higgsfield completed a $400 million financing round with a valuation of $5.4 billion, supported jointly by Goldman Sachs and Intel.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the World Liberty Financial team wallet supported by Trump (0xE853...D5743) transferred 39 million WLFI to Bybit after being inactive for 30 days, worth 2.33 million USD.The wallet received an equivalent amount of WLFI from the WLFI treasury two days ago.

According to Cointelegraph, U.S. companies' spending in the field of artificial intelligence is rapidly increasing. Data shows that the top 1% of companies are currently spending a record $7,400 per employee per month on AI-related expenses, which is 600 times higher than the median company spending level.Related statistics reflect a significant divergence in AI investment between leading companies and average companies, with top firms significantly increasing their investment in AI applications and infrastructure at a rate far above the industry average.

According to sources, Anthropic expects its revenue to reach between $190 billion and $200 billion by 2028. Wall Street is using the 2028 revenue forecast and the enterprise value/revenue multiple (EV-to-Revenue) to value its IPO.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the "Texas Rangers vs. Athletics" event on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Athletics" option in the sub-market "First 5 Innings Spread -1.5" has experienced significant fluctuations in winning probability, soaring from 35% an hour ago to the current 50% (a fluctuation of 15%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.