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According to Livecoins, the Joint Task Force Against Organized Crime in Rondônia, Brazil (FICCO/RO) executed arrest and search warrants against a gang suspected of electronic fraud and money laundering. The criminal organization is accused of using cryptocurrency exchanges to hide illegal funds transferred from the original victims' accounts.A case investigated in 2025 resulted in losses of approximately $5.74 million. The court has issued 8 preventive arrest warrants and 18 search warrants, and authorized the freezing of related assets such as cryptocurrency exchange and bank accounts. In addition to targeting securities accounts, the law also mandates the seizure of vehicles and boats belonging to the individuals under investigation.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the event "Kai and Speed complete the Minecraft challenge" on the prediction market Polymarket, the probability of the "yes" option in the sub-market "August 16" has experienced a sharp fluctuation, rising from 24% an hour ago to the current 41.5% (a fluctuation of 17.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

ChianCatcher news, Solana Foundation Chair Lily Liu tweeted that the foundation's work revolves around two main goals: attracting top talent and capital to Solana. Capital and talent are interdependent and mutually prerequisite. She pointed out that "king-making" is shortsighted and self-limiting, and that "trustworthy neutrality" is feasible in code, but insufficient when applied to humans who require judgment. The foundation's principle is to be open to talent: actively promoting competition and letting the market decide the outcome. No one can rise above the market.Regarding perpetual contracts, the foundation has always supported diversity among builders, and the recent efforts include making the perpetual plan and cutting-edge trader program public. It is not true that only one team on Solana can build fully on-chain perpetual contracts; several teams have recently challenged this. A fully on-chain architecture is more valuable for DeFi and Solana's future. The foundation does not determine success or failure; the market does.

Elon Musk posted that he roughly estimates that about 25% of TeraFab's AI computing output will be used for Tesla Optimus, and about 75% will be used for AI spacecraft.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that new community honeypot tests show that attackers are still prioritizing wallets that are most easily exploited due to the Coldcard Mk3 RNG vulnerability.Researcher @ColeTU injected funds into 5 affected Mk3 wallets: 1 using only the vulnerable mnemonic, 3 protected by BIP39 passphrases of 1, 2, and 3 words respectively, and another using a random account number. After 14 hours, only the unprotected wallet using just the mnemonic had its funds transferred away. According to @jamesob's real-time tripwire dashboard, currently only 2 out of 17 honeypot wallets have been emptied. The emptied wallets have been confirmed not to have added extra entropy, while all wallets protected by dice rolls, passphrases, multisig, or other complexities remain untouched.The test results indicate that attackers are currently focusing on the wallets that are easiest to brute-force rather than investing resources in strengthening targets, but affected users should still migrate their funds immediately instead of relying on temporary protections.

According to Dealstreetasia, Singapore-based AI infrastructure startup Acrab announced the completion of a $130 million Series B funding round, with participation from Vertex Growth and others. To date, the total funding raised has exceeded $480 million.The company has built a full-stack AI computing platform that includes self-developed chips, edge AI models, and software orchestration to support the real-time operation and task execution of AI Agents. The new funds will be used to expand product capacity, enhance the technology ecosystem, and accelerate the development of the next-generation AI computing platform.

According to the Hong Kong Wen Wei Po, the Hong Kong Police Commercial Crime Bureau, together with the Macao Judiciary Police, launched a cross-border joint law enforcement operation codenamed "Junli" from August 1 to 3, successfully cracking down on a fraud criminal group that claimed to be involved in virtual currency investment.The Hong Kong police arrested 1 man and 5 women (aged 51 to 64) on charges of "conspiracy to commit fraud," with those involved including company directors, shareholders, company secretaries, and key promotional members; the Macao Judiciary Police also arrested 2 women involved in the case on charges of "aggravated fraud." As of August 3, the Hong Kong police had received a total of 225 reports, with losses amounting to approximately 94 million Hong Kong dollars; the Macao police received 9 reports, involving losses of about 3.6 million Macao patacas, totaling over 97 million.

According to South Korean media Asiae, the operator of the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit, Dunamu, announced that it has made an additional investment in the medical big data company Inocras through its investment subsidiary Dunamu & Partners, bringing the total investment amount to 14.5 billion Korean won.

Former hedge fund manager and CNBC host Jim Cramer stated that due to concerns about quantum computing threatening Bitcoin's security, he plans to sell all of his BTC holdings. His statement stems from an interview with IBM Chairman and CEO Arvind Krishna, who said that investors should be wary of the challenges quantum computing may pose to modern cryptography in the next 3 to 4 years. Cramer believes that quantum computing could threaten the Bitcoin network in a similar timeframe. However, no one has independently confirmed how much BTC he holds or whether he has completed the sale.After his statement, Bitcoin continued to trade normally around $63,764, with some market participants viewing his comments as a "reverse Cramer" signal. Bitcoin uses the ECDSA signature mechanism based on the secp256k1 curve, and theoretically, a sufficiently powerful quantum computer could use Shor's algorithm to derive the private key from the public key. The risk is mainly concentrated on addresses with exposed public keys, including reused addresses, early wallet formats, and the brief time window after a transaction is broadcast but not yet confirmed. Researchers estimate that about 6 to 7 million BTC, accounting for approximately 30% of the supply, may fall into this category. Google Quantum AI estimated in March this year that breaking the relevant cryptographic mechanisms could require fewer than 500,000 physical qubits, reducing the previous estimate by about 20 times. However, current quantum systems typically only have hundreds to thousands of physical qubits, with even fewer logical qubits that have higher reliability. Most researchers expect that truly capable quantum computers for cryptographic breaking may not appear until the 2030s or even 2040s, making Cramer's 3-year prediction significantly earlier than most technological expectations.

The Thai Immigration Bureau recently issued a warning, pointing out that while the cross-border trade of amulets is thriving, it is being exploited by gray capital networks as a money laundering channel.From online gambling, telecom fraud to drug smuggling, some illegal proceeds are being disguised as legitimate business income through means such as amulet trading, fake auctions, temple rentals, and cryptocurrency peer-to-peer transfers.

Bitgo CEO Mike Belshe deposited 100 BTC into a public Bitcoin address, valued at approximately $6.3 million at the time, and invited the Claude model under Anthropic to attempt to transfer the funds from that address. On-chain records show that the wallet received the funds on July 31, and the balance has not been transferred out.Anthropic previously disclosed that during 141,006 cybersecurity assessment runs, 3 incidents were found, with 6 assessment sessions involving 3 models unexpectedly interacting with real organizational systems. The relevant models include Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5, and an unpublished internal research model, due to configuration errors by third-party testing partner Irregular that caused the testing environment to connect to the internet.Anthropic stated that Claude Opus 4.7 identified a real website sharing the same name as a simulated company during one assessment, exploited weak passwords and exposed services to recover infrastructure credentials, and accessed a production database containing hundreds of records. The company claimed that the model was attempting to complete assigned tasks and was not actively breaking restrictions or pursuing independent goals. Belshe's challenge involved the Bitgo institutional custody platform, which uses multi-signature or multi-party computation technology to distribute signing authority across multiple independent keys. Anthropic has not publicly responded to this challenge.

According to the Korea Herald, in order to combat drug trafficking using virtual assets, the South Korean police have established a specialized virtual asset tracking and investigation team consisting of 41 members, and have intensified investigations into drug sales networks on platforms such as Telegram since August 3.In the first half of this year, South Korea conducted large-scale crackdowns from March to June, arresting a total of 5,203 drug offenders and detaining 1,039 individuals; compared to the same period last year, the number of arrests increased by 94 (an increase of 1.8%), and the number of detentions increased by 75 (an increase of 7.8%).

According to Jinshi, since the end of June, margin loans for stock trading in South Korea have fallen by more than 10%. The assets under management of leveraged ETFs linked to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix plummeted from over $11 billion on June 25 to $4.1 billion, mainly due to the decline in the prices of related stocks. In addition, the funds flowing into such funds over the past two weeks have also turned negative.Ivan Feinseth, Chief Investment Officer of Tigress Financial Partners, stated that large-scale deleveraging is usually a healthy and necessary market adjustment.

According to the Financial Times, Situational Awareness, an AI-themed hedge fund founded by 25-year-old former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, is seeking new funding following significant losses due to a sharp correction in AI-related stocks.In recent communications, Aschenbrenner acknowledged the increased market volatility, describing it as a new investment opportunity and encouraging investors to inject new capital. The fund's heavy investments in AI data centers, power, storage, and GPU cloud-related assets have seen significant declines during this round of AI capital expenditure deal pullback.

According to Jinshi reports, the Polish armed forces stated that due to Russia's airstrikes on Ukraine, Poland has deployed fighter jets for protective reasons.

Fox Business crypto reporter Eleanor Terrett posted on the X platform that the crypto industry hopes Republican senators in the United States will push the Clarity Act into the voting process this week and seek support from the Democrats.

According to Jinshi reports, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard used ballistic missiles to strike U.S. military aircraft located at Aqaba Airport in Jordan.

According to Jinshi reports, the United States is preparing to expand its operations against Iran by deploying about 100 refueling aircraft to the Middle East.Israeli defense agencies are preparing for a potential significant escalation in the region.

According to Jinshi reports, the U.S. military is redeploying forces to the Middle East, with 5 aerial refueling aircraft already heading to Israel, and dozens more reinforcements to follow.