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According to Gate market data, SpaceX rose to an intraday high, with an increase of 5.8%.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has released a proposed rulemaking notice for the implementation of the GENIUS Act and is seeking public comments on the regulatory framework for payment stablecoins in the United States. The draft focuses on clarifying the applicable standards for "issuing payment stablecoins in the United States" and "offering or selling payment stablecoins to individuals within the United States," to assist issuers and digital asset service providers in determining licensing and compliance obligations.According to the provisions of the Act, starting from January 18, 2027, issuing payment stablecoins in the United States will generally require federal or state-level licensing; starting from July 18, 2028, digital asset service providers will generally be prohibited from offering or selling payment stablecoins issued by unlicensed issuers to individuals within the United States. The public comment period will last for 60 days following the publication in the Federal Register.

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.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that the Treasury is rapidly advancing the implementation of the GENIUS Act. Bessent pointed out that the expected effective date of the Act is January 18, 2027, and the Treasury has begun arrangements accordingly.The GENIUS Act is an important federal legislation in the U.S. aimed at payment stablecoins, designed to clarify issuance, reserve, and regulatory requirements, providing a unified framework for compliant U.S. dollar stablecoins. Bessent's statement indicates that the U.S. Treasury is accelerating the preparation of supporting rules and execution in accordance with the statutory timetable to ensure the Act is operational before the effective date.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, Bitcoin treasury company Strategy (MSTR) currently holds 840,447 BTC ($53.452 billion), with an average cost of $75,385, resulting in an unrealized loss of $9.904 billion (-15.6%).Ethereum treasury company Bitmine (BMNR) purchased 9,926 ETH (approximately $18.77 million) last week at a price of about $1,891. They now hold a total of 5,815,164 ETH ($11.06 billion), with an average cost of $3,366, resulting in an unrealized loss of $8.513 billion (-43.5%).

NVIDIA stated that the Ports-Pike project will create tens of thousands of jobs and establish an $80 million community fund.

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).

NVIDIA announced it will invest $1.5 billion in SB Energy, a subsidiary of SoftBank, and ensure that the Ports-Pike Technology Park in Ohio is dedicated to supporting its artificial intelligence computing business.According to the agreement, SB Energy will operate the data center under a 20-year lease agreement signed with OpenAI, which will become a customer of the project's 8 IT gigawatt capacity; NVIDIA will also provide credit support for the project's first 4.25 IT gigawatt phase and retain the option to add an additional 3.75 IT gigawatt capacity.The Ports-Pike project is expected to create tens of thousands of jobs and establish an $80 million community fund, with OpenAI also contributing an additional $40 million to the community welfare fund. Meanwhile, market news indicates that after reaching a deal with NVIDIA, Groq's valuation in the new round of financing has reached $3.5 billion.

The Hyperliquid Policy Center announced that it has submitted a joint comment letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) with Douro Labs, supporting the proposal to repeal Regulation NMS Rule 611 (the "Trade-Through Rule") and calling on regulators to establish a clearer best execution regulatory framework for on-chain markets.The Hyperliquid Policy Center believes that the current trade-through rule is clearly incompatible with blockchain-native trading models, which are based on traditional securities market structures, and has proposed three recommendations: support the SEC in repealing the trade-through rule, the SEC should establish clear best execution guidance for on-chain trading, and the regulatory framework should adopt a principles-based approach and recognize independent price reference mechanisms.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, two newly created wallets withdrew 20,007 BNB from Binance 7 hours ago, worth approximately 12.1 million USD.

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.

According to the 8-K document submitted by Strategy to the U.S. SEC, the company did not purchase Bitcoin from August 10 to 16, 2026, maintaining a position of 840,447 coins, with a total holding cost of approximately $6.336 billion and an average cost of about $75,385.During the same period, the company sold MSTR common stock through its ATM program, raising approximately $333.7 million in net proceeds, part of which was used to replenish dollar reserves, repurchase STRC preferred stock, and pay STRC dividends. As of August 16, the company's dollar reserve balance was $4.8 billion, a decrease of about $200 million from the previous week.

According to Bloomberg, ultra-high-net-worth family offices from the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East are significantly increasing their investments in SpaceX, with total exposure reaching approximately $3.8 billion, indicating that private wealth institutions are vying for investment opportunities in this rocket, satellite, and artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk.Among them, the family office of Hyatt Hotels heir Nick Pritzker holds an investment position in SpaceX valued at approximately $1.8 billion.

The ULTRA Web3 Festival successfully concluded on July 30-31 at The Arch Galeries in Kuala Lumpur. As the core site of the "Global Series Conference Integrating Web3, Traditional Finance, and Artificial Intelligence," this two-day summit brought together international builders, business leaders, and institutional investors to build a bridge between decentralized technology and traditional markets.The success of the Kuala Lumpur event was attributed to the support of a wide range of visionary alliances and industry-leading sponsors, including Pudgy Penguins, Orca, DDNEXUS, Alpha Insight, AI Nova, Decentralized Intelligence, SuperFlow, CloudBank, Morpheus, Razer, ChainUp, DYLI, Saat Dimensi, Oper8 Capital, Lavo Protocol, WageFlow, Echobit Exchange, LifyX Exchange, X18, and Starshine. Additionally, the event further expanded its influence through strategic collaboration with key ecosystem partners such as Access Blockchain Association, CCACC, Emerge Group, Global Impact Fintech, Web3Labs, and ADI Foundation.It is reported that the ULTRA Web3 Festival is set to enter the South Korean market, partnering with Web3Labs as the official global business partner to appear at the second Global Web3 Developers Conference (GWDC 2026 Korea). The conference is scheduled to take place on September 29-30 at the aT Center in Seoul, where both parties will promote cross-border collaboration, technology exchange, and drive international business growth in the Asia-Pacific region.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "Bitcoin breaks through on August 17" on the prediction market Polymarket, the probability of the "Yes" option in the sub-market "64,000" has experienced significant fluctuations, soaring from 4.5% an hour ago to the current 19.95% (a fluctuation of 15.45%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

The macro hedge fund Tudor Investment, founded by billionaire Paul Tudor Jones, holds 688,529 shares of BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT), with a market value of approximately $22.9 million as of June 30, an increase of 18.9% from the end of the first quarter, ending a year-long trend of reduction.Tudor Investment also reduced its corresponding holdings in call options linked to IBIT from 998,000 shares to about 148,000 shares, a decrease of approximately 85%, while the put options position remained roughly flat. The 13F filing did not disclose the options' strike prices and expiration dates. Tudor Investment once held over 8 million shares of IBIT at the end of 2024, followed by a continuous reduction. Paul Tudor Jones has long viewed Bitcoin as an asset to hedge against inflation, and IBIT currently accounts for about 49% of the assets in U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs.

According to The Block, Bitcoin mining company HIVE Digital Technologies has signed a five-year GPU cloud service agreement worth approximately $350 million through its subsidiary BUZZ High-Performance Computing, with a client that has not been disclosed as an investment-grade enterprise.The contract is expected to add approximately $70 million in annual revenue for HIVE, bringing BUZZ HPC's total annual revenue to about $180 million.

The Ethereum Foundation's DevOps team announced the launch of the Platåberget testnet as an early public testing environment for the Glamsterdam (Gloas + Amsterdam) upgrade. This testnet is open to the community and is planned to run for several months, providing developers with a stable experimental platform to identify and fix issues before the upgrade is deployed to long-term testnets like Sepolia and Hoodi. The Glamsterdam hard fork is scheduled to activate on August 20 on this testnet.The Glamsterdam upgrade includes several significant changes to both the consensus layer and execution layer, including built-in proposer-builder separation (ePBS), block-level access lists (BALs), gas repricing targeting approximately 200 million gas, an increase in the maximum contract deployment size from 24KiB to 64KiB, an increase in the initcode limit from 48KiB to 128KiB, and forward-compatible consensus data structures. Relevant EIPs are summarized in meta EIP-7773. Gas repricing will affect wallets, indexers, and gas estimation tools, and any tools with hard-coded maximum gas limits will need to be updated; EIP-8037 also introduces an independent state gas dimension, where new accounts or writing to new storage slots will be charged by state bytes.The Platåberget validator set is small and allows public participation, supporting deposits from validators or builders submitted through the Dora browser. The testnet provides one-click resources to add networks, faucets, and client images. The community can provide feedback on issues in the Ethereum R&D Discord and related specification repositories.

According to Coinglass data, if ETH falls below $1,803, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on major CEXs will reach $665 million. Conversely, if ETH breaks above $1,985, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on major CEXs will reach $533 million.

According to Coinglass data, if BTC falls below $60,291, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on major CEXs will reach $747 million. Conversely, if BTC breaks above $66,271, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on major CEXs will reach $643 million.