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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.

According to Decrypt, the Dutch prosecution has sold the seized crypto assets from the bankrupt cryptocurrency platform Knaken, raising approximately $2.5 million to repay creditors.The bankruptcy trustee stated that the funds invested by clients are estimated to be between $12 million and $14 million, and the proceeds from the sale are currently the main available funds in the bankruptcy estate.

On August 17, according to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, JPMorgan increased its holdings in Zhongji Xuchuang H shares on August 12, raising its stake from 15.91% to 16.14%, with an average purchase price of HKD 1084.91.During the same period, JPMorgan increased its holdings in Luxshare Precision H shares, raising its stake from 7.99% to 8.36%, with an average transaction price of HKD 63.67.

Phillip Securities maintains a "Sell" rating on SpaceX (SPCX.O), with a target price of $75. The agency remains cautious about high capital expenditures, the concentration of AI clients, and temporary cloud service contracts, believing that clients need to make longer-term business commitments to drive a revaluation.

According to the official announcement, the Hyperliquid HIP-3 market's open interest (OI) has reached a historic high of $4.3 billion.In addition, Hyperliquid stated that it will expand the HIP-1 specification based on community feedback and has added relevant features for HIP-4; the non-validator nodes of the Hyper Foundation are now open to high-quality infrastructure providers and can serve as reliable peer nodes. Regarding HyperEVM and HyperCore, Buoy Finance has deployed a vault system for HyperCore trading through the HyperEVM customized vault.

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.

Synthetix tweeted that the previously passed SIP-423 proposal has achieved its main goals, including the deprecation of the native stablecoin sUSD, the restructuring of the Debt Jubilee, and the reform of the SNX staking mechanism. The new SNX will be minted at a 4:1 ratio with sUSD, with the conversion including a 1-year lock-up period and a 1-year unlocking period. The original supply was 344,939,867.56 SNX, with an additional minting of 236,464,356 SNX, bringing the new total supply to 581,404,223.56 SNX.Synthetix stated that SIP-423 is a "hard reset" that allows the protocol to break free from internal dependencies and focus on making Synthetix a perpetual contract trading venue on the Ethereum mainnet.

The B.AI platform officially announces that the DeepSeek-V4-Flash model has launched a limited-time free and unrestricted service on both Web Chat and API, allowing developers and regular users to access top-tier computing power at no cost. At the same time, the platform is rolling out multiple benefits: new users who log in through Binance Wallet, BitgetWallet, or imToken can receive 1 million Credits, and by entering an invitation code, they can get an additional 300,000, for a total of up to 1.3 million in free credits; recharging can also earn up to $100 in points rebates, and inviting friends to register can enjoy long-term rebate rights. B.AI will continue to release promotional benefits in the future, lowering the innovation threshold for AI applications.

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.

On August 17, WEEX announced the official launch of the sixth phase of "Contract Mining," with the event running from 8/17 14:00 to 9/6 23:59:59 (UTC+8), and a total prize pool valued at 1 million USDT. During the event, users can earn real-time fee rebates in WXT by engaging in contract trading. The larger the cumulative contract trading volume, the higher the miner level, and the higher the rebate ratio.While continuing the core gameplay of "Contract Mining," the sixth phase introduces a new "Treasure Map" exploration feature: users can complete tasks such as recharging, trading, upgrading miner levels, and inviting friends to earn treasure map fragments. Collecting fragments can unlock the treasure map and claim corresponding rewards. Additionally, users can participate in leaderboard competition based on their cumulative trading volume during the event to share in extra USDT rewards.

Goldman Sachs stated that as U.S. inflation is cooling, market expectations for the Federal Reserve's interest rate hikes remain overly aggressive. Goldman Sachs Chief Economist Jan Hatzius pointed out that weak retail sales data, disappointing employment data, and continuously slowing inflation data make the likelihood of an interest rate hike at the Fed's September meeting extremely low.The market has pushed back expectations for the next 25 basis point rate hike to January of next year.

The AQAv2 stablecoin model protocol of Hyperliquid has previously received support from 19 out of 26 validators, and the relevant mechanism is expected to officially start accruing yields on August 26. Meanwhile, Circle has transferred approximately $4.4 billion USDC to Coinbase via the AQAv2 mechanism on HyperEVM, setting a record for the largest single USDC transfer on HyperEVM.If everything proceeds as planned, the yields generated by AQAv2 will begin accruing on August 26, with the first payment expected to enter the Assistance Fund on October 3. AQAv2 (Aligned Quote Asset v2) is a stablecoin mechanism announced by Hyperliquid in May this year, allowing stablecoins, including USDC, which are not exclusively issued by Hyperliquid, to qualify as "Aligned." According to public information, most of the stablecoin yields from AQAv2 will be returned to the Hyperliquid ecosystem, with 90% of the yields allocated to the relevant mechanism, and subsequently, 100% used for the buyback and destruction of HYPE tokens.Coinbase has been designated as the fund deployment party, while Circle is responsible for technical deployment, and both parties will also stake HYPE to participate in the mechanism. The mechanism previously required stablecoins to be exclusive assets of Hyperliquid, but AQAv2 has removed this restriction and will focus on the HIP-4 standardized market and the perpetual contract market operated by validators. According to relevant public disclosures, AQAv2 is expected to generate up to approximately $200 million in revenue and further enhance token value capture through the HYPE buyback and destruction mechanism.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the "Brazil Presidential Election" event is currently among the hottest trading topics on the prediction market Polymarket, with a cumulative pool size reaching $1.255 billion. The option with the highest market consensus is "Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva," corresponding to a winning probability of about 65.5%.

According to the official announcement, the Gate event market has recently launched a leaderboard incentive system and simultaneously launched an esports section and the "Five Major Leagues Opening Celebration" event, further expanding diverse interactive scenarios in sports and esports. The first phase of the points activity will officially start on August 17 at 18:00 (UTC+8). Users can participate after upgrading the Gate App to version v8.32 or above. The activity adopts the mechanism of "Earn Cards through Trading --- Scratch Cards for Rewards --- Climb the Leaderboard --- Weekly Settlement," where users can obtain scratch cards by completing valid event contract trades and have the chance to receive rewards such as USDT, event points, and experience vouchers; the top 100 users on the weekly leaderboard can also share the points prize pool based on their rankings.At the same time, the Gate esports section aggregates popular events such as Dota 2, League of Legends, CS2, and Valorant, providing match pairings, real-time scores, prediction probabilities, and trading information, and supports event subscriptions and match start reminders, helping users conveniently browse and participate in event interactions.In addition, from August 12 at 16:00 to August 31 at 16:00 (UTC+8), Gate is launching the "Five Major Leagues Kickoff Carnival" event, with a total prize pool of 200,000 USDT. Users participating in designated football event contracts can receive kickoff gifts, loss compensation, and leaderboard rewards, further enhancing the interactive experience of football events and event contracts.

The non-profit Ethereum development lab Ethlabs published an article outlining its priority recommendations for Ethereum's next network upgrade, Hegotá. Ethlabs listed the following directions as top priorities: strengthening censorship resistance (EIP-7805 FOCIL has been confirmed as the top proposal); making Ethereum faster (suggesting the addition of EIP-8198 Quick Slots to reduce slot time and improve confirmation speed and finality); native account abstraction (recommending EIP-8141 Frame Transactions to support Passkey wallets, ERC20 Gas payments, batch transactions, and privacy, etc.); continuous L1 scaling (recommending EIP-8131 and EIP-8279 to enhance capacity and predictability).