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The French Minister of Finance confirmed that hackers breached the French Public Finance Directorate system at the end of June and stole personal and corporate taxpayer data. According to the platform FrenchBreaches, which tracks cyberattacks in France, this incident affected approximately 678,437 people, equivalent to about 1% of the French population, but the exact number is still under investigation and has not been finally confirmed.The leaked data reportedly includes sensitive information such as names, birth dates, home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, tax identification information, and income data. Among them, nearly 27,000 individuals had tax incomes of at least 100,000 euros, 386 exceeded 1 million euros, and another 8 exceeded 10 million euros. Reports indicate that the database has been sold on the dark web market for thousands of euros. The attackers, calling themselves ZeroBytes, claimed they extracted the relevant records using an internal search tool, which was only discovered later when access was cut off.This incident has raised concerns in the cryptocurrency industry, as there has been a noticeable increase in "wrench attack" violent robbery incidents targeting cryptocurrency holders in France in recent years. If high-income individuals' addresses and contact information are leaked, it could provide criminals with a more precise target list.

SpaceX merged with Cursor effective August 14.

The Nanya Plastics Electronic Materials Division has issued a price increase notice due to a severe imbalance in supply and demand in the global electronic materials market, with core raw material prices continuously rising across the board. The shortage of glass fabric is particularly severe, and procurement costs are uncontrollably rising. The company has decided to increase the prices of copper foil substrates (CCL) and prepreg by 20% to 25%, effective September 1. This is one of the larger-scale price adjustments in the upstream materials industry for PCBs recently. Copper foil substrates are core raw materials for printed circuit boards, and their price fluctuations will directly impact the PCB and downstream electronic terminal industries. The notice is based on the shipping date and will take effect from September 1. Nanya Plastics stated that it will continue to monitor supply chain dynamics and respond to changes in the market environment.

According to BeInCrypto, Nasdaq-listed company Forward Industries reported a net loss of $69 million for the third quarter of fiscal year 2026, primarily due to impairment losses resulting from fair value adjustments of its Solana assets in accordance with U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. The company held approximately 7.55 million SOL at the end of the quarter, with the per-share SOL holding increasing by 9% quarter-over-quarter to 0.073; during the quarter, it increased its holdings by over 500,000 SOL through purchases and staking, and repurchased 2.5 million shares of stock.Revenue for the quarter increased more than fourfold year-over-year to $10.8 million, mainly from SOL staking and other financial services income. As of August 3, the company held approximately 7.8 million SOL, with the per-share SOL holding rising to 0.0754. After the earnings report was released, FWDI's stock price fell slightly by 1.36% in after-hours trading.

Grayscale's research director Zach Pandl released a report stating that despite the recent pressure on Bitcoin's price, Grayscale believes its adoption rate will continue to rise in the medium to long term for three reasons:First, the unsustainable growth of U.S. government debt is raising inflation and currency devaluation risks, which may drive various investors towards scarce assets and value storage tools; second, stablecoins and tokenization will make blockchain ubiquitous in financial services. As technology spreads, more intermediaries will have the infrastructure and regulatory conditions necessary to hold and trade Bitcoin, and Bitcoin will no longer be structurally isolated from the mainstream financial system; third, younger investors show a significantly higher preference for digital assets, and alternative investments have become a standard component of investment portfolios. Institutions, wealth management platforms, and individuals will continue to incorporate Bitcoin into diversified portfolios through tools such as exchange-traded products, a process that is already underway.Grayscale emphasizes that this bear market has not changed its expectations for the continued rise in Bitcoin's adoption rate.

Hawaii will implement a cryptocurrency ATM ban effective October 1, becoming the fourth state in the United States to enact such a ban, aimed at addressing the significant losses caused by digital asset fraud.

According to The Block, Tether-backed Bitcoin treasury company Twenty One Capital (NYSE: XXI) announced its financial performance for the second quarter of 2026, reporting a net loss of $413.5 million, primarily due to the decline in the value of its Bitcoin holdings. The financial report shows that approximately $401.5 million of Twenty One Capital's second-quarter losses came from the decline in the book value of its Bitcoin assets.As the company uses Bitcoin as its core asset allocation, BTC price fluctuations directly impact its financial performance. New CEO Raphael Zagury stated that Twenty One Capital cannot exist solely as a "Bitcoin treasury company" in the future but needs to transform into a broader financial services platform.Zagury proposed that the company's next phase will focus on three main directions, including: expanding its business landscape through mergers and acquisitions; enhancing financing capabilities using capital market tools; and exploring Bitcoin-collateralized loan services.

Economists say that the mixed July employment report released last week has heightened the importance of inflation data. LPL Financial Chief Economist Jeffrey Roach pointed out that the path of the Federal Reserve's interest rate hikes will depend on how long inflation remains elevated.Vanguard analyst Hicklin believes that the July employment report and the expected improvement in inflation will strengthen the Federal Reserve's reasons to hold steady before the end of the year. Recent data releases have bolstered market confidence that the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates unchanged this year.

Regarding the abnormal and severe fluctuations in the perpetual contract market for TUT (TUTUSDT), Lobster (LobsterUSDT), and BICO (BICOUSDT) on August 9, 2026, Gate has promptly initiated a special review and risk control investigation. To protect users' legitimate rights and interests, Gate will provide full USDT compensation to affected users who meet the compensation criteria. The platform has opened a special processing channel, and affected users can contact Gate through official channels such as VIP account managers and online customer service. The platform will assist in implementing the compensation plan within three working days and will distribute the compensation amount to users' spot accounts.Gate stated that user rights are always the core focus of the platform, and it will continue to strengthen the identification of abnormal trading, risk control in low liquidity markets, dynamic management of risk parameters, and the construction of pricing and settlement mechanisms, further enhancing the platform's risk prevention capabilities and market governance level. Gate is committed to creating a fair, transparent, and secure trading environment, continuously listening to user feedback, and working with the community to maintain a healthy and stable market ecosystem.

Bitget's head of Greater China, Xie Jiayin, issued a statement indicating that in response to the abnormal price marking incident involving TUT and two other trading pairs on August 9, Bitget will compensate affected users who meet the criteria, with a total compensation amount of nearly 40 million USD. The compensation will be calculated based on the user's account equity at 15:00 on that day, addressing related losses caused by forced liquidation of short positions during the period of abnormal price fluctuations.Xie Jiayin also stated that Bitget will continue to uphold the concept of "a warm exchange," ensuring the protection of user rights for retail, VIP, and institutional clients alike. After handling the incident, the platform will continue to review and promote the continuous iteration of products and related mechanisms.

Starting from August 10, hotel orders placed through the Doubao entrance that redirect to Douyin Laike will begin to execute independent rates, with a software service fee of 11.4%, a payment processing fee of 0.6%, and a comprehensive rate of approximately 12%. This policy is implemented based on the "2026 Douyin Life Service Platform Specific Channel Software Service Fee Policy Explanation" released by the Douyin Life Service Learning Center on July 27, and is effective from August 10, 2026.According to industry insiders, the relevant notification has been communicated to merchants through the Douyin Laike backend. The software service fee is based on the "actual amount paid by the user plus platform general coupons and other subsidies." Specific channels include Doubao, and the specific rates are implemented based on differentiated standards according to merchant type, product category, and transaction channel. Whether an order belongs to a specific channel is subject to the display on the settlement statement.

UPBIT will launch CYS on August 10 at 14:00, supporting BTC and USDT trading pairs. Users must complete their deposits within 2 hours after the announcement is made. As of the time of publication, the price of CYS has increased by over 20%, currently quoted at $0.979.

According to the "China Securities Journal," at the online investor communication meeting for the Sci-Tech Innovation Board listing of Yushu Technology, an investor asked, what impact does the U.S. robot sales ban have? Fu Fenghua, the secretary of the board of Yushu Technology, responded that the main models currently on sale include humanoid robots G1, H2, R1, and quadruped robots Go2, B2, A2, all of which have obtained FCC certification and fall under the advanced robotic equipment mentioned in the previous announcement. Therefore, the aforementioned policy change will not affect the continued sales of the company's existing main products in the U.S. market.

Ahmed Shihab, Chief Product Officer of Western Digital, stated that the key to AI storage competition is not simply pursuing the fastest medium, but whether it can continuously scale capacity at an affordable cost. He believes that many architectures run well in the early stages, but when the data scale grows from several PB to hundreds of PB or even EB levels, issues may arise due to uncontrolled costs.Flash storage is suitable for high-performance, low-latency scenarios such as model weights, GPU overflow, KV caches, and session contexts; HDDs are more suitable for large-scale, long-term storage, and cost-sensitive data such as training corpora, logs, checkpoints, compliance records, synthetic data, and inference outputs. He summarized: "Flash handles the present, HDD handles the entire lifecycle."At the scale of AI, storage costs themselves will become an architectural issue. Long-term storage of large volumes of data on high-performance media will crowd out budgets for computing, networking, power, and personnel. For many bulk storage workloads, the issue is not whether flash can store, but whether customers can afford the total cost of using flash in the long term.In the future, AI storage will not be dominated by a single technology, but should be designed in layers based on performance, cost, power consumption, density, reliability, and data lifecycle. He emphasized that this is not a competition between flash and HDD, but rather a need to match the appropriate medium for different workloads from the very beginning; otherwise, the architecture may impact business sustainability as it scales.

U.S. Treasury bonds faced pressure in the New York morning session. Google announced the launch of a 10-part bond issuance, dragging down the long end of the yield curve and pushing the 2s10s and 5s30s spreads to intraday highs. On the short end, reports indicated that if inflation data released in the coming weeks is hotter than expected, Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Walsh "will be prepared to raise rates at the September meeting."Following the report, short-term U.S. Treasury yields rose. U.S. Treasury yields increased across the board by 3 to 4 basis points, with long-term bonds leading the decline, and the 2s10s and 5s30s spreads steepening by about 1 basis point to their widest intraday levels. The yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury rose to about 4.65%, up 3.5 basis points on the day.Google's bond issuance covers multiple maturities, with the shortest being 2 years and the longest being 40 years. The interest rate market is currently pricing in about 15 basis points of rate hike expectations for September, with cumulative rate hike expectations of about 33 basis points by the end of the year.

According to Bloomberg, the UAE is considering investing up to 1 trillion yen (approximately 6.3 billion USD) in the construction of an artificial intelligence data center, led by the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Co. The project is planned to be located in Akita Prefecture in northern Japan, with a planned installed capacity of 500 megawatts, and may involve other domestic and foreign investors participating together.Currently, this information has not been publicly disclosed, and relevant details are still in the evaluation stage.

According to Daum, after South Korea's financial regulatory authorities raised the base margin for domestic and foreign single-stock leveraged products from 10 million won in securities to 30 million won in pure cash starting July 31, South Korean retail investors began to rapidly adjust their portfolios.According to data from the Korea Securities Depository, Tesla's 2x leveraged product TSLL recorded a net purchase of 14.58 million USD on August 3, but the purchase amount on the 4th plummeted from the previous day's 15.6 million USD to 1.56 million USD, while the selling amount rose to 8.68 million USD, resulting in a net sell of 7.11 million USD for the day. During the same period, Tesla's spot net purchases reached 42.3 million USD, more than five times the net purchase amount of TSLL.Micron Technology and SanDisk also showed similar divergence—Micron's 2x leveraged product flipped from a net purchase of 10.81 million USD on the 3rd to a net sell of 15.98 million USD on the 4th, while SanDisk's 2x leveraged product changed from a net purchase of 17.74 million USD to a net sell of 33.74 million USD. Meanwhile, the spot net inflows for the two companies were 148 million USD and 145 million USD, respectively, indicating a significant trend of funds shifting from leveraged tools to the underlying stocks.The tightened regulations require that the base margin must be paid in cash, with alternative securities such as stocks, ETFs, and bonds no longer counted, and existing investors must also meet the new standards when making additional purchases; selling is unrestricted, but the funds from sales must be settled after T+2 days before they can be counted as cash margin.The new rules were originally planned to be implemented in phases in August, but due to concerns that limiting it to Korean products would lead to a capital influx into overseas leveraged products like Tesla and Nvidia, creating a balloon effect, South Korean regulators moved the implementation date up to July 31 and simultaneously covered both domestic and foreign products.South Korean investors have reacted strongly, believing that extending measures aimed at local market volatility to overseas products constitutes excessive intervention, and that only South Korean investors must meet the 30 million won cash threshold, putting them at a disadvantage in global competition.

According to TASS, Russian President Putin signed a law on August 4 that implements comprehensive regulation for the circulation of digital currencies and digital rights within Russia for the first time. This law establishes an operational framework for cryptocurrency exchanges, digital custodians, and market participants, while also regulating cryptocurrency mining and the issuance and circulation of digital financial assets (DFA).Key points include: cryptocurrency exchanges must be included in a special register to operate (with a transition period until July 1, 2027), and the minimum registered capital requirement is 15 million rubles (approximately $187,000); the use of cryptocurrency for payment of goods and services remains prohibited domestically, but it is allowed for cross-border trade settlements and mining income; non-qualified investors have a purchase limit of 300,000 rubles (approximately $3,700) per year per intermediary, while qualified investors are not subject to restrictions; banks have the right to freeze funds involved in unauthorized cryptocurrency transactions. The core provisions of the law will officially take effect on September 1, 2026, with some provisions being implemented in batches on July 1 and September 1, 2027.

The Coldcard hardware wallet attack has expanded to approximately $116 million, with attackers transferring 1,816 BTC from over 5,200 addresses. Galaxy Research confirmed that a fourth wave of transfers has occurred, with this wave alone transferring about 449 BTC after adjustments.Alex Thorn, head of Galaxy Research, stated that the latest activity may be "the fourth round of organized theft," with a transfer rate reaching 13.8 transactions per block, which is about 45 times the baseline level before the incident. Their analysis suggests that the related patterns indicate multiple groups may be scanning the affected key space in parallel. The root of the incident can be traced back to a 2021 firmware update for some Coldcard devices, which changed the wallet seed generation process from a hardware random source to a predictable software model. The Canadian manufacturer Coinkite recommends that users who generated wallet seeds on Coldcard devices transfer their funds to a new secure wallet as soon as possible.