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Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella stated that we need to accelerate AI development and expand the benefits brought by AI so that it can widely benefit different countries, communities, and businesses. This requires the establishment of a cutting-edge ecosystem that allows both closed-source and open-source models to thrive.

Bonk Guy fiercely criticized the token project related to Hunter Biden's "LAPTOP," stating that after further observation of the situation following the token's launch, he believes the project clearly exhibits speculative behavior of "wanting to extract profits while knowing very little about the crypto industry."Bonk Guy particularly questioned the fully diluted valuation (FDV) of up to $100 billion after the token's launch, bluntly stating that this valuation is "absurd to the extreme," and questioned why Hunter Biden himself would become the narrative core of the crypto market. He pointed out that the public's attention on Hunter Biden largely stems from the numerous controversies he sparked during his father Joe Biden's presidency, while the Biden administration has generally taken a relatively tough regulatory stance on the crypto industry.Finally, Bonk Guy warned that investors buying the token at the current valuation face extremely high risks, stating that "anyone who buys it deserves to lose 100% of their funds."

According to Ai Yi's monitoring, the top spot on the Binance contract real smart money 30-day leaderboard has changed hands, with trader Semisemi earning over 10.78 million USD in the past 30 days. Among them, the BTC long position has realized profits of over 8.06 million USD, and the ETH long position has realized profits of over 3.91 million USD, with the main earnings contributed by BTC and ETH trading.Currently, Semisemi still holds BTC and ETH long positions worth 95.59 million USD, with a total unrealized loss of approximately 1.885 million USD.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a certain whale accumulated 280,000 HYPE at a low of $64.5 between June 11 and August 13, with a total value of $18.06 million.4 hours ago, this whale deposited 88,216 HYPE to Coinbase for the first time, worth $7.23 million. If sold, the return rate would reach 27%, with an expected profit of $1.538 million.

According to official data from fomo, in the past 30 days, 25 traders on the fomo profit leaderboard have achieved profits of over 1 million dollars, with the top trader being @unipcs, who has made over 5.8 million dollars in the past 30 days.As of now, the total number of traders on the fomo platform who have achieved profits of 1 million dollars is 26.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a certain address built a position in the PONS native token at a low point 46 days ago, spending only $115,000, and is currently profiting over $2.82 million, with a return rate of 2456.6%. The address liquidated CASHCAT 1 hour ago, making a profit of $598,000.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated that during the recent rise of Bitcoin to $80,000, the average unrealized profit margin for short-term holders (STH) is close to 15%. The estimated holding cost is currently around $70,100, and the profit level has reached the highest since July 2025. This range is often accompanied by significant profit growth, which also makes the holding mentality of short-term holders more unstable, and some investors may choose to take profits. Therefore, it is not surprising that Bitcoin is temporarily stagnating around $80,000.

According to EmberCN monitoring, the Trump Digital Gold (GOLD) scam team sold all of its held GOLD tokens around 2 PM today, totaling approximately 824.54 million tokens, accounting for 82.454% of the total token supply, with cumulative profits of about 9784.6 SOL (approximately 1.01 million USD).It is reported that GOLD was created on Solana at 7:38 today, and the related address controlled over 82% of the tokens through token distribution and purchases after the launch. Around 9 AM, the Trump merchandise collaboration account @realtrumpcoins1 posted a tweet containing the GOLD contract address, causing the token market cap to briefly surge to 66 million USD.Around 11:48, the tweet was deleted, and the related address immediately began to sell off its holdings. The market cap of GOLD plummeted from approximately 55 million USD to 1 million USD in about 30 seconds, and the scam operators continued to sell off, eventually liquidating all their held tokens. Currently, the market cap of GOLD has dropped to about 700,000 USD, shrinking by 99% from its peak.

The GOLD project-related account realtrumpcoins stated that it has profited over 8.2 million dollars today from "low IQ Trump supporters" and plans to add the related earnings to the 10 million dollar bounty on Barron Trump.The account also claims that Barron Trump's current "net worth" is 18.2 million dollars and mentions the stolen Solana worth 165 million dollars on his phone. The above statements are currently one-sided assertions from the account, and their authenticity remains to be verified.

According to monitoring by Ai Yi, a bit-related entity that previously profited approximately 55.095 million USD from ETH long positions is suspected to be starting to lay out a second round of long positions. Its new address received a margin of 10 million USDC yesterday, and then opened long positions of 6,000 ETH, with a position value of approximately 14.98 million USD and an average opening price of about 2,492 USD.Based on its previous operations, the current position may only be the first round of building, and there may be further additions to the position.

According to market news, the Phantom wallet has earned over $25 million through builder codes, with a total profit of $27.2139 million after excluding the $2.21 million referral fee.

Stanford Business School Professor Ilya Strebulaev, in collaboration with Blake Jackson, released the 2026 Strebulaev-Jackson Venture Capital Firm Rankings, based on nearly 30 years of data from over 230,000 investments and nearly 13,000 VCs. The research estimates that about 5% of VCs generate approximately 90% of the industry's profits. The top five are Sequoia Capital (10,158 points), Andreessen Horowitz (8,292 points), Accel, DST Global, and Tiger Global. Among them, Parkway Venture Capital (19th place) and Notable (20th place) made it into the top 20, but are not well-known leading brands.The rankings are based on six major factors: discount valuation, dilution adjustment, net profit (after costs), value added (lead investments and board seats), human capital decay (three-and-a-half-year half-life), and credit allocation between institutions and individuals (25% for the investing institution and 75% for the current institution). Of the top 100, 62 are located in California, 19 in New York, and 6 each in Massachusetts and Texas. 21 were established in 2015 or later, and 23 of the best investments are in frontier AI or AI infrastructure companies, with OpenAI listed as the best investment by 4 firms, xAI by 3, and Anthropic and Perplexity by 2 each. The ranking methodology has a correlation of only about 0.27 with the Midas List, with SV Angel investing in about 139 unicorns ranked 31st, and Thrive with only 47 unicorns ranked 8th. This ranking is the result of research by Stanford professors and does not constitute investment advice.

According to Ai Yi's monitoring, a whale that leveraged to go long on ETH and BTC has once again realized profits worth 7.24 million USD in ETH.This whale deposited 3,000 ETH to Binance 4 hours ago, with an average selling price of 1,776.83 USD and an average deposit price of 2,413.4 USD. If sold, it would profit 1.91 million USD; since August 19, this whale has cumulatively deposited 13,887.15 ETH to exchanges, realizing a total profit of 6.727 million USD.

Cryptocurrency analyst Darkfost stated that Bitcoin has risen over 23% in the past three days. As the price rapidly increases, signs of profit-taking in the market have begun to emerge, with approximately 53,000 BTC flowing into major exchanges, of which about 17,800 BTC has transferred to Binance.It is noteworthy that all of the 17,800 BTC flowing into Binance comes from short-term holders, particularly investors who have held their positions for less than a day. In contrast, long-term holders who have held BTC for more than six months have not transferred any BTC to Binance. This indicates that the current influx of funds is primarily driven by short-term speculative capital, rather than structural selling by long-term holders.Data shows that this is the largest inflow of BTC to Binance since February 2026. In February of this year, short-term holders experienced a significant market capitulation. Currently, short-term funds are once again flowing in and out of exchanges on a large scale, reflecting a noticeable increase in speculative trading activity, and these brief and sudden capital movements are driving the volatility of the cryptocurrency market higher.

The latest research from the Anti-Corruption Data Collective (ACDC) shows that at least 152 anonymous wallets on Polymarket may have profited approximately $8 million by trading on advanced knowledge of U.S. military and defense-related information, achieving an average win rate of 97.2%. However, the research institution emphasizes that blockchain data itself cannot prove the actual identities of the controllers of these wallets, nor can it confirm the sources of their information, and therefore insider trading cannot be established based on this.ACDC analyzed settled markets on Polymarket, focusing on "low probability high stakes" behaviors, which are trades that cumulatively bet at least $2,500 within one hour, with corresponding outcome probabilities not exceeding 35%. The study identified 556 wallets with abnormal trading patterns, of which 152 were involved in military and defense markets. These wallets were referred to by researchers as "Orcas," characterized by their sudden appearance, betting on low probability events, and achieving abnormally high success rates before profiting and exiting.The research found that the success rate of low probability bets in military and defense markets was significantly higher than the overall level on Polymarket, and some abnormal trades quickly attracted large traders and automated trading bots to follow. For example, before a U.S. attack on Iranian nuclear facilities in June 2025, an abnormal bet on U.S. military action appeared, after which an automated trading bot subsequently bet $200,000, and another large trader bet $100,000. Researchers also found similar abnormal bets and follow-on trading behavior before the U.S.-Israeli attack on Tehran.David Szakonyi, co-founder of ACDC, stated that the abnormal trading activities on Polymarket are more public than many traders realize, and large traders and bots are already tracking and replicating suspected informed trades, so foreign intelligence agencies may also be monitoring these public on-chain trading activities. The issue of insider trading in prediction markets has recently received ongoing attention from regulatory agencies. In April, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) accused U.S. Army soldier Gannon Ken Van Dyke of trading Polymarket contracts using confidential information regarding the capture of former Venezuelan President Maduro, allegedly profiting over $404,000. This case is not directly related to the 152 wallets identified. Additionally, in May, the CFTC also charged a Google software engineer with trading 23 Polymarket contracts using confidential information related to the company's 2025 "annual search" rankings, profiting approximately $1.2 million with near-perfect accuracy. Polymarket has previously stated that the company closely monitors suspicious trading and has reported dozens of wallets to the relevant authorities. As the scale of prediction markets continues to expand, insider trading, market manipulation, and national security risks are becoming important reasons for regulatory agencies to strengthen oversight.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a whale bought 10,501 ETH for $1,904 each (totaling $20 million) a month ago. After a significant rise, they took profits 15 minutes ago by reducing their position by half, transferring 5,250 ETH ($11.7 million) to Binance, with a profit of $3.4 million.

CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju stated that early Bitcoin traders have achieved the highest unrealized gains ever in this cycle.Unlike previous cycles where the selling pressure was mainly absorbed by cryptocurrency exchange traders, the main buying force in this market comes from structural purchases such as spot trading exchange-traded funds and inflows of digital asset funds. This change has driven the unrealized profits of Binance platform traders to nearly three times the peak in 2021.

Bitget released a statement on "Improving Market Mechanisms and Maintaining Fair Trading," announcing the advancement of market fairness from three directions: first, establishing a mechanism for handling and returning abnormal profits, disposing of profits generated from violations or abuse of mechanisms, with proceeds not counted as platform revenue and specifically used for user protection; second, enhancing risk standards for listed and existing assets, conducting dynamic monitoring of existing assets based on indicators such as liquidity, depth, and volatility, and taking management measures for those that do not meet the standards; third, continuously optimizing the underlying mechanisms, focusing on improving the stability of price marking and dynamic risk control capabilities under extreme market conditions.The above optimization work will be carried out in phases, involving adjustments to specific trading rules or product mechanisms, and the platform will notify through official channels. Bitget emphasizes that trust comes from adherence to rules and will continue to maintain a fair and orderly trading environment through mechanism optimization and transparency initiatives.

Yushu Technology officially launched online and offline subscriptions on August 10, with an issue price of 150.80 yuan per share. The total market value after issuance is approximately 60.993 billion yuan, with total fundraising of nearly 6.1 billion yuan, and the issuance price-to-earnings ratio is 219.23 times, significantly higher than the industry average of 38.56 times.Meituan holds a total of 9.65% of Yushu's shares before issuance through its three subsidiaries, making it the largest external institutional shareholder; Sequoia China holds a total of 7.11%, ranking second. Based on the issue price, the two institutions will receive substantial paper returns. Sequoia first participated in the capital increase in December 2019 with 15 million yuan, at which time the post-investment valuation was only 150 million yuan.A fund under DJI planned to invest 10.1286 million yuan in 2018 for a corresponding shareholding of about 17%, and completed the business registration, but chose to withdraw its investment in 2019. If this investment had been retained until now, the corresponding market value would be approximately 3.7 billion yuan based on the issue price. DJI did not explain the reason for the withdrawal, but in 2019, the company announced an anti-corruption notice, disclosing the handling of 45 employees suspected of corruption, which led to a complete halt of the investment department's work.Among other major shareholders, Jingwei Venture Capital holds 5.45%, Shunwei Capital holds 4.42%, and CITIC Securities holds a total of 4.49%. In terms of strategic placement, DeepSeek received 933,400 shares (subscription of 141 million yuan), and Shanghai Qishan Investment, a subsidiary of Tencent, received 903,300 shares. CITIC Securities, as the sole sponsor, will receive approximately 145 million yuan in sponsorship underwriting fees and will be allocated 808,900 shares through co-investment. Yushu also reminds that the issuance price-to-earnings ratio is significantly higher than the industry average, posing a risk of stock price decline. The deadline for payment for successful applicants is August 12.