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According to GMGN market data, the market capitalization of the Solana ecosystem token Creator Capital briefly surged past $9.4 million, currently reported at around $9 million, with a daily increase of over 200%. Creator Capital is a protocol that establishes a trading market around creator accounts on X, TikTok, and Instagram, with its protocol revenue used to buy back and burn CC tokens on-chain.The price of this token is highly volatile and susceptible to market sentiment and trending events; please be aware of trading risks.

Former Hack VC partner and platform head [Hsin-Ju](https://www.rootdata.com/zh/member/Hsin-Ju C.?k=MTUzMjc=) stated that he decided to refuse a settlement agreement that required him to remain silent, preferring to accept a $0 compensation, and has fired his lawyer. He plans to publicly disclose all evidence from his time at Hack VC on August 26 (Wednesday). Hsin-Ju mentioned that he has worked in the crypto industry for 9 years, having been employed at Stellar, Solana, and Fhenix, and that last year during his time at Hack VC, he repeatedly requested to leave due to severe medical emergencies (including Graves' disease, hyperthyroidism, and severe insomnia). However, he was threatened by partners that if he left before completing relevant meetings, he would be blacklisted in the industry, forcing him to work continuously under extreme pressure, which ultimately led to a suicide attempt.Hsin-Ju stated that after the suicide attempt, he expressed in writing that he had no intention to sue and only wished to leave without retaliation. However, Hack VC subsequently had issues with his COBRA health insurance for nearly 4 months, which were only resolved after a lawyer intervened. During the legal process, they continued to attempt to harm his interests through lawyers and employees. Currently, both parties' lawyers are prepared for private mediation and settlement, but he is unwilling to exchange silence for money and chooses to speak out. Hsin-Ju emphasized that he performed well during his employment, having received raises and bonuses, and that the lawsuit is not about money, fully aware that he may face adverse consequences when confronting an institution of $600-700 million scale.Hack VC responded that they are aware of the former employee's statement and express deep concern for his health, but there are significant differences in understanding of the events, and they are currently unwilling to publicly discuss details to respect his privacy.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a certain address has accumulated 4,000 ETH in the past week, currently showing an unrealized profit of $166,000.The total value of ETH withdrawn from this address is $9.596 million, with an average price of $2,399. ETH is the only asset held by this address.

According to Criptonoticias, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated on August 23 that developing countries such as Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia, and Turkey are increasingly using USDT, primarily for domestic and cross-border trade, and as a digital dollar and value storage tool in situations of rapid depreciation of local currencies, cash shortages in dollars, or restricted financial systems.Among them, small and medium-sized enterprises in Venezuela use USDT to settle import and export businesses, Bolivia has used it for commercial transactions including fuel procurement, Argentina's street economy and peer-to-peer markets widely use USDT for value preservation and exchange, and residents in Turkey also use USDT to cope with ongoing inflation.

The Slow Mist security team disclosed that the cross-chain bridge project Allbridge was attacked on August 19, 2026, resulting in a loss of approximately $190,000. Notably, this attack was not executed instantly; the attacker had begun laying the groundwork nearly a month prior and bypassed the verification mechanism by forging cross-chain messages. According to Slow Mist's analysis, on July 26, the attacker directly called Circle's MessageTransmitterV2.sendMessage function on the Polygon chain, constructing a cross-chain message disguised as a CCTP style message, claiming that a transfer of 1 million USDC existed, but in reality, no USDC destruction operation took place. Subsequently, Circle generated a valid verification proof (attestation) for this complete message according to normal procedures.About 24 days later, on August 19, the attacker waited for the Base Router to receive a real CCTP deposit, increasing the balance to approximately 191,000 USDC, and initiated the attack just 6 seconds later. The attacker utilized the previously forged message and verification proof to call Allbridge's receiveCctpMessage function. Due to the project's lack of critical verification, the system mistakenly recognized the false cross-chain message as a real deposit and recorded a limit of 1 million USDC. The attacker then temporarily borrowed approximately 809,000 USDC through an Aave flash loan, matching the Router balance with the forged amount, and used the internal credit record to call the transfer function, ultimately transferring out approximately 999,000 USDC (after a 0.1% fee). After repaying the flash loan and fees, the attacker netted a profit of about $189,800. The root cause of this vulnerability lies in Allbridge's failure to verify the identities of the sender and receiver of the cross-chain message, as well as not confirming whether USDC was genuinely minted and whether the balance actually increased, instead directly trusting the amounts and message hash data constructed by the attacker. Slow Mist emphasizes that on-chain message verification does not equate to the actual arrival of real assets. Cross-chain protocols not only need to verify the authenticity of messages but must also ensure that the message source is trustworthy, that the receiver is Circle's official TokenMessengerV2, and that asset accounting can only proceed after confirming the actual minting of assets and changes in balance. This incident once again highlights the security risks of cross-chain bridges in the message verification and asset settlement processes.

Data released by HODL15Capital shows that sell orders for Bitcoin around the price of $80,000 mainly come from the Binance trading platform. Among them, Binance has approximately $31.98 million in sell orders near $79,945, about $13.2 million in sell orders near $80,000, and around $33.27 million in sell orders near $82,500; Coinbase has about $38.74 million in sell orders near $80,000.HODL15Capital analysis indicates that some of these sell orders have been posted for a long time, for example, the sell orders near $80,000 on Binance have been around for about 99 days, and the sell orders near $82,500 have been around for about 108 days. Therefore, it is believed that the current sell wall may not be as strong as it appears, and it will be necessary to wait until BTC gets closer to $80,000 to confirm whether these orders are genuinely intended for sale or if they will continue to move the sell orders higher.

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.

The Financial Supervisory Service of Korea submitted data to the National Assembly's Political Affairs Committee today, revealing that as of the end of July, the five major virtual asset exchanges in Korea have registered a total of 6,590 corporate accounts. Bithumb has the highest number of registered corporate accounts, reaching 3,280; the accounts under Upbit operator Dunamu total 2,086. The two major exchanges account for a total of 5,366 corporate accounts, making up 81.4% of the total. In addition, Korbit has 620, Coinone has 539, and Gopax has 65.

According to a report by the Korean News Agency, the Financial Supervisory Service of Korea submitted data to the National Assembly's Political Affairs Committee, revealing that as of the end of July, the five major virtual asset exchanges in Korea (Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Digital Asset Exchange, Gopax) have registered a total of 6,590 corporate accounts.In terms of the distribution of exchanges, Bithumb has the highest number of registered corporate accounts, reaching 3,280; the operator of Upbit, Dunamu, has 2,086 accounts. The two major exchanges account for a total of 5,366 corporate accounts, which is 81.4% of the total. Additionally, Korbit has 620, Coinone has 539, and Gopax has 65.In terms of compliance, there are a total of 711 corporate accounts that have completed customer identity verification (KYC), accounting for 10.8% of all corporate accounts. Among them, Upbit has the most with 290; Bithumb has 199, Korbit has 184, and Coinone and Gopax have 33 and 5, respectively. In terms of the scale of virtual asset holdings, Korean corporate accounts hold approximately 43.377 billion Korean won (about 31.2 million USD), with Upbit having the highest share, holding approximately 27.08 billion Korean won, accounting for 62.4% of the total; Bithumb holds about 6.29 billion Korean won, and Coinone holds about 5.15 billion Korean won. The deposit scale of corporate accounts is approximately 9.13 billion Korean won.

Regarding the recent attack on the payment public chain Keeta, Keeta Network CEO Ty sent a letter to the attackers stating that the investigation has made substantial progress and evidence has been collected that can identify the attackers. This includes information on the IP addresses related to the attack, the VPN and VPS infrastructure used, the user agents and technical environment that initiated unauthorized requests, relevant email addresses, the software used, and the infrastructure service providers. The relevant evidence has been preserved and submitted to the authorities.The attackers are required to return all funds obtained from this attack within 72 hours, with repayment acceptable in KTA, ETH, or USDC. If the full amount is returned, a certain reward will be offered, and the matter will be resolved without pursuing legal responsibility. If the deadline is exceeded and the funds are not returned, all rights to pursue legal action and fund recovery will be reserved. Ty previously stated that the root cause of the security incident has been confirmed and patches are being tested. The issue is an isolated problem with the affected components and does not impact Keeta's anchor system or any external connection systems. All KTA on Base has not been affected. The Keeta mainnet will remain in read-only status until the patches are fully tested and appropriate additional safeguards are implemented before resuming full operation. The team is actively assessing the best way to fully compensate all affected users.

Geoff Kendrick, the Global Head of Digital Asset Research at Standard Chartered Bank, stated that Bitcoin could approach its historical high of $126,000 by the end of the year, with a related recovery potentially accelerating after October 6. He remarked, "For the first time this year, there is a risk that my prediction of $100,000 by the end of the year may be too low."Kendrick pointed out that the recent rise has been primarily driven by short liquidations, but inflows into Bitcoin spot ETFs have also begun to recover. The current open interest is low, which may leave room for more investors to re-enter the market as prices rise.In February of this year, Kendrick had lowered Standard Chartered's Bitcoin year-end target from $150,000 to $100,000 and the Ethereum target from $7,500 to $4,000. At that time, he expected Bitcoin to drop to around $50,000 and Ethereum to around $1,400, before recovering over the remainder of the year.

According to Coinglass data, in the past 24 hours, the total liquidation across the network reached $1.238 billion, with long positions liquidated at $742 million and short positions liquidated at $496 million. A total of 244,359 people were liquidated globally.The data shows that there has been a significant scale of liquidation in both long and short positions, with the amount of long position liquidations exceeding that of short positions. The relevant liquidation data comes from Coinglass's real-time statistics page, reflecting the clearing situation of leveraged positions under recent market volatility.

According to GMGN data, the "Niu Lai" issuing address issued a new token "Niu Lai Ren Sheng" 20 hours ago. Currently, this address has issued a total of 12 types of tokens, with total fee income of 224.17 BNB (approximately 155,000 USD).

Factblock CEO and Korea Blockchain Week organizer Andrew Park stated that the South Korean crypto market is shifting from retail-driven trading to institutional digital finance. The focus of global financial institutions and enterprises has shifted from tokens, exchanges, and prices to custody, tokenization, stablecoins, payment settlement infrastructure, and regulatory compliance.The South Korean Financial Services Commission has proposed a framework to open corporate virtual asset accounts to approximately 3,500 listed companies and registered professional investors. The South Korean National Assembly has officially passed amendments to the Electronic Securities Act and the Capital Markets Act, incorporating tokenized real-world assets and security tokens into a unified legal framework.The Bank of Korea has completed the preliminary trial of the Project Hangang real-world deposit token project and plans to conduct the second phase of institutional testing by the end of 2026. Related technical experiments have utilized wholesale deposit tokens to allow AI agents to execute automated conditional trading.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, the Binance futures trading account "Jiu Jiu Jin" cleared its position this morning, incurring a loss of 3.46 million USD.It held 250 BTC short positions, with an opening average price of 63,592 USD, and closed at an average price of 77,758.91 USD this morning. It stated errors including missing the market after clearing at 64,000 USD following a spot buy at 58,000 USD, and not setting a reasonable stop-loss when chasing the short.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated that this week, Bitcoin ETF net inflows reached 14,700 BTC, marking the second-largest weekly inflow since October 2025. Since August, the cumulative net inflow is approximately 21,958 BTC, indicating signs of a resurgence in demand are beginning to emerge.

According to CoinGlass data, in the past hour, the total liquidation across the network was 514 million USD, of which long positions accounted for 441 million USD and short positions accounted for 72.823 million USD, with long position liquidations exceeding 85%.

On-chain data analyst Murphy stated that this round of BTC price increase is "a bit different": the scale of futures liquidations has reached a record, but the open interest (OI) has simultaneously decreased. The price increase is mainly driven by short liquidations or buy-ins to cover positions, which belongs to the clearing of existing positions rather than new leveraged net exposure. If driven solely by liquidations, prices often show a spike followed by a drop; this time, after the surge, the price has stabilized, indicating that there are other spot funds taking over.Murphy pointed out that if the contracts are dominated by long positions, OI usually rises and rates increase, but this round saw OI decrease almost throughout, with no large-scale new leverage entering the market. The exchange's spot relative trading volume (SRV) reached 2.94 from August 19 to 20, about three times the average of the past 30 days. Similar volume increases in the past two years have mostly occurred during panic sell-offs or bull market phases, which is different from the scenarios in January when it rebounded to about $96,000 and in May when it rebounded to about $82,000, where leverage was dominant.He emphasized that the demand for spot is only a potential sign that has appeared for the first time since entering a bear market, combined with the price challenging the short-term holder cost line (STH-RP) and the seller exhaustion index entering extreme zones, it is still insufficient to conclude a trend reversal.

This week, U.S. cryptocurrency policy has seen intensive progress. The Trump administration has pushed for new advancements in the CLARITY Act, the SEC has proposed a draft of regulatory rules for cryptocurrency assets for the first time, and the CFTC has stated that if congressional legislation stalls, it will promote the establishment of an independent regulatory framework for the cryptocurrency market. Trump met with leaders from several cryptocurrency companies at the White House this week and publicly called on Congress to pass a "fair version" of the CLARITY Act. Representatives from Coinbase, a16z, Ripple, Kraken, and other industry participants attended the meeting, focusing on the bill's impact on U.S. jobs, innovation, and attracting cryptocurrency companies back. Currently, the main obstacles to advancing the bill are concentrated on certain ethical clauses. Trump believes that the relevant provisions may target individuals, but industry insiders are pushing both sides to find a compromise to facilitate bipartisan support.CFTC Chairman Mike Selig stated that the CLARITY Act is key to avoiding regulatory uncertainty. If Congress continues to delay, the CFTC will use its existing authority to formulate regulatory rules for the cryptocurrency asset market. Meanwhile, the U.S. SEC has officially proposed a "Crypto Assets Rule Framework," planning to allow certain cryptocurrency financing to be exempt from full securities registration under specific conditions, including a cumulative financing cap of $5 million over four years or an annual limit of $75 million, and providing conditional safe harbor for certain token projects. Additionally, the SEC is considering limiting certain state securities registration requirements to provide a clearer compliance path for U.S. cryptocurrency companies. Market participants believe that recent actions by U.S. regulators indicate that Washington is shifting from a previous enforcement-based regulatory model to establishing a systematic regulatory framework for cryptocurrency assets.On the other hand, former Signature Bank Chairman Scott Shay has launched the N3XT Digital Dollar (NDD) digital dollar deposit project, attempting to challenge the stablecoin market. NDD operates on a public blockchain, enabling 24/7 dollar transfers, and is backed one-to-one by cash and short-term U.S. Treasury bonds. Shay stated that banks can leverage blockchain technology to create a payment system similar to stablecoins while maintaining the dollar credit advantage of the traditional financial system. The project is seen as a new attempt by banks to respond to the expansion of stablecoins. Additionally, the cryptocurrency investment market is entering a new cycle. Dragonfly partner Rob Hadick stated that although AI is attracting significant capital, cryptocurrency startup activity is still recovering, and future predictions of market, institutional applications, and improvements in U.S. regulation may drive new growth in the industry.