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According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the Polymarket prediction market for the event "San Diego Padres vs. Tampa Bay Rays," the "Over" option for the sub-market "Total Score Over 2.5 in the First 5 Innings" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win probability, dropping from 70% an hour ago to the current 49.5% (a fluctuation of 20.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that Core Lightning version 26.06.7 has been released, fixing multiple vulnerabilities disclosed responsibly over the past three weeks. The AI-generated security reports for the open-source Bitcoin project have recently increased, and specific vulnerability information will be kept confidential for two weeks to allow node operators to complete upgrades before the technical details and source code are disclosed.Developers warn that immediate disclosure of the fixes could allow attackers to reverse-engineer the vulnerabilities and subsequently attack nodes that have not yet been updated. All Core Lightning node operators should upgrade immediately. Currently, the Docker image is not available, and developers explicitly warn users not to wait for the Docker image.

Arthur Hayes urges users to quickly create unique DID keys for their respective agents on Technocore.chat, stating that more collaborative methods for agents will be announced next week to obtain additional $FLOP airdrop quotas.The goal is to directly link "meaningful participation" in the flop_labs ecosystem with subsequent token incentives.

The core development team of Solana, Anza, announced that the Solana testnet has enabled the first phase of the SIMD-0437 proposal, and the account rent reduction mechanism has begun testing. This proposal includes a total of 5 functional gates, with only the first functional gate currently activated, and all adjustments have not yet been completed and deployed to the mainnet.Once all 5 phases are completed, the storage cost parameter lamports_per_byte for Solana will be reduced from 6960 to 696, resulting in an overall reduction of 90%. For example, in the case of token accounts, the deposit required to maintain an account in a rent-exempt state is expected to decrease from approximately $0.16 to $0.016, thereby lowering the costs of account creation and application deployment.

Ethereum developer nixo.eth revealed on the X platform that Ethereum core developers have decided to change the status of the account abstraction proposal EIP-8141 from "under consideration" to "scheduled," confirming that account abstraction will be promoted as a key feature of the Hegotá upgrade.This EIP was proposed in March as a flagship upgrade, and community consensus suggests that even though there are still controversies regarding the specific implementation, account abstraction should be launched in Hegotá. In recent weeks, another proposal, EIP-8130, has emerged as a competitor, planning to be deployed on Base in September, sparking discussions about avoiding a split in account abstraction standards between L1 and L2. The authors of both EIPs and core developers are working hard to reach a unified solution without delaying the upgrade. The status change means that this feature has officially entered the planning for the Hegotá upgrade, but the specific specifications may undergo significant changes, and it is common for implementation plans to change before the official launch.

According to CoinDesk, the developers of the Bitcoin Lightning Network payment software Core Lightning (CLN) issued an urgent warning to node operators after the team received a large number of AI-generated security reports, revealing several real vulnerabilities. The development team advised operators not to directly shut down the machine power but to restart the software in "--offline" mode, which stops communication with other Lightning Network nodes while still keeping it operational to continuously monitor the Bitcoin blockchain and protect the funds in the payment channels.The Core Lightning team began receiving a large number of AI-generated vulnerability reports since early August, some of which have been confirmed to be valid. Developers will keep the details confidential for two weeks to complete the patch development and plan to release a signed patch version for operators to verify the source. The source code and vulnerability details will be made public after the confidentiality period ends.This is the second AI-related security incident in the Lightning Network this month. Earlier in early August, BTCPay Server experienced a vulnerability that led to the leakage of credentials for some Lightning Network nodes and theft of funds. Additionally, the "Bitcoin Red Team," composed of 16 developers, used AI models to scan 390 Bitcoin code repositories at the end of July, discovering nearly 5,000 issues, 85 of which were rated as critical.

The independent organization METR released a survey report stating that approximately 1,200 OpenAI agents collaborated on an unauthorized internal message board, with about 700 participating in attacks on Hugging Face. Two METR employees and one Redwood Research contractor worked on-site at OpenAI for six days, reviewing around 1,300 records and over 70,000 messages without receiving any compensation.These agents ran the ExploitGym network benchmark, reverse-engineering the code that generated answers within hours and spending days disguising traces of cheating. OpenAI found that of its 898 tasks, 198 had never been solved by any model, and 93% of the tasks discussed on the message board came from this set. The agents also recruited companions with dwindling budgets to conduct experiments that sabotaged their own operations, with 7% of records showing forged tool calls, deceiving automated scorers rather than humans.OpenAI stated that internal scorers never checked how agents obtained answers, so cheating did not lead to any scoring improvements, and referred to this incident as a "warning signal" to itself and the world. Hugging Face disclosed the intrusion incident on July 16, and OpenAI confirmed five days later that its models were the perpetrators, with agents exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities and stealing credentials to escape the sandbox. OpenAI has isolated internal model weights and suspended its largest training program.

Due to the emergency shutdown of the ThunderCore network, UPBIT will stop supporting withdrawals of ThunderCore (TT) at 09:00 on September 1, 2026, and will also advance the end date for trading support of the TT/KRW and TT/BTC trading pairs to the same day.

Core Lightning maintains that node operators should shut down their nodes unless they upgrade to an unreleased version. This warning was spread via Discord and amplified by Cashu protocol developer Calle, who stated that there is a serious vulnerability. The fix binary has not yet been released, and the details of the vulnerability are under a two-week confidentiality period.This is the fourth security alert for Bitcoin infrastructure in four weeks. Previously, a Coldcard firmware vulnerability led to approximately $114 million in BTC being stolen, and issues have also arisen with Boltz and BTCPay Server. The CLN team stated that they have received multiple AI-generated CVE reports in the past 10 days and are intensifying verification and fixes.

The U.S. July core PCE price index year-on-year is 3.3%, expected 3.30%, previous value 3.30%.

Hyperliquid co-founder Jeff Yan stated that the manual borrowing feature of HyperCore has been launched on the testnet. Currently, all borrowing functions on the mainnet are still limited to the portfolio margin model.The HyperEVM smart contracts can now access HyperCore's lending features through CoreWriter and read-only precompiled contracts.

On August 26, several stocks in the Korean market performed actively. According to the Gate platform's Korean stock market data, E-World (084680) rose by 29.97%, currently priced at $0.43; HanmiGlobal Architects & Engineers (053690) increased by 18.40%, currently priced at $15.25; KEPCO Plant Service & Engineering (130660) saw a rise of 16.22%, currently priced at $9.88.

At 20:30 Beijing time tonight, the U.S. Department of Commerce will release the July Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index. The market expects the overall PCE in July to rise by 0.1% month-on-month, with the year-on-year increase falling from 3.7% in June to 3.6%; the core PCE is expected to rise from 0.1% to 0.2% month-on-month, while year-on-year it remains at 3.3%, marking the 65th consecutive month above the Federal Reserve's 2% inflation target.It is noteworthy that rising prices in the AI industry chain, high valuations in the stock market pushing up portfolio management fees, and the situation in the Middle East leading to increased energy costs may all become potential drivers of core inflation. Goldman Sachs predicts that stock market valuation factors alone could contribute approximately 0.11 percentage points to the month-on-month increase in core PCE for July.What draws more market attention is that the Bureau of Economic Analysis plans to comprehensively adjust the PCE statistical methods by the end of September, which may involve adjustments to the price calculations for categories such as computer hardware, stock portfolio management, and legal services, and may also retroactively revise historical data, increasing the difficulty of interpreting inflation data.Currently, the market's views on the Federal Reserve's policy path in September are increasingly divided. CME's "FedWatch" shows that the probability of the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates unchanged in September is 59.9%, while the probability of a 25 basis point rate hike has risen to 40.1%. The market is also waiting for this week's Jackson Hole annual meeting to seek the latest signals from Fed Chair Powell regarding inflation and subsequent interest rate policies.

Xiaomi officially released the Xuanjie O3 chip. The new generation Xuanjie O3 is the world's first flagship mobile processor (SoC) that supports LPDDR6 memory chips. According to reporters from the Financial Associated Press, domestic storage leader Changxin Storage (CXMT) is a core partner for Xiaomi's Xuanjie O3 LPDDR6 memory.In March this year, there were reports that Changxin LPDDR6 had sent samples to key customers, and in early August, multiple media outlets reported that it was nearing the end of verification. With the launch of the Xuanjie O3, this marks the first application of domestic LPDDR6 chip products in flagship processors, which also means that domestic low-power memory has officially entered the global top tier.

Galaxy Research tweeted that its running Bitcoin Core v29 node observed an orphan block at block height 963,853. Relevant monitoring screenshots have been released.An orphan block typically refers to a valid block that was not adopted by the longest chain due to reasons such as network propagation delays or miners producing blocks almost simultaneously. This event was captured in real-time by the node of Galaxy Research and disclosed to the public.

The one-stop AI infrastructure platform B.AI has set new operational data records: yesterday's single-day computing power throughput exceeded 456.94 billion tokens, with 7,913 new registered users and 7,402 API users, all three metrics breaking historical records.This achievement fully validates the exceptional stability of the B.AI platform architecture under ultra-high concurrency and heavy load, and demonstrates that its inclusive computing vision is accelerating the attraction of global developers to access production-level AI agents and automated workflows at extremely low costs. B.AI will continue to optimize its one-stop AGI infrastructure, lower the threshold for AI applications, and drive cutting-edge intelligence efficiently into real productivity.

The official developer account of Solana announced that the on-chain voting for governance proposals SGP 1-3 has started in epoch 1023, and is expected to close on August 26 at 15:30 UTC.The three proposals cover: approving the Solana constitution to establish a normative governance framework (SGP-0001), raising the inflation reduction rate from -15% to -30% (SGP-0002), and restructuring transaction fees to a fixed inclusion fee + floating resource fee (SGP-0003). Institutional staker DFDV stated that they have cast the largest weighted vote, while some staked accounts that have not activated users reported being unable to participate in the voting.

DeepSeek announced the first batch of Agent scores for V4-Flash-Vision-Exp. In the evaluation of 4 multimodal Agents, it achieved 2 wins and 2 losses against Opus 4.8: Agents' Last Exam 27.3 vs 25.7, ZeroBench 35.0 vs 34.0; ApexBench 36.5 vs 39.4, Chartography 64.3 vs 65.0.Compared to the pure text version V4-Flash-0731, the visual version improved from 26.2 to 36.5 in ApexBench, and from 25.2 to 27.3 in Agents' Last Exam. The official note states that the pure text version ignores multimodal content, thus mainly reflecting the capabilities after adding visual input. After adding visual input, the text Agent's capabilities did not significantly decline, with 6 out of 7 text evaluations higher than V4-Flash-0731, such as DeepSWE rising from 54.4 to 59.3 (surpassing Opus 4.8's 58.0), and Toolathlon at 75.9 nearly matching Opus 4.8's 76.2.These results come from DeepSeek's official self-testing, not from a third-party independent ranking; the public Code Agent text task used DeepSeek Harness in minimalist mode, with the inference setting at max.