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The Hashgraph Group, in collaboration with Merck and with consulting and implementation support from PwC Germany, is piloting a cocoa traceability solution. This solution combines Merck's M-Trust physical authentication technology with the TrackTrace digital product passport platform based on the Hedera network, aiming to verify the origin, authenticity, quality, recall requirements, and compliance data of cocoa from farm to consumer.Cocoa is one of the seven commodities covered by the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). According to the rescheduled arrangement reached in December 2025, large operators and traders must fulfill their obligations starting from December 30, 2026, while micro and small operators will be subject to this from June 30, 2027. The solution also aligns with the direction of promoting digital product passports under the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR); however, food and feed are currently explicitly excluded from the scope of the ESPR, and for cocoa, EUDR due diligence remains a recent binding requirement.Partners indicate that this framework is not limited to cocoa and can be expanded to areas such as pharmaceuticals, luxury goods, and industrial components in the future. Husen Kapasi, head of PwC Germany's enterprise blockchain business, pointed out that this solution has verifiability and can play a key role in food recalls or compliance investigations.

Silicon Valley angel investor Liron Shapira posted on X this morning, stating: "I assert (with 50% confidence): due to AI shaking the security and stability guarantees that people once believed Bitcoin had, the price of BTC will plummet more than 50% within the next two years."Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin rebutted this, saying: "I hold the completely opposite view. My fundamental reason is that, in the long run, I am quite optimistic about network security, and I believe the main challenge is how to smoothly transition through the transition period. Moreover, I believe BTC can at least properly handle all issues that do not require social consensus to resolve (for example, upgrading clients, mining pools, etc., to deal with network layer attacks fall into this category). Additionally, I believe the probability of hash algorithms or proof-of-work mechanisms being truly compromised is extremely low. I wanted to make a bet with you, but considering my current asset allocation (I guess you have the same view on Ethereum ETH), I have already staked about 90% of my wealth on this bet."

According to Cointelegraph, Hashkey has joined the Digital Asset Advisory Working Group of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), becoming the first Asian digital asset service provider to join this working group.DTCC is a core post-trade infrastructure provider for global financial markets, and this working group brings together over 100 global financial institutions and asset management companies, including JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Nasdaq, and the New York Stock Exchange, to jointly define the issuance, settlement, and custody standards for institutional-grade tokenized assets.DTCC plans to launch tokenized securities services in October. Previously, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a no-action letter to a DTCC subsidiary in December, allowing it to provide tokenization services for the securities market.SEC Chairman Paul Atkins stated that the approval of this pilot is just the beginning, and the SEC will consider innovation exemptions to help builders promote the on-chain transformation of the market without bearing cumbersome regulatory requirements. Atkins first proposed the idea of tokenization innovation exemptions at the DeFi roundtable on June 9.

Rapha Zagury, CEO of Twenty One Capital and founder of Elektron Energy, stated during his speech at Bitcoin Asia 2026 that the Bitcoin network is experiencing its first-ever bear market in hashrate. The hashrate of the Bitcoin network was close to 1.3 ZH/s at the end of last year, but has since been slowly declining, with the duration of this decline from the historical peak now setting a record. Zagury believes that Bitcoin mining is not simply a "good business" or "bad business"; it largely depends on where the mining company stands on the cost curve. Mining companies with lower energy costs and higher machine efficiency can maintain higher profit margins, while those with high energy costs and low equipment efficiency may be forced to shut down.Currently, while the Bitcoin hashrate price has improved compared to before, it is still at a relatively low level when measured against historical standards. When the price of Bitcoin rises faster than the growth of the network's hashrate, mining is more likely to outperform BTC. For companies, he believes that the best risk-adjusted allocation is not simply choosing to "buy BTC" or "mine," but rather a combination of both; however, if only $1 can be allocated, he suggests prioritizing the purchase of BTC. Regarding energy issues, Zagury stated that energy consumption itself does not imply waste; energy is the foundation of economic development and human progress. He believes that one of the greatest characteristics of Bitcoin mining is its highly flexible load, as mining machines can quickly turn on and off based on energy supply, thus helping the grid absorb idle or surplus electricity and enhancing grid stability to some extent. Additionally, he believes that Bitcoin mining is generating "option value" that was not previously apparent, including aspects such as energy utilization, market share, proximity to the Bitcoin protocol, and infrastructure. With the growing demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC), the existing energy and data center infrastructure of mining companies may also gain additional application scenarios such as AI computing power. Currently, among large publicly listed mining companies, there are fewer and fewer that can continue large-scale Bitcoin mining, and the industry is at a critical stage where the energy revolution intersects with the Bitcoin revolution.

HashKey Holdings Limited announced its unaudited consolidated interim results for the six months ended June 30, 2026, on August 27. During the reporting period, revenue was HKD 342.5 million, a year-on-year increase of 20.6%; gross profit was HKD 207.5 million, a year-on-year increase of 12.5%; gross margin improved from 51.0% in the second half of 2025 to 60.6%; adjusted losses narrowed by 21.0% to HKD 314.8 million.Revenue from transaction facilitation services was HKD 267.9 million, a year-on-year increase of 38.6%. Platform transaction volume reached HKD 2,822 billion, a year-on-year increase of 31.8%, of which institutional transaction volume was HKD 2,315 billion, a year-on-year increase of 58.8%, accounting for 82.0% of total transaction volume. The on-chain RWA TVL reached HKD 2,678.5 million, a year-on-year increase of 167.8%, and completed Hong Kong's first real estate RWA project and the first regulated silver RWA token. The asset management scale was HKD 5,941.2 million, with segment revenue of HKD 38.84 million, launching stablecoin and Bitcoin financial products as well as the industry's first Bitcoin mining power fund.HashKey was established in 2018 and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on December 17, 2025. Its business covers transaction facilitation, on-chain services, and asset management. During the period, its wholly-owned subsidiary signed a framework agreement for the acquisition of Singapore's Asia Pacific Exchange, HashKey Capital made a strategic investment in Vietnam's CAEX and led the B+ round of SignalPlus, while deepening cooperation with JPMorgan, DBS, and others.

According to BBX data, yesterday global publicly listed companies in the U.S. stock market disclosed the latest official ledgers on cryptocurrency asset mining operations, ecological treasury financial reports, and on-chain data infrastructure. The core updates are as follows:Bitdeer (NASDAQ: $BTDR) July production surged 322% year-on-year, total exclusive computing power reached 81.7 EH/s: Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company and AI infrastructure company Bitdeer released its production and operation update for July 2026. In terms of mining, the company mined a total of 1,190 Bitcoins that month (a year-on-year increase of 322%). In terms of computing power scale, self-operated computing power reached approximately 76.7 EH/s, other exclusive computing power 5.0 EH/s, and joint mining computing power 18.7 EH/s, totaling an exclusive computing power of 81.7 EH/s. As of the end of July, the company's balance sheet held a total of 257 Bitcoins (excluding customer deposits).Avalanche Treasury Company AVAT (NASDAQ: $AVAT) holds 15.3 million AVAX, plans to repurchase $10 million in stock: Avalanche ecological cryptocurrency treasury company Avalanche Treasury Company released its financial report for the second quarter of 2026. The company reported a net loss of $44.7 million for the quarter (loss per share of $1.54), of which approximately $35.7 million (about 80%) was a non-cash accounting loss due to changes in the market value of AVAX holdings, and approximately $15.2 million was a one-time cost incurred from business mergers, with core administrative expenses of about $3.5 million. The company's board has approved a $10 million repurchase plan for Class A common stock. As of June 30, the company held approximately 15.3 million AVAX (book value of about $100 million), with net staking income of about $1.5 million for the second quarter (cumulative approximately $3.6 million for the first half of the year).Solana Treasury Company DFDV (NASDAQ: $DFDV) launches State of Solana data dashboard: Nasdaq-listed SOL treasury company DeFi Development Corp announced the launch of the public real-time data research platform State of Solana. This platform integrates Solana's market price, network performance, staking rate, validator distribution, on-chain revenue, and ecological indicators into a unified dashboard, aiming to provide investors with a comprehensive fundamental perspective beyond price fluctuations, and will continue to expand the dataset and visualization analysis tools in the future.

Cryptocurrency infrastructure provider Zerohash has resubmitted its national trust bank charter application to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), marking its second attempt following the rejection of its application in July. Previously, on July 17, the OCC returned Zerohash's application, citing "insufficient materials."Zerohash stated that the return was part of an administrative process, allowing it to reapply this month, a practice coordinated with the OCC and not a judgment on the substantive content of the application, nor does it affect the company's existing operations. The company noted that the initial application covered "a wide range of digital assets and fiduciary services," and thus decided to adopt a "phased" approach, focusing on "national trust business that aligns more closely with the established launch timeline."Zerohash is a Chicago-based cryptocurrency infrastructure platform that provides backend operational support for cryptocurrency businesses to institutions such as E*Trade under Morgan Stanley, BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, Stripe, Interactive Brokers, and DraftKings, and it already holds a state trust bank charter.

Bitcoin Hashprice has risen by 20.41% in the past 4 days, from $31.8 per PH/s to $38.29 per PH/s. Hashprice is used to measure the mining revenue corresponding to specific computing power, and this increase has boosted miner income. As of now, there are a total of 133 large, medium, and small mining pools and individual mining operations contributing computing power to the Bitcoin network. The mining pool Foundry USA leads with 214.73 EH/s, followed by Antpool and F2pool at 156.17 EH/s and 110.62 EH/s respectively, and ViaBTC at 91.02 EH/s.The total computing power of the Bitcoin network has risen to approximately 922 EH/s, nearing 1 ZH/s. Miners in August are currently earning $682.69 million from block subsidies and transaction fees, of which transaction fee revenue is $5.14 million, down from $875 million in July. The average block interval for the Bitcoin network is 10 minutes and 5 seconds, and current data indicates that the difficulty adjustment is expected to decrease by about 1% for the day. Based on an electricity cost of $0.1 per kilowatt-hour, the Bitmain Antminer S23 Hydro 3U is expected to earn $17.86 daily.

The open automated research challenge better.codes, created by the Ethereum Foundation's formal verification team in collaboration with Yukon and zkSecurity, is now live. This platform formalizes the self-contained problems from the Proximity Prize in Lean and places the machine-checked reliability bounds of koalaIRS12 on a public leaderboard, allowing anyone to contribute to improvements, advancing hash-based SNARK and post-quantum Ethereum-related security benchmarks.Solvers can bring their own AI agents to prove higher lower bounds of reliability for this Reed-Solomon proximity problem, moving towards a fixed target of 128 bits. The Lean kernel verifies each submission, and the promoted proofs will enhance the public bounds, with new lemmas, proof techniques, and impossibility results being synchronized upstream for reuse by all participants. Most hash SNARKs in production environments rely on related proximity gaps and related conclusion agreements, while the currently provable results remain below the benchmarks trusted by researchers; this challenge aims to narrow this gap in an open, incremental, and verifiable manner.koalaIRS12 originates from related papers and is end-to-end formalized in ArkLib. Participants can log in via GitHub and clone the challenge repository, submitting under fixed theorem statements and verification frameworks; results confirmed by the comparator and Lean kernel are recorded in a public repository, noting the solver and the model used. Today's launch features the reliability challenge that raises the proven lower bound of koalaIRS12 to 128 bits, with more problems potentially added later, subject to project terms.

According to SoSoValue data, the total net inflow for Bitcoin spot ETFs is $189 million. The Bitcoin spot ETF with the highest single-day net inflow yesterday was BlackRock ETF IBIT, with a single-day net inflow of $144 million, bringing IBIT's historical total net inflow to $61.4 billion. Following that is Fidelity ETF FBTC, with a single-day net inflow of $23.92 million, and FBTC's historical total net inflow currently stands at $10.02 billion.The Bitcoin spot ETF with the highest single-day net outflow yesterday was VanEck ETF HODL, with a single-day net outflow of $16.92 million, and HODL's historical total net inflow currently stands at $1.07 billion. Additionally, Hashdex's Bitcoin spot ETF DEFI has initiated a liquidation process due to factors such as asset size, trading liquidity, and operating costs, having ended trading on NYSE Arca on August 17 and will subsequently delist; the fund will begin liquidating its remaining Bitcoin holdings on August 18, with cash liquidation payments to be made to holders around August 24.Bloomberg data shows that as of July 30, DEFI's assets under management were approximately $7.28 million. As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Bitcoin spot ETFs is $79.3 billion, with an ETF net asset ratio (market value relative to total Bitcoin market value) reaching 6.12%, and the historical cumulative net inflow has reached $52.28 billion.

According to BBX data, yesterday and in recent days, global publicly listed companies in the U.S. stock market disclosed the latest official real data on increasing cryptocurrency asset reserves, treasury structure, and mining production operations. The core updates are as follows:Strive (NASDAQ: $ASST) increased its holdings by 79 bitcoins, with total holdings exceeding 20,200: According to the 8-K document submitted by Strive to the U.S. SEC, the company purchased 79 bitcoins at an average price of approximately $63,231 between August 10 and 14, 2026. As of August 14, Strive's total bitcoin holdings reached 20,246. Additionally, the company's balance sheet holds 505,000 shares of Strategy STRC preferred stock (fair value approximately $47.86 million) and about $154.8 million in cash, ensuring ample liquidity.BitMine increased its holdings by nearly 10,000 ETH last week, with total holdings reaching 5.815 million: Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: $BMNR) disclosed that it increased its holdings by 9,926 Ethereum last week. As of August 16, 2026, its total Ethereum holdings rose to 5,815,164 ETH, accounting for approximately 4.8% of the total circulating supply of Ethereum across the network.Canaan Inc. (NASDAQ: $CAN) released July mining data, with nearly 2,000 BTC in reserves: Mining machine manufacturer and computing power operator Canaan Inc. announced its unaudited operational data for July. In July, the company self-mined 46 BTC; by the end of the month, its balance sheet held a total of 1,917 BTC and 3,952 ETH. In terms of operational metrics, the company's global operating hash rate reached 14.24 EH/s (installed hash rate 14.89 EH/s), with an average energy efficiency of 17.9 J/TH for non-joint venture mines in North America, and the comprehensive electricity cost for the month was approximately $0.043 per kilowatt-hour.

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission has published multiple websites impersonating the licensed virtual asset trading platform Hash Blockchain Limited on its official website. It is reported that the relevant websites have been reported by Hash Blockchain Limited as fraudulent sites. At the same time, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission clarified that the relevant websites have no connection with the virtual asset trading platforms licensed by the Commission.

HashKey has become the authorized distributor of the Anchorpoint Hong Kong Dollar stablecoin HKDAP, launched beta testing, and completed the first minting and redemption transaction.

According to Sui monitoring, since the Hashi test network went live three weeks ago, it has processed over 1.1 million deposits and 165,000 withdrawals.In the past two weeks, over 50% of Bitcoin Signet transactions came from Hashi test activities.

Vangrid announced the completion of a $9 million seed round financing, with participation from HashKey, Borderless, Crypto.com Capital, Animoca Brands, Gate Labs, and Mapleblock Capital.The main business of the project is to collect spatial data, where users collect geographic location data through smartphones and receive rewards. The data is sold to Physical AI developers, including robotics, autonomous agents, and digital model developers, after being 3D modeled and verified on-chain. Vangrid stated that its network is built on Base and uses Ethereum proof services to verify data batches, with public browsers showing that it has completed nearly 100,000 verification collections and over 1,300 batches of proof.

An independent Bitcoin miner mined Bitcoin block 960804 at 02:11 UTC on Monday, receiving a reward of 3.1568983 BTC, worth approximately $200,000. This reward includes a block subsidy of 3.125 BTC and a transaction fee of 0.032 BTC from 4243 transactions. CKPool developer Dr-ck stated that this block is the 317th independent block mined through CKPool, with the winning address being bc1qdyqjq9qccp34pyv3kxmsrkn7p0amnsqqy8kdeq.Its hash rate fluctuated significantly, peaking at 100 PH, suspected to be from rented hash power. At that time, the total Bitcoin network hash rate was 924 EH/s, and this peak accounted for approximately 0.011% of the entire network, corresponding to about one block mined every 64 days. CKPool allows independent miners to access its infrastructure without running a full Bitcoin node and charges a 2% fee from the mined blocks.

According to the Wall Street Journal, asset management company Hashdex announced that it will close and liquidate its Hashdex Bitcoin ETF (NYSE Arca: DEFI), which had approximately $14.7 million in assets under management as of July 30.Hashdex's products aimed at U.S. investors currently manage over $200 million in assets. It was disclosed that the last trading day for the fund's shares will be August 17, after which it will stop accepting subscription orders from authorized participants and will delist from NYSE Arca.Shareholders who still hold shares as of the last trading day will receive a cash liquidation distribution, expected to be paid around August 28, with the distribution amount reflecting factors such as Bitcoin price fluctuations during the liquidation period. Hashdex stated that the decision to close was based on a comprehensive assessment of factors including asset management scale, trading liquidity, operating costs, and investor interest.

Hong Kong licensed cryptocurrency exchange HashKey Exchange has received approval from JPMorgan to open client fund accounts. HashKey Holdings stated that these accounts will support client fund segregation and settlement through JPMorgan's banking infrastructure.HashKey Exchange activated its client fund accounts with DBS Bank in Singapore on June 30, supporting fiat currency deposits, withdrawals, and settlement services. One week ago, HashKey Holdings merged the previously independent HashKey Exchange and HashKey Global applications into a single entry point.HashKey Holdings went public in Hong Kong last December, raising $206 million through an oversubscribed initial public offering.