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According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "Jets vs. Lions" on Polymarket, the "Lions" option in the sub-market "2H Spread -9.5" experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 50% an hour ago to the current 13.5% (a fluctuation of 36.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Aerodrome's Slipstream V3 has been launched, introducing protocol-level internal MEV auctions in concentrated liquidity AMMs, distributing the value captured by sandwich bots and arbitrageurs to active liquidity providers and sAERO token holders. The protocol expects related revenue to reach tens of millions of dollars.This version also introduces dynamic fees, automatically increasing fees during market volatility, and continues the concentrated liquidity design of Uniswap V3, achieving capital efficiency up to 4000 times that of traditional AMMs.Aero plans to integrate Aerodrome on Base with Velodrome on Optimism into a single AERO token, set to launch on the Ethereum mainnet in the second quarter of 2026; Aero Lite has launched the Slipstream pool on Circle's Arc, and Dromos Labs is developing pool-level fee rebates and KYC options for institutional clients.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart stated in a video interview with Bitcoin Magazine that trillions of dollars in advisory wealth are currently on the sidelines, and a slight increase in allocation could bring substantial new demand for Bitcoin ETFs. He mentioned that the daily inflow of funds into Bitcoin ETFs once approached $1 billion.James Seyffart pointed out that strict rules from large brokerages like Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan are still limiting financial advisors from purchasing Bitcoin ETFs for their clients, with the target allocation being too low as the main constraint. Many advisors have previously chosen to wait for the bear market to end before entering the market. He emphasized that approximately $30 trillion to $40 trillion in advisory wealth is a long-overlooked data point.He also discussed the cost benchmarks for Bitcoin ETFs, whether ETF fund flows can truly drive Bitcoin prices, who is selling between spot holders and ETF investors, the closing of hedge fund Bitcoin basis trades, and whether Bitcoin ETFs are expected to surpass gold ETFs. He believes the impact of the four-year cycle is diminishing, and Bitcoin is increasingly viewed as a risk asset.

Bitcoin News posted on platform X stating that the U.S. Treasury has sanctioned Iran's BitBank, claiming that the exchange processed Bitcoin payments made by vessels under the Hormuz Security Insurance Program.The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control stated that as of June, these funds had been transferred to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; Babak Zanjani's network had used the exchange to transfer hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that Bitcoin payment channels are not exempt from regulation by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against the Tehran-based cryptocurrency exchange BitBank, stating that the platform transferred hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran. OFAC stated that BitBank is controlled by Iranian financier Babak Zanjani, who was designated in January of this year, and that he used the platform to complete transfers between June and July, with this designation made under Executive Order 13902.The sanctions also cover three executives from BitBank's software developer Pishtaz Simorgh and its parent company Dot One. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that using cryptocurrency to finance the Iranian regime is well within OFAC's jurisdiction. OFAC also mentioned that Hormuz Safe, an entity selling passage security in the Strait of Hormuz, has been receiving payments through BitBank since June; this entity was sanctioned in July. OFAC did not disclose the relevant wallet addresses.

According to the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, Shanghai-based embodied haptic company Qianjue Robotics has announced the completion of two rounds of strategic financing totaling hundreds of millions. Previously, Qianjue Robotics had announced the completion of financing at the hundred million level, with investors including embodied intelligence industry players, Tianji Capital, and Jide Electric. Currently, Qianjue's shareholders include financial investment institutions such as Hillhouse Venture Capital, Yuanhe Origin, and Futen Capital, as well as industry players in the embodied and industrial fields like Li Auto, Zhiyuan Robotics, and Jide Electric.This round of funding will focus on product upgrades, business expansion, and industrial implementation, accelerating the iteration and large-scale delivery of high-precision visual and haptic sensors, improving the collection of real interaction data, haptic simulation, and dataset construction, and continuously promoting the research and development of haptic embodied models and haptic world models.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the Polymarket event "Lions vs. Bills," the "Lions" option in the sub-market "Spread -20.5" has experienced severe fluctuations in winning probability, dropping from 32% an hour ago to the current 16.65% (a fluctuation of 15.35%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

ARK Invest crypto analyst Lorenzo Valente stated that stablecoins have a significant network effect. Although there are thousands of stablecoins in the market, as the market capitalization threshold increases, the number of tiers is rapidly leveling off. Currently, the stablecoins that are truly worth paying attention to are those with a market capitalization exceeding 10 billion dollars, gradually moving towards the 100 billion and 500 billion dollar levels.Data shows that the number of stablecoins with a market capitalization exceeding 1 billion dollars has only increased from single digits to the current 12 since 2021, while the number of stablecoins with a market capitalization exceeding 10 billion dollars has actually decreased from its peak in 2022, with only Tether and Circle's stablecoins remaining. Valente believes that entering the 10 billion dollar market capitalization club has become very difficult, and in the future, the 100 billion dollar level stablecoins may only have two competitors for a long time, while it may take more than two years for only one to reach the 500 billion dollar level.

Trader BonkGuy (@theunipcs) posted that he has cumulatively invested over $500,000 in MEME at an average market value of about $45 million, and denied insider trading allegations. BonkGuy stated that MEME is at the core of the meme/stock narrative, which has spawned several high market cap projects (AI at $320 million, MARSCOIN at $260 million, STONK at $220 million).Currently, Robinhood founder Vlad Tenev and AMC CEO are engaged in a public debate over the legality of meme/stock tokens. BonkGuy believes that if the regulatory controversy ultimately favors this sector, MEME has the potential to impact its market cap by billions of dollars, and he expects it to potentially land on the Robinhood platform in the future. Possibly influenced by this, MEME briefly surpassed $130 million and is currently reported at $122 million.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "LoL: Galions vs TLN Pirates (BO5) - LFL Playoffs," the "Yes" option win rate for the sub-market "Both sides kill Baron" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation, soaring from 50.5% an hour ago to the current 90.05% (a fluctuation of 39.55%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Bloomberg, G42, an AI company supported by Microsoft, has had preliminary discussions with potential investors about raising billions of dollars, potentially becoming one of the first government-affiliated AI companies in the UAE to expand its capital scale through external financing.Insiders revealed that the scale of financing and transaction structure have not yet been finalized, and discussions are still in the exploratory stage. G42 has previously advanced data center projects in Abu Dhabi with Microsoft and OpenAI, and has received support from companies like Microsoft.

According to reports from the investment community, the embodied robot vision company Joint Imaging has completed a new round of financing worth hundreds of millions, with participation from industrial capital, state-owned enterprises, and market-oriented institutions. Investors include Dunhong Asset, Hangzhou Embodied Intelligence Industry Fund, Fuyang Industrial Investment, and Zhi Ping Fang.Joint Imaging is a visual supplier for humanoid robot manufacturers and AI hardware companies such as Yushu, Zhi Ping Fang, Self-Variable, and Rokid, and has achieved revenue at the level of 2 billion. With this round of financing, Joint Imaging will further upgrade its strategic positioning of "the visual infrastructure of the physical AI world," integrating optical design, visual modules, depth cameras, edge AI, data collection, AI Base engineering toolchain, and large-scale manufacturing capabilities to serve customers throughout the complete cycle from Idea to mass production.At the same time, Joint Imaging is advancing a billion-level intelligent vision industry project in Hangzhou.

According to Arkham blockchain data, wallets associated with the North Korean state-sponsored hacking organization Lazarus Group have sold over $30 million in Bitcoin on the decentralized perpetual contract trading platform Hyperliquid in the past three weeks, using the proceeds to purchase Ethereum and Solana, which were then transferred to centralized exchanges such as Kraken, LBank, and KuCoin. Kraken responded that it maintains an industry-leading compliance program, continuously monitoring on-chain activities to identify and block assets related to sanctioned wallets; LBank and KuCoin stated that the associated risks are a continuing challenge faced by the industry as a whole and emphasized that publicly available on-chain data may not reflect compliance measures at the platform level.At this time, the Trump administration is exploring ways to incorporate Hyperliquid into the regulated U.S. financial system. Trump stated earlier this month at a White House event that the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Mike Selig, is developing a path to bring Hyperliquid into the U.S. in a fully compliant and legal manner. According to Bloomberg, Kraken's parent company Payward is in deep negotiations with Hyperliquid Labs to offer perpetual contracts to U.S. traders.Hyperliquid is the leading platform in the decentralized perpetual contract space, allowing users to trade directly from their crypto wallets without the need for traditional brokerage accounts or KYC checks. According to DefiLlama data, its cumulative perpetual contract trading volume has exceeded $5 trillion, with current open contracts of approximately $13.3 billion.

The U.S. government previously seized the shares of Anthropic held by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's two key allies, Caroline Ellison and Nishad Singh, and sold the related shares to existing investors of Anthropic in 2025. However, the specific buyers, transaction prices, and the amount received by the government have not been disclosed. The court previously ruled that Ellison and Singh must forfeit their shares in Anthropic. The U.S. government acquired the shares of the two in February and April 2025, respectively. The two had previously invested $10 million and $40 million to participate in Anthropic's Series B financing in 2022.As Anthropic's valuation skyrocketed, the value of their shares significantly increased. UCLA professor Olav Sorenson estimated that based on Anthropic's announced valuation of $965 billion in May this year, the total value of their holdings is approximately $4.17 billion to $5.03 billion; if Anthropic goes public at a valuation of $2 trillion in the future, the value of the related shares could reach about $5.44 billion. It is currently unclear at what price the U.S. government sold these shares. Estimates indicate that if the transaction occurred at different points in time in 2025, the proceeds from the sale of the related shares could range from approximately $250 million to $1.1 billion. Notably, as of the end of June 2026, the proceeds from the sale do not appear to have been transferred into the FTX bankruptcy estate management system. FTX victims' representative Sunil Kavuri stated that the government should use the related funds to compensate the victims; the U.S. Department of Justice claimed that it prioritizes providing compensation to victims from forfeited assets, but information regarding the sale of related assets and fund distribution is confidential.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that BTC Sessions stated their team spent several weeks assisting Bitcoin holders affected by the Coldcard vulnerability in transferring their funds to safety, estimating that they protected Bitcoin worth tens of millions of dollars during this period. However, for many, it was too late.A member of the local Bitcoin community lost 90% of their Bitcoin, while another woman who spoke with them lost all of her Bitcoin. BTC Sessions stated that this could be the most severe self-custody incident in Bitcoin history. BTC Sessions indicated that this experience prompted them to rethink asset custody, with diversified security measures becoming a key lesson.

Famous internet celebrity Di Shi revealed during a live broadcast that he was set up by his friend Sun Zeyu (founder of Genesis Capital), whom he had known for 8 years in the blockchain circle, resulting in cumulative losses of tens of millions of yuan. He stated that he had always regarded the other party as a reliable friend, not only allowing him to buy cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum but also investing in the exchange that the other party operated in South Korea.Investigations found that some of the so-called "Ethereum" he received might actually just be fake chain assets specifically built by the other party. Di Shi claimed that there were only 7 addresses on that chain, 6 of which were related to the other party, and only 1 was his own. During this time, the other party was even able to help him "cash out" hundreds of thousands of yuan, making the scam appear extremely real. This scheme lasted for 8 years, and if it had not been discovered in time, the losses could have reached hundreds of millions of yuan after the price of coins increased.

NVIDIA is in deep negotiations to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a developer of power infrastructure for data centers. Cloverleaf primarily secures stable power supplies and land with power supply conditions for large data center projects, with a current project reserve scale exceeding 10 gigawatts. This potential deal will further expand NVIDIA's layout in the artificial intelligence infrastructure field to ensure the data center capacity needed for its chips in the future.Previously, NVIDIA has also invested in power developers such as Lancium and SB Energy, a subsidiary of SoftBank.

Market news indicates that NVIDIA (NVDA.O) is in talks with AI chip manufacturer Rebellions for a potential deal.

According to a report by Infomax under the Korea Herald, SK Hynix is advancing its plan to build a semiconductor factory in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, with an investment scale of hundreds of trillions of Korean won. SK Group Chairman Choi Tae-won recently visited the area personally. Miyagi Prefecture is one of the three major semiconductor industry bases supported by the Japanese government.The report states that this factory will be an overseas production base added by SK Hynix outside of its clusters in Yongin, South Korea, and Hunan, China, aimed at meeting the ongoing tight global supply and demand situation for memory. If the plan materializes, SK Hynix will become the third foreign semiconductor company to establish a factory in Japan, following Micron and TSMC. The report points out that due to ongoing pressure from the United States for South Korean companies to increase investments in the U.S., this investment in Japan may further intensify U.S. pressure, while the Japanese government's subsidy policy is also an important consideration. SK Hynix has not officially responded to this news. Previously, on August 20, SK Hynix announced a 40 trillion won share buyback cancellation plan.