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According to Fortune, Bank of America announced a $250 billion infrastructure investment plan on Wednesday, committing to invest in key infrastructure areas in the United States over the next year. The investment scope covers multiple fields including data centers and computing power, renewable energy generation, energy storage, natural gas, transmission networks, and critical minerals and mining, with the goal of supporting energy security, job growth, and economic competitiveness.

Renowned trader Killa posted that during the last bull market, Bitcoin began to recover from its lows before the ETF rumors and official approvals, emphasizing that the market often reflects positive news in advance.Therefore, this round may be similar; the current "Clarity Act" is forming a new narrative. "If it indeed becomes a catalyst, it is likely to mark the beginning of the first meaningful upward phase for BTC after the first bear market recovery, and the approval itself will soon push BTC towards a new ATH (just like the ETF approval)."Killa, a quantitative trader focused on BTC, predicted the peak of this bull market in May 2025 and has over 200,000 followers on the X platform. In mid-April, he shorted Bitcoin at $74,688 and turned bullish during the market-wide decline on June 5.

In July, the seasonally adjusted core CPI in the United States recorded a month-on-month increase of 0.2%, rebounding from the previous month and meeting market expectations.

The U.S. July seasonally adjusted core CPI year-on-year is 2.5%, expected 2.50%, previous value 2.60%.

According to Cointelegraph, Mauro Eldritch, the founder of cybersecurity company BCA LTD, and Heiner García, a network threat intelligence analyst at Telefónica Tech, jointly established a fake cryptocurrency startup "Ballena Azul," successfully luring suspected North Korean IT workers to work in a controlled virtual desktop environment for up to five weeks while monitoring their behavior throughout.Investigations show that the external servers used by the workers are linked to North Korean cyber operations that previously distributed malware such as InvisibleFerret, BeaverTail, and OtterCookie; the workers also heavily relied on ChatGPT for programming assistance and Google Gemini to forge identity documents. Researchers pointed out that North Korean IT workers obtained remote jobs by faking U.S. identities, with their earnings ultimately flowing into Pyongyang's weapons of mass destruction programs. According to the U.S. Treasury Department, such programs are expected to generate nearly $800 million for North Korea in 2024.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has lowered its global oil demand forecast for this year, primarily due to ongoing export disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz and high fuel prices. The IEA expects global oil demand to decline by 1.56 million barrels per day by 2026, reaching 103.29 million barrels per day. It is anticipated that global oil demand will decrease by 4.9 million barrels per day year-on-year in the second quarter, with a recovery in the fourth quarter, increasing by approximately 580,000 barrels per day.

According to Gate market data, the Nikkei 225 index closed up 553.84 points on August 12, an increase of 0.83%, reporting at 67,524.06 points.The South Korean KOSPI index also closed up 233.51 points on the same day, an increase of 3.68%, reporting at 6,579.04 points.Chip stocks surged significantly, with Samsung Electronics rising 6.68% and SK Hynix rising 5.54%.

According to a report by South Korea's Asia Economy, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund Temasek has decided to invest in the South Korean stock market for the first time, having selected Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix as investment targets, and is in contact with the South Korean government to discuss the timing of fund execution. Temasek manages assets of approximately 518 billion Singapore dollars (about 572 trillion Korean won), and this investment will be managed internally rather than through external asset management.Temasek believes that the storage semiconductor sector in the AI value chain is undervalued by the market. Recently, it has been increasing its investments in AI-related fields and already holds shares in semiconductor giants such as Nvidia, TSMC, and ASML, and is also one of the major institutional investors in OpenAI and Anthropic. Temasek plans to increase the proportion of AI-related investments from the current 6% to a maximum of 15% over the next five years. If executed smoothly, this will be Temasek's first direct entry into the South Korean stock market.

According to Gate market data, the South Korean KOSPI index surged 5% during the day, currently reported at 6,665.78 points.

On August 9, the cross-chain bridge connecting the XRP Ledger and Coreum was attacked, with the attacker stealing approximately 199,900 XRP through a validation logic vulnerability, causing the bridged asset balance to drop from about 200,400 XRP to 493.5 XRP. This attack did not involve private key leakage and did not target the XRP Ledger protocol itself.The attacker forged deposit operations, causing the bridging system to recognize them as real deposits and triggering the other end of the bridging wallet to send real XRP to them. On-chain data shows that the attacker completed the fund transfer through 94 multi-signature authorization transactions within 97 minutes. These transactions required 17 signatures from 28 relay node keys, allowing the attacker to bypass the validation mechanism of the bridging system. As of August 11, the Coreum cross-chain bridge remains in a suspended state, and the Coreum Development Foundation has not yet released an official incident report. The security of the XRP mainnet and user private keys has not been affected.

According to BBX data, yesterday global listed companies disclosed the latest developments in their cryptocurrency asset management and future buying plans, with the core information as follows:Strategy plans to resume buying Bitcoin within the year: Phong Le, CEO of Nasdaq-listed company Strategy, recently stated in an interview with Fox News that as the strategic plan progresses, Strategy will resume buying more Bitcoin in the secondary market for the remainder of this year, sending a clear signal of increased holdings.Trump Media holds 9,477 BTC in Q2, with a loss of $360 million in the first half of the year: The latest financial data disclosed by Trump Media shows that as of the end of the second quarter of 2026, the company held a total of 9,477.16 Bitcoins, a decrease of 65 from the end of the first quarter, with a current fair value of approximately $557.1 million. Due to the decline in cryptocurrency prices, the company's related financial losses in the first half of the year reached $360.6 million. Additionally, during the same period, the amount of approximately 756.1 million CRO held remained unchanged, but its fair value shrank from $6.8 million at the end of 2025 to $4.06 million.OranjeBTC steadily increases holdings, total holdings approach 4,000: Brazilian listed Bitcoin treasury company OranjeBTC announced an additional purchase of 2 Bitcoins. After this adjustment, the company's total Bitcoin holdings have risen to 3,950.

According to Gate market data, Coreweave's stock rose 10% in after-hours trading.

AI cloud service giant Coreweave's revenue for the second quarter reached $2.58 billion, exceeding market expectations of $2.56 billion; the net loss was $626 million, lower than the market expectation of $757.1 million.As of June 30, 2026, the total value of contracts on hand was approximately $104 billion.

Chairman Paul S. Atkins of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wrote to Robert Walley, Chairman of the Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) Operating Committee, indicating that the SEC plans to undertake a comprehensive reform of the CAT system, including adjustments to its governance structure, funding sources, and operational model.Atkins stated that during his tenure, the SEC has significantly reduced the annual operating costs of CAT by issuing exemptions and approving amendments to the CAT NMS plan, and has eliminated the requirement to report personally identifiable information (PII) to the CAT system.These reforms have lowered system costs and the scope of data collection, but CAT still faces fundamental issues regarding costs, governance, and funding mechanisms. To address these issues, the SEC released a concept request for comments on April 16, 2026, to conduct a comprehensive review of CAT and other audit trail systems and data sources used in the regulation of U.S. securities markets.The SEC indicated that it has received hundreds of feedback comments, with one core consensus being that investors and market participants want the SEC to take more responsibility for the management and funding arrangements of CAT.Atkins stated that he has asked SEC staff to propose deep reforms for CAT, including: 1. Exploring new funding sources for CAT, including the use of congressional appropriations and transaction fees under Section 31 of the Securities Exchange Act; 2. Drafting rule proposals that, if approved, would repeal Rule 613 and require exchanges, FINRA, and broker-dealers to continue using the existing CAT infrastructure and reporting standards to submit CAT data directly to the SEC or its designated agency; 3. Assessing the internal resource needs of the SEC to prepare for the SEC's future assumption of governance responsibilities for CAT.The SEC expects that this reform will involve multiple stages and will need to be advanced simultaneously, with the overall transition potentially lasting until the end of 2027.

According to official news, the fintech and asset tokenization company Anchored Finance announced the launch of three tokenized funds, with underlying strategies involving funds from asset management institutions such as Point72, Millennium, D. E. Shaw, and BlackRock.The first batch of products includes the Anchored Diversified Hedge Fund (aDHF), Anchored Liquid Strategy Fund (aLSF), and Anchored AI Strategy Fund (aAIF), providing on-chain alternative asset allocation channels for qualified investors.Anchored Finance stated that this is the first time such traditional hedge fund portfolios have been introduced on-chain in the form of tokenized funds.

Manus announced that the company will soon resume independent operations. To complete this transition and meet regulatory requirements in certain jurisdictions, affected users must back up their data by 7:59 AM Singapore time on August 23, and data recovery will begin at 8:00 AM on August 25 to ensure normal usage thereafter.Manus stated that affected users will be notified via email and in-app notifications; users who registered with an Apple ID or Facebook account should pay attention to in-app notifications. Affected users can perform multiple backups before August 23 and can continue to create data after the first backup, followed by re-executing the backup. Starting at 8:00 AM on August 25, the data recovery portal will officially open, and users can continue using their previous data after completing the recovery. During the transition period, affected users will incur no charges, and Manus will also provide rewards.For users not affected by this adjustment, no action is required, and they can continue to use Manus normally; the system will also confirm via in-app notifications that their accounts are unaffected. Manus understands that this adjustment may cause inconvenience to affected users and has provided detailed operational guidelines in the help center, while the customer service team will offer 24/7 support.Manus stated that it is preparing a series of new features aimed at further expanding the capabilities of general AI entities and expressed optimism about the company's development prospects after resuming independent operations.

The UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is exploring how tokenized gold can be incorporated into the wholesale market, including whether it can be used as collateral. The discussions involve regulatory approaches aimed at the institutional market, with relevant rules expected to be announced in the coming months.This regulatory discussion comes as London seeks to solidify its position as a global gold trading hub. Data from the World Gold Council shows that London currently accounts for about 70% of global gold trading volume, while Shanghai and Hong Kong are vying for a larger share of wholesale business. HSBC launched a tokenized gold product for retail investors in Hong Kong over two years ago and reported that the cumulative trading volume has exceeded $2.2 billion, with more than 276,000 transactions. The FCA does not directly regulate physical gold trading but oversees gold derivatives and publicly traded products in the market.

The senior deputy governor of the Bank of Korea stated that the central bank is more focused on demand-side inflation pressures rather than supply-side, and revealed that there will be additional interest rate hikes.

According to Digital Asset, LG CNS, an IT service company under South Korea's LG Group, plans to launch a brand new blockchain service in September, specifically targeting the stablecoin ecosystem, covering core functions such as digital wallets, transaction processing, fee payment, and on-chain data management.Lee Jung-hwa, head of the blockchain department at LG CNS, stated that wallets are the most important infrastructure in the stablecoin ecosystem. In the future, whoever controls the wallets and the fiat currency entry and exit channels will occupy a key position. The company has previously accumulated technology related to CBDC and deposit tokens by participating in the Bank of Korea's "Project Hangang" and has verified various on-chain settlement models in experiments.