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Bitwise's Head of Research for Europe, André Dragosch, pointed out in a client memo that the 90-day correlation between Bitcoin and gold has reached its highest level in nearly six years. Bitcoin rose by 22.4% in a week, marking the largest weekly gain since March 2024, while gold increased by about 5%, and the stock market declined. The last time similar data appeared was in 2020, when governments and central banks around the world implemented fiscal and monetary stimulus measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Bitwise noted that according to its 90-day indicator, as of the end of August, Bitcoin had a negative correlation with the US dollar index, which means that a weakening dollar would be beneficial for Bitcoin and gold.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated that as BTC returns to around $82,000, the open interest of Binance Bitcoin contracts has increased by nearly 8% in the past 24 hours, surpassing $10 billion, and reaching a new high in nearly 6 months.The open interest measured in BTC has also risen to 125,830 coins.

According to the Slow Fog Security Team, they have detected an attack activity disguised as a free VPS service, specifically targeting iPhone Safari browsers running iOS versions 18.4 to 18.6.2.The attackers exploited six vulnerabilities codenamed DarkSword to form a complete attack chain, covering aspects such as WebKit remote code execution, sandbox escape, and kernel read/write, allowing them to obtain App container files and keychain data without user awareness, and to record keyboard inputs when wallets like imToken, TokenPocket, or TronLink are in the foreground.The Slow Fog team stated that the aforementioned six vulnerabilities have now been patched by Apple, and the current attack belongs to the reuse of n-day vulnerability chains. Simply visiting a malicious page does not directly prove that mnemonic phrases or private keys have been stolen; confirmation still requires device forensics. iOS/iPadOS users are advised to upgrade their systems to version 18.7.3 or 26.3 and above as soon as possible.

The Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the Ministry of Commerce jointly issued the "Implementation Plan for Promoting Coordinated Transformation and Development of Digitalization and Greening (2026-2030)", proposing to advance the coordinated transformation of digitalization and greening during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.The plan emphasizes empowering green and low-carbon transformation with digital intelligence technology, achieving low-cost and high-efficiency applications of artificial intelligence by 2030, significantly improving the energy efficiency of computing facilities and 5G base stations, promoting renewable energy electricity consumption in key areas such as computing facilities to reach the responsibility weight level of the respective provinces, and deepening the digital and green applications in agriculture, manufacturing, trade, consumption, and urban operation, strengthening intelligent governance of the ecological environment and digital carbon management, and solidifying the foundation for coordinated dual transformation and international cooperation.

Bitwise's latest report shows that the correlation between Bitcoin and gold has risen to a six-year high. Bitwise's Head of Research for Europe, André Dragosch, stated that the last time the correlation reached this level was in 2020, during the period of multiple fiscal and monetary stimulus following the COVID-19 pandemic; meanwhile, the correlation between Bitcoin and the stock market has dropped to a one-year low, suggesting a decoupling between hard assets and the stock market.The report believes that the simultaneous rise of Bitcoin and gold is due to the "substantial intervention in the macro picture" by the U.S. government. Last month, the U.S. Treasury announced it would more than double the scale of government debt buybacks, leading to a weakening of the dollar, and investors flocked back to gold and Bitcoin; in the same week, U.S. public debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time, further undermining market confidence in the dollar. Bitwise stated that investors are no longer entangled in whether to hedge against currency depreciation with gold or Bitcoin, but are holding both simultaneously, and pointed out that "Bitcoin has been priced as a risk asset for its first fifteen years, and if this correlation trend continues, the next fifteen years could be very different."Driven by this, Bitcoin rose again this week, increasing nearly 6% within 24 hours, with the price briefly approaching $81,438.

Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas posted that over the past 6 months, Bitcoin's correlation with the U.S. stock market has been lower than that of gold, small-cap stocks, emerging market assets, and U.S. Treasuries.He stated that Bitcoin's historical correlation with U.S. stocks has roughly maintained around 0.4, while gold and U.S. Treasuries have seen a significant increase in their linkage with U.S. stocks recently.Balchunas noted that although this time window is relatively short, it is sufficient to refute the claim that "Bitcoin is just another QQQ."

The privacy public chain Zano activated its sixth hard fork (HF6) at block height 3,833,000. The upgrade has been launched on the mainnet, completing the largest upgrade in the network's seven-year history. HF6 introduces Gateway Addresses, providing a directly traceable single balance and instant synchronization for centralized exchanges, DEX, and cross-chain bridges, while retaining existing addresses and their privacy models.Native ZANO can now be cross-chain transferred to Ethereum, Solana, and TON without custody, publicly on external networks, and privacy protection is restored after crossing back to Zano. The upgrade also tightens consensus validation rules and strengthens wallet encryption, mining pool fault tolerance, payment IDs, anti-DoS restrictions, SOCKS5 proxies, and RPC interfaces. HF6 is a prerequisite for the development of the EVM-compatible chain Zano Execution Layer, which currently has no fixed launch date; the next-generation consensus protocol Zenith has been included in the 2027 roadmap.

Huang Renxun posted on the X platform stating that Gavin is very accurate. AI is driving the return of manufacturing to the United States, promoting re-industrialization after decades of offshore outsourcing. AI is creating demand, driving market forces rather than subsidizing investments in aging grids and sustainable energy.AI is creating jobs in construction and manufacturing in energy plants, chip manufacturing plants, and data centers. AI is giving rise to new companies and new industries; in just the past six months, AI startups have received $400 billion in investments. Builders must collaborate with communities to develop local projects, earn trust, and create local benefits. The United States has the opportunity to create lasting benefits for communities nationwide and help lead the next industrial revolution.

Cosmos Labs released a technical report, admitting that it previously misjudged an integer underflow vulnerability in the Cosmos EVM, which led to attacks on six blockchain networks between August 20 and 25, resulting in a total theft of approximately $5.7 million in tokens. The attacker exploited the vulnerability to underflow account balances to the maximum value of 2^256-1, then performed a reverse operation to transfer the inflated balance out, thereby stealing tokens from the target accounts without creating tokens out of thin air.The report shows that researchers submitted the defect through a bug bounty program on April 25, but testers were unable to reproduce it on the existing Cosmos chain configuration, so Cosmos Labs silently patched it in May. Independent researchers confirmed in early August that the vulnerability affected all Cosmos EVM chains, and Cosmos Labs released a patch on August 19, but the first attack occurred about 20 hours later.In terms of specific losses, MANTRA lost 720.9 million tokens (approximately $3.6 million), TAC lost nearly 3 billion TAC, and KiiChain lost about 148 million KII. Both MANTRA and KiiChain criticized Cosmos Labs for not notifying the affected chains in advance and suggesting a shutdown, with KiiChain stating that the patch would take several days to deploy while a shutdown would only take a few minutes. Cosmos Labs stated that it has coordinated responses with 40 chains and assisted 13 chains in completing repairs or shutdowns before being attacked.

B.AI platform announced yesterday that its free model lineup is fully ready, covering six top models including GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, Hy3 (Tencent Hunyuan), MiMo-V2.5 (Xiaomi), and Qwen3.8-Flash, all available to users with zero barriers for free.Among them, the debuting GLM-5.3-Flash is the "Ox Alpha" that has attracted widespread attention. As the first native multimodal model in the GLM-5 series, it features a total of 320B parameters and 18B active parameters, using a sparse + linear attention hybrid architecture and supporting 1M ultra-long context, combining rapid response with strong reasoning capabilities, making it the cost-effective choice for high-frequency calling scenarios. This free lineup covers various scenarios including pure text, multimodal, code generation, and Agent scheduling. Whether developers or deep AI users, they can access cutting-edge large model capabilities at zero cost through the B.AI platform, simply by logging in at chat.b.ai/chat to start an efficient workflow.

Galaxy Research tracking data shows that six dormant Bitcoin wallets from 2011, 2012, and 2014 transferred a total of 553.59 BTC, worth approximately $40.15 million, between August 16 and 26. The earliest batch of coins was purchased in June 2011, when the price was about $14, and their value has since increased over 460,000 times; the most recent wallet transferred 40 BTC to the German crypto custody bank Boerse Stuttgart Digital, with profits reaching up to 1.53 million times.Among the six wallets, two are labeled "Salomon Client Dusted," associated with the pseudonymous plaintiff Noah Doe. Noah Doe filed a lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court, requesting the court to declare 39,069 dormant Bitcoin addresses as unclaimed property under the state's lost property law, and to deliver notice by sending dust transactions to thousands of wallets. Additionally, the panic transfers triggered by the recent Coldcard hardware wallet vulnerability incident are also seen as one of the possible reasons for the awakening of old wallets.

The cross-chain liquidity protocol Maya Protocol was attacked on August 18, with the attacker exploiting six interconnected software vulnerabilities to create false account balances, stealing approximately 20.83 BTC (about $1.34 million) and other assets, resulting in a total direct loss of about $1.65 million. The incident led to the suspension of trading on the MAYAChain network, with its token CACAO plummeting nearly 89% from $0.115 to $0.013, before recovering to around $0.03.Technical reviews show that the attack began when MAYAChain mistakenly judged a transaction to be lost and triggered a compensation mechanism, but the mechanism miscalculated, adding about 49 million CACAO to a small liquidity pool, while the protocol's reserves only held about 168,000 CACAO. After the transfer failed, the system incorrectly saved the new balance, and the attacker subsequently deposited a very small amount into the liquidity pool, acquiring over 99% of the pool's share and immediately withdrawing 48.87 million CACAO, which was then exchanged for Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other assets.The incident caused the total value of the Maya Protocol liquidity pool to decrease by about $10.9 million, of which approximately $6.4 million was due to the depreciation of CACAO, and about $2.9 million came from arbitrage trading. The team expressed hope that the attacker would return the funds in the form of a bug bounty; otherwise, they would seek to recover losses through investments in channels like Aztec Chain. Maya Protocol has not yet announced a specific time for resuming trading. This incident once again exposed the security risks within the complex logic of DeFi protocols.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reviewing the rule change application submitted by Cboe BZX Exchange, involving six leveraged commodity ETFs that track the benchmark's daily performance by three times. The initial review period set by the SEC is 45 days after publication in the Federal Register.Volatility Shares LLC is the sponsor of the relevant funds, which include 3x Gold, Silver, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crude Oil, and Natural Gas ETFs, all intended to operate under a commodity pool and not classified as investment companies. Among them, the Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs will primarily invest in near-month and next-month futures contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), rather than directly holding Bitcoin or Ethereum, and will allocate cash and cash equivalents as collateral or margin.Before the relevant products are listed, the SEC must approve the exchange rule changes, and the trust's Form S-1 registration statement must also become effective. Each fund must have at least 100,000 shares at the time of listing, and authorized participants can subscribe or redeem cash at a rate of 1,000 shares per 10,000 shares.

According to Ledger Insights, Africa Finance Corporation issued digital bonds worth 350 million Swiss francs (approximately 431 million USD) through the SDX platform of the Swiss Stock Exchange (SIX). This marks the first time an African institution has issued digital bonds through a Central Securities Depository (CSD) and an exchange.The five-year bond has a coupon rate of 1.4925% and is one of the larger digital bonds on the platform, although UBS had previously issued bonds worth 375 million Swiss francs in 2022. This transaction was arranged by Commerzbank AG (technical lead) and Deutsche Bank.

Freddie Mac stated that the average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage in the United States decreased from 6.69% a week ago to 6.67%, ending five consecutive weeks of increases.The U.S. job market is cooling, with price increases in July slowing down, and core inflation indicators dropping to a five-year low. The market expects the probability of a 25 basis point rate hike in September to fall to 38%. Stalled negotiations in the Strait of Hormuz have raised concerns about high oil prices, and U.S. home sales in July decreased by 4.1% compared to June.

According to the Nikkei News, individual investors in the Japanese stock market are accelerating their use of leverage to bet on AI trends. As of July, the amount of credit trading by individual investors in the Japanese stock market reached 123 trillion yen (approximately 1.09 trillion yuan), doubling since the beginning of the year and reaching the highest level since related statistics began in 2016.Data shows that in June, the scale of credit trading by Japanese individual investors hit a historical high, and in July it continued to maintain a high level. At the same time, the proportion of credit trading in the overall trading amount of individual investors rose to 83%, also setting a new record.AI concept stocks have become the main driving force behind the surge in credit trading, among which the credit buy balance of AI storage concept stock Kioxia reached 13.23 million shares as of August 7, making it one of the popular targets.Benefiting from the recent rise in the Japanese stock market, the overall performance of leveraged investors has been decent. The floating yield of credit trading investors briefly turned positive in June, although it fell back to a loss of 8.4% by the end of July, it is still better than the average loss level of the past 10 years (-10.2%).

NVIDIA announced a partnership with Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR to establish an independent financing platform.The platform aims to mobilize over $500 billion in third-party capital in the long term to support AI infrastructure development.

The number of wallets holding at least 10,000 bitcoins has increased to 90, reaching a six-month high, indicating that large investors are accumulating again.Since July 29, wallets holding between 10 and 10,000 bitcoins have cumulatively increased their holdings by approximately $1.5 billion worth of bitcoins; influenced by security concerns and regulatory delays, the number of smaller "micro" wallets continues to decrease. Analysts from the crypto market data platform Santiment indicate that the rotation of tokens from small holders to so-called "strong hands" historically tends to precede significant price fluctuations, and the likelihood of bitcoin breaking above $70,000 has increased.