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According to ZEIT, the Berlin city government suffered a cyber attack two weeks ago, and the hacker group is suspected of implementing ransomware using the stolen data. According to Der Spiegel, the attackers are believed to be the long-active Rhysida hacker group, demanding a payment of 30 bitcoins (approximately 2 million euros) and threatening to release the data.The sensitive information involved may include records of violations and passwords. The Berlin state government has not yet confirmed the extent of the data breach and has not responded to the ransom amount or the identity of the attackers, stating that it will not comment "for reasons of investigative strategy." Berlin's mayor, Kai Wegner, has made it clear that Berlin will not yield to extortion. The main departments affected are transportation and construction management, which were temporarily isolated from the state government's network after the incident.

Tencent Hunyuan stated that since the Hunyuan Hy4 preview was first launched on WorkBuddy on August 28, 2026, it has received positive experiences and enthusiastic feedback from a wide range of users and developers due to the significant enhancement of its Agent capabilities. On the first day of launch, there were queuing situations in the WorkBuddy task queue, for which we sincerely apologize.To ensure everyone's user experience, the company has conducted emergency scaling of the Hy4 preview inference cluster and will continue to dynamically allocate resources. However, due to the limitations of high-end computing power and peak concurrent usage, it cannot be ruled out that queuing situations may continue to occur during certain periods.

According to on-chain data monitored by Catcher Predict, significant capital movements are predicted in the market Polymarket. A large whale has made a single purchase of $82,000 on "Manchester City FC" in the event "Crystal Palace FC vs Manchester City FC." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this target is 41%.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the prediction market Polymarket for the event "Kansas City Royals vs. Toronto Blue Jays," the "Kansas City Royals" option in the sub-market "Kansas City Royals vs. Toronto Blue Jays" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 61.5% an hour ago to the current 90.5% (a fluctuation of 29%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stated that the future size of the non-hyperscale cloud computing market may exceed the current total capacity of cloud computing.

The 21Shares report shows that Solana is advancing two governance proposals, SIMD-550 and SIMD-553, which may significantly change the SOL holding economic model in the next two years.SIMD-550 proposes to increase Solana's annual inflation reduction rate from 15% to 30%, allowing it to reach a terminal inflation rate of 1.5% more quickly, with nominal staking yields expected to drop to about 2.25% within three years.SIMD-553 was approved and merged on July 20, and will introduce a destruction fee for compute unit requests, increasing the daily SOL burn amount from about 600-800 to about 7500-9000.The report believes that although the decline in staking income will directly affect the earnings of validators and stakers, a lower issuance combined with a higher burn rate may improve the long-term supply and demand structure of SOL, and could drive some capital towards the decentralized finance ecosystem on the Solana chain.

According to CoinDesk, Dallas Federal Reserve economists Rosie Levy and Srini Ramaswamy estimate that if depositors' sensitivity to interest rates increases by 10%, tokenized deposits could reduce U.S. banks' ability to bear long-term interest rate risk by about $700 billion; if tokenization leads to a 10% early outflow of deposits, banks would lose about $580 billion in risk absorption capacity.Tokenized deposits place commercial bank money on the blockchain, supporting programmable payments and real-time settlement, but smart contracts and AI agents could automate deposit transfers, weakening deposit stickiness. Banks can respond by raising deposit rates, increasing reserves and government bonds, or relying more on term debt, but this could drive up credit costs for consumers and businesses.Research from Brazil's instant payment network Pix shows that more frequent use of the system increases banks' holdings of liquid assets like government bonds while reducing credit intermediation. Currently, tokenized deposits are still in the early stages, with clearinghouses and U.S. banks such as Bank of America, Citibank, and Wells Fargo developing interoperable networks that support interbank clearing, automated workflows, and 24/7 settlement.

According to official news, the on-chain structured product infrastructure City Protocol announced the completion of seed and Pre-A round financing, with a total financing amount reaching 11 million USD. Investors include Dragonfly, Jump Crypto, CMT Digital, Stratified Capital, Adaverse, Mirana, and others.City Protocol is committed to bringing structured products on-chain, providing integrated infrastructure for the issuance, operation, and acquisition of structured products through the tokenization layer, vault layer, and issuance operation layer. Its flagship product is the on-chain structured product platform Venzo, which has currently launched 4 strategy vaults with a TVL of 40 million USD, covering strategies such as quantitative hedging, cross-exchange arbitrage, and private credit, which were previously mainly aimed at institutional and professional investors. Venzo will also soon launch thematic vaults, divided into character tracking and sector themes, where a basket of underlying assets will be directly purchased and adjusted in users' wallets by the program according to public rules.

The blockchain network BNB Chain has enabled the Pasteur hard fork on the BNB Smart Chain (BSC) mainnet. The upgrade involves cross-chain bridge validation, validator authorization, staking, and governance security, while enhancing block capacity without changing the 450 milliseconds block time.This upgrade includes BEP-682, BEP-695, and BEP-675, which respectively involve duplicate validator entries, validator key rotation and penalty governance, and block submission processes. In the internal testing environment QANet, the new process increased throughput from 1,237 transactions per second to 2,324 transactions per second, but the related data comes from controlled tests and not mainnet measurement results.

Analysis indicates that China's major DRAM manufacturer CXMT's monthly wafer output has reached a peak of approximately 240,000 pieces by the end of 2025, and is expected to remain flat in 2026. Due to the tightening of U.S. export controls on advanced semiconductor equipment, especially EUV lithography machines, its capacity for expansion is limited, and substantial expansion will not occur until at least 2027, depending on the progress of the domestic equipment supply chain. According to Goldman Sachs data, CXMT's coverage of domestic DRAM demand is only about 41% in 2026 and about 50% in 2028, reflecting a structural bottleneck for many years.TrendForce data shows that traditional DRAM contract prices are expected to surge by 90%-95% quarter-on-quarter in the first quarter of 2026, followed by another increase of 58%-63% in the second quarter. Jefferies predicts that prices will continue to rise by 40%-50% and 30%-40% in the third and fourth quarters, respectively. The price increase for server DRAM is even steeper, with Samsung and SK Hynix proposing price hikes of 60%-70% to clients like Microsoft and Google in the first quarter. S&P Global expects Samsung's traditional DRAM revenue per bit to rise by 116% year-on-year to $0.79 in 2026, while Micron's ASP will increase by 54% to $1.06; Bernstein predicts that SK Hynix's DRAM gross margin could reach 92.7% in the fourth quarter of 2026.Multiple forecasts suggest that effective supply relief may not occur until the end of 2027 or even 2028.

SemiAnalysis reported that the Nvidia Rubin Ultra will feature 192GB of HBM4 8-hi memory. This is not only a significant reduction from the initially previewed 1TB HBM but is even lower than the 288GB capacity of the standard Rubin.The reasons for the HBM configuration being cut down to about one-fifth of the original include: the cancellation of the four-die Rubin Ultra scheme, reducing the number of cubes to 8; the stacking height being lowered from 16-hi to 8-hi; and the use of HBM4 with 24Gb dies instead of HBM4E with 32Gb dies. An upgraded version with 8-hi HBM4E may be released later.

Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich stated that the core logic behind their bullish outlook on Bitcoin is that AI is significantly reducing the production costs of software, content, and analytics, and value will shift towards scarce assets that cannot be infinitely increased.The supply cap of 21 million Bitcoins is guaranteed by network rules, cannot be copied or diluted, and can be settled globally 24 hours a day. The long-term experience of Japanese households regarding changes in currency purchasing power has also reinforced this judgment.

According to DIGITIMES, the NB supply chain has reported that brand manufacturers are significantly returning to production in China, with "returning to China for production" becoming a new trend. Brands such as HP, ASUS, and Acer have recently noticeably reduced their originally planned capacity shifts to Southeast Asia, with production focus returning to Chongqing or Kunshan in China, and increasing orders to Chinese ODM or EMS manufacturers and the proportion of private label products. This involves production lines at Quanta, Inventec's Thailand factories, and Compal, Wistron’s Vietnam factories, which may be affected by customer transfers. Lenovo, Dell, and Apple, on the other hand, remain relatively unchanged.The supply chain indicates that after the U.S. equivalent tariffs were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, the impact of substitute tariffs is smaller, and the production costs for NB in Southeast Asia are on average $9 higher per unit than in China. The gross profit margin for brand manufacturers per unit of NB is mostly between 3% to 10%. Based on a low-priced model with an average price of about $300, the $9 difference is close to or even exceeds their profit, resulting in unprofitable shipments. Local Chinese governments are also demanding increased production due to reduced tax revenues, or they will reclaim past subsidies, creating a pull for returning production.Relevant ODM personnel stated that they will respect customer decisions, and if they cannot take on a single product, they will shift production locally to servers and other product lines such as networking. Lenovo is more cautious due to its diversified layout, with limited relocation; Dell has not significantly returned due to the high proportion of U.S. government orders; Apple targets the high-end market and promotes automation, with the main reason for relocating MacBook production from Shanghai being the pandemic-related supply chain disruptions, and its plans in Vietnam remain unchanged to date.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the predicted market event "Detroit Tigers vs. Kansas City Royals" on Polymarket, the "Over" option in the sub-market "O/U 8.5" has experienced a drastic fluctuation in winning probability, plummeting from 45.5% an hour ago to the current 28% (a fluctuation of 17.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Reuters, citing informed sources, Samsung Electronics has raised prices for some new advanced foundry service orders by up to 15%, due to a surge in demand for AI chips leading to tight capacity. The company has long lagged behind TSMC in the foundry sector. Demand from Chinese customers is particularly strong, but Samsung must prioritize serving U.S. customers and reserve some capacity to support its own chip production, making it unable to take on all orders. Affected by U.S. export restrictions on advanced chip equipment to China, Chinese companies are increasingly reliant on overseas foundries, with some Chinese customers accepting the maximum price increase.Informed sources stated that Samsung raised the prices for the 4nm (SF4) process in July, with price increases of 10% to 15% for Chinese and U.S. customers, and 5% to 10% for Taiwanese customers; the price for 5nm (SF5) wafers increased by 10% to 15%, nearly 10% higher than the older 8nm process. The SF4 production line at the Pyeongtaek factory has been operating at full capacity since the end of last year, producing logic chips for customers like Qualcomm and providing basic bare chips for Samsung's own HBM. Analysts point out that after TSMC's advanced capacity was fully booked, customers turned to Samsung and Intel, giving Samsung room to raise prices.Samsung's foundry business has been continuously losing money since 2022, but the company expects to quickly turn a profit driven by improved utilization rates, yield improvements, and rising prices. Foundry revenue in the second half of the year is expected to grow by double digits year-on-year, with advanced processes accounting for more than half, and AI and high-performance computing applications accounting for over 30%. Companies like Tesla, Apple, Broadcom, and NVIDIA have already reached relevant cooperation agreements with Samsung, and Google is also in talks to use the SF4 process.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "Athletics vs. Kansas City Royals," the "Athletics" option in the sub-market "Athletics vs. Kansas City Royals" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 51.5% an hour ago to the current 83% (a fluctuation of 31.5%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

The Shanghai Intermediate People's Court has published typical cases, analyzing whether "traffic personnel" involved in telecommunications network fraud related to virtual currencies constitute accomplices in fraud. From February 2022 to April 2023, the defendants, for the purpose of profit, assisted upstream fraudulent activities by "draining traffic," using online virtual phone software to lure victims into related scam groups, ultimately causing 30 victims to be defrauded of more than 2.34 million yuan (the same currency hereafter) by an overseas fraudulent organization. The overseas fraudulent organization transferred funds into the suspects' trading accounts via virtual currency.The Shanghai First Intermediate People's Court pointed out that in telecommunications network fraud cases, "traffic personnel" may constitute accomplices in fraud or illegal use of information networks depending on specific circumstances. The key lies in determining whether they have formed a clear criminal intent connection with the upstream fraudulent organization and whether there is stable cooperation and division of labor. In judicial practice, when assessing the criminal responsibility of "traffic personnel," factors such as their role in the criminal chain, the degree of organizational management, connections with upstream criminals, methods of profit, and abnormal behavior should be comprehensively considered. Actions that only provide general online services and do not form a conspiracy to commit fraud should be distinguished from "draining" actions that knowingly participate in the implementation of fraud.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the prediction market Polymarket for the event "Kansas City Royals vs. Los Angeles Angels," the option "Los Angeles Angels" in the sub-market "Spread -1.5" experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, plummeting from 40.5% an hour ago to the current 21.5% (a fluctuation of 19%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Founder of Strategy, Michael Saylor, stated that Bitcoin integrates computers, digital networks, and cryptography to create the first currency network in human history designed in a digital manner. It completely dematerializes monetary assets, with supply controlled by public protocols rather than decisions, transforming economic value into information that can be securely transmitted across global communication networks.Compared to gold, Bitcoin is harder to inflate, easier to integrate with software, faster in transmission, and every participant has the incentive to maintain network security. The proof-of-work mechanism anchors it in the physical world, making the cost of tampering with history high by consuming real energy for ledger security, attracting miners, energy providers, and investors to collaboratively build a defense system. Bitcoin is digital gold, but understanding it as digital currency is more fitting.The Bitcoin network is not static software; it is an adaptive system composed of miners, nodes, developers, capital, and users. Bitcoin deliberately maintains functional simplicity, focusing solely on maintaining a secure and reliable ledger of scarce digital assets, leaving complexity to higher-level applications.This layered design of underlying integrity and upper-level functionality allows it to serve as a foundation for transmitting monetary energy across time and space while supporting continuous innovation in payments, credit, and financial services.The more profound impact is that Bitcoin creates a new form of digital sovereignty: private keys empower individuals to control economic energy without permission, with ownership verified by mathematics rather than institutions. Companies, banks, trusts, and applications can build a complete economic system around it, and social networks can introduce real costs and responsibilities into the digital space.Gold monetized physical scarcity, while Bitcoin monetizes digital scarcity. It is not merely a payment tool but an engineering solution to humanity's problems of energy preservation and guidance—currency is energy, and Bitcoin is the currency energy of the digital age.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the prediction market Polymarket for the event "Kansas City Royals vs. Los Angeles Angels," the win probability for the "Kansas City Royals" option in the sub-market "Kansas City Royals vs. Los Angeles Angels" has experienced significant fluctuations, dropping from 65.5% an hour ago to the current 41.5% (a fluctuation of 24%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.