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According to official news, Saturn announced a partnership with Ondo to bring institutional-grade tokenized assets into Saturn's (STRC) structured products.At the same time, Ondo also made a strategic investment in Saturn.

According to Arkham monitoring, Alameda Research associated addresses transferred a total of 8.25 million USD in SOL to BitGo custody wallets through 24 transactions, presumably for distribution of compensation to FTX creditors.Arkham data shows that Alameda currently still holds over 200 million USD in SOL.

Despite the rare coordination between the United States and Japan in promoting the strengthening of the yen, U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellen and Japanese Prime Minister Kishi Sanae's fundamental disagreements regarding the Bank of Japan may undermine their efforts. Yellen believes that tightening monetary policy is crucial to addressing the yen's weakness, while Kishi is cautious about raising interest rates, fearing it may impact economic recovery. The Bank of Japan's benchmark interest rate remains at 1%.

According to an exclusive report from "Du Jia," Xiaohongshu is developing a brand new "AI Shopping Guide" feature, which relies on a conversational interaction model to directly push product cards and attach order jump links in Q&A scenarios. This project is led by Daoxuan (Pan Boyuan). As of the time of publication, Xiaohongshu has not responded.Previously, Xiaohongshu launched an AI summary feature in store reputation, and this AI shopping guide is a further extension of its intelligent transaction chain. According to public data, Xiaohongshu has approximately 400 million global MAU, with 39 million users engaging in explicit purchasing behavior daily, resulting in 140 million active purchase requests, over 47 million users entering merchant live streams, and more than 170,000 merchant group chats remaining active. During the 618 period, the GMV of store broadcasts increased by 265% year-on-year, and note content drove transaction growth of over 210%.Xiaohongshu currently adopts a dual transaction model of "internal marketplace closed loop plus external traffic diversion," and there is still room for improvement in the direct order conversion rate within the platform. The launch of the AI shopping guide feature is expected to further enhance its internal e-commerce GMV and revenue.

The Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) of South Korea has launched a three-month project to rebuild the fraud refund system with a budget of approximately 119 million won. This upgrade aims to align with the revised Telecommunications Fraud Damage Compensation Act, which will officially take effect on October 1, and formally includes virtual assets in the categories of "damaged property" and "refundable property."The new system will support the calculation of compensation amounts based on token types and quantities, using the value of the won at the time the funds were frozen as a reference benchmark, and will also have the capability to dismantle mixed fraud funds across multiple accounts. Major exchanges such as Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit, and GOPAX will be required to undertake anti-fraud and victim relief obligations equivalent to those of banks, including verifying transaction purposes, monitoring suspicious funds, and freezing suspected accounts.

The prediction market Trepa announced that the last playable round will take place on August 12, 2026, after which no new rounds will be opened. The referrals and continuous rewards that users have earned will be sent to the Trepa wallet on August 13. The application will remain online until September 30 for withdrawals, after which it will no longer be accessible. If there is a balance, please withdraw it to your own address through the app wallet before this date.Trepa started at the Bybit x DMCC hackathon in November 2024, initially as a Telegram mini-program based on TON, used for predicting public opinion poll results, and later underwent several hackathons, shifting towards macro events and short-term cryptocurrency price predictions.

Regarding the abnormal and severe fluctuations in the perpetual contract market for TUT (TUTUSDT), Lobster (LobsterUSDT), and BICO (BICOUSDT) on August 9, 2026, Gate has promptly initiated a special review and risk control investigation. To protect users' legitimate rights and interests, Gate will provide full USDT compensation to affected users who meet the compensation criteria. The platform has opened a special processing channel, and affected users can contact Gate through official channels such as VIP account managers and online customer service. The platform will assist in implementing the compensation plan within three working days and will distribute the compensation amount to users' spot accounts.Gate stated that user rights are always the core focus of the platform, and it will continue to strengthen the identification of abnormal trading, risk control in low liquidity markets, dynamic management of risk parameters, and the construction of pricing and settlement mechanisms, further enhancing the platform's risk prevention capabilities and market governance level. Gate is committed to creating a fair, transparent, and secure trading environment, continuously listening to user feedback, and working with the community to maintain a healthy and stable market ecosystem.

Bitget's head of Greater China, Xie Jiayin, issued a statement indicating that in response to the abnormal price marking incident involving TUT and two other trading pairs on August 9, Bitget will compensate affected users who meet the criteria, with a total compensation amount of nearly 40 million USD. The compensation will be calculated based on the user's account equity at 15:00 on that day, addressing related losses caused by forced liquidation of short positions during the period of abnormal price fluctuations.Xie Jiayin also stated that Bitget will continue to uphold the concept of "a warm exchange," ensuring the protection of user rights for retail, VIP, and institutional clients alike. After handling the incident, the platform will continue to review and promote the continuous iteration of products and related mechanisms.

The mining pool Roughnecks, which supports the BIP-110 protocol, announced after a team meeting that it has decided to cease mining operations under the Roughnecks name and advised all miners using the current algorithm to pause mining on the BIP-110 chain until further notice. Roughnecks emphasized that this decision is not a failure of the BIP-110 movement, but a step towards the next journey, and thanked all supporters. The struggle will continue, but Roughnecks will no longer act as a pioneer.

The Move-to-Earn application Step App officially announced its closure after four years of operation. The official statement indicated that the platform has achieved over 1 million downloads, tracked billions of steps, and facilitated the integration of Web2 and Web3 in the fitness sector.All services will cease before August 21, 2026. The team reminds users to unstake locked tokens and manage their exchange positions before this date.

According to CoinDesk, RedotPay responded to the lawsuit filed by Binance, stating that it will actively defend itself. The company stated in a statement that it is aware of the legal proceedings initiated by Binance and will mount a strong defense against all allegations, denying the related accusations against the company and its co-founders, claiming that these allegations are baseless.Previously, Bloomberg reported that a Binance-affiliated entity filed a lawsuit in Hong Kong against RedotPay's co-founder, accusing him of breaching the agreement by directing over 470,000 Binance users to the RedotPay platform, resulting in approximately $473 million in losses. Binance stated in the lawsuit that it discovered in March 2026 that RedotPay allowed and encouraged the use of Binance Pay funds for unauthorized purposes without isolation, including recharging the RedotPay card. Binance's Chaintecs also filed a lawsuit against RedotPay affiliates in Singapore, with a related hearing scheduled for this Friday.Public information shows that Binance and RedotPay first reached a commercial cooperation in November 2023, which was terminated less than six months later due to Binance's claim that its funds were used for recharging RedotPay prepaid cards. The two parties reached a second agreement in March 2025, requiring Binance funds to remain isolated, allowing Binance users to exchange cryptocurrencies for fiat currency on RedotPay, conduct in-app transfers, and purchase RedotPay branded merchandise, but not to recharge the RedotPay card. Binance terminated the agreement in April 2026, stating it was part of a merchant partner review. RedotPay had previously planned to go public in the U.S. with an estimated valuation of about $4 billion, intending to raise over $1 billion.

According to Jinshi reports, Trump's frustration over the Iran war erupted last week at Camp David, where he questioned Defense Secretary Hegseth about why he was misled on the critical ammunition shortage issue. Trump believes the ammunition issue "has long been resolved," while Hegseth blamed the shortage on his deputy Stephen Feinberg. Sources say that the ammunition shortage, particularly the lack of long-range guided missiles and air defense interceptors, is part of the reason Trump canceled a new round of strikes against Iran.

According to Jinshi reports, SpaceX has confirmed that all three BlueBird satellites have been successfully deployed.

According to the Electronic Times, TSMC plans to further expand the outsourcing scale of the CoW (Chip-on-Wafer) segment in its CoWoS advanced packaging, entrusting more packaging orders to ASE and other OSAT manufacturers. CoWoS is TSMC's 2.5D packaging technology that connects AI processors such as GPUs with HBM through an intermediary layer, where CoW is the step of combining the chip with the intermediary layer, and WoS is the step of packaging the substrate. Previously, TSMC mainly outsourced the WoS segment, with only a small portion of CoW being entrusted.This move aims to alleviate the packaging capacity bottleneck caused by the continuous surge in demand for AI chips. TSMC holds about 90% of the global AI chip manufacturing market, but as the demand for self-developed chips from manufacturers like Nvidia and AI data centers skyrockets, capacity has become difficult to meet. Industry insiders expect OSATs to significantly increase equipment investment, especially in post-process areas such as wafer cutting and bonding. Several laser processing and bonding equipment suppliers in South Korea have been confirmed to be negotiating with OSATs regarding the supply of CoW equipment.

ChianCatcher news, the blockchain game studio and on-chain technology company Proof of Play announced on August 4 that it will cease operations. The company stated that it initially believed that games utilizing blockchain technology had the potential to open up a new decentralized internet, but ultimately failed to create scalable products and a sustainable business to validate this concept.Proof of Play will open source its code and art assets as much as possible for future builders to use, including applications related to Pirate Nation, smart contracts, founder NFTs, and IP (under CC0 license), etc. The Pirate Nation Foundation, independent of Proof of Play, will continue to support the $PIRATE token, and the foundation's website will remain operational; Proof of Play points are non-redeemable. Additionally, Shiba Story Go! has been acquired by a third party and is operating independently.

According to Jinshi reports, Musk expects to launch at least 1,000 STARLINK V3 satellites by the second quarter of next year.

According to Jinshi reports, Musk stated that the Starmind AI satellite will be optimized for the Vera Rubin computer.

According to Jinshi reports, Musk expects the first batch of Starmind AI satellites to begin launching next year.

According to Jinshi reports, Musk stated that the capabilities of Starlink V3 satellites have improved by an order of magnitude compared to V2.

According to Jinshi reports, SpaceX is collaborating with NVIDIA to design the Starmind AI1 satellite computing payload.Each Starmind satellite will be equipped with NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs to provide data center-level computing capabilities in space.