Golden Finance reports that Nasdaq-listed company VCI Global has announced the establishment of a sovereign-level infrastructure joint venture backed by 18,000 BTC. VCI Global will hold a 70% stake in the company. The development roadmap for the joint venture includes: exploring BTC-backed tokenization of RWA, providing sovereign-level encryption storage, building "AI GPU as a Service" infrastructure, and offering plug-and-play encryption reserve infrastructure for institutions.

Investment advisory firm Two Prime has formed a strategic partnership with Figment to offer institutional clients staking rewards opportunities for Bitcoin and over 40 types of digital assets. Both parties are committed to providing transparent and secure yield generation solutions.

Foresight News reports that U.S. President Trump commented on the Russia-Ukraine war: Ukraine should not seek to join NATO. Trump also stated that Ukraine will not become a NATO member and pointed out that Putin may be unwilling to reach a peace agreement.

According to BlockBeats news on August 19, the Bitcoin treasury company KindlyMD (NASDAQ: KDLY) announced that it has purchased 5,744 BTC.

According to Jinse Finance, Thumzup Media Corporation, a social media company in which Trump’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr. has invested and holds reserves in Crypto Assets, announced the acquisition of the DOGE Mining company Dogehash Technologies. The specific acquisition amount has not been disclosed, and Dogehash will trade under the new stock code "XDOG" on the NASDAQ stock market. It is reported that the company currently owns about 2,500 Scrypt ASIC Mining Rigs in North America and also mines Scrypt Algorithm assets such as Litecoin. After the acquisition is completed, it is expected to deploy more equipment later this year.

Gate News bot message, Multiple airlines and travel companies have integrated cryptocurrency payment solutions into their booking systems. Emirates and Air Arabia, along with travel platforms Travala and Alternative Airlines, have implemented payment options that accept Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoin

Gate News bot message, SharpLink Gaming (@SharpLinkGaming) executed a significant Ethereum acquisition, purchasing 143,593 ETH for $667.42 million during the past week.
Following this substantial accumulation, SharpLink Gaming's total Ethereum holdings now stand at 740,760 ETH, with a current marke

According to ChainCatcher news and Chainwire reports, the blockchain data intelligence platform LYS Labs has completed a total financing of 4 million USD, including 2 million USD in an Angel Round and 2 million USD in a seed round.
Investors include institutional investors such as Alchemy Ventures and Delphi, as well as those from 0G Labs and Ocean.

BlockBeats news, on August 19, according to the official announcement, WEEX has launched the BNB Attestation Service (BAS) Spot trading and introduced a new Airdrop event for BAS, with a total prize pool of 50,000 USDT. Event time: August 19, 18:00 - August 26, 18:00 (UTC+8). During the event, new users with a net deposit ≥ 100 U and who conduct their first spot trading of BAS can receive a reward of 15 USDT; new users with any Futures Trading volume ≥ 500 U can receive 15 USDT + 10 USDT Futures trial fund; new users with a daily contract trading volume of any coin ≥ 10,000 U will be considered as successful daily attendance. Accumulating 3 days or more of daily attendance will be based on the trading volume ratio.

Golden Finance reports that U.S. Treasury Secretary Basent: Tariff revenue will rise significantly from this year's $300 billion, and will use tariff revenue to repay U.S. debt, dropping the deficit-to-GDP ratio.

Odaily News US Treasury Secretary Basent stated that he will meet with 11 candidates for the Fed chair. (Jin10)

Gate News bot message, Robinhood, the U.S.-based trading platform, has officially announced the listing of SUI token on its platform. This announcement follows an earlier inadvertent disclosure through the SUI team's blog post. The listing expands Robinhood's cryptocurrency offerings and marks anoth

LYS Labs focuses on the machine intelligence platform of the Solana Blockchain, successfully completing a $4 million financing to build a machine intelligence layer that transforms unstructured blockchain data into insights. A developer portal has been launched, and the AI assistant Solexys has attracted over 200 users.

Golden Finance reports that US Treasury Secretary Becerra stated: The Russian economy is very imbalanced.

Wyoming has officially launched the FRNT stablecoin, becoming the first state in the U.S. to issue its own stablecoin. The token is backed by the U.S. dollar and short-term government bonds and has been launched on seven blockchains, but is not yet open to the public due to regulatory hurdles.

BlockBeats news, on August 19, glassnode stated that last Friday's Bitcoin options premium hit a record high of approximately $226 million (of which about 69% were call options), indicating that both bulls and bears are repricing risks. By Monday, the premium plummeted to about $18 million, with put options dominating in sales, while call options remained stable—protective demand weakened; the market tends to believe it will enter a stabilization/volatility contraction phase.

Jin10 data reported on August 19 that Zhongheng Electric issued an announcement regarding abnormal fluctuations in stock trading. The company has noticed recent online spread of rumors about its collaboration with overseas well-known cloud providers such as Nvidia, Meta, and Google regarding data center power outsourcing, product sales, and pricing. These rumors are untrue. As of now, the company has not signed any cooperation protocol or sales contract with the aforementioned overseas cloud providers. The company is currently actively promoting the expansion of overseas markets. Investors are advised to make rational decisions and pay attention to investment risks.

Odaily News The OTC Trading market listed company Everything Blockchain announced the launch of a diversified crypto assets vault, which will include three types of crypto assets: blue-chip crypto assets (such as BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, etc.) that provide long-term stability support, tokens related to blockchain infrastructure, and speculative assets (such as Meme coins, artificial intelligence-related tokens, and gaming/Metaverse project tokens). (Globenewswire)

Gate News bot message, A notable cryptocurrency whale executed a significant withdrawal of 2,318 ETH, valued at $9.94 million, from centralized exchanges within the past 20 hours. This marks the first withdrawal action after a 6-month period.
The wallet address 0x8f3e175936098077804addd188c2a083a29