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According to ChainCatcher citing founder Justin Sun, HTX has formally upgraded its security architecture to enhance user fund protection. The upgrade includes enabling a multi-address withdrawal system to distribute hot wallet assets across multiple addresses, implementing periodic automatic address rotation where new addresses replace old ones that are immediately deactivated, and compressing single-address risk exposure to a minimum. Sun stated that even in extreme security incidents, potentia

According to HTX data, Solana (SOL) surged to $90.27 on Aug 21, with a 24-hour gain of 5.19%.

According to Jin10, on August 21, South Korean chipmakers' unprecedented shareholder return plans are becoming a key driver of the won's recent strength. The won has surged significantly since early July, marking its fastest 40-day rally since late 2022, and broke through 1,400 against the dollar this week for the first time in over 10 months. Analysts note that companies purchasing their own currency for dividends and buybacks will need to convert export proceeds into won, supporting the curren

According to CFTC Chairman Michael Selig, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission is considering new rules that would allow cryptocurrency exchanges to offer leveraged and margin trading to U.S. retail customers under a federal regulatory framework. Selig announced the initiative Thursday during the inaugural meeting of the CFTC's Innovation Advisory Committee in Washington. The agency is exploring three regulatory routes: clarifying when leveraged retail crypto transactions qualify for th

According to INSEE, France's August manufacturing confidence index came in at 103 on August 21, beating expectations of 101 and rising from a prior reading of 101.

According to INSEE (France's National Institute of Statistics), the French business confidence index for August came in at 98, matching both the forecast and marking a slight improvement from 97 in the previous month.

According to INSEE, France's August manufacturing confidence index rose to 103, beating the forecast of 101 and exceeding the previous month's reading of 101.

According to Bitget, spot gold rose 1.00% intraday and was trading at $4,564.53 per ounce. New York COMEX gold futures also climbed 1.00% to $4,620.90 per ounce.

Qianhe Yibang, a 3D compute-storage chip company incubated by NetEase, announced recently that its self-developed 4-layer 3D DRAM stacked compute-storage chip has successfully achieved tape-out and power-on, marking the technology's transition from verification to engineering deployment. The chip employs a three-dimensional integrated native computing architecture with data access bandwidth improved by one order of magnitude compared to conventional solutions, while access power consumption, lat

OpenAI recently clarified that Codex rate limit discrepancies are caused by sub2api abuse. The company found that affected users were converting subscriptions into API traffic via sub2api and redistributing it, behavior flagged by its fraud prevention system. OpenAI confirmed that normal subscription usage through Sign in With ChatGPT on official or open-source clients encounters no restrictions.

According to ChainCatcher, Injective's institutional services division has received registration from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as a securities transfer agent, making it the first Layer 1 blockchain to obtain such status. The registration enables Injective to provide regulated record-keeping, transfer, distribution and shareholder management services for securities, covering institutional funds, publicly listed shares, private company stakes and corporate receivables. Injective

According to Coinglass, 48.23 million USDT were transferred out of Binance to an unknown wallet on August 21 at 14:41 UTC.

According to Business Insider on August 19, Amazon announced it will expand its Prime Air drone delivery service to approximately 500 U.S. cities and towns by year-end. The company plans to operate in Illinois, Georgia, Ohio, Idaho, and New York, building on services already active in seven states including Nebraska and Florida. Amazon said packages weighing 5 pounds or less and fitting in a standard shoe box can be delivered via drone, with orders typically arriving within 60 minutes of purchas

A 15-year-old girl from New Jersey has formally withdrawn her lawsuit against Meta, Google, and Snap without receiving any monetary compensation, according to the latest court filings. The case, which accused Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Snapchat of deliberately addictive design causing depression and self-harm, had been designated as one of three bellwether cases among 3,300+ related claims scheduled for trial in October in Los Angeles. Meanwhile, TikTok has already reached a settlement wi

According to Bitget, ENA briefly touched 0.1307 USDT today, with the token currently trading at 0.13 USDT. The cryptocurrency recorded a 24-hour gain of 40.61%.

According to Rapid7 Labs, researchers discovered Operation Asterix, a phishing operation targeting crypto users through compromised server data. Rapid7 recovered approximately 885,000 phone numbers from the exposed server, with 43,066 confirmed Crypto.com account holders among German mobile numbers—a 13.6% hit rate. The attackers created counterfeit builds of Trezor Suite, Ledger Live, and Exodus wallets designed to steal recovery phrases and drain accounts. The fake Trezor clone sent stolen rec

According to Caixin Securities, on August 21, OpenAI enabled ChatGPT on Mac to control Apple's iMessage service. The feature allows ChatGPT to read, write, and send messages, retrieve conversations, and generate message summaries. This capability extends ChatGPT's integration with Apple's ecosystem, following earlier support for Mac applications and iOS health data access.

According to UN spokesman Dujarric, on August 20, conflicts in the Gulf region have had tangible impacts on global economy and shipping, affecting the Strait of Hormuz and freedom of navigation through the Mandeb Strait, Gulf of Aden, and Red Sea. The UN urged all parties to return to negotiations, warning that further escalation through military action or economic confrontation would not produce positive results.

According to the China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS), the CNEX overall market liquidity sentiment index reported 53 as of 2:30 p.m. on August 21, down 2 points from 10:15 a.m. The sentiment indices for large banks, mid-sized banks, and non-bank institutions stood at 52, 55, and 51 respectively, each declining 2 points.

Japan's Nikkei 225 index closed down 0.3% at 66,016.36 points on Aug 21, while the Tokyo Stock Exchange rose 0.2% to 4,067.29 points.