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According to ChainCatcher, a Bitcoin-associated entity (0x6c8...d84f6) took profit for the first time in four months by reducing 38,000 ETH and generating $9.407 million in gains. The address currently holds 8.2 million ETH across four addresses with over $20 million in unrealized gains.

According to TechCrunch, space-based data center startup Starcloud raised US$250 million at a US$2.3 billion valuation on Aug. 21 to expand AI infrastructure with orbital data centers. The company has already launched an orbital AI data center equipped with Nvidia H100 graphics processing units, demonstrating progress beyond the concept stage.

According to NVIDIA, Microsoft's first batch of Vera Rubin GPUs has arrived at its data center, marking the start of mass production for the AI computing platform. Each NVL72 rack integrates 72 Vera Rubin GPUs and 36 Vera CPUs. NVIDIA confirmed that compared to the GB200 NVL72, Vera Rubin reduces inference cost per million tokens to approximately one-tenth and cuts the number of GPUs required for training mixture-of-experts models to roughly one-quarter.

On August 21, a U.S. federal district judge overturned the Trump administration's policy suspending immigrant visa issuance to applicants from 75 countries. Judge Janet Bargas ruled the policy, announced by the State Department in January, "clearly violates" federal immigration law and exceeds Secretary of State Marco Rubio's statutory authority. The administration may seek an appeal, and the policy remains in effect pending litigation.

According to Bespoke Investment, Nvidia will report earnings and guidance on Wednesday, August 26, after market close. With a market cap of $5.26 trillion and a 7.6% weight in the S&P 500, the chipmaker's results are expected to significantly impact broader markets. Options traders anticipate Nvidia stock could swing up to 5.3% in either direction through Friday's close. However, Bespoke notes a troubling pattern: while Nvidia achieved a "triple-play" of beating both earnings and revenue forecas

According to on-chain analyst Ai 姨, trader Jason60704294 (known as "先定 10 个大目标") has increased short positions totaling approximately $169 million. The position includes 1,830.724 BTC (valued at $139 million, opened at $76,397.56) and 12,756.739 ETH (valued at $30.25 million, opened at $2,371.57), with current unrealized losses of approximately $2.84 million. The trader maintains a stop-loss level at $80,500 and has previously closed portions of the position, incurring cumulative losses of appro

According to LayerZero's announcement on X, the protocol will discontinue off-chain support for 15 low-activity chains over the next 30 days. The affected networks are EDU Chain, Meter, Shimmer, Cyber, Silicon, Sophon, Bitlayer, DFK Chain, Arbitrum Nova, DOS Chain, Cronos zkEVM, Degen, Skale Europa, Superposition, and Shrapnel. LayerZero's DVN and Executor services will no longer support these networks, and some will also lose Stargate Hydra support.

According to HTX, Zcash (ZEC) broke through $785 to mark an all-time high on August 22, with 24-hour gains exceeding 36%. The token last traded at $782.5.

According to BlockBeats, Anthropic hired Amir Salek, co-founder of Google's custom chip project and former head of the tech giant's Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) business, on August 22. Salek led the delivery of seven generations of TPU chips before departing Google in 2022. His appointment supports Anthropic's push into internal semiconductor design as the AI lab currently sources chips from Nvidia, Google, and Amazon.

According to Bloomberg, DeepSeek released an experimental model called DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp on Aug. 21, adding image and screenshot analysis capabilities to its V4 Flash text model. The model retains V4 Flash's text capabilities including reasoning and agents, with multimodal agentic performance described as close to Anthropic's Opus 4.8.

According to Grayscale research head Zach Pandl on August 19, the SEC's proposed Regulation Crypto Assets rule may increase on-chain token issuance and benefit ETH, SOL, and BNB. The proposal establishes two issuance exemptions: qualified issuers may raise up to $5 million over 4 years or $75 million per 12-month period, with the latter requiring higher disclosure obligations. The proposal also includes a conditional safe harbor allowing compliant crypto assets to avoid classification as investm

According to GMGN, SOL Meme coin CATE's market cap rebounded to break $63 million with a 24-hour gain exceeding 130%. The token is currently trading at $59.9 million.

According to MSX.COM, AI stocks rose sharply at the U.S. market close today, with Tempus AI surging 9.06%, SoundHound AI gaining 5.02%, Snowflake up 3.58%, Palantir rising 3.44%, and EPAM advancing 3.35%. Major U.S. indices also posted modest gains, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing up 0.98%, the S&P 500 rising 0.43%, and the Nasdaq Composite advancing 0.43%, while the VIX volatility index fell 5.5%.

According to Odaily, OpenAI cut prices for its GPT-5.6 Sol API effective today (August 22), with the discount lasting through November 21. Long-context output costs were reduced by 50%, from $60 to $30 per million tokens, while long-context input dropped from $10 to $8. Standard short-context output fell from $30 to $20 per million tokens, with input declining from $5 to $4. The new pricing applies immediately to API users and ChatGPT Work and Codex credits will follow. Subscription tier allowan

According to Odaily, on August 21, Trump stated at a campaign rally in South Carolina that he will be impeached if Republicans lose the midterm elections.

According to Besu's security advisory, the company disclosed five security flaws discovered by CertiK, with fixes released in version 26.7.1 on July 27. Technical details were made public on August 14. The flaws involved block announcement handling, future block height consensus proposal caching, WebSocket subscription limits, and unbounded JSON-RPC filter creation. Attackers could exploit these to exhaust node memory or thread resources under specific configurations, potentially affecting node

According to Odaily星球日报, SAND allegedly experienced an unlimited minting vulnerability, with attackers gaining permissions to arbitrarily create SAND tokens. The token fell over 10% in short-term trading. The exact scope of impact and attack cause remain unclear.

According to Jin10 Data on August 22, Mexico's chief trade negotiator expressed confidence in securing more lenient U.S. tariff terms for automotive and steel exports, similar to terms currently under negotiation between Washington and Ottawa. Mexico has not yet reached a comparable agreement with the U.S., but the negotiator stated the team is closely monitoring the Washington-Ottawa talks and expects progress soon.

According to China Business Post, domestic gold jewelry brands significantly raised prices on August 22 as international spot gold surged, breaking $4,630 per ounce—a three-month high. Shanghai gold futures contract surpassed the 1,000 yuan per gram mark for the first time since May. Old Fengxiang raised its gold jewelry price to 1,388 yuan per gram (up 32 yuan), Old Temple Gold to 1,391 yuan per gram (up 34 yuan), and Chow Sang Sang to 1,387 yuan per gram (up 22 yuan).

According to the Korea Exchange, the bourse has expanded its paper trading requirements to single-stock leveraged and inverse ETFs starting August 19. New retail investors must now complete at least five trading days of simulation trading, with a minimum of one hour per trading day, before purchasing these products. This requirement follows the introduction of a 30 million won ($23,000) minimum deposit threshold for leveraged ETF trading. The move aims to help investors understand the negative c