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According to CCTV International, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stated on August 7 that Iran had successfully thwarted attempts by enemies to destabilize the country through military pressure. In a televised address, Pezeshkian expressed confidence that the Iranian people, including former protesters, are united in facing current challenges and will emerge stronger.

According to iM Securities, the U.S. Treasury and Japan undertook coordinated foreign exchange market intervention on July 30-31 to support the yen. Japan's single-day intervention on July 30 reached approximately 6 to 8.5 trillion yen, while the U.S. Treasury engaged in approximately 5 to 10 billion dollars worth of yen purchases. This marks the first joint intervention since 1998.

According to Jin10, the U.S. Senate passed a temporary funding measure on Saturday, August 8, to provide federal agencies with funding through December 11. The vote result was 90 in favor and 6 opposed, according to Fox News reporting. The measure aims to prevent a government shutdown ahead of the November midterm elections. The move also helps avert a potential shutdown on October 1, when the new fiscal year begins.

According to ARK Invest research head Lorenzo Valente, on August 8, Cloudflare's earnings call revealed that AI agent requests grew 1700% year-over-year, now accounting for over 50% of total network traffic. Cloudflare processes approximately 500 million requests per second, with 1%-10% of traffic deemed commercially viable, corresponding to 10-100 million transactions per second—significantly exceeding Visa's maximum ~20,000 TPS capacity. Valente noted that if AI agent transactions are charged

According to Bloomberg, the U.S. Department of Defense plans to conduct its first test of the Golden Dome space-based missile defense system by the end of 2026. The U.S. Space Force signed contracts with 12 companies, including SpaceX and Lockheed Martin, in April 2026 to develop space-based interceptors for the system. If ground tests of the interceptor system are completed successfully by year-end, the government is prepared to pay $60 million to the contracted companies. The Space Force is al

According to Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky in the company's earnings call this year, Airbnb's investment in AI tokens will far exceed initial expectations, with strong returns justifying the spending. Chesky stated that AI represents the best development the company has encountered and is key to Airbnb's operational performance. Following the earnings beat, Airbnb shares surged 15%.

According to Euronews, the European Union has decided to review and modify its Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) framework in 2027 to allow excluded non-EU stablecoin issuers like Tether to operate in the Eurozone. European diplomats revealed the move was influenced by the passage of the U.S. GENIUS Act and the Trump Administration's pro-stablecoin policies. The revised framework would also address emerging technologies, with diplomats considering whether to expand MiCA to regulate new tokenized m

According to Victory Securities official website, starting August 10, 2026, the brokerage will charge a 0.05% monthly insurance fee on virtual asset accounts custodied by HashKey. The fee will be deducted in virtual assets based on daily holdings and settled on the second business day of each month. This marks a change from Victory Securities' previous fee schedule, which had exempted HashKey custody accounts from insurance charges.

According to HTX market data on Aug 8, TUT surged over 55% in 24 hours, trading at $0.04838 with a market capitalization climbing to $40 million.

According to ITAR-TASS, Russia claimed on August 8 it struck a ship carrying Ukrainian military weapons east of Odesa with drone strikes.

According to Pyreducer monitoring data, the Aztec Network Private Rollup Bridge attacker transferred 300 ETH (~$572,000) to Tornado Cash on August 8. The attacker has now cumulatively transferred 500 ETH to Tornado Cash since the June 2026 security breach that resulted in approximately $2.165 million in stolen crypto assets.

According to PPP prediction market monitoring, LNG has a 30% chance of defeating WBG in today's LPL third stage matchup. The best-of-three series is scheduled for 3 p.m. today. Both teams remain winless in the stage: LNG lost 0-2 to NIP and 0-2 to IG, while WBG fell 1-2 to IG and 0-2 to NIP.

According to PPP prediction market monitor, odds on Polymarket for a 25 basis point Fed rate hike in September fell to 37% after yesterday's weaker-than-expected U.S. jobs report, down 12% in 24 hours. Odds for holding rates steady in September rose to 63%, up 14% over the same period. The U.S. added only 23,000 jobs in July, well below the market expectation of 80,000, cooling investor expectations for a September rate increase.

According to predict.fun prediction market tool, T1 has a 53% win probability against HLE in today's LCK third-stage matchup scheduled for 4 PM in BO3 format. T1 currently holds a 2-1 record in the third stage after losing 0-2 to KT in their opener, then winning consecutive 2-0 victories over GEN and DK. HLE remains winless at 0-3, though all three of their matches went to full three games.

According to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, a heavy firefighting helicopter crashed on August 7 in Utah during wildfire suppression operations, with two people on board still unaccounted for. In a separate incident, a bulldozer operator was killed in wildfire operations in Oregon on the same day, according to reports on August 8.

According to Bloomberg, Situational Awareness, the AI fund led by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, invested $400 million this week in Source Foundry, a semiconductor manufacturing startup. The fund and Source Foundry representatives have not responded to requests for comment. Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital has also backed Source Foundry, which is developing semiconductor manufacturing processes aimed at addressing the growing gap between AI computing demand and chip producti

According to Korea Securities Depository data, Korean retail investors in U.S. equities have shifted their buying patterns in August, moving away from semiconductor leverage ETFs that they purchased heavily in July to focus on individual big tech companies and cloud stocks that showed strong earnings.

According to Beating monitoring, Meta has significantly ramped up web crawling activity this week to index pages for its AI search engine. Independent developer Pieter Levels reported that Meta's crawlers targeted multiple websites under his ownership, triggering high-load alerts on one VPS multiple times. DataDome data shows Meta's two AI crawlers issued 9.1 billion requests in the second quarter of 2026. Meta-WebIndexer, responsible for building search indexes, surged 163% in the quarter, with

According to NADA News, on August 6, Japanese convenience store chain Lawson completed a trial of stablecoin JPYC payments on its existing point-of-sale (POS) system. The test demonstrated that stablecoin payments could be integrated without hardware replacement or major system overhauls—retailers simply added a new payment method to their existing terminals. Users scanned a barcode from HashPort Wallet on their smartphone via the POS terminal and approved payment on their device, similar to exi

According to Odaily, Garrett Jin, representative of the '1011 insider whale', released a weekly market report saying he maintained his Bitcoin position near $60,000 since July's low of $57,700 and sees no reason to change this view. In AI storage, he sold half of his rebound positions, not due to changed conviction in long-term demand—SK Hynix's 2026 capacity is sold out and Micron's orders extend through 2028—but because current gains are driven by leverage flows rather than fundamentals. While