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According to Jin10, India's Minister of Culture and Tourism announced on August 21 that the BRICS leaders summit will be held in mid-September in New Delhi, with Indian Prime Minister Modi presiding. India will transfer its BRICS presidency to China the following

According to Odaily, Micron Technology's CEO stated earlier today that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the storage industry's outlook by creating more durable demand sources for memory. The executive noted that current customer demand for supply exceeds Micron's capacity to

According to Odaily, Quantum X Labs recently announced a breakthrough in its artificial intelligence-driven quantum error correction project based on real quantum hardware experiments using Google's public surface code dataset. The new results show improved decoder performance, supporting the

From 12:30 to 12:45 UTC on August 21, 2026, BTC surged rapidly over the 15-minute period, reaching a high of 77,438.4 USDT and ultimately closing above 77,000. Its return for the period was +0.97%, with prices ranging from 76,636.1 to 77,438.4 USDT and an amplitude of 1.05%. Market volatility intensified significantly, as safe-haven sentiment and short covering jointly drove the rapid rebound. The primary driver of this move was the sharp escalation in geopolitical risks. The U.S.-Iran conflict

According to ChainCatcher, Starbridge Capital's automated trading system triggered mass liquidations in London Gold (XAUUSD) derivatives on August 19 evening. The system generated large reverse short positions within 1-3 seconds, followed by a rapid rise in gold prices, resulting in collective

According to the Wall Street Journal, SK Hynix announced on August 20 a buyback program worth approximately 40 trillion won, under which the chipmaker will retire 24.07 million shares. The buyback comes roughly one month after SK Hynix raised over $2.6 billion through ADR issuance to U.S.

According to Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree, Yemen's armed forces will announce a statement on drone attacks targeting Saudi-backed mercenaries today at 4 p.m. Yemen time, equivalent to 9 p.m. Beijing time.

CME CEO Terry Duffy told the CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee that perpetual futures and 24/7 trading are unavoidable trends for traditional finance. According to Duffy, decentralized platforms such as trade.xyz are directly challenging the U.S. market through around-the-clock trading, even

According to Jin10, citing Turkey's Justice Minister Akin Gurlek, Turkey requested red notices from Interpol against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Alek Moskowitz on Aug 21. Both were issued arrest warrants on July 14 on charges including genocide, crimes against humanity, torture, wi

According to Businesswire, BSTR Holdings announced it has terminated its merger agreement with Cantor Equity Partners, originally signed in July 2025. The termination was driven by current market pressures on bitcoin valuations and public bitcoin treasury company valuations, which limited the

According to Gate market data, spot gold declined $20 short-term to trade at $4,566.49 per ounce. The U.S. Dollar Index (DXY) rose 10 points to 98.76.

U.S. Treasury markets steadied on Friday (August 21) after a volatile week, with the 10-year yield holding at 4.69%, according to analysts including Philip Marey of Rabobank and Gregoire Pesques of Amundi. The Treasury Department announced expanded bond buyback operations this week, which briefly

According to Jin10, on August 21, the UK is drafting new sanctions to prohibit trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank, as Foreign Secretary Milliband weighs policy options in coming weeks. The measures would restrict commercial dealings and services with the settlements, reflecting Prime Mi

According to Chainwire, Aligned launched $ALIGN , the native token of its full-stack Ethereum infrastructure ecosystem, on August 20, 2026, with listings on major exchanges. The token has a fixed total supply of 10 billion, with approximately 16% circulating at launch. $ALIGN will be used to pay

According to Lookonchain monitoring shared by ChainCatcher, Ethena transferred 170 million ENA tokens to FalconX valued at $14.09 million. The protocol has since recovered the same amount of tokens, now valued at $23.68 million. The token value increased by $9.59 million, a 68% gain, within the

According to Maeil Business News, Kakao announced on August 21 a reorganization splitting the company into two entities: KakaoAI (36%) and KakaoX (64%). KakaoAI will house KakaoTalk, AI services, advertising, and commerce operations under CEO Jung Shin-a. KakaoX will serve as an investment holding c

According to the Wall Street Journal, Nvidia has recently invested in power developers including Lancium and SB Energy to expand its artificial intelligence infrastructure and secure future data center capacity for its

According to sources cited by The Wall Street Journal, Nvidia (NVDA.O) is expected to announce its investment in Cloverleaf Infrastructure on Friday (August 22).

According to BlockBeats, on August 21, Nvidia entered advanced negotiations to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a developer providing reliable power and land for large-scale data center projects. Cloverleaf's project pipeline includes over 10 gigawatts of

According to B.AI, the DeepSeek-V4-Flash free access activity on the B.AI platform has pushed cumulative token throughput to 641.524 billion on August 20, marking a new record. Single-day throughput on August 20 reached 285.963 billion tokens, nearly 4 times higher than the launch day,