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The crypto super PAC Fairshake spent approximately $3.6 million across five congressional primaries in Alaska, Florida, and Wyoming on August 18, supporting the winners in four of them. The biggest surprise came in Florida's 24th District, where the affiliated PAC Protect Progress spent more than $2 million on attack ads but still failed to secure a victory. Complete Overview of the Five Primaries: Four Wins and a Loss in Florida's 24th District Based on Tuesday's election results, Fairshake's c

State Street forecasts gold at $5,000/oz by year-end or early 2027, per a report on the 19th (local time). Akash Toshi, head of gold strategy, cited central bank demand and US fiscal deficits. A prolonged Fed rate hold would weaken the dollar under accommodative policy, boosting gold's appeal.

South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service requested data from securities firms with in-house private equity funds at the end of last month, according to bond market sources on the 20th. The regulator asked for two categories of information: bonds underwritten by syndicate and sales teams, and bond

According to Gate market data, Bitcoin surged rapidly during the U.S. trading session on Aug. 19, reaching $69,330 on Aug. 20. Its intraday high was $69,713, while its market cap rose to approximately $1.4 trillion, marking a nearly two-month high. CoinGlass data showed that total liquidations amounted to approximately $2.98 billion over 24 hours, including approximately $2.74 billion in short liquidations and approximately $1.42 billion in Bitcoin short liquidations. U.S. Treasury: Per-Operatio

Xiaomi’s new AI breakthroughs announced with its Q2 2026 earnings report on August 18 are worth watching: MiMo-V2.5 surpassed DeepSeek-V4 Flash in OpenRouter’s monthly and weekly call-volume rankings; the Xuanjie chip completed large-scale validation; and humanoid robots officially entered factory production with a 98% success rate. Core Q2 2026 Financial Data According to Xiaomi’s August 18, 2026, earnings announcement, its key Q2 2026 financial indicators are as follows: Total revenue: 108.92

Xiaomi’s Redmi Watch 6 Active and Redmi Watch 6 Lite appeared on product pages on Amazon U.S. and the Hungarian price comparison platform Arukereso before their official release, with an “Add to Cart” option displayed. GSMArena discovered the relevant product listings on August 17, with both models priced below the Amazfit Bip 6’s $79.99. Core specifications compared: three key differences in display, GPS, and water resistance (Source: Xiaomi) The Redmi Watch 6 Active and Lite share the same 470

Fifteen South Korean Primary Dealer firms face potential fines from the Fair Trade Commission for alleged bid-rigging in government bond auctions between January 2020 and June 2023. The FTC determined that the firms engaged in collusion involving approximately 76.2 trillion won in auction bids over

U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) Comptroller Jonathan Gould said at the Wyoming Blockchain Symposium on Aug. 19 that the OCC will release its final rules for payment stablecoins by November and expects regulators to begin accepting applications from stablecoin issuers as early as 2027. Gould’s statement provided an update on the progress of the OCC’s 376-page notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), released in February. Background on the OCC’s GENIUS Act Rule Proposal In Februa

Standard Chartered Bank and HSBC have completed the first cross-border transaction involving tokenized deposits on Swift’s blockchain ledger, Swift Ledger, successfully enabling interoperability between the two banks’ respective tokenized deposit systems. The transaction took place only about one month after Swift announced in July that its blockchain ledger was available for initial use. In July, Swift announced that 17 banks across six continents were preparing to pilot real-world cross-border

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes published an article titled “The Book of Genesis” on August 20, detailing Flop Labs’ core principles and tokenomics. Flop Network miners can earn $FLOP rewards and inference fees by providing “Proof of Useful Inference” (PoUI), while testnet participants will receive approximately 20% of the token supply over ten years. The Market Gap Identified by Hayes: The AI Market Lacks a Unified Standard for Pricing Computing Power In the article, Hayes described the core mar

Finnish economist Tuomas Malinen, a financial crisis researcher, warned on the 19th (local time) via Business Insider that a US recession is imminent despite the economy's surface-level strong growth. Malinen's analysis identified two of three key economic indicators signaling recession warnings: co

Alibaba Group (09988-HK)’s Alibaba Cloud announced on August 18 that it had activated its third data center in South Korea. The company opened its first South Korean data center in 2022 and its second in 2025. Alibaba Cloud’s Cloud Intelligence business unit reported a 40% year-over-year increase in quarterly external revenue for the quarter ended March 2026. CEO Wu Yongming told analysts that the company’s approximately 380 billion yuan budget for AI and cloud infrastructure over the next three

Strategy (MSTR) stock rose more than 3% in the overnight session late Wednesday after Bitcoin (BTC) surged above $69,000 for the first time since early June. The cryptocurrency's climb coincided with institutional investors adding $1.2 billion to their MSTR holdings in the second quarter. The Bitcoi

According to CNBC, citing two people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss it publicly, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar said at an all-hands meeting on August 20 that OpenAI would go public in 2027; last week, OpenAI repurchased $7 billion worth of employee shares at the $852 billion valuation set in March. Friar’s Key Remarks at the All-Hands Meeting Friar’s 2027 IPO timeline ultimately resolved the company’s internal debate that began this winter. Sam Altman had previously advocat

On August 19, 2026, biotechnology company Moderna posted a rare bullish candlestick in the U.S. stock market. At the close, MRNA was priced at $174.38, up $111.42 from the previous trading day's close of $62.96, a gain of 176.97%. Its trading value reached $28.58B, ranking first among U.S. stocks. Its market capitalization rose from approximately $25 billion the previous day to approximately $69.5 billion, adding more than $44 billion in a single day. This gain was extremely rare in the history

European covered bond market authorities are advancing third-country equivalence proposals that would extend regulatory benefits previously limited to EU issuers to overseas issuers, prompting active preparations from multiple countries including Korea, Canada, Australia, and Singapore. Third-countr

Saemaul Geumgo Central Association sold KRW 3.4783 trillion in non-performing loans during the first half of the year, the organization announced on the 20th. The NPL disposal was executed primarily through MG Asset Management Company (AMCO), which handled KRW 3.1881 trillion of the total, with

Mirae Asset Securities announced on the 20th the launch of IMA No. 4, a performance-based investment product募集 100 billion won from the 24th to the 27th. The company raised the benchmark return rate from 4% to 5% annually to reflect the recent rise in market interest rates and base rate hikes by the

A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted online among 1,166 adults nationwide from Aug. 14 to 17 showed that 63% of respondents believed the way U.S. President Trump and his family profit from cryptocurrency businesses was “inappropriate,” while 32% considered it appropriate. The poll also showed that 69% of respondents believed Trump’s private business interests were influencing his presidential decisions, including approximately two-thirds of independent voters and approximately nine in ten Democratic r

Luke Dashjr stated Aug. 18 that Bitcoin, which he calls 'Spamcoin,' should handle replay protection for the proposed BIP-110 hard fork. BIP-110 supporters are discussing replacing the minority chain's SHA-256d mining algorithm with BLAKE2b, creating permanent separation while both networks share