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On August 19, the market adjusted throughout the day, with the three major indexes closing lower: the Shanghai Composite -2.4%, the Shenzhen Component -5.01%, and the ChiNext -6.26%; turnover reached 2.51 trillion yuan, an increase of 110.3 billion yuan from the previous day. Coal, chemicals, real estate, and agriculture sectors strengthened in rotation, while banks rose against the trend; high-level stocks retreated, with more than 5,000 stocks falling and over 100 hitting the limit down. The humanoid robot concept retreated and closed weak.

PANews August 19 news, according to CLS, SK Hynix plans to buy back KRW 40 trillion (approximately $28.6 billion) worth of shares. The repurchased shares will be canceled to enhance shareholder returns. Boosted by the news, SK Hynix surged sharply in after-hours U.S. trading, currently up more than 1%, after earlier falling more than 3%.

SkyBridge fund founder Scaramucci said Bitcoin’s narrow-range trading stems from miners shifting toward AI, AI capital inflows, and positioning around the four-year cycle. He remains bullish on a rise to $100k, but the next catalyst may take 20 months. He believes it is in a bear market, down approximately 55%, less than the 75-80% decline in the previous cycle, indicating that net buyers are preparing for the next bull market. Over the past three months, it outperformed the S&P on one-third of trading days, but in the first two days of this week, it outperformed U.S. stocks.

In 2019, Sequoia Seed’s initial investment memo on Unitree Robotics characterized Wang Xingxing as an outlier: lacking a prestigious academic background, working in a relatively niche industry, yet possessing deep experience in robotics and a strong passion for technology and self-motivation. Sequoia insisted on a people-first approach, focusing on strengths and investing in non-consensus areas, increasing its investment round after round to become the largest shareholder. The article emphasizes that embodied intelligence remains in its growth phase, that going public is only the starting point, and that the industry will need to reach thousands of households and continue exploring in the future.

PANews, August 19 — Bybit data shows that SK Hynix's stock decline has widened to 10%.

PANews, August 19 — Market data shows that N Unitree’s turnover has exceeded 20 billion yuan, with its gain falling back to 463.66%; its share price is currently 850 yuan.

According to the STAR Market Daily, world-model developer Moxin Technology has completed a new 500 million yuan funding round, bringing its valuation to nearly 4 billion yuan. This is its fourth fundraising round in eight months, underscoring the capital market’s continued confidence in its growth prospects. Investors include state-owned institutions such as Shenzhen Capital Group and Zhejiang Venture Capital, industry investors such as Huawei Hubble, Legend Holdings, and Fullhan Microelectronics, and technology investors such as the P7 USD Fund.

Xin Guobin said at the 2026 World Robot Conference that in 2025, the operating revenue of above-designated-size robot companies exceeded 300 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of over 20% in the past five years and a year-on-year growth rate of 24.5% in the first half of the year. Robots have been widely applied across various sectors of the national economy and society, becoming an important force driving high-quality development. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will focus on key sectors including agriculture, healthcare, elderly care, and emergency response, promoting industry-application partnerships, on-site application verification, and the rollout of mature use cases, using new scenarios to accelerate the iteration and upgrading of new technologies and products.

On August 18, Arthur Hayes announced his return as CEO of Flop Labs and launched FLOP, a fuel token for AI Agents. Flop Network centers on AI inference computing power and includes four types of roles: miners, validators, AI agents, and KOLs. It plans to conduct an airdrop in Q4 2026 and launch its genesis block in Q1 2027; details have not yet been disclosed. Hayes previously warned of an AI bubble, and the move has sparked skepticism, but his influence has brought attention to the project.

According to Bloomberg, TikTok is developing a peer-to-peer (P2P) payment feature that may enable users to transfer money to one another via direct messages, based on evidence from the code of the U.S. version of the TikTok app. The design shows that recipients can click to accept payments before the deadline, while senders can check the status via push notifications or their inbox; senders can also leave a message when making a payment, similar to Venmo. The company said development is still in its early stages and has not yet been tested in any market. TikTok Pay is currently used only in Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand for TikTok Shop, and it remains undecided whether P2P payments will ultimately be launched.

PANews reported on August 19 that CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost posted that retail demand for Bitcoin is increasing and has approached its highest level in the past two years. Historical data shows a clear correlation between rising retail demand and local Bitcoin tops. Bitcoin's current rebound is relatively weak, yet retail demand is surging, which the analyst believes may reflect the group's "impatience"—they have become more sensitive to minor BTC fluctuations.

PANews, August 19 — According to SoSoValue data, the total net inflow into spot Bitcoin ETFs yesterday (August 18, U.S. Eastern Time) was $189 million.
The spot Bitcoin ETF with the largest single-day net inflow yesterday was BlackRock's ETF IBIT, with a single-day net inflow of $144 million. IBIT's cumulative historical net inflow has now reached $61.4 billion.
Next was Fidelity's ETF FBTC, with a single-day net inflow of $23.92 million. FBTC's cumulative historical net inflow has now reached $10.02 billion.
The spot Bitcoin ETF with the largest single-day net outflow yesterday was the VanEck ETF

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All three major U.S. stock indexes closed lower on Tuesday, extending Monday’s pullback and declining for a third consecutive trading day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.22%, the S&P 500 dropped 0.69%, and the Nasdaq Composite plunged 1.33%. The tech-heavy Nasdaq came under the most pressure, mainly because rising interest rates battered high-valuation technology stocks, especially AI and chip stocks.
The yield on 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds briefly reached 5.338% intraday, the highest level since 2007, and closed at approximately 5.285%; the 10-year yield approached 4.75% intraday, a high not seen since January 2025, and closed at 4.706%. The trend was global: France’s 30

According to PANews, the Kaito browser extension Pulse collects various types of data: it generates device fingerprints through GPU rendering and other methods and links them to Twitter IDs to associate multiple accounts on the same device; it can record session activity and read ChatGPT/Claude subscription and usage data; and on exchanges such as Binance, it automatically reads wallet balances, positions, profit and loss, and deposits and withdrawals. The extension runs on 12 domains, including Binance, OKX, Bybit, Hyperliquid, ChatGPT, Claude, and X.

According to SoSoValue data, on August 18, the total net inflow into spot Ethereum ETFs was $71.47M, of which BlackRock's ETHA recorded a single-day net inflow of $64.6814 million, bringing its historical net inflows to $1.1724 billion; the Grayscale Ethereum Mini Trust ETF recorded a net inflow of $2.7368 million, bringing its historical net inflows to $182.2 million. As of press time, total net assets stood at $1.0828 billion, the ETF net asset ratio was 4.69%, and cumulative historical net inflows reached $1.1555 billion.

Cerebras has released its next-generation AI accelerator CS-4, claiming inference speeds of up to 30 times those of GPU-based systems, 750 PFLOPS of computing power, and memory bandwidth of 129.6 PB/s, powered by three WSE-3Turbo engines. In GPT-OSS-120B tests, CS-4 generated over 4,400 tokens per user per second, delivered 10 times the throughput per watt of CS-3, and supports models with over 50 trillion parameters. It is scheduled to ship in the third quarter of this year.

PANews, August 19 — According to STAR Market Daily, Moushen Intelligence recently completed a nearly 500 million yuan Pre-A+ financing round. The round was jointly funded by leading state-owned funds Shenzhen News One Fund, Orient Securities, and Shaanxi High-Tech Industrial Investment Co., Ltd.; industrial investors Anyu Fund, Tianmeng Investment, and Jianyuan Tianhua; as well as existing shareholders Chuanghehui Capital, Xuhui Capital, and Gengxin Capital, which made additional investments above their original holdings. Moushen Intelligence’s valuation has now grown more than tenfold in the first half of the year, making it one of the industry’s fastest-growing embodied intelligence companies.

Aligned announced the ALIGN airdrop, with a total supply of 1 billion tokens; Genesis accounts for 8.74%, with 3.88% unlocked at TGE. The community allocation is 6.54%: holders of ≤10k tokens will be fully unlocked at TGE, while those holding more will receive only 10k tokens at TGE, with the remainder released linearly over 12 months; small amounts can be claimed on the Base network and large amounts on Ethereum mainnet. ZK Arcade accounts for 0.10%, and outstanding contributors 2.10%. Approximately 986,843 people are eligible, with 160k wallets registered. In July, it will switch to Proof Aggregation Service, support SP1 zkVM, and allow users to check their allocations.