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Binance Futures announced that it will launch multiple USDT-margined perpetual contracts in batches on August 14, 2026, UTC+8, as follows: Zhongji Innolight at 10:00, Samsung Electro-Mechanics at 10:05, Hanmi Semiconductor at 10:10, LG Electronics at 10:15, NAVER at 10:20, and KODEX 200 ETF at 10:25, all with leverage of up to 20x.

Among multinational enterprises with business operations across Southeast Asia, Europe, and North America, the finance lead’s Monday morning typically begins like this: Before making any business decisions, she must manually log in to the back offices of 11 local bank accounts across 6 currencies to confirm the balances; reconcile settlement data from 3 payment gateways last week; and continuously track a cross-border remittance that has been stuck in the correspondent banking clearing network for 4 days. She then has to estimate whether the Singapore entity has sufficient liquidity to pay suppliers this week, or whether funds must first be transferred from the Hong Kong account.
This is her daily work, repeated week after week. Most globalized companies’ finance teams silently accept all of this, viewing it as the inevitable cost of expanding into international markets. However, this predicament is essentially caused by companies failing to plan their financial infrastructure from a global perspective as they methodically expand into individual markets—it has created a

Stock indexes fell across the board, with turnover increasing to 2.55 trillion. More than 4,300 individual stocks declined, while market hot spots were relatively scattered. The pharmaceutical, computing-power rental, food and beverage, supernode, and power sectors took turns becoming active or rallying, while precious-metals concepts retreated. At the close: the Shanghai Composite fell 0.5%, the Shenzhen Component fell 0.87%, and the ChiNext Index fell 0.45%.

PANews, August 13 — According to Tencent CodeBuddy, Tencent WorkBuddy and the entire range of CodeBuddy products, including the IDE, plugins, and CLI, have now been fully upgraded to the official version of DeepSeek-V4-Pro.

According to Jin10, Lenovo Group announced quarterly revenue growth of 43% year over year, far exceeding analysts’ expectations, sending its Hong Kong-listed shares up more than 20% to a record high. Its gains this year have surpassed 290%, making it the best-performing constituent of the Hang Seng China Enterprises Index. Citi analysts said the results significantly exceeded expectations, further reinforcing the structural growth thesis driven by artificial intelligence.

PANews, August 13 — According to News1, cited by The Block, South Korea’s Mirae Asset Group is injecting approximately 50 billion won (about $36 million) into local crypto exchange Korbit after acquiring it in July. Korbit’s operating company was recently renamed DigitalX.

PANews, August 13 — According to Business Insider, Discovery Loop, a new AI startup founded by former Google chief scientist Jeff Dean, is raising $1 billion at a valuation of approximately $10 billion. The round is co-led by Radical Ventures and Khosla Ventures, with participation from Lightspeed, Kleiner Perkins, and Doerr Capital. Alphabet is participating as a founding investor and cloud partner. Dean announced on August 5 that he was leaving Google after 27 years. His co-founders include Sanjay Ghemawat, Google Brain founding member Quoc Le, and former Google DeepMind researcher Oriol.

BIT analysis says BitMine is highly correlated with Ethereum, making it difficult for the digital asset treasury company to achieve substantial excess returns. The short-term 2–3% staking yield is insufficient to create a differentiated advantage, requiring a significant shift in market sentiment. The NAV multiple fluctuates with sentiment, ranging from approximately 0.5x to 3x; investors are advised to buy when NAV is at a discount and sell when it is at a premium.

South Korea will expand the scope of registration reviews for virtual asset service providers from August 20 to cover the largest shareholder, major shareholders holding ≥10%, and shareholders specially related to the largest shareholder; if the largest shareholder is a corporation, its largest shareholder and representative may also be subject to review. If shareholders or the compliance framework change, operators must notify financial authorities 30 days in advance. The FIU and FSS released the revised registration manual on August 13.

PANews, August 13 — On-chain analyst Ai Yi monitored that the hacker group Lazarus Group transferred 262.2 BTC ($16.64 million) to a new address 2 hours ago, possibly preparing to launder the funds. The group still holds more than $73.06 million in on-chain assets, mainly BTC, USDT, and ETH.

PANews, August 13 — According to Lookonchain monitoring, a whale bought 1,768 BTC for $74,603 ($131.91 million) before the bull market but missed the best selling opportunity. Its unrealized profit peaked at $91 million and is currently at an unrealized loss of $19.7 million. The whale appears to be giving up, depositing 114 BTC ($7.24 million) into Kraken, possibly preparing to sell.

This article focuses on the changes behind the price: BTC on-chain holdings are reconcentrating in the 61k-$65k range, with a bottom forming but not yet visible. On the macro front, easing inflation and weakening employment are undermining expectations for high interest rates, and risk appetite may recover; reduced pressure on Strategy and cooling AI trading are increasing Crypto’s relative appeal. The author believes the market has not yet started, but is in unclaimed territory, making it worth positioning ahead of the next cycle before consensus takes shape.

PANews, August 13 — OKX market data shows that BTC has just broken above $64,000, currently trading at $64,006.20 per coin, up 0.88% on the day.

PANews reported on August 13, citing the STAR Market Daily, that deep-sea robotics company Deep Sea Intelligent has completed a Series A financing round of over ¥500 million. New shareholders include Guanghe Venture Capital, Dachen Caizhi, GGV Capital, Yida Capital, China Insurance Investment, CEC Investment, and the Energy Technology Fund managed by Cathay Capital with TotalEnergies as the contributing entity; existing shareholders including Zhengxuan Investment, Yunze Capital, Yunshi Capital, Gaojie Capital, and Xingzhi Capital also participated in the follow-on investment in large proportions.

Bitwise CIO Hougan said that more protocols will use revenue to buy back and burn tokens, or crypto asset valuations will at least double. The non-BTC market is shifting toward revenue-driven models, with network activity translating into token value that has not yet been priced in. Several projects that have already adopted buybacks/burns will drive more Layer 1 and DeFi applications to follow suit over the next 12–24 months.

PANews reported on August 13 that Harmony posted on X, stating that it is advancing a rollback plan and has reached agreement with validators and exchanges on the specific approach. The minting vulnerability fix has been activated, and the complete list of attacker wallets will be released soon.
In a previous update yesterday, Harmony officials said they had tracked 10,288 transfers involving the flow of fraudulently minted tokens into 409 wallets, and had alerted partner exchanges about hundreds of suspicious deposit transactions. The relevant exchanges have intercepted the hacker wallets.

Amid the Meme coin boom, Pump.fun and Fomo are vying for dominance in speculative trading. Fomo leverages Pump.fun’s infrastructure to provide front-end social trading, charge fees on demand, and achieve rapid growth; Pump.fun, meanwhile, touts low front-end costs and monetizes its underlying infrastructure and bonding curve in an attempt to capture users. Trust is the key to determining which side wins: the authenticity and transparency of trader signals determine whether users are willing to copy trades; if trust collapses, the value of social trading will dissipate. The future will show how the two platforms maintain user trust and their ecosystems.

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U.S. stocks closed higher, with CPI data failing to trigger inflation concerns
The three major indexes closed mixed: the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.04%, declining for a third consecutive day, weighed down by Home Depot and Microsoft; the S&P 500 rose 0.26%, approaching a record high; and the Nasdaq Composite rose 0.54%, with AI hardware, storage, optical communications and emerging cloud computing once again becoming the main market themes.
U.S. July CPI rose 0.1% month-on-month and 3.4% year-on-year, while core CPI rose 0.2% month-on-month and 2.5% year-on-year, all in line with expectations. The core year-on-year increase was the slowest since March 2021. Combined with last week’s weak nonfarm payrolls report, the data drove the money market’s probability of a September rate hike down to 40%, while the probability of rates remaining unchanged rose to around 60%