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PANews reported on August 16 that analyst Ali Charts tweeted that, based on Bitcoin’s four-year cycle, BTC is expected to reach this cycle’s market bottom between October 6 and 16. Ali Charts believes investors can establish a dollar-cost averaging strategy in the $48k–$62k range before the final capitulation-style decline arrives.

PANews, August 16 — According to News.bitcoin, Galaxy Research lowered the probability of the CLARITY Act passing this year from 75% to 10%. The institution noted that the lack of an ethics agreement, declining Republican support following bank lobbying, and the legislative session in September lasting only two to three weeks are all obstacles to the bill passing this year.

Harvard Management Company disclosed holding $2.2 billion worth of SpaceX shares, making it the largest single holding in its $4.3 billion U.S. stock portfolio. SpaceX’s June listing brought significant returns to university endowments, with some shares stemming from early venture capital investments. Besides Harvard, the University of California, the University of North Carolina, and Washington University in St. Louis also disclosed holding SpaceX shares, worth approximately $1 billion in total.

According to Cointelegraph, RWA.xyz data shows that the number of tokenized stock holders rose to 1.31 million over the past month, monthly transfer volume increased to $23.13 billion, and monthly active addresses rose to 572k. The total value of tokenized stocks rose to $238 million, with Ondo leading at $872 million, while Kraken xStocks and Binance bStocks tied for second at $558 million and $522 million, respectively. The largest individual assets were Securitize at $145.2 million, Strategy PP Variable xStock at $135.6 million, and Ondo’s Circle shares at $99.7 million.

10x Research Head of Research Markus Thielen said that the forecast for Bitcoin to reach $1 million by 2030 lacks data support. To reach that price, approximately $15 trillion in additional funds would need to flow in over the next four years, equivalent to about 25% of the total market capitalization of the U.S. stock market.

Coinbase announced the creation of a complete financial and payment infrastructure for AI agents, enabling them to research, make decisions, and trade cryptocurrencies, stocks, and derivatives on Coinbase for Agents, while connecting to Advisor for personalized investment and tax-loss services. Its payment layer introduces the open x402 standard, enabling agent-to-agent payments without human intervention. Transactions are mostly settled on Base, businesses can accept AI agent payments in USDC, and Agentic.Market provides a discovery and marketplace gateway for x402 services.

作者：danny
Lu Xun once said: It is not about doing better, but about doing things differently. If the ultimate goal is to seize pricing power over the underlying asset, then don’t go head-to-head with Nasdaq where it is strongest. Instead, move the battlefield to what you do best: Perps, 24/7 trading, leverage, on-chain inventory, and decentralized wild/formal MMs.
Use Perps to seize the pricing high ground, and use bStocks to absorb inventory and correct errors—seize pricing power.
When the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) was founded in 1848, it was not yet the enormous futures market it would later become (CBOE). Chicago was becoming a distribution hub for grain in the American Midwest, with railways and canals bringing boatload after boatload and carload after carload of wheat and corn into the city. The problem was, wheat is not a stock. Even when they were called the same

PANews, August 15 — Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Baghaei said that despite U.S. obstruction, talks between Iran and Oman are still progressing actively, and the two sides have reached an agreement on a plan for passage through the Strait of Hormuz.

PANews, August 15 — Michael Saylor published an article on X titled “What Is Money?” stating that money is essentially economic energy, used to store the value created by humans and transfer it across time and space. He believes that gold is constrained by physical friction, fiat currency by political intervention and inflation, while Bitcoin, through its fixed supply, cryptographic security, and proof-of-work, can preserve and transfer economic energy with lower losses, making it “digital monetary energy” and an engineered solution to the problem of money.

Today’s top news:
Robinhood’s second venture fund, RVII, debuted on the NYSE, raising $225.5 million
“White-haired stock god” Serenity denies rumors of going to zero, with returns still reaching 2,411.84% this year
Lido: NEST’s automated LDO buyback mechanism has gone live on mainnet, with an annual buyback cap of $10 million
Jump Crypto transferred 286.83 BTC to Binance, bringing its cumulative transfers this week to 1,560 BTC
Trump is expected to attend the White House innovation meeting, with CEOs from Coinbase, Ripple, and others gathering
Galaxy’s head of research: The Coldcard attack had a huge impact on the community, and Bitcoin culture may be entering a new phase
The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to World Liberty Trust

The National Supercomputing Internet has launched the official version of DeepSeek V4 Pro and the agent framework DeepSeek Harness, leveraging a computing pool with 100,000-card-scale capacity to provide full-lifecycle large-model computing support for research institutes, innovation-driven enterprises, and developers. V4 Pro enhances agent capabilities, while Harness is open-sourced under the MIT license and adopts an “everything is a plugin” architecture, allowing models, tools, skills, and sessions to be freely replaced and recombined. It supports four operating modes: Standard, PTC, Minimalist, and Creative.

Edleman Financial manages approximately $326B in assets and disclosed holdings of Bitcoin ETFs worth approximately $34 million, including BlackRock’s IBIT and Grayscale products. During the same period, Tudor Investment disclosed holding 688,529 shares of IBIT as of June 30, with a market value of approximately $22.9 million.

According to CNBC, the U.S. CFTC is conducting an internal review of prediction platforms’ “mention markets,” which involve traders betting on whether specific words will be mentioned during speeches, earnings calls, and other events. A person familiar with the matter said the CFTC notified Kalshi of the review several weeks ago, after which Kalshi removed sports-related mention markets. It remains unclear whether the investigation is limited to sports-related topics or covers all mention markets.

撰文：小饼
Written by: Xiaobing
August 14, Israel’s largest bank, Bank Leumi, announced a partnership with Galaxy Digital, planning to allow 2.5 million retail customers to buy, sell, and hold BTC, ETH, and SOL directly through the bank’s own Leumi Trade app. Galaxy will provide trade execution and custody infrastructure, with the service expected to launch in early 2027.
As banks begin integrating crypto trading into their own apps, crypto exchanges are shifting from “consumer-facing brands” to “pipes hidden behind banks.”
Trading happens in the bank’s app, but the bank does nothing
First, let’s look at the division of responsibilities in this partnership.
Bank Leumi is responsible for the customer relationship, KYC, compliance, bank accounts, funding access, and most importantly—the brand. Customers open Le

Lido announced that the NEST automated LDO buyback mechanism is now live on mainnet. Under the mechanism’s rules, when DAO staking revenue surplus exceeds the $40 million baseline, 50% of the surplus will be used to automatically purchase LDO via CoW Swap; any shortfall will be carried forward for subsequent accounting, and new surplus must make up the deficit before purchases can resume. The daily cap is $50k, the annual cap is $10 million, and all purchased LDO will belong to the DAO.

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage is under investigation again over large crypto-related gifts following the Clacton by-election, focusing on whether he properly registered his financial interests, including a personal gift worth approximately £5 million from Christopher Harborne and benefits such as staff provided by longtime adviser George Cottrell. Farage said the funds were unconditional personal gifts, with some used for security expenses. He became an MP again after winning the by-election, and the investigation is ongoing.

PANews, August 15: According to SoSoValue data, yesterday (U.S. Eastern Time, August 14), none of the ten spot Ethereum ETFs recorded any net inflows or outflows throughout the day, showing zero change.
As of press time, the total net asset value of the spot Ethereum ETFs was $10.52B, with the ETF net asset ratio (market capitalization as a proportion of Ethereum’s total market capitalization) reaching 4.64%, and cumulative historical net inflows reaching $11.45B.

PANews, August 15 — According to SoSoValue data, Bitcoin spot ETFs saw total net outflows of $57.6322 million yesterday (U.S. Eastern Time, August 14).
The Bitcoin spot ETF with the largest single-day net inflow yesterday was Bitwise ETF BITB, with a single-day net inflow of $6.1385 million. BITB’s cumulative historical net inflows have now reached $2B.
The Bitcoin spot ETF with the largest single-day net outflow yesterday was BlackRock ETF IBIT, with a single-day net outflow of $55.5095 million. IBIT’s cumulative historical net inflows have now reached $61.1B.
As of press time, the total net asset value of Bitcoin spot ETFs was $76.61B, and the ETF net asset ratio

BNB Chain announced that Pasteur will go live on BNB Smart Chain at 10:30 (UTC+8) on August 25, and has been running on the testnet since July 21. Node operators must install version v1.7.7 software before activation. The fork includes three proposals—BEP-682, BEP-695, and BEP-675—with the first two focusing on security and validator permissions, and the third adjusting transaction processing during the preparation phase for new blocks.

PANews, August 15 — According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a new wallet withdrew 33,810 HYPE (approximately $1.88 million) from Coinbase.