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The Block reports that H100 Group will acquire Moonshot and PDI in an all-stock transaction, adding approximately 2,456 BTC and bringing its total holdings to approximately 3,506 BTC, with a market value of approximately $227 million. The transaction will be paid for with approximately 7.91B new shares, resulting in approximately 70% dilution, at an issue price of 1.86 Swedish kronor, valuing the deal at approximately 1.47 billion Swedish kronor (approximately $155 million). Upon completion, it will rise to 26th place, approaching large treasuries such as Gemini; it also said that on a fully diluted basis, its BTC holdings per share will increase by approximately 5%.

Government records show that Federal Reserve Chair Warsh has sold all the financial assets he pledged to divest. He signed an ethics compliance certification and submitted proof of the divestitures, with the latest disclosure showing that all remaining holdings covered by the agreement have been sold. Warsh is one of the wealthiest officials in the Federal Reserve’s history; he had pledged to divest holdings in multiple investments, some of whose underlying assets were not disclosed due to confidentiality agreements, worth at least $100 million.

PANews, August 10 — According to Bybit data, spot silver has risen more than 2.00% today, currently trading at $64.80 per ounce.

Vitalik Buterin updated the comparison between the 2023 roadmap and Strawman, highlighting three future priorities: 1. Elevating quantum security to a priority, advancing post-quantum scaling and signature aggregation; 2. Making strong privacy a first-class citizen, covering keyed nonces, state roots, privacy pools, wormholes, and more; 3. Using AI to accelerate formal verification and streamline specifications, introducing recursive STARKs at the execution, consensus, and data layers, while opening up design space beyond the EVM with new state types, native rollups, blobs, gas futures, and leanISA and RISC-V.

GnosisDAO has submitted GIP-152 to spin off Gnosis App into a new company led by the original team, with voting ending on August 12. The proposal calls for the DAO to invest $1.5 million and exchange the product/IP, valued at $1 million, for ≥25% equity through a SAFE, with Gnosis App removed from Gnosis Ltd’s annual budget. The new company will center on Circles, focusing on self-custodial payments and card services, with 18 months allocated to team building, compliance, and customer acquisition, while continuing to drive growth through Gnosis Pay and Gnosis Chain. Support currently stands at around 66%.

PANews, August 10: The Texas government: Meta Platforms (META.O) has committed to complying with data center standards.

Gate has launched a special review and risk-control investigation into the unusually sharp volatility of the TUTUSDT, LobsterUSDT, and BICOUSDT perpetual contracts on August 9, 2026. Affected users whose forced liquidations fall within the compensation scope will receive full compensation in USDT, with a dedicated processing channel established; compensation will be implemented and credited to spot accounts within three business days. Gate said it will continue strengthening abnormal trading detection, risk controls for low-liquidity markets, dynamic risk parameters, and pricing and liquidation mechanisms to improve risk prevention and market governance.

Crypto payment cards are being rolled out globally via the Visa network, with transactions settled in stablecoins and merchants receiving fiat. Some cards are self-custodial, while others are custodial. Transaction volume in July 2026 was $759 million across nearly 9 million transactions, averaging about $86 each. Mainnet shares: Optimism 29%, Solana 19%, Base 19%, and Gnosis 2%; USDC 58%, USDT 26%, and EURe just 2%. Though still small, growth is strong, with Visa serving as the dominant use case.

PANews, August 10 — OKX market data shows that ETH has just fallen below $1,900, currently at $1,899.26 per coin, down 1.41% on the day.

PANews, August 10 — According to Bybit market data, U.S. stocks opened with the Dow Jones down 0.01%, the Nasdaq down 0.01%, and the S&P 500 up 0.05%. Crypto-related stocks were mixed, with COIN (Coinbase) down 0.50% intraday and HOOD (Robinhood) up 0.49% intraday.

PANews reported on August 10 that, according to U.S. media, Anthropic has formed a strategic partnership with Macquarie and Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC to build data centers for Claude developers. The newly established entity, named Theseus Infrastructure, will serve as a vehicle for developing AI computing sites, initially focusing on the United States. Macquarie and GIC have committed to providing most of the equity financing for each project, while Anthropic has committed to bearing any increases in consumer electricity prices caused by these facilities.

The Block, citing Immunefi data: The crypto industry lost approximately $110 million to hackers in July; approximately $2.32 million was paid through bug bounties, with confirmed and paid vulnerability reports increasing 18% month-on-month. The median number of critical/high-severity vulnerabilities in 1,178 frontline audit reports was 0; 58 contests found an average of 6.2 critical vulnerabilities, significantly higher than 1.5. The average cost of identifying a critical vulnerability was approximately $6,548, far below the approximately $66k cost of a private audit and the approximately $24.5 million in losses caused by exploitation. A total of 374 potential threats were prevented in July, and researchers were paid a cumulative $143.1 million.

PANews, August 10 — According to Bybit data, WTI crude oil rose above $80 per barrel, reaching a new high since August 4, up 4.78% on the day.

PANews, August 10 — According to Bybit data, SpaceX (SPCX.O) shares rose 1.8%, returning above the $135 IPO offering price.

Germany’s Finance Ministry is discussing nominating incumbent Bundesbank President Nagel to head the ECB in response to the possibility of Lagarde stepping down early. Finance Minister Klingbeil tends to support the move, while Chancellor Merz has not yet stated his position. Nagel has served as president since 2022 and has criticized unbacked crypto assets such as Bitcoin, calling them “digital tulips” and opposing their inclusion in official foreign exchange reserves, emphasizing that reserves must be safe, liquid, and transparent. If appointed ECB president, he is expected to maintain a cautious stance toward stablecoins and crypto assets while promoting the digital euro to strengthen payment infrastructure and monetary sovereignty.

PANews, August 10 — Ember said that Strategy (MicroStrategy) has sold a cumulative 6,948 BTC since the end of June, cashing out approximately $432 million, at an average selling price of approximately $62.1k, significantly below its average cost basis of approximately $75k. The sales resulted in a realized loss of approximately $93.12 million.

PANews, August 10 — Ai Yi stated that the TOP1 short address in the ChangXin Memory Technologies contract market currently holds a 1x-leveraged CXMT short position worth $21.12 million, with an average entry price of $6.5. At the current price of $7.28, the position has an unrealized loss of approximately $2.26M. The address has paid approximately $3.08M in funding fees, deployed more than $40 million in margin, and currently has a liquidation price of $15.466. The overall position continues to bet on a sharp decline in CXMT.

White House National Economic Council Director Hassett said he hopes Federal Reserve Governor Cook is right in claiming her innocence, and declined to comment on the details of the allegations. If Cook is ultimately removed, he said he would not replace her. If he were at the Fed, he would keep interest rates unchanged or cut them, as supply-side momentum is strong and inflation is declining. Hassett said Warsh is known for his independence.

Microsoft’s self-developed AI chip MAIA is showing signs of a resurgence after a slow start, with the next-generation MAIA 300 planned for release in September. Microsoft will increase efforts to apply MAIA and pursue major customers, claiming that MAIA can run its own and OpenAI models at lower cost. It will also significantly increase production and negotiate with TSMC to secure capacity for more than 300k chips, with delivery in 2027.

Discovered Materials announced the completion of a $9 million seed round, with participation from Lightspeed India Partners, Peak XV Partners, and several angel investors. Founders Advaith Sridhar and Akash Ramdas use an Anthropic-based multi-agent system to generate candidate materials at scale and screen them with proprietary physics models, focusing on semiconductor materials related to chip heat generation and dissipation. The team said it has discovered new materials whose performance can rival mainstream materials, and will subsequently apply for patents covering GPU applications and process technologies before licensing them to chip manufacturers. Investors believe the bottleneck lies in filtering and synthesizing materials, rather than increasing the number of candidates.