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Author: Zen, PANews
Over the past year, robotics/Physical AI data has rapidly evolved from a relatively obscure infrastructure segment into a fiercely contested emerging track, with capital pouring into this sector, known as the “picks-and-shovels seller” for embodied intelligence, at an astonishing pace.
This heating up is particularly evident in China. In the first half of 2026 alone, 25 Chinese embodied intelligence data startups collectively secured more than 17 billion yuan in financing. Among them, Guanglun Intelligence completed multiple rounds of major financing throughout the year, while Mifeng Technology, a data company incubated by Zhiyuan Robotics, quickly raised several hundred million yuan after its founding.
Overseas, a number of startups specifically established around robot training data have also begun to emerge. XDOF announced in June this year that it had completed a $70 million financing round; at the end of July, Axis Robotics completed a $12 million seed round led by Hack VC.

PANews reported on August 12 that, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi’s monitoring, the new address 0x856…3cD9F withdrew stablecoins from Binance an hour ago and purchased 3,877.67 ETH in batches via CowSwap, worth approximately $7.31 million, at an average price of $1,886.55, before transferring all the ETH to the address 0xC32…D64f9.

PANews, August 12 — Lookonchain monitoring shows that MetaPlanet transferred out 1,473 BTC ($93.82 million) one hour ago, while Hut 8 transferred out 493 BTC ($31.36 million) three hours ago.

PANews, August 12 — According to a GoPlus security alert, a user lost approximately $100k in USDT due to an address-poisoning attack. The attacker conducted small transactions through malicious addresses with similar trailing characters, waiting for the user to make a mistake when copying and pasting. Address-poisoning attacks have become fully automated, including identifying poisoning opportunities, creating counterfeit tokens with the same names, carrying out small-value poisoning transactions, and laundering funds through mixers. The victim address received more than 400 poisoning transactions after executing its last transaction 69 days ago.

PANews reported on August 12 that Binance Stocks posted, “Almost time. (It’s almost time.)” hinting that important news will be announced tomorrow.

South Korea’s Financial Services Commission announced that starting August 19, it will tighten investor eligibility requirements for single-stock leveraged ETF/ETN investments: first-time investors will be required to complete simulated trading, added to the existing requirements of a KRW 30 million margin and three hours of education. Deviation-rate management will also be tightened, with the closing deviation rate for domestic products reduced from 3% to 2% and that for overseas products from 6% to 5%, calculated on an absolute-value basis. If the deviation exceeds twice the management range, screening and a preliminary designation notice will be triggered; products that exceed twice the limit again within 10 trading days or exceed the limit for two consecutive days will be classified as investment-warning products and undergo call auctions for three trading days. The reason is the risk of negative compounding, and investors are required to fully understand the products’ structures and risks.

CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. said Bitcoin volatility has dropped to 3.8%, near a two-year low, while the ADX is only 11, indicating a weak trend. The market is in a narrow range consolidation with no clear direction. Historically, extremely low volatility rarely lasts, and a major move may occur in the short term, but its direction has yet to be determined. Bollinger Band width has narrowed sharply, with no active trend signal yet. A breakout requires BBR expansion, accompanied by the ADX rising above 25 and the emergence of a directional signal; otherwise, there is a risk of a false breakout.

GAC Group-incubated Huilun Technology has raised over RMB100 million, jointly invested by CRRC Guochuang Fund, CMB International, Sichuan Kechuang and others. The funds will support vertical-domain model optimization, expansion into automotive production lines and integrated service scenarios, and the scaled commercialization of complete humanoid robots and core components. In 2026, GAC assigned Huilun independent responsibility for humanoid robot R&D and commercialization. It has launched 4 embodied robots, including GoMate and GoMate Mini.

On August 12, the market rebounded amid volatility, with the STAR Market and ChiNext indexes both gaining over 1%. Turnover on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges totaled 2.15 trillion, down from the previous day. More than 4,100 stocks rose, while sectors including consumer, real estate, AI, and computing power rotated higher, and pharmaceuticals were active; oil and gas concepts fell. At the close, the Shanghai Composite, Shenzhen Component, and ChiNext indexes rose 0.32%, 1.09%, and 1.49%, respectively.

Ravencoin was attacked due to a consensus vulnerability, with its price falling to $0.002754, down about 22% from the 24-hour high. The vulnerability caused vulnerable nodes to accept invalid blocks, with the first exploit appearing at block 4,487,776. The two major mining pools, 2Miners and RavenMiner, are building a competing chain that excludes the affected branch; if it becomes dominant, it could trigger a chain reorganization of about 3 days, and transactions confirmed after 4,487,775 may be reversed. Ravencoin advised exchanges to suspend deposits and withdrawals until the chain stabilizes, while Upbit and Bitget have suspended RVN transfers.

Darkfost said Binance’s stablecoin reserves fell to $41.9 billion, dipping below the $42 billion mark for the first time since October 2025; Binance accounts for more than 70% of the total stablecoins held by exchanges, with reserves continuing to decline since November 2025. This reflects investors reducing their market exposure and withdrawing stablecoins, while demand has weakened in tandem, indicating predominantly bearish market sentiment. Broad-based demand growth is needed to reverse the trend.

PANews reported on August 12 that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced it had shut down multiple websites operated by digital asset platform Yepbit and warned users not to trade with the platform. ASIC received reports from multiple investors that they were unable to withdraw funds from the platform. Yepbit claimed to provide digital asset and futures trading services worldwide, including to Australian investors. ASIC said Yepbit fabricated claims that “ASIC had frozen the funds” to delay investors’ refund requests. Yepbit does not hold an Australian financial services license and is not registered with AUSTRAC as a virtual asset service provider. ASIC reminded investors to verify whether a platform holds a license and to exercise extreme caution with investment opportunities that cannot be verified.

PANews reported on August 12, citing Dahe Caifang, that robotics and embodied intelligence data infrastructure company IO-AI Tech announced the completion of a financing round worth hundreds of millions of yuan. The round was jointly invested by Shunwei Capital, Songhe Capital, and Shenzhen Capital Group, and also received strategic investment from a leading robot manufacturer. Founded in 2023, IO-AI Tech is a technology company focused on robotics and embodied intelligence data infrastructure. It is committed to building a bridge connecting data, robots, models, and real-world scenarios to support the continuous improvement and large-scale application of robotic capabilities. Its founding team comes from leading technology and robotics companies including Tencent, XPeng Motors, ByteDance, Amazon, and Baidu.

PANews, August 12 — According to an official announcement by Harmony, the bridge.harmony.one cross-chain bridge service has been suspended due to a security incident.
Earlier, it was reported that Harmony was attacked and had allegedly issued an additional 4 billion ONE tokens. The official team said it was working with exchanges to freeze the funds.

OSL Group has launched OSL AgentPay, a stablecoin payment infrastructure for AI agents that enables end-to-end automated high-frequency micropayments, with developers able to connect via API. This backend settlement layer integrates gateway and global settlement capabilities, providing eight core functions: execution interfaces, cross-multi-asset routing, multi-stablecoin abstraction, micropayments, zero on-chain fees, cross-protocol and cross-wallet compatibility, and global fiat on- and off-ramps.

Crypto.com has launched tokenized stock derivatives covering approximately 1,500 U.S. stocks and ETFs, offering synthetic exposure, a minimum investment of $1, and 7×24-hour trading. Issued by Foris Capital CY Limited, the products give holders exposure only to price movements, without ownership or voting rights, and may provide dividend-equivalent adjustments. The underlying assets are held in custody by U.S. broker Alpaca. The product stems from Crypto.com’s acquisition of Foris Capital in May 2025 and its obtaining a MiFID license.

Bitcoin is in a summer “silent market,” with its price trapped in the $62,000–$66k range, recently around $63.7k. Analysts generally believe short-term catalysts will come from macro factors: Federal Reserve policy, CPI, and progress on the Clarity Act. Continued ETF inflows are providing downside support, but if yields rise or regulatory progress is delayed, support levels will be tested. The market may consolidate for another 3–4 weeks in the short term, while the long-term outlook remains bullish.

PANews, August 12 — According to an official announcement, stablecoin payments company Rain announced the acquisition of payment platform Ansa, which is designed specifically for branded stored-value and closed-loop payments. Following Ansa’s integration into Rain, and combined with Rain’s status as a principal Mastercard member and Visa-licensed issuer, partners will be able to extend stored-value balances beyond a single merchant and use them at merchants covered by the Visa and Mastercard networks. Rain also said it is advancing agent payments and has already provided AI agents with restricted-scope cards with budget limits.

Silicon Data completed a $30.5 million Series A round led by Valor Atreides AI Fund, with participation from CME Group and others. The company provides independent benchmarks and verification for the compute economy, with its pricing benchmarks to be used as reference prices for the cash-settled GPU futures contracts planned by CME Group. Since completing a $4.7 million seed round in March 2025, it has developed nine financial-grade indexes covering GPUs and LLMs, with more than 1,000 registered users. Part of the funds will be used for SiliconMark performance benchmarking to help the market hedge output risks arising from differences in GPU performance.