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PANews, August 19 — According to The Block, prediction market platform Kalshi has applied to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to launch perpetual futures contracts linked to stock indexes. The “US500 contract” will track the MerQube U.S. Large Cap Index, which measures the performance of the 500 largest companies listed and registered in the United States.

PANews, August 19 — According to a report by China News Service’s Zhongxin Jingwei, Unitree Robotics officially listed on the STAR Market on August 19, surging 629.44% at the open to 1,100 yuan per share, with a total market capitalization of 444.9 billion yuan. Based on the offering price of 150.80 yuan per share, one winning allotment could generate a profit of 474.6k yuan. As one of the “Six Little Dragons of Hangzhou,” Unitree Robotics’ listing was backed by a stellar lineup of shareholders. A review found that Astrend IV, an affiliate of Shunwei Capital founded by Lei Jun, holds 16.106 million shares, with unrealized gains exceeding 15.2 billion yuan.

PANews, August 19 — According to a Yicai report, on August 19, Unitree Robotics, known as “the first A-share humanoid robot stock,” officially began trading on the STAR Market. Its share price rose more than 500% intraday after opening, bringing its market capitalization above ¥350 billion. This market cap ranks among the top 10 companies listed on the STAR Market. Based on its previous offering price of ¥150.80 per share, Unitree Robotics was valued at nearly ¥61 billion, ranking around 50th on the STAR Market.

PANews, August 19 — According to a report by Zhongxin Jingwei, Unitree Technology officially listed on the STAR Market, surging 629.44% at the open to 1,100 yuan per share, bringing its total market capitalization to 444.9 billion yuan. DeepSeek, High-Flyer Quant, and Jiuzhang Asset, which are affiliated with Liang Wenfeng, were allocated approximately 1.1916 million shares in total through strategic placement and offline IPO subscriptions. At the issue price, Liang Wenfeng’s paper profit from subscribing to Unitree Technology exceeded 1.1 billion yuan.

PANews, August 19 — According to Jin10, informed sources said that AI startup Temporal is in talks for a new funding round of approximately $500 million. Once completed, the funding round will more than double Temporal’s valuation from February this year, bringing it to at least $12 billion. The funding round has not yet been finalized, and specific details may still change.

PANews reported on August 19 that voting on the GnosisDAO proposal to “transform Gnosis Chain from an independent Layer 1 into a ZK-proof-based Ethereum economic zone Rollup instance” will end in 12 hours. It currently has a 99.78% approval rate and has reached quorum. The proposal states that, following the transformation, it will inherit Ethereum’s security and liquidity and achieve synchronous composability with the mainnet. The validator set will be phased out, and approximately 350k GNO staked (27% of the circulating supply) will be unlocked. The first version is targeted to launch by the end of 2026 or early 2027.

PANews, August 19 — According to Lookonchain monitoring, a whale chased the rally in UNITREE, opening a long position of 23.11k UNITREE ($2.93 million) with 1x leverage and setting a take-profit order at $150.

PANews, August 19 — According to monitoring by on-chain analyst Ai Yi, an address associated with the Ondo team deposited another 13.43 million tokens, and has allegedly sold $29.94 million worth of ONDO over the past 30 days.
Two multisig addresses deposited $4.42 million worth of tokens to Coinbase over the past 10 hours; associated addresses currently still hold $12.68 million worth of ONDO on-chain.

The global sovereign bond market is experiencing its strongest sell-off in decades, with long-term yields continuing to rise under the triple pressure of inflation, fiscal expansion, and structurally shrinking demand. The US 30-year yield is around 5.3%, while yields in Europe, Japan, and the UK are mostly at multi-year highs; investment-grade sovereign bond funds average around 4.5%, the highest since 2015. Expanding supply and the withdrawal of long-term buyers have combined to make real yields the main driver of the sell-off, while surging US interest payments are increasing fiscal pressure and market views on the outlook remain divided.

After UNITREE is listed on Gate, UNITREEUSDT pre-market perpetual contracts will be migrated to official perpetual contracts with 1–50x leverage, and the UNITREE Contract Trading Competition will be launched (Aug 19, 16:00–Aug 28, 16:00, UTC+8). New users who make their first trade of 5,000 USDT will receive 5 USDT; users who reach 5,000 USDT in daily trading volume will receive up to 35 USDT for checking in; users with cumulative trading volume of ≥10,000 USDT will share a 30,000 USDT prize pool, with a maximum of 200 USDT per person; the total prize pool is 50,000 USDT, with a maximum of 240 USDT per person.

PANews, August 19 — According to a report by CLS, the China Securities Regulatory Commission website disclosed that the IPO counseling status of Yangtze Memory Technologies Holding Co., Ltd. has changed to “counseling acceptance,” with CITIC Securities and China Securities Co., Ltd. serving as the counseling brokers.

PANews, August 19 — According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a newly created wallet received 9.3 million KTA ($685k) and 2 billion GALA ($3 million) via a cross-chain bridge, then sold them for 1,902 ETH ($3.64 million), causing KTA to fall 37% and GALA to fall 15%.

PANews, August 19 — According to The Block, Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest bought $1.3 million worth of Block Inc. stock and $184,592 worth of Securitize stock on Tuesday. Block Inc.’s share price fell 0.96% that day, while Securitize’s share price surged 9.28%.

According to SoSoValue, the XRP spot ETF saw approximately $5.8088 million in net inflows on August 18, including $2.2372 million for the Bitwise XRP ETF, bringing its historical total net inflows to $515 million, and $1.9408 million for GXRP, bringing its historical total net inflows to $133 million. As of press time, the XRP spot ETF had total net assets of $941 million, a net asset ratio of 1.50%, and cumulative historical net inflows of $1.52B.

South Korea’s two largest exchanges saw first-half results plunge by about 49%: Dunamu posted net profit of 108.4 billion won, while Bithumb recorded a loss of 108.7 billion won. The reasons lie in their revenue structures and costs: Upbit relies primarily on trading fees and has relatively good cost controls, while Bithumb depends almost entirely on fees and incurred impairment and compliance expenses. The market downturn and retail funds shifting toward AI and semiconductor stocks, along with expectations of a 2027 crypto-asset capital gains tax, also suppressed trading appetite. Both companies are pursuing IPOs, with Dunamu seeking to partner with Naver Financial to pursue a KRX listing, while Bithumb is targeting a 2028 listing. The key question is whether investors can accept profits no longer evaporating by 80% when trading volume declines again.

A White House official confirmed that prediction market companies will not be invited to this Wednesday’s technology leaders event, despite expectations that cryptocurrency and prediction market executives will be invited. The event is seen as the inaugural meeting of the CFTC advisory committee, hosted by Trump and aimed at strengthening U.S. innovation and technological leadership; cryptocurrency executives will still attend, but Kalshi and Polymarket have not responded.

Unitree Technology listed on the STAR Market, surging over 500% at the open and achieving a market capitalization of more than ¥350 billion. Chairman and CEO Wang Xingxing directly holds 86.71M shares (21.44%) and indirectly holds another 9.54% through an incentive platform, for a combined stake of approximately 30% valued at more than ¥100 billion, making him the richest person born in the 1990s. The 2025 New Fortune Rich List shows that Liu Jingkang, founder of Insta360, became the new richest person born in the 1990s with a fortune of ¥20.2 billion.

PANews, August 19 — Market data shows that humanoid robot-themed ETFs weakened. Multiple robot ETFs, including Fullgoal Robot ETF, GF Robot ETF, and Penghua Robot ETF, fell more than 5%.