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According to Bloomberg, a digital token offering pursued by World Liberty Financial and targeting a Trump-branded resort in the Maldives has been delayed. It was originally scheduled to launch this spring, and investors holding the tokens would be entitled to a share of the income from loan projects related to the resort. The reason for the delay is reportedly related to travel restrictions caused by the Iran war in the Middle East, but has not yet been publicly announced. This was regarded as one of the major attempts to advance real-world asset (RWA) tokenization, but has now encountered obstacles.

PANews August 14 — According to Forbes, AI data infrastructure company Databricks announced the completion of a $5 billion strategic financing round, led by Coatue, with participation from Blackstone, MGX, and T. Rowe Price. Sixth Street Growth joined as a new investor, bringing the company’s post-money valuation to $190 billion, above the previously disclosed $188 billion valuation. The funds will be used to advance its AI infrastructure strategy, product development, and potential mergers and acquisitions.
Databricks Co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi said the company’s current annualized revenue run rate has exceeded $7 billion, up more than 80% year-on-year. In AI

CFTC Chair Selig announced the agenda for the first meeting of the Innovation Advisory Committee, to be held on August 20, focusing on regulatory issues related to digital assets, artificial intelligence, and prediction markets. The meeting will be livestreamed on the official website, and the public may submit comments on Regulations.gov by August 27. The IAC will advise the CFTC on emerging technologies and market innovation, with discussions including digital assets and AI’s impact on financial markets.

Bloomberg reports that Ackman’s Pershing Square is preparing Pershing Square Ventures Ltd., a permanent-capital fund that will allow investors to participate in high-growth companies that have not yet gone public. The fund’s initial portfolio will consist of recently completed private investments and include related investments from Ackman’s family office.

PANews, August 14 — According to Bybit market data, the three major U.S. stock indexes all closed higher: the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.14%, the Nasdaq rose 1.34%, and the S&P 500 rose 0.75%. Crypto-related stocks generally rose, with COIN (Coinbase) up 3.25% on the day and HOOD (Robinhood) up 4.40%.

PANews, August 13 — Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake posted that the Ethereum Foundation has decided to abandon the Poseidon hash on L1 and switch to traditional hash functions SHA or BLAKE. Since 2018, the Ethereum Foundation has been investing in “SNARK-friendly hashes.” Poseidon was created in 2019 and became mainstream, being widely used by zkRollups and

PANews, August 14 — According to Bloomberg, AMD plans to raise up to $5 billion through a bond offering, which could be the largest investment-grade bond issuance in the company’s history, joining the wave of corporate debt issuance driven by the AI boom. People familiar with the matter said the final size of the offering has not yet been determined and may be adjusted based on demand. Another person familiar with the matter said AMD will issue the notes in four tranches, with maturities ranging from 3 to 10 years. The initial price guidance for the longest-maturity tranche is a premium of 1.15 percentage points over U.S. Treasury yields.

PANews, August 13 — According to Onchain Lens monitoring, BlackRock withdrew 226.5 BTC (approximately $14.4 million) from its Coinbase Prime wallet today and deposited 3,923 ETH (approximately $7.43 million) into its ETHA fund.

PANews August 13 news, according to Watcher.Guru, Switzerland’s largest bank UBS increased its holdings of spot Bitcoin ETFs by 230%, reaching $90 million.

PANews reported on August 13 that, according to monitoring by Onchain Lens, a whale received another 40k HYPE tokens from Coinbase, worth approximately $2.3 million. Over the past two months, the wallet has accumulated 260k HYPE tokens through Coinbase, Bybit, and other channels, currently worth approximately $15.1 million.

PANews reported on August 13 that Euler Labs posted that, due to network maintenance, the EulerFinanceBot TAC Telegram mini-app will be permanently shut down on August 27. The official reminder said that if users still have balances in the protocol, they should withdraw them as soon as possible. After the shutdown, the app and all remaining funds in it will be inaccessible.

PANews, August 13 — According to Decrypt, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and HTX are negotiating over the regulator’s allegation that the exchange illegally promoted cryptocurrency services to UK consumers. The High Court of London has suspended proceedings until the end of August to allow both parties to reach an agreement.

PANews, August 13 — Onchain Lens monitoring shows that a whale withdrew 2.1381 million LINK (approximately $1.87 million) from Binance two weeks ago and subsequently transferred it to a Gnosis Safe account.

Pathway announces the completion of a $30 million seed round, with Databricks Chief AI Scientist Jonathan Frankle joining as an angel investor. The company is developing the BDH (Bi biologically-inspired Dynamic Hierarchy) “post-Transformer” architecture, aiming to achieve continual learning and continuous adaptation with less data, reducing reliance on large-scale data, GPUs, energy, and capital. Former Google DeepMind Gemini product lead Adam Kurzrok has been appointed Chief Product Officer, responsible for BDH-related products, evaluation systems, and commercial deployment.

PANews, August 13 — Bitcoin treasury company Nakamoto announced its second-quarter financial results, reporting total revenue of $35.87 million and a net loss of $133 million. Digital asset-denominated losses related to Bitcoin amounted to $48.70 million, while revenue from Bitcoin derivatives was $10.40 million. As of the end of June, the company held approximately 4,467 BTC, with a total fair value of approximately $261.5 million.

PANews reported that the DeepSeek Harness Developer Preview (v0.1) has been opened for testing to Harness developers worldwide and released as open source under the MIT license. It adheres to the design philosophy that “everything is a plugin,” building an Agent Harness through a plugin-based architecture in which capabilities such as models, tools, skills, sessions, sandboxes, storage, loops, scheduling, and UI can all be combined as plugins, freely replaced, and flexibly recombined.

PANews, August 14 — OKX market data shows that BTC has just fallen below $63,000, now trading at $62,964.80 per coin, down 0.71% today.

A Citrini analyst said Anthropic investors believe demand for the Claude series is growing rapidly, with revenue potentially reaching $100 billion to $120 billion by the end of 2026, more than 10 times higher than at the beginning of the year. If the annual growth rate remains at 800%, its potential market capitalization could reach $3 trillion based on a 30x revenue valuation. Future valuation will depend on the speed of model commercialization, enterprise adoption, and infrastructure costs.

This article focuses on Aptos’s turning point: four reforms implemented in February–March—raising Gas fees 10x, halving staking rewards to 2.6%, capping total supply at 2.1 billion, and permanently locking 210 million tokens—caused network revenue to surge, operator commissions to decline, and THNI to turn positive, making it a profitability model for mainstream public chains. Decibel’s fully on-chain perpetual futures order book dominates trading, with the burn cost per transaction higher than that of ordinary transactions; the burn/issuance ratio rose from 0.2% to nearly 10%. Going forward, watch for unlock pressure and continued growth in burns.

PANews, August 13 — Decentralized yield protocol Neutrl posted that, due to the impact on the protocol’s reserves, it has temporarily suspended minting, redemptions, and other protocol functions. The protocol stated that, after consulting legal counsel, this measure was taken to protect users’ interests and maintain orderly processes while assessing the impact. The team will provide users with a clear and orderly explanation of the handling process in due course, and more information on the timeline and next steps will be announced as soon as they are determined.