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PANews reported on August 19 that, according to a post on Volcano Engine’s official WeChat account, Tesla recently integrated ByteDance’s Volcano Engine Doubao large language model into its in-vehicle system and launched a “co-pilot” smart assistant function, supporting natural-language Q&A, navigation, and vehicle-related consultations inside the car. The report said that Doubao is powered by Volcano Engine’s underlying cloud and AI capabilities, is open to automakers, and can be customized for different vehicle models and scenarios. Tesla is one of the first implementation cases, and the service may be expanded to more smart cockpit and vehicle-road coordination scenarios in the future.

PANews reported on August 19 that Arthur Hayes posted on X that the token project FLOP, in which he is involved, has not yet released a white paper because the team is still communicating with relevant stakeholders to ensure that the final versions of the technical solution and tokenomics design are “solid and reliable.” He said the early announcement was made to gather more external feedback, and that starting next week, concise infographics will be released successively, focusing on FLOP’s tokenomics design and core mechanisms.

PANews, August 19 — According to CoinDesk, White House crypto adviser Patrick J. Witt said he is “truly optimistic and bullish” about the U.S. Congress passing the CLARITY Act. The current goal is to push for a Senate cloture vote on the bill on September 15.

PANews, August 19 — According to The Block, institutional crypto financing firm Antalpha announced its second-quarter 2026 results, reporting a net loss of $12.5 million and a 28% year-over-year decline in revenue to $12.2 million. The company said the results were mainly affected by unrealized fair value losses on its tokenized gold holdings.

The U.S. Department of Justice charged Georgia resident Edward Zimbardi with using The Crypto Program from 2022 to 2023 to promise 25% monthly returns, inducing thousands of investors to transfer more than $165 million in crypto assets to his wallet. The funds were not used for advertising but instead were invested in high-risk forex trading and used to pay earlier investors with new funds; at least $10 million was misappropriated for real estate, luxury cars, and living expenses. He faces 12 counts of wire fraud, 12 counts of money laundering, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, and has appeared in federal court after being extradited from Fiji to the United States.

PANews, August 19 — On-chain data shows that USDC issuer Circle minted 250M USDC on Solana through USDC Treasury, worth approximately $250M.

Rain payments company CEO Malik said that through partnerships with networks such as Visa, its stablecoin payments now cover more than 100k merchants, most of whom are unaware; settlement via Visa takes about three days, while merchants settling directly in stablecoins can receive funds the same day. Rain completed a $250 million Series C in January at a post-money valuation of $1.95 billion, with annual transaction volume exceeding $3 billion, and launched stablecoin cards and wallets with Visa and Mastercard. In the future, it will explore on-chain settlement with regulated stablecoins in certain processes.

_Authored by: Zhou, ChainCatcher_
August 14 was the statutory deadline set by the U.S. SEC for institutional investors to file their Q2 13F forms. Following the centralized disclosure of the filings, Wall Street’s crypto holdings were once again laid bare.
Institutional activity this quarter stood in sharp contrast to crypto price trends. Bitcoin’s price fell approximately 14.2%, while institutions’ reported crypto holdings instead increased.
According to Bitcoin Strategy’s calculations based on 13F data, institutional Bitcoin holdings rose from approximately 498k BTC to approximately 536k BTC, an increase of 7.5% quarter-on-quarter, during the same period.

The Block reported that SkyBridge founder Scaramucci pointed out that early investors who had held for 10–15 years viewed $100k as a key cash-out level and sold heavily after it was reached last year, while unfulfilled bullish expectations further amplified selling pressure. He said that AI agent transactions are highly likely to settle on blockchain in the future. SALT CEO and SkyBridge partner Dowsley said the composition of Bitcoin holders is shifting from early geeks to institutions and family offices, with future investment themes including computing power, energy, AI, robotics, fintech, and digital assets.

作者：Alan，iteye内容团队
> The crypto community has a penchant for ugly things—nothing new, really.
From meme veterans Pepe and Shib, to the distorted political memes on SOL (Jeo Boden and Doland Tremp), and then to 哭哭马 and 牛来 on BSC, it is hard to associate them with aesthetics in the conventional sense.
But attention often involves a paradox: what people generally like is often shaped over the long term by their environment and habits, and does not have...

Swiss Stake AG announced its H1 2026 progress: Llamalend V2 has passed a ChainSecurity audit and launched on Optimism and Ethereum, supporting LP Token and PT collateral and adding Curve DAO admin fee revenue; FXSwap has entered production optimization, focusing on concentrated liquidity, price_scale, and dynamic fees; FastBridge has launched on Arbitrum/Optimism/Fraxtal, reducing crvUSD Layer 2 withdrawals to Ethereum to approximately 15 minutes. The team has received 8.73M CRV plus additional CRV/crvUSD funding to support operations through the end of 2026, and plans to increase the DAO protocol fee share from 10% to 30%.

PANews, August 19 — A Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 63% of Americans said it was “inappropriate” for Trump and his family to have profited more than $1 billion through cryptocurrency projects last year. 48% of Trump’s Republican supporters believe his business dealings will influence official policy.

作者：HashKey Group 首席分析师 Jeffrey Ding
The Crossroads of the Market
In August 2026, global financial markets are standing at a historic crossroads. Over the past year and a half, the Bank of Japan has raised interest rates consecutively, lifting its policy rate from negative territory to 0.75%, the highest level since September 1995. Meanwhile, under the dual pressure of easing inflation and a cooling economy, the Federal Reserve has lowered rates from their peak to 3.75%. The divergence in the direction of monetary policy between Japan and the United States has narrowed the interest-rate differential, once as high as 560 basis points, to approximately 300 basis points in just two years. For global capital markets, behind this numerical change lies the end of a financial paradigm that persisted for three decades.
The yen carry trade, a vast system of borrowing cheap yen and investing in high-yielding dollar assets, is collapsing. And in this crisis quartet,

KITE Foundation announced that abnormal KITE token transfers on Ethereum mainnet were caused by hackers compromising some wallets. KITE ERC-20 transfers and cross-chain transactions have been suspended. A new contract will be deployed, and new tokens will be airdropped 1:1 to legitimate addresses based on a block-height snapshot; hacker-controlled addresses will not receive the new tokens. Custodial and exchange users do not need to take any action. Cross-chain functionality and liquidity will be gradually restored; beware of fake migration pages and phishing links.

PANews August 19 news, France’s 10-year government bond yield rose 1.5 basis points intraday to 4.1275%, setting a fresh 18-year high.

今日要闻提示：
The U.S. SEC proposes new cryptocurrency issuance rules, including two financing exemptions and one safe harbor provision
The “15th Five-Year Plan” for the Construction of “Digital Shanghai” in Shanghai: Conduct research on a mechanism for Web3.0 innovation pilot zones
SK hynix plans to repurchase and cancel KRW 40 trillion worth of shares
Skybridge Capital founder: The catalyst for BTC to return to $100k may still require waiting 20 months
Bitcoin spot ETFs saw total net inflows of $189 million yesterday, Hashdex

PANews August 19 news, Hong Kong Stock Exchange filings show that Tencent Holdings (00700.HK) repurchased 673,000 shares on August 19, spending HK$300.2 million.

PANews, August 19 — Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing CEO: The exchange will consult with the market before making any decision on adjustments to trading hours. Technology, robotics, and R&D are key areas of focus for IPOs. The IPO pipeline remains very strong.