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According to CNA, the Singapore Police Force (SPF) and the Cyber Security Agency (CSA) jointly issued a warning on August 14 that a cryptocurrency scam utilizing fake recruitment has caused losses of approximately US$11.8 million. Scammers impersonated recruiters from cryptocurrency companies, communicated with victims via emails from spoofed domains, and induced them to download malware onto company devices under the pretext of technical programming tests. The malware stole victims' session tokens, bypassed multi-factor authentication to infiltrate their Bitbucket code repositories, then tampered with automated deployment instructions and remotely accessed internal servers, ultimately bypassing transaction approval mechanisms to complete cryptocurrency transfers.
Odaily News - According to Gate's July wealth management monthly report, the cryptocurrency market continued its cautious recovery in July, with total market capitalization rising to $2.26 trillion, up approximately 7.6% month-over-month. BTC and ETH gained 7.3% and 18.5%, respectively. During the market recovery, demand for stable returns and diversified strategies increased, keeping Gate's wealth management business active.In conservative wealth management, Gate's fixed-term holdings in Yu Bi Bao saw BTC grow 7.3% month-over-month, while USDT surged 70.4%. Total GUSD minting rose from approximately 182 million at the start of the month to around 215 million by month-end, at one point exceeding 230 million. In advanced wealth management, Gate's dual-currency investment for BTC low-buy and high-sell strategies delivered annualized yields of 95.5% and 113.5% for 0-day terms, respectively, surpassing market averages by 34.4 and 32.6 percentage points. In July, the quantitative fund's USDT strategy posted an average monthly return of 3.0%, with Star Pioneer leading at 4.2%. Star Hedging achieved a cumulative return of 19.1%, maintaining a 100% monthly win rate for 25 consecutive months.In equity assets, Gate's platform trading structure shifted with market conditions. Korean stock trading accounted for approximately 90% at the start of the month, before U.S. stock trading rebounded to around 70%. In terms of holdings, SK Hynix ranked first with a 59.3% share, followed by SpaceX at 15.2%, reflecting that platform users' asset allocation is further expanding to cover diverse areas such as crypto assets, stable-yield products, structured strategies, and stocks.
Odaily News: TRON Eco has released its 2026 Q2 value deflation ecosystem report, with the quarterly cumulative buyback and burn amount surpassing $34.75 million, driven by the coordinated efforts of four core projects.JST completed its largest buyback and burn to date, destroying over 355 million tokens (worth $34.59 million) in a single event, setting a new historical high. The cumulative burned amount has now reached 17.29% of the initial maximum supply, with a cumulative value exceeding $94.62 million. SUN completed its 51st round of buyback and burn, destroying over 9.02 million SUN tokens in the quarter, bringing the cumulative burned total to over 678 million tokens. BTT and WIN announced mechanism upgrades, committing all revenue from their decentralized businesses and all oracle service revenue, respectively, to buybacks. The new mechanisms will be implemented on a regular basis starting in Q3. With the launch of the new mechanisms in Q3, all four projects have now been incorporated into a sustainable deflationary framework, marking an upgrade from "phased incentives" to "institutionalized deflation." TRON Eco will continue to drive buybacks and burns with real revenue to reward the community.
据官方公告，币安 Alpha 将在 8 月 14 日上线 KiiChain（KII）。符合条件的用户可于 Alpha 交易开放后，前往 Alpha 活动页面使用币安 Alpha 积分领取空投。具体详情将另行公布。
据官方公告，火币 HTX 已于 8月 14 日上线 SAMSUNGEM/USDT、HANMI/USDT、NAVER/USDT、LGELECTRONICS/USDT、KODEX200/USDT和 VST/USDT 永续合约，支持 1-10 倍做多和做空操作。
Z.ai releases GLM-5.3, based on the same foundation model as GLM-5.2, achieving capability improvements through expanded post-training. According to the official announcement, GLM-5.3 improves by 50% over GLM-5.2 on the internal Z.ai Code Bench coding benchmark, and reaches a leading level among open models in public benchmarks such as Terminal Bench 3.0 and Agents' Last Exam. In terms of cybersecurity, GLM-5.3 achieved a score of 84.5% in the CyberGym vulnerability discovery test, and significantly improved compared to the previous generation in exploit chain-related tests such as ExploitBench and ExploitGym.
According to TechFlow Research, a Nomura Securities report on August 12 noted that Lumentum's revenue for the June quarter increased 109% year-over-year to $1.01 billion, with component revenue growing 103% to $649 million. Narrow linewidth laser shipments grew by over 130%, pump lasers increased 80% and are expected to grow another fourfold in the coming quarters; the company holds a 70% to 80% market share in the pump laser sector. 200G EML accounts for over 25% and is expected to exceed 50% by mid-2027. OCS shipments doubled, with management guiding for triple-digit year-over-year growth in 1QFY27, progressing towards a $400 million OCS revenue target in 2H26. The supply-demand imbalance for EML and CW lasers will not ease at least from FY26 to FY27. The report judges that the technology upgrade path is clear; NPO is expected to be commercialized between late 2027 and 2028, significantly expanding the optical TAM. The global shortage of optical chips creates structural opportunities for Chinese manufacturers: Yuanjie Semiconductor is expected to gain global market share in optical chips, with Nomura giving a Neutral rating and a target price of 1,375 yuan (based on 21x 2027 expected EPS); Zhongji Innolight and Tfc Communication both receive Buy ratings, benefiting from the 800G to 1.6T upgrade, increased silicon photonics penetration, and NPO incremental opportunities.
Z.ai 发文预告 GLM-5.3 即将推出，该模型聚焦编程能力，并面向网络防御挑战。官方称，GLM-5.3 通过对 743B 基础模型进行后训练，实现了顶尖的编程和智能代理能力，并在网络安全领域取得重要进展，为开源模型树立新标准。
: Cardano ecosystem wallet project SecondFi has announced the launch of a wallet migration tool and revealed a recovery plan for assets affected by the June 2026 security incident. As the project will cease operations, users are required to migrate remaining assets still held in SecondFi wallets. The migration tool is expected to go live on August 13, supporting the transfer of eligible ADA, Cardano native tokens, and NFTs to new Cardano wallets created with service providers of the users' choosing. Currently, the tool only supports Cardano network assets; non-Cardano assets must be transferred separately through corresponding network and wallet processes. SecondFi stated that the migration tool has passed an independent security assessment by security firm Bitdefender. For affected assets, SecondFi plans to launch a recovery portal before September 10, where users can verify wallet ownership via zero-knowledge proofs (ZK Proof) and submit asset claims. SecondFi reminds users to only rely on information published through official channels, including @secondfiapp, @secondfi_jp, and the official support website, to guard against phishing sites and impersonating accounts.
OdailyNews – According to official sources, Gate has launched its AI Potential Stocks feature, which scans market volume and price anomalies, major events, industry news, and related news leads through AI before each trading day's market open, helping users quickly understand the main themes the market may focus on that day, the underlying reasons, and the direction of subsequent transmission. The AI Potential Stocks feature pioneers the integration of AI investment research capabilities and industry chain analysis into crypto industry market research scenarios, upgrading the AI-driven pre-market investment research experience. This feature will focus on markets such as US stocks, Hong Kong stocks, and Korean stocks, screening 2–3 stock leads that show capital validation, news support, and may not yet have received sufficient attention. The content will be structured around three dimensions: "what to focus on, why to focus on it, and how the impact extends," helping users more efficiently complete pre-market information filtering.AI Potential Stocks focuses on market theme rotation, volume and price anomalies, and major news signals, helping users understand the logic behind shifts in market attention rather than simply showcasing popular stocks. Additionally, Gate will continue to enhance push notification capabilities around AI Potential Stocks, forming an information delivery mechanism featuring scheduled pre-market summaries, major event alerts, and personalized watchlist updates. The AI Potential Stocks feature is now supported on Gate App v8.31.0 and above; users can access it via the bottom navigation bar [TradFi] - [Stocks] list, while Web users can enter through the market page or visit the feature page directly. Going forward, Gate will continue to deepen its AI investment research capabilities, refine its AI-driven investment research and analysis system, and continuously optimize event-based content, major event alerts, and personalized summaries around AI Potential Stocks, gradually building an information delivery mechanism that combines pre-market summaries, event alerts, and user watchlist updates to provide users with more timely and clearer market references.
According to Digital Asset reports, South Korea People Power Party lawmaker Park Soo-young stated that taxing virtual asset gains is equivalent to requiring investors who do not invest in domestic stocks to bear "tax pressure," and called on the government to withdraw the relevant plan. He believes that while abolishing financial investment income tax to support the domestic stock market, imposing "punitive tax" only on digital assets is unreasonable and may accelerate capital flow overseas.
Odaily News: According to the latest data from Bitget, the platform's TradFi futures trading volume surpassed $100 billion in July, with the highest single-day trading volume reaching $10 billion.As a core growth engine for the TradFi sector, Bitget's stock futures have demonstrated strong market penetration. Currently, approximately one in every three futures trades on the platform comes from stock futures. As of press time, Bitget supports 272 popular US stocks and ETF futures instruments.
Odaily News: A final ruling by a Washington State court in the United States requires the prediction market platform Kalshi to stop offering event contracts related to sports, elections, politics, entertainment, culture, technology, science, and "named person mentions" in the state, and prohibits the promotion of related products to consumers in the state. Kalshi must implement geoblocking via IP addresses and user place of residence by August 19, and upgrade to a multi-source geofencing system by September 2. Contracts related to commodities, climate, economics, and finance are not subject to this ban. Kalshi previously applied for a stay of the ban, but the request was denied by the Washington State Court of Appeals.
Odaily News, according to the official announcement, Bitget has launched the ANET (Arista Networks) stock perpetual contract. The contract is settled in USDT and supports up to 20x leverage with 7×24-hour trading. To date, Bitget supports a total of 272 stock contracts.
Odaily News: World has announced official support for Hyperliquid.
Harmony released an incident update stating that on August 12, 2026, Beijing time, an unauthorized issuance event of the native token ONE occurred on the Harmony mainnet. Officials confirmed that the initial abnormal issuance volume was 4 billion ONE, completed through two empty block entries; additionally, on-chain reconstruction results show that the total forged cross-shard issuance volume could reach 3.0100001 trillion ONE, involving 6 forged cross-shard transactions and 4 attacker wallets, and the team is still further verifying the two sets of data.
Odaily News: Citrini analyst jukan posted on X platform, stating that GF Securities Overseas Electronics Newsletter reiterated its Buy rating on Intel with a $136 price target, and believes this stock offering sends a positive signal. The report expects Intel's foundry business to break even in Q4 2027, with margin leverage effects fully reflected by 2028. Yield rates and external customer expansion—especially progress with Apple—are advancing steadily, and the EMIB customer base is also expanding, with customers including Google and AWS. Intel has secured support from substrate supplier Unimicron and will produce silicon capacitors internally. The report raised Intel's expected EPS for 2026 and 2027 by 3% and 1% respectively, maintaining the $136 price target after accounting for dilution effects. Intel expanded its stock offering from the initially planned $15 billion to $20 billion, with institutional demand reportedly exceeding $100 billion. The offering price was $95, and the overallotment option has been fully exercised. CEO Lip-Bu Tan and his family subscribed approximately $12 million at the offering price, which the report believes reflects management's confidence in the company and may support capital expenditure for fiscal year 2027. The report states that Intel reiterated its foundry business will achieve breakeven by the end of 2027; if delayed to 2028, the primary reason would be increased demand for additional investment. The report maintains its previous assessment, expecting 18A yield of approximately 80% in Q2 2026, with CWF already entering the capacity ramp-up phase. External customer collaboration continues to advance, with Apple's 14A high-volume manufacturing being particularly notable. The report raised Intel's back-end business revenue expectations for fiscal years 2027 and 2028 to $1.1 billion and $7 billion respectively, citing improved visibility into AWS Trainium3 adopting EMIB-T in 2027, as well as Google's Humufish and Triggerfish entering production expansion phases from H2 2027 to 2028. The report also expects that AWS and Microsoft ASIC products may adopt EMIB in 2028.
According to the official announcement, Bybit Spot will list KII (KII/USDT) on the spot market at 1:00 PM UTC on August 14. Deposits are now open. Deposits Open: August 13, 10:00 AM (UTC); Trading Starts: August 14, 1:00 PM (UTC); Withdrawals Open: August 15, 10:00 AM (UTC) Kii is a stablecoin-powered, 24/7 on-chain foreign exchange (Onchain FX) infrastructure layer. Kii aims to provide cross-border payments, foreign exchange trading, and financial solutions for enterprises and individual users.
According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a whale previously shorted Bitcoin on a scale of $114 million. After three stop-losses, the whale added another 330 BTC in the early morning, pushing long positions back above $110 million to 1,742 BTC. The average opening price has been updated to $63,709, with an unrealized profit of $292,000 and an additional $118,000 earned through funding fees.
Citigroup CEO Jane Fraser stated that despite remaining concerns regarding the stablecoin incentive provisions in the Clarity Act, she generally supports the advancement of cryptocurrency legislation and expressed hope that "a good bill can be passed."