Numerai is a new kind of hedge fund, built by a network of data scientists. At the core of the Numerai Tournament is a free dataset, consisting of high-quality, cleaned, regularized, and obfuscated financial data.
Odaily reports: US stock analyst Paradis posted on X that the suspected "AI stock god" Leopold Aschenbrenner and his fund Situational Awareness appear to be making a comeback.Paradis noted that since last Friday, mysterious funds have begun intensively buying several highly concentrated massive custom AI-related options (FLEX Calls), with total premium reaching $315 million; Delta exposure of $1.1 billion; Vega of $5.8 million. Position details are as follows.- SNDK: January-expiry 2040/2200 call options — $57 million premium, $198 million Delta, $1.04 million Vega.- BE: January-expiry 250/310 call options — $48 million premium, $140 million Delta, $565,000 Vega.- INTC: January-expiry 105/115 call options — $48 million premium, $185 million Delta, $870,000 Vega.- CRWV: January-expiry 105/115 call options — $43 million premium, $160 million Delta, $770,000 Vega.- DRAM: January-expiry 65/70 call options — $43 million premium, $173 million Delta, $855,000 Vega.- SKHY: January-expiry 190/210 call options — $39 million premium, $148 million Delta, $710,000 Vega.- AMD: January-expiry 540/580 call options — $36 million premium, $193 million Delta, $1.08 million Vega.If we next see similar large block FLEX call option buy orders on MU, NBIS, and TSM, that would essentially confirm it was Leopold and his fund behind the trades.The above data comes from CBOE. Trading desks at Nomura (NMR) and Goldman Sachs (GS) currently share the same view, both believing there is a "single mysterious buyer" behind it.
According to the official announcement, Binance will remove and stop trading for the following spot trading pairs on August 21, 2026 at 03:00 (UTC): F/USDC, HIVE/USDC, ILV/USDC, LTC/BNB, NMR/USDC, STEEM/USDC, and SUI/BNB. At the same time, Binance will terminate the spot trading bot services for these trading pairs.
decentralized hedge fund Numerai has completed its third strategic purchase of NMR, acquiring an additional $1.2 million worth of NMR from the open market, bringing its total NMR repurchases over the past year to $3.2 million. Numerai stated that this repurchase is used to support its staking system. This system allows independent data scientists to stake NMR on models. Models that perform better in predicting future market data will receive additional NMR, while those that underperform will lose their staked tokens. Numerai noted that since announcing its first strategic repurchase in July 2025, its number of active accounts has more than doubled. It has also launched infrastructure including Numerai Skills, the Numerai Model Context Protocol, and Atomic Blockchain Staking. Numerai currently manages approximately $700 million in assets, up from around $560 million at the end of 2025. Numeraire is a fixed-supply Ethereum token with a cap of 11 million NMR. This repurchase was executed on the open market over several weeks via Coinbase Institutional.
According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the U.S. government has emptied another wallet holding seized assets from Alameda Research and FTX, distributing the assets to 8 new addresses. The transferred assets include 4,110 AXS, worth $4,100; 5.37 YFI, worth $11,400; 1,230 COMP, worth $21,100; 311,600 MANA, worth $21,800; 0.533 WBTC, worth $34,400; 4,050 NMR, worth $39,900; 138,950 RLC, worth $40,700; and 209.18 ETH, worth $391,000. The original wallet currently holds $0 in balance.