BlockBeats news, on August 1st, the U.S. June inflation data slightly exceeded expectations. As a result, the probability of the Fed maintaining the interest rate unchanged until September is 58.7%, while the cumulative probability of a 25 basis point rate cut has dropped to 41.3%.

According to BlockBeats news on August 1, monitored by @btcNLNico, UK listed company Valereum plans to raise approximately £500,000 by issuing about 16.129 million ordinary shares to accelerate the company's growth strategy, focusing on developing digital financial market infrastructure platform, and plans to establish a Bitcoin treasury. Valereum expects that most of its revenue in the coming years will be collected in Bitcoin, in line with its development strategy in the field of physical asset tokenization.

UK-listed company Vaultz Capital raised £4.3 million, with Aura Digital leading the investment of £2.6 million, planning to raise a total of £6 million to expand its Bitcoin treasury and infrastructure strategy. Meanwhile, the company increased its holdings by 20 Bitcoins on July 21, bringing its current total holdings to 70 Bitcoins.

ChainOpera AI has partnered with EigenLayer to promote the construction of verifiable runtime agent infrastructure, achieving full-process verification of AI Agents through an on-chain audit mechanism, thereby enhancing the credibility of AI services. Currently, the ChainOpera platform has an average of over 600,000 interactions per day, attracting 300,000 paying users, and developers can participate in agent construction and profit sharing.

According to BlockBeats, the newly launched meme Token WLFI on the Solana on-chain ranks high in market capitalization along with OG, but carries significant risk. On the Base on-chain, the top five holders of earlier Tokens have exceeded a thousand. Investors are reminded that memes have large Fluctuation and should invest with caution.

The Hong Kong stablecoin regulations officially came into effect on August 1, promoting Hong Kong's potential to become a global Web3 hub. Legislative Council member Wu Jiezhuang reminded industry practitioners to comply with the regulations and follow the relevant specific provisions, suggesting choosing a compliance trading platform for encryption asset trading.

On August 1, BlockBeats reported that a Whale withdrew nearly 16.1 million USDC within a 2-hour period, with the total withdrawal amount from multiple addresses exceeding 22 million USDC. At the same time, affected by the market downturn, some Whales are facing pressure on ETH and BTC.

SharpLink Gaming announced that it will increase its holdings of Ethereum while ensuring shareholder value, launching the "ETH Concentration" index, which shows the amount of ETH corresponding to every 1000 shares of equity. Since the strategy was launched, the "ETH Concentration" has risen by 70%.

BlockBeats news, on August 1, according to Coinglass data, in the history of Bitcoin since 2013, there have been 12 "August" trends, with 4 times ending with a rise and 8 times ending with a fall. The largest rise occurred in August 2017, when the monthly rise reached 65.32%; the largest fall occurred in August 2015, when the monthly fall reached 18.67%. From 2013 to now, the average return rate of Bitcoin's "August" trends is 1.75%, with a median return rate of -8.04%.

According to BlockBeats news, on August 1, the US-listed company Intchains Group (ICG) announced a partnership with FalconX to expand its ETH strategic reserves, aiming to improve the acquisition efficiency of ETH and launch structured ETH yield strategy products.

Binance will start synchronizing users' nicknames across different products from August 4, 2025, and will gradually merge P2P nicknames. At the same time, avatars will also be adjusted, and users can edit their nicknames in various profiles, which will be automatically synced across the entire platform.

On-chain analyst Ai Yi has detected that the address 5E2d6...BpkPq has built a position of 5.7 million USD in JTO, with an average price of 1.77 USD, marking its first operation in 8 months. This address previously acquired JTO at an average price of 3.56 USD and executed a stop loss, and currently still holds SOL worth 15.31 million USD and SPX worth 7.71 million USD.

The crypto KOL of Smart Money, 0xsun.sol, stated that there is a serious divergence in the market between bulls and bears, and has opened Hedging Transactions: go long on ETH and shorting alts. He believes that ETH will dominate during the market pump, with institutional funds concentrated on ETH, making it difficult for altcoins to follow. If the market bull run continues, it will still be driven by ETH, and the bear market will also struggle to stand alone.

Monitoring data shows that several Whales have conducted withdrawal and deposit operations in the past few hours, and some contract adjustments have decreased. The withdrawal and deposit amounts of the Whales are significant, and short positions have also changed, resulting in a complex profit and loss situation.

Figma surged 250% on its first day of trading on the US stock market, closing at $115.50, and then rose another 24.2% in after-hours trading. The company has been authorized to issue Blockchain common stock and holds nearly $70 million in Bitcoin ETF, and has been approved to purchase an additional $30 million in Bitcoin.

BlockBeats news, on August 1, according to market news, Pump.fun recently registered the fee.pump.fun subdomain, indicating the upcoming launch of a fee dashboard or a volume-based incentive program.

According to on-chain data analysis, insider trader @qwatio transferred 2.98 million USDC to Hyperliquid on August 1, opening short orders for BTC and ETH, and has currently realized 1.9 million dollars in unrealized gains. This fund is its last principal, currently holding 40x short 1111 BTC and 25x short 4141 ETH, facing liquidation risk.