On August 18, Jin10 reported that the White House requested Ukrainian President Zelensky to wear a suit and tie when meeting with Trump in the Oval Office. It is currently unclear what Zelensky will decide to wear, but reports suggest he may compromise by wearing a dark jacket over a black T-shirt — the same outfit he wore at Pope Francis's funeral. During a meeting in the Oval Office in February, Zelensky stated that he would wear a suit once Ukraine is no longer in a state of war.

According to Foresight News and The Defiant, the WisdomTree Government Money Market Digital Fund (WTGXX) has seen a significant rise in value over the past three months, with an additional lock-up position worth $330 million added last week, bringing its total lock-up value to $931 million, a 90% increase from last month and a 722% increase since May. The fund primarily operates on Ethereum, with a current lock-up position value of $919 million on that blockchain, while the remainder is distributed across Arbitrum and Stellar networks.

Jin10 reported on August 18 that with the convening of the second special legislative session, Democratic lawmakers from Texas have returned to the state. Previously, they had left Texas for two weeks to block a vote on a new congressional district map supported by Trump, which could potentially give the Republican Party up to five additional seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. Democrats have stated that they have not given up this fight, and if the map is ultimately passed by the Republican-controlled state House and Senate and signed into law by the governor, they will resort to legal challenges. During the first special session, their departure had left the House without a quorum, leading to a standoff in legislative work. The Democratic leader of the state House, Gene Wu, stated: "Our return is to establish the necessary legal record to defeat this proposal."

Gate News bot message, a wallet associated with Longling Capital has transferred 5,000 ETH (valued at $21.73M) to centralized exchanges. Over the past three days, the total deposits from this wallet amount to 13,000 ETH ($53.38M). The wallet address 0x34780c209d5c575cc1c1ceb57af95d4d2a69ddcf current

Golden Finance reports that the stablecoin market has expanded by $6.72 billion, with USDT and USDC on the Ethereum network increasing by $4.46 billion. The DEX has shown active performance, with spot trading volume reaching $124.264 billion, a rise of 29.47% month-on-month; the Perptual Futures trading volume reached $164.684 billion, a rise of 48.64% month-on-month.

According to ChainCatcher news and Jin10 reports, the US stock market remained stable overall after opening on Monday. The market is following the White House's meeting regarding the Russia-Ukraine conflict, while traders prepare for upcoming retail earnings reports and the Jackson Hole annual meeting this week. The three major US stock indices opened with slight fluctuations between rises and falls. Corpay Chief Market Strategist Karl Schamotta stated that the market is confident that the Fed will cut interest rates in September, but the data released over the past two weeks has not provided solid evidence for easing.

PANews, August 18th news, SOL Strategies announced that the number of its validators stake Wallets has surpassed 6,031, setting a new record. Previously, the company's 40-F form submitted to the SEC showed that as of June, over 3.7 million SOL had been delegated to validators, an increase of 163,000 compared to May.

Golden Finance reports that on-chain detective ZachXBT tweeted that BlockDAG Network is a false project / investment eyewash. It stated that the project has been in presale for over 1.5 years, claiming that the presale is about to end, while regularly transferring investor funds to various exchange accounts and using false data marketing to increase retail investor FOMO.

PANews August 18 news, according to CryptoQuant monitoring, approximately 31,968 long-term idle Bitcoins (stored for 3 to 5 years) recently underwent on-chain transfers, with a total value of about $378 million.

According to a report by Golden Finance, data disclosed by NLNico shows that from August 11 to 17, a total of 29 companies increased their holdings by 3,859.5 Bitcoins, with two new institutional holders, including a tobacco company. At the same time, 12 institutions announced new Bitcoin purchase plans, raising over $219 million. In addition, 10 future institutional holdings plans indicate that relevant institutions plan to allocate approximately $105 million for Bitcoin investments.

Gate News bot message, an Ethereum ICO participant has transferred 4,460 ETH (approximately $19.85 million) to centralized exchanges. According to data from Nansen, this transfer marks a total deposit of 9,803 ETH (valued at $43.88 million) over the past 7 days from the wallet address 0x815C53bF36a3

Foresight News reports that the enterprise-level cross-border payment and digital finance network Obita has announced the completion of an Angel Round financing of over 10 million dollars, led jointly by Yuanjing Capital and Mirana Ventures, with follow-up investments from institutions and individuals such as Junlian Capital, HashKey CaptialCapital, and Web3.com Ventures. The funds from this round will focus on the development of core systems, compliance construction applications, and market expansion, accelerating the layout of the global stablecoin cross-border payment network.

PANews August 18 news, according to Whale Alert monitoring, in the past 10 minutes, a large amount of funds has been transferred from an unknown wallet to OKEX exchange, including 652,228,192 USDT (worth about 653.6 million USD) and a total of 17,157,570 OKB (worth about 2.06 billion USD). The largest single transaction was for 8,818,097 OKB (about 1 billion USD).

Jin10 Data reported on August 18, ST Erya announced that the stock price of the company has deviated by more than 12% in terms of cumulative closing price rise over three consecutive trading days on August 14, August 15, and August 18, which constitutes abnormal fluctuation in stock trading. After self-examination and written confirmation from the controlling shareholder and actual controller, as of the date of this announcement, there are no significant matters that should be disclosed but have not been disclosed. The net profit attributable to the shareholders of the listed company for the first half of 2025 is expected to be between -36 million and -19.5 million yuan, still in a loss state. The company's main clothing business, as a traditional fully competitive industry, is currently facing significant growth pressure in its production and operations.

Gate News bot message, cryptocurrency market witnessed a significant downturn with a 3% decline, resulting in over $100 billion reduction in total market capitalization. The trading data shows major altcoins recorded losses between 4-7%, accompanied by increased trading volumes and accelerated liqui

Gate News Bot news, on August 18, according to CoinMarketCap, as of the time of publication, API3(API3) is currently reported at 0.87 USD, rising 13.16% in the last 24 hours, with a high of 0.90 USD and a low of 0.68 USD. The current market capitalization is approximately 75.1 million USD, an increase of 8.74 million USD compared to yesterday. API3 is a decentralized protocol dedicated to providing Oracle services for DeFi projects. The protocol has deployed over 200 data sources across multiple public blockchains, offering reliable price data services for the DeFi ecosystem. API3 has also launched the OEV reward program to incentivize more DeFi projects to adopt its Oracle services. Important news about API3 recently: 1️⃣ **Cooperating with Astar Network zKEVM to expand application scenarios** A

Jin10 data on August 18 reported that as of the midday close on the 18th, the Shanghai Composite Index rose over 1% in half a day, reaching a new high in nearly 10 years, while the ChiNext Index rose over 3%. Experts state that today, the A-share market experienced higher trade volumes with a broad rise, and the market is still expected to maintain a strong pattern. However, attention must be paid to the pullback pressure from high-level profitable positions. Yang Delong, chief economist of Qianhai Open Source Fund, stated that with the implementation of a series of counter-cyclical adjustment policies, the A-share market has gradually found its bottom and is showing medium to long-term investment opportunities. Although the overall market sentiment is optimistic, investors should avoid momentum investing in individual stocks and are advised to focus more on industries and companies with good fundamentals.

Golden Finance reports that Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, and Goldman Sachs organized over $1 billion in Block Trading for CoreWeave, after insiders of the AI data center group sold their shares for the first time since the company's IPO. According to company documents, as the lock-up period expires on Thursday evening, the sellers include CoreWeave director Jack Cogen, whose sold shares have a total market value of nearly $300 million. The stock price stabilized at around $100 on Friday afternoon, having dropped about 35% in the previous two days.

An early Ethereum investor has transferred 334.7 ETH for the first time in over a decade, worth nearly 1.5 million dollars. The funds were purchased at $104 during the 2014 ICO, yielding a return of 14,000 times. The investor first conducted a small test transfer, and the original wallet had been inactive since the ICO.

Odaily News According to encryption analyst Ai Yi @ai9684 xtpa monitoring, a trader who has been rolling over a long order on ETH with a principal of 125,000 USD since April has achieved unrealized gains of up to 43 million USD. With the recent rapid fall of ETH, their long order is only about 50 USD away from the liquidation price.

Odaily News According to L2 Beat data, after a large-scale burn of OKB, the on-chain assets of the X Layer network built by OKX have risen 103% in the past 7 days, reaching a historical high of 84.89 million USD; meanwhile, on August 16, the number of transactions for X Layer reached 2.05 million, surpassing Ethereum for the first time in history; in addition, in the past day, the user operations per second (UOPS) reached 19.23, an increase of over 1.

PANews, August 18 news, the Shanghai Composite Index reached 3731.69 points, rising nearly 1% during the day, refreshing the highest point since August 21, 2015, and setting a new high in nearly ten years. The Shenzhen Component Index rose nearly 2%, and the ChiNext Index rose over 3%.

Gate News Bot news, on August 18, according to CoinMarketCap data, as of the time of writing, MEMEFI (MemeFi) is currently reported at $0.002, with a rise of 21.04% within 24 hours, peaking at $0.0032 and dropping to a low of $0.0016. The current market capitalization is approximately $20 million, an increase of $3.48 million compared to yesterday. MEMEFI is a leading Telegram gaming and Web3 meme ecosystem. The project has established a Telegram application ecosystem with over 52 million users. Through gamification and large-scale application scenarios, MEMEFI aims to bring these users into the blockchain world. The project plans to launch its token on the Sui blockchain, providing a low-cost, fast, and user-friendly claiming experience. MEMEFI has also partnered with certain

Gate News Bot news, on August 18, according to CoinMarketCap, as of the time of this report, ALU (Altura) is currently priced at $0.03, with a rise of 64.07% in the last 24 hours, reaching a high of $0.03 and a low of $0.01. The current market capitalization is approximately $31.2 million, an increase of $1.22 million compared to yesterday. Altura is a platform that provides Web3 integration solutions for game developers. It offers SDKs and APIs to simplify the integration of Web3 functionalities, including player authentication, NFT data retrieval, NFT transfer, and minting. Altura also provides a customizable NFT marketplace, allowing developers to quickly offer asset trading capabilities to players. Moreover, Altura's smart NFT technology can create dynamic, programmable in-game assets. The platform supports over 17 blockchains.

Bitcoin (BTC) showed low trading volume over the weekend, reporting around $117,230 during the Asian session on August 18. U.S. President Trump stated that he would delay increasing tariffs on Chinese goods due to China's purchase of Russian oil. After launching an attack on Monero (XMR), Qubic is now targeting DOGE. Japan announced that it will approve the first batch of yen-backed stablecoins this fall.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a Whale started to go long on ETH with $125,000 and has currently increased the position to 76,700 ETH, worth $342 million, with unrealized gains of $23.6 million. The Whale's two addresses show its long position status and unrealized gains.

U.S. Secretary of State Rubio expressed anger to the media over claims that Trump may have coerced Ukrainian President Zelensky into reaching an unfavorable peace agreement, calling it a "stupid media narrative," and emphasized that the U.S. has frequent contacts with Zelensky.

The total Lock-up Position of Ethereum Layer 2 has reached $45.19 billion, rising by 4.04% over the last 7 days. Among them, ArbitrumOne and Base performed outstandingly, with Lock-up Positions of $19.92 billion and $16 billion respectively, while OPMainnet and Unichain experienced a fall.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin, a Whale/institution has accumulated $136 million worth of WBTC and ETH through circular loans on OKX and Bybit over the course of 6 days, totaling 918.6 WBTC and 6,218 ETH, with a total borrowing amount of $29 million.

On August 17, the price of LINK rose by over 13%, currently priced at $24.9125. The reserve fund plan initiated by Chainlink has surpassed one million dollars, which will enhance the value of the Token in the long term through a buyback mechanism. Meanwhile, the on-chain net inflow of LINK reached $6.65 million, and the Whale Holdings ratio has increased, with institutional funds accelerating their layout.

A trader turned $125,000 into $29.6 million in 4 months by going long on ETH, achieving a return of 236 times. He compounded his profits and established a position of 66,749 contracts of ETH, taking full advantage of market opportunities.

BlockBeats news, on August 17, according to official information, Monad Testnet data has been launched on Dune. Since the launch of the Monad Testnet, it has achieved over 2.44 billion successful transactions, peaking in early August at 34 million daily transactions. Additionally, approximately 3 million creators have deployed over 34 million contracts.

Gate News bot message, a significant ETH whale transaction has been recorded over the past 24 hours. The whale deposited 3,492 ETH (valued at $15.57M) into centralized exchanges. The transaction history reveals that this same whale had withdrawn 5,800 ETH ($10.25M) from centralized exchanges 2 year

Odaily News According to encryption analyst Ai姨@ai9684xtpa's monitoring, an Address withdrew 89,903 LINK from Binance again 5 minutes ago, worth about 2.17 million dollars. In the past three days, the Address has withdrawn a total of 721,293.9 LINK, with a total value of about 16.43 million dollars, an average cost of 22.78 dollars, and currently unrealized gains of about 1.11 million dollars.

According to a report by Golden Finance, data from Nansen shows that the venture capital firm a16z achieved a profit of 12.06 million dollars through 9 Wallet addresses in the past week, making it the most outstanding among investment institutions. During the same period, Master Ventures and Defiance Capital also performed well, achieving profits of 2.59 million dollars and 942,800 dollars, respectively.

Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz stated in a podcast that Bitcoin reaching a price of over one million dollars next year does not signify success, but rather reflects severe difficulties in the U.S. economy. He prefers a stable economic environment over soaring prices.

BlockBeats news, on August 17, according to an official announcement, Kraken has suspended deposits for Monero (XMR) as a precautionary measure due to the detection of a single Mining Pool obtaining over 50% of the total Computing Power of the network. This concentration of Computing Power may pose a potential risk to network integrity. Kraken is monitoring the situation and will resume deposits once safety is confirmed. Transactions and withdrawals of XMR remain fully operational.

According to Golden Finance reports and data from HODL15Capital, BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF (IBIT) purchased 7,493 Bitcoins this week, accumulating over 160,000 Bitcoins in the past 15 weeks.

Jin10 reported on August 16, European leaders issued a joint statement: Russia should not limit the Ukrainian armed forces or their cooperation with third countries, and Russia cannot exercise a veto over Ukraine's path to joining the EU and NATO. International borders should not be changed by force, and we will continue to support Ukraine. We will continue to strengthen sanctions and broader economic measures to exert pressure on the Russian economy until a just and lasting peace is achieved.

BlockBeats news, on August 16, according to Artemis data, the supply of stablecoins on Ethereum increased by 16.4 billion dollars over the past month.

According to Jinse Finance, Monochrome stated in a post on X that its Ethereum ETF (IETH) has managed assets exceeding 1,000 ETH.

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Golden Finance reported that Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas stated that the total trading volume of Bitcoin and Ethereum spot ETFs this week is approximately $40 billion, setting a new historical record. Among them, the performance of the Ethereum ETF is particularly outstanding, with a weekly trading volume of about $17 billion, far exceeding the previous record. He described the Ethereum ETF as having "suddenly awakened" since July, concentrating nearly a year’s worth of activity over the course of six weeks.

According to BlockBeats news on August 15, Brevan Howard hedge fund disclosed that it holds more than $2.32 billion in BlackRock Bitcoin Spot ETF.

On August 15, Jin10 data reported that Joanne Hsu, director of the University of Michigan Consumer Survey, stated that the U.S. consumer confidence index fell by about 5% in August, marking the first decline in four months. This deterioration is largely due to escalating concerns over inflation. Due to high prices, the purchasing conditions for durable goods have dropped by 14%, reaching the lowest level in a year. Additionally, personal financial situations have slightly declined, reflecting heightened worries about purchasing power. In contrast, personal financial expectations have slightly increased, while income expectations have strengthened slightly, but income expectations remain sluggish. Overall, consumers are no longer preparing for the worst-case scenario after the announcement in April regarding the suspension of reciprocal tariffs. However, consumers still anticipate that inflation and unemployment rates will deteriorate in the future. Meanwhile, the inflation expectation for the coming year has risen from 4.5% last month to 4.9% this month. Long-term inflation expectations have also increased from 3.4% in July to 3.9% in August.

According to a report by Golden Finance, Nasdaq-listed Web3 infrastructure and product solutions provider Nano Labs Ltd has released its unaudited financial performance report for the first half of 2025, disclosing that it has included BNB in the company's main reserve assets to promote its overall encryption asset strategic reserves, having accumulated over 128,000 BNB to date. Additionally, the company achieved a net income of 8.3 million RMB (approximately 1.2 million USD) in the first half of the year, with net losses narrowing to 11.8 million RMB (approximately 1.6 million USD).

Recent hacker incidents show that hackers have gained additional profits due to the rise in ETH prices. The Radiant Capital hacker and the Infini hacker have both realized significant appreciation by stealing assets in exchange for ETH, while another unknown hacker has also made profits by buying low and selling high.

BlockBeats news, on August 15, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai9684xtpa), monitoring data from the Binance platform shows that the crypto venture capital firm Big Candle Capital experienced a daily asset drawdown of approximately 24.495 million USD yesterday. Previously, Big Candle Capital had a profit of 114 million USD on the Binance platform over 30 days. According to their analysis, this may be due to holding a losing position or partially reducing position during yesterday's big dump. The profit and loss curve over the past 7 days shows that profit peaked at 20.675 million USD on August 13, and yesterday the profit and loss suddenly turned negative (-3.82 million USD).

BlockBeats news, on August 15, the U.S. listed company ALT5 Sigma (ALTS) announced the appointment of Jonathan Hugh as Chief Financial Officer for the launch of its $1.5 billion WLFI treasury. Jonathan has over 25 years of senior financial and business leadership experience in the fields of digital asset, technology, energy, and commodity trading, having previously served at global market maker GSR International and institutional custody company Zodia.

Honghe Technology announced that the company's stock price experienced a cumulative rise of over 20% during three consecutive trading days from August 12 to 14, 2025, which is considered an abnormal fluctuation. On August 15, the stock price hit the upper limit again, with a price-to-earnings ratio of 425.59 times, significantly higher than the industry average of 41.02 times. The company's operations are normal, and there has been no significant information disclosure.