Recently, the BTC price shows a rise trend in the 4-hour Candlestick analysis, with the latest Closing Price higher than the Opening Price, but the volume has decreased, indicating weakened upward momentum. The technical indicators show no obvious trend, and the MACD and KDJ do not have clear signals. The buy and sell points and support resistance levels are 114127.38, 116642.072, 121788.0, etc.

[Golden Finance] reported that Trump’s eldest son Donald Trump Jr. has invested in the social media company Thumzup Media Corporation, which holds a reserve of Crypto Assets. The company announced that it has completed a $50 million stock placement financing at a price of $10 per share, with net proceeds used for the accumulation of Crypto Assets and Mining equipment, working capital, and general corporate purposes. A certain securities company acted as the exclusive placement agent for this issuance.

On August 13, according to data from the data platform Block Rhythm, as ETH briefly broke through 4600 USD, the market capitalization of ETH was reported to be 556 billion USD, surpassing Netflix to rank 25th in global asset market capitalization.

On August 13, DeFi Development Corp (DDC) released a shareholder letter on Tuesday, revealing that the company currently holds over 1.3 million SOL Tokens, with a total value of nearly 250 million dollars. The report shows that the company increased its holdings by 4,500 SOL in just the first two weeks of August.
According to DDC's financial data for the second quarter, the quarterly revenue was $1.98 million, a year-on-year increase of 395%; net profit reached $15.4 million, compared to a loss of $800,000 in the same period last year. The company expects its validator and staking business to achieve an annualized return of 10%, which, based on the current amount of coins held, would generate approximately $63,000 in SOL-denominated revenue per day.

On August 13, 【Block Rhythm】, an Ethereum Foundation associated address sold 1100 ETH at an average price of 4602.1 USD in the past 5 minutes, approximately 5.06 million USD.
In the past two hours, a total of 2794.87 ETH (worth 12.78 million USD) has been sold, with an average selling price of 4574.4 USD.

[Chain News] On August 13, the Nikkei 225 index rose to a historical high, breaking the 43,000-point mark for the first time, with an intraday rise of over 1%.

[Coin World] According to multiple informed sources, a payment giant is accelerating its entry into the blockchain field with a new project called Tempo, appointing the co-founder and managing partner of a certain encryption venture capital firm as the first CEO of Tempo. This person is also a board member of the payment giant and will continue to serve as the managing partner of the original company. Previous reports indicated that the payment giant collaborated with the encryption venture capital firm to develop the L1 blockchain Tempo.

The Tricorn team has implemented the first RGB bridge on Bitcoin, transferring USDT from Ethereum to RGB. This marks the first issuance of USDT as an RGB asset on Bitcoin, supporting instant settlement. This bridge enables low-cost and high-speed circulation of stablecoins and digital assets within the Bitcoin ecosystem, promoting Decentralized Finance and privacy protection. Utexo will provide developers with tools to support bridging and asset management.

[Coin World] On August 13 (UTC+8), an active address poisoning eyewash led to approximately 880,000 USD being stolen. The transaction history of one Wallet was poisoned, and the same owner may have attempted to retry the stuck transfers from three other Wallets, with each Wallet transferring around 220,000 to the same malicious similar Address.

[Coin World] A certain trading platform has just seen a large transaction of [SOLUSDT], with a transaction price of 185.5 USDT, totaling 11652.84 coins, valued at 2161600.89 USDT.

On August 13, the founder of a security company commented on the 51% attack incident involving Monero, stating that the community has many doubts about whether it is truly a 51% attack in the real sense, but there are no doubts about the reorganization of blocks (for example, 6 blocks). The Qubic Mining Pool claims to control 51% Computing Power, but many community members believe it only controls about 33% Computing Power. This debate is not easy to verify, and to definitively prove a 51% attack, a double spending attack test would have to be initiated.
According to previous reports, the IOTA co-founder Sergey Ivancheglo's project Qubic rapidly accumulated a large amount of Monero Computing Power through the "useful proof of work (uPoW)" mechanism. On August 12, Qubic briefly controlled 52.72% of the Monero network's hash rate (approximately 3.01 GH/s). Once it exceeds 51%,

[Chain News] On August 12, it was reported that Perplexity AI plans to acquire the browser business of a certain technology company for $34.5 billion. If the deal is completed, it will become a rare case of an AI company acquiring core assets of traditional internet businesses on a large scale.

On August 12, according to monitoring by 【区块律动】, an "unknown" Whale/institution has once again increased its holdings by 35,237 ETH, valued at 155.06 million USD.
Its total holdings amount to 328,421 ETH, valued at 1.445 billion USD, distributed across 10 different wallets, with the held ETH coming from a certain trading platform, a certain investment institution, and a certain custody service provider.

[Coin World] The nominee for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Milan, stated that he cannot comment on the current interest rate policy.

Aethir announced the optimization of the core parameter K value, dropping the staking requirements for new GPU providers without affecting the earnings of existing Nodes. This move will increase the supply of GPUs, enhance customer satisfaction in AI and gaming, and drive network utilization above 95%. The update will take effect automatically on August 14.

【Coin World】According to reports, remittance giant Western Union Co. is considering launching its own dollar stablecoin, as an increasing number of crypto assets projects compete with its core business of cross-border money transfers. CEO Devin McGranahan stated in an interview on Monday: "We are exploring the opportunity to issue a stablecoin, particularly in markets outside the United States." He added that for customers in other countries where regulators allow such activities, this stablecoin could be "almost like a dollar savings account."

[Golden Finance] The US stock market opened, with the three major indices rising. The Dow rose by 0.4%, the S&P 500 index rose by 0.4%, and the Nasdaq rose by 0.5%. The "first stablecoin stock" Circle(CRCL.N) surged by about 15%, with a year-on-year revenue increase of 53% in the second quarter.

[Chain News] PANews, August 12 - The yield on Germany's 30-year government bonds has risen to 3.264%, the highest level since 2011.

【Coin World】The U.S. Core CPI for July, adjusted for seasonal effects, rose further to 0.3%, a high since January. After the release of the U.S. CPI, the dollar index DXY fell more than 30 points in the short-term, reporting at 98.25.

On August 12 (UTC+8), Ethereum is facing competition from the next generation of Layer 1 Blockchains, while also dealing with the complex relationship with Layer 2 solutions. Relevant discussions will be held today at 13:00 UTC, hosted by two moderators.