According to PANews, on-chain analyst Yu Jin has reported that the whale trader known as @AguilaTrades has been actively increasing long positions through TWAP after initially opening them yesterday afternoon. The current value of these long positions has reached $223 million. Previously, this trader has experienced losses after increasing positions to $400 million five consecutive times. Currently, the trader holds an unrealized profit of $4.76 million. The positions include a 40x leveraged long on 1,277 BTC, valued at $150 million, with an entry price of $115,968 and a liquidation price of $112,932. Additionally, there is a 25x leveraged long on 18,833 ETH, valued at $73.64 million, with an entry price of $3,774 and a liquidation price of $3,600.

According to BlockBeats, data from CME's 'FedWatch' tool suggests a 92.7% probability of a 25 basis point rate cut in September, while the likelihood of maintaining the current interest rate stands at 7.3%.

According to Foresight News, Nasdaq-listed company Oblong (OBLG) has pledged $8 million in TAO tokens. The company plans to continue evaluating additional TAO token purchases on a weekly basis. Oblong is also exploring partnerships within the Bittensor ecosystem to potentially develop technological products, aiming to align its operational and financial strategies. Earlier reports from Foresight News indicated that Oblong purchased 5,025 TAO tokens at an average price of $328.38 each in July, totaling approximately $1.65 million, and subsequently staked them. The company had previously raised $7.5 million to establish a strategic reserve of TAO tokens.

According to PANews, the pSTAKE Foundation has announced the launch of its $50 million AI-Web3 Innovation Fund, now open for applications. This initiative aims to accelerate research, development, and collaboration in the cutting-edge fields of generative artificial intelligence and decentralized networks. The fund focuses on five strategic areas: decentralized generative agents, which are fully on-chain autonomous AI entities; on-chain provenance, ensuring transparent attribution for datasets, models, and agent outputs; market layers for AI assets, including valuation, exchange, and collateral protocols; programmable creative engines for AI-driven dynamic multimedia; and secure, composable infrastructure for building interoperable AI-Web3 systems.

According to Foresight News, Hong Kong's Ed Financial Group has announced a strategic partnership with Zhongnong Rongxin, a rural digital asset service operator. The collaboration aims to advance agricultural tokenization projects and explore fundraising opportunities in Hong Kong, enhancing Zhongnong Rongxin's market position in agricultural fintech. Zhongnong Rongxin will be responsible for selecting, integrating, and managing foundational assets related to agriculture and rural areas in China, coordinating cross-regional project resources, and providing high-quality assets. Ed Financial has been appointed as the exclusive advisor for capital market and technology-related matters. Their role includes designing tokenization structures for rural and agricultural product assets, executing real-world asset securitization, and facilitating overseas financing, mergers and acquisitions, and IPOs. Ed Financial will offer comprehensive sponsorship and underwriting support for these capital market transactions.

According to Foresight News, the Ethereum Foundation's Co-Executive Director, Hsiao-Wei Wang, announced via social media that the foundation will donate an additional $500,000 to support the legal defense of Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm. This contribution aims to assist Storm in his ongoing legal challenges.

Bitcoin price is again rising above the $115,500 zone. BTC is now consolidating and might aim for a move toward the $120,000 resistance zone. Bitcoin started a fresh increase above the $115,500 zone. The price is trading above $115,500 and the 100 hourly Simple moving average source: https://www.newsbtc.com/analysis/btc/bitcoin-price-roars-awake-120k/

ChainCatcher partners with Alibaba Cloud to enhance blockchain scalability in China and Southeast Asia. source: https://coincu.com/353313-chaincatcher-alibaba-cloud-partnership-3

特朗普宣布任命斯蒂芬·米兰为美联储理事，任期暂定至2026年1月31日。这场短暂的“联储试镜”，会不会成为加密行业的意外助推剂？

8-8-2025 – SharpLink Gaming, a Nasdaq-listed firm, has acquired 21,959 ETH valued at $85. 46 million, further expanding its Ethereum treasury to 543,898 ETH, worth approximately $2. 12 billion. The purchase, executed over the past four hours, was first reported by on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain source: https://www.cointrackdaily.com/sharplink-buys-85m-in-eth-expands-treasury-to-2-12b/

According to PANews, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has emphasized the importance of achieving quick withdrawals within one hour over reaching Stage 2 in Ethereum's Layer 2 (L2) solutions. This shift in priority highlights the challenges posed by the current one-week withdrawal waiting period, which negatively impacts user experience and increases cross-chain costs. For instance, liquidity providers in intent-based bridging solutions like ERC-7683 face a week-long capital lock-up, raising cross-chain fees and forcing users to opt for less secure multi-signature solutions, contrary to L2's original goals. Buterin proposes a 2-of-3 hybrid proof system combining Zero-Knowledge (ZK), Optimistic Proof (OP), and Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) technologies. This system aims to provide immediacy and sufficient production verification, ensuring security with any two systems, thus avoiding the time cost of waiting for ZK technology to fully mature. Buterin's recent statements suggest a pragmatic shift from his earlier idealistic focus on decentralization and censorship resistance. By prioritizing quick withdrawals and a 12-second finality, he is reshaping the priorities within the L2 space, paving the way for Ethereum's 'Rollup-Centric' strategy. This approach aims to establish Ethereum Layer 1 as a unified settlement layer and liquidity center, making it more challenging for other blockchains to compete with the Ethereum ecosystem. The market's preference for user experience and efficiency over decentralization ideals has driven this shift from 'ideal-driven' to 'result-oriented' strategies, reflecting Ethereum's evolution towards a more commercial and competitive direction. However, achieving the desired user experience and infrastructure goals will likely require advancements in ZK technology's maturity and cost control. Despite rapid progress, ZK technology's current costs remain a constraint, with 500k+ gas ZK proofs limiting submission frequency to hourly intervals. Achieving the ultimate 12-second goal will depend on breakthroughs in aggregation technology. The logic is clear: frequent proof submissions by individual Rollups are costly, but if proofs from multiple Rollups can be aggregated into one, the cost per 12-second slot becomes economically viable. This presents a new technical route for L2 competition, where projects that excel in ZK proof optimization may find a foothold, while those focused solely on Optimism's optimistic proofs risk losing direction.

“Alternative assets such as private equity, real estate and digital assets can offer competitive returns and diversification benefits.”

“401(k) retirement plans can invest in a variety of alternative assets, including holding actively managed investment vehicles that invest in digital assets.”

Once the $12.5 trillion pension fund market opens up to cryptocurrency investments, professionals estimate that capital inflows could reach as high as $800 billion.

Golden Finance has launched the 2779th issue of "Golden Morning 8", a morning report on the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry, to provide you with the latest and fastest digital currency and blockchain industry news.

AB DAO announces that AB has been listed on Kraken as of 7 Aug 2025. Users can now deposit AB and place post-only limit orders (orders will not match yet). Order matching is scheduled to begin on August 8, 2025, when the trading pairs AB/EUR and AB/USDT go live.

There is about $9 trillion in 401(k) accounts, compared to the entire cryptocurrency industry, which is worth less than $4 trillion.

The Trump administration's radical moves to reshape the global trade landscape are taking the U.S. and world economies into uncharted waters.

COSMOS: Who Killed the Cross-Chain King Cosmos? Golden Finance: The Cosmos ecosystem is at a critical historical moment.

ARK's strategy proves that investing in cryptocurrency stocks is more than just buying and holding, especially when you want to optimize returns.