The United States and its allies seized $1 million worth of BTC, 9 domains, and 4 servers from Russian ransomware groups

According to AiCoin monitoring, over the past 4 trading days, funds from the US spot BTC ETF have continued to flow in, reaching $951 million. During this period, the largest inflow was IBIT, with a total of 697 million US dollars; Next is FBTC, with an inflow of $97 million. According to the "Spot BTC ETF Tracking" real-time trading strategy developed by AiCoin, there is a significant positive correlation between the inflow of ETF funds and BTC prices. Subscription indicators can be used to automatically place orders based on the flow of funds in the program. Data for reference only

According to Whale Alert monitoring, at 11:28, 100 million USDT (approximately $100 million) were transferred from Aave wallet to HTX.

According to The Block, the Argentine blockchain developer "Fede's intern" was briefly detained recently because of a case filed by Türkiye's Interior Minister, and has now been released and returned to Europe. He denies any involvement in illegal activities, stating that the team's research is limited to anonymization analysis. In addition, he decided to donate $500000 to the legal defense of Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm.

According to Simon Gerovich, President of Metaplanet, as of August 12, 2025, Metaplanet has accumulated 18113 bitcoins with a total investment of approximately $1.85 billion and an average purchase price of approximately $101911 per coin. Recently, the company purchased 518 bitcoins at a price of approximately $118519 per coin, at a cost of approximately $61.4 million. The Bitcoin investment return rate of Metaplanet has reached 468.1% since the beginning of 2025.

According to Golden Finance, it seems that the Reserve Bank of New Zealand will further lower official interest rates next week, and economists are mostly concerned about the central bank's predictions for the future. Sharon Zollner, Chief Economist of ANZ Bank, stated that lowering the official interest rate by 25 basis points to 3.00% seems to be a certainty. As weak high-frequency data becomes increasingly evident in hard economic data, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand may shift towards a more dovish stance and ultimately lower the official interest rate to 2.5%. But she added that it may be too early to suddenly shift in that direction next week.