UBS: US Iran agreement reduces pressure on Fed to raise interest rates, expected to cut rates in 2027

BBX News: Yesterday, globally listed companies delivered a highly representative answer sheet in expanding their encrypted treasury and transforming their computing power business structure. There is no blind pursuit of gains and losses. Public market entities are continuously optimizing their balance sheet and revenue base through disciplined spot investment, comprehensive leap towards high-performance AI computing infrastructure, and deep cultivation of vertical public chain computing power ——Expansion of Public Chain Treasury: Solmate (NASDAQ: $SLMT) increased its holdings of 1000 SOLs, bringing its total holdings to 1.25 million SOLs and stabilizing its reserve value at $102 million. ——Japanese firm's fixed investment breakthrough: Remixpoint buys 9.96 BTC again, and the total Bitcoin holdings officially break through the 1501 mark. ——Qualitative change in business structure: Ionic Digital (NASDAQ: $IOND) achieved Q2 revenue of $48.6 million, with AI/HPC infrastructure leasing revenue accounting for 90%, holding $415 million in cash and 2882 BTC. ——Deep cultivation of vertical computing power: Fortitude (under DCG) produced 33646 ZECs in Q2, maintaining a stable operating computing power of 4.0 GSol/s. The market presents a clear dual evolutionary trend of "ecological specialization and continuous consolidation of core token reserve base" and "listed digital infrastructure providers relying on AI/HPC infrastructure leasing to achieve structural shift in business income". Source: bbx.com

A giant whale who short $85.58 million worth of BTC through rolling positions was liquidated yesterday, losing $1.112 million on 240 BTC. This morning, it voluntarily reduced its position on 350 BTC, claiming a loss of $2.581 million, and the margin utilization rate dropped to 101%; The giant whale currently holds a 40x short position of 610.01 BTC, worth $45.58 million, with a floating loss of $4.783 million. (Auntie Ai)

An options trader opened a large straddle on XRP, betting on wild price swings by Aug. 28.

According to the monitoring by Yu Jin, the cost price of BTC held by Strategy was $753.85 million, and the floating loss decreased from $9.904 billion to $685 million, rebounding by $9.219 billion; BitMine's ETH floating loss decreased from $8.513 billion to $5.879 billion, rebounding by $2.634 billion.

According to Cryptopolitan, cybersecurity company Adversa AI has disclosed an encrypted context injection vulnerability in xAI's AI assistant Grok. Attackers can hide encrypted commands on web pages, which Grok executes while summarizing the page, sending user names, geographic locations, subscription levels, and chat records to the attackers' servers. The vulnerability was reported to xAI via the HackerOne platform on June 3, 2026. Researcher Rony Utevsky followed up on August 4 and August 10, but as of August 19, the vulnerability on (Grok.com) remains unpatched, and xAI has not provided a timeline for the fix.