Market data shows that gold stocks continue to strengthen, with multiple gold stock ETFs such as Guotai, Huaxia, and ICBC rising by over 6%.

White House crypto advisor Patrick Witt stated that passing the CLARITY Act is the next step towards modernizing capital markets and ensuring US financial leadership. （Cointelegraph）

Chain analyst Ai Yi monitored that the giant whale has "set 10 major targets first" and has converted from long to short, holding 1894.784 BTC short positions worth approximately $132 million, with an opening price of $69826.89. The stop loss price of the whale is $70400, and the take profit range is $66500 to $68000.

Arthur Hayes has published an article introducing the AI encryption project Flop Labs, which aims to build a decentralized computing power network Flop Network and issue the native token FLOP as a computing power claim to achieve global unified computing power pricing. FLOP token adopts a fair launch mode, with the team self raising funds and no pre-sales.

The People's Bank of China has zero 7-day reverse repo operations on August 20, 2026, based on the demand of primary traders in the open market business.