U.S. widens Iran crackdown to encompass crypto, gold, shipping and technology

On August 23rd, Pudgy Penguins CEO Luca Netz posted a tweet containing eyes, penguins, buildings, and SOON arrows. PENGU rose over 17% on the same day and over 66% in the past week. Luca Netz expressed in an interview in 2025 that he hopes to achieve a public listing of the company before 2027.

According to the heat ranking, ZEC's popularity has decreased by 130000 followers compared to yesterday, ranking first. The heat ranking is as follows: ① ZEC （$824.99，2.04%） ② ETH （$2487.30，1.14%） ③ ENA （$0.1520，-5.88%） ④ HYPE （$81.71，4.16%） ⑤ XAUT （$4607.76，-0.21%） The purchasing power of ZEC's main funds is weak, with a net inflow of $38.811 million in 24 hours and a transaction volume of $4.302 billion in 24 hours, of which the net inflow of the main funds is $20.0356 million.

Arthur Hayes tweeted that over-the-counter brokers have started contacting him to inquire about borrowing US dollars. Arthur Hayes believes that interest rates are still too low, but basis trading is recovering, and Ethena will gain a unique advantage. There is still a lot of room for ENA to rise.

A dormant whale for four years sold 1400 BTC worth $1116.1 million. The whale bought 2200 BTC at an average price of $450240 four years ago, at a cost of $99.05 million. Its unrealized profit reached $178 million, and it has now achieved a profit of $76.5 million. （Lookonchain）

The TRON network super representative initiated a proposal vote for the 107th committee of the mainnet, and the vote is expected to end at 14:00 on August 28th (UTC+8). This proposal intends to enable TVM compatibility with Ethereum Prague and Osaka upgrade features in GreatVoyage-v4.8.2, including support for historical block Hash queries, addition of CLZ instructions, support for passkey verification of secp256r1 precompiled contracts, and optimization of MODEXP energy consumption.