On August 26th, the daily transaction volume of x402 protocol reached 2.1 million, setting a new historical high

US Treasury Secretary Bessent stated that the blockade and economic isolation measures will destroy the Iranian economy, which is on the brink of collapse. The US has guided 130 million barrels of oil in the past 14 days.

[Thinking Machines Co-founder Barret Zoph Joins Google as Vice President of Research] According to TechCrunch, Thinking Machines co-founder Barret Zoph has joined Google as Vice President of Research after leaving OpenAI. Google expects Barret Zoph to bring expertise in reinforcement learning and post-training to the Gemini team.

According to Crunchbase, AI fraud prevention company Socure has completed a $156 million strategic growth round with a valuation of $5.2 billion, led by Summit Partners and with participation from Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs Alternatives, Docusign, and others. Its services are applied to companies such as Coinbase, Circle, Revolution, and Robinhood. Socure also announced the acquisition of AI startup Fravity, aiming to use AI agents to conduct fraud, risk, and compliance investigations. The specific acquisition amount has not been disclosed.

According to Ai Yi's monitoring, the Bitcoin related entities that previously made profits of over 55 million US dollars from multiple ETH orders are suspected of setting up a second round of multiple orders. After receiving a 10 million USDC margin, the new address opened 6000 ETH multiple orders with a position value of approximately 14.98 million US dollars and an average opening price of approximately 2492 US dollars.

According to TenArmorAlert monitoring, CCC tokens on the BSC chain were attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately $117000. The attack utilized the sell() function of the contract to destroy CCC tokens from the LP pool, causing abnormal price fluctuations.