According to a16z crypto analysis, one-fifth of Argentina's population uses cryptocurrency, making it one of the countries with the highest usage rates in Latin America. 94% of Argentine peso cryptocurrency transactions flow to stablecoins, the highest among the major currencies tracked by Artemis. Although the monthly inflation rate in Argentina has dropped from 25.5% to 2.1%, the download volume of mainstream cryptocurrency wallets such as Lemon continues to grow, and the use of stablecoins for salaries tends to stabilize. As of July 2026, the proportion of payments received by Argentine contract workers in USDC and inflation indicators are both at about one-fifth of their respective peaks.

Slow fog monitoring shows that the Balanced V1 fund pool has been utilized, resulting in a loss of approximately $234000. There is an accuracy issue with the joinswapPoolAmountOut of BPool. Attackers compress the WBTC reserve to an extremely low level, then cast a large amount of BPT with about 1 Cong WBTC, and proportionally withdraw DPI, USDC, WETH, WBTC and other assets.

[Samsung Electronics Developing 8-Layer HBM4E Memory for NVIDIA] According to Korean media reports, Samsung Electronics is developing 8-layer HBM4E memory based on NVIDIA's requirements. NVIDIA has proposed a speed specification of 17-18Gbps, approximately 20% higher than Samsung's initial HBM4E sample speed of 14.4Gbps. This product will be used for NVHBM.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Metaplanet has purchased a total of 43000 bitcoins, with an average price of $961.91 million and a total value of $3.48 billion; In the past 3 days, Metaplanet has deposited 2400 bitcoins worth $186 million into Coinbase Prime.

BTC remains August's best-performing asset after the latest escalation in geopolitical tensions.