Golden Finance reports that U.S. Treasury Secretary Basant: The seized Bitcoin will be used as part of the U.S. strategic reserves, and the U.S. is exploring ways to acquire more Bitcoin in a "budget-neutral" manner.

BlockBeats news, on August 15, according to market news, the Trump administration is reportedly discussing the U.S. holding shares in Intel.

Gate News bot message, Gate market shows that since the launch of Alpha, littleguy has risen by 392.83%, current price 0.006907 USDT.

According to BlockBeats news on August 15, on-chain data shows that "Brother Magi" Huang Licheng went long on Bitcoin, entering a position with 25 BTC at a leverage of 40 times, with an opening price of 118,154.40 USD. His unrealized losses on the Ether long order have expanded to 2.44 million USD, with a liquidation price of 2,896.46 USD.

Gate News bot message, Gate market shows that since the launch of Alpha, littleguy has risen by 257.09%, current price 0.0061384 USDT.

Gate News bot message, Gate market shows that since the launch of Alpha, CYC has risen by 100.53%, current price 0.0999 USDT.

Odaily News According to Whale Alert monitoring, about 1 minute ago, the stablecoin issuer Paxos minted 50 million PYUSD on the Ethereum blockchain.

BlockBeats news, on August 15, Greeks.Live analyst Adam posted on social media, "As BTC hits a new all-time high and ETH approaches its historical peak, the market has experienced a somewhat unexpected pullback, mainly triggered by PPI exceeding expectations. There hasn't been much movement in the options market, with major expiration IV showing no significant changes, and the Skew's fluctuation is also relatively small. However, from the trading volume, we can see the market's trading enthusiasm; today, Deribit traded $10.9 billion in options, marking the first time a daily trading volume has surpassed $10 billion. High trading enthusiasm indicates that the market still has strong confidence in the future, and a bull run is likely to continue."

Odaily News Alt 5 Sigma announced that it has minted 30 million USD 1 on Solana, aiming to lay more infrastructure channels for the global adoption of USD 1.

Due to stronger than expected U.S. inflation data, traders have lowered their interest rate cut expectations, leading to a continued drop in gold prices. The July PPI unexpectedly rose to 3.3% year-on-year, raising market concerns as investors follow retail sales and consumer confidence data. At the same time, the uncertainty around U.S. trade negotiations and the meeting between Trump and Putin provides safe-haven support for gold.

PANews August 14 news, according to Puffer Finance announcement, the UniFi V2 Testnet is now officially online, supporting rollup technology based on Ethereum, providing sub-second confirmations, atomic L2→L1 withdrawals, EIP-7702 smart wallet standard, optional governance, customizable fee markets, and KYC gated or fully open chains. The upgrade introduces multi-TEE real-time proofs, MEV and priority fee sharing, and EigenLayer-based AVS mechanisms, with all upgrades being compatible and gradually deployed, with core metrics shifting towards volume and speed.

ChainCatcher news, the AI native platform Sola has completed a $17.5 million Series A funding round, led by a16z. Sola uses AI robots to automate workflows. Their agents observe users on the screen as they perform tasks, and then they can automatically handle these tasks even without traditional tools that have APIs or integrations.

Odaily News provides that the startup Dinari, which offers blockchain-based U.S. stock trading services, has announced the launch of its Layer 1 blockchain, Dinari Financial Network. Designed to serve as the coordination and settlement layer for securities issued on other networks like Arbitrum, the network is custom-built using the Avalanche (AVAX) technology stack. The Testnet is currently running and is planned to be publicly released in the coming weeks. (CoinDesk)

Gate News bot message, Gate market shows that since the launch of Alpha, littleguy has risen 229.57%, current price 0.00638 USDT.

Odaily News Network status monitoring website DownDetector: As of 10:59 AM Eastern Time, user reports indicate that 16,497 users in the United States are experiencing issues accessing the X platform. (Jin10)

PANews August 14 news, Block, the Bitcoin financial and payment company founded by Jack Dorsey, officially launched the modular Bitcoin Mining Rig Proto Rig and the free open source management software Proto Fleet, aimed at improving mining efficiency, dropping maintenance costs, and promoting the popularization and decentralization of Bitcoin Mining.

Odaily News Ark Invest bought over 2.5 million shares of Bullish (BLSH) on its first day of listing on the New York Stock Exchange, distributed across the ARKK, ARKW, and ARKF ETFs, with holdings valued at over $170 million. (CoinDesk)

Odaily News According to market news: Lido co-founder stated that they plan to use stETH to repurchase LDO, with the final repurchase plan to be determined by the end of the year.

Fed's Musalem stated that the interest rate cut decision requires careful consideration, and the current economic conditions do not support a 50 basis point cut. He mentioned the possibility of persistent inflation and risks in the labor market, emphasizing the need to seek a balance between slowing economic growth and profit pressure.

Golden Finance reports that NVIDIA claims the RUBIN GPU chip is "progressing smoothly."

Odaily News Fed Musalem stated that if the Fed places greater emphasis on the labor market and takes aggressive rate cuts, this may lead to higher inflation expectations, which could be counterproductive.

Odaily News LD Capital founder Yi Lihua stated on the X platform that every pullback in a bull run trend is an opportunity to increase the position, and there is no need to worry about being trapped. However, one must not use high leverage, as the rise cannot be a straight line. If BTC rises to $150,000, pulls back to $110,000, and then rises above $180,000, it is also a very normal upward trend route. Players using high leverage in between will become fuel, and it is better to focus on planning for off-market income.

Odaily News The Fed's Musalem stated that decisions on interest rates will be made in a gradual manner, maintaining an open mind at each meeting.

BlockBeats news, on August 14, supported by YZi Labs, "BNB Version Microstrategy" CEA Industries (BNC) announced an increase of 88,888 BNB. Following an earlier increase of 200,000 BNB tokens earlier this week, this increase marks an important step for BNC towards its publicly announced goal of holding 1% of the total supply of BNB by the end of 2025.

PANews, August 14 - According to GlobeNewswire, Jeffs' Brands will collaborate with Quantum Crypto to launch an AI-driven cryptocurrency treasury management program, planning to invest up to $75 million to optimize Bitcoin and mainstream stablecoin yields. Quantum Crypto is responsible for treasury management and Compliance, while Jeffs' Brands retains asset ownership. The service provider will charge setup fees, management fees, and performance sharing, and will receive company stock options.

BlockBeats news, on August 14, Fed Musalem stated that inflation seems to be approaching 3%. Tariffs are being passed through to inflation. The majority of the impact of tariffs on inflation is expected to dissipate within 6 to 9 months, but it may also last longer. (Jin10)

BlockBeats news, on August 14, encryption KOL Ansem stated, "The sentiment in the altcoin market is at an ATL, while BTC and ETH have reached all-time highs, and external attention has also reached an all-time high. It is predicted that 2025 and 2026 will be the most fruitful periods for encryption assets, mainly driven by innovative protocols that gain practical applications and user recognition."

PANews August 14th news, according to The Block, Dreamscape has launched on the Base chain. With the help of Microsoft Azure AI Foundry and Azure OpenAI, users can generate and deploy smart contracts applications without writing code. The platform also integrates Microsoft's supported Space and Time decentralized database, allowing developers to query on-chain and off-chain data using SQL with ZK-proof validation. MakeInfinite Labs has raised a total of $50 million, with Microsoft's M12 being one of the main investors.

PANews August 14 news, according to The Fintech Times, the European encryption platform Bitpanda announced its launch in the UK, opening more than 600 types of encryption asset trading to local users, and simultaneously launching the B2B infrastructure service Bitpanda Technology Solutions, which supports Financial Institutions to integrate encryption products through white label. In addition, Bitpanda appointed Pantelis.

Odaily News A joint report released on Thursday by crypto assets market maker Keyrock and Latin American exchange Bitso predicts that by 2030 the payment volume of stablecoins will exceed $1 trillion annually. This rise will be driven by institutional adoption of business-to-business (B2B), peer-to-peer (P2P), and credit card payment channels, which are already showing signs of rapid growth in these areas, while forex settlement may represent the largest untapped opportunity. In the coming years, all major fintech companies will ultimately integrate stablecoin infrastructure, just as software as a service (SaaS) tools have become ubiquitous. (CoinDesk)

Gate News bot message, a major crypto trader known as "Mysterious Whale" (@AguilaTrades) faced a significant liquidation event during the recent market downturn. The trader's ETH long position was liquidated, resulting in a $4.94 million loss in a single trade. The liquidation has contributed to @A

Gate News bot message, Gate market shows that since the launch of Alpha, CYC has risen by 65.56%, current price 0.08323 USDT.

Gate News bot message, Turkish cryptocurrency exchange BTCTurk encountered a security breach resulting in unauthorized access to approximately $49 million worth of assets. The incident involves unauthorized transfer of funds, with the perpetrator actively converting the acquired assets into Ethereum

Odaily News According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a certain smart money exchanged 69.07 WBTC for 2881 ETH on July 9, with an ETH cost of 2601.14 (almost at the pump starting point). Ten minutes ago, he closed all positions on the 2857 ETH obtained from the previous WBTC exchange on-chain, ultimately making a profit of 5.2 million dollars.

Jin10 data, August 14th - U.S. Treasury Secretary Basent stated that he is not asking the Fed to carry out a series of rate cuts, but merely pointed out that models indicate the "neutral" interest rate will be about 1.5 percentage points lower than it is now. Basent said, "I did not tell the Fed what to do." He was referring to comments made the day before about the Fed "being able to start a series of rate cuts." Basent stated on Thursday, "What I am saying is that reaching the neutral rate would require roughly a cut of 150 basis points. If one believes in the existence of a neutral rate, I think there is room for a series of rate cuts, but I am not calling for rate cuts, nor have I done so. I am just saying that the neutral rate estimated by models is about 150 basis points lower than the current level."

According to BlockBeats news, on August 14, CZ tweeted that TradiFi funds are flooding into the crypto market.

PANews, August 14th news, the Unichain platform has officially launched 200ms sub-Blocks, operating Flashblocks based on Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) to achieve faster and verifiable transaction processing, specifically designed for DeFi applications.

Golden Finance reports that Dinari is leveraging Avalanche's technology to launch its own Blockchain to enhance the trading of tokenized public securities. The Dinari financial network aims to unify the settlement and clearing of tokenized stocks across different blockchains, similar to the role of DTCC in the US stock market. This move aligns with the trend of stablecoin issuers like Circle and payment companies like Stripe developing proprietary chains.

PANews, August 14th news, according to the official website of Strategy, MicroStrategy has changed its legal company name to Strategy Inc, effective August 11th. The company's securities on Nasdaq retain their trading codes, including MSTR, STRK, STRF, STRD, STRC, and the CUSIP number has not been adjusted. This name change does not affect the company's structure. Strategy

Odaily News Strategy officially announced that the company name has been changed from MicroStrategy Incorporated to Strategy Inc.

Gate News bot message, trader AguilaTrades (@AguilaTrades) faced a significant liquidation event during the recent market downturn, losing 18,323 ETH valued at $83.56 million. The trader's account status reveals cumulative losses exceeding $37 million, with the remaining balance reduced to $330,000

Odaily News According to official information, Chainlink has added 44,109.76 LINK to its strategic reserve Chainlink Reserve, bringing the total to 109,661.68 LINK, with a total value of 2.55 million dollars. Today's additional amount is valued at 1.03 million dollars.

U.S. Treasury prices fell as producer price index data exceeded expectations, leading traders to reduce expectations for a rate cut by the Fed next month. The two-year Treasury yield rose, and the dollar also strengthened.

Jin10 Data reported on August 14 that last week, the number of initial jobless claims in the U.S. slightly decreased, indicating that employers remain reluctant to lay off workers. For the week ending August 9, initial jobless claims fell by 3,000 to 224,000, which is largely in line with economists' expectations. Due to Trump’s policies, particularly the economic uncertainty brought about by tariff policies, companies have reduced the number of new hires. However, the relatively low number of initial claims suggests that employers are not conducting large-scale layoffs. Additionally, the number of continuing jobless claims dropped to 1.95 million. Over the past few months, this figure has hovered near the highest levels since 2021, indicating that many unemployed Americans are finding it difficult to secure jobs.

BlockBeats news, on August 14, according to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain Whale (0x436F and 0x2DDf) has been continuously increasing its holdings of INSP, currently holding 109.56 million INSP ($3.98 million), accounting for 10.96% of the total supply.

PANews August 14 news, according to the official announcement, due to technical issues with the Hot Wallet, the BtcTurk platform has temporarily closed the deposit and withdrawal functions for Crypto Assets, with a recovery time to be notified. Trading related to buying and selling and Turkish Lira is unaffected and can continue as normal.

PANews reported on August 14 that the Turkish cryptocurrency exchange BtcTurk was hacked, affecting its Hot Wallet, and tokens are flowing out in real time.

PANews reported on August 14 that the blockchain security company Cyvers detected an abnormal fund transfer of approximately $48 million at the Turkish cryptocurrency exchange BtcTurk, involving multiple chains such as ETH, AVAX, ARB, BASE, OP, Mantle, and MATIC. Most of the assets have been concentrated into two addresses, suspected to be a coordinated attack.