South Korea's KOSPI index rose more than 5%, while Samsung Electronics surged 6.5%.

According to monitoring by Onchainlens, a whale with cumulative profits exceeding $38.75 million has just resurfaced after months of inactivity. A few hours ago, this wallet deposited $892,000, staked HYPE, and opened two long positions on Hyperliquid: ? 14,290 $ZEC positions, worth $7.01 million, with 10x leverage ? 1.62 million $LIT positions, worth $3.98 million, with 5x leverage The wallet has placed a new limit order to buy an additional 10,032 $LIT.

According to GMGN market data, Robinhood Chain meme coin CASHCAT briefly hit a new all-time high in market capitalization, currently trading at $152 million with an intraday increase of over 40%. Meme coins are highly volatile, so investors should be mindful of associated risks.

The Russian government plans to adopt supporting legislation to authorize the Federal Financial Monitoring Service of Russia (Rosfinmonitoring) to monitor all crypto transactions, requiring more detailed information for crypto transactions exceeding 60,000 rubles and cross-border crypto transactions over 1 million rubles. Russian digital depositories and foreign financial institutions must submit payers’ and payees’ names or enterprise names, wallet addresses, physical addresses, dates of birth, and tax identification numbers; for transactions under 60,000 rubles, only the name or enterprise name and wallet address are required. The bill also proposes capping banks’ digital asset exposure at 1% of their banking group’s capital, and expanding the Central Bank of Russia’s authority to restrict or ban certain crypto transactions. The relevant law was originally scheduled to take effect on July 1, but its deliberation has been blocked, and it may now be implemented on September 1.

According to sources familiar with the matter, Tencent is in talks to become the largest shareholder of AI agent firm Manus. Most existing investors, including Tencent, ZhenFund, and Sequoia China, are discussing backing a transaction at a $2 billion valuation to reverse Meta's acquisition of Manus. Earlier reports stated that the Office for Foreign Investment Security Review of China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has prohibited foreign investors from acquiring the Manus project and demanded the deal be canceled. Earlier this year, Manus announced it was set to be acquired by Meta.

According to Lookonchain’s monitoring, a crypto address spent 0.04 ETH (worth $69) to purchase 20 million CASHCAT tokens, then sold them for 0.415 ETH (worth $711), generating a 10x return but missing out on over $2.7 million in potential profits.

Robinhood Chain head Johann published a post summarizing data from the network’s first week of launch: The network processed over 17 million transactions, has more than 350,000 addresses, the protocol’s total value locked (TVL) is approximately $250 million, and decentralized exchange (DEX) volume exceeded $1 billion.