On the eve of August 19, Ethereum whales that accurately bottom-fished on ETH took partial profits, with estimated gains of $2.345 million.

According to Bitget market data, Hong Kong-listed robotics stocks rose amid volatility. Geek+ gained nearly 5%, UBTECH advanced over 3%, while Hesai-W, Black Sesame Technologies, and Horizon Robotics all climbed more than 1%.

According to official announcements, Flap has officially launched its "permissionless launch" feature on BNB Chain. This upgrade introduces a custom quote token functionality, allowing users to bypass preset quote assets: they can directly input any token contract address to create trading pairs and issue tokens with one click, supporting a wide range of assets as quote tokens, including RWA, blue-chip crypto assets, and trending meme coins. Per the details, users can select quote assets, build trading pairs, and design token economic models based on their own needs, while leveraging Flap’s programmable mechanisms, such as Creator Wallet, Dividend, Burn, and Liquidity functions. Flap stated that this upgrade frees users from the constraints of a fixed set of quote assets, enabling them to build markets around any asset and design their own token economic systems.

On-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa) has monitored that two addresses linked to the Ethena project are suspected of liquidating their holdings. Since September 3, they have transferred a total of $6.75 million worth of ENA tokens to centralized exchanges (CEXs). The two addresses deposited 19 million ENA tokens (valued at approximately $3.29 million) into Bybit over the past 15 hours. The tokens held by these addresses were all transferred from Ethena’s multi-signature address two years ago and had not been moved in the interim. They began bulk depositing after the recent sharp rally in ENA’s price.

Galaxy Research has released a report noting that attackers behind the Coldcard "Wave 3" breach are still actively transferring stolen funds. During this phase, the attackers created 293 2-of-2 multisig vaults for each victim’s individual assets. On September 2, the first batch of funds was cross-bridged to Ethereum via THORChain, while the latest round of transfers has entered the CoinJoin mixing process. Currently, the Wave 3 attackers are processing the largest stolen funds in descending order of amount, having sequentially transferred vaults ranked 1 through 11 so far. The next 10 untransferred vaults hold a combined 30.81 BTC, while vaults ranked 61 to 293 hold a total of 33.77 BTC. To date, the attackers have moved approximately 45% of the total stolen funds from the exploit, with funds flowing either to Ethereum (via THORChain) or into CoinJoin mixing transactions. Additionally, a previously unknown vault was uncovered in the fund transfers: 58 addresses co-spent via 2-of-2 multisig matching the Wave 3 format, and were further transferred by the attackers to a jump address that supplies CoinJoin. On-chain analytics teams have labeled this vault as "cause = open" but believe it is very likely also a Coldcard victim, meaning the total number of vaults involved in Wave 3 could rise to 294, pushing the previously disclosed total stolen BTC from the Coldcard exploit to roughly 1,806 BTC. As of now, around 82% of the stolen BTC remains in the attackers’ initially controlled addresses, while approximately 18% has been transferred, with fund flows indicating potential money laundering activity.

Beating AI News Flash: OpenAI has optimized ChatGPT subscription usage for GPT-6 Astra. Core product lead Tibo stated that model quality remains unchanged, with subscription quota consumption in some heavy-use scenarios dropping to roughly 1/3 to 1/4 of prior levels. The optimization is explicitly targeted at ChatGPT subscription quotas. OpenAI has not disclosed the specific mechanism, though its wording indicates it is an adjustment to subscription-side usage calculations. Over the past two days, multiple reports of excessive Astra quota consumption have emerged on OpenAI’s GitHub. Some Plus users said they hit usage limits in around 20 minutes, while Pro 20x users reported depleting most of their weekly quota in a single day.

DeFi researcher Ignas posted on X: "After Bankless founder David Hoffman sold his ETH, he reallocated his portfolio to several top-performing tokens, including LIT and ZEC. NEAR also performed well, while only VVV underperformed the broader market. Though the market was rife with FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) at the time, and it was near ETH’s bottom, active crypto investors’ goal is always to outperform BTC and ETH. Well done, David." Earlier, Bankless co-founder David Hoffman announced in June that he had liquidated all his ETH holdings and purchased VVV, NEAR, ZEC, HYPE, and LIT.