MicroStrategy bought another 2,530 $BTC($243M) at an average price of $95,972 last week!

Spokesperson of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Hossein Mohebi said on the 26th that Iran and Oman have reached a mutually acceptable agreement on the proportion of waters each controls in the Strait of Hormuz and the distribution of benefits. However, a senior Iranian source stated that the two sides are still negotiating the specific details. Earlier this month, Iran had announced that the agreement was near completion. Iran also accused the US of continuously obstructing the Iran-Oman negotiations, leading to delays in the negotiation process. (CCTV News)

According to official announcements, Trade.xyz has launched a pre-IPO market for SHEIN. This market reflects the market's pricing of the expected per-share price of Class B ordinary shares of SHEIN Global Holdings Limited. SHEIN is scheduled to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on September 1, with the stock code 0625. Currently, the IPO price range for SHEIN's Hong Kong shares is HK$47.60 to HK$49.50. Trade.xyz stated that after SHEIN's listing, its oracle will convert the Hong Kong stock price to U.S. dollars based on the then-prevailing USD/HKD exchange rate.

According to official announcements, anonymous Q&A social game Chomp has secured $3.6 million in funding, jointly led by Jsquare and Blueyard, with participation from VCs including Accomplice, Big Brain Holdings, No Limit Holdings, Reverie, and Caballeros. Chomp is a social game built on anonymous Q&A and prediction mechanics, allowing users to answer questions and predict others’ responses to uncover public sentiment and their own cognitive biases in perceiving others. Beyond its consumer product, Chomp applies this anonymized, well-labeled opinion data to use cases such as AI model training and consumer research. The company believes this type of data can capture subjective opinions hard to access from the public internet, providing high-context data for AI models. Founder and CEO Kiko previously served as COO of Orca, a decentralized exchange in the Solana ecosystem.

Federal Reserve's Hamarck said that given persistent inflation, it is appropriate for the Fed to take action now to lower inflation. The top concern at present is that the public will lose confidence in the inflation rate returning to 2%, and she warned that inflationary psychology may begin to take shape. The latest inflation data is in line with expectations, but she does not currently believe that Fed policy is constraining the economy, nor has any clear restrictive policy been observed in financial conditions for the time being. She noted that businesses and the public are very concerned about inflation and cost-of-living issues. In addition, the neutral interest rate level she deems appropriate is higher than that of other Fed officials, and she emphasized that the U.S. Treasury has its own goals, while the Federal Reserve will maintain independent operations to achieve its own objectives.

According to Santiment Intelligence monitoring, ETH exchange balances have fallen from approximately 7.69 million to around 6.28 million since June 3, a decrease of about 1.4 million, or roughly 18%. Since August 19, some 275,000 ETH has flowed out of exchanges, pushing the current balance to the lowest level in the statistical period. Over the same timeframe, BTC exchange balances have risen by roughly 0.25%, currently near the upper end of the recent trading range. Santiment stated that the decline in ETH exchange balances has not stopped amid rising prices: while ETH has gained around 27% since August 16, a large volume of ETH has continued to flow out of exchanges.

According to Lookonchain's monitoring, BlackRock has made large-scale purchases of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) for 8 consecutive trading days, accumulating a total of 27,722 BTC (valued at approximately $2.2 billion) and 385,633 ETH (worth around $961 million), bringing the combined purchase amount to roughly $3.161 billion.