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Strategy currently holds 840,447 Bitcoin, with a total cost of $63.36 billion and an average entry price of $75,385. At Bitcoin’s current price of $77,430, the company’s Bitcoin holdings now have an unrealized profit of $1.7187 billion.

The Sandbox officials announced that the team has confirmed and fully contained the recent SAND cross-chain bridge vulnerability incident, which involved the Base and BNB Smart Chain (BSC) networks. The incident’s impact is limited, with the number of tokens involved accounting for less than 0.01% of SAND’s total supply. SAND on Ethereum and Polygon remains unaffected; user wallets were not compromised, and no action is required for affected token holders or liquidity providers. Attackers minted unbacked SAND tokens on Base and BSC networks via the vulnerability, per disclosures. Currently, The Sandbox has shut down SAND cross-chain functionality on both networks. SAND on Base and BSC has been isolated and is temporarily non-transferable or non-exchangeable. The Sandbox reminds users not to buy, sell, or trade SAND on Base and BSC, as liquidity on these networks has been impacted. The team has completed a pre-incident snapshot, is developing a compensation plan for affected liquidity pool (LP) users, and continues to investigate the full scope of the vulnerability. A full incident report and technical post-mortem will be released later.

According to monitoring by TradingBeats (formerly Hyperinsight), a crypto whale recently deposited approximately $4 million in USDC into Hyperliquid and opened a long position on HYPE. The wallet address established a 134,930 HYPE long position with 4x leverage, valued at around $10.7 million. Its entry price was $81.64, liquidation price stands at $64.47, and the current unrealized loss amounts to $315,000. The whale’s address is 0xa9d1c0fe2aa58038bac208ad390f69e7ce0c29a2.

Tesla has announced on social platforms that it will hold the Cybercab launch event on September 3, 2026, in Austin, Texas, United States. The automaker’s self-driving electric Cybercab officially entered production in North America this April, and the vehicle is AI-powered, with no steering wheel, pedals, or rearview mirrors.

According to MaxForAI's disclosure, Gao Jianlin, a core lead in Tencent's chip research and development, recently left the tech giant to launch a startup focused on high-performance AI servers and Agentic AI, with plans to develop high-performance CPUs based on the RISC-V architecture. Gao is widely regarded as one of the early core drivers of Tencent's in-house chip ecosystem. Public records show he formed Tencent's FPGA hardware team in 2013, began laying the groundwork for AI chip R&D in 2018, established Penglai Lab in 2020, and spearheaded the development and data center deployment of multiple AI chips for Tencent. Unlike the currently fiercely competitive AI GPU market, Gao's new venture will center on CPUs. Gao believes that as Agentic AI advances rapidly, AI inference processes will involve model calls, tool execution, searches, database interactions, and extensive task scheduling, making CPUs take on a more critical scheduling and control role in AI systems. Reportedly, Gao was already involved in RISC-V-related R&D during his tenure at Tencent, contributing to multiple technical areas including chip architecture, verification, and backend development. His new company plans to build high-performance server CPUs based on the open RISC-V instruction set to enter the AI infrastructure market. To date, the startup's name, financing details, and specific product launch timeline have not been made public. The market is closely watching whether it will emerge as another key player in China's AI chip space targeting server CPUs and agent infrastructure.

According to monitoring by TradingBeats (formerly Hyperinsight), the trading performance of the address linked to "Brother Ma Ji" Huang Licheng has seen a sharp reversal recently. After nearly 500 liquidations, the account grew its capital from $152,000 to over $10 million in just three days. However, amid a short-term crypto price plunge over the past two hours, the account balance dropped from $12.8 million to $10.8 million in 80 minutes, reflecting significant volatility. Currently, he still holds long positions of 888.88 BTC and 19,100 ETH: the BTC long position has an unrealized loss of $470,000, while the ETH long position has an unrealized profit of $2.17 million.