SHELL Buyback Address has once again withdrawn 1 million tokens from Binance, and the buyback progress has reached 81.2%.

This whale sold another 1,019 $BTC($66.4M) 7 hours ago. Over the past 3 weeks, this whale has sold a total of 7,513 $BTC($486.9M).

According to monitoring by Specter, wallets linked to crypto processing platform Coinsbuy were hacked on Ethereum and TRON, leading to the theft of over $7.9 million. The attackers subsequently laundered the stolen funds into Monero (XMR) via cryptocurrency exchanges. Coinsbuy stated that with support from ChangeNOW, it has successfully frozen six-figure amounts of the misappropriated funds. Following the incident, Coinsbuy temporarily suspended its deposit and withdrawal services, which have now been restored. Coinsbuy is a crypto processing platform primarily serving business users such as enterprises, merchants, and exchanges.

According to HTX market data, BSC ecosystem token TUT has rebounded again after significant 24-hour volatility. As of press time, TUT is priced at $0.221954, with a 51.69% gain in the past 24 hours. Separately, Coinglass data shows TUT has recorded over $45 million in liquidations today, leading all networks, including $41.53 million in short position liquidations.

Driven by strong AI demand, the passive components market is recovering, with multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) facing supply tightness. To secure supply, some customers are scrambling to place orders with major passive component makers like Yageo and Murata at two to three times the original price, sparking a bidding war where the highest bidder gets the goods, with lead times extended to 12–16 months. Yageo stated that MLCC demand is extremely robust, with production line utilization rates continuing to climb; this quarter, utilization for standard products will rise from around 80% to over 90%, while that for specialty products remains high, bringing overall operations close to full capacity. More and more AI-related customers are seeking to lock in production capacity for half a year or even years in advance via long-term contracts to reduce supply risks. The company is responding by expanding production sites in Kaohsiung, Suzhou, Vietnam, and Mexico. Industry sources note that large MLCC manufacturers prioritize major clients and long-term partners, leaving small and medium-sized customers with squeezed supply, forcing them to bid up prices to secure goods. Japanese giants Murata and Taiyo Yuden have also revised their outlooks upward, noting that demand for AI servers and data centers has exceeded expectations, driving increased usage of high-capacitance products.

Local time August 9, US President Donald Trump announced via social media that current White House Secretary Will Scharf will take up the posts of Assistant to the President and White House Counsel starting September 1, succeeding David Warrington. Trump stated that Scharf performed excellently during his tenure as White House Secretary, adding that he previously served as Chairman of the National Capital Planning Commission. It is reported that Scharf helped push the commission to approve the hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars White House Ballroom project. (CCTV News)

Network security firm Genians disclosed on August 10 that the North Korean Reconnaissance General Bureau-affiliated hacking group Kimsuky has made significant upgrades to generative AI applications. Not only has the group used AI to create phishing lures, it has also built an independent local large language model (LLM) environment and a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system. Specific tools include local LLM management tools such as Ollama, GPT4All, Msty, and AI code editor Cursor, with the aim of automating intelligence extraction and attack workflows. (Yonhap)