[Block Rhythm] On August 19, U.S. President Trump stated that Russia has agreed to accept security guarantees, and we will consider who will be responsible for what. I am optimistic that we will reach an agreement together to prevent aggression against Ukraine. We also need to discuss possible territorial exchanges.
Only Zelensky and Ukraine can make the decision. While we are committed to achieving lasting peace, we all hope for an immediate ceasefire. So far, this has not happened. A final peace agreement is achievable and can be realized in the near future. It is believed that there may be a solution today, and the resolution may include security measures.

The core team of Gnosis Chain proposed a reward of $10,000 to researchers who discovered a consensus vulnerability that could lead to chain splits, which was fixed through an update on March 17.

Injective has partnered with Squaretower to launch the world's first on-chain rental rate trading market for NVIDIA H100 GPUs, with customized Oracle Machines updating rental prices in real-time, promoting new developments in Decentralized Finance.

On August 18, 【Block Rhythm】 monitoring shows that address 0x4EB...3d5aF has once again suspected to build a position of 111310 LINK, worth 2.76 million USD, 3 hours ago.
Currently, this Address holds 1.044 million LINK (approximately 24.64 million USD), with an average withdrawal price of 23.6 USD, realizing a floating profit of 1.093 million USD.

[Golden Finance] Sky Protocol ( official MakerDAO ) statement indicated that the protocol spent $1.39 million last week to buy back 17.32 million SKY.

Bomo Distillery announced a collaboration with a certain blockchain to launch an on-chain whiskey NFT series, with pre-sales starting. The first release includes a limited collector's edition and a classic edition. Each bottle is equipped with an NFC chip to verify authenticity, and the NFT can be redeemed for physical liquor at TOKEN2049. A special dinner will invite some NFT holders to participate.

[Chain News] On August 18, SOL Strategies announced that the number of its validators' stake Wallets has surpassed 6,031, setting a new record. Previously, the company's 40-F form submitted to the SEC showed that as of June, more than 3.7 million SOL had been delegated to validators, an increase of 163,000 compared to May.

On August 18, news reported that 10 Bitcoin ETFs had a net inflow of 722 BTC, with a certain asset management company inflowing 976 BTC, bringing total holdings to 749,945 BTC. 9 Ethereum ETFs had a net inflow of 25,218 ETH, with a certain asset management company inflowing 76,851 ETH, bringing total holdings to 3,567,302 ETH.

[Chain News] PANews August 18 news, the American specialty coffee chain Reborn Coffee announced the launch of a strategic assessment to explore the incorporation of regulated digital assets into financial management and retail operations. The company plans to enhance financial efficiency and diversify capital reserves through Blockchain technology, while advancing its global expansion plans. CEO Jay Kim stated that this move aims to ensure that capital strategy aligns with market innovation and protects shareholder value. The company emphasized that it is currently only in the exploratory stage and has not reached any agreements regarding digital assets, and all future decisions will comply with SEC regulations and be approved by the board of directors.

[Golden Finance] According to reports, Tongxin Innovation, a Web3 e-commerce platform based on a certain social platform, has signed a $3 million equity financing protocol at a valuation of $10 million. Singapore's Trident Digital Tech Holding is participating and will obtain a 30% stake in the company. It is reported that Tongxin has launched the Web3 e-commerce application ToMe on a certain social platform, currently focusing on the markets of Dubai, Singapore, and Hong Kong.

[Chain News] On August 18th, Qubic announced that it will implement Epoch 175 Halving at 8:00 PM Beijing time on August 20, 2025. This is an important milestone in its token economic framework. This Halving will be the largest token issuance reduction in Qubic's history, aiming to reduce the weekly effective issuance by approximately 50% by increasing the token burn rate (from 15% to 55%), from 850 billion QUBIC to 425 billion QUBIC. By the end of 2025, the total supply is expected to be around 173 trillion QUBIC, delaying the time to reach the 200 trillion supply cap.

The official announcement from Bless, a shared computing protocol in the Solana ecosystem, states that 10% of BLESS tokens have been reserved for the launch of the Bless Mainnet. In Chapter 0 phase, the official will issue 100 million TIME, which is equivalent to 8.5% of BLESS tokens, and 1.5% of BLESS will be reserved as a budget for exchange listings. Previously, the Bless team explained that the ecosystem adopts a dual-token model of TIME and BLESS, where the former is the user incentive token, with a seasonal limit of 100 million; the latter is the protocol token, with a fixed total supply of 10 billion. After each seasonal event ends, users can immediately or lock their TIME to convert it into BLESS. The official will use 90% of the revenue to repurchase and burn BLESS, while the remaining 10% will be allocated to the treasury to support long-term development. Specifically,

[Coin World] Circle has minted 1.25 billion USDC on the Solana network in the past 7 days. As of 2025, the total amount of USDC minted by Circle on Solana has reached 2.4 billion USD.

[Golden Finance] Golden Finance reports that PENGU has fallen to $0.025, which seems to be a healthy pullback! With the ETF application, growth in Asia, and millions of toy sales, its rise potential remains strong.

[Golden Finance] According to reports, market data shows that as Bitcoin falls during the day, crypto assets-related stocks generally dropped in pre-market trading on the US stock market, with MicroStrategy (MSTR.O) falling nearly 2%, and both Coinbase (COIN.O) and Riot Platforms dropping over 1%.

[Coin World] Reports indicate that the CEO of an investment firm predicts that Bitcoin may still have a 27% rise potential in this cycle, with an expected probability of over 50% to reach the range of $140,000 to $150,000 this year, after which it will enter a Bear Market. He believes that the current economic situation is poor, and the Fed should have already cut interest rates, expecting cuts in September and October as well. The CEO attributes the recent rise in Bitcoin to the influx of funds from Spot ETF and purchases by treasury companies, stating that a large amount of institutional capital is flowing in. However, the executive chairman of a certain company holds an opposite view, believing that "the Bitcoin winter will not come again," while the chief investment officer of another investment firm also expects the bull run to last for several years.

[Chain News] On August 18, it was reported that CMB International Securities has officially launched virtual asset trading functions, becoming the first Chinese-funded bank-affiliated brokerage in Hong Kong to obtain the relevant license. Qualified investors can trade Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), and USD (USDT) around the clock through the APP. The company will gradually expand the range and functions of virtual asset trading and continue to promote the integration of traditional stock and virtual asset businesses.

The decentralized storage network BTFS of the TRON ecosystem has initiated the BTIP-103 proposal, aimed at simplifying the governance process and improving storage service efficiency. The proposal is currently in the conceptual stage, and community members are welcome to participate in discussions via GitHub to promote the development of the BTFS ecosystem.

ANZ economist Shwetha Sunilkumar stated that Powell may not clarify the timing of interest rate cuts at this year's Jackson Hole meeting, especially against the backdrop of increasing inflation concerns. Nevertheless, it is expected that the Fed will still cut rates at the September meeting.

On August 18, according to data from the data platform, the trading volume of the X Layer network has fallen by 12.86% in the past 24 hours, dropping to $37.348 million; the number of transactions is 238,200, a decrease from yesterday's data (268,300).
The market capitalization of the leading ecological Meme coin XDOG is currently reported at 10 million USD, with a 24-hour fall of 10%.
Remind users that Meme coin market fluctuations are significant, pay attention to asset protection, and do not FOMO.