On August 1st, according to 4E observation, BTC briefly broke through $124,000, reaching a high of $124,474, setting a new historical record. At the same time as market sentiment is high, Google Trends data shows that global search volume for the keyword "altcoin" has reached a nearly five-year high, indicating that both retail investors and institutions are increasingly paying attention to the altcoin market.

examples compiled by BitMEX Research of the "most notable" advisors and asset management agreements of cryptocurrency holding companies show that Bitcoin holding companies, including Anthony Pompliano's BRR listed on Nasdaq, are well-known. This newly listed company announced a $750 million deal that will see shareholders pay 5% of its issued share capital during a 10-day trading process, plus a portion of the profits from the rise in Bitcoin.

Mecka has raised $8 million in seed funding led by Neo, with participation from SVAngel, A_StarVC, offlineventures, tangent_xyz, hiFramework, MechanismCap, and angel investors.

on August 14th, Ethan Harris, former chief economist at Bank of America Securities, said that the days of the Fed marching in lockstep are gone. Dissent from Bullard and Bowman, appointed by President Trump in July, who support rate cuts, has "shattered the harmony." This means that no matter what decision the Fed makes, there will be opposition.

two years ago, Estonian banker Rain Lõhmus told Estonian Public Broadcasting that he had lost access to a large amount of Ethereum purchased during the presale period in 2014. Lõhmus said at the time, "I have a wallet with 250,000 Ethereum, which is no longer a secret; anyone can calculate its value themselves."

according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale address deposited 8 million USDC into HyperLiquid and purchased 166,820 HYPE at an average price of $47.14. The whale address had previously made a profit of $7.85 million in HYPE transactions.

 according to Cointelegraph, Circle today minted 750 million USDC on Solana.

 according to Trader T monitoring, the net inflow of the US spot Ethereum ETF was $704.32 million yesterday.

the blue-chip NFT project "Pudgy Penguins" community leader Berko posted on X platform, stating that Bitwise Invest's blue-chip NFT index fund has risen by 92% in the past month.

 according to on-chain analyst Ai Auntie (@ai_9684xtpa), two new addresses withdrew 71.07 trillion tokens from Coinbase in the past 6 hours (worth $867,000), with an average withdrawal price of $0.0000122.

payment service provider Block announced its latest update, stating that it will price $1.2 billion principal notes (referred to as "2030 Notes") and $1 billion principal notes (referred to as "2033 Notes," collectively with the 2030 Notes, the "Notes") to qualified institutional buyers believed to be in compliance with Section 144A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended ("the Act"), and to non-U.S. persons outside the United States under Regulation S under the Act. The total principal amount of this issuance exceeds the previously announced $1.5 billion issuance size.

according to Trader T monitoring, the net inflow of the US spot Bitcoin ETF was $86.92 million yesterday.

 according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale has sold some ETH to increase collateral in order to avoid liquidation. So far, the whale has lost $9.88 million on the short position with 20 times leverage on ETH, and still has approximately $18 million in unrealized losses.

on Wednesday, the cryptocurrency exchange Bullish made its debut on the New York Stock Exchange. Cathie Wood's Ark Invest purchased $172 million worth of Bullish stock through its three exchange-traded funds.

according to OnchainLens monitoring, a whale address deposited $3.36 million USDC into HyperLiquid and opened short positions: BTC (40x leverage), ETH (10x leverage), and SOL (20x leverage).

 according to Nansen's monitoring, a 30-day intelligent trader held a long position in SOL worth $85 million with 20x leverage, and the unrealized profit in the past 24 hours reached $4.6 million, up 109%.

according to CCTV News, on August 13th local time, US President Trump said that if the meeting with Russian President Putin on the 15th goes smoothly, a second meeting will be held soon. Trump said that the second meeting will include Ukrainian President Zelensky. Trump also said that if the conflict does not stop, Russia will face consequences. On that day, Trump held a video conference with European leaders and Zelensky. Sources said that Trump and the participants discussed the location for a possible meeting with Zelensky and Putin after the "TrumPutin" meeting.

according to Whale Alert monitoring, in the past 10 minutes, USDC Treasury added 250 million USDC tokens.

Fed's Goolsbee: If the inflation direction is wrong, the Fed will have to take action.

US President Trump: will appoint a new chairman of the Federal Reserve as soon as possible, with only three to four candidates left.