On August 13, Wang Feng, the founder of Blueport Interactive, stated that Crypto Assets are having a significant impact on the financial industry, including banks, asset management companies, and VCs. This is not about the retail investor holding assets like Ethereum, but rather that a structural Consensus has formed in the financial market. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and perhaps XRP will become anchor assets for many funds and institutions in fundraising. Traditional funds and investment managers (GPs) are changing their views and it is not too late to actively participate.

Analysts have observed that "7 Siblings" purchased 100,000 ETH for about $2,270 each after a big dump last year, and recently sold 19,957 ETH for approximately 90.44 million USDC, now holding around 280,000 ETH.

Mu Digital has received support from a certain accelerator, marking a significant advancement in the field of Web3 fixed-income investments. The platform is dedicated to connecting real-world debt with Decentralized Finance, providing users with stable income solutions. $muBOND, as the flagship product, brings institutional-grade credit services on-chain, promoting the development of DeFi in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Solana on-chain Meme coin WORTHLESS has risen over 48% in the last 24 hours, with a market capitalization exceeding $20 million. This token satirizes certain projects in the market and reminds users to invest cautiously.

On August 13, according to monitoring from 【Block Rhythm】, as Ethereum surpassed $4600, two Whales made huge profits from their long positions.
Whale 1: Holds a position worth 123 million USD, with a leverage of 25x, currently making a profit of 24.5 million USD.
Whale 2: Holding a position worth 138 million USD, with a leverage of 10 times, currently making a profit of 24.3 million USD.

On August 13, with Ethereum breaking through $4600, two whales made huge profits from their long positions.
Whale 1: Holds a position worth 123 million dollars, with a leverage of 25 times, currently making a profit of 24.5 million dollars.
Whale 2: Holds a position worth 138 million USD, with a leverage of 10 times, currently making a profit of 24.3 million USD.

[Coin World] Etherscan announces the launch of its tenth anniversary celebration and the Etherscan Points (beta) event, where users can earn Etherscan Points during the limited-time event to win an anniversary badge. The first event will last until August 31, 2025. Etherscan emphasizes that Etherscan Points are not on-chain tokens and the points are not tradable.

On August 13, according to market news, Sam Altman and OpenAI will invest $250 million to support the brain-computer interface startup Merge Labs to compete with Musk's Neuralink.

On August 13, Hester Peirce, a commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), stated that market forces will ultimately determine the successful models for the tokenization of securities and other physical assets. In an interview, Peirce emphasized that the SEC is willing to collaborate with market participants adopting different tokenization schemes to test the feasibility of various models through market practices.

[Chain News] On August 13, on-chain data shows that addresses associated with the Ethereum Foundation have dumped a total of 2794.87 ETH in the past two hours, with a total value of approximately 12.78 million USD and an average selling price of 4574.4 USD. Among them, in the last 5 minutes, 1100 ETH were sold at an average price of 4602.1 USD, cashing out approximately 5.06 million USD.

[Block Rhythm] On August 13, an Ethereum Foundation associated address dumped 1694.8 ETH on-chain in the past 2 hours, approximately 7.72 million USD.
The dumping address currently still holds 1500 ETH, and received 20756 ETH from the Ethereum Foundation 8 years ago. Further back, it can be traced to 10 years ago, when the price of ETH was only 0.875 dollars.

[比推] Huang will concurrently retain his position at Paradigm. It is not yet clear whether Tempo will issue its own Token, and the specific launch time of the project has not been disclosed.

[Coin World] On August 13, Wall Street remained calm as expected inflation data intensified market speculation about a rate cut by the Fed in September, driving the stock market up and short-term bond yields down. All major sectors of the S&P 500 index rose, with the index gaining 1.1%, reaching an all-time high. The Nasdaq 100 index also hit an ATH. The Russell 2000 small-cap index rose by 3%. Although the initial momentum of Treasury bonds weakened, the money market expects about a 90% chance of a Fed rate cut next month. The yield on the two-year Treasury bond, which is more sensitive to upcoming policy changes, fell by 4 basis points to 3.73%. The dollar fell. The U.S. core inflation rate rose to its highest level since the beginning of the year, but slowly rising commodity prices alleviated concerns about tariff-driven pressures. In terms of the stock market, renewed bets on low interest rates were driven by ongoing enthusiasm for artificial intelligence and strong enterprises.

On August 13, according to data platform monitoring, the whale address Regbil spent 6 wallets to buy 1.5 billion PUMP for 6 million USDC in a public sale on a certain platform, and sold all of it at $0.0059 before the price fell, locking in a profit of $2.85 million.
Regbil deposited 11.1 million USD into Plasma 2 months ago and spent 571,800 USD to participate in the XPL public sale.

[Golden Finance] According to reports, White House spokesperson Levitt stated on Tuesday that President Trump is considering suing Fed Chairman Powell over management issues related to the renovation of the Fed's Washington headquarters. President Trump earlier posted on social media mentioning this potential move, intensifying his ongoing pressure on Powell regarding interest rate cuts.

The rise of the US stock market has expanded, with the Nasdaq and Dow Jones rising over 1%. At the same time, the stock price of the new ETH treasury company ETHZilla has big pump by 146%, with a trading volume exceeding $689 million. Billionaire Peter Thiel has made an acquisition of 7.5% of ETHZilla's shares.

[比推] The artificial intelligence company Perplexity has made an offer to Google to acquire its Chrome browser for $34.5 billion. Perplexity is currently valued at approximately $18 billion, and the company stated that several large venture capital funds have agreed to fully support the transaction.

[Coin World] The lending protocol Morpho has announced its launch on the Arbitrum network, allowing users to lend and earn returns on this network.

On August 12, Do Kwon, the founder of Terra, will plead guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit fraud and internet fraud, involving over 40 billion USD in Crypto Assets TerraUSD (UST) and the collapse of Luna.

[Bitu] According to reports, Fed's Schmid stated that the job market is cooling down and the transmission effect of tariffs is weakening.