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.
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 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.
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 analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, one of the leading institutions of the Compound Protocol, Bain Capital Ventures, recently transferred 349,000 COMP tokens (approximately $18.85 million) to an institutional business platform. Of these, 87,250 COMP tokens (approximately $4.73 million) have been transferred to exchanges such as Binance, OKX, Bybit, and Gate. These COMP tokens come from the investment shares that the institution obtained from Compound's deployment address five years ago.
Bullish, the parent company of CoinDesk (BLSH), rose more than 143% on the first day of its U.S. IPO, trading at $90 per share. The "opening auction" rose from $55/$60 to $89/$90, with the previously announced issue price of $37 per share - raising $1.1 billion.
according to @Cointelegraph, the Fusaka hard fork of Ethereum will be implemented in November 2025, when 11 EIP proposals will be launched to improve the scalability and node efficiency of the Ethereum network.
according to market news: Cryptocurrency company Bullish raised $1.1 billion in its initial public offering (IPO), with the offering price higher than the expected range.