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Crypto friends, really, I suggest you take some time to come to Guangxi for a few days and experience what it’s like to be a “Guangxi local.”

It’s not that you shouldn’t make money or that you should just lie flat—this is to help you put down the anxious heart that’s been tortured by candlestick charts, FOMO, and liquidation, and give yourself a break.

The Guangxi locals who take us around old towns always say something at the tip of their tongue: you can’t earn money forever. So come over, relax a bit, grab a cup of tea—Guangxi locals know how to enjoy life the best.

So my suggestion is to come and stay easy for a few days: don’t check the charts, go try some Guilin rice noodles, stroll around the old towns, and take in the mountains and the water.

Treat that tense heart, steady your mindset—and when you go back to check the charts again, things might look different.

I checked Binance Wallet and found a coin called $NNB that has gone up like this. I can’t even remember when I bought it, or whether it was some kind of meme airdrop? Something that was under 1u is now up to 52u? I thought it was a pixiu, but I checked—it shouldn’t be. The story is that:

BNB Chain meme + https://four.meme/en launchpad + leveraging the name “New BNB Coin” 😂

I don’t get it. Is there a BNB meme coin expert who can explain? 🙏🏻

No wonder SpaceX’s rockets have been booming—turns out the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund (NBIM), bought in!! But they also say it wasn’t an active choice to buy SpaceX; it was a passive purchase 😅 (buying according to index allocation).

📰 Reference: Beincrypto website report:
The Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund (NBIM) has made its first disclosure of its holdings in SpaceX stock, along with the fund’s latest performance status, as follows:

Disclosure of SpaceX holdings: The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund with assets of about $2.3 trillion, Norway’s NBIM, disclosed that it holds 0.05% of SpaceX, valued at approximately $1.2 billion.

Complex relationship with Elon Musk: The fund also owns about 1% of Tesla (worth roughly $15.7 billion), but it voted against Musk’s high-paid compensation packages twice in 2024 and 2025. The fund’s deputy CEO said that its stake in SpaceX is mainly due to index-following allocation, not active stock selection.

Record first-half performance: In the first half of 2026, NBIM recorded a record profit of 1.75 trillion Norwegian kroner (about $18.49 billion), with a return rate of 9.4%.

Semiconductor sector drives growth: The major jump in performance was largely due to the rebound in chip stocks in the second quarter. The CEO attributed the key driver of growth to “chips,” with major semiconductor giants in heavy holdings—NVIDIA, TSMC, Samsung, SK Hynix, ASML, and Intel—making a huge contribution.

AI just keeps opening the doors—DeepSeek has updated to a new V4-Pro version, and with ultra-low rates. No wonder you can’t see DeepSeek in the relay stations—official pricing is already cheap enough. Even when Claude (especially the Opus / Fable series) in relay stations costs as low as 0.2–0.3x (2–3 discounts) or even less, it’s still more expensive than DeepSeek. And the stability in relay stations is also worrying—so DeepSeek’s official API gains even more advantages.

📰 According to a report from the Decrypt website:
China’s AI lab DeepSeek has quietly updated its flagship model DeepSeek-V4-Pro (version number updated to 0813) and compared it with Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 in terms of performance and pricing:
Official release: DeepSeek quietly updated the model version on its API billing page to DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813, marking the launch of the general availability (GA) version of a model that had been in Preview status since April.

Performance comparison: Based on DeepSeek’s published data from 10 Agent benchmark tests, Claude Fable 5 is only ahead of DeepSeek-V4-Pro by about 5.3% on average (if you exclude Humanity's Last Exam, the gap shrinks to just 2.8%). In two of the tests, DeepSeek overtook the competition.

💰 An extremely advantageous price:
DeepSeek-V4-Pro: Input $0.435 / million tokens, Output $0.87 / million tokens.
Claude Fable 5: Input $10 / million tokens, Output $50 / million tokens.

Looking at the combined blended rate, Claude Fable 5 costs about 46 times DeepSeek (or roughly 4,500% higher).

📌 Evaluation limitations and industry trends:
This comparison is based on DeepSeek’s own calculated data; as of now, third-party organizations have not yet independently completed benchmarking for the 0813 version. However, it also once again reflects the trend that China’s open-source models (such as DeepSeek, Kimi, Xiaomi, etc.) are advancing toward—and even benchmarking—US top frontier models at extremely low cost.

When many projects do TGE token-airdrops, there’s always a “stake” button next to the Claim. Us old greenhands see this item’s promising future, don’t we? The team keeps doing things; when a bunch of KOLs sing about it, people can’t help but stake everything, imagining high annualized returns and the coin price going up, up, up. The ending, of course, is zero. It goes to zero before the redemption period even arrives.

Recently, while sorting my Binance Wallet, I found an exception. This project—funnily enough—I staked it all at the beginning too. I didn’t lose; I actually made money. It’s $BR (Bedrock). I never expected a multi-asset liquidity re-staking project like this. Old One is EigenLayer, Old Two is Babylon—Bedrock is basically Old Three.

📊 Bedrock in the March 2025 Binance Wallet TGE
I got it for a cost of 19u $BNB for 769.8 $BR . If I sold it immediately the same day, I could’ve gotten 131u. Me, a greenhand, of course didn’t—I went all-in on staking.
I haven’t touched the staked position, and I haven’t added anything since. Now I have 1,700.1263 of $BR worth $213u.

Honestly, I didn’t make that much—just didn’t expect the staking track to be fairly stable. This has a lot to do with the team’s ability to operate well and to defend against hackers and smart-contract vulnerabilities.

The official X account is @Bedrock_DeFi, and the VC endorsement is OKX Ventures. It’s not that I’m trying to promote the project—just that I found a rare case of a team that’s this solid. Not investment advice—DYOR.

Congratulations to the 19414th applicant of Unitree Technology for being selected! You have won 200,000 RMB.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino reached out to Trump for help, and it actually worked. Trump then posted multiple statements praising Infantino as “very outstanding,” saying he had hosted “the most successful World Cup in history,” and warning that if Infantino were to step down, the World Cup would be “difficult to maintain the current level of success and profitability.”

Those who understand understand: these two are deeply bound by shared interests. FIFA’s privatization has harmed the interests of many national associations and enriched the interests of a few people. How could anyone keep supporting you?

Since FIFA privatization didn’t succeed, will Trump continue to use his influence to keep Infantino in power? Or even help him win the March 2027 presidential election? Ha—would that happen? Infantino’s situation is awkward.

What's happening in this world? There are so many reports that Athena was murdered—official media have all reported it. So why are they urgently refuting the rumors today? 🥵

What investment returns in 2026 could surpass traditional financial assets (the S&P 500) and crypto (Bitcoin)? There are many answers, but you may not have thought of one of them: Pokémon collectible card cards. Riding the wave of the 30th anniversary, all kinds of booster pack promotions and in-person battle tournaments are being held everywhere, driving card values up. There is also on-chain hype around Pokémon card RWA, but it’s still a niche—trading volume remains lower than that of traditional secondary marketplaces.
### 1. Performance comparison
Based on data compiled by Rand Group & Beincrypto, collectible cards have recently shown a largely independent trend that is highly decoupled from traditional financial markets:
- **Performance over the past three months**: the Pokémon card index surged **22.8%**; the S&P 500 edged up **4.7%**; and Bitcoin (BTC) fell **20.7%**.
- **Year-to-date (YTD)**: the cards index is up nearly **28%**, far outperforming the S&P 500 (about **13%**) and even beating Bitcoin, which is currently in a loss (down **27%–29%**).
### 2. Key drivers behind the market breakout
- **Strong retail demand**: US retail giant Target reported that its 2025 card sales jumped nearly **70%**, exceeding **$1 billion** in size; eBay’s 2025 card trading value also surpassed **$2.6 billion**.
- **Dual propulsion of emotion and scarcity**: the nostalgia of Millennials and Gen Z adults, combined with the “absolute scarcity” of highly graded vintage cards, forms the core purchasing power.
- **High-price sale effect**: influencer Logan Paul’s second auction of the “Pikachu Illustrator” card for **$16.5 million**, among other landmark events, greatly boosted the asset class’s visibility and demand.
- **Overall market size**: the collectible card market is currently valued at **$13 billion to $15 billion**, and it is also gradually exploring blockchain tokenization to improve liquidity.
### 3. Investment risks and limitations to keep in mind
Beincrypto cautions that treating cards as an investment requires prudence:
- **Liquidity and authenticity challenges**: it’s difficult to liquidate large positions, and the market faces risks such as rampant counterfeits and the strong subjectivity of third-party grading organizations like PSA.
- **Bias in the statistics index**: the card index often focuses on high-end products that are graded (Graded) or sealed (Sealed). The real performance of ordinary raw cards may fall far behind the index.
- **Short time horizon**: the outperformance over three months is a short-term phenomenon; over longer periods, the historical return rates of assets like Bitcoin still lead.
- **Risk of speculative overheating**: card prices rely heavily on cultural hype and community participation. Once the trend fades, prices may face sharp pullbacks.

Bitcoin address goes viral: bc1qqhx2nydhdw5qhruslhwf74hdjq88lh662m8xy2— a mistake cost 1.6 BTC. It wasn’t accidentally destroyed; instead, the funds were handed to
@SpiderPool_com
miners. Now that the Bitcoin mining industry is in its winter, this is truly a warm gesture in the snow. The chances of getting the money back after explaining the mistake to SpiderPool are slim, because it has already become miners’ legitimate income. Or maybe the wallet owner doesn’t care about the money—1.6 BTC is just test funds.
Let’s look at how he handled it. According to a report by Beincrypto:
A Bitcoin (BTC) user paid a 1.6 BTC (about $102,778) network transaction fee in a single transaction due to a software error.
In reality, no transfer happened: the transaction was confirmed on August 12, 2026, in Bitcoin block 962,142. On-chain records show that all 160 million-plus satoshis from the transaction inputs were taken by the miners, and the recipient ultimately received 0 BTC.
Miners unexpectedly benefited: the mining pool SpiderPool mined that block and bundled the transaction. The block’s total fees were about 1.82 BTC, with 88% coming from this incident.
Cause of the accident
The user ran an automated script that used Replace-by-Fee (RBF) functionality, intending to speed up queued unconfirmed transactions by increasing the fee.
But the automation script entered a logic dead loop, blindly raising the bid every second, until the wallet’s entire balance was exhausted as fees.
The Bitcoin network protocol itself doesn’t impose a fee cap for a single transaction, so nodes continued to receive and confirm the transaction as normal.
Beincrypto’s prevention advice
To avoid automation tools emptying the wallet, the article provides three security recommendations:
Turn off automatic RBF fee bumping: use manual confirmation and perform human review before each speed-up.
Set a hard fee limit: configure a maximum saturation level (Sat/Byte) for a single transaction in your wallet; if it exceeds the limit, immediately stop the script.
Do small test runs: before using automation or making batch transfers, test the script logic with a small amount of funds (e.g., a few thousand satoshis).

In the middle of the crypto bear market, Ark Invest’s founder Cathie Wood ("the Woodpecker"/"the Wood"—aka the "Wood lady") has once again said she thinks it’s a good time to buy two crypto-technology concept U.S. stocks at a discount, while also expressing a bearish view on two specific U.S. stocks. For reference only—Cathie Wood’s usual style is that she’s very responsible about her own positions. When she’s bullish or bearish, she typically lays the groundwork long before. DYOR!

According to THE MOTLEY FOOL, Cathie Wood’s core buy-the-dip targets are:

Coinbase Global (ticker: COIN)
Buy-the-dip move: Coinbase’s August earnings failed to meet profit expectations, causing the stock to plunge as much as 14% at one point. Cathie Wood then reportedly spent nearly $8 million to add to her position. The stock is currently the sixth-largest holding in her ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK), with a weighting of about 4.2%.
Why she’s bullish: Coinbase is accelerating its transition from a traditional crypto exchange into a broad digital-asset platform that includes predictive market contracts, tokenized stocks, and perpetual futures and other derivatives. Although near-term quarterly profitability is under pressure, revenue growth for the predictive markets business has been strong, reducing reliance on spot trading alone.

Circle Internet Group (ticker: CRCL)
Buy-the-dip move: While adding to Coinbase, Cathie Wood also bought Circle shares worth nearly $1.5 million.
Why she’s bullish: Circle is the issuer of USDC, the world’s second-largest stablecoin (market cap of about $72 billion). Even though the company’s stock was recently sold off after more than 140 financial institutions proposed launching a competing stablecoin called Open USD, Circle recently announced it will roll out the Arc blockchain network supported by top-tier banks and financial institutions. The long-term potential for enterprise/Institutional-grade use is still viewed positively.

Crypto assets Cathie Wood doesn’t plan to build positions in (bearish on them):

Strategy (ticker: MSTR): As the company that holds the most Bitcoin globally, Strategy hasn’t become a focus for this round of buy-the-dip buys because Bitcoin’s price has fallen sharply by nearly 50% from its previous peak (126,000 USD).

Robinhood Markets (ticker: HOOD) and Bullish (ticker: BLSH): With the outlook for retail crypto trading uncertain—and some retail capital shifting toward artificial intelligence (AI)—Cathie Wood’s additions to these two companies lack staying power.

Cathie Wood says that compared with simply relying on retail trading volumes or directly holding Bitcoin, companies like Coinbase and Circle—which focus on institutional-grade applications, blockchain technology expansion, and diversification of digital assets—show stronger long-term investment value.

$BR
Yesterday I posted a staking-related post, and today I opened the app to see a furious surge this year.

SpaceAI, which is to say Grok, finally released a lobster. There are already quite a few competitors in the same period, and it probably isn’t open-source either, and X Premium+ can’t be used. So I guess we’ll just leave it at that.

Currently open to eligible users (early Beta):
SuperGrok Heavy
Cursor Ultra
Cursor Teams Premium

Not supported: regular SuperGrok, SuperGrok Plus, X Premium+, free users (not yet available)
Supported platforms: Windows desktop (installation package provided)
macOS desktop
iOS (iPhone)
Not supported yet: Android, iPad, Linux desktop (planned)
Enterprise version: currently waitlist

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Thanks @MIRAI_being Asuma Mirai AI female engineer, likes 😂

If things continue like this, AI chat will be on par with online mobile games; protect minors under 18 by enabling an anti-addiction mode.

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MicroStrategy puts out strong words again on Fox Business, saying it will buy, buy, buy more Bitcoin $BTC —but recently it has been selling, with no buys at all. Such a case of words not matching actions.
📺 According to a Fox Business video report:
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SOL chain gaming myth run shoes have to say goodbye. On August 21, the Step App will be shut down. $GMT can now be used to mint commemorative coins. Chain gaming has fallen into a situation where even ghosts don't play.
Step App | The Future of Fitness
@StepApp_
Aug 5
Dear Steppers,
There's no easy way to say this — after four years of work, Step App is shutting down. We've been sitting with this decision for a while, and it's time to be straight with you.
We are incredibly proud of what Step App achieved — not just as a product, but as a Show more