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Built on Aptos, the on-chain trading platform Decibel today launches BTC-USDC and APT-USDC spot markets, marking the first time its scope of business has expanded beyond perpetual futures. This rollout integrates spot positions, perpetual contract trading, and collateral management into a single account, giving traders a broader set of tools without needing to move assets between different platforms.
Spot trading on-chain continues to grow, and this launch is exactly in line with that trend. In June 2026, the spot trading volume handled by decentralized exchanges reached $195 billion, up 9.1% from the previous month. Looking at the longer term, the share of decentralized spot trading volume relative to centralized exchange trading volume has grown from 6% in January 2021 to 21.2% in November 2025.

BlockBeats message: On August 19, TikTok is developing a “peer-to-peer” payment feature that would allow users to transfer money to each other via direct messages. The “evidence” for the claim comes from the code of the U.S. version of the TikTok app. From the code, the interaction design for this feature is already fairly complete. Recipients can “click to accept” the payment before it expires, and payers can learn the transaction status via push notifications or their inbox. It also supports adding a note when making a payment, similar to Venmo—an offering under PayPal.
A TikTok spokesperson said the feature is currently not being tested in any market and is still in the early development stage. TikTok Pay is currently only available in Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand for TikTok Shop checkout payments, and it cannot be guaranteed that peer-to-peer payment functionality will ultimately be released.

BlockBeats report: On August 19, according to monitoring by TradingBeats (formerly Hyperinsight), Unitree Technology listed on the STAR Market today. During the session, it peaked at 1100 yuan; it is now reported at 883.87 yuan, up 486.1% from the 150.8 yuan issue price. It has retreated about 19.6% from the intraday high. This performance is highly similar to the first day of Changxin Technology’s listing. Changxin Technology surged 465.82% on its first trading day on July 27. Unitree’s gain is only about 20 percentage points higher than that. Yesterday’s market-priced-in “Changxin script” has basically been fulfilled.
xyz on Hyperliquid: <UNITREE> synchronously rises; it is currently reported at $121.67, up about 20.0% from yesterday. The open contract value has increased to about $29.58 million, up 34.9% from yesterday. After excluding the impact of the price rise, the actual number of positions still grows by about 12.4%, indicating that even after the listing, new leverage continues to enter.

BlockBeats message: On August 19, according to TradingBeats (formerly Hyperinsight) monitoring, the current open interest of the MU-USDC perpetual contract on Hyperliquid is approximately $138 million. Compared with the earlier open interest of nearly $300 million in July, it has shrunk by more than 60%, and has also reached the lowest level in nearly two and a half months.
Within the past 24 hours, liquidations for MU contracts were concentrated in long positions, though no large liquidation amounts have occurred yet. The liquidation address ranking shows: “Kvyadav1:vishnuvamsi.eth” long liquidations of $77,700 (20 hours ago), 0x4a...8f7b long liquidations of $55,900 (14 hours ago), and 0x59...7716 long liquidations of $55,500 (4 hours ago).

BlockBeats report: On August 19, according to statistics compiled by TradingBeats (formerly Hyperinsight), the path of the address on Trade.xyz that profited over $1 million from the Yushu contract has not been straightforward. In fact, in February of last year, the address lost nearly $1 million in the perpetual contracts market, the account was emptied, and it went quiet for half a year.
The turning point occurred in late March 2026. Starting at external address 0x6b9e, large amounts of USD were continuously transferred into that address, totaling over $8,000,000. Meanwhile, in May and June 2026, the address also received two HYPE distributions from the Hyperliquid bridge—5,504 HYPE (worth about $331,000) and 6,956 HYPE (worth about $378,000). The three distributions together totaled about 35,410 HYPE. These funds were injected into the perpetual account, and trading volume surged explosively after April 2026. However, the process was still not smooth: around April 23, 2026, the cumulative perpetual trades temporarily showed a loss of $1.51 million—which was the deepest drawdown in the address’s history.

Original title: (Arthur Hayes “Returns to the Scene”: This time, he will prepare “rations” for AIAgent)
Original author: Karen Z, Foresight News
Arthur Hayes decided to end his retirement life.
What brought him back “to the scene” is a new project called Flop Network. On August 18, 2026, Arthur Hayes announced that he would return to lead Flop Labs, summarizing the project in one sentence: “$FLOP is food for your AI agent” (FLOP is rations for AI Agents).
This sentence sounds like a joke, yet it accurately captures what Flop wants to do: human beings need to spend money to buy food, while AI Agents need to continuously purchase compute power and storage. Every model inference and every stretch of long-term memory comes with real costs behind it; Flop Network hopes to connect Agents, GPU compute providers, and verifiers with FLOP, establishing a native resource trading and payment system for AI Agents.

TL;DR
· OpenAI’s Q2 revenue and loss figures come from investor-materials summaries; the market is more focused on growth quality.
· Anthropic’s run rate is more aggressive, but audit revenue, gross margin, and channel metrics still need verification.
· Related underlying assets: MSFT, AMZN, GOOG, ORCL, NVDA.
According to media reports such as The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI’s Q2 investor materials show revenue of about $6.7 billion, up 18% month-over-month. Operating loss widened to $12.3 billion. Around the same time, Anthropic’s preliminary revenue and annualized run rate were also disclosed—the numbers are bigger and the growth is faster.