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BlockBeats 消息，8 月 19 日，特斯拉计划最早于本月在美国得州奥斯汀公开发布无人驾驶出租车 Cybercab。该车型采用无方向盘、无踏板设计，目前特斯拉员工已在公司园区私人道路上测试完全无人驾驶版本。
报道称，Cybercab 基于特斯拉 FSD 软件运行，但其自动驾驶能力及安全性仍受到质疑。美国国家公路交通安全管理局（NHTSA）目前仍在调查特斯拉 FSD 涉及的交通规则遵守问题，而现有 Robotaxi 服务在部分市场仍配备人类安全员。Cybercab 则设计为无需车内人员干预，特斯拉计划通过远程操作员应对紧急情况，并已开始为车辆加入 Starlink 连接。
数据规模同样是一个问题。特斯拉方面 7 月曾表示，需要积累针对 Cybercab 的专用驾驶数据。截至目前，特斯拉无人监督 Robotaxi 在 6 座城市累计行驶约 38 万英里，而 Waymo 自 2020 年以来已在公共道路完成超过 2.2 亿英里的完全无人驾驶里程。
此外，Cybercab 缺少传统驾驶控制装置，可能受到美国联邦车辆安全法规限制。报道称，特斯拉是否正在寻求监管豁免尚不明确。The Verge 指出，随着 Cybercab 临近发布，其商业化运营所需的自动驾驶安全性及监管审批仍存在较大不确定性。

BlockBeats message. On August 19, Hong Kong police recently disclosed a crypto-investment scam targeting the elderly. An elderly man in his 80s, who retired, clicked on a false link in an online pop-up advertisement this June and downloaded a fake app called “Trust Wallet,” which impersonated a cryptocurrency platform.
The scammers then impersonated the platform’s customer service and lured him into investing with the promise of “high returns and big money.” Following their instructions, the victim withdrew money from his bank and used a cryptocurrency exchange shop to convert the cash into cryptocurrency. Over the following month and a half, in multiple transactions, he transferred ETH worth more than HK$5 million in total to wallets specified by the scammers. Only after he was unable to withdraw funds from the fake app and the “customer service” disappeared did he realize he had been scammed.

BlockBeats report: On August 18, the day before, the peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading platform NoOnes published a post announcing that after operating for more than three years, it would begin gradually shutting down its business. The official said it had continued to seek solutions and the removal of sanctions against NoOnes, but ultimately failed.
NoOnes said that the relevant sanctions caused it to lose key partners, and that blockchain monitoring organizations mark transactions related to NoOnes as high-risk, making it increasingly difficult for the platform to continue operating normally.
According to the official arrangement, the business contraction began on August 17, and the P2P market will be closed at 23:59 UTC on August 21. Services such as Swap, NoOnes Visa, fiat withdrawals, gift card stores, and the Bitcoin Lightning Network will also be discontinued one after another. After that, the platform will only support withdrawals; users will still be able to log in, view their balances, and withdraw remaining assets.

BlockBeats message: On August 18, according to an official announcement, the Hyperliquid Policy Center (HPC) and trade[XYZ] submitted a joint comment letter to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), recommending the introduction of an “IPO Pre-Perpetual Contract” (IPOP) to provide a public, continuous price discovery mechanism for companies about to go public.
According to reports, IPOP allows traders to go long or short around a company’s stock price in the weeks leading up to the company’s expected listing, but does not grant holders any shares, allocations, voting rights, or other rights in the issuer. The product will end once the company goes public.

BlockBeats message. On August 18, Unitree Technologies will officially be listed for trading tomorrow (August 19). Currently, on Trade.xyz, the pre-IPO perpetual contract for Unitree (Unitree) is quoted at $100.71, or about RMB 678.85. This is roughly 3.5 times higher than the issue price of RMB 150.8.
Based on current over-the-counter prices, if you subscribe with one lot at the issue price, the theoretical unrealized profit is about RMB 263,900.
For this STAR Market IPO, 40.4464 million shares are planned to be issued, accounting for 10% of the total share capital after the issuance. One lot is 500 shares, and the subscription payment per lot is about RMB 75,400. Previously, when applying for new shares and winning, as long as the average daily market value of the Shanghai account reached or exceeded RMB 60,000, you could obtain 12 allotment numbers and submit the maximum application for 6,000 shares, meaning the chances of winning for eligible large account holders and retail investors are exactly the same.

According to a BlockBeats report on August 18, the prediction market platform Kalshi has submitted regulatory filings to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to seek approval to launch perpetual futures linked to a stock index, further expanding from prediction markets into the traditional financial derivatives sector.
The file display: Kalshi’s proposed "US500" perpetual futures will track the MerQube U.S. Large-Cap Stock Index, which covers 500 large enterprises listed in the United States. Perpetual futures have no expiration date. Traders do not need to hold the underlying asset, and the contract continuously tracks the underlying price through a funding rate mechanism.

BlockBeats message. On August 18, Binance disclosed that its security team recently found, through independent monitoring, a malicious governance proposal targeting a certain project’s DAO. The proposal could put approximately $1.2 million worth of DAO treasury tokens at risk.
The attack leveraged a vulnerability in the project’s on-chain governance mechanism, attempting to bypass existing protocol requirements. When the threat was detected, less than 48 hours remained before the malicious proposal could be executed. Binance’s security team then contacted the project team and coordinated with other centralized exchanges that had listed the token to implement precautionary measures, pausing token deposits to reduce the risk of potentially stolen funds being transferred via trading platforms.

BlockBeats update: On August 18, Block’s payments app Cash App is integrating with the crypto payments platform MoonPay, for the first time expanding the scope of supported crypto assets from Bitcoin and USDC to more digital assets.
Eligible U.S. Cash App users can directly use their Cash App balance to buy a variety of digital assets, including Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), XRP, and USDT, via MoonPay. They can also use their Cash App balance to top up wallets such as Ledger, BitPay, Trust Wallet, MetaMask, and Uniswap.
Cash App has more than 50 million users. Previously, it mainly supported Bitcoin trading, and earlier this year added support for USDC. This partnership with MoonPay means Block does not need to build the infrastructure to support trading multiple digital assets on its own, and can instead meet users’ demand for more crypto assets.

BlockBeats report: On August 18, as the technical expiration of the 60-day interim understanding memorandum between the United States and Iran approaches, Iran announced that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until the United States meets the relevant conditions, and said it has shifted to a “full offensive” strategic posture.
Iran’s chief negotiator, Kalibaf, said that the United States must lift the blockade of Iranian ports and oil sanctions, release Iran’s frozen assets, and fully stop military actions and threats across all fronts. Before that, the Strait of Hormuz will not reopen.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Araghchi said that Iran insists on fighting until the other side accepts its conditions before agreeing to a ceasefire, adding that “Iran has won both the war and the diplomacy.”

BlockBeats message: On August 18, Bitcoin has recently been trading sideways. The market is closely watching the surging global bond yields. Sean Farrell, head of digital asset strategy at Fundstrat, said that Bitcoin’s recent volatility is at an all-time low. Over the next few months, extreme market conditions may emerge. Historical data shows that in similar situations, the median level of Bitcoin’s absolute 60-day volatility is about 30%.
This week, global bond yields surged sharply. The yield on the U.S. 30-year Treasury reached the highest level since 2002, the 20-year yield hit a new high since 2006, and the 10-year yield rose to the highest level since 2007. The market believes that factors such as a widening U.S. fiscal deficit, rising costs for AI infrastructure, high oil prices, and uncertainty in monetary policy are collectively pushing up long-term yields.

BlockBeats report: On August 18, according to BIT (Bit.com) market data, the pre-market price of U.S. Metaverse company Super League once expanded to 90%, but the gain has since pulled back to 70%.
On the market-facing front, Metaplanet will inject 2,100 BTC into Nasdaq-listed company Super League (SLE), worth approximately $132 million, and will additionally put in $2.5 million in cash. Super League will be renamed "Superplanet," and its stock ticker is expected to change to SUPA.
After the transaction is completed, Metaplanet expects to hold approximately 95.7% of Superplanet’s shares, building a U.S.-listed Bitcoin treasury platform to raise financing through the U.S. capital markets.

BlockBeats news: On August 18, before the U.S. market opened on Tuesday, a roundup of major news is as follows:
1. Or affected by Anthropic’s annual revenue coming in below expectations, the top three U.S. stock indexes before the open, as well as storage and optical communications sectors, fell across the board. Bloomberg previously reported that as of the end of July, Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate was around $65 billion. Against the backdrop that some third-party data and AI-sector optimism had pointed to $80 billion or more, $65 billion may indicate that the growth rate is slowing.
2. Summarize the 13F regulatory filing data: in the first half of 2026, more than a dozen family offices held a combined total of at least $3.8 billion in shares of SpaceX (SPCX.O).