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PANews 8月21日消息，欧易OKX行情显示，BTC刚刚突破73000美元，现报73042.80美元/枚，日内涨幅 0.79%。

PANews 8月21日消息，据Bybit行情，美股三大指数集体收跌，道指跌1.24%，纳指跌0.83%，标普500指数跌0.84%。加密概念股涨跌不一，其中COIN(Coinbase)日内上涨5.80%；HOOD（Robinhood）日内下跌1.95%。

PANews August 20—According to official information, Huobi HTX Asset Research Analyst YT appeared on Huobi Kakaku Lecture Hall (Episode 6). The session, titled "TradFi Perpetual Contracts: Asset Allocation from Trading Entry to Macroeconomic Drivers," featured a sharing session by YT. YT said that the same stock can be involved through different instruments such as direct equity holdings, tokenized stocks, perpetual contracts, and options. Accordingly, the corresponding rights, costs, and risks differ as well. Therefore, before placing an order, traders first need to clarify the specific underlying asset and instrument being traded, and fully understand the relevant trading rules.
When discussing TradFi asset selection, YT said that in the current AI boom, rather than blindly chasing second- and third-tier companies that are just trying to ride the AI hype, it would be better to prioritize leading enterprises that have mastered key bottlenecks and pricing power. When selecting leading companies, one can focus on three dimensions: market share, the quality of profits, and growth certainty.

PANews August 20 news: According to The Block, Eightco, a Nasdaq-listed company, repurchased 14 million shares of stock in the past two weeks, and currently holds shares with a total value of about $389 million. Its treasury includes nearly $302 million worth of WLD, 16,278 ETH, a $90 million indirect investment in OpenAI, and a $18 million equity stake in Beast Industries.
Earlier news: Eightco disclosed an asset reserve of $378 million, holding 302 million WLD tokens and more than 16,000 ETH.

PANews August 21 news: According to CoinDesk, Bitcoin’s recent upward momentum has strengthened, as it is approaching the formation of a technical pattern widely viewed by the market as a long-term bullish signal. Currently, Bitcoin’s 50-day moving average is about $639,760, and its 200-day moving average is about $690,050. If the 50-day moving average continues to rise and breaks above the 200-day moving average, the market may see a “golden cross” signal.
The 200-day moving average is often used to judge an asset’s long-term trend. Holding above this indicator for a sustained period is often regarded as a signal that the market is shifting from a bear market to a bull market; conversely, falling below the 200-day moving average may indicate that the long-term trend is weakening.

PANews August 20 message: According to Whale Alert monitoring, 700 BTC were transferred from an unknown wallet to Coinbase, worth approximately $50,092,164.

PANews, August 21: According to Bloomberg, Franklin Templeton plans to bring tokenized assets into traditional investment fund products. The move follows the company obtaining the relevant approval from U.S. regulators for applying digital-native products to traditional funds.
Franklin Templeton executives said the company plans to use its tokenized money market funds in ETF and mutual fund products. The funds can serve both as holdings in investment funds and as collateral. This means investors may not need to actively buy crypto assets, and could instead gain exposure to tokenized assets issued on blockchains within traditional investment portfolios.

PANews August 21. According to a report by Yonhap News Agency, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung met with SK Group chairman Choi Tae-won on Thursday. The two sides are reportedly likely to discuss South Korea’s “three major super projects,” with a focus on the development of the semiconductor and artificial intelligence (AI) industries.
According to a source, during dinner, Lee Jae-myung and Choi Tae-won held discussions that may have covered issues related to the “three major projects,” including SK hynix’s investment plans in the southwestern region of South Korea.
The meeting comes as the market is paying close attention to South Korea’s semiconductor industry investment trends. Some believe the United States may ask South Korea to increase its investment in the U.S. semiconductor industry as part of Seoul’s investment commitments to the U.S. However, South Korea’s Minister of Trade, Industry and Resources, Joo Jeong-gwan, said that the two sides have not yet discussed the matter.

PANews, August 21—Asset management giant Franklin Templeton announced that its first collateralized fund obligation (CFO), Franklin Templeton Structured Solutions 2026, L.P., has successfully completed its fundraising, attracting $1.5 billion from global investors. Evercore served as the structuring adviser and placement agent for the transaction, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP acted as the issuer’s legal adviser.
Franklin Templeton said that the successful issuance of this CFO has established a new capital-raising channel for the company’s private market platform, helping it seize growth opportunities in demand for structured private investments and further expand its reach to investor groups such as registered investment advisers (RIAs), family offices, insurance companies, and wealth management institutions.

PANews August 21: According to CCTV News, US President Donald Trump announced that James Bred, White House legislative affairs director, will resign in September. Other reports say that Bred is a senior aide responsible for liaising between the White House and Congress. Bred is another White House aide scheduled to leave soon. On the 12th, Trump said that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will step down at the end of August to spend more time with her family.

PANews August 21, according to 21st Century Business Herald, the “suction effect” of AI on the semiconductor industry chain is still intensifying. In the second half of 2026, a new wave of chip price hikes is set to sweep across the market with broader coverage and stronger impact.
RF chip leader Zhuo Shengwei has released a price adjustment notice, announcing that from September 1 it will apply new prices to all series of RF products. The following day, Guomin Technology followed suit by raising the prices of some MCU products by 10% to 20%. For international manufacturers, STMicroelectronics (ST) will complete its third intra-year price adjustment on August 23, and Analog Devices (ADI) will also implement its second round of new prices starting September 13.

PANews Aug 21 message, citing CoinDesk: Long-term bond market investors and macro strategist Mark Connors said the U.S. Treasury plans to conduct regular repurchases of long-term Treasuries, which could become an important catalyst for the next round of Bitcoin gains and create conditions for BTC to move toward its $180,000 target.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that the government expects to carry out routine long-term Treasury repurchase operations and may expand the scale beyond the previously announced $4.0 billion plan. Bessent said the government hopes to use these tools to stabilize the bond market and ensure that yield levels reflect economic fundamentals. After the news was released, the price of Bitcoin rose further, once approaching $73,000.

PANews, August 21—Crypto reporter Eleanor Terrett posted that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Innovation Advisory Committee will hold its first meeting today at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The meeting will focus on issues including cryptocurrencies, artificial intelligence (AI), and prediction markets. It is understood that several industry executives who attended related events at the White House yesterday will also take part in the meeting, including representatives from the crypto industry, traditional finance, academia, and the prediction market sector.
The establishment of this Innovation Advisory Committee is seen as an important step for the CFTC to strengthen communication with emerging technology industries. The market expects that the meeting will focus on cutting-edge topics such as digital asset regulation, the application of AI technologies, and the development of prediction markets.

PANews August 21 message: Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase posted on X that: “It seems like a good time to ask X again, hoping to bring back the Bitcoin emoji to X.”

PANews, August 21—According to CoinDesk, Bitcoin’s sharp rise this week was likely driven mainly by easing pressure in the U.S. Treasury market. Previously, the White House sent signals of support for stabilizing the U.S. Treasury market, easing investors’ concerns about volatility in the bond market. However, the longer-term trend still depends on changes in the Federal Reserve’s liquidity policy.
Analyst Pedro Fontes said that if the world’s largest debt market needs policy support to maintain stable operation, it will further strengthen demand for scarce, predictable assets that do not rely on a logic of expanding government debt—and Bitcoin fits this profile. At the same time, the U.S. Dollar Index fell 0.88% yesterday to 98.77, reaching a new low since May.

PA News, August 21—According to Fox News, the U.S. Department of the Treasury said it has proposed developing common-sense and low-cost investment rules for the “Trump account,” and would prohibit ESG funds from being included in the “Trump account.” It is understood that the provisions restricting ESG funds from being included in the Trump account run in parallel with other rules designed to ensure that account investment options remain low in cost, so as to keep more money for investors.
Note: ESG funds refer to funds that, in investment decision-making, consider not only a company's financial performance, but also include three categories of factors—environmental, social, and governance—in the screening criteria.

PANews Aug 20 (Reuters) According to a report by China Finance and Economics Daily, US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that because companies believe they will receive high returns from investments in artificial intelligence in the future, the corporate bond issuance he has seen is “nearly insensitive to yields.”

PANews August 20 news, according to Bitcoin Magazine. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said, “I think we’re very likely at the beginning of the next bull market.” “Look at the vote on September 15 for the (Clarity Act), and the months of October, November, and December following the Bitcoin halving cycle—those months often are good times for Bitcoin.”

PANews, August 20—According to Decrypt, the privacy blockchain project Beldex announced that it has completed a $8 million funding round, led by Sigma Capital, with participation from NTC, Nxgen, Digital Consensus Fund, and EAK Ventures.
Beldex is exploring the use of its privacy technologies to protect the identity, payments, communications, and data processing processes of AI agents, including research into privacy-preserving AI identities, encrypted AI communications, confidential payments, secure AI execution, and technologies such as fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) and secure memory. The new funding will be used to develop developer tools, privacy applications, protocol security, build AI infrastructure, and expand the ecosystem.