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BlockBeats report: On August 22, Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, posted a reminder saying that Flop Labs has not issued FLOP tokens at present, and there is no presale or meme coin.
Hayes said that FLOP has not yet been officially launched and reminded the community not to mistake related tokens appearing in the market for official assets. He said Flop Labs plans to begin airdrops in the coming months and intends to launch its mainnet next year. Earlier public information showed that the project previously planned to conduct a large-scale airdrop in the fourth quarter of 2026, with a targeted time of the first quarter of 2027 for the mainnet genesis block.

BlockBeats reported that after the U.S. Treasury expanded its long-term Treasury repo program on August 22, the yield on the 30-year U.S. Treasury note fell from a 19-year high of 5.34% to around 5.19%. Bitcoin then rose by about 25% in a matter of days, at one point breaking through $79,000. During the period, about $4.0 billion worth of cryptocurrency short positions were liquidated, further amplifying the rally.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury previously announced that it would increase the size of its longest-duration Treasury bond repurchase (repo) operations from $2.0 billion per transaction to $4.0 billion. Analysts said the operation is not equivalent to Federal Reserve quantitative easing (QE). Its primary role is to improve liquidity in outstanding bonds and optimize the debt structure, but the market views it as a policy-support signal for long-end U.S. Treasury yields.

BlockBeats message, on August 22, The Sandbox official stated that the team has confirmed and fully gained control of the recent SAND cross-chain bridge vulnerability incident, involving the Base and BNB Smart Chain (BSC) networks.
The official said that the impact of this incident is limited, involving an amount of tokens of less than 0.01% of the total SAND supply. SAND on Ethereum and Polygon is unaffected. Users' wallets have not been compromised, and relevant holders and liquidity providers do not need to take action.
According to reports, the attacker minted uncollateralized SAND tokens on the Base and BSC networks by exploiting the vulnerability. Currently, The Sandbox has shut down the SAND cross-chain function on both networks. SAND on Base and BSC has been isolated and cannot be transferred or exchanged for the time being.

BlockBeats message: On August 22, next week the global markets will face multiple risk events, including an escalation of US-Iran sanctions, the Federal Reserve Chair Powell’s first appearance at the Jackson Hole Global Central Banking Conference, the release of US July PCE inflation data, and Nvidia’s earnings disclosure—any of which may become a key variable affecting the direction of risk assets.
This week, a surge in US long-term bond yields sparked market concerns. After the U.S. Treasury expanded the scale of its long-term U.S. Treasury repurchase program, pressure in the bond market eased somewhat, but investors are still watching developments related to the U.S. fiscal deficit, inflation, and the situation in the Middle East.
Driven by concerns over US debt sustainability, a weaker US dollar, and the Treasury’s expansion of its plan to repurchase Treasuries, spot gold this week broke through 4,600 USD per ounce, rising for the third consecutive week. On Friday, it touched a high near 4,632 USD. Analysts believe that if gold can effectively break above 4,600 USD, its next target may point to 4,680 USD and even 4,700 USD.

BlockBeats message: On August 22, U.S. President Trump’s 50% tariffs imposed on certain Canadian goods took effect this week, further escalating trade tensions between the U.S. and Canada and prompting the Canadian government to speed up efforts to find alternative markets, expand domestic trade, and推进 major infrastructure projects to reduce reliance on the U.S. economy.
At present, about 70% of Canada’s exports go to the United States, and the two countries’ economies are tightly linked. Earlier, U.S. tariff measures targeting sectors such as automobiles, steel, aluminum, and lumber had already put pressure on Canada’s manufacturing industry, leading to some job losses and slower economic growth. This year, Canada has even experienced economic contraction for two consecutive quarters, slipping into a technical recession.

Original title: (DeepSeek releases a visual understanding model; the “Big Blue Whale,” among others, has waited for its turn in the spotlight)
Original author: Insights Beating
On August 21, 2026, DeepSeek released a new visual understanding model, deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp, and officially opened the multimodal API. For the first time, developers can send images directly into DeepSeek’s official interface.
The model retains V4 Flash’s 1 million token context window and a maximum output of 384,000 tokens. It supports JSON Output, Tool Calls, and the Responses API, and is also compatible with the Anthropic API.
Pricing is also completely the same as V4 Flash. For every 1 million tokens input, when cache misses occur, the peak rate is 3 yuan and the off-peak rate is 1.5 yuan. When cache hits occur, it is 0.1 yuan and 0.05 yuan, respectively. Output costs are 9 yuan at peak and 4.5 yuan off-peak. In Beijing, 9:00–12:00 and 14:00–18:00 each day are peak hours; the other 17 hours are half price.

BlockBeats message, August 22, (Financial Times) published an article stating that the Trump administration’s economic policies are facing multiple pressures: U.S. federal debt has surpassed $4 trillion, long-term Treasury yields have risen to their highest level in 19 years, a war with Iran is pushing up energy prices, and mortgage rates continue to climb.
This week, the U.S. long-term Treasury market saw sharp volatility. Investors, concerned about the growth in government borrowing and inflation risks brought by war, pushed long-term Treasury yields higher. U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent later announced an expansion of the long-term Treasury buyback program and plans to introduce measures to cut the fiscal deficit, but the market response was limited, and the U.S. dollar weakened instead.

BlockBeats report: On August 22, according to monitoring by Lookonchain, trader loracle.hl has lost more than $70 million in the past 3 months trading Hyperliquid token HYPE.
Currently, loracle.hl holds 685,744 HYPE short positions, valued at approximately $54.88 million. If the HYPE price rises to $101.15, this short position will be liquidated.
Data shows that loracle.hl has previously fallen into losses multiple times from shorting HYPE. Its massive short position attracted market attention, and as the HYPE price keeps rising, short-side pressure continues to increase.
Market participants say that HYPE’s recent upward trend has intensified the risks for leveraged short positions. If the price continues to break through key resistance levels, it could further trigger a chain of liquidations, driving larger short-term volatility.

BlockBeats report: On August 22, according to TradingBeats (formerly Hyperinsight) monitoring, a super giant whale (0x08...a4f8), known for trading in ZEC contracts via swing strategies, had already laid the groundwork by opening a long position in advance. Its current floating profit has reached $6.6 million.
This giant whale initiated its position slightly earlier this time. On July 17, it bought 20,771 ZEC at an average price of $536.43. At that time, the position value was about $11.1 million, and the leverage multiple was only 1x. As of the time of writing, ZEC is quoted at $852. This position is still not realized profit and has reached $6.6 million in unrealized gains, with a floating profit ratio of over 58%.
Looking back at this address’s swing trading records, this is a whale specializing in ZEC trading. Its trading style is highly seasoned and distinctive: it only trades ZEC and repeatedly harvests—since last November, nearly 10 large transactions have all revolved around ZEC, with operations on both the long and short sides. It can be described as a “professional ZEC trader.” The account’s closed trades have a high win rate of 72.73%, with total profits nearing $8 million. It is also skilled at adding positions against the trend while strictly executing low-risk operations. Moreover, its timing is quite precise—on several occasions it caught ZEC market fluctuations during the period. For this round, the whale entered precisely at $536, hitting the launch node. As of now, no sell orders have been posted yet, and it is still patiently waiting for a market turn.