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Once one of the standout names in the PerpDEX wave, Aster was previously seen as a potential rival to Hyperliquid thanks to the backing of CZ and Binance. However, in recent periods, as new competitors continue to emerge with more attractive incentive models, better-optimized products, and increasingly competitive trading experiences, Aster appears to be gradually losing the advantages that once helped the project stand out. Key Takeaways:Aster is weakening after its explosive growth phase, with

Key TakeawaysArthur Hayes, the BitMEX co-founder, announced on August 18, 2026 that he is coming out of retirement to serve as CEO of Flop Labs, a new venture building Flop Network and its native FLOP token, which he describes as "food for your AI agent."Flop Network aims to be the payment and infrastructure layer of the agentic economy, where autonomous AI agents buy compute, inference and decentralized memory and transact with each other without human approval at every step.The project propose

Key TakeawaysBitcoin (BTC) trades near $77,000 after briefly approaching $80,000, up more than 21% in a week, its biggest weekly candle since 2023, and up about 23% in August, on track for its best August since 2017.The rally was ignited by the US Treasury's decision to expand buybacks of long dated government debt, roughly doubling the maximum size of individual operations, alongside President Trump's renewed call for Congress to pass crypto legislation and more than $1.2 billion in short liqui

Key TakeawaysUnitree Robotics (688836) debuted on Shanghai's STAR Market on Wednesday, August 19, 2026, opening 629% above its 150.80 yuan IPO price at 1,100 yuan, briefly commanding a valuation near $66 billion before closing at 845 yuan, up 460%, worth about $50 billion.The 6.1 billion yuan ($905 million) offering was oversubscribed more than 8,000 times, a STAR Market record, after the fastest registration to approval run in the exchange's history, and it made Unitree the first humanoid robot

Solana is facing a potentially important shift in its token economics as validators vote on governance proposals that could reduce the rate at which new SOL enters circulation while significantly increasing the amount burned through transaction fees. The changes come as the network continues to expand its activity and debate how much inflation is necessary to support validators.Two proposals are at the center of the current vote. One would accelerate Solana’s scheduled decline in inflation, whil

Overview Global artificial intelligence compute leader Nvidia has reportedly informed key enterprise customers and cloud hyperscalers that server systems equipped with next-generation Vera Rubin architectures and advanced Grace Blackwell platforms could experience price increases exceeding 15% upon volume shipments in 2027. According to supply chain investigations published by Reuters, the structural catalyst driving this rack-scale hardware inflation is not foundational foundry wafer fabricatio

1.Today's market: Closing on August 24th, index differentiation, money moved from growth to defenseFirst, let's look at the closing of the day. The Dow closed, the S & P and the Nasdaq closed, which is not as simple as "ups and downs", but funds are changing positions : the technology sector fell about 0.97% on average that day, and the consumer defense sector rose about 1.82%. NVIDIA (NVDA) fell 2.91% to $208.48. It is worth noting that there was no new news about it on the day, and this drop b

Overview As Nvidia prepares to release its latest fiscal quarterly earnings report, institutional market participants are shifting their focus toward a profound structural inquiry. According to a market investigation published by Reuters, investors looking beyond consensus revenue estimates of roughly $92 billion are scrutinizing a sensitive corporate finance question: is Nvidia's explosive hardware growth becoming reliant on circular financing mechanisms? In addition to supplying high-performan

Overview Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is scheduled to release its fiscal second-quarter financial results on August 26 after the close of standard US equity markets. As the most influential component across the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 indices, the equity faces heightened volatility. Options markets are currently pricing an implied post-earnings move of approximately plus or minus 5.4%, translating to a potential market capitalization swing of roughly $280 billion in a single trading session. Heading int

SHEIN is offering its Hong Kong IPO shares at HK$47.60 to HK$49.50 each, putting an official public-market valuation range on the company after years of private fundraising.The offering includes 279,992,500 Class B shares, or roughly 280 million shares. At the top of the range, the base deal would generate approximately HK$13.86 billion in gross proceeds before fees and any over-allotment, while valuing SHEIN at about HK$210.2 billion, or US$26.8 billion.That valuation is roughly 70% below the U