Odaily Planet Daily News: MANTRA published a security incident report on August 20, stating that an attacker exploited a Cosmos EVM integer underflow vulnerability to transfer 720.924 million MANTRA tokens from two addresses, worth approximately $3.6 million at $0.005 per token. Of these, 600 million tokens came from a burn address, and 121 million tokens came from the genesis multisig address. The attack did not involve validators or admin keys. The vulnerability was fixed on the development branch on May 15 and merged into the release branch on August 19. The first abnormal transfer occurred at 11:06 (UTC+8) on August 21, and the MANTRA Chain halted at 15:13 (UTC+8) the same day, restarting under version v8.4.0 on August 22. Of the stolen funds, 683 million tokens were sent to exchange deposit addresses, while the remaining 37.96 million tokens were frozen. Fund recovery has now entered the law enforcement investigation phase.
Odaily News: According to HyperliquidNews monitoring, the number of contracts deployed on HyperEVM has exceeded 800,000.
Odaily News, Arthur Hayes posted on the X platform, stating, "Please continue to have your agents create their unique DID keys on Technocore.chat. Next week, we will announce more ways for agents to collaborate and qualify for additional FLOP airdrop allocations, with the goal of connecting meaningful participation in @flop_labs with economic rewards."
Odaily News - Japan has deployed a record $96.4 billion over the past month to support the yen, after the currency fell to its lowest level in 40 years. This underscores the willingness of Japanese authorities to adopt increasingly aggressive measures to underpin the yen's exchange rate. Data released by Japan's Ministry of Finance on Friday showed that between July 30 and August 26, the government spent a total of 15.4 trillion yen on foreign exchange market intervention, marking a record for monthly intervention spending.
The intervention also received backing from the United States, further signaling to speculators not to bet against the yen. Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato and U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed in early August that the two countries had carried out coordinated intervention on July 31. Both officials stated they were prepared to re-enter the market without hesitation if necessary. The funds deployed by the U.S. were not included in the data released by Japan's Ministry of Finance and are expected to be smaller in scale, but their symbolic significance carries greater weight. (Jin Shi)
Odaily Planet Daily News: ChangXin Memory Technologies (688825.SH) stated in its 2026 semi-annual report that looking ahead to the second half of 2026, the global supply shortage of DRAM products is expected to persist. The company will continue to monitor external factors such as macroeconomic fluctuations and geopolitical situations, face multiple challenges head-on, seize development opportunities, and focus on achieving annual performance growth targets, expanding new application scenarios, landing key projects, and deepening industry-academia-research integration. It aims to make greater breakthroughs in operational efficiency improvement, product iteration and upgrades, long-term development planning, and open collaborative innovation, further strengthening its core competitiveness and expanding its market influence.
Odaily News: ChangXin Technology (688825.SH) announced the release of its semi-annual report for 2026, achieving operating revenue of RMB 150.31 billion, a year-on-year increase of 873.64%; net profit attributable to shareholders of the listed company reached RMB 77.605 billion, turning from a loss to a profit year-on-year. Please note: The company recorded a net profit of RMB 52.843 billion in Q2 and RMB 24.762 billion in Q1, marking a 113% quarter-on-quarter growth in Q2 net profit.
Odaily News, SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung stated at a press conference, "We expect the current market conditions to persist through the end of 2030. At present, we do not see any clear signals indicating the market is entering a downturn."
Kwak Noh-Jung also noted that even if the memory market enters a downturn in the future, the likelihood of a severe decline similar to past cycles is extremely low: "In previous downturns, the memory business was essentially 100% a commodity, with manufacturers competing homogenously primarily by expanding production capacity. However, for HBM, customers and semiconductor manufacturers co-develop the chips, requiring close collaboration to maximize performance, which makes market demand easier to predict."
Odaily News – According to Iran's PressTV, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf forwarded his earlier post in response to U.S. Central Command General Michael Kurilla's claim that American forces have fully taken control of the Strait of Hormuz and cut off Iran's oil exports: "The rules of the game in this war are clear: either everyone can sell oil, or no one can. If our security is not guaranteed, then no infrastructure will be safe. The Strait of Hormuz can only be secure in the absence of U.S. military presence. We have repeatedly stated that the Strait of Hormuz will not return to its pre-war state." (Jinshi)
Odaily News, Bitget's latest data shows that the platform's cumulative TradFi perpetual contract trading volume exceeded $100 billion in August, with the average daily number of trading users growing over 10% month-on-month. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 295 stock contract instruments.
Odaily News: This week, Standard Chartered Bank, Xinglu Technology under Fosun International, and Yunfeng Securities under Yunfeng Financial have successively announced that they have become recognized distributors of the HKD stablecoin HKDAP. Adding to the initially authorized HashKey and OSL Group, the number of authorized distributors for HKDAP has now reached five.
Odaily News: NFT trading platform OpenSea has integrated Perplexity Computer, providing on-chain market data support for its AI agent. Through the OpenSea Connector, Perplexity Computer can query tokens, NFTs, and on-chain activity data spanning over 25 blockchains. Once users enable the OpenSea Connector, they can use the AI agent to access information such as currently trending traded tokens, actively traded assets in the market, popular NFTs, and on-chain trading trends. Responses will be based on OpenSea data and include source citations.
Odaily News, according to GMGN market data, Solana ecosystem Meme coin fone's market cap briefly surpassed $38 million and is now reported at approximately $36.9 million, with a daily increase of 700%.
In terms of narrative, fone revolves around the "apeonfone" concept, summarizing the current trend of Meme coin trading becoming increasingly mobile and social as "an ape on a phone." The project community compares this to the previous cycle's dogwifhat narrative of "a dog with a hat," emphasizing the trading method where users browse social media, receive calls to action, and directly purchase Meme coins through their phones.
Odaily reminds that Meme coin prices are highly volatile, and such community-narrative-driven tokens lack stable fundamental support. Please be aware of trading risks.
According to Odaily, as monitored by Onchain Lens, a whale has unstaked 90,700 HYPE (approximately $7.59 million) and transferred the tokens to Bybit.
Odaily – With the Premier League season progressing, trading for event markets remains open, and the next round of marquee fixtures will kick off on August 29 at 03:00 (UTC+8) and 19:30 (UTC+8). Crystal Palace will face Manchester City, with current support rates of 19% and 59% respectively, and a draw rate of 23%. Following that, Liverpool will take on Nottingham Forest, with current support rates of 65% and 16%, and a draw rate of 21%.
The total prize pool for the second phase of the Gate event points campaign currently stands at $18,699, including a points pool of $14,935 and a lucky jackpot pool of $10,907, with the prize pool continuing to grow. As of now, the No. 1 player on the leaderboard is projected to receive 5,609 USDT. Users who enter the Gate App (v8.32 or above) and complete valid event contract trades can earn scratch cards based on cumulative trading volume. Under the standard market, each cumulative 20 USDT traded earns 1 scratch card, while for designated events marked with a "2x" label, each cumulative 10 USDT traded earns 1 scratch card. Users have the opportunity to win rewards such as USDT, event points, and trial vouchers, as well as the chance to trigger a super jackpot prize, winning 88,888 PTS points and a share of the lucky jackpot pool. Additionally, the top 100 users on the weekly leaderboard can share in the points pool.
Furthermore, from August 12 at 16:00 to August 31 at 16:00 (UTC+8), Gate is launching a limited-time prediction campaign, "Kick-off Carnival for Europe's Top Five Leagues," with a total prize pool of up to 200,000 USDT. During the campaign, users who participate in event trading for designated football matches can receive a 10 USDT prediction trial voucher; if users' predictions on top-tier teams result in a loss in the opening matches, they can receive up to 100 USDT in compensation. As the official sponsor of Inter Milan, Gate will also select 10 lucky users to receive co-branded jerseys. Additionally, the top 100 users on the cumulative trading volume leaderboard can share in a 50,000 USDT prize pool.
Odaily星球日报讯 波场 TRON 主网第 107 号委员会提案正式通过并生效，GreatVoyage-v4.8.2 中引入的 TVM Prague 与 Osaka 兼容特性同步启用。此次更新支持从链上状态直接读取历史区块 Hash，并新增 CLZ 指令、原生支持 Passkey 验证的 secp256r1 预编译合约，同时优化 MODEXP 能量消耗。
随着相关特性上线，TVM 与 Ethereum Prague、Osaka 升级的兼容性进一步提升，为智能合约开发、工具迁移及 EVM 生态应用适配提供更完善的开发环境。
Odaily reported that according to Lookonchain monitoring, Machi (@machibigbrother) bid $1 million to acquire Friendtech after losing over $16 million on FRIEND, driving FRIEND up nearly 30x. A wallet suspected to be an insider (0x2078...0929) spent $4,700 to buy 2 million FRIEND after being dormant for 6 months. After FRIEND's surge, the wallet sold 2 million FRIEND for 20.25 ETH ($50,800), netting a profit of 18.37 ETH ($46,000) — a return of nearly 10x.
