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
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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
Bitcoin has entered a stronger phase after recovering above the $70,000 mark, with investors increasingly focused on developments in U.S. bond markets and their potential effect on global liquidity. The latest catalyst is the U.S. Treasury’s decision to increase the size of its long-dated bond buybacks.The Treasury said liquidity-support purchases for longer-dated nominal coupon securities will rise to at least $4 billion per operation from a previous $2 billion maximum, beginning September 9. M
The Federal Reserve’s latest meeting minutes have provided investors with a clearer look at the debate taking place inside the U.S. central bank. Released on August 19, the minutes from the July 28–29 Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting reveal a divided policy discussion, with most officials supporting unchanged interest rates while several policymakers argued that inflation warranted additional tightening.The FOMC maintained the federal funds target range at 3.50%–3.75%, but the decisi
Key takeawaysMerck and Moderna announced that the Phase 3 INTerpath-001 trial of intismeran autogene plus Keytruda met its primary endpoint of recurrence-free survival and a key secondary endpoint of distant metastasis-free survival in 1,137 patients with completely resected stage IIB-IV melanoma, randomized 2:1 against Keytruda alone. It is the first positive Phase 3 readout for an individualized neoantigen therapy and for any mRNA-based cancer treatment, in a field that has produced very few a
Key takeawaysArthur Hayes announced that he is taking the CEO role at Flop Labs, which is building Flop Network and its native FLOP token, pitched as "food for your AI agent" and intended as the currency agents use to buy inference, compute and persistent memory. The launch carries no presale and no venture capital allocation, with a large-scale airdrop planned for Q4 2026 and the genesis block targeted for Q1 2027, meaning the token is scheduled to be distributed a full quarter before the chain
Key takeawaysUnitree Robotics opened on the Shanghai STAR Market, 629.44% above its issue price, briefly valuing the first humanoid robotics company to list in mainland China at about $66 billion, before closing at roughly $50 billion. The retail tranche was oversubscribed more than 8,000 times, a STAR Market record, with 9.8 million accounts competing for approximately 9.7 million shares against a freely circulating float near 7.4% of share capital. Founder Wang Xingxing's 121.4 million shares
MicroStrategy, now known as Strategy, has long been known for its aggressive Bitcoin accumulation strategy and its near-total reluctance to sell. But recently, the company has made a notable shift in how it manages its massive Bitcoin holdings. Instead of treating BTC purely as a long-term reserve asset, Strategy is beginning to approach it as a tool for optimizing its capital structure and maintaining liquidity.The question many investors are now asking is: can this new strategy still have the
Executive SummaryCerebras Systems (NASDAQ:CBRS) fell 12.69% on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, closing at $220.01, even as the company unveiled its next-generation CS-4 AI accelerator at its flagship Supernova event.The CS-4 delivers up to 30 times faster inference than GPU-based systems, twice the speed of its CS-3 predecessor, and up to 10 times more throughput per watt.Cerebras and OpenAI jointly introduced Ultrafast mode, a new GPT-5.6 Sol service tier running at up to 14 times the speed of standa

