Odaily News, Gate data shows that the Nikkei 225 index closed down 1759.52 points, or 2.54%, at 67,460.73 points on Tuesday, August 18. The Korea KOSPI index closed down 108.14 points, or 1.55%, at 6,869.8 points on Tuesday, August 18.
Odaily News – According to the latest report by The Economist Enterprise, after 13 years of development and multiple strategic upgrades, Gate is gradually evolving from a traditional crypto asset trading platform into a comprehensive financial infrastructure connecting digital assets with traditional financial markets. The report notes that as more traditional financial products — including stocks, ETFs, tokenized assets, forex, and metals — enter the digital asset ecosystem, Gate is leveraging its multi-asset product layout and global infrastructure development to further bridge the gap between crypto finance and TradFi. In the interview, Gate Founder and CEO Dr. Han stated that as the industry evolves, digital asset platforms are no longer facing only technical challenges, but also risk management, user protection, and industry regulation.
In terms of TradFi integration, Gate has established a multi-layered framework spanning tokenized assets, derivatives, and native stock trading, successively launching products and services such as xStocks, Ondo, Gate TradFi, Pre-IPOs, Direct IPO Access, and Gate Stocks. Among these, Gate Stocks now supports stock trading in the U.S., Hong Kong, and South Korea, significantly lowering the barrier for global users to participate in traditional financial markets. Meanwhile, Gate continues to enhance its 24/7 trading and liquidity infrastructure to meet the cross-market asset allocation needs of users worldwide.
The Economist Enterprise also pointed out that as the digital asset market moves further toward institutionalization, compliance, transparency, and infrastructure capabilities are becoming key components of platform competitiveness. Gate continues to advance its compliance framework across multiple global jurisdictions and has provided third-party audits and open-source Proof of Reserves since 2020. In addition, Gate is introducing AI infrastructure into Web3, connecting AI with trading, wallets, and more services through products such as Gate AI, Gate MCP, and GateClaw, driving the platform's evolution from a traditional trading venue into a comprehensive financial infrastructure that connects digital assets, traditional finance, and AI applications.
Odaily News, according to Taiwan's Economic Daily News, Taiwanese power semiconductor manufacturers are preparing for a third round of price adjustments, with the earliest increases of 10% to 15% for non-contract products starting in October. Industry players are optimistic about the second-half performance of manufacturers such as Taiwan Semiconductor, Panjit, and Eris Tech, expecting both volume and prices to rise. (Jin10)
Odaily 讯 比特币 5.7 万美元价位是杠杆多单的关键清算位，若触发清算，流动性薄弱状况可能放大由清算驱动的抛售。 尽管存在下行风险，比特币价格表现出韧性，且潜在的头肩底形态使看涨逻辑仍然存在。（CoinDesk）
Odaily News: As Nvidia teams up with Wall Street to offer rescue financing everywhere, Jeffrey Gundlach, CEO of DoubleLine Capital and widely known as the "New Bond King," has issued a fresh warning that Wall Street's attempt to turn AI chips into an investable asset class could signal an imminent market top. Gundlach criticized Nvidia's recently announced partnerships with six financial giants, which aim to raise more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure. In these deals, Nvidia will act as the lead partner rather than the capital provider—essentially leveraging its own high credit rating to help control clients' financing costs.
Odaily News, According to Gate data, Korea's KOSPI index has extended its decline to 2%, after rising over 3% earlier in the morning session.
Odaily News: Masahiro Ichikawa, a strategist at Sumitomo Mitsui DS Asset Management, stated that if the Japanese government demonstrates a commitment to fiscal discipline and maintains an appropriate pace of interest rate hikes by the Bank of Japan, further depreciation of the yen could be curbed without repeated intervention in the foreign exchange market. Ichikawa added that although government intervention is often difficult to change the overall market trend, the recent intervention was effective because it successfully halted the rapid, disorderly decline of the yen against the U.S. dollar toward the 164 level. (Jinshi)
Odaily News, Gate data shows that spot silver fell more than $1 during the day, now reported at $64.78 per ounce, down 1.52%.
1. Fundstrat: Bitcoin may see a sharp swing of around 30% in the next 60 days, with the direction still unclear;
2. A Solana whale that had been dormant for over two years has bought 47,535 SOL again;
3. The largest long position holder of CXMT has accumulated profits of $5.46 million over 34 days, with 40% coming from funding fees;
4. "AI stock guru" fund sells Taiyo Yuden shares to institutions including Citadel;
5. Uniswap founder: tokenization will reshape global market liquidity, and AMMs may eventually replace some traditional market makers;
6. Riot Platforms sold 9,665 bitcoins in the first half of the year, with transaction volume reaching $732 million.
Odaily Planet Daily News Fundstrat Head of Digital Asset Strategy Sean Farrell stated that Bitcoin's price volatility over the past 30 days is at one of the lowest levels in history, and historical data shows that periods of low volatility are often followed by significant price movements. In the 8 similar instances tracked, Bitcoin's median absolute price change over the subsequent 60 days was 30.2%, with 4 increases and 4 decreases, indicating that the signal primarily points to the magnitude of volatility rather than a specific direction.
Farrell also noted that Monday's roughly 2% rebound in Bitcoin was mainly driven by short covering, with open interest on a coin-based basis falling about 8% since last Friday. He believes that persistently rising real yields could act as a potential catalyst to break Bitcoin out of its current low-volatility state. (beincrypto)
