Odaily News: Sources say that if Trump escalates the war, Iran is considering including military targets in Europe within its strike range. The sources stated that Iran's military has assessed striking U.S. military assets in Southeastern European countries such as Bulgaria. Iran's military has also evaluated plans to cut undersea fiber optic cables in the Strait of Hormuz in the event of an escalation. (Financial Times)

According to SoSoValue data, yesterday (August 18, Eastern Time), Ethereum spot ETFs saw a total net inflow of $71.468 million.

The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest single-day net inflow was BlackRock's ETF ETHA, recording a daily net inflow of $64.6814 million. To date, ETHA's cumulative total net inflow has reached $11.724 billion.

This was followed by Grayscale's Ethereum Mini Trust ETF ETH, with a single-day net inflow of $2.7368 million, bringing its historical cumulative net inflow to $1.822 billion.

As of press time, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs stands at $10.828 billion, with the ETF net asset ratio (market value as a percentage of Ethereum's total market cap) reaching 4.69%. The historical cumulative net inflow has reached $11.555 billion.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, market data shows that all three major A-share indices opened lower and continued to decline in the morning session. By midday close, the Shanghai Composite Index fell 1.96%, the Shenzhen Component Index fell 3.97%, and the ChiNext Index fell 4.98%. The STAR 50 Index fell 6.07%. The combined half-day trading volume on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges reached 1.62 trillion yuan, down 18.2 billion yuan from the previous trading day. On its first day of listing, Unitree Robotics rose 486.12% in the morning session, with trading volume exceeding 17.7 billion yuan.

Odaily News, ultra posted on X platform stating that Kaito Pulse uses hash computation to fingerprint users' GPU rendering, hardware models, and hardware test audio, binding this unique combination to users' X accounts. Additionally, it can capture users' complete browsing history, feed hover time, clicks, and follow status, sending heartbeat packets with activity detection at 30-second intervals. Furthermore, the tool can read subscription plans and quota consumption ratios for Claude and ChatGPT, automatically click into the Usage page in ChatGPT, and automatically access the Positions tab on Binance, resending authenticated requests to read wallet balances, futures positions, profit/loss, and deposit/withdrawal history. Kaito AI announced its new browser plugin product Kaito Pulse yesterday, which aims to bring off-platform activities directly into the native X timeline.

Odaily News Unitree Technology surged over 500% after its market debut, pushing its market cap above 350 billion yuan. Prior to the offering, Unitree Technology had set up an equity incentive platform, Shanghai Yuyi. According to the prospectus, before the issuance, Shanghai Yuyi held 39.8286 million shares of the company, representing a 10.9414% stake. Yang Zhiyu, Head of Mechanical Structure, Chen Li, Head of Sales and Service System, and Zhang Yangguang, Head of Algorithms and Software, indirectly held 0.49%, 0.26%, and 0.15% of the company's shares respectively through Shanghai Yuyi. Based on a market cap of 350 billion yuan, their respective holdings are valued at 1.715 billion yuan, 910 million yuan, and 525 million yuan. (Yicai)

Odaily reported that "White-Haired Stock God" Serenity stated that Unitree (688836) surged significantly after its listing, providing an important valuation benchmark for humanoid robot companies in the public market. As a reference, Agility Robotics, backed by NVIDIA, Amazon, and others, plans to go public via Churchill Capital Corp XI (CCXI), with a pre-money valuation of approximately $2.5 billion. Tesla's market cap has already exceeded $1 trillion, but the Optimus humanoid robot business is only a part of this sprawling company.

Serenity noted that Unitree's performance demonstrates that public market demand for "pure-play humanoid robot targets" is far higher than many had previously anticipated.

Odaily News: Market data shows that the Southern East Ying SK Hynix Daily Leverage (up to 2x) on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange fell over 15%, reporting 31.340 HKD; the Southern (up to 2x) long Samsung Electronics product fell nearly 14%, reporting 69.680 HKD.

Odaily News - Aligned announced the details of the ALIGN airdrop on Tuesday, 20 months after the airdrop registration deadline. The company has not yet announced the TGE date. The genesis airdrop accounts for 8.74% of the total supply of 10 billion ALIGN tokens, with 44.36% of that unlocked at TGE, representing approximately 3.88% of the total supply. The airdrop is divided into two parts: the community allocation accounts for approximately 6.54% of the total supply, and users holding no more than 10,000 ALIGN tokens in their wallets will receive a full unlock at TGE; users holding more than 10,000 tokens will receive 10,000 ALIGN at TGE, with the remainder released linearly over a 12-month period. Small allocations can be claimed on the Base network, while large allocations can be claimed on the Ethereum mainnet. The ZK Arcade game activity allocation accounts for 0.10% of the total supply and will be fully unlocked at TGE.

Odaily News: U.S. President Trump posted on social media, stating: In light of the agreement reached between Canada and the United States, I have suspended the 50% tariff on Canada that was set to take effect tomorrow morning, for a period of three days. The relevant documents are still pending finalization. The Keystone XL pipeline, which was previously killed by Joe Biden, may be revived. (Jin10)

Odaily Planet Daily News Unitree Robotics debuted on the STAR Market today, surging 629.44% at the open. Based on the issue price of 150.80 yuan per share, online investors selling one lot could pocket 474,600 yuan. Based on this calculation, Meituan's affiliates are the largest external shareholders in Unitree Robotics, holding a combined approximately 35.1236 million shares through Hanhai Information, Chengdu Longzhu, and Galaxy Z, with paper gains exceeding 33.3 billion yuan. (China News Service)

Odaily News, ARK Invest founder Cathie Wood stated that AI Token prices are declining sharply, but usage is growing rapidly. As productivity and intelligence levels rise, market demand for AI demonstrates enormous price elasticity, and a virtuous cycle is forming that is still in its early stages.

According to her reposted content, the average cost of LLM Tokens has dropped from $2.07 per million tokens on May 28 to approximately $1.02, mainly driven by price cuts on OpenAI models as well as the emergence of new open-source models like Kimi and DeepSeek, whose prices are typically only a fraction of those of closed-source models.