Planet Morning News | August 14
1. U.S. Treasury Secretary Benson: A series of interest rate cuts may begin with a 50 basis point cut in September;
2. Tom Lee: The Federal Reserve may cut interest rates in September, and Ethereum will continue to move forward;
3. Bitcoin's market capitalization surpassed Google's parent company Alphabet, becoming one of the top five global assets by market capitalization;
4. Mizuho Securities said that the slowdown in USDC growth may cause Circle to face medium-term risks;
5. OKX CEO: X Layer will support DeFi, payments, and RWA with a “one chain, one token” model;
6. Dragonfly investor: Interest rate cuts would be disastrous for Circle, causing revenue and profits to shrink significantly;
7. Google clarified that non-custodial wallets are not subject to the new Play Store policy;
8. Trader Eugene: Has significantly reduced his ETH holdings and switched to a conservative risk-averse mode;
9. Sharplink Gaming's LSETH holdings have a profit of $323 million;
10. CZ forwarded WLFI Lianchuang’s response to the interview on “Should CZ be pardoned?”
11. Vitalik: Disappointed that the crypto industry is not vigilant against geeks who engage in fraudulent activities;
12. Gavin Wood will return to the CEO position at Parity.
13. Justin Sun sued Bloomberg, alleging it intended to disclose his sensitive financial information;
14. MetaMask will cooperate with Bridge and Blackstone Group and may announce the launch of its stablecoin mUSD this week;
15. Canary registered the CANARY TRUMP COIN ETF in Delaware;
16. Coinbase added Useless Coin (USELESS) to its asset listing roadmap;
17. AguilaTrades, a whale, opened a 15x ETH short position today and set a limit sell order of 10,000 ETH in the $4,740-4,840 range.
18. Greeks.live: Market funds are clearly rotating toward Ethereum, with $5,000 expected to be the next major resistance level.
19. Standard Chartered: Stablecoins account for 40% of all blockchain transaction fees, more than half of which are on Ethereum;
20. Standard Chartered Bank raised its year-end Ethereum price forecast to $7,500.
21. Bernstein: Will continue to maintain CIrcle stock target price of $230;
22. Game studio Neon Machine completed a total financing of US$19.5 million, led by Gala Games;
23. A whale sold approximately $4.4 million worth of WLFI at an average price of $0.17 two weeks ago, missing out on over $5 million in profits.
24. DeFi Dev partnered with Solana ecosystem meme coin project dogwifcoin to launch SOL validator service;
25. A whale took profits on some of the ETH he accumulated at the end of November last year, making a profit of $7.6 million;
26. Listed company LIXTE Biotechnology has launched a crypto reserve strategy, planning to allocate 25% of its funds to BTC and other assets.
27. Skycorp Solar, a publicly listed company, has launched a strategic digital asset reserve and has purchased 32.76 ETH.
28. An early Ethereum investor sold 4,283 ETH worth $18.97 million.
29. GameSquare, a US-listed company, plans to purchase $2.5 million worth of ANIME in the next year.
30. MicroCloud Hologram, a US-listed company, reported $40.45 million in revenue from cryptocurrency investments.
31. DeFi Technologies, a publicly listed DeFi fintech company, disclosed equity and custody imbalances and plans to upgrade its transaction review.
32. Viewpoint: The long-term value of ETH lies in its ability to support the real economy.
