Odaily: Over the past year, the AI field has experienced explosive growth, and this pace seems to have left frontier AI developers struggling to keep up in a short period of time. Now, these companies are beginning to call for a slower pace of research and stronger regulation and oversight.
However, the AI safety crises that have previously been brought to light are unlikely to similarly impact the customers of AI giants like Anthropic and OpenAI. Enterprises typically deploy models that have already been commercialized and whose capabilities are relatively well understood by the market. These models may not be at the absolute cutting edge of AI, but their capabilities are already powerful enough to handle the various tasks enterprises assign to them.
Stephen Messer, co-founder of Collective, said that most enterprises are not using the most cutting-edge models. They may even still be using versions from two years ago, and for the work they are doing, these models are actually more than sufficient. Some users don't even really know how to effectively prompt the models. Therefore, if the pace of AI development slows down, it won't have much of an impact on them. (WSJ)
Odaily News: According to Bitcoin News monitoring, a Braiins Solo miner discovered block 966351 and received the full block reward of 3.147 BTC, worth approximately $244,900. The top five mining pools currently control 78.31% of hashrate; the previous solo block was found on August 2 by Solo CKPool.
Odaily News: U.S. President Trump stated that the AI/data center boom is happening for the sole reason that the United States is far ahead of every other country. Don't kill the "goose that lays the golden eggs."
Odaily reports that SlowMist Cosine posted on X platform stating that in several recent security analyses, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash outperformed gpt-6-astra and grok-4.6 on the same samples, though slightly behind fable-5.1. He noted that no model can achieve perfect analysis, and this rough comparison is for reference only; the key factor may lie in the harness engineering they built.
According to Bitcoin News monitoring, The Washington Sun reported that Trump and other World Liberty Financial founders appear to have transferred over 20 billion WLFI tokens into a new vesting contract, replacing the previous indefinite lock-up arrangement and setting a path for future liquidity. On May 19, four wallets simultaneously transferred their holdings into this contract. One allocation matched Trump's disclosed holdings, while the other three allocations are believed to correspond to his family members' holdings. Under governance rules passed in May, founders could choose to continue the indefinite lock-up or adopt a new schedule: burn 10% of their allocation, undergo a two-year lock-up period, and then gradually unlock the remaining tokens over three years. These tokens cannot currently be sold. World Liberty Financial denies that these transfers are preparations for a sale.
Odaily reports that Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on X that Coinbase's tokenized stocks have established an industry standard, not using synthetic assets or debt instruments, but instead being fully backed by real securities that can be redeemed for the underlying stocks as specified, with dividend functionality already integrated and voting rights soon to be introduced. Armstrong stated that this will provide a foundation for global investors and institutions to participate in the over $70 trillion U.S. stock market.
Odaily News: tZERO stated that this funding round is part of its long-term capital plan and will be used to support business operations, next-stage growth, and the development of its Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) business. The round was led by Marc Cohodes and Max Cohodes, with participation from existing investors Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Bill Fleckenstein, and partner Dinari, among others, while Neighborhood Intelligence committed to participate. The platform is building infrastructure covering tokenization, trading, custody, and asset servicing around tokenized securities and other assets, helping financial institutions issue and trade assets through regulated blockchain infrastructure. tZERO CEO Alan Konevsky said the company will continue to expand its tokenized financial market infrastructure business and advance toward capital independence, while also expanding tokenization and other derivatives, prediction markets, and spot crypto infrastructure services, and seeking to scale its business through strategic transactions.
Odaily reports: Bitcoin futures open interest stands at 676,820 BTC, valued at $52.64 billion. Binance Bitcoin futures open interest reached 142,870 BTC, valued at $11.11 billion, accounting for 21.1% of the total.
Bitcoin options call open interest stands at 305,530.06 BTC, accounting for 61.39%; put open interest is 192,126.29 BTC, accounting for 38.61%. The 25-delta skew turned positive on August 20, marking the first time in 12 months. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily: Swiss Bitcoin Pay stated that a malicious user may have gained access to its internal systems. To conduct an investigation and protect its infrastructure, the platform has temporarily shut down its servers. The information potentially accessed includes customer email addresses, Bitcoin addresses, IBANs, transaction history, and password hashes; it remains unclear whether any other information was accessed. User funds are safe, and all amounts owed to users will be fully refunded. The date for reopening the servers has not yet been determined, and the team is working on security hardening.
Odaily News: The National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic (NBKR) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with CertiK, formally establishing a long-term strategic partnership to advance cooperation in the areas of digital som security and digital asset regulation. This collaboration marks CertiK's entry into a central bank environment with stringent requirements for security, compliance, and operations, and also provides a replicable model for future similar cooperation with other central banks and highly regulated institutions.
According to the Memorandum of Understanding, the two parties plan to exchange experience and expertise, and explore cooperation in areas including blockchain and digital asset security, security assessment, formal verification, cybersecurity, and operational resilience. CertiK will leverage its experience in digital asset security and risk management to provide technical and strategic support for the relevant cooperation.
Odaily News: New York Attorney General Letitia James has joined attorneys general from 17 states, including Arizona and California, as well as the District of Columbia, in sending a letter to U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott and Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren, formally opposing the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (Clarity Act).
The coalition warns that the bill would weaken states' enforcement authority to combat cryptocurrency fraud and grant the SEC unilateral power to override state registration agencies, potentially undermining the existing state securities regulatory framework. FBI data shows that cryptocurrency-related complaint losses reached $11.4 billion in 2025, up 22% year-over-year; New York State has reported nearly $500 million in crypto fraud losses over the past five years.
Odaily News: According to multiple sources, even as AI safety issues have become a hot topic of the times, Anthropic may still go public in 2026, and its IPO schedule remains unchanged. (Axios)
Odaily News: Miles Jennings, Head of Policy and Regulation at a16zcrypto, wrote that the U.S. Senate should push for the passage of the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act. Jennings stated that the risks exposed by the FTX collapse—such as customer asset segregation, custody, and information disclosure—are not complex, yet the existing digital asset market still lacks regulatory safeguards similar to those in traditional financial markets. The CLARITY Act would require digital asset brokers, dealers, and exchanges to implement measures such as customer asset segregation, qualified custody, information disclosure, and insider trading restrictions, while also clarifying the regulatory boundaries between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
Miles Jennings warned that with stablecoin supply now exceeding $300 billion and the market value of tokenized assets surpassing $30 billion, if the Senate fails to act this time, the impact of the next market collapse could be greater than that of the FTX incident.
Odaily News: Amid pressure from AI giants calling for a slowdown, sticky inflation, and the looming threat of rate hikes, US stocks plunged across the board on Monday, with the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index plummeting nearly 6%. Yet JPMorgan reaffirmed its bullish stance against the tide, warning that blind pessimism can easily lead to missing out on gains.
Mislav Matejka, JPMorgan's Head of Global and European Equity Strategy, also once again issued a warning to aggressively bearish investors: while surging oil prices do suppress valuations, blindly betting against US stocks is extremely dangerous before the overall earnings expansion of American companies has been disproven. Once US President Trump subsequently attempts to cool tensions in the Middle East through diplomacy, or if third-quarter earnings exceed expectations, the forces of excessive shorting may face a fierce backlash from returning capital.
On this basis, JPMorgan as early as August had already raised its year-end target for the S&P 500 Index from 7,800 points to 8,000 points against the tide, and expects earnings per share of its constituent stocks to surge 29% year-over-year to $350.
Odaily reports: U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis posted on X that the Senate will face a critical choice tomorrow: whether to solidify the United States' leadership in the digital asset space, strengthen consumer protections, and equip law enforcement with the tools needed to combat illicit finance, or allow the crypto industry to move overseas. She stated that if the U.S. fails to establish a clear regulatory framework for digital assets in a timely manner, American consumers will face greater risks, and its leadership in this field could be undermined. The CLARITY Act is now before the Senate, and such a legislative opportunity may not arise again for years to come.
Odaily reports that Ethlabs researcher Derek Chiang stated that the account abstraction collaboration between Base and Ethereum around EIP-8130 and EIP-8141 Frames broke down last week, and the two sides will advance different account abstraction standards separately.
He stated that both sides share the same views on core use cases such as gasless transactions and passkey wallets, but there are clear disagreements on compliance requirements.
