The US dollar edged slightly lower but traded in a range-bound manner as investors patiently awaited the US CPI data.

August 11th. As per The Block, the renowned video sharing platform and cloud service provider, Rumble, announced on Monday that it intends to acquire the Bitcoin miner and high-performance computing expert, Northern Data company, in a potential deal worth 1 billion euros (1.17 billion US dollars). Under the all-stock transaction structure, Northern Data shareholders can swap each share for 2.319 shares of the newly issued Rumble Class A shares. Once all shares are fully delivered, Northern Data shareholders will jointly hold approximately 33.3% of Rumble's equity. Given that stablecoin giant Tether holds 54% of Northern Data as the controlling shareholder, it has shown support for the transaction and pledged to sign a multi-year GPU purchase agreement after the deal is completed. Based on the same exchange ratio, Tether will become the largest single shareholder of Rumble Class A common shares. In December 2023, the world's largest stablecoin issuer, Tether, injected $775 million int

On August 11th, according to the "investing" report, the fintech company ALT5 Sigma (Nasdaq: ALTS) has reached an agreement to sell 2 billion shares of common stock at a price of $7.50 per share through a registered direct offering and a concurrent private placement, raising a total of $15 billion. ALT5 Sigma declared that World Liberty Financial is the main investor in this private placement and will subscribe for 1 billion shares in exchange for WLFI tokens. The registered direct offering will sell 1 billion shares to institutional investors and cryptocurrency venture capital funds. The transaction is expected to be completed on August 12, 2025. At that time, ALT5 will launch the WLFI Financial Initiative and hold approximately 7.5% of the total WLFI token supply. The company plans to use the raised funds for acquiring WLFI tokens, establishing a cryptocurrency financial operation system, resolving litigation, repaying existing debts, and supporting business operations. This finan

On August 11th, as monitored by Onchain Lens, a whale address deposited 224,211 LINK tokens (valued at $4.86 million) into Binance. If these tokens were to be sold, there could potentially be a loss of $603,000. Initially, this whale had withdrawn 263,930 LINK tokens from Binance more than 8 months ago. At that time, these tokens were worth $6.31 million. Currently, the whale still holds 39,720 LINK tokens, which are worth $854,000.

On August 11th, based on rockflow data, since the news of "ALT5 Sigma Secures $1.5 Billion Financing to Launch WLFI Treasury" was announced, the stock price of ALT5 Sigma (ALTS) in the US pre-market trading fell by 12.93% and is now trading at $7.81.
Before this, the company's stock had increased by approximately 50% in the 6 trading days starting from August 1st.

August 11th. Based on market information, ALT5 Sigma has declared a registered direct offering of $1.5 billion along with a simultaneous private placement to initiate the Treasury Strategy of World Liberty Financial (stock code: WLFI).

On August 11th, the Ethereum staking protocol Lido released a post indicating that the economic security metric of Ethereum has reached a historical high of $1.538 trillion. BlockBeats' Note: The Ethereum economic security metric is employed to measure a set of key indicators and parameters that reflect the overall economic security of the Ethereum network. It mainly showcases the network's capacity to fend off attacks (such as 51% attacks, double-spending attacks, etc.) in order to ensure the robustness and trustworthiness of the blockchain network. These metrics incorporate various factors including the locked value within the network, validator economic incentives, miner (or validator) rewards and costs, and so on.