Citigroup: Bond Market Sentiment Shift, Possible Stock Market Pullback in the Next Three Months

On August 11th, as per stocktitan, the US-listed company Safety Shot (Nasdaq: SHOT) announced a strategic alliance with a founding contributor of BONK and officially entered the field of Decentralized Finance (DeFi). Under the terms of the agreement, the company will receive $25 million worth of BONK tokens and will issue preferred shares convertible into common stock with a total value of $35 million in exchange. This enterprise, which has $15 million in cash and has paid off all its debts, chose BONK as its financial strategy target mainly considering the token's competitive advantages. Built on the Solana blockchain, BONK has high-speed transaction capabilities and a deflationary tokenomics model. Currently, it has a market capitalization exceeding $2 billion and 980,000 on-chain holders.

On August 11th, based on rockflow data, the US-listed company Safety Shot (SHOT) announced the launch of the BONK Treasury Strategy, resulting in a 9.65% increase in SHOT's pre-market trading. The company's current market value is reported to be $164 million. According to HTX market data, BONK surged by more than 3% in a short period and is currently priced at $0.00002688. BlockBeats previously reported that the US-listed company Safety Shot (NASDAQ: SHOT) announced a strategic alliance with the BONK founding contributor and officially entered the decentralized finance (DeFi) field. According to the agreement, the company will receive $25 million worth of BONK tokens and issue preferred shares convertible to common stock with a total value of $35 million.

August 11th. According to official information, Binance Finance announced an upgrade to BFUSD in order to enhance the user experience. Commencing at 08:00 on August 14th, 2025 (UTC+8), users will no longer be required to possess a futures account and can directly subscribe to and redeem BFUSD through Binance Finance. To facilitate this upgrade, all user subscriptions and redemptions between 13:00 and 22:00 on August 13th, 2025 (UTC+8) may be impacted. To ensure the smoothness of user transactions, please refrain from performing subscription and redemption operations during the upgrade. Users currently holding BFUSD in futures accounts can transfer BFUSD to spot accounts for redemption. Starting from 08:00 on August 14th, 2025 (UTC+8), users will no longer be able to subscribe to and redeem BFUSD through Binance Futures.

On August 11th, as per market information, The Smarter Web Company declared a private placement of 3,452,086 shares of new common stock at around ￡2.21 per share, raising approximately ￡7.6 million (about $10.23 million) to back its continuous BTC accumulation.

On August 11th, based on rockflow data, possibly due to funding news, the stock price of the new ETH Treasury company 180 Life Sciences (ATNF) surged by 4.84% in pre-market trading. 180 Life Sciences (Nasdaq: ATNF) successfully completed a $425 million private funding round to support its Ethereum Treasury strategy. This funding round was led by Electric Capital and Harbour Island, with the participation of well-known cryptocurrency investment firms such as Borderless Capital and Polychain Capital.

On August 11th, as per official information, Chainlink has entered into a partnership with Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which is the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange. The purpose of this partnership is to bring forex and precious metals pricing data onto the blockchain network. This partnership will incorporate ICE's Global Consolidated Feed into Chainlink's Data Streams. The data source encompasses market data from more than 300 global exchanges and trading platforms and currently serves over 2,000 on-chain applications, financial institutions, and infrastructure providers. Officials stated that by integrating ICE data, Chainlink aims to provide pricing data streams that meet the precision and latency requirements of traditional capital markets. This standard is anticipated to support the development of a new generation of tokenized assets, automated settlement systems, and other institutional-grade blockchain applications. This move is in line with the industry tre