Bowmore will issue a tokenized whisky on the Avalanche chain, priced at $5500.

On August 15th, based on market data, the latest UniCall signal project CYC of UnicornX achieved a new intraday high in FDV of $149 million, and the highest increase reached 294.47%. At the time of this writing, the price of CYC is currently at $0.1067, with a 24-hour increase of 84.57%.

On August 15th, according to official data, OKX launched the exclusive "Auto Earn" feature for VIP users on August 15th, 2025. This feature enables users to automatically lend out the assets in their trading accounts (with full collateral) without influencing the assets' use for staking and trading margins, allowing them to obtain rewards. It is known that initially, this feature only supports USDT and is applicable to spot, futures, cross-margin, portfolio margin, and other account models. More assets will be gradually supported in the future. Users only need to enable it once and do not need to subscribe manually. Changes in full collateralized equity will be immediately reflected in the earned assets, and normal orders and trades will not be affected. Furthermore, as stated in the announcement, after users activate this feature, their assets will participate in the interest rate auction together based on the set lending annual percentage yield (APY) and simple earning assets. If th

August 15th. Today, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission issued a circular to all licensed virtual asset trading platforms, making clear its requirements for the secure custody of client virtual assets. This lays a solid foundation for the industry to systematically adopt more advanced custody technology in accordance with the ASPIRe roadmap. In the latest circular, the Commission cited several examples of good practices and minimum standards that virtual asset trading platform operators should meet. These aspects cover the responsibilities of senior management, the infrastructure and operation of client cold wallets, the use of third-party wallets, and real-time threat monitoring, etc. In the future, these standards will also become the core regulatory requirements for virtual asset custodians and help drive the industry to establish an effective virtual asset custody framework. (Golden Finance)

On August 15th, as per a Coingecko report, in July, with Bitcoin reaching an all-time high, Binance's spot trading volume increased by 61.4% compared to the previous month and reached $698.3 billion. It far exceeded MEXC (with an 8.6% market share and $150.4 billion) and Gate (with a 7.8% share and $137.2 billion), holding nearly 40% of the global spot trading volume market share. Also in July, Binance's trading volume exceeded the total of several top ten global exchanges. This advantage is not restricted to a single month. During the second quarter of 2025, Binance accounted for 38.0% of the total trading volume among the top ten CEXs, with a volume of $1.47 trillion (while the total volume of these ten exchanges was $3.8 trillion).

On August 15th, Ben Lilly, a digital analyst at Jlabs, pointed out that currently stETH is being redeemed from Lido. Meanwhile, another lending protocol, Figment, is seizing the market share of Lido, suggesting that Figment may be the staking partner of the ETF. 32% of stETH (wstETH) is being used as collateral for the lending protocol, and the decoupling may indicate a liquidation event for the lending protocol. It is worth noting that currently, 278,000 wstETH is in a "high-risk" state (where high-risk is defined as a health factor between 1-1.1 times).

On August 15th, based on the data from the Validator Queue tracking website validatorqueue, the current exit queue on the Ethereum PoS network is temporarily reported to be 788,624 ETH, which is approximately worth $36.51 billion, setting a record for the largest exit queue in terms of coin value. At the same time, about 332,846 ETH are queued to join the network. Previously reported, this situation reflects the existence of two opposing forces in the market: on one hand, some stakers may be cashing out after Ethereum rebounded by more than 160% from the April low, resulting in a significant increase in the exit queue; on the other hand, new inflows of funds driven by regulatory optimism and institutional demand are also boosting the entry queue. Listed companies such as SharpLink Gaming and BitMine Immersion are increasing their ETH holdings and engaging in staking.