The Li Lin Family Office Avenir Group Holds Approximately $1.01 Billion in BlackRock Bitcoin ETF

On August 15th, as per the data from DefiLlama, the TVL of the Linea Network has exceeded $3 billion and now stands at $3.047 billion, with a nearly 106% growth in the past month. The increase in TVL is not only affected by the rise of Ethereum but also related to the launch of the ecosystem DEX project Etherex. Currently, it has a TVL of $1.42 billion, representing a 54.46% increase in the past week.

On August 15th, more than 80 executives from the cryptocurrency and fintech sectors jointly sent a letter to U.S. President Donald Trump. In the letter, they accused banks of imposing fees for accessing customer data and characterized this practice as suppressing consumer choice. The letter alleged that large banks were trying to "preserve their market dominance by imposing excessive new 'account access' fees, which would prevent consumers from linking their accounts to better financial products that they preferred." The Biden administration had previously attempted to promote open access to bank customer data but had faced opposition from the banking industry, which had hindered its implementation. Later, U.S. President Trump stated that fee regulations would remain in effect until new guidelines were issued. CEX Gemini, the trading platform Robinhood, as well as cryptocurrency advocacy groups such as the CryptoCurrency Innovation Commission and the Blockchain Association supported t

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).