Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Decreased by 3.15% to 110.57 T Yesterday

BitMart founder Sheldon posted a statement noting that BitMart’s Chinese official account has been hacked, and the content posted there was not published by current employees.

According to Saudi media outlet Alhadath, sources have confirmed that the 60-day extension of the negotiation period between Iran and the United States has been approved. In reaction to this news, Bitget market data indicates that both WTI and Brent crude oil prices briefly dropped by over $1, while the three major U.S. stock index futures saw a short-term rally.

Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Political Deputy Commander Yadollah Javani stated: "Once the U.S. fulfills its commitments under the Islamabad Memorandum, the Strait of Hormuz will reopen." (CCTV News)

Official announcement: Binance will remove the following margin trading pairs at 14:00 (UTC+8) on August 21: Cross margin pairs include AUCTION/USDC, BEAMX/USDC, CETUS/USDC, HUMA/USDC, LAYER/USDC, NXPC/USDC, UMA/USDC, and VELODROME/USDC; Isolated margin pairs include HUMA/USDC, LAYER/USDC, and NXPC/USDC. Binance will suspend borrowing for the above isolated margin pairs starting at 14:00 (UTC+8) on August 18, and will close related positions, conduct automatic settlements, and cancel all pending orders at 14:00 (UTC+8) on August 21.

According to Bitget's market data, Brent crude oil has broken through the $88 per barrel mark, rising 0.93% on the day.

Harmony Protocol has unveiled a rollback plan for its abnormal ONE token minting incident, with Shard 0 set to roll back to block 92,730,034 and Shard 1 to block 94,978,278. Both blocks correspond to August 11, 2026, at 23:25:37 UTC. Validators will use replacement databases from these blocks, and subsequent blocks will be regenerated at heights 92,730,035 and 94,978,279 respectively. The first confirmed fraudulent mint occurred in Shard 0 at block 92,730,036, so the prior block was chosen as a safety buffer. After evaluating options including targeted burning, blacklisting, selective transaction replay, token migration, and direct database rollback, the team ruled these out as they could impact unrelated funds or cause chain state inconsistencies, leading to the final choice of a fixed rollback window. Harmony disclosed that one fraudulent mint wallet attempted 534 transfers of 5 billion ONE each within 106 seconds, with 477 successful transfers totaling 2.385 trillion ONE. The team noted that while fund flow tracking covers over 99.9% of fraudulent ONE paths, tracing to wallets or clusters does not confirm specific individual identities nor guarantee all related funds can be safely burned. Additionally, Harmony has completed full archiving of Shard 0 from blocks 92,730,035 to 92,871,662, covering 141,628 consecutive blocks, 109,126 regular transactions, and 315 staking transactions. All blocks and regular transactions after the rollback checkpoint will be discarded. The project is currently collaborating with exchanges, cross-chain bridges, and law enforcement to assess impacts and develop solutions. An independent third-party security firm has reviewed the incident, confirming the fraudulent mint and identifying main fund flows. Validators must execute rollback operations per the official recovery process.