Bitcoin briefly breaks through $81,000.

According to HTX market data, Bitcoin briefly broke above $81,000 earlier this morning before pulling back, and is now trading below $80,000 at $79,929.99. Earlier, multiple analysts including prominent trader Killa and Garrett Jin, representative of the "BTC OG Insider Whale", pointed out that Bitcoin faces significant selling pressure in the $82,000 range.

According to an official announcement, South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb has listed the FOLD/KRW trading pair, with trading set to open at 2:00 PM local time on Friday, August 28. The Interfold (FOLD) is a privacy infrastructure project that has repeatedly received public endorsements from Vitalik Buterin, who also invested 16 ETH (approximately $28,000) in the first round of The Interfold's CCA public auction.

Bitget’s 2026 King’s Cup Global Invitational (KCGI) opened registration on August 26. To date, 796 teams have been formed for the event, with a total of 20,801 participants. Early-bird benefits are now available: the first 10,000 users to join a team and complete required tasks by August 30 can compete for a 200,000 USDT early-bird prize pool. It is understood that this edition of KCGI has been fully upgraded, with "UEX Panoramic Competition" as its core highlight. For the first time, it integrates three tracks: crypto derivatives contracts, TradFi contracts, and stock spot (rToken), realizing a unified competition venue, unified prize pool, and unified rankings, offering multi-asset competition scenarios for users with different trading preferences. The total prize pool reaches 3 million USDT. Registration for the event closes on September 22; more details can be found on Bitget’s official platform.

The Ethena Foundation yesterday announced four adjustments to the Ethena ecosystem: repurchasing locked tokens held by early investors, further aligning the token’s value with equity, launching a governance proposal for revenue-driven ENA repurchases, and canceling future monthly unlocks for VC investors. In response to the news, the ENA token surged over 15% in 24 hours, currently trading at $0.18855.

Ethereum core developer nixo.eth announced via tweet that the community has approved moving account abstraction proposal EIP-8141 from "under consideration" to "scheduled", confirming account abstraction will be advanced as a key feature of the Hegotá upgrade. Separately, another proposal EIP-8130 is set to launch on Base in September, sparking discussions about avoiding a split in account abstraction standards between Layer 1 (L1) and Layer 2 (L2). Currently, the two EIP authors and core developers are working to reach a unified solution without delaying the upgrade. This status update means the feature is now officially part of the Hegotá upgrade roadmap, though its specific specifications may still undergo significant changes. It is understood that EIP-8130 is a Native Account Abstraction (Native AA) proposal put forward by Base’s Chris Hunter, which aims to integrate smart account capabilities directly into the protocol, rather than relying on bundlers and EntryPoints as ERC-4337 does.

According to Reuters, Anthropic had planned to acquire AI chip startup MatX for $7 billion but ultimately scrapped the deal. MatX is now seeking roughly $4 billion in new funding. Anthropic is currently in discussions with several chip startups, with plans to develop custom chips in-house to accelerate hardware development for its Claude AI model, aiming to reduce its reliance on Nvidia chips.