August 18th, Bitcoin's market share fell to 46.61%, with a daily decline of 0.61%; Ethereum's market share is currently reported at 18.2%; the market share of the stablecoins USDT, USDC, and BUSD are 7.44%, 2.35%, and 0.3%, respectively. The current total market value of cryptocurrencies on the entire network is reported at 11 trillion US dollars, with a 24-hour decline of 6.2%.

According to OKX market data, Ethereum rebounded and briefly broke through $1700, currently priced at $1691, with a 24-hour decline narrowing to 6.71%.

According to the market, Ethereum has fallen below $1800 and is currently trading at $1799.2, with a 24-hour decline of 1.62%.

According to Coinglass data, the total amount of liquidations on the entire network in the past 24 hours reached 162 million US dollars, of which the long position liquidation amount was about 146 million US dollars, and the short position liquidation amount was about 16.3177 million US dollars.

CME Group and cryptocurrency benchmark index provider CF Benchmarks announced plans to launch two Bitcoin and Ethereum reference rates for the Asia-Pacific region on September 11th - CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate APAC (BRRAP) and CME CF Ether-Dollar Reference Rate APAC (ETHUSD_AP). These rates will provide a daily reference rate for the US dollar price of these two digital assets, and will be released at 4pm Hong Kong/Singapore time.

Blockchain analysis company Kaiko has disclosed data showing that the 90-day volatility of Bitcoin and Ethereum has dropped to 35% and 37%, respectively, while the 90-day volatility of crude oil has reached 41%. Volatility refers to the rate at which the price of a given asset rises or falls over a given period of time.

Ethereum community developer terence.eth tweeted that the Deneb/Cancun upgrade official testnet Devnet 8 has been launched and is progressing smoothly. evnet 8 is the first dedicated test network that will activate all relevant Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) determined for the Dencun upgrade.

According to OKX market data, Ethereum briefly fell below $1800 in the early morning today, and is now trading at $1809, with a 24-hour decline of 1.07%.

On August 16th, Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, shared his thoughts on the fact-checking tool "Community Notes" on the X platform (formerly Twitter), stating that although the tool is not a "cryptographic project," it may be the closest thing to a "cryptographic value" seen in the mainstream world.

According to PeckShield monitoring, the Uranium Finance attacker bridged approximately 2 million USDC from BNB Chain to Ethereum and exchanged it for about 1075.6 ETH, then transferred 1000 ETH to Tornado Cash.Previously, on April 28, 2021, hackers stole tokens worth about $50 million from Uranium's pairing contract.

PeckShieldAlert monitoring shows that the address marked by the attacker of Uranium Finance has transferred 2 million USDC from BNB Chain to Ethereum and exchanged them for approximately 1,075.6 ETH, and then transferred 1,000 ETH to Tornado Cash.

August 16th, according to market data, most of the altcoins experienced a certain degree of decline early this morning, with limited declines in Bitcoin and Ethereum. As of press time: · Bitcoin is now priced at $29,219, with a 24-hour decline of 0.8% · Ethereum is now priced at $1829, with a 24-hour decline of 0.88%.

According to the monitoring of Paiduin, Voyager transferred approximately $9.4 million worth of cryptocurrency to Coinbase on Ethereum in the past 24 hours, including 3,000 ETH, 200 billion SHIB, 2.3 million MANA, 932,000 SAND, 135,000 APE, and 1 million BAT, and received approximately 21 million USDC from Coinbase.In addition, Voyager also transferred 200 BTC (about $5.8 million), of which about 10.3 BTC were deposited into Binance within the past 24 hours.

CoolWallet, a leading hardware wallet brand, has announced its support for Linea, an Ethereum layer-2 zero-knowledge (ZK) rollup network. Linea, which is affiliated with MetaMask, utilizes zero-knowledge proofs and Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatibility to ensure seamless integration of its applications with the Ethereum blockchain.

Chinese tech giant Huawei has entered the Web3 market by integrating Ethereum and TRON node engines into its Cloud division's services. The move aims to simplify blockchain network management, resource allocation, and authentication processes, and empower developers to connect with mainstream blockchains such as Ethereum.

Former Goldman Sachs executive Raoul Pal said that Solana (SOL) is like Ethereum during the bear market of 2018 and 2019. Pal said in an interview that SOL is his second largest cryptocurrency investment portfolio allocation and believes that it is likely to repeat the dramatic recovery from the bear market to new highs that Ethereum experienced a few years ago.

August 14th, according to official sources, the decentralized liquidity staking protocol Diva launched the Operator testnet, which is the first Ethereum liquidity staking solution supported by distributed validators (DVT). Diva Operator nodes enhance Ethereum by effectively performing validation duties, and after connecting to Ethereum, they use MPC DKG to coordinate key management with other Diva nodes and use Diva's DVT collaboration for validation.

According to the news from DeepTechFlow, the founder of ThreeDAO, Chen Jian Jason, discussed the issue of "Layer2 segmentation weakens Ethereum's functionality" in a tweet. He emphasized that Ethereum's goal is to become the underlying chain and achieve a "lying and earning" model through Layer2.

According to data from The Block, on August 12th, the daily amount of Ethereum destroyed was only 570.54 ETH, the lowest since 2023. This is close to the low point of 498.16 ETH set on October 2, 2022.

According to Etherscan data, the issuance of Aave's native stablecoin GHO has exceeded 20 million since it was launched on the Ethereum mainnet on July 15, with a current total of 20,029,456. Previously, the issuance of GHO exceeded 10 million on August 2.