1.VanEck and 21Shares Solana ETF Form 19b-4 Suspected to be Removed from CBOE Website

According to AI aunt's monitoring, the giant whale 0x3c9...8f757 cleared the WBTC built up over the past 10 months six hours ago, with a total profit of about $14.26 million.Starting from October last year, he withdrew 618 WBTC in batches from Binance, with an average price of only $39,899; and gradually reduced his position after BTC reached a new historical high, with an average selling price of $62,921, selling tokens worth a total of $38.89 million.

According to Etherscan data, the current Ethereum network gas fee has fallen below 1 gwei, currently at 0.937 gwei.

On August 17th, Franklin Templeton, an asset management company, is seeking to launch a new exchange-traded fund (ETF) that aims to be a one-stop-shop cryptocurrency investment portfolio, according to a document dated August 16th. The document states that the Franklin Crypto Index ETF will track the performance of the CF Benchmarks Digital Asset Index, which currently only includes Bitcoin and Ethereum. The document states that "the fund will achieve its investment objective by investing in digital assets with weights that are roughly similar to those of the underlying index," and that the ETF may hold other types of cryptocurrencies in the future.

According to X user @SummersThings, the 19b-4 form for VanEck and 21Shares Solana ETF seems to have been removed from the CBOE website on August 17th. The documents SR-CboeBZX-2024-066 and SR-CboeBZX-2024-067 are no longer accessible through direct links and are no longer visible in BZX pending rule changes.

1. The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has released a new draft of the crypto tax form, which no longer requires filling in wallet addresses and transaction IDs

Christine Kim, Vice President of Galaxy Research, summarized the main content of the 139th ACDC conference call. The debugging of Pectra's upgraded Devnet 2 is currently underway, and the release date of Devnet 3 is yet to be determined. Developers will hold weekly testing update meetings starting from Monday to better coordinate the release of Pectra's Devnet. The decision to include EIP-7688 in Pectra's upgrade has been postponed again.

Runes project Runecoin announced on social media that it plans to start Season 2, prioritizing mechanisms and timing.

According to Ether­scan data, the current gas fee on the Ethereum network has dropped to 1 gwei.

According to DappRadar data, DApp activity on the Ethereum network increased by 55% in the past seven days. The surge in activity on the Ethereum network was mainly driven by Uniswap, followed by 1inch Network and CoW Swap. Other notable contributors include Curve, Instadapp, and Morpho Optimizers.