According to Spot On Chain monitoring, 34.28 million SAND tokens (worth $13.5 million) were distributed to 11 addresses within 2 hours as part of the token unlocking process. 5.77 million SAND tokens (worth $2.81 million) were deposited into Binance and Kraken through 4 addresses, while 1.38 million SAND tokens were sold on DEX at an average price of $0.378 per token for a total of 522,000 USDC.

Binance has added BNT, FRONT, OXT and RPL as new borrowable assets on Cross Margin, as well as a new margin pair on Isolated Margin.

According to an official announcement, Binance will remove the following spot trading pairs and cease trading: - August 17th 11:00 (GMT+8): BETA/BNB, BTTC/BUSD, CELR/BNB, CHZ/GBP, CTK/BUSD, DENT/BUSD. - August 17th 14:00 (GMT+8): ENJ/BRL, GAL/EUR, JST/BUSD, MANA/BRL, NEO/RUB, NKN/BUSD. - August 17th 16:00 (GMT+8): RUNE/GBP, SAND/BRL, SNT/BUSD, SUN/BUSD, VET/GBP. 

On August 14th, Tokocrypto put its IPO plans on hold after being acquired by Binance and new leadership taking over. Tokocrypto co-founder Pang Xue Kai had previously stated in January 2022 that Tokocrypto was preparing to go public in 2024 or 2025. New CEO Yudhono Rawis stated that the company does not have a clear goal for an IPO.

On August 14th, according to an official announcement, Binance will update the BLZU perpetual contract leverage and margin ladder at 19:30 on August 14th, 2023. Existing positions before the update will be affected, so users should refer to the updated leverage and margin ladder to adjust their margin to avoid forced liquidation. In addition, Binance will adjust the BLZU perpetual contract funding rate settlement frequency at 18:00 on August 14th, 2023. The funding rate settlement frequency will be changed from every eight hours to every four hours.

Binance announced that it will list CyberConnect (CYBER) and Sei (SEI) on August 15, 2023 at 20:00 (GMT+8), and open trading pairs including CYBER/BNB, CYBER/BTC, CYBER/FDUSD, CYBER/TRY, CYBER/USDT, SEI/BNB, SEI/BTC, SEI/FDUSD, SEI/TRY, and SEI/USDT. Additionally, Binance spot grid trading will be available within 48 hours after the launch of CYBER/BTC, CYBER/USDT, SEI/BTC, and SEI/USDT spot trading pairs.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a certain whale transferred 22,340 ETH (approximately $41.1 million) to Binance two hours ago and withdrew 12.88 million USDT 20 minutes later. After the whale transferred ETH to Binance, the price of ETH dropped from $1,844 to $1,834.5, with corresponding trading volume. The whale's ETH should have been partially or fully sold.

On August 12th, according to blockchain data analyst Yu Jin, an address transferred 65,000 SSV (equivalent to approximately $1.15 million USD) to Binance 30 minutes ago. This address had withdrawn 65,000 SSV from Binance on June 7th at an average price of $20.13 USD per coin. If sold at current prices, the SSV investment by this address is expected to result in a loss of $150,000 USD, a decrease of 12%.

Coinglass data shows that the open interest of Binance's SHIB futures has more than doubled this month, reaching a peak since February 5th at $101.65 million. The size of SHIB futures is 1000 SHIB per contract with a leverage of up to 25 times. The market value of SHIB has surged nearly 32% to $6.58 billion.

On August 12th, according to 0xScope Protocol monitoring, the address starting with 0x0f1d once again borrowed about 59 million US dollars in stablecoins by pledging 26,000 stETH and 15,000 ETH in Aave, and transferred them to Bitfinex and Binance. Previously, this address had borrowed and transferred 58 million stablecoins to multiple exchanges such as Binance, Bitfinex, and Coinbase through collateralized loans.