Fed's Goolsbee: If the inflation direction is wrong, the Fed will have to take action.

US President Trump: will appoint a new chairman of the Federal Reserve as soon as possible, with only three to four candidates left.

according to analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, one of the leading institutions of the Compound Protocol, Bain Capital Ventures, recently transferred 349,000 COMP tokens (approximately $18.85 million) to an institutional business platform. Of these, 87,250 COMP tokens (approximately $4.73 million) have been transferred to exchanges such as Binance, OKX, Bybit, and Gate. These COMP tokens come from the investment shares that the institution obtained from Compound's deployment address five years ago.

 U.S. President Trump: The Fed should lower interest rates. Our rates should be lowered to 1%.

Bullish, the parent company of CoinDesk (BLSH), rose more than 143% on the first day of its U.S. IPO, trading at $90 per share. The "opening auction" rose from $55/$60 to $89/$90, with the previously announced issue price of $37 per share - raising $1.1 billion.

according to @Cointelegraph, the Fusaka hard fork of Ethereum will be implemented in November 2025, when 11 EIP proposals will be launched to improve the scalability and node efficiency of the Ethereum network.

 according to market news: Cryptocurrency company Bullish raised $1.1 billion in its initial public offering (IPO), with the offering price higher than the expected range.

according to @PositiveCrypto's chart, interest payments on U.S. government debt have been increasing continuously. This debt will never be repaid.

 the concept stocks of US stocks' cryptocurrency rose before the market, with DeFi Development up more than 16%, significant growth in the amount of coins hoarded and pledged business; BMNR up more than 3%, SharpLink Gaming up more than 2%.

according to @SERdotxyz's chart, the Ethereum ETF has seen net inflows for 6 consecutive days, buying $524 million worth of Ethereum yesterday, with a total net inflow of $2.3 billion in just 6 days.

 Santiment stated that despite the rise in the price of Ethereum, Ethereum whales are buying a large amount of ETH sold by skeptical retail traders, and bearish sentiment on social media outweighs bullish sentiment.

according to @cryptounfolded's chart, the total number of bitcoins held by various institutions has reached 3.64 million, with most of them held by exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and funds.

according to the data of the Hong Kong stock market, as of the close of trading today, the trading volume of 6 Hong Kong virtual asset ETFs was 61.73 million Hong Kong dollars. Among them: the trading volume of Huaxia Bitcoin ETF (3042.HK) was 14.8 million Hong Kong dollars, the trading volume of Huaxia Ethereum ETF (3046.HK) was 36.11 million Hong Kong dollars, the trading volume of Jiashi Bitcoin ETF (3439.HK) was 0.91 million Hong Kong dollars, the trading volume of Jiashi Ethereum ETF (3179.HK) was 3.37 million Hong Kong dollars, the trading volume of Bosh HashKey Bitcoin ETF (3008.HK) was 1.09 million Hong Kong dollars, and the trading volume of Bosh HashKey Ethereum ETF (3009.HK) was 5.45 million Hong Kong dollars.

Circle (CRCL.N) fell 4.4% pre-market, with the company set to issue 10 million shares of stock.

 according to Cointelegraph, Polymarket users predict that there is a 75% chance that Ethereum will reach its all-time high (ATH) before August 31. ETH is only about 5% away from its all-time high.

 according to @whale_alert monitoring, 30,800 Ethereum (ETH) (worth $142,205,143) was transferred from an unknown wallet to Coinbase institutional account.

 according to the US website Business Insider, Microsoft has identified the most popular Meta AI engineers and is implementing a new, competitive recruitment process. This move aims to match Meta's generous compensation package, including millions of dollars in signing bonuses, to attract and retain elite artificial intelligence talent.

according to @whale_alert monitoring, at 15:11, 1,424 bitcoins (worth 170.07589 million US dollars) were transferred from Binance to the Binance partner institution custody platform Ceffu.

 according to @CryptoSlate, the search volume for "altcoins" on Google has reached a new high in the past five years, as the "altcoin season" trend returns to retail traders.

 Matrixport released a daily chart analysis, stating that the rapid expansion of stablecoins continues to drive the development of the cryptocurrency industry. Before Trump was elected in November last year, Tether's market value soared from $120 billion to $165 billion; Circle's market value also rose from $34 billion to $65 billion.