DeFi Data
1. Total market value of DeFi tokens: $72.972 billion
DeFi total market value Data source: coingecko
2. The transaction volume of decentralized exchanges in the past 24 hours was $4.325 billion
The transaction volume of decentralized exchanges in the past 24 hours. Data source: coingecko
3. Assets locked in DeFi: $86.086 billion
The top ten rankings of DeFi projects with locked assets and locked-in amounts. Data source: defillama
NFT Data
1. Total NFT market value: $24.73 billion
NFT total market value, top ten projects by market value Data source: Coinmarketcap
2. 24-hour NFT trading volume: $2.037 billion
NFT total market value, top ten projects by market value Data source: Coinmarketcap
3. Top NFTs in 24 hours
Top 10 NFTs with the highest sales growth in 24 hours Data source: NFTGO
Headlines
OpenAI publicly opposes AI big model regulation bill
OpenAI, an American artificial intelligence company, issued an open letter on Wednesday local time, opposing the draft "Safe and Reliable Cutting-Edge Artificial Intelligence Model Innovation Act" introduced by local California lawmakers, saying that the draft may threaten California's future growth, slow down innovation, and drive away California's world-class engineers and entrepreneurs. It also suggested introducing an AI large model regulatory bill at the federal level rather than the local level. Jason Kwon, OpenAI's chief strategy officer, wrote in the letter that the SB-1047 bill, initiated by Congressman Wiener, will harm innovation in the artificial intelligence industry. OpenAI believes that if the bill is passed, it may have a "broad and significant" impact on the United States' artificial intelligence competitiveness and national security.
NFT Hot Spots
1. Total NFT sales on Ethereum exceeded $44 billion
Golden Finance reported that according to the latest data from Cryptoslam, the total sales of NFTs on the Ethereum chain has exceeded $44 billion, reaching $44,000,100,095 at the time of writing, with more than 4.965 million transactions on the chain, of which the total number of buyers is about 3.394 million and the total number of sellers is about 1.913 million. Ethereum is currently the blockchain with the highest NFT sales, followed by Solana ($5.779 billion) and Bitcoin ($4.441 billion).
DeFi Hotspot
1. Aethir announces its roadmap for the next six months, focusing on expanding its products in cloud gaming, cloud phones, and AI
On August 22, decentralized GPU cloud infrastructure Aethir announced its six-month roadmap aimed at transforming AI, games, and decentralized infrastructure. Aethir's roadmap focuses on expanding its enterprise service offerings in three key areas: cloud gaming, cloud phones, and artificial intelligence, and the roadmap includes plans to launch new features and capabilities. According to the roadmap, Aethir will launch the Aethir Cloud Portal for enterprise computing customers in the third quarter/fourth quarter of 2024, which will simplify the enterprise registration process and enhance the accessibility of Aethir services. It will also make it easier for large enterprises to pay for computing using ATH token payments. Aethir will expand to the Sophon chain to bring enhanced rewards, staking, and liquidity options to ATH token holders, which is scheduled to be implemented in the fourth quarter of 2024. In addition, the fourth quarter of 2024 will also launch a governance framework, launch an ecological fund, and launch an incubator to support early AI, gaming, and computing infrastructure projects. The roadmap also revealed that the project plans to launch an AI model as a service (PaaS) product in 2025, opening up new sources of revenue and opportunities for AI developers. The game showcase portal built on Aethir Cloud will highlight the platform's capabilities and inspire further innovation in the gaming field. In 2025, Aethir will expand cloud phone use cases and explore AI reasoning capabilities to meet diverse business needs.
2. Former TON Foundation executives set up the TON Association to manage the official community
Golden Finance reported that former directors of the TON Foundation have officially established the TON Association, a company dedicated to advancing the decentralization of the Open Network (TON). As a spin-off company of the TON Foundation, the new entity will manage all TON activities and official community channels. The TON Association is led by Jack Booth, former marketing director of the TON Foundation, and Ekin Tune, former development director.
3. StaFi Protocol launches a proposal to “100% destroy FIS tokens flowing into the treasury address”
Golden Finance reported that StaFi Protocol, a liquidity pledge agreement, initiated a proposal to destroy FIS tokens, proposing to destroy 100% of inflationary FIS every 30 days, which will flow into the treasury address. This action aims to reduce the FIS inflation rate from 10% to around 6%, thereby transforming the token into a deflationary model.
4.Optimism: 50 million OPs have been awarded to Superchain creators and builders
Golden Finance reported that Optimism stated on the social platform that 50 million OP tokens have been awarded to the creators and builders of Superchain. The RetroFunding plan has just begun.
5.Vitalik: Ethereum’s fundamentals are actually very strong at the moment
On August 22, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on social media that "Ethereum has become stronger: Transaction fees on L2 are less than $0.01. Two EVM L2s (Optimism and Arbitrum) have now entered the first phase. The user experience of the wallet has been greatly improved (for example, there is no need to manually switch networks), but there is still a long way to go. More powerful and mature ZK tools make life easier for application developers. We are beginning to see the emergence of second-generation privacy tools (such as 0xbowio). The identity/reputation/credential ecosystem has become stronger and is beginning to be used more and more in practice. Progress in STARKs has made the prospects for long-term security and decentralization clearer. The account abstraction roadmap is clearer. The final plan for block construction is clearer (it seems to come down to a choice between FOCIL+APS and multiple proposers). The decentralization of Staking remains stable (the claim that "PoS is more centralized than PoW" has been proven to be completely wrong). Ethereum's fundamentals are actually very strong at the moment."
6. Base Ecosystem DeFi Protocol BSX Completes $6.2 Million in Financing
Golden Finance reported that BSX, a DeFi derivatives protocol based on the Base ecosystem, has raised $6.2 million in its seed and pre-seed rounds of financing. The seed round amounted to $4 million, led by Blockchain Capital.
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