Daily Summary, August 04

☠️ Arkham uncovered the largest theft in mining history—$3.5 billion.

💎 Verb Technology to raise $558,000,000—together with Kingsway Capital, they are creating the first public company that will purchase TON.

🇷🇺 In recent months, Russian citizens exchanging cryptocurrency for rubles through exchanges or swap services have increasingly faced account freezes.

🔥 Strategy purchased an additional 21,021 BTC between July 28 and August 3 at an average price of $117,256 (spent $2.46 billion).

🕵️‍♂️ A user lost $908,000 in USDC 15 months after signing a malicious transaction via a phishing site.

🪙 CZ predicts that in the near future, countries will engage in a real race for BTC and other key cryptocurrencies.

🇯🇵 Japan’s Metaplanet bought an additional 463 BTC for $53.7 million—the company now holds 17,595 BTC.

🛰 Justin Sun successfully flew to orbit aboard Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin spacecraft.

🪙 Solana’s “Seeker” smartphone went on sale today, August 4—the SKR token was also launched.

☠️ Hackers have learned to hide malware inside ordinary photos using steganography.

✈️ Telegram introduced a new checkmark: profiles can now receive verification with the label “Account confirmed by Telegram representatives.”

🪙 One of Ethereum’s early whales, who received 1,000,000 ETH for $310,000 during the ICO, has changed strategy—now accumulating coins.

🐋 BitMine now owns 833,000 ETH worth nearly $3 billion.

🇮🇳 Indian investors collectively hold about 1,000,000 BTC (5.1% of total supply)—the U.S. leads with roughly 7,800,000 BTC (~40%), including reserves from companies, funds, and seized assets.

🪒 Shitcoins have begun actively migrating from Solana to the L2 network Base.

🌎 Over the past 4 years, the world’s largest banks have invested over $100 billion in blockchain projects and participated in 345 funding rounds.

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