AiCoin 丨 8.1 snapshot: Tether hoards coins, institutions add positions, interest rates rise

According to The Wall Street Journal, OpenAI may postpone its IPO until next year.

According to Bits media, the Russian government will ban cryptocurrency mining in eight districts of Moscow, Moscow Oblast, and Kursk Krai starting from August 15th, and the ban will continue until December 31st, 2032. The restriction scope includes 8 districts of Kursk Oblast and Ligov City, and applies to local residents participating in activities such as mining pools. The relevant regulations were signed by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and published on the official legal information portal website of Russia.

[U.S. and Japan Jointly Intervene in Forex Market for the First Time in Nearly 30 Years, Planning to Purchase $5 Billion to $10 Billion Worth of Yen] According to the Financial Times, the U.S. Treasury and Japan have jointly intervened in the yen exchange rate by directly purchasing yen to support the currency. This marks the first time in nearly 30 years that the U.S. and Japan have taken such joint action. The New York Federal Reserve executed the operation on behalf of the U.S. Treasury by selling euros to purchase yen, with the transactions carried out by Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. During a Trump Cabinet meeting at Camp David, U.S. Treasury Secretary Besent's notebook revealed plans to purchase $5 billion to $10 billion worth of yen. A spokesperson for the U.S. Treasury declined to comment on the contents of the memo or whether intervention actions had been taken that day. (Jin10)

According to NBC News, former Congressman George Santos has agreed to pay $35000 to settle the CFTC's investigation into his suspicious transactions on the Kalshi prediction platform. The settlement agreement includes a profit of $17000 and a fine of $17500 from the transaction, and the CFTC also imposes a three-year trading ban on George Santos. George Santos stated that reaching a settlement is to settle this matter and has not admitted any wrongdoing.

The US Attorney's Office has filed a civil confiscation lawsuit to recover 47461.73111 USDT involved in the online fraud case. The prosecutor claimed that scammers lured victims into depositing funds into cryptocurrency ATMs and stole the funds. Law enforcement traced the funds to a cryptocurrency wallet and seized them in March 2026. The investigation confirmed that the funds of four other victims could be traced back to the same wallet.