According to BlockBeats, on August 18, Al Jazeera, citing US officials, reported that Trump has instructed his team not to negotiate with Iran until Iran is ready to sign an agreement.

The official stated that the US and Iran had previously held positive discussions, but Trump ultimately decided to postpone negotiations until Iran was ready to sign an agreement. Trump had previously indicated that US-Iran negotiations were not scheduled.

BlockBeats reported on August 18th that peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange NoOnes announced yesterday that it will begin to gradually shut down its operations after more than three years of operation. The company stated that it had previously sought to resolve and lift sanctions against NoOnes, but ultimately failed.

NoOnes stated that the sanctions resulted in the loss of key partners, and that blockchain monitoring agencies marked transactions related to NoOnes as high-risk, making it increasingly difficult for the platform to continue operating normally.

According to official arrangements, the business downsizing began on August 17th, and the P2P market will be shut down at 23:59 UTC on August 21st. Services such as Swap, NoOnes Visa, fiat currency withdrawals, gift card shops, and Bitcoin Lightning Network access will also be discontinued gradually. Afterwards, the platform will only support withdrawals; users can still log in, view their balances, and withdraw remaining assets.

The official advice is for users to complete asset withdrawals as soon as possible, no later than August 23.

As previously reported by BlockBeats, on January 26, 2025, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange NoOnes revealed that it had suffered a major security breach earlier this month, resulting in the loss of approximately $8 million in crypto assets. CEO Ray Youssef confirmed this after blockchain detective ZachXBT disclosed the hack on his Telegram channel.

According to BlockBeats, on August 18th, MaxForAI reported that the AI project J-Space Cognition Suite, which has become a hot topic on the X platform today, has faced community scrutiny, with allegations that its advertised DeepSeek V4 test results cannot be reproduced. The project previously claimed that V4 Flash paired with J-Space could match GLM-5.3, while V4 Pro could surpass Fable 5 on multiple Agent Benchmarks, with a 2.53x speed increase and a 2.21x token efficiency increase.

GitHub user GoForceX conducted high-concurrency retesting using a subset of 87 questions from Terminal Bench 2.1 and confirmed the loading of J-Space modules. The results showed that adding J-Space actually slightly lowered benchmark scores, while increasing token usage and costs, contrary to the project's claims of improved performance, speed, and token efficiency.

The community subsequently demanded that the project disclose complete evaluation configurations, results for each question, runtime logs, raw execution time, and token consumption data. Currently, the project mainly discloses aggregated results and has not yet provided complete original experimental records sufficient to verify the aforementioned precise data. It is worth noting that, in response to the criticism, the project author stated that the relevant data was "indeed exaggerated," and indicated that the actual improvement was roughly between 1.6x and 3x. As of now, the author has not issued a formal response to the community's criticisms, and some related issues have been deleted.