According to data from Hyperflows, as reported by BlockBeats on August 15, Hyperliquid currently holds a 10% share of the global perpetual contract market (including all centralized trading platforms such as Binance, Bybit, and OKX) based on open interest, slightly lower than its peak of 10.4% at the end of July.

According to HTX market data, HYPE is currently trading at $56.23, up 1.2% in the last 24 hours.

According to BlockBeats, on August 15th, CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. stated that Bitcoin is currently trading at the lowest point of the Rainbow Chart model—"basically a sell-off price." This represents an extreme discount relative to the long-term model's price trajectory. This doesn't simply measure how much Bitcoin has fallen. The Rainbow Chart model compares Bitcoin's current price to its long-term trajectory, so this difference reflects the degree to which the market has deviated from historical trends.

The volatility-adjusted Z-Score is currently -2.293—the lowest reading since 2016, and also lower than the -1.979 at the bottom of the 2022 bear market. This indicator takes into account the differences in volatility across different market cycles. Therefore, this comparison suggests that the current relative model's downside deviation has exceeded that of the previous bear market bottom.

Bitcoin is currently trading at an extreme discount, with its volatility-adjusted Z-Score hitting a 10-year low. This indicates a degree of undervaluation within the model, but it doesn't necessarily confirm a final bottom. The extremely low valuation points to a potentially attractive range, but a market reversal still requires separate confirmation.

Note: Z-Score is a commonly used standardized metric in statistics, used to measure how far a data point is from the mean, expressed in "standard deviation".

BlockBeats reported on August 15th that Google announced users can now remove visible watermarks from its AI-generated content, including images, videos, and songs. The company clarified that this move will not affect invisible SynthID watermarks or metadata related to the C2PA standard.

Josh Woodward, VP of Google Gemini, posted that the switch will be available for Nano Banana, Omni, and Lyria models. He noted that the setting to disable the visible watermark will be available in Gemini and Google's video editor Flow, with search functionality support coming soon. The feature will be rolled out gradually over the next few days, and once available, users can enable or disable the visible watermark via Settings > Media Watermarks.

Google has also open-sourced a new library called Credentio, which makes it easier for developers to embed local verification mechanisms in their applications.

According to BlockBeats, on August 15th, Strategy founder Michael Saylor stated that Bitcoin integrates computers, digital networks, and cryptography to build the first digitally designed monetary network in human history. It completely dematerializes monetary assets, with supply controlled by public protocols rather than decision-making, transforming economic value into information that can be securely transmitted across global communication networks. Compared to gold, Bitcoin is more difficult to issue, easier to integrate with software, faster in transmission, and every participant is incentivized to maintain network security. The proof-of-work mechanism anchors it to the physical world, consuming real energy in exchange for ledger security, making the cost of tampering with history high and attracting miners, energy companies, and investors to jointly build a defense system. Bitcoin is digital gold, but understanding it as digital currency energy is more accurate.

The Bitcoin network is not static software, but an adaptive system comprised of miners, nodes, developers, capital, and users. Bitcoin deliberately maintains simplicity, focusing solely on maintaining a secure and reliable ledger of scarce digital assets, leaving complexity to upper-layer applications. This layered design, combining underlying integrity with upper-layer functionality, allows it to serve as the foundation for transmitting monetary power across time and space, while also supporting continuous innovation in payment, credit, and financial services.

The more profound impact lies in Bitcoin's creation of a new type of digital sovereignty: private keys grant individuals the ability to control economic power without permission, and ownership is verified mathematically rather than institutionally. Companies, banks, trusts, and applications can build complete economic systems around it, and social networks can use it to introduce real costs and responsibilities into the digital space. Gold monetized physical scarcity, while Bitcoin monetizes digital scarcity. It is not simply a payment tool, but an engineering solution to the problem of energy conservation and management—money is energy, and Bitcoin is the monetary energy of the digital age.

According to BlockBeats, on August 15, DeFiLlama founder 0xngmi posted on social media that "for months I have been trying to get Apple to remove a fake app that impersonates DeFiLlama from the App Store and have been reporting it to Apple for trademark infringement, impersonating an official app and other issues."

Subsequently, we deposited a small amount into our wallet, downloaded the app, and as expected, all the funds in our wallet were stolen. We then reported this to Apple. As a result, the app was removed from the Apple App Store within a few days. We hope this information will alert other cryptocurrency companies so they don't waste their time like we did.

According to BlockBeats, on August 15, CCTV News reported that Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bagaei stated that despite US obstruction, talks between Iran and Oman are progressing actively, and the two sides have reached an agreement on a navigation scheme for the Strait of Hormuz.

According to a Bloomberg report on August 15, Joshua Kushner's Thrive Capital has purchased approximately $215 million worth of Amazon shares, continuing the venture capital firm's strategy of investing in the public markets.

The investment, disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday, is expected to give Thrive exposure to a major company that benefits from artificial intelligence. Amazon benefits from AI by providing proxy AI shopping tools and computing infrastructure for other businesses. Earlier this month, Amazon's market capitalization surpassed $3 trillion for the first time, becoming the fifth company to reach that milestone.

Thrive declined to comment. An Amazon representative was not immediately responded to a request for comment.

Thrive is known for its early investments in companies such as SpaceX, Stripe, and OpenAI, with OpenAI also backed by Amazon. Other publicly traded holdings of the venture capital firm include Figma Inc., Stubhub Holdings Inc., and Oscar Health, co-founded and incubated by Kushner.