According to BlockBeats, on August 21, Ethena transferred 170 million ENA tokens, worth $14.09 million, to FalconX three days ago.

Ethena just redeemed 170 million ENA tokens from FalconX, worth $23.68 million. The value of these tokens increased by $9.59 million in three days, a 68% increase.

According to BlockBeats, on August 21, Bitget reported that in pre-market trading on Friday, all three major stock index futures rose: Dow Jones futures rose 0.56%, Nasdaq 100 futures rose 0.63%, and S&P 500 futures rose 0.43%.

According to BIT (bit.com) market data, most leading tech stocks rose in pre-market trading, with AMD, Tesla, Micron Technology, and Intel all up more than 1%, while SpaceX, Nvidia, Meta, and Google A all rose nearly 1%.

Cryptocurrency stocks generally rose in pre-market trading, with Strive up over 7%, Strategy up nearly 7%, Circle and MARA Holdings up over 5%, Coinbase and Robinhood up nearly 5%, and Bitmine Immersion Technologies up over 3%.

The following are the key news items before the market opens:

OpenAI says the first batch of NVIDIA Vera Rubin racks are in place and running its training stack . It stated, "This is an important step in expanding our computing power, which will support OpenAI's next generation of cutting-edge AI pre-training."

2. Samsung Electronics announced that it will return up to 110 trillion won (approximately US$79 billion) to shareholders in 2026, accounting for about 50% of its free cash flow, setting a record for the highest return in the history of South Korean companies.

3. Musk announced that SpaceX's next test flight may be delayed until the end of the year.

4. Tom Hayes, founder of hedge fund Great Hill Capital, recently expressed a pessimistic view on Berkshire Hathaway's future investment performance . He believes that the conglomerate built by Buffett will struggle to outperform the S&P 500 in the next 10 years, and bluntly states that its era of consistently generating excess returns is over . He attributes his pessimism to the "law of large numbers," Buffett's eventual departure from direct leadership, and the capital allocation challenges arising from the company's excessive size.

5. DeepSeek introduces a new multimodal model. This model is on par with DeepSeek-V4-Flash in terms of text capabilities, covering areas such as agent, reasoning, and world knowledge.

6. A Morgan Stanley analyst team led by Eric Woodlin pointed out that, according to the latest data from Sensor Tower, as of August 17, the App Store's net revenue this month has decreased by 0.6% year-on-year; compared with June, the growth rate has fallen by 170 basis points.