Phison Electronics CEO K.S. Pua used the company’s Aug. 13 second-quarter earnings call to make two points at once: to publicly accuse Chinese memory module leader Longsys of copying technology, and to argue that investors should stop viewing Phison as only a consumer-focused module company. Pua pointed to Longsys’ recent work with UNISOC on an Edge Device general DRAM offload solution and its HLC+ SPU technology collaboration with AMD, saying he had already confronted Longsys executives earlier this year at China’s FMS event with a blunt remark: 「You are a big company and also an innovative company, so why do you only know how to copy?」 He also pushed back on claims that AMD had chosen Longsys, saying the cooperation was limited to AMD’s China team, while adding that Phison has cooperation with Intel and MediaTek that is still covered by NDA. On operations, Pua said Phison’s newly defined AI Ecosystem Solutions segment accounted for about 38% of second-quarter revenue, up about 68% quarter over quarter. He also said NAND supply, not just pricing, is the bigger problem and could remain tight for many years.

Aptos has moved from a chain where token holders were effectively subsidizing the network to one of the few mainstream general-purpose Layer 1 blockchains generating positive net income for holders, according to a report cited by TechFlowPost. The shift is measured through Token Holder Net Income, or THNI, which tracks network revenue minus payments to validators while treating staking rewards as an internal transfer among token holders rather than an expense. The report says Aptos crossed into positive THNI in May 2026 and has stayed there since, while Ethereum, Solana, and Sui remained in negative territory over the same period. The inflection followed a series of protocol-level changes between Feb. 19 and March 19: a 10x increase in gas prices, a halving of staking rewards to a fixed 2.6%, a hard cap of 2.1 billion tokens on total supply, and the permanent lockup of 210 million tokens. The same piece also reviewed broader market moves. Crypto equities outperformed, largely on Circle’s strength following its Aug. 5 second-quarter results and two forward-looking catalysts: the planned Sept. 16 launch of Arc mainnet and federal approval for Circle National Trust.

Binance has announced it will delist seven spot trading pairs effective Aug. 14 at 03:00 UTC, when trading in each pair will stop. The affected pairs are APT/BTC, AR/BTC, A/USDC, BTTC/TRY, CYBER/USDC, LPT/BTC and WAL/FDUSD, covering tokens such as APT, AR, A, BTTC, CYBER, LPT and WAL against BTC, USDC, TRY or FDUSD as quote assets. The exchange said it regularly reviews all spot pairs listed on its platform and may remove those that fail to meet its standards, citing poor liquidity and low trading volume as possible reasons. The decision is aimed at protecting users and maintaining a high-quality trading market, according to Binance. The removal of these pairs does not impact other spot pairs for the same tokens, and users can still trade the underlying base and quote assets through other pairs. The announcement was first reported by U.Today. Binance said the delisting is part of its regular review of listed spot trading pairs.

PANews’ daily roundup on Aug. 11 centered on two balance-sheet stories with direct relevance to crypto markets. Strategy said it sold 1,690 BTC last week and lifted its U.S. dollar reserve to about $4.65 billion, while also raising roughly $653 million through its at-the-market equity program. CEO Phong Le said the company had adjusted its approach because bitcoin alone could not meet investor demand, adding that institutional investors place greater value on cash and that Strategy now holds $4.75 billion in cash, enough to cover roughly 2.7 years of preferred dividends. Trump Media, by contrast, reported a first-half loss of $360.6 million tied to the decline in crypto asset prices. As of June 30, the company held 9,477.16 BTC with a fair value of $557.1 million, down by 65 BTC from the end of March, while its Cronos holdings stayed unchanged at about 756.1 million tokens but fell in fair value from $68 million at the end of 2025 to $40.6 million. The report also noted that most of its bitcoin had been pledged as collateral. Elsewhere, South Korea approved tougher crypto rules that tighten scrutiny of exchange major shareholders and remove the 1 million won threshold for the Travel Rule, extending it to all transfers. U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs recorded a net outflow of $145 million on Aug. 10, with BlackRock’s IBIT seeing the largest single-day net outflow at $53.56 million.

Binance will remove seven spot trading pairs on Aug 14 at 11:00: APT/BTC, AR/BTC, A/USDC, BTTC/TRY, CYBER/USDC, LPT/BTC and WAL/FDUSD. Users can continue trading the relevant assets via other pairs on the exchange, according to ChainCatcher.

Binance will stop trading and remove seven spot trading pairs at 03:00 UTC on Aug. 14, 2026, according to an official announcement cited by BlockBeats on Aug. 11. The pairs set to be delisted are APT/BTC, AR/BTC, A/USDC, BTTC/TRY, CYBER/USDC, LPT/BTC, and WAL/FDUSD. No additional details were included in the brief notice provided in the source. The update concerns spot market pairs on the exchange and specifies both the effective time and the full list of affected markets.

A MarsBit report argues that AI agents are changing storage from a passive persistence layer into part of the execution path itself. As agents continuously observe, reason, call tools, write back results and preserve state, the value of storage is no longer limited to saving data after a task is complete. The report says SSDs are beginning to take on functions tied to model weights, KV cache spillover, indexing, encryption, compression, lifecycle control and long-term memory, pointing to a broader shift toward programmable, functional SSDs. The piece lays out how this transition could play out on both devices and in the cloud. On the edge, SSDs may become the long-lived state layer for personal agents, holding local models, adapters, vector indexes, personal memory and tool traces. In cloud deployments, storage nodes could move closer to the inference path, handling shared prefixes, KV data, adapters, vector search and governance. The report cites Mooncake and NVIDIA CMX as examples of systems where storage is already participating in token production rather than merely holding cold data. It also argues that the rise of agent systems does not diminish HBM. Instead, HBM, HBF, DRAM/CXL and SSDs are likely to be re-tiered by speed, mutability, capacity, cost and governance needs. Existing AI SSD efforts from Phison, Longsys, Maxio and partners are presented as early industrial samples of this shift, where the focus is moving from faster disks for AI workloads to a reallocation of responsibilities across runtime, memory hierarchy, controllers and flash.

A roster from the 2000 U.S. Physics Olympiad training camp has resurfaced online, drawing attention because it includes Dario Amodei, now the chief executive of Anthropic. The archived list, preserved by the American Association of Physics Teachers, names 24 students selected for the camp held at the University of Maryland in May 2000. Only five advanced to represent the United States at the 31st International Physics Olympiad in Leicester, where the team finished seventh and all five members won medals. The renewed attention has widened beyond Amodei. The same list also includes Vladimir Novakovski, now founder of Lighter; Badr Albanna, an AI research engineer at Duolingo; and Nilah Monnier Ioannidis, now teaching computational biology at the University of California, Berkeley. The article traces how several of those students later moved into artificial intelligence, quantitative finance, computational biology, computer science and law. For Amodei, the route ran from a physics PhD at Princeton to Baidu’s Silicon Valley AI lab, Google Brain, OpenAI and then Anthropic, which he co-founded in 2021. Others on the roster followed equally distinct paths, and the report argues that the Olympiad network itself became a long-lived talent pipeline whose ties later reappeared in startup formation and venture investment.