ITjuzi’s latest report on China’s embodied AI startup ecosystem found that founders with backgrounds at major technology companies are attracting a disproportionate share of capital in the sector. The study reviewed 1,155 entrepreneurs and said more than 300 of them had worked at Huawei, Microsoft, Baidu, Google, DJI, Alibaba, Tencent, ByteDance or Xiaomi. Those founders helped create 232 embodied AI companies, roughly 20% of the sector by count, yet they captured about half of all industry funding. The report compared nine major “big-tech camps” by company count, total funding and average funding per company. Huawei ranked first in both company count and total funding, with 26 companies raising a combined RMB 38.85 billion. Microsoft came second by total funding at RMB 33.92 billion, while its camp led in average funding per company at RMB 1.542 billion. Google-backed founders followed closely on that metric at RMB 1.509 billion per company. ITjuzi said the strongest funding outcomes were linked not simply to brand-name employers, but to teams combining hardware execution, supply-chain and mass-production experience with AI and model capabilities. The report also highlighted a growing divide between teams still in product validation and those that have already demonstrated delivery and manufacturing capacity.

A wallet transferred 289,760 LINK, worth about $2.74 million, into its Gnosis Safe multisignature wallet, according to monitoring by Onchain Lens cited by ChainCatcher. The tokens were accumulated from Binance over the past month, based on the information provided in the report. The transfer points to an internal wallet move rather than an exchange inflow, with the assets sent to the wallet’s own Gnosis Safe address. No additional transaction details, timing breakdown, or wallet identity were disclosed in the source material.

Onchain Lens said a whale transferred 984,600 LINK to Coinbase roughly two hours before the report, with the tokens valued at about $9.23 million. The move was flagged as a possible sell deposit. The same wallet had accumulated about 2.41 million LINK from Binance over the past month, according to the monitoring update. After the Coinbase transfer, the whale still holds 1.43 million LINK, worth about $13.43 million based on the figures cited in the report. Onchain Lens also estimated the wallet is sitting on an unrealized profit of about $1.42 million. The transaction adds to recent whale activity around LINK and points to a sizable amount of tokens being moved onto a major exchange.

ChainCatcher, citing Binance spot market data, reported broad volatility across major altcoins. LINK rose 10.68% over the past 24 hours, reaching both a fresh intraday high and a new high for the week. NEAR also posted gains, climbing 6.11% and touching its weekly high. On the losing side, BICO fell 16.39% after a spike-and-retreat pattern. GTC, YGG, BMT, and HAEDAL showed the same price action, with declines of 5.06%, 5.57%, 8.12%, and 7.24%, respectively. At the same time, MITO and AT moved in the opposite direction, rising 6.82% and 12.01% after a rebound from earlier lows. The update points to a market session marked by fast rotations, with some tokens extending gains while others gave back earlier advances.

Chainlink carried out another LINK buyback on Aug. 15, according to on-chain monitoring from Onchain Lens. The purchase covered 127,740 LINK, valued at about $1.12 million, and the tokens were then transferred into a reserve wallet. Latest data cited in the update shows that Chainlink Reserve now holds roughly 5.48 million LINK. Those holdings are valued at about $48.5 million, with an average acquisition cost of $11.14 per token. The latest transaction adds to the project’s reserve position and marks another treasury-side accumulation move tracked on-chain.

On-chain tracker Onchain Lens said Chainlink has carried out another LINK buyback, purchasing 127,740 LINK worth about $1.12 million and transferring the tokens to a reserve wallet. The latest transaction adds to the project’s reserve holdings, which Onchain Lens said now stand at roughly 5.48 million LINK. Based on the cited data, those holdings are valued at about $48.5 million, with an average acquisition cost of $11.14 per token. The update points to a fresh accumulation move by Chainlink rather than an open-market transfer between external addresses, as the purchased tokens were sent directly into the reserve wallet after the buyback was completed.

Blockchain tracker Onchain Lens said Grayscale transferred assets from two trust wallets to Coinbase Prime. The move involved 572.9 BTC from the Bitcoin Trust wallet, valued at about $35.9 million, and 44,320 LINK from the Chainlink Trust wallet, valued at about $391,000. The update was published by ChainCatcher as a whale movement newsflash. No additional details on the purpose of the transfers were provided in the source. The report identifies Coinbase Prime as the destination for both transactions and names the wallets as Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust and Chainlink Trust holdings.

A dense 24-hour news cycle brought fresh filings, earnings, market calls and regulatory signals across crypto and adjacent tech markets. Fidelity filed an amended registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Aug. 11 to add ETH staking to its spot Ethereum ETF, the Fidelity Ethereum Fund (FETH). Under normal conditions, the fund said it could stake as much as 100% of the ETH it holds, with no minimum staking threshold, and its investment objective would change to include staking rewards if approved. Elsewhere, some existing Anthropic investors said the AI company could be valued at more than $2 trillion if it goes public as early as October, with one investor putting the upside case at $3 trillion based on a roughly 30x revenue multiple. The estimates remain investor forecasts, and several investors said Anthropic management has not set an IPO valuation target. The session also featured quarterly updates from Bullish, BitGo and Securitize, new SEC steps around tokenized fund operations and tokenized equities, ETF flow data for Bitcoin and Ethereum products, and a series of policy, infrastructure and security developments spanning Europe, the U.K., Brazil and the U.S.