Bitcoin extended its decline to a sixth straight day and briefly fell below $63,000, touching roughly $62,800 for the first time since Aug. 3, while also losing its 200-week moving average near $64,000. Analysts cited in PANews’ market note said the chart damage matters: Ash Crypto warned that the last comparable break of the daily trendline was followed by a decline of about 20%, putting fresh focus on whether the $60,000 area can hold. Benjamin Cowen added that mid-August through mid-October has historically been a weaker seasonal stretch for BTC, with average drawdowns of around 10% to 11% in August and about 8% in September. At the same time, volatility has compressed to an extreme. Bitcoin’s 30-day trading range narrowed to just 5.6%, one of the tightest readings on record, while roughly $1.29 billion in BTC options are approaching expiry with a max pain level at $64,000. The report also pointed to broader cross-asset signals, including U.S. inflation data, ETF flows, crypto-linked equities, and Asia market moves, as traders wait for a directional break.

Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy, said the company’s roughly $15 billion in fundraising over the past year came from a set of Bitcoin-backed preferred stock products that he says were shaped with help from ChatGPT. Speaking on The Diary Of A CEO on Aug. 6, Saylor said he had “made $15 billion with AI last year,” then clarified that he was referring to capital raised in the market rather than personal income or company profit. According to his breakdown, one preferred stock product brought in about $10.5 billion, including a roughly $2.5 billion IPO and another $8 billion through follow-on issuance, while other related products contributed about $4 billion. Forbes currently estimates Saylor’s net worth at about $4 billion. The report says Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, accumulated nearly 850,000 BTC over the past six years and at one point held Bitcoin worth close to $55 billion. As traditional funding channels tightened in early 2025, Saylor said the company used ChatGPT to help think through a new security structure between common stock and debt. That led to variable-dividend preferred stock products including STRK, STRC and STRF. At the same time, Strategy’s common stock market value fell about 80% over the past year, and the company disclosed selling 1,638 BTC for about $104.7 million in one week to help cover preferred dividends and repurchase preferred shares.

Token Unlocks data shows that YZY, AVAX, ARB, APT, SEI and STRK are due for major unlocks next week, led by YZY’s roughly 120 million-token release worth about $35.8 million. Bitget’s Chinese-language head Xie Jiayin said the exchange has locked relevant data and begun its highest-level review after an abnormal TUT mark-price move, with a compensation plan due within 24 hours. The digest also covers Hyperliquid’s record open interest, a Paraguayan death investigation involving Harry Chun Tak Yeh, a Korean tax delay proposal, Unitree’s STAR Market subscription, and other crypto and AI headlines.

Several tokens are scheduled for sizable unlocks between Aug. 10 and Aug. 16, according to TechFlowPost. The list includes LINEA, IO, LAYER, Aptos (APT), PEAQ, CHEEL, CYBER, Starknet (STRK), CONX, Sei (SEI), Arbitrum (ARB), and YZY. Among them, YZY has the largest unlock by percentage of circulating supply at 22.83%, with an estimated value of about $35.8 million. CONX is set for an unlock worth about $11.55 million, while ARB and APT are due to unlock roughly $7.2 million and $6.66 million, respectively. Other scheduled events range from about $1.5 million to $3.67 million in value, with circulating-supply impacts between 0.66% and 6.22%.

The coming week features a dense slate of macro releases, regulatory milestones, project changes, and token unlocks that could draw attention across crypto and adjacent markets. In the U.S., July CPI is scheduled for Aug. 12, followed by PPI on Aug. 13. Japan’s central bank is set to release the summary of opinions from its July monetary policy meeting on Aug. 10, while Russia will begin enforcing a crypto mining ban in Moscow and several other areas starting Aug. 15 through Dec. 31, 2032. On the exchange and project side, Binance Alpha plans to launch a DAPPOS (DOS) airdrop on Aug. 10. Victory Securities will begin charging a 0.05% monthly insurance fee on virtual asset accounts supported by HashKey custody. Superseed said it will abandon its self-built Layer 2 and return focus to Ethereum mainnet, requiring users to bridge assets out by Aug. 15, 2026. Flash Trade said it may wind down if no suitable buyer is found, and the team will hold an AMA on Aug. 11. Several token unlocks are also on the calendar, including AVAX, APT, SEI, STRK, YZY, and ARB. Among them, YZY’s scheduled unlock of roughly 120 million tokens on Aug. 16 stands out, representing about 22.83% of circulating supply, with an indicated value of about $35.8 million.

Michael Saylor used a wide-ranging interview on The Diary Of A CEO to tie together two ideas he sees as central to the next decade: using AI to invent new financial structures, and using Bitcoin as a long-term store of capital in a world where fiat money steadily loses purchasing power. Saylor said Strategy turned to AI in early 2025 after conventional funding channels had largely been exhausted. The company, already holding tens of billions of dollars in Bitcoin, needed a new instrument to keep raising capital for additional purchases. He said AI helped design a Bitcoin-backed preferred stock with a variable dividend structure, a product that became STRK. According to Saylor, the company completed a $250 million IPO, later raised another $8 billion through additional issuance, and ultimately sold $15 billion in credit assets across several tools. Beyond the financing story, Saylor argued that cash and bank deposits expose savers to long-term debasement, while housing often comes with taxes, insurance and financing costs that make it a poor store of value for many households. He compared Bitcoin with gold, the S&P 500 and real estate, framed Bitcoin as a globally accessible scarce capital asset, and explained why Strategy sold a small amount of BTC: to disprove what he called a dangerous market narrative that the company could never sell without triggering collapse.

Starknet has announced via X that it has integrated Chance, a trust layer for AI agents. Chance performs intent verification before an agent trade is executed. It simulates the operation and compares the results against the user's authorization. If a mismatch is found, the transfer is blocked. The system uses Starknet's programmable escrow wallet, which lets agents propose trades while keeping funds in escrow until the user's authorization is met. Chance also employs the STRK20 privacy framework on Starknet, ensuring that the context of agent authorization and settlement stays private. The integration supports selective disclosure of receipts, allowing users to control what is revealed. This adds a layer of validation and privacy to AI agent trading on Starknet.

WuBlockchain’s July technology report mapped a broad set of protocol developments across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain, Zcash, NEAR, Cardano, Uniswap and Sui. On Bitcoin, Bitcoin Core v31.1 was released on July 8, 2026 with bug fixes tied to chainstate disk rewrites and an IP leak linked to the -privatebroadcast feature, while BIP-110 turned into a governance flashpoint as miner signaling stayed far below the 55% threshold. On Ethereum, the Glamsterdam upgrade moved into its final integration and performance-testing phase, Hegota remained in proposal-scope selection, and Vitalik Buterin published new pieces on Lean Ethereum, validator-state compression and privacy. The report also covered Ethereum proposals including Native UTXOs on Ethereum and EIP-8222, along with Starknet’s STRK20 privacy framework and Polygon’s Ithaca hard fork schedule. Elsewhere, Solana advanced Agave v4.2, launched Solana Governance Proposals and prepared SIMD-0286 to raise the single-block compute cap, while Zcash activated Ironwood NU6.3 on mainnet and introduced Zakura 1.0.0 as a new full-node client.