ChainFeeds Research’s PRO #155 rounds up updates across Bitcoin protocol work, Ethereum governance topics, new research, and fresh papers. The issue centers on the supply side of Ethereum block building, a proposed way to handle gas accounting under EIP-7999, and Native Ethereum Delegation (NED), a protocol-level design for staking delegation. It also includes Bitcoin quantum-recovery ideas, a Lightning Network congestion proposal, Bitcoin Core release changes, and several MEV and proof-system research notes. On the builder side, Christoph Rosenmayr and Jascha Samadi argue that the scarce asset is not block count but valuable orderflow. Their Dune-based data shows validators have earned about $1.36 billion in execution-layer rewards via MEV-Boost since early 2024, while builders kept about $404 million in builder surplus. Titan, they say, now builds around half of blocks yet captures roughly 80%–85% of surplus. The Bitcoin section includes Shinobi’s view that users who still control private keys should be able to recover BTC locked to hash-addresses without protocol-level confiscation of long-dormant coins. It also covers Bitcoin Optech’s CMTC proposal, Bitcoin Core’s new static Linux binaries, and a change that moves transaction relay throttling from per-peer queues to a global limit. On Ethereum, Anders Elowsson lays out four accounting paths for EIP-7999, while Jeff’s NED research proposes protocol-routed delegation with a worst-case concentration bound. The issue also highlights ragged multi-instance GKR for Poseidon2b, MEV articles and conference videos, and a censorship paper from Derivation Technology, Aarhus University, and Nanyang Technological University.

Advanced Micro Devices said it plans to issue up to $5 billion in senior unsecured notes, a deal that would rank as the company’s largest U.S. dollar bond sale on record. The offering is split across four maturities ranging from three to 10 years, with final size dependent on investor demand. AMD said the proceeds will be used for general corporate purposes, including debt repayment, as $875 million of its bonds come due next month. As of June 27, 2026, AMD held about $5.09 billion in cash and cash equivalents and $8.03 billion in short-term investments. The transaction is being underwritten by Barclays, BofA Securities, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and Wells Fargo. ABMedia said the fundraising is tied to AMD’s broader AI expansion. The company has recently worked with Anthropic and Microsoft, and has committed up to $5 billion to Anthropic to support and optimize Claude model performance on AMD hardware. AMD is also targeting more than 50% share of the $220 billion server CPU market by 2030, while accelerating Helios AI rack deployment, expanding its Venice server CPU line, and upgrading the ROCm software platform. The company added that supply chain capacity remains its main operating constraint and said it is working with TSMC and other partners to secure more advanced-node output.

PPP, a prediction-market monitoring tool, has flagged a large position on Polymarket's European Super Cup market between Paris Saint-Germain and Aston Villa. A wallet identified as 0x86d2d490bcac9fccea02a44c48272008e0c4731d, which has already earned more than $190,000 in profits, spent $120,000 on the outcome that PSG will not beat Aston Villa. The position was opened at an average price of 43 cents per share. Data for the event shows total trading volume of about $587,500, with the PSG-win side accounting for around $521,000 of that activity, making it by far the most heavily traded market in this matchup. The game is scheduled to be played at a neutral venue. PSG enter the contest as the market favorite because of their squad depth and European record, while Aston Villa are led by manager Unai Emery. Polymarket will settle this contract based only on the scoreline after the regulation 90 minutes, including stoppage time, meaning extra time and penalties are excluded from settlement.

Crypto.com has introduced tokenized stock derivatives tied to about 1,500 U.S. equities and exchange-traded funds, opening the offering to eligible users in the European Economic Area and other approved markets. The exchange said users can gain exposure to names such as Apple, Nvidia and Tesla, as well as products including SPDR Gold Shares and iShares Silver Trust, with positions starting from just $1 and trading available around the clock. The products are issued by Foris Capital CY Limited and are structured as derivatives that track the price performance of the underlying stock or ETF rather than transferring legal ownership of the asset itself. That means buyers receive synthetic exposure, not shareholder status, voting rights or beneficial ownership. Crypto.com said users may still receive price adjustments equivalent to cash dividends, while the underlying assets supporting the products are held in custody by U.S. broker Alpaca. The rollout follows Crypto.com’s May 2025 acquisition of Foris Capital, which the company said enabled it to secure a Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, or MiFID, license to issue regulated financial products in Europe. The launch comes as tokenized securities gain traction across the industry, with RWA.xyz putting tokenized stock market capitalization at about $2.49 billion and Citi projecting the broader tokenized securities market could reach $5.5 trillion by 2030.

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.

STONKBROKER, a meme coin on Robinhood Chain, climbed to an all-time high of $0.0389903 early on Aug. 11, posting a 19.22% gain over 24 hours and a 127.22% rise over seven days. Chain data cited in the source article shows that wallet 0x8671DF…b93e8 built its position at an average cost of $0.0004373, spending a total of $5,080 to accumulate 11,615,621 tokens. The address has no recorded outgoing STONKBROKER transfers and, at the time referenced in the article, still had not sold any of its holdings. According to Blockscout records reviewed by BlockTempo, 93.2% of that wallet’s position was accumulated in less than four minutes on July 18, with the remaining purchases spread between July 21 and Aug. 10. The article also noted that the holder added another 20,106 tokens on Aug. 10. Using CoinGecko’s quoted price of $0.035496 at press time, the position was worth about $412,000, implying roughly $407,000 in unrealized profit and a return of about 8,017%. The report also distinguished between STONKBROKER’s circulating market cap of $55.63 million and its fully diluted valuation of $96.43 million, and pointed out that liquidity conditions could make it difficult to fully realize the paper gain in one sale.

Engineer Ben Zhang said he spent 30 minutes searching his office for a missing phone before turning to Anthropic’s Claude for help. With Apple’s Find My disabled by MDM, Claude suggested a different route: track the phone through Bluetooth signal strength and write a small utility for the job. According to Zhang, the AI produced the meter in about a minute, and he then walked around the office watching the readings rise until he found the device. Zhang later published the tool, called findphone, on GitHub. The utility is written in Swift, runs on macOS 13 or later, and reads RSSI, or received signal strength indicator, from nearby Bluetooth devices. It can also add a radar-like sound cue through a sound flag and hide Bluetooth addresses with a redact flag for screen recordings. The report notes that RSSI is not a substitute for GPS: accuracy is typically around 2 to 5 meters and can worsen in environments with metal, glass, or water, where reflection and diffraction affect readings. Even so, the episode shows how AI can cut the cost of building one-off software for narrow personal problems.

NVIDIA has released storage benchmark results for its Vera CPU, saying the NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX storage processor delivered higher performance than a comparison x86 CPU across several storage-heavy tasks tied to AI-native infrastructure. According to the company, the strongest gain came in CRC32C integrity checking, where performance reached up to 3.67x that of the x86 comparison system. Reed-Solomon data recovery improved by up to 3.26x, compression by up to 3.29x, decompression by up to 1.72x, and a combined compression-plus-encryption storage pipeline by up to 3.21x. NVIDIA also reported gains of up to 1.43x for AES-128 encryption and 1.29x for AES-128 decryption. The company said the benchmarks reflect a shift in AI infrastructure as AI agents handle knowledge retrieval, tool use, long-term memory management, and larger context windows. In that setting, storage is no longer limited to basic reads and writes, but becomes part of the inference path itself, with encryption, compression, validation, and recovery tasks adding pressure to CPUs. NVIDIA said Vera is designed to raise throughput per unit of CPU resource so storage systems can support more AI agent workloads without materially increasing infrastructure costs.