According to BlockBeats, on August 17, Saudi media Alhadath reported that sources said the agreement to extend the 60-day negotiation period between Iran and the United States has been approved.

As a result of this news, according to Bitget market data, both WTI and Brent crude oil prices fell by more than $1 in the short term, while the three major U.S. stock index futures rose in the short term.

According to BlockBeats, on August 17, BitMart founder Sheldon posted that BitMart's official Chinese account had been hacked and that the content was not posted by a current employee.

According to BlockBeats , on August 17th, xyz:UNITREE on Hyperliquid was trading at $98.96, which is approximately RMB 667.86 based on the current exchange rate of 1 USD to 6.7487 RMB. This is 342.9% higher than Unitree's IPO price of RMB 150.8.

Based on Unitree Robotics' total share capital of approximately 404 million shares after its listing, the current contract price corresponds to an implied market capitalization of approximately RMB 270.1 billion and USD 40 billion, which is 4.43 times the issue market capitalization of approximately RMB 60.99 billion.

For comparison, Changxin Technology's offering price was 8.66 yuan, and it closed at 49 yuan on its first day of trading, a 465.8% increase over the offering price. Its intraday high of 55.03 yuan was 535.5% higher. UNITREE's current implied upside is still about 122.9 percentage points lower than Changxin Technology's first-day closing gain. If UNITREE replicates Changxin's first-day closing gain, the corresponding price would be approximately US$126.43, representing about 27.8% upside from the current price.

Currently, UNITREE is up about 4.6% today, with a 24-hour trading volume of about $3.817 million and an open interest of about $18.96 million. The hourly funding rate is about -0.000026%, which is close to neutral, and there is no obvious crowding of leveraged long positions.

Among all UNITREE addresses in the market, addresses starting with 0x652f may be executing similar trades using Changxin's first-day price increase as a profit-taking point. They began building their positions early in the contract's launch and are currently holding a 2x leveraged long position of 2083.81 UNITREE units, with a position value of approximately $203,200; the average entry price is $67.98, resulting in a floating profit of approximately 86.9%; the liquidation price is $46.16.

The long position has already placed two "short-term profit-taking" orders for approximately 91.1% of its position:

- 833.52 units were sold at $106, equivalent to approximately RMB 715.36, which is 374.4% higher than the offering price;

- 1,064 units were sold at $140, equivalent to approximately RMB 944.81, which is 526.5% higher than the issue price.

In addition, the address starting with 0x7277 is the largest long position in UNITREE across the entire market, holding 26,500 units with a 2x leverage ratio, a position value of approximately $2.623 million, an average entry price of $91.08, a floating profit of approximately $209,000, a return of approximately 17.3%, and a liquidation price of $28.98.

According to BlockBeats, on August 17, Yadora Javani, the deputy political commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, stated, "The Strait of Hormuz will reopen once the United States fulfills its commitments under the Islamabad Memorandum." (CCTV News)

According to BlockBeats, on August 17th, Binance will remove the following margin trading pairs at 14:00 (UTC+8) on August 21st: cross-margin trading pairs including AUCTION/USDC, BEAMX/USDC, CETUS/USDC, HUMA/USDC, LAYER/USDC, NXPC/USDC, UMA/USDC, and VELODROME/USDC.

Isolated margin trading pairs include HUMA/USDC, LAYER/USDC, and NXPC/USDC. Binance will suspend lending and borrowing for the above isolated margin trading pairs from 14:00 (UTC+8) on August 18, and close related positions, perform automatic settlement, and cancel all pending orders at 14:00 (UTC+8) on August 21.

According to BlockBeats, on August 17th, EmberCN monitoring revealed that AKE, which surged 52 times in the past month based on associated addresses, is also suspected to have originated from the market maker who previously manipulated SIREN.

This market maker has been involved in manipulating the prices of SIREN, AKE, XPIN, and BTR at least, and has manipulated prices by more than 10 times in each of these markets. AKE, in particular, experienced a sharp drop of about 60% in early July, followed by a 52-fold increase within a month after a significant withdrawal of long positions.

The address in question was previously used to manipulate SIREN and was used today to transfer XPIN to Binance Alpha.

According to BlockBeats, on August 17th, Harmony Protocol announced a rollback plan for the ONE aberration event. The plan is to roll back Shard 0 to block 92,730,034 and Shard 1 to block 94,978,278, both corresponding to the time of August 11, 2026, at 23:25:37 UTC. Validators will use the replacement database for the corresponding blocks, and will subsequently regenerate blocks at heights of 92,730,035 and 94,978,279.

Harmony stated that the first confirmed instance of fraudulent issuance occurred in block 92,730,036 of Shard 0, therefore the previous block was chosen as a safety buffer. After evaluating solutions such as targeted burning, blacklisting, selective transaction replay, token migration, and direct database rollback, the team concluded that these solutions could potentially affect unrelated funds or cause inconsistencies in the chain state. Therefore, a fixed rollback window was ultimately chosen. Harmony disclosed that a fraudulent issuance wallet attempted 534 transfers of 5 billion ONE each within 106 seconds, with 477 successful transfers totaling 2.385 trillion ONE. The team stated that current fund flow tracking covers over 99.9% of fraudulent ONE paths, but "traceable to wallets or clusters" does not mean that specific individual identities can be confirmed, nor does it mean that all related funds can be safely destroyed.

Furthermore, Harmony has completed the full archiving of Shard 0 from blocks 92,730,035 to 92,871,662, encompassing 141,628 consecutive blocks, 109,126 regular transactions, and 315 staking transactions. The team stated that all blocks and regular transactions after the rollback checkpoint will be discarded, and they are currently working with trading platforms, cross-chain bridges, and law enforcement to assess the impact and develop solutions. Harmony claims that an independent third-party security firm has reviewed the incident and confirmed the forged issuance and the discovery of key fund flows. Validators must follow the official recovery process to perform the rollback.

According to BlockBeats, on August 17, Bitget data showed that Brent crude oil broke through $88 per barrel, up 0.93% on the day.