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Trump's 50% tariff shock to Canada accelerates the Carney government's efforts to reduce economic dependence on the US
BlockBeats news: On August 22, the 50% tariff imposed by U.S. President Trump on certain Canadian goods took effect this week, further intensifying trade tensions between the U.S. and Canada. This has prompted the Canadian government to accelerate efforts to find alternative markets, expand domestic trade, and advance large infrastructure projects to reduce dependence on the U.S. economy.
Currently, about 70% of Canada's exports go to the U.S., with the two economies highly interconnected. Prev
Tencent chip head Gao Jianlin leaves to start a business, targeting the RISC-V high-performance AI CPU track
BlockBeats news, on August 22, according to MaxForAI disclosure, Gao Jianlin, the core leader of Tencent's chip R&D, recently left Tencent and started a venture, planning to develop high-performance CPUs based on the RISC-V architecture focusing on high-performance AI servers and Agentic AI (intelligent agent AI).
Gao Jianlin is considered one of the early core promoters of Tencent's self-developed chip system. Information shows that in 2013, he formed an FPGA hardware team within Tencent, bega
"Maji" has an unrealized loss of 2 million USD over 80 minutes, holding 888.88 BTC long positions and 19,100 ETH long positions
BlockBeats news, on August 22, according to TradingBeats (formerly Hyperinsight) monitoring, the recent trading performance of "Maji Big Brother" Huang Licheng's address has sharply reversed. After nearly 500 liquidations, his account grew from $152,000 to over $10 million in just 3 days.
However, during the crypto short-term plunge in the past 2 hours, the balance of his account assets dropped from $12.8 million to $10.8 million within 80 minutes, showing significant volatility.
Currently, he
The official Base App Twitter is suspected to have unfollowed Base co-founder Jesse
BlockBeats news, on August 22, according to market sources, the official Base App Twitter account apparently unfollowed Base co-founder Jesse, with multiple crypto users sharing bot screenshots and sparking discussions.
This incident occurred after Jesse's strategic adjustment in mid-July. At that time, Jesse publicly admitted that Base's bets on on-chain social and creator tokens had failed, handing over leadership of Base App back to Coinbase, with Cobie (Jordan Fish) taking over, while he fo
Whale: "Set 10 big goals first": After making $100 million profit in the last round but suffering a pullback, this round's long positions exited early due to fear
BlockBeats news, on August 22, whale trader "Set 10 Big Goals First" Jason Leo posted a review of his recent trading experience this morning, stating that he is re-understanding discipline and risk control in trading.
Jason said that in the last cycle he achieved about $100 million in profit, but because he insisted on trend judgment for a long time and did not stop losses in time after the market reversed, the profit was significantly retraced. This experience led him to summarize two core pri
In the past hour, Ethereum liquidations reached $108 million, Bitcoin liquidations reached $50.94 million, and XRP liquidations reached $48 million
BlockBeats news, on August 22, according to Coinglass data, in the past 1 hour, Ethereum liquidations reached $108 million, Bitcoin liquidations $50.94 million, XRP liquidations $48 million, SOL liquidations $47.5 million.
In the past 1 hour, total network liquidations amounted to $529 million, long position liquidations $478 million, short position liquidations $50.21 million.
PaiDun: The Sandbox was attacked, 14.9 billion SAND tokens were abnormally minted
BlockBeats news, on August 22, according to Paitun monitoring, The Sandbox (SAND) experienced an abnormal security incident. The attacker is suspected of exploiting a vulnerability to abnormally mint approximately 1.49 billion SAND tokens across two addresses.
Currently, The Sandbox official has not yet released a confirmation of the incident or details of the vulnerability. The scope of the attack's impact and whether there are any financial losses are still under further investigation.
DeepSeek releases visual understanding model, Big Blue Whale and others are the latecomers' eyes
Original Title: "DeepSeek Releases Visual Understanding Model, The Late Eyes of the Big Blue Whale"
Original Author: Dongcha Beating
On August 21, 2026, DeepSeek launched a brand-new visual understanding model deepseek-v4-flash-vision-exp, officially opening its multimodal API. For the first time, developers can directly send images to DeepSeek's official interface.
The model retains V4 Flash's 1 million token context and 384,000 token maximum output, supports JSON Output, Tool Calls, Respons
FT: Economic pressure during the Trump era, oil prices and mortgage rates rising simultaneously, US debt surpasses $40 trillion
BlockBeats news, on August 22, the Financial Times published an article stating that the Trump administration's economic policies are facing multiple pressures: U.S. federal debt has surpassed $40 trillion, long-term U.S. Treasury yields have risen to a 19-year high, the Iran war has pushed up energy prices, and mortgage rates continue to climb.
This week, the U.S. long-term Treasury market experienced severe volatility. Investors, concerned about the expanding government borrowing and inflatio
Crypto short-term "flash crash," $523 million liquidated across the entire network in the past hour, mainly long positions liquidated
BlockBeats news, on August 22, according to Coinglass data, the crypto market experienced a short-term flash crash, with $523 million liquidated across the entire network in the past hour, $448 million in long positions liquidated, and $74.7592 million in short positions liquidated.
In the last 24 hours, a total of 286,130 people worldwide were liquidated, with a total liquidation amount of $1.801 billion. The largest single liquidation occurred on Hyperliquid - BTC-USD, valued at $24.96 millio