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According to sources speaking to the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily on the 25th, as Alibaba initiates a placement financing, Alibaba founder Jack Ma has been continuously increasing his stake in Alibaba's Hong Kong stocks, with the total amount exceeding HKD 600 million, expressing strong confidence in Alibaba's AI prospects.

On August 14, the Ethereum Layer 2 network Robinhood Chain recently experienced an abnormal increase in user data, with daily active addresses soaring from the previous normal level of about 280,000 to 1.9 million on August 11, and further breaking through 5.2 million on August 12, attracting market attention. From on-chain activity, this surge is primarily driven by three major applications: Uniswap (trading, liquidity pools, and Poolstrade launchpad), StonkPit (stock token trading), and OpenSea (NFT trading), with Uniswap contributing a significant portion of the activity. Robinhood Chain integrated Uniswap as its main AMM liquidity infrastructure at launch, while also supporting OpenSea for trading stock tokens, NFTs, and community tokens. Robinhood's core advantage lies in its native user entry. Through the integration of Robinhood Wallet, low-threshold experience, and potential incentive mechanisms, the platform can quickly convert traditional finance users into on-chain users. When combined with meme trends, new product launches, or ecosystem subsidies, this can easily lead to short-term explosive growth. However, the on-chain daily active user data should be viewed with caution. Such a large-scale short-term surge may include a significant number of bot addresses, wash trading accounts, incentive farming users, and low-quality interaction addresses, meaning the actual number of effective users may be significantly lower than the reported figures. The market will subsequently focus on the sustainability of user growth on Robinhood Chain. If the activity primarily relies on meme speculation, short-term events, and gas subsidies, user data may show a significant decline as the hype subsides.

On August 6, during his appearance on the podcast "The Diary Of A CEO," Strategy founder Michael Saylor said he had used AI to design financial tools, helping the company create $15 billion in value. In 2025, as Strategy sought to continue raising funds to buy Bitcoin, traditional equity financing and convertible bond issuance were nearing their limits, so he began using AI to design a brand new securities instrument—a Bitcoin-backed convertible preferred stock, STRK. With the help of ChatGPT, Strategy launched this financial product never seen before in the market and successfully issued credit instruments totaling over $15 billion. Saylor stated that this financial innovation allowed the company to break through its financing bottleneck, and also enabled him to "earn $15 billion with AI."