CoinVoice has recently learned that according to Yonhap News Agency, South Korea's four largest banks (KB Kookmin Bank, Shinhan Bank, Hana Bank, and Woori Bank) are accelerating preparations for stablecoin issuance. These banks plan to meet with Heath Tarbert, CEO of Circle (issuer of the USDC stablecoin), this month to discuss cooperation on the circulation of US dollar stablecoins in South Korea, international remittances, and the issuance of a Korean won stablecoin. Furthermore, KB Financial Group has established its "Stablecoin Division" as a permanent organization, Shinhan Bank is advancing the development of a Korean won stablecoin payment system, Hana Financial Group is actively analyzing related systems and operations, and Woori Bank has launched a digital asset team and is working on trademark applications.

CoinVoice has recently learned that a cryptocurrency expert has pointed out that a growing number of Ethereum holders are queuing to withdraw their tokens from staking, a trend that could put significant selling pressure on the price of ETH. According to data from validatorqueue.com, the validator exit queue for the Ethereum blockchain reached a record high of 855,158 ETH on Friday. Data from Coingecko shows that as of Friday evening, these tokens were worth approximately $3.7 billion. Juan Leon, senior investment strategist at Bitwise, said that the growing queue of ETH waiting to be unstaked may have contributed to the asset's recent pullback. After coming within a whisker of setting a new all-time high, the second-largest crypto asset by market capitalization has fallen by hundreds of dollars in the past few days. He explained that the queue of ETH waiting to be unstaked could have a negative impact on the price of ETH, especially when the staked ETH is trading at a discount to the ETH itself.

Huoxun Finance reported on August 18th that the Qubic community and the Monero 51% attacker have voted to target Dogecoin for further testing. Qubic officials responded that they are currently discussing and preparing for $DOGE. These actions are intended to test theories and concepts and explore ways to increase miner profits, and are not targeting any specific project.

Huoxun Finance reported on August 18th that, according to mempool.space data, Bitcoin block 910440 was successfully mined by an independent miner from the SoloCK mining pool at 6:19 PM yesterday, receiving a block reward of 3.125 BTC, equivalent to approximately $369,000 at current prices. This block contained 4,913 transactions, with an average transaction fee of 0.28 to 300 satoshis per byte.

Huoxun Finance reported on August 18 that the OKX market showed that BTC had just fallen below $116,000 and was currently trading at $115,953.40 per coin, down 1.94% on the day.