According to BlockBeats, on August 27th, HTX market data showed that Bitcoin broke through $80,000 again, currently priced at $80,175.72, with a 24-hour increase of 2.84%.

In addition, a whale posted "Set 10 Big Targets First" and said "Bull Return Quickly," implying that it has already taken a long position in Bitcoin.

Beating AI News Flash: IBM has open-sourced its next-generation language model, Granite 4.2, offering three weight levels: 3B, 8B, and 30B. All three models incorporate native reasoning, allowing users to choose between full thought, low-intensity thought, or direct response, and all support tool-based invocation. The model weights are released under the Apache 2.0 license.

The key upgrade this time is in the Agent. Models 8B and 30B specifically incorporate Agent reinforcement learning, moving beyond simply solving problems in datasets to directly executing tasks in real-world code repositories, terminals, and web search environments. The model is evaluated based on whether the code passes tests and whether the tasks are actually completed during terminal operations, with rewards given to the model based on the results. Model 3B did not undergo this stage.

The smaller models actually performed the best independently. Artificial Analysis gave Granite 4.2 3B an Intelligence Index score of 14, ranking second among 46 open-weight models in the same category, while the median for the same category was only 4. 8B scored 20, also significantly higher than the median of 9 for the same category.

In IBM's self-testing, 30B achieved 57% on SWE-Bench Verified and 89.17% on AIME25. Compared to Granite 4.1, the most significant new feature of this generation is not the continued accumulation of basic capabilities, but rather enabling small models to formally possess inference capabilities and allowing 8B and 30B to directly learn how to act as agents in real-world environments.

BlockBeats News, August 27 – HashKey Holdings Limited today announced its unaudited consolidated interim results for the six months ended June 30, 2026 (the “Reporting Period”). During the Reporting Period, the Group achieved total revenue of HK$343 million, representing a year-on-year increase of 20.6%; gross profit reached HK$208 million, representing a year-on-year increase of 12.5%; and the gross profit margin improved to 60.6% compared to the second half of 2025.

During the reporting period, transaction facilitation service revenue, the Group's core growth engine, reached HK$268 million, representing a significant year-on-year increase of 38.6%. The platform's total transaction volume bucked the trend, rising to HK$282.2 billion, a year-on-year increase of 31.8%. Among this, institutional client transaction volume continued to grow, surging 58.8% year-on-year to HK$231.5 billion, accounting for 82.0% of the total transaction volume, reflecting the high level of trust institutional funds place in the compliant platform.

In addition to the trading segment, the Group's on-chain services and asset management businesses have also made significant progress. During this period, the Group launched Hong Kong's first real estate RWA and Hong Kong's first regulated silver RWA token, further solidifying HashKey's leading position in on-chain financial innovation. The total value of on-chain RWA has reached HK$2.68 billion, representing a year-on-year increase of 167.8%.

Furthermore, the company achieved significant growth in asset management and investment. The Group's assets under management (AUM) reached HK$5.94 billion, with revenue of HK$38.84 million. In the first half of this year, HashKey made a strategic investment in the Vietnam Sen Hung Vuong Cryptocurrency Exchange (CAEX), and HashKey Capital Investment's fund led SignalPlus's Series B+ funding round with a US$40 million investment.