According to BlockBeats, on August 14th, Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund almost completely liquidated its public market equity holdings in late July, retaining only a private equity stake in Anthropic. It is reported that Ken Griffin's Citadel took over most of the equity assets sold by the fund.

Situational Awareness, which once managed $45 billion in assets, significantly reduced its public equity holdings after losses in AI infrastructure-related stocks. With almost all publicly traded stocks sold, Anthropic became the only core holding that remained untouched.

It is understood that Aschenbrenner, in his July investor letter, cited Anthropic's potential IPO as a key catalyst. Anthropic is one of the world's highest-valued private AI companies, and a future IPO would provide early investors with an opportunity to exit and realize profits.

Analysts believe that Aschenbrenner's decision to retain his Anthropic holdings despite a significant correction in AI infrastructure stocks reflects his continued optimism about Anthropic and his own long-term investment logic in AGI. Currently, Anthropic is not publicly traded, and ordinary investors cannot directly trade its shares. Its main publicly traded counterparts include Amazon and Nvidia, both of which have invested heavily in AI infrastructure.

According to BlockBeats, on August 14th, Bitget officially announced the launch of ANET (Arista Networks) perpetual stock contracts. These contracts are settled in USDT, support up to 20x leverage, and offer 24/7 trading. Currently, Bitget supports 272 stock contracts.

BlockBeats reported on August 14th that the Web3 AI ecosystem network X-Agent recently announced the official launch of the "X-Agent AI MCP Hackathon 2026: Build, Verify, MCPize, Monetize" online hackathon. This hackathon, open to developers and Web3 AI teams worldwide, aims to break the limitations of "just a demo" and create AI APIs/on-chain capabilities that are actually callable, verifiable, and have sustainable monetization potential.

Zero-barrier standardization, from APIs to Agent business tools

This competition will last for nearly four weeks, including a five-day warm-up and a fourteen-day development and build period. Participants do not need to build their own complex MCP (Model Context Protocol) framework; they only need to develop core AI or encryption functions based on the API and submit the source code. Projects that pass technical verification and security review will be standardized and packaged into an MCP tool conforming to the Agent architecture with the assistance of X-Agent.

Direct access to the OKX.AI ecosystem enables pay-per-use and on-demand monetization.

As a core benefit of this hackathon, outstanding winning projects will be recommended by X-Agent and listed on the OKX.AI Smart Agent Marketplace. Through A2MCP and the x402 protocol (combined with the OKX X Layer on-chain gas-free USDC settlement channel), developers will receive continuous one-time payment revenue (Pay-Per-Call Revenue Share) whenever other AI Agents or users call the tool.

Four themed tracks and strict review rules

The competition includes four main tracks: AI, Web3, and on-chain automation. The official notice specifically states that, to ensure ecosystem security, projects involving security auditing, such as smart contract auditing, security risk control, phishing, and rug-pull detection, will not be eligible for participation.

According to BlockBeats, on August 14, a Washington state court issued a final ruling ordering prediction market platform Kalshi to cease offering event contracts in the state covering sports, elections, politics, entertainment, culture, technology, science, and "person mentions." The court believes that Kalshi is likely in violation of Washington state's gambling regulations.

The court ordered Kalshi to implement geofencing by IP address and user residence by August 19th, and to upgrade to a multi-source geofencing system by September 2nd, to prevent Washington state users from accessing restricted markets. Kalshi was also prohibited from promoting its betting products to consumers in the state.

However, the court did not restrict all of Kalshi's operations, and contracts related to commodities, climate, economy, and finance can still be offered in Washington state.

This ruling stems from a lawsuit previously filed by the state of Washington. Kalshi had applied for a stay of the injunction, but this was denied by the Washington State Court of Appeals. Meanwhile, several state and local governments in the United States are questioning whether Kalshi's event contracts constitute illegal gambling under state law, while Kalshi argues that its business should be regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) under federal law.

On the same day, Baltimore, Maryland's largest city, also sued Kalshi and Polymarket, accusing them of providing illegal gambling products. Kalshi faces increasing pressure from state and local regulators.