According to @PolynomialFi, PYTH jumped 48% after being selected by the U.S. Department of Commerce for onchain data verification, source: PolynomialFi. For traders, the catalyst-driven spike suggests elevated short-term volatility and liquidity shifts in PYTH pairs, making spot volume, order book depth, and funding trends key to gauging continuation versus mean reversion, source: PolynomialFi.

According to @rovercrc, China has demanded that the U.S. lift AI chip export restrictions as part of a trade deal, although the post does not include an accompanying official government document or statement (source: X post by @rovercrc, Aug 10, 2025). U.S. AI chip export controls on China were imposed and tightened by the U.S. Department of Commerce in October 2023, targeting advanced GPUs used for AI, which has constrained shipments of high-end Nvidia and AMD accelerators to China (source: U.S. Department of Commerce press release, Oct 17, 2023; Reuters, Oct 17, 2023). For crypto traders, the AI narrative sector including RNDR, FET, TAO, and GRT is thematically linked to AI compute headlines and is commonly tracked during policy-related AI chip news (source: Binance Research coverage of AI-related crypto sectors, 2023–2024).