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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated in an interview with Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg The Close" host Ed Ludlow that top AI developers have performed poorly in communicating the benefits of the technology, making the industry susceptible to growing opposition.Altman said, "I think the entire industry has done a very poor job in this regard." "I think we ourselves have not done well, perhaps better than some and worse than others."

According to Digital Asset, the South Korean Financial Services Commission has announced plans to advance a tokenization model for listed stocks centered around the Korea Exchange (KRX), referencing pilot programs from the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Non-listed stocks will be advanced for tokenization through a trust method.The Financial Services Commission has released a three-phase roadmap for the tokenization of standardized assets. The first phase will launch in February 2027 when the token securities law is implemented, targeting tokenization of private money market funds, private corporate bonds, and non-listed stocks, limited to institutional investors. The second phase will expand the scope to public offerings. The third phase will promote "on-chain settlement," meaning that both securities and settlement methods will complete payments and settlements on the blockchain. The Financial Services Commission stated that on-chain settlement will be officially advanced after stablecoin legislation.

According to Coinglass data, the cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index is currently at 73, up 9 points from yesterday. The average over the past 7 days is 66, and the average over the past 30 days is 51.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has publicly released its request for comments regarding "Novel ETFs," which may hold crypto assets or adopt unconventional strategies. The disagreement centers on whether the filing documents should remain public before the fund begins trading and how quickly the review process should be. Crypto asset management firm Grayscale and the crypto policy organization Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI) support establishing an optional confidential filing period to reduce competitors from submitting imitation documents.Charles Schwab opposes complete confidentiality and suggests that filing documents should be made public at least 75 days in advance. Grayscale requests that the SEC respond within 45 days, while CCI argues that the confidentiality process should not extend the automatic effectiveness or review period. Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (A16z) supports shortening the review time but emphasizes that the rigor of the review should not be reduced; trading firm Jane Street believes that accelerating the process could lead to a decline in product quality, competitiveness, and liquidity.Currently, there are 174 ETFs related to crypto assets in the U.S., with BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) managing approximately $61 billion in assets, accounting for about 38% of the total assets of related ETFs. The SEC will decide whether to adjust the confidentiality arrangements for filings and the speed of the review.

According to a report by Reuters, Apple Inc. is facing a class-action lawsuit in London, with claims amounting to £2 billion (approximately $2.7 billion). The lawsuit was filed today in the London Competition Appeal Tribunal by Ann Pope, a former senior official of the UK's Competition and Markets Authority, representing app developers.The core allegation is that Apple's "App Tracking Transparency" (ATT) feature, launched in 2021, imposes stricter restrictions on third-party developers than on its own services, giving Apple's own advertising ecosystem an unfair competitive advantage. Ann Pope stated that Apple's policies "have caused very significant harm to businesses that rely on Apple as a gatekeeper."Since its launch, the ATT feature has been a focal point of concern for global regulators for several years. Apple's official stance is that the feature is designed to allow users to control whether to permit apps to track their activities across other companies and websites.However, the plaintiffs argue that the actual enforcement of this rule has a double standard—tracking requests from third-party apps require strict pop-up authorization, while Apple's own personalized ads and services can bypass the same restrictions. This lawsuit represents the latest legal challenge Apple faces regarding its ATT policy and is the first large-scale private antitrust lawsuit initiated in the UK market against Apple's app ecosystem rules following scrutiny from regulators in the EU, the US, and several other countries.

According to CriptoNoticias, the Argentine Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) conducted a special training course titled "Virtual Assets: Financial Analysis, Tracking, Detection, and Seizure" for internal staff, officials, and judges on August 19 and September 2, 2026, via the Zoom platform, with anti-money laundering specialist lawyer Carmen Chena as the speaker.The course covered topics such as digital wallet asset analysis, domestic and international legal frameworks, the cryptocurrency ecosystem, and practical case studies on preservation measures. Previously, the Argentine judicial system had accumulated rich experience in cryptocurrency-related cases, including the freezing of 3 million USDT in December 2024 and the ruling in 2022 for Binance to return stolen BTC.

Market maker and investment institution DWF Labs announced that its affiliated group entity has obtained regulatory approval as a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) from the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission (BVI FSC).

According to market news, Solana, citing DefiLlama data, stated that Solana ranked first in application revenue in August with $143 million, accounting for 38% of all on-chain application revenue.

According to Coinglass data, the cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index is currently at 64, up 2 points from yesterday. The average over the past 7 days is 66, and the average over the past 30 days is 49.

Digital asset management company Grayscale stated that by the end of 2025, the proportion of company stocks held directly and indirectly by American households' financial assets will reach 46.71%, up from 43.99% a year ago. Grayscale's research director Zach Pandl pointed out that the increase in stock asset concentration and high valuations has enhanced the opportunity for cryptocurrency to be used for portfolio diversification.Grayscale indicated that the long-term earnings growth expectation for the S&P 500 index rose to over 25% on August 28, significantly higher than the historical range concentrated between 10% and 15%. The agency believes that after the market adjustment, the valuation, leverage levels, and investors' long positions in cryptocurrency assets have all decreased.Data released by Grayscale shows that the 90-day correlation between Bitcoin and the Nasdaq 100 index has dropped from over 60% to about 33%, while its correlation with gold has risen from nearly 0 to over 50%. Grayscale also noted that Bitcoin's historical volatility is higher than broad equity indexes and does not always serve as a safe-haven asset.

According to The Block, the Wyoming Stablecoin Committee announced the adoption of Chainlink Proof of Reserve to provide near real-time on-chain reserve verification for the state’s official stablecoin, Frontier Stable Token (FRNT). This follows the migration of cross-chain infrastructure from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP, further establishing it as the sole on-chain asset verification infrastructure.The auditing firm The Network Firm will review the reserves and token supply of FRNT according to the standards of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). The verification data will be recorded on-chain via Chainlink, reducing information gaps between reporting periods.The committee will also introduce the Chainlink Proof of Reserve Secure Mint mechanism, requiring that verified reserves must be no less than the total supply of FRNT for any minting to occur, in order to prevent risks associated with "unlimited minting." FRNT is fully backed by reserves of U.S. dollars and short-term U.S. Treasury securities, with related earnings used to diversify state finances and support local education funds.

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Thailand (SEC) has officially approved the travel rule for crypto assets, requiring digital asset operators to verify the ownership or control of wallets when customers send or receive crypto assets to self-custody wallets, and to retain transaction-related information for at least five years for regulatory review. Pornanong Budsaratragoon, Secretary-General of the Thai SEC, stated that the rule aims to reduce the risk of digital asset operators being used for money laundering and terrorist financing.The new regulations were finalized after two rounds of public consultations this year, with the first round presenting a draft in March and a notification draft released in June. The Thai SEC stated that most stakeholders expressed support. As the travel rule is implemented, Thailand is considering expanding the access to regulated crypto products. On Monday, the Thai SEC proposed allowing intermediaries to offer specific crypto derivatives traded on regulated overseas exchanges to retail investors.In the days prior, regulators also advanced the draft rules for spot Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and simultaneously sought opinions on the foreign digital asset custodians used by funds investing in crypto assets. Thailand's move aligns with global regulatory trends, as the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) estimates that by 2026, 83% of surveyed jurisdictions will have enacted travel rule legislation.

The prediction market platform Kalshi announced a three-year suspension of trading eligibility for North Carolina Republican congressional candidate Laurie Buckhout, along with a fine of $2,589.96, due to her having purchased contracts related to her own campaign. According to a settlement agreement effective August 28, Buckhout purchased contracts worth less than $1,000 related to her candidacy, violating the platform's rule 5.17(z), which prohibits trading by individuals who have "direct or indirect influence" on the outcome.Buckhout stated in a declaration, "I did bet on myself, and it was indeed a foolish mistake. Once I realized the issue, I immediately cooperated to correct it. You could say my career as a Kalshi trader was very short." Kalshi indicated that Buckhout cooperated during the investigation and agreed to accept the penalties. Previously, Kalshi had imposed similar penalties on several politicians, including Minnesota Senator Matt Klein and former Texas congressional candidate Ezekiel Enriquez, who also bet on their own campaigns.Buckhout is a retired Army colonel who previously served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy. She is challenging Democratic Congressman Don Davis, replaying the 2024 matchup, in which Davis won with 49.5% to 47.8%. The North Carolina legislature redrew the district last year to make it more favorable to Republicans, and the Cook Political Report rated the district as "leaning Republican."

According to Coinglass data, the cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index is currently at 62, down 8 points from yesterday. The average over the past 7 days is 67, and the average over the past 30 days is 48.

Predict.fun posted on platform X that it has launched the Predict Developer Dashboard, a self-service portal for creating applications, generating keys, and managing usage and rate limits. Through this interface, users can manually request higher usage-based tiers and import existing keys.Predict.fun has also implemented "trade burst" limits to restrict the number of calls for creating and canceling orders per second. New applications have this limit enabled by default, while existing applications will have this limit applied the next time the user requests rate limits.

According to Cointelegraph, cybersecurity company Morphisec has revealed that a counterfeit desktop application disguised as "Claude Opus 5 Free Desktop" from Anthropic is being used to spread the Windows malware RevStealer. This software can steal data from over 50 types of cryptocurrency wallets, while also collecting sensitive information such as browser passwords, cookies, VPN configurations, message logs, and screenshots.RevStealer has anti-detection mechanisms that perform environmental checks on the target device before execution; if it detects characteristics of a debugging or virtual environment, it will stop running. In addition, Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky has also disclosed another new malware framework targeting cryptocurrency investors called OkoBot, which can harvest wallet files, inject malicious extensions, and capture wallet application windows to steal assets.

CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr stated that from August 18 to 28, the 30-day cumulative distribution of Bitcoin long-term holders (LTH) increased from 174,500 to 281,900, a rise of 61.5%, reaching the highest level since 2026 on August 28. This metric accelerated significantly during the rapid rebound after the short-term squeeze in Bitcoin, indicating that long-term holders are taking profits as prices rise.Meanwhile, the LTH MVRV rose from 1.31 on August 18 to 1.64 on August 27, remaining at a level of 1.6 on August 31, which means that the market value of Bitcoin held by long-term holders is approximately 60% higher than their average realized value. This suggests that despite the increase in distribution activity, long-term holders still possess significant unrealized profits. Axel believes that the price rebound after the short-term squeeze has simultaneously elevated the profit levels of long-term holders and the speed of token distribution, creating conditions for further profit-taking. If Bitcoin prices remain stable, long-term holders may continue to release supply, adding extra selling pressure to the market. The current key issue for the market is whether the high-level distribution by long-term holders will continue and whether new buying can absorb this additional supply; otherwise, the market may face price pressure again.

According to Coinglass data, the cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index is currently at 70, up 9 points from yesterday. The average over the past 7 days is 67, and the average over the past 30 days is 47.

According to Bitcoin.com, Fomo is a social crypto trading application aimed at the Robinhood Chain and other networks. On August 21, it entered the top five financial apps in the U.S., briefly rising to third place, surpassing Cash App and the prediction market Kalshi, and is currently in the top 15.Fomo was founded by Paul Erlanger and Se Yong Park and launched its public beta in May 2025. In November 2025, it completed a $17 million Series A funding round led by Benchmark, with participation from 140 angel investors; it then completed a $75 million Series B funding round, with a total disclosed equity financing of approximately $94 million.Fomo supports Solana, Base, BNB Chain, Monad, and Robinhood Chain, allowing users to view real-time trades of their followed assets, track leaderboards, and copy trading signals, with funds able to be deposited instantly via Apple Pay. It has accumulated over 1 million installs on Google Play, with more than 600,000 users and a trading volume exceeding $4 billion.