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According to market news, Binance founder Zhao Changpeng recently attended the Bitcoin Asia Conference 2026 in Hong Kong, and in an exclusive interview, he discussed his autobiography "Binance Life," his experiences in prison, and Binance's $4.3 billion fine.He revealed that most of the initial draft of the autobiography was completed while he was in prison, constrained by the conditions of using a computer for only 15 minutes at a time and being unable to copy and paste, so he could only write during fragmented moments.

According to TechCrunch, the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has expanded the size of its fifth growth fund from $6.75 billion established in January this year to $8.5 billion, adding $1.75 billion in new funds. The fund primarily invests in growth-stage startups that are expanding products, exploring new markets, and scaling businesses.This fundraising comes just days after a16z announced the completion of its $1.1 billion Machine Era Fund. This fund mainly focuses on the AI hardware sector, with investment areas including infrastructure startups in chips, storage, networking, and data storage. David George, head of a16z's growth investment team, stated that the relevant growth fund has invested in over 100 companies in the past seven years. As AI companies enter the growth stage more rapidly, their financing needs and valuations are also rising. a16z is currently focusing on areas such as enterprise and consumer AI, defense technology, robotics, software and hardware infrastructure, and medical technology.

According to Arkham blockchain data, wallets associated with the North Korean state-sponsored hacking organization Lazarus Group have sold over $30 million in Bitcoin on the decentralized perpetual contract trading platform Hyperliquid in the past three weeks, using the proceeds to purchase Ethereum and Solana, which were then transferred to centralized exchanges such as Kraken, LBank, and KuCoin. Kraken responded that it maintains an industry-leading compliance program, continuously monitoring on-chain activities to identify and block assets related to sanctioned wallets; LBank and KuCoin stated that the associated risks are a continuing challenge faced by the industry as a whole and emphasized that publicly available on-chain data may not reflect compliance measures at the platform level.At this time, the Trump administration is exploring ways to incorporate Hyperliquid into the regulated U.S. financial system. Trump stated earlier this month at a White House event that the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Mike Selig, is developing a path to bring Hyperliquid into the U.S. in a fully compliant and legal manner. According to Bloomberg, Kraken's parent company Payward is in deep negotiations with Hyperliquid Labs to offer perpetual contracts to U.S. traders.Hyperliquid is the leading platform in the decentralized perpetual contract space, allowing users to trade directly from their crypto wallets without the need for traditional brokerage accounts or KYC checks. According to DefiLlama data, its cumulative perpetual contract trading volume has exceeded $5 trillion, with current open contracts of approximately $13.3 billion.

The prediction market platform Kalshi has permanently banned former U.S. Congressman George Santos and fined him $71,356 for manipulating a market related to his attendance at the State of the Union address, profiting nearly $18,000. This is the first time the exchange has imposed a lifetime ban on a former member of Congress.According to a disciplinary notice issued by Kalshi's compliance department on August 28, Santos conducted multiple large transactions in this market between February 2 and 25. Since he was able to influence the outcome, exchange rules prohibited him from participating in trading. He subsequently issued a series of public statements regarding his attendance, some of which were false or misleading, intending to drive price movements in the "Yes" and "No" contracts. The compliance department determined that these statements did indeed manipulate prices, allowing him to profit $17,839.57 in the relevant market, violating multiple rules regarding market manipulation, influencing trading outcomes, and using deceptive practices, and he faced additional penalties for failing to cooperate with the investigation.The prediction market allows users to bet on the outcomes of real-world events such as elections, sports, and economic data by purchasing "Yes" or "No" contracts. As event contracts have become mainstream, Kalshi and its crypto-native competitor Polymarket have seen a surge in trading volume over the past year, attracting significant institutional interest.

The privacy public chain Zano activated its sixth hard fork (HF6) at block height 3,833,000. The upgrade has been launched on the mainnet, completing the largest upgrade in the network's seven-year history. HF6 introduces Gateway Addresses, providing a directly traceable single balance and instant synchronization for centralized exchanges, DEX, and cross-chain bridges, while retaining existing addresses and their privacy models.Native ZANO can now be cross-chain transferred to Ethereum, Solana, and TON without custody, publicly on external networks, and privacy protection is restored after crossing back to Zano. The upgrade also tightens consensus validation rules and strengthens wallet encryption, mining pool fault tolerance, payment IDs, anti-DoS restrictions, SOCKS5 proxies, and RPC interfaces. HF6 is a prerequisite for the development of the EVM-compatible chain Zano Execution Layer, which currently has no fixed launch date; the next-generation consensus protocol Zenith has been included in the 2027 roadmap.

According to SoSoValue data, the XRP spot ETF saw a net inflow of $26.2 million on August 28, continuing a streak of nine consecutive days of net inflows since mid-August, with a total net inflow of approximately $1.6 billion. In just the last nine days, these funds attracted over $725 million in capital.Bloomberg Intelligence analyst James Seyffart stated on X that, given the weak performance of XRP prices, the ETF fund flows are "surprisingly resilient," with funds flowing almost exclusively in one direction, totaling a net inflow of about $1.8 billion according to his statistics. According to the Q2 13F filings, Goldman Sachs leads the XRP spot ETF holders with an exposure of approximately $87.4 million, followed by Jane Street and Millennium Management; by category, investment advisors are the largest holders and allocators.XRP is currently trading at approximately $1.39, down 2.7% in the last 24 hours, with a weekly decline of about 7.6%. The first XRP ETFs in the U.S. are set to launch in November 2025. In contrast, Bitcoin spot funds recently ended a streak of nine consecutive days of net inflows.

The NFT trading platform OpenSea has re-enabled Solana NFT trading, allowing users to buy and sell Solana-based NFT collectibles on the platform, including popular collections such as Claynosaurz, Mad Lads, BoDoggos, Collector Crypt, and Phygitals. This marks the return of Solana as the first non-EVM chain for NFT trading on the platform more than four years after OpenSea first supported Solana NFTs in a beta version in April 2022.An OpenSea representative stated that OS2 is a multi-chain platform rebuilt from scratch, initially starting with support for Solana tokens, and now NFT support has also gone live, which is related to the trend of many collectible platforms adopting Solana NFTs. In April 2025, Solana returned to OpenSea with OS2, but at that time only fungible tokens were supported, with officials stating that NFT support would follow. Currently, the other networks supported by the platform are almost all EVM-compatible chains, including Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche, Base, Monad, Sei, and Berachain.This launch comes at a time when the NFT market is far below its peak period. According to data from The Block, the monthly market trading volume reached billions of dollars from 2021 to 2022, but now only a few hundred million remain.

According to The Defiant, the meme coin BONER, built around Hims & Hers short positions on the Robinhood Chain, has absorbed over half of the tokenized HIMS stock. As of Monday 17:12 UTC, a total of 58,714 tokenized HIMS have been issued on-chain, of which 31,198 (53%) are locked in the BONER/HIMS liquidity pool, while another 1,424 are spread across eight other meme coin pools, leaving only 20,303 in the HIMS/stablecoin and HIMS/ETH pools for price discovery.Due to the NYSE being closed over the weekend and the lack of real-time stock prices for arbitrage, the weak liquidity pool experienced significant volatility driven by small orders: the token surged to $132.64 during the Sunday 22:00 time slot, while the stock's closing price last Friday was only $28.84. After the NYSE reopened on Monday, BBVI minted about 4,000 new tokens in less than an hour to inject a premium, and the price quickly fell back to around $29. In contrast, Ondo Finance issued approximately 10.4 million similar HIMS wrapped tokens, with a market cap of $30.8 million, which is 18 times the circulation of Robinhood Chain, closely tracking the underlying stock throughout.Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum Layer 2 built by Robinhood based on Arbitrum technology, launched on July 1, with a TVL of $727.4 million on Monday.

As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) accelerate their rule-making efforts for the $2.5 trillion industry amid a legislative stalemate on cryptocurrency market structure during the summer recess, both agencies are advancing multiple crypto-related initiatives. These include re-evaluating the definitions of derivatives such as swaps and perpetual contracts, as well as rewriting the SEC's crypto custody rules.A bipartisan group composed of former CFTC Chairman Chris Giancarlo, former CFTC Commissioners Brian Quintenz and Sharon Brown-Hruska, former SEC Commissioner Steven Wallman, and former SEC Chief Economist Chester Spatt stated in a comment letter sponsored by Kalshi that similar risks should receive similar regulatory treatment, and overlapping rules should not impose additional compliance costs. Giancarlo noted that if federal regulation is calibrated based on actual risks rather than maximum burdens, liquidity will flow back to the U.S., and the longer we wait, the harder it will be to attract that liquidity back.Kalshi estimates that offshore perpetual contract trading volume will exceed $90 trillion by 2025, up from about $28 trillion two years ago. Additionally, the SEC last week submitted its plan to rewrite the custody rules for investment advisers and investment companies to the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for review, and its "Reg Crypto" proposal has officially entered the Federal Register, with a public comment period ending on October 20.

Bitcoin mining company BitMine Immersion Technologies stated in its latest staking disclosure that as of August 30, it has staked 5,067,309 ETH, valued at approximately $12.7 billion based on a price of $2,511. The company's disclosed staking balance remained unchanged from August 9 to 30, while it added 53,501 ETH in the latest week, bringing its total holdings to 5,901,112 ETH.BitMine indicated that its Ethereum vault accounts for about 4.9% of the total Ethereum supply of 120.7 million coins, and the company had previously set a target to acquire 5% of the total Ethereum supply. The company has set the annualized yield for its staking operations over the past seven days at 2.63%, stating that the annualized staking income corresponding to the current holdings is approximately $335 million; if the entire ETH balance is staked through its self-built network and staking partners at the same yield, the annualized staking rewards could reach $390 million.BitMine officially launched its self-built "Made in America Validator Network" (MAVAN) in April this year. In its April disclosure, the company mentioned that some staked ETH had already been deployed on MAVAN, but did not specify the exact amount. BitMine's staking holdings were 4,879,157 ETH at the beginning of July, surpassed 5 million on August 9, and have remained stable in the subsequent four weekly disclosures. The company's chairman, Tom Lee, has stated that BitMine's staked ETH amount exceeds that of any other entity.

In 2014, British man Chris lost access to his digital wallet when the trading platform Intersango collapsed. At that time, the wallet contained approximately £4,000 worth of Bitcoin. The platform had over 5,000 accounts.It is reported that there may still be hundreds of millions of pounds worth of Bitcoin in the account of one of the company's co-founders, which former users may be able to reclaim if they can provide sufficient proof of ownership.After multiple failed attempts to contact the company over the years, Chris once gave up, stating that watching the price of Bitcoin continuously rise "felt like being punched in the stomach." However, earlier this year, he tried again and hired a lawyer to assist in proving his ownership of several dozen "lost" Bitcoins. Months later, these Bitcoins were returned to him—currently worth about £3.3 million.

According to The Block, the prediction market platform Kalshi has permanently banned former U.S. Congressman George Santos, marking the first time the platform has imposed a permanent ban on an individual. According to a disciplinary action and settlement notice submitted on Monday, Santos violated platform rules by trading on a prediction contract regarding whether he would attend the State of the Union (SOTU) address and was fined over $71,000.Previously, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) accused Santos of using his public statements made two weeks before the SOTU to influence the prices of related event contracts and reached a $35,000 settlement with him. Santos's lawyer stated that he had booked a hotel and flight to Washington, believing he would attend the event. Santos served as a congressman representing New York from January 2023 until the end of the year, when he was expelled for ethical violations.As the prediction market grows to billions of dollars, concerns about insider trading are increasingly being raised. The CFTC recently fined former White House teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez $172,000 for profiting in Kalshi's "mention market" by using advance access to Trump's speech content. Legislators have proposed several bipartisan bills to restrict trading on non-public information, but they have not yet passed; platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket are taking preventive measures, such as requiring employment verification for sensitive market traders.

According to The Defiant, the Fogo mainnet has stopped producing blocks for about 46 hours since Saturday afternoon due to an attack on the Fogo Foundation, resulting in 4 million FOGO tokens (approximately 10.3% of the circulating supply) being transferred to the attacker's address. The foundation initially stated that the chain itself was unaffected, but 15 hours later, the network was actively paused, and plans were made to restrict the related addresses through an upgrade. Currently, the Fogo official explorer shows the last block as 718,525,971, and the RPC endpoint returns a 502 error, while the on-chain TVL tracked by DefiLlama has been frozen at $987,000 for three consecutive days.This downtime is attributed to Fogo's validator design: the chain is managed by a council of 7 voting validators, with the foundation staking evenly among 7 operators, allowing for coordination to pause and implement a client-level address blacklist within minutes. On the exchange side, both KuCoin and Gate have disabled FOGO deposits and withdrawals but retained trading, with a 24-hour spot trading volume of approximately $2.3 million. Meanwhile, a Twitter account impersonating the Fogo Foundation, @FcgoFNDN, posted a false compensation voting link, and Fogo officials reminded users to rely only on information from official channels.Fogo is the second network to actively pause over the weekend, following Cronos, which rolled back its state due to an attack on the Tectonic lending protocol. Fogo raised approximately $7 million by selling 2% of its supply through Binance before launching its mainnet in January, with a valuation of $350 million. The foundation has not yet disclosed details of the attack, compensation plans, or a restart timeline.

tZERO has reached a series of agreements with the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) to help build the next generation of public securities market infrastructure. According to the new memorandum of understanding, tZERO will serve as the primary design partner for digital transfer agent and broker-dealer infrastructure, aimed at supporting ICE's upcoming on-chain settlement on the NYSE-associated tokenized securities platform.ICE has agreed to participate in tZERO's latest financing round. As part of the agreement, ICE will license tZERO's blockchain patent portfolio for the platform and other potential applications. Both parties will also explore the use of tZERO tokenized assets for collateral management at ICE's clearinghouse and affiliated institutions.

Cronos Network officially announced that the network has resumed block production and is fully operational again. Previously, Cronos paused block production due to a vulnerability exploitation incident involving the Tectonic protocol, and validators took emergency consensus measures to protect user funds, rolling back the chain state to before the Tectonic vulnerability exploitation on August 30.The network has resumed block production at UTC time August 30, 23:49:01 from block height 90,896,189. Cronos stated that node operators can now restart their nodes using Cronos v1.7.8 and the latest mainnet snapshot.The network is currently under continuous monitoring, and some protocols, RPC service providers, block explorers, and cross-chain bridges are expected to take longer to recover. Cronos stated that the team will release a complete event review report after confirming network stability.

According to CNBC, Gemini Space Station won a legal victory in August, with arbitrators ruling that the cryptocurrency exchange platform did not mislead users and is not responsible for the collapse of its Earn lending program. The claim was made by a user of the digital asset company's lending program Earn at the end of 2024. According to the ruling, there was insufficient evidence to prove that Gemini lied to customers or was negligent in its due diligence with its main lending partner, Genesis Global Capital.The Earn program was launched in 2021, allowing users to earn up to 7.4% annualized returns by lending cryptocurrency. Under this program, Gemini lent assets to institutional borrowers, with Genesis acting as an intermediary. However, in November 2022, Gemini suspended withdrawals from the Earn program, angering some of its more than 300,000 users. This move came shortly after Genesis suspended new loan issuance and redemptions due to a liquidity crisis caused by the downturn in the cryptocurrency market that year. After the freeze on Earn withdrawals, several customers filed legal complaints against Gemini. The New York Attorney General also sued Gemini over the Earn program and reached a $50 million settlement with the company in 2024.In February 2024, Gemini announced that the company had reached a "principled settlement" with Genesis and other creditors regarding the Genesis bankruptcy case. Three months later, Earn users received $2.18 billion in digital assets in physical form, equivalent to 97% of the digital assets owed to Earn users, which is $1 billion more than when Genesis suspended withdrawals in 2022.

On-chain analyst Willy Woo stated that currently about 4% of the global population holds S&P 500 assets, 4.5% hold gold, and 5% hold Bitcoin (BTC), and suggested that the future penetration rate of Bitcoin will determine its role attributes.He indicated that at a holder population percentage of about 5%, BTC is still primarily viewed as a financial asset; if this ratio rises to about 50%, it could signify the emergence of a pattern of "separation of money and state."

On August 31, WEEX announced the launch of U.S. stock trading activities, which will take place from August 31 at 16:00 to September 15 at 23:59:59 (UTC+8).During the event, new users who choose any cryptocurrency stock in the spot trading stock area for their first spot trade will have their losses covered by the platform, with a maximum subsidy of 60 USDT. All users who achieve a cumulative trading volume of no less than 1,000 USDT in the spot trading stock area can share a cash prize of 30,000 USDT based on their trading volume proportion. Rewards can be unlocked by meeting the cumulative trading volume requirements for designated U.S. stock tokens, and the rewards for hitting the top three in price increase will be doubled.

According to Bloomberg, the European Commission has classified OpenAI's ChatGPT as a "very large online search engine," and listed Reddit and Roblox as "very large online platforms," citing that their monthly active user count in the EU has exceeded 45 million.These platforms are required to enhance their handling of illegal and harmful content under the Digital Services Act (DSA), submit transparency reports, risk mitigation plans, and pay annual fees to the EU, with violations potentially incurring fines of up to 6% of global annual revenue. The DSA also mandates platforms to strengthen protections for minors and advertising transparency, and EU regulatory authorities have initiated over a dozen investigations into various online platforms based on this law.