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After a two-day meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, G20 finance ministers and central bank governors issued a statement committing to developing clearer rules for digital assets to promote financial innovation. The statement acknowledges that digital financial innovations, including digital assets, can support "broad economic growth" and play a key role in driving private sector innovation.The statement reads: "We are committed to advancing a responsible and effective regulatory and supervisory framework to maintain financial stability, support economic growth, and establish a clear path for sound digital finance and digital asset innovation, while taking into account cross-border opportunities and challenges." G20 officials expressed anticipation for the upcoming findings from the Financial Stability Board regarding the cross-border impacts of global stablecoin arrangements, as well as related reports on stablecoin data sources, availability, and potential challenges.They also reiterated their commitment to strengthening the G20 roadmap for cross-border payments and called on member countries to extend the operating hours of large payment systems. Several G20 member countries, including the United States, the European Union, and Japan, have reviewed the potential of digital assets or stablecoins to enhance the efficiency and accessibility of existing financial and payment systems and have established relevant frameworks.

Rapha Zagury, CEO of Twenty One Capital and founder of Elektron Energy, stated during his speech at Bitcoin Asia 2026 that the Bitcoin network is experiencing its first-ever bear market in hashrate. The hashrate of the Bitcoin network was close to 1.3 ZH/s at the end of last year, but has since been slowly declining, with the duration of this decline from the historical peak now setting a record. Zagury believes that Bitcoin mining is not simply a "good business" or "bad business"; it largely depends on where the mining company stands on the cost curve. Mining companies with lower energy costs and higher machine efficiency can maintain higher profit margins, while those with high energy costs and low equipment efficiency may be forced to shut down.Currently, while the Bitcoin hashrate price has improved compared to before, it is still at a relatively low level when measured against historical standards. When the price of Bitcoin rises faster than the growth of the network's hashrate, mining is more likely to outperform BTC. For companies, he believes that the best risk-adjusted allocation is not simply choosing to "buy BTC" or "mine," but rather a combination of both; however, if only $1 can be allocated, he suggests prioritizing the purchase of BTC. Regarding energy issues, Zagury stated that energy consumption itself does not imply waste; energy is the foundation of economic development and human progress. He believes that one of the greatest characteristics of Bitcoin mining is its highly flexible load, as mining machines can quickly turn on and off based on energy supply, thus helping the grid absorb idle or surplus electricity and enhancing grid stability to some extent. Additionally, he believes that Bitcoin mining is generating "option value" that was not previously apparent, including aspects such as energy utilization, market share, proximity to the Bitcoin protocol, and infrastructure. With the growing demand for AI and high-performance computing (HPC), the existing energy and data center infrastructure of mining companies may also gain additional application scenarios such as AI computing power. Currently, among large publicly listed mining companies, there are fewer and fewer that can continue large-scale Bitcoin mining, and the industry is at a critical stage where the energy revolution intersects with the Bitcoin revolution.

PPP prediction market tool monitoring shows that the probability of Polymarket "OpenAI's Astra being released before September 11" has risen to 86%, up 41% in 24 hours; the probability of it being released before September 15 has risen to 91%, up 29% in 24 hours.If OpenAI publicly releases "Astra" before the specified date, or releases a product confirmed by official or credible media to be the same model as the previously announced "Astra," the event will settle as "Yes," otherwise it will be "No." Eligible models can use names such as Astra, Astra 1, Astra 6, GPT-6 Astra, etc., and can be renamed upon release. Models like GPT-5.7 and GPT-6 will only count if confirmed to be the same model as the previously mentioned Astra. The model must be publicly accessible, including public testing or open waitlists; closed testing and private access do not count. Settlement is primarily based on official information from OpenAI and references consensus reports from credible media.

Core DAO is coordinating an emergency hard fork due to some validators receiving CORE rewards that exceeded the protocol's expected issuance. Core stated in an update that the situation has been brought under control, and "malicious validators" can no longer claim excess rewards. This fork is a forward upgrade and will not roll back the network or revoke any confirmed transactions.Previously, Core indicated in a status update on Monday that the rewards accumulated by a small number of validators were significantly higher than the protocol's expected issuance. The incident was limited to the reward distribution phase, user assets remain secure, and they promised to release a technical review report. Following the incident, several exchanges restricted CORE transfers: Coinbase suspended deposits and withdrawals on the Core network, Bithumb and Coinone suspended deposits and withdrawals, Bitget suspended deposits and withdrawals citing wallet maintenance, and LBank suspended deposits at the request of the project team.Core has not disclosed the amount of excess issued CORE, the duration of the activity, or whether additional tokens have entered circulation, nor have they provided details on the vulnerabilities that allowed validators to receive rewards. Cointelegraph reached out to Core for further information but had not received a response by the time of publication.

According to SoSoValue data, on September 1st Eastern Time, the total net inflow of Ethereum spot ETFs was $10.9528 million. The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest single-day net inflow was Blackrock Staked ETH ETF ETHB, with a single-day net inflow of $11.2001 million, and the historical total net inflow of ETHB has reached $705 million.Following that is Fidelity ETF FETH, with a single-day net inflow of $4.812 million, and the historical total net inflow of FETH has reached $2.286 billion. The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest single-day net outflow was Grayscale Ethereum Trust ETF ETHE, with a single-day net outflow of $7.3977 million, and the historical total net outflow of ETHE has reached $5.354 billion. As of the time of publication, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs was $15.212 billion, and the ETF net asset ratio (market value as a percentage of Ethereum's total market value) reached 5.21%, with a historical cumulative net inflow of $13.073 billion.

According to Unchained, Andy Ross, head of institutional business at Kalshi, stated that the exchange submitted an application to regulators on Monday to launch perpetual futures contracts for foreign exchange and interest rates. As of Tuesday afternoon, the relevant documents had not yet appeared in the public filings of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.Kalshi had previously been approved to launch Bitcoin perpetual futures, later expanding to Ethereum and XRP, and has submitted applications for gold, silver, platinum, copper, and US500 perpetual futures that track large-cap U.S. stock indices. Ross mentioned that gold perpetual futures are close to being launched.Ross stated that Kalshi's perpetual futures operate within a regulated framework, so they will not offer high leverage, with specific leverage limits determined based on the volatility of the underlying assets. He also noted that a study released by Kalshi covered 2.2 million data points, showing that its market prices have a good match with actual outcomes, maintaining a certain level of pricing effectiveness even in markets with lower trading volumes.

TD Cowen analyst Lance Vitanza set the Bitcoin price target for the end of 2026 at $97,500, indicating about a 25% upside from the recent price level of around $78,000. Meanwhile, TD Cowen has lowered its previous benchmark forecast of about $140,000 for the end of 2026 to around $100,000, significantly reducing its previously more optimistic long-term expectations. Vitanza stated that this downgrade is mainly due to the recent weakness in Bitcoin prices, rather than a deterioration in company-level or market structure.Currently, BTC's recent trading range is approximately $58,400 to $78,000, with a maximum drawdown of over 50% from the previous high of over $126,000, and a monthly drawdown that once exceeded 20%. A clearer regulatory environment and inclusion in broader indices are still viewed by TD Cowen as potential catalysts for market recovery. For Strategy, TD Cowen has lowered its target price from $400 to $260 but maintains a "Buy" rating. This adjustment mainly follows the downward revision of Bitcoin price forecasts, rather than a change in the view of Strategy's operational performance or capital structure. Additionally, TD Cowen has initiated coverage on Strive, expecting the company to hold over 27,100 BTC by the end of 2026, and has given it a target price of $32, indicating about a 33% upside.

The SEMICON Taiwan 2026 Memory Summit took place on the 1st, where Nikhil Cherian, Senior Director of Supply Chain Infrastructure at Google Cloud under Alphabet, pointed out that with the popularity of multimodal and mixed expert architectures, AI computation has shifted from being power-limited to memory-limited, with high-performance memory accounting for over 75% of the cost of AI server hardware bill of materials. In the face of capacity, bandwidth, and power consumption bottlenecks, Google is breaking through the AI memory bottleneck through a dual-track strategy of hardware offloading for inference and training, and lossless quantization software algorithms.Google adopts an offloading strategy in hardware architecture, launching TPU 8i for low-latency inference and TPU 8t specialized for large-scale training. The TPU 8i is equipped with 288 GB of high-bandwidth memory, with SRAM capacity on the chip increased threefold to 384 MiB, placing dynamic conversation states and key-value caches on the chip itself to achieve zero chip-off latency. The TPU 8t forms a super-large computing cluster with 9600 chips, achieving a shared pool of HBM at a scale of 2 PB, eliminating chip-off data transfer bottlenecks, along with TPU Direct Storage technology.Google has developed the training-free TurboQuant lossless quantization algorithm, compressing the key-value cache of large models from 32 bits to 3 bits, reducing memory usage by six times without loss of accuracy, resulting in an eightfold acceleration in attention computation, and integrating old-generation DRAM technology to extend the lifecycle of components.

According to Coinglass data, the current whale holdings on the Hyperliquid platform amount to $7.206 billion, with long positions totaling $3.466 billion, accounting for 48.1% of the holdings, and short positions totaling $3.74 billion, accounting for 51.9%. The profit and loss for long positions is $284 million, while for short positions it is -$311 million.Among them, the whale address 0x5b5d..60 has shorted ETH with a full margin of 5 times at a price of $2151.87, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of -$15.0186 million.

Blockchain Capital Markets Figure (NASDAQ: FIGR) announced that it has completed the acquisition of the previously announced AI real estate loan platform Kiavi. Figure acquired Kiavi's technology and operating platform along with some other assets. Kiavi's brand, platform, and technology will be integrated into Figure's network of over 480 ecosystem partners and will expand the coverage of relevant loan technologies through its blockchain-native marketplace Figure Connect.Kiavi's CEO Arvind Mohan will join Figure as Chief Business Officer. Previously, Figure planned to acquire Kiavi for a total price of $717 million and intended to issue a total of $600 million in preferred notes through a private placement for the acquisition of Kiavi.

According to SoSoValue data, the SOL spot ETF had a total net inflow of $10.1901 million yesterday (Eastern Time, September 1).The SOL spot ETF with the highest net inflow yesterday was the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF (BSOL), with a net inflow of $6.1668 million for the day, bringing its historical total net inflow to $1.028 billion. Following that was the Fidelity Solana Fund ETF (FSOL), with a net inflow of $2.6658 million for the day, and its historical total net inflow reached $215 million.As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of the SOL spot ETF is $1.39 billion, with a SOL net asset ratio of 2.37%, and the historical cumulative net inflow has reached $1.351 billion.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced that it will hold a "24-Hour Trading Preparedness" roundtable on September 17 from 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM Eastern Time at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. The meeting will be open to the public and will be live-streamed on the SEC's official website, with in-person attendance requiring prior registration. This meeting will discuss the preparations for the launch of a 24-hour trading market, operational resilience, and subsequent impacts.The agenda includes opening remarks from the SEC Chairman, Commissioners, and the Director of the Division of Trading and Markets, followed by a data presentation from the SEC's Office of Analysis and Research. The meeting will feature three thematic panels: the first panel will discuss the preparedness of exchanges and broker-dealers, overnight supervision, closing price processes, clearing and settlement adjustments, and investor protection measures; the second panel will focus on system readiness, regulatory SCI requirements, failover, capacity planning, market data continuity, cybersecurity, and overnight staffing arrangements; the third panel will discuss the potential impacts of extended trading hours on liquidity, capital formation, issuers, and market structure, and look ahead to the infrastructure adjustments needed for a transition to 24x7 trading.Participating organizations include Robinhood, the New York Stock Exchange, BlackRock, Virtu Financial, the Chicago Board Options Exchange, BNY Pershing, UBS, FINRA, Jane Street, State Street, Samsung, Charles Schwab, Nasdaq, Interactive Brokers, DTCC, OTC Markets Group, BNP Paribas, 24X, Invesco, Citadel Securities, DriveWealth, Blue Ocean, Citigroup, and others.

Announcement from the Robinhood chain issuance platform Long.xyz: In the past 24 hours, the trading volume of tokenized stocks on the Robinhood chain has exceeded $425 million, and the current stock TVL is close to $12 million, accounting for about 20% of the total stock TVL on the chain.Long.xyz is an emerging issuance platform on the Robinhood chain, where users can issue Meme tokens and directly pair them with tokenized stocks (such as NVDA, AAPL, TSLA) instead of pairing with USDC or ETH, thus bringing trading volume and liquidity to tokenized stocks.

U.S. President Trump: I am not trying to force Iran back to the negotiating table as ABC fake news reported. I don't care whether they sign an agreement that is worthless to them.I prefer our current situation: we have almost complete control of the Strait of Hormuz, while their economy has completely collapsed. They are just going through this inevitable outcome.

According to Bloomberg, UBS analysts expect that China's semiconductor manufacturing capabilities may struggle to make sufficient progress in the next decade to develop solutions that can truly replace ASML's advanced EUV lithography technology. UBS analysts wrote in their report, "The stage they are currently at seems comparable to ASML's in 2004." Based on patent application activities, especially in the fields of light sources and laser subsystems, China's current technological maturity is roughly equivalent to ASML's level 15 years before it began mass production of EUV equipment.UBS also expects that China is likely to achieve large-scale production capabilities for immersion DUV lithography machines within the next two to five years. While immersion DUV is not as advanced as EUV, it remains an indispensable tool for chip manufacturing. ASML's immersion DUV machines are priced at nearly $90 million, while EUV equipment costs over $200 million each. China is one of ASML's largest markets, but due to export restrictions, ASML is prohibited from selling EUV equipment to China. UBS pointed out that considering the yield and capacity gaps, as well as regulatory restrictions, Chinese lithography equipment is unlikely to be applied overseas. An ASML spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment. This report is based on UBS analysts' predictive views, and actual progress will depend on industry dynamics.

According to Reuters, Micron Technology's unions in Taoyuan and Taichung, Taiwan are preparing for a strike. The union claims to represent nearly 10,000 of Micron's approximately 15,000 employees in the two locations, and an internal survey shows that over 80% of members support the strike. The core of the labor dispute revolves around bonus distribution— the union believes that the current incentive plan does not adequately reflect the company's profitability and is demanding a one-time additional bonus for this fiscal year, as well as a shift to quarterly profit sharing of 15% of operating profits starting from the 2027 fiscal year. Micron previously responded that it would issue the highest performance bonuses in history, but the union believes the company has not adequately explained the performance calculation method, and it seems to be more closely tied to revenue rather than profit.As the world's third-largest memory chip manufacturer, Micron reported revenue of $41.46 billion and a net profit of $28.24 billion in the third fiscal quarter, with a market capitalization of approximately $1.1 trillion. Taiwan is Micron's largest manufacturing base, with a cumulative investment of NT$1.4 trillion, producing DRAM and HBM. If the strike proceeds, it may impact the global memory chip supply. The Taichung Science Park Administration stated that it is closely monitoring the situation and has prepared a labor mediation mechanism. Previously, the Samsung union also raised similar profit-sharing demands and obtained a special bonus pool of 10.5% of the chip division's operating profits after negotiations.

BitcoinTreasuries.NET indicates that Strive's SATA has raised enough funds to purchase 104 bitcoins.

Bitcoin recorded an increase of about 25% in August, marking its third-best August performance in history. André Dragosch, Head of Research at Bitwise Europe, noted in a post on the X platform on September 1 that Bitcoin's return in August was 25%, second only to approximately 65.6% in August 2017 and about 30.7% in August 2013, stating that "there was no 'summer slump.'"Multiple analyses show that the period from June to September is usually when Bitcoin underperforms for the year. In June and July this year, Bitcoin's volatility remained low, with prices dipping below $65,000 at one point. A turning point occurred in mid-August when the U.S. Treasury announced it would more than double the scale of government debt buybacks due to pressure in the fixed income market and yields reaching their highest levels in nearly 20 years. The decline in long-term yields reduced the holding costs of non-yielding assets like Bitcoin and gold, supporting risk appetite, leading investors to flock to Bitcoin. Subsequently, U.S. President Trump urged lawmakers to expedite the passage of the Crypto Clarity Act, calling the draft "very strong."In terms of funding, investors poured over $2.8 billion into Bitcoin ETFs in August, the largest single-month inflow since October last year. Bitcoin reached $81,281 last Monday before retreating, recently reporting $76,883, with a nearly 3% drop in 24 hours; over the past month, Bitcoin has cumulatively risen more than 20%.