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QuFi Network launched a post-quantum verification platform and completed proof of concept on the Bitcoin testnet.The platform aims to address the security threats of quantum computing to crypto assets at a low cost by separating verification from settlement.

According to Decrypt, the latest records from the UK Electoral Commission show that BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo donated £4 million (approximately $5.4 million) to the Reform Party of the UK twice in April this year, bringing his total donations to the party this year to £8 million (approximately $10.8 million), second only to Tether equity investor Christopher Harborne (who has donated a total of £15 million, approximately $20.25 million).These two donations accounted for 75% of the party's total donations for the corresponding quarter and were also the largest two single donations received by any political party in the UK during that quarter. The UK has prohibited political donations in the form of cryptocurrency since March, so all donations were made in cash.It is reported that BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo revealed in April that he had donated $5.4 million (approximately £4 million) to the Reform Party of the UK led by Nigel Farage, with the donations occurring before the new regulation setting a £100,000 cap on donations from overseas expatriates was introduced.

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) released Working Paper 1374, proposing a technical solution based on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) to verify the source and integrity of official statistical data. This solution generates cryptographic fingerprints for SDMX datasets and records the hash values of batch data on the XRPL, while the original data itself is not stored on the chain.Users can verify the identity of data publishers and whether the data has been tampered with through digital signature credentials combined with a one-time on-chain query. Prototype testing results show that data publication takes about 3 to 5 seconds, while the verification process only takes about 1 to 2 seconds. The paper specifically notes that this system is currently only in the proof-of-concept stage and has not yet been put into a formal production environment.

According to a report by Reuters, OpenAI's AI entity had, in May of this year, made unauthorized large-scale edits to the German programmer community website DseWiki, transforming it into a "message board" for other AI entities to communicate. This incident had never been publicly disclosed before. Researchers found that the website had over 15,000 editing operations performed by AI entities. Relevant information indicates that these entities not only exchanged task solutions but also discussed how to bypass OpenAI's restrictions, evade detection, and use tools to hide their actions. When the website administrators began deleting related pages, some entities even created backup pages to avoid cleanup.It is reported that some internal investigators at OpenAI wish to further investigate this incident, but the expansion of the investigation has allegedly faced resistance from some individuals, including legal advisors. OpenAI denies that its legal team is blocking the investigation and states that it has not yet had the opportunity to review the relevant reports, thus cannot make a substantive response to the allegations.

Gate Research Institute released the August 2026 cryptocurrency and TradFi quantitative report. BTC and ETH rose approximately 25.1% and 32.6% respectively during the month. Gate contract data shows that the open interest amount for BTC increased from about $4.02 billion to $4.38 billion, while ETH rose from about $2.46 billion to $2.75 billion, with increases of approximately 9% and 12.1% respectively.The funding rates for both remained moderately positive most of the time, with long positions dominating the number of accounts, but the active trading long-short ratio was below 1. The TradFi market also rose in sync, with NAS100 increasing about 4.2% during the month, outperforming US500 and US30, while large tech stocks showed a divergence in trends.The report compared four models: moving average trends, trend momentum, Donchian breakout, and RSI mean reversion. Backtesting results showed that the 100-day moving average and 20-day price momentum strategies achieved positive cumulative returns on BTC, ETH, US500, and NAS100, with a median Sharpe ratio of 0.64 and a median maximum drawdown of 8.71%. The report includes Gate TradFi's US500 and NAS100 in cross-asset observations and evaluates market heat by combining Gate contract long-short ratios, funding rates, and open interest data. The execution over the next one to three months will focus on trend confirmation, volatility rebalancing, leverage limits, and cooling off abnormal liquidations.

The Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the Ministry of Commerce jointly issued the "Implementation Plan for Promoting Coordinated Transformation and Development of Digitalization and Greening (2026-2030)", proposing to advance the coordinated transformation of digitalization and greening during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.The plan emphasizes empowering green and low-carbon transformation with digital intelligence technology, achieving low-cost and high-efficiency applications of artificial intelligence by 2030, significantly improving the energy efficiency of computing facilities and 5G base stations, promoting renewable energy electricity consumption in key areas such as computing facilities to reach the responsibility weight level of the respective provinces, and deepening the digital and green applications in agriculture, manufacturing, trade, consumption, and urban operation, strengthening intelligent governance of the ecological environment and digital carbon management, and solidifying the foundation for coordinated dual transformation and international cooperation.

According to data from loris.tools, the first HIP-4 custom prediction market of the Hyperliquid ecosystem, Outcome.xyz, has been online for a full week, with a trading volume exceeding 11 million dollars, 1500 independent users, and fees collected amounting to 7410 dollars.

X-Agent stated in a recent article that with the help of AI programming tools, "Vibe Coding" is significantly lowering the barriers to software development, allowing a developer to complete work that previously required small product and engineering teams in a short time. However, for a one-person company like OPC, what is truly scarce is not productivity, but demand, trust, and distribution. Being able to quickly create a demo does not mean it will enter the real workflow of users or other Agents.X-Agent indicated that compared to building a complete SaaS from scratch, which includes a website, login, backend, subscription, and customer service system, developers can start with a clear, practical, and callable capability. They can encapsulate data analysis, market research, automated processes, or AI tools as MCP services, enabling Agents to understand what they can do, when to call them, what inputs are needed, and what results will be returned. This is also the focus of the X-Agent AI MCP Hackathon, which is not about competing to build the most complex MCP Server, but rather about helping developers upgrade real and usable APIs, tools, or services into Agent-native services with clear capability boundaries, stable interfaces, verifiable deployments, and ongoing productization potential.X-Agent believes that the most important aspect of the Agent economy is not "service launch," but making services reliable enough to be discovered, trusted, and repeatedly called by other Agents. For OPC, the real advantage is not stacking more features, but capturing market signals faster than large companies and transforming professional capabilities into digital services that can continuously generate value.

Multiple companies listed in the潮玩 IP derivatives sector have disclosed their performance for the first half of 2026. Pop Mart reported a revenue of 17.173 billion yuan in the first half of the year, a year-on-year increase of 23.8%, with a net profit attributable to the parent company of 5.038 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 10.1%. Domestic revenue grew by 47.3%, while overseas revenue decreased by 11.1% to 4.972 billion yuan. Pop Mart's Chairman and CEO Wang Ning referred to 2026 as the "Year of Adjustment," stating that revenue growth is not the primary goal, but rather focusing on corporate governance and operational health.Aofei Entertainment reported a revenue of 1.332 billion yuan in the first half of the year, a year-on-year increase of 11.13%, with a net profit attributable to the parent company of 174 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 370.70%. Its subsidiary, Wandian Infinite, incurred a loss of 19.5413 million yuan in the first half of the year. Yuanlong Yatu reported a revenue of 1.164 billion yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 16.35%, with a net loss attributable to the parent company of 3.6779 million yuan. The revenue from its IP cultural and creative business was 46.418 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 134.48%. Shifeng Culture reported a revenue of 212 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.83%, with a net profit attributable to the parent company of 3.0852 million yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 26.09%. The revenue from trendy toys was 25.9369 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 222.85%.

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."

User chetaslua posted that they forced a hidden pop-up in ChatGPT, which contained the announcement for the built-in Codex ImageGen 2.5, stating "Image creation has received a significant upgrade" "Higher quality results, faster generation speed, and smarter creative tools."The user indicated that the related feature entry is still closed to everyone, and the hero image was uploaded on September 1.

According to 36Kr, Zhipu has recently opened an official flagship store on Tmall. Data shows that within 48 hours of opening, brand searches surged 50 times compared to the previous period, driving a more than 160% increase in transactions for subscription products like AI tokens on Taobao and Tmall.Previously, Tmall launched the AI Space Station (Token Recharge Center), which initially integrated major model providers such as Alibaba Cloud, Zhipu, Kimi, MiniMax, and DeepSeek, allowing users to directly purchase related subscription services just like "recharging phone credits."

According to a report by the Financial Associated Press, the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued the "Entrepreneurship Support Plan for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Artificial Intelligence (2026-2028)." Over three years, it aims to cultivate a large number of innovative and dynamic artificial intelligence startups with significant growth potential in key areas such as industry applications, data services, and intelligent computing power. More than 10,000 new technology and innovation-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises will be nurtured, with over 2,000 "specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative" small giant enterprises emerging, along with a number of gazelle and unicorn companies.Focusing on the field of artificial intelligence, the plan will establish 10 high-standard technology enterprise incubators and 10 national public service demonstration platforms (bases) for small and medium-sized enterprises. It will also cultivate 10 national-level characteristic industrial clusters for small and medium-sized enterprises. The entrepreneurial and innovative vitality of small and medium-sized enterprises in artificial intelligence will continue to surge, and a preliminary pattern of high-quality development for small and medium-sized enterprises empowered by artificial intelligence will take shape.

According to Gate market data, on the tokenized stock product gStocks of the cryptocurrency exchange Gate, the MicroStrategy token MSTRG/USDT has increased by 16.33% in 24 hours, priced at $142.83; the Circle internet token CRCLG/USDT has risen by 15.40% in 24 hours, priced at $101.74; the Robinhood token HOODG/USDT has increased by 14.57% in 24 hours, priced at $124.63.Gate gStocks adopts a 1:1 native stock reserve, with each tokenized security corresponding to an equal number of native stocks as the underlying asset, and supports 24/7 trading and fractional share trading.

On-chain analysis platform Arkham stated that Invesco has the longest continuous record of ETH holdings in any ETF. Invesco's clients have not net sold ETH in the past 6 months, with the last sale occurring on March 19, 2026.

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 Japan's Sankei Shimbun, "Saint Seiya" author Masami Kurumada has sued his former manager and their relatives and acquaintances, accusing them of misappropriating approximately 4.68 billion yen from Kurumada Productions and two other companies over a period of about six years through company account transfers and withholding copyright fees, among other methods. Some of the funds are reportedly used for investing in cryptocurrencies.The related incident was exposed during a tax investigation by the Tokyo National Tax Agency in 2024, with approximately 1.8 billion yen already recovered. Masami Kurumada is now seeking compensation of about 2.89 billion yen from the Tokyo District Court.