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The perpetual contract platform RWAperp announced the completion of a $2 million financing round, with a post-investment valuation of $50 million. Brad Bao, co-founder of Lime, Tim Shi, co-founder of Cresta AI, Phil Duan, a member of the Tesla Autopilot team, William Freiberg, a member of Crux, Charles Ferguson, as well as members of the a16z and Sequoia Scout systems participated in the investment.RWAperp is a decentralized perpetual contract protocol aimed at traditional financial assets, currently launched on OKX X Layer, and has opened 19 markets covering BTC, ETH, SOL, Korean and US stocks, the S&P 500 index, DRAM index, gold, silver, and WTI crude oil. Users can settle using USDC, USDT, or USDG, gaining leveraged long and short exposure to stocks, indices, commodities, and crypto assets without the need to hold, custody, or tokenize the underlying assets.RWAperp is primarily designed around the trading characteristics of the stock market, focusing on trading, pricing, liquidity, and risk management systems, and addressing situations such as market closures, overnight gaps, suspensions, and corporate actions. The platform employs a multi-issuer comprehensive oracle and provides a professional order book trading terminal. RWAperp is also developing Agent Mode. This AI feature aims to understand natural language trading instructions, analyze market conditions, and gradually support trading execution operations such as opening positions, position management, and closing positions.

According to Bitcoin News, the open interest for Bitcoin futures is 676,820 BTC, valued at 5.264 billion USD. Binance's open interest for Bitcoin futures reaches 142,870 BTC, valued at 1.111 billion USD, accounting for 21.1% of the total.The open interest for Bitcoin call options is 305,530.06 BTC, accounting for 61.39%; the open interest for put options is 192,126.29 BTC, accounting for 38.61%. The 25-delta skew turned positive on August 20, marking the first time in 12 months.

Google Cloud announced the official launch of the pause/resume feature for data stream batch processing jobs, and it supports NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU.

Cryptocurrency asset company Bitmine Immersion Technologies announced last week that it has increased its holdings by 27,180 ETH, bringing its total ETH holdings to over 5.95 million, valued at approximately $1.54 billion, accounting for about 4.9% of the circulating supply of Ethereum. Including cash and other cryptocurrency assets, the company's total holdings amount to approximately $15.8 billion.Bitmine stated that currently over 5.06 million ETH are staked, and based on the current yield, it is expected to generate approximately $334 million in staking income annually, with about 85% of its ETH holdings used for staking. In comparison, the staking ratio for Grayscale Ethereum Staked ETF (ETHE) is 84.6%. Since BTC does not generate native staking income, this strategy has advantages over treasury companies holding Bitcoin. On Monday, Bitmine's stock price remained flat, around $25, having risen nearly 38% over the past month.Meanwhile, Michael Saylor's Strategy has not purchased Bitcoin for the second consecutive week, instead opting to repurchase its STRC preferred shares. Between September 8 and 13, Strategy spent $139.3 million to repurchase approximately 1.42 million shares of STRC, following a previous week where it repurchased $176.3 million worth of STRC. As of September 13, Strategy's Bitcoin holdings remained unchanged at 845,050 coins.

According to Reuters, the artificial intelligence startup Temporal announced the completion of a $550 million late-stage financing, with its valuation more than doubling to $12.55 billion within seven months. This round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Wellington Management, Goldman Sachs Alternatives' Growth Equity, and Tiger Global participating as co-leads. SV Angel and T. Rowe Price Associates' advisory accounts also participated, while existing investors Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Sequoia Capital, and GIC continued to invest.The funds will be used to expand global operations and deepen platform research and development. Founded in 2019, Temporal develops open-source software that helps applications, including AI agents, recover from failures, reducing the need for engineers to write custom recovery code. Its clients include OpenAI, Snap, Nvidia, Netflix, and JPMorgan Chase.The company has 570 employees and an annualized revenue run rate exceeding $250 million, more than doubling year-over-year. In February of this year, the company completed a $300 million financing led by a16z at a valuation of $5 billion.

According to The Defiant, Kraken has launched three xStocks vaults, allowing eligible customers to deposit SPYx, QQQx, and NVDAx into the vaults while earning floating returns while retaining exposure to tokenized stocks or ETFs. The vault initially shows an estimated net APY of 2% for SPYx and QQQx, and 1.8% for NVDAx. Kraken charges a 25% performance fee on vault earnings, and the displayed interest rate has already deducted this fee; rewards will be converted into the same type of xStock and automatically reinvested into the customer's balance.The strategy is designed by Sentora and is responsible for risk management, while Veda provides the vault infrastructure. After customers deposit xStock, Kraken transfers it to an embedded self-custody wallet on Ink, packages it, and deposits it into the Veda vault; Sentora then cross-chain transfers the packaged xStock to Solana and deposits it as collateral in the Kamino lending market. After borrowing stablecoins, it is deployed into selected DeFi strategies, and the returns are ultimately converted back into the deposited xStock. Customers do not need an external wallet or mnemonic phrase but can export the private key; redemption requires a three-day wait for funds to arrive.Kraken's documentation shows that the strategy uses leverage to generate returns by borrowing stablecoins and lists risks such as smart contracts, liquidity, bad debts, liquidation, cross-chain execution, and downstream assets, with losses shared proportionally among vault users. xStock holders do not have voting rights, dividend rights, or legal claims to the underlying stocks. The vault is currently available to the European Economic Area and other supported markets, while users from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, and sanctioned countries cannot use it.

Market news says that Pinterest is collaborating with Nvidia to build a new artificial intelligence layer.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on the X platform that Coinbase's tokenized stock has established an industry standard, not using synthetic assets or debt instruments, but instead fully backed by real securities, which can be exchanged for the underlying stock as per regulations, and has integrated dividend functionality, with voting rights to be launched soon.Brian Armstrong stated that this will provide a foundation for global investors and institutions to participate in the U.S. stock market, which exceeds $70 trillion in scale.

The official account of the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken announced that GNOT will be launched on September 16.Gnoland is an open-source smart contract platform developed by NewTendermint, where applications are written in Gno, a variant of the Go programming language that is interpreted and fully deterministic.

According to Gate market data, the three major U.S. stock indices experienced a short-term decline during the trading session, with the S&P 500 index falling by 0.8% to a session low, the Nasdaq dropping over 1% again, and the Dow Jones down by 0.4%.

Sky Ecosystem announced that the first SKY token burn has been completed. A total of 2.86 million SKY tokens have been purchased on the open market using 5% of the monthly net protocol surplus and have been permanently removed from circulation.Sky stated that the connection between protocol performance and the reduction in SKY supply has now been activated. Sky is a decentralized stablecoin protocol upgraded from MakerDAO.

Lisk's official post on X stated that it has begun to burn 100 million LSK tokens, aiming to reduce the total supply of LSK from 400 million to 300 million. This action stems from the successful passage of a DAO proposal. The DAO treasury was originally intended to gradually decentralize and incentivize the Lisk Chain ecosystem.As Lisk announced the launch of a modern funding operation product driven by its own stablecoin and the impending closure of Lisk Chain, the project proposed full funding for the Lisk project and growth activities by the Onchain Foundation, which has been approved. This allows for the burning of most tokens in the Lisk DAO treasury, significantly reducing the total supply of LSK, limiting future increases in circulating supply, and decreasing ongoing selling pressure.Specifically, Lisk has begun to burn all tokens belonging to the Lisk DAO treasury from 2027 to 2033, which amounts to 15 million tokens each year from 2027 to 2032, and 10 million tokens in 2033, totaling 100 million LSK. Users holding funds on the Lisk Chain must bridge to Ethereum before the closure on October 31, with withdrawals taking about 8 days, and an additional 3-day waiting period for unlocking and unbonding. Lisk stakers can unlock their staked LSK without penalty.

According to Decrypt, MetaMask announced the launch of a new wallet protection feature in its mobile app and browser extension, adding warnings for similar addresses, investment and pig-butchering scams, as well as first-time transfer recipients, and providing a clearer transaction confirmation page on mobile and browser extension.Another feature, Added Protection, will automatically roll back transactions that do not match the preview, first launching in the browser extension, with mobile support to follow.

Ethlabs researcher Derek Chiang stated that the collaboration between Base and Ethereum regarding account abstraction around EIP-8130 and EIP-8141 (Frames) has broken down last week, with both parties advancing their respective AA standards.He pointed out that for a long time, the EVM has been a unifying force between L1 and L2, and sharing an AA standard could have ensured a consistent multi-chain experience for smart accounts, including future post-quantum accounts. However, as the industry evolves, L1 and L2 are beginning to differentiate in terms of value and use cases: L1 pursues censorship resistance and capture, open source, privacy, and security, while L2 focuses on scalability, customization, and compliance.Both sides agree on core use cases such as gasless transactions and passkey wallets, but there are significant differences in compliance requirements. Chiang believes that a lack of unified standards may not be a bad outcome, as both parties can maximize innovation according to their visions.He proposed two paths: establishing a governance mechanism for shared resources like the EVM that covers more stakeholders, or accepting that a lack of unified standards is inevitable and focusing on building wallets and applications that can mask differences, expressing greater optimism about the second path.

According to Business Insider, Michael Burry, the prototype character of the movie "The Big Short" and a well-known short-seller, fiercely criticized the statement made by OpenAI and Anthropic CEO calling to "slow down AI development," accusing it of being highly self-serving.Michael Burry listed four core reasons: large language models are not true AI, protecting vested interests, creating hype for IPOs, and concealing the dilemma of sluggish growth. Michael Burry further pointed out that the so-called "active call to slow down" is merely a cover-up for the uncontrollable slowdown in industry growth and the forced delay of IPO plans.

Regarding the recent collaboration between Binance and Robinhood at the ecosystem level, BNB Chain ecosystem member Spigg stated that the Binance wallet has integrated Robinhood Chain, PancakeSwap has been deployed to Robinhood Chain, and Binance contracts have also launched Robinhood Chain tokens, while Robinhood has reciprocally launched BNB, with both parties as "competitors" still opening up their ecosystems to each other.In response, Binance co-founder Zhao Changpeng posted, "The BNB ecosystem is open." He also jokingly remarked that while some ecosystems claim to be "decentralized," they actually operate in a very "closed garden" manner.

According to Gate market data, the S&P 500 index's decline narrowed to 0.5%, having previously dropped by 0.8%. The Nasdaq is currently down 0.8%, and the Dow is down 0.2%.

According to The Information, Nvidia, Palantir, and Booz Allen Hamilton will restrict the use of advanced AI models from companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI.

According to Coinglass data, in the past 24 hours, the total liquidation across the network was 194 million dollars, with long positions liquidated at 115 million dollars and short positions liquidated at 78.642 million dollars. Among them, Bitcoin long positions were liquidated at 16.2684 million dollars, Bitcoin short positions at 27.9712 million dollars, Ethereum long positions at 20.1821 million dollars, and Ethereum short positions at 14.9685 million dollars.In addition, in the last 24 hours, a total of 75,693 people were liquidated globally, with the largest single liquidation occurring in Aster - BTCUSDT worth 3.1419 million dollars.

According to GlobeNewswire, digital asset management company CoinShares PLC announced its performance for the first half of 2026 ending June 30. Total revenue was $51.4 million, a decrease from $80 million in the first half of 2025. Revenue from asset management was $40 million, capital markets revenue was $11.4 million, and there were operational earnings of $3.4 million.As of June 30, total assets under management were $5.5 billion, down from $7.4 billion on December 31, 2025. During the period, the group had a net inflow of $27.6 million, with CoinShares Physical seeing a net inflow of $155.9 million, while the traditional CoinShares XBT Provider platform experienced a net outflow of $104.6 million.Operating loss was $5.1 million, with segment EBITDA at $21.6 million. The net loss was $23.9 million, which included an unrealized loss of $16.6 million due to XBT pricing differences and an unrealized loss of $15.4 million from inventory digital asset holdings. Net assets were approximately $453 million, with no long-term debt and available capital positions of about $413.9 million.The board plans to seek shareholder authorization for a share buyback program at a special shareholders' meeting on September 15, 2026. The company launched its first Bitcoin mining UCITS ETF in July and completed the acquisition of Bastion in early September.