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Self-proclaimed "white hat hackers" extracted about 4,000 BTC from Liquid Network and have returned 3,400 BTC (approximately $269.2 million) to the federal wallet of the sidechain on Monday, recovering about 85% of the funds. The incident began on Sunday when a customer sent 4,000 L-BTC to SideSwap's peg-out service. The attackers claimed to be "white hat hackers" through Bitcoin transaction messages and demanded that the vulnerability be fixed first. Blockstream then sent a signed message stating that "the bridging node has been patched and funds can be safely returned," after which the attackers transferred the funds. Nevertheless, about 598.5 BTC (approximately $47 million) remains in the related address. Ledger's Chief Technology Officer Charles Guillemet expressed skepticism about the "white hat" claim, stating that if this were a negotiated reward under on-chain crypto contracts, it looked more like extortion. Liquid has disabled the bridging nodes and requested exchanges to suspend L-BTC deposits and withdrawals, but has not yet announced a plan for handling the remaining funds or when normal operations will resume.

According to Coinglass data, if ETH breaks through $2,611, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $989 million. Conversely, if ETH falls below $2,368, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $715 million.

The latest report from the Bitcoin Policy Institute shows that due to the Iran conflict, the annual blockchain transaction volume in the Middle East and North Africa is expected to reach $350 billion in 2025-2026, more than three times the approximately $100 billion in 2022. The report points out that regional conflicts typically accelerate capital outflows, but the Iran conflict presents a different dynamic: an increasing amount of capital is shifting towards digital assets, highlighting the growing role of cryptocurrencies (especially Bitcoin) as a hedge against economic and geopolitical uncertainty.The report states that after the outbreak of the conflict, Bitcoin initially fell in sync with other risk assets, but then investors shifted from higher-risk cryptocurrencies to Bitcoin, raising its market capitalization share to a one-month high of 64.8%. In countries like Egypt, Turkey, Lebanon, and Iran, due to currency devaluation, more people are increasingly using Bitcoin and dollar-pegged stablecoins to preserve value. Meanwhile, Gulf countries like the UAE and Bahrain are attracting crypto firms and institutional investors by establishing regulatory frameworks.Chainalysis data also shows that after the US-Israel airstrikes from February 28 to March 2, approximately $10.3 million left Iranian crypto exchanges. The report believes that in countries suffering from sanctions, conflict, or currency instability, cryptocurrencies have become tools for preserving and transferring value outside the traditional financial system, while regulated Gulf markets continue to attract institutional capital.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "Atlanta Braves vs. Philadelphia Phillies" on Polymarket, the "Over" option in the sub-market "O/U 8.5" experienced a sharp fluctuation in win probability, plummeting from 44.5% an hour ago to the current 14.5% (a fluctuation of 30%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to The Defiant, the on-chain data analysis platform Arkham has attributed a holding of 3.43 million PONS (approximately 2.4 million USD) to the market maker Wintermute, making it a significant new holder of PONS. Arkham stated that Wintermute appears to be gradually buying PONS through a time-weighted strategy and speculated that it may be preparing to market make for the token on-chain.PONS is the native token of Pons, a meme coin launch platform on the Robinhood Chain, which is responsible for routing completed fundraising tokens to the Uniswap pool. Arkham's data shows that this holding accounts for approximately 0.48% of the circulating supply of PONS (712.1 million tokens) and 0.34% of the total supply (1 billion tokens). Additionally, 6.46 million and 5.58 million PONS are held in the Uniswap V3 pool and the Uniswap PoolManager contract, respectively.Previously, Uniswap Labs had also purchased PONS tokens, and the Pons project team stated that this move aims to achieve "long-term alignment."

Affected by the news that Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, is about to launch a meme coin named after his "laptop incident" $LAPTOP, popular meme coins in the Robinhood ecosystem have generally fallen.Among them, PONS fell nearly 9% after the announcement of the spontaneous coin, with a market value dropping to $726 million; CASHCAT fell nearly 10% after the announcement of the spontaneous coin, with a market value dropping to $190 million; AI fell over 10% after the announcement of the spontaneous coin, with a market value currently reported at $179 million; MEME fell over 20% after the announcement of the spontaneous coin, with a market value dropping to $91 million; microduck fell over 25% after the announcement of the spontaneous coin, with a market value dropping to $17 million. Price calculations are based on the announcement of the spontaneous coin disclosed at 22:50 Beijing time.

Hunter Biden's X account currently only follows an account named "Laptop" (@Laptoptoken). This account is associated with the token LAPTOP, which is scheduled to launch on the Base network on September 9, and has announced the contract address and official website link.According to the official website, the total supply of LAPTOP is 1 billion tokens, with 35% unlocked at TGE and fully unlocked over 36 months. The token distribution includes 30% for the founding team, 30% for prediction market-related tokens, 20% for airdrops, 10% for liquidity, 5% for the foundation treasury, and 5% for charitable donations. Among these, the prediction market portion is linked to real-world events in politics, crypto, culture, etc. If the event occurs, the corresponding tokens will be burned; if it does not occur, the tokens will be donated to charity. The official website states that the token has passed a Hacken audit.ChainCatcher reminds: There is a possibility that related accounts and links may be impersonated, manipulated, or falsely associated. Users should avoid interacting with any unfamiliar links, contract addresses, or authorization pages, carefully verify the source of information, and protect their personal asset security.

Zhao Changpeng retweeted on platform X to clarify that his account has not been hacked, stating that he had only unfollowed some inactive accounts that had been inactive for over 30 days, and said "that's all."

The cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex posted on X that the Bitcoin miner position index is currently -1.2, well below its annual average.Miners are holding supply, even though the breakthrough in August briefly pushed it up to 2.8. An index above 2 means that miners are selling again, and current selling activity is relatively sluggish.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "LoL: Invictus Gaming vs LGD Gaming (BO5) - LPL Playoffs," the "Total Kills Over/Under 30.5 in the Second Game?" sub-market's "Over" option win rate has experienced a sharp fluctuation, plummeting from 50% an hour ago to the current 23.5% (a fluctuation of 26.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, will launch a meme coin named LAPTOP, named after his laptop incident, scheduled to go live on the Base network under Coinbase on September 9.The founding team of the project, including Hunter Biden, will hold 30% of the total token supply (1 billion tokens), with that portion locked for 6 months and fully unlocked over two years; another 20% of the tokens will be airdropped in two batches to users who previously lost money on the Trump meme coin TRUMP, Hunter Biden's Substack subscribers and their friends, and users on the mailing list maintained by video journalist Andrew Callaghan; the remaining 20% will be used for charitable donations, liquidity, and distribution to exchange partners and market makers, as well as covering the accounting, legal, administrative, and compliance costs of the token foundation.It is reported that the founding team has also agreed on a destruction mechanism that includes 30 preset events; if the relevant events achieve the preset results within the designated time (such as the Democratic Party winning the 2028 presidential election, Bitcoin reaching a new historical high, LAPTOP's fully diluted valuation exceeding TRUMP, etc.), up to 30% of the token supply may be destroyed; if not achieved, the tokens will be donated to charitable organizations proportionally.The report notes that Hunter Biden has recently been frequently participating in podcasts, news programs, and writing Substack articles discussing his views on cryptocurrency, and has commented on the controversy between the Trump family's crypto project World Liberty Financial and Sun Yuchen.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, Garrett Jin has just sold 114,000 HYPE, which he purchased in June at an average price of $72.5, for a price of $86.3, corresponding to a value of approximately $9.84 million, realizing a profit of about $1.57 million.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, trader 0x3305 has continuously bought HYPE over the past 10 days, accumulating a total of 194,210 HYPE, worth approximately 16.79 million USD.

According to Gate market data, BTC/USDT is currently reported at $78976.5, with a 24-hour decline of 0.95%.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, BTC OG insider whale agent Garrett Jin has just closed a long position in BTC worth approximately 107 million USD, totaling 1,331 BTC. This position was held for about three and a half months, ultimately realizing a profit of around 1.02 million USD. Currently, his account only has a large short position in ZEC, holding approximately 39,760 ZEC, with a nominal value of about 47 million USD, and an unrealized loss of about 24 million USD.Previous data showed that Garrett Jin's short position in ZEC has been continuously suffering from significant unrealized losses. Notably, Garrett Jin had earlier added to his heavily losing short position in ZEC, and then completely closed out his long position in BTC that was in profit.Yu Jin humorously remarked that this kind of operation is quite similar to ordinary investors: quickly selling profitable positions while stubbornly holding onto losing positions and continuously adding to them.

According to Dealroom, the decentralized perpetual contract exchange in Singapore, Antarctic Exchange, has completed a $7 million financing round, with a valuation of $70 million. Investors include Valisa Capital Markets, Lucidity Capital, and Republic Crypto, as well as proprietary traders who are entering the crypto asset space for the first time.The platform targets retail derivatives traders and offers tools similar to centralized exchanges. The founding team consists of former executives from OKX, Binance, and MEXC.

Goldman Sachs significantly raised its industry forecast in the latest global optical module report, expecting the global optical module market size to reach approximately $67.7 billion, $131.4 billion, and $148.5 billion in 2026, 2027, and 2028 respectively, an increase of 33%, 81%, and 115% compared to previous forecasts.Goldman Sachs believes that this round of upward revision is not solely due to the increase in the number of AI servers; more importantly, the architecture of AI servers is continuously migrating towards high-speed networks, coupled with the increase in the number of optical modules required for a single GPU or ASIC chip, driving rapid growth in demand for 800G, 1.6T, and even 3.2T.

According to CoinDesk, Ethereum core developers have included EIP-8141 (Frame Transactions) in the 2027 Hegotá upgrade plan. During the core developer call on August 27, the proposal was marked as "Scheduled for Inclusion," meaning it will become part of the network update rather than just a candidate proposal. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, one of the ten authors of the proposal, stated on X on Sunday night that Frames have made significant progress in the past few months.Frames aim to address the issue where users hold stablecoins but cannot transfer them due to a lack of ETH. It splits transactions into independent steps such as authorization verification, fee payment, and instruction execution, allowing the sender and payer accounts to no longer have to be the same. For example, payment applications can cover fees themselves or settle ETH bills on behalf of users after collecting stablecoins, while the Ethereum network still prices in ETH, and users do not need to purchase ETH. Unlike existing wallet solutions that rely on third-party services, Frames will achieve this capability through the standard Ethereum transaction process.Additionally, Frames will bundle operations that need to be executed simultaneously, such as authorization and submission in token transactions, with authorization being revoked if the transaction fails; it also allows accounts to customize transaction approval rules, enabling the replacement of private keys or the adoption of quantum-resistant keys without needing to migrate funds to a new address. Currently, the specification is still a draft, and details may be adjusted before the Hegotá upgrade, with users unable to use Frames yet.

Binance stated that in the first half of 2026, the Binance Wallet Security Center helped users avoid potential losses of approximately $540 million through real-time scanning of links, transaction signatures, and unknown tokens. During this period, the security center filtered approximately 206 million spam transfers, covering 2.6 million users; identified about 4.93 million high-risk transactions across 19 chains, and discovered approximately 996,000 malicious authorizations.Attackers are using AI to batch generate malicious code, counterfeit websites, and fraudulent identities, shifting on-chain attacks from large-scale fishing to precision attacks. The Binance Wallet Security Center is also using AI to analyze token behavior logic, website risk characteristics, and potential attack intentions to identify phishing domains, malicious contracts, and abnormal token risks earlier.

According to GMGN data, influenced by BONK GUY's shout-out, SOCK's market value surpassed 13.86 million USD, continuing to set a new high, currently reported at 12.33 million USD, with a 1-hour increase of 269.4%.