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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.

Bitcoin holding company Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) has written to MSCI opposing its proposal to exclude "non-operating companies" from the global investable market index, stating that the proposal is "misleading and flawed." Strategy founder Michael Saylor and CEO Phong Le expressed in the letter that MSCI's proposal discriminates against digital asset companies and questioned its fairness and reliability as an index provider.Earlier this month, MSCI announced that it is consulting on the definition of "non-operating companies" and plans to exclude such companies from its global investable market index. Strategy pointed out that this is the second time MSCI has proposed a similar plan, as a previous proposal for 2025 was withdrawn. Strategy emphasized that it is an operating company, employing approximately 1,500 people globally, and reports its Bitcoin business as an operating segment, with Bitcoin gains and losses reported as operating expenses.Strategy is currently the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, holding 845,050 Bitcoins, valued at approximately $6.58 billion at current prices. MSTR closed up 4% on Monday, but has fallen 15% year-to-date.

The revenue from fees priced in SOL on Solana reached a seven-day average of nearly 9,200 SOL on August 27, an increase of over 80% compared to three months ago; the non-voting transaction volume also set a new seven-day high of 191 million transactions, compared to only 88 million transactions a year ago. Jito validator tips averaged 2,073 SOL daily over the past week, a 26% increase week-on-week, directly reflecting the increase in on-chain activity.Meanwhile, the SGP-0002 "Dual Deflation" proposal passed last Friday with just over 67% support (the threshold was 66.67%), with a voting participation rate of 60.7%, covering 1,326 validators, setting a historical high for governance participation on the Solana chain. This proposal will double the annual deflation rate from 15% to 30%, expected to reduce the planned issuance by approximately 18.9 million SOL over six years.This means that the new SOL supply entering the market each year will decrease, and the rewards for validators completing the same amount of work will also decline. Staking rewards will drop from about 5.25% to 2.25% in the third year, which will squeeze validators that rely on inflation revenue rather than transaction fees, and many validators may face losses within three years. However, this impact will mainly affect small independent operators, and ordinary users are not expected to experience significant changes in the speed and costs of using the Solana network.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "US Open Tirante vs Mannarino" on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Tirante" option in the sub-market "Game Spread +/-3.5" experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 22.5% an hour ago to the current 50% (a fluctuation of 27.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Bloomberg, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to abolish the relevant rules regarding when and how shareholders of listed companies can submit shareholder proxy proposals, as indicated by the latest information released by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).According to a notice published on Monday, the SEC submitted the proposal to the White House OMB for review last week. This is the latest step by SEC Chairman Paul Atkins to change the dynamics of the relationship between shareholders of listed companies and company management.In simple terms, the SEC is proposing to adjust the regulatory rules for shareholders of listed companies to submit proxy proposals, and the proposal is currently still in the OMB review stage.

According to Bitcoin.com, the asset management company BlackRock's BUIDL fund has seen its asset size rebound to approximately $2.8 billion, surpassing Circle's USYC again, becoming the largest tokenized U.S. Treasury product. BUIDL accounts for about 18.5% of the $15.1 billion tokenized U.S. Treasury market.BUIDL was launched in March 2024 and is managed by blockchain asset service company Securitize. It currently covers 8 blockchains, including Ethereum, Solana, Aptos, and BNB Chain. Each token aims for a net value of $1 and accumulates daily returns through a rebalancing mechanism.BUIDL was surpassed by USYC in March 2026 and regained the top position at the end of August. Its underlying assets include cash, short-term U.S. Treasuries, and repurchase agreements. Moody's granted the fund a AAA-mf rating earlier this year.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, Pump.fun (2p23...Cv3q) transferred 132,937 SOL in transaction fee revenue to Kraken 20 minutes ago, worth 13.74 million USD.

DTCC's DTC Tokenization Service is scheduled to go live commercially in October 2026, having completed production transactions on the Canton Network on July 15 as a final operational stress test for the system. Over 30 companies participated in these transactions, testing collateral pledging, securities lending, U.S. Treasury and repo DVP, equity DVP, equity DVD, equity token transfers, and CCP margin workflows, covering the Canton Network and LFDT's Besu.Regulatory foundations were established on December 11, 2025, when the SEC issued a no-action letter authorizing DTC to operate tokenization services for its custodial assets on a pre-approved blockchain, with a three-year authorization. This service is supported by DTCC's ComposerX platform suite. The industry working group currently includes over 50 companies, including BlackRock, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Citi, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Schwab, State Street, Nasdaq, NYSE, Circle, Ondo, Ripple Prime, Fireblocks, BitGo, Tradeweb, and Virtu.DTCC data shows that global high-quality liquid assets reach $300 trillion, with only 10% to 11% currently used as collateral.

According to Hyperbot data, Huang Licheng's long positions have turned from loss to profit, with the overall position value rising to 132 million USD, including:25x leveraged Ethereum long position valued at 99.8 million USD, with an unrealized profit of 650,000 USD;40x leveraged Bitcoin long position valued at 29.418 million USD, with an unrealized profit of 306,000 USD;10x leveraged HYPE long position valued at 2.861 million USD, with an unrealized profit of 17,800 USD.

According to Businesswire, the cryptocurrency asset investment fund C1 Fund announced its performance for the second quarter of 2026, revealing that as of the second quarter of this year, its portfolio has expanded to 11 cryptocurrency companies, covering areas such as cryptocurrency payments, custody, compliance, staking, exchanges, infrastructure development, and prediction markets. Its two major investment exposures are Ripple (accounting for 17.5% of net assets) and Kraken's parent company Payward (16.9%), and it has also made a new investment in the prediction market platform Polymarket, although the specific investment amount has not been disclosed.C1 Fund also stated that as of July 31, it has repurchased and canceled 249,300 shares of the company's stock, with a total cost of approximately $824,000, and it is currently authorized to repurchase up to $3 million in stock.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a certain whale accumulated 280,000 HYPE at a low of $64.5 between June 11 and August 13, with a total value of $18.06 million.4 hours ago, this whale deposited 88,216 HYPE to Coinbase for the first time, worth $7.23 million. If sold, the return rate would reach 27%, with an expected profit of $1.538 million.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a certain institution has successively transferred 52,739 ETH (approximately 129 million USD) to six CEXs including Binance and OKX from yesterday until now. Currently, there are still 101,561 ETH (approximately 249 million USD) in the address.The ETH originated from withdrawals from Coinbase at an average price of about 1,700 USD between 2021 and 2022, was deposited into Ethereum staking in 2023, and was redeemed from staking last January. In the past two days, it has been aggregated into two wallets and then successively transferred to multiple CEXs.

The social-first on-chain trading platform fomo announced the acquisition of proprietary software and intellectual property developed by the on-chain data aggregation and infrastructure company Mobula. Some members of the Mobula team will join fomo to help build its own data capabilities. At the time of the acquisition, fomo's user count had doubled since early July to over 1.9 million, with more than 30,000 new users added daily. In August, active users exceeded 1.2 million, and the iOS App Store's finance category reached a peak of 3rd place.fomo's trading volume increased from $500 million in June to $1.5 billion in July, and it is on track to exceed $2.8 billion in monthly trading volume and approximately $17 million in monthly revenue in August. Co-founder and CEO Paul Erlanger stated that acquiring these assets gives the company greater control over its infrastructure as it expands. Mobula was founded by Sacha Marcus, who will join the fomo engineering team along with CTO Sacha Delhoux and infrastructure head Cyril Conan.fomo was established in 2025 and is headquartered in New York, supported by Index Ventures, Union Square Ventures, and Benchmark. The platform simplifies on-chain trading through a single account, with fomo Web accounting for about 25% of the total, and has launched social trading features such as Clans.

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 Cointelegraph, the Financial Services Agency (FSA) of Japan proposed in its 2026 tax reform request to exempt trust-based stablecoins from mandatory tax reporting obligations starting from the fiscal year 2027. The agency suggested that trust-based stablecoins do not need to submit beneficiary trust reports and calculation statements that include the names and income of beneficiaries.The reason given by the FSA is that trust-based stablecoins circulate among a large number of users, with frequent and numerous transactions, and holding these assets does not generate income. If the proposal receives legislative approval, the relevant tax exemption measures will take effect from April 1, 2027.This move is part of Japan's efforts to incorporate cryptocurrency assets into the regulatory framework for traditional financial assets. In July of this year, the Japanese Diet passed an amendment that classifies cryptocurrency assets as financial assets under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, a direction first signaled by Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki in January.

According to SlowMist's YuXian monitoring, a certain hacker address is involved in a mass theft incident, affecting over 100 addresses and dozens of real users, due to private key leakage, with hackers profiting approximately $200,000.This gang is an old gang, and the stolen users can try to identify commonalities.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, last week two major crypto treasury companies completed a new round of accumulation operations:Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) sold 600 million dollars worth of stock last week and purchased 4,603 BTC (approximately 370 million dollars) at an average price of about 80,318 dollars. They currently hold a total of 845,050 BTC, with an average cost of 75,412 dollars, and a current unrealized profit of about 2.542 billion dollars (+4%).Bitmine purchased 53,501 ETH (approximately 132 million dollars) last week at an average price of about 2,464 dollars. They currently hold a total of 5,901,112 ETH, with an average cost of 3,351 dollars, and a current unrealized loss of about 5.293 billion dollars (-26.7%).

According to Lookonchain monitoring, wallets associated with Cumberland withdrew 15,390 ETH from Binance, worth 37.66 million USD.

Bitget launches the "Million Club" benefits event, which runs from August 31 to September 30. During the event, eligible users who accumulate a net deposit of 1,000,000 USDT can enjoy corresponding financial and VIP benefits. Among them, new VIPs can unlock 1 month of exclusive benefits: 10% APR on USDT savings, exclusive earnings on BTC/ETH, and VIP6 experience.Existing VIP users who meet the criteria can enjoy 15 days of 10% APR on USDT and a +1 VIP level experience; inviting friends to complete the process can also earn an additional 1 month of 10% APR on USDT. Specific details are subject to the display on the Bitget page.

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.