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According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the "Republican 2028 Presidential Candidate" event is currently the most actively traded on the prediction market Polymarket, with a cumulative pool size reaching $6.973 billion. The option with the highest market consensus is "J.D. Vance," with an associated winning probability of approximately 53.05%.

Digital asset management company Grayscale stated that by the end of 2025, the proportion of company stocks held directly and indirectly by American households' financial assets will reach 46.71%, up from 43.99% a year ago. Grayscale's research director Zach Pandl pointed out that the increase in stock asset concentration and high valuations has enhanced the opportunity for cryptocurrency to be used for portfolio diversification.Grayscale indicated that the long-term earnings growth expectation for the S&P 500 index rose to over 25% on August 28, significantly higher than the historical range concentrated between 10% and 15%. The agency believes that after the market adjustment, the valuation, leverage levels, and investors' long positions in cryptocurrency assets have all decreased.Data released by Grayscale shows that the 90-day correlation between Bitcoin and the Nasdaq 100 index has dropped from over 60% to about 33%, while its correlation with gold has risen from nearly 0 to over 50%. Grayscale also noted that Bitcoin's historical volatility is higher than broad equity indexes and does not always serve as a safe-haven asset.

Trump posted on the social platform Truth Social, stating that after the United States "controls the Strait of Hormuz," consideration should be given to renaming it "TRUMP STRAIT," and claimed that this would make the region "hotter than ever" like the United States.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, JINQIAN reached a market value of 70 million USD just 1 hour after its launch. A certain address purchased 6.28 million JINQIAN in a single transaction for 8 ETH (19,000 USD), and then sold it for 82.54 ETH (198,000 USD), making a profit of 74.54 ETH (178,600 USD), achieving a return of 10 times.

According to Cointelegraph, Hashkey has joined the Digital Asset Advisory Working Group of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), becoming the first Asian digital asset service provider to join this working group.DTCC is a core post-trade infrastructure provider for global financial markets, and this working group brings together over 100 global financial institutions and asset management companies, including JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Nasdaq, and the New York Stock Exchange, to jointly define the issuance, settlement, and custody standards for institutional-grade tokenized assets.DTCC plans to launch tokenized securities services in October. Previously, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a no-action letter to a DTCC subsidiary in December, allowing it to provide tokenization services for the securities market.SEC Chairman Paul Atkins stated that the approval of this pilot is just the beginning, and the SEC will consider innovation exemptions to help builders promote the on-chain transformation of the market without bearing cumbersome regulatory requirements. Atkins first proposed the idea of tokenization innovation exemptions at the DeFi roundtable on June 9.

According to Bitcoin.com, the Salvadoran government added 1 Bitcoin to its national Bitcoin reserves this week, bringing the total holdings to 7,762 Bitcoins. Based on a Bitcoin price of approximately $77,000, this batch of holdings is valued at about $598 million.The International Monetary Fund (IMF) previously required El Salvador to stop public sector purchases of Bitcoin in a $1.4 billion financing agreement and made merchant acceptance of Bitcoin voluntary;The related legal amendments removed Bitcoin's status as legal tender but did not terminate the reserve accumulation policy. El Salvador became the first country to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender in 2021 and continues to implement a policy of purchasing 1 Bitcoin daily. From January to April this year, the government has added over 1,600 Bitcoins to its reserves.

According to SolanaFloor, the supply of tokenized equity on the Solana chain has reached a historic high, with the scale of tokenized equity deposited in lending protocols also hitting a new high of $60 million. $NVDAx and $SPYx rank at the top by the number of holders.

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said on Wednesday that the Trump administration is considering a new round of import tariffs on semiconductors, which could further increase taxes on foreign chips to attract more semiconductor manufacturing to the United States.However, these tariffs may be implemented alongside tax relief measures for investments in domestic manufacturing companies, following the approach previously taken by the Trump administration in the pharmaceutical industry.Raimondo stated, "This is the principle that the semiconductor industry should follow: If you produce in the U.S., we will give you tariff relief; if you do not produce in the U.S., you will pay tariffs. This is a very wise approach and it works."Trump had previously imposed a 25% tariff on some advanced semiconductors and ordered additional import tariffs on these chips in January of this year after the U.S. Department of Commerce completed relevant trade investigations. However, the scope of the new round of tariffs may expand from semiconductors themselves to products containing chips, thereby affecting imports of data center servers and consumer electronics.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, trader 0x9a49 has sold all 7,201 ETH purchased a week ago, worth approximately 17.2 million USD, realizing a profit of 780,000 USD.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, the Bhutan royal government has transferred 400 bitcoins again, worth 30.62 million USD.

Hyperbot data shows that a certain whale has a large position shorting BTC, ETH, and XYZ100, with a total short value of nearly 107 million USD. Among them: BTC 10x short total value is 64.21 million USD, with an unrealized profit of 1.39 million USD; ETH 20x short total value is 27.53 million USD, with an unrealized profit of 1.02 million USD; XYZ100 20x short is 15.10 million USD, with an unrealized profit of 0.22 million USD.In addition, this address also holds small positions in WTI, Brent crude oil longs, and shorts in MRVL, silver, SMSN, and others.

Base announces the launch of the Creator Grant Program, providing independent creators who produce high-quality content around Base and its ecosystem with grants of up to $4,000. This program is open to writers of Base-related content (in-depth analysis, memes, commentary, tweets), live streamers and show hosts, creators of fixed segments, independent video creators, and multilingual science communicators.Participants can also gain access to project resources, exposure through retweets from Base regional accounts, and the "Creator of the Week" reward for emerging creators (up to $500). Creators who produce exclusively on Base, have fixed programs, or create independently can submit applications through the official form.

According to market news, the ETH swing trading whale at address "0x806...904aa" sold 1,673 ETH at an average price of $2,392, cashing out approximately $4 million, with a single transaction profit of about $817,000.This address established a position two weeks ago before the current market rally at $1,903.05. Since July of this year, this address has completed four ETH swing operations, with a total profit of approximately $1.05 million.

According to Euronews, Taiwan's stock market surged by 59% in the first half of this year due to a spike in demand for AI hardware, with chip giants like TSMC being the main drivers. Driven by high return expectations, a large number of ordinary people borrowed money to enter the market through bank loans and mortgage properties, with the scale of margin trading increasing by nearly 20% compared to the first half of the year.Some investors have made substantial profits, such as Mr. Chen, a real estate practitioner, who borrowed 5 million New Taiwan dollars and quadrupled his assets within six months; however, others have suffered significant losses, with one anonymous user claiming to have invested over 10 million New Taiwan dollars (including 6 million in mortgage loans) and lost nearly half, even experiencing mental health issues.Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission stated that the overall credit risk remains within a controllable range and has released videos on social media to warn young investors about the risks of loan defaults.

Prospect Markets announced that it has signed a final agreement with OG Prediction Markets and Crypto.com to launch event-based prediction market services in the United States.The prediction market will be open to U.S. customers through CFTC-registered introducing broker Prospect Brokerage, with the partnership relying on Crypto.com’s CFTC-registered futures commission merchant Foris DAX FCM LLC (OG Broker). Prospect Markets plans to launch related products in the United States in the third quarter of 2026.

Bitcoin Reserve Company Capital B announced that the company will issue new shares (ABSA) with warrants to strategic investor Adam Back through a private placement, with a subscription price of €0.58 per share, totaling approximately €7.645 million (about $8.86 million). The subscription conditions are consistent with the financing announced on August 28, 2026, and the delivery is expected to be completed on September 3, 2026.If all warrants are exercised, it will bring approximately €49.4 million (about $57.25 million) in additional capital to the company. The company stated that the net proceeds from this fundraising will be approximately €7.3 million (about $8.46 million), mainly used to increase its Bitcoin holdings as a long-term reserve asset, which is an important measure to advance its Bitcoin Reserve Company strategy and enhance the per-share Bitcoin holdings.

The security company Defimon issued an alert stating that a governance takeover attack against YAM Finance has been detected. After self-delegating approximately 504,000 YAM (about 3.3% of the total supply, slightly above the legal voting threshold), the attacker submitted YamGovernorAlpha proposal #45, which is described as empty ("0x"), with the sole action being to call the setPendingAdmin method of the YAM Timelock contract, pointing to the attacker's address.It has been disclosed that if the proposal is voted through and executed, the attacker will become the pendingAdmin, and then can fully control the Timelock through acceptAdmin, which includes management rights over all YAM protocol contracts and the DAO treasury, involving a risk amount of approximately $337,000. As the protocol is currently in a dormant state, Defimon Alerts reminds users holding YAM to vote against the proposal before block height 25897343 (about 34 hours remaining).

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.