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Uzbekistan has launched a pilot project to test government securities-backed som-pegged stablecoin payments. The National Project Agency (NAPP) announced on Monday that it has registered Humo Digital as a special mechanism participant under joint regulation with the central bank. This pilot will test the issuance, circulation, and redemption of HUMO tokens, with each token pegged to 1 Uzbek som. According to NAPP, over 20 merchants are already prepared to accept HUMO payments, and the project will also integrate payment processing and blockchain infrastructure from participating banks, with licensed cryptocurrency exchange Asterium as a project partner. The Central Bank of Uzbekistan stated that the initial trial will last for 12 months, with a total project duration capped at 3 years. Regulators will assess the adequacy and security of the token collateral, cybersecurity, consumer protection, anti-money laundering controls, and financial and price stability risks. This pilot follows the framework approved in November 2025, when Uzbekistan indicated plans to allow stablecoin payment experiments under a sandbox mechanism while providing relevant terms for tokenized stocks and bonds.

Visa stated in an official blog post that stablecoin-linked cards are one of the fastest-growing segments of the network. In the second fiscal quarter, over 160 stablecoin-linked card projects launched globally, with payment volumes increasing nearly 200% year-over-year, and an annualized settlement rate exceeding $20 billion, growing more than 15 times year-over-year.Visa pointed out that its collaboration with Credit Coop to launch a stablecoin-based revolving credit tool provides daily settlement funds for early stablecoin card projects, and the borrowing costs for some participating projects have decreased by more than 30%.

According to CoinGecko data, in the past 24 hours, Upbit's trading volume was approximately $298 million, an increase of 95.64% compared to the previous 24 hours.The top five trading pairs by trading volume are: XRP/KRW (trading volume share 7.84%, transaction amount approximately $84.47 million); SOPH/KRW (trading volume share 7.12%, transaction amount approximately $76.72 million); BTC/KRW (trading volume share 5.94%, transaction amount approximately $63.98 million); USDT/KRW (trading volume share 5.33%, transaction amount approximately $57.46 million); WLD/KRW (trading volume share 4.79%, transaction amount approximately $51.64 million).

According to the Korea Herald, a federal court in Washington, D.C. has ordered the seizure of a wallet asset involved in money laundering by North Korean overseas IT workers, including 158,123 USDC and 54,574 USDT, with a total value of approximately $212,700. The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to confiscate a total of $7.74 million in North Korea-related cryptocurrency assets.

According to The Rollup host Andy, his sources indicate that a large fund has received the SEC's "green light," possibly involving Fidelity, ARK Invest, or BlackRock, allowing fund shares to be tokenized and traded against underlying assets.Andy emphasized that this is still unverified information, and specific arrangements await confirmation from SEC Chairman Atkins.

Boyaa Interactive announced that the company purchased approximately 205 BTC through the open market from June 24 to September 4, 2026, for a total price of about 110 million Hong Kong dollars (approximately 14.3 million US dollars), with funds coming from idle cash generated by business operations.After completing this acquisition, the company holds a total of approximately 4,316 BTC, with an average purchase cost of 68,280 US dollars per coin.

According to CryptoBriefing, the Bitcoin wallet Xverse has launched a joint Bitcoin staking service, allowing users to pair sBTC with STX tokens to participate in the Stacks PoX-5 locking period. During the staking period, Bitcoin remains on the Bitcoin mainnet and is controlled by the users, without the need for cross-chain or wrapping. This feature requires an upgrade to the Xverse v2.9 version wallet.Registration will close on September 9 or when the quota is used up. Staking rewards are expected to be distributed starting September 10 (Bitcoin block 966350, corresponding to Stacks' 143rd period). Institutions such as UTXO (a subsidiary of Nakamoto Inc.), HashKey Cloud, and 21shares have joined as anchor participants. Previously, Xverse managed approximately 152 million STX in non-custodial staking.

The decentralized stablecoin USDD released its monthly transparency report for August 2026. As of August 31, the circulation of USDD is approximately 1.53 billion, with reserve assets totaling 2.26 billion USD and a collateralization rate of 147.96%. The Smart Allocator has achieved a cumulative return of 26.738 million USD, with a monthly new return of 3.015 million USD, a month-on-month increase of 13.6%.In August, the USDD Vault expanded to the Ethereum ecosystem, allowing users to use ETH and WBTC as collateral to mint USDD; the GasFree transfer feature now supports USDD, enabling zero Gas transfers on the TRON network. During the same period, collaborations were also established with platforms such as Binance Wallet, Gate DEX, and Pendle.

According to official news, South Korea's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb will launch Cluster Protocol (CP).

According to market news, predict.fun posted on platform X stating that the predicted probability of Variational reaching a fully diluted valuation of 1 billion dollars one day after its launch has increased from 41% to 59%.

UPBIT will launch Cluster Protocol (CP) trading on September 8 at 14:30, supporting KRW, BTC, and USDT markets. Users should note that CP only supports deposits and withdrawals on the Base network.

According to the latest Merkle Tree Proof of Reserves (PoR) data from Huobi HTX, as of September 1, 2026 (UTC+8), the reserve ratios of various mainstream assets on the platform remain above 100%, continuously ensuring the safety of user assets with sufficient reserves and committing to 100% redemption, ensuring that users can trade and withdraw at any time. As one of the earlier platforms in the industry to continuously disclose Merkle Tree Proof of Reserves, Huobi HTX has publicly disclosed PoR data for 47 consecutive months, enhancing platform transparency in a long-term and verifiable manner.The specific updated reserve ratios are as follows: BTC (104%), ETH (102%), TRX (109%), USDs (102%), HTX (103%), XRP (104%), DOGE (101%), SOL (103%). Users can visit the "Assets - Proof of Reserves Report" page on the Huobi HTX official website to view.It is worth mentioning that starting from April this year, to further enhance the visual representation of US dollar asset reserve data, Huobi HTX has unified and aggregated USDT, USDC, and other US dollar stablecoins as "USDs" for display. The asset data of each currency remains independently recorded and verified to ensure that the reserve information is authentic, clear, and traceable.In the future, Huobi HTX will continue to adhere to the 1:1 reserve principle, using verifiable data, traceable on-chain assets, and a regular information disclosure mechanism to continuously enhance asset transparency, allowing users to see reserves, verify assets, and use them with greater peace of mind.

According to Slow Fog monitoring, a certain Router contract was attacked due to security flaws in the Swap entry and uniswapV3SwapCallback, resulting in a loss of approximately 62.28 BNB.The Router did not verify whether the caller was a legitimate V3 Pool, and it also failed to bind the payer in the callback to the original transaction context. The attacker forged a V3 Pool/adapter and injected the victim's address as the payer, utilizing the ERC-20 authorization previously granted to the Router by the user to execute transferFrom() and transfer assets. Users who had previously granted sufficient token authorization to the Router may have their authorized assets transferred away even without further interaction.

Xiaopeng Robotics production line officially launched today. The world's first advanced general-purpose humanoid robot completed automated assembly and autonomously walked off the production line, marking a key leap for Xiaopeng Robotics from research and development to production manufacturing.This production line is independently designed and developed by Xiaopeng, deeply integrating the mature quality systems of the automotive industry with the precision manufacturing of humanoid robots, achieving an automation rate of over 80% in core processes. The Xiaopeng robot has 76 degrees of freedom and is equipped with three Turing AI chips, with an effective computing power of 2250 TOPS.The Xiaopeng robot will officially enter large-scale production by the end of this year and will be launched and delivered in 2027.

Cronos lending protocol Tectonic released an attack incident report on August 30: the attacker manipulated the TONIC price by approximately 195 times and looped collateral, borrowing about $120.4 million from 9 lending markets. After Cronos paused the network and restored the status, most assets returned to their pre-attack state, but about $9.19 million has been transferred across chains and has not yet been recovered.The team plans to eliminate low liquidity collateral and set a market borrowing limit.

On-chain analyst Ai Yi posted on X that a certain address has accumulated profits of approximately 1.157 million dollars through five ETH swing trades since July.This address purchased 1,650 ETH (approximately 3.97 million dollars) at 2,417 dollars on September 3 and sold all of it for profit at a price of 2,474 dollars about 9 hours ago, making a profit of approximately 108,000 dollars on that single trade. The scale of each swing trade is around 4 million dollars, and the overall strategy is relatively conservative, focusing on small profits.

According to a report by the Korean News Agency, Kim Kyung-hoon, the General Manager of OpenAI Korea, stated at the Samsung SDS "Real Summit 2026" conference held at COEX in Seoul that the productivity gap between the top 10% of AI application companies and medium-level companies has expanded from 2.6 times to 8.6 times from January to June this year, with the gap in the manufacturing sector reaching 5.3 times.Kim Kyung-hoon pointed out that the core of widening the gap lies in "connection"—21% of employees in leading companies use AI plugins integrated with business systems weekly, while the figure for ordinary companies is only 9%. He proposed a three-stage methodology for corporate AI transformation: "Turn it on, Delegate it, Keep it" (Connection, Delegation, Retention), emphasizing business process redesign rather than merely introducing AI tools.

According to the Financial Times, blockchain data company Allium Labs reports that cryptocurrency projects have spent nearly $640 million to buy back their own tokens this year, amounting to $638 million, which is higher than $545 million during the same period last year, while the total for the entire year of 2024 is only $366,000.The perpetual contract exchange Hyperliquid and the meme coin issuance platform pump.fun together account for nearly 90% of the total buyback amount. Allium Labs' research director Elton Shehdula stated that projects conduct buybacks for "image incentives" to demonstrate confidence in their tokens; reducing supply after buybacks becomes another lever to support token prices.Hyperliquid uses 99% of its trading fee revenue for buybacks and cancellation of HYPE tokens, having repurchased and canceled tokens worth $1.3 billion since its launch in December 2024, with HYPE rising 70% in the past year. The decentralized finance platform Sky Protocol repurchased $26 million worth of tokens. Co-founder Rune Christensen stated that the protocol generated over $400 million in revenue in the past year, and buying back SKY tokens ensures that decision-makers remain aligned with the long-term success of the protocol.

Former U.S. President Biden's son Hunter Biden is about to launch the meme coin LAPTOP, and some cryptocurrency traders have questioned his personal experiences and motives for the launch. Hunter Biden was convicted in 2024 on three felony gun charges and admitted to nine tax charges, subsequently receiving a full pardon from his father, former U.S. President Biden.Hunter Biden previously testified under oath that he owed his former law firm Winston & Strawn approximately $17 million. The firm sued him last year for unpaid legal fees, and his lawyer stated in April that he resides overseas and is "unable to pay." Hunter himself had previously stated that he entered the cryptocurrency industry out of interest in the technology and "wanted to make some money."Recently, Hunter Biden has publicly supported the cryptocurrency industry multiple times, stating that "decentralized digital currency and blockchain are the inevitable future," and when asked about his views on cryptocurrency, he directly replied "Hyperliquid." He also expressed a desire to put his artwork on the blockchain and accept Bitcoin payments, mentioning that Andreas Antonopoulos's book "The Internet of Money" had "opened his eyes." Additionally, he stated that he has not yet decided whether to run in the 2028 U.S. presidential election, but said that if he receives support from billionaire John Catsimatidis, he "might have to run."

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "US Open: Naomi Osaka vs Elena Rybakina," the sub-market "US Open WTA: Naomi Osaka vs Elena Rybakina Game Spread +/-0.5" for the option "Rybakina" has experienced significant fluctuations in winning probability, soaring from 55% an hour ago to the current 76.5% (a fluctuation of 21.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.