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Binance announced that due to abnormal situations such as restricted deposits and withdrawals and price deviations in the spot markets of multiple exchanges, it will enable the latest price protection (LPP) mechanism for the BULLAUSDT U-margined perpetual contract at 14:00 (UTC+8).During the protection period, the mark price will be calculated based on the average transaction price over the past 10 seconds, with a fluctuation limit of ±1% per second; the upper and lower limits of the funding rate will be adjusted from ±2% to ±0.005%.

Zilliqa stated that the investigation into the recent security incident is still ongoing, with affected components including the X-Bridge and certain liquidity pools using ZRC2 proxy contracts, involving tokens such as zUSDT, SEED, kUSD, and Zoge.Zilliqa emphasized that the native ZIL and Zilliqa EVM network were not affected, and the X-Bridge will remain suspended; users are advised not to use the cross-chain bridge and the affected liquidity pools for the time being.

Bitget has launched two popular perpetual contracts for HONHAI and MEDIATEK stocks. The above contracts are settled in USDT, supporting up to 20 times leverage and 24/7 trading. So far, Bitget supports a total of 384 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

Galaxy Research report shows that the share of Meme coins in Solana's trading volume has dropped from over 50% at the end of 2024 to 15% to 20% in the second quarter of 2026. In addition, SOL has seen a decline of nearly 20% this year, and the U.S.-listed spot and staking SOL ETFs have recorded outflows for two consecutive weeks this month, totaling approximately $50 million.Meanwhile, Solana's share in on-chain perpetual contract trading volume has decreased from 17% to 6%. It is reported that the Solana Foundation has issued a statement indicating that Solana's transformation is underway, attempting to shift from a growth model reliant on Meme coins and speculative trading to more mainstream financial applications such as stablecoins and tokenized assets, in order to attract adoption from Wall Street institutions. However, with the cryptocurrency market in a downturn and competitors like Hyperliquid rising, Solana faces challenges in its growth model transformation. Market analysts point out that Solana's future key lies in its ability to attract stable assets, developers, and users, rather than relying solely on speculative trading to drive growth.

CryptoQuant analyst BaykusCharts stated that Binance's Ethereum open interest is currently about 5.8 billion USD, which is about half of last summer's peak of over 12 billion USD. On the surface, this looks like large-scale deleveraging, but open interest is denominated in USD, and the ETH price has also dropped by about half during the same period. When converted to ETH, the current open interest is about 2.5 million ETH, close to the peak of about 2.5 million ETH. Therefore, the decline is primarily driven by price rather than traders closing their positions.In terms of funding rates, the significant positive premiums seen in early 2021 and early 2024 have disappeared. After experiencing several periods of negative funding rates this year, it is currently just slightly above zero, with both long and short positions not overly crowded, and longs are not paying significant premiums. Analysis suggests that there is still a large amount of leveraged ETH exposure in the market, but there is a lack of strong directional confidence. This limits the risk of a one-sided liquidation chain reaction, but it also means that any decisive breakthrough in either direction could accelerate quickly. The key signals are: a price increase and a sharp rise in funding rates indicate long crowding; a price decrease and an increase in open interest indicate a growth in short positions.

The trading platform Robinhood announced its third-quarter financial report, with revenue of $1.42 billion, slightly below Wall Street's expectation of about $1.43 billion; earnings per share were $0.51, lower than the expected $0.55 and also down from $0.61 in the same period last year. Net profit was $476 million, a year-on-year decrease of 14% and a quarter-on-quarter decrease of 17%. This quarter included an unrealized loss of $67 million from Robinhood Ventures Fund I, equivalent to $0.07 per share; adjusted earnings per share were $0.60, a year-on-year decrease of 3%. After the financial report was released, the stock price fell in after-hours trading, closing at about $94.61 on Tuesday, a cumulative decline of about 18% for the year.By business segment, event contract revenue increased from $156 million in the second quarter to $173 million, with customer trading volume reaching a record 16.4 billion contracts, more than seven times that of the same period last year. Cryptocurrency trading revenue rebounded from $100 million in the second quarter to $120 million, but was down 55% from $268 million in the third quarter of 2025; this quarter's cryptocurrency trading volume was $50 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 38%, with $21 billion from in-app and $29 billion from its acquired exchange Bitstamp.Robinhood narrowed its guidance for adjusted operating expenses and equity incentive costs for 2026 to $2.675 billion to $2.75 billion, lowering the previous upper limit of $2.775 billion. A few hours before the financial report was released, the company announced a partnership with Ripple to introduce the stablecoin RLUSD to Robinhood Chain and Bitstamp, with plans to launch it in-app later this year; RLUSD has a market capitalization of over $2.5 billion, and Ripple will also provide fund management software and lending services for Bitstamp traders. Robinhood Chain went live as a Layer 2 network on July 1, generating about $3.13 million in fees within 30 days as of the end of August, surpassing Ethereum and Base.

The prediction market platform Polymarket announced the addition of 5-minute cryptocurrency contracts in the U.S. version of the app. This feature initially supports BTC, ETH, SOL, and XRP markets.Contract prices use pricing data from CF Benchmarks. According to the rules, ties will be settled as "Up," and the taker fees will be charged separately from the bid-ask spread.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) documents show that Broadcom (AVGO.O) arranged for financial partners to purchase AI racks based on custom AI accelerators.

Crypto.com and its derivatives partner OG.com began offering crypto perpetual contracts to eligible U.S. traders on Tuesday. The contract offers up to 5x leverage, allowing traders to bet on the price movements of crypto assets without an expiration date, and provides take-profit and stop-loss orders as well as isolated margin features.Crypto.com stated that it has recently registered as an introducing broker with the National Futures Association in the U.S. to offer the aforementioned perpetual contract products. These products operate through OG.com on exchanges, clearinghouses, and futures commission merchants regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. This launch follows the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's decision in May to open the U.S. market to crypto perpetual contracts.Previously, the agency approved Kalshi's Bitcoin perpetual contracts and provided Coinbase with no-action relief to offer digital commodity derivatives; Kraken launched U.S. perpetual contracts on Kraken Pro in June after acquiring Bitnomial. Crypto.com is also advancing its stock derivatives business, with OG.com’s exchange Nadex registering last month with the Securities and Exchange Commission to trade securities futures. CEO Kris Marszalek stated at that time that the company is working with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to offer individual stock perpetual futures.

NEAR ecosystem announces the launch of the Confidential Jio pre-IPO trading contract, allowing users to participate in the trading of related assets before Jio officially goes public.The contract offers up to 5 times leverage, providing investors with a more flexible risk management tool. According to official statements, this product is expected to transform into an equity perpetual contract after Jio completes its IPO, thereby extending its trading lifecycle.It is important to note that this contract currently does not involve the delivery of actual shares, nor does it provide IPO allocation quotas; its core positioning is focused on price discovery and risk hedging around pre-listing assets.

Oracle (ORCL.N) launched an artificial intelligence data platform aimed at enterprise-level artificial intelligence scalable applications.

NVIDIA (NVDA.O) and Oracle (ORCL.N) are expanding the deployment scale of the NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform.

According to TechCrunch, AI computing startup General Compute has completed a $100 million Series A funding round, led by Blackbird Ventures and Abstract Ventures. The company's post-investment valuation has reached $800 million, a significant increase from $60 million after the seed round in May this year.Currently, General Compute focuses on AI inference computing, using specialized chips from competitors of NVIDIA, and has reached a $400 million chip procurement agreement with SambaNova. Other suppliers include Positron and Cerebras.

According to a report by the Korean News Agency, Rick Reed, Chief Investment Officer of Global Bonds at BlackRock, stated that the scale of debt financing for the recent expansion of artificial intelligence infrastructure is unprecedented, and the related bonds are more attractive than U.S. long-term government bonds. In an interview with Bloomberg Television, he mentioned that the scale of financing in the bond and stock markets is unprecedented, and this is the most attractive investment period he has ever experienced.Rick Reed focuses on high-quality bonds issued for financing GPUs, data centers, and other AI infrastructure, noting that the scale of newly issued corporate bonds is enormous, making interest rate conditions better than before. Although the yield on U.S. 10-year government bonds exceeds 5%, it has been marginalized by other market products, with government bonds being viewed more as a benchmark for measuring the stock market. Investors can purchase short-term single A-rated bonds to obtain an interest rate of about 7%, avoiding the duration risk of long-term government bonds.He also prefers secured bonds issued by high-quality companies or assets that can generate cash flow, believing that the valuations of stocks in the semiconductor and computing sectors are at reasonable levels. Reports indicate that hyperscale data center operators are issuing the largest corporate bonds in history, raising hundreds of billions of dollars, absorbing funds that would have flowed into government bonds, and becoming one of the main reasons for pushing up U.S. government bond yields. The scale of high-quality financing related to AI globally has exceeded $300 billion this year, about three times that of the entire last year.

Bitget has launched perpetual contracts for 3 stocks: EIDO (iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF), STM (STMicroelectronics), and EQT (EQT Corporation). The aforementioned contracts are settled in USDT, supporting up to 20 times leverage and 24/7 trading. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 382 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

According to "Du Jia," Soul is about to launch a real-time interactive AI audio and video integrated product called "Loxinity." This product includes a speech synthesis model, Loxi Speech, and a video generation model, Loxi Avatar, focusing on continuous dialogue scenarios, emphasizing tone pauses and emotional fluctuations to address the issues of heavy reading feel and disconnection between audio and visuals in similar products.In terms of functionality, the voice section supports voice cloning, emotion tagging, and API integration; the digital human section allows users to upload images to customize their avatars, and input text or audio to generate digital human videos. Soul previously released the emotion-oriented large model SoulX in 2023 and launched an intelligent audio and video real-time interaction solution with Huawei Cloud in September this year. The launch of Loxinity signifies that Soul is productizing the interactive capabilities refined in its internal social scenarios for the B-end market.

Hyperliquid posted on platform X that HIP-3 will support optional configurations for licensed markets in future network upgrades, with related additional features collectively referred to as HIP-3*. The core feature is an on-chain allowlist managed by the deployer or its sub-deployers. This feature is an optional addition to HIP-3, and whether to enable it is decided by the deployer; existing markets are not affected. The first version has been launched on the testnet, and the related specifications are still in preliminary version.Hyperliquid also stated that Kraken's parent company Payward plans to become the first deployer of HIP-3* markets regulated by the CFTC, utilizing Hyperliquid to deploy perpetual contract markets for U.S. customers. Upon regulatory approval, Payward's CFTC-regulated Bitnomial will serve as the deployer, responsible for creating and managing the market and clearing settlement contracts, while NinjaTrader Clearing will handle customer accounts.

Base is promoting "tokenized Anthropic shares," while Trade.xyz has launched a Pre-IPO betting product for Anthropic. Trade.xyz's new ANT contract allows users to trade with up to 10 times leverage, but users do not own equity.Base did not specify the issuer of the tokenized shares or the specific token contract address in its promotion.

A researcher successfully cracked the "Steal My Bitcoin" challenge using a PHP vulnerability.The prize for the challenge was 0.02511679 BTC. However, the challenge operators later discovered that the server had saved the wrong wallet key, and ultimately had to manually transfer the prize to the researcher.