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According to The Block, Hyperliquid's total open interest (OI) reached $14.3 billion on Sunday, close to the level before the crash on October 10, 2025. On that day, Hyperliquid's OI dropped by about 56% in a single day, from $14.7 billion to $6.5 billion. The subsequent recovery occurred in two phases: HIP-3 increased its share of total OI from 18% to over 34% between March and August, with August HIP-3 OI setting a record of over $4.44 billion; however, in the past month, total OI increased by $3.57 billion, while HIP-3 OI decreased by $119 million, with its share dropping from 34% to 25%. The two catalysts driving growth include: Coinbase began directing Base App users to Hyperliquid in mid-August, and President Trump stated that the CFTC is working to bring Hyperliquid to the U.S. in a compliant manner. Notably, HIP-3 builders can retain up to half of the trading fees in the deployed market, which has impacted Hyperliquid's financial condition—its total revenue dropped from a peak of $457 million in Q3 2025 to $202 million in Q2 2026. Core crypto perpetual contracts allocate about 97% of fees to HYPE buybacks, so the OI returning to core business is far more valuable to HYPE than the OI generated through builders.

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit announced the launch of USDT-settled forex perpetual contracts, covering three major currency pairs: Euro/USD, Pound/USD, and Dollar/Yen, supporting up to 100x leverage, and offering 24/7 trading. This product belongs to Bybit's TradFi perpetual contract series, which has included over 200 assets since its launch in April this year, covering stocks, commodities, ETFs, and pre-IPO companies. According to data from the Bank for International Settlements, the global forex market's average daily over-the-counter trading volume reached $9.6 trillion in April 2025, making it the largest and most liquid financial market in the world. Bybit is not the first cryptocurrency exchange to venture into forex perpetual contracts; Kraken launched five forex perpetual contracts with up to 50x leverage in April 2025, while BitMEX launched six similar products with up to 100x leverage in April 2026.

According to the official announcement, Bitget's perpetual stock contract has been launched for BYD.The contract is settled in USDT, supports up to 20 times leverage, and allows trading 24/7. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 306 perpetual stock contract underlying assets.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Robinhood has reached an agreement with Crypto.com, and Robinhood will add yes-or-no event contracts from Crypto.com's prediction market business to its trading platform.At the same time, Robinhood will acquire a minority stake in Crypto.com and its prediction market business.

According to Gate market data, Oracle's stock rose 4.49% in pre-market trading, currently reported at $166.91.

On September 8, South Korean semiconductor concept stocks showed mixed performance, with related asset markets remaining active. According to data from the Gate platform, SK Hynix (000660) is currently priced at $1,332.38, with a 24-hour increase of 0.56%; Samsung Electronics (005930) is currently priced at $200.26, with a 24-hour decrease of 0.18%.According to CoinGlass data, both SK Hynix and Samsung have high trading activity in the contract market. Among them, trading of related stock derivatives on Gate is active: the SKHX contract has a position amount of nearly $158 million, ranking second across the network, with a 24-hour trading volume of nearly $177 million; the Samsung contract has a position amount of $9.51 million, with a 24-hour trading volume of $15.8 million, both ranking second across the network.

The Hashgraph Group, in collaboration with Merck and with consulting and implementation support from PwC Germany, is piloting a cocoa traceability solution. This solution combines Merck's M-Trust physical authentication technology with the TrackTrace digital product passport platform based on the Hedera network, aiming to verify the origin, authenticity, quality, recall requirements, and compliance data of cocoa from farm to consumer.Cocoa is one of the seven commodities covered by the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). According to the rescheduled arrangement reached in December 2025, large operators and traders must fulfill their obligations starting from December 30, 2026, while micro and small operators will be subject to this from June 30, 2027. The solution also aligns with the direction of promoting digital product passports under the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR); however, food and feed are currently explicitly excluded from the scope of the ESPR, and for cocoa, EUDR due diligence remains a recent binding requirement.Partners indicate that this framework is not limited to cocoa and can be expanded to areas such as pharmaceuticals, luxury goods, and industrial components in the future. Husen Kapasi, head of PwC Germany's enterprise blockchain business, pointed out that this solution has verifiability and can play a key role in food recalls or compliance investigations.

According to Fractal Bitcoin's latest tweet, Fractal Bitcoin completed its first halving at block height 2,100,000, and the FIP-102 proposal was officially activated. According to the official announcement, network nodes and indexing services operated smoothly after the halving.This upgrade marks the official activation of the FIP-102 proposal, and the distribution of FB will expand from the Fractal network to the Bitcoin mainnet, providing a direct path for a broader Bitcoin user base to access FB. After the activation of FIP-102, the actual block reward on the Fractal side further decreases to 6.25 FB, with an additional 6.25 FB issuance budget being redirected to the Bitcoin mainnet. FIP-102 does not increase the total supply of FB, and the block rewards for joint mining, free mining, and indexing mining on the Fractal side will still be distributed at a ratio of 1:1:1. The specific distribution mechanism for the Bitcoin mainnet will be clarified in the subsequent FIP-103, with the goal of launching in the first quarter of 2027.

According to the report "RWA Perpetuals: State of the Market --- August 2026" published by CoinMarketCap, Gate ranks first on the reporting platform with 405 RWA perpetual contract underlying assets, while the second and third exchanges have 302 and 224 respectively. The report data shows that stock-type underlying assets account for 52.1% of Gate's total trading volume in RWA perpetual contracts, with SNDK, SK Hynix, and SpaceX leading in trading volume.The report states that Gate's products cover multiple core stock markets globally, having successively launched perpetual contracts for China's A-shares, approximately 300 USDT-denominated perpetual contracts for Japanese stocks, and perpetual contracts for stocks such as South Korea's SK Hynix; it also provided related perpetual contract trading on the same day as the listing of Yushu Technology.

According to the official announcement, the Gate Contract Meme section has launched 4STOCK perpetual contract real trading (settled in USDT), supporting 1-10 times leverage. Gate has also simultaneously added the 4STOCK trading bot and copy trading feature.4STOCK is the leading meme formed around the product name after Four.Meme launched the new 4Stock stock on-chain / Stock Meme model.

Spain's largest cryptocurrency exchange Bit2Me announced the establishment of an independent company Bit2Shield (registered name CryptoShield S.L) to assist courts, police, and financial institutions in tracking, seizing, storing, and selling cryptocurrency assets. This department will support investigators in extracting wallet data, locating cryptocurrency assets, and issuing digital signature forensic reports that can be used in court, while also being responsible for fraud investigations, source of funds verification, and providing training for police, judges, and banks.This move formalizes the work Bit2Me previously conducted for public institutions. In 2025, Bit2Me handled seized cryptocurrency assets worth 1.5 million euros (approximately 1.74 million dollars) for Interpol, Europol, and the Spanish police, using blockchain analysis company Chainalysis to track the assets. Bit2Shield will store seized assets in cold wallets that require multiple signatures and arrange for their sale when ordered by authorities, with proceeds transferred to government bank accounts in euros.Bit2Shield is part of Bit2Me's expansion from retail trading to banking and public institution infrastructure, with investors including Bankinter, Unicaja, Cecabank, Telefónica, and Tether. Since Bit2Shield focuses on investigations, forensics, and training, it is not considered a cryptocurrency service provider under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA); any operations involving the exchange of cryptocurrency for euros will be handled by Bitcoinforme S.L., an entity authorized by the Spanish securities regulator MiCA under Bit2Me.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched the pre-market perpetual contracts for retail users, H100 and B200, which are linked to the rental price index of NVIDIA H100 and B200 GPUs, respectively, quoted in USD per GPU hour.Bitget's pre-market perpetual contracts further extend the trading targets into the AI computing power field. By tracking the GPU rental market index price, users can participate in the price discovery of global GPU rental prices and the AI infrastructure market in advance, capturing potential trading opportunities brought by changes in demand for high-performance GPUs such as H100 and B200. The product adopts a perpetual contract model settled in USDT, supports up to 10x leverage, and allows trading 24/7.

Australia's financial intelligence agency AUSTRAC has canceled, suspended, or refused to renew the registrations of 45 cryptocurrency and remittance service providers in the past year to strengthen the scrutiny of high-risk payment businesses. The involved institutions faced issues such as inactivity, insolvency, or lack of operational capability, as well as failure to report significant changes, incorrect registration information, and significant money laundering or terrorism financing risks. AUSTRAC CEO Brendan Thomas stated that businesses whose registrations have been canceled are not allowed to continue operations, and some related individuals have been referred to domestic and international law enforcement or regulatory agencies. AUSTRAC specifically mentioned BA Digital Ventures operating under the name GetCoins, whose virtual asset registration was canceled in June due to customer complaints, allegedly because the platform was exploited by organized cryptocurrency investment scams, with related actions conducted in cooperation with the national anti-fraud center. The public VASP registration list also included recent disposals of institutions such as Cryptolink, Self Custody, Jam Xchange, and Coinsec Australia. Additionally, AUSTRAC has launched an investigation into Western Union and suspended the cryptocurrency ATM network of Cryptolink.

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 the official announcement, Bitget has launched the SOFTBANK perpetual contract. This contract is settled in USDT and supports up to 20 times leverage with 24/7 trading.As of now, Bitget supports a total of 305 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

According to BBX data, yesterday global European stocks and Hong Kong stocks disclosed the latest official ledger regarding digital asset treasury allocation and secondary market increases, with the core dynamics as follows:Capital B (Euronext: $ALCAP) increased its holdings by 376 bitcoins, bringing the total holdings to 3,521: The French cryptocurrency treasury listed company Capital B officially announced that it has once again increased its holdings by 376 bitcoins in the secondary market. After this significant increase, the company's total bitcoin holdings have officially risen to 3,521 BTC, further expanding its leading advantage in bitcoin reserves among European listed companies.Boyaa Interactive (00434.HK) increased its holdings by 115 bitcoins, reaching a total of 4,316: The Hong Kong listed company Boyaa Interactive disclosed the latest dynamics of its balance sheet, stating that it has recently invested again to increase its holdings by 115 bitcoins. After completing this purchase, Boyaa Interactive's total bitcoin holdings have climbed to 4,316 BTC, continuously practicing its asset allocation strategy of treating cryptocurrency assets as a core strategic reserve.

According to the Phoenix Veritas Foundation, the cultural token themed around Hunter Biden's laptop, LAPTOP, has been issued on the Base chain, with a total supply of 1 billion tokens. The initial circulation at TGE is 350 million tokens (35%). In terms of token distribution, the founders (including Hunter Biden) and the prediction mechanism each account for 30%, community airdrops account for 20%, liquidity and the foundation treasury each account for 10%, and charitable distribution accounts for 5%. The founders' tokens have a 6-month lock-up period and a 24-month linear unlock.LAPTOP has no utility and is positioned as a purely cultural digital collectible, with its value entirely driven by community sentiment. The token contract has been audited for security by Hacken in April 2026, with no major vulnerabilities. Regarding market makers, the foundation has signed lending agreements for a total of 20.5 million tokens with G20 and GSR.

Colosseum announced the launch of the second special hackathon track of the Crypto World's Fair, the Tempo track, which is supported by Tempo.The Tempo track will award a total of $100,000 to the top 10 startups integrated with the Tempo blockchain, and participants can register for the competition through the relevant page.

According to market news, the Hong Kong-listed company Boyaa Interactive has increased its holdings by 115 bitcoins, currently holding a total of 4,316 bitcoins, ranking 22nd among companies with bitcoin holdings.

According to Bitcoin News, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has requested a Washington D.C. court to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) against Kalshi regarding Bitcoin perpetual futures contracts.Kalshi's cash-settled BTCPERP contract was approved on May 29, which has no expiration date, employs a funding rate mechanism, and tracks the spot price of Bitcoin. CME argues that contracts without a delivery date that continuously generate funding payments should be classified as swaps, not futures. In response, the CFTC stated that CME's lawsuit is "making a fuss over nothing" and pointed out that CME could also list similar products. Furthermore, the CFTC noted that CME's Bitcoin futures trading volume in June and August was higher than in May, indicating that related business has not been significantly affected. CME must submit a response by October 2.