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Rackspace announced its participation in the NVIDIA Cloud Partner Program and launched NVIDIA Blackwell-based AI infrastructure for regulated enterprises and governments.

According to blockchain data analysis company Bitrace, another leading trading guarantee platform "Welfare Guarantee" began to withdraw all money laundering-related public group merchants last night. The withdrawal scope includes illegal entities commonly known as "Card Connection Back to U" and "Cash Car."Bitrace stated that the "Welfare Wallet" operated by Welfare Guarantee is currently experiencing rapid capital outflow. Since the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) officially announced sanctions against Xinbi Guarantee, the wallet has recorded an outflow of 9.3 million USDT. Bitrace previously mentioned that due to the sanctions against Xinbi Guarantee, abnormal capital outflows have occurred in its secretly deployed sub-guarantee platforms, and a large number of guarantee merchants are rapidly exiting the related market.

Circle's blockchain Arc tweeted that the transaction memo feature is now available on the testnet.Developers can attach structured context to a single contract call without modifying the existing contract. Applicable scenarios include invoice numbers, payment reference numbers, customer IDs, and reconciliation tracking.

The TON Network DePIN project PinGo officially stated that regarding the recent security incident, the team has confirmed that this attack is related to the asynchronous execution mechanism of the TON blockchain. To further enhance the security of the protocol and prevent similar issues from occurring again, PinGo will upgrade the project contract.In addition, the PinGo team stated that they are currently communicating with relevant ecological partners and exchanges, and will promote exchanges to restore $PINGO deposit services as soon as possible. After the contract upgrade and necessary security checks are completed, the team will continue to disclose subsequent progress.

The Singapore Exchange (SGX) has received authorization from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) under the Regulation 48.1 framework to open its Bitcoin and Ethereum perpetual contracts to U.S. institutional investors. KC Lam, Head of Crypto Derivatives at SGX Group, stated that previously U.S. participants were unable to trade these contracts, but they are now permitted direct access to its trading system.Since its launch at the end of November 2025, SGX's crypto perpetual contracts have accumulated a trading volume of $5.8 billion (approximately 400,000 lots), with an average daily trading volume of 1,300 lots ($19 million) as of August. Bitcoin accounts for 66% of open contracts and 83% of average daily trading volume, with a single-day peak trading volume of 11,500 lots (notional value of $145 million). Lam indicated that as the FIS backend integration is fully ready, they will assist U.S. clearing members in onboarding clients in the next month or two.Unlike crypto-native platforms, SGX's perpetual contracts have no expiration date but employ a margin call and collateral top-up mechanism instead of automatic liquidation, separating trading and clearing based on traditional futures market infrastructure. Stablecoins are not accepted as collateral, and the contract benchmark index is jointly developed by SGX and CoinDesk Indices. SGX's next step is to launch Bitcoin and Ethereum futures and options.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, after fluctuating around the $2500 position for more than half a month, a certain address withdrew 2100 ETH from OKX, with the most recent withdrawal occurring 4 hours ago at an average withdrawal price of $2469. This address currently holds only ETH.

According to the mainstream exchange contract trading volume data released by Wu Shuo Blockchain, in August 2026, the contract trading volume of Huobi HTX reached approximately 29.939 billion USD, an increase of 84.4% compared to 16.233 billion USD in July, ranking first in the month-on-month growth among statistical platforms.In August, Huobi HTX launched 56 new assets in its contract products, including 41 popular stocks and index targets as well as 15 new coins. Currently, the number of stock trading assets supported by the platform has increased to 210, covering U.S. individual stocks, global core indices and ETFs, unicorn Pre-IPOs, and leading companies in Japan and South Korea.

The cryptocurrency risk data analysis company Bitrace released the "2026 Annual Cryptocurrency Crime Report," which shows that in 2025, the illegal funds received by blockchain addresses marked as high risk across the network reached $50.21 billion. Organized crime networks in Southeast Asia were severely impacted, as the United States and the United Kingdom jointly sanctioned the Cambodian Prince Group, seizing or freezing billions of dollars in cryptocurrency assets, and Huibang Group was forced to temporarily halt its Huibang Payment operations.The report states that in 2025, high-risk addresses for online gambling received $14.53 billion, down from $21.78 billion in 2024; it is predicted that platform funds transferred or bet will reach $6.64 billion. High-risk addresses for money laundering received a total of $6.98 billion, with USDT-related money laundering amounting to $5.7 billion on Ethereum and $60.2 billion on Tron. High-risk addresses for black and gray market transactions received $186.9 billion, almost all occurring on the Tron network, with Huibang Payment receiving $52.4 billion in USDT that year.In 2025, the number of addresses frozen reached 4,059, exceeding the total of 3,199 from the past four years, with 3,406 on Tron. Tether froze over $1.1 billion in USDT, and Circle froze over $23 million in USDC. From 2021 to 2025, the United States, Japan, the United Kingdom, Israel, and France collectively imposed sanctions on at least 1,683 blockchain addresses.

Ethlabs stated that it has reviewed over 60 EIPs proposed for the Ethereum Hegotá upgrade and updated its priority recommendations, focusing on four areas: censorship resistance, transaction confirmation speed, native account abstraction, and performance optimization.Specifically, Ethlabs supports FOCIL to enhance Ethereum's censorship resistance and neutrality; it recommends shortening time slots for the first time in the Hegotá upgrade through Quick Slots and creating conditions for further reductions in the future; it supports achieving native account abstraction through Frame Transactions, introducing passkey wallets, transaction delegation, using tokens to pay Gas, batch transactions, as well as better privacy and quantum security support. Additionally, Ethlabs emphasizes that client and protocol design should continuously prioritize performance, using optimization results to increase L1 capacity, shorten time slots, and reduce node operation requirements.

According to a notice from the U.S. Department of Justice, the Department's Fraud Center Strike Force, in coordination with the Department of the Treasury, took coordinated law enforcement action against Xinbi Guarantee, seizing and restricting the disposal of over 52 million dollars in cryptocurrency in a single day, bringing the total assets restricted by the task force to approximately 938 million dollars. Tether provided proactive assistance in this investigation.The Department of Justice alleges that Xinbi is an illegal scam service market primarily operating through Telegram, providing customized investment scam websites, money laundering services, and recruiting victims of human trafficking to work in scam parks in Southeast Asia. Law enforcement has seized its Telegram channel and two cryptocurrency wallets holding approximately 12 million dollars, and restricted the disposal of an additional 47 related wallets.At the same time, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Xinbi as a significant transnational criminal organization and sanctioned two additional entities that support it. The task force also assisted Madagascar in shutting down 13 scam parks operated by Chinese criminal groups, processing over 3,200 electronic devices, and local authorities arrested nearly 400 people.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched perpetual contracts for 4 stocks: FCX (Freeport-McMoRan), BHP (BHP Group), RIO (Rio Tinto), and VALE (Vale S.A.).The above contracts are settled in USDT, support up to 20 times leverage, and are available for trading 24/7. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 310 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

Bonk Guy fiercely criticized the token project related to Hunter Biden's "LAPTOP," stating that after further observation of the situation following the token's launch, he believes the project clearly exhibits speculative behavior of "wanting to extract profits while knowing very little about the crypto industry."Bonk Guy particularly questioned the fully diluted valuation (FDV) of up to $100 billion after the token's launch, bluntly stating that this valuation is "absurd to the extreme," and questioned why Hunter Biden himself would become the narrative core of the crypto market. He pointed out that the public's attention on Hunter Biden largely stems from the numerous controversies he sparked during his father Joe Biden's presidency, while the Biden administration has generally taken a relatively tough regulatory stance on the crypto industry.Finally, Bonk Guy warned that investors buying the token at the current valuation face extremely high risks, stating that "anyone who buys it deserves to lose 100% of their funds."

According to Fortune, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency crime tracking company TRM Labs completed a $70 million Series C funding round in September 2025, achieving a valuation of $1 billion. Just six months later, it received additional investment from existing investors, doubling its valuation to $2 billion.CEO Esteban Castano stated that the company's mission has expanded from blockchain forensics to a broader mapping of cybercrime, with AI becoming a second growth engine rather than a transformation, while the core cryptocurrency business remains strong. The company is set to launch a new investigation platform specifically targeting AI-driven deepfake scams, extortion related to pornography, and child sexual abuse crimes.Castano noted that the widespread adoption of cryptocurrency has made it possible to comprehensively map crime networks, and the company is expected to reach a $100 million annual recurring revenue milestone in the coming weeks. Currently, it has about 500 employees and has offices in London, Singapore, and Washington.

According to the official announcement, Gate has officially launched stock event contracts. The first phase includes four underlying assets: MU, SNDK, SK Hynix, and Yushu Technology, and opens a short-term bullish/bearish trading market with 5-minute and 15-minute cycles, without the need for leverage or margin. The cycle ends with automatic settlement, and early closing is also available. The trading times for each underlying asset align with the trading hours of US stocks, Korean stocks, and A-shares.This product supports trading on the web, and Gate App users need to update to version v8.36.0 or above. Users can enter Contracts - Event Contracts, select the stock category to view and trade related underlying assets. During the launch period, a special event with 60,000 USDT is also opened, including new user experience vouchers, first order rewards, as well as a 20,000 USDT check-in prize pool and a 20,000 USDT trading volume prize pool. Gate's event contracts cover both cryptocurrency assets and mainstream stocks.

Bitget has launched EURUSD, USDJPY, and GBPUSD perpetual contracts. The above contracts are settled in USDT, support up to 100 times leverage, and allow for 24/7 trading.

According to CoinMarketCap data, the RWA perpetual contract market, covering stocks, commodities, foreign exchange, and indices, has seen the total trading volume of centralized and decentralized trading platforms increase from $822 billion in May this year to $3.16 trillion three months later, approximately 3.84 times the previous amount. The market has a high concentration, with four platforms—Binance, Hyperliquid, OKX, and Bitget—accounting for 86% of the market share; stock perpetual contracts contribute over 60% of the trading volume.The monthly trading volume of the RWA perpetual contract market continues to reach new highs and is becoming a new source of business growth for leading platforms.

On-chain investigator ZachXBT posted on X accusing user "Mr Austin Fine" (account "@xmrfine") of exchanging the stolen cryptocurrency assets of victim Malone for luxury goods in exchange for fees, stating that he "may be a whistleblower." ZachXBT indicated that until the victim is compensated, he will consider him "disassociated," which will negatively impact all current and future brand collaborations.ZachXBT later added that he has traced part of the funds on-chain flowing through Monero to purchase cars from the luxury car dealer TBTFW in Los Angeles.