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According to RootData market data, the price of Nvidia (NVDA) contracts on 10 platforms is concentrated between $213.6 and $213.9, with a 24-hour increase ranging from 0.96% to 1.24%. The total 24-hour trading volume is approximately $232 million, with an open interest value of about $184 million.Among them, Binance has a trading volume of about $123 million, accounting for approximately 52.9% of the total trading volume, with an open interest of about $41.5375 million; Hyperliquid has a trading volume of about $59.3152 million, with an open interest of about $97.9711 million, accounting for about 53.2% of the total platform open interest, making it the market with the largest position. The disclosed platforms have a total liquidity depth of ±2% of approximately $12.6731 million, with Hyperliquid at about $4.432 million and Binance at about $3.4173 million.In terms of market concentration, Binance, Hyperliquid, and OKX contribute approximately 88.3% of the trading volume; Hyperliquid and Binance together account for about 75.8% of the open interest. Currently, the funding rates across platforms are generally low, and there has not yet been a significant extreme bullish premium.Previous report indicates that Nvidia will announce its second-quarter financial report after the U.S. stock market closes on Wednesday, with the market's focus mainly on five aspects: AI infrastructure financing, progress on Vera Rubin servers, open model layout, sales in China, and gross margin pressure.

According to CoinDesk, Ethereum researchers have proposed rebuilding the validator deposit contract to support a new cryptographic system and ultimately stop accepting deposits protected by the existing BLS signatures. This proposal targets the deposit contract, aiming to add a switch that prevents the network from accepting the currently relied-upon signature format.Currently, the contract only accepts BLS keys because their exact size is hardcoded, while the new draft allows for different key sizes, with each deposit tagged by the cryptographic system used, where BLS receives a tag of zero, reserving space for future schemes.If the proposal is approved, it will initially operate with BLS deposits, while other schemes can be registered simultaneously. Future decisions may permanently disable new BLS deposits, at which point validators who have staked using BLS keys will not disappear, but new validators will not be able to join using this method. Ethereum will ultimately need to change separately to inform validators how to check new signatures. This is part of the migration for validators, while another part is already in progress—EIP-8141 framework transaction proposals will allow regular Ethereum accounts to change the cryptographic method for approving transactions without changing their address.The urgency stems from research released in March by Google's Quantum AI research department, which outlined five quantum attack paths against Ethereum, putting over $100 billion in assets at potential risk. The Ethereum Foundation is advancing core protocol changes with a target around 2029. Currently, the amount of ETH staked in Ethereum is approximately 42.4 million, valued at about $10.4 billion.

The Hyperliquid Policy Council (HPC) and TradeXYZ jointly submitted a comment letter to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), calling for the inclusion of energy perpetual contracts in the regulated U.S. market.The article mentions that in February this year, due to the Middle East conflict causing disruptions in crude oil exports and the U.S. futures market being closed, overseas market participants were able to manage risk exposure through crude oil-linked perpetual contracts on Hyperliquid. Approximately two-thirds of the price changes were completed on-chain during the first weekend of the conflict.In May this year, the CFTC approved the first batch of cryptocurrency-based perpetual contracts to be traded as futures in the U.S., and in June, it publicly solicited opinions on energy perpetual contracts. The comment letter suggests that the CFTC establish a technology-neutral framework to evaluate energy perpetual contracts and 24/7 trading, confirm that exchanges can operate around the clock, recognize stablecoins and tokenized collateral as eligible margin, and allow regulated markets to use on-chain infrastructure for execution, clearing, and settlement.

According to the official announcement, Bitget's stock perpetual contract has been launched for MARA (MARA Holdings). The contract is settled in USDT, supports up to 20 times leverage, and is available for trading 24/7. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 292 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for BTC has decreased by 5.1% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at $55.556 billion. Among them, the open interest for Binance is $11.098 billion, for OKX is $2.908 billion, for Bybit is $4.495 billion, and for Gate is $4.647 billion.

According to the official announcement, Bitget's stock perpetual contracts have launched DJT (Trump Media & Technology Group). The contract is settled in USDT, supports up to 20 times leverage, and is available for trading 24/7. So far, Bitget supports a total of 291 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

According to SoSoValue data, after a significant rebound, the overall cryptocurrency market is experiencing a general pullback, with only the Layer2 sector remaining relatively strong, rising 1.13% in 24 hours, among which Stacks (STX) increased by 16.73% and Polygon (POL) rose by 6.29%. In addition, Bitcoin (BTC) fell by 1.10%, dropping below $79,000; Ethereum (ETH) decreased by 1.61%, falling below $2,500.In other sectors, the DeFi sector dropped 0.38% in 24 hours, with Ethena (ENA) down 7.78%, but Hyperliquid (HYPE) rose by 1.89%; the CeFi sector fell by 1.65%, with OKB (OKB) down 3.12%; the Layer1 sector declined by 2.39%, with Zcash (ZEC) down 6.44%; the Meme sector decreased by 3.42%, while SPX6900 (SPX) rose against the trend by 13.33%; the PayFi sector fell by 3.99%, with Dash (DASH) down 10.10%.

Bitget 2026 King’s Cup Global Invitation Tournament KCGI is now open for registration, and early bird benefits and team formation channels are also available. This year's KCGI has been fully upgraded, with "UEX Panorama Competition" as the core highlight, for the first time integrating three major tracks: crypto contracts, TradFi contracts, and stock spot (rToken), achieving a unified competition arena, prize pool, and ranking, providing a multi-asset competitive scenario for users with different trading preferences, with a total prize pool of 3 million USDT.To enhance the competition experience, KCGI has simultaneously launched five major gameplay features: UEX Arena, UEX Treasure Map, Captain Rewards, Early Bird Benefits, and Glory Live Draw. The UEX Arena, as a core component, offers a maximum reward of 2 million USDT, covering five major leaderboards: team earnings, trading volume in each track, and individual earnings; the UEX Treasure Map provides a 100% winning treasure chest reward of up to 600,000 USDT through a task key and track fragment synthesis mechanism. Additionally, there is a special incentive of 100,000 USDT for team captains, and the first 10,000 users who join a team and meet specified requirements before August 30 can compete for an early bird benefits prize pool of 200,000 USDT.The final glory coronation ceremony will be revealed in a live broadcast after the competition ends. Users who reach the specified trading threshold during the competition will have the opportunity to participate in the live draw to win multiple rewards, including 2026 KCGI limited merchandise, gold-plated footballs, cash vouchers, and more. The registration period for the event ends on September 22.

The Ethereum Foundation issued a reminder that the Glamsterdam upgrade will include adjustments to Gas fees (EIP-8037 and EIP-8038), involving changes to the costs of state creation and access. Most contracts will not be affected, but some contracts that rely on hard-coded Gas values and other old assumptions may need to be updated; otherwise, they may fail or experience performance degradation.

The DEX Arcus, built by the dYdX team, has launched a new protocol on the Robinhood Chain that converts perpetual contract positions into transferable ERC-20 tokens and allows users to use tokenized stocks as collateral for leveraged trading.The products launched by the protocol include pBTC3x and pHOOD3x, which provide 3x exposure to Bitcoin and the Robinhood stock token HOOD, respectively. Its multi-collateral feature initially supports SPY, QQQ, and MAG7 stock tokens, with a loan-to-value ratio of 50%, allowing users to use tokenized stocks as collateral for perpetual contract positions.Arcus CEO Eddie Zhang stated that traditional markets have taken decades to make complex investment strategies accessible through products like leveraged ETFs, and the next step is to integrate these strategies natively into blockchain infrastructure. Since its launch on the Robinhood Chain, Arcus has accumulated a trading volume of over $250 million, with an average daily trading volume exceeding $33 million; since its launch on July 1, the Robinhood Chain has reached a TVL of $596 million, ranking among the top 15 in DeFi TVL.

CoinDesk cites data from Glassnode indicating that Bitcoin recently surged to $80,000, primarily driven by short sellers being forced to cover their positions, rather than a large influx of new buyers. This characteristic has historically made the market more sustainable.Data shows that as short positions were liquidated, Bitcoin futures open interest has dropped to 587,584 BTC, marking a nearly 5-month low. The market leverage level has decreased, providing a relatively more solid foundation for price trends.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for BTC has increased by 5.41% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at $58.453 billion. Among them, the open interest for Binance is $11.456 billion, OKX is $2.945 billion, Bybit is $4.683 billion, and Gate is $4.808 billion.

The Ethereum community has released a deposit contract EIP proposal that supports post-quantum computing. The proposal aims to introduce a new contract that supports variable-length public keys and credential metadata, along with a clear scheme identifier, where scheme 0 is reserved for the current BLS deposits.The new contract no longer relies on the Merkle tree structure of the old deposit contract but instead passes deposit information to the consensus layer through execution requests derived from EIP-7685 logs. This contract features an irreversible mode controlled by protocol system calls: deposits are initially disabled, BLS deposits are enabled at a specified timestamp, and BLS deposits are permanently disabled at a later timestamp, with no option for re-enabling. During the migration period, the execution client must merge deposit requests from the new and old contracts.

The Binance contract platform will successively launch multiple USDT-denominated perpetual contracts starting from August 25 at 17:00, including SKUUUSDT, SKDDUSDT, RAMUSDT, DJTUSDT, and MRNAUSDT, with a maximum leverage of up to 20 times.

According to the official announcement, to meet the diverse investment needs of users, Bitget has launched two stock perpetual contracts: DE (Deere & Company) and JP225 (Nikkei 225 Index). The above contracts are settled in USDT, support up to 20 times leverage, and allow trading 7 × 24 hours. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 282 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

The founder of Strategy, Michael Saylor, stated that Bitcoin is gradually transitioning from an early "peer-to-peer electronic cash" experiment to a global digital capital infrastructure. As Bitcoin is widely adopted by individuals, funds, publicly listed companies, banks, custodians, trading platforms, and governments, some of the early Bitcoin culture has evolved from a risk defense mechanism into a form of "orthodoxy," which includes viewing self-custody as the only legitimate way to hold Bitcoin and categorizing financial products related to Bitcoin, such as ETFs, bonds, preferred stocks, and derivatives, as "paper Bitcoin." These views played an important role in the early development of Bitcoin, but are now insufficient to explain its expanding economic ecosystem.The more important role of Bitcoin in the future may not be to replace fiat currency as a daily payment tool, but rather to become a scarce, globally liquid, programmable "digital capital" that does not rely on an issuer. Fiat currency will still play a core role in taxes, wages, contracts, and everyday business, while Bitcoin can form a new layered financial system with banks, securities, credit, insurance, and corporations. Self-custody should be viewed as a right rather than an obligation, and professional custody, multi-signature, institutional custody, and trading platform products can all play a role based on different users' risk tolerance and actual needs. What truly needs to be vigilant is not all counterparties, but those counterparties lacking transparency, isolation mechanisms, governance capabilities, and risk control; "do not trust any institution" should shift to risk identification of different institutions.The next phase of the Bitcoin ecosystem will be the expansion of the "digital capital market," rather than a return to a closed pure Bitcoin economy. With the continuous development of spot Bitcoin ETFs, publicly listed companies' Bitcoin reserves, bonds, preferred stocks, and other financial products, Bitcoin is becoming a new underlying asset that connects stocks, debt, credit, currency, derivatives, and even the machine economy. This trend can be termed the "Bitcoin Reformation," with core principles including "protocol minimalism, economic maximization," "replacing founder worship with first principles," "self-custody as a right rather than a ritual," "judging security by evidence rather than brand," "replacing counterparty nihilism with counterparty identification," and allowing fiat currency and Bitcoin to coexist in the long term. Bitcoin is not abandoning its early core principles but is breaking free from its cultural limitations: it is transitioning from electronic cash to digital gold and further becoming a digital capital network that encompasses capital, credit, equity, debt, currency, and the machine economy.

On Monday local time, Nvidia Senior Director Dion Harris announced that the Groq 3 LPX rack has entered full-scale production and will be deployed in the data center of the new cloud service provider Nebius, expected to go live later this year. This move marks the commercialization of the technology obtained by Nvidia after reaching a technology licensing deal worth approximately $20 billion with Groq last December. Several core employees from Groq have joined Nvidia, with founder Jonathan Ross serving as Nvidia's Chief Software Architect.Nvidia is accelerating the production of Groq chips and providing products to customers, highlighting the importance of low-latency inference. The Groq 3 LPX, released in March this year, is an inference accelerator for the Vera Rubin platform, integrating 500 megabytes of high-speed SRAM on the chip die to reduce memory bottlenecks. Each LPX rack can integrate 256 Groq 3 chips, and Nvidia cites benchmarks indicating it can process 3,400 tokens per second; the chip is manufactured by Samsung.Harris stated that low-latency chips are not meant to replace GPUs but are designed to use the appropriate processor for different stages of workloads, allowing cloud service providers to offer higher-priced packages for latency-sensitive users. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang plans to allocate about a quarter of the data center space for programming applications to Groq chips, with the remainder using the Vera Rubin system, and expects cumulative sales of Blackwell and Vera Rubin to reach $1 trillion by 2027.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for BTC has increased by 5.47% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at $58.224 billion. Among them, Binance's open interest is $11.464 billion, OKX's open interest is $2.947 billion, Bybit's open interest is $4.623 billion, and Gate's open interest is $4.729 billion.

According to The Kobeissi Letter, the call options volume for the Bitcoin ETF IBIT reached 1.58 million on Wednesday, setting a new single-day historical high; the volume exceeded 1 million for three consecutive trading days from Wednesday to Friday, as investors chased the crypto rebound.As a result, the call skew increased by 0.05 points over the past three days, marking the largest three-day increase in at least two years, more than three times the average three-day change since January 2025. This indicator measures the relative cost of upside versus downside options, and a significant increase in this metric indicates that investors are more willing to pay a premium for upside exposure.