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The perpetual contract platform RWAperp announced the completion of a $2 million financing round, with a post-investment valuation of $50 million. Brad Bao, co-founder of Lime, Tim Shi, co-founder of Cresta AI, Phil Duan, a member of the Tesla Autopilot team, William Freiberg, a member of Crux, Charles Ferguson, as well as members of the a16z and Sequoia Scout systems participated in the investment.RWAperp is a decentralized perpetual contract protocol aimed at traditional financial assets, currently launched on OKX X Layer, and has opened 19 markets covering BTC, ETH, SOL, Korean and US stocks, the S&P 500 index, DRAM index, gold, silver, and WTI crude oil. Users can settle using USDC, USDT, or USDG, gaining leveraged long and short exposure to stocks, indices, commodities, and crypto assets without the need to hold, custody, or tokenize the underlying assets.RWAperp is primarily designed around the trading characteristics of the stock market, focusing on trading, pricing, liquidity, and risk management systems, and addressing situations such as market closures, overnight gaps, suspensions, and corporate actions. The platform employs a multi-issuer comprehensive oracle and provides a professional order book trading terminal. RWAperp is also developing Agent Mode. This AI feature aims to understand natural language trading instructions, analyze market conditions, and gradually support trading execution operations such as opening positions, position management, and closing positions.

Ethlabs researcher Derek Chiang stated that the collaboration between Base and Ethereum regarding account abstraction around EIP-8130 and EIP-8141 (Frames) has broken down last week, with both parties advancing their respective AA standards.He pointed out that for a long time, the EVM has been a unifying force between L1 and L2, and sharing an AA standard could have ensured a consistent multi-chain experience for smart accounts, including future post-quantum accounts. However, as the industry evolves, L1 and L2 are beginning to differentiate in terms of value and use cases: L1 pursues censorship resistance and capture, open source, privacy, and security, while L2 focuses on scalability, customization, and compliance.Both sides agree on core use cases such as gasless transactions and passkey wallets, but there are significant differences in compliance requirements. Chiang believes that a lack of unified standards may not be a bad outcome, as both parties can maximize innovation according to their visions.He proposed two paths: establishing a governance mechanism for shared resources like the EVM that covers more stakeholders, or accepting that a lack of unified standards is inevitable and focusing on building wallets and applications that can mask differences, expressing greater optimism about the second path.

TrendForce's latest research on the memory industry indicates that the NOR Flash market is experiencing the most significant supply-demand structural change in nearly a decade. AI-related products are absorbing a large amount of capacity, and suppliers find it difficult to significantly increase NOR Flash bit output despite the continuous growth in high-end application demand. Therefore, the supply-demand imbalance is expected to persist in the second half of 2026, with overall contract prices remaining high.Although suppliers in Taiwan and China have increased capital expenditures and expanded production, the new capacity cannot be immediately converted into market supply. New output must first go through process migration, yield ramp-up, product certification, and customer design integration, making it difficult to alleviate the supply shortage in the mid-to-high capacity segment in the short term. Winbond expects the strongest bit growth in 2026, driven by the full-scale production of 45nm NOR and the migration to 25nm and 20nm. GigaDevice is upgrading the process for products of 32Mb and above, with effective output limited in the first half of the year. MXIC will prioritize additional 12-inch capacity for NAND and eMMC, limiting the growth of NOR wafer input.In 2026, AI and aerospace communications will become the main sources of new demand. The NOR usage in AI servers is 3-5 times that of traditional servers, with high-density demand driven by edge AI, AI PCs, robotics, and low-orbit satellites. In the first half of 2026, the average cumulative contract price increased by 100-120%. In the second half, the average price of products of 256Mb and above may rise by another 90-110%, while prices for products of 128Mb and below are expected to increase by 10-20% in Q4 2026.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Wintermute currently holds approximately 102.1 million USD in perpetual contract short positions and continues to deposit more funds to increase its short exposure.Data shows that its total exposure is 122.23 million USD, with unrealized profits of about 928,400 USD, a loss of 12.04 million USD in the past 30 days, and a historical cumulative profit of approximately 176.88 million USD from perpetual contracts. Among them, the largest position is a short position of 15,330 ETH, valued at about 38.47 million USD.

According to the official announcement, Binance will suspend the deposit and withdrawal of USDT tokens on the Optimism network on September 17, 2026, at 02:00 (UTC) to support its contract replacement. The replacement ratio is 1:1, with the new token being USDT0 and the old token being renamed to OPUSDTE.Spot, leverage, futures trading, and Binance Earn services will not be affected.

The founder of the meme coin issuance platform Long.xyz, Nate, stated in a post that this week there will be significant design space for perpetual contracts/synthetic assets, which will be combined with the platform's top trading pairs.Last week, Long.xyz launched a 1x long pool supporting tokenization for OpenAI and Anthropic, and the product was once highly hyped in the market.

According to official news, Gate has launched EMBER perpetual contract trading (settled in USDT), supporting 1-10 times leverage. Gate has also simultaneously added EMBER trading bots and copy trading features.

According to on-chain analysts, Ethereum early contributor billΞ.eth's associated address (0xC31...23fb) withdrew 500,000 LIT from the Lighter protocol 2 hours ago, worth 2.07 million USD.Lighter is the built-in Perp DEX of Robinhood Wallet, which has seen an increase in trading volume recently, with LIT rising over 97% in the past month.

Cathie Wood posted on platform X, stating that David Sacks believes recent reports about "AI will destroy humanity" may be orchestrated by humans.Wood pointed out that the relevant remarks initially came from a long-inactive X account of an employee at Anthropic, who left the company just six weeks after joining, and the related content quickly entered mainstream media. David Sacks also identified the parties involved in the incident and criticized the role played by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ).Cathie Wood stated that all technologies can potentially be used for malicious purposes. She believes that some individuals, including Elon Musk, who continuously emphasize the potential risks of AI are not participants in a political conspiracy but are playing a positive role. Wood said, "Half of solving the problem, including AI, is understanding the problem."

HIP-3 market deployer Entropy spent 500 HYPE (approximately $38,950) to acquire the code DRAM, which is expected to launch the io:DRAM perpetual contract trading.Previously, Trade.xyz had deployed the xyz:DRAM perpetual contract trading. DRAM is the Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM), the world's first pure memory-themed ETF.

"White-haired Stock God" Serenity posted on platform X that a piece of information in Oracle's (ORCL) financial report is favorable for Nebius (NBIS) and IREN (IREN). Oracle stated that all renewed GPU computing power has been resold, with prices increasing by 20% compared to previous contracts, and most related equipment has been used for over 4 years. Serenity believes that this situation once again counters "Big Short" Michael Burry's argument about the rapid depreciation of GPUs, while also benefiting Nvidia (NVDA) and the Neocloud computing sector.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for ETH has decreased by 6.42% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at 32.317 billion USD. Among them, the open interest for Binance is 9.186 billion USD, for OKX is 1.827 billion USD, for Bybit is 2.251 billion USD, and for Gate is 3.109 billion USD.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for ETH has decreased by 5% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at 32.118 billion USD. Among them, Binance has an open interest of 9.266 billion USD, OKX has an open interest of 1.8 billion USD, Bybit has an open interest of 2.315 billion USD, and Gate has an open interest of 3.039 billion USD.

Data shows that Loracle continues to reduce its short position in HYPE, with a remaining position value of 21 million USD. Previously, the value of the HYPE short position reached a maximum of 37 million USD, with a remaining position loss of 7.45 million USD. The opening price was 53.97 USD, and the current price is 83.18 USD.Loracle currently has a total net floating loss of approximately 9.54 million USD from its main short positions, which include:Short position valued at 26.05 million USD in SNDK, opening price of 1485.67 USD, current price of 1644 USD, floating loss of 2.51 million USD;Short position valued at 18.73 million USD in NVIDIA, opening price of 225.70 USD, current price of 220.29 USD, floating gain of 460,000 USD;Short position valued at 18.24 million USD in PONS, opening price of 0.67 USD, current price of 0.66 USD, floating gain of 220,000 USD;Short position valued at 10.27 million USD in MU, opening price of 870.69 USD, current price of 980.80 USD, floating loss of 1.15 million USD;Short position valued at 6.78 million USD in CASHCAT, opening price of 0.21 USD, current price of 0.19 USD, floating gain of 750,000 USD;Short position valued at 3.84 million USD in PLTR, opening price of 173.54 USD, current price of 166.84 USD, floating gain of 150,000 USD.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks opened with the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising over 1%, the S&P 500 index up 0.8%, and the Nasdaq up 0.8%. Oracle rose over 7%, with its first-quarter revenue and profit exceeding expectations, Intel rose over 1%, and SK Hynix rose 1.5%.

Bitcoin News posted on platform X that after the CFTC approved Kalshi's Bitcoin perpetual contracts as futures products, traders face uncertainty on how to report gains to the IRS.If the product is classified as a regulated futures contract under Section 1256 of the U.S. Tax Code, related gains are typically treated as 60% long-term capital gains and 40% short-term capital gains, regardless of the holding period. CME believes that Kalshi's perpetual contracts are actually swaps, which are explicitly not covered under Section 1256. The CFTC's classification supports the view that it is a futures product, but does not bind the IRS; the tax treatment remains uncertain until the IRS, Congress, or the courts directly address Bitcoin perpetual contracts.

CoinDesk released the "August 2026 Exchange Report," which shows that the trading volume of RWA perpetual contracts on centralized exchanges reached $602 billion in August. Among them, Gate's RWA perpetual contract trading volume reached $64.7 billion, with a market share of 12.6%, ranking third globally, only behind Binance's 60.9% and OKX's 21.5%. During the same period, Gate's RWA perpetual contract trading volume increased by 158% month-on-month, and its market share more than doubled from July's 5.32%.From the perspective of platform scale, the CoinDesk report disclosed that Gate's global user count has surpassed 60 million, with August spot trading volume reaching $40 billion and contract trading volume reaching $287 billion, ranking fourth globally in combined spot and derivatives trading volume, reflecting the platform's trading scale and user base in the global market.

According to SlowMist's security alert, the AtomicQueue contract of ether.fi was exploited due to the lack of access control in the solve() function, resulting in approximately 15.45 ETH being stolen.The attacker created malicious requests using updateAtomicRequest(), forcing the victim's address to act as the solver. Subsequently, AtomicQueue called the victim's finishSolve and executed want.transferFrom, abusing the victim's existing ERC-20 authorization to transfer funds. SlowMist has privately disclosed the attacker’s address and the vulnerability contract address to the ether.fi team.

According to the official announcement, the Gate contract Robinhood section has launched real-time trading for FLYBRAIN, FRONG, and JUGGERNAUT perpetual contracts (settled in USDT), supporting 1-10x leverage.Gate has also synchronized the addition of FLYBRAIN, FRONG, and JUGGERNAUT trading bots and copy trading features.