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According to the latest stock spot exchange ranking released by RootData, among the top three exchanges, only Gate achieved double growth in both 24h public order book transaction volume and market share, with a 24h public order book transaction volume of approximately 67.0293 million USD, an increase of 9.06%; market share of 15.73%, an increase of 2.73%.

The Sui development team co-founder of Mysten Labs, Kostas Kryptos, stated that Havenex is undergoing Series A financing and is about to complete it. All necessary license applications and some additional license applications have been submitted, and the financing amount is also close to being fully allocated.Havenex is not positioned to become another Coinbase, Binance, Bybit, or Kraken, but rather to provide infrastructure for financial institutions, enabling them to offer digital assets and traditional financial assets to clients while meeting regulatory, custody, security, and transparency requirements. Havenex plans to support a multi-chain architecture, verifiable custody, continuous solvency proof, default multi-signature, quantum-resistant keys, hardware two-factor authentication wallets, as well as self-custody and key loss protection mechanisms; in regions where regulations allow, it will also support privacy assets and RWA. The project will use Sui technology in suitable scenarios while integrating assets, bridging protocols, and foundational components from other ecosystems.The concept of Havenex was proposed by him, and he will currently participate as an advisor, but Mysten Labs and Sui remain his main focus. He stated that the project aims to establish transparency and security standards different from those of FTX and Mt. Gox, and to reduce the serious vulnerability risks caused by code generated by large language models recently.

According to Gate market data, after-hours trading on Wednesday for U.S. stocks saw Nvidia's new quarterly results continue to exceed market expectations, with a forecast of approximately 70% sales growth for the next fiscal year, driving AI concept stocks higher in after-hours trading.The storage sector collectively strengthened, with SK Hynix rising 4.48%, SanDisk up 3.71%, Micron Technology up 3.67%, Seagate Technology up 3.15%, and Western Digital up 3.11%. The Neocloud sector saw widespread gains, with Nebius up 6.27%, CoreWeave up 4.76%, Applied Digital up 3.26%, and both IREN and Core Scientific up 3.16%.Optical communication stocks rose across the board, with Applied Optoelectronics up 4.25%, Marvell Technology up 4.08%, Credo up 3.78%, Coherent up 3.35%, and Astera Labs up 3.34%. Semiconductor stocks also strengthened, with Arm up 4.18%, Marvell Technology and Nvidia both up 4.08%, Lam Research up 2.65%, and KLA up 2.42%.

Salesforce's stock price rose 12% in after-hours trading on the U.S. stock market, as its reported performance and guidance exceeded Wall Street expectations. The company's second-quarter revenue was $11.35 billion, with a net profit of $3.53 billion, an 87% year-over-year increase. It gained $2.6 billion from its investment in Anthropic.For the third fiscal quarter, adjusted earnings per share are expected to be between $3.42 and $3.44, with revenue between $11.42 billion and $11.5 billion. The full-year earnings per share are expected to be between $16.67 and $16.71, with revenue between $46.1 billion and $46.4 billion.

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.

Pump.fun announced that its application now supports HyperEVM, allowing users to trade any HyperEVM tokens using USDC, and receive referral rewards along with a near-zero fee trading experience.Pump.fun stated that it is the first application to introduce HyperEVM into relevant trading scenarios.

According to official data, last week the overall trading volume of Gate options increased by 182.56% month-on-month, and the number of trading users increased by 136.43% month-on-month; the number of retail trading users increased by 138.99%, with trading scale and user participation both improving.During the same period, the number of new users increased by 154.55% month-on-month, and the trading volume of new users increased by 724.26% month-on-month, further enhancing the participation momentum of new users and continuously expanding the user base. Overall, last week Gate options achieved significant growth in core indicators such as trading scale, user activity, and new user participation, with market activity and business growth momentum continuing to strengthen.In addition, Gate US stock options will soon be launched, covering the top 20 popular US stock targets in fields such as AI technology, semiconductors, electric vehicles, and cryptocurrency finance in the first phase, supporting USDT settlement, and enjoying 0 platform fees and 0 options commissions, providing users with more diverse and convenient trading options.

UPBIT will list Polyswarm (NCT) on August 26 at 21:00 and support KRW trading. During the trading support period, the trading fee will be reduced from 0.05% to 0%, and the event will last until August 27 at 20:59.

On August 25, Robinhood Chain's RWA daily on-chain trading volume reached $85.1 million, setting a new historical high. Among them, the trading volume of tokenized stocks was about $66.6 million, accounting for approximately 78% of the total trading volume for the day; Meme coin and stock token trading pairs accounted for about $10.4 million, ETF and U.S. Treasury-related trades accounted for about $4.8 million, and commodities accounted for about $3.3 million.Data shows that the trading structure of Robinhood Chain has changed significantly recently. On July 26, Meme coin and stock token trading pairs once contributed about 73% of the daily trading volume, but by August 25, this had dropped to about 12%, while the proportion of pure stock token trading rose to about 78%. In addition, Robinhood Crypto added 100 stock tokens this month, bringing the total number of on-chain stock tokens to over 190.

Binance will launch the Trump Media & Technology Group (DJTB) bStocks trading pair DJTB/USDT on August 26 at 20:00 and enable spot algorithm trading robot services.Users can exchange bStocks for BTC, USDT, or other supported tokens within one hour after the launch, with no exchange fees. The withdrawal service for DJTB will open on August 26 at 21:00.

Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas stated that gold and Bitcoin ETFs have returned to the top ten funds by trading volume, which may indicate that "devaluation trades" are replacing the AI craze.Balchunas pointed out that this phenomenon reflects the market's capital flow shifting from AI-related assets to asset classes like gold and Bitcoin, which are seen as hedges against currency devaluation.

The number of real-world asset holders on the Solana chain has surpassed 300,000, and the total locked value in DeFi has risen to 10.7 billion USD, but the spot price of SOL has recently fallen from 208 USD to around 187 USD.

According to The Information, blockchain infrastructure company LayerZero will launch the blockchain trading platform ATLAS in the fall of 2026, primarily targeting financial institutions, with no consumer-facing applications.ATLAS will be based on the Zero blockchain announced by LayerZero in February this year, initially supporting spot crypto assets and perpetual contracts, with plans to expand to prediction contracts, futures, and options in the future.Citadel Securities, DTCC, and the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, ICE, are all partners of Zero. LayerZero stated that top global market makers will provide liquidity on the first day of ATLAS's launch.

WEEX Exchange Announcement: We have now implemented a 0 fee rate for stock token spot trading, allowing users to win multiple rewards and share a prize pool of $100,000. Event duration: 8/24 20:00 - 8/31 19:59:59 (UTC+8).During the event, new users who net deposit ≥ 100 U and choose any stock token for their first spot trade (no limit on trading volume) will receive a bonus of 100 USDT; all users who complete any stock token spot trade will receive a bonus of 10 USDT; all users whose cumulative spot trading volume reaches the specified threshold will unlock corresponding lucky blind boxes, with a maximum bonus of 800 USDT.

According to Cointelegraph, former X product head Nikita Bier stated that the X platform is about to add a cryptocurrency trading button. Once this feature is launched, users can expect to perform related cryptocurrency asset operations more directly within the platform.

On August 25, BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes stated that his over-the-counter brokerage has begun inquiring about the demand for dollar lending. Although current interest rates remain low, he believes this may indicate that basis trading is returning, and mentioned that Ethena-related token ENA may benefit from this.

According to the Gate platform's Hong Kong stock market data, Yingxing Holdings (01440) rose by 18.55%, currently reported at HK$16.10; Kantarong (01912) rose by 18.23%, currently reported at HK$2.01; Kylin Pharmaceutical (06821) increased by 18.18%, currently reported at HK$131.30.

According to CoinGecko data, in the past 24 hours, Upbit's trading volume was approximately $1.446 billion, an increase of 138.2% compared to the previous 24 hours.The top five trading pairs by trading volume are: XRP/KRW (accounting for 20.16% of the trading volume, with a transaction amount of approximately $338 million); BTC/KRW (accounting for 12.09% of the trading volume, with a transaction amount of approximately $203 million); USDT/KRW (accounting for 11.57% of the trading volume, with a transaction amount of approximately $194 million); ETH/KRW (accounting for 6.89% of the trading volume, with a transaction amount of approximately $116 million); PROM/KRW (accounting for 5.31% of the trading volume, with a transaction amount of approximately $89.18 million).

According to ChaoXiang Research, a Goldman Sachs report pointed out that cryptocurrency trading volume fell by 30% in July and 21% in August, marking a continuous decline for 10 months, lasting longer than the median of the previous five cycles. The trading volume has dropped by 75% from its peak, while the cryptocurrency market value rebounded by 21% in the past week. Goldman Sachs believes that if the market value maintains at the current level, a turning point in trading volume may appear.On the regulatory front, 35% of institutional investors view regulatory uncertainty as the biggest obstacle, while 32% believe that regulatory clarity is the primary catalyst. The SEC recently proposed an innovation exemption, and over 10 new digital asset companies received OCC bank licenses in 2026, with more than 15 cryptocurrency firms included in the federal banking system. Cryptocurrency companies are expected to reduce costs by an average of about 5% in 2026, driving an increase in operating profit margins of about 5.8 percentage points.Goldman Sachs holds a cautiously optimistic view for the second half of the year, with sector valuations at the 30th percentile over the past five years. They recommend COIN (target price $196), HOOD ($124), IBKR ($114, Goldman Sachs' U.S. conviction list), and FIGR ($43). The logic for the three types of assets is different: traditional brokerages look for a reversal in September, predicting the market based on the election cycle, while cryptocurrency targets have three catalysts: market value rebound, cost reduction, and regulatory reform.