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NVIDIA announced that the RTX Spark devices equipped with the N1X chip will begin shipping in October this year. The N1X supports up to 128GB of unified memory, and the Blackwell GPU provides up to 10 petaflops of floating-point performance per second. The full version is equipped with a 6144 CUDA core Blackwell GPU and a 20-core Grace CPU, supporting 24GB to 128GB of unified memory; another version has 5120 GPU cores and 18 CPU cores, supporting only 24GB to 32GB of unified memory.NVIDIA launched the open-source tool NVIDIA PAIR, which can connect multiple RTX devices, DGX Spark, and even Apple devices in a home network to schedule idle computing power for collaborative processing of AI agent tasks. Compatible devices include computers with NVIDIA graphics cards (RTX 20 series and later, RTX Pro GPU, DGX Spark) as well as devices with Apple M4 or newer chips. PAIR prioritizes the use of idle computing power and automatically adjusts as devices join or leave the network.In a media briefing example, a household had approximately 165 TFLOPS of underutilized computing power. The Qianwen 3.6 35B A3B model completed agent tasks in an average of 18 minutes on a single Spark notebook, while a three-device PAIR cluster averaged 8 minutes and 48 seconds. The AI agent applications Perplexity Portable Computer, Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw will receive a more simplified local deployment method.

On September 3, WEEX Exchange announced the launch of the WEEX Hackathon Season 2 "AI Wars II: The Algorithm Era." Global AI developers, quantitative traders, Web3 Builder teams, and individuals can join Team AI or Team Human to engage in five rounds of trading competitions in a real market environment, competing for rankings based on PnL% performance. The total prize pool for the event is 600,000 USDT.From September 3 to 6 is the pre-registration phase, where the first 2,000 registrants can share a 100,000 USDT early bird prize pool. Early registrants can complete event tasks in advance to accumulate points.

On September 3, WEEX Exchange announced the launch of the TradFi "Daily Lottery" event, where users can participate in a lottery by trading stocks and gold contracts. The event runs from September 3, 00:00 to September 17, 23:59 (UTC+8).Users who achieve a daily TradFi contract trading volume of 10,000 U are considered to have successfully checked in and can participate in the lottery. During the event, users can earn 1 to 10 lottery chances by reaching specified milestones in cumulative TradFi contract trading volume. Prizes include airdrop vouchers ranging from 20 to 10,000 USDT, as well as VIP3 and VIP5 experience cards.

The prediction market team trading platform ParlayX announced the completion of a $1.25 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by Dreamcraft Ventures.ParlayX stated that the prediction market is designed for single-person, single-account trading, and the platform aims to enable teams to trade in prediction markets together.

Bitwise's latest report shows that the correlation between Bitcoin and gold has risen to a six-year high. Bitwise's Head of Research for Europe, André Dragosch, stated that the last time the correlation reached this level was in 2020, during the period of multiple fiscal and monetary stimulus following the COVID-19 pandemic; meanwhile, the correlation between Bitcoin and the stock market has dropped to a one-year low, suggesting a decoupling between hard assets and the stock market.The report believes that the simultaneous rise of Bitcoin and gold is due to the "substantial intervention in the macro picture" by the U.S. government. Last month, the U.S. Treasury announced it would more than double the scale of government debt buybacks, leading to a weakening of the dollar, and investors flocked back to gold and Bitcoin; in the same week, U.S. public debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time, further undermining market confidence in the dollar. Bitwise stated that investors are no longer entangled in whether to hedge against currency depreciation with gold or Bitcoin, but are holding both simultaneously, and pointed out that "Bitcoin has been priced as a risk asset for its first fifteen years, and if this correlation trend continues, the next fifteen years could be very different."Driven by this, Bitcoin rose again this week, increasing nearly 6% within 24 hours, with the price briefly approaching $81,438.

SWIFT service provider Bottomline announced a collaboration with the blockchain infrastructure project Chainlink to enable over 600 bank clients in its network to access blockchain-based cross-border settlements. Bottomline processes over $16 trillion in payments annually and serves 1,200 financial institutions and 10,000 enterprises.Through this integration, banks can continue to use the ISO 20022 standard to send payment instructions, with Chainlink's infrastructure connecting the instructions to blockchain settlements. Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) supports the transfer of tokenized value across different blockchain networks, while Chainlink's Runtime Environment (CRE) is responsible for payment processes, transaction routing, and operational change coordination.CCIP has been recording mainnet activity since July 2023 and is currently connected to over 60 blockchain networks. Chainlink's Project Pangea has covered more than 50 banking institutions in Europe and South Korea, with participants managing assets totaling over $10 trillion, and the project's goals include achieving T+0 settlement for foreign exchange transactions.

The stablecoin USDG issued by Paxos has officially launched on the Ethereum Layer 2 network Mantle, which has also announced its partnership with the Global Dollar Network. This integration makes USDG one of the first natively minted stablecoins on Mantle, allowing Mantle to enter the USDG reward-sharing system and receive a share of the revenue generated from USDG activities.According to DefiLlama data, USDG currently has a market capitalization of approximately $3.18 billion, making it the seventh largest stablecoin by size. This stablecoin is issued by Paxos and is subject to regulatory frameworks in Singapore and the European Union, with Paxos publishing reserve reports monthly. As a partner, Mantle has joined the Global Dollar Network, which includes over 150 members, with other members including Kraken and Robinhood.Currently, there are multiple stablecoins on Mantle, including Agora's AUSD, Ethena's USDe, and Tether's USDT0. Mantle states that USDG will be used for DeFi applications and institutional capital allocation within its ecosystem. Additionally, Mantle has recently seen significant growth in the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA), with its distributed RWA value reaching $234.2 million as of this Wednesday, a 19% increase over the past 30 days.

Coinbase posted on the X platform stating that the company is working to launch single-stock perpetual contracts in the United States. This week, Coinbase has submitted notification registration documents to the SEC for its derivatives exchange and brokerage and will work closely with the SEC and CFTC to bring more major financial products to the U.S. market.

The cryptocurrency exchange Bybit's payment department Bybit Pay has completed integration with the cryptocurrency payment infrastructure provider Mesh. Users can now directly use their Bybit account balance for payments or account top-ups on supported platforms without needing to withdraw assets or transfer them to other platforms first.Users can directly select Bybit Pay as the payment method during settlement or recharge. For merchants already integrated with Mesh, Bybit Pay can be added as a payment option through existing integrations, reaching the 80 million users claimed by Bybit. Bybit stated that this integration also supports programmable settlement options, allowing merchants to control the payment settlement methods and timing across different markets.Mesh stated that its network is connected to over 300 wallets, exchanges, and financial service platforms. In January of this year, the company completed a $75 million Series C funding round led by Dragonfly, achieving a valuation of $1 billion, with total funding exceeding $200 million, and plans to expand into the Latin American, Asian, and European markets.

WEEX Exchange announces that the WEEX Hackathon Season 2 "AI Wars II: The Era of Algorithms" is officially launched. AI developers, quantitative traders, teams, and individuals can join Team AI or Team Human to engage in a continuous five-round trading competition in a real market environment, competing for rankings and rewards based on PnL% performance. The total prize pool for the event is 600,000 USDT, with multi-layered incentives designed around different participation methods.From September 3 to 6 is the pre-registration phase, where the first 2,000 registrants can share a 100,000 USDT early bird prize pool. Users who register early can complete event tasks in advance to accumulate activity points for the subsequent competition.

The prediction market platform Polymarket officially launches perpetual futures trading, covering cryptocurrencies, stocks, indices, and commodities, with a maximum leverage of 20 times.

Several mainstream overseas AI services encountered issues tonight. Claude has already experienced two rounds of failures this evening. Sonnet 5 started showing errors at 20:37 Beijing time and announced recovery at 20:56; half an hour later, Anthropic reported a larger scope of multi-model error rate increase, affecting Mythos/Fable 5.1, Mythos/Fable 5, as well as Opus 5, 4.8, and 4.6. claude.ai, Claude API, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork are still in a partial failure state.Subsequently, Grok also went down. xAI marked Grok Web as "outage" from 21:30 Beijing time, and recovery has not yet been announced.Now OpenAI has also joined the list of failures. At 22:58 Beijing time, the OpenAI status page added an incident for "increased error rates for ChatGPT and Codex," stating that they are investigating the issue.

Bubblemaps stated that the wallet address that previously targeted the MARS token has sold all the tokens it held, making a profit of approximately 800,000 USD.

Circle President and former CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert stated at a hearing of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee that the GENIUS Act has established a federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins, equivalent to building a "dollar layer" for the internet financial system. He urged Congress to next pass the CLARITY Act to complete the long-term regulatory framework for the "market layer" of digital assets.In addition, Tarbert also urged that the final implementation rules of the GENIUS Act should close the regulatory arbitrage space for offshore stablecoins, requiring intermediary institutions that actually serve U.S. customers to be subject to corresponding restrictions, and ensuring that foreign stablecoin issuers meet truly comparable regulatory standards.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Abraxas Capital purchased 16,554 ETH in spot transactions over the past 12 hours, worth $39.8 million.Its two hedge accounts on Hyperliquid hold a total of 120,178 ETH short positions, valued at $291.4 million.

According to Coinglass data, if ETH falls below $2,307, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $1.098 billion. Conversely, if ETH breaks above $2,533, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $694 million.

According to Coinglass data, if BTC falls below $74,860, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $1.724 billion. Conversely, if BTC breaks above $82,084, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $832 million.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, a new address (0x362...95c45) withdrew 1000 PAXG from OKX in the past 7 hours, worth 4.428 million USD.After the rise in gold prices, the address has an unrealized profit of 36,000 USD.

For the week ending August 29, the number of initial unemployment claims in the United States was 206,000, the highest since the week of August 15, with an expectation of 205,000, and the previous value revised from 203,000 to 204,000.