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The development team of Term Finance, Term Labs, announced that after the governance attack incident, all Term Meta Vaults have been permanently closed, DAO governance rights have been revoked, but the withdrawal channel remains open. In an update on August 23, Term stated that this closure is irreversible and permanently prevents subsequent deposits, but did not disclose the scale of the remaining assets in the vault, only indicating that it will "explore pathways" to address any gaps, and the amount that depositors can recover remains undecided.Blockchain security company PeckShield estimates that the attacker stole approximately 2,843 ETH (worth about $6.87 million at the time) and 1.68 million USDC (which was later exchanged for about 1.68 million DAI), with total losses estimated at around $8.5 million. On-chain records confirm the related transfers: one transaction transferred 2,841.74 WETH to an address labeled "Term Finance Exploiter 1" by Etherscan, while another transaction transferred 1.68 million USDC to an address labeled "Term Finance Exploiter 2".Yearn stated that Term's vault contract uses its V3 architecture, but the attack occurred on Term's custom governance wrapper, which is not applicable to standard Yearn vaults. Term indicated that, according to the current investigation, its underlying protocol and direct lending market were not affected and is working with external security teams for remediation and recovery, but did not provide any compensation commitments or timelines.

According to Decrypt, the cryptocurrency market sentiment has entered the "extreme greed" zone, marking the first time since the end of 2024. The crypto fear and greed index measured by CoinMarketCap reached 81 on Sunday evening and has remained at that level, surpassing the "extreme greed" threshold of 80. A month ago, the index was at 36 (fear), and a week ago it was at 41 (neutral), climbing 45 points in just 30 days, nearly erasing all the cautious sentiment accumulated in the first half of 2026.This is also the fastest sentiment shift for the index this year, and it is the only instance since CoinMarketCap began tracking the index where it jumped directly from "extreme fear" to "extreme greed." Alternative.me has tracked the index for a longer period, and its methodology still places the index in the "greed" range (6% away from extreme greed), but the momentum of the sentiment shift is consistent. The index hit a year-to-date low of 5 on February 5, deeply entrenched in "extreme fear," and from that bottom to this week's 81 points, the market has completed a round trip from total capitulation to extreme greed in six months.This sentiment reversal coincides with Bitcoin's performance. Bitcoin rose about 24% in a week, outperforming the overall crypto market, with its share of total market capitalization continuing to rise. The rally began last Wednesday when the U.S. Treasury announced it would double the size of long-term bond repurchases from $2 billion to $4 billion per transaction, weakening the dollar and prompting investors to view Bitcoin as an inflation hedge. After Bitcoin broke through $70,000, short sellers were forced to cover, liquidating over $4 billion in crypto shorts within two to three days;

Franklin Templeton portfolio manager Sara Alagi stated that Nvidia investors are focused not only on the company's earnings report "exceeding expectations," but also on the specific details of the company's capital deployment and spending plans. She pointed out that Nvidia's expected price-to-earnings ratio for the next 12 months is about 21 times, and the market has priced in expectations of slowing growth. Nvidia needs to demonstrate earnings growth to prove that its free cash flow can be used for investments and stock buybacks.

RockawayX manages approximately $2 billion in assets and is seeking to raise $150 million for a new liquidity opportunity fund. RockawayX previously acquired the crypto hedge fund Relayer Capital. Relayer Capital founder and former CoinFund partner Austin Barack will continue to serve at RockawayX and will be responsible for managing the fund.The fund will focus on investing in undervalued tokens and crypto-related stocks. Recently, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana have all seen increases of over 20% in the past week. Meanwhile, crypto venture capital firms such as Paradigm and Framework Ventures are incorporating fields like AI and robotics into their investment strategies.

The first revenue from the Hyperliquid AQAv2 mechanism is expected to enter the Hyperliquid Assistance Fund on October 3, with the market anticipating that the initial fund size could reach approximately $20 million, which will be used to repurchase HYPE. AQAv2 (Aligned Quote Asset v2) is a stablecoin mechanism announced by Hyperliquid in May of this year, allowing stablecoins, including USDC, that are not exclusively issued by Hyperliquid to qualify as "Aligned."According to public information, AQAv2 will return most of the stablecoin revenue to the Hyperliquid ecosystem, with 90% of the revenue allocated to the relevant mechanisms, and subsequently 100% used for the repurchase and destruction of HYPE tokens. Coinbase has been designated as the fund deployment party, while Circle is responsible for the technical deployment, and both parties will also stake HYPE to participate in the mechanism. Analysts expect that this mechanism could generate an additional repurchase pressure of approximately $135 million to $160 million in HYPE annually.

The Bitcoin treasury company Strategy currently has a Bitcoin holding valued at $66.7 billion, with annual obligations such as preferred stock dividends and interest amounting to approximately $1.76 billion. Regime Intelligence analysis shows that the company's 840,447 Bitcoins correspond to about $22 billion in debt and preferred claims, making continuous access to capital markets for financing the basis for its performance.Stress tests indicate that the Bitcoin price would need to drop by about 96% for Strategy's Bitcoin holdings and reserves to be insufficient to cover convertible bonds; its debt is not traditional Bitcoin collateral margin loans, and there is no BTC margin call mechanism triggered by price declines. Report author Sherif Saad stated that Strategy needs to maintain a financing cycle to cover annual debt and preferred stock expenses, with cash reserves currently covering about 2.6 times the related annual expenses. If the financing environment worsens, the company may rely more on reserves and selling Bitcoin to fulfill its obligations.Since May, Strategy has sold Bitcoin four times, with the most recent sale of 1,690 Bitcoins, with the proceeds used to pay preferred stock dividends, buy back shares, and increase dollar reserves. CEO Phong Le stated earlier this month that the amount of Bitcoin purchased by the company this year is about 25 times the amount sold, and plans to resume purchases later this year.

According to Cointelegraph, the cryptocurrency exchange MEXC has chosen Bybit EU, which has obtained MiCAR authorization, as the recommended alternative platform for Dutch users before exiting the Dutch market. MEXC is preparing to cease its related services in the Netherlands and guide local users to migrate to compliant exchanges.Bybit EU has obtained authorization under the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) to provide compliant services in the relevant jurisdictions. This move aims to help Dutch users continue to access trading services after MEXC's exit while complying with local regulatory requirements.

The Solana ecosystem DeFi protocol Kamino announced the launch of Kamino Fixed Rates, positioned as an on-chain fixed-term, fixed-rate credit architecture solution. The product is now live in a private testing version, with a public version planned for release in the third quarter of 2026.According to the introduction, Kamino Fixed Rates aims to provide a lending framework for the on-chain credit market with both the term and interest rate locked in advance. Kamino also released a related light paper for the market to review the product design and mechanism description.

SpaceX announced that it will build a new Starship launch site in southern Louisiana, USA.

AI company Anthropic recently disclosed to investors that it expects its future potential revenue opportunities to exceed $300 trillion.

According to The Block, Galaxy has launched a portfolio credit product backed by crypto assets, allowing eligible GalaxyOne clients to borrow cash using BTC, ETH, and SOL as collateral without selling their holdings.This revolving credit line uses a combination of qualified assets as collateral, enabling clients to obtain liquidity for daily expenses or investment needs while continuing to hold their crypto assets.

According to Ibtimes, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk stated that the company is collaborating with NVIDIA to advance the launch of the first satellites equipped with AI computing capabilities to the fourth quarter of 2027, previously targeted for 2028.Musk mentioned that SpaceX and NVIDIA have designed the Vera Rubin NVL72 system optimized for the space environment, which is planned to be launched into orbit in the fourth quarter of 2027 and will achieve large-scale deployment in 2028. SpaceX will also utilize NVIDIA processors to provide orchestration, code execution, and data processing capabilities for the next generation of Agentic AI.Following the announcement, SpaceX's stock price strengthened, rising about 2.9% during trading to $138.92.Meanwhile, SpaceX is re-advancing its small modular nuclear reactor project, mPower. As the power demand for AI data centers rapidly increases, the company is seeking to provide stable, low-carbon, round-the-clock power through solutions such as small modular nuclear reactors.

According to official news, Mantle Vault has officially expanded from CeFi to DeFi, collaborating with Grove, CIAN, and Fluxion to launch a non-custodial yield vault aimed at stablecoin holders. Users can deposit USDC/USDT into Mantle to obtain institutional-level floating yields through the underlying strategy of sUSDS, along with incentives of Fluxion Points and 5.14 million GROVE tokens (with a target APY of up to 6.5%).The vault adopts a conservative non-leveraged structure, with strategies built by CIAN, capital base provided by Grove's Sky Savings Rate, and liquidity entry managed by Fluxion. Previously, Mantle Vault's AUM on Bybit had exceeded $200 million, and Mantle RWA TVL increased from $22 million to $257 million within the year, with DeFi TVL surpassing $755 million.Mantle stated that by expanding into the DeFi space through Mantle Vault, Mantle and its collaborators are committed to enabling all stablecoin holders to access institutional-level yields without borders, free from geographical restrictions and without the need for intermediary access, and all these components can be combined within Mantle's open financial network.

Canada imposes tariffs of 15% to 50% on approximately $20 billion worth of U.S. goods; Canada will raise tariffs on U.S. steel products from 25% to 50%.The Canadian government stated that starting from September 8, it will impose counter-tariffs of 15%, 25%, or 50% on approximately 700 products.

NVIDIA (NVDA.O) announced that the Jetson Orin Nano 2 module and kit are expected to be launched in the first half of 2027.

Although Nvidia's upcoming earnings report and Federal Reserve Chairman Waller's speech at the Jackson Hole annual meeting are the main events of interest for investors this week, traders in the stock derivatives market have already begun preparing for potential volatility increases around the November U.S. midterm elections.Traders focused on volatility in the futures market linked to the VIX index have noted signs indicating that demand for hedging S&P 500 index volatility has increased before and after the elections. VIX futures expiring in September are currently trading at around 17.4, but October contracts have risen to 19, and November contracts have further increased to 19.7.Matthew Thompson, co-portfolio manager at Little Harbor Advisors, stated, "The U.S. elections are approaching, and you are entering a time window where the elections will impact the VIX. You can already see this 'backwardation' in the term structure of VIX futures."A study by analysts at the Chicago Board Options Exchange Global Markets shows that since 1945, in 80% of midterm election years, actual volatility has been higher than the previous year, with an average increase of 3.5 volatility points. In years when both the White House and Congress are controlled by the same party, actual volatility increases by an average of 6 volatility points.

According to Decrypt, THORChain announced the launch of version 3.2, which adds native cross-chain exchange support for Monero (XMR) and Zcash (ZEC). Users can directly exchange XMR and ZEC for BTC, ETH, and stablecoins without the need to wrap assets, register centralized exchange accounts, or relinquish asset custody.This upgrade also introduces Protocol Owned Liquidity (POL) and Stable Reserve, and restores support for Solana, Base, and BNB. Among them, Stable Reserve supports zero liquidity fee exchanges between stablecoins. This upgrade is expected to provide a new non-custodial trading path for users facing liquidity channel shrinkage due to centralized exchanges delisting or restricting XMR.

According to a report by Decrypt, security company Socket released research results linking 77 Firefox extensions to what it calls a "wallet theft factory," with 40 confirmed to have malicious behavior.These extensions disguise themselves as Web3 products like OKX, Rabby Wallet, and TronLink, tricking users into importing wallets through fake wallet interfaces or using modified real wallet code to steal mnemonic phrases and private keys as users input them. Mozilla's signature records show that this activity lasted from March 9 to August 3, and multiple extensions were still online at the time of Socket's report.About half of the extensions displayed realistic wallet interfaces and prompted users to import existing wallets, thereby intercepting the inputted mnemonic phrases or private keys; another 13 were modified versions of Rabby that sent account data stored in wallets to external servers while functioning normally; and 5 specifically collected saved credentials and clipboard content.Additionally, 37 extensions disguised themselves as password generators, dark mode toggles, VPNs, currency converters, and note-taking tools, but actually ran sports score applications sharing the same hardcoded credentials. Nine confirmed malicious extensions were initially released as score applications for sports like football and basketball, with subsequent updates replacing them with wallet theft code.Socket named this activity the "wallet theft factory," but cautioned that it has not confirmed whether all extensions are controlled by the same operator. The Socket team stated that any user who has entered mnemonic phrases or private keys into these extensions should consider it a "permanent leak" and immediately transfer funds to a new wallet, as uninstalling the extensions cannot undo the mnemonic phrases sent elsewhere.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, 152,951,179 USDC from the USDC Treasury on the Solana chain has been burned, with an estimated value of approximately 152,979,858 USD.

According to Bloomberg, AI security startup Alice announced the completion of a $140 million financing round, led by the private equity firm Apax Partners through its fund Apax Digital, with investments from cybersecurity company SentinelOne and Samsung Electronics. After this round of financing, the company's valuation is close to $1 billion.Alice primarily provides security protection for AI models, helping enterprises reduce the risks of AI systems being abused, attacked, and exhibiting abnormal behavior. Currently, the company has partnered with leading AI industry firms including Anthropic and Google.