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Multi-signature wallet Safe announced that it will launch Safe Pro on October 6. Teams can now apply to become early partners to help shape the product.Safe Pro offers enterprise-level management, additional security features, audit history, and reporting capabilities for all Safe accounts operated by the organization, along with guided onboarding and professional support, while self-custody remains unchanged.Before the launch, Safe has opened the Safe Pro early partner program to teams that wish to collaborate directly. The application link can be found in their official post.

Douyin is currently conducting an internal test of the AI Workshop, aimed at ordinary creators and developers, providing a complete link from AI application building, debugging, and operation to platform distribution, deeply integrating with Douyin's internal traffic system. The AI development framework, interface capabilities, and cloud storage services are all built into the creator's backend.The Douyin App's recommendation page has added a new content form interest card, used to showcase AI applications created in the AI Workshop. Users can directly interact with these cards while browsing the recommendation page, without needing to switch to a mini-program or leave the main app, allowing them to complete Q&A queries, fun interactions, and light tool experiences within the information flow. The interest card relies on Douyin's personalized recommendation distribution, supporting custom gameplay and styles.Creators who do not understand coding can use natural language to describe their ideas for building, while technically skilled developers can modify underlying files for deep customization. Debugging, real-device preview, and publishing can all be completed in the same environment. The produced works can be directly converted into interest cards for placement in the recommendation stream. This product is currently in the invitation-only internal testing phase.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has publicly released its request for comments regarding "Novel ETFs," which may hold crypto assets or adopt unconventional strategies. The disagreement centers on whether the filing documents should remain public before the fund begins trading and how quickly the review process should be. Crypto asset management firm Grayscale and the crypto policy organization Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI) support establishing an optional confidential filing period to reduce competitors from submitting imitation documents.Charles Schwab opposes complete confidentiality and suggests that filing documents should be made public at least 75 days in advance. Grayscale requests that the SEC respond within 45 days, while CCI argues that the confidentiality process should not extend the automatic effectiveness or review period. Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (A16z) supports shortening the review time but emphasizes that the rigor of the review should not be reduced; trading firm Jane Street believes that accelerating the process could lead to a decline in product quality, competitiveness, and liquidity.Currently, there are 174 ETFs related to crypto assets in the U.S., with BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) managing approximately $61 billion in assets, accounting for about 38% of the total assets of related ETFs. The SEC will decide whether to adjust the confidentiality arrangements for filings and the speed of the review.

Predict.fun posted on platform X that it has launched the Predict Developer Dashboard, a self-service portal for creating applications, generating keys, and managing usage and rate limits. Through this interface, users can manually request higher usage-based tiers and import existing keys.Predict.fun has also implemented "trade burst" limits to restrict the number of calls for creating and canceling orders per second. New applications have this limit enabled by default, while existing applications will have this limit applied the next time the user requests rate limits.

According to Bitcoin.com, Fomo is a social crypto trading application aimed at Robinhood Chain and other networks. On August 21, it entered the top five financial apps in the U.S., briefly rising to third place, surpassing Cash App and the prediction market Kalshi, and is currently in the top 15.Fomo was founded by Paul Erlanger and Se Yong Park and launched its public beta in May 2025. In November 2025, it completed a $17 million Series A funding round led by Benchmark, with participation from 140 angel investors; it subsequently completed a $75 million Series B funding round, with a total disclosed equity financing of approximately $94 million.Fomo supports Solana, Base, BNB Chain, Monad, and Robinhood Chain, allowing users to view real-time trades of their followed entities, track leaderboards, and copy trading signals, with funds able to be deposited instantly via Apple Pay. It has accumulated over 1 million installs on Google Play, with more than 600,000 users and a trading volume exceeding $4 billion.

Investor Joanna Lichter published a post outlining the working hypothesis of value accumulation in the robotics field, which she believes has a barbell structure: one end consists of horizontal robotic foundation models (RFM) and infrastructure platforms that achieve compound growth through data, computing power, and ecosystems; the other end consists of category-leading application companies that capture value by transforming intelligence into useful work. The middle layer lacks attractiveness, including interchangeable models, easily replicable tools, and deployments lacking software leverage.She pointed out that, unlike large language models, robotics faces distribution costs, scarce physical data, real-time computing power limitations, and security constraints, presenting a gated diffusion rather than immediate large-scale adoption. If deployment can form a learning feedback loop, reducing the manpower required per robot and accumulating reusable data and operational knowledge, it can become a moat. Vertical entry points can accelerate this path, allowing value to ultimately accumulate at both ends of the technology stack.

On August 25, CITIC Construction Investment Research reported that on August 21, OpenAI reduced the price of GPT-5.6 SolAPI by over 20%, further lowering the cost of high-performance model calls, which is expected to drive growth in high Token scenarios such as Agent and code generation, continuously boosting demand for inference-side computing power.Alibaba's latest quarterly AI Cloud and Compute Services revenue was approximately 48.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 45%. Revenue from AI-related products has seen triple-digit growth for 12 consecutive quarters, confirming that AI demand is accelerating towards commercialization. We remain optimistic about the opportunities in the industrial chain driven by the commercialization of large models and the increase in computing power demand, including optical modules, servers, liquid cooling, and cloud computing.

Morgan Stanley's equity research team conducted an annual survey of over 500 North American summer interns, most of whom are under the age of 21. More than a quarter of the interns reported using prediction market applications in the past year, with Kalshi and Polymarket being the most common choices; among them, 55% of users utilized multiple betting applications.Prediction markets are facing increased scrutiny in the United States, with several states taking legal or regulatory actions against related platforms. Morgan Stanley's employee code of conduct covers trading and investment matters, including prediction markets, but insiders did not disclose further details. Another national survey indicated that 21% of American adult respondents have used prediction market platforms, with the percentage rising to 37% among the 18 to 34 age group.Regarding AI, 68% of interns use AI tools daily, up from 35% last year and 14% in 2024; about 70% are personally subscribing to paid AI tools, an increase from 52% last summer. Meanwhile, 61% of respondents are concerned that AI will replace jobs in finance, and 74% worry about job displacement in other industries. Over 60% are interested in using humanoid robots at home, and 10% indicated they might become early adopters.

According to The Block, TRM Labs' latest report shows that the application of artificial intelligence in crypto crime has increased by 40% year-on-year over the past year, primarily driven by fraud activities. The report states that crypto hackers are increasingly using artificial intelligence for vulnerability analysis, social engineering attacks, and penetration.In the first half of 2026, there were 201 digital asset hacking incidents, a record high, with approximately 75% of the losses stemming from 4% of the incidents. North Korea-related activities caused about $600 million in losses, accounting for 61% of the losses in the first half of the year. TRM Labs stated that artificial intelligence has not created new types of crime but has significantly lowered the barriers to crime and expanded the scale of attacks.

Binance launches the Agent OS developer platform, aimed at connecting artificial intelligence applications to its trading, market data, wallet, payment, and on-chain functionalities.The platform integrates the Binance API, Binance Wallet Proxy Center, programmable payment tool Binance x402, Skill Hub, and supports model context protocols. Users can authorize proxies to access market data, view account information, and execute restricted trades through compatible tools.

Base officially announced that its accelerator program Base Batches 004 is now open for applications, targeting the Fall 2026 batch, with a deadline of September 9. The program is jointly operated by Base and the Base Ecosystem Fund, aiming to help early teams building on Base to launch, fundraise, and achieve growth. Selected teams will receive a $100,000 investment offer from the Base Ecosystem Fund (subject to due diligence) and participate in an 8-week hands-on support program to refine their product and narrative, culminating in a Demo Day in November in New York to present to selected investors.Applicant teams must meet the following criteria: be in the early stage (from having a founder-market fit product to post-MVP), be in the pre-seed stage without completing a formal seed round, prefer Base as their primary network, and focus on driving on-chain economic development, covering areas such as transactions, payments, smart contracts, or financing. Selected teams will also receive exclusive advisor guidance, weekly support, cross-domain expert resources, content exposure, and opportunities to showcase to investors. Base stated that applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and encourages early submission, with the application address being base.org/batches.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reviewing the rule change application submitted by Cboe BZX Exchange, involving six leveraged commodity ETFs that track the benchmark's daily performance by three times. The initial review period set by the SEC is 45 days after publication in the Federal Register.Volatility Shares LLC is the sponsor of the relevant funds, which include 3x Gold, Silver, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crude Oil, and Natural Gas ETFs, all intended to operate under a commodity pool and not classified as investment companies. Among them, the Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs will primarily invest in near-month and next-month futures contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), rather than directly holding Bitcoin or Ethereum, and will allocate cash and cash equivalents as collateral or margin.Before the relevant products are listed, the SEC must approve the exchange rule changes, and the trust's Form S-1 registration statement must also become effective. Each fund must have at least 100,000 shares at the time of listing, and authorized participants can subscribe or redeem cash at a rate of 1,000 shares per 10,000 shares.

Bitcoin News posted on platform X that the OCC stated that companies engaged in legally permitted activities such as digital assets and emerging technologies should have a pathway to apply to become a national bank. OCC Comptroller of the Currency Jonathan Gould stated that the regulatory agency had effectively hindered new bank applications for over a decade, but that period has now ended.The OCC has received 40 new bank applications in the past 18 months and stated that many complete applications have decisions made within 120 days.

According to the SEC page, Grayscale has submitted 3 Form RWs, withdrawing the S-1 registration statements for Grayscale Cardano Trust ETF, Grayscale Hedera Trust ETF, and Grayscale Polkadot Trust ETF.

Founder of 1confirmation, Nick Tomaino, disclosed data indicating that in the past month, the Polymarket website received 43.1 million visits (according to Similarweb data), surpassing the combined total of FanDuel, DraftKings, and Kalshi, and has become one of the most visited fintech applications globally.Nick Tomaino believes that the core reason for Polymarket's growth is not marketing investment, but rather its value as a "source of information," as users seek to better understand the real world through prediction markets.Polymarket currently dominates the on-chain prediction market space, with the transparency and global accessibility provided by its on-chain architecture being key to achieving the long-term goal of "better information and more truth." However, the Polymarket application in the U.S. is still in its early stages, but the product and business model are gradually maturing and beginning to enter an accelerated execution phase.

According to Jinshi reports, the head of application research at OpenAI stated that GPT-5.6 Luna should have more applications, considering the rapid progress of the model, its cost is ridiculously low, and its speed is also very fast.

Gate gStocks' tokenized securities service has undergone a comprehensive upgrade, officially launching five major financial functions: collateralized borrowing, idle asset management, unified accounts, leveraged trading, and stock dividends, further expanding the integrated application scenarios of stock assets from trading, yield management to liquidity management.Currently, gStocks supports over 58 global tokenized securities, covering various assets such as U.S. stocks, Korean stocks, unlisted equity, and ETFs, and employs a 1:1 native stock reserve mechanism to provide users with a transparent and trustworthy asset holding experience. At the same time, gStocks supports 24/7 trading with a minimum investment of 1 USDT, lowering the participation threshold. After this functional upgrade, users can release liquidity through collateralized borrowing without having to sell their held gStocks assets; idle stock assets can also participate in yield management through idle asset management. In addition, gStocks has deeply integrated into the Gate unified account system, supporting tokenized stock assets as trading collateral and providing features such as leveraged trading, long and short strategies, and stock dividends, further enhancing asset utilization efficiency.

Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas stated that the alternative asset management firm Subversive Capital has submitted applications for two actively managed prediction market ETFs, including the Subversive Prediction ETF and the Subversive All Season Sports ETF.The related funds are expected to place bets on approximately 30 to 50 events across different prediction markets, covering areas such as macroeconomics, politics, weather, and sports events. Balchunas described it as the "degen Peter Lynch."