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According to TheEnergyMag, Argo Blockchain's CEO Justin Nolan has stepped down on August 30. Under the terms of the agreement, Justin Nolan will receive a one-time cash compensation of $250,000, which will be subject to standard tax withholding. The agreement will officially take effect after the seven-day period expires and the right of rescission has not been exercised.During the board's search for a successor, the current management team will be responsible for daily operations under the supervision of the board. The company is specifically seeking candidates with experience in capital raising and operational execution in the data center and artificial intelligence technology sectors.

The venture capital firm a16z crypto published an article stating that blockchain throughput has increased more than 100 times in five years, with some production systems now capable of processing tens of thousands of transactions per second. The article indicates that throughput alone cannot explain when transactions will settle; financial markets require predictability, including guarantees or censorship resistance, as well as ordering guarantees, to ensure transactions settle on time and operate under rules that participants can understand in advance.The article claims that resilience means no single operator controls access. a16z researchers introduced the concept of Strong Chain Quality, reserving block space to allow effective transactions to enter through multiple routes. Ordering rules must be clear, such as priority fees or venue rules, to avoid MEV and achieve fair price time priority. Additionally, privacy must be achieved through cryptography before execution, hiding intent until it is included in the final transaction, allowing the market to be auditable without real-time previews of unexecuted orders.

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.

On-chain data shows that at 18:13 Beijing time, USDC Treasury minted an additional 250 million USDC on the Solana network.

According to Bitcoin News, the Bitcoin mining pool OCEAN has officially stopped supporting the BIP-110 fork chain, citing limited mining activity and the transition to the Blake2b proof-of-work mechanism. OCEAN stated that it will not adopt or support the BIP-110 hard fork and will not continue to pay BIP-110 block rewards.The BIP-110 chain stalled after the user-activated soft fork attempt failed on August 8, and the mining rewards post-fork became unusable due to not reaching 100 confirmations. OCEAN stated that these rewards have been permanently frozen at BIP-110 block 961,639. Miners hoping to continue supporting BIP-110 have been directed to CONVOY Mining, which plans to support the Blake2b hard fork and continue the BIP-110 share record.

According to SolanaFloor, the supply of tokenized equity on the Solana chain has reached a historic high, with the scale of tokenized equity deposited in lending protocols also hitting a new high of $60 million. $NVDAx and $SPYx rank at the top by the number of holders.

Data shows that in the past month, the USDT supply on the Tron chain increased by 4 billion dollars to 94.27 billion dollars, surpassing the USDT supply on Ethereum.

On-chain data shows that USDC Treasury has minted 250 million USDC on the Solana network.

The security company Defimon issued an alert stating that a governance takeover attack against YAM Finance has been detected. After self-delegating approximately 504,000 YAM (about 3.3% of the total supply, slightly above the legal voting threshold), the attacker submitted YamGovernorAlpha proposal #45, which is described as empty ("0x"), with the sole action being to call the setPendingAdmin method of the YAM Timelock contract, pointing to the attacker's address.It has been disclosed that if the proposal is voted through and executed, the attacker will become the pendingAdmin, and then can fully control the Timelock through acceptAdmin, which includes management rights over all YAM protocol contracts and the DAO treasury, involving a risk amount of approximately $337,000. As the protocol is currently in a dormant state, Defimon Alerts reminds users holding YAM to vote against the proposal before block height 25897343 (about 34 hours remaining).

DeFiprime founder Nick Sawinyh analyzed that the Meme coin issuance platform on the Robinhood Chain is massively using tokenized stocks as paired assets. As of September 1, approximately 17.2% of the on-chain supply of 19 high liquidity Robinhood stock tokens is locked in 432 pools that use stock tokens as quoted assets, contributing 31.3% of the DEX trading volume of related stock tokens in the past 24 hours. The four issuance platforms Long, Bankr, Flap, and PAIR have set stock-paired Meme coins as default products.Among them, the AI/NVDA pool holds 8,783 NVDA (accounting for 16.2% of the total on-chain tokenized NVDA), with a 24-hour trading volume of about $6.2 million; the BONER/HIMS pool holds 37,172 HIMS (accounting for 50.4% of the total HIMS on the chain), with a trading volume of about $12.5 million. This mechanism has led to significant premiums for some tokenized stocks over the weekend (when issuers cannot issue more), with HIMS once trading at a premium of 112% compared to the NYSE closing price. The TVL of the Robinhood Chain has nearly doubled since August 1 to $740 million, with on-chain DEX daily trading volume reaching $1.49 billion on August 31. The analysis points out that 9 stock tokens have an on-chain circulating market value of less than $1.5 million, and a single Meme coin pool can absorb a large proportion of the circulating supply. This analysis is based on specific block snapshot data, with prices and pool balances changing rapidly.

According to token unlocking data from the Crypto asset data platform RootData, Avantis (AVNT) will unlock approximately 18.72 million tokens at 14:00 Beijing time on September 9, worth about 1.89 million USD.

According to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Movement (MOVE) will unlock approximately 17.674 million tokens at 11:00 AM Beijing time on September 9, worth about 1.49 million USD.

According to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Mango Network (MGO) will unlock approximately 19.312 million tokens at 9:00 AM Beijing time on September 9, worth about 1.24 million USD.

According to the token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, STEPN (GMT) will unlock approximately 55.31 million tokens at 8:00 AM Beijing time on September 9, valued at about 2.43 million USD.

According to Cointelegraph, the U.S. Department of Commerce has officially adopted Chainlink to publish core macroeconomic data on-chain, covering key indicators such as actual GDP, PCE price index, and real final sales of private domestic purchasers, marking the first deep integration of traditional government data with blockchain infrastructure.

Gate Europe CEO Dr. Giovanni Cunti posted on LinkedIn that with the rapid proliferation of on-chain financial activities, the technological paradigm of blockchain is expanding from a singular digital asset to the underlying infrastructure of financial markets. In core scenarios such as clearing and settlement, process automation, and cross-market connectivity, blockchain can integrate transaction data into a unified shared ledger and endow it with programmable features, significantly reducing the connection costs between systems and redundant operational processes.Dr. Giovanni Cunti emphasized that the potential of blockchain is by no means limited to the assets themselves. As technology becomes deeply intertwined with the financial system, its empowerment in clearing, automation, and connectivity will drive the construction of a more efficient and closely-knit global financial ecosystem. In the face of investors' growing demand for diverse asset classes and cross-border allocations, financial infrastructure must possess stronger cross-market interoperability. Blockchain can achieve efficient collaboration among market participants and business processes by sharing data and logical code while being compatible with existing financial facilities.He also pointed out that Europe's increasingly clear regulatory framework for digital assets provides solid support for the integration of blockchain into the mainstream financial system. Relying on the MiCA and dual licensing system for payment institutions (PI), Gate Europe will continue to explore the pathways for blockchain to empower real financial activities, creating more compliant and inclusive digital asset services for the European market.

The first on-chain game launched by FUNVERSE, FUN LONGINUS, will officially go live on the Anubis Chain mainnet on September 1, 2026, at 10:00 UTC (UTC+8 18:00). FUN LONGINUS originates from a hackathon and is an Eastern martial arts chain game designed for the Anubis GameFi ecosystem. It constructs on-chain gameplay around martial arts elements such as the Jianghu, arena, mentorship, Jiazi salary, leader's order, and Huaze artifacts, and is structured competitively based on the twenty-four solar terms.Each match features 24 different addresses participating together, with each player entering the arena using fLGNS. The execution of the match, determination of results, and final settlement are all completed by smart contracts, ultimately producing one leader. Match records, reward distribution, mentorship relationships, and players' Jianghu resumes are all stored on-chain. FUN LONGINUS completed the collective forging of heroes on August 18, 2026, and based on the market price at the time of publication, this collective forging is valued at over 1.4 million USD. The launch of the mainnet marks the game's transition from the hackathon prototype, public testing, and collective forging phase to the official on-chain game operation phase.

The London Stock Exchange (LSEG) and Payward, the parent company of the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, announced a partnership to bring stocks of the largest listed companies in the UK onto the blockchain. In the coming weeks, the stocks of the top 100 companies listed on the LSE will be available on Payward's xStocks tokenized stock framework. These xStocks are tokens that correspond one-to-one with the underlying stocks, allowing for 24/7 trading on centralized exchanges, self-custody wallets, and on-chain applications.This initiative continues the rapidly expanding framework of Payward. Over the past year, the cumulative trading volume of xStocks has exceeded $40 billion, with nearly $20 billion settled on-chain, and more than 200,000 product holders. Through the blockchain channel, UK-listed stocks will be able to reach investor groups in over 110 countries, although xStocks are currently not available to domestic UK investors.Subject to regulatory approval, the LSE plans to list and support xStocks trading on its newly launched 24-hour trading platform, LSE 24, and will gradually cover tokenized stocks and more asset classes in the US, EU, UK, and Hong Kong. Both parties also stated that they will explore stock tokens issued natively by the LSE, allowing LSE members to issue and service stocks directly on-chain, with the same full interchangeability and rights as traditional stocks. Payward Co-CEO Arjun Sethi stated that for years, people have assumed that crypto and traditional finance must collide and one side would lose, but that has never been the real story;

The Cronos network has resumed and restarted block production after pausing operations to protect users from the vulnerabilities of the Tectonic protocol. A complete post-incident analysis report will be released soon.