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The U.S. Central Command stated that 50,000 stationed U.S. troops are executing a maritime blockade against Iran, and the U.S. military is ensuring the free passage of commercial navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.

According to official news, the Ethena Foundation announced four adjustments to the Ethena ecosystem, including repurchasing locked tokens held by early investors, further aligning the value of tokens with equity, launching a governance proposal for income to repurchase ENA, and canceling future monthly unlocks for VC investors.The Ethena Foundation stated that it has completed the acquisition of all locked ENA tokens from some major seed round investors who had sold ENA in the past 9 months. Regarding the alignment of token and equity value, the Ethena Foundation and Ethena Labs have reached a "Master Framework Agreement," which stipulates that the intellectual property and value generated by the agreement will exclusively belong to the foundation and be governed by ENA holders, while equity investors in Labs entities will no longer enjoy residual cash flow.In addition, the governance proposal for income to repurchase ENA has been launched. According to the proposal, the net income generated by all business lines under the Ethena brand will be used for programmatic repurchase of ENA, and the proposal has been approved by the Risk Committee. The Ethena Foundation also stated that it has reached an agreement with major investors to eliminate the selling pressure caused by future monthly unlocks for VC investors by releasing unallocated tokens. Team tokens will still remain locked according to the original allocation plan.

According to reports from Saudi Arabian television, a senior Iranian official stated that Iran is unable to import enough fuel to compensate for domestic production shortfalls due to the blockade by the U.S. Navy.

According to the token unlock data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Cheelee (CHEEL) will unlock approximately 6.42 million tokens at 8:00 AM Beijing time on September 3, worth about 2.22 million USD.

Blockstream has released a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) proposing the SHRINCS post-quantum signature scheme. SHRINCS is a hash-based post-quantum signature scheme with a minimum size of 548 bytes, approximately 9 times larger than the existing Schnorr signatures, but much smaller than the NIST-approved ML-DSA and SPHINCS+ schemes. The scheme has completed production environment testing on the Liquid sidechain and includes a copy of the Bitcoin white paper.The scheme also has limitations. The BIP warns that security proofs are still pending, and the scheme is stateful, requiring the storage of used keys for each signature, which increases the signature size by 16 bytes with each use. In the event of device loss, approximately 5777 bytes are needed for a stateless fallback transaction recovery. Blockstream estimates that Bitcoin can maintain a speed of about 3 TPS after adopting SHRINCS, which can be increased to 6.7 TPS when combined with ZK proof aggregation.

The bankers' associations from 39 states in the United States have jointly formed the BankChain alliance, planning to build an industry-owned blockchain network for tokenized deposits, stablecoins, smart payments, and automated settlements, with the goal of launching in 2027. The alliance is currently still selecting technical partners and has not yet become an operational payment network.The BankChain alliance states that the 39 member associations represent 3,283 banks, with total assets of $21.8 trillion. The board of the alliance is chaired by Kathy Kraninger, president and CEO of the Florida Bankers Association. Howard Headlee, president of the Utah Bankers Association, stated that governance is a differentiated advantage, and BankChain aims to allow member banks to "equally access a network owned by them and have their voices heard."The area that BankChain is entering has a bank tokenization deposit project led by The Clearing House, which was announced in June and aims to facilitate on-chain clearing and settlement of tokenized commercial bank money, connecting the RTP and CHIPS payment networks. In contrast, BankChain's product range is broader, covering stablecoins and automated settlements, but it is still in the early stages and needs to first identify technology suppliers and convert association-level support into commitments from member banks.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the Fireblocks custody wallet (9Ryc...fCxk) transferred 10 million USD1 to Binance again 13 minutes ago, with a total of 66 million USD1 transferred to Binance over the past week.

According to Cointelegraph, digital asset infrastructure provider Taurus has integrated its tokenization and custody platform with Swift's blockchain-based ledger. Taurus stated in the announcement that its clients can make payments on this ledger using bank-issued tokenized deposits through the existing digital asset infrastructure.The first batch of client integrations is expected to go live in a few days, with the first distributed ledger transactions completed through the Taurus platform anticipated to occur within weeks. Swift announced in July this year that the ledger is available for preliminary use, with 17 banks from six continents preparing to pilot real-time transactions using tokenized deposits.Previously, Standard Chartered Bank and HSBC completed the first real-time cross-border transaction through this ledger, connecting their respective independent tokenized deposit systems. Swift's ledger acts as a coordinating layer, supporting 24/7 cross-border payments for tokenized deposits on participating banks' balance sheets and coordinating inter-institutional transfers through existing mechanisms (including real-time gross settlement systems) before final settlement.

According to the token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, DoubleZero (2Z) will unlock approximately 135.41 million tokens at 1:00 PM Beijing time on September 2, worth about 7.64 million USD.

According to token unlocking data from the Crypto asset data platform RootData, Quack AI (Q) will unlock approximately 24.86 million tokens at 0:00 on September 2nd, Beijing time, worth about 5.45 million USD.

According to the token unlock data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Somnia (SOMI) will unlock approximately 19.97 million tokens at 0:00 on September 2nd, Beijing time, worth about 2.18 million USD.

According to token unlock data from the Crypto asset data platform RootData, Ethena (ENA) will unlock approximately 11.095 million tokens at 0:00 on September 2nd, Beijing time, worth about 16 million USD.

According to the token unlock data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Zama (ZAMA) will unlock approximately 27,958,000 tokens at 0:00 on September 2nd, Beijing time, worth about 14.8 million USD.

The decentralized perpetual contract protocol Lighter announced that its average block proof time has decreased from about 5.3 minutes to about 1 minute over the past month. This progress was achieved through two independent optimizations launched on July 23 and August 23. Lighter can now complete block verification faster, thereby increasing processing capacity, reducing infrastructure costs, and creating space for further expansion.The first optimization is the Heavy/Light decomposition. This solution splits the transaction circuit into light circuits and heavy circuits, allowing simple quote updates, which account for the vast majority of transactions, to only pay for light constraints, thus halving the proof time. The second optimization comes from the Prover backend optimization brought about by the proof competition held in collaboration with Eigen Labs, which again halves the proof time under the same circuit conditions. The first batch of optimizations went live on August 23, with more batches still in progress. Additionally, on August 10, all Schnorr signature verifications were incorporated into a single Plonky3 proof for each block, resulting in approximately a 20% improvement.The above optimizations are orthogonal and their effects are cumulative. The remaining competition optimizations are expected to bring about an additional 2x improvement, potentially reaching a total of about 10x compared to mid-July. Currently, Lighter's sustained processing capacity has exceeded historical peak loads, and the finality limit for withdrawals has been reduced from about 21-22 minutes to about 16-17 minutes, maintaining stability during peak traffic periods.

According to the Nikkei, Japan's Financial Services Agency, Ministry of Finance, Bank of Japan, and financial institutions plan to establish a research group in the summer of 2026 to promote the construction of next-generation payment and settlement infrastructure based on blockchain (distributed ledger), with a specific preparation plan expected to be formed in early 2027.The plan initially focuses on government bonds and stock trading, aiming to achieve 24-hour instant settlement of funds and securities. The report notes that although there have been several blockchain financial application trials in the past, this is the first time the Japanese government and central bank have set a clear timeline for the actual implementation of related infrastructure.

The American Bankers Association announced plans to create a nationwide financial infrastructure based on blockchain to optimize industry collaboration and settlement efficiency.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the prediction market Polymarket for the event "The United States announces the end of the blockade on Iran," the sub-market "September 14" saw the probability of the "Yes" option fluctuate dramatically, soaring from 22.5% an hour ago to the current 42% (a fluctuation of 19.5%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

The financial AI platform Oro, which transforms complex user intentions into multi-step executions, announced the completion of a $3 million strategic financing round, led jointly by MH Ventures and Mapleblock Capital, with participation from M2M Capital, Archer Capital, and X21 Digital. Disrupt.com and ZIGLabs provide subsequent strategic support, bringing the total financing amount to $4 million. The funds will be used to advance core AI and agent research and development (including the proprietary Shield Engine and natural language execution stack), global market and user acquisition, build a self-hosted compliance framework with policy constraints, and expand engineering, AI research, and enterprise B2B teams.Oro converts natural language prompts into multi-step transaction paths in a non-custodial, user-signature manner. The official disclosure states that there are already over 350,000 independent active users, supporting more than 80 languages, and has completed mainnet integrations with Morpho, Kamino, Lido, Aave, Uniswap, Raydium, etc.; the activities with Ondo Finance saw over 50,000 verifications completed on the first day of launch. The company's goal is to reach 10 million active users in the next 6 to 12 months, launch native iOS and Android applications, and expand integration as a B2B and B2C intent routing layer.

According to the SpaceX stock unlocking schedule, the first batch of shares for Gate Pre-IPOs project SpaceX (SPCX) will be unlocked on August 26 at 20:00 (UTC+8). The total amount of the first batch to be unlocked is 33,900 SPCX, with 20% of the shares being unlocked based on the actual holdings at the time of the user’s spot account snapshot, and the corresponding shares will be directly credited to the Gate stock account at a 1:1 ratio.Gate is the first platform in the industry to support Pre-IPO share unlocking and directly distribute listed company stocks to users. This unlocking includes SPCX that users previously acquired and held through Pre-IPOs, as well as SPCX purchased subsequently; SPCX that has been sold will not be included in this round of unlocking. Users need to check their SPCX holdings and open orders in advance to ensure that the SPCX used for this unlocking is in an available state.Gate will continue to provide users with an asset participation experience from Pre-IPOs subscription before listing, internal trading, to stock unlocking entering the U.S. stock market. This is the first 20% stock unlocking for SpaceX (SPCX), and the remaining portion will be processed according to the unlocking rules of the target company as soon as possible, subject to the official announcement from Gate.