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AI wealth management company Savvy Wealth announced the completion of a $100 million Series C financing, with a valuation rising to $600 million. Halo Fund led the investment, with existing investors such as Thrive Capital, Industry Ventures, and Index Ventures participating. So far, its total financing has exceeded $200 million.The AI wealth management platform Savvy Intelligence launched by Savvy Wealth utilizes large language models from OpenAI and Anthropic to train AI agents, supporting the integration of investment, tax, and financial planning data, and simplifying the wealth management process through AI. The new funds will primarily be used to expand the software product development aimed at wealth advisors.

According to Fortune, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency crime tracking company TRM Labs completed a $70 million Series C funding round in September 2025, achieving a valuation of $1 billion. Just six months later, it received additional investment from existing investors, doubling its valuation to $2 billion.CEO Esteban Castano stated that the company's mission has expanded from blockchain forensics to a broader mapping of cybercrime, with AI becoming a second growth engine rather than a transformation, while the core cryptocurrency business remains strong. The company is set to launch a new investigation platform specifically targeting AI-driven deepfake scams, extortion related to pornography, and child sexual abuse crimes.Castano noted that the widespread adoption of cryptocurrency has made it possible to comprehensively map crime networks, and the company is expected to reach a $100 million annual recurring revenue milestone in the coming weeks. Currently, it has about 500 employees and has offices in London, Singapore, and Washington.

According to a report by Sina Finance, AI 3D company VAST (Sanqi Wànwù) announced the completion of Series B and B+ financing, totaling approximately 3 billion yuan, led by Matrix Partners. Perfect World, BlueFocus Communication Group, Xindong Energy Investment, Yanqu Games, Zhongke Chuangda, 37 Interactive Entertainment, as well as Dinghui VGC, CICC Capital, CMC Capital and others participated in the investment, while existing shareholders Dachen Caizhi, Chunhua Capital, and Wengce Capital continued to invest.According to the official introduction, VAST has raised approximately 5 billion yuan in less than six months. It is reported that VAST also released the latest version of its flagship 3D base model Tripo P series, Tripo P2. The funds from this round of financing will be invested in the iteration of 3D native models and data capabilities, expansion of training and inference infrastructure, product development, and commercialization.

According to the official announcement from Gate, Gate is exploring strategic cooperation with the clearing and custody company RQD* Clearing. Both parties plan to advance discussions on cooperation in areas such as digital assets, clearing and market infrastructure, regulatory compliance, and asset tokenization, leveraging their respective capabilities in digital asset services and financial market infrastructure to find new business synergy opportunities.Gate's founder and CEO Dr. Han stated that as digital assets increasingly integrate with traditional financial markets, Gate is focused on building the infrastructure that supports this process and looks forward to exploring cooperation opportunities with RQD* Clearing in the areas of clearing, infrastructure, compliance, and asset tokenization.RQD* Clearing provides the necessary clearing, custody, and technical infrastructure for broker-dealers, registered investment advisors, overseas financial institutions, and proprietary trading firms to access the market, and relies on its self-developed technology to offer clients real-time business data and flexible platform support.This exploration of cooperation is expected to further connect Gate's global digital asset ecosystem with RQD* Clearing's infrastructure capabilities in the market, opening up more space for the integration of digital assets and traditional financial systems at the asset, transaction, and technical levels.

According to the French newspaper Le Monde, the United Arab Emirates will invest 1 billion dollars through its subsidiary Marlan Space, under the International Holding Company (IHC), in Loft Orbital, a space AI startup co-founded by France and the United States, to build an observation satellite constellation consisting of 50 satellites equipped with AI capabilities.Unlike traditional satellites that transmit data back to the ground for analysis, the company plans to use AI in space to process images, videos, and measurement data collected by the satellites directly, with AI entities identifying anomalies and issuing alerts within seconds.

According to CoinDesk, Citibank will launch an international transfer service based on tokenized deposits for Japanese companies by the end of the year, enabling 24/7 instant cross-border payments between five countries, becoming the first foreign bank to offer this service in Japan.

User chris__lu posted that they compiled all 236 companies and 470 founders from the YC Summer 2026 batch, categorizing each company into an AI technology stack layer and comparing it to the Spring batch using the same criteria. This batch still has 91% related to AI. The model companies increased from 8% to 20%, the application layer decreased from 55% to 39%, horizontal applications dropped from 58 to 32, and vertical applications remained at 25%.In the Spring, 45% of companies delivered autonomous agents, while in the Summer, it was 33%, with "agent" in a one-sentence introduction dropping from 27% to 19%. 21 companies are engaged in computational infrastructure, 11 focus on inference costs, and there are also companies for training data and reinforcement learning environments. Scale AI is listed as an alternative target by 8 companies. The industrial category increased from 12% to 24%, with 45 companies delivering physical products, 24 being robots or physical AI, and 21 companies operating their own businesses rather than selling software.This batch is the youngest, with 37% of founders being students or graduates in the last two years, 59 teams are entirely student teams, the dropout rate increased from 3% to 9%, and repeat founders decreased from 32% to 23%, with 84% having a technical background. 39 from Berkeley, 32 from MIT, and 25 from Stanford. Amazon is the largest source of talent. Sales and marketing AI decreased from 18 to 6. Only 19 founders come from AI labs, accounting for 4%. 8 founding teams come from the same previous employer.

According to Sifted, the head of the robotics division of the French AI unicorn Mistral is seeking to raise 200 million euros for its new startup, planning to develop robotic AI models based on more comprehensive data training to surpass competitors in data quality.Mistral officially established its robotics division last year.

Physics AI simulation company Antioch announced the completion of a $32 million Series A funding round, led by Greylock, with participation from A* Capital, Category Ventures, BoxGroup, Icehouse Ventures, and angel investors.Antioch stated that AI has significantly accelerated software development, but physical autonomous systems are still limited by slow and expensive hardware development. The company provides simulation capabilities for physical AI teams to build, test, and validate systems. Its clients and partners include Amazon Ring, NVIDIA Robotics, and Nebius.Antioch claims to be rapidly expanding and is hiring for positions in simulation, infrastructure, machine learning, 3D graphics, marketing, and operations.

Iran is gradually relaxing foreign exchange controls and allowing companies to use Tether (USDT) and Bitcoin for cross-border transactions. According to informed sources, the Central Bank of Iran has encouraged companies in recent months to repatriate overseas funds through local cryptocurrency exchanges, and companies can also exchange foreign currency in the open market, using export revenue directly for imported goods. An executive close to the Iranian regime stated that the central bank is currently not questioning the methods of fund transfer, and using cryptocurrency to receive export payments has become the norm.Data shows that approximately $10 billion worth of cryptocurrency will flow through Iran by 2025, and blockchain analytics firm Elliptic estimates that Iran accounts for about 4.5% of global Bitcoin mining activity. There are still over $100 billion in undeclared overseas and domestic earnings within Iran, with more than 20,000 individuals and companies failing to fulfill their obligation to repatriate approximately €94 billion in export revenue. Tether had previously frozen about $344 million in wallet assets related to the Central Bank of Iran, and the U.S. Treasury has also warned that engaging in digital asset transactions with Iran may face sanction risks.

BlackRock strategists indicate that the impact of Japan's interest rate reset has transcended borders. Rising interest rates in the United States may weaken the yen and pressure the Bank of Japan to act more quickly; rising interest rates in Japan could attract more capital back home, weakening demand for U.S. Treasury bonds. Japan holds about 1.1 trillion U.S. dollars in U.S. Treasury bonds, and if 5% of that capital is repatriated, it would amount to 55 billion dollars.

Imran Khan, co-founder of Alliance, stated that Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong and Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev are leveraging their respective backgrounds to carve out different tracks in the cryptocurrency market.Vlad has built Robinhood into a platform centered around retail trading, deeply understanding the psychology and trading motivations of high-risk tolerant retail investors, which will give him an advantage in controlling retail speculation and trading in the future; while Brian has dedicated the past decade to popularizing Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency value system, deeply rooted in the Silicon Valley tech startup ecosystem, which determines that Coinbase and Base are more inclined to build underlying financial infrastructure aimed at changing the real world.Imran believes that although there is overlap in their businesses, the market space is large enough, and one party's activity in speculative trading does not mean the other party will fail. Both will lead millions of new users into the on-chain world from completely different entry points.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, the French company Capital B announced the purchase of 376 BTC for 25.3 million euros.

The National Security Agency, FBI, and CISA of the United States released a joint report, naming DeepSeek, Dark Side of the Moon, Alibaba, MiniMax, Leap Star, and Zhipu. The U.S. side accuses the aforementioned companies of batch calling the outputs of Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok to train their own models since at least the end of 2024, involving millions of requests and billions of tokens.The report lists specific models, with DeepSeek accused of using multiple versions of Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok to generate training data for R1 and V3; Dark Side of the Moon is accused of using Claude Fable 5 data to train Kimi K3 and GPT-4o data to train Kimi K2. The U.S. claims these companies also bypass regional restrictions through numerous accounts, third-party API aggregators, and gray intermediaries, and attempt to extract the hidden reasoning processes of the models using prompts, labeling such behavior as malicious distillation.

According to Bloomberg, U.S. President Trump's envoy and real estate developer Steve Witkoff stated in the latest financial disclosure that his holding company is expected to generate approximately $107 million in revenue in 2025, which includes his interests in the cryptocurrency project World Liberty Financial LLC and assets such as resorts, hotels, and residential properties.The documents did not disclose the specific valuations and revenues of World Liberty Financial and other underlying assets. Previous disclosures indicated that the holding company's revenue for 2024 was $34 million. Critics argue that Witkoff's holdings in entities such as World Liberty Financial present a potential conflict of interest with his government position.

According to The Defiant, the decentralized lending protocol Morpho deployed its fixed-term, fixed-rate lending agreement Midnight to Ethereum on September 8, expanding the product from the Base network to Ethereum, allowing Ethereum users to access USDC loans collateralized by WBTC or cbBTC. Morpho co-founder Merlin Egalite stated that the Ethereum launch will start with the "USDC | cbBTC and USDC | WBTC markets" and will gradually expand.The core difference between Midnight and Morpho Blue lies in interest rate certainty. Blue uses open loans where interest rates fluctuate according to a formula; Midnight, on the other hand, trades credit units at market-priced rates with fixed terms, allowing borrowers to determine financing costs in advance, and lenders can lock in returns instead of bearing interest rate changes with each block. Midnight lenders purchase credit units at prices below the one-to-one redemption value at maturity.However, the largest potential source of funds for Midnight remains constrained. The Morpho Vaults, holding approximately $5 billion in deposits, can only allocate to the Morpho Blue market until the DAO enables the Midnight configuration. Morpho co-founder and CEO Paul Frambot stated that enabling the Vault configuration requires just one DAO transaction, but Vault activation is expected to be achieved in the fourth quarter. At launch, the total deposits in the Ethereum Midnight market were approximately $7.41 million, with outstanding loans of about $2.63 million.

According to SoSoValue data, as of 8 AM Eastern Time on September 8, 2026, the total net purchase of Bitcoin by global listed companies (excluding mining companies) for the week was $267 million, a decrease of 48% compared to last week. Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) did not purchase Bitcoin last week. The Japanese listed company Metaplanet also did not purchase Bitcoin last week, marking eight consecutive weeks without purchases.In addition, another eight companies announced Bitcoin purchases or holdings last week. The Japanese energy investment company Remixpoint announced that as of September 4, 2026, it held a total of 1,506.23390097 Bitcoins, with a cumulative total expenditure of $1.1184 million, an increase of 2.48356398 Bitcoins compared to last week;The entertainment technology company Boyaa Interactive announced that from June 24, 2026, to September 4, 2026, it invested $14.3 million to increase its holdings by 205 Bitcoins at a price of $69,756.097561, bringing its total holdings to 4,316;The UK Bitcoin company The Smarter Web Company announced on September 2 that it invested $2.72 million to purchase 35 Bitcoins at a price of $77,708, bringing its total holdings to 2,747;The Bitcoin asset company Bitcoin Treasury Corporation announced on September 4 that it held approximately 737.71 Bitcoins, without disclosing the specific total purchase amount or average cost of Bitcoin;The UK Bitcoin asset company BHODL announced on September 3 that it spent approximately $77,772.17 last week to purchase 1 Bitcoin, bringing its total holdings to approximately 167.487;The Ethereum asset company Bitmine announced after 8 AM Eastern Time on August 31 that it purchased 1 Bitcoin, without disclosing the specific purchase amount, bringing its total holdings to 211;The French Bitcoin company Capital B announced on September 7 that it purchased 376 Bitcoins at a price of $67,182, bringing its total holdings to 3,521;The asset management company Strive announced on September 8 that it spent approximately $109 million last week to purchase 1,375 Bitcoins at a price of $79,281, bringing its total holdings to approximately 24,531.In terms of financing, Capital B announced that it has raised €7.6 million (approximately $8.83 million) from investors and institutions, including Adam Back, for the purpose of purchasing Bitcoin. BHODL confirmed that it has completed ATM 2 (the second phase of the market price issuance plan), having sold 600,000 shares of common stock at an average price of 8.06 pence per share, raising a total of £48,275 ($65,253.32) for the purchase of Bitcoin, and is preparing to launch ATM 3 (the third phase of the market price issuance plan).As of the time of publication, the total amount of Bitcoin held by global listed companies (excluding mining companies) in the statistics is 1,119,973, a decrease of 2.38% compared to last week, with a current market value of approximately $87.77 billion, accounting for 5.6% of the circulating market value of Bitcoin.

NASDAQ-listed company Hyperion DeFi (NASDAQ: HYPD) announced on September 8, 2026, an upward revision of its full-year guidance for 2026 and initiated a common stock repurchase plan of up to $20 million. The company claims to be the first publicly listed DeFi company in the U.S. built on Hyperliquid. The full-year adjusted gross profit guidance has been raised from the previous $5 million to $7 million to $7 million to $8 million.The company expects adjusted net operating cash flow to turn positive in the third quarter of 2026, earlier than the previous expectation of "turning positive by the end of 2026"; and it anticipates that core operating income will turn positive in the third quarter, with adjusted gross profit from the core DeFi business expected to exceed operating expenses after excluding equity incentives for the first time. The adjusted gross profit guidance for the third quarter is $2 million to $2.5 million, with operating expenses after excluding equity incentives at $2 million to $2.25 million, and core operating income at $0 to $500,000.The board has authorized the repurchase of up to $20 million of common stock in circulation within a maximum of 12 months, which can be conducted through open market purchases, private negotiations, block trades, and other methods, with no specific quantity guaranteed. The plan may be extended, suspended, or terminated at any time. CEO Hyunsu Jung stated that the DeFi business has accelerated recently, and the core business in the third quarter is expected to achieve breakeven in terms of profit and cash flow, noting that HYPD common stock is currently trading at a discount of about 20% to 30% relative to net assets.