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The NFT trading platform OpenSea has re-enabled Solana NFT trading, allowing users to buy and sell Solana-based NFT collectibles on the platform, including popular collections such as Claynosaurz, Mad Lads, BoDoggos, Collector Crypt, and Phygitals. This marks the return of Solana as the first non-EVM chain for NFT trading on the platform more than four years after OpenSea first supported Solana NFTs in a beta version in April 2022.An OpenSea representative stated that OS2 is a multi-chain platform rebuilt from scratch, initially starting with support for Solana tokens, and now NFT support has also gone live, which is related to the trend of many collectible platforms adopting Solana NFTs. In April 2025, Solana returned to OpenSea with OS2, but at that time only fungible tokens were supported, with officials stating that NFT support would follow. Currently, the other networks supported by the platform are almost all EVM-compatible chains, including Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, Optimism, Avalanche, Base, Monad, Sei, and Berachain.This launch comes at a time when the NFT market is far below its peak period. According to data from The Block, the monthly market trading volume reached billions of dollars from 2021 to 2022, but now only a few hundred million remain.

According to Cointelegraph, a Bitcoin wallet that had been dormant for nearly 12 years suddenly transferred all 20.00010537 BTC (approximately $1 million) to a large centralized exchange in March, and three weeks later, almost the same amount was returned (only 4500 satoshis short, about $3), and then in May, this Bitcoin was permanently destroyed.On-chain analysis company Chainalysis confirmed that this wallet has a strong association of "shared ownership" with four other addresses, all of which received initial funding on the same day in April 2014, and most of the funds can be traced back to the now-defunct Mt. Gox exchange, suggesting that the holders are early Bitcoin adopters.Analysis by Bitcoin educator Bennet shows that one of the addresses sent 19.6 BTC in 60 transactions to the custodian between 2022 and 2024, despite the Bitcoin price more than quadrupling during this period. The dollar amount of 58 of these transactions was close to $10,400, suggesting that the holders may have adopted a fixed dollar amount liquidation strategy. After the million-dollar "round trip" transfer in March, the funds almost returned to their original state, and the destruction of Bitcoin requires the same private key, making conventional transaction explanations difficult to establish.Chainalysis admits that it currently cannot explain why the holders transferred long-dormant assets through the custodian, almost retrieved the original amount, and then actively destroyed them. The destruction of Bitcoin is irreversible, and analysts speculate that this may be a deliberate statement to reduce the total supply of Bitcoin, or it could be for privacy, tax, or testing old wallet arrangements, but none of the hypotheses fully align with all on-chain evidence.

According to SoSoValue data, as of 8:00 AM Eastern Time on August 31, 2026, the total net purchase of Bitcoin by global listed companies (excluding mining companies) in the past week was $513 million, an increase of 529.6% compared to last week.Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) purchased 4,603 Bitcoins last week at a price of $80,318, spending approximately $370 million, bringing its total holdings to 845,050 Bitcoins, marking its first purchase in nine weeks. The Japanese listed company Metaplanet did not purchase any Bitcoin last week, marking seven consecutive weeks without purchases.In addition, another company announced the purchase of Bitcoin last week. Asset management company Strive announced on August 31 that it spent approximately $143 million last week to purchase 1,800 Bitcoins at a price of $79,431, bringing its total holdings to approximately 23,156 Bitcoins. The French Bitcoin treasury company Capital B announced that it has raised €21 million (approximately $24.5 million) from investors and institutions, including Adam Back, for the purpose of purchasing Bitcoin.As of the time of publication, the total amount of Bitcoin held by the listed companies included in the statistics (excluding mining companies) is 1,147,229 Bitcoins, an increase of 0.6% compared to last week, with a current market value of approximately $89.6 billion, accounting for 5.7% of Bitcoin's circulating market value.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a certain whale went long on 32,000 ETH at a price of $2,487 each two days ago, worth $80 million; the whale increased its position by another 13,000 ETH, bringing the total position to 45,000 ETH, with a position value of $109 million, and an average entry price of $2,486 each.With the recent pullback, this position is currently at a floating loss of $3.35 million, with a liquidation price of $2,251 each.

According to GMGN market data, after the Binance contract went live at 19:30 (UTC+8), the BSC chain meme coin "Niu Lai" surged 10% in the short term, rising from a market value of 93 million dollars to 104 million dollars. "Niu Lai" increased over 85% in 24 hours, with a 24-hour trading volume of 45.5 million dollars.

The Solana community plans to meet in November during the Scale or Die event. Creech stated that with the aforementioned upgrades being implemented, "Solana development will be different."

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain whale bought 76,900 SOL from Hyperliquid after being silent for 8 months, worth 8 million dollars.

According to Crowdfund Insider, the Ethena Foundation has announced a series of adjustments to reduce the selling pressure caused by early investors unlocking their tokens. The foundation has repurchased some of the remaining locked ENA from large seed round investors through over-the-counter transactions and has agreed with major investors to end the remaining vesting arrangements early.Starting from October 5, there will be no investor tokens under lock-up, while team tokens will maintain the original lock-up and vesting terms.

According to CryptoSlate, Polygon Labs issued an urgent notice that Polygon PoS nodes remaining on the old versions of Bor or Heimdall have lost consensus after the activation of the Austin and Kyoto hard forks and need to upgrade to catch up with the network progress. Austin was activated at mainnet block 91,949,700, requiring Bor v2.1.0 or above; Kyoto was activated at height 51,533,000, requiring Heimdall v0.11.0 or above.Austin fixed two types of Bor resource exhaustion risks: L1 to L2 bridging state synchronization events not counted towards the gas limit could slow down block processing; the TxDependency field having no size limit could lead to peer node crashes. Kyoto addressed vulnerabilities such as deep nested message attacks, fee coin scanning, and checkpoint signature recovery. Both hard forks are pure binary upgrades, requiring no state migration, and non-forked nodes do not need to resynchronize. Operators of old clients should upgrade and restore synchronization under Polygon's guidance if necessary.

Bitcoin fell back on Friday afternoon, ending a strong rally driven by ETF inflows. As of Friday afternoon New York time, Bitcoin was at $77,379, down more than 3% in 24 hours, having reached a high of $81,281 earlier this week. Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh stated in his first major speech since taking office that there is "more work to be done" in combating inflation, which cooled market sentiment.The previous rally was mainly driven by liquidity. The U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF saw a net inflow of $1.14 billion this week, with over $3 billion accumulated in the past 9 days, of which BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust received the largest share. Last week, the U.S. Treasury announced it would double the size of its liquidity support repurchase operations, further boosting Bitcoin's rally.Analysts believe this round of market activity is closely related to "currency devaluation trades"—investors view Bitcoin as a hedge against currency devaluation and excessive government spending. The total amount of U.S. Treasury debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time this month, further reinforcing market concerns about the dilution of fiat currency purchasing power.

U.S. short-term interest rate futures fell, with market pricing indicating an increase in bets on a Federal Reserve rate hike following remarks by Fed Chair Waller.

Market news: Anthropic plans to release its IPO prospectus after Labor Day (September 7) in the United States, and may go public in late September or early October.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, trader 0xedcd previously went long on 20,000 ETH (approximately 49.9 million USD) before the market rise, making a profit of over 11 million USD.The trader has just opened a 10x leveraged long position on 100,000 SOL, with a position value of approximately 10.45 million USD.

The "Realized Cap Impulse" indicator for Bitcoin has recently ended a continuous 93-day negative state and has turned positive for the first time, marking the longest reversal signal after a capital contraction cycle since the bear market of 2022.This indicator measures the momentum of changes in the realized market capitalization by tracking the changes in realized cap, combined with factors of Bitcoin supply and price, to assess whether the flow of tokens with actual economic significance in the market is driving capital base expansion. The positive shift in the indicator does not merely reflect a price increase but indicates that the flow of funds within the Bitcoin network is changing.Data shows that the indicator broke above the zero axis on August 20 when the BTC price was around $73,000 and has maintained positive values for 8 consecutive days. Currently, the BTC price has risen to about $78,900, an increase of approximately 8% during this period.As of the latest, the indicator reading is 0.198, below the peak of 0.226 reached on August 26. Historical data indicates that similar signals at the end of bear markets have been accompanied by significant rebounds in Bitcoin: after the indicator turned positive in September 2015, Bitcoin rose about 160% within a year; after March 2019, it increased about 173% in 90 days; and after January 2023, it rose about 45% in 90 days, with a yearly increase of 104%.However, the realized cap momentum indicator is not an absolute signal of a cycle bottom. Similar positive shifts occurred in early 2018 and 2022, but the market did not immediately enter a sustained upward phase afterward. Analysts believe that the indicator's continued positive value, confirmed by price trends, is more valuable than a single-day breakthrough above the zero axis.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a savvy trader has once again purchased 95,928 SOL (worth $9.74 million) after a two-year silence.In the past three years, they have completed two SOL swing trades, both buying low and selling high, with a total profit of $4.95 million.

According to Gate market data, after-hours trading on Wednesday for U.S. stocks saw Nvidia's new quarterly results continue to exceed market expectations, with a forecast of approximately 70% sales growth for the next fiscal year, driving AI concept stocks higher in after-hours trading.The storage sector collectively strengthened, with SK Hynix rising 4.48%, SanDisk up 3.71%, Micron Technology up 3.67%, Seagate Technology up 3.15%, and Western Digital up 3.11%. The Neocloud sector saw widespread gains, with Nebius up 6.27%, CoreWeave up 4.76%, Applied Digital up 3.26%, and both IREN and Core Scientific up 3.16%.Optical communication stocks rose across the board, with Applied Optoelectronics up 4.25%, Marvell Technology up 4.08%, Credo up 3.78%, Coherent up 3.35%, and Astera Labs up 3.34%. Semiconductor stocks also strengthened, with Arm up 4.18%, Marvell Technology and Nvidia both up 4.08%, Lam Research up 2.65%, and KLA up 2.42%.