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According to CoinDesk, data from Curve Finance shows that its lending market has recorded a total of 704 "soft liquidation" events, involving 602 borrower addresses, with a median duration of 14.5 days, of which a quarter lasted at least 38.9 days, and some positions remained within the liquidation range for several months. Of these soft liquidations, 476 began in the first half of 2026. Unlike traditional lending protocols such as Aave and Compound, Curve's LLAMMA system does not sell off collateral all at once after the price drops below a threshold, but gradually converts collateral into borrowed assets within a price range. If the price rebounds before the loan completely fails, some or all of the conversions may be reversed. This means that borrowers are not in a grace period; their collateral has been partially liquidated during the loan's duration, but they still have the opportunity to restore their positions if the price reverses. However, soft liquidations are not without costs. Data shows that borrowers may still incur losses due to transaction fees, conversions, rebalancing, interest, and bid-ask price fluctuations, and if the market remains unfavorable, positions may still fall into hard liquidation. Curve Finance is a mainstream DeFi protocol focused on stablecoin exchanges and crvUSD lending, currently holding approximately $1.35 billion in deposits, with a DEX trading volume of about $3.4 billion over the past 30 days and active loans of about $46 million.

According to a report by Kyodo News, the Bank of Japan plans to raise interest rates to 1.25% at the meeting on September 17 to 18.

According to Bloomberg, Belgian prosecutors stated on September 7 that a Chinese man, who also holds Belgian nationality, was arrested on May 10 at Brussels Airport while attempting to board a flight back to Beijing on suspicion of engaging in espionage activities against a Belgian semiconductor company. The investigation may point to the illegal transfer of specialized intellectual property and trade secrets related to gallium nitride chip production abroad.The investigation is related to the bankruptcy case of Belgan BV, which announced its bankruptcy in July 2024. Prosecutors indicated that there are signs suggesting that the man held a senior research position at the Belgian company while also serving as a director of a Chinese company engaged in similar manufacturing activities. This Chinese company was established a few months after he joined the Belgian company and was funded by a Chinese investment fund. This is the latest in a series of suspected espionage cases in Belgium.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China released the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Information and Communication Industry," setting the national intelligent computing power target at 9800 EFLOPS by 2030. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, as of the end of July, the national intelligent computing scale was approximately 2450 EFLOPS (FP16), indicating that it needs to expand by about 4 times in the next four years based on this standard.The plan proposes an orderly deployment of intelligent computing clusters with tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of cards, building inference computing power for different scenarios, and increasing the adaptation of domestic computing power chips. Currently, 52 intelligent computing facilities with more than ten thousand cards have been established nationwide. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology disclosed that the intelligent computing power scale at the end of June was 2185 EFLOPS, a year-on-year increase of 177%. The plan uses 1590 EFLOPS in 2025 as a benchmark, aiming to reach 9800 EFLOPS by 2030, which is an expansion of about 6.2 times. During the same period, the cumulative investment target for information infrastructure in the information and communication industry is 3.8 trillion yuan, which also includes communication networks and is not all allocated for AI computing power.

The decentralized stablecoin USDD released its monthly transparency report for August 2026. As of August 31, the circulation of USDD is approximately 1.53 billion, with reserve assets totaling 2.26 billion USD and a collateralization rate of 147.96%. The Smart Allocator has achieved a cumulative return of 26.738 million USD, with a monthly new return of 3.015 million USD, a month-on-month increase of 13.6%.In August, the USDD Vault expanded to the Ethereum ecosystem, allowing users to use ETH and WBTC as collateral to mint USDD; the GasFree transfer feature now supports USDD, enabling zero Gas transfers on the TRON network. During the same period, collaborations were also established with platforms such as Binance Wallet, Gate DEX, and Pendle.

According to The Block, the Ethereum Foundation's protocol team has released the priority list for the Hegotá upgrade EIP, setting the target date for achieving "quantum safety" on Ethereum's layer one in terms of execution, consensus, and data to December 2029.In terms of the consensus layer, FOCIL (EIP-7805) is listed as S-level "must launch," enhancing censorship resistance by mandating the inclusion of public mempool transactions; in terms of the execution layer, Frame Transactions (EIP-8141) is also a "must launch," laying the groundwork for native account abstraction and custom signatures, gas payment, etc., by splitting transactions into programmable "frames" for validation, gas payment, and execution, thereby improving post-quantum safety readiness. The protocol team stated that starting from the "Glamsterdam" fork in Q4 2026, subsequent forks need to be completed in an average of about 7.2 months to ensure the achievement of the minimum viable post-quantum safety milestone before "Q-day" around 2030.

According to a report by the Korean News Agency, Matthew Dawson, co-founder of Ethereum Institutional, visited South Korea for the first time and held meetings with local major banks, securities companies, asset management firms, and exchanges to establish cooperative relationships. Dawson stated that South Korea has strong financial institutions and a developer community capable of fully utilizing blockchain infrastructure, and pointed out that the recent policy direction on token securities released by the Financial Services Commission (FSC) provides a good opportunity for cooperation.He anticipates that South Korean institutions, which currently start with private chains, will eventually upgrade to public blockchains, and emphasized that Ethereum, with its security, liquidity, and neutrality, is the ideal infrastructure for carrying core institutional assets. In terms of organizational expansion, Ethereum Institutional plans to introduce a head of Asia within 6 to 7 weeks and recruit technical, business, and consulting talent in Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan.

According to Bitcoin.com, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse pointed out that the Dutch Central Bank (DNB) has redeployed approximately 86 tons of gold from New York and Ottawa to London over several months, involving an amount of about 11 billion dollars. About 59 tons were completed through market transactions (sold in New York, bought in London), and more than 27 tons were physically transported.After this operation, DNB's gold reserves in London increased from 18.1% to 32.1%, while the total reserves remained unchanged at 612.4 tons. Garlinghouse stated that cryptocurrency has evolved from a 1.5 billion dollar experiment in 2013 to a 27 trillion dollar asset class, while the way central banks transfer value is still stuck in the 1940s, "this is precisely the ideal use case for cryptocurrency—instant, secure, and low-cost storage and transfer of value globally."

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Kansas City Royals" on Polymarket, the option "Arizona Diamondbacks" in the sub-market "Spread -1.5" has experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 33% an hour ago to the current 16.5% (a fluctuation of 16.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the event "Cleveland Guardians vs. Baltimore Orioles" on the prediction market Polymarket, the probability of the "Yes" option in the sub-market "NRFI" has experienced a sharp fluctuation, dropping from 44.5% an hour ago to the current 26% (a fluctuation of 18.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Galaxy Research posted on X that yesterday the daily transaction count for Bitcoin reached 893,391, marking the fourth highest single-day transaction count in Bitcoin's history, and this figure is above the 99th percentile of its historical range.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, will launch a meme coin named LAPTOP, named after his laptop incident, scheduled to go live on the Base network under Coinbase on September 9.The founding team of the project, including Hunter Biden, will hold 30% of the total token supply (1 billion tokens), with that portion locked for 6 months and fully unlocked over two years; another 20% of the tokens will be airdropped in two batches to users who previously lost money on the Trump meme coin TRUMP, Hunter Biden's Substack subscribers and their friends, and users on the mailing list maintained by video journalist Andrew Callaghan; the remaining 20% will be used for charitable donations, liquidity, and distribution to exchange partners and market makers, as well as covering the accounting, legal, administrative, and compliance costs of the token foundation.It is reported that the founding team has also agreed on a destruction mechanism that includes 30 preset events; if the relevant events achieve the preset results within the designated time (such as the Democratic Party winning the 2028 presidential election, Bitcoin reaching a new historical high, LAPTOP's fully diluted valuation exceeding TRUMP, etc.), up to 30% of the token supply may be destroyed; if not achieved, the tokens will be donated to charitable organizations proportionally.The report notes that Hunter Biden has recently been frequently participating in podcasts, news programs, and writing Substack articles discussing his views on cryptocurrency, and has commented on the controversy between the Trump family's crypto project World Liberty Financial and Sun Yuchen.

According to Bloomberg, ByteDance is preparing to launch an artificial intelligence model for real-time spatial video generation, with applications covering fields such as robotics and autonomous systems, and will compete with companies like Meta and Alphabet.Insiders say that ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming is personally overseeing the development of the model, coordinating multiple business departments within the company, and investing in artificial intelligence resources and computing power support. The model may be released as early as next month, but the specific timing is still subject to change.

According to CoinDesk, Ethereum core developers have included EIP-8141 (Frame Transactions) in the 2027 Hegotá upgrade plan. During the core developer call on August 27, the proposal was marked as "Scheduled for Inclusion," meaning it will become part of the network update rather than just a candidate proposal. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, one of the ten authors of the proposal, stated on X on Sunday night that Frames have made significant progress in the past few months.Frames aim to address the issue where users hold stablecoins but cannot transfer them due to a lack of ETH. It splits transactions into independent steps such as authorization verification, fee payment, and instruction execution, allowing the sender and payer accounts to no longer have to be the same. For example, payment applications can cover fees themselves or settle ETH bills on behalf of users after collecting stablecoins, while the Ethereum network still prices in ETH, and users do not need to purchase ETH. Unlike existing wallet solutions that rely on third-party services, Frames will achieve this capability through the standard Ethereum transaction process.Additionally, Frames will bundle operations that need to be executed simultaneously, such as authorization and submission in token transactions, with authorization being revoked if the transaction fails; it also allows accounts to customize transaction approval rules, enabling the replacement of private keys or the adoption of quantum-resistant keys without needing to migrate funds to a new address. Currently, the specification is still a draft, and details may be adjusted before the Hegotá upgrade, with users unable to use Frames yet.

Binance Wallet officially launches the TRC-20 USDT transfer fee payment feature. Starting today, users can pay network fees directly in USDT when using the Binance Web3 Wallet for TRC-20 USDT transfers, eliminating the need to hold TRX as gas fees, significantly simplifying the transfer process on the TRON chain.The operation method is also quite convenient: users only need to enter the wallet asset page, select send USDT, and then check USDT in the network fee payment method to complete the setup, easily experiencing one-click transfers.This feature update lowers the interaction threshold for stablecoins on the TRON chain and provides high-frequency transfer users with a smoother and lower-cost operational path, further promoting the usability and convenience of the TRON network in stablecoin application scenarios.

According to Yahoo Finance, Zhihu announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary has entered into a subscription agreement with general partners and fund managers to subscribe for 1.5 billion RMB of limited partnership interests using its own funds.Following the completion of the subscription, Zhihu expects to hold no more than 30% of the fund's interests. The fund has a duration of 7 years (extendable for up to two additional years), with an investment period of 4 years, and will primarily invest in early to mid-stage non-listed companies in the fields of artificial intelligence and cutting-edge technology in mainland China, covering areas such as foundational models, AI infrastructure, robotics, and AI applications.

According to CoinDesk, Solana plans to activate Transaction v1 this Wednesday, increasing the maximum capacity of a single transaction from 1232 bytes to 4096 bytes, more than tripling it. After the upgrade, complex operations that previously required splitting into multiple transactions are expected to be consolidated into a single transaction, including large cryptographic proofs, multi-signature payments, and certain privacy transfers.Transaction v1 has been running on the Solana testnet and development network, and the existing transaction format can still be used. Wallets and applications will only need to upgrade when larger transaction space is required. However, on-chain data services relied upon by block explorers, wallets, and trading applications need to adapt to the new format; otherwise, they may not be able to correctly read transaction and priority fee information.This upgrade aims to alleviate the structural limitations imposed by Solana's long-standing 1232-byte transaction cap, further enhancing its ability to handle complex applications. The 4096-byte limit references the common 4KB memory page size of validator hardware to avoid excessively large single transactions that increase network and validation node processing costs.

According to a report by Decrypt, Galaxy Research stated that the third wave of attackers on the Coldcard hardware wallet has recently transferred 97.09 BTC, worth approximately 7.7 million dollars at current prices, accounting for about 45% of the stolen Bitcoin in this wave.Among them, the attackers transferred about 20.5 BTC to Ethereum via THORChain cross-chain on September 2; subsequently, they moved some funds into the CoinJoin mixing process to increase the difficulty of tracking the funds. Currently, 11 of the 293 2-of-2 multi-signature addresses established by the attackers in the third wave have been emptied.The report indicated that this Coldcard security incident originated from a firmware vulnerability introduced in 2021, which significantly reduced the randomness of wallet mnemonic phrase generation, allowing attackers to potentially reconstruct private keys offline and steal funds. As of now, approximately 82% of the stolen BTC in the entire Coldcard attack incident has not yet been transferred.Galaxy Research believes that if the newly discovered suspected victim addresses are included in the statistics, the total amount of stolen BTC may reach about 1,806, worth approximately 144 million dollars.