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The fourth largest party in the New Zealand Parliament, the Association of Consumers and Taxpayers (ACT), proposed to exempt individual retail investors who hold compliant crypto assets for more than one year from capital gains tax, while assets held for less than one year, as well as professional traders and businesses, will still be taxed according to current tax regulations.ACT also proposed tax exemption for small personal consumption using crypto assets, and to establish clear regulatory and tax rules for compliant payment stablecoins, tokenized securities, and real-world assets, while setting up a regulatory sandbox for startups to test new products. ACT Deputy Leader Nicole McKee stated that clear rules, moderate protective measures, and reduced cumbersome regulations will help New Zealand develop digital finance, modern capital markets, and financial innovation. The New Zealand government has introduced a bill to implement the Economic Cooperation and Development Organization's Crypto Asset Reporting Framework (CARF).

Epoch AI updates that the revenue growth rates of OpenAI and Anthropic have reached or exceeded the rare levels seen in historically comparable tech companies. Over the past year, OpenAI increased its annualized revenue run rate from $13 billion to over $40 billion, achieving approximately threefold growth; Anthropic's revenue is projected to grow from $1 billion in 2025 to $9 billion, with a further acceleration in the first quarter of 2026, reaching an annualized run rate of over three times, reportedly hitting $65 billion by the end of July.The combined revenue of the two companies is expected to grow approximately threefold in 2024, over fourfold in 2025, and from $30 billion to $105 billion by August 2026, achieving about 3.5 times growth. The article notes that maintaining over 100% annual growth at a scale exceeding $1 billion is extremely rare, with the growth rate for 2025 already being record-breaking, and further acceleration in 2026 on a higher base.Epoch AI analysis states that the overall annualized revenue of the generative AI market is close to $200 billion, with the two companies accounting for about half. The continued hypergrowth may stem from the combination of capability advancements and diffusion, with future trends depending on whether growth comes more from sustained technological advancements or application diffusion; if the growth rate is maintained, it will significantly impact economic scale, but it may also slow down with maturity.

According to CoinDesk, the U.S. clearing and custody institution RQD Clearing announced the completion of a $74 million financing round, led by Bain Capital Tech Opportunities, a technology investment division of Bain Capital, with participation from ABN AMRO Clearing Bank and Nyca Partners. This round of financing will be used to expand operations in North America, Asia, and the Middle East, and to enhance infrastructure development for digital asset custody and asset tokenization.RQD primarily provides post-trade clearing and custody services for broker-dealers, investment advisors, and overseas financial institutions in the U.S. market, responsible for key processes such as securities and funds settlement, and risk management. This year, the company has processed approximately 515 million stock trades, involving nearly $2 trillion, accounting for about 2.4% of the National Market System (NMS) stock trading volume in the U.S.As Wall Street institutions accelerate their exploration of on-chain finance, traditional market infrastructure is becoming an important direction for the competition of tokenized assets. RQD has previously collaborated with Blue Ocean Technologies to advance the clearing and settlement infrastructure for tokenized U.S. stocks and has aligned with the tokenized securities framework of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC).

According to Globenewswire, Singapore-based Genius Group announced a capital plan aimed at funding its board-approved dual treasury. The goal is to achieve a total asset of $2 billion by fiscal year 2031, with the target size of the AI Treasury being $800 million and the target size of the Bitcoin Treasury being $827 million.The capital plan aims to maximize the net asset value per share (NAVPS) of common stock by utilizing perpetual preferred stock and minimizing dilution of common stock shareholders' equity. Genius Group plans to utilize its $1.2 billion shelf registration (which was declared effective by the SEC on July 18, 2025) to issue publicly registered perpetual preferred securities (PPS) to fund its dual treasury in an accretive manner, maximizing the net asset value per share (NAVPS) of common stock, and the issuance of PPS will not dilute the equity of common stock shareholders.The company plans to raise an initial $12.5 million through the issuance of preferred stock (PPS), which is expected to be non-convertible, with a floating interest rate paid monthly. The raised funds will be used to invest in the company's AI Treasury, Bitcoin Treasury, and a dollar reserve equivalent to approximately 18 months of preferred stock dividends. The company has begun discussions with investment banks experienced in preferred securities and digital asset financing, with final details and timing yet to be confirmed.

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.

On August 27, B.AI announced that the latest open-source Qwen3.8-Flash model from Alibaba Tongyi Qianwen has officially landed on the platform, with the API official group fully open for free calls. This multimodal MoE model serves as a forward-looking preview of the Qwen4 architecture, featuring a total of 125B parameters and 51B N-gram Embedding, activating 6B parameters per token.The model integrates the GDN and QSA mixed attention mechanisms for the first time, natively supporting 262K context and can be extended to 1M via YaRN. Developers can start calling it at zero cost for tasks such as programming assistance, agent workflows, and document analysis.

On August 27, the one-stop AGI infrastructure platform B.AI announced that the Zhipu GLM-5.3-Flash (320B-A18B) officially launched on the platform and is fully open for free in the API official group. As the first native multimodal model in the GLM-5 series, GLM-5.3-Flash features a total of 320 billion parameters and 18 billion active parameters, supported by computing power from purely domestic AI chips. It introduces a mixed architecture of sparse and linear attention for the first time, combined with a 1M ultra-long context, offering both powerful performance and exceptional cost-effectiveness. Starting today, developers can call it at zero cost through the B.AI API official group, easily handling complex reasoning, long text processing, and multimodal tasks.

Mizuho analyst Vijay Rakesh stated that NVIDIA's second-quarter earnings exceeding expectations has become a consensus, with the market focusing on AI spending outlook. Rakesh expects NVIDIA's adjusted earnings per share to be $2.08, with revenue at $92 billion, and the actual figures may be higher. He maintains a "Outperform" rating and a target price of $300.

One-stop AGI infrastructure platform B.AI released the latest ecological data: On August 25, the number of new API users reached 23,432 in a single day, with a total of 79,500 new API users during the period; the single-day token throughput exceeded 594.71 billion, with a total of 74.108 million calls during the period and a cumulative throughput of over 3 trillion tokens.Two core indicators simultaneously refreshed historical records. The continuous influx of developers and explosive growth in computing power demand confirm B.AI's exceptional stability and extreme cost-effectiveness in high concurrency and complex load scenarios. B.AI is committed to becoming the preferred inclusive computing infrastructure for global teams, accelerating the comprehensive implementation of AGI.

According to CoinDesk, Ripple's stablecoin RLUSD has surpassed a market capitalization of $2 billion, becoming one of the fastest-growing projects in the stablecoin market. Data shows that the total issuance of RLUSD is currently around $2 billion, with approximately $963 million deployed on the XRP Ledger and about $1.1 billion issued on the Ethereum network.Ripple previously stated that RLUSD will combine with its global payment network to provide more efficient on-chain liquidity solutions for businesses and financial institutions.

CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. stated that the on-chain capital flow of Bitcoin showed directional improvement in the second half of August. The realized market cap relative net position change rose to +0.1% on August 24, marking the first positive shift since May 28, and has further increased to +0.21% as of today, indicating that the nearly three-month net capital outflow status has ended.Meanwhile, the 30-day apparent demand/new supply ratio for Bitcoin has been above 1 for six consecutive days, with the latest figure at 2.52, meaning the 30-day apparent demand is approximately 2.5 times the new BTC issuance during the same period. This indicator had dropped to -6.93 on August 2 and briefly rose to 3.16 on August 21. However, the absolute strength of both indicators remains relatively low. Since 2024, the median for periods of positive realized market cap has been +3.24%, while the current +0.21% is only at the lowest 3%-4% of positive samples; the historical median for the apparent demand ratio above 1 is 7.65, and the current 2.52 is also at the lowest 10%. It is believed that the more important signal currently is that the direction of capital flow has shifted from outflow to slight inflow, and demand has once again exceeded new supply, but a strong new demand cycle cannot yet be confirmed. Future observations are needed to see if the realized market cap can remain positive and if the apparent demand can further expand.

According to Bloomberg, the Hong Kong single-family office Anther Capital Ltd. has quietly established an artificial intelligence-related investment portfolio worth billions of dollars. The institution was founded by hedge fund veteran Larry Chen.According to the U.S. 13F filings, as of the end of the first half of this year, Anther Capital's exposure to U.S. listed stocks reached at least $3.9 billion. The institution began disclosing related holdings for the first time in the previous quarter.

According to The Information, DeepSeek is seeking a second round of financing with a valuation of 500 billion yuan, planning to raise 50 billion yuan. The company's revenue from January to July 2026 reached 475 million yuan, approximately 10 times the total revenue for 2025; during the same period, the net loss narrowed to 715 million yuan, compared to a net loss of 935 million yuan for the entire year of 2025. The gross margin is 44.6%, with the API business gross margin reaching 82.9%, mainly due to reduced inference costs from optimized computing infrastructure.Recently, DeepSeek raised its API pricing, with the V4-Pro peak output price increasing from $0.87 to $3.96, but still far below Kimi K3's $15 and Claude Opus 5's $25. The company's investment in computing infrastructure surged from 1.2 billion yuan in 2025 to 11 billion yuan from January to July 2026, primarily for server leasing and AI chip procurement. DeepSeek completed its first round of external financing of 50 billion yuan in June, and the company has hired investment banks to prepare for an IPO in Shanghai next year.

On August 26, B.AI announced that the API is fully compatible with the OpenAI Responses API. Developers only need to configure the Base URL using the B.AI API Key to directly call the GPT series models supported by B.AI in the Codex development environment, seamlessly integrating cutting-edge large model capabilities into their daily coding workflow. This means that whether it's code generation, logical understanding, intelligent debugging, architectural refactoring, or team development collaboration, developers can obtain real-time intelligent assistance from the GPT series models in the Codex environment, comprehensively covering various scenario needs from individual development to team collaboration. Experience it now: http://b.ai

Cryptocurrency investment firm RockawayX announced the acquisition of the crypto hedge fund Relayer Capital to incorporate long-short strategies into its existing platform and expand its business footprint in the United States. RockawayX manages approximately $2 billion in assets, and Relayer will be renamed RockawayX Liquid Opportunities Fund, focusing on uncovering "undervalued liquidity tokens and crypto-related stocks." After the acquisition is completed, Relayer founder Austin Barack will serve as the chief investment officer of the fund, with Forbes citing informed sources that the company plans to raise $150 million for the fund.According to the announcement, Relayer's liquidity strategy has achieved approximately 70% net returns this year, outperforming a weighted basket of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana by 86% as of August 21. The strategy expresses fundamental views on crypto tokens through long and short positions and pairs trading, while reducing overall market exposure at appropriate times. RockawayX CEO Viktor Fischer stated that now is the "right time" to implement this strategy, as there are crypto companies with real revenue and strong fundamentals emerging in the market, but inefficiencies and mispricing still exist, providing good opportunities for active investors.This transaction occurs amid a recent rebound in the crypto market, with Bitcoin recording its largest weekly dollar gain in history last week, dropping 1.68% to $79,064 in the past 24 hours after briefly reaching a high of around $81,000.

According to data from DefiLlama, Gate's 24-hour net capital inflow reached $194.09 million, ranking among the top three centralized exchanges in the world.

According to GMGN market data, the market capitalization of the Robinhood ecosystem token PONS briefly surpassed $80 million, setting a new historical high, currently reported at approximately $79.4 million.Pons previously announced that 28.52% of the total token supply has been burned, and Pons Treasury continues to use 80% of the protocol fee revenue to increase its holdings of PONS.

According to GMGN market data, the market capitalization of the Solana ecosystem meme coin PLSTACIO briefly surpassed $12 million, currently reported at about $11.9 million, with an intraday increase of over 300 times.In terms of narrative, PLSTACIO originates from a character newly created by artist Marcello. Marcello is a meme artist and content creator, whose X account @Marcello_695 has about 6,500 followers, and has long been creating meme-style characters like Pepo, noting works such as Swassie and Spepo in his personal profile.Meme coin prices are highly volatile and can be easily influenced by social media commentary and market sentiment; please be aware of trading risks.

The Bitcoin treasury company Strategy currently has a Bitcoin holding valued at $66.7 billion, with annual obligations such as preferred stock dividends and interest amounting to approximately $1.76 billion. Regime Intelligence analysis shows that the company's 840,447 Bitcoins correspond to about $22 billion in debt and preferred claims, making continuous access to capital markets for financing the basis for its performance.Stress tests indicate that the Bitcoin price would need to drop by about 96% for Strategy's Bitcoin holdings and reserves to be insufficient to cover convertible bonds; its debt is not traditional Bitcoin collateral margin loans, and there is no BTC margin call mechanism triggered by price declines. Report author Sherif Saad stated that Strategy needs to maintain a financing cycle to cover annual debt and preferred stock expenses, with cash reserves currently covering about 2.6 times the related annual expenses. If the financing environment worsens, the company may rely more on reserves and selling Bitcoin to fulfill its obligations.Since May, Strategy has sold Bitcoin four times, with the most recent sale of 1,690 Bitcoins, with the proceeds used to pay preferred stock dividends, buy back shares, and increase dollar reserves. CEO Phong Le stated earlier this month that the amount of Bitcoin purchased by the company this year is about 25 times the amount sold, and plans to resume purchases later this year.