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On April, the Gwangju Police Agency's Security Investigation Department in South Korea arrested four Uzbek suspects under the "Act on Prohibition of Financing Terrorism" and disclosed the case to the public on Tuesday. One of them is listed in a red notice by Interpol. The police stated that this is the first case involving cryptocurrency flowing out from a recognized terrorist organization and then returning as physical goods for funding.According to the police investigation, from August 2024 to April 2025, the alleged mastermind transferred 4,267 USDT to the Syrian terrorist organization "Katibat Tawhid wal Jihad" (KTJ) in seven transactions. KTJ was established in 2014, mainly composed of Central Asian militants, and has been designated as a terrorist organization by the United Nations and the United States. Additionally, the mastermind is also accused of receiving cryptocurrency from KTJ to purchase 11 used cars and 2 excavators, with a total value of approximately 170 million Korean won (about 121,000 USD), which were then transported to Syria. The other three suspects are alleged to have assisted in the purchase and export of these vehicles.The police stated that previous terrorism-related cases mostly involved remittances to terrorist organizations, while this case is the first to involve receiving funds from a terrorist organization and reverse procurement and supply of vehicles. The investigation revealed that the mastermind rotated operations among three personal wallets, with the vehicle purchase funds deposited into an account under his spouse's name, and he presented someone else's driver's license at the time of arrest. He entered South Korea in 2017 on a student visa, graduated from a university in Daejeon, and has been illegally staying since 2023. He denied the main charges during his first court hearing in June, claiming that the remittances were for family living expenses and that he did not know the identity of the vehicle purchasers. The police stated that the investigation also led to the capture of a second suspect listed in a red notice, and the case is still ongoing.

Bitfinex Securities is a tokenized investment platform under the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, which has launched 5 types of tokenized notes, providing economic exposure to Bitcoin reserve companies such as Strategy, Metaplanet, H100 Group, and Capital B for eligible investors. The platform has also launched the Strategy floating rate perpetual preferred stock STRC.The aforementioned notes are issued through the Luxembourg ORO (II) Fund, managed by SICOS Securities, with the underlying securities held in custody by regulated financial institutions, but do not grant investors direct ownership of shares in the corresponding companies. Products can be invested in fractions starting from about $1 and support trading in USD, USDT, and Bitcoin, available only to eligible non-U.S. investors. Bitfinex Securities stated that this is the first time related products have been traded in the secondary market on a regulated tokenized securities exchange. After completing a $50 million tokenized financing for the metal company Alkemya in August this year, the platform has listed assets exceeding $500 million.

Bitcoin holding company Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) has written to MSCI opposing its proposal to exclude "non-operating companies" from the global investable market index, stating that the proposal is "misleading and flawed." Strategy founder Michael Saylor and CEO Phong Le expressed in the letter that MSCI's proposal discriminates against digital asset companies and questioned its fairness and reliability as an index provider.Earlier this month, MSCI announced that it is consulting on the definition of "non-operating companies" and plans to exclude such companies from its global investable market index. Strategy pointed out that this is the second time MSCI has proposed a similar plan, as a previous proposal for 2025 was withdrawn. Strategy emphasized that it is an operating company, employing approximately 1,500 people globally, and reports its Bitcoin business as an operating segment, with Bitcoin gains and losses reported as operating expenses.Strategy is currently the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, holding 845,050 Bitcoins, valued at approximately $6.58 billion at current prices. MSTR closed up 4% on Monday, but has fallen 15% year-to-date.

The prediction market platform Kalshi has permanently banned former U.S. Congressman George Santos and fined him $71,356 for manipulating a market related to his attendance at the State of the Union address, profiting nearly $18,000. This is the first time the exchange has imposed a lifetime ban on a former member of Congress.According to a disciplinary notice issued by Kalshi's compliance department on August 28, Santos conducted multiple large transactions in this market between February 2 and 25. Since he was able to influence the outcome, exchange rules prohibited him from participating in trading. He subsequently issued a series of public statements regarding his attendance, some of which were false or misleading, intending to drive price movements in the "Yes" and "No" contracts. The compliance department determined that these statements did indeed manipulate prices, allowing him to profit $17,839.57 in the relevant market, violating multiple rules regarding market manipulation, influencing trading outcomes, and using deceptive practices, and he faced additional penalties for failing to cooperate with the investigation.The prediction market allows users to bet on the outcomes of real-world events such as elections, sports, and economic data by purchasing "Yes" or "No" contracts. As event contracts have become mainstream, Kalshi and its crypto-native competitor Polymarket have seen a surge in trading volume over the past year, attracting significant institutional interest.

According to Businesswire, the cryptocurrency asset investment fund C1 Fund announced its performance for the second quarter of 2026, revealing that as of the second quarter of this year, its portfolio has expanded to 11 cryptocurrency companies, covering areas such as cryptocurrency payments, custody, compliance, staking, exchanges, infrastructure development, and prediction markets. Its two major investment exposures are Ripple (accounting for 17.5% of net assets) and Kraken's parent company Payward (16.9%), and it has also made a new investment in the prediction market platform Polymarket, although the specific investment amount has not been disclosed.C1 Fund also stated that as of July 31, it has repurchased and canceled 249,300 shares of the company's stock, with a total cost of approximately $824,000, and it is currently authorized to repurchase up to $3 million in stock.

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 the Vietnam News Agency, Vietnam is piloting a regulatory framework for the cryptocurrency market to strengthen investor protection while opening up financing channels. The government’s Resolution No. 05, released in September 2025, specifies that cryptocurrencies must be backed by RWA, excluding securities and fiat currencies, and will initially be issued only to foreign investors. Currently, five companies have undergone preliminary assessments through the exchange and must meet Level 4 security requirements and contribute at least 100 trillion Vietnamese dong (approximately 383 million USD). The decree No. 284, issued in July, will impose penalties on unlicensed platform trading activities starting from September 1, and domestic investors must wait six months after the first licensed service provider receives a license from the Ministry of Finance before they can trade through licensed providers.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on X that Apple did not predict Uber, TikTok, or Coinbase, but the iPhone has spawned a whole new wave of companies. Tokenized assets on the blockchain will be similar, with known immediate benefits including global access, better utility, and 24/7 trading, but the unimaginable new financial companies will be built on this.

The Taliban government in Afghanistan has effectively banned Bitcoin and cryptocurrency trading nationwide, threatening to prosecute traders and related businesses. More than 20 crypto shops in Herat have closed, and at least 13 traders have reportedly been arrested. Monthly inflows of cryptocurrency in Afghanistan have dropped from a peak of over $150 million to less than $80,000.After Afghanistan was largely cut off from the global banking system, Bitcoin and stablecoins had become important tools for savings and remittances. Taliban officials claim that digital assets are fraudulent and believe that cryptocurrency speculation is akin to gambling under Islamic law. Although the related actions have compressed the visible cryptocurrency market in Afghanistan, Bitcoin can still be traded via the internet, private keys, and counterparties.

The Irish National Police (An Garda Síochána) reported that during a special operation against organized crime in the Galway area, police searched two properties and froze two cryptocurrency accounts worth approximately $900,000 in total. In addition, the police also froze a bank account containing €25,000 (approximately $29,100), and seized €9,300 in cash and drugs valued at approximately €18,300 (including amphetamines and cannabis).A man in his 40s involved in the case has been arrested and charged, and the investigation is ongoing.

The U.S. Central Command stated that the troops successfully cleared mines allegedly laid by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in the international shipping lanes of the Strait of Hormuz.The Strait of Hormuz is now open, and transit traffic volume continues to increase.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Nvidia has suspended some transactions in its new financing plan. This plan aims to provide credit support to AI cloud companies in exchange for revenue sharing. Insiders say that the chip giant withdrew from the related arrangements last week but may adjust the plan in the future or incorporate it into other projects.A Nvidia spokesperson stated that the new business model aimed at the rapidly growing AI ecosystem and open computing power access is still progressing and continues to evolve due to strong demand. The plan was announced less than two months ago, intending to support the financing needs of small AI cloud companies: if customers cannot sell computing power, Nvidia can lease back the relevant computing power, acting as a guarantee buyer, thereby facilitating companies in raising funds to purchase Nvidia AI chips; Nvidia would then share cloud revenue generated by customers based on its chips, in addition to hardware sales.Nvidia stated in this week's earnings call that this model is expected to contribute billions of dollars in revenue in the medium to long term. However, recent investor scrutiny regarding its capital flow back to the AI ecosystem has increased, raising concerns that so-called circular transactions may inflate demand. Reports indicate that some employees had expressed antitrust concerns to customers; in the early stages of the plan, Nvidia also faced dissatisfaction from some potential partners due to attempts to limit chip rental targets, preferring to distribute to multiple small customers rather than a single large customer, and requiring a 50% revenue share after reaching a certain threshold.

Consumer rights organization Public Citizen released a report stating that U.S. President Trump and his family's cryptocurrency projects have resulted in investor losses of at least $4.7 billion since 2022. Most of the losses stem from the TRUMP meme coin issued by Trump, with investors losing about $3.2 billion, while buyers of World Liberty Financial's USD1 stablecoin "have not suffered significant losses."The report noted that Trump profited $7.2 million from NFT royalties, over $600 million from the sale of World Liberty tokens and equity, $635 million from meme coin royalties, and $197 million in revenue from investing in World Liberty. These figures do not include the company and project shares he continues to hold, and some data is included in the President's 2025 disclosure documents, showing his cryptocurrency-related income reached $1.4 billion.Public Citizen once again called for the inclusion of ethical provisions in the Digital Asset Market Clarification Act (CLARITY Act), requiring the U.S. President and his family to divest from industry-related projects. The bill is scheduled for a final vote on September 15 and requires support from at least 60 senators to advance. White House spokesperson Anna Kelly previously responded that Trump's cryptocurrency investments "do not present a conflict of interest."

Binance contracts will adopt the latest price protection (LPP) mechanism for the TACUSDT U-based perpetual contract on August 27, 2026, at 19:00, to address price deviations of TAC (TAC Protocol) across multiple exchanges.The LPP mechanism will be gradually implemented through a marked price smoothing processing model, with the funding rate limits adjusted to +0.005% / -0.005%.

Zhao Changpeng stated at the "Bitcoin Asia 2026" conference in Hong Kong that both the RWA and AI sectors are currently very strong. Stablecoins, centralized exchanges, decentralized exchanges, and Meme tokens, which have been growing, will continue to grow, and NFTs may return in some form. It is difficult to predict what the next breakout point will be, just as it was impossible to predict the coin issuance craze at the beginning of 2017 and the NFT craze six months before it exploded; these all require entrepreneurs to create.He also mentioned that the funds used by billions of AI agents for automated buying, selling, negotiating, and trading in the future will definitely be cryptocurrencies, likely starting with stablecoins, and then gradually integrating other public chain assets like Bitcoin. He has discussed the possibility of issuing tokens with several top AI companies, as building data centers requires huge amounts of capital, with the cost of 1 GW of computing power being about $30 billion to $50 billion. Some AI companies plan to build hundreds of GW of computing power in the coming years, so they are considering issuing data center tokens that would allow holders to gain rights to use computing power in the future. Additionally, the payment scenarios for AI agents may be implemented later than trading scenarios; currently, AI companies are more focused on helping agents find optimal trading solutions, while trading scenarios require AI to process information quickly, which can increase trading efficiency by about ten times.

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 latest MLCC industry research by TrendForce, South Korean giant Samsung Electro-Mechanics has recently taken the lead in raising prices for OEM and ODM customers for the fourth quarter of 2026, indicating that the MLCC industry has officially entered an upward trend. TrendForce estimates that Samsung Electro-Mechanics will raise the prices of consumer-grade X5R products for OEM and ODM customers by an average of 25% to 30%, in order to suppress order willingness and free up capacity to expand high-end production lines.The high-end X6S products used in AI servers will see an average price increase of 10% to 20% depending on customer negotiations. Japanese manufacturers Murata, TDK, and Kyocera are currently taking a wait-and-see approach, maintaining stable prices, and whether they will follow up with price adjustments will be key to observing whether the upward trend can expand.

At a closed-door sharing session held in Hong Kong, Binance founder CZ responded to questions about entrepreneurship among university students, emphasizing that there is no need to rush into starting a business. He suggested that young people should first work at a good large company for a few years, stating, "Two years should be the minimum," with 2 to 5 years being ideal. He cited his own four years at Bloomberg as an example, noting that the complete management system of a large company is something that university students cannot experience immediately upon graduation, which will be very helpful for future entrepreneurship.CZ believes that young people must focus on cultivating "a specialized skill." He stated that this is a world of global competition, "If you broadly say programming, there are millions of programmers worldwide, and it is impossible to be twice as good as everyone else. However, if you can become the best 1% or even 0.1% in the world, the returns you receive may be several times, dozens of times, or even hundreds of times more than others. The treatment of the first place and the second place will be very different."

NVIDIA's Chief Financial Officer stated that the company is introducing a revenue-sharing mechanism, which includes a "no questions asked" commitment and a minimum revenue guarantee.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Google (GOOG.O) is restructuring its AI organization by moving the AI responsibility team out of the DeepMind lab.