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On September 1, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1, marking the first update to this model series since the launch of Fable 5 on June 9. Anthropic claims that the new models are the most advanced for programming and knowledge work. In the Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 benchmark, Fable 5.1 recorded a pass rate of 52.6%, more than doubling Fable 5's 24.7% and surpassing Opus 5's 29%; in Terminal-Bench 4, Fable 5.1 scored 55.8%, higher than Fable 5's 42% and Opus 5's 52.3%.Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 share the same underlying model, differing only in their safety filters. Fable 5.1 is available to all Claude accounts, while Mythos 5.1 remains restricted to professionals vetted through Anthropic's network security verification program and life sciences verification program. In terms of pricing, Fable 5.1 charges $10 per million tokens for input and $50 for output, which is double that of Opus 5. Cache read costs have decreased by 75%, and typical workload costs can drop by about 25%, with high agentic workloads decreasing by up to 45%.

According to ChainCatcher, data from The Block shows that the cumulative market value of digital asset reserve companies (DATs) has increased by 10% since mid-August, currently reaching about $340 billion, but still far below the approximately $490 billion when Bitcoin hit its historical high of about $126,000 in October to November last year. These companies buy and hold cryptocurrencies, raising funds at a premium and using this as leverage to increase their token holdings, with investors betting on their ability to amplify the returns of the underlying assets.

According to CoinDesk, 21 international financial institutions have announced plans to establish a new company in the second half of 2026 to promote the issuance of stablecoins, with the specific name to be announced later. The company will initially focus on USD-denominated stablecoins and plans to expand to more G7 currencies in the future, with a priority on euro stablecoins.Participating institutions include Bank of America, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Wells Fargo, BBVA, Santander Bank, MUFG Bank, and others. The stablecoin initiative aims to serve wholesale, institutional, and retail markets, applying to scenarios such as cross-border payments and digital asset settlements.The group stated that the stablecoin solution will combine bank-level compliance, governance, and institutional risk management capabilities, and plans to comply with relevant regulatory requirements such as the U.S. GENIUS Act and the EU MiCA. The project aims to officially launch stablecoin products in the first half of 2027.

According to CoinDesk, the DeFi protection protocol Firelight Protocol announced the completion of $8 million in financing, led by Gumi Cryptos Capital, with participation from Maven 11, Metalayer, Joint Effects, and Tribe Capital.Firelight is incubated by the DeFi infrastructure provider Sentora (managing assets totaling $2.4 billion) and plans to officially launch in September this year.

According to CoinDesk, AI company Anthropic has reached a $35 billion computing power procurement agreement with Lambda, an AI cloud service provider supported by NVIDIA, part of which will be provided through Bitcoin mining company Hut 8's Beacon Point facility located in Nueces County, Texas.Hut 8 previously disclosed that the facility has signed two long-term leases for 15 years, covering 704 MW of IT capacity, with a total contract value of $19.6 billion, but the identity of the tenants had not been disclosed earlier. The facility spans 525 acres and has a maximum power access capacity of 1 GW with ready grid connections.According to the currently disclosed transaction structure, NVIDIA holds the lease for the facility, Lambda will deploy NVIDIA chips, and Anthropic will procure the computing power generated from this. Hut 8 has not confirmed how much of the 704 MW capacity is related to Lambda and Anthropic, nor has it confirmed whether NVIDIA is the previously undisclosed tenant.As the demand for power and computing resources in AI data centers surges, Bitcoin mining companies with ready power and grid access capabilities are accelerating their transformation into AI infrastructure. Mining companies including Hut 8, TeraWulf, IREN, and Bitdeer have all entered the AI data center market by selling or leasing computing power and power infrastructure.Hut 8's revenue for the second quarter of this year was $74.93 million, a year-on-year increase of 81%; its two leases at Beacon Point have a total value of $19.6 billion, and the facility is expected to generate approximately $1.31 billion in operating profit annually once fully operational.

According to Bloomberg, the stablecoin cross-border remittance startup Felix Pago announced the completion of a $200 million Series B funding round.This round of financing includes $87 million in equity financing and $113 million in credit line financing. The equity financing was co-invested by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), while the credit line financing comes from General Catalyst's Customer Value Fund.Felix Pago is currently one of the most representative stablecoin remittance networks in Latin America, primarily using WhatsApp as the front-end entry point, and leveraging USDC and blockchain as the underlying settlement infrastructure, significantly reducing the cost and time for cross-border remittances from the United States to Mexico.

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.

According to security company Huntress, hackers are spreading theft malware to cryptocurrency users by forging Google Docs files, hosting malicious files on GitHub, and impersonating Claude.ai pages. Attackers disguise themselves as senior employees of CoinDesk on the social platform X, luring victims to open Google Docs documents containing malicious code under the pretext of inviting them to an online meeting, thereby guiding users to install the malicious program themselves.Mac users face the threat of Atomic macOS Stealer (AMOS), which can steal browser passwords, cryptocurrency wallet data, and Telegram files; Windows users are pushed fake Google API Connector updates, which, once installed, implant NetSupport RAT and a counterfeit Ledger hardware wallet application. Additionally, hackers are placing false advertisements on search engines like Bing, enticing users to visit counterfeit Claude.ai pages and execute malicious commands. The related malware MacSync and SectopRAT can steal cookies, saved passwords, recovery phrases, and payment card information.Security company Socket also discovered 16 malicious extensions targeting Chrome and Edge, capable of emptying EVM, Solana, and Tron wallet assets.

The parent company of Kraken, Payward, announced a partnership with the London Stock Exchange (LSE) to tokenize the stocks of the 100 largest companies listed on the LSE into xStocks, which are backed 1:1. The first London-listed xStocks are expected to be launched on Kraken and other platforms supporting the xStocks Alliance in the coming weeks, available to investors in over 110 countries, but not yet open to UK investors.Subject to regulatory approval, the LSE plans to list and support xStocks trading on its newly launched extended trading hours, LSE 24. LSE CEO Julia Hoggett stated that by collaborating with Payward and continuously working with the market infrastructure ecosystem, they are exploring how issuers and investors can benefit from new access methods while maintaining the standards that underpin the public market. In addition to tokenizing existing stocks, both parties will also explore the issuance of native equity tokens through LSE infrastructure, which have the same rights as traditional stocks and are fully interchangeable.Payward's tokenized stock framework was launched in June 2025 and acquired by Payward in December, having processed over $40 billion in total trading volume, covering more than 200,000 holders, with nearly $20 billion settled on-chain. According to RWA.xyz data, there are currently approximately $2.53 billion in existing tokenized stocks, with xStocks tokenizing about $606.6 million, making it the second-largest issuer after Ondo.

According to EU-Startups, Berlin-based AI-native energy platform Cloover announced the completion of a new funding round of €86.2 million (approximately $100 million) and received €350 million in guarantees from the European Investment Fund (EIF), bringing the total funding amount to over €1.12 billion (approximately $1.3 billion). Meanwhile, the company announced that it has officially achieved profitability three years after its establishment, with an annualized revenue exceeding €301.7 million (approximately $350 million).Cloover focuses on residential solar energy, heat pumps, and home electrification, providing financing, software, and energy products in collaboration with independent installers. It currently covers the five major markets in Europe, completing approximately 20,000 installation projects each year, making it one of the top three residential energy players in Europe's largest energy market. The company plans to further expand into the UK, France, and Poland markets. In addition, Cloover has officially launched an AI-native "new utility" model, transforming each household into a virtual power plant through a home energy management system, aggregating distributed solar energy, energy storage, heat pumps, and electric vehicle charging stations to enable real-time trading of electricity flexibility.

The London Stock Exchange (LSEG) and Payward, the parent company of the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, announced a partnership to bring stocks of the largest listed companies in the UK onto the blockchain. In the coming weeks, the stocks of the top 100 companies listed on the LSE will be available on Payward's xStocks tokenized stock framework. These xStocks are tokens that correspond one-to-one with the underlying stocks, allowing for 24/7 trading on centralized exchanges, self-custody wallets, and on-chain applications.This initiative continues the rapidly expanding framework of Payward. Over the past year, the cumulative trading volume of xStocks has exceeded $40 billion, with nearly $20 billion settled on-chain, and more than 200,000 product holders. Through the blockchain channel, UK-listed stocks will be able to reach investor groups in over 110 countries, although xStocks are currently not available to domestic UK investors.Subject to regulatory approval, the LSE plans to list and support xStocks trading on its newly launched 24-hour trading platform, LSE 24, and will gradually cover tokenized stocks and more asset classes in the US, EU, UK, and Hong Kong. Both parties also stated that they will explore stock tokens issued natively by the LSE, allowing LSE members to issue and service stocks directly on-chain, with the same full interchangeability and rights as traditional stocks. Payward Co-CEO Arjun Sethi stated that for years, people have assumed that crypto and traditional finance must collide and one side would lose, but that has never been the real story;

CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr stated that from August 18 to 28, the 30-day cumulative distribution of Bitcoin long-term holders (LTH) increased from 174,500 to 281,900, a rise of 61.5%, reaching the highest level since 2026 on August 28. This metric accelerated significantly during the rapid rebound after the short-term squeeze in Bitcoin, indicating that long-term holders are taking profits as prices rise.Meanwhile, the LTH MVRV rose from 1.31 on August 18 to 1.64 on August 27, remaining at a level of 1.6 on August 31, which means that the market value of Bitcoin held by long-term holders is approximately 60% higher than their average realized value. This suggests that despite the increase in distribution activity, long-term holders still possess significant unrealized profits. Axel believes that the price rebound after the short-term squeeze has simultaneously elevated the profit levels of long-term holders and the speed of token distribution, creating conditions for further profit-taking. If Bitcoin prices remain stable, long-term holders may continue to release supply, adding extra selling pressure to the market. The current key issue for the market is whether the high-level distribution by long-term holders will continue and whether new buying can absorb this additional supply; otherwise, the market may face price pressure again.

Gate US's wholly-owned subsidiary Gate Futures LLC has completed the independent introducing broker registration with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and has officially become a member of the National Futures Association (NFA).

Recently, Sun Yuchen launched a batch of real-name complaints against the self-media that criticized him. Sun Yuchen filed multiple complaints against several self-media accounts, including Luke Wen Studio and "Luo Serious," on the grounds of "defamation/commercial reputation/invasion of privacy/portrait rights."The complaint materials requested the platform to deal with articles that used qualitative expressions such as "cutting leeks" and reinforced negative personas, and stated that he has entrusted a lawyer to secure evidence.

MediaTek announced on the 31st that it has completed the pricing of $3.9 billion (nearly NT$125 billion) in overseas convertible bonds, bringing in funds from two AI giants, Nvidia and Google's parent company Alphabet. Nvidia accounted for $3.5 billion (about NT$110 billion), approximately 90% of the total amount, and announced that the two companies will deepen their cooperation in the future. This is the largest overseas convertible bond issuance in the history of Taiwan's capital market and also Nvidia's first investment in a Taiwanese company.According to a joint statement from Nvidia and MediaTek, Nvidia will purchase MediaTek's overseas convertible bonds. This investment expands the cooperation between the two parties, and MediaTek will use Nvidia's NVLink Fusion and Nvidia's recently released NVHBM technology to facilitate smoother communication of components in data centers. Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang stated that the cooperation with MediaTek has "expanded significantly," making it one of the top partnerships; MediaTek's processors will become the foundation for the next generation of Windows PCs. MediaTek stated that this overseas fundraising attracted enthusiastic participation and subscriptions from long-term important partners such as Nvidia and Alphabet, as well as renowned international investors.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has intensified its scrutiny of companies behind so-called Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs). According to informed sources, SEC examiners have been requesting registered investment advisors to provide evidence that their SPVs actually own or hold shares in the private companies they claim.Some insiders have indicated that, ahead of the highly anticipated initial public offerings of SpaceX and Anthropic's planned listing, such funds have ramped up their marketing efforts, while complaints from investors have also increased, prompting regulators to decide to strengthen their scrutiny. According to one of the insiders, the SEC's current reviews typically include document requests, and some reviews also involve on-site interviews. The review process can last anywhere from several weeks to a year.