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According to DeFiLlama data, as of September 9 at 13:30, Huobi HTX had a net capital inflow of approximately 447 million USD in the past 24 hours, ranking first among the centralized exchanges in their statistics. During the same period, the platform's total assets were approximately 4.232 billion USD, Clean Assets were about 4.218 billion USD, the 24-hour spot trading volume reached 1.036 billion USD, and the contract open interest was approximately 3.948 billion USD.As of September 8 at 9:00, Huobi HTX had a net capital inflow of approximately 437 million USD in the past 24 hours, also ranking first among CEX.

According to South Korea's "Cultural Daily," Samsung Electronics' wafer fab in Taylor, Texas, is expected to enter trial operation around the end of this month, as orders for 2-nanometer chips from Tesla, Broadcom, Arm, and others continue to pour in, with pre-production capacity nearing full load. The plant has accumulated an investment of $37 billion since 2022, with plans to begin trial operation early next month and mass production next year, with an initial monthly capacity of about 50,000 wafers, close to TSMC's approximately 80,000 wafers.The report states that the Taylor plant will produce Tesla's next-generation artificial intelligence chip AI5, Broadcom's new generation communication chips, and Arm's smart device AI chips, among others. Samsung's 2-nanometer yield has increased from about 60% earlier this year to around 80% recently. The company sent personnel for process, equipment, and yield to the plant in June, and began installing equipment in July. At a recent earnings meeting, Samsung projected that this year's 2-nanometer order volume would more than double compared to last year, and stated that NVIDIA's inference chip Grok3 began mass production last month; Samsung also recently raised the foundry price for 4-nanometer chips by up to 15%.The second Taylor plant is scheduled to start construction by the end of this year and begin mass production in 2030. Samsung has requested major partners to complete the relevant production equipment safety certifications in advance, and some partners are considering sending dozens of personnel to the local area. At the same time, Intel issued about $20 billion in new shares last month and expanded investments in 2-nanometer level 18A and 1.4-nanometer level 14A, while Japan's Rapidus completed its 2-nanometer factory in Hokkaido last month and entered the wafer trial production stage.

According to CoinDesk, the Polish prosecutor's office has charged Roman Ż., a former business partner of the missing BitBay/Zondacrypto founder Sylwester Suszek, with two counts, including fraud.Roman Ż. was arrested last Saturday in the Silesia region of Poland, and his lawyer stated that he had assisted in managing the exchange before BitBay was renamed Zonda. Roman Ż. denies the charges and has provided a detailed statement to investigators, with police seizing valuable watches and documents related to Zondacrypto during the search.The prosecutor's office stated that the arrest was ordered due to concerns that Roman Ż. would flee upon learning of plans to travel to China, with his lawyer describing the trip as a business trip and stating that he held a return ticket for September 13. The court will decide whether to continue detaining Roman Ż. during the investigation.Previously, BitBay was renamed Zondacrypto in 2021, and the exchange ceased trading in April, following customer withdrawal freezes, with estimated losses of at least 35 million zlotys (approximately 9.4 million USD). The Estonian Financial Intelligence Unit partially suspended the license of the brand entity BB Trade Estonia OÜ. The Polish prosecutor's office has launched an investigation into suspected large-scale fraud and money laundering, receiving over 3,600 complaints as of June.The case is also related to Suszek's disappearance in March 2022, with the prosecutor's office merging the Zondacrypto investigation with the Suszek missing person case in August.

Hyperliquid Policy Center CEO Jake Chervinsky disclosed on the X platform that the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a motion to dismiss CME's lawsuit regarding crypto perpetual contracts.The motion states that CME lacks standing to sue, arguing that CME itself can also offer perpetual contracts, so any harm is self-inflicted. Chervinsky relayed the CFTC's wording, stating "this lawsuit is just making a mountain out of a molehill."

According to The Information, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is reviewing relevant rules to address potential conflicts of interest between prediction market exchanges and their affiliated trading companies.

The political action committee Protect Progress PAC, affiliated with the cryptocurrency industry supporter Fairshake, has spent approximately $189,000 on media advertising ahead of the primary election in Massachusetts's 4th congressional district, supporting Democratic Congressman Jake Auchincloss's re-election campaign. Records from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) show that this expenditure is Fairshake's latest move in the 2026 election, following over $130 million spent on advertising and media promotion during the 2024 election cycle.The Massachusetts primary is scheduled to take place on Tuesday local time. Democratic candidate Jason Poulos sent a letter to Auchincloss on August 16, requesting that he "publicly condemn" Protect Progress's involvement. Poulos stated that some of the funds were used to create "AI-generated spam" supporting Auchincloss, and pointed out that the latter has directly accepted $77,500 in donations from cryptocurrency industry sources since 2020. Auchincloss also voted in favor of the Digital Asset Market Structure Act in July 2025, which is currently under Senate review and has not yet been signed into law.In August, Fairshake and its affiliates invested approximately $3.6 million in congressional campaigns in Alaska, Florida, and Wyoming. Fairshake reported that it has about $122 million in cash ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Massachusetts will be one of the last states in the U.S. to hold its primary this year, with just over two months remaining until the general election in November.

According to DeFiLlama data, the top three centralized exchanges by net inflow of funds in the past 24 hours are Binance at $113 million, Bitget at $86.83 million, and Bybit at $67.52 million, with a total net inflow exceeding $267 million.

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.

According to Digitalasset, the South Korean National Tax Service plans to introduce commercial tracking programs used by domestic and foreign investigative agencies to track and analyze the flow of funds between digital asset wallets, in order to close the tax loophole for virtual assets in personal wallets.The South Korean government stated that digital assets held in personal wallets and overseas exchanges are subject to taxation as long as there is income generated from transfers or loans. The overseas exchanges will respond through the Crypto Asset Automatic Information Exchange Framework (CARF).

U.S. President Trump will fill the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve with Venezuelan oil. The process to replenish it to full capacity will soon be initiated.

Numa Lunah, co-founder of the crypto project Refi Hub, stated that he was hacked after installing a transcription application using a download link provided in the Claude chat window. The link pointed to a counterfeit website and bundled malware that attempted to steal all information from his device upon execution. Numa Lunah mentioned that he cleared and reinstalled the affected laptop and found no sensitive information leaked.Subsequently, he discovered a contaminated Claude Code skill file SKILL.md in his backup, which disguised itself as a style guide written by him and contained instructions to re-download the malware and steal credentials every time it was loaded. Microsoft Defender Experts had warned that attackers had shifted from search engine optimization poisoning to large language model response poisoning, with related tactics including recommending download links controlled by attackers, AI brand impersonation installers, and contaminated code libraries and proxy skills. Crypto industry practitioners may hold irrevocable credentials such as mnemonic phrases, private key files, hot wallet JSON, exchange API keys with withdrawal permissions, and deployer keys.

According to Sina Entertainment, Sun Yuchen's attorney Zhang Qihuai has stated that Sun Yuchen has filed a civil lawsuit against Jing and his parents regarding a property dispute, with the amount in question exceeding 30 million yuan. The case has been officially filed in accordance with the law.The plaintiff has applied to the court for property preservation. After the case was accepted, the defendant Jing raised a jurisdictional objection, which is currently under review by the court. The case has not yet entered the substantive trial stage, and there is no final judgment result at this time.It is reported that Zhang Qihuai is a well-known lawyer in the country, having represented high-profile cases such as Wang Baoqiang's divorce case, the second trial of Li Tianyi's case, and Sun Yang's doping case. Zhang Qihuai stated in a recent Weibo post that he will participate in this case as the attorney, but there has been no confirmation from Sun Yuchen's side regarding this identity.

DefiLlama has partnered with the Web3 investment banking and consulting platform Forgd to launch a universal token rating dashboard, which rates over 100 DeFi tokens with a score from 0 to 100 and assigns letter grades from AAA to CCC, mirroring traditional credit ratings. The ratings are continuously updated based on changing token-related metrics.The dashboard aims to standardize the assessment of crypto tokens, providing traders and investors with a transparent and unified measurement scale, enhancing transparency and trust in the context of inconsistent metrics in the DeFi sector.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, there is a prediction of large capital movements in the Polymarket market. A giant whale invested $57,000 in the event "Cincinnati Open: Arthur Fils vs. Frances Tiafoe." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this subject is 56%.

According to the latest report from DefiLlama, Gate's trading activity remains at the forefront of the industry, with a total trading volume of approximately $9.5 billion in spot and derivatives over the past 24 hours, ranking third globally and exceeding some mainstream trading platforms by about 40%. DefiLlama pointed out that Gate's trading structure is clearly biased towards derivatives, and the continuously growing scale of related trading has become an important support for its market competitiveness, creating a distinct business advantage among centralized exchanges.In addition to ranking third globally in trading volume, Gate's open interest also ranks among the top three worldwide, currently reaching $12.48 billion, further reflecting the scale of its derivatives business and market participation. DefiLlama noted that compared to its reserve size, Gate demonstrates a more outstanding trading performance, supporting a large derivatives trading volume with a relatively streamlined asset scale. The simultaneous entry of trading volume and open interest into the industry's top three core indicators reflects Gate's leading performance in capital capacity, user participation, and overall market competitiveness.

According to Cointelegraph, the affiliated company of the trading platform Capital.com, Capital Vault, has obtained a virtual asset license issued by the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) of the UAE, allowing it to handle virtual assets as an agent or matching party and provide custody services.Capital Vault will operate as an independent regulated entity, having established an office in Abu Dhabi and formed a local virtual asset team. After the service goes live, UAE users will be able to directly purchase and hold crypto assets through the Capital.com app, unlike the previous offering which only provided price exposure through contracts for difference (CFD).

Goldman Sachs is testing investor demand for an approximately $1.15 billion junk bond issuance, the proceeds of which will be used to build a data center leased to the AI cloud computing company CoreWeave.Insiders revealed that the project is located near Richmond, Virginia, and is being developed by PowerHouse Data Centers, a subsidiary of American Real Estate Partners, in collaboration with Chirisa Technology Parks, with expectations to enter the market as early as September. This financing comes at a time when investors are becoming more cautious about AI infrastructure debt. As the issuance of bonds related to AI data centers has increased this year, the market has begun to demand higher yields. CoreWeave previously supported a high-yield bond issuance for many data center developers through long-term lease agreements, but its speculative-grade credit rating has also raised financing costs.

According to DeFiLlama data, the top three centralized exchange (CEX) net inflows in the past 24 hours are: Binance ($234 million), Bybit ($51.55 million), and Bitget ($17.56 million).