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The UK's HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) stated that for the 2024 to 2025 tax year, 240 individuals each reported capital gains from crypto assets exceeding £1 million, totaling £717 million, accounting for more than half of the total. The capital gains of all 17,600 filers amounted to £1.38 billion, with disposals totaling £13.8 billion. Taxpayers reporting capital gains below £25,000 accounted for 65%, contributing only 7% of the capital gains and 8% of the disposals.Among crypto asset taxpayers, 54% are aged between 25 and 44, and 81% are under 54; males account for 87%, contributing 93% of the capital gains. The UK is advancing regulation based on the OECD crypto asset reporting framework, requiring trading service providers to provide customer information to tax authorities, with HMRC set to start receiving relevant data in 2027; service providers failing to comply will face fines of up to £300 per user. James Murray, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, stated that capital gains from crypto assets are subject to tax just like other capital gains. The UK Treasury plans to defer capital gains tax on DeFi lending and assets deposited into liquidity pools until the actual disposal of the assets. For the 2025 to 2026 tax year, capital gains exceeding the tax-free allowance must be reported by January 31, 2027.

U.S. Federal Judge Rita Lin issued a partial summary judgment in a 59-page ruling regarding Anthropic's lawsuit against the Trump administration, determining that the government's punishment of Anthropic for publicly refusing to allow the military to use its Claude large model for mass surveillance of U.S. citizens and lethal autonomous operations constituted illegal retaliation, violating the First Amendment, due process clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act. The judge also revoked the related designations and Defense Secretary Hegseth's injunction, issuing a permanent injunction.The controversy arose from the Pentagon's demand that Anthropic remove all usage restrictions and accept terms allowing "all lawful uses," while Anthropic maintained its last two bottom lines. On February 27, 2025, Trump ordered all federal agencies to cease using the company's technology, and Hegseth subsequently prohibited any military contractors from doing business with it. During this process, the government abandoned its core claims, acknowledging that Anthropic had no backdoor access to the deployed models and that the risks of Claude were no greater than those of other "black box" systems. Lin pointed out that the government's punishment under the guise of "national security" was not a blank check, and that the government had been operating under the preliminary injunction since March without indicating any harm.Anthropic did not achieve a complete victory, as its claim that Trump's directive exceeded presidential authority was dismissed. Anthropic informed the court that if the relevant measures continued, its defense-related revenue would decrease by 50% to 100%, resulting in a loss of billions of dollars in overall revenue by 2026.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, the Bitcoin mining company Metaplanet (@Metaplanet) has purchased 43,000 bitcoins, with a total value of 3.48 billion dollars and an average purchase price of 96,191 dollars.An hour ago, the company deposited another 1,350 bitcoins into Coinbase Prime, worth 108 million dollars.

According to Gate market data, on August 28, both the Hang Seng Index and the Hang Seng Tech Index rose in the morning session. By the midday close, the Hang Seng Index was up 0.47%, and the Hang Seng Tech Index was up 0.6%.Hong Kong stock telecommunications infrastructure concept stocks led the gains, with Junzhi Group and Huanlian Lianxun rising over 4%, and Zhongji Xuchuang rising over 3%. Domestic property stocks collectively rose, with Xuhui Holdings Group and Sunac China rising more than 5%.

According to monitoring by Ai Yi, a bit-related entity that previously profited approximately 55.095 million USD from ETH long positions is suspected to be starting to lay out a second round of long positions. Its new address received a margin of 10 million USDC yesterday, and then opened long positions of 6,000 ETH, with a position value of approximately 14.98 million USD and an average opening price of about 2,492 USD.Based on its previous operations, the current position may only be the first round of building, and there may be further additions to the position.

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).

The U.S. Central Command stated that 50,000 stationed U.S. troops are executing a maritime blockade against Iran, and the U.S. military is ensuring the free passage of commercial navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.

According to CoinDesk, the UK's HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has disclosed cryptocurrency earnings data separately for the first time in personal income tax returns. In the 2024-2025 fiscal year, a total of 240 taxpayers reported capital gains from cryptocurrencies exceeding £1 million (approximately $1.36 million), while 17,600 individuals reported taxable gains from cryptocurrency disposals, totaling £1.38 billion (approximately $1.87 billion), with an average of about £78,000 per person, of which nearly 90% were male.HMRC stated that it has begun implementing the OECD's cryptocurrency reporting framework, which requires cryptocurrency service providers to submit customer data to tax authorities, with the expectation of receiving relevant data starting in 2027 to cross-check taxpayer reporting information. In addition, HMRC mentioned that in the 2024-25 fiscal year, an additional £168 million (approximately $228.2 million) in capital gains tax was collected through compliance and educational activities.

According to Santiment Intelligence monitoring, since June 3, the ETH exchange platform balance has decreased from approximately 7.69 million to about 6.28 million, a reduction of about 1.4 million, representing a decline of about 18%. Since August 19, another approximately 275,000 ETH has flowed out of the exchange platform, bringing the current balance to the lowest level of this statistical period.During the same period, the BTC exchange platform balance has increased by about 0.25%, currently nearing recent range highs. In this regard, Santiment stated that the decline in ETH exchange platform balance has not stopped due to the price increase; while the ETH price has risen by about 27% since August 16, a large amount of ETH continues to flow out of the exchange platform.

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.

Driven by the performance of technology stocks in the US market, multiple popular stock tokens on Gate gStocks have shown strong growth. According to the latest data from Gate, Nvidia (NVDAG/USDT) has seen a 24-hour increase of 3.49%, currently priced at $221.42; SpaceX (SPCXG/USDT) has risen 2.53% in 24 hours, currently at $141.36; Meta (METAG/USDT) has increased by 0.99% in 24 hours, currently at $576.43, with trading activity for related assets continuing to rise.Gate gStocks adopts a 1:1 full native stock reserve mechanism, where each tokenized security corresponds to an equal number of native stocks as underlying asset support. It supports 24/7 trading, unified account management, and a minimum investment of 1 USDT, along with fractional share trading. Users can participate more flexibly in global popular stock investments, achieving a one-stop allocation of digital assets and traditional securities. As the ecosystem of tokenized securities continues to enrich, Gate gStocks will keep expanding more quality stocks and ETF targets, providing users with a more diverse selection of global asset allocation options.

After the trade negotiations between Canada and the United States broke down, negative sentiment among Canadians towards the U.S. has intensified, and the movement to boycott American goods has resurfaced. The U.S. imposed a 50% tariff on $20 billion worth of Canadian goods, and Canada announced that it would impose equivalent retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. starting September 8.Surveys show that 52% of Canadians are unlikely to buy American cars, 60% will not buy American alcohol, and over 70% will not buy American eggs and dairy products.

According to Gate market data, after-hours trading on Wednesday for U.S. stocks saw Nvidia's new quarterly results continue to exceed market expectations, with a forecast of approximately 70% sales growth for the next fiscal year, driving AI concept stocks higher in after-hours trading.The storage sector collectively strengthened, with SK Hynix rising 4.48%, SanDisk up 3.71%, Micron Technology up 3.67%, Seagate Technology up 3.15%, and Western Digital up 3.11%. The Neocloud sector saw widespread gains, with Nebius up 6.27%, CoreWeave up 4.76%, Applied Digital up 3.26%, and both IREN and Core Scientific up 3.16%.Optical communication stocks rose across the board, with Applied Optoelectronics up 4.25%, Marvell Technology up 4.08%, Credo up 3.78%, Coherent up 3.35%, and Astera Labs up 3.34%. Semiconductor stocks also strengthened, with Arm up 4.18%, Marvell Technology and Nvidia both up 4.08%, Lam Research up 2.65%, and KLA up 2.42%.

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, Ethereum researchers have proposed rebuilding the validator deposit contract to support a new cryptographic system and ultimately stop accepting deposits protected by the existing BLS signatures. This proposal targets the deposit contract, aiming to add a switch that prevents the network from accepting the currently relied-upon signature format.Currently, the contract only accepts BLS keys because their exact size is hardcoded, while the new draft allows for different key sizes, with each deposit tagged by the cryptographic system used, where BLS receives a tag of zero, reserving space for future schemes.If the proposal is approved, it will initially operate with BLS deposits, while other schemes can be registered simultaneously. Future decisions may permanently disable new BLS deposits, at which point validators who have staked using BLS keys will not disappear, but new validators will not be able to join using this method. Ethereum will ultimately need to change separately to inform validators how to check new signatures. This is part of the migration for validators, while another part is already in progress—EIP-8141 framework transaction proposals will allow regular Ethereum accounts to change the cryptographic method for approving transactions without changing their address.The urgency stems from research released in March by Google's Quantum AI research department, which outlined five quantum attack paths against Ethereum, putting over $100 billion in assets at potential risk. The Ethereum Foundation is advancing core protocol changes with a target around 2029. Currently, the amount of ETH staked in Ethereum is approximately 42.4 million, valued at about $10.4 billion.

According to monitoring by lookonchain, the trader 0xD81a, who previously incurred a cumulative loss of about 12 million dollars by buying high and selling low on ETH, has re-entered the market after nearly 6 months of silence, spending approximately 5.33 million dollars to buy 2,165 ETH, with an average purchase price of about 2,463 dollars.It is worth noting that in the trader's last transaction, they sold ETH at an average price of about 2,452 dollars, but now they are buying back at a higher price, resulting in a "sell low, buy high" operation.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, the trader 0x13da, with a 100% win rate in SOL trades, is going long on SOL again.This trader previously completed 3 long trades on SOL, all of which were profitable, with a total profit of 1.23 million dollars. Currently, they are going long on 143,890 SOL with 3x leverage, worth approximately 14 million dollars.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, after two months of silence, the mysterious whale 0x6436 has once again accumulated HYPE, withdrawing 79,800 HYPE (6.5 million USD) from the exchange.This wallet has accumulated a total of 1.36 million HYPE (95.6 million USD) withdrawn from the exchange, with an average price of 70 USD.

Canada imposes tariffs of 15% to 50% on approximately $20 billion worth of U.S. goods; Canada will raise tariffs on U.S. steel products from 25% to 50%.The Canadian government stated that starting from September 8, it will impose counter-tariffs of 15%, 25%, or 50% on approximately 700 products.