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According to Gate market data, the Dow Jones Index closed down 626.72 points on September 8, a decrease of 1.17%, at 52,787.53 points; the S&P 500 Index fell 44.98 points, a decrease of 0.58%, at 7,673.62 points; the Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 85.58 points, a decrease of 0.32%, at 26,421.41 points.

According to Fox News, senior U.S. officials stated that the U.S. military has struck targets near Hormuz Island and Jask, including Iranian oil tankers. This is part of a larger operation to economically squeeze Iran, with strategies that include sinking and incapacitating Iranian crude oil tankers.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) stated at Bitcoin Asia that Bitcoin may surpass gold in the next bull market, with the current market cap gap between the two being about 10 times. Ricardo Salinas Pliego estimated that if Bitcoin reaches the total market cap of gold, its price could be around $1.86 million. He pointed out that if Bitcoin becomes a strategic reserve asset for various countries, its importance may exceed that of gold; however, central banks and governments have established systems for valuing, storing, and managing gold, and transitioning to Bitcoin will take time.Glassnode data shows that the 90-day correlation between Bitcoin and gold has risen from 0.21 in March to about 0.57, while the correlation with the Nasdaq 100 index has dropped from 0.57 to 0.22; other estimates indicate that its correlation with gold is about 0.59, the highest level since 2020.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the prediction market Polymarket for the event "US Open WTA: Aryna Sabalenka vs. Linda Noskova," the option "Aryna Sabalenka" in the sub-market "US Open WTA: Aryna Sabalenka vs. Linda Noskova" has experienced a drastic fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 83.5% an hour ago to the current 66.5% (a fluctuation of 17%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Gate market data, Intel (INTC.O) stock price has increased by 10%.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that last month's expansion of the U.S. Treasury bond buyback program was aimed at calming the frenzied sentiment in the bond market and pushing market prices back to equilibrium. She denied that the Treasury's buyback of government bonds was equivalent to the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing, stating that the measure was similar to the Federal Reserve's past distortion operations.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, significant capital movements are predicted in the market Polymarket. A large whale invested $70,000 in a single bet on the event "Club Brugge KV vs Aston Villa FC" for "Aston Villa FC". Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this bet is 35%.

DBS and Citibank's New York office completed a cross-border payment in US dollars between Singapore and the United States on September 5 using tokenized deposits through the Swift Digital Ledger. The transaction was executed over the weekend and took only a few minutes, while traditional cross-border payments typically take up to two business days, allowing businesses to avoid losing time due to time zone differences and weekend gaps. This is the second confirmed real-time application of the ledger, following HSBC and Standard Chartered's completion of the first real-time tokenized deposit cross-border transaction in August. Swift announced the ledger's preliminary availability on July 9, with 17 banks ready to pilot it, and DBS is the only bank headquartered in Asia among the 12 core design group members. DBS Group Chief Operating Officer Rachel Chew stated that the Swift Digital Ledger is connecting traditional banking infrastructure with emerging digital networks to drive the practical application of tokenized currency from experimentation. Citibank's Head of South Asia Services Mridula Iyer noted that weekend real-time transactions prove that around-the-clock cross-border payments have become a reality. DBS will launch DBS Token Services in 2024, offering 24/7 programmable instant value transfer services.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that CoinCorner has partnered with AnchorWatch to launch Vault, providing multi-institution Bitcoin custody services for UK customers, insured by Lloyd's of London.CoinCorner and AnchorWatch each hold keys, and neither party can independently transfer customers' Bitcoin. All Bitcoin deposits are insured.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the event "Champions League 2027 Champion" is currently the most traded on the prediction market Polymarket, with a cumulative pool size reaching 277 million dollars. The option with the highest market consensus is "Other," corresponding to a winning probability of about 50%.

According to Gate market data, ETH/USDT is currently reported at $2500, with a 24-hour increase of 1.21%.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, the Bitcoin fintech company Castle announced that it will open its automated Bitcoin financial stack to individual users and launch a pioneering feature in this category: users can choose to receive dividend income in cash or Bitcoin at any ratio.Castle's revenue comes from the perpetual preferred stock STRC issued by Strategy, which was incorporated into the platform earlier this year and currently pays an annualized dividend of 12% on a semi-monthly basis. Users can receive 100% of the dividends in cash, convert 100% to Bitcoin, or choose any ratio between the two. According to the company, most users opt for a compromise solution, using cash to cover daily expenses while automatically reinvesting the remaining portion into Bitcoin with each dividend payout.Castle co-founder and CTO João Almeida stated that investors have long faced a dilemma of choosing between stable income and holding Bitcoin. Castle allows users to achieve both cash flow and long-term upside by automatically converting a portion of the dividends into Bitcoin. Previously, Castle only catered to business clients such as restaurants, gyms, accounting firms, and e-commerce; the opening of personal accounts was due to repeated requests from business owners. Castle was co-founded by Almeida and CEO Stephen Cole and has received investments from Boost VC and Winklevoss Capital.

According to The Defiant, the decentralized lending protocol Morpho deployed its fixed-term, fixed-rate lending agreement Midnight to Ethereum on September 8, expanding the product from the Base network to Ethereum, allowing Ethereum users to access USDC loans collateralized by WBTC or cbBTC. Morpho co-founder Merlin Egalite stated that the Ethereum launch will start with the "USDC | cbBTC and USDC | WBTC markets" and will gradually expand.The core difference between Midnight and Morpho Blue lies in interest rate certainty. Blue uses open loans where interest rates fluctuate according to a formula; Midnight, on the other hand, trades credit units at market-priced rates with fixed terms, allowing borrowers to determine financing costs in advance, and lenders can lock in returns instead of bearing interest rate changes with each block. Midnight lenders purchase credit units at prices below the one-to-one redemption value at maturity.However, the largest potential source of funds for Midnight remains constrained. The Morpho Vaults, holding approximately $5 billion in deposits, can only allocate to the Morpho Blue market until the DAO enables the Midnight configuration. Morpho co-founder and CEO Paul Frambot stated that enabling the Vault configuration requires just one DAO transaction, but Vault activation is expected to be achieved in the fourth quarter. At launch, the total deposits in the Ethereum Midnight market were approximately $7.41 million, with outstanding loans of about $2.63 million.

Cobo co-founder and CEO Shen Yu recalled that he has a deep shadow over ZEC. When ZEC's mainnet launched in 2016, BitMEX set the price ceiling at 10 BTC, which also became the historical high point for ZEC.He stated that shortly after starting to mine on the night of the launch, the transformer of the GPU mining farm was struck by lightning, and since then, ZEC has not appeared in his personal wallet again.

According to PR Newswire, the prediction market Polymarket announced today the launch of Squads, a brand new social feature within its U.S. version of the Polymarket app. Squads provides friends with a dedicated space for communication where users can discuss markets, share their prediction choices, and trade directly on Polymarket with friends.Squads brings market discussions that originally took place in group chats to the Polymarket platform, concentrating discussions and actual trading in one place, allowing friends to more easily participate and experience the prediction market together.

Trader Bonk Guy posted that PONS's daily revenue over the past week has mostly been above 1.3 million to 2 million dollars, with no day in the last 7 days falling below 1.1 million dollars.Meanwhile, the PONS buyback wallet has currently accumulated nearly 3 million dollars in funds for the continuous buyback of PONS through the TWAP method, and the rate of supplementing fee income is currently faster than the rate of consumption of buyback funds.

According to The Block, ZKsync developer Matter Labs has open-sourced the permission engine of its distributed ledger platform Prividium for financial institutions, allowing organizations to run, inspect, and modify core code in their own environments. The German central bank has become the first institution to test and deploy Prividium.Matter Labs CEO Alex Gluchowski stated that feedback from regulators regarding commercial core means reliance on a single vendor, and that open-sourcing the core "structurally eliminates adoption barriers."Other components of Prividium, such as the ZKsync OS core and Atlas sequencer, have previously been open-sourced. The permission engine is planned to operate as an independent component, allowing institutions to deploy it without a commercial agreement, but management tools and integration with existing systems remain commercial products. Gluchowski said, "The central bank running public code is the clearest signal in this direction."

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the whale address 0xfc27 spent 280.5 ETH (approximately 696,000 USD) one week ago to buy 2 million PONS at an average price of 0.347 USD, currently with an unrealized profit of about 830,000 USD.In addition, this whale spent 575.2 BNB (approximately 431,000 USD) 3 hours ago to buy 12.12 million 4Stock at an average price of 0.0356 USD, currently with an unrealized profit of about 81,000 USD.

According to MistTrack monitoring, Tether froze approximately 39.27 million USDT across 10 addresses on the Tron network a few hours ago, which are related to Xinbi Guarantee.Previously, Tether had frozen funds related to Huiwang Guarantee, and this action seems to be another blow against illegal hosting platforms on Telegram.

The Kremlin stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin had a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump, which lasted for one hour. Trump focused on ending the Ukraine conflict as soon as possible, and both sides evaluated the visit of the U.S. envoy. Putin supported the restoration of U.S.-Russia relations and discussed prisoner exchange matters.