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Layer1 Public Chain Linera has raised approximately $150,000 since launching its community round public fundraising on September 1, with 172 addresses participating, leaving a gap of 95.2% from the target of $3.2 million.It is reported that the token valuation for this round of financing is $160 million, lasting for a total of 7 days. Previously, in 2022 and 2023, Linera raised a total of $12 million, with investors including a16z, GSR, Tribe Capital, Flow Traders, Laser Digital, and others.

On September 3, the prediction market platform Polymarket launched its perpetual contract product Polymarket Perps, initially covering 10 contracts including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, HYPE, gold, silver, WTI crude oil, S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, and contracts tracking SpaceX stock, expanding to 67 markets within hours.This product has no expiration date, with contract prices continuously tracking the underlying assets and maintaining anchoring to spot prices through a funding rate that settles hourly, with a bidirectional cap on the funding rate of 4% per hour. Cryptocurrencies, S&P 500, crude oil, gold, and silver support up to 20 times leverage, while individual stocks and other real assets support up to 10 times. U.S. traders are unable to place Perps orders and will be directed to Polymarket US, which is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). This arrangement stems from a settlement reached between Polymarket and the CFTC in 2022, where the company was fined $1.4 million for operating an unregistered swap execution facility and was required to cease related non-compliant contracts.

Bitwise CEO posted on the X platform that GPUs are one of the most important commodities in the digital age. USD AI has created GPU asset-backed credit to serve medium-sized borrowers who have not been adequately serviced before, and will tokenize the related credit.Real-world credit is gradually moving on-chain, and Bitwise will provide access through PAPY.

QuFi Network launched a post-quantum verification platform and completed proof of concept on the Bitcoin testnet.The platform aims to address the security threats of quantum computing to crypto assets at a low cost by separating verification from settlement.

Yield Trading Protocol Pendle has announced the launch of the Robinhood Chain. This deployment adds a native layer of fixed income and yield trading to the DeFi economy of the chain.The first market is sNET, with an expiration date of September 17, 2026. More markets will be launched as the ecosystem expands.

According to the official announcement, Binance will launch MarsCoin (MARSCOIN) on September 4 at 21:00 and open features such as Binance Wealth Management, one-click purchase, instant exchange, VIP borrowing, and leverage. Users can subscribe to MARSCOIN's flexible products through the Binance Earn platform and purchase or sell MARSCOIN using credit cards, Google Pay, or Apple Pay.The instant exchange trading platform supports the exchange of MARSCOIN for tokens such as BTC and USDT, with no transaction fees. VIP borrowing will support MARSCOIN borrowing, and new trading pairs MARSCOIN/USDT and MARSCOIN/USDC will be added for full margin and isolated margin leverage.

BNB Chain announced the launch of a multi-week Meme trading season "BNB Stonks Szn," with a total prize pool of 4 million USD. From September 4 to 12, eligible bStocks pairs Meme coins will compete for rankings on the Meme leaderboard, with the prize pool distributed weekly and increased each week.The first week's prize pool is 400,000 USD, which will be allocated based on the HODLer Index (Diamond Hands Index). The top three Meme coin holder communities can unlock airdrops. This index is calculated based on the size and duration of holdings, with data collected starting from July 27, 2026. Selling midway will lower the score; individual Meme coin holdings must be at least 100 USD to qualify. The results of the first week and the airdrop amount will be announced on September 11 at 15:00 UTC by the official BNB Chain X account, and the first week's rewards will be sent directly in $BNB to eligible wallets.

Bitget launches a TradFi copy trading event, running from September 4 to September 30. During the event, users who apply to become contract trading experts for the first time can enjoy up to 30% copy trading profit sharing and have the chance to gain exposure on the official leaderboard.If the daily TradFi copy trading and replication volume of trading experts reaches the specified threshold, they can unlock a 5,000 USDT contract experience bonus and physical rewards such as the Apple foldable screen and Apple 18 Pro.

According to the official announcement, Huobi HTX will open MARSCOIN/USDT spot trading and grid trading on September 4 at 18:00 (UTC+8). The MARSCOIN deposit service is now open, and the withdrawal service will be available on September 5 at 18:00.MARSCOIN is a stock meme coin on BSC, distributing tokenized SPCX as rewards to holders through trading taxes.

According to The Block, APX Lending has launched a five-year revolving credit product backed by Bitcoin and Ethereum, with interest rates starting at 10.49%.The company stated that borrowers can withdraw and repay credit on demand, with no origination fees, early repayment fees, or liquidation fees.

OKX will launch the DOS (DAPPOS) Flash Earn Lite event on September 10 at 15:00. Users can share a reward of 650,000 DOS by subscribing to BTC, OKB, or DOS. The event ends on September 15 at 15:00.

AI Economic Settlement Agreement AEON announces the launch of Agentic Checkout, supporting AI Agents to complete product search, selection, checkout, and payment through natural language dialogue in the Shopify open merchant ecosystem. The payment process is supported by the AEON AI Card, a virtual card that can set predefined spending limits and authorization scopes, allowing AI agents to complete payments without directly accessing the user's main wallet or main card.AEON Agentic Checkout currently covers over 3 million active stores on Shopify and more than 1 billion products, and will later integrate with the Claude open-source e-commerce agent, expanding to shopping and payment scenarios such as Amazon and Travala.

The Binance contract platform will launch the BYDUSDT perpetual contract priced in USDT on September 7 at 10:00, and the HK0992USDT Quanto perpetual contract will go live on the same day at 10:05. Both have a maximum leverage of 20 times and support multi-asset mode.

On September 3 local time, Tesla held a Cybercab launch event in Austin, Texas, USA. This vehicle is a mass-produced model designed for autonomous driving scenarios, eliminating the steering wheel, pedals, and traditional rearview mirrors, and adopting a two-seat layout, with driving entirely controlled by Tesla's autonomous driving software. The Cybercab was unveiled as a concept car at the "We, Robot" event in October 2024, with the first mass-produced vehicle rolling off the line at the Texas Gigafactory in February this year, and mass production starting in April, taking about 18 months from concept to mass production.The vehicle relies on 8 high-definition cameras to perceive the environment and makes driving decisions through an end-to-end neural network, without relying on lidar and high-precision maps. According to Tesla's data, as of September 2026, the global fleet's cumulative assisted driving mileage has exceeded 22.5 billion kilometers. In terms of energy efficiency, it is expected to travel 9.8 kilometers per kilowatt-hour, with an energy consumption of about 10.2 kilowatt-hours per 100 kilometers. The curb weight is 1412 kilograms, equipped with a 47.6 kilowatt-hour battery pack and a 163-kilowatt motor, with a laboratory range of 673 kilometers. After scaling up ride-hailing operations, the cost per mile can be reduced to $0.2, equivalent to about 0.84 yuan per kilometer.The Cybercab will be showcased in multiple cities such as Beijing and Shanghai starting in mid-September. This exhibition does not involve the sale of the vehicle in China, nor does it represent that Tesla will conduct autonomous ride-hailing commercial operations domestically.

Alibaba's Qianwen Office product has been online for a month, with the number of users exceeding 30 million, more than half of whom are enterprise users. In the past 30 days, a total of 120 version updates have been completed, averaging 4 iterations per day, with thousands of features updated cumulatively. The international version has also been launched.Qianwen Office's open-source enterprise context infrastructure MyContext has received over 3,000 stars on GitHub within a few weeks of being open-sourced. Combined with deep integration with IM software like DingTalk, it can transform information scattered across business processes such as messages, documents, approvals, emails, and knowledge bases into organizational context that is understandable and callable by agents. At the same time, the Qianwen large model team has launched a dedicated office version Qwen3.8-Flash, specifically optimized for multi-step planning, tool selection, and context compression, achieving approximately a 100% increase in single-task generation speed in real office scenarios, with average token consumption reduced by 75%.Companies such as Changan Automobile, Huifu Tianxia, Chuanhua Group, Zhongyi Co., and Laoxiangji have already integrated. At Changan Automobile, Qianwen Office has streamlined the entire supply chain from research and development to sales and service, reducing the manual wiring harness selection calculation by senior engineers from two days to 5 minutes, and the verification of vehicle documents from over ten minutes to 1-2 minutes.

According to the official announcement, Bitget's stock perpetual contracts have launched GPRO (GoPro). The contract is settled in USDT, supports up to 20 times leverage, and allows trading 24/7.As of now, Bitget supports a total of 304 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

Gate, the global cryptocurrency exchange, has launched the Gate Card, a Visa prepaid card product, in collaboration with Bridge and Stripe, significantly reducing the implementation period to about 6 months, compared to the over one year estimated by traditional banking partners.The Gate Card is issued by Lead Bank and allows users to top up with stablecoins and spend on the global Visa network. The card can be added to Apple Pay and Google Wallet. Previously, Gate had launched card products in overseas markets, but faced complexities related to compliance and multi-party coordination in the U.S. market.Gate US COO Laura Lui stated, "Bridge serves as a critical coordinating layer among different participants, allowing Gate US to focus on customers, product experience, and overall business strategy." Gate US views the Gate Card as an early step in a broader stablecoin payment strategy, with potential plans to issue its own stablecoin in the U.S. through Bridge's stablecoin platform in the future.

NVIDIA announced that the RTX Spark devices equipped with the N1X chip will begin shipping in October this year. The N1X supports up to 128GB of unified memory, and the Blackwell GPU provides up to 10 petaflops of floating-point performance per second. The full version is equipped with a 6144 CUDA core Blackwell GPU and a 20-core Grace CPU, supporting 24GB to 128GB of unified memory; another version has 5120 GPU cores and 18 CPU cores, supporting only 24GB to 32GB of unified memory.NVIDIA launched the open-source tool NVIDIA PAIR, which can connect multiple RTX devices, DGX Spark, and even Apple devices in a home network to schedule idle computing power for collaborative processing of AI agent tasks. Compatible devices include computers with NVIDIA graphics cards (RTX 20 series and later, RTX Pro GPU, DGX Spark) as well as devices with Apple M4 or newer chips. PAIR prioritizes the use of idle computing power and automatically adjusts as devices join or leave the network.In a media briefing example, a household had approximately 165 TFLOPS of underutilized computing power. The Qianwen 3.6 35B A3B model completed agent tasks in an average of 18 minutes on a single Spark notebook, while a three-device PAIR cluster averaged 8 minutes and 48 seconds. The AI agent applications Perplexity Portable Computer, Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw will receive a more simplified local deployment method.

On September 3, WEEX Exchange announced the launch of the TradFi "Daily Lottery" event, where users can participate in a lottery by trading stocks and gold contracts. The event runs from September 3, 00:00 to September 17, 23:59 (UTC+8).Users who achieve a daily TradFi contract trading volume of 10,000 U are considered to have successfully checked in and can participate in the lottery. During the event, users can earn 1 to 10 lottery chances by reaching specified milestones in cumulative TradFi contract trading volume. Prizes include airdrop vouchers ranging from 20 to 10,000 USDT, as well as VIP3 and VIP5 experience cards.

The stablecoin USDG issued by Paxos has officially launched on the Ethereum Layer 2 network Mantle, which has also announced its partnership with the Global Dollar Network. This integration makes USDG one of the first natively minted stablecoins on Mantle, allowing Mantle to enter the USDG reward-sharing system and receive a share of the revenue generated from USDG activities.According to DefiLlama data, USDG currently has a market capitalization of approximately $3.18 billion, making it the seventh largest stablecoin by size. This stablecoin is issued by Paxos and is subject to regulatory frameworks in Singapore and the European Union, with Paxos publishing reserve reports monthly. As a partner, Mantle has joined the Global Dollar Network, which includes over 150 members, with other members including Kraken and Robinhood.Currently, there are multiple stablecoins on Mantle, including Agora's AUSD, Ethena's USDe, and Tether's USDT0. Mantle states that USDG will be used for DeFi applications and institutional capital allocation within its ecosystem. Additionally, Mantle has recently seen significant growth in the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA), with its distributed RWA value reaching $234.2 million as of this Wednesday, a 19% increase over the past 30 days.