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According to SlowMist monitoring, the BSC chain project BeatXswap suffered a price manipulation attack, resulting in a loss of approximately 2.985 million BTX (about $77,500).The attacker borrowed 6 million BTX through a flash loan and sold it into the Uniswap V3 pool to lower the price. They then exploited a vulnerability in the contract that used only the V3 pool's instant price as the sole pricing basis (without TWAP protection and without deviation limits), depositing USDT in two transactions to trigger liquidity mining and withdrew BTX from the LP position.

Market news indicates that Alibaba (BABA.N) is reportedly leading an investment in the artificial intelligence startup UniPat, which is valued at 2.5 billion dollars.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, Unipcs initially invested $67,700 to purchase 10.9 million $PONS, and now has an unrealized profit of $10.15 million, with a return rate as high as 150 times.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, Unipcs spent $67,700 to purchase 10.9 million tokens from the contract address 0x07f5...2241, and has never sold them since.Currently, this position is worth $7.52 million, with a profit of $7.45 million, yielding a return of over 110 times; its portfolio grew by $6.3 million in one day.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a year ago, Unipcs drove the market capitalization of USELESS to 430 million dollars. Now, after Unipcs has issued multiple opinions, USELESS has regained attention, rising 4 times in the past two weeks.Five months ago, when the market capitalization of USELESS dropped to 30 million dollars, Unipcs began to buy in through a dollar-cost averaging strategy. In the past month, Unipcs has continued to buy USELESS and currently holds 15.9 million USELESS, with an unrealized profit of 1.68 million dollars.

According to a research report published by RootData Research, the total trading volume of mainstream cryptocurrency exchanges in the TradFi sector surpassed $1.3 trillion in the first half of 2026, nearly a tenfold increase compared to the entire year of 2025, with TradFi derivatives accounting for over 98%, becoming the core engine driving the explosive growth of the sector.The exchange landscape is shifting from "unipolar concentration" to multipolar competition. Binance, while maintaining a leading position in the TradFi sector with a cumulative share of 68.3%, saw its monthly trading volume share decline from 78.8% at the beginning of the year to 58.2% in August. Meanwhile, second-tier exchanges such as OKX, Gate, and Hyperliquid are rapidly expanding, with market shares of 18.2%, 10.7%, and 9.9% respectively in August.In the core submarket of stock derivatives, entering August, Binance still dominated with an average daily trading volume of $14.927 billion; OKX established an advantage in trading costs with the industry's lowest spread of 0.0091%, achieving a comprehensive score tied for second with Gate. Gate has recently shown independent growth, recording four consecutive months of triple-digit month-on-month growth from May to August, and in mid-August, its ±2% weighted depth ranked first in the industry for 11 consecutive trading days. The competitive logic of the TradFi sector may be shifting from a battle for traffic to a competition across comprehensive dimensions such as position size, market depth, trading costs, and variety coverage.

The prediction market platform Kalshi has permanently banned former U.S. Congressman George Santos and fined him $71,356 for manipulating a market related to his attendance at the State of the Union address, profiting nearly $18,000. This is the first time the exchange has imposed a lifetime ban on a former member of Congress.According to a disciplinary notice issued by Kalshi's compliance department on August 28, Santos conducted multiple large transactions in this market between February 2 and 25. Since he was able to influence the outcome, exchange rules prohibited him from participating in trading. He subsequently issued a series of public statements regarding his attendance, some of which were false or misleading, intending to drive price movements in the "Yes" and "No" contracts. The compliance department determined that these statements did indeed manipulate prices, allowing him to profit $17,839.57 in the relevant market, violating multiple rules regarding market manipulation, influencing trading outcomes, and using deceptive practices, and he faced additional penalties for failing to cooperate with the investigation.The prediction market allows users to bet on the outcomes of real-world events such as elections, sports, and economic data by purchasing "Yes" or "No" contracts. As event contracts have become mainstream, Kalshi and its crypto-native competitor Polymarket have seen a surge in trading volume over the past year, attracting significant institutional interest.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, Unipcs previously spent 67,304 USDG to buy 10.96 million PONS and has not sold any tokens yet. Based on the current price, the value of its holdings is approximately 2.55 million dollars, with an unrealized profit of about 2.48 million dollars, resulting in a return rate of 37 times.

According to News.bitcoin, the Financial Supervisory Service of South Korea has launched a real-time artificial intelligence platform to detect cryptocurrency price manipulation. One of the core functions of this system is its ability to identify short-term price manipulation by referencing a historical database of known market abuse strategies.The Financial Supervisory Service of South Korea will next expand this system to track cross-exchange capital flows and on-chain blockchain activities.

MiniMax officially launched the AI video creation tool MiniMax Design today, a Harness product built on the native multimodal video model H3. Users only need to present their creative requirements, and the system can understand the goals, break down tasks, call relevant models and Skills, and complete the entire video production process from material processing and generation editing to final delivery, without the need to switch repeatedly between multiple professional tools.MiniMax Design features a built-in Agent 3D director's platform, where users can describe scene and shot requirements in natural language, and the system can preview composition and character relationships in 3D space. After confirmation, it hands over to H3 to generate the video, moving trial and error to the storyboard phase. This product is aimed at commercial content scenarios such as brand creative testing, knowledge video production, PV/MV, etc., and can iteratively generate multiple versions in batches. Creators can also connect their local ComfyUI workflows to MiniMax Design, with the Agent assisting in adjusting nodes and parameters.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "Counter-Strike: Astralis vs NIP - Esports World Cup Group B," the "Match Winner" option for "Astralis" has experienced a sharp fluctuation in win rate, dropping from 79.5% an hour ago to the current 55.5% (a fluctuation of 24%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

The perpetual contract DEX Extended, developed by the former Revolut team, has announced the results of its points program update, excluding 5,038,989 points generated through non-natural or manipulative activities. This adjustment covers 4,017 affected accounts and 35 identified Sybil operations and other prohibited behaviors.After the update, the total amount of the points program is 64,673,031 points (as of August 10, 2026). The excluded points have been returned to the program budget, available for genuine participants to continue earning. The total allocation cap for the points program remains no more than 70 million.The review scope includes cross-account wash trading, self-referral, Sybil wallet groups, and coordinated multi-account activities, with adjustments made based on the quantitative rules under the points program terms.

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Liu Zhou, the founder and principal operator of the cryptocurrency financial services company MyTrade, was recently fined $10,000 in federal court in Boston for participating in a cryptocurrency market manipulation scheme.Prosecutors stated that MyTrade provided so-called "Volume Support" services to cryptocurrency projects through its "MyTrade MM" platform, using bots to execute false trades (wash trading) across multiple cryptocurrency exchanges, artificially creating trading volume and market activity to mislead investors. According to the plea agreement, MyTrade MM has ceased providing "Volume Support" services and permanently shut down the related wash trading bots, while adding a statement on its website acknowledging that "Volume Support constitutes wash trading, which is illegal under U.S. law." The U.S. Department of Justice stated that the case was jointly pursued by the U.S. Attorney's Office and the Boston division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

Former U.S. Congressman George Santos has reached a settlement with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). According to the order, Santos must return $17,569.98, pay a civil penalty of $17,500, and is prohibited from trading on any CFTC-registered entity for three years.The CFTC found that Santos made misleading public statements and significant omissions when trading event contracts on the prediction market platform Kalshi related to whether he would attend President Donald Trump's State of the Union address. Santos did not admit to the factual findings or conclusions in the order. Trading records show that Santos opened an account on February 11 and only traded that contract, first buying the Yes contract and profiting $3,448.43, then continuing to publicly state he would attend after flights and trains were canceled, and buying the No contract, ultimately profiting $14,390.57 from that position. Kalshi stated it had detected the related activities, froze the account, and provided evidence to the CFTC.

According to monitoring by Chainalysis, yesterday Hexagate detected that the LpdFi protocol was attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately $700,000. The attacker borrowed about $44 million in a flash loan, artificially inflated the price of LPD tokens by 71 times on the DEX, and then used tokens worth only about $2 million to fake a deposit of approximately $140 million in the protocol.One second later (just crossing the daily interest settlement boundary of the protocol), the attacker collected the interest for the inflated position for an entire day, triggering the protocol to liquidate its entire liquidity pool and pay out the stolen funds. After repaying all loans, the attacker made a profit of about $700,000 and immediately transferred the funds through Relay and TornadoCash.

According to Jinshi reports, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the Russian army attacked a Ukrainian mail sorting center located in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "Counter-Strike: NIP vs paiN - BLAST Bounty Qualifier" on the prediction market Polymarket, the "NIP" option in the sub-market "Map 2 Winner" has experienced a sharp fluctuation in win probability, dropping from 49.5% an hour ago to the current 19.5% (a fluctuation of 30%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the "LNG vs NIP" event on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Both sides kill a dragon" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "Counter-Strike: NIP vs Heroic (BO3) - StarLadder StarSeries European Qualifier Play-In", the win rate of the "NIP" option in the sub-market "Map 3 Rounds Handicap: NIP (-3.5) vs Heroic (+3.5)" has experienced a sharp fluctuation, dropping from 90.5% an hour ago to the current 50% (a fluctuation of 40.5%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

On the day BitMEX announced its shutdown, BKX Services Inc. and David Namdar filed a class action lawsuit in the Southern District of New York Federal Court, accusing the platform of manipulating user forced liquidations and stealing Bitcoin collateral by using insider trading privileges and server freezing tactics. The plaintiffs claim a total loss of approximately 623 BTC, with BKX losing at least 305.81 BTC and Namdar losing over 316.85 BTC, seeking the return of Bitcoin and damages.The complaint states that BitMEX allowed clients to use up to 100 times leverage, while forcibly liquidating positions when the collateral value was still about twice the loss, with the remaining Bitcoin being included in the platform's insurance fund, allowing BitMEX to profit from it. This lawsuit traces back to relevant transactions starting from July 23, 2018, while a similar case from 2020 was voluntarily withdrawn on June 30, 2025.