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The Bank of Korea released the latest research report stating that the widespread circulation of dollar-pegged cryptocurrencies in the local market may trigger capital outflows, putting downward pressure on the domestic currency exchange rate and increasing volatility.

According to Be In Crypto, Binance founder Zhao Changpeng recently stated that YZi Labs' investments over the past few months will become the highest return layout, as they invested in cryptocurrency prices close to the lows of the bear market.YZi Labs has disclosed seven investments in 2026: in January, they invested in the on-chain trading terminal Genius and the digital asset custodian BitGo; in March, they led a $52 million investment in RoboForce and invested $1 million in the venture project Atlas Scout; in April, they made an additional investment in the prediction market Predict.fun; in May, they led an $8 million seed round investment in the AI agent payment settlement layer AEON; in August, they invested in the cross-chain fixed-rate lending platform TermMax.Zhao Changpeng believes that the influx of funds into AI is eliminating short-term cryptocurrency teams, and the return of AI funds to digital assets has already begun. Bitcoin has rebounded after a 47% drop from its peak, but it is still far below the October high.

According to on-chain data, Trade.XYZ has deployed its HIP-4 DEX on Hyperliquid. Transaction records show that the deployment was completed on September 5 at 21:15 Beijing time.

Huang Licheng posted, "I personally speculate that my proposal to acquire Friend.tech was blocked by Paradigm, so I withdrew my offer. If the project's founder Racer relaunches Friend.tech on the Robinhood Chain, I will support it."

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the prediction market Polymarket for the event "St. Louis Cardinals vs. Colorado Rockies," the option "St. Louis Cardinals" in the sub-market "St. Louis Cardinals vs. Colorado Rockies" has experienced a drastic fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 84% an hour ago to the current 12.5% (a fluctuation of 71.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

The cross-chain protocol Router Protocol announced that after more than four years of development, it has decided to gradually cease operations and will fully shut down before September 30, 2026. The team stated that over the past two years, Web3 liquidity has remained scarce, the market focus has shifted to AI, the enthusiasm for cross-chain interoperability has waned, and the revenue from bridging services has been insufficient to cover costs. Although various paths such as commercialization, licensing, and acquisitions were attempted in the past year, no sustainable solution was achieved. Router Protocol will permanently destroy 303,333,198 ROUTE tokens pending in the treasury and will coordinate with centralized exchanges to delist ROUTE. Holders need to withdraw their tokens according to the arrangements of each exchange before the deadline. In addition, the project will not launch any new plans related to ROUTE and plans to open-source some technical components for community use.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, after Elon Musk replied to the SLINK post from Shivon Zilis's hacked account, multiple traders rushed into the token. Just four traders lost about $807,000. The market capitalization of $SLINK once soared to about $80 million, then plummeted to about $2 million, a drop of over 97% from its peak.

According to GMGN information, trading activity on the Robinhood Chain has gradually resumed. However, the network's browser still shows the block count remaining at 4 minutes ago.

According to Cointelegraph, the U.S. website traffic for the prediction market platform Kalshi has increased by over 1500% in the past year. Data from Similarweb shows that in July, traffic from the U.S. reached 15.4 million visits, a growth of about 1520% compared to less than 1 million visits in August 2025, with U.S. traffic accounting for nearly 80% of its total traffic. Meanwhile, Kalshi's nominal monthly trading volume in August reached approximately $40 billion, a growth of about 4500% compared to $874 million a year ago.The nominal monthly trading volume for the entire prediction market industry increased from about $2 billion to $50.7 billion during the same period, with Kalshi accounting for nearly 79%. According to Barron's, sports contracts accounted for 83% of Kalshi's trading volume in July. Kalshi is currently facing increasing legal challenges, with New Jersey having submitted the dispute to the U.S. Supreme Court, and Michigan authorities continuing to seek to block its operations.In terms of restricted jurisdictions, Canada brought about 450,000 visits to the Kalshi website in July, a significant increase from about 50,000 in August 2025; traffic from the UK also rose from 31,000 to 296,000. Although both countries are regions where Kalshi's membership agreement prohibits direct access or trading, Kalshi partnered with Canadian financial services company Wealthsimple in June to provide access to nearly 4,000 eligible contracts through a standalone application.

According to the official X account of ZKsync (@zksync), ZKsync announced a security upgrade for its EraVM chain. The core measures include: introducing an instant upgrade framework, extending the execution delay from 3 hours to 24 hours, and developing a second prover, EraBender, to guard against AI-driven vulnerability attacks.In the next 6 months, all Boojum/EraVM chains will gradually phase out the old execution environment, and each chain will formulate and announce its own transition timetable. Users holding funds directly in EOA do not need to take any action; users holding funds through multi-signature, smart accounts, DEX, lending protocols, and other smart contracts need to take action as required after the transition plans of each chain are determined. The ZKsync Atlas chain is not affected by this upgrade.

According to data from loris.tools, the first HIP-4 custom prediction market of the Hyperliquid ecosystem, Outcome.xyz, has been online for a full week, with a trading volume exceeding 11 million dollars, 1500 independent users, and fees collected amounting to 7410 dollars.

"1011 Insider Whale" agent Garrett Jin posted on the X platform, stating that most "traders" missed this round of Bitcoin rebound. When BTC dropped to $76,000, they suggested waiting for $75,000. In reality, Bitcoin successfully held at $76,600 and broke through $79,000, while also exploring higher highs. However, it is currently facing resistance near the $82,500 resistance level.Garrett Jin also pointed out that these traders are now suggesting taking profits at $85,000, jokingly stating, "I wonder if they are really trading."

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 CoinGlass data, the current price of BTC is approximately $80,737, with a 24-hour increase of 3.52%.With the recent strengthening of the BTC market, the 24-hour trading volume of Bitget BTC contracts is about $4.127 billion, a month-on-month increase of 52.79%.

User chetaslua posted that they forced a hidden pop-up in ChatGPT, which contained the announcement for the built-in Codex ImageGen 2.5, stating "Image creation has received a significant upgrade" "Higher quality results, faster generation speed, and smarter creative tools."The user indicated that the related feature entry is still closed to everyone, and the hero image was uploaded on September 1.

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.

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.

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.

Bitwise's latest report shows that the correlation between Bitcoin and gold has risen to a six-year high. Bitwise's Head of Research for Europe, André Dragosch, stated that the last time the correlation reached this level was in 2020, during the period of multiple fiscal and monetary stimulus following the COVID-19 pandemic; meanwhile, the correlation between Bitcoin and the stock market has dropped to a one-year low, suggesting a decoupling between hard assets and the stock market.The report believes that the simultaneous rise of Bitcoin and gold is due to the "substantial intervention in the macro picture" by the U.S. government. Last month, the U.S. Treasury announced it would more than double the scale of government debt buybacks, leading to a weakening of the dollar, and investors flocked back to gold and Bitcoin; in the same week, U.S. public debt surpassed $40 trillion for the first time, further undermining market confidence in the dollar. Bitwise stated that investors are no longer entangled in whether to hedge against currency depreciation with gold or Bitcoin, but are holding both simultaneously, and pointed out that "Bitcoin has been priced as a risk asset for its first fifteen years, and if this correlation trend continues, the next fifteen years could be very different."Driven by this, Bitcoin rose again this week, increasing nearly 6% within 24 hours, with the price briefly approaching $81,438.