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Banco do Brasil announced an investment of 5 million USD using its own funds in a digital-native structured note transaction issued by Citi and completed through the Euroclear digital financial market infrastructure platform, becoming the first of its kind in Latin America. Banco do Brasil stated that blockchain technology enables the native digitization of assets, reduces operational steps, and enhances transaction traceability, laying the foundation for new trading, settlement, and asset management models.The bank noted that the investment aligns with its ongoing focus on changes in the financial industry. Francisco Lassalvia, Vice President of Wholesale Banking at Banco do Brasil, stated that decentralized digital technology has become a long-term structural trend in financial markets. Roksolana Dushynska, Equity Structured Products Manager at Citi Global Markets, pointed out that distributed ledger technology can enhance the efficiency, transparency, and accessibility of capital markets. Banco do Brasil previously participated in the Brazilian Central Bank's digital currency Drex pilot and proposed an offline payment solution. The bank is controlled by the Brazilian federal government and is also listed on the Brazilian securities market.

According to CryptoSlate, the Ethereum Layer 2 network Silicon announced that it has stopped accepting new bridging deposits as of September 2 and has initiated the shutdown process. Users must withdraw all assets by December 31, at which point the network and block explorer will go offline, and remaining assets will be unrecoverable.There are still approximately $9.75 million in assets on-chain, including USDC ($2.66 million), WBTC ($2.54 million), ETH ($2.08 million), and USDT ($1.85 million). Assets bridged from the Ethereum mainnet can be directly withdrawn during the window period, but tokens issued directly on Silicon cannot be bridged directly and can only rely on the remaining on-chain liquidity for exchange, which may become increasingly difficult as the shutdown progresses. Silicon's Web3 wallet will also be disabled.

According to Bloomberg, the physical AI company Lyte announced the completion of a $165 million Series C financing round, led by Maverick Silicon, with participation from Fidelity Management & Research, Atreides Management, Key1 Capital, and Ora Global, bringing the post-money valuation to $1.6 billion.Founded in 2021 by former Apple and PrimeSense engineers, Lyte focuses on providing a complete perception technology stack for robots, including custom chips, multimodal sensors, and spatial software. To date, the company has raised a total of $272 million.The funds from this round will be used to expand the production scale of perception chips and its LyteVision platform, as well as to advance AI perception capabilities and the commercialization of robotics.

According to The Block, Hyperliquid's block trading layer Silhouette launched its Request for Quote (RFQ) trading system on the mainnet on Tuesday, initially supporting tokenized stocks from Payward's tokenized stock framework xStocks. Silhouette stated that the system allows traders to initiate quote requests for any supported xStock and receive competitive quotes from connected market makers, with winning trades able to settle on-chain at any time and in any size.The RFQ system enables trading of supported xStocks without a dedicated order book, and tokens that generate sufficient trading activity can subsequently be upgraded to an independent HyperCore market. Silhouette founder Chandler De Kock mentioned that while tokenized stocks continue to go on-chain, they mostly lack trading venues, and market makers compete for each trade, with settlement completed on-chain, proving that assets with real liquidity will be upgraded to their own HyperCore market.xStocks was launched in June 2025 and is said to have processed over $40 billion in total trading volume, covering more than 200,000 holders, with nearly $20 billion settled on-chain. The platform issues publicly listed stock tokens pegged 1:1, and its business has expanded from U.S. stocks to European and Asian markets. RWA.xyz data shows that the existing tokenized stocks amount to approximately $2.53 billion, with xStocks accounting for about $620.1 million, ranking as the third-largest issuer, following Ondo (approximately $856.3 million) and bStocks (approximately $621.5 million).

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain whale bought 76,900 SOL from Hyperliquid after being silent for 8 months, worth 8 million dollars.

According to Gate market data, since Federal Reserve Chairman Waller's speech, spot gold and silver have significantly retreated in the short term. Gold rebounded slightly after falling about 100 dollars from its high, reaching a low of 4530 dollars/ounce and currently reported at 4560 dollars/ounce; silver plummeted over 1 dollar during the day, hitting a low of 68.1 dollars/ounce and currently reported at 69.0 dollars/ounce.

According to Gate market data, spot gold has risen by $18 in the short term, exceeding $4,600, while spot silver has increased by more than $1 in the short term, reaching $70.1/ounce.

Recently, the silver market has continued to perform strongly, with trading enthusiasm continuing to heat up. According to market data from the Gate platform, silver (XAG) reached a high of $69.76 in 24 hours and is currently reported at $69.30. CoinGlass data shows that the open interest for Gate XAG contracts has reached $72.8334 million, firmly ranking among the top two in the industry.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a savvy trader has once again purchased 95,928 SOL (worth $9.74 million) after a two-year silence.In the past three years, they have completed two SOL swing trades, both buying low and selling high, with a total profit of $4.95 million.

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.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a dormant whale for 4 years recently sold 1,400 BTC, worth approximately 111.61 million USD.This whale received 2,200 BTC at an average price of 45,024 USD 4 years ago, with a total value of about 99.05 million USD, and did not sell during the period when unrealized profits peaked at 178 million USD. Currently, it has begun to sell BTC, with cumulative profits of approximately 76.5 million USD.

According to the Economic Daily, semiconductor silicon wafers have seen a significant price increase for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, covering the full range of specifications including 6-inch, 8-inch, and 12-inch, with an increase starting at 10%. Industry insiders believe this is the first price adjustment in over three years, and major Taiwanese silicon wafer suppliers such as GlobalWafers, TSMC, and Hejian are expected to see improvements in revenue and profitability.GlobalWafers stated that recent demand in some end markets has gradually improved, inventory adjustments in the supply chain are healthier than in the past, and market signals are more positive than last year, but prices still depend on the product, specifications, and customer situations. TSMC mentioned that under cost pressures and demand support, they have begun communicating price adjustments with customers, and operations in the second half of the year are expected to outperform the first half. Hejian indicated that they are actively negotiating price adjustments with customers and continuing to promote advanced packaging and related products.Industry analysis suggests that this round of price increases mainly reflects the rebound in chip demand driven by AI, with increased usage in advanced and mature processes, allowing the upstream silicon wafer industry to gradually feel the recovery. Currently, the negotiation progress varies among factories and customers, with some 12-inch polished wafers already subject to new quotes with double-digit percentage increases, and discussions for 8-inch and 6-inch products are also moving in a similar upward direction.

Grayscale stated in a post on platform X that the rise of Bitcoin this week may signal a market turning point.It pointed out that historically, Bitcoin prices typically bottom out after a retracement of about 80% from the peak of the cycle; however, in this bear market, BTC has only retraced about 50% from its peak, which is a smaller decline than in previous cycles. The market had previously been discussing whether BTC would further decline in the fourth quarter of 2026, but Grayscale believes that although the downside risks have not been completely eliminated, this week's rebound may indicate that the market has formed a more sustainable bottom.

Ukraine is seeking to use drones equipped with the Starlink system to strike missile launch silos within 200 kilometers inside Russia due to a shortage of air defense interceptors. This move requires approval from Elon Musk, whose position is uncertain.Communication has faced challenges since the dismissal of former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. Military experts say Ukraine is struggling to obtain enough interceptors to maintain its air defense strategy.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the "Brazil Presidential Election" event is currently among the hottest trading topics on the prediction market Polymarket, with a cumulative pool size reaching $1.255 billion. The option with the highest market consensus is "Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva," corresponding to a winning probability of about 65.5%.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the World Liberty Financial team wallet supported by Trump (0xE853...D5743) transferred 39 million WLFI to Bybit after being inactive for 30 days, worth 2.33 million USD.The wallet received an equivalent amount of WLFI from the WLFI treasury two days ago.