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According to CriptoNoticias, the Argentine Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF) conducted a special training course titled "Virtual Assets: Financial Analysis, Tracking, Detection, and Seizure" for internal staff, officials, and judges on August 19 and September 2, 2026, via the Zoom platform, with anti-money laundering specialist lawyer Carmen Chena as the speaker.The course covered topics such as digital wallet asset analysis, domestic and international legal frameworks, the cryptocurrency ecosystem, and practical case studies on preservation measures. Previously, the Argentine judicial system had accumulated rich experience in cryptocurrency-related cases, including the freezing of 3 million USDT in December 2024 and the ruling in 2022 for Binance to return stolen BTC.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China has launched a special action to cultivate artificial intelligence application service providers, encouraging various regions to increase the procurement of large models, intelligent agents, and Token services through first purchase and first use, risk compensation, and other methods, while using tools such as "computing power vouchers" to reduce computing power costs.The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will also establish a national resource pool for AI application service providers, aiming to exceed 2,000 by the end of 2026 and no less than 3,000 by the end of 2027. These service providers mainly help enterprises implement AI projects, with services ranging from early consulting, program design, to system development, integration delivery, and then to subsequent operation and maintenance and security governance.This policy also specifically names FDE. The Ministry encourages service providers to form FDE teams to directly address project implementation issues on-site with users. Various regions are also required to open real business scenarios, organize supply and demand matching, and turn high-frequency, essential business needs into standardized AI products that can be delivered repeatedly.

At a closed-door sharing session held in Hong Kong, Binance founder CZ responded to questions about entrepreneurship among university students, emphasizing that there is no need to rush into starting a business. He suggested that young people should first work at a good large company for a few years, stating, "Two years should be the minimum," with 2 to 5 years being ideal. He cited his own four years at Bloomberg as an example, noting that the complete management system of a large company is something that university students cannot experience immediately upon graduation, which will be very helpful for future entrepreneurship.CZ believes that young people must focus on cultivating "a specialized skill." He stated that this is a world of global competition, "If you broadly say programming, there are millions of programmers worldwide, and it is impossible to be twice as good as everyone else. However, if you can become the best 1% or even 0.1% in the world, the returns you receive may be several times, dozens of times, or even hundreds of times more than others. The treatment of the first place and the second place will be very different."

According to CNBC, the cryptocurrency project World Liberty Financial, supported by the Trump family, stated that the rapid growth of its stablecoin USD1 and actual market demand refute external doubts about the project primarily relying on political connections for development. Currently, the circulation scale of USD1 has exceeded 4 billion dollars.World Liberty Financial CEO Zach Witkoff stated that the growth of USD1 comes from the product itself and market adoption, rather than special treatment from the Trump administration. USD1 was previously used in the 2 billion dollar investment transaction by the Abu Dhabi investment firm MGX in Binance, which is also one of the most significant institutional applications of USD1 to date.Recently, World Liberty Financial also received preliminary conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for a national trust bank charter, planning to directly issue and redeem USD1 through World Liberty Trust Company in the future, and manage its reserve assets. Regarding the project's relationship with the Trump family, some Democratic lawmakers in the U.S. continue to raise concerns about conflicts of interest.

According to official news, Gate CandyDrop will launch a special event exclusively for old users from August 25 at 18:00 to September 8 at 18:00 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of 1 BTC.During the event, eligible old users who complete contract trading tasks can receive candies and participate in sharing airdrop rewards. Among them, old users who registered before August 25, 2026, at 00:00 (UTC+8) and have a cumulative contract trading volume of any token (opening + closing) reaching 1 USDT will receive 1 candy and participate in sharing the 1 BTC prize pool, with a maximum individual reward of 0.001 BTC.

On August 18, WEEX announced that it will implement 0 fee trading for all spot pairs in the bStocks area, with all participants receiving 100% rewards and a chance to share a $100,000 prize pool. Activity period: 8/17 20:00 - 8/24 19:59:59 (UTC+8).During the event, all users who complete any spot transaction in the bStocks area will receive a 10 USDT bonus. If the cumulative spot trading volume is ≥ 2,000 USDT, they can share a bonus of 25,000 USDT based on their trading volume proportion.

According to ChainCatcher, Guangdong Province's first special financial product for the token economy, "Token Loan," was launched in the Haizhu District of Guangzhou. Taking Bank of China Guangzhou Branch as an example, a dedicated financing product specifically developed for small and micro enterprises in Haizhu's computing power sector—the Computing Power Token Loan—has been introduced. The credit limit is determined based on the contract/token consumption amount and can provide guarantees mainly through credit, accounts receivable pledges, and order financing. It can also combine guarantees, mortgages, and other forms of collateral to further expand the credit limit. New companies can apply for financing based on orders if they provide continuous operation proof materials from their original operating enterprises or offer guarantees. It is reported that the initial credit funding from Bank of China has reached 28 million yuan.

Bitget announced the launch of the "Project Archimedes," establishing a special fund with a total scale of $300 million to provide capital support for quantitative trading firms, asset management institutions, and market makers. The plan includes two sub-projects: a $100 million "Capital Support Program," which focuses on supporting emerging and growth-oriented quantitative institutions that adopt market-neutral strategies; and a $200 million "Interest-Free Lending Program," aimed at institutions with mature strategies and a certain trading scale, which can obtain interest-free funds by meeting corresponding trading volume or position standards to reduce financing costs and expand strategy scale.Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated that as competition in institutional trading intensifies, capital, execution efficiency, and risk control are becoming important factors in whether strategies can achieve scalability. The Archimedes plan aims to help capable teams expand their strategy scale through capital support, with expectations to support over 50 projects in the next six months. Meanwhile, relying on Bitget's Unified Trading Account (UTA), institutions can use rToken spot positions as collateral for derivatives, allowing them to maintain tokenized stock exposure and contract strategies simultaneously without cross-account transfers, further enhancing capital efficiency.The Archimedes plan will adopt a long-term cooperation framework, implementing rolling access and phased deployment, and will regularly disclose progress such as the number of participating institutions, capital deployment scale, and strategy distribution.

KB Financial Group announced the establishment of the "KB National Growth Unicorn Scale-up Fund," with a scale of 150 billion Korean won (approximately 108 million USD), fully funded by the group's subsidiaries' own capital, and managed by the KB Securities PE Growth Investment Division. The fund will focus on investing in companies in fields such as AI, semiconductors, secondary batteries, aerospace, mobile transportation, robotics, and biotechnology, aiming to cultivate unicorn companies in cutting-edge strategic industries.This decision was finalized at the "4th Productive Financial Consultation Meeting" held on July 24. KB Financial also formulated a financial support plan in line with the government's "three major super projects," covering support for semiconductors, power infrastructure investment, and physical AI companies and AI data centers. KB Financial plans to focus on discovering local innovative small and medium-sized enterprises through the CIB center and promote a shift in corporate evaluation culture from traditional financial statements and historical performance orientation to a evaluation system based on technological strength and future growth potential.

According to the official announcement, Huobi HTX has recently launched a new gameplay and is providing a prize pool of 600,000 USDT, bringing real benefits to invitees and new users. From now until August 16 at 10:00 (UTC+8), users can generate invitation links through the "Invite" page on Huobi HTX and share them. Both parties can unlock token rewards by completing specified tasks.

Recently, the live broadcast "Feixiaohao × AtlasX: World Cup, Prediction Market, and Web3 Event Trading" jointly hosted by Feixiaohao and AtlasX Protocol successfully concluded on June 11, 2026. This live broadcast was the first AtlasX special live event following the launch of the Feixiaohao World Cup Carnival, and it completed the first round of concentrated warming up for the event's prize pool and payout rights, which is worth up to 1 million USDT. Review data shows that the event achieved over 90,000 online listeners, with a total of over 500,000 plays, and attracted participation from over 50 KOLs and exposure from over 50 media outlets, with content simultaneously covering 13 platforms including X, YouTube, TikTok, Telegram, Binance Square, Huobi Live, Gate Live, Hotcoin, Pumpkin, Sidekick, and more.As the title sponsor of the Feixiaohao World Cup Carnival, AtlasX Protocol completed the first round of concentrated market education for the World Cup prediction products through this live broadcast. The event, hosted by the AtlasX prediction platform, will facilitate interactive predictions during the World Cup from June 11, 2026, to July 20, 2026, covering various prediction topics such as World Cup champion, group winners, key matches, knockout stage advancement, and final results.In terms of communication effectiveness, the over 90,000 online listeners and over 500,000 total plays indicate that the World Cup prediction market has strong user attention and content dissemination capability. For AtlasX Protocol, the significance of this live broadcast is not just brand exposure, but leveraging the multi-platform live broadcast network of Feixiaohao Live100 to integrate prediction products into this global sports event, allowing users to understand the participatory value of the prediction market in real event scenarios.As the World Cup progresses, AtlasX Protocol will continue to update prediction topics based on the event's progress and will amplify the activity's reach through Feixiaohao (Feixiaohao.ai) live broadcasts, media, KOLs, and community resources.

The global stablecoin payment infrastructure platform WasabiCard has been featured in a special report by Forbes, which discusses the challenges faced by stablecoin payments in becoming mainstream applications and includes an interview with WasabiCard co-founder and CEO Ray Yang. The report points out that as stablecoin applications gradually extend from crypto trading to real business scenarios such as corporate payments and cross-border settlements, the underlying payment infrastructure is becoming a key driver of industry development.In the interview, Ray Yang stated: "At this stage, the development of stablecoin payments still faces dual challenges in technology and regulation. From a technical perspective, the core issue is no longer the transfer of funds itself; rather, the key lies in licensing qualifications, compliance systems, risk management capabilities, and banking network capabilities."Ray Yang further pointed out that the key to achieving large-scale commercialization of stablecoin payments does not lie in the payment capability itself, but in whether a global infrastructure can be built to connect digital assets with the traditional financial system. As a global stablecoin payment infrastructure platform, WasabiCard continues to focus on the global payment network, compliance systems, and enterprise-level payment capabilities, committed to promoting the widespread application of stablecoins in real business scenarios.This special report by Forbes reflects the ongoing attention of international mainstream financial media to the development trends of stablecoin payment infrastructure and indirectly highlights the growing importance of compliance and the value of building scalable global payment networks in the market.

According to the Securities Times, Xiaohongshu has launched a special governance action for certified professional accounts in the financial sector starting from June 3. Based on relevant laws and regulations as well as platform rules, financial certifications are only issued to institutions holding compliant licenses. The nicknames of certified professional accounts on the platform must strictly match the actual business scope of the certified entity and must not obtain certification marks through false or misleading information. In the past week, Xiaohongshu has dealt with over 1,500 non-compliant financial professional accounts and will continue to comprehensively strengthen the public verification and validation mechanism, conducting regular inspections and handling of existing accounts.Staff introduced that since May, the Xiaohongshu platform has dealt with a total of 31,000 accounts involved in financial sector violations and marketing accounts without financial-related qualifications, including 539 notes and 146 comments related to illegal inducement of cross-border investment issues; 141 related notes regarding the low-priced resale of foreign investment bank research reports, and freezing of 132 related products. In addition, the platform has also handled over 130 pieces of suspected illegal information related to gold financial marketing promotion and domestic promotion of overseas platforms.

According to Techinasia, AI startup Special, founded by former U.S. government efficiency members Nate Cavanaugh and Justin Fox, has completed a funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with investors including Valor Equity Partners founder Antonio Gracias, former xAI CFO Anthony Armstrong, Steve Davis, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, and Palantir Technologies CTO Shyam Sankar.Special plans to reduce costs through company acquisitions and the use of AI. The company also announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire a healthcare company in Texas, which will incorporate the Figure Health business line focused on the aging population.

According to the Korea Economic Daily, the National Police Agency of South Korea has formed a special task force to combat money laundering involving cryptocurrencies, led by the head of the Economic Crime Investigation Division, with participation from the Cyber Crime Investigation Division, Cyber Terrorism Response Division, Violent Crime Investigation Division, Drug Crime Investigation Division, and Criminal Intelligence Division. The police pointed out that Tether is being abused as an illegal money laundering tool, with unregistered virtual asset exchange operators spreading throughout Seoul.The police plan to treat money laundering as an independent crime and apply violations of the Specific Financial Information Act to unregistered virtual asset service providers. The police have also secured a budget of 100 million won for cryptocurrency tracking training. Previously, some bank accounts linked to domestic exchanges were suspected of being used as money laundering channels due to the removal of daily deposit limits (increased from 5 million won to 500 million won).

According to official news, the Gate Live Pizza Festival special live broadcast will be held on May 22 at 20:00 (UTC+8). The live content will revolve around the theme of Bitcoin Pizza Day, featuring special guests such as Yibo Talks Coins and the Margin King to share BTC bull and bear stories and wealth experiences, helping users understand the history of Bitcoin and market trends.Users can participate in the lottery by entering the live room, watching, and engaging in comments and interactions. During this live broadcast, multiple lucky users will be randomly selected to receive benefits such as GT, position experience vouchers, VIP5, and a continuous shower of red envelopes throughout the event.

The five core projects under the TRON ecosystem, SUN, JUST, AINFT, BitTorrent, and WINkLink, have officially launched the "TRON Eco AI Pizza Festival" in collaboration with the cutting-edge AI financial infrastructure platform B.AI. The event will run until May 29. A special prize pool of 2,000 USDT has been established, and 500,000 B.AI points will be given to new users.Users only need to follow and retweet the corresponding project tweets, go to chat.b.ai/chat to claim points, use the exclusive AI pizza invitation code to complete their questions, and tag three friends in the comments section of the event tweet to participate in the leaderboard.Once the total number of comments across the five projects exceeds 4,000, the prize pool will be unlocked, and the final rewards will be distributed based on the popularity rankings in each project's comment section. This event significantly lowers the threshold for Web3 users to experience cutting-edge large models through a dual incentive mechanism, accelerating the integration of TRON ecosystem applications and AI infrastructure.