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SpaceX stated that any potential merger with Tesla must be further approved by the company's special committee, board of directors, and controlling shareholders.

U.S. presidential envoy Wittekov will meet with Russian President Putin on October 21, and Trump's son-in-law Kushner will participate via video. Previously, the U.S., Ukraine, and Europe had detailed discussions on security guarantees and other aspects of a comprehensive peace framework, reaching a high level of consensus.

According to official news, NeoSoul expressed understanding of the difficulties in starting a business in the cryptocurrency industry and expressed support for the StandX team and community.NeoSoul will establish a special DNA airdrop quota to reward community contributors who have long participated in the construction of StandX. The specific eligibility rules and claim entry will be announced after the DNA TGE. At the same time, NeoSoul expressed willingness to communicate with the StandX team to jointly explore community support plans.

Four-time F1 World Champion and Red Bull Racing driver Max Verstappen participated in a roundtable discussion on the main stage of TOKEN2049 in Singapore. Following this, at the invitation of Gate, he joined platform founder and CEO Dr. Han and teammate Isack Hadjar for an exclusive handprint ceremony. Previously, Max Verstappen engaged with the guests on topics related to racing performance, on-the-spot adjustments, and competition. The subsequent handprint ceremony extended the stage interaction to the Gate on-site event, becoming a special memento left by the three during TOKEN2049. After the handprint ceremony, Max Verstappen and Isack Hadjar also went to the Gate Lounge to participate in a driver meet-and-greet, where they signed autographs, took photos, and interacted with guests.As the official sponsor of the F1 Red Bull Racing team, Gate continues to bring top-tier racing culture into the Web3 industry through various forms such as stage discussions, handprint commemorations, booth interactions, and driver meet-and-greets. This handprint ceremony also became a special segment in the series of interactions between Gate and the F1 Red Bull Racing team during TOKEN2049. Gate will leverage this collaboration to further expand the connection between digital assets and global sports as well as mainstream culture.

According to GMGN market data, Robinhood's meme stock BONER has risen against the trend, with its market value once surpassing 70 million dollars, approaching its historical high. As of the time of writing, BONER is reported at 66.4 million dollars, with a 24-hour increase of 17.8%.In terms of news, Bloomberg published a special report on Robinhood's meme stocks on October 2. Cryptocurrency KOL Eric, in an interview with Bloomberg, stated that meme stocks are "a characteristic of the times and also a future trend." Additionally, Eric, as a major holder of BONER, specifically introduced the BONER token to Bloomberg.Stock Meme is an emerging play that directly combines traditional meme coins with tokenized U.S. stocks: meme coins are no longer paired with USDT or ETH but are directly paired with on-chain U.S. stock tokens (such as NVDA, TSLA, AAPL, etc.). This retains the speculative attributes of meme coins, which are highly volatile and community-driven, while also leveraging the popularity and narrative of real stocks. Transaction fees often partially flow back into the community treasury to accumulate corresponding U.S. stock tokens, forming a dual-driven model of "sentiment speculation + real asset anchoring."

Strategy announced that the special shareholders' meeting is scheduled to be held online on October 28 at 10:00 AM (Eastern Time), with the record date for stock ownership set for September 25, where common stock shareholders will vote.Previously, Strategy indicated that it plans to change the dividends for STRF, STRC, STRK, and STRD to be accrued daily, and related matters will be voted on at this shareholders' meeting.

B.AI announced that Xiaomi's latest MiMo-V2.6 series will launch exclusive discounts on September 25 at 15:00 (SGT): MiMo-V2.6-Flash will enjoy a 90% discount, and MiMo-V2.6-Pro will enjoy a 50% launch discount.This series supports 1M ultra-long context and multimodal understanding, covering high-frequency agents and complex reasoning scenarios, helping developers run API calls at a low cost.

Starting from September 25 at 15:00 (SGT), B.AI's popular model rights will welcome a new round of upgrades: the brand new MiMo-V2.6-Flash will take over the 90% discount, and the flagship MiMo-V2.6-Pro will enjoy a 50% launch discount.Currently, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, GLM-5.3-Flash, Qwen3.8-Flash, Hy3, and MiMo-V2.5 are enjoying the final 90% discount. Developers are urged to take advantage of the last window period to recharge and call in advance to ensure a smooth workflow transition.

Documents obtained by The Intercept through a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act show that the U.S. Department of Defense once requested OpenAI to provide a version of artificial intelligence specifically tailored for the military, with a "very low refusal rate" for commands. This statement appeared in the updated contract for the 2025 prototype agreement "P00003," which is a two-year agreement worth up to $200 million, covering logistics, intelligence decision-making, and operational uses. OpenAI, Google, xAI, and Anthropic all agreed to develop such militarized prototypes in 2025.OpenAI spokesperson Nate Evans stated that the company never agreed to contract terms that included a "very low refusal rate," and the relevant documents were early drafts from the Department of Defense, with the final executed contract not containing that statement. Department of Defense spokesperson Jacob Bliss also indicated that the phrase did not appear in any current contracts. The Intercept pointed out that the documents obtained were not marked as drafts; a Department of Justice lawyer representing the Pentagon once confirmed that the document was a signed executed version, but later requested to disregard that confirmation and stated that further investigation was needed.The latest contract signed on February 27 allows OpenAI services to be deployed on military classified networks, with similar delivery terms completely redacted. OpenAI stated that it has drawn a red line regarding autonomous killing and surveillance of Americans, but the contract text allows the government to determine any use as legal.

According to Bloomberg, U.S. President Trump's envoy and real estate developer Steve Witkoff stated in the latest financial disclosure that his holding company is expected to generate approximately $107 million in revenue in 2025, which includes his interests in the cryptocurrency project World Liberty Financial LLC and assets such as resorts, hotels, and residential properties.The documents did not disclose the specific valuations and revenues of World Liberty Financial and other underlying assets. Previous disclosures indicated that the holding company's revenue for 2024 was $34 million. Critics argue that Witkoff's holdings in entities such as World Liberty Financial present a potential conflict of interest with his government position.

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.

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.