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Galaxy Research posted on X that yesterday the daily transaction count for Bitcoin reached 893,391, marking the fourth highest single-day transaction count in Bitcoin's history, and this figure is above the 99th percentile of its historical range.

According to CoinDesk, Ethereum core developers have included EIP-8141 (Frame Transactions) in the 2027 Hegotá upgrade plan. During the core developer call on August 27, the proposal was marked as "Scheduled for Inclusion," meaning it will become part of the network update rather than just a candidate proposal. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, one of the ten authors of the proposal, stated on X on Sunday night that Frames have made significant progress in the past few months.Frames aim to address the issue where users hold stablecoins but cannot transfer them due to a lack of ETH. It splits transactions into independent steps such as authorization verification, fee payment, and instruction execution, allowing the sender and payer accounts to no longer have to be the same. For example, payment applications can cover fees themselves or settle ETH bills on behalf of users after collecting stablecoins, while the Ethereum network still prices in ETH, and users do not need to purchase ETH. Unlike existing wallet solutions that rely on third-party services, Frames will achieve this capability through the standard Ethereum transaction process.Additionally, Frames will bundle operations that need to be executed simultaneously, such as authorization and submission in token transactions, with authorization being revoked if the transaction fails; it also allows accounts to customize transaction approval rules, enabling the replacement of private keys or the adoption of quantum-resistant keys without needing to migrate funds to a new address. Currently, the specification is still a draft, and details may be adjusted before the Hegotá upgrade, with users unable to use Frames yet.

Whale Alert stated that the dormant transactions activated yesterday involved addresses that mined 50 BTC in Bitcoin blocks 43361, 43452, 43647, 43680, 43765, 43855, and 43871. Whale Alert indicated that, according to its research, the aforementioned blocks were not mined by Satoshi Nakamoto.

ARK Invest researcher Lorenzo Valente stated that after analyzing the contract-level data of Robinhood Chain, he believes that most of the trading activity on the chain may not be contributed by the newly introduced crypto users from Robinhood.Valente noted that the only wallet activity that can be clearly confirmed as coming from Robinhood users is the Swap transactions conducted by Robinhood Wallet through the 0x Settler contract, but this portion of transactions accounts for less than 1%; even if some unidentifiable long-tail transactions are included, the proportion of transactions related to Robinhood users may only be about 5%. The remaining trading activities mainly come from trading terminals like GMGN and OKX, which are basically consistent with the Degen trading behavior of these platforms on other public chains.Valente concluded that the current situation presented by Robinhood Chain resembles "the same group of Degen, just on a new chain." Robinhood Chain itself is an open, permissionless Layer 2 network, and any EVM-compatible wallets and applications can connect, so on-chain trading activity does not necessarily equate to new users from Robinhood.

Evernorth's report shows that the number of XRP Ledger accounts has decreased, but the volume of single transactions has nearly tripled, with the total network value driven by stablecoins surpassing 4.2 billion dollars.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko stated that the revenue share paid by Robinhood to Arbitrum is sufficient to cover about 4 times its trading fees on Solana, allowing Robinhood to provide users with a completely gas-free trading experience on Solana.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform stating that a new analysis by the Cornell Tech Policy Institute estimates that exempting capital gains tax on small digital asset purchases could increase U.S. federal government revenue by approximately $859 million over the next 10 years.The S. 2207 bill proposed by Senator Cynthia Lummis would exempt qualified purchases under $300 from capital gains confirmation, with an annual exclusion limit of $5,000 for capital gains. The study claims that, based on core assumptions, every $100 of qualified benchmark payments could generate $3.18 in federal net revenue.

According to the latest data from Bitget, the platform's stock token rToken has surpassed an asset under management (AUM) of 200 million USD; in terms of trading activity, the cumulative number of transactions for rToken in August reached 1.2 million, with the number of trading users increasing by 20% month-on-month, and the proportion of weekend trading volume increasing by 8% month-on-month.It is reported that the rToken, identified by the letter r + stock code (for example, rNVDA for Nvidia), is issued by Reality, a licensed RWA protocol under Bitget, and is directly connected to global liquidity pools such as NASDAQ and NYSE through collaboration with the compliant brokerage Alpaca.Its features include: 1:1 reserve of underlying assets managed by a licensed custodian, stock dividends distributed in token form 1:1, support for corporate actions such as stock splits and consolidations, and the ability to use holdings as joint collateral for unified accounts and U-based contracts, allowing users to flexibly manage funds while holding global stock assets.

Geoff Kendrick, the Global Head of Digital Assets at Standard Chartered Bank, stated that the global monthly trading volume of stablecoins has reached approximately $7 trillion, with Solana accounting for about one-fifth of stablecoin transactions.The interview also discussed the development trends of stablecoin payments and settlements by 2026, as well as how different blockchain networks are forming their own application positioning. Geoff Kendrick shared the progress of enterprises adopting stablecoins and stated that enterprise-level applications will become an important driving force for the further popularization of stablecoins.

According to the latest data from Bitget, the platform's TradFi contracts accumulated over 250 million transactions in August, with monthly trading volume maintaining above $100 billion for two consecutive months, and the number of trading users increased by 12% month-on-month.As of now, Bitget supports a total of 299 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

According to market news, Uniswap has just welcomed its two highest trading days in history. In just one day yesterday, Uniswap's number of trades exceeded 7 million.

According to SlowMist's monitoring, the GebProxyActions contract suffered a loss of approximately 5.9436 ETH due to a lack of caller access control. Affected users previously called GebProxyActions.quitSystem directly instead of through a DSProxy delegated call, resulting in ownsSAFE[safe] being set to the GebProxyActions contract.The attacker directly called GebProxyActions.quitSystem(manager, safe, dst), bypassing the safeAllowed check of GebSafeManager and transferring the collateral to themselves.

Solana officials stated that the Solana network processed 5.2 billion non-voting transactions in August, setting a new historical high, an increase of 19% compared to the record set in July.

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.

According to Cointelegraph, Russia's legal framework for cryptocurrency trading, custody, and cross-border settlements officially came into effect today.

According to sources from The Wall Street Journal, Nvidia (NVDA.O) has suspended some deals that provided credit support in exchange for revenue sharing.

Coinbase stated on the X platform that the financial layer surrounding AI agents is referred to as agent finance, or AiFi, which encompasses agent trading and agent commerce. AI agents can research information, make decisions, and execute operations on behalf of individuals and businesses, and they need to perform basic financial activities such as payments, receipts, value storage, and fund transfers. Coinbase claims that it is building tools for AI agents to continuously execute financial operations within predefined goals, permissions, limitations, and security boundaries.Coinbase indicated that Coinbase Advisor, Coinbase for Agents, x402, and Coinbase Business have formed the AiFi infrastructure. Coinbase Advisor is an SEC-registered investment advisor integrated into the app for Coinbase One users, providing portfolio analysis and guidance through a chat interface; Coinbase for Agents connects tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor to Coinbase accounts via MCP, allowing users to set operational conditions and security boundaries for agents, as well as create independent sandbox accounts for agent use.Coinbase stated that x402 is an open payment standard initiated by Coinbase and currently managed by an independent foundation, which supports AI agents in paying fees to other agents, applications, and services. As of now, x402 has processed over 205 million transactions, with a transaction volume of $53 million, covering 200,000 sellers, with Coinbase facilitating 67% of the activities. Single payments can be used for API calls, datasets, research materials, or computing resources.Coinbase indicated that Coinbase Business supports enterprises in natively receiving AI agent payments in USDC, and Coinbiz can help merchants sell services and content to software without relying on credit card credentials, manual invoicing, or payment processes designed with human customers in mind. Eligible businesses can earn a floating reward of 3.35% from idle USDC balances. USDC currently accounts for 99% of on-chain agent commerce transactions, while x402 represents 97% of agent finance protocol usage, with related activities operating on Base.

AI Economic Settlement Agreement AEON disclosed that since its launch of the x402 AI payment architecture on the BNB Chain, it has processed over 1.4 million x402 transactions on the BNB Chain, with a total settlement amount exceeding 14.73 million USD. This agreement mainly supports AI Agents in autonomously completing instant verification and settlement of on-chain assets. Relevant transaction data is currently open for real-time tracking on BNB x402scan (https://bnbscan.ai/).

The Barclays strategy team stated that the rapidly expanding AI infrastructure is triggering a backlash among bipartisan voters in the United States, which could pose political risks to the currently popular AI trades.The construction of data centers has made AI a cost of living issue, and voters are dissatisfied with rising electricity costs. Barclays warns investors that AI trades lack new upward catalysts, and related stocks may face policy pressure.