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Arthur Hayes released a new project FLOP white paper on social media. FLOP is a proof of useful inference (PoUI) blockchain and native currency aimed at the agent economy, where AI agents can use FLOP to pay miners for inference fees. The network adopts an architecture that combines PoUI with account-based chains, where agents submit session requests to the memory pool containing model weight hashes, maximum latency, computational load, confidentiality flags, and fees. Miners complete the inference and return proofs, which validators incorporate into blocks to complete settlements.The initial supply of FLOP is approximately 2.48346 billion tokens, all allocated for airdrops, with no VC pre-mining or auctions. The first phase of reward distribution allocates 75% to miners, 10% to validators, 10% to agents, and 5% to regular stakers. The average block time for the network is 1 second, with a roadmap goal of sub-second block times. The initial block reward is 96 FLOP, halving every 730 days, for a total of five halvings, after which it will permanently remain at 3 FLOP.The maximum number of validators is capped at 1,000, with approximately 50 rotating monthly based on verified workload and online rates. Miners and validators must stake FLOP, and malicious behavior may face penalties of up to full forfeiture and bans. Governance is conducted through FLOP improvement proposals, requiring a two-thirds approval from active validators in most cases.

Raydium's official announcement states that its LaunchLab now supports trading of any token pairs on Raydium. This upgrade brings a more flexible token pairing mechanism to Solana, while providing deeper liquidity, lower fees, and a stronger native trading experience for memes.

Robinhood Chain's multi-pool RWA token issuance platform PAIR has released the latest ecological data, with a cumulative trading volume nearing 100 million USD and rewards distributed to creators exceeding 600,000 USD, with over 2,000 projects launched on the protocol.In addition, PAIR has disclosed that it has burned PAIR tokens worth over 3 million USD to date, accounting for more than 10% of the total token supply. PAIR also announced that it will unveil the "largest update to date" within the next 24 hours.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket regarding the "Israel Closes Airspace" event, the sub-market "September 30" option's "Yes" probability has experienced a sharp fluctuation, dropping from 69.5% an hour ago to the current 54.5% (a fluctuation of 15%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs of Taiwan has confirmed that Taiwanese companies will invest an additional 20 billion USD in the United States. Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua stated that in response to order demands, in addition to the main production bases in Taiwan, capacity will also be increased in the United States, primarily focusing on semiconductor manufacturers, supply chains, and AI server manufacturers.U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo previously stated that Taiwan would announce investments of 20 to 30 billion USD in the U.S. next week. The Ministry of Economic Affairs responded that this investment is the 20 billion USD announced by Wang Mei-hua during the opening of the SEMICON TAIWAN 2026 U.S. Pavilion on the 2nd. Wang Mei-hua pointed out that global orders for AI and semiconductors are booming, and the global president of SEMI has raised the forecast for global semiconductor revenue in 2030 from 1 trillion USD to 2 trillion USD.The Ministry of Economic Affairs' review shows that as of May this year, 20 semiconductor and AI server-related companies have announced investments of 35 billion USD in the United States, with an additional 20 billion USD added in the following months. Future cooperation will also extend to industries such as biotechnology and natural gas.

NVIDIA announced that the RTX Spark devices equipped with the N1X chip will begin shipping in October this year. The N1X supports up to 128GB of unified memory, and the Blackwell GPU provides up to 10 petaflops of floating-point performance per second. The full version is equipped with a 6144 CUDA core Blackwell GPU and a 20-core Grace CPU, supporting 24GB to 128GB of unified memory; another version has 5120 GPU cores and 18 CPU cores, supporting only 24GB to 32GB of unified memory.NVIDIA launched the open-source tool NVIDIA PAIR, which can connect multiple RTX devices, DGX Spark, and even Apple devices in a home network to schedule idle computing power for collaborative processing of AI agent tasks. Compatible devices include computers with NVIDIA graphics cards (RTX 20 series and later, RTX Pro GPU, DGX Spark) as well as devices with Apple M4 or newer chips. PAIR prioritizes the use of idle computing power and automatically adjusts as devices join or leave the network.In a media briefing example, a household had approximately 165 TFLOPS of underutilized computing power. The Qianwen 3.6 35B A3B model completed agent tasks in an average of 18 minutes on a single Spark notebook, while a three-device PAIR cluster averaged 8 minutes and 48 seconds. The AI agent applications Perplexity Portable Computer, Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw will receive a more simplified local deployment method.

Uniswap founder Hayden posted on the X platform, stating that correlated trading pairs are forming. The top five tokenized SPY trading pairs by trading volume serve as "bridge" trading pairs connecting other common underlying trading pairs, primarily linking to tokenized stocks with higher correlations. This type of market is characterized by globalization, programmability, low costs, and 24/7 operation.Hayden stated that he has been working on the forefront of DeFi for 9 years and believes that AMM has enormous potential. After years of evolution and development, the path for AMM to achieve global dominance is becoming increasingly clear. Tokenization has changed the existence of markets, market makers, and the objects of market trading. Since its launch, Uniswap has been operating autonomously, with a cumulative trading volume exceeding $4.6 trillion, and has increased the share of spot trading volume on decentralized exchanges from less than 1% to over 20%.As AMMs like Uniswap continue to evolve, their liquidity has formed a pattern that most financial markets have yet to notice: correlated trading pairs. AMMs have found a product-market fit in long-tail markets, as most assets previously could not attract the attention of professional market makers. DeFi and AMM have lowered the barriers to market making, opening the market to more participants. Liquidity will concentrate in the places with the lowest risk, rather than being forced to remain in places constrained by traditional infrastructure.

Circle President and former CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert stated at a hearing of the U.S. House Financial Services Committee that the GENIUS Act has established a federal regulatory framework for payment stablecoins, equivalent to building a "dollar layer" for the internet financial system. He urged Congress to next pass the CLARITY Act to complete the long-term regulatory framework for the "market layer" of digital assets.In addition, Tarbert also urged that the final implementation rules of the GENIUS Act should close the regulatory arbitrage space for offshore stablecoins, requiring intermediary institutions that actually serve U.S. customers to be subject to corresponding restrictions, and ensuring that foreign stablecoin issuers meet truly comparable regulatory standards.

According to a report by Reuters, Apple Inc. is facing a class-action lawsuit in London, with claims amounting to £2 billion (approximately $2.7 billion). The lawsuit was filed today in the London Competition Appeal Tribunal by Ann Pope, a former senior official of the UK's Competition and Markets Authority, representing app developers.The core allegation is that Apple's "App Tracking Transparency" (ATT) feature, launched in 2021, imposes stricter restrictions on third-party developers than on its own services, giving Apple's own advertising ecosystem an unfair competitive advantage. Ann Pope stated that Apple's policies "have caused very significant harm to businesses that rely on Apple as a gatekeeper."Since its launch, the ATT feature has been a focal point of concern for global regulators for several years. Apple's official stance is that the feature is designed to allow users to control whether to permit apps to track their activities across other companies and websites.However, the plaintiffs argue that the actual enforcement of this rule has a double standard—tracking requests from third-party apps require strict pop-up authorization, while Apple's own personalized ads and services can bypass the same restrictions. This lawsuit represents the latest legal challenge Apple faces regarding its ATT policy and is the first large-scale private antitrust lawsuit initiated in the UK market against Apple's app ecosystem rules following scrutiny from regulators in the EU, the US, and several other countries.

Binance will renew the USD1 airdrop event on September 4, 2026, at 08:00, where eligible users will share a total prize pool of 150 million WLFI tokens.During the event, WLFI rewards will be distributed to eligible users holding USD1 before 02:00 every Saturday. The event runs from September 4 to October 2.

Paul Atkins, the chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), stated that he expects the highly anticipated Clarity Act to pass in the Senate this month, and he mentioned that the U.S. is likely to become the "capital of crypto." In an interview with Fox Business, Atkins confirmed that the bill will be voted on in the Senate on September 15, and he anticipates that it will pass and ultimately be sent to the president for signing.Atkins stated that regulators are pushing for relevant rules to help the crypto industry develop, saying, "We are changing past practices to update rules to adapt to the era of blockchain and crypto assets." Last week, the SEC submitted a proposal to the White House aimed at clarifying the custody framework for crypto assets for investment advisors and companies.The Clarity Act aims to establish a regulatory framework that distinguishes whether digital assets are securities, commodities, or stablecoins. The bill passed in the House last year, but has been stalled for most of this year due to disagreements between banking lobbyists and crypto companies over issues such as whether platforms like Coinbase can pay clients returns. Some lawmakers attempted to modify the language regarding ethical standards in the bill, while a new bill has been circulating since July that prohibits government officials from promoting crypto assets and profiting from them. However, some Democratic lawmakers believe the relevant provisions are still inadequate, while several pro-crypto Republican lawmakers have accused Democrats of deliberately playing politics and delaying the bill's progress.

The U.S. primary election season is nearing its end, and the cryptocurrency industry's super political action committee (PAC) has achieved victories in several key districts. Supported by major contributors such as Coinbase, Ripple, and a16z, Fairshake has helped approximately 50 candidates win nominations, including Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Jake Auchincloss, as well as Republican Senate candidates Barry Moore from Alabama, Andy Barr from Kentucky, Kevin Hern from Oklahoma, and Harriet Hageman from Wyoming. Prediction markets Polymarket and Kalshi indicate that these candidates have a winning probability of over 94% in the general election.Fairshake spokesperson Geoff Vetter stated that the organization has reserved $122 million for the fall elections. However, Fairshake also faced its biggest setback in Illinois, spending over $10 million in an attempt to prevent Democrat Juliana Stratton from securing the nomination but was unsuccessful. Additionally, the Fellowship PAC, supported by Cantor Fitzgerald and Anchorage Digital, has actually spent about $11 million, far less than the previously claimed $100 million; the Digital Freedom Fund, funded by the Winklevoss brothers with $21 million, has yet to engage in support for specific candidates.

Lily Liu, the chair of the Solana Foundation, stated that funds, assets, and ownership are migrating to an all-weather internet infrastructure, forming a long-term token supercycle.Tokenization is not only about moving assets onto the chain but also about changing the assets themselves, allowing value to be issued, held, financed, and traded in a market that never closes.She believes that stablecoins have proven that funds can flow onto the chain globally, financial institutions are pushing for asset tokenization, and blockchain infrastructure is beginning to meet the demands of real economic activities for speed and cost, while AI economic agents require programmable money.With these factors converging, any value with clear ownership could be tokenized and gain broader distribution, financing, and trading channels.In the past year, the trading volume of RWA on Solana reached hundreds of billions of dollars, covering tokenized U.S. Treasury bonds, stocks, and private credit; during the same period, stablecoin transfer volume exceeded $4.7 trillion.Liu stated that tokenization can also allow more investors to break through geographic, minimum investment, and qualification restrictions, and enable the assets held to be used for collateral or to generate returns. Although the current on-chain market size is still far below that of traditional markets, the relevant infrastructure could potentially reach 5.5 billion internet users globally in the future.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Mexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas has publicly expressed his support for Bitcoin, stating that "Bitcoin changes a fundamental rule: no one can print more money just because they want to." He characterized fiat currency inflation as an "invisible tax" and called on the public to learn relevant knowledge, purchase, and hold Bitcoin to protect savings and defend freedom.It is worth noting that Salinas is currently under investigation for tax fraud in Mexico and the United States.

OKX will open the USDⓢ spot trading pair corresponding to the USDC spot trading pair at 4:00 PM on September 23, 2026, and will delist the relevant USDⓢ spot trading pairs except for USDT-USDⓢ at 4:00 PM on September 30. Users need to switch to the corresponding USDC trading pair in advance to trade.

Binance will launch the bStocks tokenized securities trading pairs on September 2, 2026, at 20:00: CrowdStrike (CRWDB), Moderna (MRNAB), ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ (SQQQB), and Seagate (STXB). The spot algorithm trading bot will be activated simultaneously with the spot listing, and the smart holding bot will be enabled within 24 hours after the launch.Users can exchange bStocks for BTC, USDT, or other supported tokens without fees within one hour after the launch. During the event, CRWDB/USDT, MRNAB/USDT, SQQQB/USDT, and STXB/USDT will enjoy zero maker fees until October 1, 2026, at 07:59.

DeFiprime founder Nick Sawinyh analyzed that the Meme coin issuance platform on the Robinhood Chain is massively using tokenized stocks as paired assets. As of September 1, approximately 17.2% of the on-chain supply of 19 high liquidity Robinhood stock tokens is locked in 432 pools that use stock tokens as quoted assets, contributing 31.3% of the DEX trading volume of related stock tokens in the past 24 hours. The four issuance platforms Long, Bankr, Flap, and PAIR have set stock-paired Meme coins as default products.Among them, the AI/NVDA pool holds 8,783 NVDA (accounting for 16.2% of the total on-chain tokenized NVDA), with a 24-hour trading volume of about $6.2 million; the BONER/HIMS pool holds 37,172 HIMS (accounting for 50.4% of the total HIMS on the chain), with a trading volume of about $12.5 million. This mechanism has led to significant premiums for some tokenized stocks over the weekend (when issuers cannot issue more), with HIMS once trading at a premium of 112% compared to the NYSE closing price. The TVL of the Robinhood Chain has nearly doubled since August 1 to $740 million, with on-chain DEX daily trading volume reaching $1.49 billion on August 31. The analysis points out that 9 stock tokens have an on-chain circulating market value of less than $1.5 million, and a single Meme coin pool can absorb a large proportion of the circulating supply. This analysis is based on specific block snapshot data, with prices and pool balances changing rapidly.