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According to CryptoBriefing, the Bitcoin wallet Xverse has launched a joint Bitcoin staking service, allowing users to pair sBTC with STX tokens to participate in the Stacks PoX-5 locking period. During the staking period, Bitcoin remains on the Bitcoin mainnet and is controlled by the users, without the need for cross-chain or wrapping. This feature requires an upgrade to the Xverse v2.9 version wallet.Registration will close on September 9 or when the quota is used up. Staking rewards are expected to be distributed starting September 10 (Bitcoin block 966350, corresponding to Stacks' 143rd period). Institutions such as UTXO (a subsidiary of Nakamoto Inc.), HashKey Cloud, and 21shares have joined as anchor participants. Previously, Xverse managed approximately 152 million STX in non-custodial staking.

Huobi HTX announced the latest Merkle tree reserve proof data showing that as of September 1, 2026 (UTC+8), the reserve ratios of various mainstream assets on the platform remain above 100%. Huobi HTX has publicly disclosed PoR data for 47 consecutive months.The updated reserve ratios are as follows: BTC 104%, ETH 102%, TRX 109%, USDs 102%, HTX 103%, XRP 104%, DOGE 101%, SOL 103%. Users can visit the Huobi HTX official website's "Assets - Reserve Proof Report" page to view.

According to the data panel on the ChainCatcher official website, regarding BTC wallet balances, in the past 7 days, among the top 10 exchanges by balance, Bybit had the largest decrease at 1.5%; OKX had the largest increase at 1.4%.In terms of exchange asset transparency proof, in the past 7 days, only two exchanges experienced net outflows of reserve assets, with Bybit and MEXC seeing net outflows of 59.493 million USD and 50.7179 million USD respectively; the top three net inflows were Binance (+518 million USD), Bitfinex (+203 million USD), and Bitget (+82.6782 million USD).

Future Asset Securities analyst Kim Young-gun stated that the expansion of Samsung Electronics' HBM shipments for AI applications is expected to offset the impact of the slowdown in growth of general-purpose memory chips next year. It is anticipated that Samsung Electronics' HBM shipment capacity and average selling price will soar by 57% and 49% respectively by 2027, expected to surpass the projected growth rates of 16% and 20% for general-purpose memory chips.Future Asset expects Samsung's earnings to be weighed down by the strengthening of the Korean won against the US dollar, but overall, it will remain robust. The agency has lowered its operating profit forecast for Samsung in 2026 by 5.7% to 370.057 trillion won and reduced it by 4.2% to 535.682 trillion won for 2027.

According to Digital Asset, the National Tax Service of South Korea has issued regulations stating that even if overseas virtual asset (digital asset) exchanges go bankrupt, individuals with accounts at those exchanges must declare those accounts as overseas financial accounts. The National Tax Service stated on the 28th of last month: "Residents who open accounts with overseas virtual asset operators for the purpose of trading digital assets must declare those accounts as overseas financial accounts, even if the operators go bankrupt."In addition, it is expected that the scale of digital assets included in the overseas financial account declaration will reach 105 trillion Korean won by 2026, a decrease of 5.4% compared to 2025.

Galaxy Research published that the attackers in the Coldcard "Wave 3" attack are still continuously transferring the stolen funds. During this phase, the attackers created 293 2-of-2 multi-signature wallets for each victim's assets. The first batch of funds was transferred across chains to Ethereum via THORChain; the latest round of transfers has begun entering the CoinJoin mixing process.Currently, the Wave 3 attackers are processing the largest amounts of stolen funds in order of the stolen amount, having sequentially transferred the funds from wallets ranked 1 to 11. The next 10 wallets that have not yet been transferred hold a total of 30.81 BTC, while wallets ranked 61 to 293 hold a total of 33.77 BTC. So far, the attackers have transferred about 45% of the stolen assets from this exploit, with funds flowing to Ethereum (via THORChain) or entering CoinJoin mixing transactions. Additionally, this fund transfer has revealed a previously unknown wallet: 58 addresses jointly spent in a 2-of-2 multi-signature format identical to that of Wave 3, and these were further transferred by the Wave 3 attackers to a jump address that funds CoinJoin.The on-chain analysis team currently marks this wallet as "cause = open," but believes it likely also belongs to Coldcard victims, which means the number of wallets involved in Wave 3 may increase to 294, raising the previously reported total amount stolen from the Coldcard vulnerability to approximately 1806 BTC. Currently, about 82% of the stolen BTC remains in addresses initially controlled by the attackers, while about 18% has been transferred, with the flow of funds indicating that it may be undergoing laundering processes.

Figure co-founder and Executive Chairman Mike Cagney tweeted that DeFi is more suitable for asset-backed finance (ABF), which can avoid double pledging, directly improve collateral, self-custody or autonomous venues, and liquidity collateral. He believes that Figure has brought ABF on-chain, but overall it is still in the early stages, with approximately $60 trillion of the market yet to migrate on a large scale.He also listed five reasons why traditional finance has been slow to enter on-chain applications: poor interface experience, which has allowed applications like Robinhood and SoFi to win on the retail side; the long-term difficulty of achieving qualified custody and recoverable self-custody; hedge funds and others requiring multiple wallets, multiple users, tiered permissions, and complete audits to be exported to fund administration and accounting; regulation is being streamlined, and the precedent for on-chain native securities is becoming clearer, with hopes for the CLARITY Act and guidelines; and KYC issues are easier to resolve than the outside world thinks, as on-chain programmatic screening and wallet-level permissions can be implemented.

According to "Digital Assets," the number of signatures for the petition in the South Korean National Assembly to postpone the taxation of virtual assets by 2 years has exceeded 32,000. The threshold for the National Assembly petition is 50,000 signatures, and if an additional 18,000 signatures are collected before September 20, the petition will be formally submitted for review by the relevant standing committee.The reason for the petition is that taxing digital assets will lead to a significant decline in exchange revenues, which in turn will result in a decrease in corporate tax revenue. Currently, the government insists on implementing the taxation normally starting in January 2027, while the People Power Party opposes it, citing reasons such as inadequate infrastructure.

The Bitcoin fork asset BTCB2 reached a historical high of $1799 on September 5. In the past 4 hours, its price fluctuated between 750 and 1000 USDC; the Neoxa USDC market had a trading volume of approximately 1 million dollars in the past 24 hours.BTCB2 originated from a chain split that occurred on August 8, 2026, at block height 961632. The network subsequently changed its proof-of-work algorithm to Blake2 and reduced the block size, which can now be mined by ASIC miners compatible with Blake2. Neoxa Exchange and Nonkyc.io have listed BTCB2, with the former offering BTC, USDC, and USDT trading pairs, while the latter provides USDT trading pairs. Both platforms have limited liquidity, and CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko have not yet included this asset.Based on a BTCB2 price of $1000, its fully diluted valuation is approximately $20.9 billion. Since UTXO must first be split from Bitcoin to avoid potential replay attacks, the network's hash rate has increased by 30.41% in the past 7 days, reaching about 5.1 PH/s.

ARK Invest's Director of Digital Asset Research, Lorenzo Valente, posted on X that since the rise of L1, application chains, and Rollup-centric roadmaps, messaging and interoperability protocols have become critical infrastructure. As more assets go on-chain, the demand for universal interoperability will grow exponentially.Lorenzo Valente stated that the interoperability business of the cross-chain interoperability protocol LayerZero is likely to quickly grow to a nine-figure ARR, and mentioned that the team has more progress to share in the future.

Bitwise CEO posted on the X platform that GPUs are one of the most important commodities in the digital age. USD AI has created GPU asset-backed credit to serve medium-sized borrowers who have not been adequately serviced before, and will tokenize the related credit.Real-world credit is gradually moving on-chain, and Bitwise will provide access through PAPY.

The Director of the National Economic Council of the White House, Hassett, praised the non-farm payroll report data as "very strong."

Gate Research Institute released the August 2026 cryptocurrency and TradFi quantitative report. BTC and ETH rose approximately 25.1% and 32.6% respectively during the month. Gate contract data shows that the open interest amount for BTC increased from about $4.02 billion to $4.38 billion, while ETH rose from about $2.46 billion to $2.75 billion, with increases of approximately 9% and 12.1% respectively.The funding rates for both remained moderately positive most of the time, with long positions dominating the number of accounts, but the active trading long-short ratio was below 1. The TradFi market also rose in sync, with NAS100 increasing about 4.2% during the month, outperforming US500 and US30, while large tech stocks showed a divergence in trends.The report compared four models: moving average trends, trend momentum, Donchian breakout, and RSI mean reversion. Backtesting results showed that the 100-day moving average and 20-day price momentum strategies achieved positive cumulative returns on BTC, ETH, US500, and NAS100, with a median Sharpe ratio of 0.64 and a median maximum drawdown of 8.71%. The report includes Gate TradFi's US500 and NAS100 in cross-asset observations and evaluates market heat by combining Gate contract long-short ratios, funding rates, and open interest data. The execution over the next one to three months will focus on trend confirmation, volatility rebalancing, leverage limits, and cooling off abnormal liquidations.

According to Gate market data, on the tokenized stock product gStocks of the cryptocurrency exchange Gate, the MicroStrategy token MSTRG/USDT has increased by 16.33% in 24 hours, priced at $142.83; the Circle internet token CRCLG/USDT has risen by 15.40% in 24 hours, priced at $101.74; the Robinhood token HOODG/USDT has increased by 14.57% in 24 hours, priced at $124.63.Gate gStocks adopts a 1:1 native stock reserve, with each tokenized security corresponding to an equal number of native stocks as the underlying asset, and supports 24/7 trading and fractional share trading.

According to BBX data, global listed companies and leading financial institutions have disclosed the latest developments in digital asset management scale, quarterly earnings performance, and crypto clearing infrastructure in recent days. The core information is as follows:New Fire Group (01611.HK) asset management and trading volume hit a record high, AUM surpassed 2 billion HKD: Hong Kong-listed company New Fire Group disclosed its operating data for August. The group's private banking-level digital asset custodian Bitfire Premium successfully surpassed 200 million USD in asset management scale (AUM), a month-on-month increase of about 30%. The total asset management scale of New Fire Group's global market (including the Japanese site BitTrade) has officially surpassed 2 billion HKD. In addition, the platform's trading volume has exceeded 100 million USD for the second consecutive month, and the over-the-counter (OTC) business continues to expand, currently ranking among the major OTC digital asset trading platforms in Hong Kong.Amber (NASDAQ: AMBR) Q2 revenue 13.9 million USD, turning a profit: Nasdaq-listed company Amber announced its unaudited financial performance for the second quarter of 2026. The company's total revenue for Q2 reached 13.9 million USD, a significant month-on-month increase of 38.8%, with gross margin significantly improved to 79.5%. As a result, its operating income and adjusted EBITDA both turned positive, completely reversing the loss situation of the previous quarter.Digital bank SoFi partners with Kraken to enable 24/7 USD settlement and liquidity: Digital bank SoFi has reached a strategic cooperation with the well-known crypto exchange Kraken. Kraken's parent company Payward will officially join SoFi's USD settlement network "SEN," allowing its institutional clients to break the limitations of traditional bank operating hours, transferring USD and managing liquidity around the clock; at the same time, Kraken will launch the stablecoin SoFi USD issued by SoFi, while SoFi will introduce Kraken Prime as an additional underlying liquidity source for its clients' cryptocurrency trading.Bank-led digital currency network Cari completes 32.5 million USD financing: The digital currency network Cari, designed specifically for the banking industry, announced the completion of a 32.5 million USD first round of external financing. This round of funding comes entirely from traditional banking institutions, including First Horizon Bank, Huntington Bank, Key Bank, M&T Bank, Old National Bank, SouthState Bank, and Glacier Bank. Cari aims to help regional, mid-sized, and community banks fully participate in and establish compliant digital currency 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.