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According to the disclosure by Family Office New Intelligence, data service provider FINTRX tracking shows that in August, family offices participated in a total of 109 transactions, with the total disclosed financing amount reaching 16.9 billion USD. Among these, follow-on financing rounds, where family offices continued to invest in companies they already hold, accounted for 27% of the transaction count. This indicates that, compared to continuing to invest in existing projects, family offices are more active in seeking and investing in new projects. The most active institution in August was a16z Perennial.a16z Perennial was established in 2022 and is a joint family office under the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, providing wealth management and investment services for its core partners Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, as well as the entrepreneurs they support. As of the end of 2025, a16z Perennial manages approximately 2.74 billion USD in regulated assets. In August, a16z Perennial participated in a total of 17 transactions, ranking first; the total disclosed scale of the related financing rounds reached approximately 10.45 billion USD.Ranking second is YZi Labs, founded by Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. YZi Labs manages over 10 billion USD in assets globally, with investment coverage including Web3, artificial intelligence, and healthcare, and invests in startups at various stages of development. In August, YZi Labs participated in 10 transactions, second only to a16z Perennial; however, the total scale of the financing rounds involved in these transactions was 42.1 million USD, largely appearing in large financing rounds of several hundred million or even several billion USD.It should be noted that the amounts mentioned above refer to the total financing scale of all investors in the related financing rounds, rather than the actual investment amount of the family offices themselves. Due to the strong privacy of family office investments, it is usually difficult to obtain the specific investment amount of a single family office in each transaction.

The decentralized stablecoin USDD released its monthly transparency report for August 2026. As of August 31, the circulation of USDD is approximately 1.53 billion, with reserve assets totaling 2.26 billion USD and a collateralization rate of 147.96%. The Smart Allocator has achieved a cumulative return of 26.738 million USD, with a monthly new return of 3.015 million USD, a month-on-month increase of 13.6%.In August, the USDD Vault expanded to the Ethereum ecosystem, allowing users to use ETH and WBTC as collateral to mint USDD; the GasFree transfer feature now supports USDD, enabling zero Gas transfers on the TRON network. During the same period, collaborations were also established with platforms such as Binance Wallet, Gate DEX, and Pendle.

Licheng, Jingyuan Electronics, and Silergy all reported year-on-year and month-on-month revenue growth in August, with Licheng and Silergy setting new historical highs for two consecutive months. Licheng's consolidated revenue in August was 8.558 billion New Taiwan Dollars, a month-on-month increase of 3.48% and a year-on-year increase of 24.46%. After breaking the 8 billion mark for the first time in July and setting a historical high, August saw another record. The cumulative revenue for the first eight months reached 61.258 billion New Taiwan Dollars, a year-on-year increase of 30.83%. Jingyuan Electronics reported revenue of 4.08 billion New Taiwan Dollars in August, a month-on-month increase of 2.23% and a year-on-year increase of 31.58%. The cumulative revenue for the first eight months was 29.404 billion New Taiwan Dollars, a year-on-year increase of 35.53%. Silergy's revenue in August was 2.07 billion New Taiwan Dollars, with a month-on-month increase of nearly 3% and a year-on-year increase of nearly 29%. The cumulative revenue for the first eight months reached 15.26 billion New Taiwan Dollars, a year-on-year increase of over 20%.Licheng's main source of growth this year remains the rebound in demand for memory packaging and testing. Licheng previously anticipated that revenue in the third quarter would show single-digit quarter-on-quarter growth, with the fourth quarter having the potential to exceed the third quarter. The momentum for memory orders is expected to continue until the end of the year, with a positive market outlook at the beginning of next year. In addition to its core memory business, advanced packaging has become a key focus for the next phase of development. The panel-level packaging has already been adopted by American clients, and the production capacity of the P11 plant has been secured by clients, with plans to enter the mass production phase of integrated ASIC and HBM AI chips by mid-2027.Jingyuan Electronics has been actively expanding its high-end testing capacity in recent years, with AI-related products becoming an important driving force for its operations. The testing demand for AI GPUs, ASICs, and high-performance computing chips remains its main source of growth. Silergy pointed out that the demand for AI and high-speed interconnects is strong, including an increase in demand for high-performance computing chips such as CPUs, GPUs, ASICs, and AI accelerators. After completing the cleanroom construction at the newly acquired Hukou plant in February, Silergy began mass production in July, currently achieving 40% of the total capacity of the plant and gradually taking on new demand from overseas clients.

Binance Research's monthly market report shows that the total market capitalization of the cryptocurrency market increased by 17.6% to $2.7 trillion in August, with ETF inflows achieving the strongest performance since 2026.BTC rose by 24.8% within 7 days, ranking as the top weekly increase since 2020. In terms of user asset allocation, the proportion of cryptocurrency allocation among stockholders increased from 64% to 72%, while the allocation to stablecoins decreased by 22%; the proportion of TradFi perpetual contract trading volume dropped from 40% to 20%, with funds and trading activities clearly flowing back into cryptocurrency assets.

Solana's official disclosure data shows that the transaction volume in August reached 5 billion, surpassing the total transactions of all other blockchain networks, equivalent to processing over 100,000 transactions per minute, while maintaining transaction fees far lower than other public chains.In addition, the Alpenglow upgrade, aimed at significantly improving network confirmation speed, is expected to launch in October this year, promising to reduce transaction confirmation time from about 12 seconds to 400 milliseconds.

ARK Invest founder Cathie Wood stated that the employment report on Friday was strong, with non-farm employment increasing by 162,000, household survey employment growth exceeding 500,000, and the average workweek increasing, indicating that the economy was performing well in August.Wood noted that many will see more inflation and Federal Reserve tightening, but she sees greater changes. Overall inflation is at 3.7%, with other measures closer to 2%. Oil prices could drop to $30, stocks are reaching all-time highs as interest rates rise, capital expenditures have broken through a ceiling not seen in over 20 years, and companies embracing artificial intelligence are creating jobs faster.She stated that these are not isolated signals and may mark the beginning of stronger real growth and robust technology-driven deflation. The consensus is pricing for the old economy, and she believes a new economy is forming.

PeckShield data shows that in August 2026, the cryptocurrency industry experienced 50 major hacking attacks, an increase of 67% compared to July; losses decreased to $136.3 million, a drop of 49.5%. Among them, Tectonicfi lost approximately $74 million, and after Cronos suspended its network, only about $6 million was transferred out.Digital asset security company AEREDIUM launched AERSeal, which aims to replace the single private key controlling privileged smart contract functions with a multi-party authorized threshold signature. This product stores key shares in hardware-certified secure isolated environments and supports Ethereum Virtual Machine and compatible chains. AERSeal does not reconstruct the complete private key but generates signatures through the CGGMP24 threshold signature protocol. AEREDIUM founder and CEO Albert Dadon stated that the product can delegate permissions for minting, upgrading, and other functions to the threshold key, and confirm the transfer completion through on-chain verification; customers can also independently verify the allocated threshold key.

The unemployment rate in the United States for August is 4.1%, expected 4.1%, previous value 4.10%.The seasonally adjusted non-farm payroll employment in the United States for August is 162,000, expected 56,000, previous value revised from -23,000 to 21,000.

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.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the August non-farm payroll report tonight, with the market expecting an increase of only 56,000 jobs and an unemployment rate remaining at 4.1%. The market generally believes that the U.S. job market is currently in a "stable but weak" state, and a weakening employment data may not directly prompt the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates, with policy focus still on inflation trends.J.P. Morgan's trading desk predicts that if job additions exceed 95,000, the S&P 500 index may drop by 0.5% to 1.25%; if job additions are only between 5,000 and 35,000, the S&P 500 index may rise by 0.25% to 0.75%. The market expects that this non-farm data will become an important variable affecting the Federal Reserve's September policy expectations and the short-term trend of U.S. stocks.Recent statements from Federal Reserve officials indicate that the job market is currently not the focus of policy. Federal Reserve Governor Barr stated earlier this week that the employment situation is "stable," while Governor Waller said on Thursday that the employment condition is "satisfactory." This assessment does not imply that the job market is performing strongly, but it suggests that in the absence of further easing in inflation, the Federal Reserve may consider raising interest rates while trying to avoid impacting employment.

The Lighter team released the project’s August data summary. In August, Lighter's open interest (OI) surpassed 1 billion USD, with a trading volume of approximately 39.5 billion USD, continuously increasing its market share in global perpetual contract trading volume.The independent trading platform built in collaboration with Robinhood also achieved significant growth in August, with total trading volume reaching approximately 5 billion USD and total accounts exceeding 21,000, generating about 500,000 USD in total trading fees for the month. Additionally, Lighter repurchased a total of 927,800 LIT in August. According to OKX market data, Lighter is currently reported at 4.42 USDT, with a 24-hour increase of over 15.16%.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "Elon Musk Tweet from August 28 to September 4, 2026" on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Yes" option in the submarket "200-219" has experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, plummeting from 41% an hour ago to the current 19.5% (a fluctuation of 21.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the "Bitcoin price prediction from August 31 to September 6" event on the prediction market Polymarket, the "is" option for the sub-market "breakthrough $88,000" experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 4.1% an hour ago to the current 49.8% (a fluctuation of 45.7%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Federal Reserve Governor Waller stated that if the inflation data in August performs strongly, he will consider supporting an interest rate hike in September. Communication regarding the reaction function helps the public plan, and a significant acceleration in inflation may not be necessary to support a tighter policy stance.

For the week ending August 29, the number of initial unemployment claims in the United States was 206,000, the highest since the week of August 15, with an expectation of 205,000, and the previous value revised from 203,000 to 204,000.

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.

Taiwanese DRAM manufacturer Nanya Technology (stock code: 2408) announced on September 2 that its unaudited consolidated net sales for August 2026 were NT$44.690268 billion, a month-on-month increase of 1.88% compared to NT$43.867609 billion in July, and a year-on-year increase of 560.85% compared to NT$6.762501 billion in August 2025.The company also disclosed that its consolidated sales from the beginning of 2026 to date were NT$220.194 billion, a year-on-year increase of 638.19%. Detailed data can be found in the investor relations section of the company's official website or on the Taiwan Stock Exchange website.

According to market news, Solana, citing DefiLlama data, stated that Solana ranked first in application revenue in August with $143 million, accounting for 38% of all on-chain application revenue.