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Robinhood co-founder, chairman, and CEO Vlad Tenev posted on X that everyone, regardless of where they are, should have access to high-quality financial assets. Tokenization will unlock the advantages of the U.S. capital markets and make them available globally.He stated that the industry is still relatively small compared to global finance, but its advantages are increasingly hard to ignore. Traditional market infrastructure is built around fixed trading hours, closed networks, and multiple intermediaries, and is not designed for 24/7 execution, programmable assets, composability, or self-custody. The changes in investor demand are outpacing the underlying infrastructure, and the team is working hard to change this situation.Tenev expressed confidence in seeing founders, LPs, traders, and infrastructure teams driving industry development. The industry is still in its early stages, and there is a lot of work to be done. The old system needs time to adapt, but it is worth the effort.

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.

QCP Capital's market weekly report shows that after Federal Reserve Chairman Warsh's speech in Jackson Hole, the probability of a rate hike in September rose from 35% to 70%. BTC fell approximately 2.5% in a single day, and after nine consecutive days of net inflow, the ETF recorded a net outflow of $202 million. However, the dollar failed to maintain a hawkish pricing, with the DXY falling below 99.5, and gold, silver, and BTC all regained their losses.On the Treasury side, on September 9, the first long-end liquidity support operation will be launched, with the purchase limit raised to at least $4 billion (previously $2 billion). The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond auction on August 30 was reported at 5.216%, the highest since 2001, and the market will closely monitor whether this operation can effectively improve long-end liquidity.In terms of inflation, July PCE was reported at 3.7% (core 3.3%), CPI at 3.4% (core 2.5%), and Brent crude oil rose about 10% in a week due to attacks in the Strait of Hormuz and a force majeure event in Qatar LNG, with inflationary pressures continuing. Waller stated that if the data continues to trend as it has over the next two weeks, it would support a pause in rate hikes. Coupled with the ADP employment data showing only 38,000 jobs added (the weakest since January), the probability of a rate hike in September has fallen to 45-50%.

According to GMGN data, the Robinhood Chain coin stock meme project MEME briefly surpassed a market capitalization of $52 million, currently reported at $44.53 million, with a 24-hour increase of over a thousand times.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, Multicoin Capital has allegedly sold $112 million worth of HYPE since July 28, expecting a profit of $64.08 million, with a return rate exceeding 134%.This entity accumulated 4.95 million HYPE from Galaxy Digital at an average price of $32.32 between January and July this year, and has since allegedly taken profits in batches on exchanges. Its most recent deposit to Coinbase occurred 3 hours ago, amounting to approximately 150,000 HYPE, valued at $12.78 million.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Abraxas Capital purchased 16,554 ETH in spot transactions over the past 12 hours, worth $39.8 million.Its two hedge accounts on Hyperliquid hold a total of 120,178 ETH short positions, valued at $291.4 million.

Venture capital firm Social Graph VC recently published an article on market entry stating that data center capital expenditures will exceed $1 trillion by 2026, approximately double the spending of the four major hyperscale cloud providers in 2025. Jensen Huang expects it to reach $3 to $4 trillion annually by the end of this decade, potentially hitting $10 trillion by 2031. AI investments account for about 0.9% of global GDP, rising to approximately 1.4% by 2028.The article states that Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 each have training power consumption below 2GW, with costs around $120 billion. Each generation of models can recoup costs on their own, while laboratory losses stem from the next-generation models that are expanding training scales by 10 times. Computing cannot be procured at a single price; H100 rental rates are about $1.95/hour in the market, while hyperscale cloud rates are $8-9/hour, with hourly rates fluctuating by 137% over the year. There is a financing gap of $1.5 trillion within the approximately $3 trillion global data center expenditures expected by 2028.The article also mentions that CME plans to launch cash-settled H100 and B200 monthly lease futures on NYMEX on October 5, 2026, pending regulatory review, with settlement referencing the Silicon Data Index; ICE has also announced GPU futures based on the Ornn Index.

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.

According to Bloomberg, G42, an AI company supported by Microsoft, has had preliminary discussions with potential investors about raising billions of dollars, potentially becoming one of the first government-affiliated AI companies in the UAE to expand its capital scale through external financing.Insiders revealed that the scale of financing and transaction structure have not yet been finalized, and discussions are still in the exploratory stage. G42 has previously advanced data center projects in Abu Dhabi with Microsoft and OpenAI, and has received support from companies like Microsoft.

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.

Bitcoin Reserve Company Capital B announced that the company will issue new shares (ABSA) with warrants to strategic investor Adam Back through a private placement, with a subscription price of €0.58 per share, totaling approximately €7.645 million (about $8.86 million). The subscription conditions are consistent with the financing announced on August 28, 2026, and the delivery is expected to be completed on September 3, 2026.If all warrants are exercised, it will bring approximately €49.4 million (about $57.25 million) in additional capital to the company. The company stated that the net proceeds from this fundraising will be approximately €7.3 million (about $8.46 million), mainly used to increase its Bitcoin holdings as a long-term reserve asset, which is an important measure to advance its Bitcoin Reserve Company strategy and enhance the per-share Bitcoin holdings.

According to DefiLlama data, Gate had a net capital inflow of over 60.69 million USD in 24 hours, ranking second globally among centralized exchanges.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Multicoin Capital (0x57C...174B) transferred 97,180 HYPE to Coinbase again, worth approximately 8.18 million USD, possibly for selling.

According to CoinDesk, the DeFi protection protocol Firelight Protocol announced the completion of $8 million in financing, led by Gumi Cryptos Capital, with participation from Maven 11, Metalayer, Joint Effects, and Tribe Capital.Firelight is incubated by the DeFi infrastructure provider Sentora (managing assets totaling $2.4 billion) and plans to officially launch in September this year.

According to data from DefiLlama, Gate has seen a net capital inflow of $300.43 million in the past 7 days, ranking among the top three globally.In addition, Gate's net capital inflow in the past 24 hours reached $48.54 million, also ranking among the top three globally.

According to sources cited by The Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump Jr.'s 1789 Capital plans to invest an additional approximately $300 million in the prediction market platform Polymarket, as part of a $1 billion financing round led by 1789 Capital. If completed, Polymarket's valuation will reach approximately $21 billion.1789 Capital has previously invested about $200 million in Polymarket, and after this round, it will become one of its largest investors. The largest investor in Polymarket currently is the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), which previously disclosed holding Polymarket shares valued at $1.6 billion, accounting for about 22% of the company's outstanding shares.

According to Cointelegraph, BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes (@CryptoHayes) recently expressed a bullish view on Ethereum, pointing out that ETH had previously been heavily sold off by the market and was almost "forgotten," but its ratio against Bitcoin has recently shown a significant rebound, which he believes is a signal of the market's reawakening.