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According to The Block, Hyperliquid's total open interest (OI) reached $14.3 billion on Sunday, close to the level before the crash on October 10, 2025. On that day, Hyperliquid's OI dropped by about 56% in a single day, from $14.7 billion to $6.5 billion. The subsequent recovery occurred in two phases: HIP-3 increased its share of total OI from 18% to over 34% between March and August, with August HIP-3 OI setting a record of over $4.44 billion; however, in the past month, total OI increased by $3.57 billion, while HIP-3 OI decreased by $119 million, with its share dropping from 34% to 25%. The two catalysts driving growth include: Coinbase began directing Base App users to Hyperliquid in mid-August, and President Trump stated that the CFTC is working to bring Hyperliquid to the U.S. in a compliant manner. Notably, HIP-3 builders can retain up to half of the trading fees in the deployed market, which has impacted Hyperliquid's financial condition—its total revenue dropped from a peak of $457 million in Q3 2025 to $202 million in Q2 2026. Core crypto perpetual contracts allocate about 97% of fees to HYPE buybacks, so the OI returning to core business is far more valuable to HYPE than the OI generated through builders.

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit announced the launch of USDT-settled forex perpetual contracts, covering three major currency pairs: Euro/USD, Pound/USD, and Dollar/Yen, supporting up to 100x leverage, and offering 24/7 trading. This product belongs to Bybit's TradFi perpetual contract series, which has included over 200 assets since its launch in April this year, covering stocks, commodities, ETFs, and pre-IPO companies. According to data from the Bank for International Settlements, the global forex market's average daily over-the-counter trading volume reached $9.6 trillion in April 2025, making it the largest and most liquid financial market in the world. Bybit is not the first cryptocurrency exchange to venture into forex perpetual contracts; Kraken launched five forex perpetual contracts with up to 50x leverage in April 2025, while BitMEX launched six similar products with up to 100x leverage in April 2026.

According to the official announcement, Bitget's perpetual stock contract has been launched for BYD.The contract is settled in USDT, supports up to 20 times leverage, and allows trading 24/7. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 306 perpetual stock contract underlying assets.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Robinhood has reached an agreement with Crypto.com, and Robinhood will add yes-or-no event contracts from Crypto.com's prediction market business to its trading platform.At the same time, Robinhood will acquire a minority stake in Crypto.com and its prediction market business.

On September 8, South Korean semiconductor concept stocks showed mixed performance, with related asset markets remaining active. According to data from the Gate platform, SK Hynix (000660) is currently priced at $1,332.38, with a 24-hour increase of 0.56%; Samsung Electronics (005930) is currently priced at $200.26, with a 24-hour decrease of 0.18%.According to CoinGlass data, both SK Hynix and Samsung have high trading activity in the contract market. Among them, trading of related stock derivatives on Gate is active: the SKHX contract has a position amount of nearly $158 million, ranking second across the network, with a 24-hour trading volume of nearly $177 million; the Samsung contract has a position amount of $9.51 million, with a 24-hour trading volume of $15.8 million, both ranking second across the network.

According to the report "RWA Perpetuals: State of the Market --- August 2026" published by CoinMarketCap, Gate ranks first on the reporting platform with 405 RWA perpetual contract underlying assets, while the second and third exchanges have 302 and 224 respectively. The report data shows that stock-type underlying assets account for 52.1% of Gate's total trading volume in RWA perpetual contracts, with SNDK, SK Hynix, and SpaceX leading in trading volume.The report states that Gate's products cover multiple core stock markets globally, having successively launched perpetual contracts for China's A-shares, approximately 300 USDT-denominated perpetual contracts for Japanese stocks, and perpetual contracts for stocks such as South Korea's SK Hynix; it also provided related perpetual contract trading on the same day as the listing of Yushu Technology.

According to the official announcement, the Gate Contract Meme section has launched 4STOCK perpetual contract real trading (settled in USDT), supporting 1-10 times leverage. Gate has also simultaneously added the 4STOCK trading bot and copy trading feature.4STOCK is the leading meme formed around the product name after Four.Meme launched the new 4Stock stock on-chain / Stock Meme model.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched the pre-market perpetual contracts for retail users, H100 and B200, which are linked to the rental price index of NVIDIA H100 and B200 GPUs, respectively, quoted in USD per GPU hour.Bitget's pre-market perpetual contracts further extend the trading targets into the AI computing power field. By tracking the GPU rental market index price, users can participate in the price discovery of global GPU rental prices and the AI infrastructure market in advance, capturing potential trading opportunities brought by changes in demand for high-performance GPUs such as H100 and B200. The product adopts a perpetual contract model settled in USDT, supports up to 10x leverage, and allows trading 24/7.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched the SOFTBANK perpetual contract. This contract is settled in USDT and supports up to 20 times leverage with 24/7 trading.As of now, Bitget supports a total of 305 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

According to Bitcoin News, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has requested a Washington D.C. court to dismiss the lawsuit filed by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) against Kalshi regarding Bitcoin perpetual futures contracts.Kalshi's cash-settled BTCPERP contract was approved on May 29, which has no expiration date, employs a funding rate mechanism, and tracks the spot price of Bitcoin. CME argues that contracts without a delivery date that continuously generate funding payments should be classified as swaps, not futures. In response, the CFTC stated that CME's lawsuit is "making a fuss over nothing" and pointed out that CME could also list similar products. Furthermore, the CFTC noted that CME's Bitcoin futures trading volume in June and August was higher than in May, indicating that related business has not been significantly affected. CME must submit a response by October 2.

According to data from platform X, the official Twitter account and contract for the new meme coin project "LAPTOP" by Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, have been announced. The account is named Laptop (@Laptoptoken) and has also gained the official Twitter follow of Hunter Biden.The project description states "Coming to @base September 9" and discloses the relevant token contract address, consistent with previously disclosed information.ChainCatcher reminds users: The currently disclosed information is all community speculation and has not yet been officially confirmed. Please do not interact with any unfamiliar links to protect asset security.ChainCatcher previously reported that according to The Wall Street Journal, Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, will launch a meme coin named LAPTOP, named after his laptop incident, scheduled to go live on the Base network under Coinbase on September 9.

According to Dealroom, the decentralized perpetual contract exchange in Singapore, Antarctic Exchange, has completed a $7 million financing round, with a valuation of $70 million. Investors include Valisa Capital Markets, Lucidity Capital, and Republic Crypto, as well as proprietary traders who are entering the crypto asset space for the first time.The platform targets retail derivatives traders and offers tools similar to centralized exchanges. The founding team consists of former executives from OKX, Binance, and MEXC.

According to the official announcement, Gate has launched perpetual contract trading for STONK, BEN, and ZCAT, all supporting 1-10 times leverage for both long and short positions, and has simultaneously opened trading bot and Order Tracking features.STONK is the platform token of StonkFun, a token launch platform on Solana; BEN is a character-type meme officially launched by Flap and used to showcase the "Stock Meme" product gameplay; ZCAT is a Zcash-themed Solana meme launched by StonkFun, featuring a cat with its face covered by a paper bag.

Bitget launched the "Autumn Trading Gift" themed contract event, which runs from September 7, 11:00 to September 14, 11:00 (UTC+8). During the event, users who accumulate a specified trading volume in contracts can receive tiered USDT rewards, with a maximum of 170 USDT for individual users.Users can also unlock coffee-themed physical rewards, including Brewista pour-over coffee gift boxes, Hermès coffee cup and saucer, and De'Longhi coffee machines. For more details, please refer to the official Bitget platform.

According to Coinalyze data, the open interest of altcoins has surpassed that of Bitcoin for the first time in over a year.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched the U-based "Hakimi" perpetual contract, supporting up to 3x leverage, and the contract trading bot will be opened simultaneously. For more details, please refer to the official Bitget platform.

According to official news, Gate has launched Hakimi perpetual contract trading (settled in USDT), supporting 1-20 times leverage. At the same time, Gate has launched SUE (Construction Cat) perpetual contract trading (settled in USDT), supporting 1-10 times leverage.It is reported that SUE (Construction Cat) is an orange kitten rescued from a Komatsu excavator in Ohio, USA. The construction team named it after the machine brand, abbreviated as Sue. SUE is a meme coin on the BCS chain.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a trader 0xb319 profited approximately $350,000 again through Binance after the news related to the Hakimi perpetual contract was released.The address paid 5.5 BNB (about $4,200) as Gas fees after the news was published and purchased 9.9 million Hakimi for 264.7 BNB (about $202,000).

The Binance contract platform will launch the PONSUSDT perpetual contract on September 6 at 14:45, with a maximum leverage of up to 20 times; and the Hakimi USDT perpetual contract will launch at 15:15, with a maximum leverage of up to 3 times.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated that as BTC returns to around $82,000, the open interest of Binance Bitcoin contracts has increased by nearly 8% in the past 24 hours, surpassing $10 billion, and reaching a new high in nearly 6 months.The open interest measured in BTC has also risen to 125,830 coins.