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The venture capital firm a16z crypto published an article stating that blockchain throughput has increased more than 100 times in five years, with some production systems now capable of processing tens of thousands of transactions per second. The article indicates that throughput alone cannot explain when transactions will settle; financial markets require predictability, including guarantees or censorship resistance, as well as ordering guarantees, to ensure transactions settle on time and operate under rules that participants can understand in advance.The article claims that resilience means no single operator controls access. a16z researchers introduced the concept of Strong Chain Quality, reserving block space to allow effective transactions to enter through multiple routes. Ordering rules must be clear, such as priority fees or venue rules, to avoid MEV and achieve fair price time priority. Additionally, privacy must be achieved through cryptography before execution, hiding intent until it is included in the final transaction, allowing the market to be auditable without real-time previews of unexecuted orders.

Coinbase posted on the X platform stating that the company is working to launch single-stock perpetual contracts in the United States. This week, Coinbase has submitted notification registration documents to the SEC for its derivatives exchange and brokerage and will work closely with the SEC and CFTC to bring more major financial products to the U.S. market.

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Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit announced the appointment of Sean Ballard as the Head of Derivatives and Institutional Business. Ballard will play a key role in strengthening trading infrastructure, risk frameworks, and institutional capabilities, with responsibilities covering trading risk and exchange technology.Ballard has over 25 years of experience in global financial markets, encompassing derivatives, high-frequency trading, trading risk, market structure, and exchange technology. Before joining Bybit, he worked at Jump Trading, where he led the company's high-frequency futures trading operations in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, managing portfolios and collaborating with global exchanges and regulators on market structure, trading performance, and infrastructure. During his time at Jump Trading, he also served as a senior trader on the Jump Crypto team, managing centralized exchange trading and driving strategic partnerships related to ecosystem growth.At Bybit, Ballard will enhance the institutional trading experience through market infrastructure, risk management, and product development. Bybit Institutional has introduced professional services such as bank tripartite arrangements over the past year, allowing institutions to manage counterparty risk through regulated custody while retaining full trading authority; the market maker gateway has reduced latency for high-frequency and quantitative clients from 4 milliseconds to 1.5 milliseconds. Starting July 2026, Finloop's AAA-rated USD money market fund FUIDL will be available as trading collateral on Bybit.

According to the latest stock derivatives exchange rankings released by RootData, influenced by factors such as macroeconomic uncertainty and interest rate hike expectations, the 24h trading volume of the top five exchanges has decreased.Binance's 24h trading volume is approximately $14.849 billion, a decrease of 11.66%. Hyperliquid's 24h trading volume is approximately $2.272 billion, a decrease of 19.77%. Gate's 24h trading volume is approximately $1.079 billion, a decrease of 3.33%. OKX's 24h trading volume is approximately $2.796 billion, a decrease of 2.40%. Bitget's 24h trading volume is approximately $1.218 billion, a decrease of 23.69%.

The G20 finance ministers and central bank governors held a meeting in Asheville, USA, from August 31 to September 1, supporting the establishment of a clearer regulatory path for the growth of digital assets and including digital assets in the U.S. 2026 presidential agenda. The G20 stated that digital financial innovation can support broad economic growth, with the private sector playing an important role in driving relevant innovations.The meeting also highlighted global stablecoins, cross-border payments, and the extended operation of large payment systems as key topics, and supported the adoption of the ISO 20022 data standard. The G20 called on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to prioritize jurisdictions with significant virtual asset activities and to strengthen the enforcement of anti-money laundering standards. As of July, among the 149 jurisdictions assessed by the FATF, only 1 fully complied with the relevant standards, 34% were largely compliant, 43% partially compliant, and 22% non-compliant.

Ramp's data head Ara Kharazian posted that Ramp's latest data shows that AI company revenues are highly dependent on a small number of clients, with 80% of OpenAI and Anthropic's corporate revenue coming from 1% of clients, and this situation has not improved.Kharazian stated that this level of concentration risk is not seen in any other software category he tracks, with the top 1% of client companies heavily skewed towards the technology sector and AI products and services, especially as OpenAI and Anthropic approach their IPOs.

According to a report from the official Coinbase blog, Coinbase has officially launched regulated derivative contracts for qualified Canadian traders through its subsidiary Coinbase Financial Markets (CFM), becoming the first major crypto platform to offer native crypto futures in Canada.The products include 23 types of perpetual and fixed-term futures such as Bitcoin, ETH, SOL, as well as 5 types of commodity futures including gold/silver/oil and COIN50 index futures, supporting up to 10x leverage. All contracts are provided by CFTC-registered futures commission merchant CFM, with limited-time fees as low as 0.02% per transaction + $0.11 per contract.Previously, Canadian investors lacked regulated crypto derivative channels and had long relied on offshore or unregulated platforms.

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Thailand (SEC) has proposed allowing intermediaries to provide certain digital asset derivatives traded overseas to retail investors. According to the proposal, eligible products must be similar to crypto derivatives traded domestically in Thailand, including aspects such as underlying assets, duration, leverage, and settlement methods. At the same time, these products must be traded on exchanges that adopt central counterparty clearing and are supervised by regulatory bodies belonging to specific international regulatory or exchange organizations.Crypto derivatives that do not meet the above conditions will only be available to institutional investors. The Thai SEC stated that institutional investors are better equipped to assess and manage complex and high-risk products. Current rules only allow intermediaries to provide relevant investment services to retail and high-net-worth clients when overseas derivatives are similar to domestic trading products, while overseas crypto derivatives, due to their varying structures and risk levels, require targeted regulations.This consultation is the latest initiative by Thailand to incorporate crypto-related products into the regulated capital market. The Thai SEC officially designated cryptocurrencies and digital tokens as permissible derivative underlying assets in a notice issued on March 5 and is discussing potential contract specifications with the Thailand Futures Exchange. The consultation will continue until September 30, and the Thai SEC has not yet announced the proposed implementation date for the revisions.

According to Bloomberg, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to abolish the relevant rules regarding when and how shareholders of listed companies can submit shareholder proxy proposals, as indicated by the latest information released by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB).According to a notice published on Monday, the SEC submitted the proposal to the White House OMB for review last week. This is the latest step by SEC Chairman Paul Atkins to change the dynamics of the relationship between shareholders of listed companies and company management.In simple terms, the SEC is proposing to adjust the regulatory rules for shareholders of listed companies to submit proxy proposals, and the proposal is currently still in the OMB review stage.

According to the latest ranking of stock derivatives exchanges released by RootData, Binance, Hyperliquid, Gate, Bitget, OKX, Bybit, MEXC, XT.COM, Bitunix, and WEEX are in the top ten.Among them, Binance ranks first with a score of 96.2, holding approximately $3.454 billion, a 24h trading volume of approximately $6.17 billion, and a market share of 41.83%. Hyperliquid ranks second with a score of 95.3, holding approximately $1.761 billion, a 24h trading volume of approximately $1.491 billion, and a market share of 10.11%. Gate ranks third with a score of 95.1, holding approximately $841 million, a 24h trading volume of approximately $990 million, and a market share of 6.71%.

The cryptocurrency protocol Ethena, which issued $4 billion in synthetic US dollars (USDe), announced plans to expand its basis trading strategy to stock perpetual contracts. According to Ethena's data, the open interest in stock perpetual contracts has grown tenfold to $6.2 billion since March. Over the past few months, the funding rates on Hyperliquid and Binance averaged approximately 14% and 17.5%, respectively, while the Bitcoin funding rate during the same period was only in the low single digits.Ethena pointed out that the average Bitcoin funding rate was 11% in 2024, 4.9% in 2025, and has dropped to 2.2% as of August 11 this year. In contrast, stock perpetual contracts had positive funding rates on 94% of trading days on Hyperliquid and 97% on Binance, with a median funding rate of 13.9%, while Bitcoin's was 3.9%. Co-founder Guy Young stated that stocks tend to rise in the long term, creating a continuous demand for leveraged longs to pay fees, and that the funding rate for stocks has almost no correlation with Bitcoin, providing USDe with a revenue source that relies less on the crypto market.The global stock market had a market capitalization of approximately $166.5 trillion in July, far exceeding the crypto market's approximately $2.2 trillion. This expansion is one of Ethena's initiatives to seek new revenue sources after the supply of USDe fell from a peak of about $15 billion to below $5 billion. Last week, it also announced a $1 billion financing arrangement with FalconX.

The Gate stock derivatives section is now online with pre-market trading for the SHEINUSDT perpetual contract, settled in USDT, supporting 1-10x leverage.SHEINUSDT corresponds to SHEIN, a cross-border e-commerce company that is listed with a dual-class share structure in Hong Kong.

Ripple's multi-asset brokerage business Ripple Prime has launched the Delta One service aimed at institutional investors, officially expanding into the U.S. equity derivatives market. This service allows clients to execute total return swaps linked to U.S. listed stocks, indices, and digital assets, and supports cross-asset margin calculations.Noel Kimmel, President of Ripple Prime, stated that this is an important step in the development of Ripple Prime and a natural extension of the platform. The service is primarily aimed at financial institutions such as hedge funds and asset management companies, allowing clients to trade around the clock through a single counterparty. Ripple Prime currently has over $1 billion in regulatory net capital.Ripple Prime was renamed after Ripple's $1.25 billion acquisition of Hidden Road completed in October 2025. In August of this year, Ripple Prime completed a $275 million private placement of senior unsecured notes, and in May, it secured $200 million in debt financing from a fund managed by Neuberger Specialty Finance to expand its institutional lending capabilities.

The Hyperliquid Policy Center stated on platform X that perpetual contracts should be at the core of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) innovation agenda. The agency submitted a statement regarding the first meeting of the CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee on August 20, pointing out that perpetual contracts are gradually expanding beyond the digital asset market to traditional asset classes such as stocks and commodities, and that demand for this product among U.S. market participants is rising.Perpetual contracts can meet the risk management needs of different market participants, making them particularly suitable for airlines hedging fuel costs, investment funds managing portfolio exposure, and AI developers addressing ongoing risks related to computing costs that do not have a clear expiration date. Compared to futures with fixed expiration dates, perpetual contracts do not require rolling over, and there are no expiration and delivery issues; they anchor contract prices to the underlying assets through periodic funding rates. Currently, on Hyperliquid, perpetual contracts deployed by third-party developers cover over 80 traditional commodity and stock markets, with a cumulative notional trading volume exceeding $500 billion.This year, the CFTC has taken several measures to promote the establishment of the perpetual contract market in the U.S. In May, the CFTC approved the first perpetual futures contract listed in the U.S. and issued a policy statement and continuous trading guidance regarding the listing of perpetual contracts; in June, the CFTC sought public opinion on extending perpetual contracts to energy commodities and further consulted on computing power derivatives.In addition, the Hyperliquid Policy Center believes that on-chain infrastructure can also promote the modernization of the U.S. derivatives market within the existing regulatory framework. Public blockchains can openly record markets, orders, and positions, continuously conduct margin assessments programmatically, and enable real-time collateral transfers, thereby reducing counterparty credit risk and settlement risk. The agency will continue to provide relevant research and technical documents to the CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee and committee staff, and promote the establishment of a pathway for U.S. market participants to compliantly access on-chain markets. The agency believes that perpetual contracts are one of the most representative financial innovations of the past decade and should be further developed in the U.S. market.

According to Politico, the United States is considering expanding the scope of tariffs to include laptops and servers.

According to eight people familiar with the discussions, despite warnings from tech companies that this move could affect the United States' dominance in the field of artificial intelligence, the Trump administration is still considering imposing a new round of comprehensive tariffs on semiconductors.

The Ministry of Commerce responds to the U.S. considering an additional 7.5% tariff on China.

The Shanghai Public Security Bureau reported the investigation and resolution of a major underground money laundering case involving cross-border currency exchange using virtual currency, arresting more than 70 criminal suspects, with the amount involved exceeding 20 billion yuan.

According to the latest ranking of stock derivatives exchanges released by RootData, the three exchanges with the largest spreads among the listed exchanges are HTX, BingX, and OrangeX, with spreads reaching 0.856%, 0.332%, and 0.258%, respectively.It is worth noting that these three exchanges have ranked in the top three for spreads for several consecutive days. RootData reminds that this spread is the weighted spread based on 24h trading volume, and a higher value usually indicates higher trading costs.