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According to Bloomberg, South Korea's financial regulatory authorities plan to strengthen the regulation of structured products such as ELS starting next month. They will require brokerages to warn investors when products approach the principal loss trigger line (Knock-in) and to reassess product design and sales when market conditions lead to a significant increase in risk.It is reported that the South Korean stock market has recently experienced significant fluctuations, but retail investors' enthusiasm for high-risk investments has not noticeably cooled. After regulatory tightening on leveraged ETFs for individual stocks, some investments have shifted to stock-linked securities (ELS) that offer high "coupon" rates. Data released by the Korea Financial Investment Association shows that in July, the sales volume of ELS in South Korea reached 35 trillion won, setting a new high in over three years since April 2023, with ELS products based on Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix stocks becoming the main drivers of growth.

The B.AI platform announces that Xiaomi's self-developed MiMo series models are officially online with API services, with the first batch opening up the MiMo-V2.5 and MiMo-V2.5-Pro models.Among them, MiMo-V2.5 is a 310B sparse MoE native multimodal model that supports multimodal input of text, images, audio, and video, as well as 1M ultra-long context, specifically designed for multimodal agents and general programming scenarios; MiMo-V2.5-Pro reaches a parameter scale of 1.02T sparse MoE, positioned as a flagship text model, focusing on complex reasoning and long-cycle software engineering, achieving a high score of 78.9 in the SWE-Bench Verified benchmark test.Starting today, developers can call the two models through the B.AI API, supporting both official group access and self-selected service provider dual modes, with discounts as low as 40%.

According to RootData, among 3,244 cryptocurrency projects with financing records spanning no more than four years and amounts that can be accounted for, 1,617 have a cumulative financing amount of no more than $5 million, accounting for 49.8%. The median financing for this batch of projects is $2.5 million, with about 96% recording only one round of financing.In terms of sectors, DeFi, infrastructure, and gaming projects together account for 59.2%, with small-scale financing mainly flowing to protocol development, underlying technology, and consumer applications. However, a quarter of the projects in the sample have already ceased operations, indicating that while lower regulatory thresholds can improve financing efficiency, they cannot replace product demand and sustainable operational capability.Institutional participation is also higher than the market's usual perception of "small projects": 92.9% of the sample has identifiable investor records, and 83.5% disclosed at least two investors. Among them, Animoca Brands, Shima Capital, and Big Brain Holdings participated in 84, 69, and 67 projects, respectively.It is reported that the U.S. SEC officially proposed the "Regulation Crypto Assets" on August 18. The proposal aims to set up two tiers of issuance exemptions: projects can raise no more than $5 million in a single instance within four years; projects with greater financing needs can raise up to $75 million within each 12-month period, but must submit financial statements and fulfill ongoing reporting obligations. The proposal is currently in a 60-day public comment period and has not yet officially taken effect.

MiniMax officially launched the AI video creation tool MiniMax Design today, a Harness product built on the native multimodal video model H3. Users only need to present their creative requirements, and the system can understand the goals, break down tasks, call relevant models and Skills, and complete the entire video production process from material processing and generation editing to final delivery, without the need to switch repeatedly between multiple professional tools.MiniMax Design features a built-in Agent 3D director's platform, where users can describe scene and shot requirements in natural language, and the system can preview composition and character relationships in 3D space. After confirmation, it hands over to H3 to generate the video, moving trial and error to the storyboard phase. This product is aimed at commercial content scenarios such as brand creative testing, knowledge video production, PV/MV, etc., and can iteratively generate multiple versions in batches. Creators can also connect their local ComfyUI workflows to MiniMax Design, with the Agent assisting in adjusting nodes and parameters.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, the Chief Investment Officer of Bitwise stated that Bitcoin appears to be close to the bottom, and there seems to be volatility in the market that could be released upwards. He noted that when observing the market currently, he feels quite optimistic about the trends for the remainder of this year.

The U.S. military has established a shipping corridor in the Strait of Hormuz, transporting about 10 million barrels of oil daily, which is about half of the pre-war shipping volume. This move alleviates the impact of the war on oil supplies and has a significant effect on the global energy market.

According to Cointelegraph, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York urged the court in court documents to dismiss former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky's application to overturn his conviction and reduce his sentence, stating that his legal arguments "lack merit." Mashinsky was sentenced to 144 months in prison and fined $48 million for commodity fraud and securities fraud in May 2025.In May, he informed the court that he would represent himself, and the motion submitted involved allegations related to FTX and former colleague Roni Cohen-Pavon, but prosecutors pointed out that he had not submitted a sworn statement to support the allegations and requested the court to dismiss it without a hearing. Cohen-Pavon has completed his sentence for providing "substantial assistance." Additionally, the CFTC permanently banned Mashinsky from engaging in commodity market trading in June, and the SEC's civil lawsuit against him is still ongoing, with both parties in the "settlement discussions" stage.

According to SemiAnalysis, Anthropic's ARR from indirect channels (Bedrock, Foundry, Gemini Agent Enterprise) in Q2 2026 has exceeded 40%, with API and B2B contributing the majority of new revenue. The monetization model for indirect channels differs from direct revenue; cloud service providers typically charge IaaS fees or revenue sharing. Laboratories account for gross ARR, but related costs are reflected in sales and marketing expenses. Indirect channels require precise computational resource allocation analysis at the individual transaction level.

According to the latest market data from Gate, several tokens in the Gate gStocks stock token sector performed impressively in a single day, with the top three increases being: SteelSeries (CBRSG/USDT) up 10.47% in 24 hours; AXT Semiconductor (AXTIG/USDT) up 6.57% in 24 hours; MicroStrategy (MSTRG/USDT) up 3.16% in 24 hours.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "LoL: LYON vs Sentinels - LCS Regular Season," the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Both teams kill a dragon" has experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 50.5% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 39.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) suddenly canceled the meeting originally scheduled for last Friday. The meeting was planned to advance the formulation of cryptocurrency regulatory rules and to announce the repeatedly postponed innovation exemption arrangements, which may be related to the Clarity Act.Earlier last week, the SEC announced it would hold a public meeting where commissioners would discuss the Reg Crypto proposal, which involves how companies can raise funds through tokens and ultimately exit SEC oversight after issuing their own digital assets. The SEC had originally planned to announce at least some of the innovation exemption arrangements, concerning how security token issuers handle the underlying securities. Both of these arrangements did not proceed as scheduled.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform, stating that the Bitcoin community deserves recognition for promoting the development of related technological concepts, including Utreexo and other UTXO (Unspent Transaction Output) state optimization solutions. The scaling route currently being explored by Ethereum is integrating the advantages of different blockchain state models in practice.Vitalik Buterin pointed out that Ethereum hopes to simultaneously leverage the advantages of UTXO model states, dynamic states, and solutions between the two, enabling the vast majority of network activities to achieve "hyperscale" while not sacrificing decentralization, ease of node operation, and censorship resistance.Vitalik Buterin stated that future Ethereum scaling is not simply about copying a certain architecture, but rather aims to enhance throughput while maintaining the openness and security of the network by combining different design philosophies. Among them, Utreexo is a state compression solution proposed by the Bitcoin ecosystem, which reduces the storage burden on nodes by introducing accumulator technology, making full node operation more lightweight, and is considered beneficial for enhancing Bitcoin's long-term scalability.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the prediction market Polymarket for the event "Kansas City Royals vs. Los Angeles Angels," the option "Los Angeles Angels" in the sub-market "Spread -1.5" experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, plummeting from 40.5% an hour ago to the current 21.5% (a fluctuation of 19%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the prediction market Polymarket for the event "Kansas City Royals vs. Los Angeles Angels," the win probability for the "Kansas City Royals" option in the sub-market "Kansas City Royals vs. Los Angeles Angels" has experienced significant fluctuations, dropping from 65.5% an hour ago to the current 41.5% (a fluctuation of 24%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to Bloomberg, EdgeConneX Inc., a data center operator supported by EQT, is seeking banks to provide a power cost guarantee of up to $2.5 billion to support its global data center expansion plans.EdgeConneX is negotiating a letter of credit financing arrangement with several banks, including France's Natixis and Spain's BBVA. This arrangement will help the company lock in power supply costs for its data center projects.With the rapid growth in demand for artificial intelligence training and inference, global data center construction has entered an accelerated phase, and operators are exploring new financing tools to cope with rising power procurement costs and infrastructure investment needs. EdgeConneX's request for bank support reflects that AI infrastructure companies are shifting from traditional real estate and equipment financing models to establishing new financing structures around energy supply, long-term power contracts, and other assets.In recent years, major cloud computing companies and AI infrastructure firms have increased their investments in data centers, while power supply has become a significant bottleneck constraining the expansion of AI computing power. Securing future power costs through bank credit support is becoming a new way for data center operators to obtain expansion funding.

According to the official announcement, Gate has officially launched SOL and XRP event contracts, simultaneously opening multi-cycle rise and fall trading channels. Users can log into the Gate App or the official website and enter the event contract section in the contract area to participate.Event contracts focus on rise and fall prediction trading, requiring no complex parameters such as leverage or margin, making the operational threshold low. The product covers four types of short cycles: 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 1 hour, and 4 hours, currently supporting four major cryptocurrencies: BTC, ETH, SOL, and XRP. Users only need to predict the rise and fall of the asset during the corresponding period, choose to place a bullish or bearish order, and the system will automatically settle at the end of the cycle. Positions can also be closed early for flexible profit-taking and loss-cutting.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the Polymarket event "Texas Rangers vs. Los Angeles Angels," the "Los Angeles Angels" option in the sub-market "1st 5 Innings Spread -1.5" has experienced significant fluctuations in winning probability, rising from 23.5% an hour ago to the current 50% (a fluctuation of 26.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

The Supreme Joint Military Command of Iran stated that any vessel passing through the Strait of Hormuz must obtain permission from Iran.