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TrendForce's latest research on the wafer foundry industry shows that in the second quarter of 2026, the total revenue of the world's top ten wafer foundries increased by 11.5% quarter-on-quarter, approaching $53.49 billion, setting a new record. The growth mainly comes from the continued demand exceeding supply for advanced processes in AI and HPC processors, as well as the rising demand for peripheral AI chips such as PMICs and power discrete devices; the early stocking of consumer supply chains for TVs, PCs, and laptops has also tightened the capacity of some mature processes.TSMC continues to lead, with revenue nearing $40.2 billion in the second quarter, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 12.1%, and a market share of 72.5%. The demand for AI server GPUs and XPUs has kept its 5/4 nm and 3 nm capacities fully loaded, and the initial stocking of the new iPhone has also contributed, with 2 nm making its first revenue contribution. Samsung Foundry ranks second, with revenue of $3.26 billion, a slight quarter-on-quarter increase of 1.8%, and a market share dropping to 5.9%. SMIC ranks third, with revenue exceeding $3 billion, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 20%, and a market share rising to 5.4%, narrowing the gap with Samsung.UMC maintains fourth place, with revenue of nearly $2.18 billion, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 12.7%, and a market share of 3.9%. GlobalFoundries is fifth, with revenue of approximately $1.79 billion, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 9.3%, and a market share of 3.2%. Hua Hong Group ranks sixth, with revenue exceeding $1.27 billion, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 3.5%. Tower, World Advanced, Jinghe Integrated, and Powerchip rank seventh to tenth, with revenues of $460 million, $451 million, $447 million, and $432 million, respectively.

Binance will launch the bStocks tokenized securities trading pairs Salesforce (CRMB) and Hims & Hers Health (HIMSB) on September 9, 2026, at 20:00, and will enable spot algorithm trading bots and smart holding bot services. Users can exchange bStocks for BTC, USDT, or other tokens supported by the instant exchange platform without any fees within one hour after the launch. The CRMB/USDT and HIMSB/USDT trading pairs will enjoy zero maker fees, and the event will end on October 1, 2026, at 07:59.

Spain's largest cryptocurrency exchange Bit2Me announced the establishment of an independent company Bit2Shield (registered name CryptoShield S.L) to assist courts, police, and financial institutions in tracking, seizing, storing, and selling cryptocurrency assets. This department will support investigators in extracting wallet data, locating cryptocurrency assets, and issuing digital signature forensic reports that can be used in court, while also being responsible for fraud investigations, source of funds verification, and providing training for police, judges, and banks.This move formalizes the work Bit2Me previously conducted for public institutions. In 2025, Bit2Me handled seized cryptocurrency assets worth 1.5 million euros (approximately 1.74 million dollars) for Interpol, Europol, and the Spanish police, using blockchain analysis company Chainalysis to track the assets. Bit2Shield will store seized assets in cold wallets that require multiple signatures and arrange for their sale when ordered by authorities, with proceeds transferred to government bank accounts in euros.Bit2Shield is part of Bit2Me's expansion from retail trading to banking and public institution infrastructure, with investors including Bankinter, Unicaja, Cecabank, Telefónica, and Tether. Since Bit2Shield focuses on investigations, forensics, and training, it is not considered a cryptocurrency service provider under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA); any operations involving the exchange of cryptocurrency for euros will be handled by Bitcoinforme S.L., an entity authorized by the Spanish securities regulator MiCA under Bit2Me.

According to TrendForce's latest research on the memory industry, in the second quarter of 2026, due to a significant increase in the contract price of Conventional DRAM, the overall revenue of the DRAM industry is expected to grow by 59.5% quarter-on-quarter, reaching nearly 154.73 billion USD.With the training of LLM models and AI inference stimulating the demand for AI Servers, shipments of HBM3e, LPDDR5X, and high-capacity RDIMMs are growing simultaneously, while Agentic AI applications are driving the demand for RDIMMs of various capacities. On the supply side, manufacturers' inventories are at a low point, and new supply is prioritized for Server applications, leading to a slight growth in overall DRAM bit shipments in the second quarter.

According to the Chosun Ilbo report on September 7, SK Hynix is accelerating the increase of the production share of 10-nanometer sixth-generation (1c) DRAM. Industry data shows that its 1c DRAM share rose from about 10% in the first quarter of this year to about 13% in the second quarter, and is expected to reach about 24% in the third quarter and about 34% in the fourth quarter; it may rise to about 35% in the first quarter of next year, surpassing 1b (about 33%) for the first time and becoming the main process. The share of 1b (10-nanometer fifth-generation) DRAM peaked at about 43% in the second quarter of this year and has since begun to decline.By the end of the second quarter, Samsung Electronics had a 1c share of about 16% and Micron about 19%, both higher than SK Hynix's approximately 13%. Reports indicate that SK Hynix is accelerating the transition in the second half of the year, and in the fourth quarter, it may exceed Samsung Electronics' approximately 31% with about 34%. SK Hynix stated in its second-quarter earnings call that the supply of DRAM using the 1c process will substantially begin from the second quarter, and in the second half of the year, with the ramp-up of HBM4 and increased shipments of 1c general DRAM, the bit growth rate will be higher than in the first half.Samsung Electronics will use 1c DRAM starting with HBM4, with a running speed of about 11.7Gbps; SK Hynix previously prioritized ensuring mass production stability with verified 1b DRAM and advanced MR-MUF packaging, and will use 1c DRAM for the first time as the core chip for HBM starting with the next generation HBM4E. Counterpoint Research and others estimate that this year, the market share of HBM4 under the combined metrics of Nvidia, Google, and AMD is approximately 50% for SK Hynix in the mid-range, 20% for Samsung Electronics in the later range, and 10% for Micron in the later range.

A Binance user posted a complaint on the X platform, stating that more than thirty arbitrage positions in the AKEUSDT contract were all forcibly liquidated, resulting in a single-day loss of over 5 million USDT, with the principal nearly reduced to zero. The user accused the market makers of malicious short squeezing and targeted attacks, calling for the platform to intervene and investigate.According to the user, AKE rose from 0.0076 USDT to 0.044859 USDT within 8 hours, from September 2 at 21:00 to September 3 at 5:44, an increase of about 6 times, with the last 7 minutes seeing a direct doubling from 0.022432 to 0.044859. The user believes that such an extreme rate of market movement, without fundamental support and with a highly concentrated position, clearly constitutes manipulative behavior, and the platform should disclose risk control logs and compensate users for their losses. The user also compared this incident to the abnormal market conditions of the TUT contract on August 9, arguing that the structures of the two events are highly similar. As of the time of publication, Binance has not publicly responded to this incident. This complaint is a unilateral user statement, and the relevant facts await further verification by the platform.

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.

U.S. President Trump: I am not trying to force Iran back to the negotiating table as ABC fake news reported. I don't care whether they sign an agreement that is worthless to them.I prefer our current situation: we have almost complete control of the Strait of Hormuz, while their economy has completely collapsed. They are just going through this inevitable outcome.

OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of Macs for reinforcement learning training, while Anthropic uses a rental approach for Macs. Both companies have incorporated Apple computers into their AI research and development processes.It is reported that NVIDIA has regarded Apple as the number one competitor in the local AI field, as Macs are gaining increasing attention among the AI developer community. Official data from Apple shows that in the third quarter of fiscal year 2026, Mac revenue grew by 29% year-on-year, making it the fastest-growing product category.

realtrumpcoins issued a statement claiming that the news regarding the launch, promotion, or authorization of Trump Coins to issue digital tokens is "completely false," and the related information is a malicious act by a third party.The statement emphasized that Trump Coins has never authorized any digital tokens and will not launch, promote, or authorize any digital tokens in the future. Currently, it is cooperating with relevant law enforcement agencies to investigate this matter and seek accountability from those involved.Earlier reports indicated that the meme coin GOLD was created on Solana yesterday at 7:38, with the related address controlling over 82% of the tokens through token distribution and purchases after the launch. Around 9 o'clock, the merchandise collaboration account @realtrumpcoins1 tweeted containing the GOLD contract address, causing the token's market value to briefly surge to $66 million.Around 11:48, the tweet was deleted, and the related address immediately began to sell off its holdings. The market value of GOLD plummeted from $55 million to $1 million in about 30 seconds, after which the scam operators continued to sell off their tokens, ultimately selling all their holdings and accumulating a profit of approximately 9784.6 SOL (about $1.01 million).

According to Gate market data, Salesforce (CRM.N) has increased by 19%, marking the largest increase since August 2020.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "LoL Nongshim Red Force vs BNK FEARX LCK Playoffs" on the prediction market Polymarket, the option "Nongshim Red Force" in the sub-market "Match Winner" has experienced a drastic fluctuation in win rate, plummeting from 74.5% an hour ago to the current 56.5% (a fluctuation of 18%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Salesforce's stock price rose 12% in after-hours trading on the U.S. stock market, as its reported performance and guidance exceeded Wall Street expectations. The company's second-quarter revenue was $11.35 billion, with a net profit of $3.53 billion, an 87% year-over-year increase. It gained $2.6 billion from its investment in Anthropic.For the third fiscal quarter, adjusted earnings per share are expected to be between $3.42 and $3.44, with revenue between $11.42 billion and $11.5 billion. The full-year earnings per share are expected to be between $16.67 and $16.71, with revenue between $46.1 billion and $46.4 billion.

U.S. President Trump stated that all mines in the Strait of Hormuz have been cleared or detonated. The U.S. has notified Iran that any new mining vessels will be destroyed.The U.S. Space Force is monitoring the strait and nuclear facilities, and a zero-tolerance mining policy has been implemented.

According to Cointelegraph, Hugging Face disclosed that it experienced an intrusion event driven by autonomous AI agent systems in July. The attacking agent began testing in early May, leaving exploit notes using OpenAI's Artifactory instance, and subsequently launched approximately 17,600 attacks on Hugging Face, affecting its dataset processing infrastructure, production environment, internal network, and cloud credentials. Confirmed customer data access was limited to five datasets related to the ExploitGym/CyberGym benchmark.Hugging Face found during the investigation that due to security barriers imposed by top model providers like OpenAI and Anthropic, the company was unable to use these commercial models for defensive analysis and was forced to turn to running the open-source model zai-org/GLM-5.2 in China, which operates on the company's own infrastructure, ensuring that attacker data and credentials do not leave its environment. The company pointed out that attackers are not bound by any usage policies, while the defense's forensic work is hindered by the barriers of the hosted models.This incident highlights the security paradox between open-weight models and closed models. The article also discusses the ongoing debate regarding the security of open-weight AI, including OpenAI and Anthropic's push to restrict open-source models, as well as researchers' progress in detecting malicious behavior by examining changes in model weights.Hugging Face recommends that defenders prepare models that can run on their own infrastructure before an incident occurs to avoid barrier lock-in and protect attacker data.

Binance and Coinbase are currently leading the recent market rebound. Data shows that as of August 21, on the largest single day of stablecoin inflows recently, Binance had a net inflow of approximately $2.026 billion, while Coinbase had a net inflow of approximately $1.447 billion. The combined stablecoin inflows from the two trading platforms accounted for more than half of the total market inflows.A large inflow of stablecoins into trading platforms indicates an increase in potential buying pressure, and Binance and Coinbase may be becoming the main forces driving the recent rise in the cryptocurrency market.

According to the Associated Press, drug enforcement agencies from Cambodia and the United States announced on Friday that they have dismantled a cryptocurrency money laundering network utilized by the Sinaloa drug cartel from Mexico.The operation was conducted in collaboration between Cambodian drug enforcement police and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, seizing approximately $7 million in cryptocurrency related to the Sinaloa drug cartel, arresting multiple individuals, and confiscating assets, drug production laboratories, and storage facilities.

According to Digital Asset, on August 20, members of the Korean National Power Party, including Yoon Tae-yong, proposed an amendment to the Specific Financial Information Act, which aims to grant the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) direct enforcement authority over unreported virtual asset service providers.According to the amendment, anyone can report illegal activities to the FIU. Upon receiving a report or discovering suspected violations, the FIU can initiate investigations and analyses, and refer the case to or notify investigative authorities. The proposal points out that while current laws impose reporting and anti-money laundering obligations on virtual asset service providers, there are no direct enforcement measures against unreported operators, posing risks of money laundering and illegal cross-border transfers, making it difficult to respond quickly relying solely on inter-agency coordination.

CFTC Chairman Mike Selig stated, "For years, the anti-crypto army, doomsayers, and slowists have stifled innovation." "The CFTC is turning a new page, charting a course for innovators to explore the new frontier of finance."