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Raydium's official announcement states that its LaunchLab now supports trading of any token pairs on Raydium. This upgrade brings a more flexible token pairing mechanism to Solana, while providing deeper liquidity, lower fees, and a stronger native trading experience for memes.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, gnomelabs.eth (0xB81...5bfD) is suspected to have taken profits of 4020 ETH. @gnome_labs previously withdrew 6339 ETH from Binance on August 17 at an average price of $1896.83, worth approximately $12.02 million; 9 hours ago, 4020 ETH of that was recharged, worth about $9.97 million, with a recharge price of $2480.If sold, the return rate would reach 30.7%, with an expected profit of $2.345 million after holding for 21 days.

According to Be In Crypto, Binance founder Zhao Changpeng recently stated that YZi Labs' investments over the past few months will become the highest return layout, as they invested in cryptocurrency prices close to the lows of the bear market.YZi Labs has disclosed seven investments in 2026: in January, they invested in the on-chain trading terminal Genius and the digital asset custodian BitGo; in March, they led a $52 million investment in RoboForce and invested $1 million in the venture project Atlas Scout; in April, they made an additional investment in the prediction market Predict.fun; in May, they led an $8 million seed round investment in the AI agent payment settlement layer AEON; in August, they invested in the cross-chain fixed-rate lending platform TermMax.Zhao Changpeng believes that the influx of funds into AI is eliminating short-term cryptocurrency teams, and the return of AI funds to digital assets has already begun. Bitcoin has rebounded after a 47% drop from its peak, but it is still far below the October high.

This set of posts seems to be the first public exposure of James's formal relationship with Polymarket. Polymarket, as well as representatives from James and the 76ers, did not immediately respond to The Block's request for comment. Previously, James's free agency decision generated approximately $273 million in related contract trading volume across major prediction platforms, according to Legal Sports Report, surpassing any single basketball game; data from Front Office Sports indicated that the related trading volume on Kalshi was about $226 million, while Polymarket's international platform exceeded $43 million.Most traders bet on the wrong outcome: before the official announcement, the odds of the 76ers winning were only about 9%, while the Heat were around 45%. James subsequently signed a two-year, $8 million contract with the 76ers, which includes a player option. Additionally, James had signed a multi-year talent ambassador agreement with DraftKings in 2024. Some fans expressed criticism of James's collaboration with prediction platforms in social media comments.

AI infrastructure startup Gimlet Labs has completed a $300 million financing round, raising the company's valuation to $3 billion. This round of financing was led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from Arm Holdings and Microsoft's venture fund M12.Gimlet Labs primarily helps clients allocate AI tasks to different types of chips and is collaborating with Arm to make its software compatible with various chip technologies from Arm.

The Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the Ministry of Commerce jointly issued the "Implementation Plan for Promoting Coordinated Transformation and Development of Digitalization and Greening (2026-2030)", proposing to advance the coordinated transformation of digitalization and greening during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.The plan emphasizes empowering green and low-carbon transformation with digital intelligence technology, achieving low-cost and high-efficiency applications of artificial intelligence by 2030, significantly improving the energy efficiency of computing facilities and 5G base stations, promoting renewable energy electricity consumption in key areas such as computing facilities to reach the responsibility weight level of the respective provinces, and deepening the digital and green applications in agriculture, manufacturing, trade, consumption, and urban operation, strengthening intelligent governance of the ecological environment and digital carbon management, and solidifying the foundation for coordinated dual transformation and international cooperation.

According to South Korean media Greened.kr, Samsung Electronics and Arm have officially launched a joint research and development project for edge AI chips. Arm approved a one-time engineering fee at the end of August for the development of the next-generation edge AI SoC chip and officially started the project with Samsung Electronics.The project adopts a collaborative model where Arm provides core technology, and Samsung Electronics integrates and implements it, aiming to jointly develop customized chips for end customers.

Base Labs has announced its establishment as an independent research organization focused on advancing open-source AI. It believes in a healthy and open frontier model ecosystem and will conduct scientific research in an open manner.Base Labs will carry out blue-sky research on continuous learning, reinforcement learning science, and model lifecycle learning mechanisms, and will publicly share all experiments and recipes; it will build the BaseHub Data Foundry to provide an open reinforcement learning environment, training data, and real-world benchmarks; it will enhance the capabilities, safety, and alignment of open-source models through continuous post-training and deploy cutting-edge safety stacks; at the same time, it will conduct model performance research to reduce costs and improve performance.The organization emphasizes that this is mission-driven research work rather than a commercial product and is currently recruiting engineers, researchers, and research scholars.

Memecoin issuance platform Pons announced on Thursday that Uniswap Labs has purchased its token PONS, stating that this move is a "long-term alignment" and is seen as a deepening of cooperation between the two parties. Both parties did not disclose the scale of the purchase, transaction price, or holding address, and Pons did not specify whether Uniswap Labs acquired the tokens through the open market or received a token allocation.Pons is the Memecoin issuance platform that charges the highest issuance fees on the Robinhood Chain, launched on July 13, and deployed the V2 contract on August 3. Its V2 will route tokens raised through joint curve fundraising to the Uniswap V4 pool, while the Robinhood Chain currently accounts for 56.3% of the total trading volume on Uniswap V4. Previously, Uniswap Labs launched a competing issuance platform, Pools.trade, on the Robinhood Chain on August 5, surpassing Pons on its first day of launch.Data shows that Pons generated $5.95 million in fees in the past 24 hours, $28.83 million in fees over the past 7 days, and $40.84 million in fees over the past 30 days, using about 80% of the protocol fees to repurchase PONS, with a cumulative supply destruction of 29.34%. PONS is currently priced at $0.5013, up 17.5% in 24 hours, with a market capitalization of approximately $357 million.

According to CoinDesk, digital bank SoFi has partnered with cryptocurrency exchange Kraken to interconnect their respective financial infrastructures. Kraken's parent company Payward will join SoFi's settlement network SEN, allowing its institutional clients to transfer dollars and manage liquidity around the clock without waiting for traditional bank operating hours.Meanwhile, Kraken will launch the bank-issued stablecoin SoFiUSD from SoFi, while SoFi will use Kraken Prime as an additional source of liquidity for its clients' cryptocurrency trading. SoFi CEO Anthony Noto stated that the financial system should not close when financial markets remain open; Payward co-CEO David Ripley noted that millions of users will purchase cryptocurrency assets for the first time through the applications they use daily, and the underlying infrastructure should connect deep, liquid markets.This collaboration is part of SoFi's return to the digital asset space. SoFi has already provided cryptocurrency trading in its app and launched the dollar-backed stablecoin SoFiUSD, and in April of this year, it introduced Big Business Banking, integrating corporate banking with digital asset services. Both parties indicated that future collaborations may also expand to payments, fund management, lending, and other digital asset services.

Market maker and investment institution DWF Labs announced that its affiliated group entity has obtained regulatory approval as a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) from the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission (BVI FSC).

According to market news, HyperLend Labs purchased 5,017,336.42 HPL through over-the-counter trading, accounting for approximately 1.25% of the circulating supply, and the related tokens will be withdrawn from circulation.

Term Labs released a technical report on the security incident, confirming that all fixed-rate loan positions in the affected vault have been restored as of August 25. The incident was limited to the liquid balance within the Term vault, and Term V1 and V2 contracts were not compromised, with the direct lending market remaining open.Attack process: From August 17 to 18, the attacker funded an operational wallet through Tornado Cash and submitted a malicious proposal disguised as a governance proposal, setting the governance delay parameter to zero and removing the window for LP blocking changes. On August 23, the attacker executed two batches of attacks, extracting assets from the ETH and USDC strategies and transferring them to the attacker's wallet. Term Labs stated that it has cooperated with law enforcement, the affected vault and strategies have been closed, and the contracts have been upgraded and migrated before expiration.

Research institution Delphi Digital stated that hardware limitations are driving Chinese laboratories to shift towards cheaper models and more efficient technology stacks. Export control restrictions limit their access to advanced chips, while domestic accelerators can handle inference, but cutting-edge training remains difficult to achieve. Chinese laboratories are innovating in system efficiency, model architecture, training data, and reinforcement learning. DeepSeek has found a way to avoid GPU idle data movement, and ByteDance and Moonshot are set to release similar versions within months.In terms of architecture, training is shifting to cheaper digital formats that are compatible with domestic chips. Sparse architectures reduce the runtime per token, and the attention mechanism has been redesigned three times to control the memory costs of long context. In terms of data, denser prediction targets and better optimizers enhance the learning signal per token. In reinforcement learning, DeepSeek's GRPO has become the default recipe, with ByteDance, Alibaba, and MiniMax each launching successor plans within a year. Chinese models are now among the lowest-cost cutting-edge adjacent systems.On OpenRouter, the proportion of token consumption by Chinese developed models is expected to rise from less than 1.2% at the end of 2024 to the majority by 2026. The Chinese AI market is experiencing a price war from 2024 to early 2026, with several laboratories implying revenue multiples of about 47-117 times, while Anthropic and OpenAI are around 15-21 times. Huawei's Ascend chips are currently available for inference, and DeepSeek reportedly attempted to train R2 on Ascend but returned to NVIDIA after encountering technical issues. Domestic accelerator supply remains below estimated demand.

Polygon Labs announced that it has completed a SOC 2 Type 1 examination for the Polygon Open Money Stack API and dashboard, covering the security trust services criteria. The independent auditing firm Schellman & Company, LLC determined that Polygon has implemented appropriate security controls.SOC 2 is an auditing framework established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. A Type 1 examination assesses whether the design of the control system is correct at the time of the examination, while a Type 2 examination is ongoing and will test the execution of relevant controls over several months of actual operation. The report states that complementary user entity controls are not necessary for Polygon to fulfill its service commitments.Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron stated that as a technology provider handling real funds, it is essential to meet the standards of financial institutions, and most crypto infrastructure has never been audited against this standard for systems actually integrated by customers. Type 1 confirms that the control design is correct, and Type 2 will confirm its daily operation.

Arthur Hayes-led AI agency project Flop Labs announced that it is building a GPU computing power exchange, allowing the buying and selling of computing power resources. Flop Labs pointed out that NVIDIA's quarterly data center computing power sales reached $89 billion, a year-on-year increase of 117%, but GPU pricing is still not standardized, and users need to contact suppliers directly for quotes.On Flop, AI agents purchase computing power from miners using FLOP tokens, and validators re-execute some of the completed computational work to verify the pricing basis used in the transactions.

Stablecoin issuer Circle and cryptocurrency exchange OKX announced a partnership to jointly expand the liquidity and trading utility of USDC on the OKX platform.This collaboration supports broader access to USDC-denominated markets, covering spot, margin, and futures trading. Circle stated that as the digital asset market expands, trusted dollar stablecoin liquidity becomes a core trading infrastructure, providing eligible users with more ways to trade using USDC.

The parent company of Kraken, Payward, announced a partnership with the London Stock Exchange (LSE) to tokenize the stocks of the 100 largest companies listed on the LSE into xStocks, which are backed 1:1. The first London-listed xStocks are expected to be launched on Kraken and other platforms supporting the xStocks Alliance in the coming weeks, available to investors in over 110 countries, but not yet open to UK investors.Subject to regulatory approval, the LSE plans to list and support xStocks trading on its newly launched extended trading hours, LSE 24. LSE CEO Julia Hoggett stated that by collaborating with Payward and continuously working with the market infrastructure ecosystem, they are exploring how issuers and investors can benefit from new access methods while maintaining the standards that underpin the public market. In addition to tokenizing existing stocks, both parties will also explore the issuance of native equity tokens through LSE infrastructure, which have the same rights as traditional stocks and are fully interchangeable.Payward's tokenized stock framework was launched in June 2025 and acquired by Payward in December, having processed over $40 billion in total trading volume, covering more than 200,000 holders, with nearly $20 billion settled on-chain. According to RWA.xyz data, there are currently approximately $2.53 billion in existing tokenized stocks, with xStocks tokenizing about $606.6 million, making it the second-largest issuer after Ondo.