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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted that the company's newly launched US500 index perpetual contract has achieved over $100 million in 24-hour trading volume just one week after its launch, showing strong early momentum. This product tracks the index of the 500 largest companies by market capitalization in the United States and is currently open for trading to U.S. users.Armstrong also solicited feedback from the community, asking what other perpetual contract index products users would like to see launched.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched the SHEINUSDT (SHEIN) IPO pre-market perpetual contract, supporting up to 20x leverage and 24/7 trading.

Japan Bitcoin Industry Co., Ltd. launched the self-custody Bitcoin payment platform Aurora at the Bitcoin Asia conference held in Hong Kong, aiming to help Japanese businesses sell content such as anime, manga, and games to international fans. The company stated that the overseas Japanese anime content market is expected to reach 21.7 trillion yen in 2024, a year-on-year increase of 26%, but traditional payment systems often keep overseas consumers at bay.Aurora allows international customers to make Bitcoin payments via the Lightning Network while providing Japanese merchants with a simple point of sale (POS) and API layer for managing invoices, payment tracking, and integration. The core design principle of the platform is that JBI does not touch the funds; each merchant operates their own self-custody Lightning Network node, directly receiving Bitcoin from customers, which provides merchants with a clearer regulatory foundation.JBI stated that Aurora draws on the experience of its existing consumer business UseBitcoin.jp, which has allowed customers to purchase digital gift cards including au PAY, V-Preca, and Kyash using the Lightning Network for the past two years. The company invites media, potential merchants, and wallet providers to contact the team at the 2026 Hong Kong Bitcoin Asia conference.

The on-chain project launch and governance platform Umia has initiated the on-chain auction for its native token $UMIA, marking the first token issued through its system. The early bidding window is now live, and the public round will be open to everyone from August 29 to September 2 on Base via umia.finance. Bidding is priced in USDC and supports deposits via Privy cards; trading will commence on Uniswap v4 with protocol-owned liquidity after the auction ends.The total supply of $UMIA is 50 million tokens, of which 40 million will be allocated at launch, and the remaining 10 million will be reserved for performance. Of the 40 million, 61% will be in circulation from day one, covering the 17.3 million tokens sold in the auction (with no lock-up) as well as the portion held by the protocol; shares for supporters, service providers, and the team will vest over 36 months after a 12-month cliff.Umia is a full-stack on-chain project launch and governance platform, with a non-custodial treasury and board decisions priced through a decision market. Each project launched by Umia operates as a subsidiary of a Cayman isolated portfolio company based on the MetaLex BORG framework. Umia was incubated by Chainbound and raised $4.6 million in August 2024, led by cyber Fund.

Doppler Finance announced the launch of the native utility and governance token XDP, serving as the protocol coordination layer, supporting user participation, decentralized governance, and ecological growth. XDP is designed around three main functions: protocol privileges, governance, and future security modules. Users can stake XDP to gain access to premium vaults and strategies, priority for new products, and eligibility to participate in ecological activities; staking details will be announced separately.In terms of governance, XDP holders can participate in decisions regarding protocol parameters, ecological incentive budgets, vault plans, and future functionalities. The security module is planned to be launched in subsequent phases, where eligible users can configure their staked XDP into a coverage pool, assuming corresponding risks to earn additional incentives. The total supply of XDP is 10 billion, with over half allocated to ecological development, vaults, partners, and community growth, while contributors and investors have longer lock-up and vesting arrangements.The XDP genesis airdrop accounts for 1.0%, which will be fully unlocked for early users, contributors, and supporters at TGE; an additional 43% is allocated for ecology and incentives, to support subsequent Doppler Points seasons, XDP staking, and other community programs. The official contract address will only be published through official Doppler channels, and users should be wary of third-party information, phishing websites, and any requests for funds or private keys.

The tokenized stock platform xStocks announced that MUx, SKHYx, NVDAx, QQQx, and SPYx have gone live on Hyperliquid as native spot markets. Each asset has a liquidity of approximately 1 million dollars, with an average spread of 8-12 basis points, supporting 24/7 trading, and more assets will be launched in the future. This product is not available to the United States and U.S. persons and is subject to regional restrictions. xStocks is launched by Payward, providing trading of tokenized U.S. stocks, ETFs, and IPOs.

Zhipu officially announced the launch and open-sourcing of GLM-5.3-Flash, which is the first native multimodal model in the GLM-5 series.It is reported that the overall performance of GLM-5.3-Flash exceeds that of GLM-5.2, with programming and Agent evaluations approaching Claude Opus 4.8, but at only one-tenth the price of GLM-5.2. It also features a new foundational model, introducing a mixed architecture of sparse attention and linear attention for the first time in the main GLM series, and is pre-trained with 30T Token multimodal data.Zhipu stated that to gather extensive and professional feedback from a wide range of users, large-scale testing was conducted with the anonymous model Ox-Alpha (referred to as "Niu Lai" in the Chinese community) on OpenCode and OpenRouter before the official release. Ox-Alpha quickly became the most popular model of the week, setting a new high for call volume on both platforms, with all request traffic supported by domestic chip computing power.Previously, the community's DeepSWE small sample test for Ox Alpha once achieved 80%, but that was based on only 10 questions. After expanding the sample, the score fell back to about 63%, and testers also actively corrected the initial claim. This score still belongs to the top tier, but is not as exaggerated as the initial 80%. After the weights are open-sourced, developers can directly deploy using frameworks like vLLM, SGLang, KTransformers, without needing to go through the anonymous model's API.

According to the official announcement, Bitget's stock perpetual contract has been launched for MARA (MARA Holdings). The contract is settled in USDT, supports up to 20 times leverage, and is available for trading 24/7. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 292 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

According to the official announcement, Bitget's stock perpetual contracts have launched DJT (Trump Media & Technology Group). The contract is settled in USDT, supports up to 20 times leverage, and is available for trading 24/7. So far, Bitget supports a total of 291 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

The Solana ecosystem DeFi protocol Kamino announced the launch of Kamino Fixed Rates, positioned as an on-chain fixed-term, fixed-rate credit architecture solution. The product is now live in a private testing version, with a public version planned for release in the third quarter of 2026.According to the introduction, Kamino Fixed Rates aims to provide a lending framework for the on-chain credit market with both the term and interest rate locked in advance. Kamino also released a related light paper for the market to review the product design and mechanism description.

According to Decrypt, THORChain announced the launch of version 3.2, which adds native cross-chain exchange support for Monero (XMR) and Zcash (ZEC). Users can directly exchange XMR and ZEC for BTC, ETH, and stablecoins without the need to wrap assets, register centralized exchange accounts, or relinquish asset custody.This upgrade also introduces Protocol Owned Liquidity (POL) and Stable Reserve, and restores support for Solana, Base, and BNB. Among them, Stable Reserve supports zero liquidity fee exchanges between stablecoins. This upgrade is expected to provide a new non-custodial trading path for users facing liquidity channel shrinkage due to centralized exchanges delisting or restricting XMR.

HyperliquidNews posted on the X platform that tracking stop-loss orders have been launched on the test network.

According to Business Insider, Thomson Reuters launched its first self-developed AI model, Thomson-1, on Monday. This model is based on Snowdon and constructed through "re-alignment" of Alibaba's open-source Qwen model. Open-source means anyone can download and modify the model for free. Thomson-1 will take over some tasks previously handled by Anthropic's Claude, but it is not intended to completely replace collaboration with Anthropic and other labs, initially focusing on the company's areas of expertise, starting with document review.This move aims to address the high AI costs brought by models like Claude and OpenAI Codex, and reflects the use of cheaper Chinese open-source AI. CTO Joel Hron stated that the main reason is to better leverage Thomson Reuters' own expertise and control costs. The company expanded its collaboration with Anthropic in May this year for the AI legal assistant CoCounsel, which still primarily relies on Claude. Hron said, "Our main goal is to gradually make Thomson the model that drives more and more capabilities for CoCounsel."Thomson Reuters, in collaboration with a team from Imperial College London, spent months transforming Qwen to build Snowdon and ensured it is "ethically and politically bias-processed and safe to use." Hron pointed out that having a proprietary model allows for development based on its own intellectual property rather than continuously paying external AI companies, comparing it to renting versus buying a house: renting provides shelter but does not accumulate long-term equity.

On August 24, WEEX Exchange announced the official launch of its TG Mini Program WEEX Telegram Mini App, which supports registration, deposits and withdrawals, spot/contract trading, creating a "ready-to-use" lightweight trading experience. At the same time, WEEX launched exclusive welfare activities for Telegram Mini Program users, where users can participate to receive up to 12 USDT contract bonuses, up to $1,500 worth of BTC position airdrops, and have a chance to win an iPhone 17 Pro. Activity period: 8/24 18:00 - 9/14 23:59:59 (UTC+8).

According to the official announcement, to meet the diverse investment needs of users, Bitget has launched two stock perpetual contracts: DE (Deere & Company) and JP225 (Nikkei 225 Index). The above contracts are settled in USDT, support up to 20 times leverage, and allow trading 7 × 24 hours. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 282 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

Alibaba's video large model Wan 3 is officially launched, and Nvidia is negotiating an investment in Perplexity, which is valued at over $30 billion.Xiaomi releases the Xuan Ring O3 processor using 3 nm technology, and smart ring manufacturer Oura plans to raise up to $3 billion in an IPO.

EntropyIO announced the launch of the first liquidity trading method for Anthropic, aimed at making cutting-edge assets that were previously accessible to only a select few available to a broader audience. The project has completed a $14 million financing round led by Ribbit Capital and received $40 million in HYPE staking support to build improved and new markets.EntropyIO stated that the first related markets have gone live on Hyperliquid. EntropyIO focuses on providing liquidity trading and market infrastructure for cutting-edge assets.

The B.AI free model event has only been launched for a week, and the total Token throughput across the platform has strongly surpassed the 20 trillion mark. The system has maintained stable operation amidst continuous high concurrency peaks and massive automated scheduling tasks.During the event, four popular domestic models—MiMo-V2.5, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, and Tencent Hy3—are fully open for free, with zero barriers to use right out of the box, covering a wide range of application scenarios including rapid text response, multimodal visual understanding, solid Chinese reasoning, and complex task processing.Whether developers need to handle high-intensity code writing, ultra-long context document analysis, or build enterprise-level high-concurrency Agent intelligent bodies, they can freely access ample computing resources. B.AI will continue to practice the vision of inclusive computing power, promoting more AI innovations to accelerate implementation with lower costs and better experiences.