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According to GMGN data, the market capitalization of the Meme coin PAID on Solana once exceeded 20 million USD, with a 24H increase of over 990 times, and has now fallen back to 13.4 million USD.It is reported that UsePaid is an automatic revenue-sharing tool for token creators: project parties can import the creator fees generated by the Meme coin into UsePaid, where 80% is converted to USD and paid to designated X users through X Money, and 20% is used for repurchase and destruction of $PAID. ChainCatcher reminds users that the price of Meme coins is highly volatile, and investors should participate cautiously.

SK Hynix and its union have reached an agreement on performance bonuses. According to the agreement, 50% of the bonus will be paid in cash, and the remaining 50% will be paid in company stock.SK Hynix originally planned to pay the entire performance bonus in cash. This means the company now needs to repurchase stock equivalent to at least 50% of the total bonus amount.

On September 9, Ara Kharazian, Chief Economist of the corporate spending management platform Ramp, released the Ramp AI Index for September 2026. This index tracks the AI usage of U.S. enterprises based on Ramp's spending data. In August, Anthropic held a share of 43.8% among U.S. enterprises paying for subscriptions or tokens, an increase of 0.34 percentage points month-over-month; OpenAI accounted for 39.8%, with a month-over-month increase of 0.09 percentage points. Overall, the adoption of AI continues to grow, but the growth rate is slowing, with technology sectors such as information, finance, and professional services leading.The median monthly AI spending per capita for the top 1% of enterprises decreased by 9.7%, from $7,976 to $7,205. The effective price per million tokens dropped by 41% from the peak of $1.15 in March 2026 to $0.68. The usage is driven by cheaper standard models, with cutting-edge models (Opus, Fable, Sol) accounting for 45% of the token share. The adoption of open-source models remains limited, representing 6.4% of AI spending enterprises and 3.6% of all enterprises.

According to monitoring by TradingBeats, as HYPE broke through $88, the largest HYPE long address on Hyperliquid, 0x082e...ca88, currently holds approximately 1.38 million HYPE long positions, with a position value of about $12.2 million, an average opening price of $38.68, and current floating profits of about $6.862 million, using 5x full leverage.This address opened approximately $40 million in HYPE long positions with 5x leverage about 5 hours before Robinhood announced the launch of HYPE spot trading on October 23, 2025. Due to the precise timing of the large entry, the community suspected there was non-public information, hence it was referred to as the "HYPE listing insider whale."From December 5 to 6 of the same year, this address continued to increase its position by about 93,500 HYPE in the $31 to $32 range, ultimately raising the current holdings to about 1.38 million, and has held the contract position until now. This address has currently paid $5.42 million in funding fees for its long positions.

Tibo, the product head of OpenAI Codex, stated that the number of active users has reached 25 million. To celebrate this milestone, the usage limits for all paid subscriptions of ChatGPT Work and Codex have now been reset.

Chief Economist Fu Peng of New Fire Group published an article pointing out that although Nvidia's latest financial report has exceeded expectations for 15 consecutive quarters, the market has reacted lukewarmly to the financial data itself. Indicators such as stock price and options volatility show that market investors are currently more concerned about whether the free cash flow of the future index center can be smoothly delivered, and how long the momentum of AI growth can be maintained. These issues weigh more heavily than the performance of a single quarter's financial report, so even if this performance exceeds Wall Street's expectations by a few points, it does not change the denominator of the valuation.Fu Peng believes that Jensen Huang's statement during the conference call clearly indicated that "the inflection point for AI has arrived," which is essentially to reassure the market, aiming to strengthen market confidence in the formation of a closed-loop AI industry chain and alleviate concerns about over-investment. Investors should observe how long it takes for the market to digest this round of confidence boost, and how long the elevated expectations brought by Jensen Huang will last before fading. If the sentiment fades quickly, it indicates that the current typical market mentality is "no rabbit, no hawk," and the impact of manufacturers repeatedly reinforcing confidence in the market is gradually weakening, which can be observed from the duration of market fluctuations after each conference call.

Robert Kiyosaki, the author of "Rich Dad Poor Dad," posted on the X platform stating that the new round of quantitative easing (QE) policy in the United States may lead to a decline in the purchasing power of the dollar and further increase inflation risks. Those holding cash dollar savings may become the biggest affected group.Investors should not rely on continuously depreciating fiat currency but should focus on assets that can appreciate over time.

Bitcoin Treasury Company Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) stated on platform X that its $STRC semi-monthly dividend of $0.50 per share has been paid today. The next semi-monthly dividend payment date for $STRC is August 31.Strategy is known for its large-scale holdings of Bitcoin and financing through the issuance of various preferred stocks and convertible securities. $STRC is one of its related preferred stock products, distributing fixed dividends to shareholders on a semi-monthly basis. The company continues to support its Bitcoin reserve strategy through capital market instruments.

AI programming tool Cursor announces the launch of the Origin code hosting feature, which is now available for early testing to all paid users starting today. This feature supports the creation of new code repositories, bidirectional synchronization with GitHub repositories, and includes pull requests, code browsing, and AI Agent integration capabilities. Users can complete code reading, questioning, modification, and PR merging all within the same interface.The synchronized GitHub repositories support bidirectional comment synchronization. Comments in Cursor will sync to GitHub, and replies on GitHub will also be sent back to Cursor in real-time. Origin also integrates applications such as Vercel, Depot, and Buildkite, allowing PRs to automatically generate preview deployments. Cursor indicates that more native Agent features will be launched in the future. Enterprise users can opt out of this testing program through their administrators.

According to Protos, the latest disclosure from 21Shares' Polkadot ETF (TDOT) shows that in the second quarter of 2026, for every $1 in distribution income generated through the sale of DOT tokens to pay staking rewards, there was an accompanying realized loss of approximately $4.52.According to regulatory documents, TDOT sold 98,505 DOT in the second quarter, generating about $107,500 in cash to pay staking rewards to shareholders. However, due to a significant drop in DOT prices, these sales confirmed a loss of approximately $485,600.Data shows that DOT fell by about 34% in the second quarter of 2026, with a cumulative decline of 76% over the past 12 months as of June 30. Since TDOT shareholders receive distributions in USD rather than directly receiving DOT staking rewards, the fund needs to sell DOT to convert to cash payments, thereby locking in losses in a low-price environment. In the second quarter, TDOT paid shareholders a cumulative distribution of approximately $0.14698 per share, but during the same period, the fund's share price dropped from $14.95 to $9.86, a decline of about 34%, and the staking rewards did not offset the losses caused by the decline in asset prices.

FlashRescue co-founder @DarcyAri posted on the X platform that the Hyperliquid-related Google paid advertising phishing incident has resulted in approximately $550,000 in financial losses.The addresses related to the attackers have been disclosed, and users need to be vigilant about the phishing risks associated with Google paid advertisements and pay attention to protecting their asset security.

Bitcoin.com published an article stating that the model of Web3 startups conducting corporate pilots by paying traditional financial institutions "is a dead end," with 95% of pilot projects failing to reach production environments. Web2 companies only want the idle venture capital and revenue sharing from startups, rather than their open-source innovations. The article argues that true defensiveness comes from a "structural moat"—compliance licenses, deep network liquidity, or distribution lock-ins that Web2 engineering teams cannot replicate.The article cites recent cases: Stripe was acquired for $1.1 billion after proving an annual cross-border transaction volume of $5 billion with Bridge, and Robinhood acquired Bitstamp for $200 million to gain 50 global regulatory licenses and institutional liquidity, rather than maintaining long-term vendor relationships. The article predicts that the next round of B2C expansion will present an 80/20 pattern: 80% of retail liquidity will be controlled by 3 to 5 Web2/fintech giants such as Visa, Stripe, Robinhood, PayPal, and BlackRock, providing compliance and fiat entry; 20% will be an unlicensed DeFi sandbox for validating initial product-market fit. The growth path for startups should be to first validate PMF in the DeFi sandbox, then integrate or sell to the few Web2 gateways controlling the 80% distribution layer. The article believes that the current protocol cancellations and wave of startup closures are part of a "necessary market cleanup."

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve's Daly stated that attention should be paid to the rising trend of technology investment lending.

According to CoinDesk, Bitfinex analysts released a report stating that derivative traders have largely been washed out during the Bitcoin sell-off at the end of June.Bitcoin fell below $58,000 on July 1, and since then, the average daily liquidation amount has remained well below this year's typical range of $400 million to $500 million, indicating that despite macro shocks, there is little forced selling pressure. The decline in the Bitcoin market is smaller than that of leveraged stock themes because the "fuel" for forced selling has been exhausted.Bitfinex analysts expect that investors will remain defensive ahead of next week's U.S. employment report (the next major macro catalyst after the Federal Reserve meeting).They believe that rather than worrying about a new round of forced liquidations, the more critical question is whether the inflow of spot Bitcoin ETF funds can return once the market has a clearer judgment on the Federal Reserve's path.The analysts wrote, "We believe that positions will remain defensive as long as the risk of Federal Reserve interest rate hikes persists. Whether institutional buyers are active or insensitive to prices is the signal that traders have yet to see."

According to News.bitcoin, MoneyFlip CEO Marcos Arturo Kleiman Tronllan was arrested for allegedly hiring a hitman. The investigation initially targeted currency exchange businesses near the US-Mexico border, suspecting that he used the business to evade the requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act and launder money through cross-border transactions (to clean drug trafficking proceeds).In February 2026, an undercover agent from the Department of Homeland Security contacted Kleiman, requesting to exchange dollars claimed to be from drug transactions into cryptocurrency. Kleiman exchanged approximately $750,000 into cryptocurrency and transferred it to the undercover wallet, charging a 10% fee. During discussions, Kleiman asked the undercover agent to help collect debts from a Mexican businessman and to commit murder, agreeing to pay $40,000 for kidnapping and murder. Kleiman paid a cash deposit of $5,000 in two installments; after the undercover agent presented forged "victim murder" photos and videos, he delivered an additional $5,000 in cash and approximately $25,000 USDT as final payment.

Bitcoin Treasuries.NET posted on platform X that the Swedish public company Bitcoin Treasury Capital has fully repaid its interest-bearing debt through the new preferred stock fundraising and is now debt-free.

The Kenyan National Treasury has reduced the minimum paid-up capital requirement for stablecoin issuers by 40%, to approximately $2.32 million, down from nearly $3.9 million in the draft rules from March last year.Under the new regulations, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) will oversee stablecoin issuers and other virtual asset service providers, and may require local platforms to cease offering offshore-issued tokens. The framework requires at least 30% of customer funds to be held in independent trust accounts at Kenyan commercial banks, with the remaining funds invested in qualified local assets. The fiat-backed stablecoin reserves must be consistent with the anchor currency.Issuers are required to maintain either $463,300 in liquid capital or 100% of their liquid liabilities, whichever is higher, and hold qualified reserve assets on a 1:1 basis. Issuers must also conduct quarterly stress tests, submit monthly reserve and transaction reports, and ensure that customers can redeem tokens at face value within two business days.

Ronald Keung, the head of Asian Internet Research at Goldman Sachs, stated that as the global usage of Chinese AI models surges, developers may begin to charge commercial licensing fees to cloud platforms for hosting their open-weight models. Currently, most Chinese models are released under permissive licenses such as the MIT License, allowing any user to use, modify, and host them for free, including for commercial purposes.Keung pointed out that Chinese AI models like Kimi K3 from the Dark Side of the Moon and GLM-5.2 from Zhiyu AI have performance levels that are close to those of leading models in the United States. The adoption rate among small and medium-sized enterprises, both domestically and globally, is very fast, and even large enterprises are beginning to consider using Chinese models. Goldman Sachs believes that model developers can convert the growing use of open-source into actual revenue by requiring third-party service providers to purchase commercial licenses to run model inference on their own infrastructure.

According to INBi, consultant François Garcin, who assisted in building MARA's business in France, filed a lawsuit against MARA Holdings in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on July 22, seeking over 11 million euros in compensation.Garcin claims that after MARA terminated the contract on March 6, 2026, it failed to pay 2.4 million euros in consulting fees and approximately 5.92 million euros in success commissions (based on 4% of the 148 million euro investment in Exaion). Exaion is a subsidiary of EDF, and this investment accounts for 64% of the capital for the relevant project.Garcin's previous tasks included recruiting former Engie CEO Gérard Mestrallet, obtaining an invitation to the Choose France summit, and arranging a meeting with former President François Hollande, among others.

Trump Media (TMTG) announced on Thursday the launch of a paid Truth API, providing institutional clients with the fastest real-time access to the most market-influential accounts on the Truth Social platform (including U.S. President Trump). The target clients are high-frequency and algorithmic trading firms, with plans to open to institutional clients starting August 1.Interim CEO Kevin McGurn stated that the market has already been fluctuating due to Truth Social posts, and this API offers a direct, authorized real-time machine-readable data stream, while advancing the company's strategy to monetize proprietary assets through high-margin recurring revenue streams. Trump's Truth Social posts have previously triggered market fluctuations, with recent examples including his posts regarding the U.S.-Iran conflict.McGurn also mentioned that some companies have attempted to scrape Truth Social data in violation of rules, and we will create significant friction for those who do not obtain data directly from us. Other major accounts on Truth Social include Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and FBI Director Kash Patel.