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The Ethereum Foundation stated on the X platform that the Trezor hardware wallet now supports the "Clear Signing" feature through the ERC-7730 standard, making transactions more readable and understandable on the hardware device.This progress is the result of the Clear Signing working group promoted under the foundation's "Trillion Dollar Security Initiative," aimed at reducing the risk of users suffering asset losses due to "blind signing" of unclear transactions and encouraging more wallets and decentralized applications to participate.

According to official news, Binance Alpha 2.0 (CEX) now supports Robinhood Chain, allowing users to trade, deposit, and withdraw.Currently, both limit orders and market orders support U trading pairs. In addition, the following tokens have been added to Binance Alpha 2.0: Cash Cat (CASHCAT), up (UP), Artificial Inu (AI), Pons (PONS).

According to The Wall Street Journal, Robinhood has reached an agreement with Crypto.com, and Robinhood will add yes-or-no event contracts from Crypto.com's prediction market business to its trading platform.At the same time, Robinhood will acquire a minority stake in Crypto.com and its prediction market business.

Blockchain analysis company Chainalysis estimates that France's potential taxable cryptocurrency activity will reach $9.4 billion by 2025, including $5.2 billion from payments, $2.5 billion from capital gains, and $1.7 billion from mining and staking income. French taxpayers reported only €368 million in net income for the 2024 fiscal year, involving about 24,000 people, an increase from approximately 7,700 people and €150.8 million in the previous year.Chainalysis stated that the non-compliance rate for cryptocurrency taxes in some countries may exceed 90%. The EU's eighth directive on administrative cooperation, DAC8, came into effect on January 1, 2026, requiring cryptocurrency service providers to collect user identity and transaction data. Tax authorities in member states will start exchanging relevant records cross-border from September 30, 2027; CARF currently covers about 14% of the world's potential taxable on-chain activities.

Visa stated in an official blog post that stablecoin-linked cards are one of the fastest-growing segments of the network. In the second fiscal quarter, over 160 stablecoin-linked card projects launched globally, with payment volumes increasing nearly 200% year-over-year, and an annualized settlement rate exceeding $20 billion, growing more than 15 times year-over-year.Visa pointed out that its collaboration with Credit Coop to launch a stablecoin-based revolving credit tool provides daily settlement funds for early stablecoin card projects, and the borrowing costs for some participating projects have decreased by more than 30%.

Sources say that Anthropic has decided to terminate its plan to acquire the artificial intelligence startup Decart AI. Anthropic had previously conducted due diligence on Decart for a deal worth approximately $6 billion but ultimately chose to walk away, although both parties may explore other forms of collaboration in the future.The software and hardware collaborative optimization technology developed by Decart can enhance chip utilization efficiency and reduce AI training and inference costs. Anthropic has rarely engaged in large-scale mergers and acquisitions and is currently making significant investments in computing power to develop new products and serve customers, while preparing for an initial public offering that may approach or even exceed that of SpaceX.

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 a report by the Economic Daily, with the rising demand for AI and high-performance computing applications, TSMC is expanding its capacity for advanced processes below 3 nanometers at the request of its customers.Industry insiders are optimistic that TSMC's contribution from 3 nanometers in the second half of the year is expected to surpass that of 5 nanometers for the first time, estimating that the single-quarter output value in the third quarter will exceed 400 billion New Taiwan dollars, setting a new record, accounting for more than 30% of revenue, and positively impacting gross margin performance.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale transferred 10.2 million USD from CEX to Hyperliquid two days ago and then added a deposit of 4.5 million USD in USDC. Currently, it holds a total value of 106.6 million USD in short positions, with an unrealized loss of 19.62 million USD. Among these, the short position in ZEC has an unrealized loss of 14.19 million USD, and the short position in HYPE has an unrealized loss of 5.32 million USD. Over the past 20 days, this whale has accumulated a loss of 20.17 million USD.

GMGN data shows that Basecat's market capitalization briefly surpassed 83 million dollars, setting a new historical high, with a 24-hour increase of about 38%, currently reported at 73.4 million dollars. Coinbase has previously launched BASECAT spot trading.

According to Cointelegraph citing Coinglass data, Ethereum rose by 56.51% in the third quarter of this year, marking the third-best performance in history. There have only been two instances in the past where the increase in the third quarter exceeded this year's.

According to GMGN data, the market capitalization of PONS has rebounded to over 500 million dollars, currently reported at 523 million dollars, with a 24H increase of over 12%. In addition, Pons also stated that as of now, 29.34% of the total supply of PONS tokens has been burned, and 80% of the fees generated by the protocol will continue to be used for repurchasing PONS.According to market news, the price of Meme coins is highly volatile, and investors are advised to participate with caution.

On September 3, the prediction market platform Polymarket launched its perpetual contract product Polymarket Perps, initially covering 10 contracts including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, HYPE, gold, silver, WTI crude oil, S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, and contracts tracking SpaceX stock, expanding to 67 markets within hours.This product has no expiration date, with contract prices continuously tracking the underlying assets and maintaining anchoring to spot prices through a funding rate that settles hourly, with a bidirectional cap on the funding rate of 4% per hour. Cryptocurrencies, S&P 500, crude oil, gold, and silver support up to 20 times leverage, while individual stocks and other real assets support up to 10 times. U.S. traders are unable to place Perps orders and will be directed to Polymarket US, which is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). This arrangement stems from a settlement reached between Polymarket and the CFTC in 2022, where the company was fined $1.4 million for operating an unregistered swap execution facility and was required to cease related non-compliant contracts.

Tom Lee, Chairman of the Ethereum treasury company Bitmine, posted on the X platform stating that as of the third quarter, approximately 20% of the stocks with the highest gains in the Russell 1000 index are cryptocurrency-related stocks. Among them, BMNR has increased by 99% since the third quarter, ranking 4th; MSTR has increased by 67%, ranking 12th; CRCL has increased by 65%, ranking 14th; BLSH has increased by 55%, ranking 21st.Tom Lee added that with only one month left until the end of the third quarter, these strong-performing crypto stocks may become targets for investors to pursue next.

According to Bitcoin News monitoring, hackers related to the third wave of theft incidents involving Coldcard wallets have begun to transfer the stolen funds for the first time, exchanging Bitcoin for ETH through THORChain. Alex Thorn from Galaxy Research stated that approximately 10% of the stolen BTC has been transferred, while the remaining 90% remains untouched.The attacker reportedly encountered difficulties when exchanging the funds, with multiple THORChain transactions being returned and retried. Researchers have traced the related exchange operations to a new Ethereum address, and Alex Thorn indicated that this address has been shared with relevant authorities and cryptocurrency companies. Galaxy Research noted that the broader Coldcard vulnerability exploitation incident has resulted in at least 8,865 addresses losing a total of 1,789 BTC, valued at approximately $115 million based on the price at the time of theft.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), the BSC token $MARSCOIN surged 80% shortly after being listed on Binance spot trading. The average holding cost of the top address on the profit list is only $0.00133 (current price $0.1805), with a total profit of $2.31 million.After the spot announcement was released, this address has begun to sell off in small batches, and currently still holds 10.44 million tokens, valued at approximately $1.92 million.

The People's Bank of China announced the overall operation of the payment system for the second quarter of 2026. By the end of the second quarter, a total of 10.267 billion bank cards had been issued nationwide. Among them, there were 677 million credit cards and credit card loans, a decrease of about 10 million cards compared to the end of the first quarter, and a decrease of nearly 20 million cards since the beginning of the year, averaging over 100,000 credit cards exiting the market each day. Compared to the historical peak of 807 million cards in the second quarter of 2022, the number of credit cards has been reduced by about 130 million.The mid-year report of listed banks in 2026 shows that the overdraft balances of credit cards from the six major state-owned banks decreased at the end of the first half compared to the end of the previous year. The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China had a credit card loan balance of 597.157 billion yuan, a decrease of 14.39% from the end of the previous year. By the end of June, the cumulative number of credit cards issued by Bank of China was about 152 million, with an increase of 1.76 million cards compared to the end of the previous year; China Merchants Bank saw a net increase of 256,300 cards to 97.7073 million cards.In terms of asset quality, the non-performing loan ratios for Agricultural Bank of China and Postal Savings Bank of China remained at 2.05% and 1.45%, respectively; the non-performing loan ratio for Industrial and Commercial Bank of China rose to 5.37%; and the non-performing loan ratio for Bank of Communications increased from 2.68% to 3.8%. The non-performing loan ratio for China Minsheng Bank rose to 4.22%, and for Industrial Bank, it rose to 3.79%. In the first half of the year, China Merchants Bank generated new non-performing loans of 23.698 billion yuan, with a non-performing loan ratio of 1.90%. In August 2026, the principal and interest of non-performing credit card transfers amounted to 12.2 billion yuan.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the Fireblocks custody wallet (9Ryc...G4xfCxk) transferred $22.45 million USD1 supported by Trump to Binance again, after previously transferring $66 million USD1 to Binance.

According to BBX data, global listed companies and leading financial institutions have disclosed the latest developments in digital asset management scale, quarterly earnings performance, and crypto clearing infrastructure in recent days. The core information is as follows:New Fire Group (01611.HK) asset management and trading volume hit a record high, AUM surpassed 2 billion HKD: Hong Kong-listed company New Fire Group disclosed its operating data for August. The group's private banking-level digital asset custodian Bitfire Premium successfully surpassed 200 million USD in asset management scale (AUM), a month-on-month increase of about 30%. The total asset management scale of New Fire Group's global market (including the Japanese site BitTrade) has officially surpassed 2 billion HKD. In addition, the platform's trading volume has exceeded 100 million USD for the second consecutive month, and the over-the-counter (OTC) business continues to expand, currently ranking among the major OTC digital asset trading platforms in Hong Kong.Amber (NASDAQ: AMBR) Q2 revenue 13.9 million USD, turning a profit: Nasdaq-listed company Amber announced its unaudited financial performance for the second quarter of 2026. The company's total revenue for Q2 reached 13.9 million USD, a significant month-on-month increase of 38.8%, with gross margin significantly improved to 79.5%. As a result, its operating income and adjusted EBITDA both turned positive, completely reversing the loss situation of the previous quarter.Digital bank SoFi partners with Kraken to enable 24/7 USD settlement and liquidity: Digital bank SoFi has reached a strategic cooperation with the well-known crypto exchange Kraken. Kraken's parent company Payward will officially join SoFi's USD settlement network "SEN," allowing its institutional clients to break the limitations of traditional bank operating hours, transferring USD and managing liquidity around the clock; at the same time, Kraken will launch the stablecoin SoFi USD issued by SoFi, while SoFi will introduce Kraken Prime as an additional underlying liquidity source for its clients' cryptocurrency trading.Bank-led digital currency network Cari completes 32.5 million USD financing: The digital currency network Cari, designed specifically for the banking industry, announced the completion of a 32.5 million USD first round of external financing. This round of funding comes entirely from traditional banking institutions, including First Horizon Bank, Huntington Bank, Key Bank, M&T Bank, Old National Bank, SouthState Bank, and Glacier Bank. Cari aims to help regional, mid-sized, and community banks fully participate in and establish compliant digital currency infrastructure.