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Websea "Capital Preservation Copy Trading Growth Challenge" started on September 8, 2026, at 14:00 (UTC+8) and will last until October 8 at 14:00, with a total prize pool of 20,000 USDT.During the event, users can invite friends to complete their first capital preservation copy trading and receive up to 100 USDT contract experience bonus; by participating in capital preservation copy trading and completing the corresponding growth tasks, users can accumulate up to 600 USDT in rewards, with a total of up to 700 USDT.

Galaxy Research posted on X that yesterday the daily transaction count for Bitcoin reached 893,391, marking the fourth highest single-day transaction count in Bitcoin's history, and this figure is above the 99th percentile of its historical range.

Binance Research's monthly market report shows that the total market capitalization of the cryptocurrency market increased by 17.6% to $2.7 trillion in August, with ETF inflows achieving the strongest performance since 2026.BTC rose by 24.8% within 7 days, ranking as the top weekly increase since 2020. In terms of user asset allocation, the proportion of cryptocurrency allocation among stockholders increased from 64% to 72%, while the allocation to stablecoins decreased by 22%; the proportion of TradFi perpetual contract trading volume dropped from 40% to 20%, with funds and trading activities clearly flowing back into cryptocurrency assets.

According to official news, Gate will launch the "Flash Exchange Advanced Season" event from September 7 at 18:00 to September 14 at 18:00 (UTC+8). During the event, users who complete at least 100 USDT of valid flash exchange transactions daily and check in for 3 days or more will be able to share a prize pool of 20,000 USDT based on the number of accumulated check-in days; if the cumulative valid flash exchange transaction volume reaches 3,000 USDT, they can also participate in the transaction volume ranking to share another prize pool of 20,000 USDT. Among them, the user ranked first with a transaction volume of 150,000 USDT can receive a maximum reward of 1,000 USDT.In addition, the Gate flash exchange exclusive gift for newcomers is ongoing. From September 3 at 16:00 to September 10 at 16:00 (UTC+8), eligible newcomers who complete their first flash exchange and reach a transaction volume of 100 USDT will receive a 20 USDT dual-currency financial experience gift, limited to the first 1,000 participants; if the cumulative valid flash exchange transaction volume reaches 300 USDT, they can receive an additional 3 USDT cash reward, limited to the first 300 participants, and the two benefits can be stacked. Currently, Gate flash exchange supports one-click conversion of over 2,400 types of crypto assets without any transaction fees.

The Research Institute of Financial Technology at Renmin University published a compiled article on stablecoin research in the Journal of International Money and Finance. The related research is based on large language model (LLM) agents analyzing the de-pegging risks of stablecoins, which indicates that the de-pegging of stablecoins has significant nonlinear and threshold characteristics. The arbitrage mechanism can absorb a certain degree of informational pressure, but when the severity of the narrative reaches a "critical threshold," the system may quickly enter a state of sustained de-pegging.

According to Digital Asset, the National Tax Service of South Korea has issued regulations stating that even if overseas virtual asset (digital asset) exchanges go bankrupt, individuals with accounts at those exchanges must declare those accounts as overseas financial accounts. The National Tax Service stated on the 28th of last month: "Residents who open accounts with overseas virtual asset operators for the purpose of trading digital assets must declare those accounts as overseas financial accounts, even if the operators go bankrupt."In addition, it is expected that the scale of digital assets included in the overseas financial account declaration will reach 105 trillion Korean won by 2026, a decrease of 5.4% compared to 2025.

Galaxy Research published that the attackers in the Coldcard "Wave 3" attack are still continuously transferring the stolen funds. During this phase, the attackers created 293 2-of-2 multi-signature wallets for each victim's assets. The first batch of funds was transferred across chains to Ethereum via THORChain; the latest round of transfers has begun entering the CoinJoin mixing process.Currently, the Wave 3 attackers are processing the largest amounts of stolen funds in order of the stolen amount, having sequentially transferred the funds from wallets ranked 1 to 11. The next 10 wallets that have not yet been transferred hold a total of 30.81 BTC, while wallets ranked 61 to 293 hold a total of 33.77 BTC. So far, the attackers have transferred about 45% of the stolen assets from this exploit, with funds flowing to Ethereum (via THORChain) or entering CoinJoin mixing transactions. Additionally, this fund transfer has revealed a previously unknown wallet: 58 addresses jointly spent in a 2-of-2 multi-signature format identical to that of Wave 3, and these were further transferred by the Wave 3 attackers to a jump address that funds CoinJoin.The on-chain analysis team currently marks this wallet as "cause = open," but believes it likely also belongs to Coldcard victims, which means the number of wallets involved in Wave 3 may increase to 294, raising the previously reported total amount stolen from the Coldcard vulnerability to approximately 1806 BTC. Currently, about 82% of the stolen BTC remains in addresses initially controlled by the attackers, while about 18% has been transferred, with the flow of funds indicating that it may be undergoing laundering processes.

DeFi researcher Ignas posted on X that Bankless founder David Hoffman sold his ETH and reallocated to several coins with the largest gains, such as LIT and ZEC, with NEAR also performing well, while only VVV underperformed the market. Although the market was filled with panic at that time, and it was very close to the bottom of ETH, the goal of aggressive crypto investors has always been to outperform BTC and ETH.Previously, it was reported that Bankless co-founder David Hoffman announced in June this year that he had liquidated his ETH and bought VVV, NEAR, ZEC, HYPE, and LIT.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "Arsenal FC vs Chelsea FC More Markets" on Polymarket, the "Over" option in the sub-market "Arsenal FC Second Half O/U 0.5" experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 50.5% an hour ago to the current 65.5% (a fluctuation of 15%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, the sleeping Bitcoin transactions that occurred yesterday came from multiple early mining addresses. These addresses mined 50 BTC each at Bitcoin block heights 43361, 43452, 43647, 43680, 43765, 43855, and 43871, totaling 350 BTC. However, according to their research findings, the aforementioned blocks were not mined by Bitcoin's founder Satoshi Nakamoto.

ARK Invest's Director of Digital Asset Research, Lorenzo Valente, posted on X that since the rise of L1, application chains, and Rollup-centric roadmaps, messaging and interoperability protocols have become critical infrastructure. As more assets go on-chain, the demand for universal interoperability will grow exponentially.Lorenzo Valente stated that the interoperability business of the cross-chain interoperability protocol LayerZero is likely to quickly grow to a nine-figure ARR, and mentioned that the team has more progress to share in the future.

PeckShield data shows that in August 2026, the cryptocurrency industry experienced 50 major hacking attacks, an increase of 67% compared to July; losses decreased to $136.3 million, a drop of 49.5%. Among them, Tectonicfi lost approximately $74 million, and after Cronos suspended its network, only about $6 million was transferred out.Digital asset security company AEREDIUM launched AERSeal, which aims to replace the single private key controlling privileged smart contract functions with a multi-party authorized threshold signature. This product stores key shares in hardware-certified secure isolated environments and supports Ethereum Virtual Machine and compatible chains. AERSeal does not reconstruct the complete private key but generates signatures through the CGGMP24 threshold signature protocol. AEREDIUM founder and CEO Albert Dadon stated that the product can delegate permissions for minting, upgrading, and other functions to the threshold key, and confirm the transfer completion through on-chain verification; customers can also independently verify the allocated threshold key.

Gate Research Institute released the August 2026 cryptocurrency and TradFi quantitative report. BTC and ETH rose approximately 25.1% and 32.6% respectively during the month. Gate contract data shows that the open interest amount for BTC increased from about $4.02 billion to $4.38 billion, while ETH rose from about $2.46 billion to $2.75 billion, with increases of approximately 9% and 12.1% respectively.The funding rates for both remained moderately positive most of the time, with long positions dominating the number of accounts, but the active trading long-short ratio was below 1. The TradFi market also rose in sync, with NAS100 increasing about 4.2% during the month, outperforming US500 and US30, while large tech stocks showed a divergence in trends.The report compared four models: moving average trends, trend momentum, Donchian breakout, and RSI mean reversion. Backtesting results showed that the 100-day moving average and 20-day price momentum strategies achieved positive cumulative returns on BTC, ETH, US500, and NAS100, with a median Sharpe ratio of 0.64 and a median maximum drawdown of 8.71%. The report includes Gate TradFi's US500 and NAS100 in cross-asset observations and evaluates market heat by combining Gate contract long-short ratios, funding rates, and open interest data. The execution over the next one to three months will focus on trend confirmation, volatility rebalancing, leverage limits, and cooling off abnormal liquidations.

According to 36Kr, Zhipu has recently opened an official flagship store on Tmall. Data shows that within 48 hours of opening, brand searches surged 50 times compared to the previous period, driving a more than 160% increase in transactions for subscription products like AI tokens on Taobao and Tmall.Previously, Tmall launched the AI Space Station (Token Recharge Center), which initially integrated major model providers such as Alibaba Cloud, Zhipu, Kimi, MiniMax, and DeepSeek, allowing users to directly purchase related subscription services just like "recharging phone credits."

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the prediction market Polymarket for the event "Athletics vs. Seattle Mariners," the "Athletics" option in the sub-market "Athletics vs. Seattle Mariners" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 23.5% an hour ago to the current 57% (a fluctuation of 33.5%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

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.

WEEX Exchange announced that the WEEX Hackathon Season 2 "AI Wars II: The Algorithm Era" is officially launched. AI developers, quantitative traders, teams, and individuals can join Team AI or Team Human to engage in a continuous five-round trading competition in a real market environment, competing for rankings and rewards based on PnL% performance. The total prize pool for the event is 600,000 USDT, with multi-layered incentives designed around different participation methods.From September 3 to 6 is the pre-registration phase, where the first 20,000 registrants can share a 100,000 USDT early bird prize pool. Early registrants can complete event tasks in advance to accumulate activity points for the subsequent competition.

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit announced the appointment of Sean Ballard as the Head of Derivatives and Institutional Business. Ballard will play a key role in strengthening trading infrastructure, risk frameworks, and institutional capabilities, with responsibilities covering trading risk and exchange technology.Ballard has over 25 years of experience in global financial markets, encompassing derivatives, high-frequency trading, trading risk, market structure, and exchange technology. Before joining Bybit, he worked at Jump Trading, where he led the company's high-frequency futures trading operations in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America, managing portfolios and collaborating with global exchanges and regulators on market structure, trading performance, and infrastructure. During his time at Jump Trading, he also served as a senior trader on the Jump Crypto team, managing centralized exchange trading and driving strategic partnerships related to ecosystem growth.At Bybit, Ballard will enhance the institutional trading experience through market infrastructure, risk management, and product development. Bybit Institutional has introduced professional services such as bank tripartite arrangements over the past year, allowing institutions to manage counterparty risk through regulated custody while retaining full trading authority; the market maker gateway has reduced latency for high-frequency and quantitative clients from 4 milliseconds to 1.5 milliseconds. Starting July 2026, Finloop's AAA-rated USD money market fund FUIDL will be available as trading collateral on Bybit.