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According to the Straits Times, Telegram experienced a service outage on the morning of September 8. Users in Singapore began to report issues around 10:20, with Downdetector reporting nearly 4,000 incidents shortly after 10:30, mainly related to the app and messaging features.As of 11:30, the number of outage reports had decreased to about 350, and Telegram services are gradually recovering. Currently, Telegram has not disclosed the cause of the outage.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event on Polymarket for "Valorant: 100 Thieves vs LOUD - VCT Americas Stage 2 Playoffs," the option "100 Thieves" in the sub-market "Match Winner" has experienced a drastic fluctuation in win probability, dropping from 81.5% an hour ago to the current 58.5% (a fluctuation of 23%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the predicted market on Polymarket for the event "Valorant: NRG vs LOUD - VCT Americas Stage 2 Playoffs" shows that the "NRG" option in the sub-market "Map 3 Winner" has experienced a drastic fluctuation in win rate, dropping from 55.5% an hour ago to the current 14% (a fluctuation of 41.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Scroll's official announcement states that Binance has added an observation label to SCR today. Scroll is aware of this update and is communicating with the Binance team regarding the review matters. Scroll emphasizes that its focus remains unchanged and will continue to build and execute its established plans.Tokens with observation labels may have higher volatility and risk compared to other listed tokens, and Binance will closely monitor and continuously review them. Trading these tokens with observation labels carries risks, as these tokens may no longer meet listing standards and could be delisted. Binance will conduct regular project reviews and decide whether to add or remove observation labels based on the latest investigation results.

Robinhood co-founder, chairman, and CEO Vlad Tenev posted on X that everyone, regardless of where they are, should have access to high-quality financial assets. Tokenization will unlock the advantages of the U.S. capital markets and make them available globally.He stated that the industry is still relatively small compared to global finance, but its advantages are increasingly hard to ignore. Traditional market infrastructure is built around fixed trading hours, closed networks, and multiple intermediaries, and is not designed for 24/7 execution, programmable assets, composability, or self-custody. The changes in investor demand are outpacing the underlying infrastructure, and the team is working hard to change this situation.Tenev expressed confidence in seeing founders, LPs, traders, and infrastructure teams driving industry development. The industry is still in its early stages, and there is a lot of work to be done. The old system needs time to adapt, but it is worth the effort.

According to on-chain data, Robinhood Chain is suspected to be down, having paused the generation of new blocks for over 4 minutes.

Binance will launch MarsCoin (MARSCOIN) spot trading on September 4 at 21:00, and will open trading pairs MARSCOIN/USDT, MARSCOIN/USDC, and MARSCOIN/TRY. The MARSCOIN deposit channel will open one hour later, and withdrawals are expected to open on September 5 at 21:00. MARSCOIN will carry a seed label.

The Bank of Korea stated that thanks to Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix actively expanding domestic production facilities, South Korea's leading advantage in memory chip capacity is expected to further expand.The Bank of Korea expects that new chip factories to be put into production by 2028 will increase South Korea's monthly wafer capacity by approximately 600,000 wafers.

The U.S. Department of Defense stated that the restrictions on the artificial intelligence company Anthropic remain in effect, which is inconsistent with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo's earlier claim that the two sides had resolved their differences.Emil Michael, the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, posted on social media that Anthropic is still classified as a "supply chain risk" by the Department of Defense and the defense industrial base. Raimondo previously stated that Anthropic had resolved long-standing issues with the Trump administration and noted that the company's relationship with the government had improved.Anthropic had previously faced related restrictions due to government concerns that its models could be misused for capabilities such as cyberattacks.

According to a report by Reuters, Apple Inc. is facing a class-action lawsuit in London, with claims amounting to £2 billion (approximately $2.7 billion). The lawsuit was filed today in the London Competition Appeal Tribunal by Ann Pope, a former senior official of the UK's Competition and Markets Authority, representing app developers.The core allegation is that Apple's "App Tracking Transparency" (ATT) feature, launched in 2021, imposes stricter restrictions on third-party developers than on its own services, giving Apple's own advertising ecosystem an unfair competitive advantage. Ann Pope stated that Apple's policies "have caused very significant harm to businesses that rely on Apple as a gatekeeper."Since its launch, the ATT feature has been a focal point of concern for global regulators for several years. Apple's official stance is that the feature is designed to allow users to control whether to permit apps to track their activities across other companies and websites.However, the plaintiffs argue that the actual enforcement of this rule has a double standard—tracking requests from third-party apps require strict pop-up authorization, while Apple's own personalized ads and services can bypass the same restrictions. This lawsuit represents the latest legal challenge Apple faces regarding its ATT policy and is the first large-scale private antitrust lawsuit initiated in the UK market against Apple's app ecosystem rules following scrutiny from regulators in the EU, the US, and several other countries.

Google's Senior Director of Supply Chain Infrastructure, Nikhil Cherian, revealed that to overcome memory bottlenecks, Google is developing software and hardware solutions and dismantling retired servers to recycle DDR4 components to establish an internal recycling supply chain. Google has designed special hardware adapters to connect the previous generation DDR4 to the new generation of AI servers while importing retired servers to remove their DDR4 modules for recycling.Cherian stated that the AI industry has rapidly shifted from being compute-constrained to memory-constrained, with high-performance memory accounting for about 75% of the bill of materials cost for a given AI server. A Goldman Sachs report indicated that memory prices will continue to rise in the third quarter, with personal computer DRAM prices expected to increase by 18% to 23% and server DRAM prices expected to rise by 13% to 18%. Trendforce data shows that in August, the spot market prices for DDR4 8GB and DDR5 8GB rose to $142 and $133, respectively.The two TPU ASICs launched by Google this year have been optimized for memory design, claiming to reduce memory demand to one-sixth of the original. The TPU8i chip features a dedicated layered memory design that relies on a high-speed DDR5 memory architecture to perform host-level tasks, with each chip equipped with 288GB of HBM3e high-bandwidth memory.

According to CoinDesk, U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellen has reportedly urged Japan to raise interest rates to curb the continuous depreciation of the yen, highlighting how traditional monetary policy is susceptible to government and external factors.In contrast, Bitcoin's monetary policy is pre-set by code, with new coin issuance following a fixed rhythm and halving approximately every four years, providing higher predictability. However, Bitcoin still struggles to escape the impacts of traditional financial markets in the short term.If Japan's interest rate hike leads to a rapid appreciation of the yen, long-accumulated low-interest yen financing trades may be closed out, potentially triggering sell-offs in stocks, bonds, and crypto assets. In August 2024, the Bank of Japan's interest rate hike strengthened the yen and put pressure on risk assets, including Bitcoin.From a technical perspective, the BTC 50-day moving average is currently trending upward and is close to crossing above the 200-day moving average, which may form a "golden cross." However, analysts believe that moving averages have a lagging nature, and the historical predictive effectiveness of the golden cross as an independent indicator is not stable.

Bitget GetAgent Playbook officially launches the intelligent grid strategy. After users select the trading type, strategy style, and investment amount, the AI system automatically generates grid intervals, grid quantities, leverage, and take profit/stop loss parameters based on real-time market conditions.Unlike traditional single-coin grids, the intelligent grid can automatically rotate between multiple assets according to market conditions, reassessing the market every 4 hours and dynamically adjusting strategies, with risk checks executed every 15 minutes; if there are no suitable targets, the system will remain in cash.The GetAgent Playbook was launched in June this year. Bitget has covered AI-driven market analysis, strategy building, trade execution, and risk management through products like GetAgent, GetClaw, and Agent Hub. Data shows that over 1 million users have used AI trading through GetAgent and GetClaw, with a cumulative trading volume exceeding 1.2 billion dollars.

In August this year, China's leading AI chip companies released their semi-annual reports in quick succession. Last Friday, Biren Technology announced its financial report, achieving nearly 20 times revenue growth. Leading companies such as Cambricon and Moore Threads also saw significant revenue increases.Currently, the high-end computing power supply side is experiencing a tight situation across the entire chain, with some companies' orders already scheduled for three years later. The downstream intelligent computing centers are facing a shortage of resources, and the midstream system integration segment is also seeing a dense release of orders. According to industry research data, the demand for domestic AI chips in 2026 is expected to be around 4 million units, with actual deliveries around 3 million units, resulting in a capacity gap of over a million units.

Crypto KOL Ansem stated that he judged two weeks ago that the current market is still in a very early stage, and he maintains this view. Even if investors have not yet allocated relevant tokens, starting to pay attention to the market, formulating trading plans, and setting staggered buying prices now may still yield high returns.For tokens that have already entered the price discovery phase, Ansem believes that the current price is still close to the starting point of this breakout, and subsequent positions may not provide significantly better entry points than the current stage. Therefore, investors who have not yet taken positions should formulate plans in advance, rather than waiting to make decisions after market attention fully heats up.

In Solana's first binding on-chain governance vote, the SGP-0002 proposal aimed at accelerating the downward pace of SOL inflation passed with a support rate of 67%. This proposal, driven by the infrastructure service provider Helius, plans to increase the annual inflation adjustment rate of Solana from 15% to 30%, accelerating the network to reach a terminal inflation level of 1.5% and reducing the scale of new SOL issuance in the medium to long term.On the eve of the voting deadline, the proposal's support rate had not reached the two-thirds statutory threshold. Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz contacted major validator nodes and institutions in the final stages, and Kraken's validator node Kraken2 changed its voting position from opposition to support just before the deadline. Ultimately, the proposal received a support rate of 67%, with 25% opposed and 7.84% abstaining, and a staking participation rate of 60.7%, meeting the required number of voters. Mert Mumtaz stated that after hundreds of communications, the proposal gained crucial votes and passed in the final stages.

DWF Ventures released a report stating that as trading fees continue to approach zero, social trading is becoming a new direction for financial trading platforms to compete for users and build moats.The rise of social trading stems from users seeking validation from others and references for investment decisions. From early brokerage copy trading to investment communities like Reddit and Stocktwits, and now to platforms that combine real position verification, trading signals, and social relationships, social trading is evolving from a simple copy trading tool into a product form that integrates trading, content, and social interaction. As trade execution becomes increasingly homogenized, the future competitive advantage of platforms may come more from network effects, resources of well-known traders, and exclusive information and distribution capabilities.Analysis suggests that social trading platforms are forming a clear growth flywheel: platforms attract well-known traders and their fans, traders build reputations through public trading, fans amplify market influence by following trades, which in turn increases the visibility of traders and the user base of the platform. Public calls for trades may even generate a certain "self-fulfilling" effect in this process.Platforms also lower the entry barriers for users through one-click trading, low-threshold acceptance, trading competitions, and fee incentives, and leverage the social influence of top traders to facilitate user migration. In the future, the social trading ecosystem in the cryptocurrency and traditional stock sectors may further integrate, and platforms that master trader, user attention, and information flow are expected to form stronger network effects.However, social trading also faces significant structural risks. Data shows that among approximately 292,000 wallets analyzed by the Fomo platform over the past three months, only 6.16% achieved profitability based on realized gains. Followers lack independent investment logic and are easily influenced by herd behavior, while there may also be conflicts of interest between traders and followers.Furthermore, even if platforms can verify public positions, traders may still establish undisclosed positions through other wallets, making information asymmetry difficult to eliminate completely. Analysis suggests that as the boundaries between trading and entertainment continue to blur, platforms that can establish unique information layers, gather quality traders, and form network effects may gain an advantage in the competitive social trading market.

Google announced two new quality requirements for Android applications to address the industry memory chip shortage triggered by the AI data center boom. One focus is on reducing in-app memory usage and optimizing code. Google stated that the mobile industry is facing significant hardware supply constraints, which are changing the availability of device memory and, in turn, affecting user experience.To this end, Google has set new performance thresholds in areas such as dynamic memory usage and bitmap usage, and has increased code optimization requirements to prevent app stuttering and crashes. The company will launch new tools to alert developers to optimize when applications exceed the thresholds. More diagnostic tools will be released later this year, including a Memory Limiter feature that prevents applications from excessively occupying device memory.Developers must meet the new thresholds by February 2027. Additionally, all Play Store applications must comply with the Zero Tap Sign-In requirement by April 2027, which automatically restores user login status during device migration via the Android Restore Credentials API. These changes aim to help app and game developers continue to provide high-quality experiences in a market with limited memory supply, especially targeting price-sensitive low-end devices.

According to Nikkei Asia, SK Hynix CEO Kwak Noh-Jung stated that the global shortage of memory chips is expected to last until the end of 2030, with a low risk of oversupply. He pointed out that in the AI era, memory chips are no longer just "commodities," and there are currently no signs of oversupply or industry downturn; demand from AI customers remains strong.SK Hynix is a major supplier to NVIDIA. The report stated that the company remains open to further expanding its investments in the U.S. after launching its first HBM chip packaging plant in Indiana.