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According to informed sources, the crypto media company Cointelegraph is seeking to sell, but the amount it is looking for has not been disclosed. The source requested anonymity due to the private nature of the matter. The long-term sluggish and sideways movement of crypto prices has shifted user attention away from crypto news, adversely affecting several digital asset news organizations.Cointelegraph's traffic has been severely impacted by Google. After Google issued a manual penalty in October 2025, the crypto news website's organic traffic dropped by about 80%, and the site disappeared from Google search results. Previously, in June 2025, its website also suffered a front-end vulnerability attack. Data from Similarweb shows that the site had over 12 million monthly visits in December 2024, while as of September 1, the monthly visits were just slightly above 700,000.Cointelegraph was founded in 2013, and its LinkedIn page shows that it has over 200 employees. The company's MENA business was acquired by Luna Media Corporation in July 2022 to support its global and regional expansion. Cointelegraph did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

According to foreign media reports, only nine cargo ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, with eight of them leaving the waterway. The total number on Thursday further declined, dropping from double digits to single digits, with a 10-day average navigation volume of 18. Shipowners and energy exporters are becoming increasingly cautious about navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.

Recently, the meme coin market has been booming, and on-chain trading has become increasingly active. However, with the warming market, meme coin display pages have frequently shown highly disguised phishing links, and the "novel" attack methods have caused several seasoned traders to fall victim. Crypto KOLs @insidecalls and @cladzsol recently revealed that while scanning chains, they clicked on the meme coin homepage, which resulted in a "cloudfare verification" prompt. After completing the verification as instructed, the victim's on-chain funds were stolen. Among them, @cladzsol lost approximately $600,000 in assets.According to market news, on several recently popular meme coin display pages, the homepage redirects to a "cloudfare verification" page, which is actually a phishing link. If users follow the prompts, their computer systems will download and execute malicious scripts, leading to asset loss. This phenomenon is so rampant that it may be related to the delayed review processes of mainstream trading aggregation platforms like DexScreener. Currently, the display logic of relevant platforms is to directly reference the "official website" or social media links filled in the token metadata. These fields can be updated by token creators or those who later claim "community takeover." Hackers are exploiting this review loophole to transform meme coin display pages into new "fishing grounds" for phishing attacks. Users may inevitably click on unfamiliar links during the chain scanning process; if a "cloudfare verification" or other highly suspicious page appears, they should close it immediately to avoid interaction and protect their asset security.

After the Saudi East-West oil pipeline was attacked, it was temporarily closed, and the number of vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz dropped to 7 on Thursday. Iraq confirmed that the drone attack on Saudi Arabia originated from its territory, and Saudi Arabia has temporarily refrained from retaliatory actions at Iraq's request.

ARK Invest researcher Lorenzo Valente stated that after analyzing the contract-level data of Robinhood Chain, he believes that most of the trading activity on the chain may not be contributed by the newly introduced crypto users from Robinhood.Valente noted that the only wallet activity that can be clearly confirmed as coming from Robinhood users is the Swap transactions conducted by Robinhood Wallet through the 0x Settler contract, but this portion of transactions accounts for less than 1%; even if some unidentifiable long-tail transactions are included, the proportion of transactions related to Robinhood users may only be about 5%. The remaining trading activities mainly come from trading terminals like GMGN and OKX, which are basically consistent with the Degen trading behavior of these platforms on other public chains.Valente concluded that the current situation presented by Robinhood Chain resembles "the same group of Degen, just on a new chain." Robinhood Chain itself is an open, permissionless Layer 2 network, and any EVM-compatible wallets and applications can connect, so on-chain trading activity does not necessarily equate to new users from Robinhood.

According to Cointelegraph, the U.S. website traffic for the prediction market platform Kalshi has increased by over 1500% in the past year. Data from Similarweb shows that in July, traffic from the U.S. reached 15.4 million visits, a growth of about 1520% compared to less than 1 million visits in August 2025, with U.S. traffic accounting for nearly 80% of its total traffic. Meanwhile, Kalshi's nominal monthly trading volume in August reached approximately $40 billion, a growth of about 4500% compared to $874 million a year ago.The nominal monthly trading volume for the entire prediction market industry increased from about $2 billion to $50.7 billion during the same period, with Kalshi accounting for nearly 79%. According to Barron's, sports contracts accounted for 83% of Kalshi's trading volume in July. Kalshi is currently facing increasing legal challenges, with New Jersey having submitted the dispute to the U.S. Supreme Court, and Michigan authorities continuing to seek to block its operations.In terms of restricted jurisdictions, Canada brought about 450,000 visits to the Kalshi website in July, a significant increase from about 50,000 in August 2025; traffic from the UK also rose from 31,000 to 296,000. Although both countries are regions where Kalshi's membership agreement prohibits direct access or trading, Kalshi partnered with Canadian financial services company Wealthsimple in June to provide access to nearly 4,000 eligible contracts through a standalone application.

The Irish National Police (An Garda Síochána) reported that during a special operation against organized crime in the Galway area, police searched two properties and froze two cryptocurrency accounts worth approximately $900,000 in total. In addition, the police also froze a bank account containing €25,000 (approximately $29,100), and seized €9,300 in cash and drugs valued at approximately €18,300 (including amphetamines and cannabis).A man in his 40s involved in the case has been arrested and charged, and the investigation is ongoing.

OpenCode CEO Jay V stated that after the launch of DeepSeek V4 Flash on August 1, the daily Token consumption on OpenCode surged from about 3 trillion to 18 trillion, a sixfold increase within two weeks, approaching the daily processing volume of the entire OpenRouter platform. Its pricing is about 1/350 of Fable, 1/175 of GPT-5.6 Sol, and 1/70 of Claude Sonnet, and it is regarded by users as "AI so cheap it doesn't need to be measured."After raising peak hour prices by 5 times (and 2.5 times during off-peak hours) on August 16, the model's daily Token consumption fell by over 50% from its peak. Jay V believes that the price increase is a passive response to rising GPU costs. Currently, OpenCode is looking for suppliers who can handle traffic at original prices, requiring about 1,000 B300 units to support current demand. DeepSeek Flash has exposed the "impossible triangle" of the AI model market—cheap, powerful, and large-scale stable supply are difficult to achieve simultaneously. After the price increase, OpenCode Go reduced its quota from $60 to $15 and then restored it to $30, introducing a peak and off-peak rate mechanism.

The Shanghai Intermediate People's Court has published typical cases, analyzing whether "traffic personnel" involved in telecommunications network fraud related to virtual currencies constitute accomplices in fraud. From February 2022 to April 2023, the defendants, for the purpose of profit, assisted upstream fraudulent activities by "draining traffic," using online virtual phone software to lure victims into related scam groups, ultimately causing 30 victims to be defrauded of more than 2.34 million yuan (the same currency hereafter) by an overseas fraudulent organization. The overseas fraudulent organization transferred funds into the suspects' trading accounts via virtual currency.The Shanghai First Intermediate People's Court pointed out that in telecommunications network fraud cases, "traffic personnel" may constitute accomplices in fraud or illegal use of information networks depending on specific circumstances. The key lies in determining whether they have formed a clear criminal intent connection with the upstream fraudulent organization and whether there is stable cooperation and division of labor. In judicial practice, when assessing the criminal responsibility of "traffic personnel," factors such as their role in the criminal chain, the degree of organizational management, connections with upstream criminals, methods of profit, and abnormal behavior should be comprehensively considered. Actions that only provide general online services and do not form a conspiracy to commit fraud should be distinguished from "draining" actions that knowingly participate in the implementation of fraud.

The GitHub official status page shows that the platform is currently experiencing service disruptions, with multiple core functionalities experiencing decreased availability.According to the latest announcement, the error rate for GitHub's web interface and API requests reached about 20%, while the error rate for repository archive downloads and raw repository content downloads was around 50%. Additionally, SAML and OIDC authentication, SCIM, and Team Sync functionalities are also affected.Currently affected services include: decreased performance of Pull Requests; decreased performance of Issues; decreased performance of Actions; decreased performance of Webhooks; anomalies in API Requests; decreased availability of GitHub Copilot.GitHub stated that the team is continuously investigating the root cause of this incident and will provide further updates once more information is available.As of now, GitHub has not disclosed the specific cause of the outage, nor has it indicated whether it involves a security incident. This service disruption may affect developers and enterprise users who rely on GitHub for code hosting, continuous integration and deployment, and AI-assisted development.

Data from shipping intelligence company Kpler shows that due to tanker attacks and stalled US-Iran negotiations, the traffic of vessels in the Strait of Hormuz significantly decreased over the past weekend.On Saturday, 5 bulk commodity carriers passed through, while no vessels passed on Sunday, a significant decrease compared to 31 vessels the previous weekend.

According to the Iranian Fars News Agency, informed sources revealed that the northern and southern channels of the Strait of Hormuz will be canceled, and all traffic will subsequently be transferred to the Central Corridor, managed by Iran at the entrance and jointly managed by Iran and Oman at the exit.

According to data monitored by Catcher Predict, significant capital movements are predicted on the Polymarket platform. A large whale invested $50,411.42 in a single transaction regarding the event "Traffic in the Strait of Hormuz Returns to Normal" on "August 31." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this subject is 85%.

Founder of 1confirmation, Nick Tomaino, disclosed data indicating that in the past month, the Polymarket website received 43.1 million visits (according to Similarweb data), surpassing the combined total of FanDuel, DraftKings, and Kalshi, and has become one of the most visited fintech applications globally.Nick Tomaino believes that the core reason for Polymarket's growth is not marketing investment, but rather its value as a "source of information," as users seek to better understand the real world through prediction markets.Polymarket currently dominates the on-chain prediction market space, with the transparency and global accessibility provided by its on-chain architecture being key to achieving the long-term goal of "better information and more truth." However, the Polymarket application in the U.S. is still in its early stages, but the product and business model are gradually maturing and beginning to enter an accelerated execution phase.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, significant capital movements are predicted in the Polymarket market. A large whale sold $59,962.1 in a single transaction regarding the event "Traffic in the Strait of Hormuz Returns to Normal" on "August 31." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning rate for this subject is 80.71%.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the event "Traffic Restoration Time in the Strait of Hormuz" is currently among the top trading activities on the prediction market Polymarket, with a total pool size reaching $7.7254 million. The option with the highest market consensus is "August 31," corresponding to a winning probability of approximately 13.5%.

According to the Korea Herald, in order to combat drug trafficking using virtual assets, the South Korean police have established a specialized virtual asset tracking and investigation team consisting of 41 members, and have intensified investigations into drug sales networks on platforms such as Telegram since August 3.In the first half of this year, South Korea conducted large-scale crackdowns from March to June, arresting a total of 5,203 drug offenders and detaining 1,039 individuals; compared to the same period last year, the number of arrests increased by 94 (an increase of 1.8%), and the number of detentions increased by 75 (an increase of 7.8%).

According to Jinshi reports, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating the hanging failure of 1.2 million Tesla (TSLA.O) vehicles.

The Brazilian Federal Police are cracking down on a drug trafficking gang that has been laundering money through cryptocurrency in Operation Commodity. Since 2021, the gang has smuggled over 6.5 tons of cocaine to Europe via the Port of Rio de Janeiro, with the drugs hidden in shipments of coffee, cement, and mortar.The operation covered São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina, and Espírito Santo, with police executing 13 preventive arrests and 44 search and seizure warrants. The court ordered the seizure of assets and the freezing of up to 1 billion reais, approximately 196 million dollars. Police stated that the gang is linked to Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and Comando Vermelho (CV), and laundered money through a luxury car dealership and shell companies in the Greater São Paulo area, with the dealership selling vehicles such as Ferrari, Porsche, Corvette, and Land Rover.The individuals involved used shell companies to issue invoices lacking supporting documents, bringing drug trafficking proceeds into the Brazilian financial system and using cryptocurrency to conceal transactions. The suspects will be held accountable for charges including transnational organized crime, international drug trafficking, and money laundering.

On-chain detective ZachXBT stated that during the migration from the traditional private messaging system to XChat, the X platform encountered multiple technical bugs. At the same time, the reliability of the platform's search function declined, affecting information retrieval efficiency. More importantly, the X platform's algorithm has a "traffic bottleneck" for cryptocurrency content, making it easier for content to be restricted within the cryptocurrency vertical, thereby reducing the ability to reach a broader audience.