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According to Yahoo Finance, Zhihu announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary has entered into a subscription agreement with general partners and fund managers to subscribe for 1.5 billion RMB of limited partnership interests using its own funds.Following the completion of the subscription, Zhihu expects to hold no more than 30% of the fund's interests. The fund has a duration of 7 years (extendable for up to two additional years), with an investment period of 4 years, and will primarily invest in early to mid-stage non-listed companies in the fields of artificial intelligence and cutting-edge technology in mainland China, covering areas such as foundational models, AI infrastructure, robotics, and AI applications.

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.

BNB Chain Chief Growth Officer Nina Rong commented on "the debate between Arbitrum founder Steven Goldfeder and Solana co-founder Toly regarding the Robinhood Chain fee model": "Continuing to push Gas fees lower is no longer the highest priority for the blockchain industry. The real priority for all public chains today is to find sustainable business models and reinvest the profits into technology and growth. This business model can be based on Gas fees, revenue sharing, or other forms of business collaboration. Over the past five years, the impression of blockchain foundations has mostly been two things: one is issuing grants and making investments; the other is reducing Gas fees. If we want to continue for another five years, blockchain companies must have a solid business structure."

According to The Defiant, the dispute between AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron and Robinhood over tokenized AMC stock has escalated into a debate among tokenized stock issuers about which model should become the industry standard.Gabriel Otte, co-founder of Dinari, criticized Robinhood's synthetic tokens with Ondo as "worse for end investors than regular stocks," while Uniswap founder Hayden Adams compared it to early stablecoins, stating that it meets users' demands for programmability and 24/7 trading.Currently, three models are competing in the $2.91 billion tokenized stock market: Robinhood's stock tokens are debt securities issued by a Jersey entity, available only to non-U.S. persons; Ondo, xStocks, and Dinari hold the underlying stocks through regulated intermediaries and pass on economic benefits; Securitize and Superstate directly put company-registered stocks on-chain. The U.S. SEC's Division of Corporation Finance has legally defined the three models as of January 28. Data from rwa.xyz shows that the total scale of tokenized stocks reaches $2.91 billion, with a 14.4% growth over 30 days, and Ondo leads with $869.6 million.Securitize CEO Carlos Domingo also supports Aron's position, stating that he does not wish for others to create offshore derivatives of company stocks. Brian Huang, co-founder of Glider, believes that the trading venue is more important than the packaging format, as AMMs cannot guarantee users the best execution.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the Polymarket event "Manchester City vs Coventry," the "Over" option for the sub-market "Second Half O/U 0.5" experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 68% an hour ago to the current 88.5% (a fluctuation of 20.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

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.

Coinflip and its CEO Benjamin Weiss have been accused by the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) of violating the Uniform Money Services Act. The DFI seeks to revoke Coinflip's money transmission license, prohibit the company and its related personnel from continuing to operate, and impose a fine of $1,029,600.The DFI stated that an inspection in 2025 found that Coinflip had insufficient anti-money laundering controls, inadequate transaction monitoring, failure to enforce transaction limits, inaccurate regulatory reporting, and unclear fee disclosures. The agency also accused Coinflip of failing to timely refund at least 15 customers as required. The proposed order requires Coinflip to refund eligible customers in Washington State, with customers aged 60 and above eligible for refunds of transaction fees and markup fees. Coinflip and Benjamin Weiss may request an administrative hearing to contest the allegations, refund requirements, license revocation, fines, and industry bans.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng met with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development, and old friend Zhaslan Madiyev in Kazakhstan, stating that the local cryptocurrency industry is developing rapidly.It is reported that Zhaslan Madiyev served as the General Manager of Binance Kazakhstan from 2022 to 2024, and was appointed as the "Minister of Digital Development, Innovation and Aerospace Industry" starting in May 2024, and then promoted to "Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Development" in 2025 and 2026.

According to a report by the Financial Associated Press, the General Office of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued the "Entrepreneurship Support Plan for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in Artificial Intelligence (2026-2028)." Over three years, it aims to cultivate a large number of innovative and dynamic artificial intelligence startups with significant growth potential in key areas such as industry applications, data services, and intelligent computing power. More than 10,000 new technology and innovation-oriented small and medium-sized enterprises will be nurtured, with over 2,000 "specialized, refined, distinctive, and innovative" small giant enterprises emerging, along with a number of gazelle and unicorn companies.Focusing on the field of artificial intelligence, the plan will establish 10 high-standard technology enterprise incubators and 10 national public service demonstration platforms (bases) for small and medium-sized enterprises. It will also cultivate 10 national-level characteristic industrial clusters for small and medium-sized enterprises. The entrepreneurial and innovative vitality of small and medium-sized enterprises in artificial intelligence will continue to surge, and a preliminary pattern of high-quality development for small and medium-sized enterprises empowered by artificial intelligence will take shape.

The Ministry of Economic Affairs of Taiwan has confirmed that Taiwanese companies will invest an additional 20 billion USD in the United States. Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua stated that in response to order demands, in addition to the main production bases in Taiwan, capacity will also be increased in the United States, primarily focusing on semiconductor manufacturers, supply chains, and AI server manufacturers.U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo previously stated that Taiwan would announce investments of 20 to 30 billion USD in the U.S. next week. The Ministry of Economic Affairs responded that this investment is the 20 billion USD announced by Wang Mei-hua during the opening of the SEMICON TAIWAN 2026 U.S. Pavilion on the 2nd. Wang Mei-hua pointed out that global orders for AI and semiconductors are booming, and the global president of SEMI has raised the forecast for global semiconductor revenue in 2030 from 1 trillion USD to 2 trillion USD.The Ministry of Economic Affairs' review shows that as of May this year, 20 semiconductor and AI server-related companies have announced investments of 35 billion USD in the United States, with an additional 20 billion USD added in the following months. Future cooperation will also extend to industries such as biotechnology and natural gas.

According to DIGITIMES, at the Semicon Network Summit 2026, industry representatives pointed out that the bottleneck in the silicon photonics industry has shifted from materials to packaging precision and heterogeneous integration. Marvell's CTO stated that copper interconnects are nearing their physical limits, and end-to-end optical interconnects are inevitable.TNO/Holst Centre pointed out that the real challenge for CPO is integrating optical materials such as LiNbO3 and InP with the CMOS platform. TSIA indicated that the packaging stage now requires micron-level fiber alignment precision, and Taiwan has a globally leading advantage in the chip and packaging fields. TNO further noted that panel-level packaging is a key opportunity for Taiwan, leveraging large-size glass substrate processing experience to support the large-scale demand for optical interconnects in data centers, but there are still technical gaps in equipment such as Chip-to-Wafer bonding. Marvell stated that its reliance on the Taiwanese supply chain for silicon photonic chips is increasing.

According to Cointelegraph, participants in the crypto industry such as a16z, Grayscale, and the Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI) urged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to avoid implementing a one-size-fits-all restriction on "novel" exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and instead assess them based on individual risk parameters. Three comment letters were submitted on August 31, just as the SEC's 60-day window for public comments on the regulation of new ETFs was nearing its end. The SEC launched this consultation on June 30, seeking opinions on whether existing regulations are sufficient, how such funds should be regulated, and whether the registration process needs adjustments.a16z believes that crypto-based ETPs have now benefited from more mature market infrastructure, including exchange-approved listing standards and established disclosure requirements, and therefore should not be grouped with products that hold private assets or adopt other novel strategies. Grayscale similarly argues that digital asset products with mature compliance and disclosure records should not face new portfolio conditions or disclosure regimes simply because they are classified as "novel." CCI called for comparable regulatory efficiency between ETFs and non-ETF ETPs while retaining existing investor protection measures.There is widespread opposition to potential regulatory adjustments that could impose additional requirements or delay product launches, but there are differences in classification, approval processes, and terminology. The dispute over the ETF label is particularly pronounced: a16z proposed that the term ETF be used only for funds under the Investment Company Act of 1940, while Grayscale believes that ETFs should describe economic characteristics rather than legal shells.

U.S. President Trump: I am not trying to force Iran back to the negotiating table as ABC fake news reported. I don't care whether they sign an agreement that is worthless to them.I prefer our current situation: we have almost complete control of the Strait of Hormuz, while their economy has completely collapsed. They are just going through this inevitable outcome.

According to market news, Binance founder Zhao Changpeng recently attended the Bitcoin Asia Conference 2026 in Hong Kong, and in an exclusive interview, he discussed his autobiography "Binance Life," his experiences in prison, and Binance's $4.3 billion fine.He revealed that most of the initial draft of the autobiography was completed while he was in prison, constrained by the conditions of using a computer for only 15 minutes at a time and being unable to copy and paste, so he could only write during fragmented moments.

According to Arkham blockchain data, wallets associated with the North Korean state-sponsored hacking organization Lazarus Group have sold over $30 million in Bitcoin on the decentralized perpetual contract trading platform Hyperliquid in the past three weeks, using the proceeds to purchase Ethereum and Solana, which were then transferred to centralized exchanges such as Kraken, LBank, and KuCoin. Kraken responded that it maintains an industry-leading compliance program, continuously monitoring on-chain activities to identify and block assets related to sanctioned wallets; LBank and KuCoin stated that the associated risks are a continuing challenge faced by the industry as a whole and emphasized that publicly available on-chain data may not reflect compliance measures at the platform level.At this time, the Trump administration is exploring ways to incorporate Hyperliquid into the regulated U.S. financial system. Trump stated earlier this month at a White House event that the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Mike Selig, is developing a path to bring Hyperliquid into the U.S. in a fully compliant and legal manner. According to Bloomberg, Kraken's parent company Payward is in deep negotiations with Hyperliquid Labs to offer perpetual contracts to U.S. traders.Hyperliquid is the leading platform in the decentralized perpetual contract space, allowing users to trade directly from their crypto wallets without the need for traditional brokerage accounts or KYC checks. According to DefiLlama data, its cumulative perpetual contract trading volume has exceeded $5 trillion, with current open contracts of approximately $13.3 billion.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China has launched a special action to cultivate artificial intelligence application service providers, encouraging various regions to increase the procurement of large models, intelligent agents, and Token services through first purchase and first use, risk compensation, and other methods, while using tools such as "computing power vouchers" to reduce computing power costs.The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will also establish a national resource pool for AI application service providers, aiming to exceed 2,000 by the end of 2026 and no less than 3,000 by the end of 2027. These service providers mainly help enterprises implement AI projects, with services ranging from early consulting, program design, to system development, integration delivery, and then to subsequent operation and maintenance and security governance.This policy also specifically names FDE. The Ministry encourages service providers to form FDE teams to directly address project implementation issues on-site with users. Various regions are also required to open real business scenarios, organize supply and demand matching, and turn high-frequency, essential business needs into standardized AI products that can be delivered repeatedly.

The Ministry of Commerce and six other departments issued implementation opinions on promoting the expansion and upgrading of commodity consumption. The opinions point out the need to strengthen the research and development of key technologies and core components, and to expand the application of technologies such as brain-computer integration and artificial intelligence in fields like elder-friendly products and rehabilitation aids.Increase the promotion of high-quality products in the "Promotion Catalog of Elderly Products," and promote products such as exoskeleton robots, electric wheelchairs, smart mattresses, and equipment for health monitoring, incontinence care, transfer, and bathing into elderly households. Explore the establishment of a certification system for silver-haired products. Encourage commercial circulation enterprises to set up sales areas for elder-friendly products, and promote elder-friendly products into supermarkets, hotels, communities, hospitals, pharmacies, and elderly care institutions.