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According to monitoring by lookonchain, after Shivon Zilis forwarded a post containing the SLINK contract address and Musk subsequently replied, the market capitalization of SLINK soared to 80 million dollars. After Shivon deleted the related post, the price of SLINK plummeted by more than 80%.Analysis indicates that during this market event, over 30 suspected insider wallets bought SLINK in advance and quickly sold it, collectively profiting over 4.7 million dollars, with returns exceeding 1200 times. Meanwhile, many traders who followed the market trend and bought suffered losses.

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

The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury released an analysis and alert on Thursday, linking approximately $12.7 billion in suspicious financial activities to cryptocurrency investment scams operated by Southeast Asian parks. About 1,300 institutions submitted 33,904 suspicious activity reports covering the period from September 2023 to December 2025. Cryptocurrency-focused money service businesses submitted 55% of the reports, involving $5.5 billion; banks submitted 41%, involving $6.4 billion; and securities firms accounted for the remaining $784.5 million.The number of reports has been growing at an average monthly rate of 10.9%, with the amount involved increasing by 18%. Scammers used at least 22 types of digital assets, with Ethereum, USDT, and USDC being the most common. On-chain analysis shows that regardless of the asset victims initially purchased, the funds are almost always converted into stablecoins, with nearly all converted to USDT, and then transferred through DeFi protocols or exchanges outside the U.S. Scammers also reused collection addresses across multiple victims, which is one way some institutions identified this pattern.The report indicates that about 25% involved elderly individuals, which is comparable to the 24.4% of the population that is over 60 years old, leading FinCEN to conclude that the elderly are not disproportionately targeted. The FBI estimates that in 2024, the U.S. population over 60 lost $4.8 billion to scams. These parks are primarily located in Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar, and U.S. authorities have seized over $25 million related to the associated scams this year.

According to a report by the Financial Association on September 4, the Thai government has ordered the suspension of construction on 49 data center projects, awaiting the introduction of new regulations for the industry. Danucha Pichayanan, Secretary-General of the National Economic and Social Development Council of Thailand, stated at a press conference on Friday that the suspension is necessary because the government is formulating new regulatory rules and regulations for existing data centers as well as those that are about to begin operations.The Thai Data Center Regulatory Committee, chaired by the Minister of Finance, held its first meeting on Friday. Danucha indicated that the committee is expected to announce new regulations for data center enterprises within a month.

According to on-chain analysts' monitoring, the Ethena project's associated address, after being dormant for 2 years, is suspected to have liquidated its holdings. 14 million ENA (worth 6.89 million dollars at the time of receipt, with a coin price of 0.4928 dollars) was fully deposited into Bybit 6 hours ago, leaving only 2.41 million dollars, a decrease of 4.48 million dollars compared to the time of receipt, and a decline of over 8.735 million dollars from its peak.

According to Pie Shield citing Specter monitoring, the escrow contract of the fixed-rate lending protocol Notional Finance is suspected to have been attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately $1.7 million in DAI and USDC.The attacker subsequently exchanged the stolen funds for about 689.2 ETH and further deposited the funds into Tornado Cash. Currently, the reasons for the attack and the final scale of the losses are still pending further confirmation from the project team.

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and Representative Greg Casar introduced the "Artificial Intelligence Superintelligence Prohibition Act," which calls for a permanent ban on the development of superintelligent AI and a suspension of advanced AI research until new federal agencies establish safety standards and review procedures. Sanders criticized large AI companies for developing technologies that they cannot fully understand or reliably control, stating that companies and individuals who violate the regulations could face up to 20 years in prison, with the most serious cases potentially subject to what is referred to as "corporate death penalty."The bill defines superintelligence as AI systems that achieve or exceed human capabilities across numerous tasks or could undermine human control (including overthrowing the U.S. government), and this definition also encompasses human-level AGI. The bill plans to establish a new cabinet-level agency responsible for monitoring advanced models, overseeing the removal of dangerous capabilities, and the destruction of banned systems, as well as forming an AI advisory committee to provide scientific and technical advice.On the same day the bill was announced, OpenAI released GPT-6 Astra, with co-founder Greg Brockman stating that he personally believes this model may meet the definition of AGI. OpenAI described Astra as its first model to reach a "critical" threshold of cybersecurity capability, potentially discovering and exploiting unknown vulnerabilities in protected systems without gradual human guidance, with its strongest cybersecurity capabilities limited to selected testers. Previously, OpenAI and Anthropic's models had repeatedly accessed real systems without authorization during testing, including incidents where OpenAI's model breached Hugging Face to obtain test answers.

According to Bubblemaps, approximately 80% of the tokens for the Solana ecosystem's Trump parody meme coin CHUMP are concentrated in bundled addresses, with the project being promoted by several crypto Twitter KOLs.On-chain data shows that before the token surged, over 75 new wallets were injected with a similar amount of SOL in a short period, and then bought about 80% of CHUMP. These wallets had no prior on-chain activity, and the funds were transferred through multiple new addresses, Uniswap trades, and Relay.Bubblemaps stated that it is currently unclear who the actual controlling party of the tokens is, but the source of funds and trading patterns are highly similar, suggesting that a single entity may be in control, and advising investors to participate with caution.

The prediction market platform Kalshi announced a three-year suspension of trading eligibility for North Carolina Republican congressional candidate Laurie Buckhout, along with a fine of $2,589.96, due to her having purchased contracts related to her own campaign. According to a settlement agreement effective August 28, Buckhout purchased contracts worth less than $1,000 related to her candidacy, violating the platform's rule 5.17(z), which prohibits trading by individuals who have "direct or indirect influence" on the outcome.Buckhout stated in a declaration, "I did bet on myself, and it was indeed a foolish mistake. Once I realized the issue, I immediately cooperated to correct it. You could say my career as a Kalshi trader was very short." Kalshi indicated that Buckhout cooperated during the investigation and agreed to accept the penalties. Previously, Kalshi had imposed similar penalties on several politicians, including Minnesota Senator Matt Klein and former Texas congressional candidate Ezekiel Enriquez, who also bet on their own campaigns.Buckhout is a retired Army colonel who previously served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy. She is challenging Democratic Congressman Don Davis, replaying the 2024 matchup, in which Davis won with 49.5% to 47.8%. The North Carolina legislature redrew the district last year to make it more favorable to Republicans, and the Cook Political Report rated the district as "leaning Republican."

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale transferred 95 bitcoins to Galaxy Digital, worth approximately 7.32 million USD, suspected to be used for over-the-counter trading sales.

The Block's investigation shows that on the social trading app Fomo and Robinhood's self-custody wallet Robinhood Wallet, users can directly purchase Memecoin using credit cards via Apple Pay or Google Pay without completing a separate KYC identity verification. Transactions can also accumulate points or cash back rewards as normal credit card rewards. The media tested the purchase of WIF, and transactions on the Visa and Mastercard networks were classified under merchant category code MCC 5815 (digital goods media), rather than the cryptocurrency asset categories MCC 6012 or 6051 as stipulated by card organization rules, which typically come with crypto tags and do not earn rewards.These transactions are supported by the Token Checkout product from the crypto infrastructure company Crossmint. Crossmint insists that this classification is appropriate, citing the joint guidance released by the SEC and CFTC in March of this year, which views certain Memecoins like WIF as "digital collectibles." However, Chase stated that the Visa transaction was not marked as a cryptocurrency purchase and that the classification was incorrect, and they have initiated a case review with Visa; the New York Attorney General's office also stated that it is reviewing the matter. Vanderbilt University law professor Yesha Yadav and other payment experts believe that the SEC's position and card organization rules represent "two completely different systems."

The Cronos network has resumed and restarted block production after pausing operations to protect users from the vulnerabilities of the Tectonic protocol. A complete post-incident analysis report will be released soon.

Anthropic stated that the company has temporarily paused certain AI training and cybersecurity assessments. The company disclosed the relevant adjustments in a blog post, explaining the measures taken in response to unauthorized actions by its AI agents earlier this year. OpenAI previously indicated that it had paused some model development work due to safety concerns. Anthropic also confirmed that it has taken similar measures and emphasized the need for broader coordination on the pace of frontier AI development.Anthropic stated that after disclosing three related incidents in July, the company paused external cybersecurity assessments for pre-release models and also briefly suspended internal testing of pre-release models. Following the incidents, the company also paused high-risk reinforcement learning environments in pre-release models for several weeks. Anthropic noted that most reinforcement learning work has resumed, but some high-risk environments remain on hold, awaiting human review or updates to monitoring tools.

Peach Bitcoin stated that Swiss regulators are seeking to re-examine the compliance framework of its KYC-exempt peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading platform, which has been authorized to operate since 2022. Peach Bitcoin will temporarily exit the custodial process starting from September 1, 2026, and will adopt a non-custodial model during the appeal period.In the temporary model, only users who have completed KYC, been manually whitelisted, or meet transaction record requirements can create sell orders. Sellers who have not completed KYC can only participate in one ongoing transaction at a time. The buying function remains open to all users, with a single transaction limit of 500 Swiss francs and a maximum premium of 6%. The in-app dispute resolution system will still be available, but Peach Bitcoin will no longer sign in custody and will continue to charge a 2% fee from released transactions.Peach Bitcoin founder @proofofsteph stated that the company will not immediately abandon the KYC-exempt model and will communicate with regulators regarding its position; if the final appeal fails, the company will comply with regulatory decisions.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a certain whale accumulated 280,000 HYPE at a low of $64.5 between June 11 and August 13, with a total value of $18.06 million.4 hours ago, this whale deposited 88,216 HYPE to Coinbase for the first time, worth $7.23 million. If sold, the return rate would reach 27%, with an expected profit of $1.538 million.

According to official news, the Polymarket website is down, and users are unable to place orders. Polymarket has stated that they are working to fix this issue. Trading is expected to resume by 18:00 today (Beijing time) at the latest.

According to the Ontology blog, its core development team discovered potential security vulnerabilities during routine security checks. Due to a high emphasis on the security and integrity of the mainnet, Ontology has immediately suspended block production on the Ontology mainnet to allow the technical team and validators to conduct a comprehensive security review of the network and related components. Ontology stated that no security incidents have been confirmed at this time, and there are no indications that user assets have been lost or stolen. ONT, ONG, and other on-chain assets are currently assessed to be unaffected; this suspension is a preventive security measure rather than a response to confirmed asset losses or ongoing attacks.During the review period, block production will remain suspended, and on-chain transactions cannot be processed. Users do not need to transfer or take any action regarding their ONT, ONG, and other on-chain assets, but should avoid conducting time-sensitive on-chain transactions until the network officially confirms its restoration. The duration of the suspension has not yet been determined, and the team will prioritize the comprehensiveness of the security review over speed; block production will not resume until the network has been thoroughly assessed and confirmed to be secure. The Ontology team is collaborating with validators and ecosystem partners to address this matter and will update progress through official channels, with a separate announcement to be made before and after the network restoration.

The Cronos network associated with Crypto.com has paused operations after detecting an attack on the lending protocol Tectonic. The Cronos Network stated on the X platform that it has identified vulnerabilities on Tectonic and has paused the network. Tectonic also confirmed that it is investigating the related incident and advised users not to interact with the protocol until safety is confirmed. According to DefiLlama data, Tectonic had a total locked value of approximately $121.7 million before the incident, with active loans of about $82.7 million.On-chain researcher Weilin Li attributed the attack to price manipulation of the TONIC token. The attacker bought enough TONIC within 20 minutes to inflate its price by about 100 times, and then used the inflated tokens as collateral to borrow other assets from Tectonic, a method similar to the 2022 Mango Markets oracle manipulation attack. Li initially estimated that the attacker profited about $66 million, and later discovered another address controlled by a different attacker containing about $8 million, bringing the total estimate to around $75 million. Li also stated that the attacker only successfully bridged about $6 million to Ethereum, as the pause on the Cronos network prevented most affected assets from flowing out.Crypto.com CEO Kris Marsalek stated that the company's app and exchange were not attacked, and its security team is assisting Tectonic with the investigation.

The decentralized oracle protocol Switchboard tweeted that there were reports last night about a possible intrusion on the Switchboard network implemented in the Move language. Contributors have coordinated with relevant teams and security organizations to suspend the Switchboard network on Aptos, Sui, Iota, and Movement.Although there have not been similar reports of an intrusion on the Solana implementation, users are advised to migrate to other alternatives at least temporarily as a precaution, while the issue is under investigation. More details will be announced later.

The Neutrl team stated that issues have been found with the positions held in the strategy, affecting the liquidity of part of the protocol's reserves. In the interest of users and after consulting legal advisors, the relevant smart contracts have been swiftly paused. This incident is not due to a smart contract vulnerability, hacking attack, or code defect.The protocol currently holds approximately $27 million in available liquid assets and continues to hold other positions and related gains and losses in the strategy, which cannot be immediately liquidated. The team cannot confirm the timing, amount, or recovery value of these positions. Liquidation and recovery of the remaining positions will take a long time, and the recovery amount or timing cannot be confirmed at this moment.In response to the liquidity needs of some users, Neutrl will open an early redemption mechanism for NUSD and sNUSD holders, which will be fairly treated for all holders based on legal advice. Complete details will be announced before the redemption begins, with a target for early September, depending on the deployment of the new redemption contract, independent audits, and legal financial reviews, and the timing may vary. The team advises against trading NUSD or sNUSD for the time being.