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Binance announced that to accommodate its partner brokerages' system upgrades, Binance US stock trading will be temporarily unavailable from 18:50 to 22:00 (UTC+8) on September 5, 2026. During this period, users will be unable to place stock trading orders. Stock trading services will automatically resume upon completion of the upgrade. Binance advises that the downtime may conclude earlier than scheduled or be extended, and recommends that users plan their trading activities accordingly.
Odaily News Lighter team released the project's August data summary. In August, Lighter's open interest (OI) exceeded $1 billion, with trading volume reaching approximately $39.5 billion, and its global market share in perpetual contract trading volume continued to rise month-over-month. The independent trading platform built by Robinhood in partnership with Lighter also achieved significant growth in August, with total trading volume reaching approximately $5 billion and total accounts surpassing 21,000, generating approximately $500,000 in total trading fees for the month. Additionally, Lighter repurchased a total of 927,800 LIT tokens in August.According to OKX market data, Lighter is currently trading at 4.42 USDT, up over 15.16% in the past 24 hours.
Odaily News: According to the official announcement, Bitget stock contracts have been listed for GPRO (GoPro). These contracts are settled in USDT, supporting up to 20x leverage and 7×24-hour trading. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 304 stock perpetual contract instruments.
Binance Wallet stated that Binance Alpha 2.0 will support the contract swap of TAC (TAC) on BNB Smart Chain (BEP20). Trading of TAC will be temporarily suspended from 02:00 (UTC) on September 4, 2026, for a 1:1 contract swap. TAC trading is expected to resume at 08:00 (UTC) on September 4, 2026.
According to information provided, the PolyFlow App supports assets such as USD, USDT, and USDC, with stablecoin deposits and withdrawals covering multiple networks including BSC, Ethereum, Tron, and Solana; users can perform in-platform transfers via their PolyFlow UID or registered phone number. Additionally, the PolyFlow Card has been integrated into the app for global spending scenarios supported by the Visa network.
Bitcoin News posted on X platform stating that the IMF said El Salvador's Bitcoin accumulation since the first project review in June 2025 has been fully funded by private donations, without utilizing public resources. The Salvadoran government is not expected to continue accumulating Bitcoin in the future, except for recorded donations. This disclosure comes as IMF staff have reached an agreement with El Salvador on the latest project review, which could unlock an additional $140 million in financing.
According to Cointelegraph, Strategy has raised $20.9 billion through equity offerings this year to fund its Bitcoin accumulation strategy, making it the fourth-largest U.S. equity issuer of the year.
Coinbase Markets stated that the Story token will be renamed from Story (IP) to Data (DATA), and Coinbase will support the related migration from October 5 to 7, 2026. Prior to the migration, trading for Story (IP) will be suspended on October 5, while send and receive functions will be temporarily disabled from October 5 to 7. User-held Story (IP) will be converted to Data (DATA) at a 1:1 ratio, with no conversion transaction fees charged. Trading for Data (DATA) will open upon completion of the migration on October 7.
Odaily Odaily News predict.fun has launched a Shein daily trading prediction market, with the probability of a stock price increase on September 4 provisionally reported at 52%.Shein is currently listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, becoming the largest fashion brand IPO in Hong Kong in 2026, raising approximately HK$13.2 billion in total. Data shows that Shein's revenue last year reached $41.8 billion, comparable to the revenue of Zara's parent company Inditex during the same period, and approximately twice that of Uniqlo's parent company Fast Retailing.
NVIDIA announced the acquisition of Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, while OpenAI released the GPT-6 Astra model and claimed to be close to AGI. The Tesla Cybercab officially entered service, and Samsung and Texas Instruments are simultaneously expanding chip production and raising prices.
: OpenAI began rolling out its new flagship model, GPT-6 Astra, on Thursday, stating that it has made significant progress in commercial tasks such as financial modeling and engineering design. The model is initially available only to select institutions, including organizations participating in OpenAI's Daybreak Access cybersecurity program, and will later be rolled out to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as users via the API and Amazon Web Services. OpenAI stated that GPT-6 Astra has achieved notable improvements in computer operations, software programming, and professional work, and has reached top-tier performance on the FrontierMath Tier 1 mathematics benchmark, the ARC-AGI 3 reasoning test, and the ExploitBench cybersecurity test. Greg Brockman, co-founder and president of OpenAI, said that the timeline for achieving artificial general intelligence (AGI) has always been somewhat ambiguous, but "looking back a few years from now," this milestone "may fall precisely within this period, right around this model." GPT-6 Astra is priced at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, which is 2.5 times the price of the previous flagship model, GPT-5.6 Sol. OpenAI stated that the AI industry may shift toward charging per task rather than per token in the future. Brockman said at the launch event: "Welcome to the age of AGI." (Jin Shi)
OpenAI officially released the GPT-6 Astra model and claimed it is nearing AGI. Overnight, markets reassessed the probability of a Federal Reserve rate hike in September at 50%, spot gold briefly surged past $4,500, and the IPO review status of Yangtze Memory Technologies Corp. changed to awaiting regulatory inquiry.
Odaily News The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published responses to its request for comments on "Novel ETFs," funds that may hold crypto assets or employ unconventional strategies. The divergence in opinions centers on whether filing documents should remain public before the fund begins trading, and how fast the review process should be.Crypto asset manager Grayscale and the crypto policy organization Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI) support an optional confidential filing period to reduce the likelihood of competitors submitting imitation filings. Charles Schwab opposes full confidentiality and suggests disclosing filings at least 75 days before a fund launches.Grayscale requests the SEC to respond within 45 days, while CCI argues that the confidential process should not extend the automatic effectiveness or review deadlines. Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (A16z) supports shortening the review timeline but emphasizes that the rigor of the review should not be reduced. Trading firm Jane Street, however, contends that accelerating the process could lead to lower product quality, competitiveness, and liquidity.The U.S. currently has 174 ETFs related to crypto assets. BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (IBIT) manages approximately $61 billion in assets, accounting for roughly 38% of the total assets of related ETFs. The SEC will determine whether adjustments will be made to the confidentiality arrangement and review speed of filings. (Bitcoin.com News)
Iran recently struck US military bases overseas, to which the United States responded firmly. Ship traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has sharply declined, with the US military escorting merchant vessels carrying over 18 million barrels of oil through the strait.
Odaily News: SWIFT service provider Bottomline has announced a partnership with blockchain infrastructure project Chainlink to bring blockchain-based cross-border settlement to more than 600 bank clients in its network. Bottomline processes over $16 trillion in payments annually and serves 1,200 financial institutions and 10,000 businesses.Through this integration, banks can continue to send payment instructions using the ISO 20022 standard, with Chainlink's infrastructure connecting those instructions to blockchain settlement. Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) enables tokenized value to move across different blockchain networks, while the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) coordinates payment flows, transaction routing, and operational changes.CCIP has been recording mainnet activity since July 2023 and is now connected to over 60 blockchain networks. Chainlink's Project Pangea has reached more than 50 banking institutions across Europe and South Korea, with participating entities collectively managing over $10 trillion in assets. The project's goals include achieving T+0 settlement for foreign exchange transactions. (Bitcoin.com News)
Paxos's Global Dollar Network asset USDG has officially launched on the Mantle Layer 2 network. This partnership introduces a direct conversion feature from USDT to USDG to enhance the liquidity of on-chain dollars.
: Ethereum Layer 2 network Mantle has launched USDG, a stablecoin issued by Paxos, and joined the Global Dollar Network as a partner. USDG has become one of the first stablecoins natively minted on Mantle, with Mantle eligible to receive a portion of the rewards generated by USDG activity.USDG has a market capitalization of approximately $3.18 billion, ranking as the seventh-largest stablecoin by DefiLlama data. The stablecoin is issued by Paxos and complies with regulatory frameworks in Singapore and the European Union, with Paxos publishing monthly reserve reports.The Mantle ecosystem also offers Agora's AUSD, Ethena's USDe, and Tether's USDT0. Mantle stated that USDG will be used for DeFi applications within the ecosystem and institutional capital allocation.As of Wednesday, Mantle's distributed real-world asset value stood at $234.2 million, up 19% over the past 30 days. (Cointelegraph)
US Vice President Vance publicly voiced support for Federal Reserve interest rate cuts. This statement directly relates to the direction of core US monetary policy, providing a key reference for market interest rate expectations.
OpenAI officially launches the GPT-6 Astra model equipped with newly added cybersecurity protection measures, focusing on strengthening system defense mechanisms to enhance data security and operational stability.
Odaily News Uniswap founder Hayden said on X that correlated trading pairs are emerging. The top five tokenized SPY trading pairs by volume are "bridge" pairs connecting other common base pairs, which then primarily link to highly correlated tokenized stocks. These markets are global, programmable, low-cost, and operate 24/7.Uniswap founder Hayden said on X:.I've been working at the frontier of DeFi for 9 years. It's a fascinating field with infinite depth and the potential to transform capital markets.I've always believed AMMs hold immense potential, but for the past decade, one question has persisted: Can this novel market structure truly become the core engine for all financial markets?After years of evolution and development, the path for AMMs to achieve global dominance is becoming increasingly clear. To explain this, we need to start in 1976.Tokenization Changes Market Makers.Index funds celebrated their 50th anniversary this month. When Jack Bogle launched the index fund in 1976, he hoped to raise $150 million but ultimately raised only $11.3 million. Competitors called it "Bogle's Folly," posting posters claiming index funds were un-American. They argued that a fund making no decisions couldn't possibly beat professionals paid to make decisions. Today, the majority of US fund assets are allocated to passive investment vehicles.I've been thinking about this recently because tokenization's "folly moment" is ending. The SEC has approved NASDAQ and the NYSE to trade tokenized stocks. DTCC, which handles virtually all US securities settlement, also conducted a live pilot of tokenized trades in July. Nearly all related activity is described the same way: treating tokenization as an infrastructure upgrade.The same markets, faster, cheaper, and always open. These statements are all true, but I believe the infrastructure upgrade framework obscures a larger change. Tokenization makes markets programmable, changing how markets exist, who makes markets, and what is traded.In 2018, I created Uniswap, an automated market maker protocol. Anyone can deposit two assets into a shared liquidity pool and earn fees from every trade, while prices adjust along a curve as users buy and sell. Uniswap has operated autonomously since its launch, processing over $4.6 trillion in cumulative volume and increasing DEX spot volume share from under 1% to over 20%.As AMMs like Uniswap continue to evolve, their liquidity has formed a pattern most financial markets haven't noticed yet: correlated trading pairs.The Easiest Place to Find Success.To succeed everywhere, you must first succeed somewhere. AMMs found product-market fit in long-tail markets because most assets previously couldn't attract professional market makers' attention. On Uniswap, anyone can create a market with a single transaction, and issuers and early supporters can become the first liquidity providers.Then came stablecoin pairs. Take USDC/USDT, for example. A good passive strategy can approach optimal l