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Odaily News, according to Bitcoin News monitoring, OCEAN operator Mummolin Inc. and co-founder Luke Dashjr issued a joint statement on August 29, agreeing to part ways. Luke Dashjr resigned as OCEAN Chairman, Chief Technology Officer, and Director, and Mummolin bought back all of his equity. Neither party disclosed the transaction amount nor Luke Dashjr's previous shareholding ratio. Both parties stated that the split stemmed from differing visions regarding the future direction of Bitcoin mining.The BIP-110 dispute subsequently escalated into a split of the Bitcoin chain. BIP-110, also known as the "Data Carve-out Temp Soft Fork," aims to restrict the use of Bitcoin transactions to store non-financial data, including content related to Ordinals. Before the activation period began, only 51 out of 2,016 blocks supported the proposal, accounting for 2.53%, falling below the 55% threshold required for activation.On August 8, nodes enforcing BIP-110 split from the Bitcoin main chain by rejecting blocks that did not support the proposal. On that day, the minority chain only produced 2 blocks before halting; since then, the chain mined 6 more blocks, bringing the total to 8 blocks. The initial alternative chain blocks were mined by the Roughnecks mining organization using OCEAN infrastructure.On August 10, other Bitcoin developers removed Luke Dashjr from the editor list of the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal repository, citing his involvement in BIP-110 and its editorial process. Luke Dashjr disputed this and stated that day that he would temporarily leave OCEAN to focus on Bitcoin and open-source development.Luke Dashjr is currently advancing a new project called CONVOY, using the X account @CONVOY_Mining. This project will continue his push for the decentralization of Bitcoin mining, though its specific structure and launch arrangements have not yet been announced. The X account was created in August 2026 and currently has 0 posts and fewer than 500 followers.OCEAN was founded by Mummolin and co-founded by Luke Dashjr in 2023, and previously secured a $6.2 million seed round led by Jack Dorsey. OCEAN operates under a non-custodial model, with mining rewards paid directly to miners rather than being held and distributed by the pool. OCEAN also developed the DATUM protocol, designed to give individual miners greater control over the transactions included in blocks they participate in mining. OCEAN stated that it will continue operating its transparent non-custodial mining pool and the DATUM protocol after Luke Dashjr's departure. According to Mempool.space data, OCEAN is still mining on the Bitcoin main chain.The change proposed by Luke Dashjr altered the proof-of-work algorithm of the alternative chain to Blake2b, which went live on the new chain at approximately 3:00 AM EST on August 30, making it a hard fork of the Bitcoin main chain. The new chain continued from block 961,639, which was mined before the chain stalled, and reduced mining difficulty fr
According to an official tweet from Cronos Network, the Cronos network was previously affected by a vulnerability exploit targeting the Tectonic protocol. Validator consensus triggered an emergency halt to block production to protect user assets. The on-chain state has been rolled back to pre-exploit levels, and the network resumed block production at 07:49 Beijing Time on August 31, 2026, starting from block height 90,896,189. Node operators can now upgrade to Cronos v1.7.8 and use the latest mainnet snapshot to restart their nodes. The network remains under continuous monitoring, with select protocols, RPC providers, block explorers, and cross-chain bridges gradually recovering. A full post-mortem report will be released by the team in the near future.
In a post, "White-Haired Stock God" Serenity stated that following NVIDIA's $3.5 billion investment in MediaTek, NVIDIA seems to be actively "picking" potential winners in the next-generation ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) space through capital and strategic partnerships, with Marvell and MediaTek poised to represent this cohort. NVIDIA's strategy mirrors its earlier backing of Neocloud's Nebius and CoreWeave. By fostering the growth of potential industry leaders and subsequently forging deep financial and strategic alliances with them, NVIDIA aims to cement its dominance within the AI infrastructure value chain. This strategy could exert a "second-order impact" on Broadcom, eroding its relative edge in the ASIC domain, while simultaneously incentivizing AMD, Broadcom, and select major cloud providers to deepen their collaborative efforts. Serenity argues that NVIDIA's moves warrant particular attention, as they will further solidify its strategic foothold in the AI inference market and potentially undermine the prior bearish thesis that hyperscalers' in-house ASIC development would pose a long-term challenge to NVIDIA.
According to Fortune, British serial entrepreneur Timothy Armoo stated bluntly during an interview that this is the most accessible era in human history for building wealth, offering little sympathy to Gen Zers who are lying flat over claims of a "dismal job market" and "AI stealing jobs." Armoo noted that "building small projects with AI" is the most direct path to wealth in 2026, with tools like ChatGPT and Claude available at little to no cost while social media platforms enable organic audience reach. Starting from scratch, Armoo launched a tutoring service at age 14, completed his first acquisition at 17, and sold his influencer marketing agency, Fanbytes, for an eight-figure sum at age 27. He has since established the Legon Fund, allocating approximately $6.7 million to specifically back minority AI entrepreneurs and break down funding barriers.
The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking has selected French supercomputing company Bull to build the LUMI-AI artificial intelligence supercomputer, which will be deployed at Finland's CSC data center. The system utilizes AMD Instinct MI430X GPUs and sixth-generation 256-core EPYC processors, delivering 2x HPC compute power and 10x AI compute power compared to the existing LUMI system, and is expected to open for use in H2 2027.
Odaily News: The suite covers over 60 EVM-compatible chains and provides AI agents with structured, verified, real-time on-chain data access through three methods: MCP, CLI, and Skills. Etherscan MCP supports programming agents like Claude and Codex in querying on-chain information via natural language; the CLI tool outputs results in JSON, table, or CSV format in the terminal and comes with an interactive interface; the Skills module includes built-in features such as Orchestrator, contract auditing, transaction debugging, and workflow orchestration. Etherscan stated that developers can refer to the official documentation to use these tools and can submit feedback or share applications built on top of them.
Odaily News – Robinhood's blockchain, Robinhood Chain, has recently seen a surge in trading activity. On August 30, the network processed a record 5.52 million transactions in a single day, with on-chain applications generating approximately $2.66 million in 24-hour revenue—surpassing Ethereum's roughly $1.3 million and trailing only Solana's $5.07 million.Meanwhile, Robinhood Chain recorded approximately $875 million in daily decentralized exchange (DEX) trading volume. Among this, the two major versions of Uniswap contributed around $432 million and $357 million in trading volume, respectively.Meme coin trading is one of the primary drivers behind this surge in activity. Data shows that Pons, a token launch platform on Robinhood Chain, created approximately 22,600 tokens in a single day, marking an increase of over 40% from the previous day. Together, GMGN, Pons, and Uniswap accounted for roughly 88% of the network's application revenue.Robinhood launched Robinhood Chain on July 1, initially focusing on the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) such as stocks. However, within just a few weeks of going live, meme coin trading quickly took center stage. Now, as the crypto market warms up, trading activity on Robinhood Chain has continued to intensify, with daily network transactions climbing from under 1 million in early July to over 5 million.Based on current data, the most active use case on Robinhood Chain is not tokenized stocks, but rather meme coin issuance and speculative trading. (CoinDesk)
According to Bloomberg, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that it will allocate SGD 220 million (approximately USD 173 million) over the next three years to support FinTech and innovation development, aiming to maintain its competitive advantage over rival financial hubs such as Hong Kong in the FinTech sector. The initiative will focus on cultivating FinTech talent and accelerating the research, development, application, and deployment of cutting-edge FinTech. MAS plans to support at least 1,000 internship positions while driving the financial industry to prepare for emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. MAS stated that the program aims to further enhance the innovation capabilities and competitiveness of Singapore's financial sector.
According to the official announcement, Bitget has listed the USDT-margined PONS perpetual contract, supporting up to 20x leverage. The contract trading bot will be available simultaneously. For more details, please refer to the official Bitget platform.
In the first half of 2026, Zhipu recorded operating revenue of RMB 954 million, representing a 399.7% year-on-year increase. Cloud deployment revenue accounted for 86.5% during the period, while open platform and API business revenue grew by over 27 times year-on-year. Net loss attributable to shareholders reached RMB 2.071 billion, narrowing by 12.1% year-on-year, with the adjusted net loss margin contracting by 3.5 times year-on-year. The MaaS platform surpassed 7.4 million users, up 144% from the beginning of the year, and paid daily active users increased by 603%.
Odaily News: Fomo, a social crypto trading app built for Robinhood Chain and other networks, entered the top five finance apps in the U.S. on August 21, briefly climbing to No. 3 and surpassing Cash App and prediction market Kalshi. It currently ranks in the top 15.Founded by Paul Erlanger and Se Yong Park, Fomo launched its public beta in May 2025. In November 2025, it completed a $17 million Series A round led by Benchmark, with participation from 140 angel investors; this was followed by a $75 million Series B round, bringing total disclosed equity funding to approximately $94 million.Fomo supports Solana, Base, BNB Chain, Monad, and Robinhood Chain, allowing users to view real-time trades of people they follow, track leaderboards, and copy trading signals, with instant deposits funded via Apple Pay. Its cumulative installs on Google Play have surpassed 1 million, with over 600,000 users and more than $4 billion in trading volume. (Bitcoin.com News)
: According to the official announcement from MSX Maitong, the platform officially opened subscription for the Phase 3 Pre-IPO projects Neuralink and Anduril at 18:00 (UTC+8) today. The subscription period will last until 00:00 (UTC+8) on September 6, 2026.In this phase, MSX exclusively lists two globally high-profile AI unicorns—Neuralink, the brain-computer interface leader founded by Elon Musk, and Anduril, a top-tier AI defense technology unicorn in the United States. User subscription quotas will be allocated based on effective $MSX holdings, with specific rules subject to the platform's official announcement.Previously, MSX Maitong's Phase 2 Pre-IPO project Polymarket has opened for redemption, with a subscription yield reaching 33.3%. Users can log in to the MSX platform to participate in this phase's subscription.
According to CNBC, Andrew Bailey, Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the Financial Stability Board (FSB), wrote to G20 finance ministers and central bank governors on August 31 to warn that frontier AI models are exhibiting increasingly sophisticated autonomy and threat capabilities, which could fundamentally alter the speed, scale, and economics of cyberattacks, potentially triggering disorderly adjustments across global financial markets. Bailey noted that highly concentrated third-party service providers will become critical nodes of systemic risk, emphasizing that most countries currently lack regulatory frameworks for the development and deployment of frontier AI. He also flagged vulnerabilities in sovereign debt markets, the growing trend of leverage in equity markets, and the overvaluation of AI-related assets, urging governments to accelerate the refinement of relevant safety mechanisms.
Odaily Block News: Bitget has launched the 11th CFD King Championship, with a total prize pool of 75,000 USDT. The participation period runs from August 31 at 21:00 to September 7 at 21:00 (UTC+8). During the event, users who complete designated CFD trading tasks will earn opportunities to draw mystery boxes, with a 100% chance of winning USDT cash vouchers.Additionally, users who invite new users to complete trading tasks will receive USDT rewards for both the inviter and the invitee. Users who meet daily trading thresholds can also accumulate points to share in a 7,600 USDT points prize pool. The top 470 users by cumulative trading volume will collectively share a 47,400 USDT ranking prize pool, with the champion taking home 4,000 USDT. For more details, please refer to Bitget's official platform.
Bybit has added three new US stock perpetual contracts today: Tempus AI (TEMUSDT), Okta (OKTAUSDT), and Brazil ETF (EWZUSDT), supporting leverage of up to 25x. Enjoy limited-time trading fee discounts upon listing: 0% fees for limit orders and 50% off for market orders.
Bybit today added the Pons (PONS/USDT) perpetual contract, supporting up to 20x leverage.
According to Bloomberg, Ireland has announced a new savings account plan that allows investors to hold stocks and ETFs within the account while enjoying tax benefits. Backed by the state, the account is expected to officially launch in early next year, offering full tax exemption up to a certain threshold, with a low fixed tax rate applied to amounts exceeding it. The specific tax-free threshold and related details will be formally announced in the budget on October 6.
Odaily News - Ireland's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Simon Harris, has announced that the new state-supported savings and investment scheme will exclude crypto assets and derivatives. The initiative aims to encourage residents to channel bank deposits into traditional capital markets, with Irish household bank deposits standing at approximately $197 billion, and cash accounting for around 38% of financial assets.The scheme is open to tax-resident individuals aged 18 and over, allowing them to hold exchange-traded funds, listed company shares, and corporate bonds under a simplified tax regime, replacing the 33% capital gains tax and 41% fund exit tax with a fixed annual fee above the tax-free threshold. Specific operational details are expected to be published in October, with accounts slated to launch in 2027.Ireland's Department of Finance has issued a national anti-money laundering strategy running through 2030. Under the new rules, starting in 2027, regulated service providers must verify ownership of external wallets when processing transfers exceeding $1,150 from non-custodial wallets, and use automated controls to identify transfers with incomplete transaction information. (Bitcoin.com News)
According to official announcements, HTX launched perpetual contracts for PONS/USDT, ZKC/USDT, and SKR/USDT on August 31, supporting 1x to 20x leverage for both long and short positions.
Odaily News: HyperliquidNews posted on X platform, stating that HIP-4, launched by @SkewTrade, is now live and has introduced 7 markets.