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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.
Volcengine has officially launched the education industry version of its web-connected Q&A Agent, opening up AI tutoring capabilities such as image-based question answering and homework grading, powered by the same system as Doubao AIXue. This version covers all subjects from primary to high school, supports step-by-step problem explanations and intelligent full-page grading, and leverages Doubao Search to integrate hundreds of authoritative sources to ensure content credibility. Education apps, smart hardware vendors, and in-school device manufacturers can now integrate through the Volcengine Console.
Odaily News: Stablecoin issuer Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated that stablecoins are a more credible form of money than tokenized bank deposits, as the former is almost fully backed by U.S. Treasuries, while the latter typically has only 10% liquid asset backing.Pablo Hernandez de Cos, General Manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), said stablecoins raise concerns regarding redemption capacity, supply, interoperability, and their potential to facilitate criminal activity, adding that tokenized bank deposits represent a more direct path to preserving the foundations of the monetary system while leveraging tokenization.Ardoino noted that USDT's market capitalization has surpassed $183 billion and is used in some emerging markets for domestic and cross-border commerce. In discussions surrounding the CLARITY Act, banks have expressed concerns that allowing crypto exchanges to offer incentives on stablecoins could trigger deposit outflows. (Bitcoin.com News)
Binance announced that due to a hack on BounceBit and the project team's decision to permanently shut down the chain, Binance will stop supporting the BounceBit (BB) mainnet. Binance has suspended deposits and withdrawals of BB on the BounceBit mainnet as of 10:00 (UTC+8) on August 20, 2026, and will reopen deposits and withdrawals via the BNB Smart Chain (BEP20) network starting at 15:00 on September 1, 2026. BB will be migrated from the original mainnet to the BNB Smart Chain at a 1:1 ratio. During the migration, spot, margin, futures, and Earn services will remain unaffected.
According to CCTV Financial News, in August, leading domestic AI chip manufacturers released their half-year reports in quick succession. Last Friday, Biren Technology issued its financial report, revealing a near 20-fold increase in revenue. Furthermore, top-tier companies such as Cambricon and Moore Threads also recorded significant revenue growth. Behind this surge in earnings lies a shortage of high-end computing power, where demand significantly outpaces supply.
According to CoinDesk, developers of the privacy blockchain Zcash have released an open-source cryptographic toolkit named Zakura Common, aimed at improving the efficiency of private transaction generation and verification. In certain scenarios, the tool can reduce the time wallets take to create private transactions from over 3 seconds to under 200 milliseconds.
Odaily News According to the latest report released by wealth intelligence firm Altrata, the number of billionaires worldwide surged to a record high in 2025, reaching 3,795—an increase of 8.2%, the strongest growth in five years. Rising stock markets, monetary stimulus policies, and the artificial intelligence (AI) investment boom have driven rapid wealth accumulation among the ultra-rich.The total wealth of billionaires grew by 12.8% in 2025, hitting a record $15.1 trillion—equivalent to nearly a quarter of the total market capitalization of the S&P 500. This marks the third consecutive year of accelerated wealth growth among billionaires, with the average billionaire now holding $4 billion in assets. In reality, however, the median net worth of billionaires stands at nearly $2 billion, reflecting the highly concentrated distribution of wealth among a small group of "super-billionaires."By region, North America saw the fastest growth in billionaire population at 11.6%, outpacing all other regions and reaching 1,337 individuals (35% of the global total). Europe recorded its second consecutive year of growth, with the number of billionaires rising nearly 8% to 1,081 (28% of the global total). Asia ranked as the third-largest region for billionaires, with an increase of 6.5% to 881 individuals.The report noted that since 2023, the AI investment boom has been one of the most significant drivers of global billionaire wealth creation, with its impact becoming even more pronounced in 2025 and the first half of 2026. Investor enthusiasm for generative AI, large language models, cloud computing, and AI software has attracted unprecedented capital, driving substantial market value revaluations across many tech companies. Since billionaire wealth is typically concentrated in corporate equity, founders and major shareholders of the world's leading tech companies have emerged as the biggest beneficiaries of the AI-driven tech stock rally, which has directly translated into significant growth in personal net worth. (The Paper)
According to monitoring by the PPP Prediction Market Tool, in the Polymarket prediction event "WTI Crude Oil Price Level in September," the probability of breaking $90/barrel has risen to 60%, up 15% in the past 24 hours; the probability of breaking $95/barrel is currently reported at 30%, down 1% in the past 24 hours.On Sunday local time, the U.S. military launched its first military strike against Iran in over a month, targeting two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island near the Strait of Hormuz. Shortly after the attack, Iran retaliated against a U.S. military base in Jordan. As the conflict escalated once again, international oil prices moved higher, with WTI crude briefly surging to $85.53/barrel.Join the PPP Signal Push Community to stay one step ahead and seize the opportunity.
According to Onchain Lens, over the past 15 hours, Fireblocks Custody has again transferred 30 million USD1 to Binance. USD1 is a stablecoin backed by Trump-related projects.
Odaily News: Ahead of SoftBank-backed SB Energy's planned IPO, the company offered OpenAI a substantial incentive to secure the AI firm as a tenant for its data centers. According to IPO draft documents, OpenAI has obtained warrants valued at approximately $5.5 billion from SB Energy, following OpenAI's prior investment in the company.SB Energy is expected to publicly file its IPO documents as early as this week. The company is working with bankers and could launch its IPO as soon as next month, targeting a fundraising amount of $5 billion to $7 billion. Currently, SB Energy's data center client base consists of companies that are also its investors. The documents show that SoftBank and OpenAI plan to become tenants in three of SB Energy's data centers. A fourth data center in Schleicher County, Texas, with an installed capacity of 900 megawatts, has yet to secure a client. (The Wall Street Journal)
Odaily News: According to official sources, Hyperliquid has launched Pons perpetual contract trading, supporting up to 3x leverage.
As reported by Caixin, Han Xinyi, CEO of Ant Group and Chairman of Alipay, presented systematic insights on the global exploration paths for AI payments at the China Payment Clearing Forum. He stated that AI payments have basically coalesced into four exploration paths: The first category comprises payment technology and infrastructure platforms represented by Stripe. The second category consists of cryptocurrency enterprises such as Circle and Coinbase, which primarily rely on stablecoins and their wallet ecosystems. Using cryptocurrencies as payment instruments, they directly enable automated machine-to-machine payment scenarios. The third category features traditional payment networks represented by the two major card organizations (Visa and Mastercard). The fourth category comprises AI platform companies such as Google and OpenAI.
OpenClaw has released version 2.0, its largest update to date, completed by 933 contributors and containing over 16,000 pull requests. The new version simplifies the first-time installation process, supports integration with existing ChatGPT and Claude subscriptions, API keys, and local models, and features a rebuilt browser app that allows users to quickly jump into conversations and complete configuration. Additionally, OpenClaw 2.0 introduces shared cloud sessions, enabling teams to collaborate or hand off tasks while preserving context.
Barclays expects inference profits to gradually surpass training costs, boosting AI labs' own profit margins. However, AWS, Azure, and GCP will still account for the bulk of AI labs' compute expenditure over the next two years. Starting in 2028, the deployment of self-built infrastructure by AI labs will gradually shift this dynamic. Barclays holds that when benchmarking AI labs, investors should look beyond top-line revenue figures and drill down into underlying variables such as product mix, the share of API and subscription revenue, and revenue recognition methodologies.
According to Mobile Payment Network, Lu Lei, Member of the Party Committee and Vice Governor of the People's Bank of China, stated at the 15th China Payment and Clearing Forum that agent payment must not blur the responsibility boundaries among consumers, participating institutions, and algorithmic systems. Lu Lei noted that payment is essentially a transfer of fund ownership rights, which objectively requires predictable transaction outcomes, clearly defined responsibilities, and traceable records. Large models and autonomous agents exhibit characteristics such as output randomness and opaque logic. Blindly or excessively granting transaction decision-making authority to agents could undermine the trust foundation for fund transactions. Current payment industry governance rules and dispute resolution mechanisms are built around the concept of "humans as the ultimate transaction decision-makers." The emerging model in which agents automatically initiate and assist with transactions easily blurs responsibility boundaries, necessitating the optimization and enhancement of existing governance frameworks.
Odaily News, August 31 — B.AI platform's full free access campaign for cutting-edge large models continues to operate at high intensity, with the platform's cumulative token throughput officially surpassing the historic milestone of 5.74 trillion (5T+). Under the rigorous demands of massive concurrent requests and heavy Agent tasks, B.AI's industrial-grade infrastructure has demonstrated exceptionally stable carrying capacity. Currently, the platform has assembled six top-tier models, including GLM-5.3-Flash (Ox Alpha), Qwen3.8-Flash, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, Tencent Hy3, and Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5, all available to users with zero barriers and unlimited free access, covering diverse scenarios such as code generation, ultra-long text processing, multimodal visual understanding, and Agent workflow deployment.From now on, users who log in to the B.AI platform can access the full suite of cutting-edge models at zero cost, with seamless integration of unlimited computing power, allowing every developer and AI enthusiast to truly enjoy "computing freedom."
Odaily News: The National Cryptocurrency Association (NCA), a U.S. nonprofit crypto education organization, has released an interactive map estimating that approximately 67 million Americans hold cryptocurrency, covering all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and all 435 congressional districts of the 119th Congress.Among state-level holder counts, California leads with about 9.5 million, followed by Texas at 5.94 million, Florida at 4.71 million, New York at 4.66 million, and Illinois at 2.64 million. The figures are model estimates, not verified holder counts.Another analysis commissioned by the NCA and conducted by Pragmatic Policy Group shows that the crypto industry supports 231,800 jobs in the U.S., generating $55.4 billion in economic activity and $30.8 billion in worker income, including approximately 34,000 direct jobs. (Bitcoin.com News)
Tencent Hunyuan announced that since the Hunyuan Hy4 preview was initially integrated into WorkBuddy on August 28, 2026, it has seen active usage and received enthusiastic feedback from a broad user and developer community due to its significantly enhanced Agent capabilities. Queues formed in the WorkBuddy task queue on the very first day of launch, and we extend our deepest apologies for this situation.
Odaily News: Bitcoin News posted on X platform that Blockstream stated Jade is not affected by the Coldcard random number generator vulnerability, and has released firmware 1.0.41 following a large number of AI-assisted security reviews.Jade stated that it has undergone dozens of automated AI scans and multiple manual reviews, focusing on sensitive areas such as random number generation and transaction signing.The new firmware strengthens stack protection, updates dependencies, audits sensitive memory cleanup processes, and upgrades the Jade runtime environment.Blockstream stated that Jade's random number generation mechanism uses multiple entropy sources, including hardware chip noise, timing data, sensor data, and camera noise, mixed via SHA-512 to prevent a single entropy source failure from affecting seed generation.The team stated that other lower-severity findings are still being addressed, and firmware 1.0.42 is expected to be released within a shorter development cycle.