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Odaily News – According to the latest report by The Economist Enterprise, after 13 years of development and multiple strategic upgrades, Gate is gradually evolving from a traditional crypto asset trading platform into a comprehensive financial infrastructure connecting digital assets with traditional financial markets. The report notes that as more traditional financial products — including stocks, ETFs, tokenized assets, forex, and metals — enter the digital asset ecosystem, Gate is leveraging its multi-asset product layout and global infrastructure development to further bridge the gap between crypto finance and TradFi. In the interview, Gate Founder and CEO Dr. Han stated that as the industry evolves, digital asset platforms are no longer facing only technical challenges, but also risk management, user protection, and industry regulation.In terms of TradFi integration, Gate has established a multi-layered framework spanning tokenized assets, derivatives, and native stock trading, successively launching products and services such as xStocks, Ondo, Gate TradFi, Pre-IPOs, Direct IPO Access, and Gate Stocks. Among these, Gate Stocks now supports stock trading in the U.S., Hong Kong, and South Korea, significantly lowering the barrier for global users to participate in traditional financial markets. Meanwhile, Gate continues to enhance its 24/7 trading and liquidity infrastructure to meet the cross-market asset allocation needs of users worldwide.The Economist Enterprise also pointed out that as the digital asset market moves further toward institutionalization, compliance, transparency, and infrastructure capabilities are becoming key components of platform competitiveness. Gate continues to advance its compliance framework across multiple global jurisdictions and has provided third-party audits and open-source Proof of Reserves since 2020. In addition, Gate is introducing AI infrastructure into Web3, connecting AI with trading, wallets, and more services through products such as Gate AI, Gate MCP, and GateClaw, driving the platform's evolution from a traditional trading venue into a comprehensive financial infrastructure that connects digital assets, traditional finance, and AI applications.
According to Cryptopolitan, data from the on-chain data platform DefiLlama shows that as of August 18, the active deposit size of Real World Assets (RWA) in DeFi protocols has reached $3.98 billion, representing an approximately 6-fold increase compared to $651 million a year ago; three years ago, this figure was only $12 million. The current total issuance of tokenized RWA is $34.55 billion, but the actual on-chain utilization rate is only about 11.5%. Of this, private credit accounts for over half of the active total with $2.13 billion, bonds contribute $799 million, and reinsurance contributes $406 million. In contrast, the utilization rate of tokenized treasury bonds is extremely low—BlackRock BUIDL issuance reaches $2.74 billion, but on-chain deployment is only $18 million, with a utilization rate of only 0.66%; Franklin Templeton BENJI utilization rate is zero. Analysis points out that such products are designed specifically for institutional cash management, where holders pursue treasury yields rather than lending capabilities; tokenization only improves settlement efficiency and does not convert them into collateral.
According to Cointelegraph, the Ethereum Foundation Protocol DevOps team issued a warning that due to significant adjustments to the Ethereum gas model in the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade, some wallets, indexers, and gas estimators may experience malfunctions. Any tools relying on hardcoded maximum Gas limits will face the risk of becoming non-functional and need to be updated as soon as possible. EIP-8037 will introduce an independent "state Gas dimension" to handle operations that create new state—transfers to existing accounts will still be 21,000 Gas, but transfers to new accounts will incur additional state Gas fees. The Foundation recommends developers complete system testing on the public testnet Plataberget (launched on August 13) as soon as possible. The Glamsterdam fork is scheduled to activate on this testnet this Thursday, subsequently deployed to the Sepolia and Hoodi testnets, and finally launched on the mainnet. This upgrade also covers the Proposer-Builder Separation (PBS) mechanism, block-level access lists, as well as increases in contract and initialization code size limits.
Odaily News: The Ethereum Foundation (EF) has warned that the Gas model changes in the Glamsterdam upgrade may cause some wallets, indexers, and gas estimation tools to malfunction. The EF Protocol DevOps team stated that tools relying on hardcoded maximum gas limits will fail, and developers need to update their systems and test on the Plataberget public testnet. Plataberget went live on August 13 and is expected to run for several months. The Glamsterdam fork is scheduled to activate on the Ethereum network on Thursday, followed by deployment to the Sepolia and Hoodi testnets. EIP-8037 will introduce a separate state gas dimension for operations that create new state. Transferring ETH to an existing account will still require 21,000 gas, while transfers to new accounts will incur additional state gas; developers should also re-examine software that treats 21,000 gas as the cost for all ETH transfers, or that estimates transaction fees using only a single gas dimension. (Cointelegraph)
Monitoring from the PPP Prediction Market Tool shows that in the Polymarket "OpenAI Astra Release Date" prediction market, the probability of OpenAI releasing Astra by August 31 has risen to 24%, up 8% in the past 24 hours; the probability of a release by September 15 is currently at 61%, up 6% in the past 24 hours.According to the settlement rules, if OpenAI releases Astra before the corresponding deadline—or releases a product confirmed to be the same model as Astra—and makes it publicly available, the market settles as "Yes." Public beta testing or opening a waitlist qualifies, while closed testing and private access do not count; the primary basis for settlement is official information from OpenAI.Previously, OpenAI disclosed that it would slow down the development of Astra until appropriate safety measures are established. However, OpenAI founder Sam Altman also stated that Astra is a powerful model and that the company is working to make it available to a broader range of users.Join the PPP Signal Push Community to stay one step ahead and seize the opportunity.
Odaily News: predict.fun announced on the X platform that it has launched a new market to predict the box office revenue of "Niu Lai" up to September 2026.
According to the "BOK Issue Note" report released by the High Employment Research Team of the Bank of Korea Survey Bureau on the 18th, between June 2022 and June 2026, jobs for Korean youth (aged 15-29) decreased by a total of 285,000, of which 268,000 (94%) were concentrated in AI high-exposure industries, involving fields such as information services, publishing, computer programming, and professional services. Meanwhile, employment for the group aged 50 and above increased by 230,000, with 75.2% also coming from AI high-exposure industries. The report pointed out that after the release of ChatGPT, the average unemployment rate for university graduates rose to 7.0%, higher than the 5.4% for youth with associate degrees or below, whereas previously there was almost no difference between the two. The report suggested that policies should focus on building new career ladders to help youth accumulate experience and skills with AI assistance, rather than simply retaining entry-level positions.
Ripple partners with South Korea's Jeonbuk Bank, which becomes the first regional bank in South Korea to deploy Ripple Payments for cross-border remittances. The partnership aims to replace the traditional SWIFT multi-intermediary process with near real-time settlement (seconds to minutes) and support 7×24-hour operations.
Odaily Odaily News According to official sources, Gate's Contract Stock Section will launch perpetual contract trading (USDT settlement) for SHENHUA (China Shenhua 601088.SH), YANGTZE (Yangtze Power 600900.SH), HYGON (Hygon Information 688041.SH), MIDEA (Midea Group 000333.SZ), BEIGENE (BeiGene 688235.SH), MOUTAI (Kweichow Moutai 600519.SH), HENGRUI (Hengrui Medicine 600276.SH), BIWIN (Biwin Storage 688525.SH), DEMINGLI (Demingli 001309.SZ), and TAIJI (Taiji Industry 600667.SH) on August 18 at 14:00 (UTC+8), supporting 1-20x leverage.In addition, Gate will host the 15th round of the Contract Stock Section new token airdrop campaign from August 18, 16:00 to August 27, 16:00 (UTC+8). New users who complete their first contract trade will receive 5 USDT; those who complete daily check-ins on contract trading volume for the participating tokens can earn up to 35 USDT in total; trading the participating tokens in contract trading will share a 30,000 USDT prize pool. The total prize pool for the campaign is 50,000 USDT, with a maximum of 240 USDT per individual.
According to TechFlow Research, the frontier AI data tracking report released by Bank of America Securities on August 17 shows that Anthropic leads comprehensively in three major AI benchmarks, with Claude Opus 5 ranking first in the Intelligence Index, Agent Index, and Coding Agent Index, GPT-5.6 Sol following closely behind, Meta MuseSpark 1.2 entering the top ten, and Google Gemini 3.6 Flash ranking outside the top ten. In terms of usage, DeepSeek leads with approximately 30% of the Vercel platform token share, Anthropic accounts for 25% and OpenAI accounts for 16%; but in terms of payment amount, Anthropic leads far ahead with 65%, while OpenAI accounts for only 11%. In terms of pricing, the AI Token Price Index decreased 9% month-over-month in August to $2.21, but still increased 87% year-over-year; GPU rental rates remain strong, with H100 increasing 33% year-over-year to $2.77/hour, DRAM increasing 483% year-over-year, and NAND increasing 432% year-over-year. The research report judges that AI infrastructure demand remains healthy, with open-source model usage growing but payment share still highly concentrated on top closed-source models. BofA believes that the Meta "Watermelon" and Google Gemini 4 releases, token pricing trends and GPU rental trends are
Former fxhash team members disclosed on platform X that the generative art platform fxhash has officially ceased operations, the website is currently offline, and it is uncertain whether it will be restored. The entire fxhash team (except for the founder) was laid off in February this year, and the loan previously obtained by the company failed to close, leaving the platform without any development plans. The team expressed regret over the lack of communication during the platform shutdown process. Currently, the three platforms @verse_works, @lerandomart, and @objktcom have taken over to support the viewing and trading of fxhash works.
Google AI for Developers 发布一款 Chrome 扩展，结合 Nano Banana 与 Gemini Omni，将网络内容转化为交互式视觉百科全书。该扩展在 Antigravity 中使用 Gemini 3.7 Flash 构建，用户浏览网页时高亮任意文本，即可快速生成丰富的视觉化释义，辅助深度学习。
据 Bloomberg 报道，风险投资机构 Andreessen Horowitz（a16z）正面临美国司法部（DOJ）反垄断调查，核心争议在于其投资合伙人是否不当同时出任多家存在竞争关系的 AI 公司董事会成员。 据悉，涉事公司包括数据基础设施独角兽 Databricks 与数据集成平台 Fivetran，两者均为 a16z 被投企业，且同属数据收集、整理与分析赛道，存在直接竞争关系。其中，a16z 联合创始人 Ben Horowitz 担任 Databricks 董事会成员，合伙人 Martin Casado 则出任 Fivetran 董事会成员。
According to the official announcement, to meet users' diversified investment needs, Bitget has listed 3 stock and ETF perpetual contracts: GDX (Gold Mining ETF), NET (Cloudflare), and LYTE (Photonics & Optics ETF). The aforementioned contracts are all settled in USDT, supporting up to 20x leverage and 7×24-hour trading. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 276 stock contract underlying assets.
Odaily News: Uniswap founder Hayden Adams published a long post on the X platform, stating that as traditional assets such as stocks progressively become tokenized, AMMs are expected to expand from crypto long-tail assets and the stablecoin market into traditional financial markets. He believes that tokenization makes markets programmable, which not only changes how markets operate, but also what kinds of markets can exist, who provides liquidity, and how trading pairs are formed between different assets.Adams argues that in the future, on-chain liquidity may be reorganized around correlation-based trading pairs—for example, NVDA could trade directly against SPY, with SPY/USD serving as the bridge to the US dollar. Meanwhile, he stated that AMMs will win the market. Beyond correlation-based trading, another important factor is the continuous improvement in AMM design and customizability—for instance, Uniswap v4 Hooks enables deep market customization, significantly enhancing LP returns. Adams believes that passive liquidity will ultimately follow a similar development path and prevail, and its impact could be even greater, as it can substantially lower the barriers to creating and participating in markets.
According to Russian crypto media Bits.media, Maria Patrikeyeva, Managing Director of the Derivatives Market at Moscow Exchange, stated that the exchange plans to launch Bitcoin and Ethereum perpetual futures contracts for professional investors and plans to gradually expand the tradable cryptocurrency varieties to 10. Perpetual futures are contracts with no fixed expiration date that are automatically rolled over daily, offering greater flexibility compared to traditional quarterly/monthly contracts. Currently, Moscow Exchange has already launched quarterly and monthly futures for five cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Ripple, and Tron, in the summer of 2025. In addition, the Russian Central Bank has recently included BTC, ETH, and USDT in the list of crypto assets allowed for trading by non-professional investors. It is worth noting that Moscow Exchange is currently on the U.S. sanctions list, with restricted access to international settlement infrastructure, and the exchange is also preparing to establish a digital settlement depository system independent of the National Settlement Depository.
据《纽约时报》报道，以人工智能生成的低质量内容（AI Slop）为代表的"数字垃圾"已大规模污染互联网生态——从谷歌搜索中出现的"披萨加胶水"食谱、亚马逊上的虚假传记，到 Facebook 信息流中泛滥的 AI 生成图片，信息生态系统正面临严峻挑战。 随着聊天机器人与视频生成工具持续迭代升级，AI 垃圾内容的扩散速度加剧。目前，Spotify、LinkedIn 等科技平台已开始积极行动，着手清理平台内低质量 AI 生成内容，硅谷正试图重建内容质量秩序。
According to The Defiant, crypto influencer Zion "Ansem" Thomas officially launched ansem.io on August 17. The platform disrupts the traditional KOL paid promotion model—project teams do not need to pay cash or tokens to KOLs, but instead airdrop at least 3% of the token supply to $ANSEM holders and burn $ANSEM to improve their ranking on the platform's leaderboard z500. The platform features two tiers of badges: Gold (requires burning 25,000 $ANSEM, approx. $7,600) and Diamond (requires burning 100,000 $ANSEM, approx. $30,300). Diamond-level projects can receive pre-launch audit and cross-channel promotion from Thomas's team. All tokens created on ansem.io are pump.fun tokens. As of 5:19 PM on the launch day, the platform had launched 19 tokens, airdropped approximately $211,500 to 26,700 wallets, burned 929,647 $ANSEM, and reached a cumulative trading volume of $103 million. Affected by this news, $ANSEM rose 27.5% within 24 hours, trading at $0.303, with a circulating market cap of approximately $126 million.
According to Cryptopolitan, DeFi lending protocol Compound approved a record $52 million two-year development budget via DAO voting and completed leadership restructuring, announcing a full pivot to the institutional market. The COMP token subsequently rose over 10% within 24 hours, currently trading at around $18. Regarding the budget, $14 million has been authorized for immediate use, with the remaining funds unlocked in batches based on milestones. In terms of fund allocation, approximately $28 million is designated for operations and R&D for the new version Compound V4, and $24 million for growth, of which $8 million to $10 million is specifically allocated for institutional partnerships. The V4 core adopts a "hub-and-spoke" architecture, centralizing fund scheduling through a central hub to meet higher institutional requirements for risk control. Currently, over 10 partners have confirmed joining, with another 20+ currently in negotiations.
According to Cryptopolitan, former Bitcoin mining company IREN announced the completion of the first milestone of its $9.7 billion, five-year contract with Microsoft — the official delivery of the Horizon 1 facility located in Childress, Texas. The facility is 50 megawatts in scale, equipped with Nvidia GB300 systems and direct chip-level liquid cooling technology, and has received the Exemplar Cloud certification awarded by Nvidia. Under the contract terms, Microsoft will complete GPU acceptance verification within five days; upon approval, IREN can commence monthly billing, with expected annualized revenue of approximately $1.94 billion after all four Horizon facilities go online. IREN plans to complete the deployment of all four phases totaling 200 megawatts by 2026, expand AI cloud computing power to 1.2 gigawatts by 2027, simultaneously exit the Bitcoin mining business, and target a full-year AI cloud revenue run rate exceeding $4 billion.