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According to the comment letter released by the Hyperliquid Policy Center (HPC), it calls on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to establish a harmonized regulatory framework for perpetual contracts. The HPC asserts that while perpetual contracts lack fixed expiration dates, they exhibit traditional futures characteristics such as standardization, fungibility, the ability to be offset, and price convergence driven by funding rates; accordingly, cash-settled stock perpetual contracts possessing these traits should be allowed to be listed as "security futures." The HPC recommends that both agencies standardize classification criteria across different underlying perpetual contracts, retain exchanges' flexibility in product listing decisions, and modernize the security futures framework. It noted that clear regulatory guidance would help lower market entry barriers, foster exchange competition, and bring perpetual contract trading back to the U.S. market.
As of the evening of August 24, the cumulative number of registered users on the B.AI platform has officially surpassed the 2.1 million mark. Following the 2 million milestone, the platform's growth momentum remains strong. With the continuous expansion of its frontier large model matrix, steadily decreasing compute invocation costs, comprehensive upgrades to product interaction experiences and underlying architecture, coupled with an increasingly mature AI Agent ecosystem, B.AI is attracting a growing number of global developers and users to explore and build next-generation intelligent applications via B.AI with lower barriers to entry and greater efficiency.
Multi-chain decentralized overcollateralized stablecoin USDD has officially launched its Vault feature on Ethereum, enabling users to mint USDD using ETH and WBTC as core collateral assets. This upgrade further expands upon the previously launched TRON chain Vault, signaling that the USDD Vault module has officially entered a dual-chain driven phase with ETH and BTC as the dual-core mainstream collateral assets, providing more entry points for mainstream asset holders to participate in the USDD ecosystem.
The B.AI platform announced that Xiaomi's open-source flagship multimodal model, MiMo-V2.5, is now officially available for fully free API access. As a 310B-parameter sparse MoE native multimodal large model, MiMo-V2.5 supports comprehensive multimodal input across text, images, video, and audio. Featuring a 1M ultra-long context window and ultra-fast response speeds, it is deeply optimized for high-intensity real-world scenarios such as multimodal agents, audio-visual intelligent analysis, and general-purpose programming. Starting today, developers can unlock the full power of Xiaomi's cutting-edge multimodal model at zero cost through the official API channel on the B.AI platform. With no barriers to entry, you can seamlessly integrate top-tier multimodal capabilities directly into your own applications and workflows. Visit chat.b.ai/chat right now to experience the next generation of multimodal intelligence powered by Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5 completely free of charge.
Odaily News According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, Hyperliquid's largest LIT short position added $2.5 million in margin today, with a current floating loss of $5.605 million. The short position holds 2.528 million LIT tokens, valued at approximately $8.9 million, with an entry price of $1.3. After LIT was listed on Upbit today, its price surged briefly, prompting the short position to add margin to reduce liquidation risk. Currently, the margin for this single position stands at $7.16 million, with a liquidation price of $5.78.
Odaily News According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, "Set 10 Big Goals First" has added another 1,000 BTC to its position, bringing the total position to $218 million, with a current floating loss of $877,000. The entity holds a 5x short position of 2,449.968 BTC, valued at $183 million, with an entry price of $74,746.1; it also holds a 7x short position of 15,000 ETH, valued at $35.21 million, with an entry price of $2,347.89.
Odaily News, August 20 — JustLend DAO announced the launch of "Buy Energy," a one-stop energy direct purchase service, offering TRON ecosystem users a more efficient and cost-effective new option for resource acquisition. This feature precisely targets short-term energy demand scenarios, with users receiving their energy within 10 seconds of placing an order, completely eliminating the 14-day lock-up and redemption waiting period required by traditional staking models, truly achieving "buy and use instantly." Additionally, a single order supports batch energy purchases for up to 50 addresses, greatly enhancing convenience for multi-account operations.According to estimates, compared to directly burning TRX to obtain energy, the Buy Energy feature can help users save approximately 63% in costs, combining both efficiency and cost-effectiveness advantages, further lowering the barrier to entry for interactions on the TRON blockchain.
According to Bloomberg, despite recent leaks suggesting the product might be released ahead of schedule, Apple's plan to launch the new camera-equipped AirPods remains unchanged at 2027. Reportedly, the new headphones are intended to drive Apple's entry into the AI wearables market; they had long been planned for release this year and have already entered an advanced testing phase among Apple's internal employees this spring.
Odaily News: Cantor Fitzgerald has announced that it will open access to the prediction market platform Kalshi for institutional investors, providing event contract trading services to its approximately 3,000 institutional clients, including family offices and hedge funds.According to The Wall Street Journal, Cantor Fitzgerald will act as a broker arranging block trades for institutional clients, enabling them to participate in "yes/no" contract trading based on real-world event outcomes offered by Kalshi. The trading instruments cover multiple areas, including weather forecasts, commodity price trends, and corporate performance.This partnership marks the further entry of traditional financial institutions into the prediction market space. Kalshi is an event trading platform regulated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), where users can bet via contracts on whether specific events will occur, such as economic data releases, policy changes, weather conditions, and business events.In recent years, prediction markets have drawn attention from investors, with proponents arguing that they can reflect collective expectations through market prices and provide risk hedging tools for businesses and investment institutions. However, regulators and some market participants have also continued to scrutinize the boundary between these markets and gambling. (WSJ)
Monitoring by the PPP Prediction Market Tool shows that in the Polymarket event "Will the Fed hold interest rates steady in September?", an account (0xfbe66593e49c4e7a7180a2582f041158bfb800f8) that has earned over $160,000 in profit over the past month purchased $278,000 worth of shares betting the Fed will keep rates unchanged in September, at an average entry price of 50.7¢, holding 389,715.1 shares.According to the settlement rules, this market will settle based on the interest rate change following the Fed's September 2026 FOMC meeting. If the rate adjustment magnitude does not fall within existing options, it will be rounded up to the nearest 25 basis points—for example, a 12.5 basis point rate cut or hike would be calculated as 25 basis points. If no relevant statement is released before the meeting concludes, the event will settle as "unchanged."The Fed's next FOMC meeting is scheduled for September 15-16, 2026. Previously, at its July meeting, the FOMC voted 9 to 3 to hold interest rates steady.Join the PPP Signal Push Community to stay ahead of the curve and seize the initiative.
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.
Odaily News: As Wall Street and global financial institutions accelerate their entry into the digital asset space, the boundaries between traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi) are gradually blurring. Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley stated that the era of "going long Bitcoin and short bankers" is over, and financial institutions are pivoting to the other side of the crypto industry, driving digital asset adoption.Hunter Horsley noted that this summer, two financial institutions, each managing over $1 trillion in assets, approved the launch of crypto products in a bear market environment, showing that large institutions are expanding client access to digital assets. "Everyone put on the crypto jersey this year. Now, everyone is working for the crypto industry," Horsley said. He pointed out that these institutions, managing over a trillion dollars in client assets, would not have opened such services during the 2022 crypto market downturn, but are now actively embracing this sector.Fabian Dori, Chief Investment Officer at Sygnum, also believes the relationship between banks and the crypto industry has undergone a structural shift. "The trade of 'going long Bitcoin and short bankers' is over. Banks have moved from resisting digital assets to building, supporting, and distributing them through custody, tokenization, and compliant trading," a change driven primarily by growing client demand and gradually clarifying regulatory rules, rather than short-term market cycles.Nathan McCauley, CEO of Anchorage Digital, said that over the past two years, its client base has increasingly reflected the convergence of traditional and crypto finance. Large financial institutions typically choose to partner with specialized crypto infrastructure companies rather than building their own technology systems.In recent years, a growing number of financial institutions have entered the crypto space, including Swissquote, DBS Bank, BBVA, BNY Mellon, Credit Suisse-affiliated entities, as well as Morgan Stanley and Charles Schwab. (CoinDesk)
Odaily News: Analyst Killa stated on platform X that his spot positions are fully loaded, and he has been holding a Bitcoin swing long position with 2x leverage since $62,600, while also deploying a 10x leverage long strategy in batches across sub-accounts. Bitcoin has already retraced 54%, and based on mathematical calculations, he believes the maximum drawdown could range from 65% to 68%. The strategy sets up three 10x leverage long orders with entry prices of $62,600, $57,100, and $51,600, corresponding to liquidation prices of $57,100, $51,600, and $46,100 respectively, with $10,000 margin used for each group. If Bitcoin reaches $126,000, the three long orders are expected to yield profits of $101,300, $120,700, and $144,200 respectively. Killa stated that he actually split this strategy into 4 to 5 entries, and if the first two groups of long orders get liquidated, the profits from the final group of long orders can cover the related losses.
Microsoft Excel's COPILOT function will cease support on September 14. This feature allows users to describe requirements in natural language and invoke Copilot to generate results. It was tested for Frontier and Insider users in August last year and was originally planned to launch in January 2027. Microsoft decided to deprecate it because Copilot already has multiple interaction entry points, such as floating action buttons and sidebars, and does not recommend users use this function for numerical calculations.
According to monitoring by on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), a whale holding $125 million worth of BTC short positions added 258 BTC to their position again today. The latest short position is updated to 1,900 BTC, with an average entry price of $63,582, and current unrealized profit has reached $1.794 million. This whale previously persisted in shorting even after being stopped out three times, and added 330 BTC to the position earlier today, pushing the position beyond $110 million (1,742 BTC), earning an additional $118,000 in funding fees.
According to the Qwen APP official WeChat account, the Qwen Open Platform has launched the Cainiao Agent. Users can activate this agent by typing @Cainiao in the chat window or clicking the dot icon in the top-right corner, and complete package shipping through conversation. The Cainiao Agent recommends suitable shipping solutions and courier companies based on conditions such as item type, price requirements, and pickup time, and supports large item shipping recognition and special rate shipping matching. Additionally, it integrates contacts and historical shipping records to automatically complete sender and recipient information, reducing manual entry steps.
Odaily News, according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a whale added 1,010 BTC to their position for the third time this morning, opening a 40x leveraged short on BTC. The short position has increased to 1,792.56 BTC, worth $114 million, with the average entry price updated to $63,999. Currently, the position shows an unrealized profit of $335,000. This remains the largest BTC position on Hyperliquid.
"Set 10 Big Goals First" (@jasonleo) posted on X platform, stating that as Bitcoin failed to hold above $65,000, they have reduced about two-thirds of their long positions above the cost price, with holdings decreasing from approximately 3,500 BTC to around 1,240 BTC, while retaining part of the position for further observation. The position screenshot they shared shows they are currently long 1,241.644 BTC with 5x leverage, at an average entry price of approximately $63,967.54, with margin of about $15.87 million, unrealized loss of roughly $52,000, and a liquidation price of approximately $29,267.82.
It is reported that starting today, hotel orders completed via the Doubao entry point redirecting to Douyin Laike will be subject to an independent fee rate: 11.4% software service fee plus 0.6% payment handling fee, with a comprehensive fee rate of approximately 12%.
According to Odaily, Randi Abernethy, Head of Clearing and Group Risk at Bullish, stated that the U.S. Senate's failure to pass the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY Act) does not mean the digital asset market will stop developing; rather, it highlights the necessity of establishing a federal regulatory framework.Abernethy noted that during the Senate's consideration of the CLARITY Act, traditional U.S. financial institutions have continued to accelerate their entry into the on-chain market. JPMorgan Chase has explored tokenized ETF holdings through a production pilot with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), and more than 50 institutions (including BlackRock and Goldman Sachs) are also participating in the development of tokenized stock and Treasury bond infrastructure. The current regulatory discussion is no longer just a "crypto industry issue," but one that concerns the future infrastructure of the entire financial system.Abernethy cited the 2008 financial crisis as an example, noting that financial risk spreads along shared infrastructure, and even institutions not directly involved in related assets can be affected. Today, the stablecoin market size has exceeded $100 billion, with a large portion of stablecoin reserves invested in U.S. Treasuries. If a major stablecoin were to face a crisis, it could impact liquidity in traditional financial markets. She stated that supporters of the CLARITY Act believe the bill could establish a unified regulatory framework for the digital asset market, including core investor protection mechanisms such as customer asset segregation, conflict of interest management, capital requirements, and information disclosure. (CoinDesk)