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Odaily News — The Ethereum Ecosystem Summit, jointly initiated by Sharplink, BlockUnion, and ETH HK Hub, and co-organized by Lido Institutional, will be held on October 8, 2026, in Singapore. The summit is aimed at Ethereum ecosystem builders, financial institutions, investors, and on-chain infrastructure teams, and will focus on discussions around Ethereum's long-term value, institutional adoption, and the development direction of agentic finance.Ethereum co-founder and Consensys founder Joe Lubin has confirmed his attendance and will hold a fireside chat with Sharplink CEO Joseph Chalom, reflecting on Ethereum's development over the past decade under the theme "Ethereum's Ten Years: From an Idea to the Future of Open Finance," and discussing the next phase of open finance.As one of the high-profile events focused on the Ethereum ecosystem during TOKEN2049, the summit will center on three core topics, including Ethereum's long-term value, infrastructure, and credible neutrality; institutional treasuries, asset tokenization, and on-chain infrastructure; and the agentic finance technology stack composed of stablecoins, tokenized assets, instant settlement, and autonomous commerce.The conference is also supported by ecosystem partners including SNZ, EthSystems, EthLabs, Ethereum Institutional, HashKey Capital, and Ethereum Singapore, and will invite representatives from fields such as Ethereum infrastructure, liquid staking, digital asset custody, payments, and on-chain finance to participate in discussions. More guests and the full agenda will be announced soon.
Bitget celebrates its 8th anniversary, with CEO Gracy releasing an anniversary open letter. She candidly acknowledged that when Bitget introduced the comprehensive exchange UEX strategy a year ago, there was plenty of skepticism from the outside, but the team chose to respond by bringing the products to life. She explained that UEX was designed to address the fragmentation across assets, accounts, time zones, and regions, enabling users to access premium global assets through a single platform. As more leading exchanges increasingly position themselves for traditional finance trading, Gracy has dubbed 2025–2026 the “first year of multi-asset trading.” In her letter, Gracy wrote that over the past year, Bitget transformed from a “chaser” into a “leader in product innovation,” sequentially rolling out products such as stock perpetuals, Pre-IPO allocations, cross-asset unified accounts, rTokens, and Hong Kong Stock Quanto contracts. Data shows that the peak trading volume for non-crypto assets now accounts for 40% of the platform’s total volume, while daily volumes for TradFi derivatives and CFDs have each surpassed $10 billion. Meanwhile, cumulative rToken transactions have exceeded 3 million. Looking ahead to the next phase, institutional business will emerge as Bitget’s core strategic focus. As of Q2 2026, the net asset value of Bitget’s institutional clients has grown cumulatively by 45% since Q3 2025, and the number of core active market makers has risen from 90 to 248. Going forward, the platform will continue to refine its trading execution, asset security protocols, and institutional service workflows. Gra
Bitget is celebrating its 8th anniversary, with CEO Gracy releasing an anniversary open letter. She candidly acknowledged that when Bitget proposed its Universal Exchange (UEX) strategy a year ago, there was no shortage of skepticism from the outside, but the team chose to respond with product execution. She stated that the starting point of UEX is to solve the fragmentation across assets, accounts, time, and geography, enabling users to trade global quality assets in a one-stop manner. Now that more and more leading exchanges are beginning to build out traditional financial trading, Gracy calls 2025 to 2026 the "first year of multi-asset trading."In the letter, Gracy wrote that over the past year, Bitget has moved from "follower" to "leader in product innovation," successively launching products including stock perpetual contracts, Pre-IPO, cross-asset unified accounts, rToken, and Hong Kong stock Quanto contracts. Data shows that non-crypto asset trading volume has peaked at 40% of the platform's total trading volume, TradFi contracts and CFDs both surpassed $10 billion in single-day trading volume, and rToken has accumulated over 3 million transactions.Looking ahead to the next phase, institutional business will become Bitget's core direction. As of Q2 2026, Bitget's institutional client net asset scale has grown 45% cumulatively compared to Q3 2025, with core active market makers increasing from 90 to 248. Going forward, the platform will continue to optimize trade execution, asset security, and institutional service pathways. Gracy wrote at the end of the open letter: "The pursuit of trading excellence has no completion—only continuous progress. The era of multi-asset trading has only just begun."
Odaily News: Stablecoin protocol Frgmnt has partnered with digital asset custody and infrastructure company Anchorage Digital to open fUSD and sfUSD infrastructure to institutional clients. Clients can hold, mint, stake, and redeem the related protocol assets within Anchorage Digital's existing custody environment without needing to establish separate custody arrangements.Frgmnt issues two related assets on Base, with fUSD minted from USDC and deployed to designated onchain lending markets; users can stake fUSD to receive sfUSD and earn rewards generated by the protocol's strategies. Related holdings and performance metrics can be monitored through Frgmnt's analytics tools, Dune, and DefiLlama.Anchorage Digital operates Anchorage Digital Bank, the first federally chartered crypto bank in the United States, providing custody, staking, trading, and settlement services to institutional clients. Frgmnt stated that protocol deposits will be opened in capped batches, with the next round of deposits planned for September. (Bitcoin.com News)
According to an official post from trade.xyz, trade.xyz has officially launched its Events feature, further advancing its vision of establishing Hyperliquid as a universal exchange. Users can execute a variety of operations through a single unified account, including depositing spot BTC, borrowing USDC, opening SpaceX pre-IPO perpetual contracts, hedging against SK Hynix earnings events, and predicting US Open outcomes. The Events market spans sports, politics, economic, and financial sectors. Initially rolling out Up/Down contracts for stocks, commodities, and pre-IPOs, pricing is settled based on the trade[XYZ] perpetual contract market price, rather than relying on external oracles.
trade.xyz posted on X that it has launched Events, aiming to develop Hyperliquid into a unified trading system for trading financial assets and real-world outcomes. Users can deposit spot BTC into their unified trade.xyz account, borrow USDC through portfolio margin, open pre-IPO perpetual contract positions on SpaceX, use event markets to hedge against the upcoming SK Hynix earnings event, and pick the US Open champion. Events will cover sports, politics, economics, and financial markets; the initial Up/Down markets cover stocks, commodities, and pre-IPO assets, with liquidity provided by trade.xyz perpetual contracts on HIP-3, whose continuous price discovery mechanism serves as the source for contract settlement.
BitTorrent's native token BTT is now officially listed on Binance US, with deposits now open. The BTTC/USDT trading pair will officially commence trading at 7:00 AM Eastern Time on September 10. BTT is the native cryptocurrency of the BitTorrent protocol built on the TRON blockchain, primarily designed to incentivize the decentralized file-sharing ecosystem. Users can earn BTT by seeding, and can also utilize BTT to accelerate downloads, pay for decentralized AI compute and storage space, and across multiple other scenarios, creating a closed-loop value system. This listing on Binance US marks a further expansion of BTT's reach in the North American market and delivers a more convenient circulation and usage experience for global users.
Odaily News: Decentralized lending protocol Pencil Finance has completed the fundraising, disbursement, repayment tracking, and fund return of a $1 million student loan portfolio entirely on-chain, constituting a full financing and repayment cycle. Animoca Brands, Open Campus, and NewCampus provided funding for this portfolio in July 2025.Education financing company ErudiFi disbursed the majority of funds through student loans and tuition financing in Southeast Asia, covering markets such as Indonesia and the Philippines. The portfolio ran for 12 months, supporting more than 6,600 students across 118 schools and universities, with approximately 1,050 students receiving funding directly attributable to Pencil Finance.Investors were split into senior and subordinated tranches — the former receiving fixed returns with priority repayment rights, while the latter earned variable returns and bore the first losses from defaults. Pencil Finance claims this is the first fully on-chain student loan cycle, but did not disclose interest rates, investor yields, default rates, or blockchain transaction records. (Decrypt)
Odaily news, HyperliquidNews posted on X stating that TXYZ (@tradexyz HIP-4) has launched 8 outcome markets, covering stock prices, American football, and the US Open Women's Singles champion.
Odaily News Student loan real-world asset (RWA) protocol Pencil Finance has completed its first fully on-chain student loan cycle, deploying $1 million in capital to provide financing for approximately 6,600 students across Southeast Asia. After borrowers repay their funds, capital providers receive both principal and returns.The financing portfolio was funded in July 2025 by Animoca Brands, Open Campus, and New Campus, and is structured into senior tranches with fixed returns, as well as junior tranches that carry floating yields and bear first-loss risk. The loans cover 118 schools and universities across Southeast Asia, with approximately 1,050 students receiving direct funding. Among borrowers, women account for 50%, and 93% come from low-income families. (Cointelegraph)
According to The Block, World has open-sourced the zero-knowledge identity verification toolkit ProveKit, which is already used in World ID. ProveKit enables users to generate cryptographic proofs locally on their phones or browsers, allowing them to prove information such as age, nationality, or ownership of valid identification documents without disclosing personal data.
Odaily News - Tether AI Research, the AI research team under Tether, announced the release of open-source AI translation models QVAC TranslatePsy-AfriSLM, QVAC TranslatePsy-AfriNano, and QVAC TranslatePsy-EuroNano, supporting 19 African languages, 8 African languages, and 9 European languages respectively. These models can run offline locally on devices such as smartphones and laptops.The TranslatePsy models can handle translations without requiring an internet connection, ensuring user data remains on the device. With only 800 million parameters, the TranslatePsy-AfriSLM outperforms Qwen3.5-122B-A10B, TranslateGemma-27B, and NLLB-3.3B on the FLORES-200, BOUQuET, and SMOL benchmarks.TranslatePsy-EuroNano supports 90 translation directions among 9 European languages, with the smallest deployment version requiring only 36MB of storage—approximately 94% less than a comparable Firefox offline translation setup. TranslatePsy-AfriSLM is now available for download on Hugging Face, and the related research has been accepted by EMNLP 2026. (Tether News)
Tencent Hunyuan has released its next-generation flagship model, Hy4 preview. According to the official WeChat account of Tencent Hunyuan, Hy4 preview features 770B total parameters, 49B active parameters, and a context length of 1M. The model is now open source and available on Tencent Cloud TokenHub and OpenRouter. The official account simultaneously disclosed the aforementioned specifications and announced the open-source release of Hy4 preview. This open-source release covers both the Tencent Cloud TokenHub and OpenRouter platforms.
Zhipu announced the launch and open-source release of the GLM-5.3-Flash model. The year-over-year rate of the US July PCE price index reached 3.7%, exceeding expectations, while expectations for Federal Reserve rate hikes intensified; Nvidia disclosed 70% growth guidance for fiscal year 2028, boosting its after-hours stock price.
Registration is now open for the Bitget 2026 King's Cup Global Invitational (KCGI), with early-bird perks and team registration channels simultaneously activated. This edition of KCGI brings a comprehensive upgrade, centering on "UEX Panoramic Competition" as its core highlight. For the first time, it bridges three major tracks: crypto contracts, TradFi contracts, and equity spot (rToken), delivering a unified arena, prize pool, and ranking system. This creates a multi-asset competitive environment catering to diverse trading preferences, featuring a total prize pool of 3 million USDT.
Odaily News: RWA trading platform MSX Maitong has announced that it will open subscription for the third round of MSX Pre-IPO projects at 18:00 (UTC+8) on August 31, 2026. This round will exclusively feature two globally high-profile AI unicorns—Neuralink, the brain-computer interface leader under Elon Musk, and Anduril Industries, a top-tier AI defense technology unicorn in the United States.Previously, the second round of MSX Maitong Pre-IPO projects, featuring Polymarket, has opened for redemption, with subscription yields reaching 33.3%. The introduction of Neuralink and Anduril in this third round further expands the platform's Pre-IPO portfolio into cutting-edge technology assets.Users participating in this round of subscription are required to hold $MSX. Subscription quotas will be allocated based on users' effective holdings, with specific allocation tiers and participation rules subject to the information published on MSX's official platform.
Odaily News: Sui announced on the X platform that AftermathFi's Perpetual Contracts V2 has been launched, featuring a rebuilt perpetual contract engine. Two audit reports have been made public, and 15 markets are currently open.
According to official announcements, Ondo Finance revealed a series of ecosystem milestones, covering data on Ondo Perps and Ondo Stocks, reflecting the continuous growth of its on-chain market. Notably, since its launch in July, open interest for Ondo Perps has steadily climbed, currently surpassing $100 million, with particularly strong performance in recent weeks; meanwhile, according to DefiLlama data, Ondo Perps has ranked among the top three global RWA perpetual contract trading platforms, demonstrating market demand for RWA derivatives. Furthermore, since its launch in September 2025, Ondo Stocks has surpassed 270,000 cumulative holders, with the growth in holder count primarily driven by new participants rather than increased position sizes by a small number of existing accounts.
Odaily News: Hyperliquid ecosystem project team HyperLabs has unlocked 433,025 HYPE, worth approximately $23.46 million, and has been continuously depositing tokens into trading platforms, including Flowdesk and OKX. Tracking data shows that an additional 9.92 million HYPE is expected to be unlocked on September 6, worth approximately $589 million based on a price of $59.39. The Hyper Foundation publishes the claim amounts around the 6th of each month. In March, only 173,217 HYPE were actually claimed, lower than the planned 99,200 tokens. Tokenomist data shows that the aid fund has repurchased 11.9 million HYPE from the unlock schedule, accounting for approximately 14%. The repurchased tokens will be burned, reducing the current total supply to 955.3 million HYPE. Certified Public Accountant Dat Ngo stated that tax liabilities typically arise upon token vesting, and some holders may sell tokens to cover taxes. TMGM CPA Ashley Akin stated that if the market is not overly leveraged, the $581 million unlock can still be absorbed, but combined with margin requirements, it would increase trading difficulty. On-chain perpetual contract trading platform Hyperliquid does not restrict users from trading during certain news events. Market data shows that liquidation volume has dropped 71%, trading volume has fallen 50%, and open interest continues to decline. Bitcoin remains below $65,000, and the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting minutes will be released ahead of the Federal Reserve's September 15-16 meeting. (Forbes Digital Assets)
Mantle officially launches its new website (mantle.xyz) and simultaneously initiates a brand narrative upgrade. Mantle's new positioning focuses on "powering borderless access to global capital markets," aiming to build an open finance network connecting global market participants with on-chain institutional-grade capital market assets. This Mantle upgrade is not a rebranding or narrative pivot, but a natural evolution based on RWA product practices over the past year. Over the past year, Mantle has launched various types of RWA assets such as tokenized stocks, money markets, treasury yields, and commodities, and from this has derived a core insight: tokenization itself cannot solve the problem of "who can truly reach and use the assets"; liquidity and distribution are key. The new narrative "powering borderless access to global capital markets" is precisely the core theme running through all important product launches this year. The Mantle ecosystem already hosts 710+ RWA assets, enabling 7×24-hour non-stop trading; its dual liquidity model features xChange's Atomic RFQ fixed quotes operating alongside Fluxion's AMM deep liquidity, ensuring assets can be traded at real scale, not just passively listed. According to RWA.xyz data, in July, RWA price on Mantle