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Odaily News: Bybit Alpha has now listed $OTC for trading. $OTC is a Solana-based token that, when burned, mints an OTC Desk NFT, granting holders automatic access to tokenized stocks, Pre-IPO assets, and yield distributions. The current on-chain price of OTC is approximately $0.025, with a market cap of $16.6 million.
Odaily News: Bitget has launched the TMX flexible Simple Earn product, with participation available until October 8, 12:00 (UTC+8). During the promotional period, users can subscribe to TMX under the "Simple Earn" section to enjoy up to 25% APR, with a maximum subscription limit of 1,000,000 TMX per user. Specific product parameters and actual returns are subject to the information displayed on the Bitget page.
According to the official announcement, the Bitget stock perpetual contract for BYD (BYD Co., Ltd.) has gone live. The contract is settled in USDT, supports up to 20x leverage, and offers 24/7 trading. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 306 stock contract underlyings.
Bybit today added three forex perpetual contracts: EURUSDUSDT, GBPUSDUSDT, and USDJPYUSDT, supporting up to 100x leverage.
Trader Bonk Guy (Unipcs) posted that he has long considered USELESS to be this cycle's equivalent to DOGE, SHIB, or PEPE, yet many continue to disregard it. He noted that South Korea's two major centralized exchanges, Upbit and Bithumb, listed USELESS just hours apart today, granting it a major new distribution channel from one of the world's key crypto markets. Bonk Guy further emphasized that attention should remain on whether USELESS will be listed on Hyperliquid, Robinhood, or Binance Spot next. He argued that instead of debating whether USELESS will emerge as this cycle's flagship memecoin, focus should shift to how high its price can potentially reach, as the underlying pattern is becoming increasingly clear. He also noted that investors can either accumulate USELESS now or wait until its market cap reaches several billion dollars, perceiving that stage as "safer".
The State Agency for Future Projects of Uzbekistan and the Central Bank will launch a stablecoin payment pilot program to test the issuance, circulation, and redemption mechanisms of the HUMO stablecoin. Under the project arrangements, one HUMO stablecoin will be equivalent to one Uzbek som and will be backed by government securities. Within the pilot scope, the token will be used for payment scenarios involving goods, services, and other transactions, with over 20 merchants already expressing readiness to participate.
B.AI has announced that after Zhipu's official limited-time 50% discount expires at 24:00 on September 9, GLM-5.3-Flash will continue to provide zero-cost API calls for global developers, requiring no changes to usage habits due to upstream price adjustments.
According to the official announcement, Upbit will list trading pairs for HEMI and USELESS BTC against USDT.
Odaily News, according to an official announcement, Gate has officially launched stock event contracts. The first phase exclusively features four popular stock underlyings: MU (Micron Technology), SNDK (SanDisk), SKHYNIX (SK Hynix), and Unitree Robotics, while simultaneously opening 5-minute and 15-minute short-cycle bullish/bearish trading markets.It is reported that Gate has become the first trading platform to support stock event contracts, further extending event contract trading coverage to both crypto assets and traditional stocks. Currently, the platform supports crypto assets such as BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, HYPE, and BNB, as well as stock underlyings including MU (Micron Technology), SNDK (SanDisk), SKHYNIX (SK Hynix), and Unitree Robotics. Users do not need to use leverage or pay margin, and only need to predict the price direction of the underlying within a specified time period to participate in trading. At present, users can access trading via the Gate App or official website by navigating to [Contracts] - [Event Contracts] and filtering by the [Stocks] category.
Visa stated that stablecoin-linked card programs are one of the fastest-growing businesses on its network. In the second quarter of fiscal year 2026, more than 160 stablecoin-linked card programs have launched globally, with related payment volumes growing nearly 200% year-over-year, and the annualized stablecoin settlement volume recently surpassing $20 billion.
Odaily News - The Ave × BNB Chain × Four.meme bStocks trading competition has now introduced a rules update, adding Four.Meme 4Stock mode to the event's eligible scope.4Stock is an innovative Meme trading mode created by Four.meme based on stock narratives, combining traditional market hotspots with the on-chain Meme ecosystem to deliver a brand-new trading experience for users.Starting September 8, trading volume generated from participating in and trading Four.Meme 4Stock-related assets will be counted toward the event's valid trading volume. Users who meet the rules can compete on the leaderboard for a share of the total 150,000 USDT trading competition prize pool, which includes a 50,000 USDT Four.meme exclusive prize pool.In addition, individual participants in the competition can win up to 20,000 USDT in rewards.
Odaily News According to the latest tweet from Fractal Bitcoin, Fractal Bitcoin completed its first halving at block height 2,100,000, while the FIP-102 proposal was officially activated. According to the official announcement, network nodes and indexing services have been running smoothly after the halving. This upgrade marks the official activation of the FIP-102 proposal, with FB distribution expanding from the Fractal network to the Bitcoin mainnet, providing a broader base of Bitcoin users with a direct pathway to acquire FB.Following the activation of FIP-102, the actual block reward on the Fractal side has been further reduced to 6.25 FB, while an additional 6.25 FB issuance budget will be redirected to the Bitcoin mainnet. FIP-102 does not increase the total supply of FB. On the Fractal side, merged mining, permissionless mining, and indexing mining continue to allocate block rewards on a 1:1:1 basis. The specific Bitcoin mainnet distribution mechanism will be clarified in the subsequent FIP-103 proposal, with the goal of completing the rollout by Q1 2027.
Odaily News: According to the official announcement, Gate's Contract Meme Zone has launched 4STOCK perpetual contract live trading (USDT settlement), supporting 1-10x leverage. Gate has also added the 4STOCK trading bot and copy trading features.4STOCK is the leading Meme formed by the market around the product name following the launch of Four.Meme's new 【4Stock】 model for tokenizing stocks on-chain / Stock Meme.
Perp DEX PopDEX, built for real traders, has recorded over $1.7B+ in trading volume and an LP pool size of approximately $61 million during its Closed Beta phase. Meanwhile, the platform has completed three rounds of cash reward distributions covering traders, feedback contributors, and community builders; in the latest round, single-address rewards reached up to 3,300 USDT. As the hype surrounding Robinhood Chain and BNB Chain memes continues to grow, PopDEX has launched popular meme perps including PONS, CASHCAT, and MARSCOIN, and initiated the Meme Gang War trading competition to provide traders with additional reward pool opportunities beyond standard incentives.
According to the official announcement, Huobi HTX will open STONK/USDT spot trading and grid trading at 18:00 (UTC+8) on September 8. STONK deposit services are now open, and withdrawal services will be available at 18:00 on September 9. It is reported that StonkFun is a token issuance and trading platform built on Solana. Tokens issued on this platform are traded through Raydium's concentrated liquidity pools, and can use tokenized stocks, commodities, Meme assets, and others as pricing assets.
According to Yonhap News Agency, Park Woo-yeol, chief research analyst at Shinhan Investment & Securities, stated on the 8th at a press conference held at the Korea Exchange in Yeouido, Seoul, that the traditional "60/40 stock-and-bond" asset allocation strategy is gradually becoming ineffective due to stocks and bonds moving in tandem. He recommended adjusting investment portfolios to allocate approximately 8% to real assets and 2% to digital assets, noting that an 80:20 allocation between gold and bitcoin delivers the best risk-adjusted returns.
Odaily News According to the latest report "RWA Perpetuals: State of the Market — August 2026" released by CoinMarketCap, the cumulative trading volume in the RWA perpetual futures market has reached $3.16 trillion, with August alone recording $799.5 billion in monthly trading volume, setting a new all-time high. Gate has emerged as the most prominent trading platform in this growth phase: from June to August, its trading volume surged approximately 5.3 times, making it the fastest-growing exchange among platforms with monthly trading volumes exceeding $5 billion during the same period.In August, Gate's RWA perpetual futures trading volume reached $64.8 billion, 2.6 times its record-breaking July volume, ranking third globally among centralized trading platforms and accounting for 9.3% of total CEX trading volume. The report specifically noted that Gate's highest weekly trading volume hit $20.65 billion during the week of August 17, coinciding with the period of sharp volatility in memory chip stocks, also marking a new all-time weekly high for Gate.CMC emphasized that Gate has maintained strong growth despite heightened market volatility and rapidly shifting trading dynamics. Notably, its peak trading week did not occur at market highs but during a market correction period, indicating a trend where trading flow further concentrates toward Gate during periods of intensified volatility.
Odaily News – Andy, host of The Rollup podcast, stated on X: "We have received fairly reliable information that Ark Invest, founded by Cathie Wood, will become one of the first asset managers to launch tokenized securities through a transfer agent under the SEC's 'Innovation Exemption' policy. The plan will start with Ark's funds and then expand further. Several institutions, including Fidelity and WisdomTree, are also likely to follow suit."
Odaily News: BULK stated that users affected by the previous day's automatic deleveraging event have received full compensation, along with an additional 10% compensation. The official distributed approximately $231,400 to 385 wallets, and trading will resume after the upgrade is completed.
According to The Block, the Ethereum Foundation Protocol Cluster has released a list of EIP ratings for the upcoming Hegotá upgrade, setting December 2029 as the target milestone for achieving full quantum resistance. The two S-tier (mandatory delivery) proposals for the upgrade are: FOCIL (EIP-7805) at the consensus layer, which enhances censorship resistance by requiring validator committees to enforce the inclusion of public mempool transactions; and framework transactions (EIP-8141) at the execution layer, which natively integrates account abstraction, supporting custom signatures, sponsored gas, and batch operations to improve security and quantum resistance. The Ethereum Foundation stated that this timeline aligns with the independent migration targets of Google, Cloudflare, and Microsoft, and the December 2029 deadline will be considered non-negotiable prior to January 2027. Hegotá is not the final quantum-safe fork, but rather a critical milestone determining whether subsequent upgrades can proceed on schedule. From the Q4 2026 Glamsterdam upgrade to December 2029, the average fork cycle is only about 7.2 months, leaving extremely limited execution slack.