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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.
Odaily News - The UK government has released its first official statistics on taxable crypto asset gains, with 240 individuals each declaring over £1 million in capital gains for the 2024-25 tax year, totaling £717 million—accounting for more than half of the £1.38 billion declared by 17,600 individuals.HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) stated that 17,600 individuals declared £13.8 billion in proceeds from crypto asset disposals and £1.38 billion in taxable gains, averaging approximately £78,000 per person. Of these, around 87% were male and 13% female. Selling, exchanging, spending tokens, or gifting assets to others may all trigger tax obligations.HMRC has issued 81,000 crypto tax letters over the past 12 months, a 25% increase from approximately 65,000, and nearly three times the 27,714 letters issued in the 2023-24 tax year. James Murray, Financial Secretary to the Treasury and Paymaster General, stated that gains from crypto assets are subject to tax just like other gains.The UK plans to adjust tax treatment for certain DeFi transactions starting April 6, 2027, with related lending and liquidity pool transactions typically deferring capital gains tax until an economic disposal occurs. This is expected to affect around 700,000 people. HMRC estimates that its crypto tax compliance and education campaigns have generated an additional £168 million in capital gains tax revenue in 2024-25. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily News – Enterprise software company Strategy holds 840,400 BTC valued at approximately $66.4 billion. Based on a Bitcoin price of roughly $79,007, this represents an increase of about 4.4% from the average purchase cost of $75,653, with paper profits exceeding $2.8 billion.Michael Saylor posted a holdings chart on Sunday with the caption "We're Back." Strategy has not added to its Bitcoin position for about two months and typically discloses weekly purchases on Monday mornings; this post did not indicate whether a purchase is imminent.Strategy recently raised $334 million by selling MSTR stock without touching its Bitcoin holdings; in recent months, it has also sold small amounts of Bitcoin to pay preferred stock dividends and fund share buybacks. (Decrypt)
Odaily News: Analyst Rekt Fencer has published a 3-day ratio chart of BTC versus the Nasdaq, marking three significant drawdowns: approximately -84.9% in 2018, approximately -80.7% in 2022, and the current level of approximately -54.3% in 2026.Rekt Fencer stated that following the previous two instances where Bitcoin lagged the Nasdaq by such a large margin, it subsequently experienced very strong independent rallies, with prices surging straight upward. With the current ratio once again pulling back sharply, history may be repeating itself for a third time. The bottom is approaching, and BTC is set to regain strength.
Odaily News: According to the official announcement, Gate has launched MARSCOIN perpetual contract live trading (USDT-settled), supporting 1-20x leverage.Gate has also added MARSCOIN trading bots and copy trading features.
Odaily News, according to the official announcement, Bitget has launched the USDT-margined "Bull Run" perpetual contract, supporting up to 10x leverage, and the futures trading bot will be available simultaneously. For more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.
Odaily News: Strategy founder Michael Saylor has released information related to the Bitcoin Tracker, captioning it, "We're back."
Odaily News: Isabel Schnabel, a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB), stated at the Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium that central bank reserves remain superior to stablecoins as the ultimate settlement asset, and that the ECB must place central bank reserves on the blockchain. She noted that stablecoins lack the independent capacity to rapidly expand liquidity during periods of financial stress.Schnabel stated that tokenization can make financial transactions faster, safer, and programmable, but only if central bank money operates on the same infrastructure as other tokenized assets. The ECB's Project Pontes is scheduled to launch in September 2026, initially connecting TARGET services with DLT platforms operated by market participants.Project Pontes will subsequently support direct settlement on DLT platforms operating within the Eurosystem, gradually incorporating smart contract functionality and 24/7 operation. Project Appia, meanwhile, is responsible for developing the long-term architecture, technical standards, and legal framework for the European tokenized asset market, with a complete blueprint expected by 2028. (Bitcoin.com News)