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Odaily News: Alkemya Metacore is preparing to issue a new security, ALKN, linked to its inventory of high-purity nickel wire, with plans to raise $50 million through tokenization. The related inventory is valued at $1.6 billion, approximately 7 million meters, and is currently stored in Switzerland. The nickel wire is primarily used in semiconductors, aerospace, and defense sectors. The raised funds will be used to support its operating subsidiary, Green Transitional Metals, in the research, development, and commercialization of nickel products in areas such as electromagnetic shielding, aerospace and defense, semiconductors, power industry systems, green hydrogen, and precious metal recycling. Bitfinex Securities will facilitate the listing of ALKN, with the initial subscription for qualified investors open until October 15. This product is described as one of the world's first tokenized nickel products and the first tokenized commodity issuance under El Salvador's digital asset regulatory framework.
Odaily News, The Sandbox has released a post-mortem report on the August 22 vulnerability incident. The report shows that attackers exploited vulnerabilities in contracts related to cross-chain configurations on Base and BNB Smart Chain (BSC), stealing 14,742,341.84 SAND from the Ethereum treasury, accounting for approximately 0.5% of the maximum supply, with an estimated economic impact of approximately $1.4968 million, of which about $987,000 was actually retained by the attackers. The Ethereum mainnet and Polygon network were not affected. Until further notice, please do not purchase or send SAND on Base or BNB Smart Chain. Contracts deployed on Base and BNB Smart Chain have been permanently deactivated and will not be reopened. The Sandbox stated that the team has reported the attacker's wallet address to blockchain analysis firms TRM Labs and Chainalysis, and has communicated directly with relevant exchanges. The Sandbox also announced a compensation plan, which will compensate wallets that legitimately held cross-chain SAND on Base or BSC prior to the incident at a 1:1 ratio in Ethereum SAND. Compensation funds will come from The Sandbox treasury, with no new tokens issued. The claim process will open within the next two weeks and remain open for two weeks.
One-stop AGI infrastructure platform B.AI announced that Alibaba Qwen's latest open-source model, Qwen3.8-Flash, has officially launched on the platform and is now fully available for free access via the API official group. Acting as a forward-looking preview of the Qwen4 architecture, Qwen3.8-Flash is a multimodal MoE model with 125B total parameters and 51B N-gram Embeddings, activating only 6B parameters per token. The model integrates a hybrid attention mechanism combining GDN and QSA for the first time, effectively balancing long-text processing efficiency with information retrieval accuracy. It natively supports a 262K context window and can be extended to 1M using YaRN. Starting today, developers can access this model at zero cost through the B.AI API official group to seamlessly handle multimodal tasks such as coding assistance, agent workflows, and document analysis. B.AI continues to lower the barrier to AI application development by providing inclusive computing resources, enabling more developers to leverage top-tier open-source models.
Odaily News: Bybit today added three U.S. stock perpetual contracts—McDonald's (MCDUSDT), Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLUUSDT), and Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLPUSDT)—with support for up to 25x leverage. During the launch period, limited-time fee discounts are available: 0% taker fee rate and 50% off on maker fee rate.
Volcengine unveiled its embodied AI solution at the 2026 World Robot Conference, providing end-to-end closed-loop data capabilities spanning data collection, processing, annotation, management, simulation, and training. Yang Liwei, Vice President of Volcengine, stated that the company is advancing the engineering deployment of core scenarios in partnership with the Seed team. Currently, 15 of China's top 20 embodied AI companies by valuation have established deep collaborations with Volcengine, including Shangwei New Materials, Xinghaitu, Qianxun Intelligence, Zibianliang, Daxiao Robotics, Qiongte Intelligence, and Jubrao Panshi.
Odaily News: Digital asset investment platform Rockawayx has acquired digital asset hedge fund Relayer Capital, incorporating its directional long/short strategy into its approximately $2 billion investment platform. Relayer Capital founder Austin Barack will continue to oversee the strategy and assume the role of Chief Investment Officer of the newly renamed Rockawayx Liquid Opportunities Fund.Rockawayx CEO Viktor Fischer stated that the fund will invest in highly liquid crypto tokens and digital asset-related equities, with a focus on identifying assets that are mispriced relative to their business fundamentals, market position, or growth prospects. The fund is currently open to new external investors.Rockawayx disclosed that the strategy's estimated net return from the start of 2026 through August 21 stands at approximately 70%, outperforming a weighted portfolio of Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana by 86 percentage points. Major contributing positions include Venice AI, Hyperliquid, Grass Network, Pump.fun, and Zcash, with investment themes centered on AI and tokenized real-world asset markets.The acquisition adds a directional liquid strategy to Rockawayx's venture capital and market-neutral businesses. Rockawayx also operates infrastructure and onchain liquidity divisions, noting that these capabilities support its team in identifying blockchain market opportunities across stages—from early-stage funding and token issuance to public market trading. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily News, Justin Sun stated at the Bitcoin Asia 2026 conference in Hong Kong that the threat of quantum computing to blockchain and the entire financial system is widespread, with traditional banks such as JPMorgan facing the same risks. Due to the highly decentralized nature of the Bitcoin community, which involves multiple participants including miners, exchanges, and WBTC, reaching a quantum-resistant consensus will take a considerable amount of time. Justin Sun stated that TRON has been researching quantum-resistant mechanisms over the past year, having released a quantum-resistant address solution and launched it on the testnet in the first half of this year. The project plans to upgrade the entire network into a mainstream crypto network with quantum-resistant capabilities by the end of this year.
1inch and HackenProof have jointly released the first-half 2026 Bug Bounty Report. The report shows that from January to June 2026, 1inch received a total of 1,055 submissions from security researchers across its 6 core bug bounty programs on HackenProof, of which 32 were rewarded.
Odaily News Recently, the Pre-IPO derivatives sector has seen rising momentum. Ave.ai continues to launch new trading pairs for stock-crypto contracts. On August 27, Ave.ai listed two popular Pre-IPO contract trading pairs: $ANTH and $SHEIN.It is reported that Anthropic, as the developer of the Claude large language model, is a highly sought-after unlisted company in the global AI sector. As its products continue to gain traction in code generation, intelligent agents, and professional research scenarios, market discussions around its IPO valuation have been intensifying. Meanwhile, cross-border e-commerce company SHEIN's listing plans are also a topic of shared interest in both traditional financial markets and the crypto market.Currently, trading $ANTH and $SHEIN through Ave.ai's contracts section is not restricted by US stock trading hours. Users can engage in leveraged long or short trading 24/7 based on business progress, financing news, and IPO expectations. Both contract pairs are now live on Ave.ai.
As previously reported, the built-in browser for Claude's desktop Cowork will launch within a week. The feature is now rolling out: the sidebar automatically opens the built-in browser, enabling Claude to independently browse webpages, click buttons, and input text without requiring any extensions or additional setup. This rollout is available to Pro, Max, and Team users, with Enterprise administrators able to enable it starting today.
According to the morning report published by on-chain analyst Axel Adler Jr., following Bitcoin's rebound to approximately $78,000, the financial pressure on coin holders has significantly eased: Bitcoin's net unrealized loss (NUL) dropped from 18.57% to 7.35% over the past ten days, a decline of roughly 60%. This represents a near 71% decrease from the local peak of 25.21% on June 30, reaching its lowest level since May 11. Meanwhile, the 90-day realized profit/loss ratio rose to 1.003 on August 26, marking the first time it has returned above 1 since late July. This indicates that, calculated on a 90-day smoothed basis, realized profits have slightly exceeded realized losses. Prior to this, the metric stayed below 1 for 26 consecutive days beginning July 31, touching 0.747 on August 16 when BTC traded around $62,800. The report notes that on-chain loss pressure has shifted from dominating to improving, but the profit/loss ratio sits only slightly above the critical threshold, insufficient to confirm a trend reversal. Subsequent monitoring should focus on whether this indicator can sustainably hold its ground and advance, as well as whether unrealized losses remain subdued. If the ratio falls back below 1 and unrealized losses rebound, it may signal renewed selling pressure.
Odaily News: According to the official announcement, Gate launched spot trading for Pons (PONS) on August 27 at 15:00 (UTC+8), and will list Pons (PONS) on its Flash Exchange platform at 16:00 (UTC+8).
The all-in-one AGI infrastructure platform B.AI has announced that Zhipu's GLM-5.3-Flash (320B-A18B) has officially launched on the platform and is now fully accessible at zero cost through the official API group. As the first native all-modal model in the GLM-5 series, GLM-5.3-Flash features 320B total parameters and 18B active parameters, powered by purely domestic AI chips. It introduces a hybrid architecture of sparse and linear attention for the first time, supports a 1M ultra-long context window, delivers formidable performance alongside exceptional cost-efficiency, and stands as a leading powerhouse among current domestic models. Effective immediately, developers can invoke this advanced tool at zero cost via the B.AI API official group, effortlessly tackling complex reasoning, long-text processing, and multimodal tasks. B.AI continues to lower the barrier to AI development through democratized computing power, enabling more developers to access top-tier domestic models.
Odaily News: Jeremy Allaire posted on the X platform that StableFX is about to launch on the Arc mainnet. Previously, StableFX had already gone live on the Arc public testnet. StableFX is an institutional-grade stablecoin foreign exchange engine that covers local currency stablecoins in major and emerging markets, supporting near-instant, 7×24-hour on-demand settlement. It adopts a PvP mechanism, meaning both sides settle simultaneously or not at all, to reduce capital occupation. It also allows access to multiple audited counterparties through a single onboarding process.
According to South Korean media outlet Digital Asset, the Seoul Central District Court ruled on August 27 that Bithumb won an unjust enrichment restitution lawsuit against a user, ordering them to return the proceeds from the sale of mistakenly sent Bitcoin. The case involves approximately 194 million KRW and is one of four independent lawsuits filed by Bithumb following a February BTC mis-issuance incident this year; the amounts involved in the remaining cases are approximately 500 million KRW, 14.8 million KRW, and 5 million KRW, respectively. Previously, Bithumb had mistakenly distributed 620,000 BTC to users as part of an activity reward program and subsequently launched a recovery initiative. In March, the exchange reported to the National Assembly that nearly 99% of the remaining unrecovered 1,788 BTC had been successfully reclaimed. The first ruling, which affirms the exchange's right to recover proceeds from the sale of mistakenly issued assets, may increase the likelihood of Bithumb prevailing in the other three cases.
Bitcoin multisig hardware wallet Frostsnap has released version v0.4.0, fixing two security issues with no user fund losses detected so far. First, a malicious signing request could mark a certain output as belonging to the user's wallet. The device did not verify this claim and would not display it on the confirmation screen, potentially allowing funds to be transferred to an address the user had never seen. Second, change addresses could fall outside the wallet's recovery scan range, causing funds to appear missing after backup restoration, although the relevant funds actually remained in the wallet. After the update, the app will prompt users to upgrade their device firmware and adds firmware downgrade protection. The Frostsnap team recommends that users update the app and firmware as soon as possible.
According to an announcement by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), fraudsters are frequently impersonating government agencies, banks, investment firms, utility companies, or technical support personnel to lure victims into transferring funds via cryptocurrency ATMs, gift cards, unknown apps, or courier deliveries, exploiting the irreversible nature of transactions and the difficulty of tracing address ownership to carry out scams. Data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) shows that reported losses involving cryptocurrency ATMs in 2025 exceeded $388 million, up 58% from the previous year, with actual losses likely higher due to underreporting. The CFTC states that legitimate government agencies, financial institutions, and businesses will not require users to transfer assets via cryptocurrency ATMs, gift cards, or courier services. If parties urge action on the grounds that "your account or identity faces an urgent risk," demand secrecy, request remote access to devices, or instruct transfers to designated wallet addresses or via QR codes, these should be treated as high-risk red flags. Regulators advise users to halt transactions, independently verify information through official channels, and promptly report suspected fraud to the CFTC or the FBI IC3.
Bybit today added a Pre-IPO pre-market perpetual contract for Shein (SHEINUSDT), supporting up to 10x leverage. Users can trade its valuation ahead of Shein's official listing.
Odaily News With the La Liga season progressing, event market-related trading remains open. The next round of matches kicks off on August 28 at 02:30 (UTC+8) and 03:00 (UTC+8). Celta Vigo will face Osasuna, with current support rates of 49% and 23%, respectively, and a draw support rate of 29%. Following that, Barcelona will take on Athletic Bilbao, with current support rates of 79% and 8%, respectively, and a draw support rate of 15%.The second phase of the Gate Event Points campaign is now officially live, with a total prize pool of $16,960, including a points pool of $13,521 and a lucky jackpot pool of $10,552. As of now, the Top 1 on the points leaderboard is expected to receive 5,088 USDT. Users can enter the Gate App (v8.32 or above), complete valid event contract trades, and earn scratch cards based on cumulative trading volume. In regular markets, users earn 1 scratch card for every 20 USDT of cumulative trading volume, while in designated events marked with a "2x" badge, users earn 1 scratch card for every 10 USDT of cumulative trading volume. Users have the chance to win USDT, event points, trial vouchers, and more. They can also trigger a super lucky prize, earning 88,888 PTS points and sharing the lucky jackpot pool. Additionally, the top 100 users on the weekly leaderboard can share the points pool.Furthermore, Gate is offering a limited-time "Big Five Leagues Kickoff Carnival" prediction event from August 12, 16:00 to August 31, 16:00 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of up to 200,000 USDT. During the event, users who participate in designated football event trading can receive a 10 USDT prediction trial voucher. If users predict a loss for a top-tier club in their opening match, they can receive up to 100 USDT in downside compensation. As an official sponsor of Inter Milan, Gate will select 10 lucky users to receive co-branded jerseys. Users who rank in the top 100 of the cumulative trading volume leaderboard can share a 50,000 USDT prize pool.
According to a video released by Franklin Templeton Digital Assets, its Chief Investment Officer for Crypto Seth Ginns stated that institutional investors are focusing on the convergence trend between traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi).