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Coinbase Markets announced that spot trading for Grass (GRASS) will go live on August 26, 2026. If liquidity conditions are met, the GRASS-USD trading pair will open in supported regions later today.
xStocks announced that it is advancing its tokenized stock business on Hyperliquid, with MUx, SKHYx, NVDAx, QQQx, and SPYx now live as native spot markets. Each asset has approximately $1 million in liquidity, an average spread of 8–12 basis points, and supports 24/7 trading, with more assets to be listed subsequently.
According to an official announcement from Odaily, Coinbase will list Grass (GRASS) on August 26, 2026. If liquidity conditions are met and trading is supported, the GRASS-USD trading pair is expected to open later today.
Odaily News: Qualcomm Technologies announced the launch of the Qualcomm Intelligent Multimedia SDK (IMSDK) 2.0, providing a unified development framework for AI and multimedia application development based on the Qualcomm Dragonwing platform.Qualcomm stated that IMSDK 2.0 is designed to help developers build intelligent applications on edge devices that integrate generative AI, multimedia processing, and real-time analytics capabilities, consolidating AI model inference, cameras, audio, video, sensors, and cloud connectivity into a single development environment, covering scenarios such as intelligent cameras, industrial robots, drones, and IoT devices.The new SDK introduces a Pipeline API and application building tools for Python and C++, reducing developers' reliance on underlying multimedia frameworks. Additionally, IMSDK 2.0 supports multiple AI inference paths, including the Qualcomm AI Runtime SDK (QAIRT), ONNX Runtime, and TensorFlow Lite, and can run models on CPU, GPU, or NPU as needed.Furthermore, IMSDK 2.0 introduces Coding Agent Skills for AI programming assistants, Documentation as Code, and containerized microservices capabilities, helping developers complete application building, debugging, deployment, and optimization through natural language instructions.
xStocks announced on X that MUx, SKHYx, NVDAx, QQQx, and SPYx are now live as native spot markets on Hyperliquid, supporting 24/7 trading. Each asset has approximately $1 million in liquidity, with an average spread of 8 to 12 basis points. More assets will be listed gradually.xStocks reminds that these tokens only represent economic exposure to the corresponding assets, not direct ownership, and are not available to U.S. persons, subject to geographical restrictions.
According to Odaily, Nick Timiraos, the Wall Street Journal reporter known as the "Fed whisperer," analyzes in his latest article that Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's first major speech at Jackson Hole this week will face a core question: whether persistently high U.S. inflation is caused by one-off shocks like tariffs and wars, or whether the economy itself remains overheated.This judgment will directly determine the direction of interest rates, and it is also the biggest disagreement within the Federal Reserve currently. At the July meeting, three officials supported a rate hike, and other officials have also signaled the possibility of further tightening, while Warsh has yet to take a clear stance. Since taking office, he has deliberately reduced policy guidance, and now both the market and his Fed colleagues are waiting for his first systematic explanation of his views.The key to Warsh's tenure ultimately depends on how he explains why previous policies failed to bring inflation back to 2%. If the rate cuts and pro-employment policies of the past two years were themselves mistakes, because the labor market was actually stronger than the Fed had judged, then Warsh would need to push for reversing the rate cuts. However, this would conflict with the stance previously taken by Trump and Bessent, who had called for further rate cuts.
Z.ai has released GLM-5.3-Flash, calling it the first native multimodal model in the GLM-5 series. The model features 320 billion total parameters and 18 billion active parameters, outperforming GLM-5.2 across multiple coding, agent, and vision benchmarks, and approaching Claude Opus 4.8 on certain coding tasks. GLM-5.3-Flash employs a hybrid architecture that combines sparse attention with linear attention, and introduces mechanisms such as mHC and IndexPool to reduce long-context inference costs and KV cache overhead.
Pump.fun announced that its application now supports HyperEVM, enabling users to trade any HyperEVM token using USDC while earning referral rewards and enjoying a near-zero fee trading experience. Pump.fun stated that it is the first application to bring HyperEVM into this trading scenario.
Odaily Planet Daily Report: AI Agent testing infrastructure startup Arga Labs has announced the completion of a $10 million seed funding round, led by General Catalyst, with participation from BoxGroup, Emergence Capital, Gradient Ventures, and SV Angel. The company aims to address the challenges of testing, training, and adapting AI Agents to complex business systems during enterprise-level deployment. By creating complete digital twin environments of enterprise software, replicating permission systems, Webhooks, and system interaction logic, it enables AI Agents to train in environments that closely resemble real-world operations. (TechCrunch)
According to CoinDesk, Ethereum researchers have proposed an early draft to rebuild the validator deposit contract, enabling support for new cryptographic signature schemes with quantum resistance, and providing a mechanism for ceasing to accept existing BLS signature deposits in the future.
MiniMax revealed during its mid-2026 earnings call that the company is advancing the adaptation of domestic chips for M3 and H3 models, with a large-scale domestic computing cluster set to go live soon and gradually handle real production traffic. (People's Financial News)
Odaily News: Sui announced on the X platform that Sui assets are now listed on the KuCoin Web3 wallet, which offers asset settlement times of under 1 second.
Odaily News Cryptocurrency exchange OKX's latest survey this month shows that 90% of US college students and 87% of parents support universities offering cryptocurrency and blockchain courses, with 27% of students and 32% of parents believing such courses should be mandatory.A 2025 review of 533 US universities with accredited business schools found that approximately 28% offer blockchain courses. Among surveyed students, 33% cited social media or influencers as their most important source of cryptocurrency information—nearly five times the number who chose schools, teachers, or professors; parents' primary source of information was cryptocurrency platforms and applications, accounting for 21%.OKX surveyed 500 students and 500 parents via the online survey platform Pollfish, with respondents not recruited from OKX's customer base. OKX did not disclose the survey's weighting methodology, margin of error, or the proportion of respondents holding cryptocurrencies. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: Coinbase Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad has written an article rebutting the American Bankers Association's concerns about stablecoin rewards, stating that existing data does not support the claim that stablecoin platforms paying rewards will lead to deposit outflows from community banks and weaken local credit. Current law already permits such rewards, and Coinbase has been paying rewards to USDC users for over four years. Faryar Shirzad noted that from June 2019 to March 2026, community bank deposits grew by 26%, an increase of approximately $482 billion; research by Charles River Associates and the Council of Economic Advisers similarly found no significant relationship between stablecoins and bank deposits. The modification the American Bankers Association is requesting does not concern technical details in the CLARITY Act. The current text prohibits users from receiving returns solely for holding idle funds, but allows rewards for genuine activity; the amendment proposed by the American Bankers Association could expand restrictions to ordinary stablecoin use cases, and leave questions such as whether merchant rebates constitute bank interest to be decided by regulators and litigation. Faryar Shirzad calls for maintaining the existing compromise and passing the CLARITY Act, stating that the bill would grant banks new authorities in custody, staking, lending, payments, clearing, and market making.
One-stop AGI infrastructure platform B.AI released its latest ecosystem data: On August 25 alone, the platform added 23,432 new API users, bringing the cumulative total over the period to 79,500. Daily token throughput exceeded 594.71 billion, with cumulative API calls reaching 74.108 million and total throughput surpassing 3 trillion tokens. Both core metrics simultaneously set new historical records.
Alibaba Qwen has released the Qwen3.8-Flash model. As described, this is a multimodal MoE model and an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture. The production version of Qwen3.8-Flash will soon be available via the Qwen Cloud API, priced at just $0.16 per million input tokens and $0.47 per million output tokens. With 125 billion parameters plus 51 billion N-gram embedding parameters, it activates only 6 billion parameters per token, achieving extremely high cost efficiency.
Odaily News Digital asset manager Grayscale Investments' Chief Legal Officer Craig Salm stated that the company's Zcash investment product has been upgraded to the world's first Zcash Exchange-Traded Product (ETP), marking a move of privacy-focused crypto assets into broader compliant investment channels. Following the launch of this Zcash ETP, investors can gain exposure to ZEC through SEC-registered traditional financial products. Grayscale noted that this signifies the Zcash ecosystem, after nearly a decade of development, is entering a new phase of institutionalization.Salm recalled that Grayscale launched the Zcash Investment Trust in 2018, when the ZEC trust product was just one of four products offered by the company. After years of regulatory engagement, the product was recently converted into the Zcash ETP, with the ticker symbol ZCSH. The process of bringing the Zcash product to the public market was not easy. Due to ZEC's privacy features, the company underwent greater regulatory scrutiny when launching its first publicly quoted Zcash fund in 2021, but ultimately completed the product rollout.Data shows that the adoption rate of Zcash's private transaction features has been steadily rising recently. In February 2026, ZEC shielded transactions reached an all-time high of 59.3% of total transactions, and after the latest Ironwood upgrade, it has again approached this level. Currently, the shielded pool holds approximately 4.4 million ZEC, accounting for about 26% of the circulating supply.
Odaily News - Ripple's stablecoin RLUSD has surpassed a $2 billion market cap, becoming one of the fastest-growing projects in the stablecoin market.Data shows that RLUSD's total issuance currently stands at approximately $2 billion, with about $963 million deployed on the XRP Ledger and approximately $1.1 billion issued on the Ethereum network. Ripple previously stated that RLUSD will integrate with its global payment network to provide enterprises and financial institutions with more efficient on-chain liquidity solutions. (CoinDesk)
Odaily News Digital asset infrastructure provider Taurus has connected its tokenization and custody platform to Swift's blockchain-based ledger, allowing clients to use bank-issued tokenized deposits for payments through their existing digital asset infrastructure.Taurus stated that the first client integrations are expected to go live within days, with the first distributed ledger technology transaction facilitated by its platform expected to be completed within weeks.International payment network Swift announced in July that its ledger was ready for initial use, with 17 banks from six continents piloting real-time transactions using tokenized deposits. Standard Chartered and HSBC have completed the first real-time cross-border transaction on the ledger. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: Digital asset infrastructure service provider Taurus SA announced that its tokenization and custody platform has completed integration with Swift's blockchain-based distributed ledger, the international bank communication network.Taurus stated that following this integration, clients can connect their existing digital asset infrastructure to Swift's blockchain ledger and conduct payment transactions using bank-issued tokenized deposits. The first batch of client integrations is expected to go live within days, with the first transactions based on this distributed ledger technology (DLT) expected to be completed within weeks.In July 2026, Swift announced that its blockchain ledger was ready for initial use, with 17 banks from six continents planning to pilot cross-border payments based on tokenized deposits through the system. Subsequently, Standard Chartered and HSBC completed the first real-time cross-border transactions supported by the ledger, establishing connectivity between their respective tokenized deposit systems.Swift stated that the blockchain ledger will serve as a coordination layer for cross-border payments, supporting round-the-clock transfers of tokenized deposits held on participating banks' balance sheets, while continuing to complete clearing through existing financial infrastructures such as real-time gross settlement (RTGS) systems during the final settlement phase. (Cointelegraph)