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Odaily News: According to an official announcement, Bitget stock contracts have listed DJT (Trump Media & Technology Group). These contracts are settled in USDT, support up to 20x leverage, and offer 7×24-hour trading. To date, Bitget supports a total of 291 stock perpetual contract instruments.
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.
According to Bitcoin.com, Bitdeer subsidiary Dory Creek will deploy its proprietary Sealminer A2 Pro Air miners starting in September 2026 at Project Kati 1, a wind-powered data center operated by Soluna in Willacy County, Texas, utilizing an expected 28 MW of power and generating approximately 1.93 EH/s of Bitcoin mining hash rate. The collaboration operates on a revenue-sharing model: Soluna manages the site, power supply, and daily operations, while Bitdeer provides and retains ownership of the mining equipment, with both parties splitting the Bitcoin revenue generated by this portion of the hardware. Project Kati 1 has a total capacity of 83 MW, with Galaxy Digital currently utilizing 48 MW for Bitcoin mining.
According to Fortune, Nikita Bier, former head of product at Elon Musk’s X and a serial entrepreneur, recently launched one-on-one video consulting services on the expert advice platform Intro, available exclusively to founders of venture-backed startups. His fee is $7,500 per 15-minute interval, with a minimum booking time of 30 minutes, bringing the starting price to $15,000 per session. Consultations cover topics such as startup growth, fundraising, investing, and product “virality.” Bier previously founded the anonymous social apps tbh and Gas, which both topped the US App Store charts before being acquired by Meta (formerly Facebook) and Discord in 2017 and 2023, respectively. He was named head of product at X in 2025, claiming to have driven the launch of around 30 products during his tenure. He has since stepped down from the position but remains on board as an advisor.
Flop Labs CEO and Maelstrom Fund CIO Arthur Hayes announced on X that an infographic detailing the FLOP tokenomics model will be released this week. He also plans to host a live AMA on X Spaces and YouTube next week, where the community can ask questions about the tokenomics design and provide constructive feedback to help the team finalize the plan.
According to Bloomberg, South Korean AI platform provider Wrtn Technologies announced it has completed a Series C funding round of approximately 100 billion won (around $69 million), valuing the company at 1.2 trillion won (approximately $870 million). The round will primarily be used to drive global market expansion. New investors Coreline Ventures and Eugene Asset Management participated in the financing, while existing shareholders including Goodwater Capital, Antler Global, Woori Venture Partners, Korea Development Bank, and Capstone Partners continued their support.
According to Yonhap News Agency, SK Hynix showcased a complete lineup of storage solutions for AI infrastructure at the Dell Technologies Forum 2026 held in Seoul, including sixth-generation High Bandwidth Memory (HBM4), HBM4E, AI server DRAM, enterprise SSDs (eSSDs) and client SSDs (cSSDs). The AI data center products include liquid-cooling-ready PEB210 E1.S, high-capacity low-power PS1110 E3.S, and the company's first QLC flash-based enterprise SSD PS1101 E3.S. SK Hynix also served as a partner keynote speaker at the forum for the first time, introducing the applications of next-generation storage technologies in the AI era.
Coinbase Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad disclosed that Coinbase has submitted comments in response to the joint request for comments from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the definition of perpetual derivatives and alternative compliance mechanisms. Coinbase recommends classifying equity perpetual contracts as securities futures and advocates for the establishment of an alternative compliance framework to address issues such as dual registration, redundant regulatory oversight, and liquidity fragmentation between the SEC and CFTC. Coinbase noted that complex existing regulatory definitions and overlapping agency jurisdictions have kept actively traded perpetual derivatives in the U.S. market in a prolonged state of regulatory uncertainty. Clarifying product classifications and establishing a unified regulatory framework aligned with associated risks would help bring relevant products currently accessed by U.S. investors through offshore platforms under domestic regulation, while simultaneously strengthening U.S. competitiveness in financial innovation.
Odaily News: Pons, an ecosystem project on the Robinhood Chain, announced that within just one month of its launch, it has generated over $2.85 billion in trading volume, representing more than 11% of the approximately $25 billion total trading volume on Robinhood DEX.
The Ethereum Foundation stated that the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade will adjust the gas costs for creating and accessing on-chain state through EIP-8037 and EIP-8038. After conducting replay tests on historical mainnet transactions, the team found that a small number of smart contracts rely on existing gas cost assumptions and may experience execution failures or performance degradation under the new rules. However, the vast majority of smart contracts remain unaffected, and most issues can be resolved by increasing the gas limit.
Canada released a 99-page tariff list, proposing to impose tariffs of up to 50% on approximately $20 billion in U.S. goods in retaliation. Trump also threatened to rename Lake Ontario "American Lake."
The Trump family's World Liberty Financial announced the native deployment of the USD1 stablecoin on Canton Network, enabling cross-chain interoperability without bridges.
Odaily Block News: The first proceeds from Hyperliquid's AQAv2 mechanism are expected to enter the Hyperliquid Assistance Fund on October 3. The market anticipates the initial fund size could reach approximately $20 million, which will be used to repurchase HYPE. AQAv2, or Aligned Quote Asset v2, is a stablecoin mechanism announced by Hyperliquid in May this year, allowing stablecoins not exclusively issued by Hyperliquid—including USDC—to qualify for "Aligned" status. According to public information, AQAv2 returns the majority of stablecoin yields to the Hyperliquid ecosystem, with 90% of the proceeds allocated to the relevant mechanism and subsequently used entirely for repurchasing and burning HYPE tokens. Coinbase has been designated as the fund deployment party, with Circle responsible for technical deployment, and both parties will also stake HYPE to participate in the mechanism. Analysts estimate that this mechanism could add approximately $135 million to $160 million in annual HYPE buyback pressure.
Odaily News: Recent Bitcoin volatility has triggered a wave of leveraged long position liquidations. On August 22, hourly liquidations reached $529 million, with long positions accounting for $478 million; on August 23, an additional $84 million in crypto long positions were liquidated within one hour.Prediction market Kalshi launched the first spot Bitcoin perpetual futures contract approved by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on June 3, with liquidations reaching $5.5 billion in the first two weeks. Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour stated that the product offers U.S. institutions regulated onshore perpetual contract trading.Benjamin Schiffrin, Director of Securities Policy at Better Markets, pointed out that perpetual futures are high-risk crypto products for retail investors, and the CFTC did not impose additional investor protections when approving them. Analysis account Qmo noted that there are significant Bitcoin long liquidation pools in the $62,000 to $67,000 range; trader Money Bunny disclosed that short liquidations reached $2.7 billion to $3.5 billion within 24 hours. (Forbes Digital Assets)
Bitwise Asset Management has partnered with Coinbase to launch a self-custody-enabled tokenized equity portfolio product. The service allows eligible non-U.S. investors to keep assets in their personal wallets, with strategy rebalancing automatically executed by the Glider platform.
LayerZero has launched the ATLAS trading and settlement engine built on the Zero blockchain, supporting all-hours market trading for stocks, bonds, and cryptocurrencies; driven by this positive development in innovative infrastructure, the price of its ZRO token has surged significantly.
predict.fun announced on X platform that it has launched the related prediction market.
Odaily News - DGrid AI's native token DGAI nearly doubled on its first day of trading, trading at approximately $0.73 on Tuesday, up nearly 93% over the past 24 hours, with a market cap of around $110 million and trading volume exceeding $165 million.DGrid AI is expanding its decentralized AI network, connecting users, developers, and distributed nodes to process AI inference requests. DGAI is used for payments, staking, and node rewards. The network employs a "Proof of Quality" mechanism to evaluate results, requiring node operators to stake DGAI, with penalties imposed for underperformance or violations.DGrid AI sold over 140 DClaw Boxes within hours at $1,580 USDT per unit, generating sales exceeding $221,000 USDT. The device is used to run DClaw personal AI agents, connecting users with AI models through a decentralized network of independently operated nodes. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: Lisk founder Max Kordek announced that Lisk will pivot to a treasury operations platform for enterprise finance teams, offering treasury management services such as accounts, payments, and approvals, while gradually winding down its original blockchain ecosystem. The new platform targets enterprises operating across entities and jurisdictions that use both fiat and stablecoins. Early access is now available for qualified companies, supporting unified management of bank and stablecoin accounts, bank transfers, stablecoin payments and receivables, and permission-based payment approvals. Future plans include corporate cards, non-custodial treasury management, and payroll integrations.Lisk Chain will shut down on October 31, 2026. Lisk has partnered with the Celo team to provide a migration path for on-chain DApps, developers, and projects to move to the Celo network.Lisk also proposed a plan to gradually dissolve the Lisk DAO, including burning 100 million LSK from the DAO treasury, reducing total supply from 400 million to 300 million; removing staking penalties and allowing holders to flexibly unstake, while gradually shutting down DAO governance infrastructure.Lisk stated that LSK will transform into a "loyalty token" for the new platform, where enterprises can earn rewards by using Lisk's treasury operations platform and referring other businesses, and may also use LSK to pay platform fees in the future. LSK will primarily operate on Ethereum and Base going forward. Users who still hold LSK on Lisk Chain must complete the migration to Ethereum before October 31.
According to official announcements, Mantle has revealed that Mantle Vault has expanded into the DeFi space. This launch extends Mantle Vault's business scope from its existing centralized finance platform on Bybit to a new deposit yield product for all stablecoin holders, delivering institutional-grade RWA yields on-chain.