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According to Cointelegraph, Capital Vault, an affiliate of trading platform Capital.com, has obtained a virtual asset license issued by the UAE's Capital Markets Authority (CMA), authorizing it to handle virtual assets and provide custody services as an agent or principal. Capital Vault will operate as an independent regulated entity, having already opened an office in Abu Dhabi and assembled a local virtual asset team. Once the service goes live, UAE users will be able to directly purchase and hold crypto assets via the Capital.com app, differing from its prior CFD business that only offered price exposure.
Odaily News Capital.com, a trading platform and contracts-for-differences (CFD) broker, has had its affiliated entity Capital Vault obtain a virtual asset license from the UAE's Capital Markets Authority (CMA), allowing it to conduct virtual asset trading as an agent or principal, as well as provide custody services to clients.Once the service goes live, UAE clients will be able to buy and hold crypto assets through the Capital.com app, with Capital Vault handling execution, custody, and settlement. This service is distinct from Capital.com's existing CFD products, which only offer price exposure and do not represent ownership of the underlying crypto assets.Capital Vault operates as an independent regulated entity, with its governance, custody, and risk arrangements separated from Capital.com's other businesses. It has established an office in Abu Dhabi and assembled a local virtual asset team.The approval follows the CMA's introduction of a virtual asset regulatory framework in April. The framework expands the number of regulated activities from three to eight, covering business conduct, alternative trading system requirements, anti-money laundering controls, and prudential standards. (Cointelegraph)
According to reports from South Korean media outlet Chosun Ilbo, internet giant Kakao announced that its board of directors has approved a corporate spin-off plan. The company intends to establish a new entity named "Kakao AI" while retaining "Kakao X", with each focusing respectively on artificial intelligence platforms and investments, as well as fintech, content, and mobility services. Under the proposal, the book value of net assets will be allocated between the two companies at a ratio of 36% to 64%. Existing shareholders will receive shares in both entities in proportion to this split. Following the spin-off, Kakao AI will take primary responsibility for KakaoTalk and AI operations. The company plans to upgrade KakaoTalk, which currently serves approximately 50 million users, into an "AI agent-style interface" designed to understand user intent and conversational context. As scheduled, Kakao will convene a special general meeting of shareholders on December 17, complete the corporate separation on January 1, 2027, and proceed with Kakao AI's relisting and Kakao X's change of listing venue on January 27.
Odaily News: MANTRA Chain officially stated that an incident affecting on-chain operations has occurred on the network. The team has paused the blockchain as a precautionary measure and is currently investigating. At present, all interfaces and transactions have been frozen, temporarily impacting users' ability to deposit or withdraw assets to and from MANTRA Chain. The root cause of the incident has not yet been confirmed, and no recovery timeline has been announced. MANTRA Chain will provide further updates through official channels once verified information is available.
Odaily News, according to official sources, OKX has upgraded its RLUSD rewards program. Eligible VIP users can now earn 10% APR on the first 10,000 RLUSD held, an increase from the previous 2,000 RLUSD limit; balances exceeding 10,000 RLUSD are rewarded at 4.2% APR; regular users continue to enjoy 3.5% APR.It is reported that users holding RLUSD automatically earn rewards without the need for subscription, redemption, or lock-up, and can choose to receive them in either RLUSD or XRP.
Odaily News: Brian Armstrong posted on X platform that regulatory clarity seems inevitable either way: first, the U.S. Senate secured over 60 votes on September 15; second, the CFTC and SEC will release a new set of rules on September 16.
According to the official announcement, Upbit will list CRV/KRW and USDT trading pairs.
Odaily News - Gate has officially announced the launch of its Japanese stock trading service, initially covering approximately 300 stocks listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange (TSE), including popular names such as Toyota Motor, Sony Group, SoftBank Group, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Nintendo, and Tokyo Electron. Users can directly trade Japanese stocks on the Gate platform using USDT, without needing to open a traditional Japanese brokerage account or exchange yen. Japanese stock trading is now available on Gate's Web interface, with the App version expected to launch soon.In terms of trading features, Japanese stocks share the same stock account and related trading capabilities as Gate's US stocks, Hong Kong stocks, and Korean stocks, supporting functions such as market data viewing, buying, selling, position management, and trade history inquiry. Japanese stock trading supports intraday sessions from 09:00–11:30 and 12:30–15:25 Japan time, corresponding to 08:00–10:30 and 11:30–14:25 UTC+8.The launch of Japanese stock trading further enriches Gate's global multi-asset trading ecosystem. The platform now supports over 10,000 US stocks and ETFs, more than 1,500 Hong Kong stocks, over 1,000 Korean stocks, and approximately 300 Japanese stocks, offering a combined total of more than 12,800 stocks and ETF assets for trading. Going forward, Gate will continue to expand into core global markets and high-quality assets, driving the integration of traditional finance and digital assets to provide users with more diversified one-stop asset allocation options.
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According to TechFlow research, Morgan Stanley's August 20 report noted that the U.S. Treasury will increase the size of its liquidity-supporting repo operations for the 10-to-20-year and 20-to-30-year tenors from $2 billion per transaction to at least $4 billion, effective September 9. This marks the first adjustment to the repurchase volume outside of the quarterly refinancing window since the repo program launched in May 2024. The two tenors combined add $1.6 billion in notional amount, corresponding to approximately $19.3 million in DV01 (price change per one-basis-point move in rates), with a risk impact roughly double that of the November 2023 "supply surprise." Morgan Stanley stated that the Treasury's decision to expand repurchases ahead of schedule outside the quarterly refinancing window aims to signal close monitoring of long-end interest rate dynamics to the market, thereby buying time for the November refinancing window. The recent rise in the 10-year Treasury yield and curve steepening primarily reflect the market's repricing of energy prices and central bank policy trajectories, rather than concerns over deficits or supply. Morgan Stanley maintains its recommendation for a 7-year versus 30-year Treasury curve steepening trade, targeting a spread of 100 basis points (currently around 71 basis points). On the FX front, coordinated volatility in gold and the Swiss franc hit an annual peak on August 19; should the U.S. dollar policy narrative reassert itself, EUR/USD is likely to approach 1.2150.
According to The Defiant, Arbitrum officially activated the ArbOS 61 Elara upgrade on August 20, which was approved for deployment via an ArbitrumDAO governance vote. The core features of this upgrade include: introducing an optional protocol-level transaction filtering mechanism for Dedicated Chains, allowing chain owners to independently select external compliance service providers such as TRM Labs and Chainalysis to configure restricted address rules; the filter is disabled by default and does not affect existing Arbitrum One users; adding Priority Fee support, also disabled by default, with its activation on Arbitrum One still requiring a separate DAO constitutional vote; introducing the BaseFeeManager contract, which authorizes Offchain Labs to adjust the L2 minimum Gas fee within a DAO-approved range of 0.01 to 0.10 gwei over a two-year authorization period; additionally, the maximum code size limit for Stylus contracts has been increased from 24 KB to 96 KB, though this does not apply to Solidity contracts.
According to Upbit's official announcement, the exchange will officially launch BTC and USDT trading pairs for four tokens BICO (Biconomy), BMT (Bubblemaps), NIL (Nillion), and GWEI (ETHGas) on August 21 at 13:00. Deposit services will open within two hours after the announcement.
The official X account of XCAD Network announced that the project has officially ceased operations. The announcement stated that the company has halted updates since April, all funds are now fully depleted, maintenance for all products and services has been suspended, and it can no longer afford the costs of maintaining its exchange listings. Operating for five years since its founding, XCAD Network previously attempted to pivot from the fan token sector to AI virtual influencers, but the transition was unsuccessful, and there are now no remaining funds to support continued operations.
According to CryptoSlate, researchers from USENIX Security publicly disclosed a clock attack vulnerability against Solana’s Proof of History (PoH) mechanism on August 12. The vulnerability had been privately reported to the Solana development team as early as December 2025. Research indicates that a malicious scheduler leader could manipulate the PoH logical clock through "re-anchoring," slowing the progression of logical time. This would yield a longer transaction selection window within physical time, allowing the attacker to isolate honest leaders' blocks via the TowerBFT fork-choice mechanism, with the required stake for the attack falling below 33%. The Alpenglow security contest hosted by Anza, which offered a 50,000 SOL prize pool, concluded on August 19. However, the vulnerability was excluded from the evaluation scope because the contest rules explicitly excluded "behaviors that can only be triggered when Alpenglow is inactive." The Solana development team confirmed awareness of the issue, stating that the probability of the worst-case scenario occurring under current conditions is low. They expect the Alpenglow upgrade to fundamentally eliminate the attack's prerequisites. The Alpenglow code is already integrated into the Agave 4.2 client but remains inactive on the mainnet, with full deployment expected alongside Agave 4.3. Until then, the transitional risks associated with this vulnerability have yet to receive public implementation-level analysis or official responses.
According to a Grayscale research report, as AI-driven financial monitoring capabilities continue to expand, the demand for financial privacy is experiencing a third wave of renewed interest, potentially benefiting Zcash (ZEC). The report notes that Zcash’s zero-knowledge proof-based shielded transaction technology conceals the sender, recipient, and transaction amount, establishing a differentiated positioning compared to Bitcoin’s transparent on-chain records. Current on-chain data shows that shielded transactions now account for approximately 90% of Zcash’s total network transaction volume, while shielded supply has reached around 4.2 million ZEC, representing 25% of the circulating supply, with both figures hitting all-time highs. In terms of valuation, ZEC holds a market capitalization of approximately $8 billion, accounting for only 0.6% of the total market cap within Grayscale's "Cryptocurrency Monetary Sector". If its market share increases to 5%, the theoretical valuation space would be roughly nine times the current level. The report also cautions that Zcash faces multiple risks, including regulatory compliance, legacy issues from historical trusted setups, quantum computing threats, and protocol upgrade execution challenges, requiring investors to conduct prudent assessments.
Odaily News: The inaugural Innovation Advisory Committee meeting of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) was held this morning. Tushar Jain, co-founder of Multicoin Capital, put forward three proposals at the meeting: First, establish a safe harbor or innovation exemption mechanism for emerging markets such as computing power derivatives, allowing developers to test new products and business models within a compliant framework; Second, support the adoption of compliant privacy and confidentiality tools in DeFi, ensuring transaction privacy for institutional investors while providing regulators with sufficient transparency to identify and manage systemic risks; Third, support the launch of Pre-IPO perpetual futures, enabling ordinary US investors to participate in the wealth growth of emerging industries such as AI, preventing them from being excluded due to private market access restrictions, or being forced to participate indirectly through special purpose vehicles (SPVs) that lack transparency.Tushar Jain also stated that he had exchanges with SEC Chairman Paul Atkins on the same day, expressing optimism about regulators driving financial innovation and the future development of the United States.
Odaily Planet Daily reported that Lorenzo Valente, Head of Digital Asset Research at investment firm ARK Invest, stated that Hyperliquid is in discussions with the CFTC and SEC to facilitate the offering of perpetual futures on its public chain by U.S.-regulated companies. He suggested that Hyperliquid acquire Gemini to position it as a U.S.-regulated HIP-3/4 deployer. He noted that Gemini's current market value is approximately $450 million, representing a decline of over 85% from its $3.3 billion valuation at the time of its 2025 IPO. Hyperliquid could obtain Gemini's entire U.S. regulatory infrastructure—including the NYDFS Trust Charter, DCM, DCO, FCM, MTLs, and Broker-dealer—for approximately $450 million.He further proposed that Hyperliquid could use approximately 7.9 million HYPE tokens from its community reserve, valued at around $550 million at $70 per token, to complete the acquisition at a premium of roughly 20% over Gemini's current market value. Following the transaction, Gemini would handle KYC, custody, fiat on/off ramps, brokerage, clearing, and compliance for the U.S. market, while Hyperliquid L1 would provide the underlying market infrastructure, liquidity, and on-chain settlement. He cited Polymarket's acquisition of QCEX as a similar precedent for re-entering the U.S. market, and stated that the core of this potential deal is not acquiring an exchange, but rather securing the regulatory bridge for HIP-3/4 to enter the U.S. market.
CZ posted on X, stating that tokenization is one of the best methods for countries to "raise capital" or attract foreign direct investment (FDI), and allowing global investors to purchase tokenized stocks presents strong appeal to both nations and businesses. He voiced support for advancing tokenization across all blockchains. While this may result in "liquidity fragmentation," collaborative efforts from various participants remain the fastest path to accelerating industry growth, and high interoperability among different issuers will help alleviate the fragmentation challenge.
Odaily News: On August 20 local time, the White House announced that U.S. President Trump has signed a memorandum proposing that by 2030, U.S. space transportation ranges and related facilities should be capable of supporting more than 1,000 launch and reentry missions annually. The memorandum states that the U.S. will expand and improve space launch and reentry infrastructure, requiring relevant agencies to promote the opening of federal launch sites to commercial users, encourage commercial investment, public-private partnerships, and joint infrastructure development, while accelerating facility permitting and environmental reviews. NASA has also been tasked with developing a commercial lunar logistics architecture, exploring commercial robotic Mars landings, and related architectures for commercial crewed round-trip missions to Mars. (CCTV News)
A senior Iranian official has stated that Tehran is planning to wage an economic war, including attacks on oil bypass export facilities in the Gulf region, with the aim of driving up U.S. gasoline prices and undermining the support rate of Trump's party ahead of the U.S. November midterm elections. According to the official's description, the targets of this plan will include two major alternative routes used by shippers to avoid the Strait of Hormuz: Saudi Arabia's Yanbu oil pipeline and the UAE's Fujairah oil terminal. Together, these two facilities handle approximately 5.5 million barrels of oil per day. If Iran simultaneously cuts off the roughly 5 million barrels per day of oil supply that the U.S.-backed "shadow fleet" currently transports through the Strait of Hormuz, a successful operation would weaken a significant portion of the alternative transport capacity—the very channels that have sustained some Gulf oil exports amid broader blockade conditions. Given that Brent crude prices are already near $93 per barrel under the current tense situation, any credible action targeting Yanbu or Fujairah could be perceived by traders as a shock far larger than previous supply disruptions. (Jinshi)