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Odaily News: According to the official announcement, Bitget has listed 23 stock spot rTokens, including rHDV (iShares Core High Dividend ETF), rJEPI (JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF), rLUV (Southwest Airlines), and rOMC (Omnicom Group), covering multiple sectors such as financials, healthcare, and consumer goods. To date, the Bitget platform supports a total of 682 rTokens.It is reported that rTokens, identified by the letter "r" followed by a stock ticker (e.g., rNVDA for Nvidia), are issued by Reality, Bitget's licensed RWA protocol, and provide direct access to global liquidity pools such as Nasdaq and NYSE through a partnership with the compliant broker Alpaca. Their features include: 1:1 reserve backing of the underlying assets, held by licensed custodians; stock dividends distributed 1:1 in token form; support for synchronized mapping of corporate actions (such as stock splits); and the ability to use holdings as joint margin for unified accounts and USDT-margined contracts, allowing users to flexibly manage their funds while holding global equity assets.
According to Business Insider, Waymo founder Sebastian Thrun announced the founding of new robotics startup Dulo at the San Francisco robotics conference Actuate; the company is currently still in stealth mode. According to a webpage hosted by Stanford University, Dulo is dedicated to building a "foundation model for hardware design," with the goal of achieving "hyper-fast manufacturing." The team includes core talent from Waymo, Google Brain, and the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL). Thrun did not disclose funding details, product details, or launch timeline. Notably, in the first quarter of 2026, financing in the physical AI sector reached a record $16.3 billion.
According to official announcements, Ondo Finance revealed a series of ecosystem milestones, covering data on Ondo Perps and Ondo Stocks, reflecting the continuous growth of its on-chain market. Notably, since its launch in July, open interest for Ondo Perps has steadily climbed, currently surpassing $100 million, with particularly strong performance in recent weeks; meanwhile, according to DefiLlama data, Ondo Perps has ranked among the top three global RWA perpetual contract trading platforms, demonstrating market demand for RWA derivatives. Furthermore, since its launch in September 2025, Ondo Stocks has surpassed 270,000 cumulative holders, with the growth in holder count primarily driven by new participants rather than increased position sizes by a small number of existing accounts.
According to Bloomberg, despite recent leaks suggesting the product might be released ahead of schedule, Apple's plan to launch the new camera-equipped AirPods remains unchanged at 2027. Reportedly, the new headphones are intended to drive Apple's entry into the AI wearables market; they had long been planned for release this year and have already entered an advanced testing phase among Apple's internal employees this spring.
According to CryptoSlate, Nasdaq-listed company AIxCrypto Holdings announced plans to orderly sell all its crypto assets. As of June 30, the company held 46 BTC, 616 ETH, 6,659 SOL, 1,308 BNB, and small amounts of ADA, LINK, TRX, USDT, and XRP, with a total cost basis of $10.43 million, fair value of only $5.21 million, an unrealized loss of approximately $5.22 million, representing a drop of about 50% from cost. Meanwhile, the company's operating cash consumption in the first half of the year reached $7.94 million, with accumulated losses as high as $150.3 million, raising doubts about its ability to continue as a going concern. The company is shifting its business focus to its RoboShare robot rental platform and completed its first commercial order on August 15, deploying 6 robots at a Malibu event, but specific revenue and subsequent demand have not yet been disclosed.
Odaily News: BIP-110 supporters are discussing a hard fork to change the stalled minority chain's mining algorithm from SHA-256d to BLAKE2b. Transaction history before the fork remains shared by both chains. If transaction and signature rules remain consistent, the same transaction could be replayed on the other chain, creating a replay attack.BIP-110's peak miner support was approximately 2.53%. After the consensus rules took effect on August 8, the minority chain produced only two consecutive blocks before stalling, while the Bitcoin main chain continued operating and widening the block height gap. The BIP-110 proposal was subsequently marked as closed, and supporters shifted focus to discussing the BLAKE2b proof-of-work scheme.Bitcoin Knots plans to add a new signature hash option, but RDTS will still maintain compatibility with Bitcoin Core's existing signature hash types. Regular transactions may continue to be valid on both chains. Users will need to use the new option and rely on wallets or hardware signing firmware that support it to achieve asset separation.Luke Dashjr stated on August 18 that Bitcoin should bear the responsibility for replay protection, calling it "Spamcoin." If the BLAKE2b fork proceeds around September 1, exchanges, wallets, and holders will need to distinguish between cross-chain transactions and chain-specific transactions. (Bitcoin.com News)
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse 在X 平台发文，其于 8月 20 日再度受邀出席白宫，与美国总统特朗普、SEC 主席 Paul Atkins 及多位加密行业领袖共同参会。Garlinghouse 表示，目前已有 6700 万美国人持有加密货币，占总人口近四分之一，加密行业早已不是边缘产业，"加密选民"的政治影响力正被华盛顿高度重视。他高度肯定特朗普政府在数字资产领域的创新支持与领导力，并对行业前景表示乐观。
According to Decrypt, Coinbase announced the official launch of perpetual futures trading in the Base App via Hyperliquid integration. Eligible users can access up to 50x leverage across over 290 perpetual contract markets, including BTC, ETH, tokenized stocks, and commodities. Coinbase Head of Engineering Chintan Turakhia noted that perpetual contracts constitute approximately 75% of current crypto trading volume and are the most requested feature among high-frequency Base App users.
Odaily News, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on X platform, listing his "vision checklist" for the upcoming market: first, the CLARITY Act will receive strong bipartisan support and pass the vote on September 15, followed by "Uptober," and the start of the next crypto bull market. Armstrong stated, "Everything is unfolding as predicted."
Bitcoin.com partners with Universal to integrate the UAE Central Bank-registered USDU stablecoin into its self-custody wallet, with the token backed by 1:1 USD reserves and undergoing independent monthly audits.
Odaily News: During a meeting at the White House with executives from crypto and financial firms, U.S. President Donald Trump urged Congress to pass a "fair version" of the Clarity Act, stating that market structure legislation is the next step in his digital assets policy.The meeting was attended by Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Michael Selig, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul Atkins, White House crypto advisor Patrick Witt, as well as executives from Coinbase, Ripple, Robinhood, and Kraken.The Clarity Act would establish federal rules for digital assets and clarify the regulatory jurisdictions of the SEC and CFTC. The bill is expected to return to the Senate in September, where Republicans will still need support from about six Democratic senators to reach the 60-vote threshold. (Decrypt)
Odaily News: Coinbase will add support for Aligned and ALIGN. Users can now generate deposit addresses for ALIGN on Coinbase in regions where trading is supported.
PACs under the cryptocurrency political action committee Fairshake spent approximately $3.6 million supporting candidates in the Alaska, Florida, and Wyoming primaries; 4 out of 5 won, but one seat in Florida was lost.
The crypto industry super PAC Fairshake spent approximately $2 million supporting relevant candidates in Florida's congressional primaries, but failed to influence the election results.
Jonathan Gould, head of the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, stated that the OCC will release the final implementing rules for the GENIUS Act in November, which establishes a regulatory framework for payment stablecoins and is scheduled to take effect in January 2027.
Odaily News: Standard Chartered and HSBC have completed the first real-time cross-border transaction executed via the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) blockchain ledger. The transaction exchanged payment messages through the SWIFT ledger, with the corresponding debts recorded respectively on HSBC's Tokenised Deposit Service and Standard Chartered's tokenised deposit infrastructure.The SWIFT ledger matches and nets off the debts of both parties before final settlement, with the ultimate settlement still completed through existing payment systems. The ledger is designed to connect tokenised deposits issued across different banking infrastructures, supporting round-the-clock cross-border payments while retaining existing settlement, compliance, and risk control mechanisms. (Cointelegraph)
: Base announced the launch of the Batches 004 accelerator program, which will select 10 startups over an 8-week program, with each receiving $100,000 in investment funded by the Base Ecosystem Fund. Applications close on September 9, and the program will hold Demo Day in New York in November. This round is aimed at pre-seed startups focused on trading, payments, funding, and AI agents, covering products that use stablecoins to support agent shopping, trading, and payments, as well as lending, e-commerce, and decentralized AI infrastructure. Teams may support multiple blockchains but must have Base as their primary network. Selected teams will receive dedicated advisors, weekly support, and exposure assistance within the Base ecosystem, and will present their projects to investors at Demo Day. Coinbase launched Agentic Wallets on Base in February and Coinbase for Agents in June, which respectively enable AI agents to hold USDC and pay via the x402 protocol, and to directly connect to user accounts. (Decrypt)
Odaily News – Geoff Kendrick, Head of Digital Assets Research at Standard Chartered Bank, stated that Bitcoin (BTC) could rise to $100,000 by the end of 2026 as the U.S. Treasury expands liquidity support for the long-term bond market.In a recent client report, Kendrick noted that Bitcoin's current key technical resistance level is $65,500. If the price breaks through this level, it could signal that the cyclical low for this market cycle has already formed. He suggested investors begin positioning for a Bitcoin rally to $100,000 by year-end. Kendrick stated that beyond the four-year cycle pattern for Bitcoin, which suggests the market may be nearing a bottom, the U.S. Treasury's recent announcement to expand long-term bond buybacks is also a significant catalyst.The U.S. Treasury plans to raise the cap on buyback operations for 10- to 20-year and 20- to 30-year Treasury bonds from $2 billion to at least $4 billion per operation. The expanded program is scheduled to be implemented from September 9 to November 4. Following the announcement, yields on long-term U.S. Treasuries notably declined, easing the pressure that the significant sell-off in the bond market had placed on financial markets.Kendrick believes the Treasury's expanded bond buybacks represent a "favorable environment for Bitcoin," as Bitcoin has previously benefited multiple times from government liquidity interventions, while its fixed supply mechanism gives it properties that hedge against currency debasement. In the market, Bitcoin rose over 6% on Wednesday, briefly approaching $69,000, marking its highest level since early June. Kendrick has previously been repeatedly bullish on Bitcoin's long-term trajectory, arguing that as global fiscal pressures increase and monetary policy trends toward easing, Bitcoin may enter a new long-term upward cycle. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News, according to official sources, X Layer has officially launched the RWA Ecosystem Liquidity Incentive Program, with total incentives worth $5 million, aimed at enhancing the liquidity and trading experience of RWA ecosystem assets. The incentives will be distributed in multiple rounds, with the first round offering $300,000 in liquidity incentives, comprehensively covering liquidity for RWA-related trading pairs, including RWA-stablecoin pairs and RWA-ecosystem token pairs.It is reported that X Layer is continuously improving its RWA ecosystem infrastructure to support the on-chain issuance, trading, and liquidity of more RWA assets.
According to CoinDesk, American Bankers Association CEO Rob Nichols stated that the association supports the Clarity Act establishing a digital asset regulatory framework, but believes the provisions regarding stablecoin rewards in the bill still need strengthening. Their concern is that if related parties such as crypto trading platforms provide interest-like rewards to stablecoin holders, it could prompt funds to flow from bank deposits to stablecoin wallets, affecting banks' lending capacity.