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Cluster Protocol (CP) has launched on Bitget PoolX. Users can lock BTC to unlock 9,100,000 CP airdrop, with a personal lock-up cap of 50 BTC. The lock-up period is from September 16, 18:00 to September 23, 18:00 (UTC+8). This PoolX round supports a long-term holding bonus mechanism, where the system will provide additional bonuses on effective lock-up amounts based on the user's minimum BTC holdings over the past 15 days. For more details, please refer to the official Bitget platform.
According to Binance official announcements, effective from September 15, 2026, at 21:00 UTC, Binance will adjust the trading hours and index price calculation methodology for commodity TradFi perpetual contracts as follows: • Regular trading hours (Sunday 18:00 to Friday 17:00, ET): Standard mode will be applied, with the index price updating every second based on a weighted average of quotes from third-party data providers; • Weekends and public holidays (Friday 17:00 to Sunday 18:00, ET): Order book EWMA mode will be adopted. This adjustment applies to all commodity TradFi perpetual contracts, including XAUUSDT, XAGUSDT, XPTUSDT, XPDUSDT, COPPERUSDT, CLUSDT, BZUSDT, NATGASUSDT, and any future newly listed contracts of this type, with trading operations remaining unaffected.
According to Bloomberg, Shanghai-based Biren Technology is considering a new round of equity sales to raise approximately $1 billion to support the expansion of its artificial intelligence business. As one of the GPU chip developers heavily backed by Beijing, the company has banks in preliminary stages, currently sounding out potential investors for interest.
CoinEx founder Yang Haipo posted on X regarding the shutdown and orderly wind-down of CoinEx, stating that CoinEx's asset reserve ratio currently exceeds 100%, and all user assets are fully backed by sufficient reserves and can be withdrawn normally.Regarding the reasons for the shutdown, Yang Haipo stated that CoinEx had been operating for nine years but ultimately failed to become an industry-leading exchange, while the security and compliance risks of operating a crypto exchange have become increasingly difficult to control. "Revenue can decline, but responsibility will not diminish. Taking on unlimited risk for limited revenue is no longer a rational choice."Yang Haipo also revealed that he had seriously considered selling CoinEx but ultimately decided against it. He stated that users entrusted their assets to CoinEx based on trust in the platform and, in many cases, in him personally, and therefore believed that handing over the platform and that trust to a new owner was not the right way to end this journey. In addition, CoinEx will ensure that users can withdraw their full balances and will buy back CET at unlimited quantities at its initial listing price of 0.005 USDT/CET.
Long.xyz founder Nate stated that following the launch of the new Pre-IPO feature, the platform added approximately 10,000 new asset issuance projects. The team will continue to adjust issuance limits based on changing demand and plans to introduce asset filters and new risk control measures.
Odaily News: Crypto trader Bonk Guy posted on X platform responding to recent controversy surrounding his purchase of EMBER and explaining his position-building logic. Bonk Guy stated that he first noticed the project when EMBER's market cap was around $3 million but did not buy in. After observing for a day, he revisited his research due to the platform's rapid data growth and bought in from around a $7 million market cap all the way up to a $20 million market cap.Bonk Guy said that EMBER is a major Launchpad built on Meteora, supporting SOL, USDC, and over 150 tokenized stocks as pairing assets for token issuance. It utilizes Meteora Dynamic Bonding Curve technology and offers features such as token fee distribution, Daily Jackpots, and DAO governance.According to his disclosure, Ember has recorded approximately $51.7 million in trading volume, $561,000 in fees, and has cumulatively issued 2,041 tokens within 3 days of launch, with over 41,800 unique holder addresses and 149,000 Solana transactions. BonkGuy compared his Ember purchase to his previous PONS trade, noting that he first saw PONS when its market cap was below $1 million, similarly ignored it for a full day, and then started buying at around a $4 million market cap. Rather than whether a trending token has already emerged, what matters more is observing the real usage data underlying the Launchpad.Additionally, Bonk Guy stated that both Robinhood Chain and BNB Chain have multiple successful Launchpads, while Solana's Meme trading ecosystem has been developing for a longer time, so there is no reason to believe that Solana can ultimately only accommodate one successful Launchpad. He also stated that his trades are not based on market consensus. Some of his most successful trades in the past often came from discovering opportunities before the market formed a consensus; by the time everyone agrees, the asymmetric upside potential has usually already been significantly reduced.Regarding the recent controversy, Bonk Guy said that the claim of "EMBER having over 50% Bubblemaps address clusters" has been clarified by Bubblemaps; his earlier statement that Ember was "launched by Meteora" was also inaccurate—a more precise description is that Ember is built on Meteora-related infrastructure and has now been listed on Meteora's ecosystem page. Bonk Guy emphasized that he has no relationship with the Ember team, and EMBER is a personal trade for him.
Hey Wallet, a Solana-based social wallet, has announced the cessation of its product operations and reminded users to back up their wallets on the official website. Operating since 2021, the project previously supported users in making SOL transfers, tipping creators, minting NFTs, and trading tokens via social platforms such as X, Telegram, and Discord.
Odaily Reports: Bitcoin News posted on X platform that Electrum has released version 4.8.2, introducing multiple security fixes and strengthening the security of its Bitcoin wallet codebase. The fixes are based on reports from researchers including Bitcoin Red Team, Calle, l0rinc, haoxucu, and m0wer. This version fixes a critical backup issue affecting certain Lightning wallets that use non-deterministic keys and anchor channels. Previously, affected wallets' channel backups and full wallet backups may have been missing the keys required to move funds on-chain after requesting a remote force close. Affected users will receive a warning when starting Electrum and should export new backups, as old backups cannot correctly recover funds in this scenario. This version also strengthens Lightning HTLC verification, rejects previously accepted malformed xpub/xprv keys, expands codebase security hardening, and prevents the Android QR code scanner from reading screenshots. This is Electrum's third security-focused release since July, following versions 4.8.0 and 4.8.1.
Swiss crypto company Bitcoin Suisse plans to relocate approximately 60 Swiss-based positions to low-cost overseas regions to support its international expansion strategy.
According to an official post from trade.xyz, trade.xyz has officially launched its Events feature, further advancing its vision of establishing Hyperliquid as a universal exchange. Users can execute a variety of operations through a single unified account, including depositing spot BTC, borrowing USDC, opening SpaceX pre-IPO perpetual contracts, hedging against SK Hynix earnings events, and predicting US Open outcomes. The Events market spans sports, politics, economic, and financial sectors. Initially rolling out Up/Down contracts for stocks, commodities, and pre-IPOs, pricing is settled based on the trade[XYZ] perpetual contract market price, rather than relying on external oracles.
Odaily News: Payment company PayPal, along with stablecoin infrastructure project M0 and crypto payment platform MoonPay, has launched PYUSDx, enabling enterprises to create stablecoin-based products within days. The platform has processed over $100 million in transaction volume, with Saturn, Concrete, and Cap having already used the technology to launch products.M0 co-founder and CEO Luca Prosperi stated that PYUSDx leaves the product layer to developers to build, allowing different enterprises to develop different products based on the same technology. USD.AI and Fairblock were also listed as related projects.May Zabaneh, Senior Vice President and General Manager of PayPal's crypto business, said the stablecoin market is rapidly maturing. On September 10, the total market cap of stablecoins was approximately $305.25 billion, with USDT accounting for 60.07%; PYUSD's market cap was approximately $2.814 billion, ranking eighth. Enterprises can issue branded digital dollars backed by PYUSD, set corresponding rules, and redeem back to PYUSD when necessary. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily reports: A Fox Business crypto reporter posted on X that U.S. Senate Republicans have released an updated text of the CLARITY Act following negotiations during the August recess. The ethics section appears unchanged, and the BRCA and stablecoin yield sections also remain the same. The updates include: requiring non-decentralized DeFi protocols to register with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission; limiting DeFi provisions to spot or cash digital commodity transactions, seemingly aimed at addressing tribes' concerns about blockchain-based prediction markets; and clarifying the authority of credit unions to conduct cryptocurrency business.
Sonic SVM ($SONIC) and ecosystem project Manic have released and open-sourced the Trader Intelligence Framework (TIF), a scoring framework that evaluates prediction market traders based on judgment accuracy rather than cumulative profit and loss.
According to an official announcement, Binance has introduced its US stock recurring buy feature, enabling eligible users to set up automatic purchasing plans for designated US equities and Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) at fixed intervals, without the need to manually execute trades each time. The feature will support 100 stocks and ETFs starting from September 10, 2026, at 18:00 (UTC+8), including assets such as Apple, NVIDIA, Tesla, Microsoft, Amazon, and the S&P 500 ETF. Binance advises that related products or features may not be available in certain regions; users should verify any location-based restrictions and note that execution prices may differ from those indicated when creating the plan.
According to a report titled "2026 Stock Derivatives Explosive Growth: Crypto Exchange Landscape and Key Trends" published by RootData, the stock derivatives sector has moved from "peripheral experimentation" into a phase of "explosive volume growth," with cumulative trading volume from January to August reaching approximately $1.75 trillion.In terms of cumulative trading volume, the concentration effect among top players remains significant. Among the four exchanges, Binance leads with $853.58 billion and a 61.3% share; Bitget ranks second with $270.85 billion and a 19.5% share; OKX follows closely with $234.39 billion and a 16.8% share; Bybit ranks fourth with $33.41 billion and a 2.4% share.In terms of liquidity, based on the ±2% weighted order book depth metric, Binance and Bitget together account for over 70% of stock derivatives order book liquidity. Among them, Binance's average daily order book depth is approximately $10.1 million, with Bitget following closely at $4.82 million, while OKX and Bybit stand at $3.87 million and $1.16 million, respectively.In terms of trading costs, in a weighted spread comparison across more than a dozen recently representative popular assets, Bitget ranks first at 0.0144%, with Binance following closely at 0.0145%, placing the two essentially at the same level; OKX stands at 0.0154%, and Bybit at 0.0237%.
Flop Labs CEO Arthur Hayes announced the release of the draft yellow paper for FLOP Network v0.5.0, proposing an AI inference metering and settlement network based on Substrate/FRAME, which employs BABE for block production and AlephBFT for finality. The project's official roadmap indicates that the FLOP testnet is slated to launch in Q4 2026, offering token airdrops through testnet participation, with the mainnet targeted for Q1 2027; however, the yellow paper remains a draft, and several parameters and mechanisms have not yet been finalized.
$STONK is a Solana-based token, and StonkFun is a website for issuing and trading tokens on Solana. The current on-chain price of STONK is approximately $0.2089, with a market cap of $178.65M.
The Bybit Apple Stock Buzz Trading Competition officially launched at 18:00 Beijing Time on September 8. Rankings are based on cumulative trading volume on the AAPLUSDT perpetual contract, with a minimum cumulative trading volume of 5,000 USDT required to participate.
According to an official post from a16z crypto, a16z crypto has officially released Lattice Jolt, a new version of its open-source zkVM (zero-knowledge virtual machine) that fully transitions its underlying cryptography from elliptic curves to a lattice architecture, achieving post-quantum security while significantly boosting performance. Key highlights include: • Performance improvement: Proof generation speed increased by 2-3 times, reaching up to 2 million RV64IMAC cycles per second in CPU mode, and breaking through 10 million cycles per second with MacBook GPU acceleration (Apple Metal); • Smallest proof size: Proof footprint is under 100 KB, significantly outperforming other post-quantum zkVMs with sizes ranging from 200 KB to 600 KB; • Memory optimization: Memory consumption per cycle reduced from approximately 300 bytes to 200 bytes, supporting proof generation for millions of RISC-V cycles on mobile devices; • Security: Based on the standard Module-SIS assumption, providing a complete 128-bit security strength, sharing the same assumption framework as ML-DSA and ML-KEM; • New commitment scheme: The Akita polynomial commitment scheme, jointly developed by LayerZero in collaboration with institutions such as Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Southern California, replaces the original Dory scheme. a16z crypto also pointed out that hash-based SNARKs are widespread...
According to CoinDesk, the Algorand Foundation has officially appointed William Herkelrath as chief executive officer, succeeding Staci Warden, who served for nearly five years. Herkelrath previously held leadership roles at blockchain data provider Chainlink and crypto custody firm Curv, and co-founded the AI automation platform K3 Labs. He officially assumed office on August 31. The Algorand Foundation stated that the new CEO will focus on driving institutional business expansion and post-quantum security initiatives. To date, Algorand has introduced post-quantum accounts based on the Falcon-1024 lattice-based signature system through its v42 consensus upgrade, with plans to achieve full quantum resistance prior to 2028. Additionally, the foundation’s board is undergoing concurrent adjustments, with Alex Fowler joining while Rebecca Rettig and Michael Mosier depart.