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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.
Monitoring by the PPP Prediction Market Tool shows that the probability of the "foldable iPhone US launch price above $2,100" on Polymarket has risen to 70%, up 20% over the week; the probability of above $2,200 has fallen to 30%, down 29% over the week.According to the settlement rules, this market will be settled based on the pre-tax starting price of the lowest-configuration foldable iPhone for the US market as first announced by Apple; if multiple foldable iPhones are announced simultaneously, the lowest starting price among them shall prevail. If no price is announced by 23:59 ET on September 30, the market will settle as "No."According to Apple's official announcement, the fall 2026 new product launch event will be held at 1:00 a.m. Beijing time on September 10. The pricing of the first foldable iPhone has become a focal point of market attention. Previously, Bank of America, citing media reports, said its starting price could be around $2,099. According to the latest revelation from US tech journalist Mark Gurman, Apple's first foldable phone is expected to have a starting price of around $2,000.Join the PPP Signal Push Community to stay one step ahead and seize the initiative.
According to Chaotiang Research, a Goldman Sachs research report dated September 8, 2026 notes that Broadcom reaffirmed its FY27/FY28 AI revenue targets of $115 billion and $230 billion at the CommunaCopia conference, stating that supply, not demand, remains the primary constraint. Land acquisition, power capacity, and facility construction for data centers represent the true bottlenecks to AI deployment, whereas supply chain constraints remain relatively manageable. Broadcom’s $35 billion XPV partnership with Blackstone and Apollo can support over 20 gigawatts of AI compute capacity while capping Broadcom’s direct financial exposure. A 1-gigawatt AI cluster generates approximately $30 billion in annual revenue, with annual operating costs of around $10 billion. Broadcom believes that the economic value of AI primarily flows to the owners of frontier models. Annual industry training expenditure stands at approximately $200 billion. Frontier models capture roughly 75% of industry revenue ($120 billion in revenue against $100 billion in costs), while open-source models generate only about $30 billion in revenue despite similar investment levels. Goldman Sachs maintains a Buy rating, setting a target price of $540 based on 30x normalized earnings per share of $18, implying approximately 51% upside from the current stock price.
Odaily News: OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar stated that the company is accelerating the expansion of AI into specialized fields such as chip design, life sciences, and financial services, and is experimenting with pricing based on business outcomes rather than usage. OpenAI's enterprise business revenue grew 32% from June to July this year, while the company's overall annualized revenue increased approximately 20% during the same period. As of mid-year, revenue from enterprise and consumer businesses had split roughly evenly.Additionally, OpenAI recently cut the price of its low-cost Luna model by 80%, which was followed by an approximate 10-fold increase in usage. Friar noted that in cloud deployment scenarios, Luna's cost is even lower than Z.ai's GLM 5.3. OpenAI's coding tool Codex has now reached 25 million users. The company is also leveraging its own AI models to assist in developing the Jalapeno chip and completed chip design tape-out within nine months. (Reuters)
Odaily News, Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has launched USDT-settled forex perpetual contracts covering three major currency pairs: EUR/USD, GBP/USD, and USD/JPY. The contracts support 24/7 trading with up to 100x leverage available.These contracts have no expiry date, with all profits and losses settled in USDT. Traders simply track the price movements of the underlying currency pairs without taking ownership of the corresponding currencies. The product has been added to Bybit's TradFi Perpetuals lineup launched in April, which currently covers over 200 assets including stocks, commodities, ETFs, and pre-IPO companies. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: Bybit Alpha has now listed $OTC for trading. $OTC is a Solana-based token that, when burned, mints an OTC Desk NFT, granting holders automatic access to tokenized stocks, Pre-IPO assets, and yield distributions. The current on-chain price of OTC is approximately $0.025, with a market cap of $16.6 million.
Odaily News - The Ave × BNB Chain × Four.meme bStocks trading competition has now introduced a rules update, adding Four.Meme 4Stock mode to the event's eligible scope.4Stock is an innovative Meme trading mode created by Four.meme based on stock narratives, combining traditional market hotspots with the on-chain Meme ecosystem to deliver a brand-new trading experience for users.Starting September 8, trading volume generated from participating in and trading Four.Meme 4Stock-related assets will be counted toward the event's valid trading volume. Users who meet the rules can compete on the leaderboard for a share of the total 150,000 USDT trading competition prize pool, which includes a 50,000 USDT Four.meme exclusive prize pool.In addition, individual participants in the competition can win up to 20,000 USDT in rewards.
Odaily News, according to the official announcement, Gate's CFD XAUUSD gold contracts have now introduced 5x and 10x leverage tiers exclusively across the network, further enriching the leverage options available for gold CFDs. Following the upgrade, Gate gold CFDs support multiple leverage levels including 5x, 10x, 20x, 50x, 100x, 200x, and 500x, allowing users to flexibly choose based on market conditions, capital scale, and their own risk tolerance.In addition, Gate gold CFDs support two-way trading and USDT settlement, and offer risk management tools such as take-profit and stop-loss orders to help users trade gold with greater flexibility.
Odaily News: The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), the Philippines' central bank, is proposing a 12-month suspension on accepting and processing new registration applications from Payment System Operators (OPS) to conduct a comprehensive review of relevant classifications and licensing frameworks.Applications submitted prior to the suspension will continue to be evaluated but will not be approved or denied until the suspension period ends. Unless otherwise authorized by regulators, entities must not engage in business activities that require OPS registration.Merchant acquirers regulated by the BSP that serve regulated Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASPs) must collaborate through direct merchant arrangements and implement risk-based controls such as enhanced due diligence, ongoing monitoring, and transaction and settlement limits. Relevant VASPs must be licensed, registered, or authorized by the BSP, the Philippine Securities and Exchange Commission, or other agencies.If approved, the draft will take effect 15 days after publication. The BSP is currently soliciting feedback. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: The decentralized lending protocol Secured Finance's lending market was attacked on September 5, resulting in a loss of approximately $104,000. The root cause was that collateral was priced based on the average execution price of the order book for the current block, allowing attackers to influence the price through self-trading, causing fraudulent lending positions to be counted as valid collateral. The attacker initially deployed the contract but did not execute immediately, then used flash loans and self-trading to inflate the price and withdraw USDC. The original attacking wallet was rolled back due to insufficient gas fees; approximately 48 seconds later, the general-purpose sandwich bot coffeebabe took about 0.9 WBTC, worth approximately $72,000, and transferred about 28.8 ETH of it to the ultra sound money builder, keeping only about $29 for itself. Subsequently, another bot took part of the USDC.
According to monitoring by the PPP Prediction Market Tool, in the Polymarket event "Will the Fed keep rates unchanged in September?", an account that has accumulated losses exceeding $50,000 (0x011175c87089797b1c5bebcfb6d501b4c51d60f7) purchased $74,600 in positions betting that the Fed will hold rates steady in September, with an average entry price of 53.6¢ and a total of 153,845.8 shares acquired.Per the settlement rules, this market will settle based on the interest rate decision following the Fed's FOMC meeting in September 2026. If the actual rate adjustment does not fall within the existing options, it will be rounded up to the nearest 25 basis points—for instance, a 12.5 basis point cut or hike will be counted as a 25 basis point move. If no relevant statement is released before the meeting concludes, the event will settle as "No Change." The next FOMC meeting is scheduled for September 15-16, 2026.Join the PPP Signal Push Community to stay one step ahead and seize the opportunity.
Ondo Finance has announced that it will cease minting USDY on the Aptos and Noble networks starting September 8, while other supported networks remain unaffected. USDY on Osmosis and Mantra is also impacted by this adjustment, as it is bridged from Noble via IBC, and affected users may choose to migrate or exit based on their position size.
: The G7 cybersecurity working group stated in its latest report that quantum computing poses both a security threat and an economic threat to public and private institutions, and related organizations should immediately begin migrating to post-quantum cryptography (PQC).The working group noted that the migration process could take several years, as attackers can already collect and store encrypted data today and decrypt it once sufficiently powerful quantum computers emerge. Quantum computing could also break digital signatures, leading to identity theft and exposing companies and their supply chains.The report did not mention cryptocurrencies, but similar public-key cryptography is used for blockchain wallets and transaction authorization. Current quantum computers are not yet capable of breaking Bitcoin's cryptography, but developers are considering post-quantum solutions such as BIP-360.Ethereum researchers plan to replace multiple cryptographic components used by accounts, validators, and applications. The Solana Foundation has tested post-quantum signatures on its testnet and launched an optional hash-based vault. The G7 working group also urged governments to support related research, public-private cooperation, and national PQC strategies. (Decrypt)
The Guangdong High People's Court recently announced the Top Ten Commercial and Financial Cases of Guangdong Courts in 2025, which includes a virtual currency lending dispute. In the case, after Jin lent one virtual currency unit to the borrower Chang, who failed to repay it by the due date, Jin filed a lawsuit demanding the return of the virtual currency and compensation for overdue losses, or alternatively, compensation calculated based on the conversion rate between the virtual currency and the RMB.
Odaily News: SWIFT service provider Bottomline has announced a partnership with blockchain infrastructure project Chainlink to bring blockchain-based cross-border settlement to more than 600 bank clients in its network. Bottomline processes over $16 trillion in payments annually and serves 1,200 financial institutions and 10,000 businesses.Through this integration, banks can continue to send payment instructions using the ISO 20022 standard, with Chainlink's infrastructure connecting those instructions to blockchain settlement. Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) enables tokenized value to move across different blockchain networks, while the Chainlink Runtime Environment (CRE) coordinates payment flows, transaction routing, and operational changes.CCIP has been recording mainnet activity since July 2023 and is now connected to over 60 blockchain networks. Chainlink's Project Pangea has reached more than 50 banking institutions across Europe and South Korea, with participating entities collectively managing over $10 trillion in assets. The project's goals include achieving T+0 settlement for foreign exchange transactions. (Bitcoin.com News)
Odaily News: According to the official announcement, Binance will list the GPROUSDT-margined perpetual contract at 13:45 (UTC) on September 3, 2026, supporting up to 20x leverage and a multi-asset mode. The contract is based on Class A common stock of GoPro Inc. (Nasdaq: GPRO), with USDT as the settlement asset, a minimum trading quantity of 0.01 GPRO, a minimum notional value of 5 USDT, and a funding rate cap of +2.00%/-2.00%, settled every eight hours.
Odaily News, September 3 — WEEX Exchange announced that the WEEX Hackathon Season 2, themed "AI Wars II: The Algorithm Era," is now officially live. Global AI developers, quantitative traders, Web3 builders, teams, and individuals are invited to join Team AI or Team Human to compete in five rounds of live market trading battles, vying for rankings and rewards based on PnL% performance. The total prize pool stands at 600,000 USDT, with multi-tiered incentives designed to accommodate different participation methods.The early registration phase runs from September 3 to 6, during which the first 2,000 registrants can share in the 100,000 USDT Early Bird prize pool. Additionally, users who register early can complete event tasks ahead of time to accumulate activity points for the upcoming competition.
Odaily News: Binance Customer Support responded on the X platform to an article about "AKE (AKEDO) contract anomaly squeeze causing $5 million in losses," stating that during the period of September 3, 2026, at 05:44 (UTC+8), the AKE token experienced significant price volatility across the entire market. The related fluctuations were reflected across multiple mainstream trading platforms and on-chain markets, with overall trends being largely consistent. This constitutes market volatility rather than an anomaly on any single platform. Binance has not yet listed AKE for spot trading, and the AKEUSDT contract price and liquidation mechanism are not based on Binance's spot market but are calculated with reference to the network-wide spot market prices.The significant fluctuation in AKE spot prices this time primarily occurred on other trading platforms and on-chain markets, which subsequently transmitted to the contract market. Binance contracts use the mark price as an important basis for liquidation judgments. The mark price comprehensively references price data from multiple markets and employs corresponding mechanisms to mitigate the impact of abnormal and extreme prices on liquidation. Upon verification, Binance's related systems operated normally, and no anomalies were found in the price mechanism. This situation was not caused by platform price anomalies or system failures, but rather represents the normal risk of leveraged positions under extreme market conditions.
According to Trend Research, Goldman Sachs' September 1 research report indicated that the U.S. high-conviction list was updated this month; Vertex Pharmaceuticals was added, Interactive Brokers Group was removed, and the list remained at 23 stocks. All U.S. equity gains in August were concentrated in the first two trading days, after which the market entered a summer consolidation phase, with Nvidia's robust earnings failing to break the stalemate. The 10-year Treasury yield rose by 9 basis points from the start of the month, Brent crude was essentially flat, while gold, silver, and bitcoin gained 9%, 22%, and 24%, respectively. Vertex was the standout performer this month. Goldman Sachs believes the company has five billion-dollar-plus commercial opportunities spanning cystic fibrosis, pain management, kidney disease, hematology, and the endocrine field following its proposed acquisition of Crinetics. Market expectations for peak sales of povetacicept in IgAN stand at $3.2 billion, significantly below Goldman Sachs' $5.8 billion estimate. Outperformers included Estée Lauder, which rose 5.3% in August, and DoorDash, up 18.1%. Following a strong second quarter, TPG raised its FRE expectations by approximately 10%. Viking Holdings and Applied Materials came under pressure amid overly elevated expectations. The list is constructed based on bottom-up fundamental analysis, covering six major sectors: consumer, financials, healthcare, industrials, resources, and technology.
Odaily News: The G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors convened from August 31 to September 1 in Asheville, United States, and voiced support for establishing clearer regulatory pathways for digital asset growth, placing digital assets on the agenda for the U.S. presidency term of 2026.The G20 stated that digital financial innovation can support broad-based economic growth, with the private sector playing a key role in driving related innovation. The meeting also highlighted global stablecoins, cross-border payments, and extended operating hours for large-value payment systems as key topics, while endorsing the adoption of the ISO 20022 data standard.The G20 called on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to prioritize jurisdictions with significant virtual asset activity, strengthening the enforcement of anti-money laundering (AML) standards. As of July, among the 149 jurisdictions assessed by the FATF, only 1 fully complied with the relevant standards, 34% were largely compliant, 43% were partially compliant, and 22% were non-compliant. (Bitcoin.com News)