News linked to both this project and an event.
US Senate Republicans released the latest version of the Clarity Act (Digital Assets Market Clarity Act), adjusting compliance requirements for DeFi entities and credit union provisions. Due to a lack of consensus on ethical protocols, Democrats have expressed reservations, leaving the bill's path to passage uncertain.
Odaily reports: The Hunter Biden Meme token LAPTOP Foundation has announced that the LAPTOP initial liquidity pool launched at a price of $0.05. Due to high market demand, participation by sniper bots, and insufficient initial liquidity from market makers, the price rapidly surged and then fell back in a short period. To improve liquidity, the team will inject 4 million LAPTOP tokens (0.4% of total supply) starting September 10 at 00:00 UTC to incentivize the Aerodrome liquidity pool. In addition, two prediction events in the Predictions allocation have been confirmed to settle as YES, corresponding to 10 million LAPTOP tokens that will be burned, accounting for 1% of total supply.The team also stated that the 30% of LAPTOP held by the founding team will be locked for 6 months and gradually unlocked over two years, custodied by Coinbase Custody; the 30% of tokens in the Predictions allocation will be locked for 12 months. Another 80 million LAPTOP will be claimable by subscribers who joined Hunter Substack before September 6, and any unclaimed portion after the 30-day claim period ends will be burned.
Odaily News, Bonk Guy stated on the X platform that he had previously been pessimistic about Solana, even writing an analysis favoring Robinhood and BNB Chain, arguing that Solana would lose significant market share and attention in this cycle. However, his view has recently begun to shift toward a bullish stance on Solana and its ecosystem.Bonk Guy believes that Solana has recently re-embraced the "trench" culture and has started to more actively promote community projects. At the same time, Solana's management proactively reached out to him to understand how to better align with the community and the "trench" ecosystem. Additionally, Solana officials and core members have recently begun to proactively recognize ecosystem projects such as $STONK and $USELESS.These changes are not simply positive for a specific token, but rather reflect a top-down cultural shift within Solana, as well as management's proactive efforts to address issues in the ecosystem. He emphasized that his past criticism of Solana was never about the technology or infrastructure, but rather about the ecosystem culture and the impact of "extractors" on Solana's new projects and users.Bonk Guy also revealed that his originally planned long-form analysis, which was bearish on Solana and bullish on Robinhood and BNB Chain, will first be shared with the Solana team for reference. Due to the recent changes that have made him more optimistic, he may adjust his views and ultimately publish a more balanced analysis.Bonk Guy concluded: "My Solana bias is changing."
According to Odaily, SpaceX's stock price has recently been fluctuating within a narrow range, but a new wave of buying may arrive soon as the Nasdaq 100 Index undergoes its quarterly rebalancing later this month. Due to lock-up restrictions, SpaceX has a relatively low proportion of freely floating shares, which currently gives it a weight of only 1.25% in the Nasdaq 100 Index, ranking 19th. Despite its market capitalization exceeding $2 trillion, placing it sixth among the index's constituents.Following the next index rebalancing, SpaceX's weight is expected to increase. The adjustments will be announced after the market close on Friday and take effect on September 21. This is partly because more than 1 billion shares have already been unlocked, raising SpaceX's free-float shares from less than 10% of total shares outstanding shortly after the IPO to nearly 30%.According to a report released Tuesday by J.P. Morgan Securities strategists including Min Moon, SpaceX's weight could rise to 1.51% after the rebalancing, which would trigger approximately $12.4 billion in passive net buying of SpaceX shares by index funds and ETFs. Nasdaq data shows that as of the end of the second quarter, approximately $1.7 trillion in assets were tracking the Nasdaq 100 Index, including the Invesco QQQ Trust Series 1 exchange-traded fund, widely known by its ticker QQQ.
OrionX, a Chilean exchange backed by Tether, has announced its permanent closure. An audit revealed that over $7 million in client assets had been transferred to addresses outside of custody.
Odaily News: Arthur Hayes posted on platform X, stating that his article "Atencion" discusses the decline in the EUR/JPY exchange rate and its implications as a precursor to a new round of global currency printing.Arthur Hayes said he is currently in the depths of Patagonian winter, engaging in backcountry hiking and skiing. The annual Santa Rosa storm has brought over 1 meter of snowfall to the alpine regions, and the lower temperatures along with several days of settling have stabilized the snowpack, reducing the risk of avalanches. He also mentioned that Federal Reserve Chairman Warsh will deliver a speech in Jackson Hole.Arthur Hayes stated that as the Chief Investment Officer of a family office, he needs to generate profits through investments. Due to his personal lifestyle, he focuses on one or two prices to gauge whether the pace of fiat liquidity injection is accelerating or slowing down, and based on this, he quickly adjusts his portfolio to a long position or moves to cash, never engaging in short selling. He noted that these indicators change over time, and his current macro core indicator is the EUR/JPY exchange rate. The full article was published on his Substack account cryptohayes.
According to an official tweet from Cronos Network, the Cronos network was previously affected by a vulnerability exploit targeting the Tectonic protocol. Validator consensus triggered an emergency halt to block production to protect user assets. The on-chain state has been rolled back to pre-exploit levels, and the network resumed block production at 07:49 Beijing Time on August 31, 2026, starting from block height 90,896,189. Node operators can now upgrade to Cronos v1.7.8 and use the latest mainnet snapshot to restart their nodes. The network remains under continuous monitoring, with select protocols, RPC providers, block explorers, and cross-chain bridges gradually recovering. A full post-mortem report will be released by the team in the near future.
Odaily News: Uniswap founder Hayden said in a post on X that he cannot ignore the theory of correlation trading pairs when observing various things, and noticed that the second-largest Uniswap pool on Base is the Jito staked SOL/BTC trading pair, which aligns with the logic of correlation trading pairs.In an article titled "Correlation Trading Pairs: How AMMs Win the Biggest Markets," Hayden stated that AMMs have the potential to become the core engine of all financial markets, and tokenization will make markets programmable, changing market types, market makers, and the assets being traded.He said Uniswap has been operating autonomously since its launch in 2018, with cumulative trading volume exceeding $4.6 trillion, and has helped increase the proportion of decentralized exchanges relative to centralized spot trading volume from less than 1% to over 20%. As AMMs have developed, their liquidity has gradually formed a structure of correlation trading pairs.He pointed out that AMMs initially achieved product-market fit in the long-tail asset market, and then stablecoin trading pairs developed. Due to the lower capital costs of passive strategies, the demand for professional market making in stablecoin trading pairs has been squeezed.Hayden said traditional financial markets are dominated by market-making firms that integrate capital, trading strategies, execution technology, settlement, and distribution into a single vertical business. Citadel Securities handles approximately 25% of US stock trading volume, with net trading revenue reaching $12.2 billion last year and trading capital of approximately $21 billion.He believes blockchain can unbundle the different components of traditional market-making businesses: code handles execution, shared services provide custody and settlement, and open-source software replaces proprietary infrastructure. The scarce factor of capital in AMMs is capital itself, and participants who can hold inventory at lower costs gain an advantage.Hayden said liquidity providers face lower inventory risk when holding assets with similar price movements, and liquidity will deepen as a result. Ethereum ecosystem assets typically trade against ETH, Solana ecosystem assets typically trade against SOL, stablecoins trade in pairs with each other, and a few high-liquidity trading pairs are responsible for connecting different asset clusters.He noted that once tokenized assets share the same settlement layer, any asset can trade directly against any other asset. For example, NVIDIA/USD can become NVIDIA/SPY and connect to the dollar through SPY/USD; oil companies can trade against oil ETFs or tokenized oil, and private credit can trade against tokenized US Treasury funds.Hayden said traditional market makers typically pursue delta neutrality, reducing risk by denominating in USD and hedging non-USD exposure, which increases market-making costs. A market structure consisting of low-volatility correlation trading pairs and a few high-
Odaily News, Justin Sun stated at the Bitcoin Asia 2026 conference in Hong Kong that the threat of quantum computing to blockchain and the entire financial system is widespread, with traditional banks such as JPMorgan facing the same risks. Due to the highly decentralized nature of the Bitcoin community, which involves multiple participants including miners, exchanges, and WBTC, reaching a quantum-resistant consensus will take a considerable amount of time. Justin Sun stated that TRON has been researching quantum-resistant mechanisms over the past year, having released a quantum-resistant address solution and launched it on the testnet in the first half of this year. The project plans to upgrade the entire network into a mainstream crypto network with quantum-resistant capabilities by the end of this year.
Odaily News Digital asset manager Grayscale Investments' Chief Legal Officer Craig Salm stated that the company's Zcash investment product has been upgraded to the world's first Zcash Exchange-Traded Product (ETP), marking a move of privacy-focused crypto assets into broader compliant investment channels. Following the launch of this Zcash ETP, investors can gain exposure to ZEC through SEC-registered traditional financial products. Grayscale noted that this signifies the Zcash ecosystem, after nearly a decade of development, is entering a new phase of institutionalization.Salm recalled that Grayscale launched the Zcash Investment Trust in 2018, when the ZEC trust product was just one of four products offered by the company. After years of regulatory engagement, the product was recently converted into the Zcash ETP, with the ticker symbol ZCSH. The process of bringing the Zcash product to the public market was not easy. Due to ZEC's privacy features, the company underwent greater regulatory scrutiny when launching its first publicly quoted Zcash fund in 2021, but ultimately completed the product rollout.Data shows that the adoption rate of Zcash's private transaction features has been steadily rising recently. In February 2026, ZEC shielded transactions reached an all-time high of 59.3% of total transactions, and after the latest Ironwood upgrade, it has again approached this level. Currently, the shielded pool holds approximately 4.4 million ZEC, accounting for about 26% of the circulating supply.
Odaily News - CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated on the X platform that the altcoin market has recently shown clear signs of recovery, with market structure undergoing changes, and "Altseason" may have entered its early stages. Data shows that from August 19 to 22, the total market cap of altcoins increased by approximately $215 billion, surging over 24% in just 3 days, pushing the total altcoin market cap back above $1 trillion.Darkfost pointed out that mid- and small-cap altcoins have performed the strongest in this rally. Due to their lower circulating market caps, these assets are more sensitive to capital inflows, while also carrying higher two-way volatility risks.Data from the Binance platform further reinforces the signals of an altcoin market recovery. Since last November, approximately 80% to 85% of altcoins have remained below the 200-day moving average (200-DMA), but currently 56% of Binance-listed altcoins have climbed back above this key technical indicator, suggesting the market may be entering a new cyclical phase.Darkfost believes this trend reversal is linked to a series of positive cryptocurrency signals recently released by Trump. On August 19, Trump stated that the U.S. would "massively purchase Bitcoin" and urged Congress to push through the CLARITY Act, while claiming his administration had ended previous unfriendly policies toward the crypto industry. These remarks boosted market sentiment, and against a backdrop of low trading volume and reduced selling pressure, substantial capital began flowing into the altcoin market, driving gains across multiple sectors simultaneously.Darkfost noted that from a historical perspective, the current broad-based altcoin rally is typically viewed as an important signal of the early stage of altseason. However, he also cautioned that the market has entered overbought territory in the short term, and investors should be wary of periodic pullbacks. If the overall upward momentum continues, new investment opportunities may still emerge down the road.
Odaily News: predict.fun announced on the X platform that the lower bracket final market for "The Predict International" is now live. More markets will be available for tomorrow's grand final, with each market typically offering more AP. Due to the short interval between the lower bracket final and the grand final, the platform will list the grand final event market as soon as possible, but users may have a limited time window to lock in positions before the grand final begins. Users planning to participate should be prepared to act quickly.
Odaily News: Neutrl, the decentralized yield protocol that previously suspended its protocol functions, stated in a post on X: "Due to the current complex situation, Neutrl services remain suspended. Our top priority is to strive for the best possible outcome for users. We are assessing available reserves and developing a plan for an orderly recovery process. Once next steps are determined, we will release more information immediately."Previously, Neutrl, a decentralized yield protocol, announced last week that it had temporarily halted minting, redemptions, and other protocol functions due to impacts on its protocol reserves. Neutrl stated that this measure was taken after consulting legal counsel to protect user interests and maintain orderly processes while assessing the impact. The team will provide users with a detailed explanation of the handling process in due course, and more information regarding the timeline and next steps will be announced as soon as it is confirmed.
Odaily News: Peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading platform NoOnes announced that it will begin gradually winding down operations after running for over three years. The company stated that it had been continuously seeking to resolve and lift the sanctions imposed on NoOnes, but ultimately failed. The sanctions caused the platform to lose key partners, and blockchain monitoring firms also flagged transactions associated with NoOnes as high-risk, making it increasingly difficult for the platform to continue normal operations. According to the plan, the business contraction began on August 17, and the P2P marketplace will close at 23:59 UTC on August 21. Services such as Swap, NoOnes Visa, fiat withdrawals, the gift card store, and the Bitcoin Lightning Network will also be discontinued progressively. After that, the platform will only support withdrawals, and users will still be able to log in, view balances, and withdraw remaining assets. The company advises users to complete asset withdrawals as soon as possible, no later than August 23. Previously, on January 26, 2025, NoOnes revealed that the platform had suffered a major security breach earlier that month, resulting in losses of approximately $8 million in crypto assets. CEO Ray Youssef confirmed the news after on-chain detective ZachXBT disclosed the hacking incident on his Telegram channel.
DeFiLlama's anonymous founder 0xngmi stated that the team postponed the release of the official mobile app due to the long-standing presence of phishing apps impersonating DeFiLlama on the Apple App Store. Apple removed them only after the team submitted evidence that the malicious apps were stealing funds.
Odaily News: The BIP-110 fork branched off from the Bitcoin mainnet at block height 961,632 on August 8. Since then, the Roughnecks mining pool has mined only 4 blocks in 7 days, with on-chain progress stalled at block 961,635. BIP-110 supporters plan to switch the proof-of-work hash function from SHA-256 to Blake2b as early as September. The related development requires adjustments to block header validation, as well as upgrades to mining pools, wallets, block explorers, and indexing tools. The fork coin has not yet received support from trading platforms and currently has no market price, with over 400,000 transfers awaiting confirmation. Due to the lack of replay protection, a large number of these transfers were unintentionally generated by users. Tokens mined by Roughnecks require 100 confirmations before they can be used. (Bitcoin.com News)
Bitcoin analyst Plan B stated on the X platform that the core of Bitcoin's long-term value lies in scarcity, not short-term price fluctuations.Plan B believes that many people focus on Bitcoin's price charts, while the S2F model he uses focuses on the degree of asset scarcity. This model measures scarcity through "existing supply ÷ annual new production," where the S2F for gold is approximately 60. Due to Bitcoin's fixed total supply of 21 million coins and its predictable issuance schedule, its S2F is currently around 120 and continues to rise over time.The Bitcoin halving mechanism is an important driver of the S2F model. Approximately every four years, the Bitcoin network reduces the block reward by half, decreasing new supply and roughly doubling the S2F level, making it the core supply-side event observed by the model.Plan B emphasized that the S2F and its upgraded version, the S2FX model, predict long-term average value rather than precisely forecasting market tops or bottoms. Bitcoin's price typically fluctuates around the model's estimated value, and investors should focus on multi-year cycle averages rather than single-day price highs. Additionally, Plan B believes that as scarcity increases, Bitcoin is undergoing different stages of development, including proof of concept, payment network, "digital gold"/store of value asset, and institutional-grade financial asset. Each increase in scarcity could bring new market narratives and capital inflows.However, Plan B also reiterated that "all models are wrong, but some are useful." He stated that the S2F model is merely a tool for long-term understanding of Bitcoin's scarcity, not a trading signal or a "crystal ball" for price prediction. Although the model has withstood major events such as the COVID-19 pandemic and China's mining ban, it still has limitations.
据 CNBC 报道，OpenAI 表示，因担忧未发布模型 Astra 可能具备自主发起网络攻击的能力，公司已暂停部分内部活动，并加强高能力模型的隔离测试、监控与检测措施。与此同时，Meta、Anthropic 等机构近期也出现涉及 AI 系统的安全事件，推动美国与欧盟加快前沿模型监管与风险控制措施的制定。
According to Cointelegraph, BTCPay Server has temporarily restricted public remote connections to Lightning Network nodes due to attackers exploiting a critical vulnerability in LND (Lightning Network Daemon) to steal node credentials and transfer funds. Version 2.4.2 has upgraded to LND 0.21.1 and automatically rotates macaroon credentials in standard installations. The project team reminds operators to check for abnormal payments, channel closures, and balance changes as soon as possible; if nodes are exposed via self-built reverse proxies, Tor services, or port forwarding, relevant credentials must also be manually replaced. Currently, Foundation and Citadel21 have reported node fund losses, but the specific scale of losses has not yet been disclosed.
The Bitcoin fork chain supporting BIP-110, after triggering at block height 961,632, produced only 2 blocks in approximately 8 hours since launch, indicating significantly insufficient hashrate support, and the fork is nearing failure. Currently, this branch remains at height 961,633, while the Bitcoin main chain has advanced to 961,681.