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The Securities and Exchange Commission (Thailand) has issued an announcement soliciting public comments on the draft regulatory framework for establishing cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds (crypto ETFs) in Thailand, as well as the revised eligibility requirements for mutual funds and private funds to engage foreign digital asset custodians, with a comment submission deadline of September 20, 2026.
Former X product lead Nikita Bier said that X now supports adding Solana and Ethereum charts to posts and plans to launch a trade button soon. Users can also paste the contract addresses of newly issued tokens. He also stated that the strength in the crypto market is linked to the US Treasury's announcement of bond buybacks and the weakening of the US dollar.
TermMax (TMX) has launched on Bitget PoolX, allowing users to lock ETH or TMX to share a total airdrop of 1,380,000 TMX tokens. The lockup period runs from 20:00 UTC+8 on August 25 to 20:00 UTC+8 on August 30. The ETH lockup pool accounts for a total airdrop allocation of 1,290,000 TMX, with an individual lockup limit of 1,500 ETH. This pool also incorporates a long-term holding bonus mechanism: the system will apply an additional bonus to the locked amount based on the user's minimum balance for the corresponding locked asset over the past 15 days. The TMX lockup pool allocates a total of 90,000 TMX for airdrops, subject to an individual lockup cap of 4,200,000 TMX.
Odaily News According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Wintermute (0xecb...2b00) has increased its short exposure on Hyperliquid from $190.77 million to $211.53 million since the last update; its HYPE short has decreased from $11.43 million to $5.6 million. Current major short positions include: Bitcoin $70.8 million, ETH $53.83 million, SOL $17.63 million, XRP $7.41 million, DOGE $6.79 million. Current unrealized loss stands at $4.12 million, with $2.27 million in funding fees already received.
: HertzFlow, a perpetual contract protocol supported by YZi Labs, has opened mainnet trading. Users can trade, provide liquidity, and invite friends to earn Merit points. Previously, the Genesis Vault pre-deposit campaign was completed, and early participants have received 230,000 WLFI in allocations. The project is now adding 390,000 WLFI in liquidity rewards to the USD1 Vault. The campaign runs until August 31, has no cap, and is open to all users. Active users who have already participated in the pre-deposit campaign or testnet can directly access the mainnet, while new users need an invitation code. The platform currently supports BTC, ETH, and BNB trading pairs, with more markets to be expanded in the future. HertzFlow aims to create permissionless leveraged trading markets for oracle-backed assets and activate on-chain liquidity on BNB Chain through composable DeFi strategies.
Multi-chain decentralized overcollateralized stablecoin USDD has officially launched its Vault feature on Ethereum, enabling users to mint USDD using ETH and WBTC as core collateral assets. This upgrade further expands upon the previously launched TRON chain Vault, signaling that the USDD Vault module has officially entered a dual-chain driven phase with ETH and BTC as the dual-core mainstream collateral assets, providing more entry points for mainstream asset holders to participate in the USDD ecosystem.
Odaily News: Ethereum client Besu has fixed 5 security vulnerabilities discovered by blockchain security firm CertiK in version 26.7.1 released on July 27, and published 4 detailed security advisories on August 14. Vulnerability details were disclosed after a delay to allow node operators to complete upgrade deployments.Jialiang Chang, Director of Security Engineering and Senior Audit Partner at CertiK, stated that the arrangement of releasing patches first and details later provided an 18-day buffer period, allowing node operators to identify affected deployments, test new versions, and coordinate with validators or consortium participants to complete upgrades.The vulnerabilities involve block broadcast handling, caching of future-height consensus proposals, WebSocket subscription limits, and JSON-RPC filter creation. If left unpatched, attackers could exhaust node memory or thread resources, impacting node availability and consensus processing.Using the Chain Scan methodology, CertiK conducted adversarial testing on peer-to-peer, HTTP RPC, WebSocket RPC, and consensus interfaces in a private multi-node test network, and provided reproducible testing tools to the Besu team. CertiK is updating Chain Scan to expand round-the-clock multi-node testing on public chain networks. (Bitcoin.com News)
The Ethereum Foundation announced on Twitter that it will sponsor the inaugural Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Technologies (WPPT 2026). The workshop is an affiliated event of Asiacrypt 2026 and will be held in Hong Kong in December 2026. Organized by staff from the Ethereum Foundation, it focuses on topics such as ZK, MPC, FHE, PIR, privacy identity, blockchain privacy, and practically deployed privacy systems, aiming to connect theoretical research with practical applications. Official calls for demonstration papers are now open; submissions require abstracts of no more than three pages, with a deadline of September 25.
Odaily News: The latest financial disclosure from Michigan Democratic Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib shows that her retirement accounts hold Bitcoin and Ethereum-related ETFs, including up to $15,000 in the Grayscale Ethereum Staking Mini ETF, as well as up to $15,000 in the iShares Bitcoin ETF.Tlaib previously voted against the CLARITY Act, which supports cryptocurrency market structure legislation, and supported a resolution aimed at prohibiting so-called "crypto corruption." In addition to crypto asset-related ETFs, Tlaib's investments also include European and Asian market funds, international bond funds, and funds used to hedge against dollar risk. Her assets are distributed across accounts such as traditional IRAs, Roth IRAs, and college savings accounts. (New York Post)
According to the Upbit announcement, Upbit will add trading support for Interfold (FOLD), opening KRW, BTC, and USDT markets, and support deposits and withdrawals on the Ethereum network. FOLD deposit and withdrawal services are expected to open within 2 hours after the announcement, with trading expected to begin on August 23 at 12:30.
Odaily News - Nomura Holdings' digital asset company Laser Digital Japan announced this week that it has completed registration as a crypto asset trading service provider under Japan's Payment Services Act, with registration number 00032, and has joined the Japan Virtual and Crypto asset Trading Association, bringing an end to Japan's nearly 4-year period without new industry participants.The license covers six crypto assets: Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, and Shiba Inu, all of which are listed on the industry association's "green list." Laser Digital Japan will initially provide liquidity to licensed crypto asset companies in Japan, while the launch date for trading services targeting professional investors has not yet been announced.Japanese regulators require the segregation of customer assets from company assets, with at least 95% of customer crypto assets stored in offline cold wallets, subject to verification through annual audits. The license does not cover crypto asset derivatives, nor does it permit Laser Digital Japan to launch exchange-traded funds; major adjustments to Japan's crypto asset regulatory framework are expected to be implemented in fiscal year 2027. (Bitcoin.com News)
The Sandbox has officially confirmed and fully secured the recent SAND cross-chain bridge vulnerability affecting the Base and BNB Smart Chain (BSC) networks. Attackers exploited the flaw to mint uncollateralized SAND tokens across both networks, but the impact remains limited, accounting for less than 0.01% of the total SAND supply. SAND on Ethereum and Polygon, along with user wallets, remain unaffected. The Sandbox has since disabled cross-chain functionality on both networks. SAND on Base and BSC has been isolated and is temporarily non-transferable and non-redeemable. The official team advises users to avoid buying, selling, or trading SAND on the aforementioned networks.
Odaily News: Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published his latest article "Obfuscation (Part 3): Local Mixing," providing an in-depth introduction to an emerging cryptographic obfuscation approach — "Local Mixing" — and describing it as a potential new fundamental cryptographic tool following elliptic curves, RSA, and lattice-based cryptography.Vitalik noted that current mainstream obfuscation techniques primarily rely on complex mathematical assumptions but often incur extremely high computational costs. Local mixing, by contrast, takes a completely different approach. Rather than depending on elliptic curves, large integer factorization, or lattice cryptography, it draws on design principles from symmetric cryptography and hash functions, continuously shuffling, restructuring, and hiding circuit architecture to eliminate information leakage while preserving functionality.He explained that the local mixing technique mainly involves steps such as reversibility, hardening, mixing, splitting, crossing walk, and "gadgetization." By introducing random structures into circuits, rearranging logic gates, and employing nonlinear hiding mechanisms, it makes it difficult for attackers to recover the original computational logic.Vitalik pointed out that the technique remains in its early stages, with security not yet subject to long-term validation, and it still faces challenges such as random attacks and linear analysis. Nevertheless, he believes local mixing represents an entirely new path of cryptographic exploration aimed at building more efficient indistinguishability obfuscation (iO) schemes.He stated that if local mixing achieves a breakthrough, it could lead to new quantum-resistant public-key encryption schemes and advance the development of general-purpose obfuscation techniques. While the field still requires years of cryptanalysis and optimization validation, AI-assisted research could significantly accelerate this maturation process.Vitalik described obfuscation as the "final frontier" of cryptography, as theoretically all other cryptographic primitives can be constructed from obfuscation and one-way functions. Local mixing not only has the potential to reduce the cost of traditional obfuscation schemes but could also become an important direction for future cryptographic infrastructure.
According to reports, Bybit has recently launched a USDT mainnet trading ecosystem incentive program with a total prize pool of 100,000 USDT. During the campaign, users can participate in the reward distribution by trading designated USDT pairs. This initiative will further enrich USDT trading scenarios, boosting market liquidity and user engagement for related trading pairs including BTC and ETH.
Odaily News According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, "Set 10 Big Goals First" has added another 1,000 BTC to its position, bringing the total position to $218 million, with a current floating loss of $877,000. The entity holds a 5x short position of 2,449.968 BTC, valued at $183 million, with an entry price of $74,746.1; it also holds a 7x short position of 15,000 ETH, valued at $35.21 million, with an entry price of $2,347.89.
Odaily News: GnosisDAO has approved the transition of the blockchain network Gnosis Chain from a standalone Layer 1 network to a zero-knowledge proof-based Ethereum Economic Zone (EEZ) Rollup. The network will eliminate its independent validator set and instead rely on Ethereum validators to settle transactions.The proposal received 123,158 GNO in favor, 115 against, and 151 abstentions, involving 54 participants with a total participation of 123,425 GNO, exceeding the quorum threshold of 75,000 GNO. The upgrade is initially planned to launch in late 2026 or early 2027, depending on the technical readiness of the EEZ.After the upgrade, Gnosis Chain's native smart contracts will be able to call Ethereum and use the returned results within the same transaction, while also accessing Ethereum mainnet assets and liquidity. Gnosis Chain will become the first deployed EEZ instance, retaining its existing applications, balances, and xDAI fuel token. (Cointelegraph)
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.
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: Blockchain data analytics platform Nansen released its "Starknet H1 2026 Report," stating that in the first half of 2026, Starknet completed its strategic transformation from a high-performance Layer 2 network to a "privacy-preserving execution layer." The launch of the STRK20 privacy framework and the Bitcoin asset strkBTC became the ecosystem's most significant upgrades.The report notes that as an Ethereum-based ZK-Rollup network, Starknet generates STARK proofs off-chain and verifies them on-chain, achieving high throughput and low transaction costs. Its smart contracts use the Cairo language, specifically designed for verifiable computation, and support native account abstraction functionality.In the first half of this year, Starknet launched the v0.14.2 upgrade, introducing the SNIP-36 protocol to lay the technical foundation for private transactions. This upgrade allows the network to directly verify off-chain execution proofs, enabling confidential state transitions without exposing account balances or counterparty information. Additionally, SNIP-37 adjusted the network's economic model, increasing storage costs while lowering base gas fees to optimize incentives for long-term state growth.In terms of privacy applications, Starknet launched the STRK20 privacy framework, which allows users to convert any ERC-20 asset into encrypted balances and conduct private transfers, trades, and DeFi interactions. The system is built on zero-knowledge proof technology and implements compliant auditing through an encrypted viewing key mechanism, protecting user privacy while supporting targeted information disclosure in regulatory scenarios.On-chain data shows that in Q2 2026, Starknet recorded an average daily transaction volume of approximately 239,000 and an average of about 50,000 daily active addresses. During the period, a total of 22.5 million transactions were completed, involving approximately 71,000 users. Among these, DEX aggregator AVNU contributed roughly 14 million transactions, accounting for 62.2% of total volume; gaming infrastructure Cartridge contributed 6.57 million transactions, with the two combined accounting for approximately 91% of transaction activity.
Odaily News: The KITE Foundation has provided an update on the handling of a token security incident. A new KITE ERC-20 contract has been deployed on the Ethereum mainnet, with the total token supply remaining unchanged. Old KITE tokens will be migrated to the new contract at a 1:1 ratio. Addresses confirmed to be controlled by the attacker will be excluded and will not receive new tokens.The migration snapshot is based on Ethereum mainnet block height 25,692,498. Regular self-custody wallet users will receive the new tokens directly without needing to redeem or authorize anything. Exchange users will have their migration coordinated between the exchange and the KITE team. Cross-chain channels will remain paused until migration and verification are complete.Previously, KITE detected abnormal transfers on August 6 and confirmed it had been attacked by hackers. The team stated that this incident did not result in any asset losses for users or the project, and the impact is currently under control.