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ARK Invest has released an update to its open-source Tesla valuation model, projecting that Tesla will be worth approximately $4,400 per share by 2031. A Monte Carlo simulation based on 32 independent variables shows a bear case of around $3,300 per share and a bull case of around $5,000 per share, corresponding to annualized share price gains of 53% and 66%, respectively, with the base case implying an annualized return of approximately 62%.Under the base case, ARK Invest expects Tesla's total revenue to reach approximately $1.45 trillion by 2031, with EBITDA of about $902 billion and a market capitalization of approximately $17.5 trillion.To support the development of its AI and robotics businesses, the model also assumes that Tesla's cumulative AI infrastructure spending will increase from approximately $7 billion at the end of 2025 to approximately $225 billion by the end of 2031. Robotaxi is expected to become Tesla's primary source of value, contributing approximately 80% of enterprise value by 2031. The humanoid robot Optimus will also become an important growth engine, with Tesla's cumulative external sales of Optimus robots reaching approximately 1 million units by 2031, and revenue from robotics-as-a-service (RaaS) and related businesses amounting to approximately $212 billion.However, ARK Invest cautions that these valuations depend on multiple assumptions, including the pace of autonomous driving commercialization, the maturity of robotics technology, profit margins, and capital efficiency. Actual results may differ significantly from these projections. The model is for reference only and does not constitute investment advice.
According to official announcements, the PancakeSwap core team (The Kitchen) has released a tokenomics proposal titled “The Flip”. The proposal recommends increasing the trading fee share for liquidity providers (LPs) on PancakeSwap v3 and Infinity to 88% across all 11 supported chains, with the remaining 12% allocated as protocol fees to the treasury, while v2 remains unchanged.
According to South Korean media outlet EToday, the Korea Exchange’s (KRX) after-hours trading market, which supports overnight trading for all listed stocks, has completed its first month of operation, with analysis revealing that an imbalanced market participation structure has emerged as the primary issue. KRX data shows that during the first week following the launch of the after-hours session (September 14 to 18), retail investors accounted for 90.4% of trading volume, while foreign and institutional investors represented only 6.7% and 2.6%, respectively. An investor structure overly skewed toward retail traders may lead to inadequate market liquidity and amplify price volatility for individual stocks. To prevent the market from becoming a purely formal extended trading session, further improvements to the price formation mechanism, stronger overnight trading regulation, and the promotion of reforms in information disclosure, shareholder returns, and the tax system remain necessary.
the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on September 1 proposed the first major update to securities transfer agent rules since the late 1970s, aiming to adapt to the shift from paper records to electronic data.SEC Chairman Paul Atkins said the rules should reflect how securities transfer agents actually operate today and in the future, including the use of blockchain technology in securities issuance and share transfers.Securities transfer agents are responsible for maintaining official records of securities ownership, processing transfers and restrictive legends, and collaborating with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) as part of the national clearing and settlement system. (CoinDesk)
Odaily News — According to Glassnode's latest "The Week On-chain - Escape Velocity" report, among the exchanges tracked by Glassnode, Gate has climbed 4 positions in BTC spot trading volume rankings over the past two years, marking the largest gain on the list and securing the third spot globally. During the same period, Gate's share of BTC spot trading volume within the tracked scope surged from 2.0% to 9.1%, a net increase of 7.1 percentage points — the largest growth among all exchanges.The report notes that Gate's rise is both sustained and long-lasting. Over the past 24 months, Gate has held a top-three position in BTC spot trading volume for 9 months, demonstrating continuously strengthening market competitiveness. As the exchange leading all platforms in both ranking improvement and market share growth, Gate's trading activity and market participation in the BTC spot market continue to expand.Glassnode also points out that the 24-hour spot trading volume across all exchanges has rebounded 121% from its August trough, with returning capital flowing to multiple trading platforms. Against the backdrop of an overall recovery in market activity, Gate's simultaneous gains in market share and global ranking stand out notably, fully demonstrating its growing momentum and expanding industry influence in the BTC spot market.
Odaily News: AI Agent onchain operating system (AI Agent Onchain OS) X-Agent has released its latest whitepaper, systematically introducing its product architecture, MCP ecosystem, business model, and the use cases of $XAGT.The whitepaper points out that the next phase of the AI industry is not just about generating text, images, or code, but about enabling Agents to understand user intent, invoke tools, execute tasks, and complete transactions. Centered around the philosophy of "Speak to Build, Share to Connect," X-Agent allows users to create AI Agents with context, memory, skills, API, and wallet connectivity capabilities through natural language, without writing any code.In terms of business model, X-Agent aims to connect the full chain of Agent creation, MCP capability integration, distribution, payment, and monetization. Developers can package APIs, data, and professional services into MCP capabilities and earn revenue through pay-per-call, subscriptions, or transaction commissions.$XAGT is planned to be used for computing costs of secure runtime environments, LLM and API calls, Agent transaction settlement, MCP service payments, Premium Agent template purchases, and developer deployment. In the future, it will also expand to service staking, multi-Agent settlement, and ecosystem governance scenarios.According to the project team, X-Agent currently has over 1 million registered users, has completed over 1.1 million autonomous tasks cumulatively, and has consumed over 84 billion LLM Tokens. In the future, the project will also advance Super-Agent, enterprise sandbox, decentralized Agent Store, and multi-Agent collaboration systems.
Chainalysis has released its "Crypto Tax Report: Select Country Data," estimating global crypto-related taxable activity at approximately $457 billion, covering trading gains, on-chain income, and digital payments.The report states that it uses on-chain data to map these activities by region and country, providing tax authorities with a geolocated view of potential taxable activity within their jurisdictions. Among these, stablecoin payment flows represent the largest and most globally distributed category. The report also analyzes cross-border channels and their impact on direct and indirect tax obligations, and demonstrates how on-chain intelligence can help tax authorities identify high-value, high-risk wallets to determine enforcement priorities.
According to the joint report released by Glassnode and Bybit on the current state of the crypto derivatives market, the proportion of options notional open interest in the native Bitcoin derivatives market has risen from approximately 25% to nearly 50%. At the same time, term futures continue to shift toward perpetual contracts. Report data shows that Bybit’s share of Bitcoin options trading volume among the four tracked exchanges has increased from under 10% to 28%, nearly tripling. Bybit’s options market size has also grown from $529 million in its first month online to $2.33 billion, increasing more than fourfold. For Ethereum options, Bybit recorded the highest trading volume among the four tracked exchanges, maintaining its lead for 143 consecutive days. Over the past 90 days, Ethereum accounted for approximately one-third of Bybit’s total options trading volume. In tokenized gold derivatives, Bybit’s tokenized gold perpetual contract market, measured in ounces, has remained the largest among tracked crypto exchanges for 476 consecutive days; regarding gold options, Bybit accounts for 97.1% of the open interest across tracked exchanges. Frederik Theissen, Head of Research at Glassnode, stated that term futures trading volume has decreased by approximately 97% compared to 2021, as market leverage gradually shifts to perpetual contracts while risk pricing increasingly moves toward options. Sean Ballard, Head of Derivatives and Institutional Business at Bybit, stated that traders are increasingly
Odaily News — According to the "August 2026 Exchange Review" published by CoinDesk, in August, RWA perpetual contract trading volume on centralized exchanges grew 2.37% month-over-month to $602 billion, setting a record high for the category. Gate stood out in particular, with its RWA perpetual contract trading volume surging 158% month-over-month to $64.7 billion. Its market share rose from 5.32% in July to 12.6%, more than doubling from the previous month and placing it among the top three centralized crypto exchanges.In terms of asset coverage, the CoinDesk report shows that Gate now supports over 12,800 stock and ETF assets and continues to expand trading scenarios including equities, RWA, and derivatives. By further broadening asset coverage and trading scenarios, Gate is continuously strengthening its integrated trading infrastructure that connects digital assets with traditional financial markets.
Odaily News: Digital asset trading platform Gate has released its August 2026 Transparency Report. The report shows that in August, multiple Gate business lines received recognition from institutional data providers including CoinDesk, CryptoQuant, CryptoRank, and DefiLlama. Among them, Gate's stock perpetual contract trading volume grew 308% month-over-month, maintaining triple-digit growth for three consecutive months; the RWA perpetual contract open interest (OI) market share reached 49.6%, ranking first globally among centralized trading platforms. Meanwhile, Gate's 24-hour spot and derivatives trading volume stood at approximately $9.5 billion, with open interest reaching $12.48 billion, both ranking among the global top three; 30-day net inflow reached $308.1 million, ranking second among mainstream trading platforms.In terms of traditional financial asset trading, Gate's CFD business continues to expand its asset coverage, now covering 680 trading pairs, spanning major TradFi assets including forex, metals, energy, indices, and stocks. In terms of overall TradFi product layout, Gate now covers over 1,000 TradFi assets, with stock derivatives covering more than 360 underlying assets, both ranking first globally, further enhancing its multi-asset trading matrix.As digital assets and traditional financial markets continue to converge, Gate is steadily expanding diverse trading scenarios including stocks, RWA, CFD, and derivatives. By enriching asset supply and trading tools, it is further improving its comprehensive trading infrastructure that connects digital assets with traditional financial markets.
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.
ARK Investment Management has filed an exemption application with the U.S. SEC to issue a tokenized share class for its venture fund, ARK Venture Fund. The SEC issued a related notice on August 24, setting September 18 as the deadline for hearing requests. ARK has chosen to pursue the exemption for the tokenized share class through the standard exemption application process, rather than wait for tokenization exemptions that the SEC has hinted at but has not yet published.
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.
: According to official sources, OKX Flash Earn Lite will launch AEON "Staking Rewards" from August 31, 2026, 15:00 to September 5, 2026, 15:00 (UTC+8). During the event, users who participate by locking BTC, ETH, OKB, or AEON can share a total of 4,100,000 AEON airdrop rewards. Notably, ETH borrowed via flexible borrowing will not be counted toward the valid subscription amount.Users can start subscribing in advance from now on, with rewards calculated after the event officially begins. Participation is available via the event link or by tapping "Flash Earn" at the top of the Explore page in the OKX App.
According to Red Star News, Moonshot AI Kimi issued a statement on August 14, stating that it has reported acts of false financing using the company's name and suspected illegal criminal activities in the market to the public security organs, and will pursue accountability to the fullest extent. The statement explicitly denied the existence of so-called "Friend Fund", "Special Channel", "Old Share Quota", "Reserved Quota", "Official Agent", or "Authorized Intermediary" during the financing process, reminded investors to be aware of risks, and advised that suspicious transactions can be reported to the company's legal department.
Odaily News According to the official announcement, Gate has officially launched CandyDrop Round 176 for DappOS (DOS) from August 10, 19:00 to August 23, 19:00 (UTC+8), introducing a DOS token airdrop campaign. During the event, users can earn candies through spot trading, VIP-exclusive tasks, and inviting friends, sharing a total of 1,500,000 DOS, with a maximum individual reward of 1,000 DOS.Among these, new users who complete their first DOS spot trade are eligible for a new-user exclusive bonus. Regular users and VIP users can earn candies by reaching specified trading volumes, while inviting valid friends also grants candies and a chance to share in the reward pool.Gate CandyDrop continues to provide users with opportunities to participate in popular project airdrops and earn token rewards through diversified task mechanisms.
Decentralized stablecoin USDD announces that with the launch of TRON DeFi Summer Season 2, its Summer Earn Plan launched jointly with Binance Wallet and JustLend DAO is now live. The event runs from today until October 4, 07:59 (Singapore Time), and participating users can share a total reward of $900,000. Specifically, users who complete designated deposits or subscribe to designated event vault assets via Binance Wallet can share a TRX exclusive airdrop worth $300,000; by subscribing to USDD via JustLend, in addition to enjoying the base APR, users can also participate in sharing a 600,000 USDD reward pool, with no upper limit on user participation amounts.
According to Reuters, citing people familiar with the matter, Alibaba plans to introduce commercial terms next week for the next-generation open-source, open-weights AI model Qwen3.8-Max, proposing to require revenue sharing from customers who sell the model as a service and reach a certain scale. The report states that Alibaba previously mainly charged for model usage hosted on its cloud platform, while most open-source models can be used for free when deployed in customers' own data centers.
Coinbase launches stock trading functionality in the UK. UK users can now buy and sell nearly 4,000 US stocks within the same app, which supports 24/5 trading and shares the same account with their cryptocurrency and fiat assets. The feature is zero-commission, supports fractional share trading, stocks are custodied and executed by Apex Clearing in the US, and users can fund trades using GBP or USDC.
Blockchain media ChainCatcher recently released the report "Options Market Enters New Paradigm: 2026 H1 Landscape Evolution and Key Features," systematically reviewing the global crypto options market in the first half of 2026 based on data from platforms such as CoinGlass, with Bybit's options business listed as a core case for focused analysis.