Bitfinex Securities is a tokenized investment platform under the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, which has launched 5 types of tokenized notes, providing economic exposure to Bitcoin reserve companies such as Strategy, Metaplanet, H100 Group, and Capital B for eligible investors. The platform has also launched the Strategy floating rate perpetual preferred stock STRC.The aforementioned notes are issued through the Luxembourg ORO (II) Fund, managed by SICOS Securities, with the underlying securities held in custody by regulated financial institutions, but do not grant investors direct ownership of shares in the corresponding companies. Products can be invested in fractions starting from about $1 and support trading in USD, USDT, and Bitcoin, available only to eligible non-U.S. investors. Bitfinex Securities stated that this is the first time related products have been traded in the secondary market on a regulated tokenized securities exchange. After completing a $50 million tokenized financing for the metal company Alkemya in August this year, the platform has listed assets exceeding $500 million.
AI protocol Neura announced the completion of a $4 million strategic financing round, with participants including Animoca Brands, Basics Capital, TBV, Kinetic Kollective, Grammy Award-winning singer Ne-Yo, and Mario Nawfal, with a valuation of $80 million for this round. Neura is positioned as a "emotional AI economy" protocol, dedicated to building an underlying layer for AI entities that has lasting emotional memory and user autonomous identity, enabling them to maintain emotional interaction consistency with users across conversations and devices.Neura's core design includes an on-chain memory ledger, which anchors emotional context through privacy-protected cryptographic proofs, allowing it to be transferred between models, platforms, and devices, with ownership belonging to users rather than application parties. The funds from this round will be used for a three-phase roadmap: consumer application Neura Social, developer SDK, and decentralized protocol layer. The entry of investors like Animoca Brands indicates that market attention towards "user-owned emotional AI" is on the rise. Related products have not yet officially launched, and specific functions will be subject to actual delivery.
Odaily News: Hackers are spreading credential-stealing malware through forged Google Docs files, malicious GitHub files, and counterfeit Claude.ai pages, and posing as CoinDesk employees on X to trick users into installing malicious programs. Mac users face the threat of Atomic macOS Stealer, while Windows users are pushed fake Google API Connector updates, with NetSupport RAT and a counterfeit Ledger app implanted on their devices. Hackers are also placing fake ads on Bing to lure users to counterfeit Claude.ai pages; MacSync and SectopRAT can steal cookies, passwords, seed phrases, and payment card information. Additionally, 16 malicious extensions targeting Chrome and Edge were discovered that can drain assets from EVM, Solana, and Tron wallets.
Odaily News: Cango, a New York Stock Exchange-listed company, reported Q2 revenue of $50.8 million, with BTC mining contributing $47.4 million and other businesses $3.4 million. As of June 30, Cango held 1,056 BTC, with cash and cash equivalents of $10.1 million and long-term debt of $31.2 million.
In mining, Cango phased out less efficient S19 series miners and partially shifted to a hash rate leasing model. As of June 30, the company's self-operated hash rate was 19.84 EH/s, leased hash rate was 7.74 EH/s, totaling 27.58 EH/s. In Q2, the company mined 656 BTC at an average cash mining cost of $73,313 per coin, down about 5% from Q1. Cango also began implementing a BTC hedging strategy to reduce the impact of price volatility on operating cash flow.
In AI infrastructure, Cango's LN mining site in Georgia, USA, completed renovation in early July, now supporting up to 3 MW capacity with room for future expansion. Containerized equipment has been installed, and GPU hardware is arriving in batches. Cango has signed its first AI customer contract, with revenue recognition expected to begin in Q3.
Additionally, Cango plans to develop both bare-metal GPU hosting and cabinet hosting models, though no formal cabinet hosting contracts have been signed yet. The company has deployed test nodes in Texas and the U.S. West Coast to meet customer proximity needs and is evaluating more potential sites and the possibility of self-built facilities.
Odaily News: The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has frozen over $13.6 million in funds held in Barclays accounts of The Football Association Premier League Limited, the operating entity of the Premier League. The agency obtained a court order from Westminster Magistrates' Court in January 2025 under the Proceeds of Crime Act to freeze the funds.
The funds were the first installment of a four-year sponsorship agreement with Sorare, announced in January 2023, which allowed Sorare to issue digital cards for players from the 20 Premier League clubs. Sorare's partnership with the Premier League ended after the 2025-26 season.
Sorare also faces prosecution by the UK Gambling Commission, accused of offering gambling facilities without an operating license. The company has entered three not-guilty pleas, and the trial is scheduled for June 2027. Sorare maintains that its game rewards skill rather than chance and denies that it constitutes a gambling product under UK law. (Decrypt)
Odaily News: According to Lookonchain monitoring, an address spent 181 ETH (worth $443,000) a month ago to buy 7.99 million tokens. Subsequently, due to the price drop, it sold all tokens for 135,000 USDG, incurring a loss of $308,000. Currently, these tokens are worth $3.46 million; if held until now, the address could have gained over $3 million.
Odaily News: BitcoinTreasuries.NET posted on X that Lance Vitanza, an analyst at TD Cowen, a $15 billion investment bank, said Strive shares will rise 33% to $32. The firm stated that its treasury activities have significantly exceeded previous models. TD Cowen expects Strive to hold more than 27,100 bitcoins by the end of 2026.
BitcoinTreasuries.NET posted on platform X that TD Cowen analyst Lance Vitanza, with a scale of $15 billion, stated that Strive's stock price will rise by 33% to $32. The institution indicated that its treasury activities have significantly exceeded previous models.TD Cowen expects that Strive will hold more than 27,100 bitcoins by the end of 2026.
According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the event of "the next Mythos level vehicle release party" on the prediction market Polymarket, the "is" option in the sub-market "September 3" experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 52.5% an hour ago to the current 68% (a fluctuation of 15.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.
Odaily News: Russia's digital asset law took effect on September 1, 2026, legalizing regulated cryptocurrency trading nationwide. Retail investors purchasing cryptocurrencies through a single licensed intermediary face an annual cap of 300,000 rubles, approximately $3,700.
The Bank of Russia will regulate licensed cryptocurrency intermediaries. Exchanges, brokers, and custodians must register as licensed intermediaries and join a self-regulatory organization in the financial market before they can legally provide services to clients.
The Bank of Russia will also determine which digital assets licensed intermediaries may offer. Professional investors are not subject to the 300,000 ruble annual cap, and the ban on using digital assets to pay for goods and services within Russia remains in effect.
Starting September 1, enterprises engaged in foreign economic activities can use cryptocurrencies to pay for goods, works, or services in international trade. The full licensing and compliance requirements are expected to be implemented by July 1, 2027. (Bitcoin.com News)
BSC and 0G ecosystem AI economic infrastructure project NeoSoul announced that its general intelligent trading workstation NeoTrade has launched the trading Skill Builder. Users only need to describe their trading ideas or trading styles in a conversation, and the system can generate the corresponding trading Skill, automatically completing the configuration and verification of strategy parameters such as time period, market focus, position, and order method.In the past, traders had to turn their trading ideas into strategies that Agents could sustainably execute, which typically required writing trading logic and setting parameters item by item. The Skill Builder centralizes the process into a conversation window, allowing users to describe their core trading ideas in natural language, and then gradually refine the strategy through continuous dialogue. During the conversation, NeoTrade will configure specific conditions based on user requirements and write each round of modifications in real-time into the Skill. Once the strategy is complete, the system will automatically perform parameter verification, and the generated Skill can be saved and reused.Kaelan, co-founder of NeoSoul, stated that turning trading judgments into rules that Agents can execute has always been one of the most time-consuming steps in creating trading Agents. The Skill Builder incorporates this step into a single conversation, where users first clarify how they want to trade, and the system is responsible for completing the structuring, parameter configuration, and verification.
Bitcoin holding company Strategy has spent a total of $635.2 million to repurchase its STRC perpetual preferred shares, with the latest transaction amounting to $151.8 million at an average price of $97.48. Despite the ongoing expansion of the repurchase scale, STRC is currently priced at $97.34, below its par value of $100. The company's previously launched $1 billion repurchase authorization has pushed STRC from a low of about $71 to around $97.Part of the pressure on STRC comes from competition with Strive's ASST perpetual preferred shares. ASST offers a 13% annual dividend paid daily, while STRC has a dividend yield of 12%, paid bi-monthly. ASST has maintained a price close to its par value of $100 for over a week, allowing Strive to issue additional shares through at-the-market (ATM) offerings, with the proceeds used to purchase 1,800 bitcoins over the past week.The performance of the common stocks of both companies has also diverged, with ASST rising 60% this year, while MSTR has fallen 15%. Additionally, Strategy purchased bitcoin for the first time in two months, buying 4,603 bitcoins last week at an average price of about $80,000, increasing its total holdings to 845,050 bitcoins (approximately $65.9 billion).
According to EU-Startups, Berlin-based AI-native energy platform Cloover announced the completion of a new funding round of €86.2 million (approximately $100 million) and received €350 million in guarantees from the European Investment Fund (EIF), bringing the total funding amount to over €1.12 billion (approximately $1.3 billion). Meanwhile, the company announced that it has officially achieved profitability three years after its establishment, with an annualized revenue exceeding €301.7 million (approximately $350 million).Cloover focuses on residential solar energy, heat pumps, and home electrification, providing financing, software, and energy products in collaboration with independent installers. It currently covers the five major markets in Europe, completing approximately 20,000 installation projects each year, making it one of the top three residential energy players in Europe's largest energy market. The company plans to further expand into the UK, France, and Poland markets. In addition, Cloover has officially launched an AI-native "new utility" model, transforming each household into a virtual power plant through a home energy management system, aggregating distributed solar energy, energy storage, heat pumps, and electric vehicle charging stations to enable real-time trading of electricity flexibility.
The research institution Sigmaintell has released a storage price indicator showing that in the third quarter of 2026, the overall supply and demand in the global storage market remains tight. Prices for all categories of DRAM (Dynamic Random Access Memory) and NAND Flash (flash memory) continue to rise month-on-month, but the rate of increase has significantly slowed compared to the second quarter, with the month-on-month increase for some storage chips narrowing to within 10%.
The first on-chain game launched by FUNVERSE, FUN LONGINUS, will officially go live on the Anubis Chain mainnet on September 1, 2026, at 10:00 UTC (UTC+8 18:00). FUN LONGINUS originates from a hackathon and is an Eastern martial arts chain game designed for the Anubis GameFi ecosystem. It constructs on-chain gameplay around martial arts elements such as the Jianghu, arena, mentorship, Jiazi salary, leader's order, and Huaze artifacts, and is structured competitively based on the twenty-four solar terms.Each match features 24 different addresses participating together, with each player entering the arena using fLGNS. The execution of the match, determination of results, and final settlement are all completed by smart contracts, ultimately producing one leader. Match records, reward distribution, mentorship relationships, and players' Jianghu resumes are all stored on-chain. FUN LONGINUS completed the collective forging of heroes on August 18, 2026, and based on the market price at the time of publication, this collective forging is valued at over 1.4 million USD. The launch of the mainnet marks the game's transition from the hackathon prototype, public testing, and collective forging phase to the official on-chain game operation phase.
Odaily News: HyperliquidNews stated on the X platform that HYPE's monthly close price hit a record high, closing at $84.158; in terms of absolute net value, this monthly close ranks second in history.
Kuaishou's subsidiary Keling AI has received investment from a national industrial fund. The National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund has invested 1.4 billion yuan in Beijing Keling, while Charoen Pokphand Robotics has invested approximately 19.29 million USD, equivalent to about 131 million yuan.This is a follow-up to Keling's nearly 3 billion USD financing plan announced in July. The announcement shows that the upper limit of this round of capital increase, approximately 20.447 billion yuan (about 3 billion USD), has been fully utilized. The National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund and Charoen Pokphand Robotics will ultimately hold approximately 1.14% and 0.11% of the shares, respectively.The National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund involved in this investment has a scale of approximately 60.06 billion yuan and is controlled by the third phase of the National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund.
Odaily News: CryptoQuant posted on X platform that from August 1 to 30, addresses holding more than 100 BTC accumulated an increase of about 60,000 BTC; during the same period, addresses holding 1 to 100 BTC reduced their holdings by about 33,000 BTC, and addresses holding less than 1 BTC reduced their holdings by about 14,000 BTC.
Odaily News: Greeks.live posted on X that on September 1, if Strategy resumes buying Bitcoin, it will only provide short-term stimulus and is unlikely to change the long-term trend. After achieving floating profits, Strategy has more room to increase its holdings, but over a longer cycle, Bitcoin ETFs are still experiencing net outflows, making it difficult for Bitcoin to firmly hold above $80,000, with significant market selling pressure. Currently, no single participant in the Bitcoin market can manipulate or accurately predict the trend. On the macro front, the Federal Reserve's hawkish remarks and the escalation of the US-Iran conflict are further testing investor sentiment.
Additionally, Bitcoin's short-term volatility has declined rapidly, and a single bullish candlestick is insufficient to sustain a bull market. If it can rise back above $85,000 after a slight pullback, the market structure may improve; otherwise, arbitrageurs and sellers could bring significant selling pressure. Gamma exposure (GEX) is building up at the end of the month, and the market still needs further upward momentum to continue the trend.
According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "LoL: Gen.G vs KT Rolster (BO5) - LCK Playoffs," the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Any Player Pentakill" has experienced a sharp fluctuation in win rate, soaring from 16% an hour ago to the current 50% (a fluctuation of 34%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.