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Wednesday, 09/02/2026

The real robot revolution in China has nothing to do with humanoid robots

According to data from the International Federation of Robotics, Chinese companies installed 295,000 new industrial robots in China in 2024, accounting for 54% of the global total. Two years ago, China had over 2 million industrial robots in operation, approximately 4.5 times that of the second-place Japan. According to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China, the revenue of China's robotics industry exceeded 300 billion yuan (4.4 billion USD) last year, with an average annual growth rate of over 20% over five years. Industrial robot exports are expected to grow by 49% in 2025, making China a net exporter of industrial robots for the first time.Chinese manufacturers now hold the majority share of the domestic industrial robot market, which was previously dominated by Fanuc, ABB, Yaskawa, and KUKA before 2024. BYD's Xi'an factory operates thousands of automated robotic arms for electric vehicle assembly lines, with key components being nearly fully autonomous. The Yangshan Port in Shanghai has built the world's largest automated terminal, almost entirely operated by automated guided vehicles and remotely controlled gantry cranes, with minimal human intervention. Regulatory authorities in Guangdong Province recently approved 48 "robot +" deployment scenarios covering manufacturing, logistics, and service sectors. The quadruped and humanoid robot company Yushu Technology went public last month, with its first-day trading valuation exceeding 1,200 times its past earnings.

PONS Daily Fees Reach ~$4.73M, Surpassing Hyperliquid, Polymarket, and Fomo Combined

Odaily News: Data shows that PONS generated approximately $4.73 million in fees over the past 24 hours, higher than the combined total of about $3.461 million from Hyperliquid, Polymarket, and Fomo.

Additionally, PONS's single-day fees also exceeded the total network fees of about $4.65 million across three public chains: Robinhood Chain, BSC, and Solana. Bubblemaps noted that public chain data only counts network fees and does not include fees generated by protocols built on top of them.

Ethereum Spot ETFs See Net Inflow of $10.95M Yesterday, Marking 12 Consecutive Days of Inflows

Odaily News: According to SoSoValue data, yesterday (Sept. 1, Eastern Time) Ethereum spot ETFs saw a total net inflow of $10.9528 million.

The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest single-day net inflow yesterday was Blackrock's Staked ETH ETF (ETHB), with a net inflow of $11.2001 million. To date, ETHB's cumulative net inflow stands at $705 million.

Next was Fidelity's ETF (FETH), with a net inflow of $4.812 million. To date, FETH's cumulative net inflow has reached $2.286 billion.

The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest single-day net outflow yesterday was Grayscale's Ethereum Trust ETF (ETHE), with a net outflow of $7.3977 million. To date, ETHE's cumulative net outflow has reached $5.354 billion.

As of press time, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $15.212 billion, with an ETF net asset ratio (market cap relative to Ethereum's total market cap) of 5.21%. The historical cumulative net inflow has reached $13.073 billion.

Bitcoin Spot ETFs See $236M Net Outflow Yesterday; BlackRock's IBIT Leads with $201M Outflow

Odaily News: According to SoSoValue data, bitcoin spot ETFs saw a total net outflow of $236 million yesterday (Sept. 1, Eastern Time).

The bitcoin spot ETF with the largest single-day net inflow yesterday was Bitwise ETF BITB, with a single-day net inflow of $8.3832 million. BITB's historical total net inflow currently stands at $2.087 billion.

The bitcoin spot ETF with the largest single-day net outflow yesterday was BlackRock's ETF IBIT, with a single-day net outflow of $201 million. IBIT's historical total net inflow currently stands at $63.37 billion.

As of press time, the total net asset value of bitcoin spot ETFs is $97.121 billion, with an ETF net asset ratio (market cap as a percentage of total bitcoin market cap) of 6.25%, and a historical cumulative net inflow of $54.611 billion.

Meme Flash: BAWSAQ Market Cap on Robinhood Surpasses $1.68 Million

According to Odaily News: Meme Flash monitoring, BAWSAQ's market cap on Robinhood has surpassed $1.68 million.

The name BAWSAQ originates from the virtual stock exchange in the GTA 6 series, which is set in the game as a securities market similar to the NASDAQ. As the narrative of tokenized U.S. stocks trading on Robinhood Chain heats up, the community has linked BAWSAQ with GTA 6 and its publisher Take-Two's stock TTWO, forming a "GTA 6 × Tokenized Stocks" concept Meme coin narrative.

"Meme Flash" is curated by Odaily's exclusive AI model to select potential hot topics discussed by the community. The content is compiled based on public information and does not constitute investment advice. Please exercise your own judgment and be aware of the high volatility risks of Meme coins.

Robinhood Chain saw over 17% of tokenized stocks locked in Meme coin trading pairs, with 31% of the trading volume coming from Meme coin pairs

DeFiprime founder Nick Sawinyh analyzed that the Meme coin issuance platform on the Robinhood Chain is massively using tokenized stocks as paired assets. As of September 1, approximately 17.2% of the on-chain supply of 19 high liquidity Robinhood stock tokens is locked in 432 pools that use stock tokens as quoted assets, contributing 31.3% of the DEX trading volume of related stock tokens in the past 24 hours. The four issuance platforms Long, Bankr, Flap, and PAIR have set stock-paired Meme coins as default products.Among them, the AI/NVDA pool holds 8,783 NVDA (accounting for 16.2% of the total on-chain tokenized NVDA), with a 24-hour trading volume of about $6.2 million; the BONER/HIMS pool holds 37,172 HIMS (accounting for 50.4% of the total HIMS on the chain), with a trading volume of about $12.5 million. This mechanism has led to significant premiums for some tokenized stocks over the weekend (when issuers cannot issue more), with HIMS once trading at a premium of 112% compared to the NYSE closing price. The TVL of the Robinhood Chain has nearly doubled since August 1 to $740 million, with on-chain DEX daily trading volume reaching $1.49 billion on August 31. The analysis points out that 9 stock tokens have an on-chain circulating market value of less than $1.5 million, and a single Meme coin pool can absorb a large proportion of the circulating supply. This analysis is based on specific block snapshot data, with prices and pool balances changing rapidly.

TD Cowen: Downgraded the year-end target price for Bitcoin to $97,500, and downgraded the target price for Strategy to $260

TD Cowen analyst Lance Vitanza set the Bitcoin price target for the end of 2026 at $97,500, indicating about a 25% upside from the recent price level of around $78,000. Meanwhile, TD Cowen has lowered its previous benchmark forecast of about $140,000 for the end of 2026 to around $100,000, significantly reducing its previously more optimistic long-term expectations. Vitanza stated that this downgrade is mainly due to the recent weakness in Bitcoin prices, rather than a deterioration in company-level or market structure.Currently, BTC's recent trading range is approximately $58,400 to $78,000, with a maximum drawdown of over 50% from the previous high of over $126,000, and a monthly drawdown that once exceeded 20%. A clearer regulatory environment and inclusion in broader indices are still viewed by TD Cowen as potential catalysts for market recovery. For Strategy, TD Cowen has lowered its target price from $400 to $260 but maintains a "Buy" rating. This adjustment mainly follows the downward revision of Bitcoin price forecasts, rather than a change in the view of Strategy's operational performance or capital structure. Additionally, TD Cowen has initiated coverage on Strive, expecting the company to hold over 27,100 BTC by the end of 2026, and has given it a target price of $32, indicating about a 33% upside.

Kalshi Files to Launch Forex and Interest Rate Perpetual Contracts

Odaily News: Andy Ross, head of institutional business at Kalshi, said that Kalshi has submitted an application to regulators to launch perpetual contracts based on foreign exchange and interest rates. The application was submitted on Monday and had not appeared in the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) public filing system as of Tuesday afternoon. Previously, in May of this year, the CFTC approved Kalshi to list bitcoin perpetual contracts, followed by ETH and XRP perpetual contracts. Since then, Kalshi has continued to expand perpetual contracts to assets beyond cryptocurrencies: in July, it submitted applications for gold, silver, and platinum perpetual contracts, and on Aug. 18, it submitted applications for U.S. large-cap stock index and copper perpetual contracts. Ross said that Kalshi hopes to bring multiple asset classes, including stocks, commodities, cryptocurrencies, fixed income, and interest rates, into a unified trading interface. Currently, the number of markets on the platform has increased from about 4,000 to around 10,000, and activity has gradually spread from a few popular markets to more markets.

Robinhood Chain Hits Record High with $13.05M in Fees in Two Months

Odaily News: Robinhood Chain has generated $13.05 million in cumulative transaction fees in just two months since its launch, setting a new record. Based on the annualized average of the last 30 days' fee revenue, its annualized revenue is approximately $110 million. Based on current cumulative revenue, about $1.3 million will go directly to the Arbitrum ecosystem. According to the licensing agreement between the two parties, Robinhood Chain is required to return 10% of its net protocol revenue to the Arbitrum ecosystem, with 8% going to the Arbitrum DAO treasury and 2% to the Arbitrum Developer Guild.

Arbitrum has accumulated approximately $1.3 million in revenue sharing from Robinhood Chain, and ARB has risen 46.7% in two weeks

According to the latest data from arbdata, Robinhood Chain has been online for only two months, and its cumulative fee revenue has risen to 13.05 million USD, setting a new historical high. Based on the annualized average of the fee revenue over the past 30 days, its annualized revenue scale is approximately 110 million USD. Based on the current cumulative revenue, about 1.3 million USD will directly flow into the Arbitrum ecosystem. According to the cooperation agreement between the two parties, Robinhood Chain is required to return 10% of the net revenue from the agreement to the Arbitrum ecosystem, with 8% flowing into the Arbitrum DAO treasury and 2% going to the Arbitrum Developer Guild.CoinGecko data shows that ARB has increased by a cumulative 46.7% over the past two weeks. The ARB unlocking period will continue until March 2027, with the next unlocking expected to take place on September 23, releasing approximately 139.2 million ARB, which is valued at about 15.2 million USD at the current price, accounting for about 1.4% of the total supply.

Google claims that the cost of AI server memory has exceeded 75%, promoting a dual-track strategy for software and hardware

The SEMICON Taiwan 2026 Memory Summit took place on the 1st, where Nikhil Cherian, Senior Director of Supply Chain Infrastructure at Google Cloud under Alphabet, pointed out that with the popularity of multimodal and mixed expert architectures, AI computation has shifted from being power-limited to memory-limited, with high-performance memory accounting for over 75% of the cost of AI server hardware bill of materials. In the face of capacity, bandwidth, and power consumption bottlenecks, Google is breaking through the AI memory bottleneck through a dual-track strategy of hardware offloading for inference and training, and lossless quantization software algorithms.Google adopts an offloading strategy in hardware architecture, launching TPU 8i for low-latency inference and TPU 8t specialized for large-scale training. The TPU 8i is equipped with 288 GB of high-bandwidth memory, with SRAM capacity on the chip increased threefold to 384 MiB, placing dynamic conversation states and key-value caches on the chip itself to achieve zero chip-off latency. The TPU 8t forms a super-large computing cluster with 9600 chips, achieving a shared pool of HBM at a scale of 2 PB, eliminating chip-off data transfer bottlenecks, along with TPU Direct Storage technology.Google has developed the training-free TurboQuant lossless quantization algorithm, compressing the key-value cache of large models from 32 bits to 3 bits, reducing memory usage by six times without loss of accuracy, resulting in an eightfold acceleration in attention computation, and integrating old-generation DRAM technology to extend the lifecycle of components.

Crypto Market Sees Broad Pullback, Meme Sector Drops Over 3%, Only RWA Sector Relatively Resilient

Odaily News: On Sept. 2, according to SoSoValue data, affected by the escalation of the US-Iran conflict and rising US Treasury yields, the crypto market saw a broad pullback, with the Meme sector performing weakly, down 3.18% in 24 hours. Within the sector, Pump.fun (PUMP) fell 8.41%, OFFICIAL TRUMP (TRUMP) fell 6.42%, but Robinhood Chain's popular ecosystem tokens Pons (PONS) and Cash Cat (CASHCAT) rose 0.96% and 2.83%, respectively.

Additionally, Bitcoin (BTC) fell 2.15%, dropping below $77,000; Ethereum (ETH) fell 2.99%, dropping below $2,400.

In other sectors, the DeFi sector fell 0.82%, with Uniswap (UNI) bucking the trend and rising 11.16%; the CeFi sector fell 1.62%, with Cronos (CRO) down 3.98%; the Layer1 sector fell 2.82%, with Canton Network (CC) down 7.63%; the Layer2 sector fell 2.92%, with Arbitrum (ARB) down 1.34%; the PayFi sector fell 3.18%, with Zcash (ZEC) down 2.93%.

The crypto sector index reflecting historical sector performance shows that the ssiRWA and ssiDePIN indices rose 1.40% and 0.21%, respectively, while the ssiSocialFi index fell 6.70%.

Meme Flash: JOHNDOG Market Cap on Robinhood Surpasses $1.02 Million

According to Odaily News: Meme Flash monitoring, JOHNDOG's market cap on Robinhood has surpassed $1.02 million.

The meme coin revolves around the "John Dog" character on Robinhood's official website. Robinhood uses John Dog as an example bondholder on its government bond educational page, and the community has since associated it with the Robinhood Chain ecosystem, forming a narrative of being a "native character from Robinhood's official website."

"Meme Flash" is curated by Odaily's exclusive AI model to select potential trending assets from community discussions. The content is compiled based on public information and does not constitute investment advice. Please exercise your own judgment and be aware of the high volatility risks of meme coins.

Funds Drop to $4.5M; Machi's Rolling Long Grows $150K to $11M

Odaily News: According to on-chain analyst Ember's monitoring, Machi has stopped out and closed some long positions due to their proximity to liquidation prices; his ETH long position is $50 away from the liquidation price, and his BTC long position is $1,800 away. Previously, Machi had grown $150,000 to $11 million through rolling long positions, but recent funds have fallen to $4.5 million.

US SOL Spot ETFs See Net Inflow of $10.19M in a Single Day

Odaily News: According to SoSoValue data, yesterday (Sept. 1, Eastern Time) SOL spot ETFs saw a total net inflow of $10.1901 million in a single day.

The SOL spot ETF with the largest net inflow yesterday was Bitwise Solana Staking ETF (BSOL), with a single-day net inflow of $6.1668 million, bringing its historical total net inflow to $1.028 billion.

The next was Fidelity Solana Fund ETF (FSOL), with a single-day net inflow of $2.6658 million, bringing its historical total net inflow to $215 million.

As of press time, the total net asset value of SOL spot ETFs is $1.39 billion, with a SOL net asset ratio of 2.37%, and the historical cumulative net inflow has reached $1.351 billion.

Bitdeer invests 100 million dollars to acquire 200 acres of land in Texas

According to TheEnergyMag, Nasdaq-listed Bitdeer Technologies Group (stock code: BTDR) announced that it has acquired approximately 200 acres of undeveloped land in Milam County, Texas, for about $100 million in an all-cash transaction. This parcel is adjacent to its existing Rockdale operational area and will support the development of artificial intelligence and high-performance computing infrastructure. This transaction is a complete ownership acquisition, eliminating the risk of lease renewals and providing site control assurance for the company's financing and development of high-density data centers.After the transaction is completed, Bitdeer's total land area in central Milam County will expand to approximately 255 acres. This parcel is located in an area with a well-developed power interconnection network, currently having about 563 megawatts of grid-connected power capacity, which will increase to 742 megawatts after the expansion plan is completed. The company stated that the new parcel will be used to build dedicated AI/HPC data centers, while not affecting the operation of its existing Bitcoin mining business. After this expansion, Bitdeer's global power capacity pipeline in North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa will total approximately 3.0 gigawatts.

Trump: I Am Not Trying to Force Iran Back to the Negotiating Table

Odaily News: U.S. President Trump said that he is not trying to force Iran back to the negotiating table, contrary to what ABC fake news reported. He stated that he doesn't care whether they sign a deal that is worthless to them. He prefers the current situation: the U.S. has almost complete control over the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran's economy has completely collapsed. They are just going through the inevitable end.