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Jack Dorsey's payment company Block has applied to establish Builders Bank & Trust, N.A. If approved, the bank will become an uninsured national trust bank directly regulated by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), focusing on providing custody and trust services for Bitcoin and stablecoins, without accepting deposits or issuing loans.The application is still pending OCC approval, and the OCC's public list of digital asset license applications currently includes 11 pending applications (submitted between February 23 and August 19), which does not yet include Builders Bank. Previously, the OCC conditionally approved five national trust applications in December 2025, including Circle's First National Digital Currency Bank and Ripple, as well as conversion applications from BitGo, Fidelity Digital Assets, and Paxos; Circle received final approval in July of this year.The Bank Policy Institute (BPI), representing large banks, had previously opposed a series of limited-purpose national trust license applications, arguing that companies should not obtain trust licenses unless they plan to operate a true trust company, and warned against using the license as a lightly regulated pathway for bank-like products. Block stated that Builders Bank will not begin operations until it receives the necessary regulatory approvals.

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 needed to turn their trading ideas into strategies that Agents could execute sustainably, which often 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 modification 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.

According to market news, the Phantom wallet has earned over $25 million through builder codes, with a total profit of $27.2139 million after excluding the $2.21 million referral fee.

According to Blockworks data, Hyperliquid Builder Codes reached a nominal trading volume of approximately $989.4 million on August 21, setting a new historical high. Among this, perpetual contracts accounted for about $983.9 million, spot trading for about $5.408 million, and the result market for about $66,000. On the same day, the number of traders was approximately 39,982, and Builder revenue totaled about $781,600, also reaching a recent high.In terms of revenue contribution, MetaMask contributed about $142,600, Phantom about $114,300, Trust Wallet about $86,900, followed closely by Invo, Based, fomo, and others.

On August 21, the GATE ZONE fireside chat event took place in the Summer Bay area of Coinfest Asia, where Gate Head of Global Partnerships Jason Fung shared insights on the theme "Predicting the Biggest Market Opportunities." He discussed the competitive landscape of prediction markets, user-created markets, the Builder ecosystem, and future market opportunities. Jason Fung stated that as on-chain prediction markets continue to develop, industry competition will no longer focus solely on liquidity and trading volume. Instead, lowering the barriers to market creation, diversifying market types, and enabling more users to participate in market building will become important directions for the future development of prediction markets.Regarding the recent launch of the event contract Builder by Gate DexBuilder, Jason Fung mentioned that enabling users to create markets independently is an important step towards the openness of prediction markets. By lowering the barriers to creating and launching event markets, users can quickly build markets around popular events and explore more niche themes and potential demands, thereby driving the evolution of prediction markets from a product form dominated by a few platforms to a more open market ecosystem.Jason Fung believes that there are still many opportunities in prediction markets that have not been fully explored, and their application scope is expected to continue extending from popular fields such as politics, sports, crypto, AI, and entertainment. As more developers and entrepreneurs enter this space, the Builder ecosystem, market diversity, and user experience will become important driving forces for industry development, and on-chain event markets are expected to further expand from early user groups to a broader user market.

Talent Protocol announced that it has been acquired by Interplanetary Talent Services (IPTS) and is supported by Protocol Labs. Builder Score will become a public product, running locally in the browser, using public data from GitHub and four blockchains, with each calculation verifiable. Builders can publish their scores as proof on Base. IPTS will obtain some reputation data to match builders with positions in cutting-edge technology fields such as AI, crypto, hardware, and life sciences.Both parties will continue the results for five years: 6.6 million builder profiles and 86 million events have been indexed, over $600,000 has been distributed through Builder Rewards, and 116 builders from more than 15 countries have been supported by Talent House. Talent Protocol will cease commercial operations, with the API, Talent+, and social channels shutting down at the end of August. The team will not join IPTS or Protocol Labs, and $TALENT is not included in this acquisition.

Consumer-grade blockchain Abstract announces the launch of Builder XP, an extension of its XP system, aimed at rewarding builders who contribute to the Abstract ecosystem. This mechanism allocates Builder XP weekly based on the project's overall impact on the chain.Builder XP will further incentivize developers and project parties to continue building, promoting the development of the Abstract ecosystem. Abstract is created by the Pudgy Penguins team, focusing on consumer-grade crypto applications and on-chain experiences.

The Dragon AI accelerator (referred to as DAA) initiated by Draper Dragon Fund has announced a strategic cooperation with m&W (m&W DAO). Both parties will carry out ecological cooperation in cutting-edge fields such as AI, Web3, and digital collaborative networks, jointly promoting the connection and development of outstanding Builders, innovative projects, and ecological resources. Among them, m&W officially joins DAA, and DAA provides consulting and connects investment institutions and industrial resources according to the accelerator program design.The basic productivity unit in the AI era is Builder + Digital Twin (Builders + Digital Avatars). m&W is committed to building a trustworthy collaborative order in the AI era. Currently, the project has achieved a cold start using the DAO mechanism: the official website is online; the aggregated and consolidated MVP of builders' products is online; m&W has completed the gathering of nine genesis nodes and is preparing for the operation of 200 consensus nodes.

Base announces the launch of the Builder Grant Program, providing up to $5,000 in seed funding for projects actively building on Base, along with GTM and product support.Areas of interest include prediction markets, token launch platforms, new asset creation, consumer applications, agents (business, x402 implementation, autonomous trading), and DeFi (lending, looping, yield generation, vaults, tokenized stocks), among others. The application requirements are to have a launched product, build exclusively on Base, and need product and GTM assistance. Applications are now open.

According to the official announcement, Gate's DEX infrastructure platform Gate DexBuilder has officially launched its first event contract Builder and initiated a $3 million funding program, open for global project parties, developers, communities, and Web3 applications to collaborate, promoting the ecological construction of the event contract market.The event contract Builder is dedicated to lowering the development threshold for market products, providing partners with integrated infrastructure services covering market creation, trading, liquidity support, settlement, and operational management. Through infrastructure services such as APIs and SDKs, partners can quickly deploy branded event contract products without building the underlying trading and settlement systems from scratch.Currently, the program is open for applications from brokers and comprehensive trading platforms, crypto wallets, Web3 applications, media information platforms, AI Trading, AI Agents, quantitative trading platforms, as well as sports, esports, and entertainment products. Selected projects can receive up to $3 million in funding and ecological resource support, covering product research and development, technical integration, liquidity building, market promotion, and user growth.Jason Fung, the project leader of Gate DexBuilder and Head of Global Partnerships, stated that the development of the event contract market requires more application scenarios and infrastructure support. Gate DexBuilder hopes to lower the construction threshold through the event contract Builder, helping more partners explore innovative applications in the event contract market. In the future, Gate DexBuilder will continue to open up the infrastructure capabilities of the event contract market, working with global Builders to explore more innovative application scenarios and promote further development of the market ecosystem.

DWF Labs co-founder Andrei Grachev tweeted that the current market is in a "very boring" phase, where most participants can tweet, play memes, or discuss philosophy, but the truly valuable activities are mostly happening quietly, including financing, trading, investing, and business development.He pointed out that this market environment makes it difficult for large projects, exchanges, and companies to make new listings or significant announcements, as high-profile actions often do not yield good results at this time. He suggested that portfolios should remain patient and wait for better opportunities.Grachev emphasized that the market is not heading towards extinction. For now, it only provides great opportunities for those boring activities, such as buying Bitcoin and holding it long-term, or participating in the hype of altcoins. The final decision is yours, but most people end up buying high and selling low anyway. He concluded that there is still much to do as a builder or investor, while small retail investors should keep learning, not cry in the casino, and enjoy this market we chose to enter.

Ethereum block builder Eureka Labs announced the completion of a $6.7 million seed round financing, led by Spark Capital and Collider Ventures.It is reported that the company has introduced the concept of "programmable blocks," which incorporates executable logic during the block building phase, allowing blocks to not only package transactions but also achieve more complex functions, such as temporary fund calls, advanced computations, and more refined transaction sorting. Eureka Labs was founded in December 2024 and has now become the fourth largest block builder on Ethereum, but its market share is about 1.5%, showing a significant gap compared to leading builders.This round of financing was completed in two phases, raising $4.7 million in April 2025 and an additional $2 million in June. The company stated that this financing will be used to expand its block building technological capabilities and promote the application of "programmable blocks" within the Ethereum ecosystem.

Ethereum block builder Titan Builder earned $34.5 million in the past 24 hours, surpassing Tether ($16.43 million) to take the top spot.Earlier reports indicated that a user, while exchanging approximately $50.43 million aEthUSDT for AAVE via CoWSwap, ended up receiving only about 327 aEthAAVE, worth approximately $36,000, due to slippage exceeding 99%. Titan Builder made a profit of about $34 million.