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During Korea Blockchain Week 2026, RootData will collaborate with ChainCatcher to host the "TradFi On-Chain" themed forum on October 1 from 14:00 to 18:00 (GMT+9) in Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea.As South Korea accelerates the advancement of digital asset regulatory frameworks and the implementation of tokenized securities, the integration of traditional finance and blockchain is rapidly progressing. The South Korean market has become a focal point for global entrepreneurs, institutions, and investors. As one of the key peripheral events of this year's Korea Blockchain Week, this forum will gather institutional leaders, executives from trading platforms, and industry innovators to discuss the intersection of regulation, capital markets, and on-chain finance.Event registration: https://luma.com/nl4bsys6

TrendForce's latest research on the wafer foundry industry shows that in the second quarter of 2026, the total revenue of the world's top ten wafer foundries increased by 11.5% quarter-on-quarter, approaching $53.49 billion, setting a new record. The growth mainly comes from the continued demand exceeding supply for advanced processes in AI and HPC processors, as well as the rising demand for peripheral AI chips such as PMICs and power discrete devices; the early stocking of consumer supply chains for TVs, PCs, and laptops has also tightened the capacity of some mature processes.TSMC continues to lead, with revenue nearing $40.2 billion in the second quarter, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 12.1%, and a market share of 72.5%. The demand for AI server GPUs and XPUs has kept its 5/4 nm and 3 nm capacities fully loaded, and the initial stocking of the new iPhone has also contributed, with 2 nm making its first revenue contribution. Samsung Foundry ranks second, with revenue of $3.26 billion, a slight quarter-on-quarter increase of 1.8%, and a market share dropping to 5.9%. SMIC ranks third, with revenue exceeding $3 billion, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 20%, and a market share rising to 5.4%, narrowing the gap with Samsung.UMC maintains fourth place, with revenue of nearly $2.18 billion, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 12.7%, and a market share of 3.9%. GlobalFoundries is fifth, with revenue of approximately $1.79 billion, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 9.3%, and a market share of 3.2%. Hua Hong Group ranks sixth, with revenue exceeding $1.27 billion, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 3.5%. Tower, World Advanced, Jinghe Integrated, and Powerchip rank seventh to tenth, with revenues of $460 million, $451 million, $447 million, and $432 million, respectively.

According to TrendForce's latest research on the memory industry, in the second quarter of 2026, due to a significant increase in the contract price of Conventional DRAM, the overall revenue of the DRAM industry is expected to grow by 59.5% quarter-on-quarter, reaching nearly 154.73 billion USD.With the training of LLM models and AI inference stimulating the demand for AI Servers, shipments of HBM3e, LPDDR5X, and high-capacity RDIMMs are growing simultaneously, while Agentic AI applications are driving the demand for RDIMMs of various capacities. On the supply side, manufacturers' inventories are at a low point, and new supply is prioritized for Server applications, leading to a slight growth in overall DRAM bit shipments in the second quarter.

Bitcoin News posted on platform X stating that CNBC reported that a small football club in the UK, Real Bedford, aims to become a global Bitcoin brand.Real Bedford was acquired by podcast host Peter McCormack in 2022 and has attracted fans from around the world, raising $4.5 million from Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, allowing fans to purchase tickets, food, and merchandise using Bitcoin.Some players and staff are paid partially or entirely in Bitcoin. The club's ultimate goal is to enter the English Football League, build a new stadium and youth academy, and demonstrate that the global Bitcoin community can help transform local clubs.

Bitget launches a TradFi copy trading event, running from September 4 to September 30. During the event, users who apply to become contract trading experts for the first time can enjoy up to 30% copy trading profit sharing and have the chance to gain exposure on the official leaderboard.If the daily TradFi copy trading and replication volume of trading experts reaches the specified threshold, they can unlock a 5,000 USDT contract experience bonus and physical rewards such as the Apple foldable screen and Apple 18 Pro.

The Binance contract platform will launch the BYDUSDT perpetual contract priced in USDT on September 7 at 10:00, and the HK0992USDT Quanto perpetual contract will go live on the same day at 10:05. Both have a maximum leverage of 20 times and support multi-asset mode.

On September 3, WEEX Exchange announced the launch of the TradFi "Daily Lottery" event, where users can participate in a lottery by trading stocks and gold contracts. The event runs from September 3, 00:00 to September 17, 23:59 (UTC+8).Users who achieve a daily TradFi contract trading volume of 10,000 U are considered to have successfully checked in and can participate in the lottery. During the event, users can earn 1 to 10 lottery chances by reaching specified milestones in cumulative TradFi contract trading volume. Prizes include airdrop vouchers ranging from 20 to 10,000 USDT, as well as VIP3 and VIP5 experience cards.

According to the latest data from Bitget, the platform's TradFi contracts accumulated over 250 million transactions in August, with monthly trading volume maintaining above $100 billion for two consecutive months, and the number of trading users increased by 12% month-on-month.As of now, Bitget supports a total of 299 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

The Binance Futures platform will launch multiple U-based TradFi perpetual contracts on September 2, including NVDLUSDT, TSLLUSDT, DDOGUSDT, TEAMUSDT, MDBUSDT, ZSUSDT, and GTLBUSDT. The contract type is USDT denominated, with a maximum leverage of up to 20 times.

According to a research report published by RootData Research, the total trading volume of mainstream cryptocurrency exchanges in the TradFi sector surpassed $1.3 trillion in the first half of 2026, nearly a tenfold increase compared to the entire year of 2025, with TradFi derivatives accounting for over 98%, becoming the core engine driving the explosive growth of the sector.The exchange landscape is shifting from "unipolar concentration" to multipolar competition. Binance, while maintaining a leading position in the TradFi sector with a cumulative share of 68.3%, saw its monthly trading volume share decline from 78.8% at the beginning of the year to 58.2% in August. Meanwhile, second-tier exchanges such as OKX, Gate, and Hyperliquid are rapidly expanding, with market shares of 18.2%, 10.7%, and 9.9% respectively in August.In the core submarket of stock derivatives, entering August, Binance still dominated with an average daily trading volume of $14.927 billion; OKX established an advantage in trading costs with the industry's lowest spread of 0.0091%, achieving a comprehensive score tied for second with Gate. Gate has recently shown independent growth, recording four consecutive months of triple-digit month-on-month growth from May to August, and in mid-August, its ±2% weighted depth ranked first in the industry for 11 consecutive trading days. The competitive logic of the TradFi sector may be shifting from a battle for traffic to a competition across comprehensive dimensions such as position size, market depth, trading costs, and variety coverage.

The sandwich attack bot operated by JaredfromSubway.eth has extracted a total of 117,007 ETH since March 2023, amounting to approximately $295 million at current prices. In June 2026, an anonymous attacker deployed 66 counterfeit token contracts, using the bot's automated trading logic to steal at least $7.5 million in ETH and stablecoins, transferring the funds to Tornado Cash; the related assets have not yet been recovered.Sandwich attacks are a form of Maximum Extractable Value (MEV): the bot monitors large transactions in the Ethereum public mempool, buys before the target transaction, and sells after the transaction drives up the price, extracting profits from the price difference. As of August 28, the main contract of the bot has received a total of 117,007 ETH.MEV-Boost block construction is concentrated among a few participants, with relay.ultrasound.money, Titan Relay, and bloXroute relays forwarding approximately 85% to 88% of the relevant blocks within a 24-hour window; Titan's builders independently assemble 50.3% of the blocks. The monthly extraction amount from sandwich attacks has decreased from about $10 million at the end of 2024 to about $2.5 million in October 2025.

Bitget's latest data shows that the cumulative trading volume of TradFi perpetual contracts on the platform in August has exceeded $10 billion, with the average daily number of trading users increasing by over 10% month-on-month.As of now, Bitget supports a total of 295 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

The Binance contract platform will launch multiple U-based TradFi perpetual contracts on August 28, including TEMUSDT, MRKUSDT, IONQUSDT, MARAUSDT, and PDDUSDT. The launch times are 17:00, 17:05, 17:10, 17:15, and 17:20, with a maximum leverage of up to 20 times.

According to the latest data from RootData's tokenized asset dashboard, Bitget ranks first with a depth of approximately $193 million and a market share of 25.3%.It is reported that this statistic only includes native crypto asset types such as contracts and tokenized assets, excluding data from traditional stock brokers.

Bitget 2026 King’s Cup Global Invitation Tournament KCGI is now open for registration, and early bird benefits and team formation channels are also available. This year's KCGI has been fully upgraded, with "UEX Panorama Competition" as the core highlight, for the first time integrating three major tracks: crypto contracts, TradFi contracts, and stock spot (rToken), achieving a unified competition arena, prize pool, and ranking, providing a multi-asset competitive scenario for users with different trading preferences, with a total prize pool of 3 million USDT.To enhance the competition experience, KCGI has simultaneously launched five major gameplay features: UEX Arena, UEX Treasure Map, Captain Rewards, Early Bird Benefits, and Glory Live Draw. The UEX Arena, as a core component, offers a maximum reward of 2 million USDT, covering five major leaderboards: team earnings, trading volume in each track, and individual earnings; the UEX Treasure Map provides a 100% winning treasure chest reward of up to 600,000 USDT through a task key and track fragment synthesis mechanism. Additionally, there is a special incentive of 100,000 USDT for team captains, and the first 10,000 users who join a team and meet specified requirements before August 30 can compete for an early bird benefits prize pool of 200,000 USDT.The final glory coronation ceremony will be revealed in a live broadcast after the competition ends. Users who reach the specified trading threshold during the competition will have the opportunity to participate in the live draw to win multiple rewards, including 2026 KCGI limited merchandise, gold-plated footballs, cash vouchers, and more. The registration period for the event ends on September 22.

The Binance contract platform will successively launch multiple USDT-denominated perpetual contracts starting from August 25 at 17:00, including SKUUUSDT, SKDDUSDT, RAMUSDT, DJTUSDT, and MRNAUSDT, with a maximum leverage of up to 20 times.

According to the latest data from RootData's tokenized asset dashboard, the top three TradFi asset transaction volumes in the past 24 hours are Binance, OKX, and Gate.Binance ranks first with a transaction volume of approximately $6.41 billion, holding a market share of 58.1%. OKX ranks second with a transaction volume of approximately $1.09 billion, holding a market share of 9.9%. Gate ranks third with a transaction volume of approximately $987 million, holding a market share of 8.9%. The combined market share of the three is approximately 76.9%.It is reported that this statistical scope only includes contract and tokenized native asset types in cryptocurrency, excluding data from traditional stock brokers.