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The Bitget 2026 King Cup Global Invitation Tournament (KCGI) has been underway since September 9, with over 1,420 teams participating and a total of 50,902 participants. Users can sign up to participate at any time during the tournament, with the registration deadline set for September 22.This KCGI is centered around "UEX Panorama Competition," and for the first time, it integrates three major tracks: crypto contracts, TradFi contracts, and stock spot (rToken), achieving a unified competition arena, prize pool, and ranking, with a total prize pool of 3 million USDT.The UEX Arena offers a maximum reward of 2 million USDT, covering five major leaderboards including team earnings, trading volume across tracks, and individual earnings; the UEX Treasure Map provides a maximum chest reward of 600,000 USDT through a task key and track fragment synthesis mechanism; there is also a special incentive of 100,000 USDT for team captains participating in the competition.

Reuters reported that Anthropic plans to raise $100 billion to set an IPO record, with a valuation potentially reaching $2 trillion. Nvidia is considering participating in a $10 billion investment.

According to a report by Reuters, enterprise-level AI company Clay announced the completion of a $115 million Series D financing round, led by Wellington, with participation from Sequoia Capital, StepStone, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Perennial, Meritech, DST, CapitalG, and others, raising its post-investment valuation to $7.1 billion.Clay stated that its AI agents can create real-time business and customer profiles based on external data such as CRM, and automatically build and execute workflows according to corporate goals. Currently, companies such as Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and Stripe are using its products.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) launched the Demat 2 pilot this week, issuing corporate bonds in the form of digital tokens on a distributed ledger operated by regulated market institutions, and settling through the wholesale digital rupee of the Reserve Bank of India. The size of India's corporate bond market is approximately $620 billion.The state-owned power financing institution REC raised ₹50 billion (approximately $56 million) through this system, engineering and construction giant Larsen & Toubro refinanced ₹50 billion, and non-banking financial institution IIFL Finance raised ₹2.5 billion (approximately $2.8 million), totaling around ₹102.5 billion. The bonds retain fixed interest rates, maturity dates, and investor rights, but the tokenized bonds can be settled simultaneously with the digital rupees used for purchase, thereby reducing transaction risk.Subsequent phases will introduce smart contracts to handle corporate actions such as interest payments and redemptions, and there are plans to open secondary market trading, ultimately allowing retail investors to participate. India maintains a cautious attitude towards private cryptocurrencies, and this pilot is an attempt to introduce tokenization into its controlled financial system.

According to official news from Fortune Protocol, the third phase of the Fortune prediction trading competition officially started on September 10. Users can accumulate ecological contributions by participating in Fortune prediction trading and gain airdrop weight for the official token after the TGE.Previous reports indicated that Fortune has completed the aggregation of prediction liquidity with multiple platforms such as Predict.fun and Polymarket, and continues to promote brand visuals and product UI upgrades, further enhancing user fluidity, simplicity, and operational experience during the prediction trading process.This event aims to encourage more users to experience Fortune's prediction trading products, participate in the construction of the prediction derivatives ecosystem, and provide corresponding ecological incentives for early participants in the Pre-TGE phase.

According to official data, the overall trading volume of Gate options in August increased by 36.64% month-on-month, while retail trading volume increased by 27.55% month-on-month; during the same period, the trading volume of premiums increased by 192.83%.In addition, Gate US stock options have officially launched, initially supporting 9 popular US stock underlying assets including Nvidia, Tesla, and Apple.

Coinbase announced that it has collaborated with Stanford University cryptography professor Dan Boneh and Localhost Research to hold a closed-door "Post-Quantum Bitcoin Workshop" at Stanford University, gathering Bitcoin developers, cryptography experts, researchers, institutional custodians, and hardware wallet specialists to discuss the technologies and migration plans for Bitcoin to address future quantum computing threats.The workshop focused on assessing the progress of quantum computing, post-quantum cryptography, and various post-quantum signature schemes applicable to Bitcoin, as well as discussing Ethereum's anti-quantum planning, the practical requirements faced by institutional custody businesses, and how to introduce post-quantum security mechanisms for Bitcoin through new output types. Participants believed that rather than predicting when quantum computing will pose a real threat to existing cryptographic systems, it is more important to establish well-tested response plans in advance.Quantum computing does not currently pose an urgent crisis, but the earlier research and coordination begin, the better we can avoid hasty network upgrades and asset migrations under pressure in the future. However, there is currently no consensus on a single post-quantum solution. Different solutions involve trade-offs in terms of security, transaction data size, hardware performance, key management, and the difficulty of user migration. Participants felt that Bitcoin's anti-quantum measures cannot rely solely on protocol layer upgrades, but must also consider how individual users, institutional custodians, wallets, and hardware devices generate, store, back up, and migrate keys and assets.

According to Fortune magazine, the stablecoin payment infrastructure company Latitude has completed a $35 million Series A funding round, led by Oak HC/FT, with participation from NEA, Coinbase, Lightspeed Faction, and OpenFX.The company was co-founded by former executives from Stripe, Uber, Coinbase, and Meta, aiming to help businesses send fiat currency to emerging market users through stablecoins using local payment methods (bank accounts and mobile wallets). Latitude is licensed in 45 U.S. markets and plans to expand its regulatory licenses in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and Africa. The current team consists of 15 people, and the new funds will be used to expand compliance, engineering, and sales teams.

According to official news, the AGENT economic project Agentum has completed a $7 million financing round, with participation from MEXC Ventures, BingX Labs, Arca, Wave Digital Assets, BlockTower Capital, Echo3 Labs, Greenwood Global Capital, UZ Capital, and Vega Ventures.The funds from this round will mainly be used to accelerate the construction of the trust and settlement layer for the autonomous Agent economy, with Agentum deployed on the BNB Chain. The BSC testnet has registered 399 Agents, completed 218 transactions, and achieved a GMV of over 2.44 million MockUSDT.

FinChip and AgentOn today announced a merger agreement, and the two parties will integrate into a unified operating company, branded as Finch, while also announcing the completion of a pre-A round of financing.Finch is valued at 50 million USD in this round, with participation from Waterdrop Capital, Peer VC, and other institutions. Previously, the company had received investments from Longling Investment, ME Group, and X INFINITY. The funds from this round will primarily be used to expand the supply of agents and skills in four major markets, develop enterprise clients and task demand sides, and promote the implementation of skill standards in the industry.

According to the disclosure by Family Office New Intelligence, data service provider FINTRX tracking shows that in August, family offices participated in a total of 109 transactions, with the total disclosed financing amount reaching 16.9 billion USD. Among these, follow-on financing rounds, where family offices continued to invest in companies they already hold, accounted for 27% of the transaction count. This indicates that, compared to continuing to invest in existing projects, family offices are more active in seeking and investing in new projects. The most active institution in August was a16z Perennial.a16z Perennial was established in 2022 and is a joint family office under the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, providing wealth management and investment services for its core partners Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, as well as the entrepreneurs they support. As of the end of 2025, a16z Perennial manages approximately 2.74 billion USD in regulated assets. In August, a16z Perennial participated in a total of 17 transactions, ranking first; the total disclosed scale of the related financing rounds reached approximately 10.45 billion USD.Ranking second is YZi Labs, founded by Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. YZi Labs manages over 10 billion USD in assets globally, with investment coverage including Web3, artificial intelligence, and healthcare, and invests in startups at various stages of development. In August, YZi Labs participated in 10 transactions, second only to a16z Perennial; however, the total scale of the financing rounds involved in these transactions was 42.1 million USD, largely appearing in large financing rounds of several hundred million or even several billion USD.It should be noted that the amounts mentioned above refer to the total financing scale of all investors in the related financing rounds, rather than the actual investment amount of the family offices themselves. Due to the strong privacy of family office investments, it is usually difficult to obtain the specific investment amount of a single family office in each transaction.

According to The Wall Street Journal, smart ring manufacturer Oura has listed Robinhood as an underwriter in its IPO filing, marking Robinhood's first formal involvement in IPO underwriting. Oura's listing is expected to be valued at over $11 billion, with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan, Allen & Co., and Jefferies serving as co-lead underwriters, while Robinhood ranks last among the 18 underwriting firms.Robinhood received regulatory approval for underwriting business in June this year. As an underwriter, Robinhood is expected to gain greater influence over how many shares Oura ultimately allocates to its clients. Current popular IPOs typically prioritize allocations to institutional investors, and the shares available to retail investors through brokers often fall short of actual demand. Robinhood has previously established several connections with Oura. Oura has invited Robinhood's former CFO Jason Warnick to join its board; the closed-end fund launched by Robinhood in March of this year also invested in Oura, which accounts for 3.64% of the fund's assets. However, Georgetown University finance professor Reena Aggarwal believes that Robinhood's initial influence in the IPO underwriting market may still be limited.

According to Dealroom, the decentralized perpetual contract exchange in Singapore, Antarctic Exchange, has completed a $7 million financing round, with a valuation of $70 million. Investors include Valisa Capital Markets, Lucidity Capital, and Republic Crypto, as well as proprietary traders who are entering the crypto asset space for the first time.The platform targets retail derivatives traders and offers tools similar to centralized exchanges. The founding team consists of former executives from OKX, Binance, and MEXC.

According to Yahoo Finance, Zhihu announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary has entered into a subscription agreement with general partners and fund managers to subscribe for 1.5 billion RMB of limited partnership interests using its own funds.Following the completion of the subscription, Zhihu expects to hold no more than 30% of the fund's interests. The fund has a duration of 7 years (extendable for up to two additional years), with an investment period of 4 years, and will primarily invest in early to mid-stage non-listed companies in the fields of artificial intelligence and cutting-edge technology in mainland China, covering areas such as foundational models, AI infrastructure, robotics, and AI applications.

According to official news, the permissionless on-chain yield protocol Polaris has completed a $1 million angel round of financing, with participation from institutions such as the Ethereum Foundation, Fusion (under IPOR), Altitude, Liquity, LI.FI, and more than 30 founders and contributors including Daily Gwei founder Anthony Sassano.Polaris's core product is the yield-bearing reserve asset pETH, and it also includes USDp and GOLDp, aiming to provide native yield for any on-chain asset.

According to Reuters, AI data center optical interconnect company iPronics announced the completion of a $125 million Series B financing round, co-led by Maverick Silicon and Light Street Capital, with participation from NVIDIA, Triatomic Capital, Bosch Ventures, Catalight Capital, and the European Innovation Council Fund. The company's total financing has now reached $177 million.iPronics primarily provides rack-mounted optical switching equipment for AI infrastructure, allowing AI clusters to dynamically adjust network connections in real-time for training and inference workloads through a programmable optical layer. The new funds will be used to expand operational scale and accelerate commercial deployment.

According to Politico, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has long advocated for strict enforcement of gambling laws, but after his political action committee received a $5,000 donation from the prediction market platform Kalshi in May 2025, and he personally received a $7,000 donation from Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour in June of the same year, he did not participate in several legal actions initiated by other state attorneys general aimed at restricting Kalshi's operations.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) announced that it has reached a staff-level agreement with the authorities of El Salvador on the second and third combined reviews under the Extended Fund Facility arrangement. If approved by the IMF Executive Board, El Salvador will receive approximately $140 million (101.96 million SDR).Regarding Bitcoin-related arrangements, the IMF confirmed several key facts: the Chivo electronic wallet has essentially withdrawn from public participation, with majority ownership and operational control transferred to private operators; the increase in Bitcoin holdings since the first review has been verified as coming from private donations, with no public resources utilized; El Salvador has committed that there will be no further increases in Bitcoin holdings beyond the recorded private donations. The two parties also reached an understanding on modernizing the legal, regulatory, and supervisory framework for digital assets, as well as strengthening governance and risk management arrangements for public sector cryptocurrency holdings.