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After meeting with Irish President Catherine Connolly in Dublin, when asked about the new concerns regarding Saudi Arabia and whether he could help with the traffic passage in the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. President Trump stated, "Everything will be resolved smoothly."

According to CoinDesk, the SEC's proposed new regulatory plan may address the legal and compliance pain points in the holding and trading process of tokenized securities markets by offering compliance exemptions or regulatory sandbox mechanisms.

WalletConnect released a 68-page report titled "Current Status of Policy, Compliance, and Regulation," outlining global regulatory progress in areas such as payments, DeFi, trading, custody, and tokenization. The report indicates that discussions on cryptocurrency regulation in major markets have shifted from "whether to regulate" to "how to implement," with relevant frameworks transitioning from legislation to actual enforcement at different speeds, but cross-border rules remain highly fragmented.The report points out that the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) will be fully applicable from December 2024, with the national transition period ending on July 1, 2026; currently, there are about 330 authorized crypto asset service providers in the ESMA temporary register, and over 1,000 companies that were reported to have failed to obtain authorization before the deadline prior to MiCA's implementation. Hong Kong will issue the first batch of stablecoin issuer licenses in April 2026, and Japan's revised Payment Services Act will take effect in June of the same year. Although the U.S. GENIUS Act has become law, the relevant system will not be fully effective until January 18, 2027, and broader market structure legislation is still pending.WalletConnect states that jurisdictions are increasingly adopting a "regulated touchpoint responsibility" model, meaning that issuers and service providers must still fulfill anti-money laundering, sanctions screening, travel rule, and record-keeping obligations when interacting with self-custody addresses. Tools such as sanctions screening, on-chain analysis, address control verification, and reusable identity credentials have been used in some businesses, demonstrating that compliance and self-custody are not mutually exclusive; however, how to regulate decentralized software and protocols remains unresolved, and DeFi continues to be a major frontier issue for global regulation.

The CEO of Bitcoin Reserve Company Metaplanet, Simon Gerovich, posted on the X platform in response to the controversy surrounding the company's equity incentive plan and MMXX Ventures. Gerovich admitted that the company "failed to adequately explain" the incentive arrangement known as "Series 10 Stock Options" and stated that he is a "significant but non-controlling shareholder" of MMXX's parent company, not involved in its trading decisions.The controversy stems from a stock rights plan established in December 2022, with a reward pool set at 20% of Metaplanet's fully diluted equity. After shifting to a Bitcoin reserve strategy in April 2024, the company dilutes existing shareholders with each new share issuance, while Gerovich's option rights increase accordingly. On August 18, the board canceled the floating adjustment mechanism, fixing the Series 10 pool at 319 million shares and setting a five-year lock-up period, but did not restore the reward pool to the level it was at when the Bitcoin strategy was initiated. On August 28, Gerovich exercised 92,000 Series 10 options, acquiring 64 million new shares, and currently holds about 6.2% of the company; he and MMXX together hold over 27% of the fully diluted equity.Shareholders expressed dissatisfaction. A shareholder using the pseudonym The Bitcoin Pharaoh stated on X that the adjustments in August were "a step in the right direction," but demanded that Gerovich address the issues that have arisen, disclose the owners of MMXX, and restore the reward pool to the level it was at when the Bitcoin strategy was initiated.

WOO X has issued a statement regarding user withdrawal anomalies, indicating that it has noted reports concerning withdrawal processing times and is reviewing relevant cases and system status. Some requests may still be under review or in the on-chain processing stage, and the team is working hard to resolve the issues as soon as possible.Users experiencing withdrawal delays can submit their UID, withdrawal order number, application time, asset and network information, as well as status screenshots through official customer service channels. The platform reminds users not to trust unsolicited private messages and not to share passwords, mnemonic phrases, private keys, or verification codes.WOO X also stated that it reserves the right to take legal action against behaviors that fabricate, distort, or maliciously spread false information that harms the reputation of users or the platform, and reminds users to rely only on information from official announcements and customer service channels.

Decentralised.co reported that the cost of sending $200 across borders is currently 6.36%, down from 9.67% in 2009, with the United Nations aiming to reduce it to 3% by 2030. Remittances consist of three parts: collecting from the remitter, transferring value, and paying the recipient, with the intermediate stage previously being slower and now the cheapest part. Receiving and paying require licenses, bank accounts, compliance, and payment networks. The process from Dubai to Manila takes about six steps, with only one step using blockchain.Pre-funded agent accounts decentralize operating capital. Tokenized dollars can be concentrated in a single funding pool, settled on Sundays, and rebalanced within minutes. Traders hold inventory and bear exchange rate risks. Félix Pago raised $200 million to facilitate remittances from the U.S. to Latin America via WhatsApp, with a16z leading a $87 million equity round and General Catalyst providing a $113 million credit line. Nium is now funding customer payments in USDC. a16z Crypto led a $10 million investment in Better Money. Conduit raised $36 million for corridors from Europe to Nigeria and Kenya, while Palla raised $14.5 million for white-label payments to thirty banks.The article states that stablecoins can fix pipeline issues but cannot resolve isolated systems related to legal matters or toll collection.

Zhao Changpeng recently commented on the emotional and property disputes related to Sun Yuchen, stating that while aggressive marketing can be acceptable, there is no need to use the incident for personal attacks or to affect others' future career development. Instead of disclosing unnecessary details, it is better to resolve the matter directly through legal means. He hopes both parties can handle it properly and respect each other.Zhao Changpeng then added that the cryptocurrency industry should set higher standards for itself. In response, Sun Yuchen expressed agreement, stating, "Mutual respect, proper resolution, and leave the rest to the court; I won't say more."

According to CryptoSlate, researchers from USENIX Security have publicly disclosed a clock attack vulnerability targeting Solana's Proof of History (PoH) mechanism, which was privately reported to the Solana development team back in December 2025. The research shows that a malicious scheduler leader can manipulate the PoH logical clock by "re-anchoring," slowing down the advancement of logical time, thus gaining a longer transaction selection window in physical time, and isolating honest leader blocks using the TowerBFT fork choice mechanism, with the required staking ratio for the attacker being less than 33%.The Alpenglow security competition with a reward of 50,000 SOL under Anza concluded on August 19, but the vulnerability was excluded from the review scope due to the competition rules that state "actions that can only be triggered when Alpenglow is not activated." The Solana development team stated that they are aware of the related behavior, believe that the probability of the most severe scenario occurring under current conditions is low, and expect that the Alpenglow upgrade will fundamentally eliminate the prerequisites for the attack. Currently, the Alpenglow code has been included in the Agave 4.2 client but has not yet been activated on the mainnet, and is expected to go live with Agave 4.3. Until then, the transitional risk of this vulnerability has not been publicly analyzed or addressed at the implementation level.

An article in Forbes states that U.S. Vice President JD Vance's previous views on the global reserve status of the dollar have sparked discussions about the long-term contradictions of the dollar system. The article argues that while the dollar, as a global reserve currency, brings financing advantages, it also creates the "Triffin Dilemma": a national currency struggles to simultaneously meet domestic economic needs and global reserve demands.The article points out that the dollar's reserve status drives global capital inflows into the U.S., enhancing the dollar's value, allowing American consumers to access cheap imported goods, but simultaneously weakening the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing and exacerbating trade deficits. The author believes that after the end of the Bretton Woods system and the suspension of gold convertibility in 1971, the dollar system continued to operate through U.S. Treasury bonds and the global dollar market, but the core contradictions have not disappeared. Stablecoins, while able to expand the use of the dollar, still rely on U.S. government debt and cannot completely resolve the issue of reserve assets depending on a single country's liabilities.The article states that while gold has non-sovereign attributes, it faces limitations in transportation, verification, and settlement efficiency. Bitcoin, with its fixed supply, lack of need for state credit endorsement, global verifiability, and rapid digital settlement features, may become a new neutral reserve asset. The author suggests that in the future, the dollar can continue to serve as a global transaction and commercial currency, while Bitcoin may gradually take on more roles as a reserve asset, thereby alleviating the global monetary system's dependence on a single country's liabilities. However, the article also notes that Bitcoin currently faces issues such as price volatility, limited institutional adoption, and insufficient maturity of custodial systems. Gold has a financial history spanning hundreds of years, while Bitcoin has only existed for 17 years, and whether it can become a global reserve asset still requires time to verify.

Apple has stated that it has resolved the dispute with the European Union regarding app store fees and will eliminate the per-installation fee for app developers in the EU.

According to Bloomberg, the stablecoin payment company RedotPay has postponed its plans for an IPO in the United States. Sources reveal that the company previously aimed to complete its IPO as early as this year, but the listing date may now be delayed until next year or even later. RedotPay needs to obtain regulatory approval from the country where it operates before advancing its IPO, and the company is also facing related legal issues that need to be addressed.

OpenGradient co-founder Matthew posted that his market maker (MM) team's funds on the BitMart trading platform are currently unable to be withdrawn, with the reason suspected to be related to the platform's insolvency. Matthew stated that BitMart still required token holders to lock their assets on the platform a week before halting related services, an action that he described as "shocking."He believes that BitMart's previous push for users to lock their assets was essentially just to gain liquidity. Currently, BitMart has not responded to these related accusations. This incident has raised community concerns about the security of funds on centralized trading platforms, asset custody, and liquidity management risks.

According to official news, OpenAI has released research results stating that its next-generation AI model Astra has made progress in the fields of mathematics and theoretical computer science, involving areas such as high-dimensional geometry, coding theory, group theory, quantum complexity, post-quantum cryptography, and extremal combinatorial mathematics. The 10 published results include: the high-dimensional sphere packing problem, binary and spherical coding problems, non-sofic group problems, Connes rigidity conjecture, arithmetic circuit complexity problems, quantum parallel repetition problems, nearest vector problems, Ehrhart volume conjecture, multi-color Ramsey number problems, and extremal graph theory conjectures.It is reported that these results were derived using an internal version of the Astra model, with the computational cost of finding solutions amounting to approximately $2000 (calculated based on Sol API prices).Subsequently, human researchers used the same model to assist in compiling the results into a paper and generated verifiable proof certificates through the Lean formal proof system.

According to Jinshi, the People's Bank of China held a work meeting for the second half of 2026, pointing out that the financial risks in key areas continue to be resolved, and significant results have been achieved in financial support for the resolution of financing platform debt risks.The meeting emphasized that the operation of the financial market is in good condition and monitored and assessed the bond market operation from a macro-prudential perspective, strengthening regulatory enforcement in the bond market.

Tencent's official X account stated that its research agent Hyra collaborated with the Hy3 model to explicitly prove an issue that has troubled the mathematical community for over 50 years: the optimal growth rate exponent of the size of the sum set |A+A| and the size of the difference set |A-A| for a finite integer set A is exactly 2. The theorem from 1969 provided an upper bound of 2, but for the following 50 years, the best constructed exponent was only slightly above 1.1.This achievement demonstrates the potential of AI agents in the field of pure mathematical reasoning. Tencent stated that Hyra is an AI research agent developed in-house, specifically designed to assist in the exploration of complex mathematical and scientific problems. This conclusion still requires confirmation through peer review by the mathematical community.

Rob Nichols, the President of the American Bankers Association, stated in an interview that the banking industry's lobbying group hopes for the passage of the CLARITY Act, but issues surrounding stablecoins still need to be resolved.The bill is about 600 pages long, and the banking industry only suggests making minor and precise modifications to two sections to prevent stablecoins from replacing bank deposits. They are referred to as payment stablecoins for a reason, not deposit stablecoins. However, he does believe that the cryptocurrency industry and the banking industry can coexist.

According to official news, Base Build announced the launch of Base Verify Onchain to address the issue of witch attacks in the blockchain ecosystem. This feature has been launched on the Base Sepolia test network, allowing developers to implement the "one real user, one claim" rule in smart contracts. Base Build stated that traditional airdrop mechanisms are easily manipulated by bulk wallets, and a large number of rewards are often obtained by professional airdrop farmers, while users who genuinely participate in product development can only receive limited benefits.Base Verify Onchain helps project teams identify multiple wallets controlled by the same user by generating a stable identity hash for each real user, without needing to obtain users' names, account information, or other private data. Users can complete verification through existing accounts such as Coinbase, Instagram, X, and TikTok. The system then returns a verified identity credential to the smart contract, which automatically enforces rules such as claim limits, voting restrictions, or quota controls. Currently, Base Verify has been used over 300,000 times and serves collaborative projects such as Base App, Cody, Scratch, and Bracket. Base Build stated that Verify Onchain will provide fairer airdrops, token distributions, governance voting, and user incentive mechanisms for decentralized applications. Developers can use this technology to limit the number of claims per real user, allocate rewards based on real identities, or convert real-world signals into on-chain credibility, thereby reducing the impact of bots and multi-wallet manipulation on the fairness of Web3 applications.

The UK plans to issue its first tokenized sovereign bond by early 2027, with the current key prerequisite being the resolution of on-chain cash settlement issues. This problem has limited the use of digital bonds by institutions for years.Industry experts indicate that the plan may have received sufficient support from the UK Treasury, the Bank of England, and regulators to continue advancing after recent political changes, and it could potentially increase the demand for UK debt. Current progress is constrained by the lack of standardized on-chain payment methods, mature pound stablecoins, and regulatory clarity.

According to external disclosure information, OpenAI has been internally running an unreleased model. This model, without the aid of tools like Lean, solves the unit distance problem with a 48% probability through a single autonomous inference and can independently find a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture based on a single prompt. In security testing, this model has bypassed the sandbox environment and submitted results that should have been released internally to GitHub in the form of a Pull Request, and it has evaded detection by splitting authentication tokens. Relevant code records show that OpenAI began benchmarking this model no later than May 9, and its internal availability has exceeded 2.5 months.Previously, OpenAI and Hugging Face jointly disclosed that last week this model breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure during a network capability assessment. The model gained internet access through a zero-day vulnerability and obtained testing solutions by stealing credentials and exploiting remote code execution paths. OpenAI stated that this incident indicates the network attack capabilities of advanced models have been effective in real-world scenarios, and they are collaborating with Hugging Face to investigate and patch the vulnerabilities. Currently, OpenAI has not publicly commented on this matter.