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According to The Block, Jeff Yan, co-founder of the decentralized perpetual contract trading platform Hyperliquid, stated during a fireside chat at the Korea Blockchain Week 2026 that around-the-clock trading is not the essential difference between on-chain trading venues and traditional exchanges. He pointed out that cryptocurrencies do not need to adhere to traditional market opening hours because these assets inherently possess international attributes, and some traditional exchanges have already begun to actively extend their trading hours.Yan emphasized that the more enduring value of on-chain finance comes from allowing users to retain control and custody of their funds, which helps to avoid a common single point of failure risk. In his view, once a counterparty, intermediary, or even custodian encounters issues, the ability to self-custody becomes particularly crucial.In addition, transparency constitutes another distinct feature of on-chain trading. Although it does not have a strong appeal in serving ordinary consumers, it is essential for building trust in the entire system. In a system controlled solely by a private organization, users cannot obtain the same level of trust and neutrality guarantees.He also mentioned that for assets lacking publicly available prices during the closing hours of traditional exchanges, continuous trading remains necessary. He cited commodities, stocks, and Pre-IPO targets that had already traded on Hyperliquid before the reference market opened as examples to illustrate that the demand is indeed real.

The lending agreement indicates that Spark has allocated $210 million in loans to institutions collateralized by Bitcoin, with the related Bitcoin held by the digital asset custodian Anchorage Digital. Institutions can borrow USDC while the pledged assets remain with a qualified custodian.Spark provides the loan funds, and Anchorage Digital manages the collateral through the Atlas platform. Atlas is its automated network that offers round-the-clock margin monitoring, settlement, and third-party services within a regulated custody framework.

According to official news, CleanSpark (NASDAQ: CLSK) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary CSDC Finance I, LLC has completed the previously announced issuance of $2.276 billion of 7.875% senior secured notes, which will mature in 2031.The notes have not been registered under the Securities Act of 1933 and may not be offered or sold within the United States unless registered or an applicable exemption from registration is available.

Bitcoin mining company CleanSpark announced the completion of a $2.276 billion debt financing for its data center project located in Sandersville, Georgia, USA.The bond has an interest rate of 7.875%, and the raised funds will be used for project construction and to repay previously invested equity funds. The Sandersville project comes with a 20-year lease.

Hester Peirce, a commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), stated at the SIFMA Digital Assets Conference that regulators should reconsider traditional financial monitoring methods, shifting from "collecting more data" to utilizing new technologies for more precise verification.Peirce mentioned that technologies like zero-knowledge proofs can verify whether users meet requirements such as age, citizenship, accredited investor status, or sanctions lists without disclosing underlying personal information like names, income, or addresses.Hester Peirce suggested that the federal government and regulatory agencies adopt attribute-based verification when technically feasible and allow registered entities to rely more on third-party identity verification to reduce the redundant collection and storage of sensitive information.Peirce also stated that public blockchains have permanent, public, and auditable transaction records, and combined with blockchain forensic tools, they are expected to enhance the ability to track illegal activities while reducing unnecessary data collection.

Russian Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov stated that Russia will promote the establishment of a transparent and legal cryptocurrency market. The country has about 20 million cryptocurrency users, with a total investment of approximately 3.7 trillion rubles, and a daily trading volume of about 50 billion rubles.

SparkLabs Group, Mirae Asset Venture Investment, Qazaqstan Investment Corporation (QIC) from the National Fund of Kazakhstan, and IT Park Ventures from Uzbekistan have signed a term sheet to establish the SparkLabs Mirae Silk Road Fund I LP venture capital fund, managed by Mirae Asset Venture Investment and SparkLabs Group. The signing ceremony took place in Seoul during the state visit of the presidents of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan to South Korea and the first Central Asia-Korea Summit.QIC and IT Park Ventures are both anchor investors. The new fund will invest in Series A and later-stage startups in the Central Asia region with validated business models that are ready to expand beyond the region, focusing on AI-native companies, although not limited to this industry. Portfolio companies will receive support from SparkLabs and Mirae Asset's global network, as well as assistance in expanding to South Korea, the United States, and the Middle East.

U.S. Republican Senator and Wyoming Federal Senator Cynthia Lummis stated: The Democrats had previously requested that any cryptocurrency project raising more than $25 million from the public provide audited financial statements, and this requirement has been written into the bill.Lummis noted that the Democrats voted against the transparency they had requested. Lummis has served as a Federal Senator from Wyoming since 2021, having previously served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2009 to 2017.

CleanSpark, a Bitcoin mining company and data center developer listed on NASDAQ, announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary CSDC Finance I plans to privately issue senior secured notes due in 2031 to raise $2.227 billion.The funds will primarily be used to complete the construction of the Sandersville data center in Texas, to compensate the company for some equity funds previously invested in the facility, and to establish a debt repayment reserve.However, this issuance is still subject to market and other conditions, and it cannot be guaranteed whether the final completion or issuance terms will be achieved.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched 480 stock spot rTokens including rBULL (Webull), rCLSK (CleanSpark), rPATH (UiPath), and rBND (Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF), covering multiple sectors such as finance, healthcare, and utilities. As of now, the Bitget platform supports a total of 1,666 rTokens.The rTokens, identified by the letter r + stock code (for example, rNVDA for Nvidia), are issued by Reality, a licensed RWA protocol under Bitget, and are directly connected to global liquidity pools such as Nasdaq and NYSE through collaboration with compliant broker Alpaca. Their features include: 1:1 reserves of underlying assets held by licensed custodians, stock dividends distributed in token form at a 1:1 ratio, support for corporate actions (such as stock splits and consolidations) with synchronous mapping, and positions can serve as joint collateral for unified accounts and U-based contracts, allowing users to flexibly manage funds while holding global stock assets.

According to Fortune, Robinhood has recently tokenized stocks like AMC, which has led to public criticism from AMC's CEO. However, this model can reduce the cost and threshold for global investors to trade U.S. stocks. Blockchain-driven stock tokenization is reshaping the U.S. brokerage industry, and its impact may be similar to that of Napster on the music industry 25 years ago.Analysis points out that tokenized stocks still face issues such as voting rights, underlying stock custody, and whether token assets are fully backed. However, regulators have begun to promote the construction of relevant frameworks. Recently, Nasdaq also invested $100 million in blockchain financial company Payward, and the trend of stock on-chain is accelerating, making it difficult for threats or lawsuits to long-term hinder the development of this technology.

Tesla has announced that it will hold a launch event on October 1 to showcase its next-generation Roadster electric sports car. This event may spark speculation about a merger between Tesla and SpaceX. The phrase "Go for launch" used by Tesla officially echoes SpaceX's rocket launches.

According to official news, Spark will shut down its lending protocol SparkLend on Gnosis Chain on September 14. After the service termination, all outstanding loans may face liquidation, and users are advised to repay their debts and withdraw collateral before the deadline.

Bitget released its transparency report for August 2026, disclosing its latest progress in the construction of a multi-asset trading ecosystem. In terms of U.S. stock tokens, taking rNVDA as an example, its daily trading volume reached $38.5 million, with over 4,200 users completing approximately 112,800 transactions, of which about 36% of the trading volume occurred outside regular U.S. trading hours, reflecting that rToken is becoming a core tool for investors to break through traditional trading time constraints and achieve 24/7 global asset allocation.On the institutional business front, Bitget launched an institutional-level CFD liquidity solution aimed at quantitative teams, proprietary trading firms, funds, brokers, and high-net-worth professional traders, supporting high-frequency quantitative trading, arbitrage between futures and spot, and automated trading scenarios such as EA.At the same time, the platform launched FCN (Fixed Coupon Notes), bringing traditional financial structured products into the tokenized U.S. stock market, becoming the first cryptocurrency exchange to combine the FCN structure with USDT settlement and U.S. stock rToken delivery. As related products and trading infrastructure continue to improve, Bitget is further strengthening its capabilities in institutional-level services, multi-asset coverage, and liquidity.In addition, third-party data shows that Bitget performs outstandingly in terms of liquidity and execution efficiency for tokenized stocks and stock perpetual contracts. In a liquidity benchmark test targeting the five stock spot markets of MSTR, SPY, QQQ, CRCL, and NVDA, DeFiLlama recorded Bitget with the lowest median bid-ask spread of 0.83 basis points and the deepest order book liquidity among all sample markets. In execution benchmark tests covering 36 stock perpetual contracts and 8 types of metal and commodity perpetual contracts, Bitget maintained a significant lead in approximately 90% of trading pairs.

Bitcoin mining company CleanSpark (Nasdaq: CLSK) announced its unaudited operational data for the period ending August 31, 2026. In August, it mined a total of 593 BTC, with a cumulative output of 4,903 BTC for the year. The operational hash rate reached 50 EH/s, with an overall energy efficiency ratio of 16.07 J/Th, and the total contracted power capacity was 1.8 GW (with 808 MW already utilized).In terms of treasury, its total Bitcoin holdings as of the end of August were 13,703 BTC. In August, it sold a total of 821 BTC through spot sales, call option exercises, and delta-neutral basis trading, achieving an average realized price of $65,420. CleanSpark is accelerating the construction of its high-performance computing data center in Sandersville, Georgia, which has signed long-term lease agreements totaling $6.6 billion with high-rated technology tenants for 20 years.

The decentralized stablecoin USDD released its monthly transparency report for August 2026. As of August 31, the circulation of USDD is approximately 1.53 billion, with reserve assets totaling 2.26 billion USD and a collateralization rate of 147.96%. The Smart Allocator has achieved a cumulative return of 26.738 million USD, with a monthly new return of 3.015 million USD, a month-on-month increase of 13.6%.In August, the USDD Vault expanded to the Ethereum ecosystem, allowing users to use ETH and WBTC as collateral to mint USDD; the GasFree transfer feature now supports USDD, enabling zero Gas transfers on the TRON network. During the same period, collaborations were also established with platforms such as Binance Wallet, Gate DEX, and Pendle.

The RTX Spark series PCs developed by NVIDIA in collaboration with MediaTek are expected to launch this fall. Microsoft and more game developers have recently announced updates and support for this platform. The first batch of orders from ASUS and MSI has been fully booked, and they are actively seeking more allocations from NVIDIA. ASUS co-CEO Hu Shubin pointed out that channel customer bookings have exceeded expectations, with the initial supply completely reserved, and they are actively placing additional supply orders with NVIDIA, holding a highly optimistic outlook for next year's sales. MSI's product manager Peng Renfang revealed that customers from mainland China, Taiwan, and the United States are actively placing orders, with the first batch of laptops equipped with the high-end N1X chip nearly sold out, and they are actively following up with NVIDIA for more orders.The RTX Spark super chip is built using TSMC's 3-nanometer process, featuring NVIDIA's Blackwell RTX GPU connected to a 20-core Grace CPU, utilizing a Windows on Arm architecture. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang noted that RTX Spark brings together CUDA, RTX, and AI platforms into a single super chip, allowing ground agents, front-end models, creative workflows, and RTX games to run on laptops, "This is the new PC, personal AI computer." The processors are divided into the high-end N1x and the mainstream N1, with the actual selling price of PCs equipped with N1x yet to be announced, but the market generally believes it will start from 110,000 yuan. The first wave of partner brands includes ASUS, MSI, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft, Acer, and Gigabyte will also follow suit. NVIDIA recently announced at Gamescom 2026 in Germany that multiple game developers are bringing various games to join the RTX Spark lineup.

According to Bitcoin News, Sparrow Wallet v2.5.4 has been released after extensive AI-assisted review, containing multiple security enhancement updates aimed at reducing users' reliance on external servers such as Electrum.Additionally, this version strengthens Ledger, Keycard, Trezor, Payjoin, PSBT, and multi-signature handling, removes Bitcoin Core credentials and other confidential information from debug logs, restricts existing wallet and backup directory permissions to owner access only, closes local DNS resolution leaks when using Tor, and enhances wallet import, signing, downloading, and server response verification. This update expands Sparrow Wallet's scope for independently verifying transaction data, hardware devices, and other inputs, reducing reliance on external servers for data provision.

According to CoinDesk, a governance proposal from the Optimism community has been approved, reallocating 546.9 million OP tokens originally planned for user airdrops to the "Strategic Ecosystem Fund" managed by the Optimism Foundation, sparking discussions in the community about governance transparency and user rights. The OP tokens involved account for approximately 12.7% of the total supply, valued at about $49.7 million at current prices.The Optimism Foundation stated that as the ecological strategy shifts towards institutional adoption and corporate partnerships, large-scale user airdrops are no longer fully aligned with the current development direction. Unused tokens can be utilized for ecosystem incentives, partnership building, and enterprise-level project expansion. The final vote resulted in 17.974 million OP in support and 10.931 million OP against the proposal.A key turning point occurred 16 minutes and 52 seconds before the voting ended, when the Optimism core development team Test in Prod (delegate.testinprod-io.eth) cast 8.486 million OP in support, raising the approval rate from 45.77% to 61.84%, ultimately pushing the proposal through.If the vote from Test in Prod were excluded, the support rate for the proposal would only be 46.47%, which would not have passed, and the related tokens might have remained in the user allocation pool. The Optimism Foundation previously committed to disclosing the cumulative usage of the fund and related results through an annual budget report. This vote has also reignited discussions about the influence of "large delegated voting rights" in DAO governance and the balance of rights for token holders.