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The U.S. SEC is reviewing Grayscale's application to rename the Grayscale Litecoin Trust to "Grayscale Litecoin Trust ETF," which is planned to be listed on NYSE Arca under the stock ticker LTCN.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown in AI model development and the introduction of third-party evaluation agencies. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that he would adopt the suggestions, and Elon Musk also expressed support.Despite the warnings from the three leaders about AI risks, there are few precedents in the industry for coordinating a slowdown in development speed.

Robinhood Markets announced its operating data for August 2026: As of the end of August, the number of funded account customers was 28.6 million, an increase of approximately 120,000 from the end of July, and an increase of about 1.9 million year-on-year; the platform's total assets were $384 billion, with a month-on-month growth of 8% and a year-on-year growth of 26%.Net deposits in August were $4 billion, equivalent to an annualized growth rate of 14% relative to the platform's total assets in July.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that he is considering slowing down the development pace of cutting-edge artificial intelligence and hopes other AI companies will follow suit.According to informed sources, Altman mentioned the possibility of adjusting the AI development pace during a company meeting, collaborating with other AI labs. Recently, concerns among AI company employees about the risks of advanced AI systems have heightened internal anxiety.

Wintermute released a market update indicating that the non-farm payroll data for August exceeded expectations, pushing the interest rate hike probability to nearly 60%. Bitcoin briefly retreated from $82,400 but still closed the week up 3.45%, standing above $80,000. Bitcoin ETFs recorded a net inflow of $987 million, marking three consecutive weeks of positive inflows, totaling nearly $3.8 billion. This indicates that the crypto market has withstood the test of hawkish data.Bitcoin has fallen about 50% from its peak, which is significantly less than the over 75% declines seen in the same periods of 2018 and 2022, reflecting earlier involvement from ETFs and institutional funds. Wintermute believes that capital is flowing from stocks and gold into crypto assets, forming the premise for a new cycle. $82,000 is a key level that needs to be broken, while $72,000 is the point to judge a trend change. The voting on the CLARITY Act, along with the CPI and FOMC meetings, are all scheduled for next week. The end of the Robinhood Chain Gas subsidy at the end of September will be the first test of the sustainability of activity. If Bitcoin falls below $72,000 and ETF outflows turn significantly negative, a reassessment will be necessary.

According to CoinDesk, Ethereum core developers have included EIP-8141 (Frame Transactions) in the 2027 Hegotá upgrade plan. During the core developer call on August 27, the proposal was marked as "Scheduled for Inclusion," meaning it will become part of the network update rather than just a candidate proposal. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, one of the ten authors of the proposal, stated on X on Sunday night that Frames have made significant progress in the past few months.Frames aim to address the issue where users hold stablecoins but cannot transfer them due to a lack of ETH. It splits transactions into independent steps such as authorization verification, fee payment, and instruction execution, allowing the sender and payer accounts to no longer have to be the same. For example, payment applications can cover fees themselves or settle ETH bills on behalf of users after collecting stablecoins, while the Ethereum network still prices in ETH, and users do not need to purchase ETH. Unlike existing wallet solutions that rely on third-party services, Frames will achieve this capability through the standard Ethereum transaction process.Additionally, Frames will bundle operations that need to be executed simultaneously, such as authorization and submission in token transactions, with authorization being revoked if the transaction fails; it also allows accounts to customize transaction approval rules, enabling the replacement of private keys or the adoption of quantum-resistant keys without needing to migrate funds to a new address. Currently, the specification is still a draft, and details may be adjusted before the Hegotá upgrade, with users unable to use Frames yet.

According to GMGN data, Robinhood Chain coin stock Meme coin SPACEHOOD's market capitalization reached 7.5 million dollars, with a 24-hour increase narrowing to 23.25%.

According to EmberCN monitoring, the whale Garrett Jin has not stopped shorting ZEC and has just added 7,000 ZEC short positions at a price of about $1,195, worth approximately $8.4 million, further increasing the overall short average price.After this increase, the entity's ZEC short position has grown to 39,760 ZEC, with a nominal value of about $47 million; due to continuing to add positions at high levels, its overall short price has risen from the previous $444 to about $576.3. Based on the current market conditions, its overall floating loss on ZEC short positions has reached approximately $24 million.

The cryptocurrency exchange Bybit's payment department Bybit Pay has completed integration with the cryptocurrency payment infrastructure provider Mesh. Users can now directly use their Bybit account balance for payments or account top-ups on supported platforms without needing to withdraw assets or transfer them to other platforms first.Users can directly select Bybit Pay as the payment method during settlement or recharge. For merchants already integrated with Mesh, Bybit Pay can be added as a payment option through existing integrations, reaching the 80 million users claimed by Bybit. Bybit stated that this integration also supports programmable settlement options, allowing merchants to control the payment settlement methods and timing across different markets.Mesh stated that its network is connected to over 300 wallets, exchanges, and financial service platforms. In January of this year, the company completed a $75 million Series C funding round led by Dragonfly, achieving a valuation of $1 billion, with total funding exceeding $200 million, and plans to expand into the Latin American, Asian, and European markets.

OpenAI released a video on X, previewing the upcoming release of the Astra model (the video content switches between ASTRA and A6TRA), and the model name may be GPT-6-Astra.

According to Hyperbot data, Huang Licheng has just opened a 10x leveraged HYPE long position again, with an overall position turning from loss to profit, and an investment return rate of about 11.18%, with unrealized profits exceeding $594,000:25x leveraged Ethereum long position, holding 40,800 ETH, with unrealized profits of $66,700;40x leveraged Bitcoin long position, holding 400 BTC, with unrealized profits of $540,200;10x leveraged HYPE long position, holding 69,000 HYPE, with unrealized losses of $11,000.

According to on-chain analysts, a certain trader bought 1,650 ETH at $2,417, worth approximately $4 million.Since July, their 4 ETH trades have accumulated a profit of $1.05 million.

The official Chinese version of the "2026 Artificial Intelligence Index Report" from Stanford University's Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute (HAI) was officially released today. The report points out that artificial intelligence has moved beyond a mere competition of model capabilities and is deepening into systemic changes at the levels of infrastructure, organizational processes, and institutions.Currently, the leading models worldwide are performing close to 100% human level on the software engineering benchmark SWE-bench; the success rate of agents in real computing environments has surged from 12% to 66%, with AI evolving from "generating information" to "executing tasks." The gap between top models in China and the U.S. has narrowed to 2.7%, with leading models from both sides having exchanged positions multiple times.In addition, physical infrastructure has become a core constraint on AI development. The global AI data center power capacity has reached 29.6 gigawatts, and chips, energy, and water resources are becoming key strategic bottlenecks for AI development.

CZ posted on platform X that some "hot money" is flowing back from AI to the cryptocurrency market. He also stated, "The financial industry will not disappear; you and AI still need money."

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.

The Securities and Exchange Commission of Thailand (SEC) has proposed allowing intermediaries to provide certain digital asset derivatives traded overseas to retail investors. According to the proposal, eligible products must be similar to crypto derivatives traded domestically in Thailand, including aspects such as underlying assets, duration, leverage, and settlement methods. At the same time, these products must be traded on exchanges that adopt central counterparty clearing and are supervised by regulatory bodies belonging to specific international regulatory or exchange organizations.Crypto derivatives that do not meet the above conditions will only be available to institutional investors. The Thai SEC stated that institutional investors are better equipped to assess and manage complex and high-risk products. Current rules only allow intermediaries to provide relevant investment services to retail and high-net-worth clients when overseas derivatives are similar to domestic trading products, while overseas crypto derivatives, due to their varying structures and risk levels, require targeted regulations.This consultation is the latest initiative by Thailand to incorporate crypto-related products into the regulated capital market. The Thai SEC officially designated cryptocurrencies and digital tokens as permissible derivative underlying assets in a notice issued on March 5 and is discussing potential contract specifications with the Thailand Futures Exchange. The consultation will continue until September 30, and the Thai SEC has not yet announced the proposed implementation date for the revisions.

Coinbase announced the architecture and application of its internal AI system "CEEcil." This system is not just a simple chatbot; it is designed to function as an AI agent similar to a "team member," which can be @mentioned in Slack and possesses long-term memory, proactive follow-up, and judgment capabilities.CEEcil retains team context through a three-layer memory mechanism: it continuously extracts information such as decisions, blockers, and responsible parties from authorized channels in the background; integrates short-term observations into long-term summaries every night; and retrieves historical memories, recent conversations, and real-time data as needed when answering questions. The system also employs a layered model architecture, prioritizing simple queries to be processed through APIs or knowledge bases, while only delegating complex, multi-step tasks to stronger AI models to reduce costs and delays.Coinbase stated that CEEcil is currently able to assist teams in handling production incidents and answering expert knowledge that would normally take hours to obtain; in the future, it hopes to expand this model into multiple AI agents tailored for specific teams, allowing AI not only to "answer questions" but also to retain memory, actively participate, and complete actual work.

Epoch AI updates that the revenue growth rates of OpenAI and Anthropic have reached or exceeded the rare levels seen in historically comparable tech companies. Over the past year, OpenAI increased its annualized revenue run rate from $13 billion to over $40 billion, achieving approximately threefold growth; Anthropic's revenue is projected to grow from $1 billion in 2025 to $9 billion, with a further acceleration in the first quarter of 2026, reaching an annualized run rate of over three times, reportedly hitting $65 billion by the end of July.The combined revenue of the two companies is expected to grow approximately threefold in 2024, over fourfold in 2025, and from $30 billion to $105 billion by August 2026, achieving about 3.5 times growth. The article notes that maintaining over 100% annual growth at a scale exceeding $1 billion is extremely rare, with the growth rate for 2025 already being record-breaking, and further acceleration in 2026 on a higher base.Epoch AI analysis states that the overall annualized revenue of the generative AI market is close to $200 billion, with the two companies accounting for about half. The continued hypergrowth may stem from the combination of capability advancements and diffusion, with future trends depending on whether growth comes more from sustained technological advancements or application diffusion; if the growth rate is maintained, it will significantly impact economic scale, but it may also slow down with maturity.

On August 25, OpenAI announced the addition of proxy browsing capabilities for ChatGPT Work, enabling it to take over tasks on websites that require login and continue working. Users only need to enter their credentials or security codes once at the login interface, and the proxy can continue executing tasks, with sessions potentially remaining logged in for subsequent tasks without the need to log in again. OpenAI stated that this browser supports password managers, and the model cannot see usernames or passwords; this information will not be stored or used for training.However, one-time authentication effectively leaves a foothold for the proxy to maintain continuous access to the account. OpenAI's own models have previously exhibited boundary-crossing behavior, with approximately 1,200 OpenAI proxies (including GPT-5.6 Sol and a pre-release model) breaching the testing environment and invading Hugging Face's production servers to cheat benchmark tests, with about 700 proxies participating in the attack. This feature has been launched on the web and mobile browsers of ChatGPT Work, allowing users to clear sessions by site individually in the cloud browser settings.

MoonPay has integrated the Solana lending protocol Kamino into its AI payment vault PayBox, allowing eligible users to execute token lending or collateralized borrowing on Solana through conversations with ChatGPT or Claude. According to DefiLlama data, Kamino has a locked value of approximately $1.3 billion, with an active loan scale of about $1 billion.This integration does not create new loan products but replaces Kamino's original interface with natural language commands. Users can request that each transaction requires passkey approval or allow the AI to operate autonomously within preset limits. MoonPay launched PayBox in July, initially supporting payments, token swaps, cross-chain bridging, and earning through Aave. The integration of Kamino marks its expansion from AI payment tools into the credit management field.Currently, AI-based crypto applications are mainly focused on small, high-frequency payment scenarios. The x402 protocol developed by Coinbase has processed approximately $50 million and 165 million payments. This integration allows AI to manage user funds, with a single command capable of creating leveraged positions. If the value of the collateral falls and triggers Kamino's liquidation threshold, the position may be liquidated. This service is not currently available to users in the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, and Australia, with specific availability varying by asset and jurisdiction.