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According to Token Terminal data, the number of tokenized stock asset holders has increased by 619.1% over the past 90 days to 3.6 million. BNB Chain leads with 1.5 million, followed closely by Robinhood Chain with 1.2 million, and Solana with 647,500.Token Terminal indicates that distribution channels are rapidly becoming a key battleground for tokenized stocks.

The first two batches of confiscated assets in the Singapore 3 billion Singapore dollars money laundering case have officially opened for auction, with an overall estimated value between 2.9 million and 3.9 million. The auction is conducted solely online, and bidders cannot place bids in person or via phone. Currently, the confiscated items are stored in the Le Freeport warehouse at Changi North, and interested bidders from Singapore and abroad can visit, but must make an appointment in advance, with limited slots available. Among the items, the most notable are the limited edition pumpkin bags from Louis Vuitton and Yayoi Kusama.It is reported that this case is one of the largest money laundering cases in Singapore in recent years. The involved person, Wang Shuiming's partner, Su Weiyi, has been confirmed as the mastermind behind the cryptocurrency platform scam Atom Asset Exchange. Another involved person, Su Baolin, had received illegal online gambling proceeds from abroad through USDT and exchanged part of the USDT for at least 463,000 Singapore dollars in cash in 2023. He also used USDT to purchase a Toyota Alphard.

The wealthiest state in India, Maharashtra, is formulating policies to tokenize state government assets (including power transmission infrastructure), with the funds raised to be used for constructing new transmission lines and energy storage facilities. The Chief Minister's Chief Economic Advisor and CEO of the Maharashtra Transformation Institute (MITRA), Praveen Pardeshi, introduced this plan at an invitation-only event called "The Box Launch," hosted by the real estate tokenization company RealX and MST Blockchain at the Mumbai World Trade Center.Pardeshi stated that transmission lines could be partially tokenized, for example, 40% to 50%, allowing investors holding tokens to receive a portion of the revenue from Maharashtra Transco. The new funds generated from token sales could be used to build more transmission lines and solar energy storage centers. He pointed out that the state currently has a significant surplus of solar power but lacks the grid capacity to deliver it to where it is needed; distribution companies must pay high prices of 16 to 18 rupees per unit during peak hours, while the price during surplus periods on the power exchange is only 2 paise per unit.He also illustrated the practice of real estate tokenization with the example of the Mumbai Express Towers commercial building tokenized under a REIT structure, emphasizing that tokenization does not equate to privatization but rather allows more citizens to participate in the development activities of public asset creation. Additionally, the state is drafting the Maharashtra Digital and Land Token Asset Trading Act (DELTA Act), which, if passed, will make it the first state in India to legislate for blockchain-based property tokenization.

According to TipRanks, Japanese gaming giant Gumi Inc. announced that it will recognize significant non-operating losses in the first quarter of the fiscal year ending April 2027 due to the decline in the fair value of crypto assets. Based on recent market fluctuations, the total valuation loss of crypto assets recognized by the company amounts to 1.537 billion yen (approximately 10 million USD), of which the parent company bears 675 million yen.This loss has been included in the financial report for the three months ending July 31, 2026. Following the announcement, Gumi's stock price fell by 19.1%.

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.

The blockchain project Quantus announced the launch of its PoW mainnet using post-quantum cryptography, which incorporates the ML-DSA-65 and ML-DSA-87 digital signature mechanisms. The total supply limit of the native token QTC is 21 million, and PoW mining has been open since the launch.

Bitget API now fully supports CFD trading, expanding programmatic trading capabilities from cryptocurrency assets to global markets such as gold, foreign exchange, stock indices, and crude oil. Institutional clients and professional traders can directly manage CFD accounts through the API, covering core functions such as order execution, account inquiries, fund transfers, real-time market data, and risk control parameters, extending strategies into the traditional financial derivatives market within the existing API framework.This upgrade enriches the programmatic trading scenarios. Traders can incorporate factors such as macroeconomic data, Federal Reserve policies, employment and inflation data, oil prices, and stock index fluctuations into their strategy models, and configure them with different account models like ECN, STP, and Pro, obtaining a more comprehensive programmatic trading capability in global markets through a unified API framework.

According to Bitcoin News monitoring, Samson Mow warned that the Liquid attackers, allegedly white hat hackers, may have left more clues than expected. Mow stated, "The web of justice is extensive and inescapable, and it will not spare anyone."Mow also questioned their claim of returning Bitcoin in exchange for a bounty, stating that it is wise to publicly admit to taking Bitcoin and asking for a bounty in return. Mow pointed out that Liquid's approximately $5 billion in assets, including L-BTC, Tether, and real-world assets, belong to the respective issuers and holders and cannot be used as a basis for calculating the bounty. Regardless of how other matters are negotiated, all user assets must be fully returned.

According to the official statement from Osmosis, the proposal for the solution regarding the previous Nomic chain nBTC incident is now online and has officially entered community discussion.According to the proposal, the Osmosis governance community will consider confiscating the previously frozen assets of the attacker and using the accumulated BTC in the community fund pool to cover the remaining collateral gap, in order to restore the full collateral support for Alloyed BTC. Currently, this plan still needs to go through governance discussion and voting, and the asset confiscation or collateral replenishment has not yet been completed.

The trading heat of popular U.S. stocks and technology-related assets continues to rise, with multiple stock tokens on Gate gStocks performing actively. According to the latest market data from Gate, the 2x long ETF of Mywell Technology (MVLLG/USDT) has increased by 8.47% in the last 24 hours, currently priced at $29.19; Meta (METAG/USDT) has risen by 5.13% in the last 24 hours, currently priced at $649.71; the 2x long ETF of Micron Technology (MUUG/USDT) has increased by 4.28% in the last 24 hours, currently priced at $35.09.Gate gStocks adopts a 1:1 fully-backed native stock reserve mechanism, where each tokenized security corresponds to an equal number of native stocks as underlying asset support, and supports 24/7 trading, unified account management, and a minimum investment of 1 USDT with fractional trading.Users can participate more flexibly in global popular stock investments, achieving a one-stop allocation of digital assets and traditional securities. As the ecosystem of tokenized securities continues to enrich, Gate gStocks will continue to expand more quality stocks and ETF targets, providing users with a more diverse global asset allocation choice.

According to the report "Explosive Growth of Stock Derivatives in 2026: The Landscape of Cryptocurrency Exchanges and Key Trends" released by RootData, the stock derivatives sector has transitioned from "marginal experimentation" to the "explosive growth" phase, with a cumulative trading volume of approximately $17.5 trillion from January to August.In terms of cumulative transaction volume, the concentration effect among the top exchanges remains significant. Among the four exchanges, Binance ranks first with $853.58 billion and a 61.3% market share; Bitget follows in second place with $270.85 billion and a 19.5% market share; OKX comes in third with $234.39 billion and a 16.8% market share; Bybit ranks fourth with $33.41 billion and a 2.4% market share.Regarding liquidity, in the ±2% weighted order book depth indicator, Binance and Bitget together account for over 70% of the stock derivatives order book liquidity. Among them, Binance has an average daily order book depth of approximately $10.1 million, followed closely by Bitget at $4.82 million, with OKX and Bybit at $3.87 million and $1.16 million, respectively.In terms of trading costs, in the recent comparison of weighted spreads for more than a dozen representative popular assets, Bitget ranks first with 0.0144%, followed closely by Binance at 0.0145%, with both essentially at the same level; OKX is at 0.0154%, and Bybit is at 0.0237%.

Bitcoin ZK Rollup Citrea posted that after a comprehensive review, ctUSD, USDC, USDT, WBTC, and CTR cross-chain services have been restored, and some Solver-based routing is still being gradually restored.Previously, a security incident occurred with the third-party application Zentra Finance, and the team has confirmed the root cause and suspended the relevant contracts. Citrea stated that its protocol and cross-chain bridge contracts were not affected and will disclose the impact of the incident on ecological projects such as ctUSD Earn Vault and depositors separately.

According to the Central Daily News citing data from the National Tax Service, there were a total of 423 cases of inheritance and gifting of virtual assets in South Korea in 2025, amounting to 45.862 billion Korean won, which represents an increase of 2.4 times and 3.4 times year-on-year, respectively.Among these, there were 103 cases of gifting virtual assets to minors under 18 years old, totaling 4.034 billion Korean won, which is approximately 2.7 times the amount of 1.47 billion Korean won in 2024.South Korea plans to further strengthen tax regulation on virtual assets starting in 2027, incorporating VASPs such as Upbit and Bithumb into the unified inquiry scope for financial assets related to inheritance and gifting.

According to a notice from the U.S. Department of Justice, the Department's Fraud Center Strike Force, in coordination with the Department of the Treasury, took coordinated law enforcement action against Xinbi Guarantee, seizing and restricting the disposal of over 52 million dollars in cryptocurrency in a single day, bringing the total assets restricted by the task force to approximately 938 million dollars. Tether provided proactive assistance in this investigation.The Department of Justice alleges that Xinbi is an illegal scam service market primarily operating through Telegram, providing customized investment scam websites, money laundering services, and recruiting victims of human trafficking to work in scam parks in Southeast Asia. Law enforcement has seized its Telegram channel and two cryptocurrency wallets holding approximately 12 million dollars, and restricted the disposal of an additional 47 related wallets.At the same time, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Xinbi as a significant transnational criminal organization and sanctioned two additional entities that support it. The task force also assisted Madagascar in shutting down 13 scam parks operated by Chinese criminal groups, processing over 3,200 electronic devices, and local authorities arrested nearly 400 people.

According to Bitcoin News monitoring, the white hat hacker group behind the Liquid vulnerability exploitation incident accused Blockstream of spending only $1.5 million, or possibly not spending any funds at all, to secure assets worth $5 billion.In a new on-chain message, the group demanded that Blockstream pay a bug bounty equivalent to 10% of the related assets using its own funds, warning that refusal to pay would result in a 15% loss for holders.The group also stated that it would publish the private key used to decrypt previous conversations with Blockstream. Previously, the group had returned 3,400 BTC to the Liquid Federation, with approximately 600 BTC still not returned.

According to Decrypt, the UK's National Economic Crime Centre (NECC) warned in its annual report released this week that criminals are "innovatively using cryptocurrency products to evade detection and transfer illegal value on a large scale."The agency is part of the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) and is responsible for coordinating the UK's response to economic crime. The threat assessment in the report indicates that cross-border money laundering networks are spreading, combining new and traditional methods while transferring funds through both legitimate and illegitimate channels; many organized crime groups no longer launder money themselves but outsource it to specialized networks for a fee. The report also mentions artificial intelligence alongside cryptocurrency, noting that criminals are using synthetic identities and process automation to attack banks.The report shows that cryptocurrency ranks third among the nine economic crime priorities identified by the UK's National Economic Crime Centre, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the Home Office, and the Treasury in July 2025, above cash crime and money mules. The agency states that it is developing "more proactive, intelligence-led cryptocurrency capabilities." Additionally, its joint operation "Atlantic Action" with the U.S. Secret Service, Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, and Tether has identified 20,000 approved phishing victims and frozen $12 million in funds; the "Stable Action" targeting Russian networks converting street cash into cryptocurrency has arrested 129 individuals and seized over £25 million in the UK.The report also mentions a report on privacy-enhancing technologies in the cryptocurrency industry released by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).

According to the official announcement from Gate, Gate is exploring strategic cooperation with the clearing and custody company RQD* Clearing. Both parties plan to advance discussions on cooperation in areas such as digital assets, clearing and market infrastructure, regulatory compliance, and asset tokenization, leveraging their respective capabilities in digital asset services and financial market infrastructure to find new business synergy opportunities.Gate's founder and CEO Dr. Han stated that as digital assets increasingly integrate with traditional financial markets, Gate is focused on building the infrastructure that supports this process and looks forward to exploring cooperation opportunities with RQD* Clearing in the areas of clearing, infrastructure, compliance, and asset tokenization.RQD* Clearing provides the necessary clearing, custody, and technical infrastructure for broker-dealers, registered investment advisors, overseas financial institutions, and proprietary trading firms to access the market, and relies on its self-developed technology to offer clients real-time business data and flexible platform support.This exploration of cooperation is expected to further connect Gate's global digital asset ecosystem with RQD* Clearing's infrastructure capabilities in the market, opening up more space for the integration of digital assets and traditional financial systems at the asset, transaction, and technical levels.

According to the official announcement, Gate has officially launched stock event contracts. The first phase includes four underlying assets: MU, SNDK, SK Hynix, and Yushu Technology, and opens a short-term bullish/bearish trading market with 5-minute and 15-minute cycles, without the need for leverage or margin. The cycle ends with automatic settlement, and early closing is also available. The trading times for each underlying asset align with the trading hours of US stocks, Korean stocks, and A-shares.This product supports trading on the web, and Gate App users need to update to version v8.36.0 or above. Users can enter Contracts - Event Contracts, select the stock category to view and trade related underlying assets. During the launch period, a special event with 60,000 USDT is also opened, including new user experience vouchers, first order rewards, as well as a 20,000 USDT check-in prize pool and a 20,000 USDT trading volume prize pool. Gate's event contracts cover both cryptocurrency assets and mainstream stocks.

Osmosis posted on platform X that due to a security incident with the Nomic nBTC cross-chain bridge, Osmosis has suspended the minting and redemption of BTC Alloyed assets, and deposits and withdrawals have been simultaneously suspended.The BTC on Osmosis is backed by 30% nBTC. The team will soon release a complete post-mortem analysis and recovery plan. BTC in the pool is still tradable, and users are reminded to be aware of the risks.