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A report released by the blockchain intelligence company TRM Labs shows that most of the transaction volume on the x402 payment protocol launched by Coinbase does not come from AI agents. The report analyzed 198.9 million settlements processed by known x402 facilitators on Base, Solana, and Polygon since May 2025, involving an amount of approximately $52.7 million.After excluding self-payments and other anomalous fund flows, about $25.62 million was identified as potential commercial transactions, of which only 0.6% to 7.5% by amount came from AI agents. TRM pointed out that ordinary scripts, scheduled tasks, and self-trading can also generate the same on-chain records, so the total transaction volume of the protocol is insufficient to measure agent commerce; their model identifies addresses that repeatedly pay for the same service as scripts, which may underestimate the actual scale of single-use agents. During the reporting period, USDC accounted for 99.6% of the settlement value, approximately $52.47 million.Meanwhile, Binance's Agent OS launched in August has integrated the x402 payment layer, Coinbase's Base supports agents and payment startups through a $1 million accelerator, and Amazon also launched AgentCore Payments in May in collaboration with Coinbase and Stripe. TRM recommends improving the on-chain agent registration mechanism, establishing a verifiable counterparty reputation system for agents, and building a monitoring framework suitable for small, high-frequency payments, stating that "agent commerce requires agent compliance."

The cross-chain liquidity protocol Symbiosis announced that it has encountered a security incident. Around September 11, 2026, at 04:28 UTC, attackers exploited a vulnerability in the Bitcoin bridge to carry out the attack. The BTC route has been suspended, while other routes are still operating normally.The official statement indicated that only the Bitcoin bridge was affected and has been isolated from other systems. The remaining routes, including EVM chains, TRON, TON, and components like Octopools, were not impacted. The team has recovered approximately 15 BTC, which is stored in a multi-signature wallet controlled by the team. The official has offered a white hat bounty to the attackers, amounting to 20% of the funds, valid until September 13, 2026; thereafter, an equivalent proportion will be offered to informants who can assist in recovering the funds.The final loss assessment is still ongoing, and confirmation data will be released later. The official is contacting affected liquidity providers one by one and developing a compensation framework. The relay group is still operational and ensuring network security.

According to official news, the on-chain risk protection platform OpenCover has announced the expansion of institutional-level risk protection to the Solana network. Eligible related positions can now obtain risk protection, with the first batch covering Kamino, Raydium, Orca, and Jupiter. The specific coverage scope, limits, and terms vary by protocol and position. OpenCover primarily provides on-chain risk protection for DeFi users and connects users with underwriters such as Nexus Mutual.After this expansion, Solana ecosystem users can also purchase related protection against risks such as smart contract vulnerabilities, oracle failures or manipulations, liquidation failures, and governance attacks. According to a previous announcement from Nexus Mutual, it has currently launched four protection projects on Solana: Kamino, Raydium, Orca, and Jupiter, covering nearly 90% of the funds in the Solana lending market. Among them, Kamino and Jupiter have over $1 billion and $925 million in lending deposits, respectively.OpenCover stated that this launch marks the starting point for its further expansion of risk transfer infrastructure on Solana. In the future, it will collaborate with protocols, asset management institutions, and liquidity providers to expand the range of positions eligible for protection.

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.

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 The Block, Aave has officially launched its official MCP server, allowing AI agents to access real-time protocol data from Aave V3 and V4 and prepare transactions.The server supports integration with MCP-compatible tools such as ChatGPT and Claude, enabling users to have control over transaction signature permissions.

According to official news, South Korea's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb will launch Cluster Protocol (CP).

UPBIT will launch Cluster Protocol (CP) trading on September 8 at 14:30, supporting KRW, BTC, and USDT markets. Users should note that CP only supports deposits and withdrawals on the Base network.

In the past 24 hours, Fomo has surpassed Pump.fun to become the highest-earning protocol on the Solana chain.

Router Protocol, a cross-chain infrastructure project supported by Coinbase Ventures, announced that it will cease all operations by September 30 and plans to permanently destroy 303,333,198 ROUTE tokens held in its treasury, accounting for about 30% of the total supply of nearly 1 billion tokens. The team released a statement on X, stating that over the past year, they attempted commercialization, licensing, and acquisition negotiations, but failed to achieve sustainable operational results.Router identified the flow of funds from the cryptocurrency sector to artificial intelligence and the decline in cross-chain asset transfer fees as core challenges facing its operations. As activities concentrated on fewer networks and standardized infrastructure, the demand for its services has decreased. The team noted that bridging economic profits are thin, fees have been compressed, and costs have never stopped. As part of the closure, Router will negotiate with centralized exchanges to stop supporting ROUTE tokens, and the delisting arrangements and withdrawal processes may vary across exchanges.Router raised $4.1 million from investors including Coinbase Ventures and Polygon in 2021 and launched the proof-of-stake Layer 1 blockchain Router Chain in July 2024, but it was shut down in September 2025 due to infrastructure costs, validator expansion, and security risks. The team also disclosed two security incidents in 2025: in February, approximately 80% of the value was recovered through negotiations after a vulnerability incident, while losses from a chain-level vulnerability in July could not be recovered.

According to DUNE data, yesterday the official Uniswap burn mechanism destroyed a total of 178,000 UNI, worth over 1.11 million dollars. Among them, Robinhood Chain contributed a daily destruction amount of up to 144,000 UNI, accounting for over 80%, far exceeding other chains such as Ethereum and Base, fully highlighting the current popularity of the Robinhood Chain ecosystem.Previously reported, on July 15, Uniswap initiated a governance proposal to extend the protocol fee collection and UNI burn mechanism to Robinhood Chain, covering versions v2, v3, and v4. According to the proposal, the protocol fees generated on Robinhood Chain will be deposited into the TokenJar contract on that chain, and Searchers can redeem the fees by bridging UNI back to the Ethereum mainnet and sending it to the burn address.

The cross-chain protocol Router Protocol announced that after more than four years of development, it has decided to gradually cease operations and will fully shut down before September 30, 2026. The team stated that over the past two years, Web3 liquidity has remained scarce, the market focus has shifted to AI, the enthusiasm for cross-chain interoperability has waned, and the revenue from bridging services has been insufficient to cover costs. Although various paths such as commercialization, licensing, and acquisitions were attempted in the past year, no sustainable solution was achieved. Router Protocol will permanently destroy 303,333,198 ROUTE tokens pending in the treasury and will coordinate with centralized exchanges to delist ROUTE. Holders need to withdraw their tokens according to the arrangements of each exchange before the deadline. In addition, the project will not launch any new plans related to ROUTE and plans to open-source some technical components for community use.

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 DefiLlama data, the Robinhood chain token issuance platform Pons has reached a protocol fee of 6.33 million USD in the last 24 hours, setting a new record and becoming the largest token issuance platform by protocol fees, surpassing Pump.fun. Among all protocols, Pons ranks fourth in fees over the last 24 hours, following Tether, Uniswap, and Circle. Pons' protocol revenue ranks 8th across the network.On September 2, the Pons platform issued nearly 25,000 new tokens, an increase of nearly 19% compared to Tuesday, with a 24-hour trading volume of 544 million USD. Data shows that since July, the platform has issued approximately 646,000 tokens from over 167,000 different creator addresses.

According to SolanaFloor, the supply of tokenized equity on the Solana chain has reached a historic high, with the scale of tokenized equity deposited in lending protocols also hitting a new high of $60 million. $NVDAx and $SPYx rank at the top by the number of holders.

According to the official announcement, Gate will launch Cluster Protocol (CP) spot trading on September 2 at 23:00 (UTC+8), and CP perpetual contract real trading (USDT settlement) will be available at 23:10 (UTC+8), supporting 1-20 times leverage. Gate will launch CP on the flash exchange platform on September 3 at 00:00 (UTC+8).Gate Launchpool will open the 374th event from September 7 at 20:00 to September 21 at 20:00 (UTC+8). Users who stake BTC, ETH, or CP can share 5,000,000 CP tokens, with rewards automatically distributed to spot accounts every hour, 100% unlocked. The BTC pool provides 2,000,000 CP, the ETH pool provides 2,000,000 CP, and the CP pool provides 1,000,000 CP. Users can complete staking in advance.

According to CoinDesk, the DeFi protection protocol Firelight Protocol announced the completion of $8 million in financing, led by Gumi Cryptos Capital, with participation from Maven 11, Metalayer, Joint Effects, and Tribe Capital.Firelight is incubated by the DeFi infrastructure provider Sentora (managing assets totaling $2.4 billion) and plans to officially launch in September this year.

The Cronos network has resumed and restarted block production after pausing operations to protect users from the vulnerabilities of the Tectonic protocol. A complete post-incident analysis report will be released soon.

OKX will launch CP/USDT (Cluster Protocol) spot trading on September 2 at 22:30. Users can start depositing CP on September 1 at 13:00, and withdrawals will open on September 3 at 00:30.