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According to ChainCatcher, Machi Big Brother's $100 million ETH long position turned profitable today with unrealized gains of approximately $510,000, according to Hyperbot data. His overall portfolio is now worth over $118 million, including a $9.9 million 10x leveraged HYPE long, a $4.336 million 40x leveraged Bitcoin long, and a $4.197 million 10x leveraged PUMP long.

U.S. President Donald Trump announced plans to fill the nation's strategic petroleum reserves with Venezuelan oil, with the process to begin soon. Trump stated that the supplementation process will move forward quickly.

According to The Information, on August 30, SpaceX is establishing a foundry in Bastrop, Texas, to manufacture blades and vanes for large gas turbines—core components with the highest technical barriers in the global supply chain. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk confirmed the plan, stating that in-house blade and vane casting can accelerate gas turbine deployment by up to 18 months, calling it "a profound game-changer." Global gas turbine orders surged 71% year-over-year in Q2 2026, hitting a record high,

According to Cointelegraph, Real Trump Coins denied launching or authorizing the Solana-based Trump Digital GOLD token on Saturday (Aug. 29), blaming the promotion on third-party bad actors. The Real Trump Coins X account had promoted the token and directed users to RealTrumpCoins.com before the posts were deleted. The company stated it did not authorize any digital token and was working with authorities to investigate. According to blockchain analytics platform Lookonchain, the GOLD token had h

According to DS Securities, Samsung Electronics' planned share buyback program, part of a broader 90-110 trillion won shareholder return plan announced today, faces constraints from South Korea's Financial Holding Company Act (FHCA) 10% ownership rule. As of end-June, Samsung Life Insurance (8.51%) and Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance (1.49%) combined held exactly 10% of Samsung Electronics' common shares. When Samsung Electronics reduces outstanding shares through buybacks, the insurers' ownersh

According to Bloomberg, Isabel Schnabel stated on August 28 that the European Central Bank must bring its reserves onto blockchain infrastructure, arguing that stablecoins lack the capacity to expand liquidity rapidly during financial stress. Schnabel said tokenization can make transactions faster, safer, and more programmable, but only if central bank money operates on the same rails as tokenized assets. Project Pontes is set to launch in September 2026, synchronizing the ECB's TARGET payment s

Since early 2025, the Trump administration has executed roughly 30 equity transactions totaling approximately $27 billion, converting federal grants into direct ownership stakes in private companies. The government now holds a 10% stake in Intel and 15% in MP Materials, both tied to CHIPS Act funding. Public opposition is mounting. A July 2026 CNBC poll found 49% of voters view government ownership stakes in US companies as inappropriate, while only 19% support such arrangements. Among economist

Grayscale's Zcash Trust converted to the first Zcash (ZEC) spot ETF on August 25, beginning trading on NYSE Arca. Separately, Bitwise's Solana staking ETF recorded approximately $45 million in inflows during its first two trading days of the week, with assets under management approaching $1 billion and the fund posting its highest-volume trading day in its history.

According to a recent Reuters Econ World podcast appearance, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced plans in late August to double the size of regular bond buyback operations from $2 billion to at least $4 billion per operation, with the expanded program set to begin on September 9. The 30-year Treasury yield has climbed to approximately 5.3%, its highest level in 19 years, while the 10-year note reached roughly 4.73%. The so-called "Treasury twist" strategy involves issuing more short-

According to HTX market data, BNB broke the $700 level, trading at $700.45 with a 24-hour gain of 1.58%.

According to Gartner, the global memory market revenue was revised upward to $83.73 billion for 2026, reaching 54% of the $1.56 trillion semiconductor market in its August update. This represents a significant increase from its April forecast of $63.33 billion, or 48% of the $1.32 trillion semiconductor market. Meanwhile, smartphone memory costs surged 340% year-over-year, with a 12GB RAM and 256GB NAND combination reaching approximately $310 in Q3 2026, up from $70 in 2025. This price now excee

According to Odaily and data from GMGN, Robinhood ecosystem token PROLOGUE surged over 57 times in 24 hours, with market cap now at $11.7 million. PROLOGUE is positioned as a pre-token generation event certificate for Fables, a real-world asset (RWA) protocol on Robinhood Chain, allowing holders to exchange it for FABLES tokens at predetermined ratios.

According to Odaily Daily, Unit HIP-4 will launch at 11:45 UTC on September 5, 2026. Deployers of HIP-3 must stake an additional 500,000 HYPE tokens to activate HIP-4, monitored by HyperliquidNews. Staked tokens require a 5-day-20-hour unlock period before becoming available in spot accounts.

Google announced on Saturday that it has adjusted how its Maps service displays the name of the lake between Ontario and New York following President Trump's executive order to rename it as American Lake. U.S. users will see "American Lake" on the map, while Canadian users will continue to see "Ontario Lake." In regions outside the U.S. and Canada, both names will appear, with "American Lake" shown in parentheses.

According to PR Newswire, Bullish, the NYSE-listed institutional crypto platform, announced this week that it extended a $100 million debt facility to USD.AI for GPU-backed artificial intelligence loans. The funds will support lending to businesses building AI and related infrastructure, with highly valuable computer chips (GPUs) serving as collateral. Bullish's shares gained 44% over the past month as the tokenized AI credit market expands, with the company planning to list the sUSDai stablecoi

According to IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva, speaking at the Jackson Hole annual conference on August 30, stablecoins and tokenization could improve global financial liquidity, making large cross-border payments cheaper and faster. However, stablecoins also risk accelerating currency substitution, increasing capital flow volatility, and weakening capital controls and monetary sovereignty in emerging markets. Dollar-denominated stablecoins could further expand the dollar's global netw

According to China's embassy in Cyprus and Jin10 data, on August 30 afternoon, a ferry with approximately 270 passengers capsized in waters off northern Cyprus, near Kyrenia port. The embassy confirmed that no Chinese citizens were found to be aboard the vessel. The ferry was heading to Tarsus port in Turkey when the incident occurred.

According to IRNA, Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian will visit Kyrgyzstan on Monday (September 1).

According to Nick Timiraos, a prominent Federal Reserve correspondent, the Fed's default policy stance has shifted following Chairman Powell's recent Jackson Hole speech. Previously, the central bank's baseline was to hold steady unless data clearly supported a rate hike. Now, the logic has reversed: policymakers must have clear data justification to avoid taking action at the next meeting. Former Fed officials characterized the shift as Powell "rewriting the playbook."

According to Chainalysis, in June 2026, an attacker drained Jaredfromsubway.eth's MEV sandwich bot of $7.5 million by deploying 66 fake token contracts on Ethereum. The attacker exploited the bot's automated trading logic to obtain token-spending approvals, then swept the bot's real holdings in coordinated transactions before laundering proceeds through Tornado Cash. The bot has extracted over 117,007 ETH (approximately $295 million) from sandwich attacks since March 2023, making it Ethereum's m