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According to Herald Economy, starting today (August 31), individual investors in overseas-listed single-name leveraged exchange-traded products (ETPs) will receive a risk alert when losses reach -20% based on the previous day's closing price. The mechanism was first introduced for domestically-listed products on August 3 and is now being extended to overseas-listed products.

According to PANews, USDC Treasury minted 250 million USDC on the Solana network today (Aug 31) at 09:45 Beijing time, according to on-chain data.

According to Yonhapinfomax, on August 31, NextTrade, South Korea's alternative trading system (ATS), approved membership applications from Goldman Sachs Securities Seoul and CLSA Korea. The approval brings total participating securities firms to 38. Both firms will complete their preparation work, including building smart order routing (SOR) systems, before launching active equity trading. Foreign trading volume on NextTrade has surged, with foreign investors' share rising from 0.4% in March 202

According to Yonhap Infomax, Hanwha Aerospace signed an export contract with Spain's Indra for K9 self-propelled howitzers on August 31. The company did not disclose the contract value to maintain business confidentiality. Payment terms include a 20% advance payment following contract execution and a 5% advance payment by year-end 2026.

According to Newsis on August 31, South Korea's five major exchanges (Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Cobit, Gopax) have listed 1,236 altcoins since 2022 through August, but 430 trading pairs have been delisted, equivalent to 34.8% of new listings. Data provided to lawmaker Park Sung-hoon shows 38 cryptocurrencies were removed within one year of listing, with Bithumb accounting for 16 cases. Gopax had the highest delisting rate at 63.2% (67 of 106 new listings), followed by Coinone at 46.6%. Delisting

According to Rep. Park Sung-hoon of South Korea's National Assembly Committee on State Affairs, major domestic crypto exchanges including Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit, and Gopax have rushed to list new altcoins without conducting proper risk assessments, only to delist them shortly after. The exchanges' negligent listing process has drawn criticism for failing to protect investors. Data submitted by these five exchanges to parliament on August 31 revealed the issue.

According to Fox News, President Trump stated on August 31 that the United States will not allow Iran to possess nuclear weapons, declaring that Iran will not acquire them.

According to Korea Securities Depository, Crowdworks' mandatory 3-year lockup commitment expired on August 31, releasing approximately 1.399 million shares representing about 9% of the company's total issued shares. The release includes shares held by the largest shareholder and venture capital firms. The sale restrictions on these previously restricted shares have now been lifted.

Pump.fun's mobile app reached $50 million in daily trading volume, up from $250,000 when it first launched. Daily transactions have scaled to 905,000 from 2,500 over the same period. The Solana-based platform's 30-day average daily volume stands at approximately $347 million, with lifetime trading volume surpassing $214 billion.

According to Goldman Sachs and official Treasury statements, the US Treasury doubled its buyback program for long-dated bonds to $4 billion on August 19, triggering a significant rally in gold markets. Gold prices surged over 7% within five days following the announcement, pushing spot prices near $4,700 per ounce as investors interpreted the intervention as a signal of persistent sovereign debt concerns. Central bank purchases have reinforced the upward momentum. In the second quarter of 2026 a

According to ChainCatcher's monitoring, the top Monero (XMR) holder's 4x leveraged long position initiated on August 9 has generated over $3.15 million in total profit within 23 days. The position reached a peak holding of 34,000 XMR (approximately $16.72 million). The holder liquidated half of the position yesterday, realizing $1.637 million in gains, and currently maintains 16,000 XMR in a 4x position with unrealized gains exceeding $1.53 million.

According to Ai 姨 monitoring, XMR's top holder earned over $3.15 million in profit within 23 days on a leveraged long bet initiated on August 9. The trader took profits yesterday, realizing $1.637 million on half the position. The holder still maintains a 1.6x leveraged long position with unrealized gains exceeding $1.53 million.

According to Government Resolution No. 05/2025/NQ-CP signed on September 9, 2025, Vietnam launched a structured five-year pilot program for tokenized assets, with operations set to begin as early as Q3 2026. The framework requires all tokenized assets to be backed by real-world assets and issued by Vietnamese entities, with settlements conducted in Vietnamese Dong and foreign investors granted first access. Five exchanges progressing toward approval—VIX Crypto Assets Exchange JSC, Loc Phat Vietn

According to Foresight News, FLOCK broke through 0.037 USDT with a 24-hour gain exceeding 15%, according to Bitget data. The rally follows news that decentralized AI platform FLock.io has partnered with Chainlink to enable cross-chain connectivity across Ethereum, BNB Chain, Hyperliquid HyperEVM, and Robinhood Chain, expanding FLOCK's multi-chain liquidity and ecosystem reach.

According to Foresight News, Gabriel Perez, a former White House teleprompter operator, was fined $172,000 and banned from trading for three years in a settlement with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) over insider trading allegations. Perez was accused of leveraging advance knowledge of President Trump's speech content to place bets on prediction market platform Kalshi, generating profits exceeding $100,000. His trades focused on whether Trump would use specific words or phra

According to TradingBeats, Metaplanet, Japan's largest bitcoin treasury company, transferred 800 bitcoin to Coinbase Prime on August 31.

According to The Verge, on August 31, Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music filed a lawsuit against Anthropic in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging large-scale illegal download, scraping, and distribution of copyrighted works used to train the Claude AI model series. The plaintiffs named co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann as individual defendants and seek damages of up to $150,000 per work, plus an additional $25,000 for each act of removi

According to He Hui, vice president of China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, China's manufacturing new orders and export orders indexes rose in August both year-on-year and month-on-month. He noted that domestic and foreign market demand expanded, with demand indicators performing better than the same period last year, reflecting enhanced policy support and stronger economic momentum.

According to China's National Bureau of Statistics, large-scale manufacturing enterprises' PMI rose to 50.6% in August, up 1.1 percentage points month-over-month and above the 50-point expansion threshold. Mid-sized enterprises' PMI fell to 49.4%, while small enterprises' PMI stood at 47.9%, both remaining below the threshold.

According to BlockBeats, Anthropic's Pre-IPO market ANTH declined on August 31, with the token trading at $1,892.9 and a corresponding market cap of $1.89 trillion, down from a previous high of $2 trillion. The 24-hour trading volume reached $28.26 million, while contract positions increased to $6.75 million.