Gate Crypto Flash News and Market Updates

According to PANews, Polyswarm (NCT) token surged approximately 450% on Aug 26 following the launch of Upbit's KRW market at 20:00 Beijing time. The token traded near $0.026, with a market cap of approximately $50 million and 24-hour trading volume close to $100 million.

According to Korea Exchange, as of August 25, 2026, retail investors' share of KOSDAQ trading volume fell to 65.6%, down from 79.31% in 2024 and 73.8% in 2025. Foreign investors' share rose to 24.3% from 14.92%, while institutional investors' participation climbed to 8.8% from 4.61% over the same period. The shift reflects growing inflows through KOSDAQ-tracking ETFs, whose assets under management surged 3.8-fold to 14.2 trillion Korean won as of August 16, 2026, versus 3.8 trillion won at end-2

Gate News message, non-sports prediction market volume across Kalshi and Polymarket increased by 144% in August. According to the data, most of the growth came from Kalshi, which continues to dominate non-sports activity in the prediction market sector.

According to MoneyDJ, Hong Kong stock indices rose today (August 26), with the Hang Seng Index closing at 25,652.97 points, up 141.87 points or 0.56%, turning positive on the daily chart; the Hang Seng Tech Index closed at 4,626.15 points, up 37.61 points or 0.82%. Tech stocks led market gains, with Xiaomi and Alibaba each rising over 2%, while color metals stocks also performed strongly, providing broad support to the overall market as external risk sentiment cooled and U.S. Treasury yields ret

According to U.S. media on August 25, Iran attempted to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's eldest son Yair while he lived in Florida. The report came after Netanyahu claimed Iran had tried to target one of his sons.

According to Jin10, Hunan Gold announced on August 26 that it plans to increase supplementary fundraising from RMB 1 billion to RMB 1.05 billion as part of its asset acquisition and related party transaction. The company's board of directors approved the revised transaction proposal. The stock will resume trading on August 27.

According to Jin10, on August 26, market pricing showed September Federal Reserve rate hike odds rose to 42%, up from approximately 36% before the data release. The increase followed the U.S. government's report that July inflation, a key Fed focus metric, climbed 3.7% year-over-year, slightly above economist expectations. Rate futures data reflected the market's reassessment of Fed action at its September meeting.

According to Yonhapnews, South Korea's Navy conducted sea trials of domestically-developed kamikaze drones on August 25, with both test flights ending in the unmanned aircraft crashing into the sea.

According to Yonhapinfomax, on August 26, Mirae Asset's TIGER AI Semiconductor Core Process ETF holds Samsung Electro-Mechanics (23.96%) as its largest position, followed by LG Innotek (17.03%) and I.S. WIS (16.75%). The ETF head noted that MLCC prices rose approximately 10% in June and surged over 30% further in August, driven by growing AI server demand. Mirae Asset projects semiconductor supply chain companies will benefit from expanded capital expenditures by Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix

According to Bernstein research report seen by Cointelegraph, Bitcoin is expected to reclaim $125,000 by late 2026 under both base and bull case scenarios. The company's base case projects Bitcoin at $150,000 by mid-2027 before reaching a cycle peak of about $300,000 in 2029, while its bull case puts BTC at $200,000 by mid-2027 and $500,000 in 2029. Bernstein maintained a longer-term target of about $1 million by 2033 under both scenarios. The forecast is based on Bitcoin's historical four-year

According to PANews, Alibaba's Qwen launched Qwen3.8-Flash today, an early preview of the Qwen4 architecture. The multimodal mixture-of-experts model features 125 billion parameters and 51 billion N-gram embedding parameters, with per-token activation of only 6 billion parameters, delivering high cost efficiency. The production version will be available via Qwen Cloud API at $0.16 per million input tokens and $0.47 per million output tokens.

According to Business Insider, Oracle told managers to reduce payroll before September 1, citing an internal report, marking a fresh round of cuts following fiscal 2026 when the company eliminated roughly 21,000 positions and spent $55.7 billion on data-center capital expenditure. Oracle's workforce declined from about 162,000 to 141,000 over the fiscal year ended May 31, a 13 percent reduction. The company recorded $1.84 billion in severance and exit costs for fiscal 2026, up from $374 million

According to Beating AI, Alibaba Qwen released Qwen3.8-Flash today, with open-source weights also available under Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, featuring the next-generation Qwen4 architecture. The multimodal MoE model has 125B total parameters with only 6B activated, plus 51B N-gram Embedding for memory optimization. In official benchmarks, Qwen3.8-Flash scored 9.1 points higher than Claude Opus 4.6 on SWE-bench Pro, approximately 20 points higher on JobBench, 22.5 points higher on AndroidWorld, and 25.1

Ukraine's President Zelenskyy stated on August 26 that Ukraine is in contact with the U.S. to discuss paths to achieving peace.

According to PANews, U.S. 10-year Treasury yields rose slightly on August 26 following economic data releases, with the benchmark yield now holding steady at 4.635%.

According to Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesman Ansari, on August 25, the U.S. sanctions on Iran constitute unilateral measures rather than United Nations or multilateral sanctions. Ansari stated that criticism should be directed toward those who decided to impose the sanctions.

On Wednesday, Revolut began rolling out EURR, a euro-pegged stablecoin pegged to €1, to selected customers in Denmark, Poland and Portugal. The token is integrated into Revolut's app, enabling customers to move between euros and crypto on-chain. It will operate across multiple blockchains and support external wallets. EURR is issued by Bridge Building S.A., a Luxembourg entity licensed as a crypto asset service provider and electronic money institution, with reserves held and managed by Bridge (

According to ChainCatcher, the U.S. PCE price index for July came in at 3.7% year-on-year, higher than the expected 3.6% and unchanged from the previous month.

The U.S. second-quarter GDP price index (GDP deflator) was revised upward to 6.4% on an annualized quarterly basis, exceeding the forecast of 6.2% and the initial reading of 6.2%.