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FX Fighter Kurumi 10/1 Premiere, Main Trailer Released
Well-known "Investment Cautionary Manga" (FX Fighter Kurumi) anime adaptation announces it will premiere on October 1, and it will also be released on streaming platforms. As of now, the Taiwan distributor and broadcast platform are undecided.
(FX Fighter Kurumi) The main trailer, which includes a large amount of newly revealed footage, is released simultaneously. The OP "FX Fighter Kurumi," performed by the female lead Kurumi Fukuga (CV: Aina Suzuki), is also being unveiled for the first time. Both the OP and the ED "$・¥・€" will be gradually uploaded to major music streaming platforms starting at 0:00 a.m. on October 2.

Japan’s Financial Services Agency has proposed tax reform requirements, under which trust-type stablecoins are intended to be exempted from per-transaction reporting.
Japan continues to adjust its regulatory framework for stablecoins. On August 31, the Financial Services Agency (FSA) announced the tax reform requirements for fiscal year 2027, including a new tax-relief proposal for trust-type stablecoins. The proposal aims to waive the tax filing obligations for tax documents such as the “Trust Beneficiary Specific Report” that the trustee would otherwise be required to file due to beneficiary changes during the circulation of stablecoins.
Under the current Japanese Inheritance Tax Act, when there is a change in beneficiaries of a trust, the trustee generally needs to submit relevant statutory reports to the tax authorities, stating information such as the beneficiary’s name and the trust property.

While the overall PC market has seen demand soften due to rising component prices and expectations for the second half of the year are generally pessimistic, the RTX Spark AI PC series co-developed by NVIDIA and MediaTek (2454) has still sparked a rush even during the preorder stage. The first batch of units from ASUS (2357) and MSI (2377), the initial launch partners, has already been fully reserved. Both companies quickly requested additional allocation from NVIDIA, injecting a much-needed boost into the sluggish PC market.
What is RTX Spark? A superchip that NVIDIA designed specifically for “AI PCs.”
NVIDIA positions the RTX Spark as the most powerful AI Agent PC core processor currently available in the market. Built using TSMC’s 3-nanometer process, this superchip combines an NVIDIA Blackwell RTX GPU with a high-performance 20-core Grace CPU. The overall architecture is based on the WOA (Windows on Arm) platform.

ECB executive urges central bank funds to be put on-chain; monetary policy to be introduced via smart contracts
European Central Bank (ECB) Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel recently proposed the idea of “central banks on-chain” at the Jackson Hole Global Central Bank meeting in the United States. She believes central banks should move central bank money into blockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) environments to address the development of tokenized financial assets, while also innovating the way monetary policy is implemented, collateral is managed, and liquidity is provided.
Schnabel noted that tokenization has become one of the most promising use cases for DLT in wholesale financial markets. It can enable financial assets and money to exist directly in digital-token form on programmable platforms. However, tokenized finance still lacks sufficiently safe settlement assets, which limits further market development.

The public blockchain Cronos, supported by the cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com, completely halted blockchain operations on Sunday. The main reason was that Tectonic, the largest lending protocol in its ecosystem, suffered a hacker attack. Estimated losses are about US$75 million. To prevent funds from continuing to leak out, the official had to take extreme measures to stop the bleeding.
Cronos is a blockchain launched by Crypto.com in 2021, mainly used to process on-chain transactions for its own products in order to significantly reduce transaction fee costs. Currently, only a handful of lending and trading applications (DApps) are running on the Cronos chain, and the Tectonic that was attacked in this incident is the largest one by funding size.

Recently, global supply for Apple’s Mac mini or Mac Studio has been tight, with high-spec models running short for as long as several months. Now the culprit has been exposed. According to The Information, OpenAI has purchased tens of thousands of Mac mini and Mac Studio units to train reinforcement learning models and to power AI agents that perform computer operations. Meanwhile, Anthropic has rented Mac computing power through Amazon AWS to carry out similar tasks. This demand surge is shaking Apple’s supply chain and has prompted NVIDIA—long a dominant player in the AI training hardware market—to start raising concerns.
Why did the AI company choose Mac? The key is the memory architecture, not brand preference

Telegram opens testing to the first batch of users; Gram Wallet will be gradually rolled out to over one billion users
Communication software giant Telegram officially launches plans for a native encrypted wallet. On August 31, Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced that the non-custodial wallet “Gram Wallet” built into Telegram is ready. It is currently being opened first to certain users, and over the coming weeks will gradually expand to more than one billion users on the platform.
Image source: Telegram Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced on August 31 that the non-custodial wallet “Gram Wallet” built into Telegram is ready.

Cryptocurrency projects using U.S. President Donald Trump’s name have now become an investor “meat grinder.” According to an investigative report by the U.S. nonprofit watchdog Public Citizen, investors in Trump-related crypto projects are currently facing losses of at least $4.7 billion, while Trump himself, through his activities in the crypto space, easily took in more than $1.4 billion in 2025.
The Public Citizen report states that the vast majority of the $4.7 billion is made up of “unrealized losses” (i.e., paper losses—assets have plunged in value but have not yet been sold to realize the loss). However, it also includes “realized losses” (actual losses) tracked via on-chain transaction data.

NVIDIA invests $3.5 billion in MediaTek; TSMC (2454) opened limit-up this morning and immediately locked.
NVIDIA (NVIDIA) and MediaTek (2454) stunned the market with a joint announcement last night (8/31). They said they will invest $3.5 billion in MediaTek’s issuance of overseas convertible bonds, and they jointly announced plans to deepen their long-term partnership. This morning, MediaTek’s stock opened at the limit-up price of NT$4,315 and was immediately locked.
This is the largest overseas convertible bond issuance case in Taiwan’s capital market history. NVIDIA’s subscription accounts for roughly 90% of the total issuance amount, making it NVIDIA’s first investment in a Taiwanese company.

According to a press release, the two sides will work together to build an AI computing platform from the edge to the cloud. The scope of collaboration covers three major areas: AI infrastructure, edge AI computing, and automotive products.

In 2011, he invested 1,500 pounds and 61 bitcoins once disappeared for more than a decade
According to reports by foreign media (LBC), a bitcoin ($BTC) that was believed to be long unrecoverable was returned to its original holder after nearly 15 years. A UK man named Chris bought 61 bitcoins through an early local bitcoin exchange, Britcoin, in 2011. The platform later changed its name to Intersango and shut down, leaving him unable to withdraw his assets for a long time. It wasn’t until 2026, when he instructed lawyers and an asset-tracing team to intervene, that he managed to recover all the bitcoins.
Chris was influenced at the time by a friend who was interested in the stock market, who believed bitcoin might have development potential, so he put in about 1,500 pounds to buy coins. At that time, the price of bitcoin was still only in single digits in pounds, and the purchase price for each bitcoin was about 2.94 pounds. However, Intersango began experiencing operational problems starting at the end of 2012, and by early 2014 the website was no longer functioning properly. When Chris tried to withdraw, the value of the bitcoins in his account had increased to about 4,000 pounds, but the platform did not respond to his withdrawal request.

Osaka Prefecture allocates nearly 29 million yen, with three projects focusing on stablecoin payments
Japanese local governments are accelerating efforts to bring stablecoins into real-world consumer spending scenarios. On August 26, Osaka Prefecture announced the screening results for the fiscal year 2026 “Subsidy Program for Supporting the Formation of Pioneering Financial Markets, etc.” From 12 applications, it selected four projects, with the total approved subsidy amount reaching 28.89 million yen. Among them, three projects directly involve payment applications using the yen-backed stablecoin $JPYC or the US-dollar stablecoin $USDC.
Osaka Prefecture has launched this subsidy program, aiming to use innovative technologies such as blockchain and AI to help new financial services take root within Osaka, while also improving business operating efficiency and residents’ convenience—further strengthening Osaka’s competitiveness as an international financial city. Under the subsidy rules, each project can receive up to 10 million yen, and the subsidy rate can be as high as one-half of eligible expenditures. Osaka Prefecture opened applications from July 1 to July 31. After evaluation by a screening committee composed of external experts, it ultimately selected four projects.

On August 28, the official announcement from South Korea’s leading exchange Bithumb listed The Interfold (FOLD) as a trading pair against the Korean won. Driven by this positive news, FOLD briefly touched $0.1, representing an almost 15% increase compared with before the announcement. As of the time of posting, FOLD is trading at $0.092, with a circulating market cap of approximately $30.33 million and a fully diluted valuation (FDV) of about $120 million.
Image source: (Foresight News)
This is the third major exchange where FOLD has listed within 9 days. On August 19, The Interfold completed its TGE, with the token unlocked for transfer. On the same day, the mainnet’s first-stage Network Alpha went live, and FOLD hit a historical low price of $0.03467 on the public market that day. On August 23, Upbit listed FOLD in three markets—Korean won, Bitcoin, and USDT. That day, FOLD surged to a historical high of $0.1754. On August 25, Kraken also listed FOLD/USD.

AI startup Cluely founder Roy Lee recently appeared on the Jack Neel Podcast, outlining the three waves of “mini gold rushes” he believes are happening in the AI industry—yet still haven’t been fully leveraged by everyone: providing core infrastructure for large AI labs, rapidly building and co-marketing AI apps, and offering AI video and advertising services with the lowest barriers to entry.
Of these, the biggest mass-market opportunity Lee favors isn’t training models himself, nor founding an AI company that requires a large team of engineers. Instead, it’s using today’s most advanced generative AI to earn money from people who don’t yet realize how good AI has become.

Circle becomes Chelsea’s principal partner; $USDC featured on the front of the kit
Global’s second-largest USD stablecoin, $USDC, has officially been featured on the kit of a Premier League powerhouse. On August 28, Chelsea FC announced a partnership with Circle Internet Group, the stablecoin issuer. Circle will become the club’s main partner (Principal Partner) and the official front-of-shirt sponsor, with the partnership taking effect from the 2026/27 season.
According to the partnership details released by both sides, Circle and the $USDC brand will appear on the front of the jerseys of Chelsea’s men’s team, women’s team, and youth academy. In the Premier League match on August 30, when the men’s first team hosts Brighton, they will debut new jerseys featuring the $USDC brand for the first time.

SWIFT, which controls the global lifeblood of money flows, is moving blockchain onto its astonishingly large network for real-world testing. According to a report by CoinDesk on August 29, this cross-border messaging network, which carries about $1.5 quadrillion in traffic every year, is using a blockchain shared ledger to test whether tokenized payments—available 24/7—can be connected to this existing massive infrastructure.
Shared ledger built on Linea: 17 major banks piloting tokenized deposits
This blockchain shared ledger built by SWIFT runs on Linea, an Ethereum Layer 2 network developed by ConsenSys. Its goal is to enable banks to move customer funds at night and on weekends as well, enabling round-the-clock cross-border payments. The first pilot brings together 17 large banks across six continents, including ANZ, BNP Paribas, BNY Mellon, Citigroup, DBS, HSBC, Standard Chartered, UBS, Mitsubishi UFJ, Wells Fargo, and more. In addition, final settlement still takes place via existing payment rails; the blockchain ledger initially serves as a “messaging and coordination” layer. This aligns with a series of recent tokenization-focused cross-border payment initiatives in traditional finance (such as JPMorgan Chase’s Kinexys).

Spotting a rebound in the crypto market and the return of institutional capital, BitGo, a cryptocurrency infrastructure company, announced that it has agreed to acquire NYDIG’s institutional trading business and related assets, continuing to expand its business footprint and getting ready in advance for the next bull market.
Through this acquisition, BitGo will extend its business reach from existing cryptocurrency asset custody, settlement, and wallet infrastructure to derivatives, structured products, financing services, and other capital market services. (CNBC) Citing people familiar with the matter, it was revealed that after the transaction closes, approximately 30 NYDIG employees and 250 institutional customers will be integrated into BitGo. The specific deal terms and amounts have not been disclosed publicly yet.

Sony and Warner Music team up to sue Anthropic
On August 29, U.S. time, Sony and Warner Music, along with several well-known music distributors, officially filed a copyright lawsuit with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. They accuse the AI giant Anthropic and its co-founders Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann of large-scale illegal piracy, scraping, and downloading of copyright-protected works for commercial purposes.
Sony and Warner Music’s units have clearly accused in their complaint that Anthropic, without authorization, used tens of thousands of copyright-protected music works to train its AI models. The scope and scale of its alleged infringement are far broader than those in previous lawsuits.

A White House staffer who had access to the president's speech scripts turned "knowing in advance what Trump would say" into a betting advantage on a prediction market—now he has paid the price. According to a report by The Block on August 29, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) ruled that former White House teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez must pay about $172,539 to settle an investigation into how he used his position for insider trading on the prediction platform Kalshi.
Use Trump speech-script content to bet on Kalshi's "mention market" keyword contracts
Per the ruling, from December 2025 to February 2026, Perez—taking advantage of the opportunity to preview the president's speech ahead of time while operating the teleprompter at the White House—traded the presidential "mention market" contract on Kalshi, meaning he bet on whether certain specific words or phrases would appear in Trump's speeches. Perez has been a teleprompter operator for Trump since 2016 and serves concurrently as a presidential technical aide; he has now been suspended and is no longer employed by the federal government.

Global payments giant Visa continues to expand its footprint in Asia’s cryptocurrency business. After recently announcing a partnership with Shinhan Financial Group to set up a stablecoin and artificial intelligence (AI) payment platform, Visa has now teamed up with Dunamu, the operator of Korea’s largest crypto exchange Upbit, to jointly develop this service.
According to a report by The Korea Herald, Upbit operator Dunamu will partner with Visa to use stablecoins and AI to develop financial payment services. Earlier, Visa had reached a similar cooperation agreement with Shinhan Financial Group, and the two sides will jointly build settlement infrastructure. These partnerships undoubtedly give Visa a decisive lead in the race to establish stablecoin payment infrastructure in South Korea.

Bitcoin’s challenge to $81,000 fails; it slips back below $78,000 again over the weekend
Bitcoin ($BTC) bulls ran into resistance at the $81,000 level. After U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh issued hawkish signals at the Jackson Hole global central bank conference, and U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs ended a streak of nine consecutive trading days of net inflows, Bitcoin fell back below $78,000 over the weekend. The market then began to show short-term profit-taking pressure.
On August 28, Bitcoin briefly surged to about $81,455, setting a recent swing high, but the price then quickly pulled back, with a day’s low touching around $76,877. Wosch emphasized that inflation has not yet returned to the Federal Reserve’s 2% target at a sufficient pace. As a result, market expectations for a September rate hike rose, weighing on the performance of risk assets.