Coinbase releases AiFi agentic finance framework: Coinbase has launched its agentic finance AIiFi strategy, viewing AI agents as independent economic participants and enabling them to autonomously execute trades, receive payments, transfer funds, and manage capital. Powered by the Base chain + USDC + the x402 payment standard—x402 has already completed 205 million transactions totaling $53 million. It can be integrated with AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT. After users set permission guardrails, the AI automatically performs transactions.

Charles Schwab Wealth Management adds spot SOL, AVAX, and LINK trading: Large traditional brokerage Charles Schwab Wealth Management expands its crypto business by adding spot SOL, AVAX, and LINK trading on top of BTC and ETH. It will be available to eligible retail users, signaling that crypto assets continue to move further into the mainstream brokerage ecosystem.

Hyperliquid calls for perpetual contracts to be included in the CFTC’s core agenda: Hyperliquid’s policy center submitted comments to the CFTC, arguing that perpetual contracts are not only crypto instruments, but can also be used to hedge stocks, commodities, and compute capacity. Perpetual contracts developed by third-party teams on the platform already cover more than 80 traditional underlyings, and total notional trading volume has exceeded $500 billion. They hope regulators will create a compliance implementation pathway for on-chain derivatives and use on-chain public records to reduce settlement and counterparty risks.

Ripple Prime expands into Delta One, moves into stock trading: Ripple’s institutional business adds a Delta One offering, allowing institutions to execute total return swap trades on stocks, indices, and digital assets, bridging traditional capital markets with institutional crypto services.

Solana double-deflation proposal reaches quorum for voting: Solana’s “double deflation” proposal had a 33.84% voter turnout and has already crossed the quorum threshold. If passed, inflation would be cut in half, reducing the SOL issuance by about $1.47 billion SOL over the next six years. The treasury department institution bought another 19,000 SOL, bringing total holdings to 2.33 million SOL.

Ethena completes multiple major ecosystem adjustments: the Ethena Foundation repurchases early seed-stage ENA locked up in the vault, cancels VC monthly unlocks, and removes potential future selling pressure. Team tokens maintain the original vesting schedule. Protocol revenue will be used for programmed ENA buybacks; intellectual property and all related rights are assigned to the Foundation, and governance is held by ENA holders.

Base chain Moonwell suffers an attack, losing over $4 million in cbBTC: the attacker manipulated collateral prices to borrow cbBTC; 50.6 cbBTC were stolen, worth over $4 million.

SATA cumulatively bought 1,084 BTC this week: SATA bought another 429 BTC, with a trading value of $50 million—its highest single-day purchase this week. In total, SATA increased holdings by 1,084 BTC this week.

Strategy’s share price strengthens; BTC holdings show an unrealized gain of $4 billion: Strategy’s stock rose above $135 for the first time in 12 weeks, jumping 10% in a single day. Its Bitcoin holdings moved to an unrealized profit of $4 billion.

Genius Group launches a $1.2 billion capital plan, establishing an AI + Bitcoin dual gold vault: The plan intends to raise funds by issuing perpetual preferred securities, building both an AI vault and a Bitcoin vault, targeting total assets of $2 billion. The AI portion involves top-tier companies such as SpaceX and Anthropic.

CZ shares views on cross-border assets on-chain: At a closed-door event, CZ said many ordinary investors face high barriers when opening cross-border accounts to buy US stocks or China A-shares. In many regions, local exchanges have thin liquidity; putting assets on-chain enables direct trading with a global investor base.

Nvidia posts the second-largest single-day market cap increase in US stock history: Driven by upside-than-expected earnings guidance, Nvidia surged 8.7% in a day, with its market capitalization jumping by $442 billion. The market believes AI demand remains strong, though current performance is still constrained by chip supply.

DeepSeek plans to raise $7.4 billion, valuation challenge at $74 billion: DeepSeek’s latest round targets $7.4 billion in funding, valuing the company at $74 billion. Annual recurring revenue has already reached $500 million. Funds will be used for R&D and compute infrastructure, and this round will open participation to more external investors directly.

Multiple Federal Reserve officials send somewhat hawkish signals: Harker and Collins said inflation still has stickiness; if subsequent data cools less than expected, they support further rate hikes. CME FedWatch shows a 63.5% probability of keeping rates unchanged in September and a 36.5% probability of a 25bp rate hike.

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