According to Odaily, Gate has opened registration for the 2026 VIP Futures Elite Challenge Season 4 from August 27, 15:00 to September 21, 23:59 (UTC+8), with the competition running from August 31, 09:00 to September 22, 23:59 (UTC+8). This season features an upgraded format with three leaderboards — futures trading volume, CFD trading volume, and futures profitability — offering a combined prize pool of up to 60,000 USDT in cash rewards, plus additional prizes including an 88g pure gold bar and selected Dyson gifts.

Additionally, during the event period, users who complete a specified futures trading volume or upgrade to VIP5 or above for the first time (or return to VIP5+) will earn a chance to draw prizes, including fee rebate vouchers and Dyson gifts. VIP8+ users who reach the designated futures trading volume can unlock the "Gold Bar Scratch Card" with a 100% win rate, sharing the 88g gold bar prize pool. The top 3 winners on the comprehensive leaderboard will also have the opportunity to enjoy F1 race tickets, including round-trip flights and luxury accommodation. This season also features a participation award: users who rank on the leaderboard and meet the futures trading volume threshold but do not receive cash rewards will each receive a 50 USDT fee rebate voucher.

Odaily News, Coincheck announced that it completed its registration as an electronic payment instruments trader on August 27, 2026, becoming the second company in Japan to obtain a stablecoin-related license of this kind. Coincheck stated that, building on its previous collaboration with Circle to expand the use cases of USDC in Japan, it will gradually roll out stablecoin and on-chain finance-related businesses. The company noted that stablecoins, with their price stability pegged to fiat currencies, can enable 24/7, fast, and low-cost transfers and payments.

Odaily News: CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju stated on the X platform that this bull market top may be driven by institutional funds outside the US and ETFs. South Korea currently still lacks a spot Bitcoin ETF, retail investors cannot purchase overseas ETFs, and corporations cannot even open exchange accounts to buy Bitcoin.

So far, this rally has primarily been driven by US market adoption, but the next phase will be a global institutionalization process, with stablecoin liquidity further strengthening and real-world asset channels also developing. More institutions will hold Bitcoin as a strategic asset, and many countries that currently lack ETFs will improve their related investment channels. The top of this rally may emerge when a banker at a regional bank in South Korea recommends a spot Bitcoin ETF for savings to an elderly client.

Odaily Planet Daily News: Realio Network, a platform for tokenized issuance and management of RWA assets, was attacked on August 25. The attacker hijacked the platform's signature stack and stole 127.9 million RIO tokens from treasury and custody wallets across five chains — Ethereum, BNB Chain, Algorand, Stellar, and Realio's native chain — worth approximately $6.2 million. About $317,000 of the stolen funds have been cashed out so far. Previously, the platform used a single hot signer via realio[.]fund to centrally manage treasury, reserves, and user-custodied sub-accounts. Once the attacker gained access to the relevant permissions, they could directly sign transfers across multiple chains without requiring user approval or key reconfiguration, and no smart contract vulnerability was involved. Realio officially stated that the platform has been suspended, with all user wallet deposits and withdrawals halted. The team is formulating a recovery plan and verifying event details, while also cooperating with law enforcement to identify the attacker.

Odaily News: Gate data shows that CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies) is currently priced at $8.656, up 4.62% in the last 24 hours. According to CoinMarketCap data, Gate's CXMT holdings have reached $6.4345 million, ranking first among mainstream centralized exchanges.

Odaily News: Moonwell on the Base chain has been attacked. The attacker manipulated the MAMO collateral price to borrow 50.6 cbBTC from the mCBTC market and transferred it. The observed impact so far is 50.6 cbBTC, valued at over $4 million.

Odaily Planet Daily报道，TermMax是一项固定利率借贷协议，母公司为Term Structure Labs，主要通过将债务拆分为FT（零息债券）、XT（利息与期权价值）和GT（杠杆仓位凭证）三种可交易代币实现固定利率借贷，并采用实物交割方式清算。该协议累计融资超过800万美元，2023年种子轮由Cumberland DRW领投，HashKey Capital、Decima Fund、Longling Capital、MZ Web3 Fund等机构参投。TermMax主网于2025年4月上线，目前已部署于10条EVM兼容链，运行60个固定利率市场和40个策略金库，总锁仓价值达数千万美元，注册钱包超过150万个。该项目入选YZi Labs孵化计划EASY Residency第三季，后续将围绕链上收益率曲线、代币化股票的利率与期权市场，以及机构融资平台TermPrime三个方向推进。TMX代币已于8月25日完成代币生成事件（TGE），并于首日在币安Alpha、Kraken、Bitget、MEXC、KuCoin等平台同步交易。

Odaily News: Alkemya Metacore is preparing to issue a new security, ALKN, linked to its inventory of high-purity nickel wire, with plans to raise $50 million through tokenization. The related inventory is valued at $1.6 billion, approximately 7 million meters, and is currently stored in Switzerland. The nickel wire is primarily used in semiconductors, aerospace, and defense sectors. The raised funds will be used to support its operating subsidiary, Green Transitional Metals, in the research, development, and commercialization of nickel products in areas such as electromagnetic shielding, aerospace and defense, semiconductors, power industry systems, green hydrogen, and precious metal recycling. Bitfinex Securities will facilitate the listing of ALKN, with the initial subscription for qualified investors open until October 15. This product is described as one of the world's first tokenized nickel products and the first tokenized commodity issuance under El Salvador's digital asset regulatory framework.

Odaily News, The Sandbox has released a post-mortem report on the August 22 vulnerability incident. The report shows that attackers exploited vulnerabilities in contracts related to cross-chain configurations on Base and BNB Smart Chain (BSC), stealing 14,742,341.84 SAND from the Ethereum treasury, accounting for approximately 0.5% of the maximum supply, with an estimated economic impact of approximately $1.4968 million, of which about $987,000 was actually retained by the attackers. The Ethereum mainnet and Polygon network were not affected. Until further notice, please do not purchase or send SAND on Base or BNB Smart Chain. Contracts deployed on Base and BNB Smart Chain have been permanently deactivated and will not be reopened. The Sandbox stated that the team has reported the attacker's wallet address to blockchain analysis firms TRM Labs and Chainalysis, and has communicated directly with relevant exchanges. The Sandbox also announced a compensation plan, which will compensate wallets that legitimately held cross-chain SAND on Base or BSC prior to the incident at a 1:1 ratio in Ethereum SAND. Compensation funds will come from The Sandbox treasury, with no new tokens issued. The claim process will open within the next two weeks and remain open for two weeks.

Odaily News: Bitget has launched a stock spot holding campaign, running from 19:00 on August 27 to 23:59 on September 30 (UTC+8). During the campaign, new users who purchase any US stock rToken worth at least 200 USDT and hold it for no less than 48 hours will receive one lucky box draw opportunity.

Additionally, both new and existing users can earn one draw chance for each friend invited who completes the above holding task, up to a maximum of 5 invitations. The lucky box prize pool includes NVIDIA (rNVDA) stock rewards ranging from 0.025 to 2.5 shares. For more details, please refer to Bitget's official platform.

Odaily News: Bybit RWA Earn has newly listed the nOPAL product. nOPAL is built on Brazilian credit card receivables, managed by BlackOpal Finance, and deployed on the open finance platform Plume. Its returns are generated from the price spread when Brazilian merchants sell future credit card receivables at a discount. After acquirers settle through Visa and Mastercard networks, the discounted portion is converted into investor returns. The product uses institutional-grade non-deliverable forward contracts to hedge against fluctuations in the Brazilian Real to US Dollar exchange rate. Returns are distributed in US Dollars, and a dedicated liquidity reserve supports redemptions. As of August 2026, nOPAL's rolling 30-day yield stands at approximately 12%, with total value locked exceeding $70 million. Since November 2025, the strategy has recorded zero defaults and zero credit losses. The product has received an investment-grade risk rating from Cicada Partners and has secured over $300 million in institutional committed capital. nOPAL subscriptions and redemptions are denominated in USDC, with a minimum investment of 500 USDC, and no subscription or redemption fees are charged. During the promotional period for nOPAL's launch, eligible users can earn up to an additional 5% promotional annualized yield on top of the underlying product returns.

Odaily News: Bybit today added three U.S. stock perpetual contracts—McDonald's (MCDUSDT), Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLUUSDT), and Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLPUSDT)—with support for up to 25x leverage. During the launch period, limited-time fee discounts are available: 0% taker fee rate and 50% off on maker fee rate.

Odaily News: HashKey Holdings Limited announced that for the six months ended June 30, 2026, the company's unaudited consolidated interim results showed total group revenue of HK$343 million, up 20.6% year-on-year; gross profit of HK$208 million, up 12.5% year-on-year, with gross margin improving to 60.6% compared to H2 2025. Transaction facilitation service revenue reached HK$268 million, up 38.6% year-on-year. The platform's total trading volume hit HK$282.2 billion, up 31.8% year-on-year, with institutional client trading volume reaching HK$231.5 billion, up 58.8% year-on-year, accounting for 82.0% of total trading volume. During the reporting period, HashKey launched Hong Kong's first real estate RWA and the city's first regulated silver RWA token, with on-chain RWA value reaching HK$2.68 billion, up 167.8% year-on-year. The group's assets under management stood at HK$5.94 billion, with asset management revenue of HK$38.84 million. In the first half of 2026, HashKey made a strategic investment in CAEX, a Vietnamese cryptocurrency exchange, while a fund under HashKey Capital Investment led SignalPlus's Series B+ round with a US$40 million investment.

Odaily News: BitcoinTreasuries.NET posted on X platform, stating that Strategy's stock price has surpassed $128 for the first time in 10 weeks, with its Bitcoin holdings currently showing $4 billion in unrealized profits.

Odaily星球日报讯 1inch 与安全平台 HackenProof 合作发布上半年漏洞赏金报告。六项核心漏洞赏金计划共收到 1055 份报告，其中 32 份获得赏金。1inch 智能合约收到 267 份报告，其中 3 份获得赏金；钱包收到 85 份报告，其中 6 份获得赏金；Web 端收到 68 份报告，其中 1 份获得赏金；Business 板块收到 111 份报告，其中 9 份获得赏金；基础设施收到 52 份报告，其中 4 份获得赏金；共享流动性层 Aqua 收到 472 份报告，其中 9 份获得赏金。报告涉及的问题均已修复。

Odaily Planet Daily News According to on-chain analyst Ember's monitoring, ChangXin Technology (CXMT) rose 5% today, reaching a market value of 4 trillion yuan. A short seller shorted 2.9 million shares of CXMT at $6.5 per share (equivalent to 43.5 yuan) the day before its listing. After holding the short position for one month, the price of CXMT rose to $8.6 per share (equivalent to 59 yuan), resulting in a price loss of $6.3 million. Additionally, the short seller paid funding fees of $4.52 million, bringing total losses to $10.82 million.