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Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum, stated on social media that it would be a wonderful thing if the world could have a truly trustworthy and neutral global coordination and digital asset settlement platform. It is the large-scale and rigorous decentralization achieved by the Ethereum platform that makes this vision possible. Soon, and in the near future, more organizations with trustworthy neutrality and ample funding will join in to promote this mission alongside the Ethereum Foundation.These organizations will focus on facilitating the development of the entire Ethereum ecosystem and advancing the areas of interest for many financial institutions adopting Ethereum technology, including: Ethereum Mainnet, Layer 2 networks (L2), and private Ethereum networks. In the future, these three major systems will be able to achieve near real-time interoperability and composability, while ETH will flow freely within this expanded Ethereum ecosystem landscape.

According to Cointelegraph, the Ethereum Foundation stated that its funded Ketman project identified 100 North Korean IT personnel lurking in Web3 organizations within six months and issued alerts to about 53 projects, indicating that they may have employed related personnel.The project focuses on the issue of "fake developers" in the cryptocurrency industry and is part of the ETH Rangers public safety funding program. Ketman also developed an open-source detection tool for identifying suspicious GitHub activity and collaborated with the Security Alliance to create an industry identification framework for recognizing North Korean IT personnel.

According to The Block, Gnosis co-founder Friederike Ernst and Zisk founder Jordi Baylina jointly announced the "Ethereum Economic Zone" (EEZ) plan at the EthCC conference in Cannes on Sunday, which is co-funded by the Ethereum Foundation.The EEZ aims to create a framework for Rollups, allowing smart contracts on connected Rollups to perform synchronous composable calls with the Ethereum mainnet and other EEZ Rollups, with security guarantees equivalent to those directly deployed on Ethereum. The framework defaults to using ETH as the Gas token, eliminating the need for additional cross-chain bridge infrastructure. Ernst stated, "Ethereum does not have a scalability problem; it has a fragmentation problem. Every new L2 that goes live has its own liquidity pool and bridging, creating another isolated walled garden."Founding members of the EEZ alliance include the DeFi lending protocol Aave, block builders Titan and Beaver Build, the RWA platform Centrifuge, and the tokenized stock project xStocks. The project will operate as a Swiss non-profit organization, with all software released as open-source, aiming to minimize governance and ultimately achieve non-upgradability. Technical specifications and performance benchmarks are expected to be announced in the coming weeks.

Recently, there have been reports that the first batch of stablecoin licenses in Hong Kong will be granted to HSBC, Standard Chartered, and the local virtual asset trading platform OSL. We have inquired through the channels of HSBC and Standard Chartered's subsidiaries in China for verification, but neither has provided a positive response. However, an insider from one of the foreign banks revealed: "We are still waiting for formal news from the regulators."

The cryptocurrency trading platform Bakkt, a subsidiary of the New York Stock Exchange, announced the completion of the direct issuance pricing for 3,024,799 shares of Class A common stock and pre-funded warrants. Each pre-funded warrant can purchase up to 2,475,201 shares of Class A common stock, with an issuance price of $8.75 per share and a price of $8.7499 per pre-funded warrant, totaling $48.125 million to be raised. The transaction is expected to be completed around March 2, 2026, subject to customary closing conditions.

ChainCatcher news, according to Hong Kong media Ming Pao, on August 26, Chinese-funded technology companies may collaborate with digital banks (formerly known as virtual banks) to apply for a stablecoin in Hong Kong. Many Chinese technology giants are shareholders of local digital banks in Hong Kong, and they, along with financial institutions, are focusing on tokenized asset trading and cross-border payments. Therefore, they may establish partnerships with Hong Kong digital banks to promote the issuance of stablecoins.Futu Group's Managing Director Zeng Yuchao has stated that they will explore allowing users to use stablecoins as platform balances or holding assets to purchase stocks, and assist in handling fiat currency clearing and settlement processes for their investments.

ChainCatcher news, Tencent News published an article titled "The Surge of Stablecoins Boosts the Influx of Chinese Institutions into RWA in Hong Kong, Industry Insiders Call for Cooling Down," which points out that Hong Kong's financial sector is beginning to stratify. Foreign institutions are researching quant strategies, hedging, and IPOs, while Chinese institutions are starting to explore RWA. Chinese financial institutions in Hong Kong are eagerly trying out RWA. A head of a leading fund company in Hong Kong stated that many institutions have received requests from their domestic headquarters to explore business opportunities in RWA projects. Like most financial products launched in Hong Kong, these Chinese financial institutions require a large number of lawyers to participate in their exploration of RWA projects. This has led to an increase in business for some law firms in Hong Kong in the cryptocurrency sector, including King & Wood Mallesons and JunHe Law Offices.In addition, a head of a state-owned enterprise asset management company stationed in Hong Kong stated, "This wave is actually top down; the headquarters hopes that the institutions in Hong Kong will try to engage in RWA to prepare for the ecological development after the issuance of stablecoins."

ChainCatcher news, focusing on the TON ecosystem, the fund T-Fund has been announced. T-Fund was founded by Daniel Yang (@CryptoBoiDanny), former Head of Global Business Development at the TON Foundation. Its mission is to accelerate the development of the TON blockchain through strategic investments and comprehensive incubation support aimed at project teams within the TON ecosystem.

ChainCatcher news, according to DLNews, informed sources revealed that Avara founder and CEO Stani Kulechov is seeking to raise $50 million from American venture capital firms to fund the social media platform Lens Protocol, which will bring Lens Protocol's valuation to $500 million.When asked about the token issuance of Lens Protocol, Kulechov stated, "we haven't gotten to that point yet." The current main goal is the upcoming Lens Network, a native network built on the ZKsync technology stack.

ChainCatcher news, according to Coindesk, the SpaceX "Doge-1" lunar mission funded by DOGE has been approved by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, and the plan is currently awaiting final approval from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).It is reported that the DOGE-1 satellite was developed by the space technology company Geometric Energy Corporation, which announced the project in May 2021. The satellite will be launched by SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. A micro-screen on the DOGE-1 satellite will display advertisements, images, and logos, which will then be broadcast back to Earth. DOGE-1 is the first satellite to be fully paid for with DOGE tokens.

ChainCatcher news, according to official information, the DEX Oku Trade built on the Uni v3 contract has launched on zkSync Era.It is reported that the protocol is funded by the Uniswap Foundation and GFX Labs. Users can trade limit orders and provide LP positions through this protocol.