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According to a Reuters report, sources say that the Federal Reserve plans to raise the regulatory thresholds for banks.

According to CNBC, Binance has opened its Capital Connect platform to wealthy individual investors for the first time, allowing them to compare and invest in professional strategies, which was previously limited to institutional investors. Users must meet financial requirements, including holding at least 1 million dollars in assets.Catherine Chen, head of Binance VIP and institutional business, stated that individual investors are eager to gain access to Capital Connect, which is a response to demand. The platform is built on Binance's Portfolio Account infrastructure, handling management fees, performance fees, and risk metrics, with the trading team responsible for investment strategies, similar to independent managed accounts in traditional finance.As of September, Capital Connect has 212 portfolios from 77 professional trading teams. The platform initially offered only cryptocurrency strategies, but more trading teams have incorporated traditional financial instruments into their strategies.

The U.S. Senate will conduct a procedural vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (referred to as the CLARITY Act). At 2:15 AM Beijing time on September 16, senators will decide whether to end the debate on the motion to enter the bill's review process, with a threshold of 60 votes. If the vote passes, the bill will then enter full Senate debate, amendments, and subsequent final voting, which does not equate to the bill being passed directly that night, nor does it mean it will take effect immediately.To garner bipartisan support, Senate Republicans accepted 126 substantive amendments proposed by Democrats in the final draft. The new text includes stricter ethical provisions, granting state attorneys general a clearer enforcement role; it also gives the Secretary of the Treasury the authority to intervene against potential deposit outflows triggered by payment stablecoins, and revises developer-related provisions to reduce the risk of decentralized infrastructure developers being classified as money transmission entities. Democrats are concerned that the Trump family's cryptocurrency business may create conflicts of interest, with some lawmakers hoping to add constraints such as asset divestiture or blind trusts; moderate senators like Warner and Gallego still hope to push for more amendments. Some Republican lawmakers are also under pressure from the banking industry, fearing that accounts with yield attributes linked to stablecoins could siphon off deposits from community banks.

According to the official announcement, Gate announced that it will fully integrate with the Arc public chain on September 16, covering core Web3 scenarios such as Trenches, Gate Wallet, and on-chain market data. Gate's Trenches will exclusively offer 0 Gas transactions, allowing users to view popular and newly issued tokens on the Arc chain, access market data, and participate in trading directly without incurring additional Gas fees. Currently, Trenches supports limited-time Gas-free transactions for on-chain assets on Robinhood Chain, and with the addition of Arc, the 0 Gas coverage scenarios will further expand.Arc is an open Layer 1 network created by Circle for the financial market. This integration allows Gate users to access related assets and liquidity through Web3, wallets, and on-chain trading products, expanding coverage of emerging public chains.

The Bank of Italy (Banca d'Italia) issued a notice requiring payment service providers (PSPs) and crypto asset service providers (CASPs) to continuously use procedures related to the travel rule to review financial transactions, without setting a minimum amount threshold.Relevant institutions must verify the names of the initiator and beneficiary when establishing customer relationships, when the European Council makes decisions, and at the time of each transaction, and compare them with the lists of sanctioned individuals and entities. Automated systems must not set a minimum amount threshold for transaction reviews, and transfer delays may be accepted if necessary to enhance sanctions screening.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Chinese regulators are seeking to raise the threshold for humanoid robot companies to enter the public capital market. Sources revealed that the China Securities Regulatory Commission recently held informal talks with several investment banks and institutional investors, signaling an intention to increase the barriers for humanoid robot companies seeking to go public.This move is related to the market performance of Yushu Technology after its listing. The company surged 460% on its first day of trading, but the excitement faded afterward, with its stock price dropping about 50% from its post-listing peak, bringing its market value down to approximately $30 billion. Regulatory authorities are trying to quell the frenzy triggered by this situation.

The Research Institute of Financial Technology at Renmin University published a compiled article on stablecoin research in the Journal of International Money and Finance. The related research is based on large language model (LLM) agents analyzing the de-pegging risks of stablecoins, which indicates that the de-pegging of stablecoins has significant nonlinear and threshold characteristics. The arbitrage mechanism can absorb a certain degree of informational pressure, but when the severity of the narrative reaches a "critical threshold," the system may quickly enter a state of sustained de-pegging.

CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. stated that Bitcoin is approaching the threshold for a bullish market state. In the past 24 hours, the price has increased by 3.9%, and open contracts have risen by 11,200 BTC (+3.4%), indicating that this round of increase is accompanied by a rapid expansion of futures leverage, with new leverage being the main driving force rather than short covering.Bitcoin has directly touched the threshold of the bullish model but has not yet been officially confirmed. The key signal is that the daily closing price stands above the model's dynamic threshold. If the price can hold this level after the transition and the accumulated futures leverage does not experience severe liquidation, the signal will be more sustainable. The main risk is that a rapid unwinding of leverage could lead to a reversal of the upward trend.

On-chain analyst Willy Woo stated that currently about 4% of the global population holds S&P 500 assets, 4.5% hold gold, and 5% hold Bitcoin (BTC), and suggested that the future penetration rate of Bitcoin will determine its role attributes.He indicated that at a holder population percentage of about 5%, BTC is still primarily viewed as a financial asset; if this ratio rises to about 50%, it could signify the emergence of a pattern of "separation of money and state."

B.AI platform announced yesterday that its free model lineup is fully ready, covering six top models including GLM-5.3-Flash, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, Hy3 (Tencent Hunyuan), MiMo-V2.5 (Xiaomi), and Qwen3.8-Flash, all available to users with zero barriers for free.Among them, the debuting GLM-5.3-Flash is the "Ox Alpha" that has attracted widespread attention. As the first native multimodal model in the GLM-5 series, it features a total of 320B parameters and 18B active parameters, using a sparse + linear attention hybrid architecture and supporting 1M ultra-long context, combining rapid response with strong reasoning capabilities, making it the cost-effective choice for high-frequency calling scenarios. This free lineup covers various scenarios including pure text, multimodal, code generation, and Agent scheduling. Whether developers or deep AI users, they can access cutting-edge large model capabilities at zero cost through the B.AI platform, simply by logging in at chat.b.ai/chat to start an efficient workflow.

According to the official webpage, the voting phase for the Solana double deflation proposal has ended, with a voter participation rate of 60.69%. Among the votes, 67% were in favor, the opposition rate was 25.16%, and the abstention rate was 7.84%, with the approval rate reaching the required 2/3 support threshold for passage. The proposal aims to reduce the inflation rate of SOL to about half of its original rate, increasing the deflation rate to 30%. Based on current estimates, this proposal will reduce the issuance of SOL by approximately 18.9 million over the next six years.In addition, the voting phase for the resource and fee inclusion proposal has ended, with a voter participation rate of 61.14%. Among the votes, 53.9% were in favor, the opposition rate was 18.92%, and the abstention rate was 27.18%, with the approval rate not reaching the required 2/3 support threshold for passage. This proposal suggests introducing a transaction fee mechanism based on resource consumption, charging fees according to the network resources consumed by transactions, which is expected to increase the daily burn rate of SOL from the current approximately 650 to between 7500 and 9000.

Binance Alpha will launch Teller (DEBIT) on August 26 at 18:00. Users with at least 240 Binance Alpha points can claim 50 DEBIT tokens airdrop on a first-come, first-served basis.If the reward pool is not fully distributed, the points threshold will automatically decrease by 5 points every 5 minutes. Claiming the airdrop will consume 15 Alpha points.

BlackRock has significantly lowered the threshold for investors to directly convert self-custodied BTC into shares of the spot Bitcoin ETF IBIT, with the minimum conversion size reduced from the previous $25 million to $1 million; Bitwise has also lowered the related threshold from $100 million to $3 million.This conversion is completed through "in-kind creation," allowing investors to directly deliver BTC in exchange for ETF shares, without the need to first sell BTC and then buy the ETF, thus avoiding the immediate capital gains tax triggered by the sale. Robbie Mitchnick, Head of Digital Assets at BlackRock, stated that IBIT has processed over $5 billion in such conversions, further increasing from $3 billion in October of last year.

According to South Korean media Edaily, the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of South Korea announced that the amendment to the enforcement decree of the Specific Financial Information Act, aimed at strengthening regulation of the cryptocurrency industry, has been approved by the State Council.The main changes of the new regulations include: regulatory agencies will conduct stricter reviews of the qualifications of major shareholders of exchanges, while requiring that the debt ratio of exchanges must not exceed 200%. In addition, the previous Travel Rule only applied to transactions over 1 million won, but will now cover all transfers without a monetary threshold. Transactions involving overseas exchanges and personal wallets will be subject to differentiated control based on risk levels. The new regulations also require exchanges to be equipped with professional personnel and necessary equipment, and to establish internal control systems, with existing exchanges granted a one-year grace period. Some provisions will take effect on August 20, while those related to the Travel Rule will be officially implemented six months later.

Robinhood announced on the X platform that it has lowered the gas fee subsidy threshold for Robinhood Wallet on the Robinhood Chain from $5 to $0.50, a reduction of 90%.Robinhood stated that after the adjustment, more users will be able to enjoy gas fee subsidies when conducting swap transactions, and this subsidy policy will last until September 29.Previously, Robinhood Wallet had already covered part of the on-chain transaction fees for users through the gas sponsorship mechanism. This reduction in the subsidy threshold aims to further lower the entry costs for users into the Robinhood Chain ecosystem and enhance the activity of on-chain transactions.

According to Daum, after South Korea's financial regulatory authorities raised the base margin for domestic and foreign single-stock leveraged products from 10 million won in securities to 30 million won in pure cash starting July 31, South Korean retail investors began to rapidly adjust their portfolios.According to data from the Korea Securities Depository, Tesla's 2x leveraged product TSLL recorded a net purchase of 14.58 million USD on August 3, but the purchase amount on the 4th plummeted from the previous day's 15.6 million USD to 1.56 million USD, while the selling amount rose to 8.68 million USD, resulting in a net sell of 7.11 million USD for the day. During the same period, Tesla's spot net purchases reached 42.3 million USD, more than five times the net purchase amount of TSLL.Micron Technology and SanDisk also showed similar divergence—Micron's 2x leveraged product flipped from a net purchase of 10.81 million USD on the 3rd to a net sell of 15.98 million USD on the 4th, while SanDisk's 2x leveraged product changed from a net purchase of 17.74 million USD to a net sell of 33.74 million USD. Meanwhile, the spot net inflows for the two companies were 148 million USD and 145 million USD, respectively, indicating a significant trend of funds shifting from leveraged tools to the underlying stocks.The tightened regulations require that the base margin must be paid in cash, with alternative securities such as stocks, ETFs, and bonds no longer counted, and existing investors must also meet the new standards when making additional purchases; selling is unrestricted, but the funds from sales must be settled after T+2 days before they can be counted as cash margin.The new rules were originally planned to be implemented in phases in August, but due to concerns that limiting it to Korean products would lead to a capital influx into overseas leveraged products like Tesla and Nvidia, creating a balloon effect, South Korean regulators moved the implementation date up to July 31 and simultaneously covered both domestic and foreign products.South Korean investors have reacted strongly, believing that extending measures aimed at local market volatility to overseas products constitutes excessive intervention, and that only South Korean investors must meet the 30 million won cash threshold, putting them at a disadvantage in global competition.

Michael Saylor posted on the X platform stating that at block height 961,022, BIP-110 received 38 signals, accounting for 2.7%, and its voluntary threshold of 55% can no longer be reached.At block height 961,632, BIP-110 nodes will reject blocks that have not signaled. Unless major miners change their stance, Bitcoin will continue to operate normally, while BIP-110 will stagnate or fork into an irrelevant state. Its supporters should stop pushing it forward.