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According to Axios, U.S. President Trump, House Speaker Johnson, and CEOs of technology companies will hold a meeting on artificial intelligence on September 29.

According to The Block, the Solana Foundation announced the appointment of Rachel Conlan as Chief Strategy Officer and Jamal Raees as General Manager of Payment Business to expand institutional adoption and payment operations. Conlan previously worked at Binance for three years and held senior management positions at companies such as OKX; Raees comes from Polygon Labs and will be responsible for collaborating with payment companies, enterprises, and ecosystem partners to promote Solana as a global payment infrastructure.The Solana Foundation stated that this year, Solana's stablecoin trading volume has exceeded $50 trillion, the on-chain real-world assets (RWA) scale has surpassed $4.5 billion, and the supply of tokenized stocks has exceeded $620 million.

IcoBeast.eth, the head of Kalshi's cryptocurrency business, posted a statement addressing external concerns regarding Kalshi's cryptocurrency prediction market trading volume fraud and self-clearing members (SCM) of perpetual contracts. He stated that the Artemis chart shows the proportion of prediction market trading volume, not the trading volume of perpetual contracts; Kalshi will not provide rebates for the cryptocurrency prediction market, and the calculation method for the number of contracts and notional amounts in the prediction market is consistent with other prediction markets, thus making it comparable.Regarding the claim that "SCM is a market maker selected by Kalshi," he stated that this is not true. Any institution that meets regulatory requirements can become a self-clearing member of a CFTC-regulated exchange, and "fair access" is also one of the regulatory requirements. He also mentioned that all exchanges improve liquidity through rebates and incentive programs, including CME, Hyperliquid, and Binance. As for Kalshi's perpetual contract business, he acknowledged that it is still in the early stages but stated that unlike offshore perpetual contract trading platforms, Kalshi needs to publicly disclose incentive programs, so the relevant incentive arrangements can be publicly viewed.

A former bank executive was recently sentenced for forging documents to fraudulently obtain over 1.6 billion Hong Kong dollars in illegal loans, and using the funds to purchase Bitcoin and conduct cryptocurrency bribery.

Multiple executives from NVIDIA disclosed stock trading situations to the U.S. SEC, including 5 executives, such as CEO Jensen Huang, who collectively sold nearly 150,000 shares of the company. Among them, Jensen Huang sold approximately 46,000 shares at a transaction price of about $212 per share.Most of the transactions were related to the tax treatment of restricted stock vesting and were not proactive reductions.

On September 17, King Charles III of the United Kingdom convened executives from Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind for an AI safety summit at Dumfries House in East Ayrshire, Scotland, calling for artificial intelligence to be "firmly placed on the track of serving humanity." The summit was jointly organized by the Ditchley Foundation and three of the King's charitable organizations, with UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan also in attendance. Buckingham Palace stated that the representatives discussed whether the industry and government could reach a consensus on a set of common guiding principles for AI development, but no binding agreements were announced.A few days before the summit, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy article titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," advocating that the industry should deliberately slow down the pace of model capability enhancement. OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk both publicly expressed their agreement within a day. In the article, Amodei pointed out that AI systems are increasingly capable of improving their own successors and mentioned an incident involving an OpenAI agent escape. OpenAI President Greg Brockman confirmed that the incident had forced the company to delay multiple releases and restructure its model development and monitoring processes, while advocating that the slowdown should only apply to laboratories building the most powerful frontier systems. On the first trading day after the news was released, Nvidia briefly fell by 3%, Intel dropped over 5%, and AMD declined by about 6%.

According to the South China Morning Post, citing two informed sources, some well-known Chinese companies, including electric vehicle manufacturer BYD and smart manufacturing company Xiaomi, may accompany President Xi Jinping on his visit to the United States next week. One source, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the topic, indicated that a representative from Zhongji Xuchuang, a leading manufacturer of optical modules used in artificial intelligence data centers, may also join, although recent reports have suggested that the company may face U.S. export restrictions.The source also mentioned that the Bank of China, which already has business operations in the U.S. and a high degree of internationalization, may also be invited. Reports suggest that this sizable delegation of corporate representatives contrasts with the group of CEOs that accompanied President Trump during his visit to China in May this year, potentially indicating investment opportunities during the summit.

Jack McDonald, Senior Vice President of Ripple Stablecoin, stated in an interview with CoinDesk that corporate treasuries represent a significant growth opportunity for the RLUSD stablecoin, with Ripple Treasury clients processing approximately $13 trillion in transactions annually. This business is built on Ripple's acquisition of financial management software provider GTreasury for $1 billion last year, providing Ripple with a vast customer pool of around 1,200 corporate treasurers and CFOs who transfer funds across borders, between subsidiaries, and domestically.McDonald pointed out that the circulating supply of RLUSD has increased by over 50% in the past month, reaching $2.4 billion, with about $1 billion on the XRP Ledger and $1.4 billion on Ethereum. However, he emphasized that he values the token's utility and daily activity more than its market capitalization, noting that RLUSD's daily active volume has more than doubled since the beginning of the year, rising from about $200 million last month to approximately $750 million. Payments and capital markets are currently the two main application areas, and Ripple has collaborated with institutions such as Franklin Templeton and DBS in tokenized money market funds and lending.In the European market, Ripple plans to introduce RLUSD locally through a dual issuance structure compliant with the EU MiCA framework and has already obtained regulatory authorization in Luxembourg.

Tencent Group Senior Executive Vice President, CEO of Cloud and Smart Industries Group, Tang Daosheng, published an article in Tencent's internal publication, responding to external doubts about "Tencent being slow in AI." He stated that it is impossible to be completely untroubled; the Hunyuan large model has undergone multiple reconstructions, and Hunyuan Hy3 has shown outstanding performance among large models with equivalent parameters. However, due to the company's overall lack of computing power, the training of models and product development has been significantly slowed down, resulting in a considerable impact.Tang Daosheng mentioned that waking up early may not be the most critical factor; the second half of AI has just begun, and enduring longer provides the opportunity to seize the continuously emerging new opportunities.

At least 14 senior and core executives have left their positions at OpenAI this year. Business Insider counted 13 people as of August 21, and The Wall Street Journal later reported the departure of data center head Chris Malone. This group spans business, product, security, ethics, research, and infrastructure.Specifically, they include Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser, former COO and Head of Special Projects Brad Lightcap, CEO of Application Business Fidji Simo, former CPO and Head of OpenAI for Science Kevin Weil, Head of Sora Bill Peebles, CTO of Enterprise Applications Srinivas Narayanan, Chief Marketing Officer Kate Rouch, Head of Enterprise AI Sales Barret Zoph, Head of Ethics Chloé Bakalar, Head of Security Systems Johannes Heidecke, Chief Futurist Joshua Achiam, Head of Robotics and Consumer Hardware Caitlin Kalinowski, Vice President of Sales for the Americas Kaylin Voss, and data center head Chris Malone.These individuals did not leave for the same reason; some are starting their own businesses, some left due to health reasons, and others faced team layoffs and management restructuring. OpenAI secretly submitted its U.S. IPO documents in June.

According to Bloomberg, Binance has brought in two senior compliance executives from Crypto.com: Antonio Alvarez will serve as the deputy to Chief Compliance Officer Noah Perlman; Duncan DeVille will take on the role of Global Head of Financial Crime Compliance. Both previously worked at Crypto.com and have compliance experience with organizations such as Coinbase, Visa, Western Union, and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Binance stated that the addition of these two is a vote of confidence in its compliance program.Over the past year, several senior employees in Binance's compliance department have left, with media reports suggesting that some departures were related to the exchange's handling of funds linked to Iran. Binance has denied these reports, stating that the compliance system is operating normally.

According to The Block, at a meeting of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Innovation Advisory Committee, CME CEO Terrence Duffy had a heated exchange with CFTC Chairman Michael Selig and Kalshi COO Luana Lopes Lara regarding regulatory issues in the prediction market. Duffy pointed out that some prediction market contracts are susceptible to manipulation, specifically mentioning contracts related to Trump's State of the Union address and the ousting of Venezuelan President Maduro that may be subject to manipulation. Selig interrupted, stating that these products are not listed in the United States, "this is fake news."Duffy retorted, "We can argue, I'm happy to." The two also clashed over a question from Kalshi COO about whether CME faces market manipulation issues, with Duffy stating, "I have more staff in my regulatory department than you and your entire company," to which Lopes Lara responded, "Maybe you should learn about efficiency," and Duffy shot back, "Maybe you should learn what a credible market is." This conflict comes at a time when federal and state regulators are vying for control over the regulation of prediction markets, with the CFTC having filed lawsuits against several states and proposed a regulatory framework draft.

According to crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett, sources revealed that before President Trump and crypto industry leaders spoke at the White House, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, a16z's Chris Dixon, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, and Kraken co-founder Arjun Sethi met with U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick. The discussion focused on the importance of the Clarity Act and its implications for U.S. jobs, economic growth, and attracting crypto businesses back.Participants also discussed the remaining obstacles to the passage of the bill, including issues related to ethical clauses, and how the White House could help facilitate a bipartisan consensus.

According to CoinDesk, U.S. President Trump met with SEC Chairman Atkins, CFTC Chairman Selig, and executives from Coinbase, Ripple, Gemini, Polymarket, Kalshi, Nasdaq, NYSE, CME, and DTCC at the White House.The meeting was to prepare for the inaugural CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee meeting held on Thursday, discussing topics related to regulatory innovation.

According to Bloomberg, U.S. President Trump is expected to attend a White House meeting next Wednesday, which will bring together senior executives from cryptocurrency companies and prediction market platforms. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Michael Selig and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul Atkins have also confirmed their attendance at this meeting.

ChianCatcher news, Circle's Senior Director of Strategy and Policy for the EU, Patrick Hansen, pointed out in a tweet that among the approximately 23 authorized electronic money token (EMT) issuers in the EU, only 9 have been granted permission to provide crypto asset services (CASP). This means that only these 9 can offer custody and transfer services for the stablecoins they issue, while the remaining 14 can only mint or burn tokens directly to customer wallets and cannot hold or send stablecoins on behalf of customers. This greatly limits the range of services that issuers can provide.Hansen stated that Circle has obtained the necessary CASP approval through the MiCA Article 60 notification procedure to provide custody or payment services related to USDC and EURC for institutional clients. He expressed surprise that more EMT issuers have not taken this step. The 9 that can currently offer some crypto asset services include Circle, Société Générale - Forge, CACEIS Bank, Banking Circle, Bridge, Fiat Republic, Newrails, Blue EMI, and Stable Mint.

Rosherville Pty Ltd, a shareholder of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), has notified the ASX of its intention to apply to the Federal Court for permission to initiate a statutory derivative action against certain former ASX officials and directors. If approved, Rosherville will sue on behalf of the ASX. The ASX stated that the relevant lawsuit does not accuse the ASX itself, but has not disclosed the identities of the former officials involved, the specific obligations allegedly violated, or the remedies sought. The Federal Court has not yet considered whether the case can proceed.The ASX has been advancing a blockchain-based CHESS clearing and settlement system replacement project since 2016, which was suspended in November 2022 and abandoned the blockchain solution in May 2023. On July 3, 2026, the Federal Court ordered the ASX to pay a fine of $14.4 million and $2.1 million in litigation costs to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).

On August 7, local time, U.S. President Trump will convene executives from several major mining companies at the U.S. Department of State to take action to secure the supply of critical minerals for the U.S. and its allies.Expected industry giants in attendance include Rio Tinto Group, BHP Billiton, and Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. The Trump administration plans to announce multiple transactions and memoranda of understanding.