Odaily News – September 2: The B.AI platform announced that starting from 17:00 (SGT) on September 3, 2026, DeepSeek V4 Flash and DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp will end their free trial period and officially enter a 50% discounted billing phase. Prior to this time, both models will remain free to use. Meanwhile, B.AI will adopt DeepSeek's official peak/off-peak pricing mechanism, with additional tiered discounts: During peak hours (weekdays 09:00–12:00, 14:00–18:00 SGT), billing is set at 50% of the official original price; during off-peak hours (remaining weekday periods and all weekends), an additional 50% discount applies, bringing the effective rate to 25% of the official original price.

For users who wish to continue enjoying a free experience, the GLM 5.3 Flash "Niu Lai" model will remain free of charge. This model features 320B total parameters with 18B activated parameters, supports a 1M context window, and combines robust reasoning capabilities with rapid response speeds, making it a high cost-performance choice for high-frequency calls.

In addition, Qwen3.8 Flash, Hy3, and MiMo V2.5 will also continue to be offered for free. B.AI will keep optimizing its model offerings and pricing structure to provide developers with more high-performance, high-value AI model options.

Odaily Planet Daily News In his latest outlook, Meng Lei, China equity strategy analyst at UBS Securities, has raised overall earnings expectations for A-share companies, projecting that aggregate earnings of all A-share companies could grow by 15% in full-year 2026.

Meng noted that driven by earnings recovery, inflow of incremental capital, and the global technology narrative, A-shares are likely to sustain a steady rebound this year. However, he cautioned that the current A-share market may face two major uncertainties going forward: first, geopolitical risks, U.S. Treasury yields, and oil price volatility could affect valuations of rate-sensitive tech sectors; second, given that public funds are heavily overweight in the tech sector, there may be pressure from "principal recovery redemptions," which could constrain the rebound's upside. (Jin Shi)

Odaily News: Sources say South Korea's foreign exchange stabilization fund has absorbed approximately $20 billion in funds repatriated following SK Hynix's ADR listing. (Jin10)

Odaily reported that Strategy CEO Phong Le stated in an interview that Strategy does not make decisions based on the specific price of Bitcoin. Over the past two months, Strategy has not purchased Bitcoin but has strengthened its balance sheet. Currently, Strategy's total assets stand at 72 billion USD, including 65 billion USD in Bitcoin and 7 billion USD in dollar reserves, with dollar reserves increasing by 34% over the past two months. At the same time, Strategy has reduced its net debt to zero from approximately 7 billion USD previously. Phong Le said that by strengthening its balance sheet, Strategy has enhanced its equity value, making it more profitable to sell MSTR and buy Bitcoin. Earlier, after a two-month hiatus, Strategy resumed purchasing Bitcoin last week.

Monitoring shows that in the predict.fun prediction event for "LCK Playoffs HLE vs. T1," the probability of HLE defeating T1 is currently reported at 65%.

At 4 PM today, the LCK playoffs winners' bracket second round will feature HLE taking on T1, with the match set as a BO5 series.

Following GEN's 3:0 sweep of KT yesterday, T1 has secured at least a top-four finish in the LCK, thereby clinching their spot in the 2026 World Championship ahead of time. HLE had also previously secured their Worlds berth. As a result, neither team faces the pressure of "losing means missing Worlds" in this matchup. The winner will advance to the winners' bracket final against GEN, while the loser will drop to the losers' bracket to continue competing for the LCK title and a higher Worlds seed.

Odaily News: Bank of Japan board member Takata Hajime stated that he does not rule out the possibility of significant rate hikes or consecutive rate hikes, remarks that boosted the yen. Takata is among the most hawkish members of the BOJ board. The yen rose as much as 0.5% against the dollar to 159.44, after earlier falling to 160.39. Takata said that a 0.25 percentage point rate hike is "not a done deal." He also noted that, overall, consecutive rate hikes remain a possibility.

Aozora Bank's chief market strategist said: "The market reacted to Takata's explicit indication that consecutive rate hikes are possible. His remarks are more aggressive than the recent statements from the BOJ governor and deputy governors in terms of the pace and scale of rate hikes." (Jin Ten)

Odaily News: According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a whale who spent only $13,700 to purchase 103 trillion SHIB in 2020, accounting for 17.4% of the total supply, transferred out another 600 billion SHIB today, valued at $3.09 million. The 103 trillion SHIB held by this address was worth $9.1 billion at its peak price in 2021. The whale has sold a total of 10.06 trillion SHIB since 2021 and this year, at an average price of approximately $0.0000066, valued at $66.6 million. The address still holds 93.27 trillion SHIB, worth $478 million.

Odaily News, according to GMGN data, the Robinhood ecosystem Meme coin MOO briefly surpassed a market cap of $30 million, now reporting $29.15 million, with a 24-hour surge of over 100%.

It is understood that MOO is a stock Meme coin on the RH chain, with the trading pair MOO/MU, directly paired with the tokenized stock Micron on the Robinhood Chain.

Odaily reminds that Meme coin prices are highly volatile and susceptible to market sentiment and trending events. Please be aware of trading risks.

Odaily News Gate data shows that the Nikkei 225 index closed down 1,889.70 points, or 2.85%, at 64,325.64 points on Wednesday, September 2; South Korea's KOSPI index closed down 273.08 points, or 3.99%, at 6,562.72 points on Wednesday, September 2, with SK Hynix falling 4.7% and Samsung Electronics dropping about 4%.

Odaily News According to official platform data, Gate's registered users have surpassed 60 million, marking a new phase in the platform's global expansion. As a global digital asset trading platform, Gate continues to see its user base grow, with product capabilities and service experiences being constantly optimized, further solidifying the platform's influence and growth potential within the digital asset industry. The platform supports trading of 5,000+ digital assets and 12,800+ stocks and ETFs, continuously refining its product and service systems to address the investment, trading, and asset management needs of users across different regions. It has gradually expanded from digital asset trading to diverse scenarios including stocks, ETFs, wealth management, payments, wallets, and Web3 applications, while further extending coverage to multi-asset services such as RWA, forex, metals, and commodities.

Gate has established a 7×24-hour trading service system covering US, Hong Kong, Korean, and Japanese stock markets, supporting over 10,000 US stocks and ETFs, more than 1,500 Hong Kong stocks, over 1,000 Korean stocks, and approximately 300 Japanese stocks, along with services such as fractional share trading, dividend rights, stock splits and reverse splits, and cross-broker transfer between US and Hong Kong markets. The platform pioneered zero-interest trading for US stocks and has rolled out products including stocks, Pre-IPOs, direct IPOs, and gStocks tokenized securities. Leveraging its expanding user base, diversified asset service capabilities, and ecosystem infrastructure development, Gate is accelerating its journey toward becoming a one-stop global digital financial ecosystem that bridges digital assets and traditional financial markets.

Odaily News: Flop Labs, the AI agent project led by Arthur Hayes, has announced that it is building a GPU computing power exchange to facilitate the buying and selling of computing resources. Flop Labs noted that Nvidia's data center computing power sales reached $89 billion in a single quarter, up 117% year-over-year, yet GPU pricing remains unstandardized, with users still required to contact suppliers directly for quotes. On Flop, AI agents will use FLOP tokens to purchase computing power from miners, while validators will re-execute a portion of the completed computational work to verify the pricing basis used in transactions.

Odaily News – Japanese listed company Remixpoint has disclosed that it has sold all of its altcoin holdings as part of efforts to streamline and concentrate its investment portfolio. Going forward, the company will consolidate its holdings and operations into Bitcoin as a single asset. As of the end of August, the company held approximately 14.92 BTC, valued at around $1.0258 million; staked ETH valued at approximately $68,400, and staked SOL valued at approximately $118,500. The assets sold include 901 ETH, 13,920 SOL, 1.19 million XRP, and 2.8 million DOGE, with a total sale amount of approximately $5.5 million and a total profit of around $736,800.

Odaily Odaily News: Nasdaq-listed digital asset treasury company Hyperliquid Strategies has increased its equity funding facility with New York investment bank and broker-dealer Chardan Capital Markets from $1 billion to $2.5 billion. The agreement allows Chardan to purchase newly issued common shares of Hyperliquid Strategies in stages, subject to conditions such as pricing and trading volume, and resell them on the public market.

Hyperliquid Strategies has previously raised $647 million through this funding mechanism and expanded its treasury holdings to approximately 29.3 million HYPE tokens. The $2.5 billion figure represents the maximum capacity of the facility, not the amount already raised; the company's ability to obtain funds by issuing new shares may dilute existing shareholders' equity.

Hyperliquid Strategies stated that although it shares the same name as Hyperliquid and holds its native token, it operates independently and has no affiliation with Hyperliquid. (Cointelegraph)

Odaily News: The Financial Services Commission of Korea stated that it will operate the digital asset TF (Task Force) until 2028 to prepare for the enactment and implementation of the Digital Asset Basic Act, including advancing preparations for subordinate legislation and building the digital asset ecosystem infrastructure.

The Financial Services Commission of Korea noted that the existing digital asset regulatory framework has primarily focused on cracking down on illegal activities and preventing investor losses, with insufficient institutional development in areas such as business conduct, information disclosure, and asset issuance and circulation at the industrial and market levels. The Commission plans to determine the main contents of the Digital Asset Basic Act within 2026 through consultations with the Virtual Asset Committee and deliberations between political parties and the government, and to promote the establishment of a more comprehensive regulatory system.

Korea is advancing the construction of a digital asset-related ecosystem and is expected to improve infrastructure through institutions such as associations. The legislation related to the institutionalization of security tokens (ST) passed the National Assembly review in January 2026 and is expected to take effect in February 2027. The Financial Services Commission will continue to refine the relevant subordinate regulations and supporting systems.