Odaily News: Iceland held a referendum on August 30, with 52.8% of voters, totaling 105,339 votes, opposing the restart of EU accession negotiations. This outcome allows Iceland to maintain its status as a member of the European Economic Area (EEA) and remain within the Schengen Agreement framework.

As an EEA member rather than an EU member state, Iceland does not automatically apply the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). Crypto activities are primarily regulated under general financial laws. MiCA is expected to be incorporated into the EEA Agreement in the future, but no official timeline has been set yet. (Bitcoin.com News)

Odaily News: According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Fireblocks Custody (9Ryc...fCxk) has transferred another 30 million Trump-backed USD1 to Binance over the past 15 hours.

Odaily News According to the latest data from Dune, on August 29, gmgn terminal's single-day trading volume on Robinhood Chain surpassed fomo, reaching $115 million and capturing 41.2% of the market, ranking first on Robinhood Chain. Meanwhile, fomo terminal's trading volume was approximately $100 million, holding a 36% market share.

Odaily News: Ahead of SoftBank-backed SB Energy's planned IPO, the company offered OpenAI a substantial incentive to secure the AI firm as a tenant for its data centers. According to IPO draft documents, OpenAI has obtained warrants valued at approximately $5.5 billion from SB Energy, following OpenAI's prior investment in the company.

SB Energy is expected to publicly file its IPO documents as early as this week. The company is working with bankers and could launch its IPO as soon as next month, targeting a fundraising amount of $5 billion to $7 billion. Currently, SB Energy's data center client base consists of companies that are also its investors. The documents show that SoftBank and OpenAI plan to become tenants in three of SB Energy's data centers. A fourth data center in Schleicher County, Texas, with an installed capacity of 900 megawatts, has yet to secure a client. (The Wall Street Journal)

Odaily News: According to official sources, Hyperliquid has launched Pons perpetual contract trading, supporting up to 3x leverage.

Odaily News: Han Xinyi, CEO of Ant Group and Chairman of Alipay, stated at the China Payment and Clearing Forum that AI payments have largely formed four exploration paths: The first is payment technology and infrastructure platforms represented by Stripe; the second is represented by cryptocurrency companies such as Circle and Coinbase, which primarily rely on stablecoins and their wallet systems, using cryptocurrency as a payment medium to directly support automated machine-to-machine payment scenarios; the third is traditional payment networks represented by Visa and Mastercard; and the fourth is AI platform companies represented by Google and OpenAI.

According to GMGN data, Robinhood ecosystem token CLAN briefly surpassed a $9.5 million market cap, setting a new all-time high. It is currently reported at approximately $8.7 million, with a 24-hour increase of over 110%.

It is understood that the CLAN-related project clan.tech focuses on trading "Clan Keys." Holders can gain access to corresponding private chat rooms to interact with other traders.

Odaily reminds users that this token is highly volatile and susceptible to market sentiment and trending events. Please be aware of trading risks.

Odaily reported that according to Bank of America data, crypto funds saw inflows of $3.2 billion last week, the largest since October 2025. (Cointelegraph)

Odaily News: Anatoly Popov, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board at Sberbank, Russia's largest bank, stated that the country's compliant crypto trading is expected to reach at least 4 trillion rubles (approximately $46.43 billion) in its first year. The bank projects that as investors shift toward the official trading system, this figure could grow to approximately 7.5 trillion rubles (around $87.06 billion) by 2029.

He noted that the majority of crypto trading volume will still flow outside the regulated exchange system, with only about 20% of trading volume—amounting to 3.5 trillion to 4 trillion rubles per year—expected to be conducted through exchanges in the first year. The relevant framework will take effect on September 1, allowing investors to legally purchase crypto assets through brokers.

Non-qualified investors will be permitted to purchase up to 300,000 rubles in crypto assets annually through a single licensed intermediary, and must pass a risk awareness test; qualified investors have a higher annual cap of 3 million rubles. Official exchanges will initially only be allowed to trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT, with all other altcoins excluded; exchanges must complete their registration by July 1, 2027. (Bitcoin.com News)

Odaily News, August 31 — B.AI platform's full free access campaign for cutting-edge large models continues to operate at high intensity, with the platform's cumulative token throughput officially surpassing the historic milestone of 5.74 trillion (5T+). Under the rigorous demands of massive concurrent requests and heavy Agent tasks, B.AI's industrial-grade infrastructure has demonstrated exceptionally stable carrying capacity. Currently, the platform has assembled six top-tier models, including GLM-5.3-Flash (Ox Alpha), Qwen3.8-Flash, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp, Tencent Hy3, and Xiaomi MiMo-V2.5, all available to users with zero barriers and unlimited free access, covering diverse scenarios such as code generation, ultra-long text processing, multimodal visual understanding, and Agent workflow deployment.

From now on, users who log in to the B.AI platform can access the full suite of cutting-edge models at zero cost, with seamless integration of unlimited computing power, allowing every developer and AI enthusiast to truly enjoy "computing freedom."

Odaily News, according to Front Office Sports, the US Open has partnered with Kalshi, making Kalshi the exclusive prediction market partner of the US Open, with specific terms not yet disclosed. Sources say the US Open had originally planned to consider a prediction market partnership starting next year, but Craig Tiley, who took office as CEO of the United States Tennis Association (USTA) in February this year, pushed for the two parties to reach an agreement ahead of schedule.

Under the agreement, the USTA will block other prediction market platforms from advertising at US Open venues and during television broadcasts, including event broadcaster ESPN. Kalshi has already launched prediction markets related to the US Open, and as of Sunday afternoon, its women's singles champion market had a trading volume of approximately $1.5 million. (Front Office Sports)

Odaily News: Barclays expects the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates by 25 basis points each in September and December this year, compared with its previous forecast of keeping rates unchanged.

Odaily News - Polymarket trader "xm39" has continued to increase positions on geopolitical conflict-related prediction events on Polymarket, placing three separate buys totaling 274,500 shares on the U.S. invading Iran before 2027, filled at probabilities of 14%, 15%, and 16%, with an investment of approximately $41,700.

Currently, xm39 holds a cumulative total of 642,300 Yes shares, with a total cost of approximately $127,100 and an unrealized loss of roughly $27,600.

Additionally, its associated address also added approximately 28,400 WTI short contracts against the market trend, with a trading volume of around $2.401 million. As oil prices continued to rise, the address closed out all 107,400 short contracts at 9:01 AM, with an average closing price of approximately $84.86, recording a realized loss of roughly $131,500. Just about 10 minutes later, its trading direction flipped from short to long. The address subsequently bought approximately 64,700 WTI contracts consecutively and currently holds about $5.531 million in long positions with 20x full margin, with an unrealized profit of around $18,200, a margin return rate of approximately 6.6%, and a liquidation price of about $64.88.

Odaily News According to SoSoValue data, during last week's trading days (August 24 to August 28, Eastern Time), HYPE spot ETF recorded net inflows of $56.8551 million.

The HYPE spot ETF with the highest net inflows last week was Bitwise ETF BHYP, with weekly net inflows of $41.6763 million. BHYP's total historical net inflows currently stand at $156 million; followed by 21Shares ETF THYP, with weekly net inflows of $7.9350 million, bringing THYP's total historical net inflows to $56.58 million.

As of press time, the total net asset value of HYPE spot ETFs is $439 million, with an ETF net asset ratio (market cap relative to HYPE's total market cap) of 2.47%, and cumulative historical net inflows have reached $344 million.

Odaily News: According to SoSoValue data, during last week's trading days (August 24 to August 28, Eastern Time), XRP spot ETFs recorded net inflows of $110 million.

The XRP spot ETF with the highest net inflows last week was the Bitwise ETF XRP, with weekly net inflows of $59.9459 million, bringing XRP's historical total net inflows to $603 million; followed by Franklin Templeton's ETF XRPZ, with weekly net inflows of $28.7006 million, bringing XRPZ's historical total net inflows to $463 million.

As of press time, the total net asset value of XRP spot ETFs stands at $1.44 billion, with an ETF net asset ratio (market value as a percentage of XRP's total market cap) of 1.66%, and historical cumulative net inflows have reached $1.66 billion.

Odaily News According to SoSoValue data, during last week's trading days (August 24 to August 28, Eastern Time), SOL spot ETFs recorded net inflows of $154 million.

The SOL spot ETF with the highest net inflows last week was Bitwise ETF BSOL, with weekly net inflows of $99.4743 million, bringing BSOL's total historical net inflows to $1.02 billion; followed by Grayscale's SOL Trust GSOL, with weekly net inflows of $18.5982 million, bringing GSOL's total historical net inflows to $131 million.

As of press time, the total net asset value of SOL spot ETFs stood at $1.43 billion, with the ETF net asset ratio (market cap as a percentage of SOL's total market cap) reaching 2.35%, and cumulative historical net inflows reaching $1.34 billion.