The derivatives market CME Group announced today that it will further expand its cryptocurrency derivatives products and launch Bitcoin Friday Futures (BFF) on September 30th, pending regulatory approval. The size of these new per-period contracts is one-fiftieth of a Bitcoin and will be cash-settled at 4:00 pm New York time every Friday with the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate New York Variable (BRRNY). The new BFF contract will be listed at 6:00 pm New York time every Thursday, with trading dates on Friday, and market participants can trade the two most recent Fridays at any specific time. The Friday expiration allows these contracts to closely track the spot price of Bitcoin and help investors mitigate weekend price fluctuations.

According to Arkham data, at 22:25 Beijing time, Vitalik Buterin's wallet address transferred 199.9 ETH to a Safe multi-signature address (0xC3D).

According to Chain analysis by @ai_9684xtpa, a whale decided to go long during the ETH downtrend in the past four hours and has used leverage to buy 2,738 ETH worth $7.21 million. Currently, the whale holds 2,738 ETH as collateral in Aave and has borrowed 4.6 million USDC with a health factor of 1.28. Due to the ongoing ETH downtrend, the whale is currently facing a loss of $130,000 with a liquidation price of $2,023.

Quidax, an African crypto platform, has become the first in Nigeria to receive a provisional operating license as a digital assets exchange from national regulators. This move is seen as a significant step towards crypto acceptance from the government, which has historically been hostile towards the industry. Quidax co-founder and CEO Buchi Okoro sees the granting of the crypto exchange license as a result of years of collaborative effort that takes time to ensure compliance. Despite the license, relations between the crypto and the SEC remain tense, with the agency warning Nigerians of the risks of investing in crypto assets.

According to The New York Times, reports that Trump plans to appoint Chris Christie and Rudy Giuliani as co-chairs of his transition team.

Ronin announced on social media that the cross-chain bridge, which experienced a security vulnerability incident, has undergone a comprehensive audit and is now ready to be reopened.Previously, due to critical configuration errors, the cross-chain bridge was once stolen 12 million US dollars and was suspended to prevent further fund losses. All funds have now been safely recovered, and white hat hackers have been rewarded with 500,000 US dollars.Currently, the proposal to reopen the cross-chain bridge has been submitted for operator voting, and it is expected to resume service within 10 days without further updates planned.

 CryptoQuant data shows that CEX has experienced a large outflow of Bitcoin this year. From January 1 to August 24, 330,560 BTC (worth $20.8 billion) were withdrawn from these trading platforms. Seven months ago, CEX held a total of 3,009,239 BTC, but it has now dropped to 2,678,679 BTC. If this trend continues, the increasing scarcity of BTC could affect future market stability.

According to Farside Investors, as of the time of publication, the data for the US spot Bitcoin ETF and spot Ethereum ETF (as of August 27) is as follows:

Elon Musk posted on X stating: "Just want to reiterate, this platform is indeed designed to support all viewpoints within the legal scope of each country, even those I strongly disagree with and personally dislike. If X is not doing this, please yell at me (preferably on the X platform)."

According to Pai Shield monitoring, the FTX cold wallet address labeled Cold Storage #2 has transferred 240,200 mSOL (approximately $46.3 million) to Coinbase Prime.

Yuga.eth, a senior software engineer at Coinbase, said that the Coinbase developer platform is developing a new API that aims to empower AI agents with various cryptocurrency-related functions, such as supporting the introduction of US dollars onto the chain, creating MPC wallets, sending USDC for free, achieving instant settlement on Base, and interacting with smart contracts (message signing).

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin, a whale transferred 8,825 ETH ($24 million) into Binance 8 hours ago, incurring a loss of $3.96 million (-14%).The 8,825 ETH was bought at an average price of $3,168 between 7/28-8/4 and sold at a price of $2,719, resulting in a loss of $3.96 million (-14%). The buyer purchased in increments during a dip before the market crashed on 8/5, missing out on the crash and resulting in the loss instead of profit.

DeFi synthetic asset protocol Linear Finance announced on social media that it will soon launch Linear Marketplace, which includes peer-to-peer NFT trading, token sales and other functions. The specific date will be announced tomorrow.

DeFillama data shows that the market value of PayPal's stablecoin PYUSD has exceeded 1 billion US dollars, currently about 1.013 billion US dollars. Among them, the proportion of PYUSD on Solana is 63.96%, and the proportion of PYUSD on Ethereum is 36.04%.

DeFillama data shows that the market value of PayPal's stablecoin PYUSD has exceeded 1 billion US dollars, currently about 1.013 billion US dollars. Among them, the proportion of PYUSD on Solana is 63.96%, and the proportion of PYUSD on Ethereum is 36.04%.

DeFillama data shows that the market value of PayPal's stablecoin PYUSD has exceeded 1 billion US dollars, currently about 1.013 billion US dollars. Among them, the proportion of PYUSD on Solana is 63.96%, and the proportion of PYUSD on Ethereum is 36.04%.

DeFillama data shows that the market value of PayPal's stablecoin PYUSD has exceeded 1 billion US dollars, currently about 1.013 billion US dollars. Among them, the proportion of PYUSD on Solana is 63.96%, and the proportion of PYUSD on Ethereum is 36.04%.

DeFillama data shows that the market value of PayPal's stablecoin PYUSD has exceeded 1 billion US dollars, currently about 1.013 billion US dollars. Among them, the proportion of PYUSD on Solana is 63.96%, and the proportion of PYUSD on Ethereum is 36.04%.

On August 27th, according to the official blog, Lido DAO has introduced an "on-chain delegation and representative incentive plan" through Vote178 and Snapshot voting. The plan establishes a public representative platform, simplifies governance processes, increases participation and decision transparency. The pilot representative incentive plan, which lasts for six months, will provide a total of $150,000 worth of LDO tokens to incentivize active representatives who meet the criteria. Token holders retain full control over voting and can override representative decisions.

Fractal Bitcoin has announced its mainnet release plan and token economics on X platform.Details include:The mainnet is scheduled to launch on September 9th;80% of all tokens will be distributed to the community, with a locked 20% allocated to the team and contributors;The brc-20 on Fractal will be activated at block height 21,000 on the Fractal mainnet;PizzaSwap on Fractal (formerly known as Fractal Swap) will be launched on the testnet this week;Once PizzaSwap is live, the team will begin testing an embedded mini asset bridge, allowing users to transfer BTC and other assets between Bitcoin and Fractal.