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Gate Research Institute released a thematic report on Robinhood Chain. The report points out that Robinhood Chain aims for tokenized stocks, ETFs, and other RWAs as its long-term direction, but in the early stages of the mainnet launch, growth is primarily driven by Meme, Launchpad, and Uniswap trading, forming a structure where RWA serves as a long-term asset endpoint and Meme acts as a short-term liquidity engine. The high turnover of popular tokens such as CASHCAT and PONS reflects that the market is pricing around the Robinhood brand, on-chain retail trading culture, and launch platform traffic.The report also believes that Gate DEX's comprehensive access to Robinhood Chain supplements the ecosystem's external multi-chain entry points. In the early development stage of Robinhood Chain, AMMs like Uniswap mainly undertake price discovery and liquidity formation for on-chain assets, while Gate DEX complements the inflow paths for external funds and users through asset discovery, trading entry, and cross-chain capabilities. Gate Alpha supports the discovery and trading of ecosystem assets and multiple launch platforms, while Gate Wallet, Swap, professional trading, and market modules simultaneously cover this network; relying on Across and LayerZero, users can conduct cross-chain exchanges between BSC, Ethereum, Base, and Robinhood Chain. Overall, Gate DEX mainly undertakes asset distribution and fund routing functions within the ecosystem, helping Robinhood Chain connect with a broader multi-chain user base by lowering the operational threshold for users to discover assets, enter cross-chain, and participate in trading.

Syscoin released a bridge security incident report, disclosing details of the UTXO-to-NEVM bridge vulnerability incident, which reportedly led to approximately 5 billion SYS being unauthorizedly released on the UTXO side. The related funds have since been returned to the official recovery address and destroyed through the standard OP_RETURN method, making them unusable by the protocol again. The on-chain reported SYS supply has been restored to the expected value, and the bridge function remains suspended while the team completes the final review and fixes.Syscoin pointed out that it will fix the cross-layer parsing defects. The core lesson from this incident is that cross-layer systems must uniformly standardize data processing, and any ambiguous bridge proof should be considered a default failure.

Syscoin released a bridge security incident report, disclosing details of the UTXO-to-NEVM bridging vulnerability incident. It is reported that this incident led to approximately 5 billion SYS being unauthorizedly released on the UTXO side. The related funds have since been returned to the official recovery address and destroyed through the standard OP_RETURN method, making them unusable by the protocol again, and the on-chain reported SYS supply has been restored to the expected value. The bridging function is currently still suspended, and the team is completing the final review and repair.

This morning, Strategy founder Michael Saylor proposed the concept of "Modern Digital Asset Stack," believing that Bitcoin is not only digital capital but will also become the underlying foundation for financial products such as digital credit, digital money, digital yield, and digital equity, driving Bitcoin's evolution from a single asset to a global financial architecture.Saylor stated that Bitcoin does not require protocol modifications, staking, or issuance increases, and its volatility can be transformed into yield-generating products through capital structure. Among them, digital credit represented by STRC-type products can provide yields, while digital money can build stable value instruments with a yield of about 6%-8% by combining Bitcoin-supported credit assets with cash equivalents.He believes that in the future, stablecoins, payment networks, wallets, exchanges, and DeFi protocols can all operate based on Bitcoin-supported capital structures, providing digital capital, yield products, and stable value assets for investors with different risk preferences.Saylor emphasized that Bitcoin will still maintain a fixed supply cap of 21 million coins, and the vast majority of innovations should occur at the levels of custody, securities, credit, payment systems, and capital markets, rather than changing the Bitcoin protocol itself, stating, "Bitcoin is digital capital, and the world will build a financial system on top of Bitcoin."

According to a message posted by Aave founder Stani Kulechov on X, Aave V4 is being gradually launched in phases, introducing a brand new dual-layer isolation market architecture. This architecture separates collateral into independent Hubs, with each Hub further divided into Spokes, implementing selective cap control for liquidity sharing between the Spokes within each Hub.The initial market structure is organized around three Hubs: Prime, Core, and Plus, with more Hubs expected to be launched in subsequent phases. This architecture achieves more refined collateral isolation and liquidity supply management compared to Aave's previous market design. The phased launch allows Aave to progressively deploy V4 while continuously monitoring performance and risk parameters under the new market structure before a full launch.

Messari's latest Pulse report provides an in-depth analysis of the early implementation progress of the Bitget AI trading system. The report points out that Bitget has built a four-layer AI product architecture that includes GetAgent (market analysis), GetClaw (autonomous execution), Agent Hub (developer access), and Gracy AI (strategy interaction). Data shows that Gracy AI attracted over 460,000 users just 11 days after its launch, generating more than 2.6 million replies and achieving an exposure of 390 million; GetAgent has surpassed 450,000 registered users, achieving over 100 million exposures during its early invitation testing phase and accumulating more than 25,000 waiting users.Messari emphasizes the infrastructure capabilities of Agent Hub in the report, noting that Bitget is currently the only trading platform that supports a complete calling system for MCP Server, REST/WebSocket API, Skills, and CLI. Currently, Agent Hub has integrated 5 analytical AI Skills and over 15 data tools, covering macro, technical, sentiment, and intelligence analysis comprehensively. The execution layer, GetClaw, builds a risk control defense line through sub-account isolation, sandbox drills, and funding limits, and has now integrated with Telegram, with plans to expand to Discord and app platforms in the future.Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated that AI is becoming a core component of modern trading infrastructure, and early data indicates that users increasingly expect a complete integration of analysis, execution, and strategy within a single platform. Bitget is committed to lowering the professional trading threshold through AI technology, providing institutional-level trading experiences and decision support for 150 million users worldwide.

In response to the recent Kelp DAO cross-chain bridge attack, Ondo Finance stated on the X platform that Ondo Bridge is currently operating safely, with no financial losses or abnormal events.Ondo Bridge is also built on LayerZero and employs a customized security architecture consisting of four independent decentralized verification networks (DVN), namely FCAT, LayerZero Labs, Canary, and Ondo's self-developed verifier. Even if a single DVN encounters issues, the security of the transfers can still be guaranteed.

Aave founder Stani Kulechov tweeted that Aave respects Chaos Labs' decision to withdraw from its risk management role and thanks them for their contributions over the past years. The smart contracts, asset listings, and network deployments of the Aave protocol are not affected, and both parties will maintain close cooperation during the withdrawal process.Aave currently employs a dual-layer economic risk management model, jointly managed by Chaos Labs and LlamaRisk. Given the scale of the Aave protocol, it will continue to maintain the dual-layer model in the future and additionally add a technical risk layer managed by Aave Labs. Aave Labs will work closely with LlamaRisk to ensure that risk coverage remains uninterrupted during the transition and to support LlamaRisk in increasing its budget and team size.

According to the official announcement, the globally leading digital asset trading platform Gate has announced a partnership with the Ethereum Layer2 network Abstract and the DeFi protocol Aborean Finance deployed on that chain, launching a liquidity incentive campaign called "Gate Abstract Incentive Carnival" aimed at the Abstract ecosystem. This program revolves around the GTBTC/GUSD liquidity pool, integrating transaction fee sharing, $ABX governance token rewards, and ecological XP incentive mechanisms, constructing a multi-layered revenue structure of "transaction fees + tokens + ecological points" to strengthen the platform's capabilities in on-chain liquidity and multi-chain collaboration.According to the rules, users can obtain LP certificates and share transaction fees after adding liquidity on Gate. If they choose to stake in Aborean, they can receive governance token rewards; during the event, they can also earn double XP and exclusive badges from the Abstract ecosystem. This collaboration precisely matches wallet binding and on-chain incentives, enhancing reward transparency and verifiability, and under the backdrop of the maturation of account abstraction and Layer2 infrastructure, it forms a new exploration direction in multi-chain collaboration and on-chain incentive mechanism design.

The digital asset trading platform Gate officially launched Gate for AI, introducing the industry's first unified AI entry point that integrates five major capabilities—CEX, DEX, wallets, real-time information, and on-chain data—under the same interface system.Gate for AI adopts a dual-layer capability structure. In this architecture, MCP provides standardized basic interfaces, covering functions such as market data, account information, trade execution, and on-chain data queries, enabling AI to quickly access and utilize platform capabilities; Skills encapsulates higher-level strategy modules based on this, such as market scanning, position range assessment, and risk analysis, helping AI make more complex trading decisions.In addition, Gate for AI supports multi-platform calls, lowering the usage threshold and catering to users with different needs. This release marks the upgrade of the exchange's capabilities from interface products to directly callable AI infrastructure, pushing digital asset trading into the era of Agent-native.

Vitalik Buterin proposed the main patterns for the future of on-chain mechanism design: mechanisms similar to prediction markets that maximize openness and accountability (anyone can buy and sell, good decisions make money, bad decisions lose money), suitable for being a "decentralized execution layer"; decentralized, diversified, non-tokenized preference settings (anonymous voting, preferably MACI to prevent collusion), maximizing intrinsic motivation space, avoiding token holders from monopolizing control. Prediction markets are the best primitive for achieving "decentralized governance."

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the Horizen blockchain has migrated its native token ZEN from the original L1 main chain to the Base chain and converted it into a standard ERC-20 token as part of its Horizen 2.0 three-layer privacy application chain deployment. The total supply of ZEN remains unchanged at 21 million.The project team stated that this is the first step for Horizen to restart its ecosystem with a focus on privacy. Previously, Coinbase announced that it would automatically complete the conversion from the main chain ZEN to the Base chain ERC-20 token for users.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, market analyst Omkar Godbole stated that the Bitcoin market is exhibiting a unique "iceberg" phenomenon: while the surface market shows a seller-dominated trend, deep buying power is continuously accumulating. At the quote level (0%) and within the 1% depth range, trades dominated by market makers show significant selling pressure; however, in the deeper price range of 2% to 5%, the number of buy orders exceeds sell orders and continues to grow, indicating that off-exchange funds are positioning at lower price levels.Order Book Depth data shows that the market has the capacity to absorb large orders at stable prices. Currently, Bitcoin is quoted at $94,000, and the market is closely watching the upcoming U.S. non-farm payroll data for guidance on the trend of risk assets.

ChainCatcher news, the world's first seven-layer protocol CXC has been launched on ave at 15:15 Beijing time on August 26.The CXC seven-layer protocol introduces advanced smart contract technology, an efficient consensus mechanism, and more secure encryption algorithms, significantly enhancing transaction efficiency and security, and is committed to providing innovative financial products and services for crypto enthusiasts.In addition, CXC is leading DeFi into the 5.0 era by lowering participation thresholds through peer-to-peer trading and instant transfers, while offering a more user-friendly interface and a complete ecosystem.