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Bitcoin Magazine reported that the CEO of the retirement account platform iTrustCapital, which has a scale of 1.3 billion dollars, stated that over 50% of the company's clients are buying Bitcoin.The CEO mentioned that investors have been continuously allocating since the price of Bitcoin fell to a low of 58,000 dollars.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Citigroup has reached a partnership with Coinbase, allowing Citigroup's institutional clients (including large multinational corporations) to accept customer stablecoin payments through Citigroup's merchant acquiring services. Coinbase will provide the stablecoin payment channel and underlying blockchain technology, automatically converting stablecoins into fiat currency, with Citigroup acting as the custodian bank to complete the funds settlement.At the same time, Coinbase's payment clients can leverage Citigroup's banking capabilities to receive, hold, and make payments using tools similar to bank accounts. The cash received will automatically be converted into stablecoins and stored in Coinbase, currently earning an annualized reward of 3.75% in interest-like benefits.

According to CoinDesk, the crypto technology provider Haruko was targeted in a cyber attack earlier this week, affecting 15 clients. The attack exposed clients' read-only exchange API details and trading data. According to insiders, some hedge fund clients with weaker security protections may have had a small amount of funds stolen.Adam Carlile, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Haruko, stated in an email sent to clients that this was a targeted attack initiated by an organization, and the affected clients were all non-whitelisted clients. The attackers exploited a vulnerability in one of Haruko's processes to extract user access tokens, thereby obtaining data such as read-only exchange API information stored in process memory; clients' login credentials were not compromised. Haruko has fixed the vulnerability and refreshed the server-side keys, and plans to release a complete technical review report.Based in London, Haruko provides portfolio, risk management, and trading data infrastructure for institutional digital asset companies. The platform connects centralized exchanges, custodians, blockchains, and DeFi protocols, currently serving over 80 clients globally and integrating with more than 100 centralized trading platforms, 30 blockchains, and 250 on-chain protocols. Its listed clients include Bitcoin Suisse, GSR, Flowdesk, 3iQ Digital Assets, M2, among others, with GSR stating that it was not affected by this incident.

According to The Block, Grayscale's research director Zach Pandl stated that the approximately $58,000 low reached around June 30 remains his assessment of the bottom of the current bear market phase, and Grayscale is currently advising clients to allocate Bitcoin.Pandl mentioned in an interview with The Block during the Avalanche summit in New York that they have maintained the view that $58,000 is the bottom of this bear market phase for the past few months. This assessment echoes the comments made by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, who stated on September 10 that Bitcoin has bottomed out in the current cycle and expects a sustained upward trend for the next two years.Pandl stated that Grayscale uses a three-part framework to assess whether clients should allocate Bitcoin, including long-term structural trends, market cycle phases, and macro context. He believes that all three conditions are currently met, thus giving clients the "green light" to allocate Bitcoin. As of Thursday morning, Bitcoin was above $76,000, up 0.8% in 24 hours, but still down about 39% from its historical high of approximately $126,000.Pandl also compared Bitcoin with Zcash, noting that Grayscale has offered investment products for Zcash for about nine years. He believes that Zcash occupies an "underutilized and unexplored design space," rather than directly competing with Bitcoin, and pointed out that as artificial intelligence becomes more powerful, privacy issues are receiving more attention, with Zcash providing investors a way to express their views on personal and financial privacy.

Kraken's parent company Payward plans to offer on-chain perpetual futures to U.S. customers through the decentralized perpetual contract platform Hyperliquid. Bitnomial will deploy and clear the HIP-3 market, while NinjaTrader Clearing will host customer accounts.Payward stated that this will be the first registered U.S. exchange and clearinghouse to deploy a market on Hyperliquid.

According to Bloomberg, Deutsche Bank has announced the launch of a digital asset custody service, planning to provide secure custody and transfer functions for Bitcoin, Ether, and some stablecoins for institutional and corporate clients, with plans to expand to tokenized financial instruments in the future. The service is initially aimed at German clients and is pending regulatory approval.Deutsche Bank is primarily targeting asset management companies, hedge funds, custodians, brokerages, sovereign institutions, and corporate clients, while also viewing digital asset companies as a third target customer group. The report noted that European banks such as UniCredit are also evaluating the expansion of digital asset custody and brokerage services.

On-chain analysis platform Arkham stated that Invesco has the longest continuous record of ETH holdings in any ETF. Invesco's clients have not net sold ETH in the past 6 months, with the last sale occurring on March 19, 2026.

Ramp's data head Ara Kharazian posted that Ramp's latest data shows that AI company revenues are highly dependent on a small number of clients, with 80% of OpenAI and Anthropic's corporate revenue coming from 1% of clients, and this situation has not improved.Kharazian stated that this level of concentration risk is not seen in any other software category he tracks, with the top 1% of client companies heavily skewed towards the technology sector and AI products and services, especially as OpenAI and Anthropic approach their IPOs.

According to The Information, OpenAI has recently started offering a new payment method to some major clients in the past few months, where clients only pay after the AI has actually completed the tasks.The scenarios that have been implemented so far include customer service, where companies can pay based on the actual customer service tasks completed by the AI, rather than simply billing by Token, usage volume, or number of seats. OpenAI has not disclosed specific clients, unit prices, or the criteria for determining "task completion," and has declined to comment on this. This is not a new package available to all companies; the current public pricing on the official website for Enterprise still primarily charges based on quotas and Tokens, so this results-based billing seems more like a contract negotiated separately for certain major clients.In January of this year, OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar suggested that future AI business models would adopt results-based billing. In July, OpenAI further stated that instead of focusing on the unit price per Token, it should be considered how much it actually costs for the AI to complete a task, and this line of thinking has now begun to enter real contracts.

Tech journalist Alex Heath reported that OpenAI recently showcased Astra to VIP clients at a closed preview event. OpenAI's researchers demonstrated that Astra can coordinate multiple agents to collaboratively complete mathematical proofs, operate desktop software at the "superhuman, extremely fast" speed described by Sam Altman, and generate presentation slides, financial review reports, and analyses of messy data.Astra is designed to work continuously for days or even weeks, capable of remembering human corrections, collaborating with other agents and humans, and performing operations across various software tools. Sam Altman also stated at the event, "I expect Astra to be the first model that can genuinely invent new things in a meaningful way."

According to Arkham monitoring, Fidelity clients have net purchased $413.1 million in Bitcoin over the past 9 days, maintaining a net buying position on each trading day.Since the launch of the Bitcoin spot ETF, Fidelity clients have accumulated a total purchase of over $10 billion in Bitcoin.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stated that although the industry is shifting towards developing custom chips, cutting-edge AI laboratories will remain long-term customers of NVIDIA.

NVIDIA (NVDA.O) Chief Financial Officer stated that the company is a neutral partner for all sovereign AI clients and new AI cloud service providers.

According to monitoring disclosed by Arkham, Bitwise clients have continuously purchased SOL for 5 days, with the latest day's purchase scale of approximately 25 million USD. Since the launch of the BSOL ETF, Bitwise clients' cumulative net purchases of SOL have reached 948 million USD.Arkham pointed out that Bitwise-related funds continue to increase their holdings of SOL and are paying attention to whether this week's net purchase scale is expected to further approach the 1 billion USD mark. BSOL is the Solana spot ETF-related product launched by Bitwise.

Citi plans to offer Bitcoin custody services for institutional clients through its Custody+ platform later this year. This service will integrate Bitcoin with traditional assets such as stocks and bonds within the same custody framework, allowing clients to access custody, settlement, foreign exchange, cash, and liquidity services through a single system. Bitcoin will be the first digital asset supported by Citi's new custody service, and Citi has not yet announced a specific launch date or the list of initial clients.Custody+ is launched by Citi Investor Services, and Citi's custody business covers over 100 markets, operating its own custody network in 62 markets. Citi states that its goal is for banks to self-custody native digital assets rather than relying solely on external exchanges or other digital asset companies. The project has been in development for about two to three years, with Citi first disclosing related plans in 2025. Custody+ will provide real-time settlement, foreign exchange services, automated hedging, cash management, and liquidity tools. The Single Event Processing in its custody system currently processes over 80% of event volume in real-time; in the U.S., this system has reduced the processing time for some voluntary corporate actions by up to 92%, with 96% of related events completed within two hours. Chris Cox, head of Citi Investor Services, stated that Citi invests over $2 billion annually in its Services platform.

According to Arkham monitoring, BlackRock clients have just purchased $122 million worth of ETH, marking the largest single purchase in nearly 7 months.Data shows that BlackRock's previous largest single ETH purchase occurred on January 15 of this year, when the purchase size reached $149 million. This purchase size is second only to that transaction.

According to Arkham monitoring data, Fidelity clients have purchased approximately $134 million in Bitcoin over the past two days. This is the most aggressive two-day net buying performance by institutional clients since early July.Related data shows that this buying scale is significantly higher than the recent average, raising market concerns about whether institutional demand is warming up again. Arkham points out that the Bitcoin allocation trends of Fidelity clients are often seen as an important reference for observing the capital flows of traditional financial institutions.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Cantor Fitzgerald plans to open the Kalshi prediction market to its approximately 3,000 institutional clients, including family offices and hedge funds, allowing them to trade event contracts related to weather, commodities, and corporate performance. Susquehanna International Group will provide quotes and liquidity for the related trades.Cantor will act as a broker, buying and selling large event contracts for clients and may distribute related positions to other investors through private negotiations. Cantor Co-CEO Pascal Bandelier stated that hedge funds have expressed interest in trading event contracts linked to iPhone sales, rather than indirectly betting on volume changes through Apple's stock price; family offices are focused on using contracts related to weather, crop yields, and oil prices for risk hedging.Joe Grubb, Head of Business Development at Susquehanna Predictions, mentioned that AI supply chain risks and computing power prices could also become application scenarios for the prediction market. Institutional clients can also propose new market themes based on their needs, and the relevant companies have discussed the types of contracts they hope to launch with investors.Kalshi has been intensifying its efforts to expand institutional clients in recent months, having completed its first large transaction this year and reached a partnership with Interactive Brokers. Max Crowley, Vice President of Business Development at Kalshi, stated that there is already a demand from institutions for hedging specific event risks.

According to the Daily Economic News, following the requirement to confirm that the source of funds for new account openings comes from legal overseas channels, some banks in Hong Kong have begun to initiate a source of funds declaration process for certain existing mainland investment clients. HSBC Hong Kong has recently started notifying some existing mainland investment clients, requiring them to submit the "Declaration for Opening/Maintaining Accounts" through the HSBC Hong Kong App by September 12 and to update their contact information.The declaration includes confirming that the funds for investment activities come from legal sources outside mainland China, and that the bank may disclose personal information at the request of law enforcement or regulatory agencies. The notice also mentioned that if the declaration is not submitted by August 20, investment-related services may be suspended; if it is still not submitted by September 12, investment-related services may be terminated.An HSBC spokesperson responded that they will follow relevant regulatory requirements when managing investment client relationships, thus inviting relevant mainland Chinese investors to provide self-declarations and confirm that the information provided in their "Know Your Customer" and "Customer Due Diligence" processes is current and valid, which helps to continuously provide uninterrupted services to clients. HSBC emphasized that this latest declaration requirement applies only to investment service clients.