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Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has announced that it has opened U.S. stock trading services to European users. Eligible users can now buy and sell U.S. stocks directly through the Kraken platform, further expanding its traditional financial asset trading product line.In recent years, Kraken has continuously promoted compliance and product diversification. While providing cryptocurrency trading, it has gradually introduced traditional securities such as stocks and ETFs to meet the demand of European users for one-stop investment services.

The decentralized AI infrastructure network DGrid AI announced the $DGAI token economic model, with a total supply of 1 billion $DGAI tokens. Of this, 50% will be allocated to node network operations and node incentives, 15% will be allocated to community growth and ecological participation, 10% will be allocated to team incentives and long-term development, 10% will be allocated to early investors, 8% will be allocated to airdrop rewards, and 7% will be allocated to initial liquidity and secondary market support.According to previous news, DGrid AI opened the $DGAI airdrop eligibility inquiry and application channel on August 17, and the window will remain open until 16:00 Beijing time on August 22.

On August 18, WEEX announced that it will implement 0 fee trading for all spot pairs in the bStocks area, with all participants receiving 100% rewards and a chance to share a $100,000 prize pool. Activity period: 8/17 20:00 - 8/24 19:59:59 (UTC+8).During the event, all users who complete any spot transaction in the bStocks area will receive a 10 USDT bonus. If the cumulative spot trading volume is ≥ 2,000 USDT, they can share a bonus of 25,000 USDT based on their trading volume proportion.

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) warns that changes to the Gas model in the Glamsterdam upgrade may cause some wallets, indexers, and Gas estimation tools to become ineffective. The EF Protocol DevOps team stated that tools relying on hard-coded maximum Gas limits will fail, and developers need to update relevant systems and test on the Plataberget public testnet.Plataberget went live on August 13 and is planned to run for several months. The Glamsterdam fork is scheduled to activate on the Ethereum network on Thursday, followed by deployment to the Sepolia and Hoodi testnets. EIP-8037 will introduce an independent state Gas dimension for operations that create new states. Transferring ETH to existing accounts will still require 21,000 Gas, while transferring to new accounts will incur additional state Gas; developers should also re-evaluate software that considers 21,000 Gas as the total cost for all ETH transfers or only uses a single Gas dimension to estimate transaction fees.

Ondo posted on platform X that tokenized stocks are making history. A buy transaction worth $2,328,595.73 for QQQon has been completed on Ethereum in a single transaction.Ondo stated that this seven-figure execution was achieved exclusively on Ondo Stocks. Ondo is a platform focused on the tokenization of real-world assets, and its Ondo Stocks product supports the trading of traditional financial assets like U.S. stocks in tokenized form on-chain.

Coinbase announced the launch of the US500 perpetual contract product, allowing users to go long or short on the overall performance of the 500 largest companies by market capitalization in the United States through a single contract. This product is designed to provide traders with a convenient tool for exposure to U.S. stock index risk without the need to trade individual component stocks separately.The US500 perpetual contract supports leveraged trading, enabling users to express their bullish or bearish views on the overall performance of large U.S. companies in a more efficient manner. Coinbase continues to expand its product line of derivatives and traditional financial assets to meet the diverse trading needs of institutional and retail users.

According to official news, the Gate stock derivatives section will launch on August 18 at 14:00 (UTC+8) with perpetual contract trading for SHENHUA (China Shenhua 601088.SH), YANGTZE (Yangtze Power 600900.SH), HYGON (Haiguang Information 688041.SH), MIDEA (Midea Group 000333.SZ), BEIGENE (BeiGene 688235.SH), MOUTAI (Kweichow Moutai 600519.SH), HENGRUI (Hengrui Medicine 600276.SH), BIWIN (Biwin Storage 688525.SH), DEMINGLI (Demingli 001309.SZ), and TAIJI (Taiji Industry 600667.SH) (settled in USDT), supporting 1-20x leverage.In addition, Gate will hold the 15th phase of the new coin airdrop event for the stock derivatives section from August 18 at 16:00 to August 27 at 16:00 (UTC+8). New users who complete their first contract trade will receive 5 USDT; daily trading volume of the participating coins can accumulate up to 35 USDT; trading the participating coins will share a prize pool of 30,000 USDT. The total prize pool for the event is 50,000 USDT, with a maximum of 240 USDT that can be claimed by a single person.

According to Bloomberg, the U.S. Department of Justice is conducting an antitrust investigation into Silicon Valley's top venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), focusing on its partners serving on the boards of multiple AI companies that are in competition with each other—co-founder Ben Horowitz serves on the board of Databricks, and partner Martin Casado serves on the board of Fivetran, with both companies competing in the data processing field.Casado previously also served on the board of dbt labs (acquired by Fivetran in June). This investigation has been ongoing for nearly a year, starting with the antitrust review of Fivetran's acquisition of dbt labs. Although the acquisition has been unconditionally approved, the investigation into the board positions continues. Such investigations typically end with board members resigning. a16z has close ties to the Trump administration, with both founders donating millions to the Trump campaign in 2024 and successfully pushing for the weakening of safety barriers in AI policy. a16z manages assets totaling $90 billion and recently raised a $15 billion fund, with a portfolio that includes SpaceX, OpenAI, and Cursor, among others.

According to the official announcement, to meet the diverse investment needs of users, Bitget has launched perpetual contracts for 3 stocks and ETFs: GDX (Gold Mining ETF), NET (Cloudflare), and LYTE (Photonics and Optical ETF).The above contracts are all settled in USDT, supporting up to 20 times leverage and 24/7 trading. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 276 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

Websea officially announced the launch of the Proof of Reserves (PoR) mechanism on August 18, using a Merkle tree scheme to publicly disclose platform reserve data, while also opening up open-source verification tools. Users can view verification dates, covered currencies, user asset balances, on-chain wallet balances, wallet address files, and historical reports, as well as download personal verification data to locally verify whether their assets are fully accounted for in the platform reserves.According to the introduction, the reserve ratio is the ratio of the platform's on-chain assets to the total user assets, and a reserve ratio of no less than 100% means that the assets held on-chain by the platform are not less than the total amount of user assets. Websea stated that it will continue to update reserve data periodically, promoting asset transparency and the construction of a user self-verification mechanism.

Consumer-grade blockchain Abstract announces the launch of Builder XP, an extension of its XP system, aimed at rewarding builders who contribute to the Abstract ecosystem. This mechanism allocates Builder XP weekly based on the project's overall impact on the chain.Builder XP will further incentivize developers and project parties to continue building, promoting the development of the Abstract ecosystem. Abstract is created by the Pudgy Penguins team, focusing on consumer-grade crypto applications and on-chain experiences.

Blockchain project Linera announced on social media that its token ticker is $LNRA. Linera is a Layer 1 network aimed at high throughput and real-time applications, utilizing a microchains-based architecture designed for parallel execution and low-latency interactions.Currently, the official announcement only discloses the token code information and has not yet synchronized the details of the token economics, total supply, distribution method, and launch trading time.

According to official news, GoPlus announced a comprehensive upgrade of DeepScan, launching an AI-based smart contract security solution. GoPlus stated that as hackers begin to leverage AI to dig deeper into contract vulnerabilities, the traditional "one-time audit, go live and it's done" security model is struggling to cope with the continuously evolving attack risks.DeepScan constructs a complete security closed loop around the entire lifecycle of smart contracts, consisting of AI contract auditing, continuous security monitoring, and Token security self-checks, providing ongoing security assurance for developers, project parties, and trading platforms. Among them, AI contract auditing can analyze contract source code, permission management, and business logic based on AI deep analysis, identifying security risks such as syntax vulnerabilities and business logic vulnerabilities, and outputting a structured audit report that includes security scores, key findings, problem details, and remediation suggestions. Continuous security monitoring targets contracts that are already live and have completed audits, tracking newly disclosed vulnerabilities, on-chain attack events, and changes in external dependencies such as oracles and cross-chain bridges in real-time, and using AI to determine whether the project is affected, conducting timely reviews and alerts. Token security self-checks are aimed at projects that are about to be launched or applying for listing, quickly detecting risks such as P2P pools/honeypots, malicious issuance permissions, blacklist mechanisms, abnormal transaction taxes, Owner permissions, and transaction restrictions.In addition, the GoPlus DeepScan team also released an open-source Benchmark dataset built on real smart contract attack events, used to assess AI's actual capabilities in vulnerability identification, attack path understanding, contextual reasoning, and audit stability. Currently, it has included nearly a hundred typical attack events since May 2025 and continues to be updated. GoPlus stated that DeepScan can be used for low-cost security scanning by developers, security reviews before project launches, and continuous monitoring during operations, while also serving as a supplement to security assessments before listing on trading platforms, helping all parties to more promptly identify new vulnerabilities and attack risks.

Robinhood announced that Agentic Trading has now been launched for eligible users. Users can connect their agent through the Robinhood MCP server and trade cryptocurrencies alongside stocks and options in a dedicated Agentic Account, using only deposited funds.Agents now support trading with unsettled funds. Users can switch their accounts to limited margin, allowing agents to instantly use proceeds from sales without waiting for funds to settle. Limited margin accounts allow trading with unsettled funds but do not support margin borrowing. All investments involve risks.

According to bits.media, Maria Patrikeeva, Managing Director of the Derivatives Market at the Moscow Exchange, stated that the exchange plans to launch Bitcoin and Ethereum perpetual futures contracts for professional investors and aims to expand the tradable cryptocurrencies to ten.Perpetual futures are daily rollover contracts with no fixed expiration date, providing flexibility in position management. The exchange will launch crypto derivatives in the summer of 2025, and currently, professional investors can trade quarterly and monthly futures for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Ripple, and Tron.

Payward (the parent company of Kraken) stated that in the coming weeks, it will use Claude Mythos 5 to scan for vulnerabilities in all Payward environments, and the findings will be directly incorporated into its existing security program.

According to Cointelegrath, Binance is planning to apply for a license from the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and intends to relaunch some regulated services in the UK by 2027. Binance's UK subsidiary, Binance Markets Limited, has been prohibited by the FCA from conducting any regulated activities in the UK since June 2021. In 2023, Binance announced a suspension of new user registrations to comply with FCA financial promotion rules. A Binance spokesperson responded to the matter by stating, "We do not comment on speculation regarding potential license applications."The crypto regulatory framework published by the FCA in June requires crypto companies to submit applications between September 2026 and February 28, 2027, with the new system set to officially take effect on October 25, 2027. The FCA's Director of Payments and Digital Finance stated that the framework will impose "similar standards" on crypto companies as those required of other UK financial service providers.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire stated on X that the company has recently released a short-term roadmap for agentic capabilities and related standards. This roadmap covers multiple capabilities being built, with a focus on expanding support for agents as work sellers, and involves mechanisms such as agent identity, reputation, verification, and trusted discovery.Allaire pointed out that the above planning aims to promote the implementation of agent-related standards and functionalities, enabling agents to participate in work transactions and service provision. As the issuer of the USDC stablecoin, Circle continues to pay attention to the integration of infrastructure such as payments and on-chain identity with emerging agent scenarios.

AI programming tool Cursor announces the launch of the Origin code hosting feature, which is now available for early testing to all paid users starting today. This feature supports the creation of new code repositories, bidirectional synchronization with GitHub repositories, and includes pull requests, code browsing, and AI Agent integration capabilities. Users can complete code reading, questioning, modification, and PR merging all within the same interface.The synchronized GitHub repositories support bidirectional comment synchronization. Comments in Cursor will sync to GitHub, and replies on GitHub will also be sent back to Cursor in real-time. Origin also integrates applications such as Vercel, Depot, and Buildkite, allowing PRs to automatically generate preview deployments. Cursor indicates that more native Agent features will be launched in the future. Enterprise users can opt out of this testing program through their administrators.