El Al said it has received all approvals needed to operate the Tel Aviv-New York route and plans to begin service on September 15. According to Sina Finance, flights to and from New York will operate at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The first Tel Aviv-to-New York flight is scheduled for September 15, and the first New York-to-Tel Aviv flight is scheduled for September 17. On August 24, El Al received permission from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to operate flights to the United States.

Media reports, citing Russian Agriculture Minister Oksana Lut, said Russia's Agriculture Ministry is preparing additional support measures for farmers because logistics difficulties in the Azov-Black Sea basin are threatening agricultural exports and winter sowing work. According to Sina Finance, the proposed measures include extending the terms of preferential loans and equipment leasing agreements, with the proposals already submitted to the government. The plan also calls for per-hectare subsidies for regions carrying out winter sowing, while the government is considering suspending farm bankruptcy proceedings during the crop-growing season and keeping farms' agricultural producer status even if sales decline. Authorities are also studying an intervention purchase plan for 1 million to 3 million tons of grain, likely to be implemented in southern regions.

According to Jin10, southbound funds recorded net buying of 1.275 billion yuan today, with Xiaomi Group-W and China Life receiving net purchases of HK$1.033 billion and HK$230 million, respectively, through Southbound Stock Connect (Shanghai), while Hua Hong Semiconductor had the largest net selling at HK$583 million; through Southbound Stock Connect (Shenzhen), Zhongji Innolight (Innolight Technology) and Xiaomi Group-W received net purchases of HK$367 million and HK$351 million, respectively, while MINIMAX-W had the largest net selling at HK$370 million.

The IMF confirmed that Bitcoin added to El Salvador’s reserve after June 2025 came from private donations, with no public funds used. The country also agreed to limit further Bitcoin accumulation as part of its $1.4 billion IMF programme, while restructuring its Chivo wallet separately from its sovereign Bitcoin reserve.

SBI Shinsei Trust Bank and SBI VC Trade have begun investing 1 billion yen of JPYSC trust assets in short-term Japanese government bonds, according to a Startale blog post cited by Foresight News. The allocation follows recent Japanese regulatory changes that expanded stablecoin reserve asset management from deposits to certain short-term government bonds and other compliant assets. JPYSC was jointly developed by Startale and SBI Group. SBI Shinsei Trust Bank serves as the issuer and manages the trust assets and investments, while SBI VC Trade acts as the issuance trustee and electronic payment instrument exchange service provider. According to Foresight News, JPYSC is expected to support payment and remittance services inside and outside Japan, on-chain foreign exchange markets, and settlement for RWA and tokenized assets. Startale is the technical developer of JPYSC and also operates ecosystems including Soneium and Astar Network.

The Iran war has already changed the global economy. According to Sina Finance, before the conflict broke out, many forecasters expected oil prices to hover around $50 per barrel, but prices are now near $97 and could still rise to $120. According to Sina Finance, reaching that level would require an escalation in military conflict, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, and a disruption to alternative export routes. The article said geopolitical tensions are already close to escalation, with the United States and Iran trading attacks on tankers, Washington tightening its blockade, and Tehran trying to break it and regain control of the Strait of Hormuz. According to Sina Finance, traders estimate that 7 million to 8 million barrels of crude passed through the strait each day in late August, often without being noticed, even though the number of observed ships suggests the strait has effectively been closed. The article said Iran may try to block that oil flow, and the emerging tanker war may reflect that intention. According to Sina Finance, four alternative routes currently carry most of the oil bypassing the Strait of Hormuz: Saudi Arabia's east-west pipeline, the port of Fujairah in the United Arab Emirates, several ports in Oman, and the Iraq-Turkey pipeline. The article said pressure on these routes is increasing, with Houthi attacks affecting Saudi exports and Iran threatening to extend restrictions beyond the Strait of Hormuz. According to Sina Finance, the Iran war has delivered a major oil shock to the global economy. Although a pause in the conflict kept crude below $90 per barrel for most of this summer, its inflationary effect continues, and renewed escalation would add fresh pressure on consumer prices and prompt central banks to raise interest rates.

TrendForce said Samsung Electronics held a 39.4% share of the global DRAM market by revenue in the second quarter of 2026, widening its lead amid the global AI boom. According to Sina Finance, the report said Samsung's DRAM revenue rose 63.4% quarter on quarter to $60.98 billion, and its market share increased from 38.5% in the first quarter. SK Hynix ranked second with a 24.9% share, down from 28.8% in the first quarter, while its revenue rose 37.9% quarter on quarter to $38.59 billion. Micron Technology's global DRAM market share was 23.3% in the second quarter, up from 22.4% in the previous quarter, and its revenue climbed 65.5% quarter on quarter to $36 billion. TrendForce said total global DRAM revenue reached $154.73 billion in the second quarter, up 59.5% quarter on quarter, driven by growth in shipments of various memory products.

According to Jin10, U.S. strikes on multiple locations in southern Iran on September 1 hit a wedding ceremony site in Hormozgan Province, causing heavy casualties. The Washington Post reported on September 6 that the incident may have been caused by a U.S. bomb that deviated from its intended target. A U.S. official said the airstrike target in the area was a communications facility, while people familiar with the matter said a small communications tower at the site was in a civilian area about 134 meters from the wedding venue. U.S. warplanes dropped six bombs on the tower, and one appeared to miss the target. The report also said U.S. officials were assessing other possible causes, including a falling air-defense missile, but people familiar with the matter and weapons experts considered that possibility very unlikely.

Axis Robotics released Axis Sim Dataset V1, an open-source Franka arm manipulation dataset with the full dataset, training code and benchmarks publicly available. According to BeInCrypto, V1 includes more than 50,000 human-teleoperated simulation trajectories across 207 tasks and 60,000+ scene variants, and has drawn over 160,000 downloads on Hugging Face. Benchmarks showed continual pretraining on V1 lifted π0.5 and beat a volume-matched RoboCasa baseline. Axis also said it raised $12 million in seed funding led by Hack VC.

The global cryptocurrency market cap now stands at $2.71T, up by 0.86% over the last day, according to CoinMarketCap data. Bitcoin (BTC) has been trading between $79,001 and $80,560 over the past 24 hours. As of 09:30 AM (UTC) today, BTC is trading at $79,480, down by -0.61%. Most major cryptocurrencies by market cap are trading mixed. Market outperformers include CATI, SOPH, and IOST, up by 29%, 21%, and 18%, respectively. Market movers: NVDAB: $232.44 (+0.35%) AAPLB: $321.04 (-0.19%) MSFTB: $499.34 (-0.55%) AMZNB: $258.78 (-0.24%) TSMB: $435.15 (+1.67%) GOOGLB: $339.08 (-0.01%) SPCXB: $150.51 (-0.42%) METAB: $612.27 (-0.47%) AVGOB: $364.21 (+0.81%) MUB: $1044.27 (+1.52%) Top gainers on Binance: CATI/USDT (+29%) SOPH/USDT (+21%) IOST/USDT (+18%)

BTC, the person who lost their Bitcoin says Bitcoin has no backing. Golden Finance, long-term thinkers simply hold on and believe that time will give the final verdict.

On July 1, 2026, Robinhood officially launched its own public blockchain, Robinhood Chain—a Layer 2 network built on the Arbitrum Orbit framework and settled on Ethereum.

TikTok parent company ByteDance has secured a $29.6 billion loan from nearly 30 Chinese and international banks as it pours money into artificial intelligence, according to Reuters, citing people with direct knowledge of the transaction.

Router Protocol will shut down all operations by 30 September 2026 after failing to find a sustainable business model amid lower fees, weaker Web3 activity and rising costs. The project will also delist ROUTE from exchanges and burn 303,333,198 tokens from its treasury, with holders urged to check individual exchange deadlines.

A surge of unsolicited password-reset emails has flooded X users' inboxes.

Robinhood Chain, RWA, TradFi, Meme, Public Chain, Behind Robinhood's Meme Frenzy: The Next Generation of Global Financial Markets is Quietly Going On-Chain. Golden Finance: The future is here, but the financial world is only just beginning to adapt to it.

Ukrainian authorities shut down a Kyiv-based network of fake crypto investment platforms that allegedly used wallet-draining code to steal funds, with 62 victims identified across more than 20 countries and turnover reaching up to $1 million a month.

LeBron James appears to be teasing a partnership with prediction market platform Polymarket, while the details of the partnership remain unclear.

Approximately 4,000 bitcoins, worth about $320 million, were transferred from Liquid Network's Federation wallet. This batch of bitcoins represents 95% of Liquid's publicly disclosed reserves. Before the incident, Liquid held approximately 4,200 BTC, and after the transfer, only about 200 remained.