Tokenized stock weekly trading volume reached nearly $3 billion in August, with Robinhood Chain, BNB Chain, and Solana handling most of the activity. According to Odaily, the total value locked in on-chain tokenized stocks has exceeded $110 million, while only about 5% has been deployed in on-chain financial applications. Grayscale said the tokenized stock market is still driven mainly by trading. On Solana, the size of related assets on lending platform Kamino and Jupiter has grown about 10 times from a year earlier, with lending and collateral use cases continuing to expand. BNB Chain's cumulative tokenized stock trading volume exceeded $5.2 billion by the end of June, and more than 700 tokenized stocks and ETFs are available on the network. Solana recorded $5.77 billion in tokenized asset trading volume in the second quarter, including $4.8 billion in tokenized stock trading, about four times higher than in the first quarter.

According to the BBC, airlines, airports and passengers could face higher costs and more frequent disruption as climate change makes severe weather more common and harder to manage. The article said thunderstorms, flooding, clear-air turbulence and rising sea levels are all posing growing risks to aviation, with some industry figures warning that busy airports in London and northern Europe are especially exposed. The BBC reported that about 900 flights to and from Heathrow and Gatwick were delayed in late June after storms congested airspace, while dozens more were cancelled. Tim Atkinson, an airline risk consultant and former pilot, said there is a risk that storms could affect all of London’s airports at once, creating serious disruption and potentially dangerous fuel shortages. Former airline executive Andrew Charlton said the risk was low, but added that airlines may need to carry more fuel if storm-related diversions become more common, which would raise costs for passengers. The article said Heathrow and Gatwick have already changed their landing-spacing systems to help reduce delays in high winds, while Gatwick has spent tens of millions of pounds on flood mitigation and expects to invest more than £2bn in expansion. It also cited research from Newcastle University saying 269 airports are already at risk of flooding from rising sea levels, with the total expected to rise, and said protecting airports could cost up to $57bn. The BBC also noted that clear-air turbulence is becoming more common, with Prof Paul Williams of the University of Reading saying severe turbulence on many busy routes could double, treble or worsen.

A Brazilian court ordered the suspension of all environmental permits held by Sigma Lithium's operating subsidiary, Sigma Mineração, and required the company to fully stop mining at its Grota do Cirilo lithium project. According to Sina Finance, the Minas Gerais Quilombola Communities Federation sought the emergency injunction, accusing the miner of overstating the distance between the project and the traditional territory of the Baú Quilombola Indigenous community. The company said its Grota do Cirilo mine, located in the area known as Brazil's "Lithium Valley," is one of the world's largest hard-rock lithium deposits and includes a processing plant.

According to Sina Finance, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission asked a federal court to order Institutional Shareholder Services to provide detailed client-level voting data needed for an investigation into the proxy voting adviser. The SEC said ISS refused to fully comply with an administrative subpoena and is seeking records from the past four years, including client identification documents and voting data. The investigation began in March to determine whether the company complied with securities laws, including its fiduciary duty to act in clients' best interests. In a filing on Friday, the SEC said it has full authority to examine whether ISS's proxy voting advice to clients was driven by specific political or policy goals that harmed client interests. The probe stems from an executive order signed by U.S. President Donald Trump in December last year, which directed the SEC chair to restrain proxy advisers such as ISS and Glass Lewis from giving guidance on diversity, equity and inclusion policies and environmental, social and governance matters.

Vitalik said recent research on transaction formats has given Ethereum a clearer understanding of the “actions” and “dependencies” in transactions, which can be optimized separately. According to Odaily, he said signatures, Merkle proofs for UTXOs, and ZK-SNARKs or STARKs fall under dependencies, while the call that sends ETH is an action. He said dependencies can be processed in parallel, state-related dependencies can be handled by the mempool, and pure dependencies can be processed once at the mempool layer and may be replaced by STARK proofs to reduce execution and data processing. Vitalik also said Ethereum’s current scaling strategy needs to distinguish between dynamic, flexible parts and parts that can be statically analyzed, with the latter eligible for lower gas costs. He added that more than 90% of Ethereum activity by transaction volume does not require dynamic flexibility. Vitalik said the EIP-8141 transaction type is moving toward a general, minimal call-list direction, and that new state types, recursive STARK mempools, and keyed nonces also fit that direction.

Polymarket’s "Chicago Cubs vs. Miami Marlins" submarket for "Spread -1.5" saw the Chicago Cubs option’s implied win probability fall sharply from 68% one hour earlier to 39.5%, a 28.5 percentage-point move. According to ChainCatcher, the sudden swing may reflect the impact of breaking news.

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