According to the announcement from Binance, the exchange will launch an Altcoin Trading Festival that gives eligible users a chance to share a total prize pool of 300,000 USDC in token vouchers. The promotion period runs from 2026-09-02 10:00 (UTC) to 2026-09-09 10:00 (UTC), and participation is open to verified new users, regular users, and all Binance VIP users. Liquidity providers in the Binance Spot Liquidity Provider Program and Binance Brokers are not eligible. To qualify, users must register through the campaign page and reach at least 500 USD equivalent in total trading volume across the eligible spot pairs PROM/USDT, ZKP/USDT, and SC/USDT during the promotion period. Binance said the main reward pool will be based on cumulative trading volume, with rewards ranging from 9,000 USDC for first place to proportional shares for remaining eligible participants, capped at 50 USDC per user for the final allocation tier. Binance also said it will introduce a limited-time Sprint Reward alongside the main tournament. Under this structure, users can earn extra rewards based on their ranking by cumulative trading volume during two statistical periods: Round 1 from 2026-09-02 10:00 (UTC) to 2026-09-04 10:00 (UTC), and Round 2 from 2026-09-04 10:01 (UTC) to 2026-09-06 10:00 (UTC). The Sprint Reward pool also uses cumulative trading volume rankings, with rewards listed for the top five participants, including 9,000 USDC for first place and 3,000 USDC for fifth place. Binance said users may earn from both the Main Reward and Sprint Reward pools at the same time. Token vouchers will be distributed by 2026-09-23 and will expire within 21 days after distribution. Binance added that leaderboard updates will be posted at least once every 24 hours, and only users who meet the minimum qualifying trading volume threshold will appear on the leaderboard.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent said overall prices are falling and core inflation is well contained. According to Sina Finance, he also said the trade situation with Canada has had almost no impact on U.S. prices. Bessent said the Iran conflict and Ukraine's decision to "blow up Russia's energy assets and refined oil facilities" are putting upward pressure on energy prices. He also said Chevron CEO Mike Wirth did an excellent job preserving the company's assets in Venezuela during Maduro's rule, and that the company is now getting through a difficult period and entering a new phase.

Faraday Future (NASDAQ: FFAI) said on September 2 that it signed a termination agreement with all investors from its March 2025 financing to end the additional investment warrants issued under that deal. According to Jiemian News, the company has canceled all 21,021,369 outstanding but unexercised additional investment warrants, removing potential future dilution from their exercise. Based on a $5 per-share conversion floor price, the company said the move could avoid potential dilution of up to 45% of its issued shares. Faraday Future added that all common stock warrants and additional investment warrants under the March 2025 securities purchase agreement have now been canceled.

Binance Wallet announced on X that $300,000 worth of rewards will go live with Kamino. The campaign is scheduled to start at 00:00 on Sep 3, 2026 (UTC) and will run for 30 days. Users can subscribe to RockawayX USDC or Sentora PYUSD pools through Binance Wallet DeFi to farm boosted APR rewards. The announcement says there are two reward pools available during the campaign period, with each pool offering 150,000 in rewards. For the Kamino RockawayX RWA USDC pool, users must subscribe with at least 100 USDC to share 150,000 USDC worth of boosted APR rewards. For the Kamino Sentora PYUSD pool, users must subscribe with at least 100 PYUSD to share 150,000 PYUSD worth of boosted APR rewards. The post states that rewards start tomorrow.

Ukraine’s electricity grid operator is close to finalizing a debt restructuring plan that could unlock funding to rebuild its war-ravaged network, according to Bloomberg.

Foschini Group Ltd. plans to close about 280 stores in Africa through 2029 as it shifts more focus to online sales, which are outperforming its physical operations, according to Bloomberg.

US equity futures fell and bond yields stayed elevated as renewed US-Iran hostilities pushed oil higher, leaving the prospect of a September interest rate hike in play, according to Bloomberg. Nigel Blenkinsop, chief operating officer of Jaguar Land Rover, joined Bloomberg Brief as the carmaker launched the first fully electric Range Rover. Cayla Seder of State Street discussed concerns in the Treasury market amid rate-hike bets.

The three major US stock index futures rose Tuesday, with Nasdaq futures turning positive, Dow Jones futures up 0.35% and S&P 500 futures up 0.19%, according to BIT market data.The Move Follows a Weaker ADP PrintThe bid arrives after ADP private payrolls showed a 38,000 increase for August — the smallest gain since January, below the 48,000 expected and down from 44,000 the prior month.Weak labor data supports equities through the rate channel. Traders currently assign roughly 68% probability to a 25 basis point hike at the September 16 Fed meeting, up from about 36% before Chair Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole address. Any data that compresses that figure relieves pressure on valuations.The Nasdaq turning positive from a negative open is the more specific signal. Tech carries the longest duration in the equity market and is therefore most sensitive to the discount rate — it moves first and furthest when rate expectations shift.The Backdrop It Is FightingThe gains come against a difficult macro setup. The US 10-year Treasury yield sits above 4.81% and the dollar index at 99.85, with global bond yields surging — Japan's 10-year reached 3% this week for the first time since 1996.Brent crude hovers just above $90 after US military action near the Strait of Hormuz, and Warsh specifically flagged commodity prices at Jackson Hole as bearing watching for upside inflation risk.Gold fell to $4,300 and Bitcoin below $77,000 in the same environment, both pressured by the rising opportunity cost of holding non-yielding assets.Friday's Payrolls Is the Real TestADP is a private estimate that diverges from the Bureau of Labor Statistics figure often enough to function as a directional hint rather than a forecast.The official August nonfarm payrolls report arrives Friday at 8:30 a.m. ET with consensus around 58,000. July printed −23,000, and May and June were revised down by a combined 103,000.Bloomberg Chief Economist Anna Wong has argued the August report may come in weak or negative, noting there is no precedent in modern Fed history for hiking after two consecutive negative payroll readings.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Wednesday that the Trump administration is considering a new round of import tariffs on semiconductors that could further raise duties on foreign chips to encourage more manufacturing to move to the United States. According to Odaily, the tariffs could be paired with exemptions for companies investing in U.S. manufacturing, similar to measures the Trump administration previously used for the pharmaceutical industry. Lutnick said the principle for the semiconductor industry is that companies producing in the United States would receive tariff relief, while those not producing in the country would face tariffs. U.S. President Donald Trump has already imposed a 25% tariff on some advanced semiconductors and ordered additional import duties on those chips in January after the Commerce Department completed a trade investigation. The next round of tariffs could also extend beyond semiconductors to products containing chips, including data center servers and consumer electronics imports.

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