Strategy has spent a cumulative $635.2 million repurchasing its STRC perpetual preferred stock, including a latest $151.8 million buyback at an average price of $97.48. According to ChainCatcher, STRC was still trading at $97.34, below its $100 par value, even after the company’s $1 billion repurchase authorization helped lift it from about $71 to around $97. The article said STRC has faced pressure from competition with Strive’s ASST perpetual preferred stock. ASST offers a 13% annual dividend paid daily, while STRC pays a 12% dividend twice a month. ASST has stayed near its $100 par value for more than a week, allowing Strive to issue shares through an at-the-market program and use the proceeds to buy 1,800 bitcoin over the past week. The two companies’ common shares have also diverged, with ASST up 60% year to date and MSTR down 15%. Strategy also bought bitcoin for the first time in two months last week, purchasing 4,603 bitcoin at an average price of about $80,000, bringing its total holdings to 845,050 bitcoin.

NeoSoul said its NeoTrade trading workbench has launched a Skill Builder for creating trading skills through conversation. According to ChainCatcher, users can describe a trading idea or style in chat, and the system will generate a corresponding skill while configuring and validating parameters such as time frame, markets to watch, position size, and order type. The company said the tool is designed to replace a process that previously required traders to write trading logic and set parameters one by one. Users can start with a natural-language description of the core strategy, then refine it through follow-up dialogue, with each change written into the skill in real time. After completion, the system performs parameter checks and allows the skill to be saved and reused. NeoSoul co-founder Kaelan said turning trading judgments into rules that an agent can execute has been one of the most time-consuming parts of building trading agents. He said Skill Builder moves that step into a single conversation, leaving the system to handle structuring, parameter setup, and validation.

According to Jin10, the VIX refreshed a one-week high and rose 0.98 points intraday to 15.90.

Nordic Investment Bank Chief Executive Officer André Küüsvek said the lender has about €1.2 billion of projects on the table and is in talks with around 30 other potential borrowers and counterparts, according to Bloomberg. The Helsinki-based multilateral lender, owned by the five Nordic and three Baltic countries, formally added resilience, security and defense to its strategy.

A global bond selloff spread to emerging markets as expectations for a Federal Reserve interest-rate hike this month outweighed concern over the conflict in Iran and volatility tied to artificial intelligence, according to Bloomberg. The move made the Fed outlook the main driver of sentiment.

Japan's ministries and agencies have submitted record budget requests for the next fiscal year, drawing fresh attention to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's fiscal plans as the benchmark government bond yield touched 3% for the first time in 30 years. According to PANews, the total requests from 18 ministries and agencies came to about 143 trillion yen. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry requested more than five times the amount it sought in the same period last year, while ministries overseeing defense and social security also submitted record requests. Markets are waiting to see how much the Takaichi government plans to spend and how it intends to finance those outlays. Concerns about Japan's fiscal outlook have been one factor weighing on the bond market. The benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond yield rose to 3% on Tuesday, the first time since 1996. Japan's Minister for Growth Strategy, Minoru Kiuchi, said on Tuesday morning that Takaichi is reforming the country's budget-making process. He said Japan has traditionally relied heavily on supplementary budgets in addition to the annual initial budget to increase spending. Kiuchi said comparisons for fiscal 2027 budget requests should be made against the combined size of fiscal 2025 supplementary budgets and the fiscal 2026 initial budget, given Takaichi's policy of reducing reliance on supplementary budgets.

Hong Kong had 106 billionaires with net worths of at least $1 billion at the end of last year, ranking second among global cities behind New York's 164, according to ETNet. Singapore ranked fifth with 75. ALTRATA's Billionaire Census 2026 said Hong Kong's billionaire count fell by two from 2024, while New York and Singapore added 12 each. Hong Kong's billionaire wealth rose 4% year on year to $319 billion, while Singapore's increased 13% to $139 billion. The report said 64.2% of Hong Kong's billionaires were born overseas, well above the global average of 20.1%. It added that Hong Kong's billionaire count was weighed down by a weak property market and a smaller share of AI-driven wealth creation, while the city remained exposed to geopolitical risks as a financial and wealth-management hub. Globally, the number of billionaires rose about 8% to 3,795 last year, a record high. Among the top 15 cities, only Hong Kong and London saw declines, with London down one to 79. The report said 47.7% of Britain's billionaires were born overseas.

Global memory market supply and demand remained tight in the third quarter of 2026, according to Sigmaintell's storage price indicator. According to ChainCatcher, DRAM and NAND Flash prices continued to rise quarter over quarter, but the pace of increases slowed significantly from the second quarter, with some memory chips seeing gains narrow to less than 10%.

Risks remain in the crypto market, but the odds of some high-quality assets are becoming increasingly attractive, potentially creating a window of opportunity for selective investment.

MAS has proposed new stablecoin rules covering reserve backing, redemption, capital, disclosure and a ban on interest payments, while also considering stress tests and recovery plans for issuers.

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Crypto.com will launch more than 20 AI-focused prediction contracts in September, covering areas such as workplace use, healthcare, retail and financial services.

Hackers manipulated TONIC’s price to borrow $74M from Tectonic. Only $6M in Ethereum was stolen.

Crypto.com’s Cronos blockchain stopped producing blocks on Sunday after a roughly $75 million exploit targeting Tectonic, the network’s largest decentralized lending protocol, forcing validators to freeze the entire chain to contain the attack.

South Korea will offer free, unlimited generative AI access to all 51 million residents, with services covering tasks such as medical appointments, housing and taxes.

Anthropic signed a $35 billion deal with cloud service provider Lambda, but the real winner behind the scenes is Nvidia. Nvidia not only sells chips to Lambda but also holds investments and has secured data center leases to support its computing power in advance, benefiting simultaneously at multiple stages of the supply chain.

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Russia’s largest bank, Sber, is preparing to expand its crypto-backed lending to accept Tether’s USDT stablecoin and Ether as collateral alongside Bitcoin — even as the bank questions whether Russia’s own digital ruble has attracted meaningful demand.