US stocks opened higher, with all three major indices rising, the storage sector declining broadly, and SK Hynix's ADR falling 7%.

Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has announced personnel appointments as part of its organizational restructuring, establishing a new “Crypto Assets and Stablecoins Department” dedicated to regulating crypto assets (virtual currencies) and stablecoins. Toshiaki Adomi will serve as the department’s first section chief. Adomi graduated from the Faculty of Law at Osaka University in 2002 and joined the FSA afterward. He later earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Birmingham and a Master of Laws (LLM) from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He has held roles including bank regulation and policy coordination, was appointed Councillor of the Comprehensive Policy Bureau in July 2025, and served as General Councillor for Postal Savings and Insurance Supervision until August 1, 2026.

Renowned trader and chart analyst Peter Brandt shared a daily gold futures chart, which shows gold prices are in a long-term downtrend channel, overlaid with a tombstone pattern, captioned "Maybe" — hinting at potential further downside risks or a possible end to the bull market. It should be noted that Brandt had expressed bullish views on gold in the short term two days ago, setting a target range for the rally at $4,517–$4,830. With five decades of trading experience, Brandt is known as a market wizard for his classic technical analysis, and he also accurately predicted the 2018 Bitcoin crash.

Goldman Sachs stated that recent interventions by the United States and Japan to support the Japanese yen have not weakened the U.S. dollar’s status as the world’s primary reserve currency, but instead reinforced it. Analysts noted that Washington’s intervention in the euro-yen (EUR/JPY) pair and Japan’s potential use of the Federal Reserve’s FIMA dollar facility underscore the depth and liquidity of U.S. financial markets. Goldman Sachs holds that no competing reserve asset currently matches the U.S. dollar in terms of global infrastructure, liquidity, and utility during periods of financial stress.

Hardware wallet manufacturer Coldcard announced that due to legal record-keeping obligations tied to the security incident disclosed on July 30, the company has temporarily suspended automatic customer data deletion. Under its original policy, customer records are typically automatically purged after 120 days, with only details like email addresses and country of residence retained. Going forward, such records will be kept until further notice. Coldcard noted that customers may reach out to official support to request adherence to the original data retention policy, and the automatic deletion mechanism will be reinstated once legally allowed.

According to HTX market data, with the non-farm payroll (NFP) release imminent, Bitcoin has strongly broken through the $65,000 level. As of press time, Bitcoin is trading at $65,129.04, marking a 0.81% gain over the past 24 hours.

According to Bitget's market data, ahead of the release of non-farm payrolls (NFP) data, the intraday gain of spot gold has expanded to 2%, and it is currently trading at $4,325.27 per ounce.