Bitdeer and Soluna Strike 28MW Joint Mining Partnership

Beating AI News Flash: At least 14 senior executives have left OpenAI so far this year. As of August 21, Business Insider had counted 13 senior managers and key leaders. The Wall Street Journal recently revealed that data center head Chris Malone resigned last week. Malone joined OpenAI in March 2025 and was primarily responsible for the company’s data center expansion. The departing staff cover roles across business, product, security, ethics, research, and infrastructure, including former COO Brad Lightcap, application business head Fidji Simo, Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser, former CMO Kate Rouch, former CPO Kevin Weil, and security systems head Johannes Heidecke, among others. The reasons for their departures vary: Lightcap is preparing to launch a startup, some left due to health issues, others were affected by departmental restructuring or project shutdowns. Hardware head Caitlin Kalinowski resigned over dissatisfaction with OpenAI’s collaboration with the U.S. Pentagon. Some insiders frame this round of adjustments as a proactive management overhaul. OpenAI secretly submitted its U.S. IPO filing in June; consecutive leadership changes in business, security, research, and infrastructure clearly indicate that its organizational stability ahead of the IPO lags behind that of rival Anthropic.

According to Lookonchain’s monitoring, a crypto whale sold all 301,937 HYPE tokens today, worth $24.4 million, reaping over $5.3 million in profits. The whale purchased the HYPE at an average price of $63 between May and July.

According to HTX market data, Bitcoin has broken through the $79,000 mark, with its 24-hour decline narrowing to 2.1%.

According to monitoring by OnchainLens, a newly created address purchased 289,800 HYPE tokens from the FalconX platform, valued at approximately $2.38 million.

Bitget’s 2026 King’s Cup Global Invitational (KCGI) has opened registration, with early-bird benefits and team sign-up channels now available. This year’s KCGI has been fully upgraded, with “UEX Panorama Competition” as its core highlight. For the first time, it integrates three trading tracks: crypto derivatives, TradFi derivatives, and stock spot (rToken), creating a unified competition venue, prize pool, and ranking system to offer multi-asset competition scenarios for users with different trading preferences, boasting a total prize pool of 3 million USDT. To enhance the competition experience, KCGI has launched five gameplay features: UEX Arena, UEX Treasure Map, Captain Rewards, Early Bird Perks, and Glory Live Draw. The core UEX Arena offers a maximum reward of 2 million USDT, covering five rankings: team revenue, each track’s trading volume, and individual revenue. The UEX Treasure Map, via a mechanism of task keys and track fragments, provides a 100% win-rate chest reward of up to 600,000 USDT. Additionally, team captains receive a special incentive of 100,000 USDT, and the first 10,000 users who join a team and complete required tasks before August 30 can compete for a 200,000 USDT early-bird prize pool. The final crowning ceremony will be announced during the post-event live stream. Users who meet the specified trading threshold during the competition will be eligible to join the live draw, winning multiple rewards including 2026 KCGI limited-edition merchandise, gold-plated footballs, and cash vouchers. Registration for the event closes on September 22; for more details, please visit Bitget’s official platform.

According to market data from BIT (Bit.com), Grayscale’s Zcash (ZEC) spot ETF (ticker: ZCSH) recorded a trading volume of $14.8 million on its first day of trading on U.S. stock exchanges, rising by over 3.5% intraday before closing down 1.54%. Grayscale’s Zcash spot ETF is the world’s first exchange-traded product (ETP) offering exposure to Zcash spot assets. The product was formerly the Grayscale Zcash Trust, established via private placement as early as October 2017. Steve Vanourny, head of Grayscale’s index business, stated that Zcash boasts nearly a decade of network history, a fixed maximum supply of 21 million coins, and a proof-of-work (PoW) mechanism, while also featuring optional privacy functions not available on Bitcoin. The firm positions ZCSH as a high-risk satellite position in digital asset portfolios.