GoPlus: Realio was hacked on August 25, losing approximately $6.2 million worth of RIO tokens.

According to data from BIT (bit.com), U.S. pre-market trading saw broad gains in optical module and storage stocks, as follows: Lumentum (LITE) rose 3.15% pre-market to $968.600; Coherent (COHR) rose 4.35% pre-market to $307.183; Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI) rose 5.40% pre-market to $119.900; Nokia (NOK) rose 2.79% pre-market to $10.700; Marvell Technology (MRVL) rose 4.95% pre-market to $257.250. Western Digital (WDC) rose 4.72% pre-market to $491.000; Seagate Technology (STX) rose 4.68% pre-market to $886.010; SanDisk (SNDK) rose 4.95% pre-market to $1575.630; Micron Technology (MU) rose 4.46% pre-market to $980.246.

Japanese crypto asset service provider Coincheck announced it completed registration as an electronic payment and transaction services provider on August 27, 2026, becoming the second company in Japan to obtain this type of stablecoin-related license. Coincheck stated that it will build on its prior partnership with U.S.-based Circle to expand use cases for USDC in Japan, and gradually roll out stablecoin and on-chain financial businesses. The company noted that stablecoins, which offer price stability pegged to fiat currencies, enable all-weather, fast, and low-cost transfers and payments.

CryptoQuant founder Ki Young Ju stated in a post that the peak of this bull cycle is likely driven by institutional funds and ETFs outside the United States. Currently, South Korea has not launched a spot Bitcoin ETF; retail investors cannot purchase related overseas ETFs, and enterprises cannot even open trading platform accounts to buy BTC. Ki Young Ju pointed out that the market was previously dominated by U.S. adoption of Bitcoin, but the next phase will shift toward global institutionalization, alongside deeper stablecoin liquidity and real-world asset (RWA) infrastructure. More institutions will hold BTC as a strategic asset, while multiple countries that have not yet rolled out ETFs will gradually improve relevant investment channels. The peak of this cycle may occur when a banker at a local South Korean bank recommends a spot Bitcoin ETF to an elderly grandmother, advising her to use it for savings.

Arga Labs, a Y Combinator-backed startup with just four employees, has secured a $10 million seed funding round led by General Catalyst, with participation from BoxGroup, Emergence, Gradient, and SV Angel, according to Beating AI Express. The company specializes in building isolated test sandboxes for AI agents, replicating platforms such as Slack, GitHub, Salesforce, and Stripe to enable agents to run repeated operations before deployment. Traditional testing methods typically only fake API responses, missing many edge cases, while Arga replicates full software states, account permissions, webhooks, and error conditions. For example, sales agents can test on sandboxed Salesforce and HubSpot to identify duplicate contacts and avoid sending redundant emails. Arga currently supports over 30 software platforms. The firm notes it can replicate a SaaS backend in under 12 hours, and clients have launched more than 100,000 test environments in the past 16 weeks, with teams including Slash, Monaco, and Y Combinator utilizing its service. The new funding will be directed toward automated environment creation, as Arga develops a next-generation system to reduce SaaS replication time from hours to minutes. Its ultimate goal is to allow agents to discover new APIs, with the system automatically generating corresponding test environments for trial runs before agents access production systems.

According to monitoring by PeckShieldAlert, Moonwell was attacked on the Base network, resulting in losses of approximately $8.7 million. The stolen funds are currently held in DAI at address 0xD71d...C384.

According to analyst AliCharts, Bitcoin’s current price trajectory mirrors its bottom-forming phase in 2022–2023, having broken through a descending resistance trendline and approaching the ~$83,000 high from May 2026. This could spark a pullback that creates a buying opportunity, with a target of $100,000. Additionally, Bitcoin’s UTXO Realized Price Distribution (URPD) data indicates a major resistance zone between $83,307 and $84,569, where nearly 975,000 BTC was purchased. Coupled with traders holding a 25% profit margin, this zone is likely to trigger profit-taking and short-term corrections. Should a pullback occur, Bitcoin’s potential support levels stand at $76,996–$78,258 (with 843,000 BTC in trading volume) and $63,111 (with 925,000 BTC). A dip to these areas could offer another significant buying opportunity.