Bybit launches PONS perpetual contracts today.

Beating AI Insight News: DeepSeek has open-sourced the weights of DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp. This experimental vision model is built on V4-Flash, adding image comprehension capabilities that enable it to process screenshots, read charts, and complete agent tasks by integrating tools. It maintains performance on par with V4-Flash for pure-text agent tasks. Previously, the model was only accessible via API; developers can now download its weights to deploy it independently.

According to CNBC, cryptocurrency platform Gemini secured a legal victory in August, with an arbitrator ruling that the exchange did not mislead users and was not liable for the collapse of its Earn lending program. The lawsuit was filed by a user of the Earn lending program in late 2024. The ruling found insufficient evidence to prove Gemini lied to customers or was negligent in its due diligence of its primary lending partner, Genesis Global Capital. Launched in 2021, the Earn program allowed users to earn annual returns of up to 7.4% by lending out their cryptocurrencies. Under the program, Gemini lent assets to institutional borrowers with Genesis acting as an intermediary. However, Gemini suspended withdrawals from the Earn program in November 2022, angering some of its over 300,000 users. The move came shortly after Genesis paused new loans and redemptions amid a liquidity crisis triggered by the 2022 crypto market downturn. Following the Earn withdrawal freeze, multiple customers filed legal complaints against Gemini. The New York Attorney General also sued Gemini over the Earn program, and reached a $50 million settlement with the company in 2024. In February 2024, Gemini announced it had reached a "principal settlement" with Genesis and other creditors in Genesis' bankruptcy case. Three months later, Earn users received $2.18 billion in digital assets in kind, equivalent to 97% of the total digital assets owed to Earn users — $1 billion more than the amount available when Genesis suspended withdrawals in 2022.

Beating AI Express News: Open-source project CodexHost has transformed Codex Desktop into a multi-agent workspace. It currently supports Codex, Claude Code, Pi, Oh My Pi, Grok Build, and DeepSeek Harness, allowing users to create and manage sessions for different agents within a single window. Codex Desktop is solely responsible for the unified interface, while each agent runs on its own harness—for example, Claude Code continues to use Agent SDK/CLI, and Pi retains its own RPC. CodexHost integrates these agents into Codex, preserving native capabilities such as tool calls, code diffs, approvals, and queries. Different agents can also assign tasks to each other: when Codex is writing code, users can separately launch Claude Code for code review, enabling parallel work between the two, after which Codex processes the results. This means multiple coding agents can be scheduled simultaneously within one Codex window. Installing CodexHost does not modify the official Codex or replace Codex CLI. Directly opening Codex Desktop or running Codex CLI in daily use bypasses CodexHost, which only takes effect when launched via CodexHost.

Dongcha Beating AI Newsflash: Zhipu (02513.HK) announced that it generated revenue of RMB 954 million in the first half of 2026, a year-on-year increase of 399.7%, while its adjusted net loss for the period stood at RMB 1.964 billion. Among the total revenue, the open platform and API business contributed approximately RMB 825 million (around USD 123 million), surging 2735.7% year-on-year.

According to DefiLlama data, Robinhood Chain’s 24-hour DEX trading volume hit ~$1.33 billion, marking four consecutive days of new all-time highs for daily volume. Its 7-day trading volume stood at ~$6.16 billion, with a week-over-week growth of roughly 79%. The $1.33 billion daily volume outpaced concurrent figures from Ethereum Mainnet ($993 million), BNB Chain ($962 million), and Base ($881 million), ranking second only to Solana ($1.86 billion). Notably, Robinhood Chain’s DeFi TVL is just $725 million—roughly 13% of Solana, Base, and BSC’s respective TVLs, and around 1.5% of Ethereum’s. However, driven by high meme coin trading activity, Robinhood Chain generated $1.07 million in chain fees over the past 24 hours, equal to the combined fees of Ethereum ($362,000) and Solana ($677,000) in the same period, making it the highest-fee chain across the network (excluding application layers). According to DefiLlama’s retained revenue calculations based on on-chain economic models, Robinhood Chain’s 24-hour revenue reached $963,000, far exceeding Ethereum ($70,000), Solana ($84,000), BSC ($44,000), and Base ($93,000)—three times the combined revenue of these other major public chains. This does not mean Robinhood’s overall ecosystem revenue has surpassed Solana or Ethereum, as DefiLlama’s on-chain revenue metric only measures network-level income. Robinhood Chain’s outlier revenue is essentially a result of the meme coin trading boom combined with its L2 sequencer economic model. Unlike Ethereum, Solana, BSC, and other chains, Robinhood Chain retains most user gas fees after covering Ethereum data costs and Arbitrum royalty splits, so network-level revenue is rapidly amplified when high-frequency meme coin trading surges.

According to market data from BIT (bit.com), U.S. pre-market crypto-related stocks rose broadly, with specific gains: CRCL up 0.68%, MSTR up 2.01%, COIN up 1.31%, BMNR up 0.92%, SBET up 0.61%, and PURR up 5.93%.