Tether leads $3 million seed round for Colombian fintech startup Plenti

According to The Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump is holding private discussions with senior aides, considering announcing the end of the Iran war. Aides are reportedly advising President Trump that a war escalation beyond recent strikes could lead to the Republican Party suffering losses in the midterm elections.

OpenSea will add support for Arc on the first day of its mainnet launch, September 16.

According to monitoring by Farside Investors, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw a net inflow of $101 million yesterday. Of that, BlackRock’s IBIT recorded a net inflow of $115.4 million, while Grayscale’s GBTC posted a net outflow of $56.2 million. U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs overall had a net outflow of $48.2 million. Among them, BlackRock’s ETHA saw a net outflow of $53.4 million, ETHB posted a net inflow of $52.9 million, Fidelity’s FETH had a net outflow of $26.2 million, and ETHE recorded a net outflow of $23.5 million.

Beating AI Insight News Flash: Moonshot AI, the developer of Kimi Chat, is advancing toward a Hong Kong IPO, with its latest Pre-IPO round targeting a valuation of approximately $50 billion. This valuation may seem high, but when extrapolating from listed peers MiniMax and Zhipu AI, there is a clear revenue threshold Kimi needs to hit. Based on rough market cap calculations as of September 3, MiniMax has a total market cap of around $16 billion, with August annual recurring revenue (ARR) exceeding $800 million, translating to less than 20x ARR. Zhipu AI’s total market cap is roughly $66 billion, with August ARR of $1.6 billion, corresponding to about 41.25x ARR. If Kimi is valued at $50 billion, its valuation multiple will be lower than Zhipu’s as long as its ARR exceeds approximately $1.212 billion; hitting $2.5 billion in ARR would correspond to a 20x multiple, close to MiniMax’s level. Kimi’s last explicit ARR disclosure was $300 million in mid-June. After the K3 model launched in July, President Zhang Yutong stated that the enterprise ARR had seen "multiple-fold growth" and recorded its largest single-day increase in history. Bloomberg also reported that daily sales rose at least sixfold following K3’s release, but the company has not yet disclosed the absolute value of its latest ARR. Therefore, the key to judging whether the $50 billion valuation is reasonable now boils down to one figure: Kimi’s latest ARR after the K3 launch.

U.S. SEC Chair Paul Atkins told Fox News in an interview that he hopes Congress will swiftly advance the CLARITY Act and send it to President Trump for signing. Meanwhile, the SEC is continuing to develop regulatory rules adapted to blockchain and crypto asset markets. The U.S. Senate has set September 15 as the key procedural vote date for the CLARITY Act, which requires 60 votes to move the bill forward to formal consideration. Even if legislative efforts continue to face obstacles, the SEC and CFTC plan to leverage their existing authorities to advance the crypto market regulatory framework.

Prediction market platform Predict.fun has launched a new 15-minute up/down prediction market. Two markets—SPY/USDT and QQQ/USDT—are now live, allowing users to trade by predicting the future 15-minute price direction of the underlying assets. The new offering aims to provide users with a more high-frequency, flexible prediction experience. The market is open for participation now; welcome users to visit Predict.fun to try it out.