WTI and Brent crude oil both top $100 per barrel, as escalating Middle East tensions stoke supply concerns.

According to Bloomberg, Riot Games—Tencent’s subsidiary and developer of hit titles including *League of Legends* and *Valorant*—recently held discussions on esports sponsorship collaborations with two major prediction market operators, Kalshi and Polymarket, sources familiar with the matter revealed. Riot Games spokesperson Joe Hixson stated in an email: “Prediction markets are an emerging field, and we are evaluating them, focusing on maintaining the competitive integrity of events, potential value for teams, impact on fan experience, and alignment with our overall ecosystem goals.”

According to GMGN data, the market capitalization of the Meme coin flybrain on the Robinhood chain has surged past $25 million, hitting an all-time high, and is now trading at $27.26 million, with a 302% gain in the past hour. Marc Andreessen, co-founder of a16z, has just followed the project’s official X account. The project claims to be the first Meme coin developed by researchers using a fruit fly’s actual brain—not "brain-inspired AI"—specifically the neural connectome of a male fruit fly, which comprises 165,122 neurons and 10,228,000 synaptic connections, all tracked individually via electron microscopy. BlockBeats reminds users that most Meme coins lack practical use cases, feature highly volatile prices, and investors should exercise caution.

According to monitoring by Chinese crypto analytics platform Yu Jing, the suspected HYPE treasury firm Hyperliquid Strategies Inc (NASDAQ: PURR) has accumulated and staked 365,000 HYPE tokens (valued at approximately $29.65 million) over the past 24 hours. Over the past half-month, the company has sequentially accumulated and staked 3.029 million HYPE tokens (worth around $252 million) at an average price of roughly $83.4 per token. Per data released yesterday, Hyperliquid Strategies Inc currently holds 31.8 million HYPE tokens, valued at about $2.513 billion.

Beating AI News: Personal AI assistant Instinct is considering a $1 billion follow-on financing round. The firm just closed a $250 million funding, bringing its total raised to $350 million. Over the past few weeks, Instinct has repeatedly notified users that its services are at full capacity, leading to slower response times. The new financing round remains in the early stages and may not ultimately proceed. If the full $1 billion is secured, existing investors expect the valuation to reach at least around $10 billion, to limit dilution for old shareholders to under 10%. Currently, Instinct primarily rents servers and extensively uses open-source models. Founder Noah Shinn has also told potential investors that the company aims to eventually purchase its own chips and even operate data centers to reduce long-term computing power costs. Competition has also intensified sharply: Meta has just launched a free personal agent, Muse, which can also help users shop, book flights, and handle daily tasks. In early community comparisons, multiple testers noted that Muse is significantly faster than Instinct.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), Arthur Hayes has built a UNI position worth over $2.247 million at an average price of $6.94 per token. Three hours ago, he purchased an additional 39,800 UNI via Flowdesk, spending roughly 273,000 USDC. His current holding of 323,901 UNI is sitting on a total unrealized loss of $286,000.

US President Donald Trump said in a program broadcast on Fox News on local time September 10 that although the war on Iran could impact the upcoming U.S. midterm elections, he has no regrets about launching it. Trump stated he "does not subscribe to the word 'regret'", adding that "if he had to do it over, he would act exactly the same way". He also refuted speculation that some of his supporters are "dissatisfied and demoralized over the war", noting: "I don't think they're demoralized. I think they're very proud because I prevented Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons." Trump further reiterated that the war will end immediately after the midterm elections.