South Korea's Digital Asset Exchange Association (DAXA) has identified four unreported foreign virtual asset firms suspected of operating in the country and asked police to investigate, according to News1. According to Foresight News, the exchanges named in the case include virtual asset exchanges Big One and CoinMy.

Hyperliquid Strategies has increased its equity facility with Chardan Capital Markets from $1 billion to $2.5 billion, expanding its capacity to raise capital through share sales for its HYPE-focused treasury strategy. In a Tuesday filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the company said it amended its October 2025 Chardan Equity Facility purchase agreement to raise the aggregate gross purchase price of newly issued common shares. According to Cointelegraph, the agreement allows Hyperliquid Strategies to periodically direct Chardan, a New York-based investment bank and broker-dealer, to purchase shares subject to pricing, trading volume, and other conditions, after which Chardan may resell the shares in the public market. The company said the larger facility provides more potential funding, but any use of it would issue additional shares and could dilute existing shareholders. The $2.5 billion figure represents maximum capacity rather than funds already raised. Hyperliquid Strategies previously reported raising $647 million through the facility and expanding its treasury to about 29.3 million HYPE tokens. The expansion comes amid renewed market interest in Hyperliquid. HYPE jumped more than 20% in August after U.S. President Donald Trump said Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Michael Selig was working to bring the decentralized trading platform into the US “in a fully compliant and legal fashion.” Hyperliquid Strategies shares rose 30.4% following Trump’s remarks. Despite sharing the protocol’s name and holding its native token, the company says it is independent and not affiliated with Hyperliquid.

China's local government bond issuance totaled 77,859.14 billion yuan by August 31, up about 1.3% from 76,838 billion yuan a year earlier, according to Jiemian News. Issuance accelerated in the second half of the year, with 58,706.3422 billion yuan issued in the first half, 7,382.8629 billion yuan in July and 11,769.9349 billion yuan in August. China's National Bureau of Statistics said fixed-asset investment fell 6.7% year on year in January-July, with infrastructure investment down 2.4%. Jiemian News reported that China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has stepped up efforts to stabilize investment, holding a national investment work meeting on August 28 and earlier meetings on August 14 and five days later to push policy-based financial tools, support private investment and coordinate major projects under the “Six Networks” plan. Officials and analysts cited faster bond issuance, policy financing and major project construction as factors that could improve investment later in the year.

Mainland A-shares extended losses in afternoon trade, with the Shanghai Composite Index down 0.79% at 3,948.39 points, the CSI 300 off 1.07%, the Shenzhen Component down 1.53% and the ChiNext Index falling 1.87%, according to ETNet. Shanghai B shares rose 1.14%, while Shenzhen B shares edged down 0.27%. Defence stocks outperformed the broader market, while agriculture shares and grain-related concepts led declines.

According to Jin10, Malayan Banking economists said in a report that this super El Nino may have a milder impact on Thailand's economy and overall inflation than the previous 2015-2016 super El Nino event. They said prolonged hot and dry weather will weigh on output in Thailand's agricultural sector, but fresh produce currently accounts for only 8% of CPI weight, below about 10% in 2015-2016. They also said Thailand's economy is increasingly driven by the electronics and digital industries, reducing its sensitivity to lower agricultural output. Malayan Banking expects Thailand's GDP growth to be 2.4% in 2026 and 2.7% in 2027, while average overall inflation is forecast at 1.6% in 2026 and 1.8% in 2027.

OpenAI said its upcoming Astra model can autonomously discover previously unknown software vulnerabilities and turn them into usable attack methods, making it the company’s first model to reach the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold. According to ChainCatcher, OpenAI said that under its Preparedness Framework, this level means a model can find zero-day flaws in hardened real systems and develop working exploit code without human intervention, or design and carry out an attack from a high-level objective alone. In testing, Astra scored 100% on a benchmark for developing exploit code from known vulnerabilities and found two previously unknown flaws in another internal test. The model also broke out of a hardened browser sandbox, executed commands on the host machine, and gained root access by combining multiple operating system weaknesses. OpenAI said it has delayed part of Astra’s development to add more safety protections and plans to restrict access to its most advanced cybersecurity capabilities to screened testers only. The company said the capability is especially relevant to the crypto industry, where software vulnerabilities can be turned into financial losses within minutes.

According to Jin10, Bank of Japan Policy Board Member Hajime Takata said he will consider the factors that markets have already priced in regarding a September rate hike.

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