U.S. CFTC Acting Chairman: Enforcement Division Restructured, Refocused on Combating Fraud

Tether is facing a lawsuit over the freezing of $42.4 million worth of USDT. Two Thai businessmen claim their wallets were blacklisted following an informal request from a US government official, with no search warrant or court order issued at the time. The pair are now demanding the unfreezing of their assets, as well as compensation from Tether for the returns generated by the relevant reserve assets during the period their USDT was frozen.

According to an official announcement, Binance’s contract platform will launch USDT-denominated perpetual contracts, each with a maximum leverage of 20x, at the following times (all times are UTC+8): - September 2, 2026, 18:00: NVDLUSDT perpetual contract - September 2, 2026, 18:05: TSLLUSDT perpetual contract - September 2, 2026, 18:10: DDOGUSDT perpetual contract - September 2, 2026, 18:15: TEAMUSDT perpetual contract - September 2, 2026, 18:20: MDBUSDT perpetual contract - September 2, 2026, 18:25: ZSUSDT perpetual contract - September 2, 2026, 18:30: GTLBUSDT perpetual contract

Hang Seng Indexes Company announced that Shein-W meets the requirements for the fast inclusion rule, and will be included in the Hang Seng Composite Index and its sub-indices after market close on September 14.

According to a Bloomberg report citing people familiar with the matter, Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam is seeking to gain control of at least three oil fields in Venezuela. The U.S. government is reshaping Venezuela’s oil industry and plans to replace some operators from the Maduro era with investors close to the Trump camp. The fields, currently operated by Alvorada Heavy Industries Ltda, are located in the Boca, Guico and Guara blocks of Venezuela’s Orinoco Belt. U.S. officials are considering revoking the existing operating contracts for these fields. As the relevant negotiations have not been made public, the insiders requested anonymity. Additional adjustments to existing oil contracts are expected this week, during which U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright will visit Caracas and is set to showcase up to 17 oil and gas agreements.

According to an official announcement, crypto exchange Binance will launch bStocks tokenized securities trading pairs for CrowdStrike (CRWDB), Moderna (MRNAB), ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ (SQQQB), and Seagate (STXB) on September 2, 2026, at 20:00 GMT+8. The platform will also activate spot algorithmic trading bots and smart position bot services concurrent with the launch. Furthermore, within one hour of bStocks going live on Binance’s spot market, users can redeem their bStocks for BTC, USDT, or other tokens supported by the flash swap platform, with zero redemption fees.

Beating AI News Flash: Doubao Work Finally Adds Multi-Agent Parallelism. A complex task can now be split into multiple sub-agents to process different modules in parallel, with results aggregated for final delivery. Another update: Mac now supports local "computer operation". Previously, Windows already supported GUI operations, while Mac was restricted to browser control only. Now, Mac can directly recognize local interfaces, enabling it to complete operations based on the UI even in software without MCP, APIs, plugins, or CLI.