Balancer extends a white hat invitation to the hacker, setting a deadline of 5:00 on September 9 for the return of approximately $234,000 in funds.

According to market data, the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), the benchmark gauge for U.S. stock market volatility tied to the S&P 500, has closed in the 14 to 17 point range for 25 consecutive trading days — the longest such stretch since May 1992. Over the past 34 years, the only comparable period occurred in 2025, with the streak lasting 24 trading days. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 has not posted a decline of at least -1.0% across 26 consecutive trading days, leaving the market in an unusually calm phase.

Hyperliquid announced that in its upcoming network upgrade, it will lower the minimum notional amount for outcome orders (prediction market result token orders) from $10 to $1. Meanwhile, deployers will be able to query their remaining quota via the outcomeDeployerLimits information request interface.

Beating AI Express (from Dongcha) reports: Recent job postings reveal that Anthropic is planning to develop more in-house billing, fraud detection, and other financial infrastructure, while evaluating which payment-related services can be built internally instead of relying on external service providers. The postings show Anthropic has not yet finalized decisions on whether to further develop its own tools in areas including payments, billing, and tax processing, or continue procuring solutions from external providers. One senior software engineer position focused on billing requires assisting the company with technical selection: determining which business lines will continue development on external provider platforms, and which scenarios necessitate building their own underlying foundational modules around those external platforms.

Prominent crypto analyst Rekt Capital notes that Bitcoin has successfully retested its macro downtrend line as support, with this line aligning closely with the highs from April-May 2026. Current price levels indicate the retest is initially valid. Rekt Capital also states that to avoid a shift into a downtrend, BTC must prevent its monthly closing price from falling below the downtrend line (approximately $761.87 million), as this could form an upper wick and weaken its breakout potential.

According to market data from BIT (bit.com), Tesla’s intraday price dropped as much as 6.3%. The highly anticipated Cybercab event held Thursday evening delivered far less substance than Wall Street had expected. Tesla’s stock had risen 5.4% ahead of the Thursday event, with analysts noting that a strong presentation could have reversed the stock’s upward momentum. The electric vehicle maker has staked its future on a shift toward physical AI, including autonomous driving and robotics.

UK’s largest retail investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown, which manages over $200 billion in assets, announced it is making nine Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded note (ETN) products available to its 2 million clients. The products are offered by issuers including BlackRock iShares, CoinShares, WisdomTree, 21Shares, Invesco and Bitwise, with annual fees ranging from 0% to 0.35%. The move comes less than a year after the platform previously warned clients against cryptocurrency investments, and follows a policy adjustment in response to the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) lifting its retail ban on crypto ETPs in October 2025. New buyers on the platform must complete an appropriateness assessment and wait 24 hours before trading. (CoinDesk)