HYPE hits new all-time high, boosting its ecosystem; meme coin PURR surges over 20% in 24 hours.

According to market data, the ZHIPU contract trading pair on Hyperliquid once dropped over 9% after the Hong Kong stock market closed, hitting a low of $92.045. It is now trading at $95.077, equivalent to approximately HK$754.89.

According to market sources, Turkey's wealth fund bought stocks on Thursday to stem the market's sharp plunge.

Anthony Pompliano’s bitcoin treasury firm ProCap Financial has been added to the Russell 2000 and Russell 3000 indices. The inclusion will take effect when U.S. stock markets open on September 21 (next Monday). The company previously announced it would rebrand to Silvia, Inc. on September 22, with its stock ticker changed to “SVIA”.

AI developer Mantic announced Friday it has closed a $25 million seed funding round. The firm recently defeated human contestants in a prediction competition. Results from the 2026 Summer Cup, a London-based online prediction platform Metaculus that wrapped up this month, show Mantic’s probability forecasts for political, economic and cultural events outperformed human participants. The strong scores posted by Mantic and other AI entrants also mark the first time AI has dominated the competition. The funding round was led by Radical Ventures, with participation from Microsoft’s venture fund M12, AI startup Thinking Machines Lab, Balderton Capital and others; specific valuation was not disclosed. Mantic CEO Toby Shevlane said the company is focused on advancing humanity’s ability to understand the future. Founded in 2024 by Shevlane and Ben Day, Mantic enhances its forecasting capabilities by optimizing cutting-edge models developed by other AI labs specifically for prediction tasks, testing its systems against historical data, evaluating performance and iterating to improve accuracy. (Reuters)

According to HTX market data, Gravity’s token G has surged past $0.0085, currently trading at $0.00856, with a 100.24% gain over the past 24 hours. In related news, Gravity officially announced on September 17 that its testnet has integrated Chainlink CCIP cross-chain functionality.

According to official announcements, Flap has officially launched its Perpetual Contract Vault, powered by MYX Finance. This mechanism allows projects to open perpetual contract markets simultaneously after issuing meme tokens. Transaction taxes will flow into the vault and be automatically used to repurchase tokens, with the repurchased tokens then allocated as liquidity. Flap stated that token holders can earn two layers of returns: transaction tax rewards, and revenue from the perpetual markets, which includes trading fees and funding rate-related gains. The mechanism supports permissionless creation of perpetual markets for any asset from its launch day, eliminating the need for project audits or listing approval waits.