BREAKING: $435 million has been liquidated from the cryptocurrency market in the past 12 hours.

Beating AI Express: Coding Agent runtime Herdr has secured a $6 million seed round, led by Bessemer Venture Partners, with participation from Y Combinator and e2vc. Individual investors including Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke, Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht, and fal co-founder G?rkem Yurtseven also joined the round. Herdr remains a 1-person team developed by Can Celik. It is essentially a tmux built specifically for Coding Agents, hosting tools like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor Agent CLI to enable unified background running, switching, and status monitoring. The Agents continue operating even when the terminal is closed or SSH disconnects. Launched roughly four months ago, Herdr already boasts over 36,000 GitHub stars and 780,000 downloads, with the community having built more than 1,000 plugins and related projects. The funding will primarily be used for hiring; Celik plans to form a small team to focus on operational stability, performance, and scalability. Herdr’s core runtime will remain open-source under the Apache 2.0 license, with no plans to switch to a closed-source model post-funding. Notably, Herdr launched multi-machine management just the day before, allowing users to simultaneously manage Agents on local machines, servers, and Mac minis from a single terminal.

Trader Eugene Ng Ah Sio posted on his personal channel that over the past six months, he has been systematically learning AI stocks—a brand-new asset class—and has witnessed the largest volatility event in stock market history, gaining numerous new trading experiences from the episode. He noted that this experience is quite similar to when he entered the crypto market in 2021. Although trading advantages in the stock market are significantly weaker than in crypto, he does not regret his decision to shift to AI stocks. Eugene added that some trading patterns still hold up in the stock market, but overall, the market is more challenging to navigate, involving more influencing factors and stakeholders. By contrast, the crypto market functions as a relatively independent "sandbox." However, AI remains in the early stage of rapid development, with abundant notable opportunities across the industry and a very steep learning curve. He believes that for speculators, growing personal net worth tenfold via tech stocks may be easier than investing in crypto right now—a trend that will persist over the next three years as the market progresses toward artificial superintelligence (ASI). Eugene further stated that ultimately, choosing the right sector matters more than relative trading advantages. He views the AI semiconductor sector as entering a new rally, and Anthropic’s IPO and subsequent model releases could serve as key catalysts, adding that he is looking forward to potential upcoming market volatility.

Beating AI News: Claude Code head Boris Cherny posted that GPT-6 Astra’s prompt injection protection is “roughly on par” with Gemini Flash and Claude Opus 4.8, adding that his own Claude models had “practically solved” the problem around two months ago. Prompt injection refers to hiding malicious instructions in web pages, documents, and other content to induce AI agents to leak data or perform dangerous actions. Boris also stated that publicly evaluating and naming other labs is an effective way to push them to develop safer models: “We will continue doing this until other labs prioritize safety more.” The post was quickly countered with a Community Note on X. Independent testing by Gray Swan found none of the evaluated models are fully immune to prompt injection, with Claude also having successful attack cases. Another security researcher used a custom web page to target Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode, achieving a 60%–80% success rate in small-scale tests. OpenAI’s core product lead Thibault Sottiaux then directly parodied Boris’s phrasing. He said he was pleased to see Claude Code’s new background computer operations finally catch up to Codex: “And it’s our version from May this year.” Boris later acknowledged the original post was “more sarcastic than he intended,” stressing he was genuinely recognizing Astra’s progress. He also clarified that the claim that prompt injection was “solved” refers to the combined performance of Claude models, injection detection mechanisms, and Auto Mode—not that the model itself is inherently immune.

According to an official announcement, Binance’s Cross Margin, Unified Account Mode, and Unified Account Pro will add two new bStocks tokens — Hims & Hers (HIMSB) and Salesforce (CRMB) — as eligible collateral assets at 20:00 (UTC+8) on September 9, 2026. Corresponding bStocks trading pairs will also open for leveraged trading. Eligible users will then be able to use these bStocks tokens as margin collateral, expanding the collateral options for margin trading.

Liquid Capital founder Yilihua said the current crypto market remains bullish. Bitcoin has rallied for five consecutive days since its upward move began on August 17, then entered a correction phase starting August 22, which has lasted roughly 19 days. This is a normal upward-sloping correction during the uptrend, with a $6,000 wide range of volatility between $76,300 and $82,300, while the upside resistance level stands at around $82,300. Yilihua emphasized that no bull market rises in a straight line, as the market is constantly evolving. He offered two key takeaways: first, do not short assets in a bullish trend; second, closely monitor daily-level corrections. Beyond the broader market, a local bull run has emerged recently on Robinhood’s blockchain, involving ZEC (a pump-and-dump coin) and trading tokens. All signs point to the current period being highly similar to the eve of the 2020 raging bull market.

Data shows that well-known Meme KOL Bonk Guy (Unipcs) has reclaimed the top spot on the FOMO daily leaderboard today. His current assets stand at approximately $21.645 million, with a paper gain of around $1.921 million over the past 24 hours. Looking at his portfolio, PONS remains his highest unrealized profit holding: the position is valued at about $8.899 million, with cumulative unrealized profit of roughly $8.831 million, translating to a return of around 13042.6%. Additionally, USELESS has also delivered substantial gains to Bonk Guy. Data indicates that Unipcs’ current USELESS position is valued at approximately $5.181 million, with cumulative unrealized profit of around $4.351 million and a return of roughly 494.95%. USELESS currently has a market cap of about $326 million, while the average market cap when Bonk Guy opened his position was around $5.32 million. By cumulative unrealized profit, USELESS is Unipcs’ second-largest profit source, trailing only PONS. The combined cumulative unrealized profit from these two holdings alone exceeds $13.18 million.