Maji plans to acquire Friend.tech for $1 million and take over the FRIEND token.

Bitcoin Magazine CEO David Bailey posted on X that another signal indicating Bitcoin’s bear market is nearing its end has emerged, and the Bitcoin Asia 2026 conference venue was packed with attendees.

Deputy Governor of the Bank of Japan Ryozo Himino stated that the central bank will discuss the appropriate pace and timing of interest rate hikes at each of its meetings to stabilize core inflation at around 2%.

Beating AI News Flash: AI inference platform fal has launched H3 Max, a video model fine-tuned from open-source MiniMax H3. It enhances prompt comprehension and visual quality, and is optimized for acceleration on fal’s own inference system. In Artificial Analysis’s audio-inclusive video leaderboard, H3 Max’s image-to-video model ranks first with an Elo score of 1205, outperforming ByteDance’s Seedance 2.0 and the original H3. Its text-to-video model takes third place with an Elo of 1235, just 4 points behind top-ranked Wan 3.0. Its speed is also notable: fal states generating a 5-second 768p video takes less than 3 seconds, with throughput roughly 35 times that of the original H3 API. The model is launching at a 50% discount: 768p video costs $0.04 per second, meaning a 1-minute video runs $2.4. The price will revert to $0.08 per second after September 1. However, H3 Max has a narrower scope: it currently supports a maximum resolution of 768p, while the original H3 can generate 2K videos. At launch, only text-to-video and image-to-video features are available; Reference-to-Video is not yet live.

According to GMGN market data, Friend.tech’s FRIEND token has surged 1553% over the past hour, with its current market capitalization standing at $750,000. Today, reports emerged that Huang Licheng, nicknamed "Big Brother Ma Ji", announced plans to acquire Friend.tech for $1 million and take over the FRIEND token.

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) said it raised Nvidia's price target from $300 to $330.

HIP-3 market deployer Entropy has launched the Anthropic Pre-IPO market on Hyperliquid, with ANTH down 2.22% over the past 24 hours to a current price of $1,974, a 24-hour trading volume of $19.88 million, and contract open interest of $3.44 million.