According to Odaily Planet Daily, Gannon Ken Van Dyke, a U.S. soldier, is accused of using non-public information to trade event contracts on the prediction market platform Polymarket related to the January ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, profiting over $400,000. U.S. authorities charged him with fraud in April. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) previously filed a civil lawsuit against Van Dyke, but a federal judge has ruled to postpone the trial pending the outcome of the criminal proceedings. The CFTC has filed an amicus curiae petition to address its defenses, including whether the event contracts fall under the category of "swaps" within its regulatory scope. Van Dyke's lawyers filed documents in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday opposing the CFTC's involvement in the criminal case, arguing that the agency should focus on its own case. Van Dyke has pleaded not guilty to all charges, and a criminal trial could begin as early as late 2026 or early 2027. (Cointelegraph)

According to Odaily Planet Daily, Bitwise CEO announced on the X platform that Bitwise will launch a groundbreaking new product type tomorrow, focusing on serving native on-chain users.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Sui posted on the X platform that wallets can be provided to AI agents without requiring the user to provide their private keys. Squid Mode executes policies outside the agent and splits each signature across independent validators, eliminating single points of failure. This feature, built on @ikadotxyz's 2PC-MPC framework, is now available on Sui.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, the wallet bowen1476, tracked by on-chain analysts, opened its 15th short Bitcoin position in five days on August 24th. This time, it shorted 300 Bitcoins with 40x leverage, with a notional value of approximately $23 million. Previously, it had suffered 14 consecutive losses, accumulating a loss of $4.56 million. The wallet's new short position entered at approximately $77,100, when Bitcoin's price was around $77,500. If Bitcoin falls back below the entry price, this position will be profitable; the wallet has not yet closed a profitable position since closing a 700 Bitcoin short position in May 2026. Bitcoin has risen 22% in the past seven days, during which more than 172,000 short positions were liquidated across the network, clearing approximately $3 billion in short positions. The US Treasury has increased the size of its long-term Treasury bond repurchase operations from $2 billion to $4 billion per transaction. (Bitcoin.com News)

According to Odaily Planet Daily, Bitcoin News reported on the X platform that Bitcoin mining company Bitari Inc. plans to sell 4.3 million shares at $7 per share, raising $30 million, and plans to conduct an IPO and list on Nasdaq.