Jiazhi Technology, an industrial mobile robotics company founded by Zhejiang University professor Xiong Rong and members of her lab, has filed again for a main-board listing in Hong Kong under Chapter 18C. The company traces its roots to the university’s early robotics work, where Xiong led students in building Zhejiang University’s first FIRA soccer robot in 2001 and later guided teams that won four small-size robot soccer World Cup titles, including a 1-0 final victory over Germany’s ER-Force in 2019. In March this year, the International Federation of Robotics named Xiong to its list of the 11 Women Shaping the Future of Robotics 2026, where she was the only Chinese honoree. Jiazhi was founded in Hangzhou in July 2016 with registered capital of 5 million yuan. Its prospectus shows revenue of 74.95 million yuan, 110 million yuan, and 260 million yuan in 2023, 2024, and 2025, respectively. Revenue in the first half of 2026 reached 169 million yuan, up 25% year over year, with 891 robots shipped and contracts on hand of about 500 million yuan at period end. Robot solutions generated 147 million yuan, or 87.3% of total revenue, in the first half of 2026.

RootData’s August 2026 tally shows a sharp pullback in publicly disclosed crypto venture activity. The market recorded 61 financing rounds during the month, down 10.3% from July’s 68 deals and 45.0% from the 111 deals posted in August 2025. Total disclosed funding came in at about $742 million, a steep 68.0% month-over-month drop from $2.321 billion in July and an 86.5% decline from $5.495 billion a year earlier. By sector, DeFi accounted for the largest share at 29.5%, followed by Web3/Others at 21.3% and CeFi at 18%. Among the largest disclosed rounds, Ripple Prime, Ripple’s non-bank prime brokerage unit, raised $275 million through an upsized private placement of senior unsecured notes. Bullish extended a $100 million debt financing facility to stablecoin protocol USD.AI. RQD* Clearing raised $74 million, while stablecoin digital bank Fasset closed a $68 million round led by SBI Group, bringing its valuation to $1 billion. Other notable deals included Yellow Card, JPYC’s issuer, Capital B, Hivemind Digital Group, Entropy.io and City Protocol.

Crypto markets on Sept. 8 were led by a mix of meme-coin headlines, whale positioning and sector rotation data. Hunter Biden, son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, is planning to launch a meme coin called LAPTOP, though no issuance date, supply details or token mechanics have been disclosed. The token is tied to the politically charged “Hunter Biden laptop” theme and was described in the source material as a political expression aimed at Donald Trump and his family. On-chain, Hyperbot data showed whale trader Loracle continued adding to a 3x leveraged short on PONS. The position has grown to 25,747,236 PONS, worth about $21.078 million. Separately, Blockstream said a vulnerability on Liquid has been patched and informed a white-hat hacker that roughly 4,000 BTC can now be safely returned. The hacker still controls 3,998.5 BTC, according to the update. Elsewhere, privacy coins remained in focus. glassnode said the privacy sector is the only major crypto segment above its previous market peak, with ZEC highlighted as a major driver. Market tables in the source also showed RAY, DOOD and METIS among the top 24-hour gainers, while BTC, ETH and SOL were lower over the same period.

LeBron James said on X that he has visited Polymarket’s headquarters and is set to partner with the prediction market platform, posting 「Coming Soon」 alongside the announcement. A video shared by James showed categories including crypto, sports, economy, culture, weather, and esports, with James selecting sports, pointing to a likely sports-focused collaboration. The day’s market roundup also highlighted comments from Bitmine chairman Tom Lee, who said roughly 20% of the top-performing Russell 1000 stocks since the start of the third quarter are crypto-related. He cited BMNR, MSTR, CRCL, and BLSH among the names near the top of the index leaderboard. Elsewhere, Washington state regulators moved against Coinflip and CEO Benjamin Weiss, seeking to revoke the company’s money transmitter license, bar future industry activity, and impose a $1.0296 million fine. Other developments included Donald Trump saying his administration is pushing Hyperliquid into the U.S. market in a fully compliant and lawful manner, Bithumb launching its new Bithumb AI service, and Offchain Labs co-founder Steven Goldfeder clarifying that remaining locked ARB will account for about 7.7% of total supply once investor and team unlocks are completed next March.

WuBlockchain, citing RootData, reported that 61 crypto venture financing deals were publicly disclosed in August 2026, down 10.3% from 68 in July and down 45.0% from 111 a year earlier. Total disclosed funding came to about $742 million, a steep 68.0% drop from July’s $2.321 billion and an 86.5% decline from $5.495 billion in August 2025. The sector mix for the month showed DeFi at roughly 29.5%, CeFi at 18%, Web3/Others at 21.3%, AI at 9.8%, Tool/Wallet at 8.2%, and smaller shares for L1/L2, RWA/DePIN, and NFT/Game. WuBlockchain said deals without disclosed amounts were counted in project totals but excluded from dollar totals, and noted that the figures may be revised because not all financings are disclosed in the same month. Among the largest rounds, Ripple Prime completed an upsized $275 million private placement of senior unsecured notes, while stablecoin-focused digital bank Fasset raised $68 million in a round led by Japan’s SBI Group at a $1 billion valuation.

A wave of anxiety swept through global markets after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh delivered hawkish remarks at the Jackson Hole central banking symposium and geopolitical tensions picked up. Bitcoin fell 3% and slipped below $77,000, gold also moved lower, while the U.S. dollar index and Treasury yields rose. Even so, CME FedWatch data showed the market was pricing only a 58% chance of a September rate hike at the time of writing, well below levels often seen as a settled outcome. Jim Bianco, founder of Bianco Research, said on X that the next Fed meeting was leaning toward a hike but was far from decided. Warsh pointed to inflation, not labor-market trends, as the bigger concern, noting that the personal consumption expenditures price index was running at 3.7% against the Fed’s 2% target. He also said that more than half of tracked goods and services had posted price increases of 3% or more over the past year. Robin Brooks of the Brookings Institution argued that even if the Fed does raise rates in September, the move may be aimed at calming the Treasury market and anchoring the 10-year yield rather than delivering meaningful tightening. In that reading, demand for scarce assets such as Bitcoin and gold could remain intact.

Kevin Warsh’s latest remarks at Jackson Hole pushed market pricing toward a possible September rate increase, with swap traders putting the odds of a mid-September hike at about 60%. The move rippled through the Treasury market, where the policy-sensitive 2-year yield posted its biggest jump in more than two months before slipping 2 basis points to 4.32% in Asian trading. Even so, several large fixed-income investors are not changing their positioning. ABN AMRO, Brandywine, and DWS all remain underweight long-dated U.S. Treasurys, arguing that rhetoric still needs to be matched by policy action. Their skepticism reflects Warsh’s recent record: despite repeated inflation-focused messaging, the Fed held rates unchanged in both June and July. Investors are now focused on whether incoming data will force a clearer decision. This week’s monthly U.S. jobs report, followed by inflation data, is seen as central to the Fed’s September meeting. Some managers warn that markets may be “doing the Fed’s job” by pricing in tightening too aggressively if the data fail to reaccelerate. Others say a lack of follow-through could revive concerns about Fed credibility and trigger a replay of July’s sharp curve steepening.

Market expectations for a September Federal Reserve rate hike jumped after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh delivered a hawkish message at the Jackson Hole Symposium, but pricing still stops short of certainty. CME FedWatch shows a 59.9% probability of a hike, even as social media speculation quickly coalesced around a 25-basis-point move. Warsh said inflation data is "more concerning" than labor-market trends, noted that PCE is running at 3.7% versus the Fed’s 2% target, and pointed to the breadth of price increases across government-tracked goods and services over the past year. Several market voices argue that the reaction has been exaggerated. Bianco Research founder Jim Bianco said the next Fed meeting leans toward a hike but is not a done deal. ABN AMRO Investment Solutions and Brandywine Global Investment Management also questioned the severity of the current rate-hike scare. Robin Brooks of the Brookings Institution added a different angle: if the Fed does raise rates in September, the move may be aimed less at traditional tightening and more at calming the Treasury market, anchoring the 10-year yield, and preventing a repeat of the bond selloff seen after July 29. Under that reading, he said, so-called fiat debasement trades could still perform well, leaving room for Bitcoin and gold to keep advancing after their August gains.