Gate has launched live trading for FLYBRAIN, FRONG and JUGGERNAUT perpetual contracts in its Robinhood section, according to an official announcement cited by ChainCatcher. The contracts are settled in USDT and offer leverage ranging from 1x to 10x. At the same time, Gate has also added trading bot support and copy trading for all three assets. The update covers the derivatives listing itself as well as related trading tools made available on the platform. No other listing details were disclosed in the brief announcement.

The Sept. 10 to Sept. 11 news cycle brought a dense mix of crypto financing, regulation, product launches and macro signals. People familiar with the matter said Nasdaq Inc. is investing $100 million in Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, valuing the company at $21 billion and deepening a partnership announced in March. In Washington, U.S. Senate Republicans released a 630-page revised version of the Clarity Act ahead of a Sept. 15 procedural vote, including a requirement that non-decentralized DeFi protocols register with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Elsewhere, Coinbase struck a deal with payments infrastructure provider Moov to bring stablecoin acceptance, settlement and real-time money movement to more than 1,000 community banks and credit unions. Binance Alpha opened the third round of its Block Street airdrop, Spark said it will shut SparkLend on Gnosis Chain on Sept. 14, and Liquid Network said block production has resumed after a hack-related disruption, though transactions remain paused. Markets were also driven by macro data. U.S. producer prices rose 5.4% year over year in August, above expectations, while CME-based pricing showed the probability of a September Fed rate increase rising to 71.3%. Analysts and market commentators tied the inflation print and higher bond yields to pressure across risk assets, with bitcoin repeatedly discussed around support near $75,000 and resistance in the $83,000 to $85,000 range.

JUGGERNAUT, a Robinhood-themed meme coin, briefly pushed its market capitalization above $25 million and set a fresh high, according to GMGN data cited by Odaily. The token was later quoted at $22.63 million in market cap, with its 24-hour gain reaching 656%. The move was described as possibly linked to its listing on Robinhood Crypto. Odaily also warned that meme coins are highly volatile and said investors should participate with caution. The report did not provide additional trading metrics beyond market cap and the 24-hour percentage increase.

Bonkguy, the trader behind the @theunipcs account, has climbed to the top of the fomo platform’s profit rankings after a fresh wave of gains in meme coins tied to Robinhood-chain activity, according to a MarsBit report citing Odaily. A recent claim by crypto KOL Rune said Bonkguy is 64 years old, a detail that quickly turned him into a talking point across Chinese crypto circles, though Rune’s own credibility had already been damaged by the earlier FAMI and JINQIAN meme coin controversy. Arkham data cited in the report shows Bonkguy’s largest disclosed fomo holdings are PONS, USELESS and Marscoin, with positions valued at $6.8 million, $3.91 million and $3.14 million respectively. He also holds Microduck, BOW, and a long list of smaller meme tokens across Robinhood-chain and BSC. On Aug. 31, Bonkguy said his cumulative spot trading profit had surpassed $10 million, including more than $2.3 million over 24 hours and over $5.7 million in the last 30 days. The report also notes that his track record includes both spectacular wins and sharp losses. He said a BONK trade in 2023 turned a $16,000 principal, using 6x leverage, into a position worth more than $20 million. But he also said much of those earlier gains was later erased during last year’s "10·11" market plunge. More recently, he exited JINQIAN at a loss of about $118,700, down 80.42%.

Baidu is strengthening its Foundation Model Unit (BMU) with two key hires. Sun Tianxiang, BMU head, brought in a researcher codenamed Wuqin from a North American Frontier Lab to boost ERNIE pre-training. Meanwhile, former DeepSeek researcher Wei Haoran, lead author of DeepSeek-OCR, joined BMU as head of multimodal algorithms. Wei previously contributed to the open-source Unlimited OCR, which set a record on OmniDocBench. The moves come as Baidu ramps up core model development.

A stock-meme token called Rabbit has quickly gained traction on Robinhood chain, according to BlockBeats. Data cited from GMGN showed that Rabbit, issued through the o1 platform and paired with U.S. stock WYFI, passed a $15 million market cap within nine hours of launch and was quoted at $15.56 million at the time of writing. The move followed another stock-meme token, BONER, which was paired with HIMS and had previously surged to a $70 million market cap. BlockBeats said Rabbit’s name traces back to public information around CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which recently developed an open-source, fiber-based high-precision time synchronization protocol called rabbit. The protocol can deliver sub-nanosecond precision, has been incorporated into IEEE standards, and is already used in quantum experiments and emerging quantum network infrastructure. WYFI, the stock paired with Rabbit, is described as an AI infrastructure company listed in 2025 with businesses in data centers and HPC cloud services. As of publication, BIT(bit.com) market data showed WYFI down 0.74% in after-hours trading. The report also said Rabbit’s rapid rise was closely tied to position calls from bonk guy, a leading KOL on the fomo platform. BlockBeats cautioned that tokens in this category can see sharp price swings and that users should be careful when investing.

Meme coin trader Bonk Guy said JUGGERNAUT is one of the Robinhood Chain ecosystem tokens he is watching most closely and described it as clearly undervalued at current levels. He said the token’s narrative comes from “The Juggernaut” meme frequently used by Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev, which he sees as giving the project strong viral potential. Bonk Guy added that JUGGERNAUT previously climbed to about $22 million in market capitalization when CASHCAT first broke above $100 million, before pulling back and consolidating in the $2 million to $4 million range for about a month. Even so, he said community activity and trading volume have remained strong. In his view, that pattern fits the kind of setup he looks for before a large repricing, and he said JUGGERNAUT could see a bigger move higher later on.

Prediction markets are expanding at a pace that is hard to ignore, with sports contracts driving much of the recent surge. The article argues that these venues may offer genuine value beyond speculation: more direct hedging tools, cleaner probability signals, and new ways to price outcomes that traditional financial markets or insurers often cannot handle. It points to examples tied to Federal Reserve rate decisions, corporate hedging, election outcomes, entertainment, and even future GPU rental prices. At the same time, the growth story is colliding with a widening regulatory and consumer-protection debate in the U.S. Kalshi and Polymarket are facing legal action from states, tribes, and private parties, while the Commodity Futures Trading Commission is asserting federal authority over event contracts. The conflict is not only about jurisdiction. It is also about whether sports event contracts function, in practice, like sports betting products that compete for the same users while operating under a different rule set. The piece also highlights uneven outcomes for retail users, concentration of profits among sophisticated traders, the rise of parlay-style products, questions around insider trading, and the lack of consistent safeguards for younger or vulnerable participants. Its central claim is that prediction markets may indeed be better markets in some respects, but they have not yet become better protected ones.