Odaily reported, citing data from DeFiLlama, that Binance, Bybit and Bitget ranked as the top three centralized exchanges by net capital inflows over the past 24 hours. Binance posted the largest net inflow at $234 million. Bybit followed with $51.55 million, while Bitget placed third with $17.56 million. The figures reflect a 24-hour snapshot of net fund movements across centralized exchanges, according to the data provider. No additional breakdown or market context was provided in the original report.

Data from DeFiLlama shows the top three centralized exchanges by net inflows over the past 24 hours were Binance at $234 million, Bybit at $51.55 million and Bitget at $17.56 million. The figures were reported by ChainCatcher in a 7x24-hour news flash.

Monad Foundation said it has completed a buyback plan that offered to purchase locked MON tokens from some early investors before their vesting schedule began to unlock. The foundation had set aside as much as $60 million for the program, aiming to give eligible holders a way to cash out early at a discounted price rather than wait for open trading and scheduled unlocks. Yet nearly all investors contacted declined to sell. The foundation did not disclose the final purchase price, the amount of capital ultimately used, or how many investors took part. It said any tokens repurchased under the plan would remain subject to the original lockup schedule, meaning the buyback would not accelerate token supply into the market. Monad’s early investors received about 19.7 billion MON, close to 20% of initial supply, when the mainnet launched last November. Those tokens are set for a first unlock in November, followed by monthly releases over four years. The development comes as MON trades below its public sale price while the chain’s onchain activity rises. On Tuesday, MON was around $0.021, below the $0.025 public sale level. At the same time, DeFiLlama data cited in the report showed Monad ecosystem TVL climbing from about $360 million on July 2 to roughly $895 million in six weeks, with stablecoins at about $707 million and 24-hour DEX volume near $79 million.

Taiwan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs, through its Administration for Digital Industries, is nearing the end of applications for its 115 annual free AI computing program, with the final deadline set for Oct. 30. Approved domestic companies can access GPU resources on the government-backed platform free of charge for three months, and may apply more than once depending on their needs. The program supports both model training and inference workloads, allowing applicants to fine-tune open-source models with their own industry data or connect to preinstalled large language models through APIs for application development. According to the agency, by the end of year 114, 186 AI startups and information service providers had used the platform, producing at least 266 models or innovative applications. Remaining application windows now cover two training batches and three inference batches. The platform also includes a mix of local and international open-source models, including TAIDE, FoxBrain, Llama, Phi, Magistral-Small, Gemma 4, and openai/gpt-oss-120b, alongside tools for image and speech recognition.

Farcaster is back on the market less than a year after its first ownership transfer. On Aug. 17, Neynar co-founder rish said the company is looking for a new team to take over the Farcaster protocol, the official app, and token-launch platform Clanker. He added that Neynar will return its remaining funds and then disband the team. The move comes only seven months after Neynar took over the project from Farcaster’s original builder, Merkle Manufactory. In January, Merkle transferred the protocol contracts, codebase, official app, and Clanker to Neynar, while returning the full $180 million it had raised to investors. Founders Dan Romero and Varun Srinivasan then joined Tempo, a payments chain described in the source as a project incubated by Stripe and Paradigm. The business backdrop has shifted sharply since then. According to DefiLlama data cited in the article, Farcaster ecosystem protocol fees fell from $35.43 million in the first quarter of 2026 to $4.67 million in the second quarter, then to $377,000 from July 1 to Aug. 17, with only $4,001 generated in the past 24 hours. The article also said CLANKER token buybacks funded by fees have stopped. rish said operating the full-stack social network costs about $100,000 a month, peaking at $500,000, but argued the exit was not a financial decision.

DeFiLlama has held back its official mobile app release because phishing apps impersonating the project have remained on Apple’s App Store, according to founder 0xngmi. He said the team decided not to launch until all fake apps are removed, aiming to reduce the risk of users being scammed. 0xngmi also described the team’s efforts to get one fraudulent app taken down. He said they spent months reporting the app to Apple for trademark infringement and impersonation of the official DeFiLlama product. The team later funded a small wallet, downloaded the app, and found that the wallet’s funds were fully stolen, which they then reported to Apple. According to him, the app was removed within a few days after that report. He added that he wanted other crypto companies to know about the experience so they would not waste time in the same way.

DefiLlama Research data shows that from January to June 2026, about 169,000 wallets made their first trade on Hyperliquid in its RWA market, accounting for 31.7% of new users during the period. DefiLlama co-founder 0xngmi said that among users whose first trade was an RWA trade, about 80.9% continued trading RWA afterward, but did not move on to broader crypto asset trading. The figures suggest Hyperliquid’s RWA products did attract a new user cohort, yet most of those users remained focused on RWA trading rather than converting into crypto trading users. The data points to a clear split between demand for RWA trading and demand for crypto trading on the platform.

DeFiLlama founder 0xngmi said the team deliberately funded a wallet linked to a fake DeFiLlama app on Apple’s App Store and allowed the app to steal the funds in order to collect hard evidence. According to the disclosure, Apple removed the app within days after receiving proof of the theft. Before that, the DeFiLlama team had repeatedly reported the app to Apple for trademark infringement, but had received no response for months. During that period, the team also delayed the release of its own official app to avoid confusing users. Public information about the developer behind the fake app has not been disclosed, and 0xngmi did not provide the amount sent from the sacrificial wallet or the exact timing of the test. The account was cited by CryptoBriefing.