Binance has launched five new perpetual contracts on Binance Futures for traditional assets: Datadog (DDOG), Atlassian (TEAM), MongoDB (MDB), TSLL, and NVDL, with 24/7 trading and up to 20x leverage.

Bybit has launched stock perpetual contracts for TEAM, MDB, and CVX, with up to 25x leverage and limited-time fee discounts.

Binance Futures said it will roll out seven U-margined perpetual contracts between 10:00 and 10:30 (UTC) on Sept 2, 2026. The new pairs are NVDLUSDT, TSLLUSDT, DDOGUSDT, TEAMUSDT, MDBUSDT, ZSUSDT and GTLBUSDT, each with a maximum leverage of 20x.

Bitget UEX’s latest market note said traders are still pricing in roughly a 58% chance of a 25-basis-point Federal Reserve rate hike in September after Warsh’s Jackson Hole remarks, with this week’s U.S. ISM manufacturing PMI and nonfarm payrolls seen as the next key tests. Crude oil moved higher after renewed U.S.-Iran tensions, with Brent breaking above $90 and WTI recovering toward the mid-$80s, putting inflation concerns back at the center of market pricing. U.S. stocks closed lower on Monday, though all three major indexes still finished August in positive territory. Bitcoin held near $78,750 and remained one of the more resilient risk assets, posting an August gain of about 23%, while ETH lagged BTC. The report also highlighted liquidation levels around BTC’s $79,500 to $80,000 range, a $202 million spot ETF outflow on Aug. 28 that ended a nine-day inflow streak, and a packed macro and earnings calendar that includes Broadcom, Dell, Snowflake, Tesla’s Cybercab event, and comments from Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller.

Morgan Stanley said in an Aug. 6 research note that accelerating growth at the three major cloud providers has improved the demand backdrop for Datadog, Snowflake and MongoDB ahead of earnings, but rising expectations now pose a separate risk. The bank kept Overweight ratings on all three names. The note said combined second-quarter growth for AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud rose to 48% from 39% in the first quarter, marking a fifth straight quarter of acceleration. AWS grew 37%, its fastest pace in 18 quarters. Azure grew 43%, while Google Cloud grew 82%, with management saying growth still accelerated even excluding the TPU systems revenue impact. Morgan Stanley argued that AI spending is increasingly feeding into core infrastructure demand. At the same time, it said valuations already price in a large share of the bullish case. For Datadog, market expectations for second-quarter revenue growth have climbed to 35% to 36%. Snowflake is seen benefiting from AWS strength, while MongoDB faces a tougher competitive setup as Microsoft’s managed PostgreSQL revenue grew about 55% for a third straight quarter of acceleration. The bank set price targets of $300 for DDOG, $300 for SNOW and $380 for MDB.

Base has launched v2 snapshots, according to a post on X by Base engineer Eric Liu. The update reduces the mainnet snapshot size from about 7 TB to about 3.2 TB through a new chunking design and higher compression, while sync time drops from roughly five hours to around two hours. Pruned nodes now take up about 1 TB. In parallel, the GitHub release for base/node v1.2.0 has been updated to Reth v2.3.0 and now includes official support for v2 snapshots. Node operators are required to upgrade to that version and migrate their databases to v2 storage. The release also fixes an issue affecting pruned-node syncing from genesis. Base said node operators should complete the migration before the MDBX hard-limit deadline in mid-August.

A long-form essay published by PANews argues that the largest and most effective money-laundering infrastructure has never primarily lived in back alleys, underground remittance shops, or crypto rails. Instead, the article says, it has historically been built into licensed banks, private banking structures, correspondent networks, dollar clearing channels, and legal settlements with regulators. Using a string of well-known cases — including Ferdinand Marcos, Riggs National Bank, Wachovia, HSBC, Standard Chartered, BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank, Danske Bank, and 1MDB — the author compares the scale of underground finance with the volumes handled by mainstream institutions and concludes the gap is enormous. The essay also places USDT and stablecoins inside a broader three-stage laundering framework: placement, layering, and integration. In that framing, stablecoins improve the logistics of moving and dispersing funds, but they do not replace the traditional financial system’s role in giving money a usable legal backstory. According to the piece, that final step still happens where banks, wealth managers, clearing systems, and courts meet. The article’s central claim is blunt: the decisive question is not who can move money the fastest, but who has the authority to let it re-enter the formal economy as if its origins were clean.

The Solana-based meme coin HAWK, launched by viral internet personality Haliey Welch, plummeted over 90% within hours of its debut. The project’s team includes Alexander Larson Shultz, son-in-law of comedian Howie Mandel, sparking outrage and legal threats from investors.