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Data from WuBlockchain’s data center shows that major crypto exchange websites recorded about 135 million visits in August 2026, up roughly 0.74% from 134 million in July. The sample covered 12 exchanges, with five posting month-over-month gains, six showing declines, and one remaining flat. By traffic, Binance ranked first with 34.19 million visits, accounting for 25.3% of the total. OKX followed with 25.62 million visits and an 18.9% share, while Coinbase came third with 21.31 million visits and a 15.8% share. The top exchange alone represented about 25.3% of total traffic, and the top three together made up about 60.0%. The report also listed the main visitor source markets for the three largest platforms by traffic. Binance’s leading traffic source was Korea, OKX’s was Japan, and Coinbase’s was the USA. The figures were published on WuBlockchain’s website traffic dashboard.

The U.S. Senate is set to vote at 2:15 p.m. Eastern on Sept. 15 on a cloture motion tied to the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, or CLARITY Act (H.R. 3633). The vote would not decide whether the bill becomes law. It would only determine whether senators can formally begin debate and offer amendments. Even so, the procedural vote may prove decisive because failing to clear 60 votes could effectively end the bill’s path in 2026. The legislation is designed to draw a legal line between the authority of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in digital asset markets. Republicans hold 53 Senate seats, but media reports say the caucus is not fully united, with Rand Paul and Josh Hawley identified as opponents and Thom Tillis signaling he would not support the measure without tougher ethics language. That leaves the bill needing at least seven Democratic or independent votes, and possibly more. Prediction market pricing remains cautious. On Polymarket, the contract asking whether the CLARITY Act will be signed into law in 2026 was still pricing the chance at 17.5% on Sept. 10. The revised text released this month made targeted changes on nominally decentralized protocols, DeFi scope, and federal credit unions, but left the main political disputes over ethics, non-custodial developer protections, and stablecoin yield largely untouched.

OKX will remove 18 USDⓈ spot trading pairs at 16:00 on Sept. 18, 2026, according to a newsflash carried by ChainCatcher. The pairs listed for delisting are AUDF/USDⓈ, AUDM/USDⓈ, PAXG/USDⓈ, USAT/USDⓈ, USDS/USDⓈ, PIXEL/USDⓈ, SLP/USDⓈ, WET/USDⓈ, PHA/USDⓈ, NFT/USDⓈ, VINE/USDⓈ, MET/USDⓈ, SD/USDⓈ, ZKJ/USDⓈ, GMX/USDⓈ, ACT/USDⓈ, STETH/USDⓈ, and ZEUS/USDⓈ. The platform asked affected users to cancel open orders before the trading pairs are taken offline. No image was provided in the source input, and no additional details were included beyond the delisting notice and the user reminder. The update was published by ChainCatcher on Sept. 10, 2026.

U.S. stocks closed lower on Sept. 8, but AI compute leasing names broke from the broader tape. CoreWeave rose 11.72% to $99.83 even though Palantir’s partnership announcement centered on rival Nebius, which gained 7.73%. The move stood out because the signal was read as demand for the broader rental-compute trade rather than a company-specific order, while chip suppliers Micron and Nvidia both finished in the red. The report also shifts to AeroVironment, which is scheduled to release earnings after 20:00 UTC, with a call at 20:30. According to the source article, this is the first quarter in which AVAV faces a like-for-like year-over-year comparison after its May 2025 BlueHalo acquisition was fully annualized. That matters because the company’s previous triple-digit growth rates, including 133% in fiscal 2026 fourth quarter revenue, were lifted by consolidation base effects, while fiscal 2027 guidance points to roughly 10% growth on a fully comparable basis. The article further examines how the AI compute chain split between rental-capacity providers and chip sellers, and why rare-earth mining is less constrained than refining and magnet production in the U.S. supply chain discussion.

The global payments sector saw several major shifts during the week of Aug. 31 to Sept. 6, with stablecoins, bank charters, cross-border settlement rails and dealmaking all moving at once. A group of 21 financial institutions, including 17 global systemically important banks, said they would form a joint stablecoin company in the second half of 2026 and issue a U.S. dollar stablecoin in the first half of 2027, with a euro version to follow. In the U.S., the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted conditional preliminary approval on the same day to Revolut and Andreessen Horowitz-backed OpenReserve, and both outlined plans tied to issuing or distributing stablecoins. Bloomberg also reported that total stablecoin supply has fallen by roughly $15 billion from its mid-May peak, even as capital keeps flowing into payment and banking infrastructure. Elsewhere, Citi, FAB, OCBC and DBS completed live transactions on Swift’s blockchain-based shared ledger, including a weekend tokenized deposit payment from Singapore to New York that settled in minutes. The week’s developments pointed to a market where public-chain stablecoins, bank-led stablecoins and tokenized deposits are all competing for a larger role in payments and settlement.

Capital expenditure expansion by TSMC and Micron has propelled the combined backlog of five major semiconductor factory engineering firms—Han-Tang, Asia Union, Marketc, Yangky, and Saint-Hui—to surpass NT$880 billion, a new record. Asia Union leads with NT$440 billion in orders, while Marketc's order visibility extends to 2028. Saint-Hui and Yangky reported record net profits for the first half of the year.

Gate, a cryptocurrency exchange, has expanded its derivatives offerings by listing perpetual contracts for two meme coins: Hakimi and SUE (also known as Construction Cat). The contracts are settled in USDT, with Hakimi supporting leverage from 1x to 20x and SUE supporting 1x to 10x. SUE is a meme coin on the BCS chain, inspired by a ginger cat rescued from a Komatsu excavator in Ohio, USA.