Iran’s Foreign Ministry said on Aug. 31 that Iranian armed forces had struck a U.S. military base in Jordan in response to what it described as a U.S. attack on Larak Island. The ministry said Iran would not hesitate to exercise what it called its inherent right of self-defense and would deliver an appropriate and firm response to any military aggression by its enemies. Tehran said the U.S. strikes on parts of Larak Island violated Iran’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and were a clear breach of the United Nations Charter. It called on the U.N. Security Council and the U.N. secretary-general to fulfill their responsibility to maintain international peace and security and to hold the aggressor accountable. The ministry also said the United States and all parties supporting its military actions should bear full responsibility for the consequences of the escalation. It added that the U.S. base in Jordan had been used to launch and support attacks on Larak Island. In earlier reports, Tasnim News Agency said the Iranian military had launched dozens of drones toward Al Minhad Air Base in the United Arab Emirates, while Iranian state television said the military had used drones to strike the base early Monday.

Goldman Sachs lifted its price target on Coinbase Global to $196 from $173 after the stock had already climbed 28% over five trading days, a move that has sharpened a familiar debate on Wall Street: are analysts identifying improving fundamentals, or simply catching up to price action already on the screen? Coinbase closed Tuesday at $187.16, up 4.3%, then traded at $182.43 by Wednesday midday, leaving roughly 7.4% upside to Goldman’s new target. The bank’s analyst James Yaro also kept a Buy rating on Robinhood with a $124 target, versus a quoted price of $109.92 at the time. The upgrade landed as Bitcoin briefly touched $80,698 on Tuesday for the first time since mid-May before pulling back toward $77,900 on Wednesday, while still holding a 19.9% weekly gain. Supporters of Goldman’s call point to brokerage, prediction markets, derivatives, tokenized equities, perpetuals, cost controls, and a regulatory backdrop that could support valuation even when spot trading stays soft. Skeptics focus on weak U.S. institutional demand signals, a Coinbase Bitcoin premium that flipped positive and negative within hours, net selling on Coinbase cited by CryptoQuant contributor CW, and ongoing concentration concerns tied to the spot ETF custody and settlement pipeline. The dispute is less about whether crypto equities can be priced seriously and more about whether institutional buying has actually returned.

Vietnam’s new crypto enforcement regime is set to take effect on Sept. 1, introducing monetary penalties for investors who trade on unlicensed platforms. Under Decree No. 284/2026/ND-CP, domestic investors using unauthorized exchanges may face fines ranging from 30 million to 50 million Vietnamese dong, or about $1,140 to $1,900. The measure adds the first explicit enforcement mechanism to the country’s five-year regulatory pilot program, which began in September 2025 and is scheduled to run through 2030. The decree is aimed at curbing unlicensed trading activity in a market that reportedly includes around 17 million crypto users in Vietnam. According to CoinPedia, the addition of fine provisions shows that Vietnam’s approach to crypto oversight is moving beyond a pilot framework and into active enforcement. The report was cited by Techub News.

BitoGroup said its crypto exchange BitoPro ranked first among local platforms in both most-used and most-trusted categories in the latest CRIF survey on Taiwan’s virtual asset industry and regulatory outlook. The company also said its points-to-crypto service was selected as Case No. 50 in the Global Blockchain Business Council’s 2026 handbook of 101 real-world blockchain use cases. According to the company, the CRIF results covered both retail and business segments. In the B2C market, BitoPro ranked first in both most-used and most-trusted categories. In the B2B market, it ranked first in trust and second in usage. BitoGroup also highlighted its enterprise push this year through Bito.Enterprise, a sub-brand focused on stablecoin settlement, points-to-crypto conversion, and a cryptocurrency payment gateway. It said its stablecoin settlement service, Bito.ONE, has already entered pilot and trial programs with four financial institutions and 10 companies. The GBBC case study features BitoGroup’s collaboration with FamilyMart, which lets users convert reward points from daily spending into virtual assets.

NAVI, one of Sui’s main lending protocols, has rolled out NAVI Prime after processing about $30 billion in borrowing volume over three years, according to project-provided data. The new product moves away from a single shared liquidity pool model and introduces isolated markets, professional curators, and a modular framework aimed at larger and more risk-sensitive capital. NAVI said it has handled around $10 billion in deposits since launching in 2023, served more than 1 million users, and at its peak surpassed $1 billion in total value locked, accounting for more than 40% of Sui’s network TVL at one point. The protocol says the change is meant to answer a basic question for bigger allocators: where funds are deployed, what collateral they are exposed to, how parameters are set, and who is accountable for risk management. NAVI Prime also arrives as more tokenized and institution-facing assets and infrastructure appear on Sui, including YLDS, XAUm, rcUSD, rcUSDp, HINC and tZERO’s expansion of digital securities infrastructure to the network.

OpenClaw has released OpenClaw 2.0, which the team described as the largest update in the project’s history. The release comes nearly seven weeks after the previous major version shipped in mid-July, a clear slowdown from the project’s earlier pace of roughly one update every two days. According to the team, 933 developers contributed to the release, with more than 16,000 pull requests merged, accounting for about half of all merged PRs in the project’s history. The main focus of the update is to reduce setup friction: installation can now automatically detect existing ChatGPT and Claude subscriptions, API keys, and local models on a user’s computer, cutting down manual configuration. The browser version was also rebuilt to support direct chat, task continuation, session management, and collaborative handoff or participation on the same task. The update also touches messaging, memory, Skills, models, automation, plugins, security, and native apps. Over the past 230 days, OpenClaw has shipped 106 versions. The team said its earlier release pace had become too fast for the underlying architecture and release process to keep up with, and added that update frequency will continue to decline from here.

Singapore-based automation startup FileAI has received investment from Japan’s JRE Ventures and said it is entering the Japanese market, according to a Techub News brief citing Tech in Asia. Alongside the market entry announcement, the company also introduced fileScout, described as an AI-native unstructured data mapping tool. The brief did not disclose the size of the investment or additional transaction terms. It also did not provide details on the company’s Japan rollout timeline, customer strategy, or product deployment plan. The update centers on two disclosed developments: fresh backing from JRE Ventures and the launch of fileScout. The information available in the source is limited to those points.

Hyperliquid’s permissionless HIP-4 builder model is now live on mainnet, opening its outcome-market infrastructure to third-party teams rather than relying on the protocol to launch every market itself. Outcome became the first project to deploy under the new framework after staking 500,000 HYPE, which it said was worth roughly $42 million at the time and served as economic backing for market integrity. The project has already listed 28 prediction events, recorded $1.16 million in cumulative volume within two days, and launched a trading incentive program worth more than $1 million. Skew has since followed with its first event contract on Hyperliquid mainnet and said more than 40,000 independent users had applied for private beta access as of Aug. 6. The project is also backed by a partnership with Nasdaq-listed Hyperion DeFi, which will provide the 500,000 HYPE needed for staking. At the same time, on-chain activity has fueled speculation that Unit Labs, the team behind trade.xyz, may also be preparing a HIP-4 push. With Outcome and Skew already live and Unit Labs under close watch, competition around users, liquidity and market distribution inside Hyperliquid’s prediction-market stack has started in earnest.