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DashTape reports — President Trump's special envoy and real estate developer Steve Witkoff stated in his latest financial disclosure that his holding company generated approximately $107 million in income for him in 2025. The company holds his interests in the crypto project World Liberty Financial LLC, as well as assets including resorts, hotels, and residential real estate. The filing did not disclose specific valuations or income figures for World Liberty Financial LLC and other underlying assets. Previous disclosures showed that the holding company reported $34 million in income for 2024. Critics argue that Witkoff's stakes in entities such as World Liberty Financial LLC present a potential conflict of interest with his government role.

DashTape reports that Linera has announced the conclusion of the LNRA community round subscription period, during which 617 participants from 69 countries subscribed a total of $848,000 USDC. The funds will be returned to participants' wallets via the original channels, and a follow-up announcement will be released after the refund period concludes.

DashTape reports Scroll has announced that it will transition from a general-purpose public chain to a private application-specific network built around its AI product Compass, with an estimated transition period of about 9 months. The team has launched five related products, including the AI entry application Compass, the Compass API aggregating over 30 large models, the privacy trust layer CENO, the payment and settlement product USX, and the governance token SCR, which will soon migrate to the Ethereum mainnet. CENO currently has over 30 potential clients.

DashTape reports The Polkadot community has initiated OpenGov Proposal No. 1944, aiming to create a native decentralized stablecoin called dotUSD and establish it as the primary stable value asset within the Polkadot ecosystem. The proposal is currently undergoing governance voting. According to the proposal, dotUSD will adopt an over-collateralization mechanism, allowing users to mint dotUSD by locking DOT in the future. The system will also include a stability pool, liquidation mechanism, and redemption mechanism to maintain its peg to the US dollar. The proposal plans to use funds from the Polkadot treasury to provide initial liquidity for the DOT/dotUSD liquidity pool, with $2.5 million in USDT used to mint dotUSD and an additional $2.5 million worth of DOT allocated to the liquidity pool, bringing the total initial funding to $5 million. dotUSD is planned to launch in phases, with the first phase using USDT as reserve backing for minting, and the second phase introducing a full DOT collateral vault, oracle, stability pool, liquidation, and redemption mechanisms.

DashTape reports According to sources familiar with the matter, DeepSeek is conducting a new funding round, with a pre-money valuation of approximately $71 billion. Due to limited direct investment quotas, multiple layers of special purpose vehicles (SPVs) have emerged in the market to provide exposure to DeepSeek equity. Some lower-tier SPVs charge upfront fees exceeding 15%, with performance fees reaching up to 40%. Additionally, DeepSeek's ARR reached approximately $500 million last month, and its year-to-date AI infrastructure spending has reached $1.6 billion, nearly 10 times the full-year level of 2025. (Financial Times)

DashTape reports September 9 - According to SoSoValue data, the overall cryptocurrency market continues to maintain a consolidation trend. The CeFi sector remains relatively resilient, rising 1.66% in 24 hours, with Cronos (CRO) up 6.93% and Binance Coin (BNB) up 1.79%. The Layer1 sector rose 1.09%, with Polkadot (DOT) up 12.12% and Zcash (ZEC) up 3.68%. The PayFi sector rose 0.59% in 24 hours, with Ultima (ULTIMA) up 7.06%. Additionally, Bitcoin (BTC) fell 0.63%, dropping below $79,000, while Ethereum (ETH) fell 0.16%, slipping below $2,500. In other sectors, the Meme sector fell 0.54%, but Useless Coin (USELESS) surged 30.19%. The DeFi sector fell 0.79%, with Morpho Token (MORPHO) down 7.17%. The Layer2 sector fell 0.94%, with Optimism (OP) down 5.84%. The RWA sector fell 2.93%, with Pendle (PENDLE) down 5.65%. The crypto sector index, which reflects historical sector performance, shows that the ssiCeFi index rose 1.66%, while the ssiNFT and ssiRWA indices fell 3.26% and 3.03%, respectively.

DashTape reports According to Lookonchain monitoring, an address deposited 11.9 million USDC into Hyperliquid, then opened a long position on 500 BTC with 20x leverage, valued at $39.44 million, with a liquidation price of $55,570.76.

DashTape reports - Hyperdash co-founder Hanson Birringer posted an analysis on X platform, stating that since Jump Trading first deposited funds into Hyperliquid in December 2025, it has completed nearly $150 billion in trading volume through 1 main account and 16 sub-accounts, accounting for 7.8% of Hyperliquid's total perpetual contract trading volume, with trading volume in the xyz market accounting for 18.9%. In July this year, Jump's trading volume once accounted for 17.9% of the entire platform's trading volume and 28.7% of the xyz market's trading volume. Currently, Jump's related accounts hold assets valued at approximately $63.6 million, with a nominal position size of about $145 million, holding approximately $32 million in long Brent crude oil positions and $16 million in long CL crude oil positions, while simultaneously shorting gold, silver, NVDA, MU, DRAM, SK Hynix, and XYZ100, among other targets. To date, it has paid approximately $7 million in trading fees to Hyperliquid.

DashTape reports According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a whale that cleared 50,600 ETH at an average price of $2,921 late last year, netting a profit of $19.02 million, has resumed buying Bitcoin after an 8-month hiatus. Over the past day, the whale swapped 14.2 million USDC for 179.8 BTC via THORChain at a price of $78,955 per BTC, and is still continuing to buy, with $74.32 million USDC still in hand.

DashTape reports – Velodrome announced on X that, in preparation for the Aero launch, the Aerodrome and Velodrome communities will undergo integration. Starting tomorrow, the official Velodrome X account will reduce its activity, with subsequent news and announcements primarily published through the official Aero account. From September 10, the Velodrome Discord will also be scaled down to only essential channels, with community activities moving to Aero Discord. Additionally, VELO is planned to cease trading on Binance this week. Aero's public audit contest is expected to conclude on September 21.