According to Jin10, U.S. job openings rose slightly in July to 7.27 million from a downwardly revised 7.18 million in June, while economists had expected 7.31 million.

On September 1, B.AI said its daily token throughput rose to 1.33 trillion and daily API calls exceeded 10.86 million. According to Odaily, since a free promotion began on August 17, daily throughput has increased 289-fold, cumulative token throughput has surpassed 8.19 trillion, cumulative new API users have topped 220,000, and cumulative API calls have exceeded 62.58 million.

Injective said a network upgrade completed yesterday took longer than expected, but the blockchain and INJ assets remained safe throughout. According to Odaily, the protocol and consensus mechanism were not breached, and users and staked funds were not affected. The company said the issue stemmed from an exploit involving binary options markets in a small number of ecosystem applications, with the attack limited to those apps and not the Injective chain itself. During the upgrade, some validators were briefly suspended for failing to update on time, network staking temporarily declined, and some exchanges paused deposits and withdrawals while updating nodes. Injective said the attack vector has now been fixed and that it will introduce stricter constraints, real-time monitoring, and additional security protections.

DeFi protection protocol Firelight Protocol has completed an $8 million funding round led by Gumi Cryptos Capital, with participation from Maven 11, Metalayer, Joint Effects, and Tribe Capital. According to ChainCatcher, Firelight was incubated by DeFi infrastructure provider Sentora, which manages $2.4 billion in assets, and plans to launch in September this year.

Firelight Protocol, which provides DeFi protection services, has raised funding in a round led by Gumi Cryptos Capital, with participation from Maven 11, Metalayer, Joint Effects, and Tribe Capital. According to Odaily, the protocol was incubated by Sentora, a DeFi infrastructure provider with $2.4 billion in assets under management, and plans to launch in September this year.

A fake Claude desktop application is being used to distribute RevStealer, a Windows malware strain designed to steal crypto, password and browser data. According to Cointelegraph, cybersecurity company Morphisec said in a Monday report that RevStealer was previously spread through GitHub repositories and game-cheat-themed sites, but the most notable campaign involved a fake “Claude Opus 5 Free Desktop” project that impersonates AI developer Anthropic and promises free access to Claude. The researchers said the malware is built to leave few traces and searches browser databases, cookies, password-manager records, VPN and remote-access settings, messaging data, screenshots and selected documents. It also targets over 50 cryptocurrency wallets, making it a broad threat to users who store digital assets on affected devices. Morphisec said RevStealer first checks whether a machine appears to be a real user device before unlocking its malicious payload. The malware examines available memory, the number of processor cores, hostname, username and graphics hardware, while also monitoring for the debugging delays commonly associated with malware analysis environments. If it detects anything unusual, it does not proceed to later stages of infection or malicious activity. If the system passes those checks, the payload is decrypted, saved under a random name and executed covertly. The report said this behavior is intended to help the malware avoid detection and reduce the chances that security tools or analysts can identify it before it begins stealing data from the compromised system. The report comes after Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky disclosed a separate malware framework targeting cryptocurrency investors called OkoBot. Kaspersky said OkoBot can harvest crypto wallet files, browser data and user credentials, inject malicious extensions and capture wallet application windows to steal assets. The findings highlight continued malware activity aimed at crypto users, with attackers using different delivery methods and infection techniques to collect sensitive information from browsers, wallets and related applications. Both reports point to ongoing efforts by threat actors to disguise malicious software as legitimate tools or services in order to reach users who may be looking for software downloads tied to crypto or AI-related products.

According to Sina Finance, Omdia's latest analysis showed that Latin America's smartphone market fell 12% year over year to 30.3 million units in the second quarter of 2026 (2Q2026). DRAM and NAND cost increases were passed through to retail prices, hitting demand for entry-level devices the hardest. Suppliers and channel partners had partly cushioned the impact in the first quarter through front-loaded shipments and inventory buffers, but those protections weakened in the second quarter, exposing more pressure in the low end while the mid-range, premium, and flagship segments remained relatively resilient. Samsung remained Latin America's largest smartphone maker, shipping 12 million units, up 9% year over year, and lifting its market share to 39%, the highest level since the first quarter of 2022 (1Q22).

Despite the programme being shuttered five months ago, a significant $24 million remains staked in Lido for Solana.