the market generally expects the European Central Bank to maintain its key interest rates unchanged at the monetary policy meeting in September. However, the key question now is whether the European Central Bank will clearly mention the end of its rate-cutting cycle on Thursday. Analysts at BBH pointed out: "The forward market prices a 75% chance of a 25 basis point rate cut in the next 12 months." In contrast, the majority of economists surveyed by Reuters expect the European Central Bank to have finished cutting rates. In addition, industry experts and analysts suggest that ECB President Lagarde and some of her colleagues have set a high bar for future rate cuts, with only a deterioration in economic growth prospects and a continued trend of deflation possibly convincing the European Central Bank to return to loose policies. Analysts at TD Securities said in anticipation of the ECB's policy statement: "The press conference will focus on economic resilience and reducing trade uncertainty. When asked about risks, Lagarde may insist that the committee is in a favorable position, but will not explicitly hint at future rate cuts." 

 during the 2025 Inclusion Beach Conference, Ant Group CEO Han Xinyi said that in exploring the path of tokenization, the exploration of the value of token economy and the prevention and control of risks should be placed in the same position.

according to calculations by Ember Monitoring, the current amount of ETH held by Trend Research has risen to about 152,000 coins (673 million US dollars), with an average cost of about 2,869 US dollars. Earlier news, about 1 hour ago, Trend Research's address once again leveraged to buy 9,377 ETH coins.

 the market showed that the Hong Kong stock Yunfeng Financial (00376) opened high and rose today, with the stock price rising more than 21%, reaching a high of 6.60 Hong Kong dollars.

as reported by TASS, Evgeny Morozov, a member of the Russian Social Chamber, suggested following Belarus in establishing a national encrypted bank. He stated that this would help bring shadow settlements worth billions of rubles into the legal framework, increase federal budget revenues, and combat remote fraud and criminal financing. At the same time, the encrypted bank could provide compliant channels for Russian miners to sell their mining income.

 according to Whale Alert monitoring, USDC Treasury has burned 55 million USDC on the Ethereum chain, worth approximately $54,989,550.

according to analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, Trend Research recently restarted its large-scale ETH buying plan. One week ago (September 4th), the institution withdrew 34,000 ETH (approximately $150 million) from Binance to deposit into Aave through two new addresses. Within the past half hour, they borrowed 80 million USDT from Aave and transferred it to Binance, then withdrew 9,377 ETH (approximately $41.37 million). Currently, these two addresses hold a total of 43,377 ETH (approximately $192 million). Trend Research had previously accumulated 182,000 ETH at a low of $2250 from April to June, and reduced its position by 74,000 ETH after ETH broke through $3000 to control risk.

 according to on-chain analyst OnchainLens (@OnchainLens), a whale sold 2,880 ETH at a price of $114,597 (approximately $12.67 million) and bought 110.56 cbBTC. Previously, the investor had bought ETH with 73.4 cbBTC (approximately $8.02 million), making a net profit of $4.64 million in this transaction, while also increasing their bitcoin holdings by 37.16 BTC.

a man who operated a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme in Texas and squandered investors' funds on luxury goods and gambling trips has been denied bankruptcy discharge. Legal experts say this proves that bankruptcy cannot be a "safe haven" for cryptocurrency fraud.

Anatoly "Toly" Yakovenko, co-founder of Solana, called for punishment of Solana validators who delay slots, steal rewards, and slow down the network. Yakovenko called for punishment because he was frustrated with validators using complex delay strategies to gain extra fees and high-value transactions. Intentional slot delays have become very annoying, to the point where one validator created a dashboard to showcase this issue. Since August 5 - Solana epoch 829, the average slot time has increased by 2.5%. Some complain, "The price of SOL should rise, not the block time." An observer asked if these delays would trigger a 2.0 version of "Intentional Leader Reward Boost (ILRB)." ILRB is a time strategy that some validators use when they intentionally delay block production. By extending slot times to over 400 milliseconds as expected by Solana, they deliberately delay the delay time and allow them to unfairly pack more transactions in their blocks to get higher fees or rewards. Yakovenko suggests "defaulting to discard these blocks after 10 slots" as a punishment for slow but influential validators. He has also repeatedly called for economic penalties against validators who behave improperly. Currently, the Solana developer store Anza has proposed a series of proposals to consider implementing a slashing mechanism in the network, punishing validators by deducting their stake, but this also poses risks to SOL stakers.