The Trump administration explores suspending fuel taxes in response to rising diesel prices in the United States

**[Michael Saylor: Call for Establishing a Digital Asset Rights Framework]** Michael Saylor stated that the era of digital assets and artificial intelligence requires a Digital Bill of Rights to protect the rights of individuals and enterprises to create, issue, custody, transfer, and use digital assets. He suggested lowering the barriers for token financing, allowing digital dollar issuers to engage in yield competition, encouraging banks to custody Bitcoin and offer collateralized loans, and improving the circulation of tokenized securities, financial privacy, identity authentication, and tax rules for digital asset payments. Michael Saylor believes that regulation should reduce unnecessary restrictions, and the future scale of the digital asset industry is expected to reach $100 trillion.

Binance invests $100 million to purchase Circle stock and signs a 5-year commercial agreement to promote and integrate USDC within the platform. The number of USDC spot trading markets on Binance has increased from 140 to 329, and monthly trading volume has risen from $20 billion to $40 billion, consistently exceeding $80 billion. Since 2026, Binance has been processing daily USDC spot trading volumes ranging from $5 billion to $10 billion. The market value of USDC is about 74 billion US dollars, lower than USDT's about 140 billion US dollars. Martins Benkitis, co-founder of Gravity Team, stated that leveraging Binance's users and infrastructure to expand the size of USDC will put pressure on USDT's position in global trading and emerging markets, but USDT has deep trading pairs, local liquidity, and user habits.

Michael Saylor has released policy recommendations advocating for Bitcoin to be treated as Digital Capital, allowing banks to hold BTC under clear rules and provide credit using BTC as collateral. He also suggests that insurance companies include digital capital on their balance sheets. Michael Saylor pointed out that the Basel Accord currently uses a risk weight of 1250% for some cryptocurrency exposures, which limits the development of digital assets.

The five-year deal could strengthen USDC’s reach in emerging markets, though Tether’s liquidity advantage remains hard to dislodge, analysts told CoinDesk.

According to a16z crypto analysis, the total transaction volume of RWA perpetual contracts in August 2026 was $117.3 billion, of which the on chain platform transaction volume was about $101 billion, accounting for 86%, and the centralized exchange transaction volume was about $16 billion, a year-on-year increase of 44 times. At the end of August, the open interest contracts were $4.8 billion, an increase of about 30 times compared to $161 million in July 2025. In the transaction structure, stocks account for 48%, commodities account for 28%, and indices account for 18%. The HIP-3 protocol launched by Hyperliquid in October 2025 simplifies the creation of new perpetual markets and enhances liquidity sharing. (Source: Crypto Briefing)