AAVE rose 10.70% to USD 137.97 as USD 17.83 billion TVL and USD 712.51 million volume supported a high-turnover lending-token breakout.

Australian shares rose by midday on Monday, led by miners. BHP climbed 3.5% to a record, supported by gains in copper, gold and uranium prices. PLS Group rose 7% after a lithium price rebound helped lift full-year net profit to A$526 million. Ansell surged about 10% after reporting a 15.8% rise in adjusted full-year profit.

A Nevada probate court has released a 96-page decision describing an effort led by Lachlan Murdoch’s deputy, Siobhan McKenna, to alter the Murdoch family trust deed to keep control of News Corp and Fox Corp with Lachlan. Lachlan Murdoch and Rupert Murdoch later paid $5 billion for James, Prudence and Elisabeth Murdoch to give up their voting rights in the trust. The settlement left News Corp able to maintain its existing editorial direction.

Spot gold rose 0.7% to $4,636.34 an ounce, its highest level since May 15, after gaining more than 5% last week. Goldman Sachs said gold could rise beyond its $4,900 year-end forecast. Poland’s central bank reported its gold holdings increased to 20.6 million troy ounces in July.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is advancing a long-term bond buyback plan, saying each operation will repurchase at least an additional $2 billion of long-dated Treasuries through Nov. 4. Markets read the move as a signal aimed at containing funding costs and stabilizing the bond market. After the announcement, gold extended gains, rising 2.4% on Friday and 5.9% in total. Silver and platinum also jumped, up 8.6% and 9.3%, respectively.

Jonjua Overseas has set September 4, 2026 as the record date for its 79,55,966-share bonus issue, which shareholders unanimously approved at the annual general meeting on August 21. The company also reported net profit of ₹123.70 lakh for the quarter ended June 30, down 78.4% from ₹572.48 lakh in the previous quarter. Gross sales fell to ₹435.23 lakh from ₹1,635.72 lakh over the same period.

Stanmore Resources reported 1H FY26 coal sales revenue up 13% year on year to US$978 million, with saleable production steady at 6.5 million tonnes. Underlying EBITDA rose to US$174 million, up US$27 million from the prior year, while net loss after tax narrowed to US$44 million from US$51 million. Cash flow from operations turned positive at US$176 million and the company kept its full-year production guidance unchanged, with no interim dividend declared.

Stacks’ Q2 report says the total number of wallets in its ecosystem has surpassed 1.6 million. It also notes that its Bitcoin-based staking feature has moved into a public testnet phase and is scheduled for an official launch in Q3. The update signals deeper integration between Stacks and the Bitcoin network, laying groundwork for a subsequent mainnet rollout.