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According to three informed sources, the real-world asset tokenization platform Ondo Finance was recommended to potential buyers after founder and CEO Nathan Allman passed away this year. Two sources stated that the relevant contacts occurred after Allman died on May 25. However, it remains unclear who is driving the sale of Ondo Finance.In early August, Allman's estate management filed a lawsuit against Ondo's acting CEO Ian De Bode, accusing him of illegally seizing control and funds of the company, leading to a fierce battle for corporate control. Allman, who died at the age of 32 without a will, left uncertainty regarding the ownership of his controlling shares and a large number of ONDO tokens. After the probate process, his estate was awarded to his parents, Kathleen Allman (77) and Lawrence Allman (82). According to the current court order, De Bode continues to serve as CEO and is responsible for daily operations, but he is not allowed to make significant changes to the company until the control dispute is resolved. One informed source stated that the escalating control litigation is likely to put any sale plans on hold.An Ondo spokesperson denied that the company was seeking buyers, stating that the claims regarding a potential sale are completely false, and that no one in the company has pushed for a sale, participated in sale negotiations, or requested others to do so on their behalf. Ondo was founded in 2021 by former Goldman Sachs executives, is headquartered in New York, and offers tokenized U.S. Treasury bonds and stocks, with product scale exceeding $3.8 billion.

Two ChatGPT users from California filed a proposed class action lawsuit against OpenAI in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California this month, accusing the company of failing to adequately inform users that their real conversations were being handed over to external contractors for processing. The lawsuit was served to OpenAI on September 2, focusing on its internal initiative Project Lily. According to the complaint, "AI data reviewers" and "chatbot evaluators" recruited through a third-party staffing company read real ChatGPT prompts and complete conversations, summarize user intent, and score and comment on responses from four models on a scale of 1 to 7.This process is known in the industry as reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), which is a fundamental method for enhancing chatbot capabilities. The complaint states that users were never explicitly informed that a person, rather than a machine, might be reading their conversations. OpenAI filters conversations through an automated system before human review, but the complaint alleges that the filters cannot intercept all content, and personal details sometimes still reach contractors. 404 Media first reported on the project on September 14 and found that the reviewers' dashboard included "user memory summaries," which could expose users' approximate locations, occupations, or private life information, even though usernames had been removed.OpenAI stated that such reviews aim to reduce two behaviors: chatbots behaving too much like humans and overly catering to users, referred to by researchers as "flattery." The complaint raises eight legal claims, including violations of California's Unfair Competition Law, Consumer Privacy Act, and common law claims for intrusion into private affairs, with the plaintiffs seeking damages, restitution of unjust enrichment, and punitive damages.

According to CoinDesk, digital asset investment firm RockawayX announced an investment of $150 million to launch the Catapult program, aimed at bringing more private credit and other yield-generating real-world assets on-chain, betting that lending linked to the real economy will become one of the largest markets in the crypto space.The investment firm, which manages approximately $2 billion, stated that Catapult will provide venture capital, product structuring, liquidity, market making, and distribution support for tokenized credit products. RockawayX currently operates early-stage venture funds, market-neutral funds providing liquidity to DeFi protocols, and a vault business deploying about $300 million, and acquired the crypto hedge fund Relayer in August.According to RWA.xyz data, the scale of tokenized real-world assets such as bonds, stocks, and funds has rapidly grown to approximately $38 billion, but more than half of this is tokenized money market funds. RockawayX expects this market to reach $10 trillion to $20 trillion by 2030, a target higher than the $5.5 trillion benchmark forecast provided by Citigroup analysts. Catapult will focus on areas such as trade and supply chain finance, asset-backed securities, CLOs, and real estate-related credit.RockawayX CEO Viktor Fischer stated that following transactions, yields will become the largest application scenario on-chain, requiring new yield sources of over 12% that are uncorrelated with the crypto market. He pointed out that the appeal of bringing low-liquidity assets on-chain lies in the fact that even if the underlying investments have long redemption periods, market makers can create exit channels.

According to Slow Fog Security Alert, the AI memory toolchain under MemTensor has been compromised. The open-source long-term memory library MemoryOS (PyPI) aimed at LLM and AI Agent, as well as the official plugin memtensor/memos-cloud-openclaw-plugin (npm) that connects to the OpenClaw runtime, have been implanted with a cross-platform Go binary, which triggers execution when the package is loaded or imported.Affected versions include: MemoryOS==2.34 on PyPI, and npm plugins 0.1.21, 0.1.23, 0.1.25. Among them, the affected npm plugins may also cause user prompt content leakage. Slow Fog recommends taking the following measures: uninstall or downgrade to known safe versions (npm 0.1.20, PyPI 2.33); terminate the sckit process; block related infrastructure; check network activity; and rotate credentials in the affected environment.

According to official news from the Sun Yuchen Prize, the first batch of award winners has officially entered a 14-day public notice period starting September 19. The topics currently under public notice are questions number 305, 371, 381, 526, 866, and 1001, among which candidates for questions 305, 371, and 381 are formal verifiers, candidates for questions 866 and 1001 are mathematical problem solvers, and question 526 has candidates from both roles. The public notice information has been made available on the official GitHub candidate registration form, and the public can submit formal challenges.It is reported that the Sun Yuchen Prize is the world's first zero-trust decentralized academic reward mechanism based on a list of questions, with a maximum single-question prize of 1 million US dollars. On the day of its establishment, the first batch of 66 mathematical problems was announced, with the highest prize of 1 million US dollars awarded to the OpenAI research team in recognition of their solution and formal proof regarding the "existence and smoothness problem of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations." At the same time, the prize operating organization also announced the on-chain address of the prize pool, which has already deposited 10 million US dollars. After the public notice period ends, the prize will be distributed in USDT (TRC20) or USDC (ERC20), and the winners will also receive certificates and medals.

On September 24, the official homepage of the local AI assistant QClaw displayed that due to business adjustments, QClaw will stop new user registrations starting today and will officially cease operations on December 24. The official statement indicated that user data migration will be supported, and migration users will receive point subsidies.According to Jiupai News, on March 10 of this year, Tencent launched the entire "Lobster" product matrix, covering general users, developers, and enterprise users. The products include WorkBuddy, QClaw, Tencent Cloud Lighthouse, intelligent agent development platform ADP, Tencent Cloud Desktop, and more. Tencent announced at that time that QClaw was in internal testing.Tencent introduced that QClaw is a local AI assistant launched based on OpenClaw, supporting one-click installation on Windows and Mac, and can be remotely controlled through WeChat conversations. After users send commands via WeChat on their phones, the assistant can automatically operate the computer to perform tasks and return results.

According to the Citi Research podcast, Citi's Global Macro Strategy Head Dirk Willer and the Head of Quantitative Global Macro and Asset Allocation Team Alex Saunders engaged in an in-depth discussion about recent market dynamics. The two strategists pointed out that most central banks currently maintain a hawkish stance, but the Bank of Japan unexpectedly released dovish signals, which have a key impact on the USDJPY trend.Meanwhile, Bitcoin has shown a significant rebound recently, which may indicate a new round of changes in digital asset investment strategies in 2026, as institutional investors' interest in the crypto market continues to rise.

Market news indicates that Powerlaw is considering a strategic sale of part of its SpaceX shares to raise funds for dividends, tax distributions, and new private market investments.

Due to the strengthening of the US dollar and hawkish remarks from Federal Reserve officials, market expectations for tightening monetary policy have increased, causing gold prices to decline within a range. The dollar has risen to a two-month high, making gold priced in dollars more expensive. Richmond Fed President Barkin stated that the threat of interest rate hikes and further increases in the future could suppress corporate inflation expectations.

The cryptocurrency derivatives platform BitMEX has ceased trading, deposits, and opening new positions, retaining only the withdrawal function. The platform announced on social media platform X that as of this Tuesday at 04:00 UTC, the aforementioned services will no longer be available. Users can still log in and withdraw their balances through the official website, but deposits have been confirmed as impossible. BitMEX was co-founded by Arthur Hayes, Ben Delo, and Samuel Reed in 2014, known for promoting perpetual contracts as mainstream trading tools in the cryptocurrency derivatives market.BitMEX urges customers to withdraw their funds as soon as possible and states that account fees will be charged to users with completed KYC certification who still have a balance, billed monthly, at a standard of 1% annualized on assets or a minimum equivalent of $50, whichever is higher. The company emphasizes that this shutdown does not freeze customer assets, and the withdrawal channel remains open during the liquidation process.BitMEX announced its closure in July this year, following a strategic assessment by its parent company HDR Global Trading, as the exchange's market share in the perpetual contract market it helped create continued to decline. According to research data from CoinDesk, the monthly trading volume of centralized cryptocurrency exchange derivatives reached $3.4 trillion in August, with an annual scale potentially reaching $50 trillion. Previously, BitMart also announced its shutdown in July after nine years of operation due to market conditions.

According to disclosures from cryptocurrency practitioner Jordy and local police reports, former Hack VC partner and platform head Hsin-Ju was found dead near the Interstate 15 exit in the Mojave Desert, California, on August 24, at the age of 37. The time of death was the day after she claimed she would expose Hack VC. Investigative agencies stated that the cause of death is still under investigation, and it is currently unclear whether it was due to high temperatures, sudden illness, mechanical failure, or other reasons.On August 23 local time, Hsin-Ju tweeted that she had rejected Hack VC's settlement proposal and would publicly disclose relevant evidence from her time at Hack VC on August 26. She previously stated that she was required to continue working despite a medical emergency during her tenure and was threatened by the company that if she resigned before the completion of an event, she would be blacklisted in the industry; after leaving, she accused the company of issues with handling health insurance and continued to face pressure during legal negotiations. She has since fired her lawyer and stated that she would rather not receive a settlement than keep this matter private.

The web data infrastructure company Firecrawl announced on platform X that it has completed a $75 million Series B financing round, led by Smash Capital, and launched a knowledge base for AI agents called Alexandria, aimed at providing agents with unified access to real-time web, official data providers, and professional indexes.According to the official page, Alexandria currently integrates 82 data providers, 471 data capabilities, and over 113 million papers, READMEs, Issues, and technical documents, covering 28 categories including finance, government, code, shopping, and real estate, and supports access via MCP, CLI, and API. Firecrawl claims that its internal testing shows that Alexandria's answer quality on approximately 1,000 directory-type questions is 21% higher than that of built-in web tools.

The TCG card drawing and trading platform Pull.Fun, aimed at Pokémon card collectors worldwide, announced that its mascot token $TAKO has launched on the Robinhood Chain.According to GMGN data, its token market value briefly surpassed 4 million USD, with a current market value of 2.3 million USD.

According to a report from the Public Security Bureau of Linwu County, Hunan Province, on August 19, 2026, the Public Security Bureau of Linwu County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province discovered fraud clues during routine inspections and successfully cracked a virtual currency investment fraud case, arresting two criminal suspects.Upon investigation, on May 1, 2026, the suspect Li met the victim, Ms. Yue, through private messages on a social platform, falsely claiming to teach virtual currency investment skills with guaranteed profits. He induced her to download a certain app to purchase Tether (USDT) and then exchange it for a newly issued virtual currency manipulated by his "superior." Li, in collusion with his "superior," created the illusion of rising prices to lure the victim into increasing her investment; once the funds were in place, they quickly crashed the market, causing the virtual currency's value to drop to zero. Ms. Yue lost approximately 30,000 yuan, while Li illegally profited tens of thousands of yuan, which was collected by his friend Lei and squandered.On August 19, the investigating police arrested Li; on September 17, Lei, who was suspected of collecting the stolen funds, was also apprehended. Both have been criminally detained according to the law. The police remind: virtual currency is not legal tender, and there are no "guaranteed profit" projects. Recommendations for high returns made through private messages online are all fraud traps. Do not easily trust investment recommendations from strangers or transfer money to unfamiliar platforms.

According to SoSoValue data, the U.S.-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) saw a net inflow of $998.95 million on Monday, marking the largest single-day inflow since October 6, 2025 (the day Bitcoin reached its historical high of approximately $126,200), and the ninth-largest single-day inflow since the ETF began trading on January 11, 2024.Among them, BlackRock's IBIT led with $381.37 million, while Ark's ARKB and Fidelity's FBTC saw inflows of $289.12 million and $238.84 million, respectively. This inflow is the first consecutive three-day net inflow in two weeks, occurring against the backdrop of the Senate's failed vote to end the debate on the "Clarity Act" and the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike, seen as a reflection of institutional confidence.As of Monday, the total net inflow for this month has reached $1.31 billion, compared to a net inflow of $3.52 billion in August. Bitcoin has risen 44% this quarter to $85,000, outperforming all major assets, including gold. However, despite the strong recent inflows, the spot ETF has still seen a net outflow of $450 million year-to-date.

According to The Information, citing informed sources, DeepSeek CEO Liang Wenfeng listed training large models with domestic chips such as those from Huawei as one of the company's biggest bets at the latest closed-door investor meeting, stating that this must succeed. DeepSeek expects to receive a new batch of Huawei chips for training as early as the fourth quarter of this year, although the specific models and quantities have not been disclosed.Liang Wenfeng believes that Huawei chips are expected to catch up with Nvidia in just a few years and hopes that DeepSeek will adapt to hardware beyond Nvidia in advance. DeepSeek is still using Nvidia chips to train models. In May of this year, Liang Wenfeng estimated that training the top-tier large models would require about 50,000 Nvidia GB300 chips, while switching to Huawei Ascend 950 would require about 200,000 chips, with the biggest issue at that time being insufficient supply from Huawei.

According to data from DefiLlama, Gate had a net inflow of $353 million in the past month, ranking fourth among global centralized exchanges.

A family in the northern French town of Vendin-le-Vieil was invaded and taken hostage by four masked men early Sunday morning. According to BFMTV, the suspects entered the house around 4 AM, binding the couple and their two children with tape, and held them for over three hours. The 40-year-old father, an IT expert in the local cryptocurrency industry, was taken to another room, beaten, and forced to give up access codes, resulting in approximately 40,000 euros (about 46,000 dollars) worth of cryptocurrency being transferred away.According to the Béthune prosecutor's office, the four suspects fled the scene by car and are still at large. The 12-year-old daughter was struck in the face with a car key during the incident, and the victims are in a state of shock; they have been sent for forensic examination and are receiving support from the victims' assistance association. The case has been filed under organized gang kidnapping and extortion and is being jointly investigated by the regional judicial police and the French Cybercrime Office.France is the country most severely affected by such "ransom attacks" globally. Records from the national prosecutor's office for organized crime show that over 70 kidnapping and illegal detention incidents related to cryptocurrency have occurred in the first eight months of 2026, with 88 people already prosecuted in earlier crackdowns this year. Previous similar cases often targeted wealthy individuals, including the father of a cryptocurrency millionaire, the wife of a co-founder of The Sandbox, and the CEO of Binance France, while the victim in this case is merely an ordinary IT professional. Chainalysis reported that global ransom attacks in 2026 resulted in approximately 30 million dollars in losses, while CertiK stated that losses over six months reached 124 million dollars, a 12-fold increase.

Social Capital founder Chamath Palihapitiya released an in-depth research report stating that open-source weight models are about four months away from matching the best closed-source frontier models in public evaluations, with increasing fluctuations in the gap. If open-source models allow companies more control over data, infrastructure, and customization while approaching frontier performance, the value corresponding to companies still paying for frontier laboratories becomes a business issue. Openness exists on a spectrum, from fully open-source models that can be downloaded and freely modified to open-source weight models with various restrictions, while closed-source models keep weights proprietary.Palantir CEO Alex Karp warned that companies might hand over differentiated proprietary knowledge and processes to frontier model providers. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stated that companies are effectively paying for intelligence twice: once in money and again in the more valuable proprietary knowledge that must be disclosed to make the intelligence useful. Despite concerns, companies are still willing to pay for frontier performance, even if the best open-source weight models are only months behind, with frontier laboratory revenues continuing to accelerate.Leading companies use both types of models, leveraging open-source models for control and customization while utilizing closed-source frontier models for maximum capability, with some cases reporting up to 12 times engineering efficiency and over 20 times cost savings. Some vendors adopt a dual-track approach, with Google offering both Gemini and Gemma, and Meta providing both Muse Spark and Llama. The 99-page report also discusses the costs of maintaining a lead for frontier laboratories, five factors of model competition, model operating locations, and investments in open-source weights by NVIDIA and Samsung.

According to the Financial Times, Saudi Arabia has withdrawn from the digital currency project led by Beijing, which is part of China's efforts to develop an alternative cross-border payment system to the US dollar.The mBridge platform has sparked controversy in the United States, with concerns that participants may use it to bypass traditional dollar-dominated payment systems like Swift. The platform is set to be commercially launched, utilizing blockchain technology to enable central banks to directly transact using their respective digital currencies, reducing foreign exchange transaction times and costs, and diminishing the role of the dollar as an intermediary currency.