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U.S. online brokerage Webull, listed on NASDAQ, plans to open perpetual contract trading to eligible U.S. customers starting in November, with the first products including Bitcoin and other crypto assets, and aims to expand the scope by the end of the year.The related contracts will be listed on the Kalshi exchange, regulated by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), with clearing handled by Kalshi's clearing agency. Webull users who have been approved for futures trading can trade through their existing futures accounts.

According to official data from Bitget, the seventh batch of rewards for the platform's "Peer Program" has been fully distributed. As of now, the program has distributed a total of 6,813,732 USDT in rewards, with a total of 5,239,752 participants.In addition, after users enter the event page to claim their rewards, they will also receive an additional chance to participate in the 8th Anniversary Surprise Blind Box Lottery. The event will last until October 26.

According to a confirmation from the German Savings Banks and Giro Association (DSGV) to the media, the German Savings Banks (Sparkassen) officially entered the cryptocurrency trading sector this Monday. Institutional clients participating in the first batch can now directly buy and sell digital assets such as Bitcoin through their existing official app.The trading service launched is supported by the securities service provider of the savings banks, Dekabank, and is jointly responsible for the custody of crypto assets with the Stuttgart Stock Exchange. The initial supported trading currencies include Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple, Solana, and Polygon. In terms of fees, the service sets a low transaction fee of only 0.99 euros per order, and users are not required to bind a traditional securities account, which is clearly aimed at competing directly on pricing with emerging mobile banks like N26 and Trade Republic.In terms of the promotion schedule, the service does not have a unified national launch date but allows each savings bank to decide its own launch time based on its circumstances. Joachim Schmalzl, a member of the DSGV management, stated that there is strong interest in this business within the group, and it is expected that 30 to 40 institutions will follow suit each month, with the goal of covering most interested savings banks by the first half of 2027. He emphasized that the product is mainly aimed at clients who wish to independently buy, sell, and custody crypto assets, and the savings banks do not provide investment advice nor plan to conduct extensive proactive marketing in the initial phase.For a long time, due to the extreme volatility of cryptocurrencies, the German Savings Banks have maintained a cautious attitude towards them. Schmalzl pointed out that the decision to enter the market was the result of careful consideration, with the decisive factors being strong customer demand and the fact that Europe currently has a reliable regulatory framework, aimed at allowing clients with clear intentions to trade in a regulated compliance environment.However, DSGV still maintains a cautious tone in its statement, reiterating that cryptocurrencies are "highly speculative assets," and clients will be clearly warned of the risks of extreme price fluctuations and total loss when operating. The bank also emphasizes that for the long-term wealth accumulation of the public, traditional securities investments, savings plans, and financial consulting remain its core business.

According to official data from Bitget, the sixth batch of rewards for the platform's "Peer Program" has been fully distributed, with a total of 6,182,523 USDT awarded to 4,515,913 participants.In addition, users who enter the event page to claim their rewards will also receive an additional chance to participate in the 8th Anniversary blind box lottery. The event will last until October 26.

The tokenized U.S. stock issuer EQX Labs announced the launch of EQX, which will issue tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs natively in the form of HIP-1 tokens on Hyperliquid's HyperCore. The first 11 markets will soon open for 24/7 trading on Hyperliquid's public order book, and the tokens can be traded without permission.The EQX token is issued by the independent portfolio company EQX SPC Ltd. in the British Virgin Islands and is classified as a limited recourse note backed by stocks, with each code corresponding to an independent portfolio. Authorized participants can exchange between shares and tokens, and the issuer does not charge any related fees. The supported assets are held 1:1 by custodians connected to DTC, currently including Alpaca, StoneX, and Clear Street. Shares pending delivery will be displayed separately as in transit and should be settled on the next U.S. business day. The issuer is held by the Cayman purpose trust EQX STAR Trust, and EQX Labs does not hold this issuing entity.Holders can submit voting instructions via on-chain signatures, and dividends will be automatically reinvested in the same stock after withholding. Stock splits will be reflected in the supported shares. Once Hyperliquid's proposed HIP-1 expansion goes live, EQX plans to directly allocate dividends to holders' accounts. There are no issuer fees for creation, redemption, and holding, and trading is subject only to Hyperliquid's standard spot trading fees, with related business supported by trading fees shared by Hyperliquid with HIP-1 deployers.

According to official data from Bitget, the fifth batch of rewards for the platform's "Peer Program" has been fully distributed, with a total of 5,130,896 USDT awarded to 3,770,321 participants.In addition, users who enter the event page to claim their rewards will also receive an extra chance to participate in the 8th Anniversary Surprise Blind Box Lottery. The event will last until October 26, and more details can be found on the official Bitget platform.

Russia has registered the first batch of cryptocurrency exchange operators and digital asset custodians based on the new regulations that took effect on September 1. The Bank of Russia announced the list of the first authorized operators, which includes 4 exchange operators and 5 custodians.Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, has been included in the list of custodians, alongside Atomyze, Voltari, and Cloud Infrastructure. Sberbank stated that it has applied for the qualification of a digital asset custodian and plans to launch its first cryptocurrency products on December 1 through the SberBank Online, SberInvestments, and SberBusiness platforms, initially supporting Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), and USDt (USDT).T-Invest Lab, Zefir, and Sistema-Crypto have been included in the list of exchange operators, with VTB Bank appearing on both lists. The relevant registration is based on the cryptocurrency bill signed by President Vladimir Putin in August, which brings exchanges, custodians, brokers, and investors under the supervision of the Bank of Russia and maintains the prohibition on using cryptocurrencies to pay for goods and services.

The 14-day public announcement period for the Sun Yuchen Award regarding question numbers 305, 371, 381, 526, 866, and 1001 has officially ended. The official confirmation states that there were no unresolved objections during the announcement period, and the qualifications of the relevant awardees have been finally confirmed, entering the written confirmation and prize distribution process for the first batch of awardees.According to the previous announcement information, the awardees for questions 305, 371, and 381 are formal verifiers, while the awardees for questions 866 and 1001 are problem solvers. Question 526 received rewards for both roles. Additionally, candidates for problem-solving for questions 239 and 327 have been under public announcement since September 30 and are still ongoing.The Sun Yuchen Award was established by Sun Yuchen, the founder of TRON, with a maximum single-question prize of 1 million USD. The prize pool on-chain address has already deposited 10 million USD. The confirmation of this first batch of awardees also signifies that the Sun Yuchen Award has completed its first complete public announcement loop and initiated substantial prize redemption.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, 6 hours ago, GMGN transferred 11,999.5 ETH to the Coinbase Batch Staking address for staking.It is worth noting that a week ago, GMGN deposited ETH worth 16.38 million dollars into the trading platform, suspected to be for sale.

According to official data from Bitget, the second batch of rewards for its "Peer Program" has been completed. So far, the platform has distributed a total of 2,786,953 USDT rewards to 1,529,978 users.This event will last until October 26, and users can participate without registration. During this period, Bitget will continue to set up a user-exclusive prize pool with 30% of the platform's trading fee revenue, offering trading rewards, asset rewards, and VIP exclusive rights to different user groups.

According to the SpaceX stock unlocking arrangement, the first phase project of Gate Pre-IPOs, SpaceX (SPCX), will unlock the third batch of (stock) shares on October 3 at 20:00 (UTC+8). This unlocking corresponds to 14% of the original total quota of the target company, with a total unlocking volume of 23,730 SPCX. Since 27% of the stock has already been unlocked, the current remaining SPCX corresponds to 73% of the original total quota. Therefore, this time the stock unlocking will be based on 19.18% of the actual SPCX holdings at the time of the user snapshot, and the corresponding stocks will be directly issued to the Gate stock account at a 1:1 ratio.The scope of this unlocking includes SPCX that users previously obtained and held through Pre-IPOs, as well as SPCX purchased subsequently; SPCX that has been sold will not be included in this round of unlocking. Users need to check their SPCX holdings and pending orders in advance to ensure that the SPCX used for this unlocking is in an available state.Gate is the industry's first platform to support Pre-IPO share unlocking and directly issue listed company stocks to users. This is the third batch of 14% stock unlocking for SpaceX (SPCX), and the remaining portion will be processed as soon as possible according to the unlocking rules of the target company, subject to the official announcement from Gate.

According to The Block, the Solana ecosystem perpetual contract exchange Velocity (formerly Drift) has opened compensation claims for the April theft incident. Users can receive 1 DFX token for every 1 USDT lost, with the current payout rate being approximately 0.0104 USDT per DFX, which is about 1% of the loss.The current compensation pool is approximately 3.11 million USDT, with a total supply of DFX being around 299.5 million tokens and no further issuance planned. The Drift Foundation stated that the compensation pool will continue to be funded with protocol revenue, and Tether has committed to providing up to 127.5 million USDT to support the restart and user compensation, with the claim deadline set for January 1, 2028. Previously, Drift suffered an attack in April, resulting in a loss of approximately 295.4 million USD.

U.S. President Donald Trump stated that the last batch of U.S. troops is leaving Iraq, marking the end of the U.S. military presence in Iraq.

Bitget has officially opened BTC withdrawal services today at 16:00 (UTC+8). Bitget CEO Gracy shared the latest progress on the recovery during a community live stream: currently, the BTC withdrawal channel is running smoothly, and the first batch of applications has been processed and credited.According to real-time data disclosed during the live stream, as of 16:50 (UTC+8), the platform has processed approximately 7,683 BTC withdrawal applications, with a total amount processed of about 3,609 BTC, and there are no order backlogs. Among them, the first batch of about 6,946 withdrawal applications has received blockchain confirmation, and the related applications are still being processed in an orderly manner.According to the previously announced timeline, the ETH-related network will open for withdrawals on September 29 at 16:00 (UTC+8), and the USDT-related network will open for withdrawals on September 30 at 16:00 (UTC+8); withdrawals for other tokens, fiat, and C2C services will gradually resume starting from October 2 at 16:00 (UTC+8).

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.

According to CoinDesk, Ripple stated that asset management companies and other commercial projects are preparing to use the Batch V1.1 feature of the XRP Ledger. This feature allows up to eight transactions to be combined into a single operation and ensures that all transactions either succeed or fail in an all-or-nothing manner, avoiding situations where one party completes settlement while the other fails.This upgrade is expected to support Delivery Versus Payment (DVP) transactions, allowing asset transfers and payments to be completed simultaneously, while also enabling exchanges, wallets, and market platforms to directly attach service fees to customer transactions for processing.RippleX Engineering Director Ayo Akinyele mentioned that some projects are already being developed around Batch, and once activated, it will bring related work closer to a production environment. Specific partners and launch times will be announced once plans are finalized. The amendment has received support from 30 of the 35 tracked validators on the XRP Ledger, exceeding the 28 votes required to enter the activation countdown. The countdown began on September 15, and if the validator support rate remains above 80% within 14 days, Batch V1.1 is expected to be activated shortly after September 29.Previously, researchers discovered serious flaws in the Batch V1 signature verification process in February, which could prematurely stop checking signatures under certain conditions, allowing attackers to unauthorizedly include transactions from other accounts. The developers subsequently withdrew the original version. Since the amendment had not yet been activated at that time, the vulnerability code did not run on the live ledger, and no funds were exposed.

Vietnam plans to issue licenses to the first batch of cryptocurrency service providers under a pilot legal framework in 2026, allowing the first digital asset platforms to begin operations. Nguyen Duc Chi, Deputy Minister of Finance of Vietnam, met with Mariana Kuhnel, Executive Director of the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA), in Vienna to discuss bilateral cooperation and the exchange of financial regulatory experiences.Vu Thi Chan Phuong, Chairwoman of the State Securities Commission of Vietnam, stated that the regulatory mechanism will cover service providers and investor transactions, focusing on risk management, investor asset protection, and anti-money laundering. Kuhnel proposed that both parties hold an online technical seminar and strengthen coordination through the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO).

The founder of TRON, Justin Sun, announced the official establishment of the "Justin Sun Award" and revealed the first batch of winners. This is the world's first zero-trust, decentralized academic reward mechanism based on a "problem list," with significant breakthroughs in fundamental disciplines and machine formal verification as the sole criteria for awarding, with a maximum prize of up to 1 million dollars for a single problem.Justin Sun stated that the award aims to initiate a new scientific incentive paradigm centered on machine verification, powered by human-machine collaboration, and driven by decentralized rewards, striving to create a Nobel Prize for the AI era.The top prize of 1 million dollars was awarded to the OpenAI research team in recognition of their completion of the "Existence and Smoothness of the Navier-Stokes Equations" solution and formal proof. Other awarded achievements include the Sandorff Conjecture, Erdős Disjoint Subset, and other problems, involving a total of 66 mathematical problems.It is reported that the "Justin Sun Award" is open to all contributors, with no identity restrictions; both humans and AI can win, but only the first completer of the listed problems will be awarded. The problem list and proof materials are publicly available on GitHub, and the prize is recorded on-chain. The award covers mathematical progress made from January 1, 2026, onwards; those who complete formal verification of previously solved problems afterward can also win.

The Batch V1.1 upgrade for the XRP Ledger is just one vote away from initiating the activation process. The RippleX team has fixed 11 software defects in the latest review. The Batch feature allows users to combine up to eight related transactions into a single operation, ensuring that both parties complete the transfer simultaneously when two people exchange tokens, thus avoiding the situation where one party pays while the other fails.In Tuesday's snapshot, the upgrade received support from 27 out of 35 trusted validators, accounting for approximately 77%, while changes to the XRP Ledger require an 80% support rate. Therefore, currently, one validator's vote can determine success or failure, and obtaining one more vote will initiate a two-week activation countdown. The support rate must remain above this threshold for 14 days, during which validators can change their votes.Previously, researchers discovered vulnerabilities in the original Batch proposal, allowing attackers to initiate transactions using others' accounts without authorization under specific conditions; this version was not deployed on the mainnet. The new version was released with xrpld 3.3.0 on August 6, and the latest review found 11 issues related to signatures, authorization checks, and server crashes. Among these, a serious vulnerability rated by the security company Common Prefix could allow attackers to reuse user signature permissions to execute transactions beyond expectations. RippleX stated that the review involved four senior engineers, audits from Halborn and Common Prefix, public security competitions, and automated testing, and mentioned that commercial projects using Batch have been signed or are in development.

Google Cloud announced the official launch of the pause/resume feature for data stream batch processing jobs, and it supports NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell GPU.