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Anthropic announced the expansion of access to its state-of-the-art AI models, allowing verified institutions to use models such as Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, and Claude Mythos 5.1 for cybersecurity testing.U.S. government agencies, financial institutions, and large software vendors participating in the "Project Glasswing" project will gain open eligibility, and newly joined institutions must be jointly reviewed by Anthropic and the U.S. government.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, significant capital movements are predicted in the Polymarket market. A large whale invested $109,486.7 in a single bet on the "CS: Team Falcons vs. Natus Vincere - ESL Professional League Group Stage" event, targeting the "Match Winner." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding win rate for this bet is 42%.

European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone stated during the MNI Connect Webcast that without a pan-European digital payment solution covering various daily transactions, the fragmentation risk between tokenization platforms may increase, thereby undermining Europe's "resilience and monetary sovereignty." He pointed out that the goal of the European Central Bank should be to create a digital euro that can be exchanged between banks and used for daily transactions.Cipollone emphasized, "Our goal is not to replace the role of banks." He stated that the digital euro will provide banks with the infrastructure needed to compete in the digital age and help banks expand the coverage and application scenarios of their own solutions.According to him, the European Central Bank has not yet decided whether to issue a digital euro but plans to complete the legislative process by the end of 2026. If the project advances, a 12-month pilot program will be launched in the second half of 2027, with a potential official issuance in 2029. The European Central Bank first proposed introducing a digital euro in October 2020 as a complementary digital payment option to cash. Critics argue that the central bank digital currency could give EU officials the means to monitor or even control residents' spending. Cipollone stated in September 2025 that the digital euro will ensure that all Europeans can use a free and widely accepted digital payment method at any time, even in the event of significant disruptions.

According to research data from CoinDesk, the market capitalization of Ripple's USD stablecoin RLUSD reached $2.37 billion in September 2026.Data shows that in June of this year, the supply of RLUSD on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) network surpassed that on Ethereum for the first time, accounting for 52% of the total supply, while Ethereum's network accounted for 48%. This change indicates that the liquidity of RLUSD is increasingly shifting towards Ripple's native settlement infrastructure, XRPL.

According to BitcoinNews, Bringin is launching a corporate banking platform for European businesses, connecting Bitcoin with traditional banking services while supporting corporate self-custody. The platform offers dedicated virtual IBANs, instant SEPA transfers, Bitcoin to Euro exchanges, Lightning Network payments, stablecoin support, and cross-border payments. Businesses can directly purchase Bitcoin into self-custody wallets and use Bitcoin, stablecoins, or Euros to pay employees and suppliers.Bringin also supports integrating payment functionalities into existing systems via API and plans to support AI-oriented MPP and x402 payment protocols; the company plans to expand to the United States, South Africa, the Philippines, Mexico, and India.

Binance co-founder He Yi stated in a Chinese AMA at the Binance smart product launch that one of Binance's major strategies is All in AI, aiming to achieve financial and informational equity. This time, three layers of AI products are being launched: Finance AI for novice users for free, AI Pro for advanced traders, and AgentOS for developers.Finance AI will be available to all users within 7 days, transforming professional on-chain and investment analysis into easily understandable content. AI Pro supports generating trading strategies through natural language conversations; AgentOS serves as a unified gateway, allowing developers to access various large models and utilize Binance's underlying capabilities such as trading, wallets, and liquidity. The platform will preferentially recommend the intelligent agents created by developers to all platform users.He Yi mentioned that the cryptocurrency industry is not in opposition to traditional finance but is gradually integrating and spiraling upwards. She emphasized to investors not to overinterpret comments on social platforms and not to be induced by token projects to create FOMO emotions, urging them to maintain independent and rational judgment when making financial decisions. She also revealed that due to health reasons, there have been fewer updates on social platforms recently, but she will continue to collect product feedback and respond to user demands.

According to SolanaFloor, the Solana perpetual futures trading platform Imperial has completed a $1.5 million seed round financing, with a valuation of $15 million, led by Foundation Capital and supported by angel investors in the Solana ecosystem.The funds from this round will be used to expand Imperial's product portfolio, including a perpetual contract aggregator, a lending platform, and the flagship project Armada. Imperial's Armada is a perpetual contract AMM in the Solana ecosystem, sourcing liquidity from DeFi platforms like Hyperliquid, allowing traders to access a deeper order book without leaving Solana.

According to crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett, the latest Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) released by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) attempts to utilize its existing authority to establish a market structure framework for spot trading in the crypto space. This framework will be built upon the existing DCM, DCO, and FCM registrations and create a new category called "crypto asset market."A significant difference from the Clarity Act is that the CFTC proposal is exploring a voluntary federal exchange registration pathway: spot exchanges that do not offer leverage can choose not to join this framework and continue to hold state money transmission licenses. Former CFTC Chairman Giancarlo stated that this provides exchanges with a "clear, voluntary single federal rulebook pathway" when customers trade using borrowed funds, and noted that the CFTC is acting within the authority granted by Congress in 2010, supported by court rulings recognizing assets like Bitcoin as commodities.Several lawyers have stated that this ANPRM is a "clever" or "creative" interpretation of Section 2(c)(2)(D) of the Commodity Exchange Act, potentially covering retail crypto spot trading that offers leverage, margin, or financing, even if customers do not actually use leverage. The proposal also addresses "actual delivery" under Section 2(c)(2)(D), seemingly focusing on whether customers own/control the assets rather than merely relying on the book records of a pooled account. However, the proposal still leaves significant questions regarding customer asset bankruptcy protection. Comments must be submitted within 60 days after the proposal is published in the Federal Register.

Raoul Pal, founder of Real Vision, stated in the Cointelegraph podcast Trade Secrets that a weakening dollar could signal a green light for the crypto market, driving the industry's upward momentum.He pointed out that rising bond yields and a strong dollar are restricting the free flow of liquidity, and if the dollar can decline, crypto will receive further upward signals. He also mentioned that he would not be overly optimistic and has not given a comprehensive bullish signal for all assets.Pal believes that when AI trading pauses, funds will rotate into the crypto market. He noted that Bitcoin rose about 25% to $80,000 from August 19 to 25, while AI leader stock Nvidia fell for seven consecutive trading days. His preferred scenario is a weakening dollar, a steepening yield curve, and banks expanding the money supply by increasing lending; if these conditions do not occur, the suboptimal scenario is that AI stocks consolidate, allowing funds to rotate into crypto. He also warned that a burst AI bubble would mean liquidity is withdrawn, which would be detrimental to crypto.Regarding AI agents, Pal believes their economic activities will flow more towards smart contract platforms like Ethereum and Solana, rather than Bitcoin. AI agents can pay for network content using stablecoins, with Amazon Web Services launching related features in June, and Coinbase handling payment verification and settlement through the x402 protocol. On the claim that Solana could surpass Ethereum in market capitalization, Pal takes a cautious stance, stating that Ethereum has a higher capital concentration, while Solana's core activities are speculative and of smaller individual scale.

OKX founder and CEO Star posted that he welcomes Circle, Ripple, and SC Ventures as investors in OKX. OKX is not raising funds due to financial needs but is choosing to bring in strategic partners who share a long-term vision consensus with OKX in areas such as stablecoins, payments, institutional markets, and next-generation financial infrastructure.ChainCatcher previously reported that, according to Bloomberg, the cryptocurrency exchange platform OKX completed a new round of financing with a valuation of $25 billion, with existing partners and hedge fund Qube Research & Technologies participating in the investment.OKX stated that Circle Internet Group, Ripple, and SC Ventures, the investment arm of Standard Chartered Bank, all participated in this round of financing. OKX declined to disclose the specific amount of financing but indicated that this round is an extension of the financing from March of this year. At that time, the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), invested approximately $200 million in OKX at the same $25 billion valuation.

Founder of Strategy Michael Saylor posted on platform X, stating that since the company adopted the "Bitcoin Standard" in 2020, the annualized return rates for MSTR, representing digital equity, and BTC, representing digital capital, have reached 52% and 38%, respectively.Michael Saylor added that both have outperformed traditional assets such as stocks, gold, real estate, and bonds during the same period, and stated, "The future of capital belongs to digital."

Vitalik Buterin retweeted Nethermind's development progress and stated that Nethermind is continuously improving the efficiency and operating speed of Ethereum.Nethermind core developer Ben Adams mentioned that its Beacon Chain plugin has completed synchronization and is ready to handle the Glamsterdam fork on Sepolia; running the Ethereum execution layer and consensus layer as a single application does not seem to incur significant additional memory overhead.The Ethereum Foundation previously confirmed that Glamsterdam will be activated on Sepolia on October 6, and Nethermind 2.1.0 has supported this upgrade.

Wells Fargo raised the target price for Meta Platforms (META.O) from $796 to $1,000.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California stated that a 26-year-old man, Adam Iza, who calls himself the "Godfather," has been sentenced to 78 months in prison and must pay $23.4 million in restitution. He pleaded guilty in January 2025 to charges of conspiracy to violate rights, wire fraud, and tax evasion, and has been in custody since September 2024. This sentence will run concurrently with the 15-year sentence he received last month for an attempted Bitcoin robbery, which will not increase his actual time served.From August 2021 to April 2022, Iza hired off-duty Los Angeles County police officers as private security and admitted to conspiring with them to obtain law enforcement confidential records and personal data of individuals he had disputes with, obtaining court-authorized search warrants to track these individuals, and having the officers intimidate and threaten them. The Department of Justice stated that five former officers have been convicted for working for him, including 42-year-old Eric Chase Saavedra, who set up a security company providing these officers, and was sentenced to 21 months; 45-year-old Michael David Coberg, who assisted in extorting rivals and arranged false drug arrests, is serving a 63-month sentence. The prosecution wrote in the sentencing memorandum that wealthy individuals cannot buy "search warrants, arrests, badges, or guns" for private disputes.In another fraud case, since December 2020, Iza gained access to a Meta Business Manager account and its associated credit line, reselling it to advertising companies, with Meta clients being charged for ads they never purchased. After discovering this, Meta refunded the clients and absorbed the losses.

ChainCatcher live report, at the OKX NOW Global Products and Ecosystem Conference (Singapore), OKX Vice President of Strategic Markets Louis Tam announced during a roundtable session that OKX and ICE have submitted a notice to the SEC regarding a tokenized securities trading venue, and eligible OKX customers can now trade perpetual contracts referencing ICE Brent and WTI benchmarks;Former New York Governor and OKX Board Member Governor Andrew Cuomo confirmed that the venue is expected to operate under the SEC's "innovation exemption" mechanism, with a launch anticipated in about 30 days, and the SEC has set limits on the number of tradable stocks and trading volume. Cuomo believes this marks a shift from competition to cooperation and integration between traditional finance and crypto fintech.

The AI merger analysis platform Comparables.ai announced the completion of a $6 million seed round financing, led by Pragmatech and Araya Ventures, with participation from Purple Ventures, Gorilla Capital, hi5 Ventures, Somersault Ventures, and other institutions.

On-chain analyst Darkfost stated that there has been a significant improvement in the Bitcoin market trend compared to late August, and this change is reflected in the Capital Cost Basis indicator.This indicator weights the realized price based on the scale of funds invested by investors when purchasing Bitcoin, giving more weight to BTC bought at higher prices. Currently, this cost basis is approximately $80,400.Darkfost pointed out that the Bitcoin price was still hovering around this key level in late August, but now it has closed above this level for several consecutive weeks, indicating that most of the invested funds in the market are in a slight profit state. As the profit situation gradually improves, investor positions are also stabilizing, which helps the market maintain resilience during the current consolidation phase.

According to The Block, cryptocurrency mining company Fortitude has secured a priority procurement quota for Bitmain's next-generation Zcash mining machines, with both parties reaching a non-binding commitment that could potentially amount to up to $100 million.Under the agreement, the relevant mining machines are expected to begin delivery in the second quarter of 2027, with the specific timing still dependent on final product specifications and pricing arrangements. It is reported that this collaboration will help Fortitude to strategically position itself for the new generation of Zcash mining equipment and further expand its infrastructure capabilities in the privacy coin mining sector.

Cryptocurrency analyst Axel Adler stated that Bitcoin long-term holders (LTH) have reduced their holdings for the seventh consecutive week, but this has not yet hindered the rise in BTC prices, as the market continues to absorb the supply released by long-term holders.Data shows that the long-term holder supply change indicator remained positive from February to early August this year, during which long-term holders increased their holdings by approximately 1.2 million BTC in May. This indicator turned negative on August 17 and has been in a reduction state for seven consecutive weeks. As of September 28, the long-term holder supply change decreased by 73,400 BTC, a larger reduction compared to the decrease of 1,100 BTC a week earlier. Axel Adler pointed out that compared to the reduction of about 1.07 million BTC by long-term holders in November 2025, the current reduction scale is still relatively limited.If the future reduction scale of long-term holders reaches several hundred thousand BTC again, while BTC prices stop rising, it may indicate that the market's ability to absorb supply is declining. Additionally, the long-term holder SOPR indicator has been above 1 for the second consecutive week, indicating that long-term holders are taking profits. On September 21, this indicator rose to 1.24, the highest level since January of this year; as of September 28, the LTH SOPR was 1.18, meaning that BTC in transfer achieved approximately 18% realized profit compared to the cost basis. Current data shows that long-term holders are gradually taking profits as BTC prices rise, while new demand is still able to absorb the supply released by the market.

According to PR Newswire, Ondo Finance announced the launch of Ondo Private Markets, providing on-chain access to top private companies for investors through tokenized notes. The first target will focus on a private company in the artificial intelligence sector, expected to begin trading on the secondary market this week.Subsequently, Ondo Private Markets plans to expand to private enterprises in fields such as robotics, cybersecurity, biotechnology, and infrastructure. Ondo stated that the related tokens do not correspond to the company's stocks or shares but provide holders with economic exposure to the performance of the reference company's common stock in qualified liquidity events through tokenized notes. The tokens can be freely transferred on-chain and can be used in conjunction with the DeFi ecosystem.This product is based on Ondo's existing on-chain asset infrastructure, which currently has a total value locked (TVL) of approximately $3.7 billion and over 1 million cumulative holders across the related tokenized stock and U.S. Treasury platforms. Ondo Finance indicated that the majority of large companies in the U.S. are still in private stages, with about 87% of companies generating over $100 million in annual revenue being private. Traditional investors often find it difficult to participate in these companies' early growth opportunities. Ondo Private Markets aims to provide a more flexible trading channel through the blockchain secondary market, allowing qualified investors to adjust their private market exposure around the clock.