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According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, B2 rose 120% from $0.41 to $0.9 this afternoon. It is suspected that B2's active market maker transferred 13 million B2 to Binance Alpha through multiple wallets, worth $10.44 million.This batch of B2 was withdrawn from Bitget and Gate about a month ago, when the price was $0.47, currently making a profit of $4.27 million. One of the receiving wallets is associated with the address that previously operated SIREN; Yu Jin believes that this active market maker may be the same party that previously operated SIREN, AKE, XPIN, and BTR projects.

Elon Musk stated that the usage of the X platform has reached an all-time high.

According to on-chain detective Specter monitoring, the attackers of this activity provided so-called arbitrage bot tutorials and code through YouTube videos, guiding victims to compile and deploy contracts using a counterfeit Remix development interface.The attackers registered an ENS name containing "Uniswap," disguising the related address as a legitimate source of income for DeFi activities, leading victims to mistakenly believe that the deployed arbitrage bot was profiting through Uniswap. After victims injected their own assets into the contract, the funds were transferred away by the attackers. The attackers currently seem to still be active and hold a significant portion of the stolen funds across two addresses.

The non-small number joint HotShort will hold the non-small number × GWDC 2026 Innovation Forum. The forum will take place on September 29, 2026, at AT CENTER in Seoul, South Korea, focusing on discussions around stock tokenization, Web3, and AI leadership topics.HotShort as a co-organizer will bring short drama content assets RWA, content assetization, and Web3 applications to the event. HotShort is a short drama content assetization platform in Southeast Asia, focusing on mobile short drama content, RWA expression, token issuance, and on-chain revenue sharing transactions. During the conference, HotShort project guest Answer, who is also a co-founder of HotShort, will give a speech sharing insights on short drama content RWA and on-chain revenue sharing.The GWDC Korea event will feature high-profile guests and institutions such as Sun Yuchen, Microsoft, Bithumb, and Animoca Brands. HotShort's entry into this scene will help place the narrative of short drama content RWA, content assetization, and on-chain revenue sharing into a larger Web3 discussion.

Jurrien Timmer, Global Macro Director at Fidelity Investments, stated that Bitcoin has started to rise after consolidating around the support level of approximately $60,000 for nearly a year, a duration comparable to a typical Bitcoin winter, leading him to conclude that a new four-year cycle bull market may have begun.Timmer mentioned that the Z-score of BTC/gold has changed from -100% to a positive value, a signal that historically confirms a bottom. He also pointed out that we are currently in a long-term new pattern with higher capital costs, and the government may respond with financial repression.

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).

A former bank executive was recently sentenced for forging documents to fraudulently obtain over 1.6 billion Hong Kong dollars in illegal loans, and using the funds to purchase Bitcoin and conduct cryptocurrency bribery.

The Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Xu Zhengyu, stated at a press conference on financial development measures for the first five-year plan for economic and social development and the Chief Executive's 2026 Policy Address that digital assets and financial technology are new growth engines for Hong Kong, with digital bonds issued in Hong Kong accounting for about 50% of the global share.Before the end of 2026, a pilot program for the tokenization of Exchange Fund Bills will be implemented, and the Central Moneymarkets Unit (CMU) will establish a digital asset platform within 2026 to provide one-stop services for digital bond issuance and settlement. In terms of regulation and market development, this includes improving the licensing system for virtual assets, enhancing the regulatory framework for tokenized investment products, promoting the trading of regulated stablecoins on licensed platforms, and encouraging the expansion of compliant stablecoin application scenarios.

Huaxia Fund (Hong Kong) announced the completion of Hong Kong's first case of investing in digital assets with the Hong Kong dollar stablecoin HKDAP, in collaboration with Standard Chartered Bank and others. This demonstrates how regulated Hong Kong dollar stablecoins can interact with digital financial assets under a compliant and regulatory framework, providing investors with more diversified investment options.HKDAP is a Hong Kong dollar stablecoin established under the leadership of Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) and issued by the licensed stablecoin issuer Anchor Financial.

ChainCatcher and Nonce jointly hosted the Nonce × GWDC 2026 Innovation Forum. This forum will be held on September 29, 2026, at AT CENTER in Seoul, South Korea, focusing on stock tokenization, Web3 finance, and AI applications.Cyber Prophet, as a co-organizer, will bring AI predictions, event trading, and on-chain finance topics to the live event in Seoul. Cyber Prophet is an AI-driven global prediction market platform built on Polygon, covering probability trading for events in politics, economics, crypto assets, sports, technology, and more, while providing AI decision support, liquidity collaboration, and multi-chain prediction market experiences.The GWDC Korea event is expected to attract 5,000 participants, with guests and institutions such as Sun Yuchen, Microsoft, Bithumb, and Animoca Brands also in attendance. For Cyber Prophet, this live event is beneficial for clarifying the use cases of prediction markets and AI decision-making.

According to Arkham, the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin ETF (MSBT) has accumulated approximately $51.5 million in Bitcoin purchases over the past 20 trading days, with no single day of outflows during this period.MSBT is also one of the few Bitcoin funds this month that has not recorded any single day of net outflows.

According to Ledger Insights, Brazil's securities regulator (CVM) is advancing a pilot program for distributed ledger technology (DLT) aimed at tokenized securities. This program only involves simulated trading and does not involve real securities or investors.Coordinated by the CVM Tokenization Working Group (GTT), the testing will last for 60 days and can be extended for an additional 30 days. The draft is pending approval from the board. The scope covers most of the securities lifecycle, from issuance to settlement, including stocks, bonds, receivable certificates, and investment fund shares.

Stablecoin infrastructure company Bastion announced that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has granted it preliminary conditional approval for a national trust bank charter. This charter allows Bastion to incorporate stablecoin issuance, custody, and exchange products under the same federal regulatory entity, adding OCC federal oversight on top of its existing state licenses. The company will operate under the name Bastion Platforms National Trust Company, providing stablecoin custody and wallets, payment infrastructure, and white-label issuance services.Bastion previously obtained a New York trust license in February 2025. Under the new charter, the company will offer custodial services for USDC and other digital assets compliant with the GENIUS Act, as well as white-label stablecoin wallet and issuance services (minting, redemption, and exchange), and continue to provide technology and operational infrastructure to other regulated issuers. Bastion itself does not issue stablecoins but primarily provides technology, operations, and compliance stacks for enterprise stablecoin projects.Bastion also appointed four new advisors: Colleen Taylor (Board, former President of American Express U.S. Merchant Services), Michael Patterson (Board, former Chief Compliance Officer of Genesis), Stuart Breslow (Advisor, former Chief Compliance Officer of Morgan Stanley), and Gabriella Fitzgerald (Advisor, former CEO of Optum Financial Medical Payments).

Visa has informed participants in the payment industry that the "digital goods media" merchant category code used by Crossmint for processing Meme coin transactions is not applicable for Meme coin purchases. Visa has notified payment processors, including Checkout.com, to stop using this category code and has provided a transition period for relevant institutions, which is expected to end next week.Previously, Robinhood Wallet and Fomo users could purchase Meme coins using Visa and Mastercard credit cards through Apple Pay or Google Pay, with the transactions processed by Crossmint, but categorized as digital media transactions such as e-books and movies, thereby bypassing cryptocurrency transaction classification and earning regular credit card points or cash back.JPMorgan Chase had previously raised concerns with Visa regarding the classification of these transactions, and Visa subsequently determined that at least one transaction was misclassified and should not have received credit card rewards. In the future, purchases of Meme coins will need to be processed as cryptocurrency transactions and will be subject to Visa's corresponding rules and restrictions.

Binance announced the launch of 24/7 Forex perpetual contracts, with the first product being the US Dollar/Brazilian Real (USDBRLUSDT), scheduled to go live on September 21, using USDT for settlement and offering up to 100x leverage.The product will use a weighted index pricing from third-party data providers during traditional forex trading hours; on weekends and public holidays, it will adopt an order book-based pricing mechanism, pricing through the exponentially weighted moving average of order book prices to enable round-the-clock trading.Binance stated that the 24/7 Forex perpetual contracts aim to break through the traditional forex market's weekend closure restrictions, providing traders with a channel for continuous exchange rate price discovery, hedging, and trading.

According to Coinglass data, the current whale holdings on the Hyperliquid platform amount to 9.292 billion USD, with long positions at 4.43 billion USD, accounting for 47.67% of the holdings, and short positions at 4.862 billion USD, accounting for 52.33% of the holdings. The profit and loss for long positions is 644 million USD, while for short positions it is -708 million USD.Among them, the whale address 0x5b5d..60 has shorted ETH with a 5x leverage at a price of 2297.25 USD, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of -32.671 million USD.

According to Politico, Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX AI, and Google have been sued for calling to "slow down" AI development.The lawsuit claims that Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly called for "industry-wide coordination" to "set the pace for the frontier" earlier this month, with the support of SpaceX AI head Elon Musk, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis, which amounts to an illegal business agreement among competitors under U.S. antitrust law.Nick Lolly, one of the lawyers representing the four plaintiffs in the Northern District of California, stated that the case aims to ensure that private self-serving agreements among the world's most powerful profit-driven tech companies do not lead to AI "rapidly spiraling out of human control." When it comes to existential threats like nuclear war and the greatest risks in human history today, humanity deserves ironclad guarantees. The rule of law should be established transparently and legally by the U.S. government and be accountable to the public.

The spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce stated that, as agreed by both China and the United States, He Lifeng, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Vice Premier of the State Council, will lead a delegation to the United States from September 19 to 23 to hold economic and trade consultations with the U.S. side.The two sides will conduct consultations on economic and trade issues of mutual concern, guided by the important consensus reached by the leaders of both countries.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "Miami (FL) vs. Wake Forest," the "Over" option in the sub-market "Wake Forest O/U 2.5" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 35% an hour ago to the current 20% (a fluctuation of 15%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Argentina has agreed to implement the Crypto Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) established by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), planning to automatically exchange cryptocurrency transaction data with other jurisdictions by 2029. Currently, 77 jurisdictions have joined this framework.According to the framework, virtual asset service providers must report user identity information, as well as data on cryptocurrency transactions using fiat currency, digital asset exchanges, digital asset payments, and transfers between external addresses. Argentina will receive information on overseas transactions and share relevant data about its users with international regulatory bodies.Argentina must establish domestic regulations by 2028 to clarify data collection requirements and the rules for virtual asset service providers to report information to tax authorities. The framework aims to apply similar information reporting standards for cryptocurrency transactions and fiat currency transactions to help tax authorities identify cross-border tax evasion activities.