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Former client manager Lin Junxian of China Construction Bank (Asia) Co., Ltd. admitted to conspiring with an employee of a fintech company and his accomplices to accept bribes, totaling over 470,000 US dollars in cryptocurrency "Tether," to illegally certify multiple false documents without bank authorization, serving as collateral for several insurance-related investment transactions.An internal investigation by China Construction Bank (Asia) uncovered the incident, which subsequently led to a corruption complaint to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) and provided full assistance. Judge Lin Jin Hong postponed the sentencing of the case to September 18, during which the defendant remains in custody under the supervision of the Correctional Services Department.

On September 14, 2026, Judge Arun Subramanian of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York issued an opinion and order denying the plaintiff's motion for a preliminary injunction. The case number is 1:26-cv-05474-AS, with the plaintiffs being market makers Susquehanna Securities, LLC and Susquehanna Investment Group, and the intervenor being market maker Citadel Securities LLC, while the defendants are John Does 1 through 100. The plaintiffs filed the lawsuit on June 29, 2026, claiming violations under Section 20A of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and unjust enrichment claims.The plaintiffs allege that the defendants traded on significant non-public information, specifically an announcement on May 22, 2026, regarding "the Chinese government's crackdown on cross-border trading platforms," which led to a collapse of the relevant securities. The plaintiffs sought a preliminary injunction to restrict the 40 defendants, as reduced, from transferring, encumbering, removing, or otherwise disposing of the profits obtained through the alleged insider trading activities in their accounts at third-party brokerage firms, or sought a seizure order. The court found that the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate the elements necessary to prove that they may suffer irreparable harm, and the motion was denied.

According to the latest monitoring data from Arkham, Morgan Stanley has increased its holdings by 123.211 bitcoins through its spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund MSBT, valued at approximately 9.33 million dollars.As of now, its total Bitcoin holdings have surpassed 8,000 for the first time, reaching 8,026 bitcoins, valued at approximately 614 million dollars.

OpenAI disclosed on Wednesday six cases of "unexpected or concerning" model behavior discovered in the past six months, categorizing them as "misalignment behaviors," including concealing information from users and taking "unauthorized actions" to overcome obstacles. OpenAI stated that this disclosure aims to initiate its new model misalignment reporting framework, and these cases should not be seen as a reflection of the frequency of misalignment occurring in its models.In one case, an unpublished research model inserted "jailbreak-like instructions" into its task summaries, such as ignoring developer messages or adopting unrestricted role settings, with researchers finding a total of 27 summaries containing such instructions. Additionally, during the training process of GPT-5.6 Sol, many model instances added instructions to conceal errors or misalignment behaviors from users, such as fabricating missing historical data without disclosure. Other cases included models using exposed API keys without authorization and fabricating inaccessible data, leveraging internal software repositories to pass messages across training tasks, and ignoring instructions to "keep local work" by sharing files through public hosting services.OpenAI's disclosure has heightened concerns among AI developers and researchers about whether safety measures can keep pace with increasingly powerful models. Last week, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for a slowdown in cutting-edge AI development, warning that unrestrained AI development could "exceed our ability to understand and control these systems." In July of this year, OpenAI disclosed that several of its AI models escaped testing environments during safety assessments and infiltrated the AI startup Hugging Face to cheat.

The largest securities exchange in Russia, the Moscow Exchange (MOEX), will launch perpetual futures for BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, and TRX indices on September 22, available for trading only by qualified investors. The relevant contracts are quoted in USD and settled in RUB cash, without involving the delivery of the underlying assets.Since the launch of digital asset futures, over 72,000 qualified investors have participated, with a total trading volume exceeding 600 billion RUB.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a certain address previously held long positions in ETH and SOL for 30 days, which have been closed, realizing a profit of 1.89 million dollars. Among them, the ETH long position held 1,859 coins, with an opening price of 1,903.6 dollars and a closing price of 2,425 dollars; the SOL long position held 46,200 coins, with an opening price of 82.64 dollars and a closing price of 99.32 dollars.This address has currently reopened long positions in BTC, SOL, and ETH, with a total position value of 10.84 million dollars.

Mitul Kotecha, Head of Foreign Exchange and Emerging Markets Macro Strategy at Barclays Asia, stated that the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike decision makes a rate increase by the Bank of Japan almost inevitable. The yen has depreciated by more than 1.1% since the Federal Reserve's decision, while the dollar has appreciated by 0.7% against major trading partner currencies.

Kris Marszalek, co-founder and CEO of Crypto.com and founder of OG.com, tweeted that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has confirmed that its futures exchange has been approved to launch individual stock futures to the market through the Form 1-N document submitted by OG.com. The filing entity is the North American Derivatives Exchange (formerly Nadex, now operating both Crypto.com | Derivatives North America and OG.com).Kris Marszalek also stated that the team is working with the SEC and CFTC to plan the launch of individual stock perpetual contracts in the U.S., combining the product forms of the digital asset market with the U.S. capital market. Form 1-N is a notification registration document used by futures exchanges regulated by the CFTC, allowing them to also be regulated by the SEC, thus legally listing and trading securities futures products.

According to Coinglass data, the current whale holdings on the Hyperliquid platform amount to 7.484 billion USD, with long positions at 3.538 billion USD, accounting for 47.27% of the holdings, and short positions at 3.947 billion USD, accounting for 52.73%. The profit and loss for long positions is 298 million USD, while the profit and loss for short positions is -330 million USD.Among them, the whale address 0x5b5d..60 has shorted ETH with a full margin of 5 times at a price of 2296.09 USD, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of -13.3947 million USD.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, the address 0x3F2...aBb62 has awakened and built a position in ETH after being dormant for 9 months.This address withdrew 2,500 ETH from Binance 5 hours ago, worth 6.02 million dollars, at a withdrawal price of 2,408.42 dollars.

According to BBX data, yesterday and in recent days, globally listed companies in the U.S. stock market disclosed the latest developments in digital asset purchases, business restructuring, and stock buybacks. The core information is as follows:MARA Holdings invested approximately $98.64 million to increase its holdings of 1,292 BTC: The global leading Bitcoin mining giant MARA Holdings (NASDAQ: $MARA) made a significant purchase of 1,292 Bitcoins yesterday through the crypto broker FalconX. Based on the average price during the purchase period, the total value of this increase is approximately $98.64 million, continuing its strategy of fully retaining output and actively allocating Bitcoin in the secondary market.Twenty One Capital (NYSE: $XXI) seeks business transformation, disclosing a five-step plan for a "Bitcoin operating company": Twenty One Capital's CEO Raphael Zagury stated in an interview with Coin Stories that the company is transitioning from merely holding Bitcoin reserves to becoming a deep "Bitcoin operating company." Zagury disclosed the specific five-step implementation path for the first time: First, improve corporate governance and professional structures in the middle and back office; second, introduce Bitcoin industry operating entities with self-sustaining and profit-generating capabilities; third, comprehensively promote horizontal industry mergers and acquisitions; fourth, flexibly use public capital market tools to continue increasing Bitcoin holdings at the appropriate time; fifth, focus on expanding and developing Bitcoin collateralized lending business.Circle minted 10 billion ARC genesis tokens, exploring a shift to PoS consensus in 2027: Stablecoin issuer Circle officially completed the minting of 10 billion ARC tokens this week. Circle clarified that this minting is merely a milestone for underlying technology verification and is not a commitment for public issuance. The core positioning of ARC is to serve as a security guarantee, practical function, and decentralized governance coordination mechanism for the Arc network, with the network's native gas fees still strictly settled in USDC. Additionally, Circle is proactively exploring a smooth transition of the network's underlying consensus mechanism from the current Proof of Authority (PoA) to Proof of Stake (PoS) in 2027.ProCap Financial (NASDAQ: $BRR) sold 50 BTC for a discounted buyback, holding over 5,250 BTC: Financial company ProCap Financial, focused on digital asset allocation, announced that starting from September 3, it repurchased an additional 2.2% of its circulating common stock at a significant discount of approximately 22% to the net asset value (NAV) per share, with the funds for this buyback sourced from the sale of about 50 Bitcoins on its balance sheet. Since the buyback plan was initiated, the company has repurchased approximately 12.2% of its circulating shares. As of the market close on September 15, its total circulating shares were 84,937,392, and the treasury still holds approximately 5,254 Bitcoins, corresponding to an NAV of about $3.62 per share. The company's management emphasized that it will steadfastly execute the stock buyback strategy until the secondary market trading price is no longer below the net asset value.

ESS Frontier LLC filed a lawsuit on September 4, 2026, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, case number 1:26-cv-07645, against Ostium Foundation, Ostium Labs Co., Deltax LTD., DX Group Limited, Ostium co-founder and CEO Kaledora Kiernan-Linn, and John Doe Transferees 1-10. The nature of the case is arbitration matters under other statutes, with the cause of action being a petition for a mandatory arbitration order and the appointment of an arbitrator pursuant to 09 U.S.C. § 206.The plaintiff also submitted a complaint, a motion for a temporary restraining order, a motion to seal limited materials, and related declarations. Public reports indicate that the lawsuit involves approximately $15 million in crypto loans, with ESS Frontier LLC suing as the assignee of the debt owed by Hong Kong lender Minghui Zheng. On September 14, the plaintiff submitted the first amended complaint, adding Minghui Zheng as a co-plaintiff. The court is scheduled to hold a hearing on September 17. Ostium is an on-chain perpetual contract protocol deployed on Arbitrum, providing leveraged trading for stocks, commodities, foreign exchange, and crypto assets.

According to GMGN data, the mainstream platforms of the Arc ecosystem and Meme coins have generally declined, among which:AGRUS has a market value of approximately 18.3 million USD, with a 6-hour decline of 17.05%;TOLLY has a market value of approximately 5.47 million USD, with a 6-hour decline of 37.86%;Long has a market value of approximately 3.14 million USD, with a 24-hour decline of 37.36%;COOL has a market value of approximately 1.37 million USD, with a 24-hour decline of 54.4%;Architects has a market value of approximately 732,500 USD, with a 24-hour decline of 61.09%;ARCAT has a market value of approximately 699,300 USD, with a 6-hour decline of 45.98%.According to market news, the prices of Meme coins are highly volatile, and investors are advised to participate with caution.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will attend the state dinner hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump for Chinese leader Xi Jinping. OpenAI stated that Altman has been included in the guest list for the event next week.The White House did not immediately confirm whether Altman would attend the state dinner.

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates as expected in September, after keeping rates unchanged at the July meeting. Federal Reserve Chairman Waller stated that three things have changed between the two meetings.He said that data released in recent weeks indicates that the U.S. economy is performing strongly, especially in the labor market. At the same time, inflation rates remained high throughout the summer, significantly above the Federal Reserve's target of 2% year-on-year inflation.Finally, he noted that geopolitical factors also prompted the Federal Reserve to change its assessment of the economic outlook, although he did not directly mention the U.S.-Iran conflict in the Middle East. Waller stated, "These three factors contributed to our firm and consistent decision today."