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According to CriptoNoticias, a court in Costa Rica sentenced two men to 12 years in prison each for money laundering. The case involves the kidnapping and murder of American businessman William Shawn Crichton Kopko in 2018, for which his family paid a ransom of approximately 148 bitcoins, valued at around 1 million dollars.The court found that the two defendants received part of the ransom and deposited it into wallets under their control to conceal the source of the related assets.

At the 2026 World Manufacturing Conference, memory chip manufacturer Changxin Technology announced the official mass production of its fifth-generation technology platform.According to reports, Changxin Technology has achieved a half-pitch of 11.95 nanometers in the active area of the memory array, with a capacitor aspect ratio of 45:1, and the height of the core kinetic area has been reduced to 6762 nanometers. The storage density of the fifth-generation process platform has significantly improved, with each wafer producing over 50% more than the previous generation platform under the same conditions.The 24GB LPDDR5X product developed based on this platform has entered formal mass production and is being used in mainstream domestic flagship smartphones.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, significant capital movements are predicted in the Polymarket market. A large whale invested $59,000.06 in the event "UFC 331: Alexandre Pantoja vs. Joshua Van (Flyweight, Main Event)" for the match "Alexandre Pantoja vs. Joshua Van." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this bet is 59%.

In February, a company that handles debit card transactions for Polymarket's U.S. betting platform reported that fraudsters are flooding the app. Users are linking stolen debit cards to their Polymarket U.S. accounts, attempting to place bets and withdraw funds to clean cards or accounts under their control, with thieves trying to make off with at least $10 million.The processor once rejected over 80% of deposits as fraudulent, far exceeding the industry standard of about 1%. Polymarket employees raised concerns to CEO Shayne Coplan. Insiders said the compliance team's response to Coplan was shocking: continue to grow, and if regulators find out, just pay the fines.

According to Coinglass data, the current whale holdings on the Hyperliquid platform amount to 8.945 billion USD, with long positions totaling 4.267 billion USD, accounting for 47.7% of the holdings, and short positions totaling 4.679 billion USD, accounting for 52.3% of the holdings. The profit and loss for long positions is 572 million USD, while the profit and loss for short positions is -634 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 -33.0621 million USD.

Taiyuan Chengming Technology Co., Ltd. sent a letter to Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd., raising multiple demands regarding the alleged unauthorized upload of company data assets and trade secrets by its ZCode client, and reserving the right to pursue legal accountability. Chengming Technology pointed out that although Zhipu has publicly apologized for the "silent upload of user local repository data" and claimed to have fixed the issue, independent evidence collection revealed that the upload behavior was automatically triggered and occurred in bulk, including complete archived files such as project source code, system architecture, version control history, database passwords, cloud service credentials, and employee personal information, far exceeding the scope of collection stated in its Privacy Policy.Although the client was updated to version 3.12.3 on September 16, upload behavior was still detected in the early hours of the day Zhipu publicly apologized, raising doubts about the actual effectiveness of the "fix." At the same time, the ZCode client’s network requests pointed to a Singapore entity, while the service agreement was signed with Beijing Zhipu Huazhang, requesting clarification on the responsible party for this upload, as well as whether the data was transmitted abroad or stored overseas.Chengming Technology demanded that Zhipu respond in writing by October 10 and complete the immediate cessation of processing and thorough deletion of all uploaded data and related derivative data, caches, and backups, provide a complete list of processing situations, clarify the data's whereabouts, whether it was shared with third parties, whether it was used for model training, and whether cross-border transmission occurred, explain the management of encryption private keys and complete operation logs, clarify the exact scope of "destruction" mentioned in previous public responses, issue proof of deletion completion, provide a written commitment not to upload without authorization again, legally provide access, copying, and explanation of personal information, and designate formal communication channels, among other matters. Currently, Zhipu has not publicly responded to the aforementioned letter.

Samsung Electronics hired former Director of the Foreign Exchange System Division of the Ministry of Finance and Economy, Lee Hee-kun, for its IR team as an executive last month. Lee Hee-kun has held positions such as Director of the Foreign Exchange System Division and Director of the Capital Market Policy Division, responsible for foreign exchange systems and overseas investment responses. In April this year, he participated in the work of including South Korea in the World Government Bond Index and received special recognition. He is expected to be responsible for responding to overseas investors and the global capital market.SK Hynix hired former Director of the Strategic Economic Division of the Ministry of Finance and Economy, Jeong Yu-jin, as the Vice President under the Communications Division last month. Jeong Yu-jin has served as the Director of the Climate and Environment Budget Division, Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Director of the Foreign Exchange System Division, and Director of the Foreign Exchange Fund Division. Both companies are advancing production investments in the United States, with Samsung Electronics planning to invest $37 billion to build a foundry in Taylor, Texas, and SK Hynix planning to invest $4 billion to build an advanced packaging factory in Indiana.

Founder of Strategy Michael Saylor stated: The digital asset industry is better off with supportive rules from the SEC, CFTC, Treasury, and banking regulators than accepting the limitations in the final CLARITY compromise. The safest path is to create products that satisfy customers and deploy them widely, allowing people to have a stake in innovation. Ownership should be protected, honest disclosure required, and fraud punished, then let entrepreneurs compete and grow.Saylor mentioned that the September CLARITY compromise would have restricted covered providers to only paying customers for holding stablecoins while allowing qualified activity rewards, and directed the Treasury to limit certain rewards when a significant harmful deposit transfer to community banks was identified. The GENIUS Act has included restrictions on issuers paying interest and returns on stablecoins. The innovation sandbox of CLARITY would have limited participating companies to 25 employees, with each committee approving 20 projects per year. The SEC provided conditional relief for on-chain trading of certain tokenized stocks on September 17, and the CFTC chairman committed to using existing authority while the bill is stalled.He pointed out that useful products should be scaled by 2027 and 2028, transforming temporary relief into permanent rules. The goal is to have 50 million American voters using digital financial products that improve their lives. The best protection for digital innovation is the public that benefits from it.

The prediction market Kalshi has submitted proposed rule changes to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and filed for approval with the CFTC to launch perpetual futures contracts anchored to individual U.S. stocks. This proposal echoes the application submitted by Coinbase on the same day, as both companies aim to introduce popular perpetual futures products from the crypto market into the traditional stock market.According to the proposal, the relevant contracts will not have a preset expiration date and will maintain price consistency with the underlying stocks through periodic funding payments between long and short positions. Kalshi stated that these contracts will be treated as securities futures products and will be cleared through its CFTC-registered clearinghouse, Kalshi Klear. Previously, Kalshi has offered perpetual futures anchored to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and XRP in the U.S., with its Bitcoin perpetual contract receiving CFTC approval in May of this year.The competition for U.S. stock individual perpetual futures is expanding. Kraken's parent company Payward has also submitted an application through its Bitnomial Exchange, planning to initially offer perpetual futures anchored to 10 U.S. stocks, including Tesla, Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon, and is committed to achieving trading five days a week, 24 hours a day. These applications were submitted after the CLARITY Act failed to advance in the Senate on September 15, with SEC Chairman Paul Atkins stating that regardless of legislation, the agency will act decisively within its existing statutory authority to provide regulatory certainty for investors and entrepreneurs.

The Solana ecosystem project Paid announced on platform X that it has launched the token issuance feature on Pons.The official statement says that 80% of the transaction fees will be sent to X users via X Money, and 20% will be converted into SOL to repurchase PAID tokens. Issuers can add their X Handle in the project text description to send transaction fees through X Money.

Circle's public chain Arc has officially announced that it has launched proxy payments.Its Facilitator Service provides a hosted access path for x402 developers, allowing the acceptance of USDC and supporting on-chain settlements on Arc, Base, and Polygon; this path does not require a Relayer key or a separate Gas fee wallet.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has released an "Innovation Exemption" to establish a pathway for on-chain secondary trading of tokenized stocks. This exemption will be implemented from September 17, 2026, to September 17, 2031, and applies to specific tokenized securities trading venues that provide licensed automated market makers and liquidity pools.Trading venues must be deployed on public, permissionless blockchains, but trading is limited to verified or authorized participants. Eligible tokens must correspond to actual U.S. national market system stocks and grant the same shareholder rights as traditional stocks; this exemption does not cover primary issuances, synthetic exposures, or products that do not have legal or beneficial rights to the underlying stocks. Galaxy stated that it is exploring the next steps to enable on-chain GLXY secondary trading.

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.

B.AI platform announces that the total number of registered users has officially surpassed 2,700,048, growing from 2.6 million to over 2.7 million, with strong growth momentum continuing.This growth is attributed to B.AI's ongoing optimization of model supply and pricing mechanisms, with multiple discounts and usage rights continuously reducing the cost of AI usage, making cutting-edge models more accessible; at the same time, the platform continues to expand the boundaries of Agent capabilities, pushing Agents from task execution towards payment, collaboration, and value creation.Each user milestone is a testament to more users and Agents joining the intelligent network and signifies that the AGI economic network is forming more active value connections.

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).