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Payment company Block announced the integration of the Bitcoin Lightning Network into the x402 payment standard. The x402 protocol can complete verification and unlock data through Lightning Network invoices and payment preimages after the server returns an HTTP 402 payment request.Steve Lee, head of Block's open-source Bitcoin development department Spiral, stated that this integration is aimed at instant, low-cost micropayment scenarios. Block has not yet disclosed the timeline for integrating this standard into Cash App, Square, or Bitkey, and the related Python implementation still needs to be tested through real nodes.

Michael Saylor published a long article titled "Prescriptions for Prosperity in the Digital Economy," stating that artificial intelligence will significantly enhance the productivity of individuals and businesses, thus necessitating a more free environment for creating, financing, owning, and trading assets. He suggests establishing a "Digital Bill of Rights" for digital assets, which centers on granting individuals and businesses the rights to create, issue, custody, transfer, and use digital assets, while providing fundamental protections in financial privacy, asset ownership, and market access.Saylor believes that digital intelligence will drive the birth of a large number of new enterprises, and financing costs, complexity, and time costs should be reduced, while improving capital formation efficiency through means such as digital tokens. He proposes a goal of enabling 10 million new enterprises to secure financing, while also establishing clear issuance rules and risk-matched disclosure requirements.Regarding the digital dollar, Saylor advocates for allowing banks, fintech companies, and technology platforms to compete more fully in the digital dollar product space and for issuers to compete around yields. He believes that the U.S. can further expand the global reach of the dollar by allowing companies to develop more competitive dollar digital products.For Bitcoin, Saylor defines it as "digital capital," advocating for allowing banks to custody Bitcoin under clear rules and use it as collateral for providing credit, while also establishing a viable path for insurance companies to incorporate digital capital into their balance sheets and product designs.He specifically mentions that the Basel Accord applies a 1250% risk weight to certain crypto asset exposures, arguing that regulators should reassess the relevant capital requirements based on the actual risks of digital assets and specific business activities.

Cryptocurrency analyst Darkfost stated on the X platform that based on the inflow of BTC from long-term holders (LTH) to exchanges, during the market peak in March 2024, LTH were most active in the bull market phase, with daily inflows to exchanges exceeding the annual average by more than five times.In contrast, LTH were relatively calm during the peak in 2025, and as the bear market began, their activity significantly increased, with the annual average daily inflow of BTC rising from about 600 to around 1000. As the market approached the bear market bottom, the inflow on certain trading days far exceeded the annual average, which aligns with the situation where previous high-level buyers realized increased losses.Darkfost noted that currently, LTH-related activities are gradually cooling down, with inflows to exchanges still significantly below the annual average, indicating a change in their behavior, and the market is becoming more rational.

Galaxy Digital, a Nasdaq-listed digital asset company, has incorporated $100 million in Sky Protocol interest-bearing savings tokens sUSDS into its corporate treasury and included them in the collateral range for institutional business facing over 1,600 counterparties. Galaxy also purchased an undisclosed amount of SKY.Galaxy clients can use sUSDS as collateral for loans and continue to earn Sky Savings Rate yields during the loan term. The average loan size in Galaxy's institutional lending business is approximately $1.4 billion; the Sky ecosystem's Prime Agent Grove had previously provided a $500 million warehouse loan limit to it.

According to The Block, Ethena is incorporating tokenized U.S. stocks and Binance stock perpetual contracts into the foundational trading support strategy of USDe. Among them, Binance bStocks will serve as the tokenized spot support asset, while Ethena will hedge through Binance stock perpetual contracts to maintain Delta neutrality.The Ethena Risk Committee has previously approved the inclusion of tokenized stock foundational trading into the allocation strategy. Ethena stated that the open interest of Binance stock perpetual contracts has currently exceeded $2.9 billion, with a monthly average compound growth rate of 105% this year, and the average annualized return of stock foundational trading over the past six months has been 3.56%; the company expects that as more stock market assets go on-chain, the opportunity size of stock perpetual contracts will ultimately significantly exceed that of the cryptocurrency perpetual contract market.Guy Young, founder of Ethena Labs, stated that this is the most important expansion of its funding mechanism since the launch of USDe.

The Oxford Economic Research Institute stated that its U.S. business cycle indicator has fallen into recession territory, as rising energy prices squeeze household incomes and a slowdown in immigration weakens job growth.However, factors such as productivity growth, wealth effects, and AI investment continue to support the economy, showing no typical signs of recession.

According to Bitcoin News monitoring, this batch of Bitcoin is worth over 4 million dollars, accounting for about 2.8% of the total Bitcoin related to the Coldcard vulnerability. Crypto Recovery Trust will verify the ownership of the funds and attempt to return them.Alex Thorn, head of research at Galaxy Digital, stated that another 3.0134 BTC was transferred to that address in the same transaction, but its source has not yet been confirmed.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, the address withdrew 4088.5 ETH at an average price of $2727.26 between September 21 and 23. After the market correction, the address deposited all ETH into Binance one hour ago, worth approximately $10.8 million; if sold, it would incur a loss of $342,000.The last round of swing trading for this address lasted 1 month, yielding a profit of $1.515 million.

Grayscale's research director Zach Pandl pointed out that the recent "Innovation Exemption" directive issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expected to fundamentally change the previous landscape where tokenized U.S. stocks primarily relied on offshore "packaged derivatives" trading, promoting the inclusion of real tokenized stocks with complete shareholder voting rights and dividend rights into the regulated financial system of the United States.This exemption order is valid for 5 years and specifically relaxes two core registration requirements: qualified tokenized trading venues do not need to register as traditional stock exchanges; qualified liquidity providers do not need to register as broker-dealers.Grayscale believes that this marks a significant step as on-chain trading infrastructure is proving to be fully compatible with regulatory compliance and investor protection, and it is expected to drive Congress to advance a broader bipartisan legislative process in the future.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart stated in a video interview with Bitcoin Magazine that trillions of dollars in advisory wealth are currently on the sidelines, and a slight increase in allocation could bring substantial new demand for Bitcoin ETFs. He mentioned that the daily inflow of funds into Bitcoin ETFs once approached $1 billion.James Seyffart pointed out that strict rules from large brokerages like Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan are still limiting financial advisors from purchasing Bitcoin ETFs for their clients, with the target allocation being too low as the main constraint. Many advisors have previously chosen to wait for the bear market to end before entering the market. He emphasized that approximately $30 trillion to $40 trillion in advisory wealth is a long-overlooked data point.He also discussed the cost benchmarks for Bitcoin ETFs, whether ETF fund flows can truly drive Bitcoin prices, who is selling between spot holders and ETF investors, the closing of hedge fund Bitcoin basis trades, and whether Bitcoin ETFs are expected to surpass gold ETFs. He believes the impact of the four-year cycle is diminishing, and Bitcoin is increasingly viewed as a risk asset.

Oracle announced the expansion of its Digital Assets Data Nexus platform, adding payment execution integration, configurable wallets and smart contract controls, as well as AI-driven transaction monitoring and risk analysis features.This upgrade supports connecting existing bank payment systems with digital asset transaction execution through the ISO 20022 messaging standard, helping banks establish a unified operational model for the flow of funds between traditional currencies and digital currencies, while enhancing ledger visibility, compliance controls, and operational efficiency. The platform will also support integration with Oracle Banking Payments and Swift Ledger, covering application scenarios such as tokenized deposits, stablecoins, CBDCs, digital bonds, and real-world assets. Oracle stated that the relevant features are planned for release in fiscal year 2027.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Multicoin Capital has deposited 130,300 HYPE into Coinbase Prime again after a one-week pause, worth 12.15 million USD.Since July 28, Multicoin Capital has cumulatively deposited 4.23 million HYPE into Coinbase Prime, worth 285 million USD.

Meta Platforms announced that it will integrate Muse into all of the company's smart glasses products.

According to The Block, Galaxy Digital announced that it has incorporated $100 million of the yield-bearing stablecoin sUSDS from Sky Protocol into its corporate treasury and approved it as collateral for institutional trading operations. Galaxy's lending head Max Bareiss stated that this purchase was made using the company's own balance sheet funds; as of June 30, Galaxy held nearly $2.5 billion in cash and stablecoins.As part of the collaboration, Galaxy also acquired an undisclosed amount of SKY tokens. Clients can now borrow by pledging sUSDS through Galaxy and continue to earn Sky savings rates during the loan period. Galaxy's institutional platform serves over 1,600 counterparties, with an average loan book of $1.4 billion.Sky stated that the supply of sUSDS reached $5.52 billion at the end of the second quarter, a year-on-year increase of 149%. The two parties previously had arrangements such as $500 million in warehouse financing provided by Grove and are currently discussing expanding that limit.

According to Grayscale's official announcement, it has renamed its Grayscale Bitcoin Miners ETF to Grayscale AI Compute ETF, with the New York Stock Exchange trading code changed from MNRS to GCPU, and the tracking index changed from the Indxx Bitcoin Miners Index to the Indxx High-Performance Computing Index.The fund will invest in companies that build and operate AI infrastructure, with about half of the holdings in native AI computing companies, and the remainder in digital infrastructure operators that have publicly committed to transitioning to AI businesses, including companies that have transitioned from Bitcoin mining.

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, delivered a keynote speech at the 12th Global Blockchain Summit, stating that the blockchain was initially a primary tool. Although it has characteristics such as openness, neutrality, and security, it is not scalable and is completely transparent, lacking privacy protection mechanisms.Subsequently, privacy transactions and scalable verification brought by zero-knowledge proofs have changed this situation and have been transformed from planning into actual EIPs, included in the Ethereum roadmap. Technologies such as fully homomorphic encryption are also beginning to be applied, and indistinguishable obfuscation may also be applied on-chain in the future. Beyond privacy, the parallel construction and proof of blocks can make extreme scalability possible, and industry thinking has shifted from digital assets to digital assets plus information, from purely on-chain to user-end, transaction memory pools, a complete pipeline on-chain, and from who can send what to who can see what.Currently, blockchain has gradually evolved from a simple ledger to a cryptography-based secure computing network. With the development of AI, providing cryptographic rules to AI for automated formal verification can significantly enhance verification efficiency, allowing the chain to carry more possibilities.

U.S. Senator John Curtis from Utah, a Republican, wrote to Chuck Grassley, the Chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and Dick Durbin, the Chief Minority Whip, calling for an investigation into whether Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden exploited their presidential family connections for personal financial gain, and requested subpoenas for both individuals. Curtis pointed out that Donald Trump Jr. had accepted wedding gifts from Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, actively promoted family-backed cryptocurrency ventures, and served as an advisor for a prediction market platform; the related companies are regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Donald Trump stated that his son has returned the relevant funds to Umar Kremlev.Curtis also called for an investigation into Hunter Biden's substantial business dealings with foreign entities, as well as whether the two utilized their relationship with the president to create commercial value. He mentioned that Joe Biden pardoned Hunter Biden in December 2024, who had previously denied involving his father in business transactions. A week prior to this investigation call, Senate Republicans failed to garner enough Democratic support to advance the Digital Asset Market Clear Act. Some Democratic senators opposed the bill, citing reasons including Donald Trump's use of cryptocurrency ventures to gain benefits related to the presidency; Donald Trump disclosed that he earned $1.4 billion from digital asset-related businesses in 2025.

According to Ember Monitoring, a whale that transferred 40 million USDC to Binance to purchase ETH yesterday has already converted all of it into ETH two hours ago.The 40 million USDC was used to buy a total of 14,783 ETH at a price of 2,706 dollars.