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In response to the community rumor that "Aptos will shut down its blockchain in the next 6 months," Aptos Labs co-founder and CEO Avery Ching publicly stated that this is "a stupid rumor."The X account that initially published the related news did not provide any official Aptos announcement, governance proposal, or other documents as evidence. When pressed for evidence, the account stated that the information was merely "heard" and reminded to be cautious in interpretation.Additionally, another community account claimed that Aptos had significantly laid off employees over the past year and was facing financial pressure, but that account also admitted that the source of the information was "unreliable," and there is currently no public information to confirm the above claims.Aptos's current public governance records still show network upgrade proposals and executed mainnet function updates, and no official plans to shut down the mainnet have been found.

According to The Philippine Star, the Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) of the Philippines has obtained a court freeze order to freeze over 100 financial accounts and other assets related to a congressman and several individuals and entities. These assets are suspected to be linked to corruption, plunder, and irregularities in flood control projects.The freeze includes 86 bank accounts, 4 investment accounts, 1 insurance policy, and 25 virtual asset wallets. The AMLC stated that the funds circulated through multiple virtual asset service providers and various virtual asset wallets, complicating tracking efforts. The council did not disclose the identities of the relevant congressman and other parties involved.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the TRUMP token team has transferred a total of 81.87 million TRUMP tokens from the team wallet over the past 8 months, entering centralized exchanges such as Binance and OKX at an average price of $3.04, cashing out $249 million.The team was allocated 800 million TRUMP tokens, accounting for 80% of the total supply; they currently still hold 718 million TRUMP tokens, accounting for 71.8% of the total supply, valued at $1.49 billion.

Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of NEAR, stated that recently the activity of developers within the ecosystem has increased and the development threshold has further lowered, focusing on what kind of applications to build and how to establish distribution channels.In this regard, he proposed a series of potential construction directions, covering AI electronic pets that combine NEAR AI on-chain verifiable reasoning with non-fungible tokens (NFTs), a universal checkout component that supports full-chain intent payments, a decentralized encyclopedia that combines prediction markets with AI-generated content, a privacy off-chain trading (OTC) market based on NEAR Intents and management of anti-liquidation lending and perpetual contracts, a cross-chain activity registration custody tool in the form of a staking deposit, privacy code review agents, enterprise equity structure management tools, Delta neutral strategy management, privacy tracking single transactions based on view keys, end-to-end encrypted medical auxiliary diagnostic systems, privacy voice transcription desktop applications, and AI benchmarking based on private test sets.Regarding product distribution, he suggested combining NEARLegion with community channels like X, achieving multi-chain wallet compatibility through Aurora Intent Connect to lower cross-chain thresholds, and actively expanding across communities and platforms like Product Hunt.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the largest short position established the day before Changxin Storage (Changxin Storage) went public has been completely closed 10 hours ago.This address shorted at a price of $6.5 and closed the position at a price of $8.5 after holding for 2 months, resulting in a total loss of $10.98 million, including a funding fee loss of $5.18 million and a price change loss of $5.8 million.

The Bank of Montreal has lowered the target price for SpaceX (SPCX.O) from $280 to $250.

According to CoinDesk, Tether's USDT will return to the Bitcoin network this month, issued through the Tether-supported infrastructure project Utexo.With a market capitalization of nearly $190 billion, USDT is the largest stablecoin in the world, originally launched on the Bitcoin Omni protocol in 2014, and later Ethereum and Tron became its main issuance networks. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated on X last week, "It's home."Utexo was established in 2025 and completed a $7.5 million financing round earlier this year, led by Tether, and has obtained a commercial license to issue USDT on Bitcoin.Utexo uses the RGB protocol with client-side validation, keeping most transaction data off the Bitcoin public ledger, with ownership anchored on UTXO. Unlike the account models of Ethereum and Tron, transaction details are fully preserved off-chain between the two parties, with the Bitcoin ledger used solely for cryptographic proof of ownership.Utexo offers three main use cases: private USDT transfers, direct exchanges between native BTC and USDT, and lending with native Bitcoin as collateral, without the need for cross-chain wrapping like WBTC.Since RGB assets are ultimately anchored to Bitcoin UTXO, Utexo cannot freeze assets like Tether can freeze Ethereum addresses, but instead maintains a blacklist of UTXO related to sanctioned or illegal activities and distributes it to exchanges and other institutions, making these UTXO non-redeemable.

On-chain analyst Darkfost posted on X that the inflow of whale funds transferring over 1 million dollars in stablecoins to Binance has significantly increased recently.According to the 30-day cumulative calculation, the amount of stablecoins this group has transferred to Binance has risen from 21.7 billion dollars to 30.5 billion dollars over the past month, an increase of over 40%.Darkfost stated that the inflow of stablecoins to exchanges usually indicates that funds are preparing to enter the market, so this change may correspond to potential buying pressure. However, compared to last October when inflows once exceeded 61 billion dollars, the current deployment of whale funds remains relatively cautious.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a whale starting with 0xf7AD has purchased 654,288 UNI through Flowdesk at an average price of $7.17 over the past month, worth approximately $4.69 million, with an unrealized profit of about $1.15 million currently.

According to Cointelegraph, the Ministry of State Security of China issued a statement accusing cryptocurrencies of being used by foreign forces for espionage and money laundering, emphasizing their non-anonymity.Data from the same period shows that Singapore's crypto economy grew against the trend by 55.4% to $284 billion, maintaining its position as the regional leader.

Monad released a video, hinting at the launch of a privacy service on October 6. Its token rose over 17% today, currently priced at $0.032671.

According to CoinDesk, the government of Illinois has reached an agreement with the Digital Chamber of Commerce and the Illinois Blockchain Association to postpone the 0.2% cryptocurrency tax, originally set to take effect on January 1, 2027, by 6 months to July 1, but still requires approval from a state circuit court judge.If the postponement is approved, both parties will temporarily suspend their request for an emergency injunction and continue litigation regarding the compliance, enforceability, and constitutionality of the tax law.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, a certain smart money address built a position during the rise of UNI on September 3 and continued to increase its position by 1.29 million dollars two hours ago.As of now, the address has withdrawn 692,100 UNI from the exchange at an average price of 7.3 dollars, with purchase prices ranging from 6.24 dollars to 9.06 dollars, accumulating an unrealized profit of 1.19 million dollars, with a return rate of 23.55%.

The CertiK security data dashboard shows that a total of 247 security incidents occurred in the third quarter of 2026, an increase of 12.8% compared to the previous quarter; the total loss was approximately 1.26 billion USD, an increase of 53.9% from 819.4 million USD in the second quarter.

According to a report by Reuters, Citigroup has raised its price forecasts for Bitcoin and Ethereum over the next 12 months, citing reasons such as increased activity in the cryptocurrency market, a supportive macroeconomic environment, and the resumption of ETF fund inflows.Citigroup has raised its 12-month target price for Bitcoin from $82,000 to $113,000, and its target price for Ethereum from $2,240 to $3,028.In a report released on Wednesday, Citigroup stated that it expects inflows into the cryptocurrency market to resume, but at a slower and more stable pace than before, as advisory firms and brokerages gradually increase their Bitcoin allocations, which is likely to sustain the inflows.Citigroup anticipates that there will be $5 billion in inflows into the cryptocurrency market over the next 12 months. The U.S. Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act last week. This bill aims to establish a regulatory framework for digital assets, and its blockage poses a certain setback for the entire cryptocurrency industry. Following the U.S. Treasury's recent repurchase of long-term government bonds, the dollar weakened, reigniting the upward momentum in the cryptocurrency market.

According to Gate market data, the US Dollar Index DXY broke through the previous high from July, rising to 101.66 at one point, reaching a new high since the end of June.

According to financing data statistics from RootData, there were a total of 47 financing events disclosed in the crypto primary market in September, of which 34 disclosed amounts that can be accurately counted, with a total financing amount of approximately $1.114 billion. This represents an 85.0% increase compared to about $602 million in August, and a 9.0% increase compared to about $1.022 billion in September 2025; the number of financing events decreased by 4.1% compared to 49 in August, and decreased by 25.4% compared to 63 in the same period last year.From the perspective of sectors, infrastructure had the most financing events in September, with a total of 14 financings completed, disclosing an amount of approximately $263 million; both CeFi and DeFi completed 11 financings, disclosing amounts of approximately $394 million and $369 million, respectively. The three major sectors of CeFi, DeFi, and infrastructure accounted for about 92.0% of the disclosed financing amount this month.The three highest financing amounts in September were Polymarket ($300 million), Félix ($200 million), and Jeeves ($110 million), totaling $610 million, which accounted for about 54.8% of the total financing amount this month; Kraken also received a $100 million investment from Nasdaq. The financing amount this month showed a significant rebound, mainly driven by a few large financings, while the overall number of financing events in the market did not increase correspondingly.In September, a total of 8 RWA-related financing events were disclosed, of which 6 disclosed specific amounts, totaling approximately $52.75 million, accounting for about 17.0% and 4.7% of the number of financing events and total financing amount this month, respectively. Compared to 2 events and $14 million in August, the number of events increased by 300%, and the financing amount increased by approximately 276.8%. The top three projects by amount were OpenReserve ($25 million), Tare ($13.25 million), and CatchBack ($8 million), which together accounted for approximately 87.7% of the disclosed amount in the RWA sector.Additionally, 11 merger and acquisition events were disclosed in September, an increase of 57.1% compared to 7 in August, and a decrease of 42.1% compared to 19 in the same period last year. Among them, the tools and information services sector had a total of 4 events, making it the most active sector for mergers and acquisitions. Representative transactions include MoonPay acquiring North Capital, CoinMarketCap acquiring CoinGlass, Circle acquiring Tazapay, and S&P acquiring OpenZeppelin.In terms of investment institutions, Coinbase Ventures participated in 6 financings, making it the most active institution this month; a16z and Maven11 each participated in 3. Overall, in September, funds mainly flowed towards payments, prediction markets, trading and data infrastructure, CeFi, and RWA, among other directions.

Aave founder Stani posted on the X platform, stating that the team is currently monitoring the progress of the MetaMask Staking infrastructure security incident in collaboration with Lido.Stani mentioned that the Aave market is currently unaffected, and all operations are running normally.

Analysts at the Bank of Montreal pointed out that the annual benchmark revision by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis shows that the Federal Reserve's preferred inflation indicator was revised down more than expected. The core PCE in August rose less than expected, with a year-on-year growth rate slowing to 3%, below the market expectation of 3.3%. Analysts believe this alleviates the urgency for another rate hike in October.

R25 today announced that its core product R25 Studio, based on the 2 architecture, has officially launched public testing. R25 Studio is dedicated to realizing the vision of "everyone can become an asset manager," fully opening up the capabilities for the establishment, operation, and distribution of institutional-level funds. By abstracting cumbersome legal documents, backend systems, and compliance processes into configurable smart contracts, R25 Studio has successfully compressed the fund establishment cycle from several months to just 10 minutes.The platform revolves around Build, Manage, Earn, and Distribute, covering Vault creation, subscription and redemption, investment management, fee earning, and distribution; asset managers can autonomously set investment parameters, management fees, and performance fee rates on-chain without building complex fund structures from scratch, generate exclusive Vault Tokens/Shares, and list the Vault on channels such as Dapp and Topnod. The platform also provides performance data such as NAV, APY, cumulative returns, and maximum drawdown, helping asset managers monitor strategy performance in real-time.Previously, in Phase 1, Axil launched a private credit Vault on R25 and successfully surpassed $130 million in TVL, validating the reliability of this infrastructure. The registration channel for the first batch of managers is now open.