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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.

Recently, the police in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China, investigated a virtual currency money laundering case. The criminal gang used "free credit card repayment" as bait to attract ordinary users to provide accounts. They received illicit funds from overseas gambling and fraud through false consumption, then contacted currency dealers to exchange for virtual currency and transferred it to designated addresses abroad. Through financial and on-chain data analysis, the police identified nearly a thousand involved accounts, with suspects distributed across Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Jiangsu, Hebei, Chongqing, and other regions.The Digital Currency Research Institute of the People's Bank of China stated that it is currently using large model technology to analyze the flow of funds in virtual currency transactions, restore the gang's trading patterns, and uncover clues related to illegal industries. Upon investigation, it was confirmed that seven members of the gang were illegally engaged in payment settlement business without approval from relevant national authorities, constituting the crime of illegal operation, and were sentenced to imprisonment ranging from one year and two months to two years and six months, along with fines.Using virtual currency for money laundering is a new type of money laundering crime that has emerged in recent years. Lv Wei, the president of the Inner Mongolia branch of the People's Bank of China, stated that enhancing the monitoring and identification capabilities for abnormal fund transactions related to virtual currency trading has helped successfully crack down on a major money laundering case involving virtual currency pyramid schemes, dismantling more than ten money laundering and points-running dens, and confiscating illegal gains of approximately 130 million yuan. In recent years, there have been coordinated efforts to promote the conviction and sentencing of four cases involving money laundering using virtual currency, forming a strong deterrent against illegal activities such as money laundering with virtual currency.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale withdrew 2,640 ZEC from Binance two hours ago, worth approximately 3.72 million dollars.In the past month, this address has withdrawn a total of 14,190 ZEC from Binance and Gate, worth approximately 20 million dollars.

Lookonchain posted on platform X that Strive purchased 6,106 BTC at an average price of $80,375 from August 24 to September 25, totaling $491 million.

According to GMGN data, the top 5 tokens with net inflow of smart money in the past 24 hours are as follows:SI (DEW9....WDP): Net inflow of $2,000, with a 24-hour increase of 98.1%, currently priced at $0.0415.AQUA (AQVc....yY9): Net inflow of $2,000, with a 24-hour decrease of -29.5%, currently priced at $0.0015.JEANPHIL (GTBx....ump): Net inflow of $2,000, with a 24-hour decrease of -9.2%, currently priced at $0.0035.GARP (FKPd....SHo): Net inflow of $2,000, with a 24-hour increase of 4897%, currently priced at $0.0002.NUTFLEX (9a2v....vWi): Net inflow of $1,000, with a 24-hour increase of 3528%, currently priced at $0.0002.

The personal AI agent business ai.com under Crypto.com has not yet been opened to the public since its debut during the Super Bowl in February this year. According to Cointelegraph, ai.com spent $15 million on advertising during the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl to promote the launch of its AI platform, leading to a surge of users rushing to reserve personal AI agent accounts, which caused the website to crash within minutes. Nearly 8 months later, the site still displays a message indicating that due to high demand, AI agent generation is in queue. A spokesperson for Crypto.com confirmed that the platform is still under development, stating that ai.com continues to advance in stealth mode and will provide more details when it is officially released to the public.The AI agents of ai.com are positioned beyond financial scenarios. In a statement released in February, it was announced that personal agents could arrange work, send messages, operate across applications, and build projects, and it also claimed that agents could independently develop missing capabilities and share improvements within the network. Meanwhile, competitors have launched AI assistants for more specific tasks: Robinhood announced on Tuesday that it could execute automated trading within the app using AI agents, Kraken launched AI financial tools in July, and Bitget introduced the AI trading assistant GetAgent in June. Anthropic introduced computer use in Claude Cowork in March, and OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work in July.During this period, Crypto.com continues to invest in AI business.

According to a report by Fabien Arnaud from the French media Midi Libre, a resident in Saint-Jean-de-Védas near Montpellier, France, was the victim of a home invasion and extortion related to cryptocurrency. The police acted quickly after the incident and have arrested three suspects.It is reported that the victim had previously encountered a similar violent extortion related to cryptocurrency on April 11 of this year.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Grayscale Chainlink ETF purchased and received 159,500 LINK from Coinbase Prime 5 hours ago, worth 2.36 million dollars.This ETF has accumulated at least 629,100 LINK this month, worth 8.37 million dollars.

Aztec Network developer Aztec Labs has relaunched the self-custody wallet zk.money, which can hide payment amounts, balances, and recipient information through the Aztec Network, and supports transfers via readable names or links. Users can deposit DAI, USDC, or USDT from Ethereum, where USDC and USDT will be converted to DAI.Deposit records can still be publicly tracked, while subsequent transaction activities remain private. The early Alpha version stipulates that single deposits, payments, and withdrawals are all below $2,500 and screens addresses according to sanction policies. The software has not yet completed a comprehensive audit and carries security risks.

According to CoinDesk, Zcash developers are integrating part of the proposed scaling upgrade code, Tachyon, into the software already in use to prepare for a large number of privacy transactions in the future. This component is named Udon, originally developed as part of Project Tachyon.According to Sean Bowe, the head of Project Tachyon, Udon was released on Monday to Zakura Common, which is a cryptographic library shared by Zakura and other Zcash projects. Common is responsible for handling some of the heavy mathematical computations behind creating and verifying privacy transactions, with Zakura being jointly developed by Bowe's team and Dev Ojha's Valar Group.Zcash wallets need to prove the validity of a privacy payment without disclosing the payer, payee, or amount, and the computers running the network subsequently verify that proof. According to CoinDesk's report in August, previous improvements to Common have reduced the time to create a privacy transaction from over 3 seconds to under 200 milliseconds in some tests.If privacy payments become more common, these computers will need to handle more data. Udon brings some of the computational requirements for the proposed scaling upgrade of Tachyon into Common, allowing developers to continue building on the already accelerated code. Udon has been released as software, but the upgrade has not yet been activated on Zcash.Bowe and Ojha's long-term goal is to exceed 50,000 payments per second. At this rate, they estimate that current cryptography will allow each Zcash node to receive over 500 MB of data per second.

WEEX Exchange Announcement: The "Daily Gifts, Live Drawings, Trade to Win iPhone Duo" trading competition successfully concluded on September 27, and an online award ceremony will be held on September 29 at 19:00 (UTC+8), where the final rankings and reward distribution arrangements will be announced live.During the live broadcast, multiple rounds of lucky draws will also be held, with prizes including 4 × 4 Apple Watch Ultra, 5 × 5 Apple AirPods, and WEEX VIP experience cards.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), Kanye West withdrew 1,445 ETH from Aave 1 hour ago and subsequently deposited it into Binance, worth approximately 3.91 million dollars.This is the first deposit operation in 11 months since the peak of the last bull market in October 2025. Currently, he still holds on-chain crypto assets worth approximately 26.7 million dollars.

User @neillee99 posted that the approximately 50 BTC held in Solv Protocol cannot be redeemed normally. The user stated that on July 8, 2026, they withdrew about 50 BTC from Binance, which was converted into SolvBTC and BTC+, aiming to earn about 3% annual yield by holding BTC+, without engaging in complex transactions.The user claimed that after the deposit, the minting and redemption functions of BTC+ suddenly paused. On July 13, a security incident occurred with BTC+, and they inquired in the official community on July 18 and July 20, but received no effective response. On July 22, Solv Protocol publicly disclosed the incident and stated that user assets were not harmed. On July 31, the project team announced the restoration of related functions, and staff informed that redemption could be initiated, but their address remained restricted, and the approximately 50 BTC corresponding assets could not be redeemed.The user stated that since July 31, they have continuously communicated through the official Discord, Telegram, and email, submitting materials such as proof of funds, transaction records, and wallet control. There have been about 60 emails exchanged between both parties, with about 50 sent by them. After contacting relevant personnel in September, they still did not receive an effective response. Their request is to lift the restrictions and restore normal redemption, while also stating that they initially came into contact with BTC+ through the BTC earnings-related page of Binance Web3 Wallet, and calling on Solv Protocol, Venus Protocol, and relevant investors and ecosystem parties to pay attention to the progress of the handling.

HashKey, a digital asset financial services group, is evaluating more acquisition targets, strategic investment opportunities, and potential collaborations in Asia and the Middle East.Eric Zhu, Chief Financial Officer of HashKey, stated in an interview with Mergermarket that capital deployment over the next 12 to 24 months will focus on transactions and liquidity, custody, clearing and settlement, payments, and tokenization, with priority markets including Singapore and Southeast Asia, Japan, and the Middle East. HashKey is evolving from a single trading platform into a comprehensive provider of digital asset and financial services infrastructure.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain whale sold 25,001 ZEC, worth 37.84 million dollars.This whale purchased these ZEC two months ago at an average price of 425 dollars, making a profit of over 27 million dollars.

The fee-sharing platform Paid announced that its web application portal is now online. Users can claim eligible new fees, and the related assets will be distributed according to the quoted assets corresponding to the fees, which are mostly SOL.Paid stated that other claiming methods will be introduced later, including through private messages or tagging the official account in posts. X Money payments are still suspended, and the recovery time will be notified separately; users' historical balances will be retained independently, and the team is developing a separate claiming plan for this portion of the balance, hoping to restore X Money payments in the future.