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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will advocate for the establishment of artificial intelligence standards in a speech at the United Nations.

Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) announced a group-level collaboration with Bitpanda to expand its cryptocurrency asset layout. According to a joint announcement released by both parties on Wednesday, Bitpanda Enterprise will provide digital asset infrastructure for member banks within the RBI network to launch cryptocurrency services, potentially covering around 18 million customers. The announcement stated that each member bank will decide on the specific service content and launch pace based on local market conditions and regulatory requirements.RBI CEO Michael Höllerer stated that the demand for cryptocurrency assets in the markets where the group operates is continuously growing, thus the decision to collaborate with Bitpanda to address this. He mentioned that as a customer-centric bank, RBI is committed to meeting customer needs in the best possible way. Bitpanda indicated to Cointelegraph that this promotion is still in the early stages and will be gradually advanced based on local market and regulatory requirements, with further details to be announced once each market is confirmed.This collaboration builds on the cryptocurrency integration launched in 2024 with Raiffeisenlandesbank Niederösterreich-Wien in Austria. Bitpanda has obtained authorization under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) and stated that it is regularly communicating with banks and financial institutions exploring cryptocurrency brokerage services, but declined to comment on ongoing or confidential negotiations.

The CEO of Apple stated that the new Mac mini and Mac Studio have significantly improved performance, enhancing the AI experience tremendously.

The privacy blockchain project Zcash plans to implement the NU7 upgrade, which will stop accepting the fourth version of transactions that spend funds from the Sprout pool after the upgrade. If ZEC is not transferred out before the upgrade, holders may lose the ability to spend the related funds. This proposal will not destroy the Sprout pool funds, and access may be restored in the future, but the proposal warns that funds left in the pool may also become permanently unspendable.Zcash co-founder Zooko Wilcox has forwarded the relevant reminder. The NU7 upgrade is scheduled to activate on the testnet on October 6, and Zcash expects to decide on October 20 whether to activate it on the mainnet as planned on November 5. The upgrade will also reduce the target block time from 75 seconds to 25 seconds and maintain the network halving cycle.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin (@EmberCN), a whale/institution that held a position for four and a half years transferred all 8,250 ETH to Coinhako exchange to take profit one hour ago.This address built its position at the beginning of 2022 through withdrawals and on-chain purchases via Binance, with an average price of about $2,202. Today, it sold everything at $2,758, realizing a profit of about $4.58 million during the holding period, with an increase of about 25%.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost pointed out that although the price of Bitcoin is rising, sustained buying pressure is still difficult to rebuild, and market signals are mixed. The cumulative spot demand over the past 30 days is -180,000 BTC, still negative, while futures demand is +54,000 BTC, still positive but slightly declining. The total average demand improved from -188,000 BTC to -126,000 BTC, narrowing the gap but still remaining in negative territory. Recently, there has been a divergence between price and total demand; Bitcoin's price has risen, but total demand has not turned positive, indicating that the increase is more driven by reduced selling pressure rather than strong buying.Looking at different sectors, the demand recovery is not uniform. For institutions, the geopolitical and macro environment is poor, but the Coinbase Premium, weighted by trading volume, has briefly turned positive, indicating that U.S. spot prices occasionally have a premium over other markets, and institutional selling pressure has significantly eased. ETFs have seen the biggest change in this round, with demand completely reversing compared to this summer, having recently net purchased about 70,000 BTC. The cumulative net inflow for 2026 is still about -17,000 BTC, but it is close to turning positive. In terms of trading platforms, the entire month of September has been characterized by net outflows, leaning towards accumulation rather than distribution. Bitcoin leaving trading platforms usually means that short-term selling pressure is lighter. Analyst Darkfost summarized that the current price increase is not due to enhanced buying pressure, but rather because investors have not continued to increase selling pressure at higher price levels, and the market structure remains fragile.

Bitget has launched the 5th phase of its U.S. stock bottom-fishing interest-earning product FCN (Fixed Coupon Note). This phase of the product has a term of 1 month, with underlying assets and reference APR including: RKLB (20% discount) 16%--20.31%, TSLA (15% discount) 8%--10.44%, MSTR (25% discount) 12%--15.29%. The fundraising for this product ends on September 24 at 16:00 (UTC+8), and the product quota is limited, available on a first-come, first-served basis.It is reported that Bitget FCN (Fixed Coupon Note) is a type of structured financial product linked to a single U.S. stock rToken. Users can subscribe using USDT and choose their target U.S. stock, determining the purchase execution price of the current product based on the closing price of the U.S. stock on the fundraising end date * discount rate. Upon maturity, if the observation price is not lower than the execution price, the USDT principal and fixed interest will be returned; if it is lower than the execution price, the principal will be converted into the corresponding rToken at the execution price, while still receiving fixed interest.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain whale bought 788,000 UNI at a price of $6.26 six days ago, worth $4.93 million, and later sold it at a price of $8.85.

Russian Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov stated that Russia will promote the establishment of a transparent and legal cryptocurrency market. The country has about 20 million cryptocurrency users, with a total investment of approximately 3.7 trillion rubles, and a daily trading volume of about 50 billion rubles.

According to CCTV Finance, the global trade volume of AI-related products will reach 4.18 trillion USD by 2025, a year-on-year increase of 21.9%. With the rapid evolution of artificial intelligence and Agent capabilities, a batch of "portable" AI hardware is accelerating its entry into the consumer market.At the exhibition hall of the Yunqi Conference in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, many AI hardware products, from AI glasses to user-assembled AI DIY devices, no longer solely rely on smartphones. Instead, they synchronize voice, image, and other information around the user in real-time to the Agent, which autonomously breaks down tasks and completes execution. Global investment in AI infrastructure continues to increase, and Chinese technology companies are also making the latest arrangements around AI hardware, large models, and underlying computing power.

The ongoing X-Agent AI MCP Hackathon has received nearly 40 projects, with some public works turning work decisions, capital management, and inter-machine trading into runnable products. X-Agent introduces three cases: BountyProof checks whether tasks are open, claimed, have relevant submissions, and the authenticity of rewards before the Agent accepts GitHub bounty tasks, with the core question being "Is this work worth doing?"Abstain empowers the Agent with the "do not trade" capability, returning execution, abandonment, or no trade based on preset rules before order execution. sumplus helps the Agent choose suitable model service solutions based on task context, output scale, model capability, and invocation costs, making the Agent an autonomous buyer of models, computing power, data, and API services.The three projects correspond to the foundational economic behaviors of the Agent: accepting work, utilizing funds, and purchasing services, pointing to work, capital, and trading primitives. X-Agent believes that a true Agent economy requires a complete cycle of "building, deploying, operating, discovering, invoking, paying, earning revenue, and distributing," positioning itself as the application layer of the Agent economy. This hackathon is still in the review stage, and the mentioned projects are only for public case reference, not representing shortlisted or award results.

According to the token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, FLock (FLOCK) will unlock approximately 16.804 million tokens at 0:00 Beijing time on September 30, worth about 5.65 million USD.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, the multi-signature associated address of WLD (Worldcoin) has deposited 42.37 million WLD to Binance in the past 8 hours, worth approximately 19.59 million USD.This is the first time this address has deposited to the exchange in 5 months, and after this deposit, the address has fully liquidated its holdings.

According to statistics from Gaogong Robotics, in August of this year, there were a total of 168 winning projects disclosed in domestic bidding related to embodied intelligent robots, with a total amount of approximately 550 million yuan. Among them, products from Yushu Technology appeared in 55 procurement orders and 89 bids, accounting for about one-third, and ranked first in the number of winning bids with 136 medium/full-size humanoid and quadruped robots.In terms of amount, there were only 7 orders at the ten million yuan level, accounting for about 4%. The largest single order was for the "Shanxi Taichu Embodied Intelligent Innovation R&D Center Integrated Technology Operation Service Provider Project," amounting to 122 million yuan, used for the construction of a data collection and training center. In the overall orders, the amount for the data collection training center accounted for about 60%, while the projects flowing into scientific research and education accounted for nearly 80%. Projects directed towards real scenarios such as power inspection, industrial inspection, cultural tourism commercial use, and firefighting accounted for less than 10%.

According to Coinbase Markets, approximately $1.81 billion worth of BTC and ETH options will expire this Friday, with the current overall put/call ratio for BTC options at 0.66 and the near 24-hour trading volume put/call at 0.37; the open interest put/call for ETH options is at 0.61, and the near 24-hour trading volume put/call is at 0.55.The agency stated that the positions for both BTC and ETH options have clearly leaned bullish, and recent trading has further tilted towards calls, especially for BTC, where the open interest for BTC call options is mainly concentrated at strike prices of $90,000 and $100,000, while the call interest for ETH is distributed in the $3,000 to $4,000 range.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the DEED token on the Robinhood Chain is suspected to have experienced a rug pull. 110 associated wallets once controlled about 86% of the token supply and withdrew approximately $700,000; the creator also collected fees of 68.5 Ethereum (ETH), worth about $188,900.The market capitalization of DEED has dropped from a peak of $4.23 million to about $55,000, a decline of approximately 98.7%. The initial funds in the creator's wallet came from KuCoin.

The artificial intelligence research organization Epoch AI posted on X: AI is becoming cheaper at a faster rate than any other transformative technology in history. The cost has decreased by approximately 47% each quarter since 2023 at a given performance level.This speed is 4 times faster than DNA sequencing, 6 times faster than computing, 18 times faster than lithium batteries, and 54 times faster than electricity (as of 1973).

Onchain Lens reported that two associated wallets, possibly controlled by the same entity, have staked a total of 212,590 HYPE, worth approximately 20.49 million USD.One wallet staked 106,410 HYPE (about 10.25 million USD), while the other wallet staked 106,180 HYPE (about 10.24 million USD). The relevant addresses are 0x8bddfed1ec21bde1ee812a2a74c07dad69f76aec and 0x1ca9e572e5000e825e2e152f6ec5c511404d5120.

a16z, in collaboration with the DeFi Education Fund, submitted a joint proposal to SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, proposing the establishment of safe harbor rules and the creation of a "rebuttable presumption," meaning that decentralized exchange (DEX) protocols and their front-end interfaces do not fall under the definition of "exchanges" as defined by the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.On the same day, a16z also submitted a second letter urging the SEC to establish a registration system for centralized cryptocurrency trading platforms, similar to the alternative trading system (ATS) rules from 1998. Both letters were dated September 14, and three days later, the SEC issued an "Innovation Exemption" for tokenized stock trading venues.

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, stated that he is working to restore smooth oil transportation in the Strait of Hormuz.