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Cryptocurrency exchange operators Bullish, Equiniti, Alpaca, Apex Fintech Solutions, and Drivewealth established the Issuer Sponsored Token Coalition on September 24, promoting a direct link between on-chain tokens and the official shareholder register of listed companies.The coalition aims to grant token holders voting rights, dividends, stock splits, and other corporate action rights, and will study the interoperability of technical standards, settlement, custody, and traditional market infrastructure with blockchain. Members plan to meet with listed company issuers at the New York Stock Exchange on October 27.

Revoke.cash stated that Limit Break's payment processor has a known vulnerability, and users who traded NFTs on the Magic Eden Ethereum marketplace may still retain relevant contract authorizations.The vulnerability has been addressed by white hat security researcher 0xQuit. Currently, NFT assets are expected to be unaffected, but users should still check and revoke affected authorizations to reduce subsequent risks.

According to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Immutable X (IMX) will unlock approximately 9.62 million tokens at 8:00 AM Beijing time on October 3, with a value of about 1.54 million USD.

The Sui ecosystem decentralized finance protocol AlphaFi announced the initiation of an orderly shutdown procedure. It has now entered maintenance mode, halting new deposits and loans. Existing users can still close positions and withdraw assets.Previously, some loan positions in AlphaLend that used ALPHA as collateral experienced severe under-collateralization, leading to bad debts for the protocol. Currently, the related bad debts have been fully covered, and the protocol is solvent, ensuring user fund safety. AlphaFi will continue to cooperate with the Sui Foundation to investigate and recover related debts, and will officially exit the Sui ecosystem after the last user completes their withdrawal.

Chutianlong recently won the bid for a digital renminbi hardware wallet management system project from an operating organization. The full-stack platform output from hardware supply to issuance continues to enhance the full-link service capability.

Emilie Choi, President and Chief Operating Officer of Coinbase, stated that Coinbase is one of the first supporters of the "Trump Account" plan. Faryar Shirzad, Chief Policy Officer of Coinbase, mentioned that the company has submitted opinions to the Internal Revenue Service regarding the implementation and expansion of the account, suggesting that beneficiaries be allowed to invest in a wide range of traded digital assets or gain exposure to digital assets through funds, aligning the scope of qualified investments with the asset classes that traditional IRAs can invest in. Coinbase believes that broader and product-neutral rules will help expand choices, promote competition, and provide more opportunities for young people in the United States to engage in diversified investments and wealth accumulation. The qualified investments proposed by the Internal Revenue Service in the growth phase are currently mainly limited to tracking a broad stock index of U.S. companies, unleveraged mutual funds or ETFs with an annual fee rate not exceeding 0.1%.

According to The Wall Street Journal, U.S. President Trump has rejected Iran's proposed seven-day ceasefire plan and is considering resuming bombings against Iran after the midterm elections in November.Trump is skeptical about whether Iran will meet its demands and has informed his aides that a new round of bombing operations may occur. The U.S. and Tehran are still negotiating through mediators, and Trump has no intention of lifting the maritime embargo.

The New Zealand Exchange O.G. Com has submitted an application to the CFTC to launch single stock perpetual futures, attempting to bring traditional stock leveraged trading into the DeFi space.

Meta's AI product Muse has been reported to have security vulnerabilities that could endanger user data and the safety of virtual environments. The company plans to enhance risk warnings.

The Circle Foundation announced two grants to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Food Programme (WFP) to explore the application of digital payments and digital financial infrastructure in humanitarian aid and development projects.The Circle Foundation stated that the relevant programs will study how to utilize digital payments and regulated payment-type stablecoins to disburse funds to aid recipients more quickly, transparently, and at a lower cost.For the UNDP, the grant will be used to establish and operate a "Digital Asset Innovation Pool," helping country offices expand previous digital payment pilot projects conducted in Syria, Haiti, Guatemala, and Gambia from single projects to regular project execution, and provide support such as regulation, operations, and beneficiary protection; this mechanism will not replace traditional banking channels but will serve as a complementary option outside the existing payment system.For the WFP, the grant will support the establishment of governance, risk management, funding, reconciliation systems, and compliance tools necessary for stablecoin payments, and integrate local fintech and mobile payment services. Over the next three years, the WFP plans to test 2 to 3 payment channels connecting its payment system with local financial service providers and markets to assess the performance of stablecoin payments in terms of efficiency, transparency, and resilience.

Bitget TradFi Chief Growth Officer Xie Jiayin issued an update on the platform's security incident, stating that the withdrawal time will be announced before noon tomorrow. The security team has identified the hacker's attack path and methods, and has grasped the details of how the attacker bypassed security measures, coming very close to tracing the source of the attack. The incident investigation by third-party security teams Mandiant and SlowMist is still ongoing, with a detailed report pending from the security team.On-chain tracking confirms that approximately $387.5 million has been transferred to the hacker's address, previously estimated at $351.6 million. This revision includes ZEC and TRX, and no other unauthorized transfers have been found. Xie Jiayin stated that the stolen funds at the platform level will be fully covered by the Bitget User Protection Fund, ensuring that user assets are not subject to any losses.Bitget has officially launched a fund recovery bounty program, offering a 5% bounty for voluntarily freezing the attacker’s funds and a 5% bounty for voluntarily recovering funds. The bounty also applies to assistance already provided. The platform has published the attacker's address, a real-time tracking dashboard, and a submission portal, with relevant information also available for submission through Bybit's Lazarus bounty platform.

According to CoinDesk, the stablecoin issuer Tether stated that its assets held in the licensed digital bank EQIBank in Dominica account for less than 0.034% of the group's total assets. Based on Tether's disclosed total group assets of $18.775 billion in June, its related exposure is approximately $64 million, but Tether did not disclose the specific amount.It was reported that EQIBank processes customer funds through the U.S. payment processor Capstone, which utilizes accounts at Wells Fargo and JPMorgan for fund transfers. U.S. prosecutors have seized funds related to Capstone's accounts and filed a civil forfeiture lawsuit, accusing it of making false representations about its business to the bank. EQIBank stated that approximately $89 million in funds have been seized, equivalent to about 80% of its monetary assets, which may expose it to liquidation risks.Previously, EQIBank provided banking services to Tether, including processing wire transfers related to the purchase and redemption of USDT. Tether stated that it is not aware of the actions related to Capstone as alleged by the U.S. Department of Justice.

Arkham disclosed that the Hyperliquid address "MK4" currently holds a long position in NEAR valued at approximately 29.7 million dollars, with an opening price of about 2.35 dollars, using 10x leverage, and currently has an unrealized profit of about 15.96 million dollars.Arkham stated that the cumulative profit of this address on Hyperliquid over the past 3 years has reached approximately 58 million dollars, and this address is suspected to belong to the X account @mk4_lul.

According to The Information, Tesla has increased the production of its Optimus humanoid robot by about 10 times in recent months.

Goldman Sachs expects that the five largest hyperscale cloud service providers in the United States will increase their spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure by 54% by 2027, reaching $1.2 trillion, exceeding Wall Street's expectations.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a certain smart money address (0x54e...a3F41) withdrew 133,000 VVV from Flowdesk 3 hours ago, worth 4.14 million dollars.This address allegedly took profits of 588,000 dollars two weeks ago and currently holds 233,337 VVV, worth 7.45 million dollars, with an unrealized profit of 2.128 million dollars calculated at the average withdrawal price of 22.78 dollars.

According to monitoring by Blockaid, Limit Break on Ethereum is currently facing ongoing attacks. The attackers are using Limit Break Payment Processor V2 to impersonate NFT holders and purchase authorized NFTs at a zero price. Currently, about 3 transactions have resulted in approximately 1.7 million dollars worth of NFTs being stolen.Blockaid reminds users who have authorized Payment Processor V2 as an NFT Operator to immediately revoke the relevant authorization. Simply canceling orders or Master Nonce will not lift this permission.

Analyst Darkfost stated that Bitcoin long-term holders (LTH) currently have an realized profit level of about 72%. Although they are in a profitable state, there is still a significant gap compared to previous market peaks.In comparison, in December 2024, LTH realized profits once approached 350%. Darkfost believes that long-term holders are currently in a relatively moderate profit-taking phase, similar to the levels during the last bear market, so most LTH may prefer to continue holding rather than cashing out on a large scale at this stage.

According to Caixin, poker master and seasoned cryptocurrency investor Hu Zheweng made significant bets during the three waves of cryptocurrency frenzy involving ICOs, algorithmic stablecoins, and AI tokens, but faced consecutive failures. Hu Zheweng claimed to have invested in the blockchain project Stratis, achieving a return of "over 1000 times."According to disclosed information, Hu Zheweng invested approximately 80 million USD in algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD (UST) and its sister token LUNA from May 2021 to May 2022, with the peak market value of his holdings exceeding 800 million USD, but the price of LUNA subsequently nearly dropped to zero.In addition, Hu Zheweng has filed a lawsuit in Chicago, USA against the globally renowned quantitative trading firm Jump Trading and its related companies and executives in the cryptocurrency business, seeking at least 500 million USD in damages. After experiencing Stox and Terra, Hu Zheweng has not left the cryptocurrency market; last January, he bet on a new project by a Chinese computer professor Zhang Yongfeng. Zhang Yongfeng entered the Computer Science Department of Tsinghua University in 2007 and is currently a tenured associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Rutgers University in the USA. He has been sued by Hu Zheweng on multiple charges including "securities fraud." It is reported that the tokens issued by the organization founded by Zhang Yongfeng, in which Hu Zheweng invested millions of dollars, have fallen over 99.6% from their peak in 2025.