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The co-founder of the Bitcoin financial asset protocol Solv Protocol, Meng Yan, stated that he has withdrawn from the daily operations of Solv and did not participate in the BTC+ business, and was unaware of the situation at the time. A user claiming to be the party involved later contacted him, asking him to communicate with the business team. Meng Yan mentioned that Solv had announced a BTC+ security incident in July, where the deposit of 50 BTC and subsequent operations constituted important conditions exploited by the attack path; the attack occurred just three days after the related operations, and Solv promptly identified and prevented it, protecting BTC+ user funds.Meng Yan stated that the above situation alone cannot prove a direct correlation between the two matters, but it is sufficient to trigger a higher-level security review. Therefore, risk control protected the funds in question and required the user to explain the situation. He noted that during the review, Solv never required the user to undergo any form of KYC, nor did it require ordinary BTC+ users to use real names; the review focused on whether the identity and account explanations submitted by the user were consistent, whether the related accounts were controlled by the user, and whether the explanations for key operations could correspond with objective records. Risk control feedback indicated that the user had used multiple different names and online identities, and several key factual statements were inconsistent.Meng Yan provided an example, stating that the user explained that on July 18, they saw a similar transaction by someone else, but the verification showed that the transaction occurred on July 20; the user later claimed they acted after seeing related content on the Solv official website, but the page at that time did not contain the content they referred to. He stated that risk control cannot lift security restrictions before eliminating doubts and has never refused to resolve issues through formal channels such as judicial procedures. In the section marked as personal thoughts, he mentioned that to his knowledge, the asset remains intact, can be traced on-chain, and has not been transferred, mortgaged, or disposed of.

U.S. Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren questioned Treasury Secretary Scott Bansen about the Treasury's intervention measures in the U.S. Treasury bond market. Warren requested clarification on how funding for Treasury bond repurchases is provided by reducing cash balances and inquired about the impact of rising long-term U.S. Treasury yields on consumer financing costs.

Bitcoin early contributor and cypherpunk Amir Taaki stated on X that he was deported after being questioned by Singapore police for 6 hours about "the work I am engaged in." The British-Iranian programmer claims that he has been in trouble with several countries since he went to Syria to fight alongside the Kurdish People's Protection Units years ago.Taaki mentioned that in the past year alone, he has been deported from Argentina and Mexico, and detained in Serbia and Japan. He stated that every time he encounters such situations, he asks for the reasons, but the authorities always claim it is just a random check, never providing specific reasons for his detention or questioning. "I am on a list, but I can't find any information about which country is sanctioning me."Taaki has long focused on Bitcoin privacy, being one of the first to implement CoinJoin and stealth addresses, creating libbitcoin, founding the UK's first Bitcoin exchange, and writing BIP 0001, which established the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal process. He is currently developing the crypto privacy protocol DarkFi.

Wall Street IPO activity has slowed, with investors showing weak demand for new stock issuances, and the market is concerned about overvaluation. The delayed listings of Anthropic and OpenAI have dampened sentiment in the U.S. equity capital markets.Data from BCA Research shows that the average stock price of technology companies that went public this year has dropped by about 23%, exacerbating concerns about high trading valuations.

ZachXBT posted on platform X that UPay may allow the sanctioned illegal market Xinbi to issue its Visa crypto card and requested UPay to clarify the situation.ZachXBT stated that Xinbi is mainly involved in pig butchering scams, fraud, money laundering, and human trafficking.

According to Reuters, citing informed sources, EU countries discussed the U.S. request to release diesel stocks and the issue of the U.S. threatening to impose a diesel export ban during a meeting on Friday. The U.S. has requested that major European countries release 800,000 tons of diesel within six months.

According to Cointelegraph, the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) released a research report questioning the process by which MSCI established its latest index rules. MSCI had previously listed companies such as Strategy and Metaplanet as potential "non-operating companies," which could lead to their removal from the index.MSCI first proposed excluding digital asset treasury companies from global indices in 2025, but after facing opposition, it shelved the plan in January and opted for a broader review of "non-operating companies." On August 3, MSCI put forward a broader proposal that could still result in the exclusion of Strategy and Metaplanet. In a report titled "The Invisible Committee of Wall Street," BPI pointed out that metadata shows the presentation MSCI consulted is stored in an internal folder specifically for digital asset treasury companies.According to the proposal, MSCI will first assess whether a company has a significant amount of operational assets before applying five additional financial tests. Its own simulations indicate that Strategy, Metaplanet, and uranium investment company Yellow Cake would be excluded. In 2025, JPMorgan analysts estimated that if Strategy were excluded, it could face an outflow of approximately $2.8 billion. BPI also questioned MSCI's reliance on "operational assets," stating that the term is not a standardized balance sheet category under U.S. GAAP or IFRS. MSCI concluded its opinion collection on September 30 and is expected to announce results on or before October 16, with related changes set to take effect during the index review in November 2026.

According to The Block citing the Financial Times, EU regulators are questioning Binance's use of legal exemptions to continue providing services to EU customers after failing to obtain a MiCA license.Binance stated that the company complies with applicable regulatory requirements in the jurisdictions where it operates and is working towards obtaining MiCA authorization.

During an event at the White House, AI giants like Nvidia and Meta questioned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's radical statements on AI risks. Amodei responded that the industry needs to accurately describe the capabilities and potential risks of AI models.This discussion took place during a meeting between Trump and AI company executives, focusing on promoting industry self-regulation mechanisms.

ITC Crypto founder Benjamin Cowen published a post questioning the bearish outlook for Bitcoin in Q4, stating that from a technical perspective, the current market trend is favorable for bulls. Currently, the price of BTC is less than 1% away from the May peak, making it difficult to draw conclusions about the future market before entering the fourth quarter.

According to a report by Reuters on September 28, Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier requested a judge on Monday to prohibit OpenAI from developing new artificial intelligence models without external oversight. This request is part of the state's lawsuit accusing OpenAI of harming children. Uthmeier also asked the court to order OpenAI to prohibit minors from using ChatGPT and to prevent the company from attributing human characteristics to the chat platform.Florida sued OpenAI in June, accusing it of misrepresenting the safety of ChatGPT, claiming that the platform provided information to school shooters, offered guidance on self-harm, and made young users addicted. The lawsuit was triggered by a shooting incident at a university in Tallahassee last year, as well as several other incidents in other states where it was alleged that ChatGPT provided information to individuals who later committed acts of violence. Uthmeier, a Republican, is also the first state attorney general to sue OpenAI over its impact on young users, and the company is facing related lawsuits filed by individuals and families.OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri stated that the company has paused training its most powerful models and will not resume until additional safety measures are implemented, expressing a willingness to work with Florida and other states to promote pragmatic policies applicable across the industry. The company denies responsibility in these cases, stating that the chatbot provides information widely available online and continuously updates its safety tools. The request also cited recent comments from a former OpenAI employee and a current board member, stating that the development of artificial intelligence could lead to the end of humanity and must be slowed down.

Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet stated that he disagrees with the view that "only about 30% of BTC faces quantum computing risks, while the remaining approximately 70% is secure due to public key hashing."Glassnode data shows that currently about 30.2% of BTC has exposed spending public keys on-chain, but Guillemet pointed out that this only reflects the static state on-chain; unexposed public keys may still exist in xpub, devices, PSBT, logs, or backups; and once a BTC transaction is initiated, the public key will be revealed before the transaction is confirmed.Guillemet cited research from Google Quantum AI stating that under currently non-existent high-speed quantum computer models, attacks on secp256k1 could be completed in about 9 minutes. Therefore, simply hiding public keys cannot solve the quantum risk, and Bitcoin will ultimately need to migrate to post-quantum cryptography.

A post published by the official X account of the decentralized lending protocol Morpho stated that most curator businesses cannot sustain their operations solely through treasury fees, and their business model actually relies on private distribution agreements. The post has since been deleted.In response to this matter, Aave founder Stani Kulechov stated that this is the most pessimistic statement for MORPHO holders. Morpho CEO Paul Frambot responded that the post was published by a third-party artificial intelligence marketing tool.Morpho is a decentralized lending protocol operating on networks such as Ethereum, matching borrowers and lenders through a treasury and curator mechanism while managing funds. The curator business refers to a model where third-party institutions create and manage treasuries based on the Morpho protocol and generate income from related fees.

Bitget's Chinese region head, Xie Jiayin, issued a statement indicating that Bitget will ensure users can withdraw funds in an orderly manner in a sufficiently secure environment. Thank you all for your patience. Please understand that due to the different methods of theft, in order to absolutely eliminate all potential risks, the handling of this case is also different from others.Xie Jiayin also stated that he will have a live broadcast with Bitget CEO Gracy Chen at 3:30 PM on Monday (30 minutes before the withdrawal starts) to discuss this security incident and answer questions raised by the community.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "LoL: FlyQuest vs Shopify Rebellion - LCS Playoffs," the "FlyQuest" option in the sub-market "Game 3 Winner" has experienced significant fluctuations in winning probability, soaring from 67% an hour ago to the current 91.5% (a fluctuation of 24.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

The President of Finland had requested Elon Musk to expand the coverage of Starlink in Russia and the occupied areas to help Ukraine combat Russia's ballistic missile launchers.

The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it will repurchase up to $6 billion of longer-term government bonds on Thursday, which is three times the $2 billion limit announced in early August. The yield on 30-year U.S. Treasuries briefly rose to 5.38% during the session. In response to criticism of market intervention, Treasury Secretary Yellen defended that market prices deviate from equilibrium levels.The International Financial Association warned that this move does not address the structural issues of debt growth.

Uniswap team member Niko posted that after Robinhood Chain's recent large-scale innovations drove the market up, other chains have begun to replicate its ecological projects. Some KOLs and venture capital institutions continue to claim that Robinhood Chain is in decline and are guiding users towards similar projects on other chains.Robinhood Chain's current daily trading volume still exceeds 1 billion dollars, and the trading scale of stock tokens is also growing.

U.S. Republican Senator and Wyoming Federal Senator Cynthia Lummis stated: The Democrats had previously requested that any cryptocurrency project raising more than $25 million from the public provide audited financial statements, and this requirement has been written into the bill.Lummis noted that the Democrats voted against the transparency they had requested. Lummis has served as a Federal Senator from Wyoming since 2021, having previously served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 2009 to 2017.