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According to a notice from the U.S. Department of Justice, the Department's Fraud Center Strike Force, in coordination with the Department of the Treasury, took coordinated law enforcement action against Xinbi Guarantee, seizing and restricting the disposal of over 52 million dollars in cryptocurrency in a single day, bringing the total assets restricted by the task force to approximately 938 million dollars. Tether provided proactive assistance in this investigation.The Department of Justice alleges that Xinbi is an illegal scam service market primarily operating through Telegram, providing customized investment scam websites, money laundering services, and recruiting victims of human trafficking to work in scam parks in Southeast Asia. Law enforcement has seized its Telegram channel and two cryptocurrency wallets holding approximately 12 million dollars, and restricted the disposal of an additional 47 related wallets.At the same time, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Xinbi as a significant transnational criminal organization and sanctioned two additional entities that support it. The task force also assisted Madagascar in shutting down 13 scam parks operated by Chinese criminal groups, processing over 3,200 electronic devices, and local authorities arrested nearly 400 people.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched perpetual contracts for 4 stocks: FCX (Freeport-McMoRan), BHP (BHP Group), RIO (Rio Tinto), and VALE (Vale S.A.).The above contracts are settled in USDT, support up to 20 times leverage, and are available for trading 24/7. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 310 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

Bonk Guy fiercely criticized the token project related to Hunter Biden's "LAPTOP," stating that after further observation of the situation following the token's launch, he believes the project clearly exhibits speculative behavior of "wanting to extract profits while knowing very little about the crypto industry."Bonk Guy particularly questioned the fully diluted valuation (FDV) of up to $100 billion after the token's launch, bluntly stating that this valuation is "absurd to the extreme," and questioned why Hunter Biden himself would become the narrative core of the crypto market. He pointed out that the public's attention on Hunter Biden largely stems from the numerous controversies he sparked during his father Joe Biden's presidency, while the Biden administration has generally taken a relatively tough regulatory stance on the crypto industry.Finally, Bonk Guy warned that investors buying the token at the current valuation face extremely high risks, stating that "anyone who buys it deserves to lose 100% of their funds."

According to Fortune, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency crime tracking company TRM Labs completed a $70 million Series C funding round in September 2025, achieving a valuation of $1 billion. Just six months later, it received additional investment from existing investors, doubling its valuation to $2 billion.CEO Esteban Castano stated that the company's mission has expanded from blockchain forensics to a broader mapping of cybercrime, with AI becoming a second growth engine rather than a transformation, while the core cryptocurrency business remains strong. The company is set to launch a new investigation platform specifically targeting AI-driven deepfake scams, extortion related to pornography, and child sexual abuse crimes.Castano noted that the widespread adoption of cryptocurrency has made it possible to comprehensively map crime networks, and the company is expected to reach a $100 million annual recurring revenue milestone in the coming weeks. Currently, it has about 500 employees and has offices in London, Singapore, and Washington.

According to the official announcement, Gate has officially launched stock event contracts. The first phase includes four underlying assets: MU, SNDK, SK Hynix, and Yushu Technology, and opens a short-term bullish/bearish trading market with 5-minute and 15-minute cycles, without the need for leverage or margin. The cycle ends with automatic settlement, and early closing is also available. The trading times for each underlying asset align with the trading hours of US stocks, Korean stocks, and A-shares.This product supports trading on the web, and Gate App users need to update to version v8.36.0 or above. Users can enter Contracts - Event Contracts, select the stock category to view and trade related underlying assets. During the launch period, a special event with 60,000 USDT is also opened, including new user experience vouchers, first order rewards, as well as a 20,000 USDT check-in prize pool and a 20,000 USDT trading volume prize pool. Gate's event contracts cover both cryptocurrency assets and mainstream stocks.

Bitget has launched EURUSD, USDJPY, and GBPUSD perpetual contracts. The above contracts are settled in USDT, support up to 100 times leverage, and allow for 24/7 trading.

According to CoinMarketCap data, the RWA perpetual contract market, covering stocks, commodities, foreign exchange, and indices, has seen the total trading volume of centralized and decentralized trading platforms increase from $822 billion in May this year to $3.16 trillion three months later, approximately 3.84 times the previous amount. The market has a high concentration, with four platforms—Binance, Hyperliquid, OKX, and Bitget—accounting for 86% of the market share; stock perpetual contracts contribute over 60% of the trading volume.The monthly trading volume of the RWA perpetual contract market continues to reach new highs and is becoming a new source of business growth for leading platforms.

On-chain investigator ZachXBT posted on X accusing user "Mr Austin Fine" (account "@xmrfine") of exchanging the stolen cryptocurrency assets of victim Malone for luxury goods in exchange for fees, stating that he "may be a whistleblower." ZachXBT indicated that until the victim is compensated, he will consider him "disassociated," which will negatively impact all current and future brand collaborations.ZachXBT later added that he has traced part of the funds on-chain flowing through Monero to purchase cars from the luxury car dealer TBTFW in Los Angeles.

CoinGecko stated in its latest RWA report that the pre-market for synthetic IPOs has begun to serve as an effective valuation indicator for traditional IPOs. On-chain perpetual contracts can provide continuous price discovery and market sentiment anchors for popular unlisted companies before the official opening of exchanges.The report uses SpaceX and Changxin Storage (CXMT) as examples, noting that before SpaceX's listing, the prices of perpetual contracts across platforms fluctuated between $158 and $170, gradually converging to around $157.40; when its first transaction price on Nasdaq landed at $150.05, the deviation was about 4.9%. The deviation between the perpetual contract price before CXMT's listing and the actual opening price was also about 4.6%.CoinGecko believes that in the absence of real spot stocks as immediate arbitrage anchors, traders will still form relatively concentrated quotes around valuation, listing popularity, and future liquidity. On-chain Pre-IPO perpetual contracts will thus become an important reference price before the traditional order book opens, providing global investors with a channel to express long and short expectations 24 hours a day.

According to The Block, Hyperliquid's total open interest (OI) reached $14.3 billion on Sunday, close to the level before the crash on October 10, 2025. On that day, Hyperliquid's OI dropped by about 56% in a single day, from $14.7 billion to $6.5 billion. The subsequent recovery occurred in two phases: HIP-3 increased its share of total OI from 18% to over 34% between March and August, with August HIP-3 OI setting a record of over $4.44 billion; however, in the past month, total OI increased by $3.57 billion, while HIP-3 OI decreased by $119 million, with its share dropping from 34% to 25%. The two catalysts driving growth include: Coinbase began directing Base App users to Hyperliquid in mid-August, and President Trump stated that the CFTC is working to bring Hyperliquid to the U.S. in a compliant manner. Notably, HIP-3 builders can retain up to half of the trading fees in the deployed market, which has impacted Hyperliquid's financial condition—its total revenue dropped from a peak of $457 million in Q3 2025 to $202 million in Q2 2026. Core crypto perpetual contracts allocate about 97% of fees to HYPE buybacks, so the OI returning to core business is far more valuable to HYPE than the OI generated through builders.

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit announced the launch of USDT-settled forex perpetual contracts, covering three major currency pairs: Euro/USD, Pound/USD, and Dollar/Yen, supporting up to 100x leverage, and offering 24/7 trading. This product belongs to Bybit's TradFi perpetual contract series, which has included over 200 assets since its launch in April this year, covering stocks, commodities, ETFs, and pre-IPO companies. According to data from the Bank for International Settlements, the global forex market's average daily over-the-counter trading volume reached $9.6 trillion in April 2025, making it the largest and most liquid financial market in the world. Bybit is not the first cryptocurrency exchange to venture into forex perpetual contracts; Kraken launched five forex perpetual contracts with up to 50x leverage in April 2025, while BitMEX launched six similar products with up to 100x leverage in April 2026.

According to the official announcement, Bitget's perpetual stock contract has been launched for BYD.The contract is settled in USDT, supports up to 20 times leverage, and allows trading 24/7. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 306 perpetual stock contract underlying assets.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Robinhood has reached an agreement with Crypto.com, and Robinhood will add yes-or-no event contracts from Crypto.com's prediction market business to its trading platform.At the same time, Robinhood will acquire a minority stake in Crypto.com and its prediction market business.

According to Gate market data, Oracle's stock rose 4.49% in pre-market trading, currently reported at $166.91.

On September 8, South Korean semiconductor concept stocks showed mixed performance, with related asset markets remaining active. According to data from the Gate platform, SK Hynix (000660) is currently priced at $1,332.38, with a 24-hour increase of 0.56%; Samsung Electronics (005930) is currently priced at $200.26, with a 24-hour decrease of 0.18%.According to CoinGlass data, both SK Hynix and Samsung have high trading activity in the contract market. Among them, trading of related stock derivatives on Gate is active: the SKHX contract has a position amount of nearly $158 million, ranking second across the network, with a 24-hour trading volume of nearly $177 million; the Samsung contract has a position amount of $9.51 million, with a 24-hour trading volume of $15.8 million, both ranking second across the network.

The Hashgraph Group, in collaboration with Merck and with consulting and implementation support from PwC Germany, is piloting a cocoa traceability solution. This solution combines Merck's M-Trust physical authentication technology with the TrackTrace digital product passport platform based on the Hedera network, aiming to verify the origin, authenticity, quality, recall requirements, and compliance data of cocoa from farm to consumer.Cocoa is one of the seven commodities covered by the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). According to the rescheduled arrangement reached in December 2025, large operators and traders must fulfill their obligations starting from December 30, 2026, while micro and small operators will be subject to this from June 30, 2027. The solution also aligns with the direction of promoting digital product passports under the EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR); however, food and feed are currently explicitly excluded from the scope of the ESPR, and for cocoa, EUDR due diligence remains a recent binding requirement.Partners indicate that this framework is not limited to cocoa and can be expanded to areas such as pharmaceuticals, luxury goods, and industrial components in the future. Husen Kapasi, head of PwC Germany's enterprise blockchain business, pointed out that this solution has verifiability and can play a key role in food recalls or compliance investigations.

According to Fractal Bitcoin's latest tweet, Fractal Bitcoin completed its first halving at block height 2,100,000, and the FIP-102 proposal was officially activated. According to the official announcement, network nodes and indexing services operated smoothly after the halving.This upgrade marks the official activation of the FIP-102 proposal, and the distribution of FB will expand from the Fractal network to the Bitcoin mainnet, providing a direct path for a broader Bitcoin user base to access FB. After the activation of FIP-102, the actual block reward on the Fractal side further decreases to 6.25 FB, with an additional 6.25 FB issuance budget being redirected to the Bitcoin mainnet. FIP-102 does not increase the total supply of FB, and the block rewards for joint mining, free mining, and indexing mining on the Fractal side will still be distributed at a ratio of 1:1:1. The specific distribution mechanism for the Bitcoin mainnet will be clarified in the subsequent FIP-103, with the goal of launching in the first quarter of 2027.