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According to Business Insider, Oracle launched its second round of layoffs this year last week. A leaked document shows that 546 employees from its U.S. cloud infrastructure organization were laid off, accounting for about 7.6% of the listed 7,185 employees. The most affected positions include managers, engineers, software developers, and employees in the data center maintenance and service departments. The document states that the information was provided to comply with federal age discrimination laws. Oracle did not disclose the total number of layoffs last week and did not respond to requests for comment.Oracle previously revealed that it expects to reduce its workforce by 21,000 employees, a decrease of 13%, by May 31, 2026, with the total number of employees before the recent layoffs being 141,000. The cloud infrastructure department's revenue grew by 121% year-over-year in the most recent quarter. The document indicates that 57 software developer III positions were cut, with software development-related positions accounting for about 17% of the layoffs; the data center support services department laid off 41 people, including the department's vice president and two senior directors.A total of 128 positions containing the word "manager" were eliminated, accounting for about 23% of the layoffs, with project managers totaling 61 people. Most affected employees are over 40 years old, with about 16% being 60 years or older. Oracle is increasing its investment in AI data centers, expecting related expenditures to be between $90 billion and $95 billion this year.

According to The Wall Street Journal, traders on the prediction market platform Kalshi have executed nearly 1 million trades of nearly identical amounts in a single market since August, an unusual activity that has drawn the attention of federal regulators and traders. Kalshi stated that these trades represent normal activity, and the company does not disclose the identities of traders in its public data.The Wall Street Journal's analysis of publicly available trading data found that in recent weeks, more than one-third of trades in the Ethereum price speculation market consisted of rapid trades around the same order size of approximately $5,500. These rapid trades, all close to $5,500, occurred in a single Kalshi market, totaling about $5 billion.

Cosmos ecosystem DEX Astroport stated that the attack event that occurred on Neutron may have led to the theft of administrator privileges for the Astroport contract. Neutron has suspended chain operations for investigation.Astroport advises users to withdraw liquidity from all Astroport liquidity pools.

According to a report from the Public Security Bureau of Linwu County, Hunan Province, on August 19, 2026, the Public Security Bureau of Linwu County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province discovered fraud clues during routine inspections and successfully cracked a virtual currency investment fraud case, arresting two criminal suspects.Upon investigation, on May 1, 2026, the suspect Li met the victim, Ms. Yue, through private messages on a social platform, falsely claiming to teach virtual currency investment skills with guaranteed profits. He induced her to download a certain app to purchase Tether (USDT) and then exchange it for a newly issued virtual currency manipulated by his "superior." Li, in collusion with his "superior," created the illusion of rising prices to lure the victim into increasing her investment; once the funds were in place, they quickly crashed the market, causing the virtual currency's value to drop to zero. Ms. Yue lost approximately 30,000 yuan, while Li illegally profited tens of thousands of yuan, which was collected by his friend Lei and squandered.On August 19, the investigating police arrested Li; on September 17, Lei, who was suspected of collecting the stolen funds, was also apprehended. Both have been criminally detained according to the law. The police remind: virtual currency is not legal tender, and there are no "guaranteed profit" projects. Recommendations for high returns made through private messages online are all fraud traps. Do not easily trust investment recommendations from strangers or transfer money to unfamiliar platforms.

Aoni Electronics announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary Aoni Intelligent Technology (Zhongshan) Co., Ltd. has signed a procurement contract with Company A to purchase GPU computing power cards, with a total contract amount of 1.67 billion yuan (including tax). The contract has been officially signed and is effective.

According to Ember Monitoring, the largest long position on Hyperliquid closed 1,000 BTC (approximately 87.14 million USD) at an average price of 87,142 USD, making a profit of 8.52 million USD, and still holds 170 million USD in long positions (400 BTC and 50,000 ETH) with an unrealized profit of 15.57 million.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for BTC has increased by 7.97% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at 61.16 billion USD. Among them, Binance's open interest is 12.504 billion USD, OKX's open interest is 3.253 billion USD, Bybit's open interest is 5.784 billion USD, and Gate's open interest is 5.501 billion USD.

According to the official announcement, Gate has launched real-time trading for STAMP and ORBIO perpetual contracts, supporting 1-10 times leverage for both long and short positions, and has simultaneously opened trading bot and copy trading functions.STAMP (Zcash Shielded Assets) is a Solana community project formed around the Shielded Assets (ZSA) being developed for Zcash; ORBIO (Orbio.so) is an on-chain Credit Marketplace built around AI inference on the Robinhood Chain.

The Binance Futures platform will launch the MOONSHOTUSDT U-based Pre-IPO perpetual contract on September 22 at 16:30, with a maximum leverage of up to 20 times. This contract supports 24/7 trading and is settled in USDT.

According to CoinGlass data, the current price of BTC is approximately $85,560, with a 24-hour increase of 5.2%. Affected by market fluctuations, Bitget BTC contracts had a 24-hour trading volume of $4.955 billion, a month-on-month increase of 164.05%; the current position value is approximately $1.776 billion, a month-on-month increase of 12.70%.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched the USDBRL (US Dollar to Brazilian Real) forex perpetual contract. This contract is settled in USDT, supports up to 100 times leverage, and allows for 24/7 trading.

According to official news, Gate has now launched pre-trading for the OURAUSDT perpetual contract (settled in USDT), supporting 1-10 times leverage.Oura Ring is a leading brand in the global smart ring market, focusing on smart health rings, providing health data monitoring services for sleep, heart rate, body temperature, and stress through hardware and a membership subscription model.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for ETH has increased by 6.59% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at 36.75 billion USD. Among them, Binance's open interest is 10.096 billion USD, OKX's open interest is 1.925 billion USD, Bybit's open interest is 2.826 billion USD, and Gate's open interest is 3.286 billion USD.

According to the official API data released by Kalshi, most of the dollar trading volume in the Ethereum perpetual contract trading on this exchange comes from a single recurring fixed-size order.In response, Kalshi stated that its related incentive program has been publicly filed. This data was compiled by The Defiant based on Kalshi's public API data.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for BTC has increased by 11.14% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at 61.75 billion USD. Among them, Binance's open interest is 12.638 billion USD, OKX's open interest is 3.289 billion USD, Bybit's open interest is 5.971 billion USD, and Gate's open interest is 6.081 billion USD.

Aster announced the launch of the VERONA ($VERONA) perpetual contract, with the trading pair VERONAUSDT. The launch time for the perpetual contract is September 21, 2026, at 12:00 UTC. To coincide with the launch, Aster is also launching the Trade Arena trading competition, which will run from September 21, 2026, at 12:00 UTC to September 26, 2026, at 14:00 UTC, with a prize pool of $30,000 in ASTER, along with additional VERONA rewards.Rewards will be distributed based on the user's trading volume as a proportion of the total trading volume of all eligible participants, with a maximum reward cap of 3% of the total prize pool for a single user, and a minimum distribution threshold of no less than 1 VERONA and 1 ASTER. The event is open to all new and existing users, excluding market makers; only trades completed through the Aster perpetual contract during the event period for VERONAUSDT will be counted, including trades via supported channels such as Binance Wallet, Trust Wallet, SafePal, etc. Abusive behaviors such as wash trading, self-trading, and splitting wallets will result in disqualification.Verona (@verona_dev) is building a decentralized fact verification engine that can transform any internet data into verifiable facts and store them on-chain for reuse, allowing verified facts to be used across applications without exposing underlying data. The official claims that its technology has been used by brands such as Uber, Amazon, Nike, and millions of users. For complete rules, please refer to the official announcement.

GMGN co-founder Haze posted on the X platform stating that the perpetual contract trading feature of the GMGN platform is officially open for public testing. Everyone is welcome to experience it and provide feedback.

According to the voluntary announcement from Boya Interactive (00434.HK), the company purchased approximately 152 Bitcoins in the open market for about HKD 90.63 million (approximately USD 11.56 million), with an average price of USD 75,899 per coin. After the increase, the total holdings amount to approximately 4,468 Bitcoins, with an overall average price of USD 68,543 per coin.The company stated that this move is intended to support its Web3 business transformation, with Bitcoin serving as the foundational resource for public chain staking, cross-chain bridges, and Web3 game projects such as Pet Land and MTT Sports.

According to CoinDesk, the Bitcoin Volatility Index BVIV's perpetual contract was launched on Hyperliquid on Monday, allowing traders to bet on the magnitude of Bitcoin price fluctuations rather than the direction directly on the on-chain exchange. The BVIV index is often referred to as the "Bitcoin VIX," which tracks the expected implied volatility of the cryptocurrency over the next 30 days in real-time, similar to the Chicago Board Options Exchange VIX index that tracks the implied volatility of the S&P 500 index.The newly launched perpetual market allows traders to directly go long or short on the volatility index without needing to express their volatility views indirectly through costly options tools that require derivative expertise. The perpetual contract uses USDC as collateral and pricing asset, initially supporting up to 5x leverage. The Seda oracle infrastructure is responsible for connecting the Volmex index to the Markets exchange on-chain.Cole Kennelly, founder and CEO of Volmex Labs, stated that the launch of the BVIV index perpetual contract on Hyperliquid provides crypto traders with a convenient tool for volatility hedging and speculation. This launch is led by the on-chain perpetual contract platform Markets by Kinetiq based on Hyperliquid, in collaboration with Volmex and Perps.inc, marking the first joint deployment of the three parties and the first time the Volmex Bitcoin Volatility Index has gained access to an on-chain perpetual contract market. Hyperliquid is the world's largest decentralized perpetual contract exchange, with an average daily trading volume of several billion dollars and a fully diluted valuation of over $90 billion.