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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.

A family in the northern French town of Vendin-le-Vieil was invaded and taken hostage by four masked men early Sunday morning. According to BFMTV, the suspects entered the house around 4 AM, binding the couple and their two children with tape, and held them for over three hours. The 40-year-old father, an IT expert in the local cryptocurrency industry, was taken to another room, beaten, and forced to give up access codes, resulting in approximately 40,000 euros (about 46,000 dollars) worth of cryptocurrency being transferred away.According to the Béthune prosecutor's office, the four suspects fled the scene by car and are still at large. The 12-year-old daughter was struck in the face with a car key during the incident, and the victims are in a state of shock; they have been sent for forensic examination and are receiving support from the victims' assistance association. The case has been filed under organized gang kidnapping and extortion and is being jointly investigated by the regional judicial police and the French Cybercrime Office.France is the country most severely affected by such "ransom attacks" globally. Records from the national prosecutor's office for organized crime show that over 70 kidnapping and illegal detention incidents related to cryptocurrency have occurred in the first eight months of 2026, with 88 people already prosecuted in earlier crackdowns this year. Previous similar cases often targeted wealthy individuals, including the father of a cryptocurrency millionaire, the wife of a co-founder of The Sandbox, and the CEO of Binance France, while the victim in this case is merely an ordinary IT professional. Chainalysis reported that global ransom attacks in 2026 resulted in approximately 30 million dollars in losses, while CertiK stated that losses over six months reached 124 million dollars, a 12-fold increase.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for ETH has increased by 8.58% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at 36.783 billion USD. Among them, Binance's open interest is 10.177 billion USD, OKX's open interest is 1.88 billion USD, Bybit's open interest is 2.769 billion USD, and Gate's open interest is 3.729 billion USD.

Renowned trader Killa updated his views on the recent rapid surge of Bitcoin, stating that the next target for Bitcoin could reach the $88,000 range; however, if it quickly falls below $80,000, it may test the low of $70,000. Based on volume analysis, this scenario is currently unlikely.Killa, a quantitative trader focused on BTC, predicted the peak of this bull market in May 2025 and has over 200,000 followers on platform X. In mid-April, he shorted Bitcoin at $74,688 and switched to long during the market-wide decline on June 5.

The Gate contract POLYMARKET_USDT has strengthened in the short term, with a 24-hour increase of 44.51%, and the highest price in 24 hours reached 21.667 USDT.This contract was launched on Gate on April 13, 2026, at 20:00 (UTC+8), and has increased by 196.88% since its launch.

Recently, the on-chain perpetual contract protocol Travix, which focuses on computing power asset trading, completed its seed round financing. The disclosed investor in this round is Amber Group, but the financing amount has not been disclosed. The funds will be used to accelerate the deep construction of perpetual contracts for computing power assets and exotic assets such as East Asian stocks, expand trading pairs for Compute-Led RWA like chips and storage, promote the development of the "Financial World Model," deepen the development and deployment of a trusted AI agent trading engine, and expand global markets and multilateral ecological construction as well as launch trading promotion incentive programs.It is reported that Travix is a new generation PerpDEX protocol built on a modular blockchain architecture, adopting a hybrid architecture of offline high-performance matching and on-chain settlement, achieving millisecond-level processing efficiency, and introducing a unified account management model. Its core directions include: perpetual contracts for computing power assets, supporting hardware asset trading such as H100 chips and storage; the Financial World Model, which transforms probabilistic events such as policy implementation and product launches into quantifiable event trading signals; and trusted AI agent trading, supporting users in deploying automated strategies through the Agent Engine.Travix claims that its goal is to achieve the integration of computing power assets, probabilistic trading, and trusted agents, creating a new generation of decentralized perpetual contract entry point where "trading is understanding the world."

Bitget has launched a new user contract event, which runs from September 21 to September 28. During the event, new users who complete the specified net deposit and contract trading tasks can receive tiered USDT rewards. Users who achieve additional trading volume tasks within 24H or 72H after signing up can also receive extra incentives, with a maximum individual accumulation of 328 USDT. For more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.

According to RootData stock derivatives data, in the OPENAI (OpenAI) contract assets, the trading volume in the past 24 hours at Gate ranked first, approximately 49.4963 million USD, with a market share of 78%.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Wintermute (0xecb...2b00) currently holds a short position in perpetual contracts worth 160 million USD, with an unrealized loss of 3.57 million USD.Among them, the short position in ETH is worth 53.05 million USD, the short position in BTC is worth 26.66 million USD, the short position in SOL is worth 17.84 million USD, and the short position in HYPE is worth 11.62 million USD; the trading volume in the last 30 days is 16.91 billion USD.

The founder and executive chairman of Bitcoin Treasury Company Strategy, Michael Saylor, has once again released information related to Bitcoin Tracker, with the caption "A little more orange".According to previous patterns, Strategy usually discloses changes in Bitcoin holdings the day after relevant news is released.

Feixiaohao collaborates with TuringBitChain to promote the Feixiaohao × GWDC 2026 Innovation Forum. TuringBitChain will participate as a co-organizer in this forum, which will be held on September 29, 2026, at AT CENTER in Seoul, South Korea, focusing on topics such as stock tokenization, Web3, and AI.TuringBitChain (TBC) will participate in this forum as a co-organizer. TBC is an independent Layer 1 public chain based on the Bitcoin UTXO model, using SHA256 PoW consensus, and supports Turing-complete smart contracts on the UTXO architecture through BVM and TuringContract. During the conference, TuringBitChain project guest Marcus Cheng will also give a speech, serving as the Marketing Director for the Asia-Pacific region of TBC.The GWDC event in South Korea is expected to attract 5,000 participants, with the South Korean Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Sun Yuchen, Microsoft, Bithumb, Animoca Brands, and other representatives from government, business, technology, and Web3 also present on-site. TBC's participation will bring topics such as UTXO Layer 1, asset tokenization, AI Agents, and high-frequency micropayments into a denser international exchange scenario.

According to data from DefiLlama, Gate's contract positions in the past 24 hours exceeded 12.473 billion USD, ranking among the top three centralized exchanges.

According to CriptoNoticias, the Spanish Civil Guard and National Police have respectively cracked down on two cryptocurrency-related criminal cases, capturing or identifying a total of 48 individuals involved.Among them, one Ponzi scheme resulted in losses of approximately 327,000 euros for 113 investors; another criminal network implemented fraud through phishing, fake rental advertisements, and other methods, converting illegal gains into cryptocurrency to evade tracking, causing losses exceeding 430,000 euros.

The privacy-oriented public chain Midnight is preparing to open smart contract deployment on the mainnet.

According to on-chain analyst ZachXBT, the recently launched 10K PFP NFT project zkSNARKs on the Zcash chain is suspected of being a rug pull. The project attracted a total of 16,971 bids through a blind auction, ultimately settling at a clearing price of 1.5 ZEC (approximately $2,190) for 8,000 allocations, with a total transaction volume reaching 25,305 ZEC (approximately $36.94 million), and refunds of 13,309 ZEC (approximately $1.943 million) have been gradually returned.ZachXBT pointed out that the project raised about $17 million, while reserving 10% for the team, 5% for royalties, and approximately $2,000 for minting fees, yet it has no practical value, resembling the common "money grab and run" tactics used in the Ordinals series.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for ETH has increased by 5.15% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at 34.679 billion USD. Among them, Binance's open interest is 9.743 billion USD, OKX's open interest is 1.887 billion USD, Bybit's open interest is 2.626 billion USD, and Gate's open interest is 3.281 billion USD.

The Cyber Investigation Department of the Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province Police Agency in South Korea has identified 26 Polymarket users by analyzing public blockchain transaction records and on-chain open-source intelligence, and has filed cases against them for suspected illegal gambling. Among them, 18 have been referred to the prosecution, with a total bet amount of 12.7 million USD, and the highest single user bet reaching 4.1 million USD.The police launched a preliminary investigation in March and began filing cases against the involved individuals in May; the South Korean Communications Commission only ordered the blocking of Polymarket on August 18, and the transactions under investigation occurred while the platform was still accessible. The police are advancing the investigation based on Article 246 of the South Korean Criminal Code.