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On September 14, blockchain intelligence company TRM Labs released a report revealing that fake YouTube tutorials lured 224 victims into deploying and funding malicious smart contracts under the guise of building AI-based crypto arbitrage bots, resulting in the theft of 274.6 ETH. TRM identified a total of 234 contracts deployed by the victims, with funds ultimately flowing into six collection addresses controlled by the operators. The stolen ETH was worth approximately $517,000 at the time of the transfer, with a median loss of 1 ETH per incident.Unlike common wallet theft attacks, this scam did not involve phishing links, spoofed domains, or malicious authorization prompts. Victims chose the tutorials themselves, copied the code, deployed the contracts, and funded them from their own wallets, with each step authorized by the victims themselves. As a result, wallet security warnings and phishing blacklists could not be triggered. TRM discovered nine nearly identical YouTube tutorials disguised as different creators, using AI-generated virtual hosts and voiceovers, promising to build fully automated crypto trading bots with Claude, and guiding victims to a compiler website controlled by the operators, some of which mimicked the commonly used Remix development environment.In one variant analyzed by TRM, a backend script would discard the source code pasted by the victims and retrieve another contract from the operator's server, with the clean code displayed on the screen never being on-chain. The replaced contract accepted deposits and transferred any balance over 0.05 ETH to the operators when the victims pressed Start or Withdraw, with no arbitrage logic or AI functionality included in the contract.

The total value of the commercial crew transportation capability contract signed between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and SpaceX has increased to $5.92 billion.The contract modification amount is $946 million, covering three missions and related mission services, with the contract execution period extending until 2030.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for BTC has increased by 8.21% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at 56.069 billion USD. Among them, Binance's open interest is 11.946 billion USD, OKX's open interest is 3.015 billion USD, Bybit's open interest is 5.367 billion USD, and Gate's open interest is 5.426 billion USD.

According to the official announcement, the Binance Futures platform will launch the USDBRLUSDT USDT-denominated perpetual contract on September 21 at 22:00, with a maximum leverage of up to 100 times.

Coinbase posted on platform X that Coinbase Derivatives, LLC is a designated contract market registered with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.The risks of futures trading can be high, and each investor must assess whether this investment is suitable for themselves.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Coinbase has applied for regulatory approval to launch perpetual contracts linked to major U.S. stocks on its regulated derivatives platform in the U.S., targeting about 50 to 60 stocks, including Apple, Microsoft, Tesla, and Nvidia, with plans to launch within the year after approval. The product is intended to be listed by Coinbase Derivatives and traded by Coinbase Financial Markets for clients, requiring approval from the SEC and CFTC.The report states that Coinbase is already offering cryptocurrency perpetual contracts and thematic stock index perpetual contracts in the U.S., and has launched individual stock perpetual contracts for non-U.S. users in March this year. At the end of May, the CFTC approved the listing of perpetual contracts on registered platforms in the U.S. Individual stock perpetual contracts are currently mainly traded on the decentralized exchange Hyperliquid and have not yet landed on regulated platforms in the U.S. The prediction market platform Kalshi has also applied to launch regulated individual stock perpetual contracts.

According to official news, the Gate perpetual contract area for stocks was launched on September 18 at 18:00 (UTC+8) with contract trading for PATH (UiPath), CYPH (Cypherpunk Holdings), HUT (Hut 8), APLD (Applied Digital Corporation), AGPU (ExaWatt), QLD (ProShares Ultra QQQ), and CONL (Coin Daily Double Long ETF), as well as trading bots and Order Tracking features, supporting 1-20 times leverage.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for ETH has increased by 5.32% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at 33.08 billion USD. Among them, Binance has an open interest of 9.126 billion USD, OKX has an open interest of 1.8 billion USD, Bybit has an open interest of 2.334 billion USD, and Gate has an open interest of 3.103 billion USD.

Binance contracts will launch U-based and coin-based quarterly 0326 contracts on September 25, 2026, at 16:00. U-based contracts include BTCUSDT and ETHUSDT, with a maximum leverage of 50 times. Coin-based contracts include BTCUSD CM, ETHUSD CM, BNBUSD CM, XRPUSD CM, and SOLUSD CM, with a maximum leverage of 50 times (some contracts 20 times).

The Binance Futures platform will launch multiple U-based perpetual contracts on September 18, including PATHUSDT, AMCUSDT, CYPHUSDT, ANETUSDT, HUTUSDT, APLDUSDT, and AGPUUSDT. The specific launch time is from 17:00 to 17:30, with one contract launching every 5 minutes, and the maximum leverage can reach up to 20 times.

According to the official announcement, the Gate contract Meme section has launched real-time trading of the GSTOCKBSC perpetual contract (settled in USDT), supporting 1-10 times leverage. Gate has also added the GSTOCKBSC trading bot and copy trading.GSTOCKBSC is a community token on the BSC Stock-Meme launch platform Genius.Fun, newly launched by Genius Foundation.

Arc announced the launch of the AI-driven development tool Arc Studio, which allows users to describe their requirements in natural language. It generates full-stack on-chain applications, contracts, or agents that include front-end interfaces, back-end logic, and smart contracts within minutes. It also supports code review, testing, and export.This tool natively understands the Arc and Circle development stack, including CCTP, Circle Contracts, Gateway, and Wallets. It can integrate protocols such as Aave, Morpho, and Uniswap, and can be tested on nine chains: Arbitrum, Arc, Avalanche, Base, Ethereum, Monad, OP Mainnet, Polygon, and Unichain. Arc Studio can also connect as a sub-agent to Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. The official reminder states that AI-generated code still requires independent review and testing, and Arc Studio will not deploy, sign, fund, or submit mainnet transactions on behalf of users.

According to GMGN data, the top 5 tokens with net inflow in the past 24 hours are as follows:CARDS (CARD....Yjp): Net inflow of $20,000, with a 24-hour increase of 6.9%, currently priced at $0.14.NEAR (3ZLe....wBG): Net inflow of $2,000, with a 24-hour increase of 28%, currently priced at $3.3584.GP (HTmQ....gUQ): Net inflow of $2,000, with a 24-hour increase of 215.5%, currently priced at $0.0128.FAR (3u3T....3yZ): Net inflow of $2,000, with a 24-hour increase of 633.7%, currently priced at $0.0001.ZATOSHI (y2sC....fav): Net inflow of $1,000, with a 24-hour increase of 1323.9%, currently priced at $0.0001.

According to PeckShieldAlert, the lending market of Nostra on Starknet was manipulated due to the NSTR oracle price, with a single account borrowing approximately 3.5 million dollars worth of ETH, STRK, USDC, USDT, WBTC, and DAI using NSTR as collateral.The attacker has since cross-chained approximately 1.92 million dollars worth of assets to Ethereum, including 234.57 ETH and 1.3 million DAI.

According to Coinglass data, the total open interest for ZEC futures contracts across the network is 2.34 million coins, approximately 3.35 billion USD, with a 29% increase in the last 24 hours. In the last 4 hours, the liquidation amount for ZEC was 9.08 million USD, and the liquidation amount in the last 24 hours was 58.9 million USD.On Binance, the long-short ratio for ZEC/USDT accounts is 0.3646, the long-short ratio for large accounts is 0.3168, and the long-short ratio for large account positions is 0.7663. This indicates that there are more short traders, while the relatively lower long positions are more concentrated among a few large holders.

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of the United Kingdom, in conjunction with Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and the Metropolitan Police Service, conducted raids at multiple locations in London targeting three suspected illegal peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading venues, issuing cessation notices to the relevant operators, demanding an immediate halt to unregistered cryptocurrency activities.The FCA emphasized that any business engaging in peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading activities in the UK must complete anti-money laundering registration, and currently, there are no peer-to-peer cryptocurrency trading businesses registered with the FCA within the UK.

The GLM team disclosed the first engineering practice of recursive self-improvement, completed by the Infra Agent powered by GLM-5.3, which designed, debugged, and optimized the GLM-5.3-Flash inference infrastructure.This practice was completed on a domestic cluster with a capacity of one hundred thousand cards, and the team referred to it as the first recursive self-improvement practice for large models in the country.