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According to Crypto Briefing, Orca's Chief Legal Officer Christopher Montagano stated at the Korea Blockchain Week that the innovation exemption released by the SEC on September 17 provides the conditions to verify whether DeFi blockchain tracks are more efficient than traditional infrastructure.The exemption offers a conditional relief period of 5 years, until September 17, 2031; under this framework, tokenized securities venues and specific liquidity providers can operate tokenized U.S. stock licensed trading without registering as exchanges or brokers.Montagano stated that the exemption is specifically designed for AMM but does not constitute a ruling on DeFi; relevant parties must still comply with sanction rules and obtain issuer consent to distinguish it from unlicensed DeFi. Orca has been involved in discussions with the SEC since 2025 and began trading tokenized stocks in November of the same year.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stock night trading chip stocks collectively strengthened, with SOXL, the three times leveraged semiconductor ETF from Direxion, rising over 9%, Arm rising 4%, AMD and Intel rising over 3%, SanDisk rising 2.8%, SK Hynix rising 2.7%, Broadcom rising 1.6%, NVIDIA rising 1.5%, and Micron Technology rising 1.4%.

According to The Block, Base has completed its third mainnet upgrade, Cobalt. The core of this upgrade is the Validity Transactions conditional transaction feature, allowing users to submit transactions with conditions that must be met before they are packaged on-chain; if the conditions are not met, the transaction will never be included.Base stated that this API is part of a neutral infrastructure, allowing advanced traders to keep their submissions confidential before they are finalized.Cobalt also enhances the B20 token standard launched with the Beryl upgrade in June, adding three new features. Composite Policies allow asset issuers to combine existing whitelists and blacklists using "or" and "and" logic, without the need to duplicate lists or maintain off-chain synchronization.The Schedule Multiplier upgrade aligns with the ERC-8056 standard, supporting issuers in changing the display method of asset balances, which can be used in scenarios such as stock splits.Base also revealed plans to shorten block time from 2 seconds to 200 milliseconds in the coming months, implement native smart accounts at the protocol layer, support Gas payment and transaction batching, and introduce some EVM improvements from the Ethereum Glamsterdam upgrade.

According to GlobeNewswire, Grayscale's Zcash ETF (ZCSH) announced that it has completed the previously announced "3-for-1" share split, which took effect before the opening of the U.S. stock market, and the fund shares will trade based on the split-adjusted basis from that day onward.Grayscale stated that shareholders registered as of the close on September 28 will receive an additional 2 shares for every 1 share of ZCSH held before the split, meaning each share before the split will convert into 3 shares after the split. This split will not change the total value of shareholders' investments, and the net asset value (NAV) per share will be adjusted to approximately one-third of the pre-split amount.After the split, ZCSH continues to trade on NYSE Arca, with the trading code and CUSIP number remaining unchanged.

Base has completed the Cobalt upgrade, adding conditional trading and issuer control tools for tokenized assets. This upgrade expands the B20 token standard, allowing issuers to set multiple compliance checks for the same asset, including identity verification, accredited investor status, and sanctions list screening.Issuers can pre-set adjustments for corporate actions such as stock splits, updating the number of shares displayed in wallets and applications without issuing new tokens, burning tokens, or changing the underlying balance. Issuers can also authorize administrators to transfer tokens without the approval of holders and attach public explanations; Base cannot initiate such transfers.Cobalt introduces Validity Transactions, allowing users to set on-chain conditions before submitting transactions, for example, allowing exchanges only if the asset reaches a target price before a specified block deadline. Such transactions can remain private before being included in a block. Base enabled B20 as the native standard for stablecoins and homogenized tokens representing tokenized real-world assets on July 8; Coinbase issued B20 tokens representing stocks of Apple, Nvidia, Meta, and Alphabet on Base on August 25.

Hyperliquid co-founder iliensinc stated in the official DC channel that Hyperliquid Labs will un-stake 3.75 million tokens today and plans to distribute the related tokens to team members on October 7. This batch of tokens is part of an over-the-counter transaction with an institution and will not be sold on the public market.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on the X platform that Coinbase is building financial accounts for superintelligence, covering services such as trading, payments, and lending.These accounts can help users accumulate wealth and manage personal finances, and can also provide independent accounts for AI Agent teams, allowing them to handle more tasks on behalf of users.

According to Gate's latest institutional weekly report, from September 21 to 27, the decline in oil prices and the easing of trade risks provided some support for U.S. stocks and crypto assets. However, the yield on the U.S. 10-year Treasury bond broke above 5%, and the high interest rate environment continues to put pressure on the valuations of risk assets. In terms of capital, the weekly net inflows for BTC and ETH ETFs were approximately $2.386 billion and $690 million, respectively, while the supply of stablecoins increased by about $1.59 billion, indicating a rebound in institutional capital and on-chain liquidity.The market trading structure remains differentiated. The weekly trading volume on Gate TradFi is about $100 billion, maintaining a high level overall; on-chain funds are further concentrated in structural opportunities such as USDC and SOL LST. In the derivatives sector, BTC rose 4.06% weekly, but the open interest across exchanges decreased by 12.81%, with funding rates turning negative temporarily, and options open interest significantly contracting, indicating signs of deleveraging in the market as prices rebound.Against the backdrop of continuous changes in capital flows and market structure, Gate institutions are continuously improving the multi-asset trading system, covering spot, contracts, stocks, ETFs, options, and other TradFi assets. They are also promoting API trading, cross-platform execution, and settlement collaboration based on infrastructures like OES and CrossEx, providing support for institutions to participate in cross-market trading and diversified asset allocation.

Bitwise officially stated that the first spot NEAR ETP, Bitwise NEAR ETF (NRR), had an asset management scale of 36 million USD on its first day, with a net inflow of 35.5 million USD and a trading volume of 15.1 million USD.According to previous news, Bitwise plans to stake the NEAR tokens held by the fund internally to maximize participation in the average staking rewards of approximately 5% for NEAR.

According to the latest stock derivatives exchange ranking released by RootData, possibly affected by macroeconomic uncertainties, the trading volume of the top five exchanges has significantly decreased in the last 24 hours.Among them, Hyperliquid experienced the largest decline, with a 24h trading volume of approximately 2.161 billion USD, down by 28.99%. Gate had the smallest decline, with a 24h trading volume of approximately 776 million USD, down by 13.04%.

OKX will launch CT/USDT spot trading on September 30. CT deposits will open for withdrawal on September 30 at 12:00. The call auction will take place from 17:00 to 18:00 on September 30, and spot trading will open at 18:00.

Cathie Wood's Ark Invest currently holds a direct position in Kalshi through three ETFs: ARKK, ARKW, and ARKF. Ark Invest expects that the annual trading volume in the mid-term forecast market will reach between $1 trillion and $5 trillion.Ark Invest stated that although Kalshi is still a private company, it hopes to allow its investors to participate early.

According to The Block, the prediction market platform Kalshi will terminate its trading volume incentive program, effective no earlier than October 13. This information comes from documents submitted by Kalshi to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).The program pays rewards to traders from a reward pool based on their share of qualified trading volume, aimed at enhancing liquidity. Kalshi is an event contract trading platform regulated by the CFTC.

Binance will launch bStocks trading pairs for Adobe (ADBEB), Forward Industries (FWDIB), Hewlett Packard (HPEB), PDD Holdings (PDDB), SharonAI (SHAZB), Wendy's (WENB), and Zoom (ZMB) on September 30 at 20:00. The trading pairs include ADBEB/USDT, FWDIB/USDT, HPEB/USDT, PDDB/USDT, SHAZB/USDT, WENB/USDT, and ZMB/USDT. Users can utilize spot algorithm trading bots and smart position bots, and enjoy zero order fee discounts until November 1 at 07:59.

The cryptocurrency exchange platform Kraken's coin listing account announced that WOJAK will be launched soon, with trading starting on September 30.The account introduced that WOJAK corresponds to the account wojakcto, which is a community takeover of Feels Guy. Feels Guy is a bald, melancholic MS Paint character that has been popular on image forums since 2009.

According to CoinDesk, brokerage Robinhood (HOOD) announced at the HOOD Summit held in Houston, Texas, that it will launch executable trading AI agents, cryptocurrency perpetual contracts with up to 10x leverage, and weekend trading for U.S. stocks, while extending options trading hours, providing more intraday margin, and introducing contracts based on corporate earnings metrics.Robinhood Agents allow customers to create AI agents within the app, choose models from OpenAI or Anthropic, and authorize them to access independent trading accounts. The agents can analyze the market, create watchlists, and trade stocks, options, and crypto assets. A feature called Loops allows customers to give long-term instructions to the agents to monitor the market and execute strategies when specific conditions arise. Since opening its trading infrastructure to external AI agents earlier this year, over 150,000 agent accounts have been created. By default, every trade proposed by the agent requires customer approval, and users can disable this protection; agents cannot use margin when they go live and can only utilize funds in dedicated accounts.Regarding perpetual contracts, Robinhood plans to offer them to eligible U.S. customers through Robinhood Derivatives and Bitstamp, initially focusing on crypto assets, with Bitcoin and Ethereum contracts having leverage up to 10x, while other supported assets starting at 3x. Additionally, Robinhood will provide earnings binary contracts through Cboe, allowing customers to trade directly on whether companies meet revenue, earnings per share, and other metrics; weekend trading will offer select stocks and ETFs through Bruce ATS.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed two lawsuits in New York, accusing Cryptoaiml and TSAI of fraud under the guise of AI trading, involving approximately $15 million.The two lawsuits claim that investors were shown fabricated profit data and were asked to add more funds when attempting to withdraw.

The Bitcoin Meta Protocol Alkanes, maintained by SUBFROST, announced that data shows from June 23 to September 20, corresponding to block heights 954,917 to 967,918, Alkanes transactions accounted for 61.1% of all Bitcoin transactions, approximately 59.9 million transactions. During the same period, Alkanes accounted for 40.3% of block space weight, 94.2% of OP_RETURN byte count, and 13.4% of transaction fee revenue. The data comes from documents published daily by SUBFROST under the MIT license, with real-time charts available at subfrost.io/metrics.Alkanes is a Bitcoin meta protocol built on the Runes protocol, maintained by the company SUBFROST, which is focused on the U.S. market, co-founded by Gabe Lee and the original author of the protocol, RWP IV. The company claims that its community is almost entirely from the Asia-Pacific region, providing complete Chinese documentation and a Chinese data page, and operates an official Chinese Telegram for DIESEL; this year the company held seminars in China and set up a booth at Bitcoin Asia in Hong Kong.On the technical side, Alkanes does not alter Bitcoin consensus and does not operate as a sidechain. Its contract code is WebAssembly, deployed once in the witness data, and subsequent users send function calls via runestone in Runes format, executed by the independent indexer Metashrew; full nodes only confirm Bitcoin transactions and do not verify Alkanes balances.

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission announced that the licensed virtual asset trading platform DFX Labs Company Limited reported "dfx[.]cn", "dfxcn[.]com", and other four websites as fraudulent websites. The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission has listed the relevant websites as suspicious virtual asset trading platforms.