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According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks closed lower on Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 0.77%, the S&P 500 index down 0.48%, and the Nasdaq down 0.64%. Apple fell 0.2%, SK Hynix rose 7%, AMD rose 3%, and Meta Platforms rose 6.5%. The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index closed down 2.08%, Alibaba fell 2.8%, and iQIYI fell 5%.

The American commercial space startup Vast announced that its mission is scheduled for 2027, to be transported by SpaceX's "Dragon" spacecraft and launched by the "Falcon 9" rocket.

According to Coinglass data, if ETH breaks through $2,614, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $952 million. Conversely, if ETH falls below $2,372, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $894 million.

According to Gate market data, SpaceX's intraday decline has expanded to 5%.

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects that the United States will reimpose restrictions on Iranian exports and limit Iranian oil exports through sanctions, reducing its production.

According to Gate market data, on September 9, the German DAX30 index closed down 408.73 points, a decrease of 1.57%, at 25,584.19 points; the UK FTSE 100 index fell 142.34 points, a decrease of 1.32%, at 10,669.32 points; the French CAC40 index dropped 161.31 points, a decrease of 1.94%, at 8,156.67 points.

According to CoinDesk, world.xyz has launched a fully on-chain prediction market platform on Solana, with over 1 million users joining the waiting list. Chainlink provides support for market settlement, and contracts are settled in Phantom's CASH stablecoin.

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 Bitcoin Magazine, Wall Street financial giant Cantor Fitzgerald is helping the Bitcoin sidechain and open-source decentralized network VerifiedX complete a $15 million financing round. The VerifiedX Foundation announced on Wednesday that it has raised this funding, which will be used to expand its custodial partnership with the NYSE-listed custodian BitGo and to promote the launch of its wrapped token product vBTC on centralized exchanges.Cantor Fitzgerald serves as the banking partner for this financing round, and the announcement did not disclose specific investors. VerifiedX is a Bitcoin financial operating system that offers products such as self-custody, instant settlement, programmable finance, and native Bitcoin utility. Unlike traditional wrapped tokens, when holders create vBTC, the network generates a unique native Bitcoin address within the token, allowing holders to deposit Bitcoin into that self-custody address. The tokens always remain on the Bitcoin ledger and do not leave the Bitcoin ecosystem.Cantor Fitzgerald is one of the earliest institutions on Wall Street to support Bitcoin and currently holds reserve assets for the stablecoin giant Tether's USDT product. Its former chairman and CEO Howard Lutnick served as an advisor to Trump's 2024 campaign and is currently the U.S. Secretary of Commerce.

Liquid Network has released the latest update stating that the emergency version Elements v23.3.4 is now online. Functionary nodes have immediately begun upgrading and all Liquid node operators are advised to synchronize updates. This version addresses the previously discovered Proof verification cache vulnerability and strengthens the cache keys used for Range Proof.Regarding network recovery, Blockstream states that it is still formulating a recovery plan, which is expected to proceed in three phases: restoring block production while continuing to suspend Peg operations; replaying verified valid transactions; and restoring Peg operations after the network status is fully restored and funds are confirmed to be returned. Currently, the first two phases are being tested in parallel, and any phase will only advance once safety is confirmed. Liquid Network indicates that Elements v23.3.4 has completed multiple rounds of internal and external reviews, with participants including the Bitcoin Red Team, Alpen Labs, and other teams.At the same time, Liquid Network reminds users to be vigilant against fraudulent upgrade websites exploiting this incident. Information should only be obtained through official Liquid Network and Blockstream channels, and users should never send funds to strangers or disclose private keys or recovery phrases.

According to Gate market data, European natural gas prices have exceeded 80 euros per megawatt hour for the first time, reaching a new high in over three years. Benchmark futures rose by as much as 6.8%, reaching 80.98 euros, the highest point since January 2023. As winter demand is expected to rise, price pressures could evolve into broader economic issues.

According to CoinDesk, PayPal announced the expansion of its stablecoin business to the custom token issuance platform PYUSDx. This platform is built on PayPal USD (PYUSD) and was developed with the assistance of fiat-backed token expert M0 and cryptocurrency payment company MoonPay, providing infrastructure for any business to issue custom stablecoins backed by PYUSD. PYUSDx was first previewed in February this year and is now officially launched.The first batch of partners includes crypto-native companies Saturn, Concrete, and Cap, which together brought over $100 million in processed transaction volume to the platform. The PYUSDx token is issued by MoonPay Digital Assets Ltd., and the platform combines M0's universal stablecoin and digital token technology with MoonPay's issuance and distribution infrastructure. Additionally, USD.AI and Fairblock will also launch stablecoins on PYUSDx.M0 CEO Luca Prosperi stated that as more financial institutions participate, the industry is facing fragmentation issues, and most financial institutions do not understand how to interact with developers. Therefore, M0 facilitates the integration of various new projects in the middle layer by abstracting complexity and risk.

Bitfinex Alpha report shows that Bitcoin has been consolidating in the range of $77,100 to $81,300 over the past 20 trading days, with the current price close to the key support level at the lower end of the range. If it breaks above $81,300, the volume vacuum above may drive the price quickly up to $86,500. The options market has shifted protection to contracts expiring on September 18 ahead of the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision.The report also points out that while Bitcoin's volatility has decreased, altcoins are performing actively, with all 29 major cryptocurrencies rising last week, Polkadot up 43%, and Zcash up 42%. The open interest in altcoin perpetual contracts has surpassed Bitcoin for the first time this week, a situation that historically often accompanies market correction risks.

According to GMGN data, influenced by Cobie's attention on Twitter, the market capitalization of Base Meme coin BLUECHIP has surpassed 30 million USD, rising over 60% from its intraday low, currently reported at 22 million USD.In terms of narrative, BLUECHIP originates from the early trading experiences of Cobie, the head of trading products at Coinbase. In June 2014, Cobie posted multiple times discussing a token named BlueChip, including its price hitting new highs, changes in orders, and holding it. Recently, related historical posts have been rediscovered by the community, forming the narrative of "2014 old meme revival."

Data analysis and indexing platform Bilinear Labs announced that it has been acquired by Sei Labs, and the team will join Sei Labs to participate in the development of projects such as Sei Network and Sei Giga.Bilinear Labs will cease operations on September 14, and the platform is built with Rust, having indexed hundreds of billions of events and launched the BYOABI technology.

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.

According to Hyperbot data, trader Based16z has just closed 7,650 VVV long positions, worth approximately $200,000, and currently still holds 83,290 VVV long positions, worth approximately $2.2 million.Data shows that this trader has realized and floating profits totaling over $600,000 in less than 24 hours.

According to CoinDesk, the Algorand Foundation has officially appointed William Herkelrath as CEO, succeeding Staci Warden, who held the position for nearly five years. Herkelrath previously held leadership roles at blockchain data provider Chainlink and crypto custody company Curv, and co-founded the AI automation platform K3 Labs, officially taking office on August 31.Algorand stated that the new CEO will focus on driving institutional business expansion and post-quantum security initiatives. Currently, Algorand has introduced post-quantum accounts based on the Falcon-1024 cryptographic signature system in the v42 consensus upgrade and plans to achieve full quantum resistance by 2028. Additionally, the foundation's board has been adjusted, with Alex Fowler joining, while Rebecca Rettig and Michael Mosier have stepped down.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the Polymarket event "Counter-Strike: 3DMAX vs Acend," the "Map 2 Winner" sub-market's "3DMAX" option win rate has experienced significant fluctuations, soaring from 77.5% an hour ago to the current 97.7% (a fluctuation of 20.2%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to official news, the AGENT economic project Agentum has completed a $7 million financing round, with participation from MEXC Ventures, BingX Labs, Arca, Wave Digital Assets, BlockTower Capital, Echo3 Labs, Greenwood Global Capital, UZ Capital, and Vega Ventures.The funds from this round will mainly be used to accelerate the construction of the trust and settlement layer for the autonomous Agent economy, with Agentum deployed on the BNB Chain. The BSC testnet has registered 399 Agents, completed 218 transactions, and achieved a GMV of over 2.44 million MockUSDT.