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The Deputy Minister of Finance of Russia, Ivan Chebeskov, stated that at least 20 million Russians have invested in cryptocurrency products, holding a total of approximately 3.7 trillion rubles, equivalent to about 44 billion dollars. These assets are mainly used for foreign trade settlements, mining, and trading on overseas exchanges and savings.Russia is allowing qualified and non-qualified investors to hold and trade cryptocurrency assets on regulated domestic exchanges through a regulatory framework, while still prohibiting the use of cryptocurrency assets for everyday payments, and promoting the digital ruble as a payment tool directly regulated by the state.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), the GMGN associated address deposited 6,100 ETH to Coinbase, worth approximately 16.38 million USD.Looking back, this ETH was transferred from the Robinhood network to the Ethereum mainnet 6 days ago, possibly as revenue from transaction fees on the Robinhood network.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif stated on Sunday local time that the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz depends on whether the U.S. meets the conditions set by Iran, and he mentioned that resolving the current deadlock through negotiation is still feasible. Iran previously proposed conditions such as stopping U.S. aggression, ending maritime blockades and economic warfare, and releasing Iranian assets. U.S. President Donald Trump stated on Saturday that he had rejected Iran's latest conditional proposal, and the Wall Street Journal cited U.S. officials saying that Trump is expected to resume bombing Iran after the midterm elections in November.Meanwhile, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy claimed on Sunday that it captured a U.S. Remus 600 unmanned underwater vehicle in the Strait of Hormuz and stated that it has handed it over to relevant personnel for data extraction. The U.S. Central Command has not immediately commented on this. Due to the conflict between Iran and the U.S., energy transportation in the Middle East has been severely restricted, with WTI crude oil closing this week at $92.41 per barrel, down 7.9% for the week; Brent crude oil closed at $104.32 per barrel, remaining basically flat for the week.

According to TheEnergyMag, Bitcoin mining company MARA announced that it has paid a $100 million power deposit for its data center project in Matagorda County, Texas, and has adjusted the payment and exit terms of its deal with sustainable fuel developer HIF USA.The project is located southwest of Houston, covering over 1,200 acres, with a planned power capacity of up to 2 gigawatts. MARA plans to use it to build a facility supporting high-performance computing and Bitcoin mining. According to the revised agreement, some payments originally tied to regulatory approval will be adjusted to be paid in two installments, and if all milestones are met, the total acquisition price for the project will still be capped at $600 million.

The co-founder of the on-chain perpetual contract platform Hyperliquid, Jeff, stated that after the next network upgrade, HIP-4 will increase the deployment limits. The maximum number of active HIP-4 results that a single deployer can run simultaneously will increase from 100 to 200, and the maximum number of results that a single deployer can deploy daily will also increase from 500 to 1000.Jeff added that this adjustment was made based on feedback from the community Builders. In addition, the funding rate cap will also be adjusted from 4% per hour to 0.5% per hour in the next upgrade.

Blockchain interoperability company Quant announced a collaboration with The Clearing House (TCH) to introduce programmable money in the United States, providing an interoperability layer for tokenized deposits within the regulated banking system, allowing tokenized deposits to circulate within the banking system.Quant stated that this collaboration continues its related work in the UK, Europe, and other regions. The company mentioned the On-Chain Money Initiative in the announcement and released a press release and blog explaining the details of the collaboration.

Iranian Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian stated that the opening of the Strait of Hormuz depends on whether the conditions proposed by Iran are met, and Iran will not make concessions to the United States on established conditions.Amir-Abdollahian mentioned that Iran has been informed of the preliminary response from the United States regarding the proposal to reopen, but has not yet received specific information from the mediators.

CoinMarketCap officially announced that it has completed the acquisition of the crypto derivatives data platform Coinglass, with the transaction amount undisclosed.Coinglass was established in 2019, covering 28 exchanges and over 2,500 trading products, providing data on open interest, funding rates, liquidation, and options, with over 5 million monthly active users and more than 10,000 API clients.CoinMarketCap stated that this acquisition will bring Coinglass's derivatives data to its platform, providing information on market leverage positions, liquidation distribution, and funding rates to its 115 million monthly users.Coinglass stated that it will continue to operate as an independent business, with its website, app, free tools, API, and pricing remaining unchanged.

According to CoinDesk, Barclays, HSBC UK, Lloyds, Monzo, Nationwide, NatWest, and Santander have completed the world's first interbank tokenized pound deposit customer transaction through the UK's tokenized deposit scheme.Among them, Lloyds, NatWest, and Barclays completed two remortgage transactions, with funds automatically released upon completion after being locked; three banks, including HSBC, completed peer-to-peer payments simulating online shopping.The platform was built by Quant, with EY responsible for project management, and Yearn Finance drafting the rules. The project plans to establish a company and create a rulebook, intending to issue three digital bonds that can be traded using tokenized deposits in the first quarter of 2027.

Bitget Wallet posted on platform X stating that it operates independently from Bitget Exchange, belonging to a self-custody wallet, where user assets are always on-chain and controlled by the users themselves, isolated from the custodial infrastructure of Bitget Exchange.In response to the recent security incident at Bitget, Bitget Wallet has conducted preventive checks on its internal systems and found no security impact on the Bitget Wallet system or user self-custody assets. Currently, Bitget Wallet is operating normally and reminds users to be vigilant against phishing and impersonation activities, and to obtain the latest information through official channels.

X Platform post by Xu Jiayin stated that Bitget has commissioned a third-party security team to conduct an independent forensic investigation into this security incident. Multiple teams are working together to verify remedial measures, confirm the attack vector, and assist in law enforcement cooperation. The investigation results will be announced promptly.He stated that Bitget has sufficient protection funds to cover the related losses and will restore withdrawals as soon as all potential security risks are eliminated.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, the address withdrew 4088.5 ETH at an average price of $2727.26 between September 21 and 23. After the market correction, the address deposited all ETH into Binance one hour ago, worth approximately $10.8 million; if sold, it would incur a loss of $342,000.The last round of swing trading for this address lasted 1 month, yielding a profit of $1.515 million.

IBM announced that customers of its digital asset management platform IBM Digital Asset Haven can now connect to permissioned blockchain networks, including the blockchain-based shared ledger from Swift. A new beta version of the ISO 20022 message adapter allows financial institutions to initiate tokenized deposit transactions through this ledger using standard payment messages. IBM stated that financial institutions participating in Swift-related programs have tested tokenized deposits on this ledger using Digital Asset Haven. The ledger supports tokenized deposits issued by banks, enabling participating IBM clients to transfer digital assets around the clock, with final settlement still completed through existing systems.Swift first announced this ledger at Sibos 2025, based on a prototype developed in collaboration with Consensys, with over 40 financial institutions involved in its design, 17 of which are participating in the tokenized deposit pilot. Swift currently connects over 12,500 financial institutions across more than 200 markets worldwide. The aforementioned message adapter allows banks to continue using existing payment message formats and operational processes without adopting blockchain-specific workflows.IBM is also expanding Digital Asset Haven to a localized deployment beta version, which can be installed on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE in the client's own data center for managing digital assets such as stablecoins and tokenized deposits, without relying on public cloud infrastructure. IBM stated that the platform and key management layer are fully retained within the client's own environment, with keys protected by IBM Crypto Express hardware security modules.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Multicoin Capital has deposited 130,300 HYPE into Coinbase Prime again after a one-week pause, worth 12.15 million USD.Since July 28, Multicoin Capital has cumulatively deposited 4.23 million HYPE into Coinbase Prime, worth 285 million USD.

On-chain lending protocol USD.AI announced that it has secured a financing amount of $128.9 million in GPU funding, marking the largest single financing in the protocol's history.The financing will be used to support an undisclosed borrower in deploying 32 sets of NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems in British Columbia, Canada. This financing amount sets a new historical record for USD.AI.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, BitGo's CEO Mike Belshe stated in an interview on Bitcoin Magazine's BMTV that the core of tokenization is not trading, but rather expanding access.He pointed out that the current financial system can be traced back to the paper stock certificate crisis of the 1960s, when the New York Stock Exchange had to halt trading every week to complete physical stock deliveries, and the framework built to solve this problem still primarily serves large institutions.Belshe believes that the inability of retail investors to borrow against assets and the necessity to sell assets is a key reason driving the K-shaped economic divergence. He discussed how "phantom stocks" and tokenized stocks could change this situation and mentioned that long-term confidence of holders can be demonstrated through proof of reserves and setting time locks for shares.The interview also covered the new centralized risks that may arise from custodial concentration, how multi-signature and MPC can eliminate single points of failure, the aspects that still need to be supplemented in the U.S. regulatory framework beyond clarity, and the role of AI agents in asset management. Belshe also explained the true meaning behind his previous comments about the dollar going to zero.

The founder and CEO of the decentralized lending protocol Aave, Stani Kulechov, responded to various statements regarding Aave V4. He stated that the Hub and Spoke of Aave V4 are by default isolated according to risk characteristics, allowing risk-adjusted markets to share liquidity within set limits through the Hub to support new use cases while avoiding unnecessary fragmentation of liquidity. He believes that completely isolating liquidity often splits funds, reduces utilization, and increases user costs, which becomes more apparent after the incentives used to guide liquidity end.Stani mentioned that in V4, Spoke represents the lending market, and the Hub can share liquidity between these markets, allowing isolated risk characteristics to utilize the capital pool, thereby improving utilization and capital efficiency. Unlike typical curation vaults that start with zero liquidity and require funds or incentives to guide them, V4 Spoke can rely on the entire Hub balance sheet from the first day of launch. He also stated that the V4 architecture is simpler and remains flexible, with the overall codebase significantly smaller than Aave V3.According to him, Aave V4 has secured $1.2 billion in deposits and is deployed across multiple networks, including Ethereum, Avalanche, and Arc. V4 has supported third-party curators like EtherFi, allowing curators to build and manage complete market structures and participate in the economic distribution of a broader lending market, rather than just charging fees for managing deposit scales.