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Next week's macro data focus will be on Friday's U.S. non-farm payroll report, including non-farm employment population, unemployment rate, and average hourly wage, which are directly related to the Federal Reserve's interest rate path and are important employment data ahead of the October monetary policy meeting. According to Beijing time, on Wednesday at 20:15, the U.S. September ADP employment figures will be released, and at 20:30, the U.S. August core PCE price index year-on-year will be announced; on Thursday at 20:30, the number of initial jobless claims in the U.S. for the week ending September 26 will be released, and on Friday at 20:30, the U.S. September seasonally adjusted non-farm employment population and unemployment rate will be published.Regarding officials' speeches, on Thursday at 16:00, Bank of England Governor Bailey will speak, and at 21:30, European Central Bank President Lagarde will speak. Starting from early Wednesday, Federal Reserve officials will have a series of public activities; 2027 FOMC voting member and Chicago Fed President Goolsbee, along with 2028 FOMC voting member and St. Louis Fed President Bullard, will speak in succession, and FOMC permanent voting member and New York Fed President Williams will deliver a keynote speech at the University at Buffalo. On Thursday, Federal Reserve Governor Cook, Minneapolis Fed President Kashkari, and Richmond Fed President Barkin will speak in turn, and on Friday, Williams and Dallas Fed President Logan will still have public activities. In terms of U.S. stocks, Micron will release its earnings report after the market on Wednesday, and Nike will announce its latest quarterly earnings report on Thursday, with both companies corresponding to storage chips and consumer demand.

According to The Block, Coinbase announced the launch of fixed-rate Bitcoin collateralized loans through Morpho Midnight, allowing users to borrow USDC and determine the interest rate and repayment date at the time of borrowing. This new option is alongside Coinbase's existing floating-rate loans (based on Morpho Blue), which have outstanding loans exceeding $1.4 billion, corresponding to collateral of approximately $3 billion.Morpho launched Midnight on Base in July, introducing fixed rates and clear loan terms for on-chain lending. A Morpho spokesperson stated that Coinbase is the first mainstream consumer platform to offer Midnight loans on a large scale; since Midnight's launch, deposits have reached approximately $30 million. The outstanding loans for Morpho Blue across all integrations amount to $5.2 billion, with deposits reaching $16 billion.A Coinbase spokesperson did not disclose specific interest rates, stating that rates are determined by the supply and demand of both parties on the on-chain order book. Currently, Coinbase offers loans that mature at the end of the month or the end of the following month, and borrowers must repay before the due date; otherwise, lenders have the right to liquidate their collateral. Jacob Frantz, Coinbase's head of revenue and investment products, stated that Coinbase Borrow allows users to obtain liquidity without selling assets, and fixed-rate borrowing gives users greater choice in credit management. Morpho indicated that Midnight could also be used in the future to build structured credit products and loans collateralized by tokenized real-world assets, with more integrations in progress.

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 CriptoNoticias, a court in Costa Rica sentenced two men to 12 years in prison each for money laundering. The case involves the kidnapping and murder of American businessman William Shawn Crichton Kopko in 2018, for which his family paid a ransom of approximately 148 bitcoins, valued at around 1 million dollars.The court found that the two defendants received part of the ransom and deposited it into wallets under their control to conceal the source of the related assets.

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

According to Ledauphine, a violent kidnapping case related to cryptocurrency occurred in Taning, Haute-Savoie, France. Late at night on March 14 of this year, two masked men broke into the home of a 48-year-old woman, bound and beat her for several hours, and attempted to seize her cryptocurrency assets, subsequently trying to forcibly take her away. The victim was seriously injured but managed to escape using her survival instincts and sought help from a neighbor.The case is led by the Lyon inter-regional specialized judicial authority and is being investigated by the Chambéry gendarmerie search squad. After six months of in-depth investigation, police launched simultaneous operations in early September in the Île-de-France region, Isère, and Brittany, mobilizing over 60 gendarmes, successfully arresting five suspects in their early twenties, four of whom were formally charged, and three were detained pending trial. This case marks the third violent extortion incident targeting cryptocurrency holders in the Savoie region within a year.

The U.S. House Financial Services Committee plans to review H.R. 8957, the "2026 U.S. Reserve Modernization Act," on September 16, 2026 (Wednesday), and the bill will enter the committee voting process.The bill was introduced by Congressman Nick Begich, with Jared Golden as the only Democratic co-sponsor. It aims to establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and create a separate digital asset reserve for non-Bitcoin assets. The bill stipulates that Bitcoin obtained through confiscation will be included in the reserves, and funds from the sale or exchange of non-Bitcoin assets can be used to purchase more Bitcoin or pay off national debt. The Treasury and Commerce Departments will also explore strategies to acquire more Bitcoin in a budget-neutral manner over the next five years, with provisions explicitly stating that funding for purchases cannot come from borrowing, new taxes, or deficit spending. The committee's review is scheduled to begin at 10:00 AM Eastern Time on Wednesday.

The industrial robot and embodied intelligence company Mechaman landed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on September 1, 2026, known as the "first stock of embodied intelligent eyes, brains, and hands." Founder and CEO Shao Tianlan stated that going public is just a move; what truly matters is that the company becomes a public entity. He still considers himself an engineer, spending about half of his time on core technology, application scenarios, and product iterations.Shao Tianlan pointed out that some embodied intelligence companies rely on data collection centers and industrial projects to generate revenue, with insufficient commercialization validation. He described companies that enter the public market prematurely, with high risks and unverified business models, as "secondary market primary." He believes this is a short-sighted approach that could cause significant harm to tech startups, China's innovation ecosystem, and the health of the capital market.Shao Tianlan positions Mechaman as a new technology-driven enterprise, with the expected management principles of being pragmatic, not exaggerating, and not being deceptive. He hopes to become a key general intelligent component similar to Microsoft and Siemens in the era of embodied intelligence. This IPO attracted participation from several long-term funds and industrial capital, including Baillie Gifford.

According to The Block, the U.S. Department of Justice reported that California man Adam Iza was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his involvement in a kidnapping conspiracy in August 2024.He assisted in planning and funding a kidnapping operation targeting the parents of a person involved in a multi-million dollar Bitcoin theft case, directing six men from Florida to carry out a violent carjacking and kidnapping in Connecticut via mobile phones and encrypted messaging apps. Currently, his brother and six participants have pleaded guilty, while the remaining conspirators are awaiting trial.

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London-based AI precision machining software startup CloudNC announced the completion of a €17.2 million (approximately $20 million) funding round, led by the American venture capital firm Nimble Ventures, with participation from Calculus Venture Capital, Entrepreneur First, and Lockheed Martin's venture capital fund LM Ventures.

The first staking exchange-traded fund linked to Tron will debut in the U.S. market on Wednesday. The Canary Staked TRX ETF launched by Canary Capital will be traded under the ticker TRXS, providing investors with a new way to access TRX tokens through traditional markets. This ETF also has the potential to earn more TRX through the network's proof-of-stake mechanism, with staking rewards reflected in the fund's net asset value.Tron founder Justin Sun stated that the launch of this fund indicates the growing recognition of the Tron network as a key infrastructure for the global digital economy. Canary Capital CEO Steven McClurg noted that as the adoption of stablecoins continues to grow globally, Tron has become a critical infrastructure supporting digital asset payments and settlements. Over the past year, Canary Capital has launched multiple crypto ETFs, including products tracking HBAR, Litecoin, and XRP. According to The Block price data, TRX has a market capitalization of approximately $32.1 billion, ranking as the eighth largest cryptocurrency.

According to The Defiant, the decentralized lending protocol Morpho deployed its fixed-term, fixed-rate lending agreement Midnight to Ethereum on September 8, expanding the product from the Base network to Ethereum, allowing Ethereum users to access USDC loans collateralized by WBTC or cbBTC. Morpho co-founder Merlin Egalite stated that the Ethereum launch will start with the "USDC | cbBTC and USDC | WBTC markets" and will gradually expand.The core difference between Midnight and Morpho Blue lies in interest rate certainty. Blue uses open loans where interest rates fluctuate according to a formula; Midnight, on the other hand, trades credit units at market-priced rates with fixed terms, allowing borrowers to determine financing costs in advance, and lenders can lock in returns instead of bearing interest rate changes with each block. Midnight lenders purchase credit units at prices below the one-to-one redemption value at maturity.However, the largest potential source of funds for Midnight remains constrained. The Morpho Vaults, holding approximately $5 billion in deposits, can only allocate to the Morpho Blue market until the DAO enables the Midnight configuration. Morpho co-founder and CEO Paul Frambot stated that enabling the Vault configuration requires just one DAO transaction, but Vault activation is expected to be achieved in the fourth quarter. At launch, the total deposits in the Ethereum Midnight market were approximately $7.41 million, with outstanding loans of about $2.63 million.

According to official news, The Sandbox announced the official opening of SAND compensation claims. Users affected by the cross-chain contract vulnerability incident involving Base and BNB Smart Chain (BSC) networks on August 22, who held bridged SAND on the affected networks before the incident, can receive full compensation in SAND on the Ethereum network at a 1:1 ratio. Eligibility for compensation is based on the on-chain balance snapshot before the incident and is unrelated to any transactions, transfers, or holdings by users after the incident.The Sandbox stated that eligibility for compensation is determined based on the on-chain balance recorded before the contract was compromised. The snapshot for the Base network corresponds to block 50283188 at 23:42:03 UTC on August 21, 2026, and the BSC snapshot corresponds to block 117322025 at 11:42:44 UTC on August 21, 2026.Users holding Base or BSC network SAND through centralized exchanges do not need to take any action, as The Sandbox is coordinating with the relevant exchanges to handle compensation; however, users holding SAND in personal wallets will need to claim it themselves. The claim period is from September 8 to September 22, 24:00 (UTC+8). Claims only require a transaction initiated from the original wallet that held SAND at the time of the snapshot, without the need for token authorization, signing off-chain messages, or transferring to any address.

HyperliquidNews posted on the X platform that HIP-4 @Outcomexyz will launch a 15-minute cycle Bitcoin native "up and down" market.

According to a report by Wall Street Journal reporter Erin Woo, citing employee sources, Google's artificial intelligence research department will release the Gemini 3.8 Flash new model, which has significantly enhanced coding capabilities. This model is internally codenamed "Skimaki" and may go live as early as Wednesday (September 2). In comparative testing with Google's internal coding tool Jetski, company engineers showed a preference for this new model over Anthropic's Opus.

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According to actu, a couple in the Landes department of France was invaded, taken hostage, and kidnapped by assailants in their home. The assailants targeted the Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies they held. Around 4 a.m., several criminals entered the residence, threatening and pressuring the couple to hand over a large amount of crypto assets.The two were subsequently taken away: the man was later found in the town of Solférino, completely naked and with multiple cuts on his body. The woman was found in another vehicle, in a different province at a considerable distance. After the incident, the French gendarmerie quickly blocked the roads and launched an investigation. Two men have already been arrested. The case is being handled by the Bordeaux Interregional Specialized Court (JIRS) and the National Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime (PNACO).