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In a speech on Monday, UK Chancellor of the Exchequer John Healey criticized Reform Party leader Nigel Farage's stance on Bitcoin, calling him "Liz Truss with a Bitcoin account." Healey stated that Farage wants the public to believe he is a representative of the common people, but on economic issues, he is simply "Liz Truss with a Bitcoin account." Liz Truss is the UK's shortest-serving Prime Minister, widely criticized for her 2022 mini-budget driven by debt. Healey also mentioned that his party, the Labour Party, will help the UK lead through fiscal discipline, good jobs, and a strong industry.Farage has long been a political supporter of cryptocurrency, primarily viewing Bitcoin as a matter of personal freedom since 2020, and opposing state control over currency. He has stated that he was denied banking services by the UK private bank Coutts, which led him to take a greater interest in digital assets. Last year, at the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas, he claimed that if elected Prime Minister, he would cut crypto capital gains tax and force the Bank of England to establish Bitcoin reserves.Farage has faced criticism this year for accepting donations from cryptocurrency entrepreneurs, including tech entrepreneur and Tether investor Christopher Harborne, as well as Ben Delo, one of the founders of the now-closed crypto exchange BitMEX. The Metropolitan Police have launched an investigation into reports of Reform violating overseas donation rules, with Reform denying any wrongdoing and stating that they will cooperate.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the "Eagles vs. Bears" event is currently among the hottest trades on the prediction market Polymarket, with a total pool size reaching 3.5668 million dollars. The option with the highest market consensus is "O/U 24.5," corresponding to a winning probability of approximately 92.5%.

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 Cointelegraph, blockchain security company SlowMist stated that its investigation has not linked the recent security warning caused by the iPhone Safari attack to confirmed cryptocurrency theft incidents.SlowMist told Cointelegraph that it has not independently confirmed any victims affected by the specific Safari attack samples it analyzed, and the strongest technical evidence it possesses covers iOS versions 18.4 to 18.6.2. The company stated that the reported impact range of "iOS 13 to 26.5" should be regarded as a preliminary assessment, and it tends to avoid claiming that iOS 26.5 is affected until reproducible technical evidence is obtained.SlowMist pointed out that the Safari attack reused the previously disclosed DarkSword exploit chain technology, which is independent of another investigation involving malicious components embedded in App Store applications called FomoPeek. The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) disclosed DarkSword in March, describing it as an iOS exploit chain used by multiple threat actors since November 2025.

On Friday, asset management company VanEck released a report on the compensation of executives at the top ten digital asset treasury companies, rating the compensation structure of the Japanese Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet as "poor," making it the only company to fall into the lowest rating. The report shows that Metaplanet's equity plan corresponds to 14.7% of fully diluted shares, with executive risk exposure at 8.2%, which is ten times the average level of 0.8% for the other nine companies, and the scale of the equity plan is also nearly four times the industry average.In comparison, the largest corporate Bitcoin holder, Strategy, has an equity plan that accounts for only 2% of fully diluted shares, with executive risk exposure at 0.5%, and its compensation structure rated as "good." Metaplanet currently ranks third among publicly listed companies in Bitcoin holdings with 43,000 BTC. VanEck pointed out that the gap partly stems from Metaplanet's previous compensation mechanism: the option pool automatically expanded when the company issued shares to purchase Bitcoin, causing it to swell from 46 million shares to 319.5 million shares, adding approximately 273 million potential shares, which drew criticism from shareholders at the time.Metaplanet terminated the automatic adjustment mechanism at the end of August and reduced the option pool by 41% to 188.2 million shares in September, but VanEck believes these adjustments are still "far from satisfactory," calling for the retraction of the expansion of approximately 273 million shares in favor of a shareholder-approved compensation plan, while also suggesting that executive compensation be linked to the number of Bitcoins corresponding to each fully diluted share and adopting a written grant timing policy.

The UK Bitcoin Treasury Company Stack BTC (STAK) proposed to acquire the precious metals dealer Direct Bullion for up to £12 million (approximately $16 million) and plans to use the operating cash flow generated from precious metal sales to support Bitcoin accumulation. This non-binding agreement includes £3 million in cash, approximately £4 million in shares, and £5 million in performance-linked cash payments, with a minimum share issuance price of 6 pence and a lock-up period of four years.As Stack director Paul Withers controls the seller Direct Bullion, this transaction constitutes a related party transaction and is classified as a reverse acquisition, which still requires due diligence and the signing of a final agreement. Direct Bullion achieved revenue of £52.1 million and a post-tax profit of £2.15 million for the fiscal year ending January 2026. This acquisition will be Stack's first transaction under the strategy of "acquiring profitable companies to fund Bitcoin purchases." Stack BTC currently holds approximately 68 Bitcoins (around $5.2 million), and its stock price fell by 1% on the day the news was announced.Nigel Farage invested £215,000 through his company Thorn In The Side, holding approximately 6.3% of Stack. Previously, Reform UK received donations of $48.5 million each from crypto billionaires Christopher Harborne and Ben Delo within 24 hours, totaling approximately $97 million, setting a record for political donations in the UK.

ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo stated today at the Feishu Future Unlimited and Doubao Work Kickoff Conference: Over the past 50 years, there have been four peaks of development in the IT field: PC, Web, Mobile, and AI, with the AI peak far surpassing the heights of the previous three.Liang Rubo believes that peaks are rare, and the intervals between past industry development peaks have been 15-20 years, making such industry-level opportunities extremely valuable.

ETH has increased by 60.62% so far in the third quarter of this year, marking the second-best third-quarter performance on record, only behind the 66.55% in the third quarter of 2025.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, Point Farm Capital (Beqv6d...qeit) has invested a total of 1 million USDC, purchasing 37.21 million STONK at an average market value of 21 million dollars.Currently, the market value of STONK has reached 240 million dollars, with an unrealized profit of 10 million dollars, approximately 10 times the invested amount.

According to blockchain data analysis company Bitrace, another leading trading guarantee platform "Welfare Guarantee" began to withdraw all money laundering-related public group merchants last night. The withdrawal scope includes illegal entities commonly known as "Card Connection Back to U" and "Cash Car."Bitrace stated that the "Welfare Wallet" operated by Welfare Guarantee is currently experiencing rapid capital outflow. Since the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) officially announced sanctions against Xinbi Guarantee, the wallet has recorded an outflow of 9.3 million USDT. Bitrace previously mentioned that due to the sanctions against Xinbi Guarantee, abnormal capital outflows have occurred in its secretly deployed sub-guarantee platforms, and a large number of guarantee merchants are rapidly exiting the related market.

According to BeInCrypto, Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko posted on the X platform that he hopes to establish a giant routing on the mainstream trading aggregator Jupiter, converting tokenized Nvidia stocks into tokenized SpaceX (SPCX) via Fartcoin, and believes that this routing will become the national best bid and offer (NBBO) reference price for all brokers in the United States.Yakovenko pointed out that the Jupiter aggregator automatically selects the lowest-cost trading path, and meme coin pools typically have the deepest liquidity on the network, so the router may complete part of the stock trades through Fartcoin.

Wells Fargo has lowered the target price for SpaceX (SPCX.O) from $215 to $212.

According to the official announcement from Gate, 207 U.S. stock assets including Visa (V), Wells Fargo (WFC), Raytheon Technologies (RTX), Target (TGT), and Pfizer (PFE) have recently completed cash dividend distributions. Gate has completed the corresponding USDT settlement based on users' holdings, and the related process is handled automatically.This dividend distribution covers U.S. stock assets with dividend payment dates from August 31, 2026, to September 4, 2026, encompassing multiple industry sectors including technology and semiconductors, financial services, energy, consumer goods, healthcare, industrial manufacturing, real estate REITs, utilities, materials manufacturing, media and entertainment, telecommunications, and strategic ETFs.

CITIC Securities research report states that in August 2026, the number of new non-farm jobs in the United States was significantly higher than expected, with notable contributions from the leisure hotel and healthcare industries, and a rebound in local government education positions. In the private sector, the goods-producing sector added jobs for the sixth consecutive month, possibly reflecting the demand for data center construction in the United States. The decline in employment in the finance and information technology sectors reflects the impact of AI.The unemployment rate remained at 4.1%, rounded to two decimal places as 4.14%, and the labor force participation rate rebounded from 61.4% to 61.6%, while the continuous decline in participation rates for those aged 45-54 still needs to be monitored. The strong non-farm data in August and the dovish remarks from Federal Reserve Governor Waller offset each other, leading the market to reprice the probability of a rate hike in September at around 60%. The focus will next be on the August CPI to be released on September 11.

Former President Trump stated: The recently released employment data is fantastic, breaking all expectations (except mine!), with an increase reaching two to three times the forecast, and you haven't seen the full picture yet!American employers added 162,000 jobs in August. Lower the interest rates, because the credit situation in the U.S. is much stronger than it was not long ago! A strong country means lower interest rates because its credit situation is better... it's that simple!We should have the lowest interest rates in the world, just like in the "good old days." If the U.S. does not agree to allow these countries to enjoy huge trade surpluses, and we can stop that immediately, then they should no longer be considered financial "elite" countries! Lower the interest rates, or I will stop trading with those countries that have a trade surplus with the U.S. The U.S. Supreme Court has already clearly recognized in that ridiculous and costly tariff ruling that the "President" has the absolute right to do so. This is better than tariffs!The Federal Reserve Board, under the leadership of this outstanding new leader, must become wise, think from a different perspective, and act like patriots. High interest rates put the U.S. at an extremely unfair disadvantage, and I will never allow this to happen!

The Director of the National Economic Council of the White House, Hassett, praised the non-farm payroll report data as "very strong."