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According to a report by Reuters, if the Democrats gain control of the House of Representatives or the Senate after the midterm elections in November, they are expected to launch investigations into business dealings related to Trump and his family, focusing on the cryptocurrency, prediction markets, and investment businesses involving the Trump family, as well as companies that funded projects for the White House.The report states that controlling either chamber of Congress will give the Democrats more resources for committee investigations and subpoena power, with some investigations potentially starting as early as February next year. The subjects of investigation frequently mentioned by Democratic lawmakers include the venture capital firm 1789 Capital, in which Donald Trump Jr. is involved, as well as cryptocurrency companies related to the Trump family, but a final list of investigations has not yet been established.Additionally, Republican Senator John Curtis has previously called for an investigation into some of Donald Trump Jr.'s business relationships, believing that the commercial activities of the presidential family should be subject to consistent congressional oversight.

A survey by the Democratic Party of the U.S. Senate claims that the stablecoin USDT issued by Tether has become a major payment method for Iran. The survey shows that among over 800 sanctioned cryptocurrency wallets, about 84% primarily or exclusively use USDT.The U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations had previously stated that its review of blockchain records, sanctions lists, and asset seizure notices found that the sanctioned wallets are mainly distributed across the Tron and Ethereum networks and have conducted USDT transactions.

According to Bloomberg, F2 AI, a company focused on artificial intelligence development in the credit sector, disclosed that it has received a $5 million investment from private credit management firm Golub Capital.As part of the equity investment, Golub Capital will gain access to F2 AI's AI agent suite to utilize its own data for screening private credit investments, conducting due diligence, underwriting transactions, and monitoring portfolios. The parties did not disclose the valuation of F2 AI corresponding to this investment.

Matt Cole, the CEO of Bitcoin Treasury Company Strive, announced that the company spent $94.5 million to acquire 1,107 BTC at an average price of $85,396 per coin, increasing its total Bitcoin holdings to 27,462 coins.In addition, it obtained $12.4 million in funding through warrant exercises; after accounting for this funding, 85% of the total capital raised by Strive comes from SATA.

Google announced plans to invest at least $15.2 billion in Finland's digital infrastructure over the next two years, making it one of the largest technology investments in Finland's history.Finnish President Alexander Stubb stated that this investment reflects Finland's advantages in clean energy, a secure operating environment, and the expansion of the technology industry.

Financial newsletter The Kobeissi Letter stated on X: The scale of U.S. stocks held by non-U.S. investors is at a historical high. The account wrote that in July, investors outside the U.S. held $24.32 trillion in U.S. stocks, marking the third largest scale in history.The Kobeissi Letter noted that since the beginning of this year, foreign investment in U.S. stocks has increased by $2.22 trillion, a growth rate of 10%. Since the bear market of 2022, this holding scale has increased by $12.3 trillion, a growth rate of 103%.The newsletter also stated that the allocation ratio of foreign capital to U.S. stocks has risen to 60% of their U.S. financial assets, setting a record, and is currently about 6 percentage points higher than the peak during the 2000 internet bubble.

Regarding the issue of abnormal asset transfers from user accounts, the MEXC customer service team responded on September 28, stating that they have completed a preliminary investigation and provided corresponding solutions. They will follow up with users via email for one-on-one communication, updating them on progress and required information, and reminding users to pay attention to their registered email and official channel communications.Previously, a MEXC user posted on X that their account was controlled after someone reset the security items. Between 04:12 and 04:25 on September 27 (Beijing time), 322,110 USDT and 9,133,999 ONE were transferred out, totaling approximately $340,000, just 27 minutes after the 24-hour transfer restriction was lifted. The user stated that MEXC has confirmed the account was hacked and has frozen the account to assist in recovery, but has not revoked the API left by the attacker. They have submitted a formal claim, with the ticket number M2026092712031.

According to Ark Invest Tracker, Ark Invest states that AI hacking attacks are affecting everything. The risks go far beyond Bitcoin, as AI makes software vulnerabilities easier to discover and exploit.Bitcoin and hardware wallets may be the first to be impacted, but social media, tax, and banking websites may also face the same threats. Trusting a big brand still means trusting that the company will not make mistakes as AI becomes increasingly powerful. ARK expects that large custodial institutions will also become targets, with AI potentially discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities at an unprecedented speed.

Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research Department's South Korea stock analyst Chris Cha stated in a report on September 23 that KOSPI has the conditions for a short-term tactical breakout, but the continuous flow of liquidity from South Korean retail investors into the cryptocurrency market will make the index's subsequent upward movement more reliant on foreign capital and local institutions reconfiguring. The report noted that concerns about the Federal Reserve's interest rates have been partially digested by the market, and risk appetite has shifted towards proxy AI themes.The report pointed out that South Korean memory chips provide fundamental support, with fourth-quarter DRAM contract prices expected to grow double digits quarter-on-quarter, and the ramp-up of HBM4 capacity will continue to limit the supply of standard server DRAM. Samsung Electronics' large shareholder returns, continuous buying by institutions, and foreign capital turning into net buying may drive KOSPI towards the resistance zone of 7000 to 7200 points.The report also indicated that the capacity of local South Korean retail investors to absorb has weakened. After Bitcoin returned to $85,000, cryptocurrency trading in South Korea has heated up. According to DefiLlama data cited in the report, Upbit's single-day spot trading volume on June 13 was approximately $770 million, which rose to $1.817 billion on September 22, an increase of about 136%. Based on the total trading volume of $3.27 billion on that day across South Korea's five major trading platforms, Upbit alone accounted for over half. Goldman Sachs believes this will make KOSPI more reliant on foreign and institutional buying in the future, and October is a critical window to test whether foreign capital will continue to increase its investment in South Korean semiconductor and AI assets.

Recently, the socialized Meme trading platform Baola, strategically invested by Gate Ventures, has entered the product internal testing phase. Baola is positioned as a socialized trading platform aimed at the Meme market, exploring the combination of social content and Meme trading around aspects such as hot topic discovery, market information tracking, community interaction, and trading participation.According to the official introduction, Baola's brand proposition is "Your next Meme is on Baola," aggregating information such as popular calls, KOL dynamics, on-chain trading data, and community interactions. Users can view Caller, the number of token mentions, market capitalization at the time of the call, and subsequent peak performance, and discover active market participants through features like KOL rankings and Callout boards, gaining insights into market hotspots and participant performance from multiple dimensions.In terms of community interaction, Baola supports users in independently publishing calls and market opinions, and allows them to continuously follow interested Callers through Follow. The platform also combines KOL public calls with on-chain trading dynamics, providing information on historical calls, recent performance, and buying and selling behaviors, further linking opinion sharing, hot topic discovery, and trading participation. Currently, Baola has entered the product internal testing phase and is continuously improving the socialized trading experience in the Meme field. Users can visit the official website (https://bao.la/) for more details.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has fully started production at its first wafer fab in Singapore, driven by demand for AI infrastructure.The factory is a joint venture with NXP and began trial production in June, achieving a yield rate of 99%. Mass production is planned for early 2027. TSMC holds approximately 19% of the shares.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), trader mk4 (@mk4_lul) currently holds the largest position on the Hyperliquid platform for $NEAR, with an open interest share of 7.68% and a current floating profit of 17.55 million dollars. They hold 5.838 million NEAR long positions with 10x leverage, with a position value of approximately 31.28 million dollars, an opening average price of 2.35 dollars, and the current price has risen to 5.36 dollars. NEAR has surged 187% this month, and mk4 opened the position at the beginning of September, having already realized about 128% of the increase. This position is also the only long position in their current holdings.

According to the Financial Times, the South Korean Deputy Prime Minister recently stated, "Artificial intelligence should be regarded as a fundamental infrastructure like 'electricity,' and every South Korean citizen should be able to use it affordably without worrying about costs." Last year, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung stated that this technology has brought South Korea to "a significant historical turning point," and asked, "Are we going to continue to act as followers who may be left behind, or become leaders who can seize unlimited opportunities?" To answer this question, the government last month selected domestic telecom companies SK Telecom and KT, as well as internet service provider Kakao, to lead the implementation of the "Universal Artificial Intelligence" plan, aimed at allowing South Korea's 51.6 million citizens to use services similar to ChatGPT and personal AI assistants for free. The South Korean Deputy Prime Minister clearly stated on social media that despite concerns that technology may spiral out of control and lead to catastrophic consequences, South Korea remains determined to become "one of the top three countries in artificial intelligence." He wrote, "Currently, we have no room to slow down the pace of artificial intelligence development. We will accelerate, but we will do so more safely."

The head of the Australian Senate Artificial Intelligence Inquiry Committee stated on Sunday that the CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic have been summoned to attend the committee's hearing. This news was announced days after it was revealed that a rogue OpenAI robot had breached the database of Australia's healthcare system. Australian Prime Minister Albanese had previously strongly condemned the "Medicare" database leak incident. According to a spokesperson leading the inquiry committee, OpenAI's Altman and Anthropic's Amodei have received written subpoenas requiring their attendance at the hearing. The hearing will be held publicly on Thursday in the capital, Canberra.

According to CoinDesk, Kraken's parent company Payward has invested billions of dollars over the past two years, expanding into futures and derivatives, tokenized stocks, and banking through acquisitions and self-built businesses, aiming to integrate trading, payments, asset management, and institutional services into a unified financial infrastructure.Payward's co-CEO Arjun Sethi stated that the company is not a holding company, but "a set of platforms, a balance sheet, a regulatory framework," with the core being to facilitate the flow of funds and assets between different businesses through "a single ledger."Payward has currently enhanced the U.S. futures and derivatives infrastructure through acquisitions such as NinjaTrader and Bitnomial, and plans to acquire a bank in Europe; its B2B infrastructure division Payward Services currently has at least 25 companies using its API, including Hyperliquid. In the second quarter of 2026, Payward's adjusted revenue was $508 million, a year-on-year increase of 17%.

Emilie Choi, President and Chief Operating Officer of Coinbase, stated that Coinbase is one of the first supporters of the "Trump Account" plan. Faryar Shirzad, Chief Policy Officer of Coinbase, mentioned that the company has submitted opinions to the Internal Revenue Service regarding the implementation and expansion of the account, suggesting that beneficiaries be allowed to invest in a wide range of traded digital assets or gain exposure to digital assets through funds, aligning the scope of qualified investments with the asset classes that traditional IRAs can invest in. Coinbase believes that broader and product-neutral rules will help expand choices, promote competition, and provide more opportunities for young people in the United States to engage in diversified investments and wealth accumulation. The qualified investments proposed by the Internal Revenue Service in the growth phase are currently mainly limited to tracking a broad stock index of U.S. companies, unleveraged mutual funds or ETFs with an annual fee rate not exceeding 0.1%.

According to Cointelegraph, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the United States has stipulated that for transactions in 2025, brokers generally need to report the sales income from digital assets, but in most cases, they do not need to report the cost basis, and taxpayers still need to calculate their gains and losses themselves; starting from 2026, brokers will need to report the cost basis for eligible digital assets. The IRS also emphasized that even if a taxpayer does not receive a 1099-DA, they still must report income and gains and losses related to digital assets.During the first tax season applying the 1099-DA reporting rules for cryptocurrency assets in the United States, some investors are facing issues such as missing transaction data and difficulties in verifying cost basis. A survey conducted by Awaken Tax in August among 1,000 U.S. cryptocurrency investors showed that 21% of respondents who have filed or plan to file for an extension are still waiting for exchanges or cryptocurrency platforms to provide the necessary information; about 20% indicated that their 1099-DA form information is incomplete or are unsure whether it accurately reflects their trading situation.

Market news reports that Nvidia has committed to invest 1 billion dollars in NScale, with the funds expected to be in place by mid-November.

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated that Bitget is conducting a comprehensive investigation into the recent platform security incident in collaboration with independent third-party expert Mandiant and Slow Mist. The platform will continue to release the latest updates through official channels.He emphasized that ensuring user safety is Bitget's top priority at the moment, and user balances remain intact. The Bitget User Protection Fund will cover the impacts caused by this platform-level incident. The Bitget Wallet is a self-custody wallet, using infrastructure that is completely separate and independent from Bitget Exchange, and therefore was not affected by this incident.Currently, the recharge, trading, and reward functions of Bitget Exchange are still operating normally. The withdrawal function remains suspended during additional security checks and will be reopened as soon as the platform confirms it can be safely restored.

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.