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Goldman Sachs has connected its approximately $100 billion government bond fund FTIXX to the digital asset settlement network Lynq, providing a new subscription channel for institutional-level crypto companies. The fund will be listed on Lynq, with trading handled by tZERO Securities, a broker-dealer registered with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. This is the first external fund introduced to the Lynq network, which previously only had a single investment product.Unlike most blockchain-based fund products on Wall Street, FTIXX has not been tokenized. BlackRock's BUIDL is a tokenized fund, and Franklin Templeton offers tokenized shares of money market funds through BENJI, while Goldman Sachs retains the traditional fund format of FTIXX, with Lynq opening new access channels for digital asset companies. Lynq CEO Jerald David stated that there is a convergence occurring between traditional market participants and digital asset market participants.For institutions using Lynq, FTIXX provides a place to store cash and earn returns during trading gaps, redeemable when needed. David mentioned that clients have been looking for government bond assets on the platform that offer yields different from existing tools. Lynq's partners include B2C2, Wintermute, Galaxy, FalconX, Crypto.com, and Fireblocks. The network operates on a private permissioned Avalanche Layer 1 blockchain and has connected over 30 institutional digital asset companies, with assets exceeding $89 million.

The political action committee (PAC) Defend American Jobs, allied with the cryptocurrency industry and primarily funded by the industry, disclosed in documents submitted to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that it has spent $11.4 million on media advertising to support Republican Jon Husted and oppose Democrat Sherrod Brown in the campaign for the Ohio U.S. Senate seat.This PAC is affiliated with Fairshake, which is supported by Coinbase and Ripple Labs. This advertising expenditure is part of Fairshake's commitment to initially invest $30 million to prevent Brown from returning to the Senate. Brown, a former chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, is one of the critical voices in Congress regarding cryptocurrency legislation and policy.In the 2024 Ohio Senate election, the showdown between Brown and Republican Bernie Moreno attracted over $300 million in spending from external groups like Fairshake, with cryptocurrency-related PACs and their affiliates spending about $41 million opposing Brown and supporting Moreno, who ultimately won with 50.2% of the vote. Husted's seat was appointed by Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, succeeding JD Vance, who was elected as the Vice President of the United States in 2024.

Circle has partnered with payment technology company Volante Technologies to integrate USDC-related workflows into Volante's existing payment platform. Financial institutions can incorporate stablecoin payments and settlements into their existing systems without having to build a separate digital asset technology stack.Volante's clients include four of the top five corporate banks globally and seven of the top ten banks in the United States. These institutions will be able to evaluate processes such as USDC minting, redemption, wallet registration, fund injection, and inter-wallet payments, and use them in parallel with existing payment rails.

Solana posted on platform X that it has gradually reduced the target Slot Time from 400 ms to 250 ms, during which the network's block skipping rate remained stable, and the downtime caused by continuous block skipping has also been shortened.However, the shorter Slot Time has led to an increase in voting delays, with nodes in Asia and South America being the most affected. Therefore, further reducing it to 200 ms before the launch of Alpenglow still requires caution.

Glassnode posted on platform X, stating that spot traders are turning to altcoins, and the total spot trading volume of altcoins has now approached nearly 4 times that of Bitcoin, reaching the highest level since September 2025.Glassnode pointed out that this rise in demand for high-risk assets has often coincided with phase tops of BTC in the past.

According to on-chain data, whale Lee Goon Wang has just sold 15,000 ZEC on Hyperliquid through a limit sell order, worth approximately 23 million dollars.The sell order was placed at a price about 30 dollars lower than the market price at that time, a decrease of about 2%.

According to SoSoValue data, as of 8 AM Eastern Time on September 28, 2026, the total net purchase of Bitcoin by global listed companies (excluding mining companies) for the week was $239 million, an increase of 30.4% compared to last week.Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) purchased 1,665 Bitcoins last week at a price of $85,681, spending approximately $143 million, bringing its total holdings to 847,666 Bitcoins.The Japanese listed company Metaplanet did not purchase any Bitcoin last week, marking eleven consecutive weeks without a purchase.In addition, three other companies announced Bitcoin purchases or holdings last week. The French Bitcoin company Capital B announced on September 28 that it purchased 13 Bitcoins at a price of $85,693.40, bringing its total holdings to 3,538 Bitcoins; asset management company Strive announced on September 28 that it spent approximately $94.53 million last week to purchase 1,107 Bitcoins at a price of $85,396, bringing its total holdings to approximately 27,462 Bitcoins.As of the time of publication, the total amount of Bitcoin held by the listed companies worldwide (excluding mining companies) is 1,159,755 Bitcoins, an increase of 0.32% compared to last week, with a current market value of approximately $9.674 billion, accounting for 5.7% of Bitcoin's circulating market value.

According to Cointelegraph, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has released its work plan for 2027, which will coordinate the regulation of Crypto Asset Service Providers (CASP) across countries, focusing on operational resilience, outsourcing risks, liquidity, reverse solicitation, and asset classification. ESMA Chair Verena Ross stated that the focus of MiCA has shifted from rule-making to regulation and convergence.ESMA intends to unify the reports that CASPs submit regularly to national regulatory authorities and promote common risk indicators and regulatory dashboards. ESMA will advance the centralized crypto market monitoring system MIDAS, which will be used to monitor potential market abuse under the MiCA framework.The first phase of the system is expected to be fully operational by 2027. ESMA plans to enhance the analytical capabilities of MIDAS and expand the types of data available in the fourth quarter, pending approval from the Council, while incorporating regulatory experience into the European Commission's MiCA review expected to be completed by June 2027.

Polymarket's Vice President Josh stated on platform X that the team is fully developing a complete Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) based on Rust, as the current CLOB is the root cause of most issues on the platform.According to the plan, the complete order lifecycle process, including trading, settlement, on-chain interaction, indexer, and engine notifications, will be completed in the testing environment in October; in November, all production traffic will be mirrored to the new trading cluster, and results will be compared with the existing system. At the same time, testing permissions will be opened to market makers, and the migration switch plan will be locked in, with two complete drills to be completed before the official switch.Josh also mentioned that if progress goes smoothly, the new system will be officially released, and the migration is expected to require little or no changes for market makers and developers.

According to Crowdfund Insider, digital bank Revolut announced that it has received approval from the Central Bank of Argentina to acquire Banco Cetelem Argentina, a subsidiary of BNP Paribas.After the transaction is completed, the institution will be renamed Revolut Bank Argentina S.A.U. and will operate as a licensed bank, but initially will not offer products or services to the public. It will officially launch local operations after completing the remaining regulatory and operational requirements.Revolut stated that there are currently over 150,000 people on the waiting list for its operations in Argentina.

According to PR Newswire, Ethereum treasury company BitMine increased its holdings by 17,362 Ethereum last week, with total ETH holdings surpassing 6 million for the first time. As of September 27, 2026, its total Ethereum holdings reached 6,001,302, accounting for approximately 4.9% of the total Ethereum supply, with uninterrupted weekly increases since the launch of the ETH treasury strategy on June 30, 2025, in less than 15 months.Currently, the total value of cryptocurrencies, cash, and other investment assets held by BitMine is approximately $17.2 billion, which includes $672 million in cash and securities, 213 Bitcoin, $180 million in equity assets from Beast Industries, and a $115 million investment in Eightco Holdings (ORBS). In addition, the number of staked Ethereum remains at 5,067,309 (84% of total holdings), valued at approximately $13.7 billion, with a current annualized staking yield of about $358 million.Tom Lee stated in the company's weekly report that so far in the third quarter, ETH has outperformed the S&P 500 by over 6,728 basis points, making it the best macro asset globally; he believes that the crypto bull market began in late June, and institutions are currently underweight in crypto assets, expecting to significantly increase their holdings in the last few months of 2026. Additionally, Lee will deliver a keynote speech at the Korea Blockchain Week (KBW) on September 30.

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.

According to Globenewswire, Nasdaq-listed DeFi Development Corp. (DFDV) announced that since September 21, it has increased its holdings by approximately 47,706 SOL, bringing its total SOL and SOL-equivalent holdings to about 2,538,010, currently valued at approximately $309 million.This increase has resulted in a week-over-week growth of about 2% in its SOL holdings, and a growth of about 10% since the release of its second-quarter financial report on August 12, during which it has cumulatively added over 226,000 SOL. The company stated that it will continue to raise funds through channels such as the recently established $300 million CHAD ATM to continue increasing its SOL holdings.

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.

According to the 8-K document submitted by Strategy to the SEC, the company purchased 1,665 bitcoins at an average price of approximately $85,681 from September 21 to 27, 2026, totaling about $142.7 million.During the same period, the company sold 1,469,200 shares of MSTR common stock through its ATM program, raising approximately $246.2 million, of which $142.7 million was used to purchase bitcoins and $103.5 million was used to repurchase STRC preferred stock; additionally, $151.7 million was used to repurchase 1,534,500 shares of STRC preferred stock (of which $103.5 million came from ATM fundraising and $48.1 million from USD Cash), leaving a remaining balance of approximately $723.5 million for the preferred stock repurchase program.As of September 27, Strategy held a total of 847,666 bitcoins, with a total holding cost of approximately $63.95 billion, at an average price of about $75,437. The balance of USD Reserve is $5.02 billion, and the balance of USD Cash is $1 billion.

According to CoinDesk, Franklin Templeton has expanded its "Over-the-Counter Collateral Program" to Bybit, allowing users of the exchange to use their tokenized money market fund shares for cryptocurrency trading. Users can use the shares as collateral to borrow stablecoins USDT or USDC, while the underlying assets continue to generate returns. The relevant shares represent approximately $686 million in net assets.The underlying assets will not be transferred to Bybit but will be held off-chain by the regulated custody platform ByCustody, with their value mirrored in the Bybit trading environment, thereby generating returns while releasing trading liquidity. The shares are issued through the Benji technology platform, which is Franklin Templeton's proprietary blockchain-integrated record-keeping and transfer agency infrastructure, currently paying an annualized return of 3.7% based on the latest 7-day interest rate.This is not Franklin Templeton's first foray into over-the-counter collateral partnerships, as it has previously offered tokenized money market funds to Binance and OKX clients. Sandy Kaul, Head of Digital Assets and Innovation at Franklin Templeton, stated that investors can now use collateral more efficiently across major exchanges and earn returns from it, which is crucial for ecosystem growth. This expansion also reflects industry trends, with platforms like Crypto.com and Deribit allowing qualified users to use BlackRock's BUIDL fund as trading collateral.