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According to official news, Tether announced a partnership with the fintech company Shiga to utilize its open-source Wallet Development Kit (WDK) to launch self-custody financial products for individuals and institutions in Africa and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region.The two parties will launch two core products: the self-custody wallet ENTA for individuals and businesses, which supports deposits in fiat currency or Bitcoin, and holds and transfers Tether (USDT), Bitcoin, and Tether Gold (XAUT); and the infrastructure Pulse for banks and financial institutions, aimed at assisting institutions in customizing digital asset services for specific payment channels and fund settlement processes, and supporting institutions in deploying in a private environment to retain key control.In addition, Shiga is currently completing the final approval process for the digital asset license in Nigeria, and once approved, will conduct compliant digital asset trading, brokerage, and custody services in the country.

On September 27, Doubao Mobile Assistant released a statement in the official community regarding the abnormal usage of the Nubia NaviX Ultra phone in Honor of Kings, stating that starting from the evening of September 24, they have received feedback from users that the Nubia NaviX Ultra equipped with Doubao Mobile Assistant displays an abnormal device environment prompt when logging into Honor of Kings or during matchmaking, and users are forcibly kicked offline.Doubao Mobile Assistant stated: Upon confirmation, they have not made any operations on the Tencent game system throughout the process, and there are no violations such as unauthorized clicks, cheats, or simulation behaviors by the AI. The team is still in communication with relevant parties at Tencent, and as of now, they have not received a clear response, for which they apologize. The assistant also advises users not to repeatedly attempt to log into Honor of Kings on this model. If the account has been banned, users can appeal through the official game customer service channels.Tencent has not publicly responded. On September 28, a reporter learned from informed sources that Honor of Kings ensures game fairness through various security risk strategies, and these strategies have been consistently used over the past period without targeted adjustments.

The Bitcoin DeFi project Omnity Network announced that it will gradually cease operations due to depleted operating funds. Its products RichSwap and Satsman will stop operations within the next 30 days. The team reminds RichSwap liquidity providers to withdraw liquidity as soon as possible and states that it will upgrade the smart contracts and lift existing lock-up restrictions so that users can withdraw funds without limitations.A specific timeline for operations and liquidity withdrawal guidelines will be announced soon, and support channels will remain open for 30 days during the transition period to assist users in completing related operations. Although the project will cease operations, core team members will continue to support the Bitcoin ecosystem and plan to participate in related development through personal and developer collaborative organizations.

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.

According to Cointelegraph, the prediction market platform Kalshi won an important ruling from the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, allowing it to continue operating its event contracts in Ohio and Tennessee.The ruling involves a dispute between Kalshi and the relevant state regulatory agencies regarding whether event contracts can continue to be offered. Cointelegraph stated that the court ruled to allow Kalshi's event contracts to continue operating in the aforementioned two states.

Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and Minister of Foreign Affairs, stated that as the two largest economies in the world, China and the United States benefit from cooperation and suffer from conflict. The economic and trade teams of both sides have reached a new joint arrangement, including the establishment of a Trade and Investment Council, the formation of an Agricultural Working Group, and a reciprocal tax reduction of 30 billion dollars, which has stabilized the economic and trade relations and market confidence between the two countries.

The Sui ecosystem decentralized finance protocol AlphaFi announced the initiation of an orderly shutdown procedure. It has now entered maintenance mode, halting new deposits and loans. Existing users can still close positions and withdraw assets.Previously, some loan positions in AlphaLend that used ALPHA as collateral experienced severe under-collateralization, leading to bad debts for the protocol. Currently, the related bad debts have been fully covered, and the protocol is solvent, ensuring user fund safety. AlphaFi will continue to cooperate with the Sui Foundation to investigate and recover related debts, and will officially exit the Sui ecosystem after the last user completes their withdrawal.

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.

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.

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.

The Central Bank of Brazil issued resolutions No. 588 and No. 589, requiring virtual asset service providers (VASP) to report self-custody wallet transactions that amount to or exceed $10,000, and to strengthen anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regulations.Resolution No. 588 stipulates that relevant transaction data will be submitted to the Financial Activities Control Council (COAF). This agency may compile transactions based on this data and establish a self-custody address database to record the asset status of Brazilian users holding cryptocurrencies through authorized centralized exchanges. Resolution No. 589 prohibits conducting business with virtual asset service institutions or entities operating in Brazil without authorization. The new regulations will take effect on October 1, 2026, and currently, only 5 VASPs have applied for licenses to operate in Brazil.

Anthropic announced a $12 billion artificial intelligence computing partnership with Akamai.

According to Bloomberg, the New York State government has filed a lawsuit accusing the prediction market platform Polymarket of operating an illegal gambling business. Specific allegations in the lawsuit and the remedies sought by New York State have not yet disclosed further details.

According to The Block, the Solana Foundation announced the appointment of Rachel Conlan as Chief Strategy Officer and Jamal Raees as General Manager of Payment Business to expand institutional adoption and payment operations. Conlan previously worked at Binance for three years and held senior management positions at companies such as OKX; Raees comes from Polygon Labs and will be responsible for collaborating with payment companies, enterprises, and ecosystem partners to promote Solana as a global payment infrastructure.The Solana Foundation stated that this year, Solana's stablecoin trading volume has exceeded $50 trillion, the on-chain real-world assets (RWA) scale has surpassed $4.5 billion, and the supply of tokenized stocks has exceeded $620 million.

On September 24, the official homepage of the local AI assistant QClaw displayed that due to business adjustments, QClaw will stop new user registrations starting today and will officially cease operations on December 24. The official statement indicated that user data migration will be supported, and migration users will receive point subsidies.According to Jiupai News, on March 10 of this year, Tencent launched the entire "Lobster" product matrix, covering general users, developers, and enterprise users. The products include WorkBuddy, QClaw, Tencent Cloud Lighthouse, intelligent agent development platform ADP, Tencent Cloud Desktop, and more. Tencent announced at that time that QClaw was in internal testing.Tencent introduced that QClaw is a local AI assistant launched based on OpenClaw, supporting one-click installation on Windows and Mac, and can be remotely controlled through WeChat conversations. After users send commands via WeChat on their phones, the assistant can automatically operate the computer to perform tasks and return results.

According to AIM, AI-native operating system development company Brahma AI raised $150 million through the issuance of preferred stock, with Multiples Alternate Asset Management contributing $100 million.Brahma AI's clients include Warner Bros, NBA, Google, Hakuhodo, and DNEG as its strategic distribution partners. The company's platform focuses on enterprise content intelligence and media evaluation platform Brahma AI Core and creative production suite Brahma AI Studio, with technology covering areas such as visual AI, digital humans, voice, and multilingual performances.

The cryptocurrency derivatives platform BitMEX has ceased trading, deposits, and opening new positions, retaining only the withdrawal function. The platform announced on social media platform X that as of this Tuesday at 04:00 UTC, the aforementioned services will no longer be available. Users can still log in and withdraw their balances through the official website, but deposits have been confirmed as impossible. BitMEX was co-founded by Arthur Hayes, Ben Delo, and Samuel Reed in 2014, known for promoting perpetual contracts as mainstream trading tools in the cryptocurrency derivatives market.BitMEX urges customers to withdraw their funds as soon as possible and states that account fees will be charged to users with completed KYC certification who still have a balance, billed monthly, at a standard of 1% annualized on assets or a minimum equivalent of $50, whichever is higher. The company emphasizes that this shutdown does not freeze customer assets, and the withdrawal channel remains open during the liquidation process.BitMEX announced its closure in July this year, following a strategic assessment by its parent company HDR Global Trading, as the exchange's market share in the perpetual contract market it helped create continued to decline. According to research data from CoinDesk, the monthly trading volume of centralized cryptocurrency exchange derivatives reached $3.4 trillion in August, with an annual scale potentially reaching $50 trillion. Previously, BitMart also announced its shutdown in July after nine years of operation due to market conditions.

According to BBX data, yesterday, publicly listed companies in the U.S. and cross-border financial infrastructure disclosed the latest developments in the restructuring of cryptocurrency businesses and global compliance stablecoin settlements. The core information is as follows:Hyperscale Data (NYSE: $GPUS) established a subsidiary, Patriot BTC, to independently undertake mining operations and assets: Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company and AI data center infrastructure company Hyperscale Data officially announced the establishment of a new wholly-owned subsidiary, Patriot BTC. The purpose of this subsidiary is to hold and operate the company's cryptocurrency mining business, mining machines, and related on-chain assets as a completely independent business entity, in order to further optimize the overall asset structure of the parent company and align with the implementation of the AI computing power center strategy.Reap plans to launch multi-national local currency stablecoins to build a 24/7 on-chain foreign exchange trading network: The multinational payment technology platform Reap, which has received strategic support from Kraken's parent company Payward and is a core partner of Visa, announced plans to successively launch local currency stablecoins in multiple countries and regions to achieve 24/7 on-chain foreign exchange settlements. Reap will first launch the Mexican Peso (MXN) stablecoin and is accelerating the exploration of issuing various local currency stablecoins, including the Hong Kong Dollar (HKD), Euro (EUR), South Korean Won (KRW), and Japanese Yen (JPY). This layout aims to completely break the physical limitations of traditional commercial bank operating hours, providing multinational companies with efficient and low-friction on-chain cross-border foreign exchange clearing solutions during nighttime and weekends.

The Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Russia, Vladimir Chistyukhin, stated that the country's cryptocurrency industry may have the necessary conditions to operate legally by the end of the year, with relevant regulations progressing as planned. According to the International News Agency, Chistyukhin mentioned that significant and large-scale secondary regulatory rules are currently being formulated, and the "fine-tuning" of internal rules is expected to be completed by the end of 2026.This year, Russia has continued to advance cryptocurrency legislation. President Putin signed a law in August that establishes a regulatory framework for digital currencies and digital rights, but the use of Bitcoin for payments remains prohibited. The central bank has approved the public to trade Bitcoin on the country's cryptocurrency exchanges, and non-qualified investors can purchase Bitcoin and other assets worth 300,000 rubles (approximately $3,582) through a single intermediary, while qualified investors face no restrictions.Russia's largest bank, Sberbank, plans to launch Bitcoin and cryptocurrency wallets and digital asset custody services in December. The bank expects that the trading volume of its new cryptocurrency business could reach 40 trillion rubles (approximately $4.7 billion) in its first year. Since 2022, Russia has prohibited the use of digital assets as a means of payment or legal tender, but lawmakers have made exceptions for international payments, likely aimed at circumventing Western sanctions. After the Russia-Ukraine conflict in 2022, the U.S. and Europe excluded Russia from the SWIFT system, and the Russian Finance Minister stated that the country's enterprises have been using Bitcoin to bypass related restrictions.