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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.

Chi Lo, a strategist at Societe Generale, stated that although the market expects two more rate hikes, it is unlikely that the Federal Reserve's rate hike in September will mark the beginning of a new tightening cycle similar to that of 2022 to 2023. Instead, this may signal the start of preventive rate hikes aimed at bringing inflation back to target levels by reversing last year's three rate cuts.He noted that further rate hikes will not alleviate external shocks such as war and energy price inflation, but they will ease financial market concerns about the Federal Reserve's anti-inflation credibility. The Federal Reserve cannot continue to ignore recurring shocks or those that fail to dissipate as expected. By slowing down activity in other areas of the economy to curb inflationary pressures, further rate hikes may also carry the risk of pushing the economy into stagflation.

The government of Kazakhstan is promoting the use of associated gas to power cryptocurrency mining, in order to restore the mining industry affected by power restrictions. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a decree in July requiring the establishment of mechanisms for enterprises to conduct digital mining using associated gas.Daniyar Mubarakov, head of the Blockchain and Digital Mining Association, stated that the total amount of associated gas in Kazakhstan can be converted into 1.2 to 1.3 terawatt-hours of electricity, sufficient to support medium or large data centers or Bitcoin mines in some oil fields. The Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan estimates that there are up to 60 oil fields in the country producing associated gas. Oil companies can sell waste gas to miners, reducing disposal costs by millions of dollars, while miners can lock in electricity prices for years, reducing dependence on grid power.The government of Kazakhstan is developing a relevant legal framework to clarify the operational rules for enterprises and regulate the market. Gizzat Baitursynov, Deputy Minister of AI and Digital Development of Kazakhstan, stated that this mechanism will increase government tax revenue and improve the environment.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), the GMGN associated address deposited 6,100 ETH to Coinbase, worth approximately 16.38 million USD.Looking back, this ETH was transferred from the Robinhood network to the Ethereum mainnet 6 days ago, possibly as revenue from transaction fees on the Robinhood network.

According to Euronews, Kazakhstan is promoting cryptocurrency mining companies to utilize the remaining associated gas from oil fields to build their own power stations, in order to reduce natural gas flaring, alleviate pressure on the national power grid, and increase oil production.Data shows that the country will flare about 300 to 340 million cubic meters of associated gas in 2024, which, if used for power generation, is expected to produce 1.2 to 1.3 terawatt-hours of electricity. Currently, the Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan and other departments are formulating the relevant legal framework.

Summer Mersinger, former commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), will step down as CEO of the industry advocacy organization Blockchain Association at the end of the year and leave the organization. The organization announced on Friday that Mersinger will officially resign on October 16, and her predecessor, Kristin Smith, will return as interim CEO. Mersinger joined Blockchain Association in June 2025, after leaving the CFTC three years before the end of her second commissioner term.When discussing her departure, Mersinger stated that she came here from the CFTC because she believes the industry deserves clear rules and a credible and unified representative to speak for it in Washington. The Blockchain Association highlighted Mersinger's work in promoting the GENIUS Act and helping to achieve regulatory clarity at the SEC and CFTC in its statement.Notably, the organization did not mention the Digital Asset Market Clear Act currently under consideration in the Senate. This bill failed to gain enough support from Democratic and Republican lawmakers in a procedural vote earlier this month, and many experts expect the legislation to be shelved until 2027. The Blockchain Association did not immediately respond to inquiries about Mersinger's plans for 2027.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the wallet 0x6436 associated with Hyperliquid Strategies Inc has purchased another 494,200 HYPE (worth 45.8 million USD) in the past 16 hours.In the past month, this wallet has accumulated a total purchase of 5.51 million HYPE (worth 476 million USD), with an average daily purchase of 183,574 HYPE (worth 15.86 million USD). Hyperliquid Strategies Inc currently holds 35.1 million HYPE (worth 3.2 billion USD).

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, the multi-signature associated address of WLD (Worldcoin) has deposited 42.37 million WLD to Binance in the past 8 hours, worth approximately 19.59 million USD.This is the first time this address has deposited to the exchange in 5 months, and after this deposit, the address has fully liquidated its holdings.

Onchain Lens reported that two associated wallets, possibly controlled by the same entity, have staked a total of 212,590 HYPE, worth approximately 20.49 million USD.One wallet staked 106,410 HYPE (about 10.25 million USD), while the other wallet staked 106,180 HYPE (about 10.24 million USD). The relevant addresses are 0x8bddfed1ec21bde1ee812a2a74c07dad69f76aec and 0x1ca9e572e5000e825e2e152f6ec5c511404d5120.

According to official disclosures from Coinbase, it has collaborated with Microsoft and several institutions to combat the AI-driven cybercrime platform EvilTokens. This platform offers "phishing as a service" through Telegram bots, utilizing AI to analyze trust relationships and payment permissions in compromised email accounts, and bypassing multi-factor authentication through Microsoft's device code login process.The Coinbase global intelligence team tracked that between October 2025 and June 2026, EvilTokens generated approximately $1.1 million in revenue through four Tron addresses, involving over 1,000 deposits from more than 700 different addresses. The related evidence supported Microsoft's civil lawsuit, ultimately leading to the seizure of 50 websites and the deactivation of over 175 associated domain names. The Metropolitan Police Service of the United Kingdom arrested the relevant operators and seized digital devices on September 11. Coinbase stated that this incident did not result in the leakage of Coinbase accounts or credentials, but some customers were manipulated into transferring cryptocurrency to the scammers' addresses through phishing emails.

The Zcash Foundation issued a statement indicating that it was previously unaware of the "ZRC-20" and CASH token-related matters. This project belongs to a third-party private project and is not an official Zcash token standard or protocol feature. It also reminds users to conduct thorough research before interacting with any tokens.

REX Shares and Tuttle Capital Management jointly launched a leveraged ETF------T-REX 2X Long ASST Daily Target ETF, which began trading on Friday at the Cboe exchange under the ticker ASSX. The fund aims to achieve 200% of Strive's daily stock price performance before fees, providing traders with a leveraged betting avenue on this Bitcoin treasury company.Unlike spot Bitcoin ETFs, ASSX does not hold Bitcoin nor track its price, but instead offers leveraged exposure to Strive's stock price. The fund resets its leverage daily, so returns over more than one trading day may significantly differ from Strive's twofold performance. REX and Tuttle stated that the two companies also launched 2x leveraged ETFs related to Strategy, BitMine, Cipher Mining, Circle, and SharpLink.According to data from BitcoinTreasuries.NET, Strive currently holds 25,000 Bitcoins, making it the fifth largest Bitcoin holder among publicly traded companies. The company last purchased 469 Bitcoins, financing the acquisition through the sale of its perpetual preferred stock SATA. On Friday, Strive's stock price rose 6.4%, closing at $30.09.

According to Arkham monitoring, the Ethereum Foundation transferred approximately 2.45 million dollars worth of ETH to an unmarked Gnosis Safe multi-signature wallet. It is currently unclear whether the wallet is controlled by the foundation.The Ethereum Foundation address still holds approximately 235.46 million dollars worth of ETH and 23 million dollars worth of USDC.

The synthetic dollar agreement Ethena announced that it has completed a SOC 2 Type II audit based on Security Trust Services Criteria, receiving an unqualified opinion from an independent auditor with zero exceptions. SOC 2 is a widely recognized standard for enterprise-level operational security assurance, independently auditing Ethena's actual operations in access control, change management, monitoring, and incident response.Unlike the Type I report, which only examines the design of controls at a specific point in time, Type II assesses whether these controls have been effectively operating over a period. The audit covers the infrastructure and processes supporting its products, complementing the smart contract audits and security reviews covering the Ethena protocol. Ethena stated that it will continue to maintain SOC 2 coverage, with the complete report available to partners under NDA. Ethena joins the list of on-chain enterprises that have completed SOC 2 Type II, including Circle, Chainlink, and Aave.

On September 15, MediaTek announced the next-generation flagship chip, Dimensity 9600 Pro, at the 2026 Dimensity flagship product launch event. According to the official introduction, this chip is manufactured using TSMC's 2nm process, with over 33 billion transistors.The chip adopts a heterogeneous computing architecture that integrates CPU, GPU, NPU, ISP, and other computing cores, with AI as the core engine. It features an all-large-core architecture, equipped with dual super-large cores C2-Ultra at 4.55GHz, three large cores C2-Pro at 4.35GHz, and three large cores C2-Pro at 3.1GHz, along with 34.5MB of L2+L3+system cache, supporting LPDDR6 memory and UFS 5.0 flash storage. Compared to Dimensity 9500, the power consumption of the super-large cores has decreased by 37%, and the multi-core power consumption has decreased by 61%.In GeekBench V6.4, it scored 4276 points in single-core and 12650 points in multi-core, representing an improvement of about 17% in single-core and about 15% in multi-core compared to Dimensity 9500. The NPU adopts a dual NPU architecture, equipped with APU 1090, with peak performance improved by 51%. MediaTek claims to have maintained the number one position in global smartphone SoC market share for six consecutive years.

According to Eleanor Terrett, host of Crypto In America, eight banking industry associations stated in a letter to Senate leaders that the newly added "circuit breaker mechanism" for deposit outflows in the revised Clarity bill text is not a safeguard at all, believing that this mechanism will only be activated after a significant outflow of deposits has already occurred.The aforementioned associations called for further tightening of the wording related to stablecoin rewards to close what they believe are still potential loopholes that could allow for interest payments on stablecoin balances, with the core demands largely unchanged.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, the LSK project's associated address deposited 3.29 million tokens to Binance 5 hours ago, valued at 3.79 million USD; this deposit occurred after the first rapid decline of LSK (from 2 USD to 1 USD), and shortly after the deposit, a second wave of plummet occurred (from 1.22 USD to 0.7 USD), now rebounding to 1.17 USD.

Solana social wallet Hey Wallet announced on X that it will shut down its product. This product allows users to send SOL through tweets, tip creators, mint NFTs, and conduct transactions on X, Discord, and Telegram.Hey Wallet thanks users who have used the above features and reminds users to back up their wallets.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a wallet suspected to be related to Cumberland (0x091D...8336) has purchased PONS daily over the past week, withdrawing a total of 8.5 million PONS from Gate, worth 6.55 million USD.