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A post published by the official X account of the decentralized lending protocol Morpho stated that most curator businesses cannot sustain their operations solely through treasury fees, and their business model actually relies on private distribution agreements. The post has since been deleted.In response to this matter, Aave founder Stani Kulechov stated that this is the most pessimistic statement for MORPHO holders. Morpho CEO Paul Frambot responded that the post was published by a third-party artificial intelligence marketing tool.Morpho is a decentralized lending protocol operating on networks such as Ethereum, matching borrowers and lenders through a treasury and curator mechanism while managing funds. The curator business refers to a model where third-party institutions create and manage treasuries based on the Morpho protocol and generate income from related fees.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a mysterious giant whale has once again exchanged 200.71 Bitcoins (BTC) for 6,247 Ethers (ETH), with a transaction value of approximately 17.2 million USD.In the past 6 days, this giant whale has cumulatively exchanged 1,308 BTC for 40,670 ETH, with a total value of approximately 104 million USD, and has staked all the obtained ETH.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "Counter-Strike: Astralis vs Sangal (BO3) - Stake Pulse Beat II Group A," the option "Astralis" in the sub-market "Match Winner" has experienced a drastic fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 82% an hour ago to the current 56.5% (a fluctuation of 25.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a certain whale sold 1,107 Bitcoins on Hyperliquid over the past 5 days, worth 86.76 million dollars; subsequently, it bought 34,400 ETH, worth 86.50 million dollars, and staked all of it.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a newly created wallet (address 0xC2f1) withdrew 2,695 ETH (worth 6.94 million USD) from Gemini 5 hours ago and staked all of it.

Cryptocurrency asset company Bitmine Immersion Technologies announced last week that it has increased its holdings by 27,180 ETH, bringing its total ETH holdings to over 5.95 million, valued at approximately $1.54 billion, accounting for about 4.9% of the circulating supply of Ethereum. Including cash and other cryptocurrency assets, the company's total holdings amount to approximately $15.8 billion.Bitmine stated that currently over 5.06 million ETH are staked, and based on the current yield, it is expected to generate approximately $334 million in staking income annually, with about 85% of its ETH holdings used for staking. In comparison, the staking ratio for Grayscale Ethereum Staked ETF (ETHE) is 84.6%. Since BTC does not generate native staking income, this strategy has advantages over treasury companies holding Bitcoin. On Monday, Bitmine's stock price remained flat, around $25, having risen nearly 38% over the past month.Meanwhile, Michael Saylor's Strategy has not purchased Bitcoin for the second consecutive week, instead opting to repurchase its STRC preferred shares. Between September 8 and 13, Strategy spent $139.3 million to repurchase approximately 1.42 million shares of STRC, following a previous week where it repurchased $176.3 million worth of STRC. As of September 13, Strategy's Bitcoin holdings remained unchanged at 845,050 coins.

According to The Defiant, Kraken has launched three xStocks vaults, allowing eligible customers to deposit SPYx, QQQx, and NVDAx into the vaults while earning floating returns while retaining exposure to tokenized stocks or ETFs. The vault initially shows an estimated net APY of 2% for SPYx and QQQx, and 1.8% for NVDAx. Kraken charges a 25% performance fee on vault earnings, and the displayed interest rate has already deducted this fee; rewards will be converted into the same type of xStock and automatically reinvested into the customer's balance.The strategy is designed by Sentora and is responsible for risk management, while Veda provides the vault infrastructure. After customers deposit xStock, Kraken transfers it to an embedded self-custody wallet on Ink, packages it, and deposits it into the Veda vault; Sentora then cross-chain transfers the packaged xStock to Solana and deposits it as collateral in the Kamino lending market. After borrowing stablecoins, it is deployed into selected DeFi strategies, and the returns are ultimately converted back into the deposited xStock. Customers do not need an external wallet or mnemonic phrase but can export the private key; redemption requires a three-day wait for funds to arrive.Kraken's documentation shows that the strategy uses leverage to generate returns by borrowing stablecoins and lists risks such as smart contracts, liquidity, bad debts, liquidation, cross-chain execution, and downstream assets, with losses shared proportionally among vault users. xStock holders do not have voting rights, dividend rights, or legal claims to the underlying stocks. The vault is currently available to the European Economic Area and other supported markets, while users from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, the United Arab Emirates, and sanctioned countries cannot use it.

On-chain detective ZachXBT posted on his personal channel that Revolut allegedly leaked some users' personal identifiable information (PII) due to failing to recognize a forged government agency information request.According to his disclosure, Revolut previously received a request for customer information retrieval that appeared to come from a real government agency and was sent through the agency's official email domain. Because the email had valid domain authentication information, Revolut believed the request was legitimate and responded accordingly.The potentially involved data includes users' names, birth dates, occupations, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers, as well as copies of passports or driver's licenses, identity verification selfies, account statements, IBANs, withdrawal records, and complete transaction histories, including Bitcoin transaction records. Revolut stated in the notification sent to users that no biometric facial telemetry data was leaked.ZachXBT indicated that the scale of the incident may currently be limited, but it appears to primarily target high-net-worth users. Several Revolut users received notifications regarding the related security incident yesterday. Revolut officials had previously reminded users to verify suspicious information through in-app customer service to avoid providing personal or financial information.

F2Pool co-founder and stakefish founder Wang Chun tweeted that Oleksii Trofimchuk filed a lawsuit against Lido Finance and stakefish on September 8 in the Santa Clara County Superior Court, accusing them of allowing competing MEV bots to submit high-priority fee transactions to claim the ETH after his wallet was hacked.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a suspected address related to @HypeStrat (0x6436...0103) has accumulated and staked 365,000 HYPE in the last 24 hours, worth $29.65 million.In the past half month, this address has gradually accumulated and staked 3.029 million HYPE, worth $252 million, with an average price of about $83.4. According to the data released yesterday, it currently holds 31.8 million HYPE, worth $2.513 billion.

According to CoinDesk, the Bitcoin mortgage product jointly launched by Better Mortgage and Coinbase has been fully launched last week. Borrowers can pledge Bitcoin at a 250% collateral rate to pay for the down payment on a home. For example, to purchase a $500,000 property, one would need to pledge $250,000 in Bitcoin to support a $100,000 down payment. Since the full launch, the pre-application loan scale has reached $360 million, higher than the previous estimated $260 million from the waiting list users.At closing, borrowers will receive two loans: one is a conventional mortgage secured by the property that meets Fannie Mae standards, and the other is a down payment loan secured by pledged Bitcoin and a subordinate lien on the property. Better disclosed that it may re-pledge the Bitcoin pledged by borrowers, as long as an equivalent amount of assets is retained for return. Borrowers cannot retrieve their crypto assets early and must wait until the conventional mortgage is fully repaid or refinanced to recover them, meaning Bitcoin may be locked for up to 15 to 30 years.Unlike typical crypto loans, a drop in Bitcoin prices will not trigger a margin call or automatic liquidation; liquidation of pledged assets may only occur 60 days after the borrower defaults. Coinbase only acts as a custodian and technology provider and does not participate in credit decisions. Currently, the product only supports Bitcoin collateral; both parties mentioned USDC when announced in March but ultimately chose to launch with BTC first.

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Greg Abel stated in an interview with CNBC that the company plans to hold its stakes in Japan's five major trading companies as a long-term investment, expecting to hold them for decades. Currently, Berkshire holds over 10% of shares in each of the five major trading companies and is continuously exploring other cooperation opportunities in Japan and overseas with these enterprises. Abel also mentioned that despite the 10-year Japanese government bond yield rising to about 3%, the five major trading companies do not view the rise in interest rates as a fundamental challenge, and Berkshire still plans to issue yen bonds as needed.Regarding AI investments, Abel stated that the rapid development of artificial intelligence and the practical applications of AI by Berkshire's subsidiaries are among the important reasons for the company's optimism about Alphabet. On the construction of AI data centers, he believes that energy supply and related infrastructure development remain major constraints, which also presents significant opportunities for Berkshire and Berkshire Energy. Abel pointed out that the company is willing to provide energy services for large tech companies' data centers, but on the condition that it does not harm the interests of other customers and should bring net benefits to the local community.In terms of the U.S. housing market, Abel stated that Berkshire takes a long-term view of the housing industry, believing that the "American Dream" will continue, but there will not be a rapid recovery in the short term, and the industry may still face fluctuations for some time. Regarding the overall economy, he noted that most of Berkshire's large businesses performed strongly as of the second quarter, with demand still robust, but American consumers are under significant pressure and need to be more cautious in managing their income; overall, the economic fundamentals that Berkshire currently sees remain "very strong."

U.S. Treasury Secretary Blinken stated that they are communicating with any parties supporting Iran, warning airlines, shipping companies, and digital asset stakeholders that they may become targets of a new round of sanctions.He mentioned that the U.S. will systematically "remove bad actors" concerning the Iran issue and advise all parties to steer clear of related transactions and cooperation regarding Iran and Russia, emphasizing that support should not be provided to the aforementioned regimes.

According to market news, the new address "0x9807...19c9D" withdrew approximately 44.19 million ENA from Coinbase about 4 hours ago, worth approximately 6.82 million dollars, and staked all the tokens to the Ethereum-based stablecoin protocol Ethena contract about 3 hours ago.

Kuaishou's subsidiary Keling AI has received investment from a national industrial fund. The National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund has invested 1.4 billion yuan in Beijing Keling, while Charoen Pokphand Robotics has invested approximately 19.29 million USD, equivalent to about 131 million yuan.This is a follow-up to Keling's nearly 3 billion USD financing plan announced in July. The announcement shows that the upper limit of this round of capital increase, approximately 20.447 billion yuan (about 3 billion USD), has been fully utilized. The National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund and Charoen Pokphand Robotics will ultimately hold approximately 1.14% and 0.11% of the shares, respectively.The National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund involved in this investment has a scale of approximately 60.06 billion yuan and is controlled by the third phase of the National Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund.

Bitcoin mining company BitMine Immersion Technologies stated in its latest staking disclosure that as of August 30, it has staked 5,067,309 ETH, valued at approximately $12.7 billion based on a price of $2,511. The company's disclosed staking balance remained unchanged from August 9 to 30, while it added 53,501 ETH in the latest week, bringing its total holdings to 5,901,112 ETH.BitMine indicated that its Ethereum vault accounts for about 4.9% of the total Ethereum supply of 120.7 million coins, and the company had previously set a target to acquire 5% of the total Ethereum supply. The company has set the annualized yield for its staking operations over the past seven days at 2.63%, stating that the annualized staking income corresponding to the current holdings is approximately $335 million; if the entire ETH balance is staked through its self-built network and staking partners at the same yield, the annualized staking rewards could reach $390 million.BitMine officially launched its self-built "Made in America Validator Network" (MAVAN) in April this year. In its April disclosure, the company mentioned that some staked ETH had already been deployed on MAVAN, but did not specify the exact amount. BitMine's staking holdings were 4,879,157 ETH at the beginning of July, surpassed 5 million on August 9, and have remained stable in the subsequent four weekly disclosures. The company's chairman, Tom Lee, has stated that BitMine's staked ETH amount exceeds that of any other entity.

Famous trader Killa posted that Bitcoin will reach a new historical high next year, and ultimately, it won't matter if it is bought at $100,000. As time goes by, these barriers will be left behind. The biggest mistake is to stay on the sidelines.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, over the past few months, four wallets have withdrawn a total of 675,000 HYPE (approximately 53.92 million USD) from Coinbase. These funds were then transferred to Hyperliquid and staked.

SBI Holdings, a Japanese financial services group, announced an investment of $270 million in the Indonesian multi-asset investment platform Ajaib Group, acquiring approximately 20% minority equity, making the Jakarta-based Ajaib an equity method associate of SBI. Ajaib confirmed this strategic investment in a LinkedIn post on Friday, stating that it is the largest tech financing in Indonesia since 2022, bringing its total funding since 2019 to over $500 million.Ajaib offers investment channels including domestic and international stocks, bonds, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds, crypto assets, stablecoins, commodities, and foreign exchange, while also covering payment and savings services, and providing over-the-counter stablecoin settlement services and liquidity support for Indonesian businesses and institutional investors. SBI stated that this collaboration will promote the adoption of digital assets in Asia and continue to expand its business footprint in the region.The SBI Group operates the Japanese crypto exchange SBI VC Trade, the Singapore exchange Coinhako, and the UK market maker B2C2. Other digital asset projects include the yen stablecoin JPYSC and the Layer 1 blockchain Strium developed for financial applications. SBI Holdings Chairman and President Yoshitaka Kitao stated that in the era of tokenization, the importance of global infrastructure for digital assets is increasingly prominent. SBI is establishing a network of digital asset exchanges in Southeast Asia through the "SBI APAC Digital Economic Zone" initiative, and Ajaib's model of combining traditional financial products with digital assets aligns with this strategy.