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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.

According to official news, OKEx Lite will launch the "Tether USDT Staking Earn Coin" event from September 29, 2026, 15:00 to October 4, 15:00 (UTC+8). During the event, users who purchase ETH can share a total airdrop reward of 400,000 USDT, with a minimum purchase amount of 0.01 ETH.Users can pre-purchase starting from September 28, 18:00 (UTC+8). During the pre-purchase period, users can still earn simple staking interest, while the USDT airdrop rewards will start counting after the event officially begins. Rewards are calculated hourly, and users can redeem their funds at any time; after the event ends, ETH that has not been actively redeemed will continue to participate in the simple staking products.

Japan's top foreign exchange official, Jun Mimura, stated that the market should recognize the "very clear" signals released last week by Japan and the United States regarding the yen issue, demonstrating a determination to take action against excessive declines.Japan's Finance Minister, Shunichi Suzuki, mentioned that U.S. President Trump expressed concerns about the weakness of the yen during a summit with Japanese Prime Minister, Sanae Takaichi. Jun Mimura emphasized that they will closely monitor market reactions and expressed dissatisfaction and unease regarding the recent yen trends.

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.

On September 28, the WEEX AI Trading Hackathon "AI Wars II: The Era of Algorithms" officially launched its fourth round of competition, which will run from 9/28 to 10/2. You can choose to join Team AI or Team Human. The AI team can access automated trading tools such as AI Agents through the WEEX API, while the Human team will engage in manual trading. Both sides will compete in a real market environment, vying for rankings and a prize pool of 25,000 USDT based on PnL%.AI Wars II consists of five rounds of competition, and so far, the Human team is leading the AI team 2:1. The real-time battle status on the WEEX official website shows that in the fourth round, the AI team's return is currently 7 percentage points ahead of the Human team. According to the event rules, the winning team can share 70% of each round's prize pool, while the losing team will still receive 30% of the prize pool share.

Polygon co-founder Sandeep posted on the X platform stating that the POL community has recently accumulated and permanently destroyed 100 million POL through on-chain revenue, accounting for about 1% of the total supply, and will additionally destroy approximately 25 million POL.Sandeep also mentioned that POL (formerly MATIC) is still "the most undervalued and overlooked project." According to him, Polymarket has launched perpetual contracts on Polygon, and with the recent upgrade, Polygon PoS is gradually evolving towards a more advanced blockchain, expecting to achieve a 1 millisecond confirmation time through block flow in the future. Additionally, OMS is about to enable Polygon to handle approximately 1 million new transactions daily.

Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Faisal stated at the United Nations General Assembly that the Strait of Hormuz must be restored to its status before February 28, without any fees or restrictions.He emphasized that Gulf security is closely related to global energy security and the stability of international trade, calling for the assurance of freedom of navigation in international waterways.

The West Midlands Police in the UK reported that a young couple was attacked by masked individuals at their residence in Solihull in December 2025 and were forced to transfer a large amount of assets to the criminals' cryptocurrency wallet. The male victim was seriously injured, while the pregnant female victim was threatened with a knife, and the suspects also stole several high-value watches.The police believe this was a premeditated targeted attack, and the UK independent charity "Crimestoppers" is currently offering a reward of up to £10,000 for any information that could lead to the arrest and conviction of the suspects.

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%.

Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated on the X platform that the Bitget bounty recovery program has been launched: a 5% reward for facilitating the freezing of the attackers' funds, and an additional 5% reward for successfully recovering the funds. She called on exchanges, security researchers, and on-chain investigators to participate in tracking and recovery, and thanked Circle and Tether for their swift freezing actions.According to previous reports, Circle and Tether have frozen 218,023 USDT and 99,990 USDC in addresses related to the Bitget attack, totaling approximately $318,000. Bitget stated that the attack resulted in losses of about $351.6 million, with the attackers breaching the wallet service backend system, forging transfer information, and triggering the authorization signature process, ruling out private key leakage.

Chutianlong recently won the bid for a digital renminbi hardware wallet management system project from an operating organization. The full-stack platform output from hardware supply to issuance continues to enhance the full-link service capability.

According to Gate market data, in pre-market trading of U.S. stocks, AI hardware stocks are almost all rising. Nvidia rose by 0.29%, TSMC rose by 0.46%, Broadcom rose by 1.02%, SK Hynix rose by 1.23%, Micron Technology rose by 0.89%, AMD rose by 1.94%, SanDisk rose by 1.88%, and Marvell Technology rose by 1.61%.

The Oxford Economic Research Institute stated that its U.S. business cycle indicator has fallen into recession territory, as rising energy prices squeeze household incomes and a slowdown in immigration weakens job growth.However, factors such as productivity growth, wealth effects, and AI investment continue to support the economy, showing no typical signs of recession.

According to official news from the Sun Yuchen Prize, the first batch of award winners has officially entered a 14-day public notice period starting September 19. The topics currently under public notice are questions number 305, 371, 381, 526, 866, and 1001, among which candidates for questions 305, 371, and 381 are formal verifiers, candidates for questions 866 and 1001 are mathematical problem solvers, and question 526 has candidates from both roles. The public notice information has been made available on the official GitHub candidate registration form, and the public can submit formal challenges.It is reported that the Sun Yuchen Prize is the world's first zero-trust decentralized academic reward mechanism based on a list of questions, with a maximum single-question prize of 1 million US dollars. On the day of its establishment, the first batch of 66 mathematical problems was announced, with the highest prize of 1 million US dollars awarded to the OpenAI research team in recognition of their solution and formal proof regarding the "existence and smoothness problem of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations." At the same time, the prize operating organization also announced the on-chain address of the prize pool, which has already deposited 10 million US dollars. After the public notice period ends, the prize will be distributed in USDT (TRC20) or USDC (ERC20), and the winners will also receive certificates and medals.

StarkWare stated in an update on September 23 that the estimated GPU computing cost for preparing a quantum secure Bitcoin (QSB) transaction has dropped to below $67, a decrease of about 79% compared to the approximately $320 computing expenditure for the first similar mainnet transaction in August. According to StarkWare, the first QSB transaction was packaged and confirmed on August 26, with the engineering work completed by Tomer Giladi, and submitted directly through MARA's Slipstream service. The preparation process consumed about 3100 GPU hours, utilized around 100 GPUs, and incurred a computing cost of approximately $320, excluding Bitcoin network transaction fees.This cost reduction resulted from the quantum secure Bitcoin optimization challenge initiated on September 16 by StarkWare, Yukon Research, and Eigen Labs. The challenge invited developers, researchers, and AI agents to optimize transaction construction software, ultimately resulting in 62 adopted improvements across two computational tasks required to prepare a QSB transaction, with benchmark tests showing an estimated computing cost reduction of about 79%. The relevant dashboard currently indicates that the estimated cost has further decreased to $66.The QSB proposal was released by StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy in April, introducing hash-based quantum attack protection for transactions without altering Bitcoin's consensus rules. Due to limited cost, complexity, and applicability, he described it at the time as an emergency measure while continuing to advocate for adjustments at the protocol level.

According to BBX data, yesterday global publicly listed companies in the U.S. stock market announced their latest accounts regarding digital asset treasury allocation, targeted private placements, and stock repurchases at a discount. The core updates are as follows:Galaxy Digital (TSX: GLXY) invested $100 million to purchase sUSDS and increased its holdings in SKY tokens: The well-known cryptocurrency financial services firm Galaxy Digital announced that it has utilized $100 million of its own funds to officially incorporate the interest-bearing stablecoin sUSDS from Sky Protocol into its corporate treasury. At the same time, Galaxy has approved sUSDS as compliant collateral for its institutional trading business, allowing institutional clients to apply for loans by pledging sUSDS while continuing to enjoy Sky's savings interest rate benefits. Additionally, Greg Feibus, the global head of capital markets at Sky Frontier Foundation, confirmed that Galaxy also purchased an undisclosed amount of SKY tokens. The two parties have established a new tripartite lending arrangement and are discussing expanding the existing $500 million warehouse financing limit.Forward Industries (NASDAQ: $FWDI) plans to raise $25 million through a registered direct offering, fully allocated to increase its holdings in SOL: The publicly listed company Forward Industries, which is part of the Solana treasury, announced that it has signed a securities purchase agreement with institutional investors to sell 3.125 million shares of common stock at a price of $8 per share through a registered direct issuance, raising a total of approximately $25 million (expected to complete settlement around September 24). A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners is acting as the exclusive placement agent. Forward Industries clearly stated that the net proceeds from this offering will be fully used to increase its holdings in SOL in the secondary market, to expand its SOL treasury size and enhance the per-share fully diluted SOL content.Silvia (formerly ProCap Financial, NASDAQ: $SVIA) reduced its holdings by repurchasing 124 BTC, bringing total holdings down to 5,130 BTC: The Nasdaq-listed company Silvia, under cryptocurrency entrepreneur Anthony Pompliano, announced that since September 15, it has repurchased an additional 2.3% of its circulating common stock at a market discount below net asset value (NAV). Since the repurchase program began, the cumulative repurchase ratio has reached approximately 14.5%. As of the market close on September 22, the company's circulating shares have been reduced to 82,881,223 shares, with the treasury holding approximately 5,130 BTC (a decrease of about 124 BTC from approximately 5,254 BTC on September 15), and the NAV per share is approximately $4.27. The company reiterated its firm commitment to selling some assets to repurchase shares until the secondary market trading price is no longer below NAV.