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Qwen officially releases the Qwen-Audio-3.1 series of speech large models. This upgrade not only comprehensively enhances the three core models of speech recognition (ASR), speech synthesis (TTS), and real-time speech interaction (Realtime), but also unveils the highly anticipated new audio creation model Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Next and audio understanding model Qwen-Audio-3.1-ASR-Next.
Jamie Selway, Director of the Division of Trading and Markets at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, stated that tokenization and cryptocurrency have been politicized, but the development of related markets should receive bipartisan support.
Pull.Fun, a TCG card-pulling and trading platform for Pokémon card collectors worldwide, announced that its mascot token $TAKO has launched on Robinhood Chain. According to data from GMGN, its market cap briefly surpassed $4 million USD and is currently valued at $2.3 million USD.
Atum has announced the end of its stealth phase and completed a $13.5 million funding round backed by investors including Variant, PayPal Ventures, and Abstract Ventures. Atum connects payment companies, developers, and enterprises through a unified coordination layer, responsible for payment authorization, routing, and confirmation, but does not issue currency, operate a blockchain, or hold customer funds. Its network supports cross-chain and stablecoin settlements and is compatible with agent payment protocols such as x402 and MPP.
Bitget has launched its 5th series FCN (Fixed Coupon Note), a US equity buy-the-dip and earn-interest product. This tranche features a 1-month tenor, with underlying assets and reference APR including: RKLB (Strike at 80%) 16%–20.31%, TSLA (Strike at 85%) 8%–10.44%, MSTR (Strike at 75%) 12%–15.29%. Subscription for this round closes on September 24 at 16:00 (UTC+8). Product capacity is limited on a first-come, first-served basis.
According to CoinDesk, Solana has been testing the Alpenglow upgrade on its public testnet, aiming to reduce transaction finality from approximately 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds. The upgrade will replace TowerBFT with the Votor voting protocol, enabling validators to confirm blocks through one to two rounds of direct voting. Currently, testing only supports the Agave 4.3 client developed by Anza, while Firedancer and Frankendancer under Jump Crypto have not yet been integrated. A mainnet launch date has not yet been confirmed.
the Alpenglow upgrade for the Solana blockchain network has entered public testnet, with developers set to test reducing transaction finality from approximately 13 seconds to 0.15 seconds, or 150 milliseconds.The upgrade will replace Solana's existing TowerBFT consensus system with Votor, allowing validators to confirm blocks through one or two rounds of direct voting, though the way users send funds will not change.The initial testnet migration requires Agave 4.3, and Firedancer or Frankendancer are not yet supported. The September 28 mainnet update remains a tentative arrangement and is not a confirmed launch date for Alpenglow. (CoinDesk)
Odaily report: NEAR has been listed on the Hyperliquid spot market, allowing users to trade the NEAR/USDC trading pair. According to the Hyperliquid process, it will take several more days for NEAR to appear in the Strict List on the platform interface.
币安将于 9月 23日 20:00（东八区时间） 上线 Axe Compute（AGPUB）、AMC Entertainment（AMCB）和 Cypherpunk Technologies（CYPHB）的 USDT 现货交易对，并同步开放现货算法交易机器人。相关交易对在 10月 1日 07:59前 享受零挂单手续费，提现将于当日 21:00 开放。上述代币化证券不面向美国人士提供。
According to a Binance announcement, Binance Leverage now supports cross margin leveraged pairs for ARB/U and ENA/USD1.
BitMEX announced that its exchange operations officially ceased on September 23, 2026, at 04:00 UTC. The platform currently still supports login and withdrawals, and urges users to withdraw their available balances as soon as possible. BitMEX stated that deposits will no longer be credited, and users should not continue transferring funds to the platform addresses; for balances remaining on the platform, verified users will be charged a fee of 1% annually or an equivalent of $50 (whichever is higher), billed monthly.
According to Cnfinance, Hong Kong Monetary Authority Chief Executive Warren Woo stated at the Treasury Markets Summit that Hong Kong's equity, foreign exchange, and debt markets are mature, while digital finance is rapidly emerging. The Central Money Markets Unit (CMU) will launch new services by year-end, providing 24/7 on-chain real-time settlement, supporting the digital Hong Kong dollar and central bank digital currency (CBDC), and will also explore accepting tokenized deposits and regulated stablecoins for settlement on the platform.
According to Caixin News, HyperLiquid has been quietly rising in the overseas crypto scene for some time, but the real catalyst that sparked widespread discussion in the domestic market was neither the massive airdrop of HYPE tokens (referring to projects distributing tokens to users for free to promote initiatives or reward early supporters) nor the crude oil contracts ignited by Iran's geopolitical conflicts in February 2026, but rather the contracts involving the Chinese asset ChangXin Memory Technologies (CMXT), highlighting how emerging offshore exchanges are challenging global financial regulation.
B.AI has announced the full launch of Xiaomi's open-source, native multimodal reasoning large models in the MiMo-V2.6 series, with simultaneous access via both API and Web Chat. The entire series features a 1M token ultra-long context window and comprehensive understanding capabilities across text, images, video, and audio. The MiMo-V2.6-Pro utilizes a sparse MoE architecture with 1.02 trillion total parameters and 42 billion active parameters, specifically engineered for repository-level software engineering, long-horizon agents, and complex multimodal reasoning. The MiMo-V2.6-Flash, on the other hand, is built on an architecture with 309 billion total parameters and 15 billion active parameters, prioritizing high throughput and rapid response for high-frequency office automation and large-scale agent invocation scenarios. Starting today, developers and users can directly invoke both models via the B.AI platform. Visit chat.b.ai/chat to experience them now.
The Market Oversight Division of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that prediction contracts settled based on whether specific individuals mention certain words or attend events face significant market manipulation risks and may only be listed on designated contract markets under limited circumstances. The CFTC recommends that relevant platforms assess whether individuals who can influence the outcome of a contract are bound by legal, professional, contractual, fiduciary, or confidentiality obligations, and implement proactive trading rules and risk control measures to prevent manipulation.
Cryptocurrency venture capital firm Hashed has become the anchor investor in Thoro Capital Management’s newly launched digital asset private credit fund. Targeting $300 million, the fund will settle USD-denominated loans via stablecoins and utilize a “covenant-based” underwriting model evaluated against borrowers’ financials, cash flows, and operational performance to provide financing to digital asset institutions.
Odaily News: A person familiar with the matter revealed that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is investigating Kalshi for suspected wash trading. Since August, Kalshi traders have executed nearly 1 million trades in the Ethereum futures market, with each trade being almost identical in size, drawing the attention of federal regulators and traders. Kalshi stated that there is no fake trading on the platform, and that the recurring quotes are fixed quotes posted by market makers, which faster traders seize upon. Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara said that attracting large traders to new markets to promote broader adoption is not uncommon.
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in the Claude 5.5 series. According to official statements, the model demonstrates improvements in agentic programming, computer use, and knowledge work compared to Opus 5. Under default settings, typical workload costs are reduced by 40%, and output speed increases by over 30%. Additionally, its natural language expression, presentation of key information, and instruction-following capabilities have been enhanced, and the model underwent evaluation by external organizations such as METR and Frontier Design prior to release.
Odaily News: The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an advisory opinion cautioning prediction market platforms that "mention market" contracts may face manipulation risks.The CFTC did not prohibit such trading contracts, but stated that platforms permitting such bets must meet high standards. (CoinDesk)
Brian Armstrong posted on X that commonly used AI Agents can be connected to Coinbase for trading, payments, and financial management. The post demonstrated the operation on Muse, and this feature is applicable to almost all AI Agents.