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Trump has publicly supported restricting diesel exports, as Bessent confirmed that the administration is assessing the feasibility of a comprehensive or partial ban. The refining industry has warned that the policy could have a counterproductive effect.
Arc officially announced that Circle's onchain FX engine StableFX is now live on the Arc mainnet. Arc is a public chain launched by Circle, designed for stablecoins and payment use cases; StableFX supports 24/7 settlement, enabling near-instant or delayed settlement, ensuring that both parties either receive funds simultaneously or neither receives funds, and supports trading with multiple vetted counterparties through a single contract, using a unified RFQ model for pricing. The global foreign exchange market has a daily trading volume of nearly $10 trillion, most of which still relies on traditional trading hours.
Alibaba T-Head releases the domestic AI chip Zhenwu V900 with tripled computing power. The National Development and Reform Commission sets a five-year target for the Beidou industry to exceed a scale of 1 trillion yuan, while US and Iranian representatives hold talks to explore the prospects of an agreement.
Odaily reports: Michael Selig, Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), stated that regulators need to prepare for large-scale tokenization and adjust existing market rules for new technologies such as blockchain and AI. With the development of tokenization, on-chain finance, and 24/7 trading, the changes in financial markets over the next decade may exceed the sum of those over the past several decades. The CFTC will seek more ways to encourage market participants, exchanges, and clearinghouses to responsibly adopt stablecoins; over the past year, the agency has issued guidance and sought public comment on 24/7 trading in energy derivatives markets, and in February of this year, it included stablecoins issued by national trust banks within the scope of eligible collateral. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week released an "innovation exemption" to provide room for on-chain trading of tokenized stocks.
Odaily reports: a16z and the DeFi Education Fund jointly submitted a proposal to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce, recommending the establishment of a safe harbor rule that creates a "rebuttable presumption" that decentralized exchange (DEX) protocols and their front-end interfaces do not constitute "exchanges" as defined under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. On the same day, a16z submitted a separate letter calling on the SEC to establish a registration regime for centralized crypto trading platforms, modeled after the 1998 Alternative Trading System (ATS) rules. Both letters were dated September 14, and three days later, the SEC issued an "innovation exemption" for tokenized equity trading venues.
Odaily News: U.S. Republican Senator John Curtis of Utah has sent a letter to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley and Ranking Member Dick Durbin, calling for an investigation into whether Donald Trump Jr. and Hunter Biden used their presidential family connections to obtain private economic benefits, and requesting that both be subpoenaed.Curtis noted that Donald Trump Jr. previously accepted wedding gifts from Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, actively promoted a family-backed crypto business, and served as an advisor to a prediction market platform; the company in question is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Donald Trump stated that his son has returned the relevant payments to Umar Kremlev.Curtis also requested an investigation into Hunter Biden's large-scale business dealings with foreign entities, as well as whether both individuals used their relationship with the president to create business value. He mentioned that Joe Biden pardoned Hunter Biden in December 2024, and the latter had previously denied involving his father in business transactions.The call for this investigation comes one week after Senate Republicans failed to secure enough Democratic support to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. Some Democratic lawmakers opposed the bill, citing reasons including Donald Trump's use of crypto businesses to gain benefits related to the presidency; Donald Trump disclosed that he earned $1.4 billion from digital asset-related businesses in 2025. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: Coinbase posted on X that Coinbase for Agents now supports AI agents in accessing stocks, cryptocurrencies, and derivatives markets. With the x402 payment feature, AI agents can pay for market data fees while executing user instructions.
Sui announced on X that agentic finance requires real-time data, and GraphQL Subscriptions is now live on the Sui mainnet.
OpenAI officially launches two new models, GPT-6 SOL and GPT-6 LUNA, effective immediately for Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, with support for the ChatGPT Work and Codex platforms.
Odaily News: The fund's investors include FalconX, Hutt Capital, Arrington Capital, as well as Nic Carter, Rob Hadick, and Jake Brukhman. The fund will primarily invest in Day Zero, Pre-Seed, and Seed stage crypto startups, with individual investments ranging from $250,000 to $750,000, focusing on open financial infrastructure and decentralized AI, and plans to deploy over the next 3 to 4 years.
Odaily News: European asset management company 21shares has launched physically-backed Zcash ETP and Ether.fi ETP on Euronext Paris and Amsterdam markets, tracking ZEC and ETHFI respectively. Investors can gain exposure through brokerage accounts without directly holding the tokens.ETHFI is the governance and utility token of the decentralized finance protocol Ether.fi. Both ETPs carry an annual management fee of 2.5%. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily reports: The U.S. Senate failed to advance the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act on September 15 with a vote of 49 in favor and 50 against, and with limited remaining legislative sessions before Congress's 2027 term, the bill's chances of passage have diminished.Fairshake, a political action committee backed by Coinbase and Ripple Labs, plans to spend $30 million in the Ohio Senate race to oppose Sherrod Brown. Fairshake spent over $130 million on advertising during the 2024 election cycle and approximately $41 million opposing Brown.Stand With Crypto, an advocacy group launched by Coinbase in 2023, said it will mobilize supporters to participate in the 2026 midterm elections based on lawmakers' voting records on the bill. As of Monday, Fairshake and its affiliated political action committees had not disclosed any new spending following the vote. (Cointelegraph)
Token issuance platform Flap has added support for Anthropic and Kalshi pre-market token pools. The Anthropic pre-market token is powered by OpenStocks, while the Kalshi pre-market token is powered by Paimon Finance.
Odaily reports: DeFi protocols Camelot and Cypher have announced their integration under a new brand, Frontier, focused on building programmable market infrastructure based on the Uniswap v4 Hooks mechanism. Together, the two had previously processed over $100 billion in spot trading volume across Arbitrum and Ethereum, and supported the launch of more than 45 projects; 15% of the total supply of Frontier's token FRONT will be allocated to holders of both parties, and GRAIL, xGRAIL, CYPH, and xCYPH holders can migrate within 30 days. Frontier has already launched on Robinhood Chain, with plans to expand to Ethereum mainnet and Arbitrum, while Camelot and Cypher will gradually cease independent operations.
Per Kinetiq's official announcement, the Elysium testnet, an L2 network in the Hyperliquid ecosystem, is now live. It settles transactions on the HyperEVM and is colocated with HyperCore, using HYPE as its native gas token. Powered by Conduit's G2 sequencer, Elysium aims to support general-purpose DeFi and on-chain spot trading applications. The testnet browser and developer documentation are currently accessible.
Odaily News: Elysium is a general-purpose, high-performance L2 network built specifically for Hyperliquid, and its testnet is now live. The network settles to HyperEVM and is co-located with HyperCore, with HYPE as its native gas token; it currently operates on a SOC II Type 2 compliant architecture, utilizing Conduit's G2 sequencer.
B.AI announces that its Responses API officially supports the GLM and Kimi model series. Using a B.AI API Key, developers can directly call these two model series within the Codex client. Combined with the previously supported GPT and DeepSeek series, it now covers four mainstream model lineups. After completing the streamlined configuration of the API Key and Base URL, you can seamlessly integrate the reasoning, code, and text processing capabilities of these models into your daily development workflow, flexibly meeting diverse coding and business requirements. Log in to b.ai to experience it now.
Wintermute released its weekly market report, as the Federal Reserve voted unanimously 12-0 on September 21 to raise interest rates by 25 basis points to 3.75%-4.00%. Sixteen officials project at least one more rate hike this year, with inflation not expected to return to the 2% target until 2029. Two key catalysts previously monitored by the market—the FOMC rate decision and the CLARITY Act—have both materialized: the CLARITY Act failed to advance in the Senate (49-50 vote, falling short of the 60-vote threshold), prompting the SEC and CFTC to immediately state that they would establish crypto regulatory frameworks under their current authority. The market adjusted for only a single trading session before reclaiming its losses. BTC traded between $75,000 and $81,000 this week, closing at $81,159—the first time since last November it has breached the 50-week moving average; ETH gained 6.7%, trading in the $2,350–$2,600 range. Regarding ETF capital flows, net outflows totaled $746 million from Tuesday to Wednesday, partially reversed by $593 million in inflows from Thursday to Friday, resulting in a five-day net outflow of approximately $6 million. Outflows triggered by the CLARITY Act were nearly fully offset within 48 hours. At the start of this week, both BTC and ETH broke above the range resistance ahead of the U.S. equity market open. Fueled by approximately $250 million in short liquidations, BTC briefly surged to $86,000, setting an eight-month high. Wintermute’s analysis suggests:
Ondo Finance has announced its tokenized securities platform, Ondo Stocks, has launched on the NEAR mainnet and integrated with NEAR Intents. The initial rollout supports 20 tokenized U.S. stocks, ETFs, and commodity-related products, including shares of Tesla, Nvidia, Apple, as well as QQQ, gold, and silver ETFs. Eligible users can access these assets through the NEAR mainnet and distribute them to wallets and applications on connected networks via NEAR Intents. The NEAR mainnet supports access to over 30 blockchains. Ondo stated that its tokenized securities platform has surpassed $1 billion in total value locked, with cumulative trading volume exceeding $26 billion.
According to an official tweet from Gate founder and CEO Dr. Han, Gate is continuously expanding its offerings across digital assets, stocks, wealth management, payments, and other products, while building a new integrated platform. The related new product may be further announced during the upcoming TOKEN2049. Stay tuned.