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According to an official announcement from Arc, Circle's public chain, agentic payments are now live. Its Facilitator Service provides a managed integration path for x402 developers, accepts USDC, and supports on-chain settlement on Arc, Base, and Polygon; this path requires no Relayer keys or separate Gas fee wallets.
Bitcoin News posted on X that attackers accessed a small number of Blink custodial accounts and withdrew funds. Blink stated that the vast majority of funds remain safe, and non-custodial wallets were not affected; the Bitcoin payment protocol Spark, which it uses, supports multiple Lightning Network wallets, but it has not yet been confirmed that Spark was the source of this security incident.
Odaily reports: Galaxy's head of research posted on X that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has issued an "innovation exemption" establishing a pathway for on-chain secondary trading of tokenized stocks. The exemption will be in effect from September 17, 2026, to September 17, 2031, and applies to specific tokenized securities trading venues that offer permissioned automated market makers and liquidity pools; trading venues must be deployed on public, permissionless blockchains, but trading is limited to verified or authorized participants.Eligible tokens must correspond to actual U.S. National Market System stocks and confer the same shareholder rights as traditional stocks; the exemption does not cover primary issuance, synthetic exposure, or products that do not carry legal or beneficial rights to the underlying stock. Galaxy stated that it is studying the next steps to enable on-chain secondary trading of GLXY.
Ripple stated that multiple asset management firms are preparing for the Batch V1.1 feature on the XRP Ledger. This upgrade aims to improve payment efficiency through atomic settlement and is expected to go live by the end of September.
Solana shortened its target slot time from 300 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds on Friday, increasing block production frequency by nearly 17%. The computing resources and data volume available per slot are reduced accordingly, while the network's overall transaction processing capacity remains unchanged.This adjustment is the third of four planned phases in the SIMD-0525 proposal. The window during which validators have block production rights for four consecutive slots has been shortened from 1.2 seconds to 1 second, and the estimated duration of an Epoch, fixed at 432,000 slots, has been reduced from about 36 hours to about 30 hours.The next phase plans to further reduce slot time to 200 milliseconds, but a mainnet launch date has not yet been determined, and the implementation condition is that the block skip rate remains stable. (Decrypt)
Odaily Report: According to on-chain detective Specter, the attackers behind this campaign provided so-called arbitrage bot tutorials and code through YouTube videos, and guided victims to use a counterfeit Remix development interface to compile and deploy contracts. The attackers registered ENS names containing "Uniswap" to disguise the related addresses as legitimate incoming fund sources from DeFi activity, leading victims to believe that the deployed arbitrage bot was profiting through Uniswap. After victims injected their own assets into the contracts, the funds were transferred away by the attackers. The attackers currently appear to still be active and hold a substantial portion of the stolen funds in two addresses.
According to STAR Market Daily, Shanghai-based embodied touch company Qianjue Robotics announced the successful closure of two consecutive rounds of strategic financing totaling hundreds of millions of yuan. Previously, Qianjue Robotics had announced the completion of a funding round exceeding 100 million yuan, with investors including embodied AI industry partners, Tianji Capital, and Jide Electric Appliances. Qianjue currently counts among its shareholders financial investment institutions such as Hillhouse Capital Ventures, Origin Capital, and Futeng Capital, as well as industry players in the embodied intelligence and industrial sectors like Li Auto, Zhiyuan Robot, and Jide Electric Appliances. The proceeds from this round will be primarily allocated to product upgrades, business expansion, and industrialization, accelerating the iteration and large-scale delivery of high-precision vision-tactile sensors, refining real-world interaction data collection, tactile simulation, and dataset construction, and continuously advancing the R&D of tactile embodied models and tactile world models.
Trump signed sanctions legislation targeting Russia and Iran on September 18 and is weighing whether to take further military action against Tehran. He also announced a Greenland security agreement with Denmark, stating that his approval rating among Republicans has reached an all-time high.
The MultiversX mainnet has detected potential anomalies, and the team is conducting an emergency investigation. The top priority is to safeguard user assets and ensure network stability. Further updates are expected within 12 hours or once the situation is clarified.
Alibaba Qwen has released its next-generation real-time simultaneous interpreting model, Qwen3.8-LiveTranslate, based on the Interleave architecture, reducing the average latency (LAAL) from 2.8 seconds to 2.3 seconds across 60 languages. According to official information, the new model also demonstrates improvements in fidelity, fluency, and conciseness. This release marks another iteration of Qwen for simultaneous interpreting scenarios, with the latency data being the primary change.
慢雾安全团队（@SlowMist_Team）与 OKX 安全团队联合调查，FomoPeek App 1.1–1.2 版本被证实含有恶意代码。该应用内置 iOS 内核漏洞利用框架，共包含 8 种攻击方式，可根据设备型号及 iOS 版本自动选择攻击路径，成功后可逃逸 iOS 沙箱、解密 Keychain 数据，并读取其他应用文件，导致私钥、助记词、登录凭证、聊天记录等敏感信息泄露。受影响 iOS 版本为 12.0–18.7 及 26.0–26.1，攻击功能当前处于激活状态并定期自动运行。 已安装该应用的用户建议立即采取以下措施： 1. 检查账户及资产是否有异常活动 2. 在未安装过 FomoPeek 的可信设备上创建新账户并生成新私钥/助记词 3. 尽快将资产转移至新账户 4. 将设备 iOS 更新至最新版本 5. 停止使用并卸载 FomoPeek
Odaily reports: According to an official announcement, Bitget has listed 6 stock perpetual contracts: SDGR (Schrödinger), PATH (UiPath), AGPU (Axe Compute), GNRC (Generac), HUT (Hut 8), and CYPH (Cypherpunk Technologies).These contracts are settled in USDT and support up to 20x leverage and 24/7 trading. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 319 stock contract underlying assets.
Odaily reports: Yu Yuantan stated that Silicon Valley is engaged in a fierce debate over the pace and safety of AI development. After reviewing the 13 revisions of Anthropic's privacy policy since the first version was released in 2023 and comparing them with the privacy information management system standard ISO/IEC 27701, it was found that Anthropic's user privacy data security risks are increasing. There are three steps by which Anthropic became an "intelligence hub." First, transferring overseas user data to the United States; second, expanding the sources for obtaining user data; third, providing intelligence to U.S. intelligence agencies in exchange for benefits. (Sina Finance)
According to an official announcement, Bitget has listed the USDT-margined STONK perpetual contract, supporting up to 10x leverage, and the contract trading Bot will also be made available simultaneously.
multi-chain oracle project Switchboard has announced it is ceasing operations. Switchboard Technology Labs, its core development contributor, will gradually wind down remaining operations, all Switchboard implementations will stop being maintained effective immediately, and remaining support will be terminated on September 25. Protocols using its oracle are required to migrate immediately to alternatives such as Pyth and RedStone.Switchboard stated that AI has reduced the cost of building in-house oracles, the crypto bear market has led to a decline in the number of new public chains and project budgets, and the model of direct collaboration between data providers such as Hyperliquid and S&P shows that protocols may increasingly obtain data directly, thereby weakening the value of third-party oracle networks.
Brian Armstrong posted on X platform stating that The Wall Street Journal is preparing an article that blames Coinbase and himself for the CLARITY Act's failure to pass. Armstrong said that in January, he opposed a draft bill submitted for committee vote because it still had major issues regarding DeFi, tokenization, CFTC jurisdiction, and stablecoin rewards; after collaborative revisions from multiple parties, all four of these issues were resolved, and the revised draft passed committee review approximately four months later. Armstrong stated that he strongly supports the final version of the CLARITY Act submitted to the Senate and will continue to push for cryptocurrency regulatory rules.
Odaily reports: Polygon founder Sandeep posted on X that Polygon is preparing to permanently burn 100 million POL tokens. The relevant contract is currently on testnet and will go live on mainnet after final sign-off by the Polygon Council. Once live, anyone can trigger the initial burn, after which community members can execute a burn once per quarter.Sandeep added that Polygon's year-to-date revenue is approximately $24.5 million, higher than Arbitrum's $8.41 million and NEAR's $5.6 million. POL's supply has been in a deflationary state since January 2026, and the network's TPS has increased 10x to 5,000.
According to Crypto in America, the US Senate failed to advance the crypto market structure bill known as the "Clear Act" this week with a 49-50 vote, with Democrats voting as a bloc against it and Republican Senators Collins, Hawley, and Moran joining the opposition. Following the setback, the focus of crypto regulation shifted from Congress to regulatory agencies: the SEC subsequently issued innovation exemption measures, paving a limited pathway for on-chain trading of tokenized US stocks, while the CFTC adopted a no-action stance regarding passive software providers and submitted a broader proposal for crypto market rulemaking to the White House. Meanwhile, Visa announced the closure of a loophole that allowed purchasing memecoins with credit cards in exchange for standard loyalty points, with related processors granted a grace period expected to expire next week. Some Democratic senators involved in the negotiations stated that the "Clear Act" is not "dead," with efforts to restart talks still underway.
Sui stated on the X platform that if payment amounts are public, enterprises will not put salaries or supplier payments on-chain. Sui's confidential transfers can keep amounts private while allowing issuers and compliance teams to retain visibility, and complete settlement on public chains.
According to The Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter), U.S. diesel prices have hit another record high, with a national average price of $6.45 per gallon, up 40 cents from last week and over $1 higher than last month, marking a cumulative increase of 84% since January. California’s diesel average is even higher at $8.40 per gallon, setting a historic record for the highest average price in the United States. Meanwhile, market expectations for an October rate hike have also risen to new heights. Analysts point out that the ExxonMobil refinery in Illinois has not yet returned to full production following a power outage on September 13, further exacerbating supply pressures. Soaring diesel prices have been passed down to transportation, food, and various commodity costs, significantly increasing operating pressures for independent truck drivers.