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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.
Odaily News: Crypto technology service provider Haruko suffered a targeted cyberattack, with 15 clients affected. Read-only API information and trading data from some exchanges were leaked.Haruko stated that smaller hedge fund clients with weaker security controls may have lost a small amount of funds. The company has patched the vulnerability and updated its server-side keys. (CoinDesk)
According to CoinDesk, London-based crypto institutional technology services provider Haruko was targeted by a cyberattack earlier this week, affecting a total of 15 clients. Attackers exploited vulnerabilities in Haruko’s infrastructure to extract user access tokens, gaining access to clients’ read-only exchange API information and trading data. A small amount of client funds were stolen, and smaller hedge funds with weaker security controls face a higher risk of loss. Haruko co-founder and CTO Adam Carlile confirmed that the attack specifically targeted Haruko itself. The vulnerability has been patched, and the company plans to release a complete technical post-incident report. Haruko serves over 80 institutional clients globally and connects to more than 100 centralized exchanges and 30 blockchains.
Odaily News: Samsung Electronics America is hiring a Senior Manager of Business Development for Samsung Wallet payments in New York. The job posting explicitly lists stablecoins as a payment partnership area, alongside card issuers, payment companies, fintech firms, and "Buy Now, Pay Later" (BNPL) providers. The role will be responsible for Samsung Wallet payment business development, market launch strategies, and partner management, including negotiations on commercial terms, data usage, and product requirements, as well as launching new features. Samsung previously announced plans to support stablecoins in Samsung Wallet at its Galaxy Unpacked event in July of this year. (Digital Asset)
According to journalist Eleanor Terrett (@EleanorTerrett), the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has submitted a cryptocurrency rulemaking proposal to the White House for review, titled "Cryptocurrency Trading and Market Regulation." The move comes just two days after the Senate failed to advance cryptocurrency market structure legislation, following the CFTC Chair's previous statement that the agency was "locked and ready to release rules."
DeBot team member Cat has released a security incident update, confirming that the previous wallet security incident was an APT (Advanced Persistent Threat) attack. No related fund losses have been identified so far. According to the announcement, analyses by multiple security teams and cloud service providers revealed traces of intrusion in the system, and the relevant private keys remain at security risk. Therefore, the platform will continue to implement automatic fund isolation. Currently, DeBot is operating in a fully isolated environment. Users can still trade and withdraw normally, but other operations involving private keys have been suspended and will be gradually restored after the security audit is completed.A new security solution is being upgraded and is being audited by the SlowMist team and cloud service providers. DeBot stated that this incident exposed security issues in the project, and the team will further upgrade security measures.
According to an official announcement, Binance Futures will list the USDBRLUSDT USDⓈ-M TradFi perpetual contract on September 21, 2026.
Chainalysis has released its "Crypto Tax Report: Select Country Data," estimating global crypto-related taxable activity at approximately $457 billion, covering trading gains, on-chain income, and digital payments.The report states that it uses on-chain data to map these activities by region and country, providing tax authorities with a geolocated view of potential taxable activity within their jurisdictions. Among these, stablecoin payment flows represent the largest and most globally distributed category. The report also analyzes cross-border channels and their impact on direct and indirect tax obligations, and demonstrates how on-chain intelligence can help tax authorities identify high-value, high-risk wallets to determine enforcement priorities.
According to Morningstar, the federally recognized sovereign Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana has announced the formal launch of its first tribal nation prediction market application via its newly created subsidiary, SaltTrade Derivatives. Powered by Kalshi, the United States' first regulated prediction market platform, the app allows users to trade event contracts tied to real-world outcomes on the Kalshi marketplace. Previously, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a conditional no-action letter to the tribe, providing a compliance framework for its participation in a regulated derivatives market. Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour stated that regulated national infrastructure and tribal entrepreneurship can develop alongside each other, rather than being a zero-sum game. This project provides a replicable pathway model for other sovereign tribal nations entering the prediction market industry.
Odaily News: According to DeFiLlama data, as of September 18, the on-chain real-world asset (RWA) management scale was approximately $34 billion, of which only about 11.3% was deployed in DeFi, corresponding to a total value locked (TVL) of approximately $3.84 billion, while the remaining approximately 89% has yet to enter DeFi.Deployed funds are highly concentrated: private credit accounts for 58% with a TVL of approximately $2.22 billion; bonds, commodities, and equities account for approximately $817 million, $314 million, and $287 million, respectively. These four asset categories together account for nearly 95% of RWA DeFi TVL.
Odaily News: According to on-chain analyst Aunt Ai's monitoring, Loracle (0xefe...194b), the largest short seller of PONS on Hyperliquid, took profit 22 hours ago on a PONS short position held for over half a month, gaining $1.352 million; simultaneously closed a CASHCAT short position, gaining $1.026 million. Loracle has now reopened a PONS short position of nearly $330,000 and continues to add to it. mlmabc, the captain of the "Whale Hunting Squad Round Two," had previously published a post openly recruiting members.
Odaily reports: After the U.S. Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act this week, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is accelerating its push on cryptocurrency regulatory rules. The CFTC has submitted a new proposal aimed at regulating cryptocurrency trading and markets to the White House for review. Documents released Friday by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) show that the proposal was received on Thursday. Had the CLARITY Act passed, the CFTC would have become the primary regulator of digital asset markets. (Bloomberg)
Odaily News: The nonprofit organization Ethereum Institutional posted on X expressing support for the Ethereum block time reduction proposal EIP-8198 ("Quick Slots") put forward by Ethlabs, stating that as more institutional activity migrates on-chain, it is necessary to improve Ethereum's speed. The proposal plans to initially reduce Ethereum's block time from the current 12 seconds to 10 seconds. Ethlabs previously stated that 20 DeFi founders have publicly supported the proposal, and it is merging its specifications with the Ethereum main codebase to push for its inclusion in the subsequent upgrade Hegotá. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: Japan's National Police Agency, together with the U.S. FBI and other agencies, released a report stating that the North Korea-backed hacker group WaterPlum infected more than 30,000 devices across over 100 countries and regions worldwide between December 2025 and July 2026, stealing more than 7,000 pieces of crypto wallet information, with wallets under its control receiving at least approximately $10.71 million in crypto assets.The group's tactics include impersonating recruiters at crypto companies to trick job seekers into running malicious code to carry out attacks. Japanese police also for the first time seized a "laptop farm" within the country that assisted North Korean IT personnel in working remotely, and disclosed that a suspected North Korean IT worker had applied for an engineer position at bitFlyer but was not hired.
According to Business Insider, Oracle Co-CEO Magurk acknowledged that the company had not yet found a way to effectively leverage generative AI across the entire workforce last year. The turning point came in April and May this year, when Oracle deployed ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex, achieving an adoption rate of 80% within three months. Previously, Oracle had already invested billions of dollars to help other enterprises run AI.
Flap has announced the official launch of a perpetual contract vault powered by MYX Finance. After a project issues a Meme token, a perpetual contract market can be opened simultaneously. Trading taxes will flow into the vault and be automatically used to buy back tokens, with the repurchased tokens serving as liquidity.Token holders can earn trading tax rewards and perpetual market revenue, the latter including trading fees and funding rate-related income. This mechanism supports any asset in creating a perpetual market from day one without permission, requiring no project review or waiting for listing approval.
Odaily reports: Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at crypto-focused venture capital firm Dragonfly, has proposed that under current rules, the Zcash development fund should cease operations after its expiration in 2028.Qureshi wrote: "I think this should be the last development fund." He stated that the current fund size is already sufficient to support Zcash's remaining development work, and as the fund's value approaches $100 million, it may face "politicization" risks in the future. According to ZecStats data, as of press time, the Zcash development fund holds 63,962 ZEC, worth approximately $95 million.These remarks come amid ongoing industry discussions about the growing size of the development fund. The previous rise in ZEC's price drove a significant increase in the fund's value. Some also argue that Zcash should continue to maintain the development fund. Paradigm founder Matt Huang said on Wednesday that against the backdrop of improving AI network attack capabilities and the rapid development of quantum computing, the fund is particularly important.
Odaily reports: According to official sources, the AIA Ecosystem Fund has announced four updates to the AIA ecosystem, including the official launch of its product, alignment of token and equity value, execution of token burns and unlocks as planned, and the voiding of unvested tokens for terminated members.On the product front, DeAgentAI's AI Token Smart Router officially launched to the public today, providing unified access to DeAgentAI's proprietary models and 38 mainstream third-party models, with support for model routing, API calls, and usage metering. Since its beta launch, the platform has served 8 B2B clients, processed over 54 million external model calls, and surpassed $1 million in monthly revenue.Regarding token and equity value alignment, the AIA Ecosystem Fund stated that revenue generated by all DeAgentAI products and business lines, along with related intellectual property and value, will belong exclusively to the Foundation and be governed by $AIA holders, with equity investors no longer entitled to residual cash flows. Additionally, the previously disclosed buyback has been fully completed, and the repurchased tokens will be burned as planned.The AIA Ecosystem Fund also stated that the 1-year lock-up period for investor, team, and advisor allocations has ended, entering a 3-year linear release period, consistent with the arrangement disclosed at launch; community, ecosystem, and staking allocations will still follow the original schedule. Former employees who departed normally will receive their allocations as agreed. However, given that certain former team members have engaged in serious illegal and criminal behavior, the AIA Ecosystem Fund explicitly stated a zero-tolerance policy toward any actions that harm the interests of the project and community. Any team member terminated due to misconduct or actions detrimental to the project's interests will have their unvested $AIA immediately voided, and the company reserves the right to pursue criminal liability.
Odaily Report: Zcash has announced that the Q3 Retroactive Grant vote for Shielded ZEC holders is now open and will run until September 29 at 20:00 UTC. This vote includes 37 proposals, each requiring a separate "for/against" vote, with a quorum threshold of approximately 420,000 ZEC. Before voting, users need to update to Zodl 3.14.0 or above, the latest version of Vizor Wallet, or the latest version of Zkool.