News linked to this event type.
The SEC and CFTC issued regulatory guidance after the Senate failed to pass cryptocurrency legislation. The SEC explicitly stated that repurchase activities under functional systems and staked tokens may not constitute securities.
Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook will deliver remarks in ten minutes, and markets will closely watch her latest statements on monetary policy and the economic outlook.
Odaily News: The UK Financial Conduct Authority has obtained a court order requiring two individuals involved in a fraudulent crypto investment scheme to jointly repay £851,400, with plans to return the funds to victims. At least 65 investors suffered combined losses of £1.54 million, and the recovered amount accounts for approximately half of the total losses.
Odaily News: The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its 2027 work program, which will coordinate national supervision of crypto asset service providers (CASPs), with a focus on operational resilience, outsourcing risks, liquidity, reverse solicitation, and asset classification.ESMA Chair Verena Ross stated that MiCA's focus has shifted from rule-making to supervision and convergence. ESMA plans to harmonize the periodic reporting that CASPs submit to national regulators and promote common risk indicators and supervisory dashboards.ESMA will advance MIDAS, a centralized crypto market monitoring system, to monitor potential market abuse under the MiCA framework. The first phase of the system is expected to be fully operational by 2027.ESMA plans, after obtaining Board approval, to add analytical functions to MIDAS and expand the types of usable data in the fourth quarter, while incorporating supervisory experience into the European Commission's MiCA review, which is expected to be completed by June 2027. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: The Federal Reserve's Inspector General has revealed that an employee may have taken confidential Fed information upon leaving their position. (CLS)
According to Reuters, multiple U.S. congressional staff members and lawyers have disclosed that if Democrats secure control of the House or Senate in the November midterms, cryptocurrency firms affiliated with the Trump family and related venture capital companies will become key targets of investigation. After obtaining subpoena power, Democrats could initiate the probe as early as February next year, though a final list has not yet been established.
Odaily News: If Democrats control the House or Senate after the November midterm elections, they are expected to launch investigations into business dealings related to Trump and his family, with a focus on their involvement in cryptocurrency, prediction markets, and investment businesses, as well as companies that provide funding to White House projects.Controlling either chamber of Congress would give Democrats more committee investigative resources and subpoena power, with some investigations potentially beginning as early as February next year. Among the entities repeatedly mentioned so far are 1789 Capital, a venture capital firm in which Donald Trump Jr. is involved, and crypto companies tied to the Trump family, but no final investigative list has yet been formed. Republican Senator John Curtis has also previously called for an investigation into some of Donald Trump Jr.'s business relationships.
Odaily News — Stablecoin issuer Tether has announced that, in cooperation with the U.S. Department of the Treasury's enforcement actions targeting Iranian sanctions evasion networks, it has assisted in freezing approximately $550 million in USDT assets linked to Iran's central bank and sanctioned networks during 2026. This includes over $344 million frozen in April based on information from the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and law enforcement agencies, as well as over $130 million frozen in July.To date, Tether has established partnerships with more than 340 law enforcement agencies across 67 countries and regions worldwide, supporting over 2,800 investigations and freezing a cumulative total of more than $4.9 billion in illicit assets (of which over $2.4 billion is related to U.S. law enforcement actions). The company has also directly aligned its wallet freezing mechanism with the U.S. Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) List.
According to The Wall Street Journal, an upcoming report from the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations states that the vast majority of cryptocurrency wallets sanctioned due to ties with Iran have been used to trade USDT, the U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin issued by Tether.
Odaily News: An investigation by US Senate Democrats claims that the stablecoin USDT issued by Tether has become a primary payment method for Iran. The investigation shows that among over 800 sanctioned crypto wallets, approximately 84% primarily or exclusively use USDT. The US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations previously stated that its review of blockchain records, sanctions lists, and asset seizure notices found that the sanctioned wallets were mainly distributed on the Tron and Ethereum networks and had conducted USDT transactions. (WSJ)
Odaily News: Digital bank Revolut has announced that it has received approval from the Central Bank of Argentina to acquire Banco Cetelem Argentina, a subsidiary of BNP Paribas. Upon completion of the transaction, the institution will be renamed Revolut Bank Argentina S.A.U. and operate as a licensed bank, but will not initially offer products or services to the public, and will officially launch local operations after completing remaining regulatory and operational requirements. Revolut stated that more than 150,000 people have already joined the waitlist for its Argentina business. (Crowdfundinsider)
F2 AI, a company focused on developing artificial intelligence for the credit sector, has disclosed a $5 million investment from private credit manager Golub Capital. As part of the equity investment, Golub Capital will gain access to F2 AI's AI agent suite to screen private credit investments, conduct due diligence, underwrite transactions, and monitor its portfolio using its own data. The two parties did not disclose the F2 AI valuation corresponding to this investment. (Bloomberg)
Odaily News: Tether has announced a partnership with Shiga to launch self-custodial financial products in Africa and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region based on its open-source Wallet Development Kit (WDK), enabling users and institutions to hold and transfer USD₮, Bitcoin, and Tether Gold (XAU₮).Among them, ENTA targets individuals, high-net-worth users, and enterprises, while Pulse targets institutions such as banks and fintech companies, used for building digital asset payment, treasury management, and settlement services. Shiga is currently in the final stage of approval for a digital asset intermediary license in Nigeria.
Odaily News NVIDIA has launched a suite of software security tools for AI agents, claiming that these tools could have prevented the hacking incident involving Hugging Face. Hugging Face is an AI programming hub, and NVIDIA acquired it for $13 billion months after it was breached by OpenAI's rogue AI agent. The tool, called OpenShell, leverages NVIDIA CPU hardware features to constrain AI agents and is partnering with Arm and Intel to ensure compatibility. Another system, Sentry, can cut off rogue agents attempting to escape their containers. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang has refused broad AI security regulation, treating rogue agents as an engineering problem. (Reuters)
Odaily News: Franklin Templeton has expanded its off-exchange collateral program to Bybit, allowing users to use their tokenized money market fund shares as collateral for crypto trading. These shares represent approximately $686 million in net assets and can be used to borrow USDT or USDC, while the underlying assets continue to generate yield.Users do not need to transfer the underlying assets to Bybit. The regulated custody platform ByCustody will hold the relevant assets off-exchange, with their value mirrored within Bybit's trading environment. Franklin Templeton has previously offered similar services to Binance and OKX users.
Odaily News: According to Bitget monitoring, Mandiant and SlowMist are continuing to support the investigation and on-chain tracing of this incident. Bitget has published the identified attacker addresses and related tracing data to support industry collaboration and asset recovery efforts.Bitget expects to complete its internal security report this week and will release further updates once the investigation findings are verified. Bitget stated that the September 24 incident was the first such security event in its 8 years of exchange operations.
NVIDIA has officially released the open-source AI agent runtime platform OpenShell 0.1.0. The platform is designed to establish security boundaries and runtime controls outside the workload without modifying the AI agent's own code. OpenShell integrates technologies such as kernel-level sandbox execution, external oversight services, external credential injection, and formal policy verification, enabling fine-grained interception of HTTP, GraphQL, and MCP network traffic (such as permitting data reads while blocking writes) to prevent sensitive credentials from leaking.
According to CoinDesk, Hong Kong-based stablecoin payment company RedotPay announced on Monday that it has completed its financial audit and anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing compliance review, both conducted by Big Four accounting firms, as a necessary preparatory step for applying to launch an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States.
Odaily News: Stablecoin payment company RedotPay has completed a financial audit as part of its preparations for an initial public offering (IPO). A U.S. listing requires the submission of audited financial statements.A RedotPay spokesperson stated that the company's IPO plans have not been delayed, and that previous claims suggesting legal and regulatory issues could push the listing to 2027 or later are inconsistent with this. A person familiar with the matter said the company is targeting a valuation of over $5 billion. (CoinDesk)
According to the official announcement, Huobi HTX will open JPYC/USDT spot trading and grid trading at 21:00 (UTC+8) on September 28. JPYC deposits will open at 15:00 on September 28, and withdrawals will open at 21:00 on September 29. JPYC is a Japanese yen stablecoin issued by JPYC Inc., regulated under Japan's Payment Services Act, and classified as an electronic payment instrument. It is pegged 1:1 to the Japanese yen, with reserves held in bank deposits and Japanese government bonds. Users can mint or redeem JPYC through the JPYC EX platform after completing KYC, or use it for payments, transfers, DeFi, and other scenarios on blockchains such as Ethereum and Polygon. Its design aims to provide a compliant and transparent digital yen solution.