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Odaily News: Spanish police have arrested a 16-year-old Romanian national in Alicante on suspicion of being the administrator and primary operator of the KillSec ransomware group. Europol stated that law enforcement agencies have seized control of the group's servers and leak site, and preserved at least 110 TB of stolen data.The operation involved searches at 8 residences across Spain, Greece, Romania, and the United Kingdom, investigating approximately 1,000 suspected attacks worldwide, of which about 500 have been confirmed successful. Two other suspects in their 20s were arrested in the UK and Romania respectively, while a Dutch national residing in the UK was indicted and arrested in Puerto Rico, awaiting extradition.KillSec has been active since around 2024, often demanding ransoms in cryptocurrency and carrying out double extortion through encrypted servers and threats to publish stolen data. Investigators are tracing the group's proceeds, including cryptocurrency; Europol's European Cybercrime Centre provided cryptocurrency tracing and digital forensics support. (Decrypt)
Bitget Chief Legal Officer Hon Ng has released an open letter on the occasion of the platform's eighth anniversary. As the platform continues to evolve into a Universal Exchange (UEX), Bitget has further upgraded its Proof of Reserves (PoR) system, expanding the scope of verifiable assets from four original cryptocurrencies to 19 major assets. Data shows that as of September 2026, Bitget has consecutively published 46 PoR reports. In his letter, Hon Ng noted, "Growth and responsibility are never two separate pursuits." As the platform's scale, asset categories, and market boundaries continue to expand, security, transparency, and compliance standards must also be upgraded in tandem. "Making trust visible and verifiable remains a cornerstone of Bitget's commitment to long-termism." On the security front, account-level protections cover 2FA, FIDO2, WebAuthn Passkeys, and anti-phishing codes, while platform security mechanisms integrate withdrawal protection, anomaly detection, and anti-fraud systems, providing backend safeguards for every user interaction. The Market Order & Token Responsibility Framework introduced this year further strengthens continuous monitoring and risk management of listed assets, project teams, and market makers. By continuously optimizing mechanisms and enhancing transparency, it maintains a fair and orderly trading environment. From a compliance perspective, Bitget has secured corresponding registrations, licenses, or regulatory approvals in multiple jurisdictions, including Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, and holds
Bitget Chief Legal Officer Hon Ng has published an open letter on the occasion of the platform's 8th anniversary. As the platform continues to evolve toward a Universal Exchange (UEX), Bitget has further upgraded its Proof of Reserves (PoR) system, expanding the scope of verifiable assets from the original 4 cryptocurrencies to 19 major assets. Data shows that as of September 2026, Bitget has published 46 consecutive PoR reports. In the letter, Hon Ng noted, "Growth and responsibility have never been two separate things." As the platform's scale, asset categories, and market boundaries continue to expand, security, transparency, and compliance standards must also be upgraded in tandem. "Making trust visible and verifiable has always been an important cornerstone of Bitget's commitment to long-termism."On the security front, the account level covers 2FA, FIDO2, WebAuthn Passkeys, and anti-phishing codes, while the platform's security mechanisms integrate withdrawal protection, abnormal behavior detection, and anti-fraud systems, providing back-end safeguards for every user operation. The "Market Order and Token Responsibility Framework" launched this year further strengthened continuous monitoring and risk management of listed assets, project teams, and market makers. Through ongoing mechanism optimization and transparency initiatives, the platform continues to maintain a fair and orderly trading environment.On the compliance front, Bitget has obtained corresponding registrations, licenses, or regulatory approvals in multiple jurisdictions, including Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, and continues to improve its compliance systems, including KYC, KYB, AML, CFT, and sanctions list screening, to adapt to the regulatory requirements of different markets and asset categories.
Odaily News: Johann Kerbrat, General Manager of Robinhood International and Crypto, stated that dividend entitlements for stock tokens can now be automatically credited on the ex-dividend date, without waiting weeks for the dividend payment date. This mechanism has already covered most stock tokens and will be expanded to more products in the future.Robinhood stated that stock tokens are tokenized debt securities, are not offered to persons within the United States or to U.S. persons, and are restricted in jurisdictions including Canada, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.
Axis Robotics has announced the opening of pre-registration for the AXIS token community public sale. The public sale is powered by Sonar by EchoDot and plans to sell 10 million AXIS tokens at $0.1 each, representing 1% of the total supply and a fully diluted valuation of $100 million, with a target raise of 1 million USDC. The minimum subscription per entity is $100, with a maximum of $100,000, and the participating network and settlement currency is USDC on Base. 10% of the tokens will unlock at TGE, with the remainder released according to the vesting schedule published by the project.Pre-registration is now open. The subscription window will open on September 21 at 13:00 (Singapore time) and close on September 28 at 13:00, with settlement expected around September 30. Participants must complete KYC/KYB through Sonar. U.S. persons and residents of 26 restricted jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom, mainland China, Russia, and Iran, are not eligible to participate. Axis Robotics stated that since launching on Base in March 2026, the platform has generated over 5 million data trajectories, attracted more than 200,000 contributors, and ranked among the top two DApps in the Base ecosystem. Previously, on July 27, Axis Robotics announced the completion of a $12 million seed round led by Hack VC, with participation from Nomad Capital, Pi Network Ventures, 10K Ventures, and several angel investors.
Odaily News: Johann Kerbrat, Head of Crypto at Robinhood, posted on X platform that all Robinhood stock tokens are 1:1 backed by securely custodied real shares, and corresponding real shares of the company are purchased simultaneously when tokens are minted. Stock tokens provide economic rights equivalent to dividends and corporate action returns, with related returns reinvested into holdings.Johann Kerbrat stated that physical redemption and voting rights are not yet available, and Robinhood is working to enable 1:1 share redemption and voting functionality for eligible stock token holders. These tokens are composable, allowing developers to build new products on top of them.Additionally, he emphasized that stock tokens are not available to U.S. users and are also restricted in other jurisdictions such as Canada, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.
Odaily News: Payment company Visa is seeking settlement and over-the-counter (OTC) trading partners with cryptocurrency exchange licenses in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Singapore. The partner will also be responsible for settlement of the newly launched Open USD stablecoin project, which plans to support multiple stablecoins. (CoinDesk)
Odaily News Coinbase has released its Q2 2026 Solana validator operations report, stating that its Solana validator nodes outperform the network average in terms of yield, stability, and infrastructure distribution. Data shows that Coinbase currently stakes approximately 41.63 million SOL across 23 validator nodes, accounting for 9.72% of Solana's total staked supply, with nodes distributed across 7 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Singapore, and other regions. Key operational metrics are as follows:Staking scale: 41.63 million SOL, representing 9.72% of total network staked supply;Staking yield: Q2 2026 quarterly APY of 6.52%, higher than the network average of 6.38%, outperforming by 14 basis points;Block skip rate: 0.035%, lower than the network average of 0.136%, approximately one-quarter of the network average.Coinbase stated that its validator nodes employ a multi-client architecture, currently running four clients, including Harmonic, Jito, JitoBAM, and Firedancer. All solutions have been reviewed by the Solana Foundation and do not employ aggressive MEV timing strategies that could impact user experience. In terms of infrastructure, Coinbase has deployed its validator nodes across two independent bare-metal service providers, with off-site backups configured for each node to mitigate single points of failure. Additionally, the company stated that it has migrated its entire validator cluster to the DoubleZero network, achieving approximately 99.9% session availability.Coinbase also revealed that it is preparing for Solana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade, expected to advance later in 2026, including running community test nodes, developing new consensus health monitoring tools, and completing related vote account upgrade verification.
Odaily News – Regulators from the United States and the United Kingdom, at the 13th US-UK Financial Regulatory Working Group meeting held in London on July 8, reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening financial regulatory cooperation. The two sides discussed stablecoin regulation, the US digital asset market structure, tokenization, and the UK's digital strategy for the wholesale financial market. A joint statement released on August 4 showed that US officials briefed the UK side on the progress of the GENIUS Act implementation and work related to the digital asset market structure. Participants also discussed payment modernization and the G20 cross-border payments roadmap, which aims to improve cross-border payments. The meeting did not yield new policy measures. Both sides stated that they would coordinate regulation in key areas of the digital asset industry and support responsible digital asset innovation within the framework of financial stability and international regulatory cooperation. On July 14, the Transatlantic Taskforce for Markets of the Future, a joint US-UK initiative focused on financial innovation and capital market cooperation, released preliminary recommendations and simultaneously issued a joint statement on stablecoins. The two governments stated that these measures would lay the foundation for continued cooperation between the US and the UK in the digital asset and capital market sectors.
: Arcus, a decentralized exchange supported by Robinhood, launched tokenized stocks and perpetual futures on the Robinhood Chain on Tuesday. Arcus is built by the team behind the decentralized exchange dYdX and is supported by Robinhood Crypto. Arcus previously launched its spot market on July 1st when the Robinhood Chain went live. The platform offers over 95 stock tokens, perpetual markets, and crypto assets via self-custodial trading accounts, using USDG, a stablecoin issued by Paxos, as the primary collateral and settlement asset. The tokens launched on Arcus include stock tokens for major US companies such as Nvidia, Tesla, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Amazon, as well as perpetual markets linked to stocks, ETFs, commodities, indices, and crypto assets. Arcus stated that its stock tokens are not available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and other restricted jurisdictions. The platform utilizes a self-custody model, allowing users to retain control of their assets and connect self-custodial wallets such as MetaMask, Ledger, and WalletConnect.
According to JIN10 Data, U.S. President Trump rejected Iran’s latest ceasefire proposal, calling it “completely unacceptable.” Iran subsequently responded that it would not draft proposals solely to please Trump. As a result, market risk aversion intensified: WTI crude oil opened 3% higher at $98.44 per barrel, the U.S. dollar strengthened, and futures on the three major U.S. stock indices fell by approximately 0.3%. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom and France are spearheading discussions among over 40 countries regarding naval escort missions for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz following the establishment of a stable ceasefire. Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu stated that military operations against Iran have not yet concluded, while Iran warned that any deployment of foreign warships in the Strait of Hormuz under the pretext of “protecting shipping” would be regarded as an escalation of hostilities.