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Global payment infrastructure company WalaPay announced the closing of a $4.6 million seed funding round, led by General Venture Capital, with participation from Commerce Ventures, Polygon, AAF Management, Verda Ventures, NGC Ventures, FGV Capital, J² Ventures, Reflexive Capital, Big Brain Holdings, among others. WalaPay primarily provides infrastructure for cross-border payment scenarios, enabling account opening, fund collection, currency conversion, and global payments through a single integration. It connects underlying licenses, banking partners, and local payment networks, focusing on emerging markets such as Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. The new funds will be used to acquire additional licenses, expand its banking partnerships, and grow its team.
Odaily reports: European stablecoin issuer AllUnity has launched the U.S. dollar stablecoin USDAU, its fourth fiat-backed stablecoin. USDAU maintains a 1:1 peg to the U.S. dollar through segregated reserves and is now live on Ethereum, Solana, Base, Tempo, Arc, and Polygon.AllUnity is regulated under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) and has previously issued the euro stablecoin EURAU, the Swiss franc stablecoin CHFAU, and the Swedish krona stablecoin SEKAU. (Cointelegraph)
Starting October 1, Polygon will begin distributing over 27 million POL incentives to stakers. These rewards consist of POL incentives previously accrued under PIP-85 but withheld due to compliance issues, sourced from the 50% share of priority fees allocated to stakers. The distribution will run for two months, ending on December 1, and is expected to increase the staking yield from 3% to approximately 7.7%.
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.
Odaily report: According to RevokeCash monitoring, if users have previously traded NFTs on the Magic Eden Ethereum marketplace, their wallets may have granted approval to Limit Break's Payment Processor contract; this contract currently has a known vulnerability, and it is recommended to revoke the approval. Magic Eden previously stated that NFTs currently still listed on its platform are not affected by this vulnerability; NFTs listed through its EVM marketplace between approximately February 2024 and October 2024 may be affected, while listings after October 2024 are in principle not affected. Magic Eden is contacting protocol owner and maintainer Limit Break to study other risk mitigation measures, including pausing protocol transfers, and continues to investigate the actual scope of impact.Users who have previously listed or traded NFTs on the Magic Eden EVM marketplace should revoke the relevant contract approvals on Ethereum, Polygon, and Base networks, and revoke all NFT approvals marked as "approved for all." Yuga Labs Blockchain Vice President Quit stated that the asset claim website for the Payment Processor vulnerability NFT theft incident has officially launched; affected users whose NFTs were successfully safeguarded can now claim, but must first revoke their approval to the Payment Processor.
Magic Eden clarified on the X platform that Payment Processor V2, an NFT trading protocol under Limit Break, was recently exploited. Magic Eden stopped using this protocol in October 2024 and will completely shut down its EVM marketplace in Q1 2026, so this exploit did not affect existing Magic Eden listings. However, NFTs listed on the Magic Eden EVM marketplace from February to October 2024 may have been impacted, and users should revoke the "Approve for All" authorization for the contract on Ethereum, Polygon, and Base. Additionally, Magic Eden stated it is collaborating with Limit Break to investigate and seek further mitigation measures.
Odaily News – SlowMist security team has disclosed the discovery of a GitHub repository impersonating the Qwen 3.8 27B local quantized model. The repository claims the model size exceeds 16 GB, but the actual downloaded content is only about 487 KB, containing disguised files, a LuaJIT interpreter, and obfuscated Lua scripts. SlowMist emphasized that the official Qwen project has not been compromised. According to SlowMist's analysis, once executed, the malicious program collects host data, captures screenshots, and sends them to the attacker's C2 server. When the hardcoded server becomes inactive, it reads a backup C2 address from a contract on the Polygon chain, allowing attackers to rotate infrastructure through on-chain transactions. Subsequent payloads can steal browser login credentials, cookies, browsing history, email accounts, WinSCP and Steam credentials, as well as wallet-related files and extension data. SlowMist also discovered at least 23 GitHub repositories and 29 similar archive files using the same Lua delivery chain.
Odaily News - Jio Platforms, the digital and telecommunications arm of billionaire Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Industries, has received regulatory approval, clearing a key hurdle for its long-anticipated initial public offering (IPO). According to the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) website, the regulator issued a letter of observation to Jio Platforms during the week ending August 28, indicating that the company has been permitted to proceed with the IPO process. (Bloomberg)Jio Platforms' listing plans have drawn significant market attention. Last year, the company launched JioCoin, a reward token built on the Polygon blockchain. Community users have reported that the token has been integrated into Jio's web browser, JioSphere.
: Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron stated in a post that the company's acquisition of compliance payment service provider Coinme has entered its final stage. Upon completion of the transaction, the Coinme team will be fully integrated into Polygon Labs. This acquisition and integration is part of the company's overall restructuring plan, with the core goal of driving the enterprise towards profitability by 2027.Alongside the business integration, Polygon Labs is conducting a workforce reduction today. Marc Boiron explained that the company is transitioning from a blockchain foundation to a blockchain payment enterprise. The organizational structure and talent requirements for these two types of businesses are significantly different. This workforce adjustment is driven by strategic transformation needs and is not due to employee performance issues.The official also revealed that the company's current revenue situation is improving, with stablecoin transaction volumes continuously setting new records and the rollout of on-chain payment products accelerating. The enterprise will provide severance compensation and supporting assistance to affected employees.
According to Visa's official website, Visa and Artemis jointly released a report that deeply analyzes the current status and trends of AI agent payments based on real-time on-chain data. The report indicates that AI agent payments are divided into two categories: one is "macro commerce" where agents replace users to complete tasks like booking tickets and subscriptions, similar to traditional e-commerce payments; the other is "micro commerce" such as high-frequency, low-value API calls between software, where single transaction amounts are typically less than 1 cent. On-chain data shows that the open protocol x402, incubated by Coinbase and Cloudflare and now hosted by the Linux Foundation, has processed approximately 109 million transactions since launching in May 2025, with an adjusted transaction volume of about $15 million, mainly active on the Base, Solana, and Polygon chains; the Machine Payment Protocol (MPP), jointly built by Stripe and Tempo with Visa's contribution, launched in mid-March 2026 and completed approximately 115,000 transactions within weeks, with a settlement amount of about $25,000. The report notes that blockchain settlement costs have dropped to extremely low levels, making small payments in the 1-cent to 1-dollar range economically feasible for the first time, but agent payments still face significant challenges at the legal and regulatory level regarding trust, liability attribution, and dispute resolution. Visa stated that its goal is to build a unified foundation that simultaneously supports card-native trust authorization and machine-native settlement
Digital asset company AllUnity has launched SEKAU, a stablecoin backed by the Swedish Krona. The token is issued in accordance with the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) and operates as an electronic money token under MiCA.SEKAU is backed by segregated Swedish Krona reserves and is designed for institutional settlement and cross-border payments. Banking Circle will hold and manage the reserves backing the token, with Sweden's Marginalen Bank serving as the banking partner for the launch, while Trust Anchor Group provides infrastructure integration.SEKAU's initial launch covers five blockchain networks: Ethereum, Solana, Base, Tempo, and Polygon. AllUnity stated that it plans to expand SEKAU to more blockchain networks later in 2026. (Cointelegraph)
Mastercard is expanding its settlement network to support regulated stablecoins, planning to introduce stablecoin settlement, intraday settlement, as well as weekend and holiday settlement services to meet the demand for real-time fund movement.According to the introduction, the new settlement framework will operate in parallel with the existing fiat settlement system, providing financial institutions with more flexible liquidity management solutions. The first supported stablecoins include Circle-issued USDC, Paxos-issued PYUSD, USDG and USDP, Ripple-issued RLUSD, and SoFiUSD.The related services will cover blockchain networks such as Ethereum, Solana, Polygon, Base, Arbitrum, and XRPL. (CoinDesk)
According to PR Newswire, the Open Transaction Layer (OTL) officially launched on May 28 as an open industry initiative aimed at establishing a unified transaction coordination standard for on-chain finance. OTL defines shared protocols among institutions, non-custodial wallets, and AI agents for identity verification, messaging, and transaction coordination—covering the entire transaction lifecycle, including discovery, compliance, and settlement. The founding alliance comprises over 25 members, including leading financial institutions, payment service providers, and blockchain foundations such as Fireblocks, Checkout.com, Cross River Bank, MetaMask, Robinhood, Securitize, Wintermute, Solana Foundation, and Polygon. OTL’s technical specifications are built upon mature standards including W3C Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs) and ISO 20022, and adopt a modular five-layer architecture covering Identity, Session, Transport, Messaging, and Application layers. The specifications have been published under an open-source license at otl.network, and the alliance is also open to additional institutional participation.
: Multiple institutions including Robinhood, MetaMask, and eToro, along with Fireblocks, Checkout.com, Cross River Bank, Securitize, Wintermute, and others, jointly announced their participation in the "Open Transaction Layer (OTL)" initiative, aimed at establishing a unified transaction coordination protocol layer for on-chain finance.OTL is positioned as an open protocol stack for coordinating identity verification, compliance validation, transaction messaging, and execution processes among wallets, institutions, and AI agents, addressing the integration fragmentation problem currently plaguing cross-institutional interactions in on-chain finance, where entities operate in silos.The current coalition members include payment companies, trading platforms, wallets, market makers, and custody and stablecoin infrastructure providers, including Robinhood, MetaMask, eToro, MoonPay, SoFi, Wintermute, among others, as well as foundations from multiple public chains such as TON, Solana, Stellar, and Polygon. (Financefeeds)
Polymarket staff member Shantikiran Chanal posted on platform X, stating that they have taken note of the security reports related to reward distribution, and that user funds and market settlements remain safe. The investigation indicates that a private key leak occurred in a wallet used for internal operations, and the issue is not related to contracts or core infrastructure. Further updates will be provided.Previous report: ZachXBT stated that the Polymarket UMA CTF Adapter contract allegedly came under attack on Polygon, with over $520,000 having been drained.
THORChain has released its fourth update regarding the Asgard vault intrusion incident, publishing the ADR028 proposal and opening voting for node operators. The proposal indicates that the protocol will first absorb losses through its Protocol-Owned Liquidity (POL), with the remaining portion to be borne by synthetic asset holders. The exact proportion is still under evaluation. The POL will be reduced to zero as a result, and the proposal suggests allocating a portion of system revenue over time to gradually replenish it. This plan does not involve minting new RUNE, selling RUNE, or diluting holder equity.On the technical side, the GG20 version will be temporarily retained with a patch upgrade. Trading will resume after the vulnerability is fixed and a successful node rotation is completed. A slower, more security-focused release cadence is planned for the future.Regarding the slashing mechanism, unrelated nodes sharing the same vault as the attacker will be protected, while the attacker's node will be fully slashed. The recovered RUNE will be paired with recoverable assets from the affected vault, and any excess RUNE will be burned.Additionally, THORChain has offered a white-hat bounty to the attacker to recover funds. If a portion of the funds is recovered, the recovery plan will be adjusted proportionally. THORChain emphasizes its commitment to remaining neutral and permissionless, stating it will not censor the attacker's swap transactions after trading resumes.Currently, node operators are voting on the overall direction and principles of the proposal. The specific figures in the ADR are indicative and will be adjusted later via the Mimir mechanism. The goal is to restart the network as soon as possible. A "yes" vote means developers can proceed further along this path.
Odaily Odaily, THORChain posted on platform X that its developers have released an incident update on Discord. Current evidence points to a node thor16uc...cn84q, which recently joined the network, as being associated with the attack. This node is operated by a single malicious actor. The primary hypothesis is that the attacker exploited a vulnerability in the GG20 TSS implementation, causing sensitive key material of vault participants to leak over time. This ultimately enabled the reconstruction of the vault's private key and the execution of unauthorized outgoing transactions.Regarding network status, the network has been paused after multiple node operators executed `make pause`. RUNE transfers and on-chain observation may resume within approximately 12 hours, but transactions, LP operations, signing, and other sensitive operations remain paused.Discussed recovery plans include slashing the affected node's bond, covering losses with protocol-owned liquidity (POL), or other community-driven solutions. THORSec and Outrider Analytics are continuing their investigation. The Treasury is gathering forensic data and coordinating with relevant law enforcement agencies. Full functional recovery is expected to take several days or longer.
Polygon has launched a privacy-focused stablecoin payment feature, utilizing zero-knowledge proof technology to hide the sender, recipient, and transaction amount while maintaining regulatory compliance. (Cointelegraph)