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According to BlockBeats, on Sept. 24, Cantor Fitzgerald initiated coverage of digital asset securitization company Securitize with an outperform rating and a price target of $21.2. The stock rose 12% to $14.57, a record high, on the previous day.

According to SoSoValue data, Bitwise Hyperliquid ETF (BHYP) saw net outflows of $1.58 million on September 23 (U.S. Eastern Time). The HYPE spot ETF currently holds $505 million in total assets under management, with a cumulative net inflow of $144 million since launch.

According to SoSoValue data, XRP spot ETFs saw net inflows of $18.04 million on September 23. Bitwise XRP ETF (XRP) led with $11.54 million in daily inflows, bringing its historical total net inflows to $649 million. Franklin XRP ETF (XRPZ) recorded $6.50 million in daily inflows, with cumulative net inflows reaching $492 million. Total assets under management for XRP spot ETFs stand at $1.65 billion, with historical cumulative net inflows reaching $1.748 billion.

According to NH Investment & Securities, gold prices broke through $2,600 per ounce for the first time on September 23, amid expectations of further U.S. Federal Reserve rate hikes and Middle East tensions. The bank's FICC research head Hwang Byung-jin noted that near-term upward pressure on real yields remains limited, supporting a bullish outlook. Global central banks continue expanding gold reserves amid fiscal deficits and policy uncertainty, while retail investors have shifted to net buying

According to iM Securities analysis, GE Vernova's data center orders exceeded $5 billion in the first half of 2026, surpassing the entire 2025 annual total. The surge is driven by Nvidia's Rubin Ultra AI platform, which standardizes the 800VDC (800-volt direct current) architecture across global data center power infrastructure. GE Vernova is developing semiconductor transformers (SST) and medium-voltage uninterruptible power supplies (MV-UPS) to support this 800VDC ecosystem, with revenue visib

According to Samsung Securities analyst Park Jun-gyu, SpaceX has entered the AI infrastructure supply sector from this year, leveraging its capabilities in power supply and construction speed. The company has signed contracts to lease Colossus Computing power from this year and is positioned as a key beneficiary of growing AI infrastructure demand. SpaceX remains the only company capable of reducing orbital computing costs through its fully reusable Starship mega-launcher, the analyst noted. Add

According to Le Parisien, six suspects were referred to judicial authorities on September 11 following an armed home invasion in Taverny, Hauts-de-Seine, France, targeting a family's crypto assets. The victim's wife and 10-year-old child were bound, and the father was tortured with a stun gun during the attack. The assailants managed to steal only a small amount of cash and household items. The suspects are under investigation for organized armed robbery, extortion, unlawful detention, and parti

According to a Samil PwC report released today (September 24), AI payment agents are expected to significantly reshape South Korea's payment industry. The report identifies fintech companies, card issuers, and payment gateway providers as sectors most affected by the shift toward AI-driven transactions, with listed companies including Kakao Pay, Samsung Card, NHN KCP, and KG Inicis. Kakao Pay launched payment tools enabling AI agents to conduct transactions independently in August 2025. Visa ini

According to HLB Chairman Jin Yang-gon on September 24, HLB received FDA approval for Ripixti (lirafugratinib), a second-line cholangiocarcinoma treatment. The company plans to commercialize Ripixti and resubmit its liver cancer drug (ribociclib) in combination with camrelizumab later this year. Additionally, HLB's subsidiary Regent will release Phase 3 results for a neurotrophic keratitis treatment in November, and subsidiary VertiMos will announce Phase 1 results for its CAR-T candidate SynKIR

According to Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission announcement reported by Caixin, mainland investors will be able to buy and sell Hong Kong stocks directly using Chinese yuan through Stock Connect from July 1, 2027. Meanwhile, Hong Kong Monetary Authority Chief Executive Eddie Yue announced that CMU OmniClear, a digital asset settlement platform jointly held by the HKMA and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, aims to support central bank digital currency (CBDC) settlement by year-end and e

According to Crypto Briefing, Meta's Muse Voice Transcribe model, introduced on September 1, is now available across its entire smart glasses lineup, including Ray-Ban Meta and Oakley Meta devices. The model achieves 0.16 seconds of final-transcript latency after someone finishes speaking—faster than a human blink. It handles speaker diarization for over 20 simultaneous speakers and supports more than 70 languages, with a 3.1% word error rate on English benchmarks. Meta is offering the model thr

According to Crypto Briefing, on September 23, Meta launched the third-generation Ray-Ban smart glasses at the Connect conference, introducing a camera-free audio variant starting at $349. The new models integrate Meta's Muse AI assistant, the same system powering the company's own-branded glasses released earlier in 2026. The camera-free Ray-Ban Meta Audio line also includes a built-in hearing-aid mode, expanding Meta's wearables lineup across two brands.

According to Lookonchain, a whale purchased 160,000 UNI tokens at $9.39 per unit following a recent price decline, spending approximately $1.5 million on the transaction.

According to Mark Zuckerberg's essay published on August 10, titled "The Future Is for Everyone: The Path to a Positive AI Future," the Meta CEO outlined a vision to provide billions of people and small businesses with personal superintelligent AI powered by open-source models, running across devices from smartphones to smart glasses. Meta's 2026 capital spending budget totals $145 billion, with the bulk allocated to data centers and AI infrastructure. The company materialized this commitment by

According to reports, Meta's Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang announced that the company will soon release its most capable AI model to date, codenamed Watermelon. The model reportedly approaches performance parity with OpenAI's GPT-5.5, marking an escalation in Meta's direct competition with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google in the frontier AI model race. Meanwhile, Meta released Muse Spark version 1.3 in September 2026, bringing improvements to coding performance and overall efficiency. Wang has cha

According to Crypto Briefing, Cloudflare, which routes roughly 20% of global web traffic, launched its Monetization Gateway on July 1, 2026, enabling USDC stablecoin payments settled on Base and Polygon networks. The product is built around x402, a revived HTTP 402 status code optimized for stablecoin transactions with near-instant finality and negligible fees. The infrastructure is designed to handle 5 to 50 million transactions per second, leveraging an architecture borrowed from Ethereum's or

According to Secretary Scott Bessent, Operation Economic Outcast has resulted in the shutdown of 80-90% of Iran's external flights as part of intensified U.S. sanctions targeting the country's aviation sector. The move aims to isolate Iran from international air transport and disrupt overseas logistics operations. Market pricing currently reflects a 23.5% probability of a complete Iranian airspace closure by December 31, up from previous assessments. The likelihood of a full closure by September

According to Foresight News, Patrick Witt, director of the White House crypto committee, said at a Georgetown University conference that Democrats politicized the CLARITY Act, leading to its failure. Witt criticized the selective application of ethics reviews, arguing that a recent major housing bill backed by the Trump administration faced no comparable scrutiny from Democratic senators.

According to Jin10, Canadian Prime Minister Carney said on Sept 24 that he would consider the "extreme tail risks" of U.S. military action against Canada. Carney stated that he expects increased global demand for alternatives to the U.S. dollar due to Trump administration policies, adding that a multipolar system with multiple reserve currencies would "provide more flexibility." He emphasized that considering such risks is a matter of responsible risk management, noting that while U.S. invasion

According to ChainCatcher, on-chain derivatives protocol Variational announced its $VAR token TGE is scheduled for Q4 2026. The initial token distribution includes 32% genesis allocation, 18% ecosystem reserve, and 50% for team and investors. Genesis tokens will be airdropped proportionally to Variational point holders and fully unlocked at TGE; ecosystem reserves are held by the Variational Foundation for ecosystem growth. Team and investor tokens lock for 12 months post-TGE, then unlock over a