Gate Crypto Flash News and Market Updates

According to official announcement, autonomous AI agent economic layer Agentum raised $7 million in funding from MEXC Ventures, BingX Labs, Arca Fund, Wave Digital Assets, Echo3, Greenwood Global Capital, UZ capital, and Vega Ventures. Built on BNB Chain, Agentum serves as a trust and settlement layer enabling AI agents to independently post tasks, bid on work, execute jobs, and complete on-chain payments without manual intervention.

According to Whale Alert, on September 11 at 18:12 UTC+8, USDC Treasury minted 250 million USDC on the Solana blockchain.

According to QCP, Bitcoin fell from $82,000 to around $77,000 ahead of tonight's U.S. CPI release, down about 2% for both the week and month. The U.S. 10-year Treasury yield has approached 5%, weakening the narrative of fiscal stimulus support that previously underpinned Bitcoin's price. QCP noted that the U.S. Treasury's intervention in long-end yields has fallen short of market expectations, leaving Bitcoin vulnerable to macroeconomic headwinds.

Albuquerque city council passed an ordinance on Wednesday banning cryptocurrency ATMs and cashier-facilitated virtual currency transactions within city limits. Operators and businesses hosting the machines have 45 days to remove them. District 1 Councilor Stephanie Telles, a co-sponsor of the measure, stated that 90% of crypto ATM transactions in Albuquerque are linked to fraud. She cited the machines' high fees, instant and anonymous nature, and irreversible transactions as tools exploited by s

On September 11, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said at a press conference that the government will closely monitor the country's bond market. Kihara expressed "very high" vigilance after Japan's 10-year government bond yield surged to 3%, pledging that Tokyo will implement appropriate economic and fiscal policies to address market movements.

According to CoinDesk's August 2026 exchange report released on September 11, Gate's derivatives trading volume reached $287 billion in August, ranking fourth globally. The platform's spot trading volume stood at $40 billion with a 4.49% market share. Combined, Gate's August spot and derivatives trading volume totaled approximately $327 billion, maintaining fourth place globally, with daily average trading volume of $11 billion.

According to Arkham data tracked by ChainCatcher, BlackRock's ETHB purchased $13.9 million ETH yesterday and $251.4 million over the past 20 trading days with no daily outflows during the period.

According to Jin10, on September 11, Li Chenggang, China's international trade negotiator and vice minister, met with André Desmarais, honorary chairman of the Canada-China Business Council. The two sides discussed bilateral trade relations and related topics.

According to the European Securities and Markets Authority's report published Thursday, the largest prediction market platforms lack the EU authorization generally required to market and sell event contracts in the EU. ESMA questioned the effectiveness of geographic restrictions used by Polymarket and Kalshi to block users in some member states, noting that such restrictions do not cover all EU countries and can be circumvented via VPNs. The regulator also raised concerns about insider trading a

According to BlockBeats, the STARLINK community charity fund on X Layer opened for donations on September 11 at 9 a.m., with the fund accumulating 350 million STARLINK tokens (approximately $2.84 million) by publication time. The meme token was launched on X Layer's Ignix platform on September 9 and has achieved a market cap exceeding $7.5 million. The fund operates through a fixed address and multi-signature wallet, with principal tokens held separately and only dividend yields used for expense

According to ChainCatcher, based on Lookonchain monitoring, a whale has established a 4x leveraged short position of 640 BTC worth $49.33 million. The trader had previously profited over $10 million from a long position in Ethereum.

According to WuBlockchain, India's securities regulator SEBI and the Reserve Bank of India have launched the Demat 2.0 pilot to test tokenized corporate bonds on distributed ledger technology. The initiative aims to modernize India's approximately $620 billion corporate debt market by enabling simultaneous securities and payment settlements using the RBI's wholesale digital rupee. Under the pilot, companies REC, L&T, and IIFL have issued a combined ₹10.25 billion (approximately $116 million) in

According to KuCoin's official announcement, KuCoin's Web3 Wallet has integrated UniswapX, enabling users to swap Ondo tokenized assets on Ethereum with enhanced efficiency. The integration features gasless execution and protection against miner extractable value (MEV) attacks, providing traders with cost-effective trading options on the decentralized exchange protocol.

According to ChainCatcher, 4D Labs has secured investment from YZi Labs through the EASY Residency Season 2 program. The project aims to build an embodied data layer for physical AI, converting real-world interactions into training data to support AI's expansion from language capabilities to action capabilities.

According to a threat intelligence report released by Anthropic on Thursday, the company's AI model Claude has been used by threat actors for cyberattacks and surveillance operations. A Russian-speaking operator codenamed "JackPoterz" used Claude-powered workflows to automate attacks targeting over 20 organizations, including government agencies, intelligence services, and embassies across Ukraine and Europe. Chinese-language users employed Claude for vulnerability research, producing over a doz

According to Bloomberg, BRICS finance ministers and central bank governors called Friday for urgent reforms to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank to increase emerging and developing economies' representation. In a joint statement, they urged higher voting shares and voting rights for these economies at the IMF, along with increased representation in the leadership of both institutions. The officials emphasized that the post-World War II Bretton Woods institutions must better re

France's central bank governor Emmanuel Moulin said the current economic situation is concerning and called on the government and parliament to address the budget deficit issue. "The current situation is indeed worrying and unsatisfactory," said Moulin, who also serves as a member of the European Central Bank governing council. "There are some concerning issues that need to be resolved, especially regarding public finances and budget deficits."

According to satellite imagery, smoke appeared near Saudi Arabia's east-west pipeline on Thursday. Saudi Arabia has not made an official statement regarding the incident.

According to Jin10, European natural gas prices surged this week on September 11, with Dutch TTF near-month contracts rising 12% to their highest level since late 2022. EU gas storage stands at 67%, while Germany's inventory is at just 55%, both notably below historical levels for this period. Goldman Sachs raised its TTF price target to 70 euros per megawatt-hour, suggesting Europe must accept higher prices to attract LNG cargoes from Asia and replenish stocks. Royal Bank of Canada and Barclays

According to ChainCatcher, Anthropic disclosed in its latest AI abuse report that an app development studio deployed over 20 dating applications powered by Claude, claiming all users were real but showing approximately 75% AI characters to regular users. During a two-week observation period in April 2026, the apps operated over 4,700 AI profiles that engaged with at least 25,000 different users, sending roughly 2.36 million messages, primarily affecting U.S. users. The platform mixed AI and real