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According to SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce's remarks at the SIFMA Digital Assets Conference on September 24, financial regulators should shift from "collecting more data" to using new technology for more precise verification. Peirce stated that zero-knowledge proofs can verify users' compliance with age, citizenship, accredited investor status, or sanctions list requirements without disclosing personal information such as names, income, or addresses. Peirce recommended federal government and re

According to Bitfinex analysts, Bitcoin fell below $85,000 on September 23, 2026, breaking through the $86,000 average cost basis that U.S. spot ETF buyers had established. The decline came after ETFs pulled in $999 million on Monday and $714.7 million on Tuesday, with those positions now underwater. OKX perpetual funding rates for Bitcoin turned negative at -0.0022%, signaling bearish pressure. The broader crypto market fell 2.27% to $2.96 trillion, while U.S. equities and gold declined in tand

According to SolanaFloor, Solana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade is launching on testnet within hours, marking the network's most significant consensus change to date. The upgrade is designed to drastically improve transaction finality, reducing the time from approximately 12.8 seconds to just 150 milliseconds. This enhancement aims to strengthen Solana's position as a high-performance blockchain in the competitive cryptocurrency landscape.

U.S. initial jobless claims for the week through September 19, the Q2 current account balance, and Canada's July retail sales month-on-month change are scheduled for release in the next 10 minutes.

According to German journalist Lilith Wittmann and journalists from NDR, NRK, SVT, and Follow the Money, the Curaçao Gaming Authority was hacked last week, resulting in the leak of over 40,000 documents belonging to more than 1,000 Curaçao-registered casinos and gambling firms. The leaked database includes financial plans, audits, business structures, and funding sources. Wittmann and her team released the data publicly on September 23, claiming they exhausted all other journalistic methods befo

According to Protos, Apollo's flagship private credit fund, Apollo Debt Solutions BDC, limited third-quarter withdrawals to just 5% on Tuesday (September 23), despite investors requesting 14.7% in redemptions. This marks the fund's third consecutive quarter of gating withdrawal requests, as it faces a slow-motion liquidity crisis. Peers face similar pressures: Blackstone's $77 billion BCRED fund capped third-quarter redemptions at 5% with requests running at roughly double that level, while Clif

On Thursday, crude oil surged across the board, with SC crude climbing nearly 7% to around 740 yuan per barrel. Iran's President delivered hardline remarks at the UN General Assembly, reversing peace talk expectations and boosting Middle East geopolitical risk premium. EIA data showed product oil drew down more than expected, yet a divergence widened between rising crude inventories and falling product stockpiles.

IBM announced on September 24 that it has integrated its Digital Asset Haven platform with Swift's blockchain-based shared ledger, enabling financial institutions to execute tokenized deposit transactions 24/7 using existing payment messaging standards. Through an ISO 20022 message adapter in beta, banks can conduct such operations without adopting blockchain-specific workflows; 17 institutions are currently piloting the integration. In parallel, IBM launched an on-premises beta deployment of Di

According to ChainCatcher citing Bitcoin Treasuries, BlackRock's iShares (IGV) ETF increased holdings in Strategy by 123,472 shares worth $19.5 million recently. The ETF now holds 1.76 million shares of the bitcoin treasury company valued at $280 million.

According to Anthropic, Claude's AI agents discovered a novel enzyme system inside bacteria-infecting viruses today (September 24), using 950 agents and processing 210 million tokens in less than 24 hours. The system, marked by a stretch of repeating DNA resembling CRISPR, the gene-editing tool, appears to operate similarly to "cut, copy, and paste DNA" mechanisms. Anthropic named the system ART and believes it may represent a new type of gene editor. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the work was

According to PANews, Ondo and BlackRock launched a tokenized smart portfolio product on September 24.

According to The Block, stablecoin infrastructure company HIFI has completed a $37 million Series A funding round led by Left Lane Capital. This is the company's first priced funding round. CEO Zach Walsh stated that the platform currently processes approximately $7 billion in annualized transaction volume. The funding will be used to expand HIFI's stablecoin payment products and tokenized capital market infrastructure services.

According to Elev8 broker's analysis of CFTC Commitments of Traders data, large speculators have accumulated extreme positioning across commodities and currencies as of late September 2026. In agricultural futures, speculators hold substantial net longs in corn, sugar, soybeans, and cotton, driven by tight global grain supplies—corn use will exceed production by nearly 30 million metric tonnes in 2026–2027, the largest deficit in over three decades, amid Russia-Ukraine disruptions and adverse we

Tesla's European Union registrations climbed 52.7% year-over-year in August to 12,547 vehicles, according to official registration data, with market share rising to 1.8% from 1.2%. However, Chinese EV makers registered far steeper gains: BYD registrations jumped 144.1%, Chery's surged 279.7%, and Leapmotor's soared 449.9% across the EU in the same month. Tesla is showcasing its new Semi electric truck manufacturing facility in Nevada on Thursday, with the facility expected to eventually produce

According to Chainwire, on September 24, Streamex Corp.'s gold-backed token GLDY received an initial $1 million institutional allocation from Metalayer Capital, a systematic investment manager. The allocation funds a delta-neutral strategy pairing GLDY as the long position with an offsetting short in gold-linked perpetual futures, designed to capture GLDY's target yield of 3.5% annually from a gold-leasing program, with follow-on investments anticipated.

On Sept 24 evening session, the Shanghai Gold Exchange's gold T+D contract fell 0.99% to 926.5 yuan per gram, while silver T+D declined 2.93% to 15,658.0 yuan per kilogram.

According to BlockBeats, Li Bei, founder of Shanghai Halfsia Investment, warned in a Tencent Finance interview on September 24 that overseas AI capital expenditure growth may peak in quarterly-over-quarter terms by mid-2027, despite ongoing overall expansion. Li Bei noted that cloud providers' investment increases were premised on high-growth AI model revenues, but second-quarter annual recurring revenue (ARR) growth has already decelerated significantly. She projected AI capex will likely peak

According to Decrypt, CFTC Chair Mike Selig announced the agency will advance crypto market structure rules after the Senate rejected the Clear Act, stating the current moment is time for action. Selig noted the CFTC has existing statutory authority to proceed with rulemaking without waiting for Congressional action, and will reassess current rules applied to algorithm and smart agent-driven 24/7 on-chain markets. The agency is considering establishing a designated contract market category to al

According to Jin10, Russia's Rosneft has begun commercial crude oil exports from its Vostok Oil project in the Arctic region today (Sept 24). The project was designed with production capacity of 2 million barrels per day, equivalent to approximately 2% of global oil supply. However, current export volumes remain significantly below the target, with industry sources estimating average daily exports of around 150,000 barrels this year, with most supplies coming from Rosneft's mature Vankor oil fie

According to the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, Ronald Spektor, 23, of Brooklyn, was sentenced on September 23, 2026, to four to 12 years in prison for orchestrating a Coinbase phishing and social engineering scheme that stole approximately $15.944 million from around 100 users. Spektor had pleaded guilty on September 2 to all 31 counts, including first-degree grand larceny and first-degree money laundering. Prosecutors said Spektor posed as a Coinbase representative and contacted victims,