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South Korean President Lee Jae-myung will receive Sheikh Khaldoon bin Mubarak Al Nahyan, the Abu Dhabi Executive Council Chairman, at the Blue House today (September 18).

According to OKX market data, UNI reached $7.93 yesterday, up over 14% in 24 hours, following the U.S. SEC's approval of an innovation exemption for tokenized stock trading. The exemption provides a five-year trial framework for qualified tokenized securities trading venues. Other related tokens also rallied: ONDO hit $0.3792, up over 7%, and BP reached $0.55, up nearly 14% in the same period.

According to Chainalysis, blockchain 'dead drop' attacks used to store malicious payloads in on-chain transactions and smart contracts surged approximately 420% over the past 12 months as of Q2 2026, with daily malicious writes increasing from 2.06 to 11.1. Over 15 active campaigns have been identified across five major blockchains. State-backed actors account for roughly two-thirds of new activities, including North Korean UNC5342, which has targeted crypto developers through fake job postings

According to SoSoValue data cited by PANews, HYPE spot ETFs saw combined net inflows of $4.2521 million on September 17. 21Shares Hyperliquid ETF (THYP) led with $2.3955 million in single-day inflows and cumulative inflows of $52.6894 million to date. Bitwise Hyperliquid ETF (BHYP) followed with $1.8566 million in daily inflows and total historical inflows of $144 million. Total HYPE spot ETF assets under management reached $444 million, with cumulative historical net inflows of $332 million.

According to The Block, HIP-3 markets on Hyperliquid accounted for nearly 50% of the platform's perpetual trading volume by summer 2026, up from around 2% at the start of the year. TradeXYZ's stock market segment, including Nasdaq 100 index and individual stock contracts, led activity in HIP-3 markets.

According to SoSoValue data, XRP spot ETFs recorded net outflows of $5.1534 million on Sept 17 (U.S. Eastern Time). 21Shares XRP ETF (TOXR) led with $3.7806 million in daily net outflows, followed by Canary XRP ETF (XRPC) with $1.3728 million. As of press time, the total assets under management for XRP spot ETFs stood at $1.394 billion.

According to ChainCatcher citing Coinbase Markets data, Bitcoin and Ethereum options positions shifted this week. Bitcoin options show open interest valued at approximately $1.73 billion with a maximum pain level of $75,000. The put-to-call ratio rose to 0.78 from 0.61, signaling more balanced positioning while still favoring call options. Ethereum options with open interest of $3.62 billion show a more pronounced reversal: the put-to-call ratio fell to 0.49, with call options now exceeding put

According to Perplexity's blog, the company's Computer product today added an 'effort' slider allowing users to choose between Light, Standard, High, and Ultra levels, each controlling the reasoning depth of the orchestrating model that delegates tasks to helper agents. The feature is now live on web, with Android and iOS versions coming soon. Credit point consumption varies by actual workload, with lower effort levels consuming fewer points.

According to CoinDesk, Ondo Finance founder Nathan Allman died intestate in May, triggering legal disputes over his controlling stake and substantial ONDO token holdings now inherited by his parents. His mother, Kathleen Allman, sued interim CEO Ian De Bode, alleging he pushed through an approximately $11 million compensation and token incentive package within a week of Allman's death to seize company control. Meanwhile, Allman's half-sister Lani Clinton and investor David Chen filed for limited

According to Adam Aron on X, AMC Entertainment's CEO endorsed SEC Chair Paul Atkins' tokenized stock policy framework announced today (Sept 18), highlighting three core principles: investor protection, prohibition on synthetic assets, and issuers' right to object to tokenization. Aron stated that compliant tokenized stocks must retain full voting and dividend rights, and companies should have authority to block tokenization. He called on Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev to apply the same standard

According to official announcement on Sept. 18, Across Protocol has transitioned to a new entity, Across, Inc. (AcrossCo). All ACX tokens will be deprecated after Jan. 8, 2027, losing governance, utility, and economic functions. Token holders can exchange through exchange.across.to before the deadline at a valuation of $0.04375 per token: either for AcrossCo equity on a 1:1 basis (first-come basis, minimum 250,000 ACX, subject to KYC and qualified investor requirements for U.S. applicants) or eq

According to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, the company on Thursday (Sept 17) expects chip sales to double over the next 12 months as artificial intelligence continues to accelerate adoption across different industries. The outlook boosted Nvidia shares 2.8% intraday on Thursday, reversing last week's decline and extending year-to-date gains to approximately 17%.

According to ChainCatcher, on-chain yield operating system Concrete announced today the launch of Concrete Foundation, a governance and treasury entity, along with its native governance and configuration token CT. CT is a fixed-supply ERC-20 token on Ethereum with a total of 1 billion units and no inflation mechanism. Token holders who lock or stake CT can participate in protocol governance and access configuration features under applicable rules, including decisions on strategy approvals, colla

On September 17, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced a limited temporary trading channel for tokenized U.S. equities on public exchanges. The channel, though not a formal regulatory rule change, will remain effective for five years. Securitize Corp. (SECZ) closed up 14.93% at $8.93, marking its highest settlement since July 6.

According to Yonhapinfomax, on September 18, Tradr ETFs announced plans to launch a 2x daily return-tracking leverage ETF that holds SK Hynix, SanDisk, and Micron in equal weights, targeting the memory chip sector. Tradr operates 83 leverage and inverse ETFs with $5 billion in assets under management. South Korean investors account for approximately 10% of the company's total AUM. The company, specializing in leveraged and inverse ETF strategies, recently submitted applications for three "Triple

According to CoinDesk, reported by PANews on Sept 18, Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade successfully completed Devnet-11 testing this week, confirming blocks under new block construction rules. The upgrade plans to increase the block gas limit from 60 million to 200 million and introduce block-level access lists, enabling nodes to fetch data and validate unrelated transactions in parallel. Nethermind execution client passed all 2,302 performance tests, processing 570.7 billion gas in 3 minutes 15 s

OpenZeppelin announced on September 18 that S&P Global will acquire the company. Following the acquisition, OpenZeppelin Contracts and its open-source applications and tools will remain free, open-source, and publicly maintained on GitHub. The firm's audit, engineering, and ecosystem projects will continue operating under the OpenZeppelin brand with support from S&P Global's research, market data, and institutional resources. OpenZeppelin's smart contracts have facilitated over $37 trillion in v

According to PANews, OpenAI launched Astra for Law today (September 18), a GPT-6-powered legal tool for law firms and legal tech companies. The product provides legal analysis, writing guidance, and access to a search index covering over 230 million U.S. court rulings, statutes, regulations, and administrative decisions with links to original sources. Major law firms including Sullivan & Cromwell, Ropes & Gray, and Cooley are already using Astra for Law to build tools for contract review, M&A du

According to TechCrunch, the UN and Google unveiled the UN System Data Commons on September 17, a platform built on Google's open-source Data Commons that allows users to search UN statistics in natural language and enables AI systems to query data directly. Google.org provided US$2 million in capacity-building funding and technical support, with 26 UN entities committing to the platform and data from nearly 20 available at launch. UNICEF's benchmark of six large language models across over 133,

GitLab released version 19.4 with new agentic automation features for its DevSecOps platform. The /goal command in GitLab Duo command-line interface entered public beta, enabling developers to automate open-ended objectives from the terminal through a controlled flow that runs locally and verifies its own work. GitLab also launched Model Context Protocol (MCP) server tools in public beta under GitLab Duo Agent Platform, allowing agents to automate tasks across continuous integration and continuo