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Hong Kong Chief Executive Lee Ka-chao announced the territory's first five-year economic and social development plan on September 16, targeting 2026-2030. The plan strengthens Hong Kong's role as the world's largest offshore RMB trading hub by expanding offshore RMB business scale, enhancing liquidity support, and establishing a liquidity supplementation mechanism for the offshore RMB market. The government will accelerate RMB product innovation, expand product types, and build a multi-layered c

According to Oman Maritime Security Center, oil tanker Algarya caught fire after being struck in the southern Hormuz Strait on September 15 and is being towed to an Omani port. Two crew members remain missing. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stated the vessel struck a mine while attempting to pass through a restricted area in the strait.

According to Odaily, DefiLlama founder 0xngmi recently announced a new metric called Realized Perp Slippage to measure actual order execution quality across trading platforms. The metric captures an order book snapshot immediately before market order execution, calculates the theoretical slippage that should occur, and compares it to actual slippage at execution. 0xngmi explained that the team initially tracked order book liquidity but discovered market makers frequently withdraw liquidity befor

According to Odaily, infini founder Christian clarified on X that despite making some marketing missteps, the project's largest single marketing expense was approximately $10,000 to $20,000 from a giveaway campaign since its inception.

According to Odaily, Infini founder Christian clarified recently on X platform that despite making marketing mistakes, the project's largest single marketing expenditure was approximately $1-2 million from a giveaway campaign.

According to GMGN data, on September 16, ARCAT, a meme coin on Arc chain, saw its market cap briefly surge to $5 million, with a 24-hour gain of 1,288% and trading volume of $1.6 million. The token subsequently experienced a sharp pullback, declining approximately 40% from its peak. Its current market cap stands at $3.5 million.

According to Yonhapinfomax, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on September 15 that AI research institutions should independently ensure safety rather than relying solely on external oversight. In a post on X, Zuckerberg stated that independent evaluation bodies and advisory committees represent industry best practice, which Meta's Superintelligence Labs (MSL) already implements across multiple areas. He argued that AI labs have strong incentives to improve model safety, as users will not adopt syste

According to ChainCatcher, Polymarket's engineering VP Josh Stevens announced that the team has built an indexing system using Rust-based rindexer, enabling on-chain events to be visible approximately 28 seconds (around 14 blocks) earlier and indexed within 0-10 milliseconds after block broadcast. The system will accelerate the refresh speed of trades, positions, and balances. Goldsky remains as data backup while the main indexing path has been switched to the self-built infrastructure.

According to Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee, announced today (September 16), Hong Kong Disneyland will launch a new Marvel-themed park zone as part of its expansion plan outlined in the five-year development strategy (2026–2030). The park will also introduce a new Pixar-themed entertainment experience, with plans to initiate the next medium-to-long-term development initiative.

According to Seoul Central District Court, on September 16, the court ruled that North Korea must compensate the South Korean government approximately 446 billion won (about $325 million) for the unilateral demolition of the inter-Korean liaison office building.

iShares Silver Trust, the world's largest silver ETF, saw holdings decrease by 25.29 tonnes on September 15, bringing current holdings to 15,266.31 tonnes.

According to Pariside, US Ethereum spot ETFs experienced net outflows of $142.3 million on September 15, marking the largest single-day outflow since January 30. The outflow ended a two-day streak of inflows that began on September 11. BlackRock's ETHA product led the withdrawals with $98 million in outflows, while its ETHB product received $12.4 million in inflows. Year-to-date, the Ethereum spot ETF category has accumulated $1.336 billion in net inflows since launching in July 2024.

According to Jin10 Data, Japan's foreign trade committee chairman Masahiro Okafuji, who also serves as chief executive officer of Itochu Corporation, called on Wednesday for the yen to strengthen further for Japan's benefit.

The world's largest gold ETF, SPDR Gold Trust, added 2.852 tons of holdings yesterday (September 15), bringing total holdings to 1,050.277 tons.

According to Farside Investors, U.S. Bitcoin spot ETFs experienced net outflows of $450.4 million on September 15, marking the largest single-day exodus in roughly three months. Fidelity's FBTC led the outflows with $214.8 million, while no funds saw inflows on the day. September inflows have reached only $16.8 million to date, a sharp decline from August's $3.54 billion.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Diosdado Cabello ally and former Venezuelan Industry Minister Tareck El Aissami (also referred to as Sabo in the filing) pleaded guilty to conspiracy to launder money on September 15 in Miami federal court. The Justice Department stated that Sabo participated in a bribery and fraud scheme spanning nearly a decade, allegedly profiting from Venezuela's CLAP food and medicine public welfare program. Sabo admitted to organizing bribes to public officials

According to Jin10, China's Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China Xuan Changnengheld a meeting on September 14 with Fiona Bassett, Chief Executive Officer of LSEG's Founder Index, to discuss current international financial market trends, China's high-level opening-up of its financial markets, and the development of Founder Index's business in China.

According to Guru Club, Hong Kong Chief Executive Lee Ka-chao announced today the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's first five-year economic and social development plan (2026-2030), positioning artificial intelligence as a key industry for future growth. The plan emphasizes empowering thousands of industries through AI technology, completing the AI ecosystem across multiple dimensions, and advancing the 'AI+' initiative. Infrastructure support includes building the Sha Ling data park to

According to BlockBeats, on September 16, phishing sites disguised as Cloudflare verification pages appeared on meme coin display platforms, targeting traders. KOL @cladzsol and others lost funds after clicking the fake links and executing malicious scripts. @cladzsol alone lost approximately $600,000 in on-chain assets. The phishing pages leverage a gap in platform review processes; DexScreener and similar platforms directly display website links filled by token creators or those claiming commu

According to BlockBeats, Circle's blockchain Arc surpassed 372 million USDC across its mainnet two hours after launch on September 16, representing 0.05% of total USDC supply, with 176,000 active addresses on-chain. Prior to mainnet activation, some users crossed 80%-100% USDC premiums into Arc to participate in early meme coin trading.