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According to ChainCatcher, a young couple in Solihull was attacked by masked assailants in December 2025 and forced to transfer substantial assets to the perpetrators' cryptocurrency wallet. The male victim sustained serious injuries, while his pregnant partner was threatened with a knife. Multiple high-value watches were also stolen. West Midlands Police considers this a premeditated, targeted attack. The independent charity Crimestoppers is now offering a reward of up to 10,000 GBP for informa

According to Rep. Sung Jong-wook of the People Power Party, the Bank of Korea established a dedicated unit on September 26 to design the tokenization of government bonds and financial assets based on its central bank digital currency (CBDC). The new Asset Tokenization Division, with a staff of three, was created under the CBDC Office to plan and research policies for issuing and trading government bonds in digital token form. Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun-song previously emphasized the necess

According to Defillama, in the past 24 hours on September 26, Pump.fun generated $1.96 million in protocol revenue, surpassing Hyperliquid's $1.86 million. The platform ranked third overall, behind Tether ($17.55M) and Circle ($7.35M).

According to Nate Geraci from The ETF Institute, Bitcoin spot ETFs have accumulated net inflows of $5.3 billion since the U.S. Treasury signaled increased long-term bond repurchases. Last week alone saw net inflows of $2.4 billion, with a single-day inflow of $1 billion on Monday, marking the ninth-largest daily inflow on record. The year-to-date inflow reverses a $5.7 billion net outflow recorded in July.

Microsoft stock rose 3.7% on Friday after unveiling a major Copilot overhaul, even as the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield climbed to 5.23%, its highest level since 2007. The company introduced three capabilities: Home, Code, and Autopilot, with Autopilot designed as a persistent AI agent. Despite elevated Treasury yields typically pressuring tech valuations, investors appear willing to overlook the discount-rate headwind when the AI growth story is sufficiently strong.

According to Nvidia's official MLPerf announcement, Vera Rubin NVL72 GPU achieved 3.7x the throughput of Nvidia's GB300 NVL72 on the Qwen3-VL benchmark in the latest MLPerf Inference v6.1 tests. The performance gain reached 2.5x on DeepSeek-R1 workloads. Nvidia described the submission as a preview ahead of broader deployment.

According to ChainCatcher, Changpeng Zhao said today that Binance, the BNB Chain ecosystem, and the community will make every effort to support Bitget through what he described as a difficult day. Zhao urged the community to maintain the "SAFU" principle.

According to StarkWare, the estimated cost of building a quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction fell from about $320 to roughly $67 in one week, as developers and AI models optimized code in the Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Optimization Challenge. The leading records were held by AI models including Anthropic's Opus 5, Fable 5.1, OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra, Grok 4.6, and Kimi. One key performance metric jumped from 146 million verified candidates per second to over 820 million on a standard RTX 4090. StarkWare caut

According to its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings report, Costco received $184 million in tariff refunds during Q4 2026 and is using most of the funds to lower prices across produce, meat, beverages, home furnishings, and hardware. The total comprised $174 million in refunded tariffs and $10 million in interest, producing a non-recurring earnings benefit of $0.15 per diluted share after reinvestment in member value. CEO Ron Vachris confirmed price cuts during the second half of the quarter. CFO Ga

According to Odaily, XRP Ledger released xrpld 3.4.1 today, fixing batch functionality issues and introducing broader stability improvements. The update includes the fixBatchV12 amendment, which has reached a 94.29% consensus rate among validators. The new amendment and batch functionality have entered activation phase. Node operators and validators are encouraged to upgrade promptly. Developers confirmed the issue did not affect the mainnet and caused no fund losses.

According to CoinDesk, Tether disclosed on September 24 that its exposure to EQIBank amounts to less than 0.034% of group assets, estimated at approximately $63.8 million based on the company's June 30 attestation of $187.75 billion in total assets. U.S. authorities seized roughly $89 million connected to EQIBank's payment processor Capstone Limited on September 14, representing about 80% of the offshore lender's monetary holdings. A federal court order directed seizure of accounts held under Ca

According to TheEnergyMag, citing SEC filings, Riot Platforms repaid the full outstanding principal and accrued interest on its Coinbase Credit facility on September 21, releasing 5,821 BTC collateral pledged against the $200 million loan. The fixed-rate debt carried a 6.15% annual interest rate with a revised maturity date of April 20, 2027; Riot's early redemption occurred approximately seven months before the scheduled due date. As of June 30, the 5,821 BTC represented approximately 51% of Ri

According to Foresight News, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated on X that PeerDAS has operated stably for nearly one year with virtually no issues. He described it as an underappreciated achievement by Ethereum client developers. PeerDAS is the first large-scale blockchain system to enable decentralized consensus on data availability without requiring any single node to download complete blocks, eliminating the need for full data replication across the network.

According to BlockBeats, on September 26, trader Bonk Guy expressed a bullish outlook on STONK, revealing he has accumulated STONK ecosystem tokens recently. Bonk Guy believes the ecosystem has strong development potential and may perform well long-term. However, Bonk Guy called on the STONK community to stop treating all competing projects as "parasitic" to the ecosystem. He stated that the most concerning factor for STONK's growth is influential ecosystem participants pushing a narrative that

According to BBC, Russian forces struck data centers across Ukraine recently, including a facility in Kyiv's central business district, killing four people and leaving approximately 100,000 households without internet connectivity. Russia confirmed attacks on Datagroup and targeted other telecommunications infrastructure operated by New-Telco, United DC, Kyivstar, and Parkovyi. Some companies have begun migrating data abroad to avoid disruption. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha stated th

According to Guru Club, on September 26, President Trump stated that 'Super Intelligence' is a more accurate term than 'Artificial Intelligence' because the word 'Artificial' often implies something false or unreal, whereas AI is actually an extremely powerful form of intelligence.

According to Aave founder Stani, the protocol plans to expand lending services to solar, batteries, GPUs, robots, and space infrastructure. Stani stated that Aave's market potential is measured by its addressable collateral—the range of assets that can be used as collateral. The platform has evolved from crypto lending to securities through partnerships including Coinbase Tokenized Stocks and Horizon RWA. Stani expects this expansion to continue through 2050, with Aave aiming to accelerate the t

According to ITAR-TASS, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock during the UN General Assembly on September 26.

According to CoinDesk, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs achieved positive net inflows of nearly $800 million in 2026, reversing a $5.8 billion deficit recorded on July 13. Bitcoin's price recovered to approximately $85,000 from below $58,000 earlier in the year, tracking closely with ETF inflows. Roughly $4 billion of recent inflows arrived following U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's August announcement of increased bond purchases to manage liquidity. The funds logged six consecutive days of inflows

According to Bitcoin Magazine, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw inflows of $134.5 million yesterday (September 25), with cumulative net inflows of $2.97 billion recorded over the past 7 trading days.