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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.

According to Ars Technica, on September 16, Mozilla's latest State of Open Source AI report found that the performance gap between U.S. closed-source frontier AI models and Chinese open-source models has narrowed to approximately 4.4 months. Chinese open-source model Kimi K3 trails Anthropic's Claude 3.5 by only three points on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, while costing roughly 30% less. METR testing shows the strongest closed-source models reliably complete human expert tasks las

According to Zhuochuang Consulting, the spread between southern and northern low-sulfur 180CST bunker fuel widened to 150 yuan per ton as of Sept 15, expanding by 75 yuan from the previous period. Southern bunker prices surged to 6,900 yuan per ton, up 525 yuan, while northern prices reached 6,750 yuan per ton, up 450 yuan. Rising raw material costs and tight supply have widened the arbitrage window. Freight rates from Guangzhou to Shandong remained stable at 150–200 yuan per ton, supporting the

According to Bloomberg, on September 15, Bitcoin fell 5.3% and Ether dropped more than 8% after the US Senate blocked the Clarity Act, while market concerns about higher interest rates also weighed on prices. CoinGlass reported that nearly $300 million in bullish crypto bets were liquidated in the final hour before the vote. Coinbase shares closed 10% lower. The Clarity Act required 60 votes to advance but failed 49-50 after Democrats objected to its ethics language, which did not require a sitt

According to Foresight News, the Aave community has published an ARFC proposal to deploy a new Aave V4 Isolated Hub & Spoke architecture designed to integrate institutional custodial collateral into the Aave platform as backing for stablecoin borrowing. Under this model, institutional borrowers deposit collateral with Anchorage, which maintains custody throughout the loan term. The custodial balance is represented on-chain as Custodial Collateral Tokens (CoCT), minted and burned via Chainlink's

According to PANews, traders reported on September 16 that the Reserve Bank of India is likely selling U.S. dollars to support the rupee.

According to PANews, Shanghai State Investment Pioneer led a new funding round for Hailo Robotaxi on September 16, raising approximately $100 million, with Min Gold Investment and Genesis Partners also participating. Following the funding, Hailo Robotaxi's valuation reached approximately $3 billion.

According to Jin10 Futures, as of 11:33 AM on September 16, Chinese domestic futures main contracts recorded mixed capital flows. Soybean meal (2701) led inflows with 918 million yuan, followed by coking coal (2701) at 536 million yuan and crude oil (2611) at 284 million yuan. On the outflow side, CSI 1000 (2609) saw the largest exit with 10.103 billion yuan, while CSI 500 (2609) and CSI 300 (2609) recorded outflows of 5.989 billion yuan and 5.582 billion yuan, respectively.

According to the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), on September 16, analysis of nearly 100 billion blockchain records found that on-chain metrics widely used in the crypto industry may show significant deviations. Bitcoin on-chain transfer volumes could differ by up to approximately 6 times depending on how unspent transaction outputs (UTXOs) are processed. The research also identified approximately 13 million active contracts on Ethereum, including roughly 1.4 million tokens. The BIS no

According to Financial Times investigation reported by ChainCatcher, Polish state energy company Orlen prepaid $230 million to Dubai trader Hannon International for approximately 6 million barrels of Venezuelan crude oil but received only 500,000 barrels of fuel oil. During the transaction, part of the funds were converted to USDT and transferred through intermediaries to Venezuelan counterparts. At least $132 million in USDT given to two intermediaries subsequently went missing. Including tanke