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According to Glassnode, listed companies accumulated only 5,900 Bitcoin over the past three months, a sharp decline compared to 89,000 BTC added in July 2025. The spot price remains slightly below the $80,500 average cost basis, leaving corporate buyers with modest unrealized losses and limiting new demand pressure.

According to OpenAI Developers, OpenAI has launched Appshots, a new feature for Windows ChatGPT that allows users to share application interfaces and content as context directly with the chatbot. The feature enables use cases including debugging issues, replicating interface designs, and extracting data from other applications.

According to Anthropic, as of August 2026, the company deployed approximately 30,000 AI agents simultaneously for research and engineering work on its most-used internal platform. The platform implements both online and offline monitoring: all agent actions undergo real-time online monitoring before execution, with approximately 0.002% of over 1 billion decisions analyzed in August flagged (roughly 1 in 47,000). Offline monitoring flags around 100,000 records weekly, with about 50 high-priority

According to Japan's Statistics Bureau, core consumer price index rose 1.7% year-over-year in August, falling short of market expectations of 1.8% and declining from 1.8% in July. The headline CPI, including fresh food and energy, increased 1.9% year-over-year, unchanged from the previous month.

JPMorgan equity strategists predicted on Thursday, Sept 17 that the S&P 500 will rise to 8,000 by end of 2026, describing bears as an "extinct species" in the current cycle. The index closed at 7,551.81 on Thursday, implying a roughly 6% gain to reach JPMorgan's target. According to the bank's global economic conference, investors have not yet reached the limit of stock positions but prefer to wait for pullbacks rather than chase current levels. Prediction market Polymarket traders align with th

According to Liquid Network, on September 18, the network's block production and on-chain transfers, including LBTC transactions, are running normally since resuming operations on September 10. However, peg-out redemptions remain suspended. Of approximately 4,000 BTC withdrawn during the security incident, about 3,400 have been recovered to the alliance's reserve, with roughly 600 BTC still unrecovered. The network stated it will only restart peg-out redemptions after confirming LBTC restores 10

According to Cointelegraph, Coinbase partnered with Stablecore to provide crypto asset custody, trading, and stablecoin payment services to U.S. community banks and credit unions.

Brent crude oil fell below $100 per barrel on Sept 18, declining 0.59% during intraday trading. WTI crude oil dropped 0.6%, currently trading at $95.9 per barrel.

On September 18, China's National Development and Reform Commission, National Energy Administration, and State Administration for Work Safety jointly issued a notice deploying measures to accelerate stable coal production and supply. The notice requires coal-producing provinces and coal enterprises to prioritize safety while advancing coal production stability, including continuous monitoring, optimized production coordination, accelerated mine resumption and capacity restoration, and expedited

According to Guru Club, coke futures main contract fell 6% on September 18, trading at 1,515.50 yuan per ton during intraday session.

According to Bloomberg, Nvidia committed $2 billion to Brookfield Asset Management's Global AI Infrastructure Fund on September 18, as revealed in investor documents. Nvidia and Kuwait Investment Authority serve as anchor investors in the fund, which targets AI factories, behind-the-meter power solutions, and computing infrastructure. Brookfield is currently raising $10 billion for the AI fund and plans to mobilize approximately $50 billion for infrastructure businesses over the next two years.

According to PANews, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that Muse for Mac launched today. The desktop AI agent enables users to access files, calendars, messages, and other content across Mac applications, with access permissions controlled by individual users. Muse can execute multi-step tasks across connected apps and web pages, continue running in the background after users close applications, and be quickly activated via keyboard shortcuts to assist with writing, research, and daily task man

According to the Wall Street Journal, ECB President Christine Lagarde personally intervened to block Binance from obtaining an EU-wide license, Cointelegraph reported recently.

According to BlockBeats, on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai9684xtpa) detected that XXAntiWar liquidated ZEC short positions twice in the past three days on September 18, resulting in a loss of $398,000 and wiping out all profits earned on Hyperliquid over the past week.

According to Yonhapinfomax on September 18, U.S. 10-year Treasury yields fell overnight to 4.947%, down over 5 basis points from the previous session, as markets recovered from recent losses in the Treasury market. The decline was driven by stabilizing inflation expectations following the Federal Reserve's reaffirmation of its 2% inflation target, declining oil prices amid easing Middle East supply concerns, and diminishing Treasury selling pressure after recent weeks of sustained bond selloffs.

According to Cointelegraph, MoonPay has added WisdomTree's tokenized money market fund WTGXX to its corporate stablecoin business reserves, which launched in November 2025. WTGXX maintains a $1 net asset value per share and manages approximately $1.2 billion in assets under management. The fund accounts for roughly $1.23 billion of the $15.4 billion tokenized U.S. Treasury market and saw net inflows of $466 million over the past 30 days, leading peer funds in the category. The partnership will l

According to BlockBeats and GMGN market data, GSTOCK, a token launched by genius.fun on BSC, rose to $17.64 million today (Sept 18), briefly surpassing $18 million intraday. Trading volume exceeded $16.7 million. GSTOCK pairs against BNCB, the on-chain token of BNB treasury company BNC. This follows yesterday's official launch of Genius Terminal, a on-chain trading terminal backed by YZi Labs with CZ as advisor, on BNB Chain.

As of 09:30 Beijing time on September 18, WTI crude oil futures declined 4.31%, while U.S. natural gas futures fell 1.45%.

As of 9:30 AM Beijing time on September 18, New York gold futures rose 0.41%, silver futures climbed 0.92%, and copper futures fell 0.48%.

According to PANews, UNI surged over 15% in the past 24 hours, trading at $7.80, while NEAR jumped over 20% in the same period, reaching $3.20.