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According to the Cardano Foundation, Brazilian state-controlled oil company Petrobras unveiled on Wednesday two blockchain applications on Cardano to track sustainability data for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel. The first application, developed with PUC-Rio's Ledger Labs, tokenizes environmental attributes of SAF into digital tokens known as CS-SAF, using a Book-and-Claim model to separate environmental benefits from physical fuel and prevent double counting. Passengers can

Carnegie Mellon University announced that Ken Griffin, CEO of Citadel, has committed $3 billion in donations, marking the largest single personal gift in higher education history. The majority of the funds will support the establishment of a new campus in Miami, with CMU's main campus remaining in Pittsburgh.

Anthropic announced that Claude for Government is now widely available to U.S. federal and state government agencies. The service provides government entities with access to Claude's AI capabilities under appropriate compliance and security frameworks.

According to Aave, the proposal to onboard OpenStandard's OUSD to both V3 and V4 Core platforms went live on September 30. OUSD is designed for banking, cross-border payments, and institutional trading applications. The integration aims to attract new liquidity and expand Aave's DeFi offerings.

According to Decrypt's Bitcoin ETF tracker, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $66.19 million on Sept. 29, marking their ninth consecutive day of net inflows. The run that began on Sept. 17 has accumulated about $3.08 billion, edging past August's nine-day streak from Aug. 17–27, which totaled roughly $3.04 billion. Bitcoin traded near $84,400 on the day.

On September 30, according to the Federal Reserve's Inspector General report, the Fed's headquarters renovation project exceeded its original budget by approximately $1 billion, with costs reaching about $2.4 billion. The inspection found no criminal violations warranting referral to the Justice Department, nor any administrative misconduct. The report revealed significant management and oversight deficiencies in the massive renovation, which originally budgeted at $1.3 billion in 2020. Key issu

According to Pakistan's Ministry of Finance, the country's September consumer price index (CPI) inflation is projected to remain in the 10%-11% range, with rates expected to stay elevated in the near term.

According to ChainCatcher, the crypto industry spent over $13 million on lobbying in the first half of 2026, with approximately $8 million specifically directed toward efforts to advance the Clear Act. Despite the substantial investment, the bill has yet to pass the Senate.

According to the U.S. Treasury Department, the department announced on September 30 a buyback of up to $6 billion in long-term U.S. Treasuries, effective October 1. The buyback targets bonds maturing between February 2037 and August 2046, with remaining maturities of approximately 10 to 20 years. The department previously executed two rounds of long-term buybacks, purchasing $5.187 billion on September 10 and $4.08 billion on September 24.

According to Reuters, prediction market platform Kalshi is in advanced negotiations to raise approximately $1 billion in a new funding round at a $40 billion valuation. Sequoia Capital and Wellington Management are leading the round, with Tiger Global Management and Dragoneer Investment Group potentially participating. This comes after Kalshi completed a $1 billion Series F round in May at a $22 billion valuation.

President Trump stated today that the final batch of U.S. military forces is withdrawing from Iraq, ending America's military presence in the country.

The Federal Reserve's overnight reverse repurchase (RRP) facility usage stood at $11.539 billion with 18 counterparties on Wednesday (September 30), up slightly from $11.44 billion in the prior trading day.

According to Afghan officials, a fire broke out at the Herat-Iran border crossing on the evening of September 30. Over a dozen vehicles allegedly transporting fuel were reported burning. Afghan authorities have not yet disclosed casualty or damage assessments.

Starting October 1, India will reduce its diesel export tax from 20 rupees per liter to 16 rupees per liter. The aviation turbine fuel (ATF) export tax will be cut from 15 rupees per liter to 10.5 rupees per liter.

According to Punchbowl, yesterday (September 29), Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee's ranking Democratic member Chris Coons met with U.S. Central Command Commander Admiral Coopper. The meeting comes as the conflict in Iran enters its seventh month.

Webull has expanded its cloud-hosted Model Context Protocol (MCP) server to allow eligible U.S. customers to use AI assistants to research markets, inspect account data and prepare trading orders without installing software or managing API keys, according to the company's official announcement. The update supports Claude, Perplexity and Grok, with ChatGPT integration pending platform approval. Every order still requires separate customer confirmation before submission to the market.

According to OpenAI, the company identified and disrupted a coordinated attack campaign targeting its model's protected reasoning abilities in early July. The attackers did not breach encryption systems, compromise databases, or gain access to stored user conversations. OpenAI discovered associated prompt injection patterns affecting over 15,000 users and fully removed the activity by July 28.

According to BlockBeats, Open Standard's OUSD stablecoin went live on October 1 with a total supply of 477.3 million OUSD and 477.3 million USD in reserve assets, maintaining 100% reserve coverage. The reserves consist of 211.2 million USD in U.S. Treasury bills (44.25%) and 266.1 million USD in cash (55.75%). On Tempo Network, OUSD's circulating supply reached 434.2 million with total cumulative transfers of 533.9 million USD.

According to the Federal Reserve Inspector General report, Fed Chair Powell stated on September 30 that he will follow the Inspector General's recommendations on project management and hire an independent audit firm to review the accuracy and compliance of all awarded contracts to date.

According to Petra Tschudin, a member of the Swiss National Bank's governing board, large stablecoins that operate outside the existing dual-layer financial system pose risks to central bank policy effectiveness. Speaking Wednesday in Zurich, Tschudin acknowledged that modernizing the payment system is justified, but emphasized the need for regulatory measures to safeguard policymakers' influence amid the growing use of stablecoins.