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Bank of America Securities reiterated a "Buy" rating on Meta with a $810 price target following Meta Connect 2026, citing the new personal AI assistant Muse as a key driver of the company's consumer AI strategy. Muse has secured initial user traction and established partnerships with Walmart, Best Buy, Shopify, Expedia, and Instacart. The assistant is expected to be integrated into Meta's smart glasses and gradually rolled out across Meta's portfolio and Reality Labs devices. BofA noted that Met

According to TradingBeats data released by BlockBeats on September 24, BTC, ETH, HYPE, and ZEC experienced significant contractions in open interest and declining funding rates following declines from yesterday's highs. The data suggests market deleveraging has progressed, though analysts noted concentrated long-side leverage remains in certain positions requiring ongoing monitoring.

Oracle's stock fell 2.8% in pre-market trading after the company issued a force majeure notice related to its New Mexico data center.

According to ChainCatcher, AI infrastructure company Verda has completed a $189 million Series funding round led by Emergence Capital, with participation from Super Micro Computer and other investors. The company's post-funding valuation has reached at least $1 billion.

According to CNBC, Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora said on Tuesday that efforts to slow down AI development are "unrealistic," dismissing calls from industry leaders including Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman for a measured pace of AI advancement. Arora told CNBC's "The Tech Download" podcast that the extinction risk from AI, estimated by some researchers at 10%, is "extremely small" and that companies should instead focus on building proper guardrails and safety measures

According to Tom Lee, chairman of ethereum treasury company BitMine, crypto stocks led the third quarter and should be viewed as a signal of the start of a new bull market. Tom Lee expressed optimism that ethereum will strengthen due to Wall Street tokenization developments and believes ETH has the opportunity to challenge its previous high within the year.

According to Arabic TV, an Israeli official stated on September 24 that a new round of strikes against Iran appears to be only a matter of time. The official added that Iran is accelerating efforts to relocate and fortify its Natanz nuclear facility. The Israeli official further stated that if Iran crosses Israel's red lines, Israel will strike Iranian nuclear facilities again, regardless of U.S. involvement.

According to German economic research institutes on September 24, Germany upgraded its economic growth forecasts for 2026 and 2027 to 1.3% and 1.1% respectively, compared to prior estimates of 0.6% and 0.9%. The Ifo Institute reported its September business confidence index rose to 89.9 from 88.8 in August, surpassing analyst expectations of 89.0, signaling improved resilience amid energy price pressures.

According to SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce's remarks at the SIFMA Digital Assets Conference on September 24, financial regulators should shift from "collecting more data" to using new technology for more precise verification. Peirce stated that zero-knowledge proofs can verify users' compliance with age, citizenship, accredited investor status, or sanctions list requirements without disclosing personal information such as names, income, or addresses. Peirce recommended federal government and re

According to Bitfinex analysts, Bitcoin fell below $85,000 on September 23, 2026, breaking through the $86,000 average cost basis that U.S. spot ETF buyers had established. The decline came after ETFs pulled in $999 million on Monday and $714.7 million on Tuesday, with those positions now underwater. OKX perpetual funding rates for Bitcoin turned negative at -0.0022%, signaling bearish pressure. The broader crypto market fell 2.27% to $2.96 trillion, while U.S. equities and gold declined in tand

According to SolanaFloor, Solana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade is launching on testnet within hours, marking the network's most significant consensus change to date. The upgrade is designed to drastically improve transaction finality, reducing the time from approximately 12.8 seconds to just 150 milliseconds. This enhancement aims to strengthen Solana's position as a high-performance blockchain in the competitive cryptocurrency landscape.

U.S. initial jobless claims for the week through September 19, the Q2 current account balance, and Canada's July retail sales month-on-month change are scheduled for release in the next 10 minutes.

According to German journalist Lilith Wittmann and journalists from NDR, NRK, SVT, and Follow the Money, the Curaçao Gaming Authority was hacked last week, resulting in the leak of over 40,000 documents belonging to more than 1,000 Curaçao-registered casinos and gambling firms. The leaked database includes financial plans, audits, business structures, and funding sources. Wittmann and her team released the data publicly on September 23, claiming they exhausted all other journalistic methods befo

According to Protos, Apollo's flagship private credit fund, Apollo Debt Solutions BDC, limited third-quarter withdrawals to just 5% on Tuesday (September 23), despite investors requesting 14.7% in redemptions. This marks the fund's third consecutive quarter of gating withdrawal requests, as it faces a slow-motion liquidity crisis. Peers face similar pressures: Blackstone's $77 billion BCRED fund capped third-quarter redemptions at 5% with requests running at roughly double that level, while Clif

On Thursday, crude oil surged across the board, with SC crude climbing nearly 7% to around 740 yuan per barrel. Iran's President delivered hardline remarks at the UN General Assembly, reversing peace talk expectations and boosting Middle East geopolitical risk premium. EIA data showed product oil drew down more than expected, yet a divergence widened between rising crude inventories and falling product stockpiles.

IBM announced on September 24 that it has integrated its Digital Asset Haven platform with Swift's blockchain-based shared ledger, enabling financial institutions to execute tokenized deposit transactions 24/7 using existing payment messaging standards. Through an ISO 20022 message adapter in beta, banks can conduct such operations without adopting blockchain-specific workflows; 17 institutions are currently piloting the integration. In parallel, IBM launched an on-premises beta deployment of Di

According to ChainCatcher citing Bitcoin Treasuries, BlackRock's iShares (IGV) ETF increased holdings in Strategy by 123,472 shares worth $19.5 million recently. The ETF now holds 1.76 million shares of the bitcoin treasury company valued at $280 million.

According to Anthropic, Claude's AI agents discovered a novel enzyme system inside bacteria-infecting viruses today (September 24), using 950 agents and processing 210 million tokens in less than 24 hours. The system, marked by a stretch of repeating DNA resembling CRISPR, the gene-editing tool, appears to operate similarly to "cut, copy, and paste DNA" mechanisms. Anthropic named the system ART and believes it may represent a new type of gene editor. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the work was

According to PANews, Ondo and BlackRock launched a tokenized smart portfolio product on September 24.

According to The Block, stablecoin infrastructure company HIFI has completed a $37 million Series A funding round led by Left Lane Capital. This is the company's first priced funding round. CEO Zach Walsh stated that the platform currently processes approximately $7 billion in annualized transaction volume. The funding will be used to expand HIFI's stablecoin payment products and tokenized capital market infrastructure services.