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The U.S. Attorney's Office in Missouri charged Trung Nguyen Van, 37, from Vietnam, on Friday with money laundering for his role in a $16 million cryptocurrency fraud scheme. According to prosecutors, during the summer of 2024, the victim transferred approximately $16 million in crypto to a fraudulent platform called "Triangle," after which Van allegedly moved the funds to private crypto wallets. Pig butchering scams, also known as romance scams, build relationships with victims and then lure the

According to ChainCatcher, Meta's AI product Muse was disclosed to have a security vulnerability that could compromise user data and virtual environment security. The company plans to strengthen risk warnings to address the issue.

According to ICE data, diesel speculators' net long positions declined by 3,835 contracts to 90,831 for the week ending September 22.

According to Token Terminal, Aave V4 deposits surpassed $230 million on Circle's Arc over the past week, marking a doubling of funds in the period. The surge indicates growing interest in Aave's decentralized finance offerings.

According to code references and screenshots shared by AI leakers this week, OpenAI is testing a new ChatGPT Pro Max subscription tier priced at $500 per month. That is 25 times the cost of the $20 ChatGPT Plus plan and more than double the $200 Pro tier launched in December 2024. Independent researcher Tibor Blaho and leak tracker TestingCatalog were among the first to spot the changes in hidden logs and interface screenshots. The plan appears to offer faster processing for OpenAI's Work and Co

According to the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Brent crude oil speculative net long positions decreased by 64,543 contracts to 218,114 for the week ending September 22.

Cleveland Federal Reserve President Beth Hammack, a 2026 FOMC voting member, is set to deliver remarks in approximately 10 minutes.

According to Flare's one-year update, 145.2 million FXRP have been minted on the Flare network since the asset's launch on September 24, 2025, with 130 million already deployed across DeFi protocols. About 89.5% of the outstanding FXRP supply is actively being used as collateral, in lending markets, and within yield strategies. The network has generated approximately 7.8 million DeFi transactions over the past year.

According to Bitcoinist, Tetra Digital Group deployed CADD, a Canadian-dollar stablecoin, on the Solana network on September 23. Each CADD token is backed 1:1 by Canadian-dollar reserves and can be used for payments, transfers, treasury operations and onchain settlement. CADD had previously launched on Ethereum, Base and Tempo earlier in 2026, making Solana its fourth blockchain network.

According to Jin10, the Rhine River in Germany reached a historic low water level of 2 centimeters near Koblenz on September 25, 5 centimeters lower than the previous record set on August 17. Germany's Rhine Waterway and Navigation Authority stated that the situation remains tense. Water levels at measuring stations in North Rhine-Westphalia are also expected to hit historic lows in the coming days. Düsseldorf's water level is forecast to drop to negative values on September 26, falling below th

A developer and a retired cryptanalyst have used large language models from OpenAI and Anthropic to decode two long-unsolved messages encoded by Nazi Enigma machines during World War II. Last week, Carter Leffen directed OpenAI's Astra model to search a database of Enigma messages and decode an unbroken message. The model completed the task after conducting archival research, building an Enigma machine simulator, and identifying context clues, recovering plaintext from a message that had remaine

Crypto enthusiasts have adopted the dopamine shopping trend this week, with the BBC counting more than 2.7 million visitors to FoodNeverComes, a fake food delivery app, since June 2026. The trend, which emerged in South Korea earlier this year, involves browsing and completing purchases for luxury items without spending real money. A crypto commentator's post about the phenomenon reached nearly 2 million views on X, with supporters commenting that "degens would love it."

According to Polkadot's official announcement, the network has launched a privacy initiative allowing users to verify their identity without revealing personal information. The move addresses growing data privacy concerns in the crypto sector, enabling individuals to prove they are real persons while maintaining sensitive information protection. Bill Laboon will discuss the initiative at the upcoming Dark Prague event.

According to Wu Blockchain, Binance CEO CZ pledged on September 25 that Binance and the BNB Chain ecosystem will provide full support to Bitget during what he described as a challenging period. CZ's public commitment underscores the importance of community solidarity within the crypto industry. The pledge signals Binance's willingness to collaborate with other platforms to maintain stability and confidence in the sector.

According to Odaily, in the past 30 days, Base chain tokenized stock spot DEX trading volume reached approximately $1.3 billion, a 153.8% increase compared to the previous 30-day period. Coinbase-issued tokenized stocks accounted for roughly $1.2 billion of the volume.

According to The Street, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed this week that he maintained Bitcoin holdings while selling shares in defense contractors Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman. His 2025 annual financial disclosure, released by the Office of Government Ethics, shows Bitcoin held across two Coinbase accounts valued between $16,001 and $65,000 combined. Hegseth took office in January 2025 and divested dozens of individual stocks to avoid conflicts of interest. His family subse

TypeSafe AI's Jev model launched on September 15, immediately attracting so much developer interest that it overloaded its own API. The model specializes in structured decision-making tasks like email classification and transaction flagging. Jev processes requests in 70 to 500 milliseconds and costs $0.042 per million input tokens, with free outputs—10 to 20 times cheaper than Google's Gemini for email classification and 5 to 18 times faster than certain OpenAI models on specific benchmarks. The

According to Crypto Briefing, approximately 12.4 million XRP were stolen from 7,393 D'CENT App Wallet users between September 15 and 25 due to compromised private keys. The first attack wave on September 15 drained 3.6 million XRP from 1,682 wallets within three hours. The vulnerability affected app versions older than 8.1.0, released in November 2025; hardware wallet users were unaffected unless they imported recovery phrases into the compromised app. Roughly 6.3 million XRP, just over half the

Robinhood will host a summit on September 30 to discuss investment strategies across the expanding AI economy, according to the company's announcement. Industry experts, including Guy Adami and BlackRock's Jay Jacobs, will explore various aspects of AI investments ranging from software to infrastructure. The event aims to guide investors on opportunities and potential challenges within the rapidly evolving AI sector.

On Friday (September 25), the Federal Reserve's overnight reverse repurchase agreement (RRP) usage declined to $576 million with 3 counterparties, down from $630 million on the previous trading day.