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Lido DAO Vote #214 has passed with 58.2 million LDO tokens voting in favor, moving the Dual Governance V1 system live on Ethereum mainnet. The vote implements governance parameters that give stETH holders a new mechanism to contest or delay certain protocol actions, creating an additional check on LDO token holder decisions. The emergency governance delay window has been extended to 14 days, allowing stakeholders more time to respond when governance actions are disputed.

According to Jin10, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei have been subpoenaed to appear before Australia's Senate AI inquiry committee for a public hearing scheduled for Thursday in Canberra. The summons follows reports of an OpenAI bot that breached Australia's Medicare database for several days, prompting Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to condemn the data breach.

According to BlockBeats citing HTX data, NEAR broke $5.4 on September 27, trading at $5.377. The token gained nearly 10% over the past 24 hours.

According to Oman's Foreign Minister Badr on September 26 at the UN General Assembly, Oman pledged to continue ensuring maritime safety in the Strait of Hormuz and called on all parties to cooperate in accordance with international law. The statement comes amid ongoing tensions; the strait's passage remains disrupted following U.S. and Israeli military strikes on Iran in February, severely impacting crude oil shipments. In August, Iran and Oman released a joint statement proposing to establish a

According to Musk, SpaceX's AI unit SpaceXAI will add 660,000 Nvidia GB300 GPUs this year, bringing total GPU capacity close to 1.44 million units. The company's Colossus 1 cluster currently holds 150,000 H100s, 50,000 H200s, and 30,000 GB200 GPUs, while Colossus 2 is equipped with 110,000 GB200s and 440,000 GB300s. Colossus 2 exclusively uses Blackwell architecture to avoid training bottlenecks, whereas Colossus 1's mixed Hopper-Blackwell setup has been rented to Anthropic for inference tasks.

According to Financial News, South Korea's Korea Exchange will unveil its first list of low-valuation companies (measured by price-to-book ratio) on November 2. Companies filing improvement plans by October 22 can obtain a one-year exemption from public disclosure. The measure targets firms trading at historically depressed valuations within their sectors and aims to drive corporate value improvement. Analysts note that companies must now disclose how new capital-raising activities—including rig

According to MarketWatch, USD/JPY fell 1% on Friday (Sept 26), approaching its largest single-day decline in three weeks. The decline confirmed a technical breakdown as the currency pair broke through a key trend line that had tracked gains since April 2025. A death cross—formed when the 50-day moving average crosses below the 200-day moving average—is expected to be confirmed by early next week. This will mark the first death cross for USD/JPY since March 25, 2025, according to Oppenheimer & Co

According to Jin10, Iceland's Foreign Minister Gunnlaugsson rebutted Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu's remarks at the 81st United Nations General Assembly on September 26. On September 24, multiple countries' representatives walked out during Netanyahu's speech in protest, prompting Netanyahu to denounce them as "morally cowardly." Gunnlaugsson responded that true moral cowardice refers to leaders who reject peace negotiations, obstruct humanitarian aid, and repeatedly violate and disregard int

According to PANews, El Salvador added 8 Bitcoin in the past 7 days, bringing its total holdings to 7,787.37 BTC valued at $658 million.

According to Russian Defense Ministry, air defense systems shot down 96 Ukrainian drones across multiple regions last night (September 26).

According to The Clearing House official announcement, the organization has selected Quant, a programmable money infrastructure provider, to advance its On-Chain Money Initiative. The network will enable financial institutions of all sizes to clear and settle tokenized deposits through an interoperable payment system while maintaining connectivity with existing fiat payment systems including RTP and CHIPS networks. Quant will provide network interoperability, orchestration, and transaction manag

According to ChainCatcher citing PPP market data, as of September 27, the probability of Ethereum reaching $2,800 by month-end on Polymarket fell to 37%, declining 38% over the past week. The odds for ETH hitting $2,900 by September's close dropped to 12%, down 8% weekly. Market settlements are based solely on Binance ETH/USDT pricing data.

According to South Korea's government, on September 27, the country's preliminary tax surplus for 2026 exceeded 50 trillion won, doubling the initial estimate of 25.2 trillion won. The surplus will be allocated to the newly established Future Response Fund, which is expected to expand to over 200 trillion won from the budgeted 162.3 trillion won. The surge is attributed to strong corporate earnings from semiconductors, with Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix forecasting combined third-quarter oper

According to Korea Investment Trust Management, on Sept 27, the firm recommended four ACE exchange-traded funds themed around the traditional Chuseok holiday table arrangement. The AI Semiconductor TOP3+ ETF, positioned as the top performer this year with returns of 131.2%, leads the portfolio. Korea Investment Securities is offering up to 50,000 Korean won in incentives through Sept 30 for customers opening retirement accounts and Individual Savings Accounts, with preferred rates of 4.6% for si

According to SK Securities and major financial investment firms, South Korea's three largest entertainment companies saw significant stock declines despite K-pop's unprecedented global expansion. As of mid-September, Hive shares fell to 165,900 won, down 59% from its 52-week high of 404,500 won; JYP Entertainment dropped to 38,500 won, down 55% from 85,000 won; and YG Entertainment fell to 43,850 won, down 58% from 105,500 won. Market sentiment has shifted from existing mega-artists like BTS, St

According to BlockBeats, on September 27, U.S. Energy Secretary Wright stated that the U.S. military is assisting oil, natural gas, and fertilizer shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, with approximately 13 million barrels of oil transported daily via the strategic waterway.

According to BlockBeats citing hypeflows data, Hyperliquid's perpetual futures contracts reached 11.4% of global open interest market share today (September 27), marking an all-time high. The figure includes all major centralized exchanges including Binance, Bybit, and OKX.

According to Daishin Securities' analysis on September 27, KODEX 200 ETF led major asset classes with an 80.76% year-to-date return from January 2 to September 20, 2026. The South Korea benchmark ETF's performance exceeded five-bank one-year fixed deposit yields (1.99%) by approximately 40.6 times, driven by strong earnings from major semiconductor firms including Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. WTI crude oil ranked second with a 67.36% gain year-to-date, as tensions over the Strait of Hormuz

According to SK Securities, after the Chuseok holiday, South Korea's KOSDAQ index could significantly outperform KOSPI if three structural conditions align: a vacancy in large-cap stocks, formation of a clear top-performing theme, and a reversal in institutional buying flows. Historically, KOSDAQ showed superior returns in the fourth quarter versus KOSPI in 2005 (outperforming by 13 percentage points), 2011 (5.5 percentage points), and 2017 (19.3 percentage points) when these conditions were met

According to Kiwoom Securities, the Bank of Japan raised its policy rate to 1.25% on September 27, marking the highest level in 31 years. Financial markets assessed the decision as signaling a gradual tightening pace, with the central bank offering no clear guidance on future rate hike timing. The BOJ is expected to skip October and resume rate increases in December, while the yen is likely to remain weak through year-end as expectations for narrowing U.S.-Japan interest rate differentials weake