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According to the French Press Agency on September 26, Iran's President Pezeshkian announced he has coordinated with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei regarding Tehran's new plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Pezeshkian stated that a 6-member task force has been meeting and holds decision-making authority, comprising representatives from military, parliament, and government institutions. He added that Iran would fulfill its obligations if the United States agrees to the proposal.

According to Circle's official announcement, CFO Jeremy Fox-Geen will step down on Dec 31, 2026, ending his tenure of over five years. The company has engaged a top executive search firm to recruit his successor. Under the disclosed separation agreement, Fox-Geen will receive a cash severance of $1.05 million over 12 months, plus accelerated equity vesting. His annual salary is $500,000, with 2026 incentive compensation capped at 110% of base salary. He joined Circle in May 2021 and oversaw the

According to Jin10 Data on September 26, Iran's central bank governor Abdolnasser Hemmati announced that the country's year-on-year inflation rate fell to 83.8% in September from 84.4% in August, marking the first decline in 15 months. Though the decrease was modest, Hemmati stressed that the downward trend in inflation is significant.

According to Coinglass data, the global futures market saw $154 million in liquidations over the past 24 hours, with long positions accounting for $96.37 million and short positions $57.99 million. A total of 57,574 traders were liquidated, with the largest single liquidation on Binance BTCUSDT valued at $2.11 million.

ARK Invest tokenized its ARK Venture Fund (ARKVX) on the Ethereum blockchain on September 25 through a partnership with Securitize, enabling eligible investors to access a portfolio spanning private technology companies including OpenAI, Stripe, Anthropic, and Databricks, alongside publicly traded firms such as Nvidia, Alphabet, Coinbase, and Tesla. The move follows the SEC's September 17 action granting temporary, conditional exemptive relief to tokenized securities venues for permissioned trad

According to BusinessWire, Kraken users and customers of xStocks Alliance partners in more than 110 countries can register non-binding indications of interest for Ōura's planned Nasdaq listing through Payward Services' xStocks ecosystem. On listing day, Ōura exposure is expected to become available as the tokenized ŌURAx product, subject to eligibility and IPO approval. This marks the fourth company to proceed through Payward's IPO Access pipeline in 2026.

On Friday, the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously against Kalshi, finding that Ohio and Tennessee can regulate sports-event contracts under their state gambling laws. The three-judge panel determined that Kalshi's prediction market contracts do not qualify as "swaps" under the jurisdiction of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), setting up a potential Supreme Court case.

According to The Information, on September 26, Steve Eisman, the hedge fund manager famous for betting against the 2008 financial crisis, remains unwilling to aggressively short AI-related assets despite his ongoing criticism of AI market valuations. Eisman stated: "I am not yet prepared to make a major short bet here." While some Wall Street investors have begun questioning whether current AI enthusiasm can justify existing valuations, Eisman has not yet identified a sufficiently clear investme

According to Tasnim News Agency, Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his delegation, currently attending UN-related meetings in New York, are planned to return to Iran next Tuesday.

According to ChainCatcher, Michael Saylor recently published a policy proposal titled "Prescriptions for Prosperity in the Digital Economy," advocating for a "Digital Bill of Rights" that would grant individuals and enterprises the right to create, issue, custody, transfer, and use digital assets. Saylor proposed that banks be permitted to custody Bitcoin and use it as collateral for credit under clear regulatory guidelines, and that insurance companies establish pathways to incorporate digital

According to HTX market data, Bitcoin fell below the $84,000 level in the past 24 hours, currently trading at $83,955.99 with a 24-hour decline of 0.54%.

According to Goldman Sachs, Meta this week launched its Muse AI agent model, driving the company's market value up $220 billion to $2 trillion and spurring gains in the Nasdaq-100. The AI rally masks deepening market divergence: excluding AI stocks, the S&P 500 declined roughly 1% this week, while the NYSE logged its longest streak of new lows exceeding new highs in nearly three years. Meanwhile, U.S. Treasury yields continued climbing, pressuring the S&P 500 near 7,700 and weighing on rate-sens

According to Swiss Broadcasting Corporation SRF, Swiss National Bank (SNB) Chair Martin Schlegel stated on September 26 that this year's record temperatures have affected food prices, but are not driving inflation in Switzerland. Schlegel noted the SNB is closely monitoring heat impacts on food prices. "Hot and especially dry summers clearly affect food prices—we can see certain price fluctuations," he said. The SNB head attributed the current inflation rise almost entirely to oil products, noti

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Vietnamese national Trung Nguyen Van, 37, was charged Friday with two counts of money laundering over an alleged cryptocurrency "pig butchering" scheme. One identified victim transferred approximately $16 million in crypto to a fraudulent platform called "Triangle" between June and August 2024. Investigators traced more than $53.28 million in crypto assets connected to U.S. fraud schemes through wallets attributed to Van between February 2018 and December

According to Solana's official announcement on September 25, the Alpenglow Testnet went live on devnet, targeting transaction finality of approximately 150 milliseconds. The upgrade is designed to improve network performance and support applications requiring faster blockchain confirmation. Solana is also expanding its ecosystem through tokenized collectibles, with Phygitals launching a tokenized One Piece magazine on the network, and through integrating Bitcoin-related functionality via smart-c

According to ChainCatcher, on September 26, Binance invested $100 million in Circle and purchased its equity, while signing a five-year commercial agreement to promote and integrate USDC on its platform. Since the companies' initial collaboration in December 2024, USDC expansion on Binance has accelerated. According to Kaiko data, USDC spot trading pairs on Binance grew from 140 to 329, while monthly trading volume roughly doubled from the 200-400 billion dollar range to consistently above 800 b

According to Sky News, Brazil-based Nubank is in merger discussions with UK digital bank Monzo, with the latter valued between 80 billion and 100 billion pounds (approximately 10.6 billion to 13.25 billion USD).

According to CoinDesk, Bitget hackers transferred approximately $83 million in stolen XRP from three addresses on September 26, with an additional $75 million remaining across five initial receiving addresses. Two addresses that initially held 20 million XRP each have been nearly emptied, with about 23 and 55 XRP remaining as of Saturday 12:41 UTC, while a third address holds approximately 5.8 million XRP. Since XRP is a native asset of XRP Ledger, Ripple cannot directly freeze stolen XRP as it

According to Azerbaijan's presidential advisor, the country signed investment agreements worth over $10 billion on Saturday during an international forum in Baku. The nation also announced a series of energy cooperation agreements at the event.

On September 23, Google made free 1080p AI video generation available to anyone with a Google account via Google Vids, a browser-based video editor accessible at vids.new. The feature runs on Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash and includes controls for scene extension, exact clip duration, and HD upscaling. Every generated video carries an invisible SynthID watermark, allowing users to verify AI-generated content through Google's SynthID Detector tool. The rollout coincides with OpenAI's permanent shutdown o