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An attacker exploited the Symbiosis Bridge and created approximately 46.1 billion unbacked syBTC tokens pegged to Bitcoin. The attack took place on September 11, and the project team published details later. The hacker spent just 330 satoshis, worth about 25 cents. The hacker convinced the system that he was both an approved depositor and a bridge administrator. These elevated privileges allowed him to set the bridge’s minimum fee to a negative value. Due to a second vulnerability, the system su

The hacker group calling itself Revolut Smilik contacted British media outlet City AM on September 16, stating that it was demanding a ransom of 10,000 BTC (approximately $780 million) from British fintech company Revolut. The group also publicly posted the profiles of affected customers across multiple Telegram channels. Revolut’s official statement said it had contacted 680 affected customers, marking the company’s first official disclosure of the number of victims. Attack Method: Hackers Used

A CNBC survey found 89% of 18 economists expect the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to raise rates by 25 basis points to 1.25% on Sept 18. If implemented, the rate would mark the highest level in over 30 years. Economists cited Japan's rising inflation and wage growth, alongside pressure from the US

Tencent Holdings’ Tencent Cloud and Malaysian mobile telecommunications operator U Mobile have entered into a 5G and artificial intelligence partnership agreement. The collaboration focuses on providing cloud-based AI-enabled services to Malaysian enterprises through U Mobile’s 5G network. Analysts point out that this confirms Tencent Cloud’s strategic direction of turning AI tools into exportable infrastructure to serve emerging Asian markets. Specific Details of the Tencent Cloud and U Mobile

The US government is pressuring Mexican officials to accept new origin rules for AI hardware exports to prevent Chinese companies and other foreign firms from circumventing tariffs, according to sources cited by the Wall Street Journal on 週三 下午12:06. The proposal would limit the proportion of

The draft prospectus of MaiCoin Group’s parent company, Modern Wealth Holdings, discloses multiple risks and equity details. Its operating entity, Modern Wealth Technology, was fined NT$1.5 million by the Financial Supervisory Commission in 2024 for six deficiencies under the Money Laundering Control Act. Its subsidiary, Account Link Network Technology (AMIS), had accumulated losses exceeding its paid-in capital and liabilities exceeding its total assets. As of August 10, the ten largest shareho

OpenAI Chief Global Affairs Officer Chris Lehane held a press conference in Washington on Sept. 15, formally disclosing that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind, the three leading AI frontier labs, had secretly coordinated for several weeks and planned to jointly establish an AI safety standards organization similar to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), with the goal of establishing a framework before frontier AI models are released. Chris Lehane’s Press Conference Remarks A

Russian Tu-95MS bombers flew over the Barents Sea and Norwegian Sea with Kh-101 missiles on 15일 (local time), Russia's Ministry of Defense announced. The five-hour flight, escorted by Su-33 fighters, marked an unusual departure from standard training as the bombers carried live cruise missile

U.S. Space Force officials confirmed on Tuesday that personnel operate weapons in orbit to defend against space-enabled attacks, with the disclosure aimed at deterring adversaries. Space Force chief Douglas Schiess stated that enlisted Guardians operate on-orbit weapons capable of defending the

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang held a nearly 50-minute conversation with the host at the All-In Summit in Sept., criticizing arguments presented as “scientific predictions” that AI could lead to the destruction of civilization as “not based on science.” Huang explicitly stated that humanity has already reached the AGI moment, that narrow-domain superintelligence already exists, and predicted that China will achieve breakthroughs in advanced semiconductor manufacturing by 2030. Jensen Huang Criticizes A

San Francisco AI startup Factory announced the completion of a $200 million funding round, bringing its valuation to $5 billion—approximately 3.3 times its initial valuation of $1.5 billion in early April. The round was co-led by six institutions, including Blackstone. One week before this funding round, competitor Cognition completed a Series E funding round of more than $2 billion, reaching a valuation of $48 billion. Investors in This Funding Round and Factory Company Background Reuters repor

BitGo hosted an institutional event in Taipei, co-organized with TAAS, bringing together over 70 institutional leaders to discuss integrating digital asset liquidity for Taiwanese banks. The gathering addressed the urgent liquidity needs faced by financial institutions in the region. The

The U.S. Senate held a procedural vote on the CLARITY Act on Sept. 16, falling short of the 60-vote threshold required to begin debate by a 49 to 50 vote, with an 11-vote gap. No Democratic senator voted to advance the bill. White House crypto affairs adviser Patrick Witt was the first to post on X, directly stating that “today’s vote is extremely disappointing” and characterizing the defeat as “a failure of American leadership.” Procedural Vote Process: Senate’s 49 to 50 Result On Sept. 16, 202

US stock index futures edged higher in Asian morning trading on the 16th ahead of the FOMC rate decision. E-mini S&P500 futures rose 0.10% to 7,664.00, while E-mini Nasdaq100 futures gained 0.11% to 29,279.50, reflecting investor caution. The modest gains followed overnight declines in New York

MetaMask launched a new anti-scam feature on Sept. 14 targeting romance scams and investment scams that exploit interpersonal trust. When users are about to send a transaction, the feature uses security partner Blockaid’s assessment of suspicious recipient addresses to proactively display warning questions, prompting users to reconsider before sending. The feature focuses on warnings rather than mandatory blocking, and users can still decide for themselves whether to proceed with the transaction

As of September 16, 2026, Gate stock market data showed CATL’s Hong Kong-listed shares at HK$489, down 5.1% for the day. Compared with the record high of HK$794 set in May, the cumulative drawdown was nearly 40%. A-shares also weakened, falling more than 6% on September 15 to a new one-year low, while the total marketcap of the A+H shares fell below 1.5 trillion yuan. The puzzling contrast is that the company had just delivered its strongest-ever first-half results. In the first half of 2026, CA

International credit rating agency Fitch diagnosed on the 15th (local time) that sustainability concerns over massive capital expenditures are emerging as advanced artificial intelligence companies' pricing power weakens. In a report, Fitch stated that weakened monetization prospects conflict with a

Kamino announced on September 16 that it had appointed Yieldstreet co-founder Michael Weisz as chief executive officer and was establishing an institutional team in New York City focused on converting approximately $4 billion worth of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) on Solana into sustained lending demand. Kamino also completed a rebrand, expanding from a lending platform into an institutional credit provider offering six new products. Background on Michael Weisz’s Appointment Michael Weisz c

Xiaomi released the official teaser video for the Xiaomi 18 Pro series on Weibo on Sept. 15, officially announcing that the flagship series will be released in China later this month. The teaser video was the first to show the rear design of the Xiaomi 18 Pro series, including an upgraded rear screen (rear display) and a triple rear-camera configuration similar in design to that of the Xiaomi 17 Pro series. Design Information Revealed in the Official Teaser Video According to the official teaser