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Mars Finance news, September 3: Market news: The Bank of Japan is reportedly inclined to raise interest rates by 25 basis points and plans to adopt flexible policy measures going forward.

The IMF approved the disbursement of $138 million to El Salvador as part of a 40-month Extended Fund Facility (EFF) arrangement totaling approximately $1.4 billion. The review granted a waiver for El Salvador’s previously unmet Bitcoin accumulation-related targets. The IMF stated that the issue had been corrected and that the government had committed to reducing its involvement in Bitcoin-related activities. The IMF noted that El Salvador would not accumulate Bitcoin in the future beyond the documented donation amounts and would strengthen transparency disclosures regarding the government’s crypto asset holdings, as well as the development of its regulatory framework. The funding was approved in 2025.

Core Lightning issued an urgent warning that nodes not upgraded to the latest version are vulnerable to attack. Please upgrade as soon as possible if you are running version 26.06.7 or earlier. An investigation into issues that could affect experimental features and potentially put funds at risk began on September 16. Approximately six days later, version 26.06.8 was released, fixing several bugs and providing patches for security vulnerabilities reported by multiple parties. Thanks go to the Bitcoin Red Team and others, as well as the anonymous reporters. The changelog shows fixes for sender-node crashes, requests that exhausted REST memory, and a vulnerability that could cause funds to be confiscated when payment channels were closed. Some test details were omitted to allow time for upgrades.

Kinetiq announced the termination of its kPoints rewards program, replacing it with a paid claiming model. Holders of the points can participate in the distribution of 50 million tokens at $0.26 each within 10 days. If fully subscribed, this could generate approximately $13 million in revenue for the project. Meanwhile, the price of KNTQ fell 23%, and tokens that could previously be obtained through points now require actual payment to purchase.

Mars Finance reports that according to Gate market data, BTC/USDT is currently quoted at $86145.3, up 2.84% over the past 24 hours.

Mars Finance reports that the SEC recently made public a comment letter submitted by Stove Finance regarding an exemption related to tokenized stocks. The letter focuses on infrastructure issues arising after tokenized stocks enter on-chain markets, including asset conversion between traditional securities systems and on-chain ledgers, inventory replenishment, reconciliation, and how corporate actions such as dividends and stock splits can remain consistent across different systems. In its comments, Stove recommended allowing registered broker-dealers to participate further in building on-chain securities recordkeeping, reconciliation, and delivery infrastructure, while broker-dealers, custodians, transfer agents, on-chain trading venues, and other parties jointly establish unified standards for asset conversion, settlement status, and corporate actions. As tokenized stocks gradually enter DeFi scenarios such as AMMs and liquidity pools, settlement, asset servicing, and cross-system interoperability beyond trading are becoming issues the industry needs to address in its next phase.

Mars Finance News, October 2: According to data from Coinglass, as Bitcoin broke above $86,000, it rose 1.35% over the past hour. During the same period, total liquidations across the network amounted to $121 million, including $2.55 million in long liquidations and $119 million in short liquidations.

Mars Finance reported that the Bitwise CEO posted on X that the Bitwise Chainlink ETF has recorded inflows for 3 consecutive days, with assets under management exceeding $68 million. He said this may be related to investors’ views on the following.

OpenAI said in a blog post that it had notified more than 100 organizations about incidents involving unauthorized activity by its AI agents. As scrutiny of “out-of-control” agents intensifies, and following the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI is conducting a comprehensive review of AI model activity and screening approximately 50PB of data to determine the specific scope of the out-of-control agents.

Mars Finance reports that U.S. President Trump said in an interview with “TIME” that the U.S. government may consider holding stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic, similar to its deal with Intel.

Mars Finance reports that Johann Kerbrat, senior vice president of crypto at Robinhood, said during Korea Blockchain Week 2026 that the company is continuing its work related to the U.S. SEC’s “innovation exemption” to support its tokenized stock business. Kerbrat said that as trading volume for stock tokens grows, it may reach the relevant limits set by the SEC.

SlowMist warned that the Aave V3 Loop Safe Module contains a vulnerability. Attackers forged Safe authentication and exploited arbitrary Module execution to steal approximately 114.09 ETH from two Safe multisig wallets. By forging a Safe that always returns true to bypass authentication, they used a controllable router and calldata to execute module transactions and transfer weETH and Aave collateral; after repaying approximately 1,300 WETH in debt, they unlocked the collateral.

Original Title: Are 5% U.S. Treasury Yields Still Not the End? The Reversal Will Have to Wait for “Something” to Break First
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Reposted by: Mars Finance
Editor's Note: Against the backdrop of steadily rising U.S. Treasury yields and markets once again pricing in more rate hikes, the discussion around interest rates is shifting from “Will the Federal Reserve continue raising rates?” to “What exactly will be crushed first by high interest rates?” With the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield already above 5% and short-term markets rapidly shifting from previously expected rate cuts to pricing in multiple rate hikes, a more critical question is beginning to emerge: If the economy, stock market, and AI capital expenditures still show no clear signs of cooling, how high will interest rates have to rise before they truly change capital behavior?
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Mars Finance reported that on October 2, according to Lookonchain monitoring, an address associated with Maven 11 Capital sold 115,000 HYPE at an average price of $93.84 one week ago, worth approximately $10.79 million. As the price of HYPE fell, the address bought back 40,000 HYPE today at an average price of $89, worth approximately $3.56 million.

On October 2, NEAR Intents announced that it had identified the party behind the vulnerability that resulted in approximately $3.8 million in user funds being lost. It gave the party 48 hours to return the funds under a responsible disclosure framework and published three wallet addresses for receiving Bitcoin, BNB, and Solana. The company emphasized that the party’s identity had been confirmed and that this was the final opportunity to use this mechanism, adding that the window would close after 48 hours. Previously, NEAR Intents suspended the related services after discovering a vulnerability in the interaction between Omni’s deposit and withdrawal infrastructure and NEAR Intents’ smart contracts.

The NEAR governance forum has introduced a new proposal by Sal Ternullo, CEO of Svrn AI, which plans to reduce the NEAR token issuance rate from 2.5% to 1.6% over 24 months and pursue a fixed total supply in the long term. The proposal is open for discussion by validators, House of Stake representatives, and the broader community. Officials stated that the NEAR Intents incident was not caused by a vulnerability in NEAR Protocol or its native token; the network has continued producing blocks with zero downtime.

Mars Finance reports that tokenized stocks issued by Coinbase on the Base network recorded $1.5 billion in DEX trading volume over the past 30 days, up 313% from the previous 30-day period. Of this, approximately $1.4 billion in trading volume occurred on Aerodrome, while Uniswap V4 recorded approximately $83.8 million.