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Bitget CEO Gracy Chen posted a 12-hour progress report on the security incident on X, including:1. Affected assets include ETH, XRP (largest single-chain loss), BNB, AVAX, USDT, USDC, and other tokens. Affected chains include: Ethereum, XRP Ledger, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism, BSC, and Base. All on-chain cold wallets have been confirmed secure and unaffected.2. All foundations of the affected chains have been contacted, and some foundations have confirmed the freezing of the hacker's wallet addresses.3. Based on IP behavioral characteristics and on-chain analysis, the attack methodology is highly consistent with known patterns of North Korean hacker groups. Relevant authorities have been notified, and full cooperation is being provided for a global investigation.4. Bitget Wallet (decentralized wallet) operates completely independently from Bitget exchange infrastructure, and this incident has no impact on it. Bitget Wallet assets are completely safe.5. Transparent disclosure regarding the platform's financial status: In addition to over $464 million in protection funds (all held in publicly verifiable wallet addresses), Bitget's own assets exceed $1 billion. User funds are covered at a 1:1 ratio, and all data can be verified on-chain.6. Regarding withdrawal recovery timing: The goal is to achieve full recovery as soon as possible. Once a specific time window is confirmed, an announcement will be made immediately. No commitment will be made to timelines that cannot be fulfilled.
Odaily News: Aerodrome's Slipstream V3 has gone live, introducing protocol-level internal MEV auctions to its concentrated liquidity AMM. The upgrade redistributes value captured by sandwich bots and arbitrageurs to active liquidity providers and sAERO holders, with the protocol expected to generate tens of millions of dollars in related revenue. This version also introduces dynamic fees that automatically increase when market volatility intensifies, and retains Uniswap V3's concentrated liquidity design, achieving capital efficiency up to 4,000 times that of traditional AMMs. Aero plans to merge Aerodrome on Base and Velodrome on Optimism into a single AERO token, and to launch on Ethereum mainnet in Q2 2026. Aero Lite has already launched Slipstream pools on Circle's Arc, and Dromos Labs is developing pool-level fee rebates and KYC options for institutional clients.
According to PR Newswire, Bitcoin application layer platform Citrea has announced the acquisition of Crest, a self-custody private Bitcoin wallet. Backed by Founders Fund and Galaxy Ventures, Citrea states the acquisition aims to bring Zcash-style zero-knowledge privacy pools into the Bitcoin ecosystem. Crest founder Meliksah Gurtemel will join Citrea as head of product. Over the next few weeks, Crest will launch a Bitcoin mobile wallet supporting automatic shielding, private BTC transfers, and cross-chain private payments (enabling BTC to be privately swapped for USDC or ETH for payments to EVM addresses). Citrea co-founder and CEO Orkun Mahir Kılıç noted that addressing Bitcoin privacy represents the largest breakthrough for Bitcoin layers to meet genuine user demand, with Crest serving as the primary gateway for both users and liquidity flowing into Citrea.
Coinbase Chief Business Officer Shan Aggarwal posted to detail the integration progress following the acquisition of crypto options trading platform Deribit, stating that the joint integration efforts are "proceeding well overall." To date, multiple milestones have been achieved, including: the launch of over 100 new USDC-settled contracts across five market sectors, covering pre-IPO perpetuals, marking the largest expansion of perpetual contracts in Deribit's history; the first-time listing of equities and ETFs for trading as perpetual contracts; the introduction of a new matching engine to upgrade core trading infrastructure, enabling faster and more stable execution under high volumes while preserving the existing user experience; and the integration of Coinbase spot liquidity into Deribit spot trading. Shan Aggarwal added that significant work remains ahead in the platform integration process, with additional phased milestones to be announced subsequently.
Binance will list Hyperliquid (HYPE) on September 24, 2026 at 19:00 (UTC+8), opening spot trading pairs for HYPE/USDT, HYPE/USDC, and HYPE/TRY. Deposits will open one hour after the announcement is published, with withdrawals expected to go live on September 25 at 19:00. A seed tag will be added to HYPE, spot algorithmic orders will be supported simultaneously, and trading bots and spot copy trading are expected to be enabled within 24 hours after listing.
Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire, in a post on X citing Arc Chain's official tweet, stated that one week after Arc Chain's launch, on-chain assets (USDC and cirCTC) have surged from zero to $700 million, while USDC transaction volume has surpassed $7 billion.
Odaily News: Coinbase has launched fixed-rate loans powered by the decentralized lending protocol Morpho, allowing users to borrow USDC against bitcoin and lock in the interest rate and repayment date at the start of the loan.This product marks the first enterprise-grade deployment of Morpho Midnight, with Coinbase handling the application experience, Morpho providing the credit infrastructure, and the Base network handling settlement.Coinbase's existing Morpho floating-rate loans have surpassed $1.4 billion in active volume, corresponding to approximately $3 billion in collateral. The business launched bitcoin-collateralized lending in early 2025 and later expanded collateral to assets such as XRP and Dogecoin. (Decrypt)
Odaily News: Citrea has announced the acquisition of self-custodial privacy Bitcoin wallet Crest. Crest will become Citrea's flagship privacy product, and its founder Meliksah Gurtemel will join Citrea as Head of Product. Citrea stated that in the coming weeks, Crest will launch a Bitcoin mobile wallet supporting automatic privacy protection, private BTC transfers, and cross-chain access from Bitcoin and Ethereum. It also plans to support private cross-chain swaps and exit paths, enabling users to privately pay USDC or ETH to EVM addresses using privacy BTC.
Odaily News: Visa has released its "Money Travels 2026" report, based on a survey of 2,192 U.S. adults, showing that if stablecoins were equipped with bank-grade fraud protection and deposit insurance, consumer willingness to use them would rise from 36% to 56%; if offered through existing financial institutions, willingness would also increase to 45%. The survey also found that 56% of respondents had never heard of stablecoins, and 64% of respondents had greater trust in payment providers than in the technology itself. Currently, the total global supply of USD-pegged stablecoins has exceeded $295 billion, with USDT at approximately $183.4 billion and USDC at approximately $76 billion; Visa's annualized stablecoin settlement volume has surpassed $20 billion, representing more than a 15-fold increase from a year ago. (The Block)
According to The Block, Visa released its Money Travels 2026 report. Based on a survey of 2,192 U.S. adults, consumer willingness to use stablecoins would rise from 36% to 56% if they feature bank-level fraud protection and deposit insurance; if offered through existing financial institutions, willingness could also reach 45%. The survey also indicates that 56% of respondents had never heard of stablecoins, while 64% trust payment providers more than the technology itself. Currently, the global total supply of USD-pegged stablecoins exceeds $295 billion, comprising approximately $183.4 billion in USDT and around $76 billion in USDC. Visa's annualized stablecoin settlement volume has already surpassed $20 billion, representing an increase of over 15 times compared to a year ago.
Odaily reports: Bitcoin News posted on X that REX Shares and Tuttle Capital listed the T-REX 2X Long ASST Daily Target ETF on Cboe on Friday under the ticker ASSX. The fund aims to deliver 200% of the daily price movement of Strive's stock, resetting daily, and does not hold Bitcoin or track the price of Bitcoin. Strive holds 25,000 BTC, making it the fifth-largest Bitcoin holder among public companies, with its latest purchase of 469 BTC funded by SATA preferred shares; both issuers have previously launched 2x leveraged products tied to Strategy, BitMine, Cipher Mining, Circle, and SharpLink.
Odaily report: NEAR has been listed on the Hyperliquid spot market, allowing users to trade the NEAR/USDC trading pair. According to the Hyperliquid process, it will take several more days for NEAR to appear in the Strict List on the platform interface.
Arc officially announced that Circle's onchain FX engine StableFX is now live on the Arc mainnet. Arc is a public chain launched by Circle, designed for stablecoins and payment use cases; StableFX supports 24/7 settlement, enabling near-instant or delayed settlement, ensuring that both parties either receive funds simultaneously or neither receives funds, and supports trading with multiple vetted counterparties through a single contract, using a unified RFQ model for pricing. The global foreign exchange market has a daily trading volume of nearly $10 trillion, most of which still relies on traditional trading hours.
According to @defioasis citing Dune data, network transaction fees on Circle's Arc mainnet dropped to approximately $9,218 on its sixth day since launch (September 21), down 96.7% from the first day. During the same period, the daily transaction fees for Robinhood Chain, Base, Arbitrum, and Sui were approximately $312,000, $139,000, $22,300, and $11,500, respectively.
USDC issuer Circle announced the launch of a new service called "Digital Asset Collateralized Loan," enabling institutional clients to borrow USDC by collateralizing Bitcoin. This feature leverages on-chain lending markets to enhance capital efficiency for institutions.
Circle announced that its Digital Asset-Backed Borrowing (DABB) feature is now live on the Arc and Ethereum networks, available to eligible Circle Mint institutional clients. Clients can deposit Bitcoin, mint Circle Wrapped Bitcoin (cirBTC), and supply cirBTC as collateral to third-party lending markets via a self-custody wallet within a single workflow. Borrowed USDC will be settled directly into the Circle Mint account balance, without requiring the sale of the pledged Bitcoin; the collateral can be released upon USDC repayment.
据 CoinDesk 报道,比特币 Volmex 隐含波动率指数(BVIV)永续合约已在去中心化衍生品交易所 Hyperliquid 上线,交易者可直接做多或做空比特币未来 30 天的隐含波动率,无需通过期权间接建立波动率仓位。该合约以 USDC 计价并作为抵押品,上线初期最高提供 5 倍杠杆,指数数据由 Seda 的预言机基础设施接入链上。
A commit titled “Binary options support” recently appeared in the codebase for the decentralized order book exchange platform Lighter, indicating that its ZK Circuits may have begun supporting binary outcome markets (prediction markets). Based on the code, each market features a settlement cap, with share prices trading between 0 and the cap; upon settlement, shares ultimately resolve to zero or reach the cap. Contracts are fully collateralized with USDC, meaning they involve no leverage or liquidation. Analysis suggests that Lighter may introduce a "market operator" model, which would allow whitelisted operators to create, manage, and handle market settlement, similar to the HIP-3 deployment model.
Odaily News: Infini posted on the X platform that its App now supports users in opening personal virtual accounts and allows them to deposit and withdraw fiat currency via bank transfers. USD virtual accounts are provided by Lead Bank, N.A., supporting ACH, Wire, FedNow, and RTP networks; EUR virtual accounts are provided by Banking Circle S.A., supporting the SEPA network.
Universal Protocol 宣布,因市场采用规模未达到长期可持续运营要求,将于 2026 年 11 月 17 日停止运营。在 60 天过渡期内,uAssets 仍由底层资产 1:1 支持,用户可通过 Universal 应用出售或赎回。协议停止后,Base 链上的 uSOL、uXRP、uDOGE、uADA、uBTC和 uLTC 计划通过智能合约兑换为对应桥接资产,其余 uAssets 将兑换为 USDC,最终方案将在停止运营前公布。