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Odaily News: Goldman Sachs' $100 billion treasury fund FTIXX has launched on Lynq as the first external fund, providing institutional digital asset companies with access to a traditional treasury fund.Unlike BlackRock's BUIDL and Franklin Templeton's BENJI, FTIXX will not be tokenized, with Lynq serving merely as a new distribution channel for the existing fund. Lynq clients can park cash in FTIXX between trades to earn yield until the funds are needed for other purposes. (CoinDesk)
Odaily News: Cross-chain protocol Chainlink has released CCIP 2.0, allowing enterprises to add their own security checks for cross-blockchain transfers on top of its default network of 16 operator validators.The upgrade comes after Kelp DAO suffered a $292 million hack in April, an incident attributed to a LayerZero cross-chain bridge setup using a single validator; Kelp DAO subsequently migrated its rsETH token to Chainlink.Chainlink's risk management network no longer operates as a standalone security safeguard, and users who do not add their own validators will rely on one validation network rather than two. (CoinDesk)
According to CoinDesk, Hong Kong-based stablecoin payment company RedotPay announced on Monday that it has completed its financial audit and anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing compliance review, both conducted by Big Four accounting firms, as a necessary preparatory step for applying to launch an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States.
Odaily reports: Solana's Alpenglow upgrade has gone live on devnet and testnet, aiming to reduce transaction settlement time from 12.8 seconds to approximately 150 milliseconds.The upgrade changes how validators reach consensus and moves validator votes out of blocks; even with user activity unchanged, the reported total transaction count will decrease. The mainnet launch date has not yet been determined, and the 150ms target has not yet been consistently achieved in a live market environment. (CoinDesk)
Odaily reports: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a position on September 17, granting a five-year exemption for qualifying tokenized U.S. stocks, allowing them to be traded on-chain in the United States. The tokens must carry the same dividend, voting rights, and share class rights as the underlying stocks.Synthetic exposure products are not covered by the exemption. AMC Entertainment CEO Adam Aron called Robinhood's tokenized AMC shares a "quasi-fake market" and threatened legal action, while Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev stated that public companies have no right to approve every product developed based on their stocks.Over seven trading days from August 31 to September 9, the median deviation between the closing price of Robinhood AMC tokens in the Uniswap pool and the closing price of AMC on the New York Stock Exchange was 0.87%, with a maximum deviation of 2.71%. The Uniswap pool carries approximately 95% of the related trading volume. (CoinDesk)
Odaily News: Digital asset investment firm RockawayX will deploy $150 million through its Catapult program to provide venture capital, product structuring, liquidity, market-making, and distribution support for projects bringing real-world yield assets into DeFi. RockawayX manages approximately $2 billion in assets and has already deployed about $300 million onchain. The program will focus on areas including trade and supply chain finance, special asset-backed securities, CLOs, and real estate-related credit.RockawayX CEO Viktor Fischer said that after trading, "yield" could become the largest use case onchain, and that new yield sources with annualized returns exceeding 12% and uncorrelated to crypto market trends will be needed in the future. Fischer also noted that the challenge with real-world assets (RWAs) is not tokenization itself, but rather the buyers, trading venues, and exit mechanisms after assets are tokenized. (CoinDesk)
据 CoinDesk 报道，加密支付公司 MoonPay 宣布计划以超过 6000 万美元的全股票交易收购私人市场投资平台 North Capital，后者将成为 MoonPay 的全资子公司，交易尚待监管批准。North Capital 总部位于美国犹他州盐湖城，平台累计一级及二级市场交易量约达 90 亿美元，其关联机构持有 SEC 注册的经纪自营商、交易、转让及投资顾问等多项资质。 MoonPay CEO Ivan Soto-Wright 表示，此次收购旨在构建支持代币化现实资产大规模采用的监管基础，通过现代可编程基础设施连接金融系统各环节。这也是 MoonPay 今年收购潮的延续，此前已相继收购 Solana 交易基础设施提供商 DFlow 及安全初创公司 Sodot。
According to CoinDesk, Solana has been testing the Alpenglow upgrade on its public testnet, aiming to reduce transaction finality from approximately 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds. The upgrade will replace TowerBFT with the Votor voting protocol, enabling validators to confirm blocks through one to two rounds of direct voting. Currently, testing only supports the Agave 4.3 client developed by Anza, while Firedancer and Frankendancer under Jump Crypto have not yet been integrated. A mainnet launch date has not yet been confirmed.
the Alpenglow upgrade for the Solana blockchain network has entered public testnet, with developers set to test reducing transaction finality from approximately 13 seconds to 0.15 seconds, or 150 milliseconds.The upgrade will replace Solana's existing TowerBFT consensus system with Votor, allowing validators to confirm blocks through one or two rounds of direct voting, though the way users send funds will not change.The initial testnet migration requires Agave 4.3, and Firedancer or Frankendancer are not yet supported. The September 28 mainnet update remains a tentative arrangement and is not a confirmed launch date for Alpenglow. (CoinDesk)
Odaily News: The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an advisory opinion cautioning prediction market platforms that "mention market" contracts may face manipulation risks.The CFTC did not prohibit such trading contracts, but stated that platforms permitting such bets must meet high standards. (CoinDesk)
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。
Odaily News: Hyperliquid has launched a perpetual contract linked to the Volmex Bitcoin implied volatility index, allowing traders to directly trade the magnitude of Bitcoin price fluctuations rather than price direction.Kinetiq's Markets, together with Volmex and Perps.fun, jointly pushed for the launch of this product. This is the first on-chain perpetual contract market for the Volmex Bitcoin volatility index. (CoinDesk)
Odaily News: Crypto technology service provider Haruko suffered a targeted cyberattack, with 15 clients affected. Read-only API information and trading data from some exchanges were leaked.Haruko stated that smaller hedge fund clients with weaker security controls may have lost a small amount of funds. The company has patched the vulnerability and updated its server-side keys. (CoinDesk)
According to CoinDesk, London-based crypto institutional technology services provider Haruko was targeted by a cyberattack earlier this week, affecting a total of 15 clients. Attackers exploited vulnerabilities in Haruko’s infrastructure to extract user access tokens, gaining access to clients’ read-only exchange API information and trading data. A small amount of client funds were stolen, and smaller hedge funds with weaker security controls face a higher risk of loss. Haruko co-founder and CTO Adam Carlile confirmed that the attack specifically targeted Haruko itself. The vulnerability has been patched, and the company plans to release a complete technical post-incident report. Haruko serves over 80 institutional clients globally and connects to more than 100 centralized exchanges and 30 blockchains.
Odaily News: Solana has reduced its target slot time from 300 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds, increasing block generation speed by nearly 17%. The amount of computation and data that each slot can carry is reduced accordingly, while overall transaction processing capacity remains unchanged.This adjustment shortens the epoch duration to approximately 30 hours and reduces the available time for offline signing and delayed approvals. A proposal to further reduce slot time to 200 milliseconds has not yet had its mainnet launch date determined. (CoinDesk)
According to CoinDesk, Ethereum plans to launch Glamsterdam upgrade testing on the Sepolia testnet on October 6. Developers have warned that attackers could exploit free testnet ETH and numerous temporary block builder identities to win block auctions at high prices and then refuse to submit transaction payloads, thereby disrupting the testing process. This risk will not affect mainnet funds, but could hinder upgrade verification. Glamsterdam aims to increase the block gas limit to approximately 200 million, with the mainnet launch date remaining undetermined.
Odaily reports: Ethereum developers have warned that attackers could exploit free testnet ETH and one-time builder identities to win Sepolia block auctions and withhold transaction payloads during the Glamsterdam testing period.This attack does not threaten mainnet funds, but it could disrupt infrastructure testing. The Sepolia public test is scheduled to launch on October 6, while the Hoodi test is tentatively set for October 27. The mainnet activation date remains undetermined. (CoinDesk)
Odaily reports: Nathan Allman, founder of the blockchain project Ondo Finance, passed away without leaving a will. His parents consequently inherited his estate, including a controlling stake and a substantial amount of ONDO tokens, escalating a legal dispute over control of the project.The founder's mother, Kathleen Allman, has sued acting CEO Ian De Bode, accusing him of attempting to seize control of the company and secure a compensation package worth approximately $11 million for himself.Nathan Allman's half-sister and Ondo investor David Chen are seeking a limited guardianship over Kathleen Allman's portion of the estate, citing concerns including cognitive impairment and financial mismanagement; Kathleen Allman denies the allegations. (CoinDesk)
According to Odaily, the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee passed a bipartisan-supported cryptocurrency tax bill by a vote of 38 in favor and 5 against. The bill has been scaled back from an earlier version and still needs to go through subsequent legislative procedures.The bill aims to reduce the tax burden on small cryptocurrency transactions and expand related tax rules so that digital assets receive the same tax treatment as other financial products. (CoinDesk)
According to CoinDesk, Iris, an Avalanche ecosystem network founded by former IBM blockchain partner Jules Miller, has officially launched, with Bolivian telecommunications operator VIVA becoming the first carrier to join the network. VIVA utilizes USDi, a USD-backed stablecoin issued by stablecoin infrastructure provider Agora, for transaction settlements via Iris, while maintaining a portion of its operational reserves in USD to mitigate local currency exchange rate volatility, all without requiring the replacement of existing core systems. Operating on an independent Avalanche L1 network, Iris's initial expansion will focus on Latin America, with plans to extend into parts of Africa and Asia. Furthermore, Iris has secured a $43 million funding commitment from Balesia Group, a family office with telecommunications operations across the Americas.