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Odaily News: According to Gate Ventures' latest weekly report, last week's escalation of geopolitical conflicts in the Middle East combined with U.S. core inflation exceeding expectations significantly heightened global market volatility. Brent crude and WTI crude surged 8.33% and 9.36% respectively, returning above $100 per barrel; U.S. August core CPI rose 0.29% month-over-month, higher than expected, pushing the 10-year Treasury yield to 4.97%, with market-implied probability of a September rate hike rising to approximately 86%; spot gold fell 1.82% to $4,349.42 per ounce. U.S. stock indices — the S&P 500, Nasdaq, and Dow Jones — declined 0.80%, 0.66%, and 1.57% respectively; the crypto market weakened in tandem, with BTC and ETH dropping 4.4% and 1.5% respectively. Spot BTC ETFs saw net outflows of $462.7 million, while ETH ETFs recorded net inflows of $197.1 million. The fear index dropped from 71 to 57, indicating a cooling of market sentiment.On the industry front, India launched a $107 million tokenized corporate bond pilot program, further advancing institutional-grade RWA tokenization; Gemini obtained a Major Payment Institution (MPI) license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore, further expanding its regulatory footprint in the Asia-Pacific region; and the Philippine central bank plans to suspend new payment system operator registrations for 12 months, tightening oversight of VASP-related payment activities.On the funding side, a total of 9 financing deals were completed last week, with disclosed total funding reaching $158.4 million, down 88% quarter-over-quarter. Overall, energy prices and inflation expectations remain the core variables driving short-term market trends, while interest in tokenized assets and institutional-grade crypto infrastructure development remains undiminished.
According to The Block, on-chain confidentiality protocol Zama will open deposits for 16 Morpho confidential vaults on September 15, supporting assets such as USDC, USDT, AUSD, and TGBP. Previously, the first vault launched by Zama in collaboration with Morpho and Steakhouse Financial reached $40 million in total value locked within seven weeks.
TechFlow The Derive community has released the "Launch Derive V3" proposal, planning to deploy and launch Derive V3. The new version will run on zkVM programs settled on the Ethereum mainnet, migrating Derive V2 accounts, balances, positions, rewards, native ETH, and ERC-20 assets held in wallets to the V3 genesis state. Upon completion of the migration, bridged funds will be transferred to L1 contracts, user wallets, or the relevant LayerZero OFTAdapter contracts, and Derive Chain will gradually shut down.
perpetual contract platform RWAperp has announced the completion of $2 million in financing, with a post-investment valuation of $50 million. Participants in the round include Lime co-founder Brad Bao, Cresta AI co-founder Tim Shi, Tesla Autopilot team member Phil Duan, Crux members William Freiberg and Charles Ferguson, as well as members of the a16z and Sequoia Scout networks.RWAperp is a decentralized perpetual contract protocol for traditional financial assets. It is currently live on OKX X Layer and has opened 19 markets, covering BTC, ETH, SOL, Korean and U.S. stocks, the S&P 500 Index, the DRAM Index, gold, silver, and WTI crude oil. Users can settle in USDC, USDT, or USDG and gain leveraged long and short exposure to stocks, indices, commodities, and crypto assets without needing to hold, custody, or tokenize the underlying assets.RWAperp primarily designs its trading, pricing, liquidity, and risk management systems around the trading characteristics of the stock market, and handles situations such as market closure periods, overnight gaps, trading halts, and corporate actions. The platform uses a multi-issuer composite oracle and provides a professional order book trading terminal.RWAperp is also developing Agent Mode. This AI feature is designed to understand natural language trading instructions, analyze market conditions, and gradually support trading execution operations such as opening positions, position management, and closing positions. (The Block)
Odaily News: Canaan Inc. released its unaudited operational data update for the period ended August 31, 2026, disclosing that in late August it sold its entire 3,952 ETH holdings at an average price of approximately $2,400 per ETH, and sold 54 BTC at an average price of approximately $79,000 per BTC. The company used part of the proceeds to repurchase approximately 13.6 million American Depositary Shares ('ADS'), bringing the total number of ADS repurchased since the beginning of the year to approximately 16.4 million. (PRNewswire)
QCP released a report on September 14 stating that the market has largely priced in expectations of a 25 basis point rate hike by the Federal Reserve this week, with attention shifting to the language of the rate hike announcement and signals regarding the future rate path. U.S. August CPI rose 0.4% month-over-month and 3.4% year-over-year, while core CPI rose 0.3% month-over-month, with the year-over-year growth rate of core CPI declining from 2.5% to 2.4%.Bitcoin briefly fell to $76,700 following the release of the CPI data, before recovering to around $77,600; Ethereum remained near $2,500. Spot Bitcoin ETFs saw net outflows of $463 million last week, with net outflows slowing to $13.2 million on Friday; spot Ethereum ETFs saw net inflows of $197 million, with single-day net inflows of $216 million on Friday.
Odaily News: On-chain security platform Blockaid has discovered a vulnerability in the Bitcoin bridge of cross-chain protocol Symbiosis. The attacker minted approximately 2^62 syBTC to a newly created externally owned account, with a face value of roughly $46.1 billion calculated at 8 decimal places, and sold approximately 4.39 WBTC on Uniswap V4 on Ethereum, realizing a cash-out of about $336,000.Symbiosis stated that the attack occurred at around 4:28 AM on September 11. The team has paused the BTC route, while other routes remain operational and unaffected. The team has recovered approximately 15 BTC and deposited them into a multisig wallet controlled by the team. They have also offered the attacker a 20% white-hat bounty, with a deadline of September 13.In recent weeks, Liquid Network, Nomic, and Symbiosis have all experienced security incidents involving the inflation of supply through the minting of tokens without real asset backing. As of September 13, Symbiosis has not yet publicly released a BridgeV2 technical post-mortem, the final loss amount, or confirmation of whether the attacker has accepted the bounty. (Bitcoin.com News)
According to reporting from Christine D. Kim (@christine_dkim), Ethereum developers confirmed at the ACDC #186 conference that the Glamsterdam upgrade will be activated on the Sepolia testnet on October 6 at 13:53 UTC. However, there is significant uncertainty surrounding this upgrade—the current latest private testnet, Glamsterdam-Devnet-9, has not yet stabilized. A severe vulnerability in the consensus layer could halt block production across the network, and a bug in the execution layer's EIP-8037 also requires fixing. Developers will release Devnet-10 in the coming weeks; if Devnet-10 remains unstable, the Sepolia upgrade date may be pushed back. Activation timelines for the Hoodi testnet and the mainnet have not yet been determined, and it remains uncertain whether the goal of launching on the mainnet before the end of the year will be met.
According to The Block, Uniswap Labs has launched the StablePair Hook, a stablecoin pair tool designed for Uniswap v4, supporting trading pairs such as USDC/USDT and USDC/USDG. The tool utilizes a dynamic fee mechanism that adjusts trading fees when the pool price deviates from the reference price, helping liquidity providers retain more value generated by stablecoin arbitrage and price reversion. The initial StablePair Hook pools will launch on Ethereum and can be upgraded via Uniswap governance.
Odaily News: Researchers from institutions including the Ethereum Foundation, Theta Labs, and StarkWare have jointly published a paper, using AI coding agents to deeply optimize the core operations of Shor's algorithm. The computing resources required for a potential quantum attack on Bitcoin and Ethereum (secp256k1 cryptographic system) have been reduced by more than 50% compared to Google's benchmark in March of this year. The number of logical qubits required for the circuit has been compressed to 1,151, and later versions have even been reduced to 813. Although current quantum hardware still cannot directly break public chains, the research shows that pure algorithmic optimization is significantly narrowing the time window for the quantum threat. The researchers emphasize that quantum-resistant upgrades take a long time and cannot be applied retroactively, and the industry needs to prepare defenses in advance. (Coindesk)
According to The Block (@TheBlockCo), Vitalik Buterin is actively pushing to incorporate EIP-8288 (a recursive STARK memory pool draft released this June) into Ethereum's I-star fork upgrade following the Hegota fork. The proposal aims to reduce the cost of quantum-safe transactions, with its core approach moving signature and proof computation out of Ethereum's core execution path while keeping proof data on-chain.
According to CoinDesk, the U.S. Department of Commerce is allocating up to $100 million each to three quantum computing companies—Rigetti, D-Wave, and Quantinuum—through the CHIPS Act, totaling up to $300 million. The funding will support the expansion of hardware, manufacturing, and error-correction systems, alongside the simultaneous acquisition of minority stakes in all three firms. Meanwhile, Bitcoin and Ethereum developers are accelerating post-quantum cryptography upgrade initiatives. The Ethereum Foundation has set December 2029 as the deadline for foundational-layer quantum-resistant upgrades encompassing the execution, consensus, and data layers. While Bitcoin has no unified timeline, two proposals—BIP-360 (post-quantum output types) and BIP-361 (phasing out ECDSA and Schnorr signatures)—are advancing rapidly, with researchers likewise identifying 2029 as the critical window to complete a trusted migration path.
Pump.fun announced the launch of its Custom Pairs feature on Wednesday, allowing creators to choose tokenized stocks, wrapped Bitcoin, Ethereum, and metals as quoted assets when issuing tokens, no longer limited to SOL and USDC trading pairs. The number of supported quoted asset pairs has now reached 93, covering tokenized Nvidia, Tesla, and S&P 500, among others. Custom Pairs has been rolled out in the token creation form, with bonding curve and PumpSwap protocol fees consistent with standard issuance, of which 50% of the revenue will flow into the PUMP buyback and burn contract.
Odaily News, Vitalik posted on the X platform, expressing his hope to include the recursive STARK memory pool proposal EIP-8288 in the Ethereum I-star upgrade, stating that it can be seen as the next step after Frames. This solution can place quantum-safe signature data off-chain, reducing signature costs; the fuel cost of quantum-safe privacy transactions is also expected to drop from approximately 10 million to tens of thousands. The solution aggregates transaction dependencies through frames and recursive STARKs, with nodes sending one STARK of about 100 to 300KB per time cycle; the on-chain overhead is one STARK and 96 bytes per statement to be proven.
Odaily News: Coinbase announced that it has partnered with Stanford University cryptography professor Dan Boneh and Localhost Research to host a closed-door "Post-Quantum Bitcoin Workshop" at Stanford University, bringing together Bitcoin developers, cryptography experts, researchers, institutional custodians, and hardware wallet specialists to discuss technical and migration solutions for Bitcoin to address future quantum computing threats.The workshop focused on assessing the progress of quantum computing development, post-quantum cryptography, and different post-quantum signature schemes applicable to Bitcoin, as well as discussing Ethereum's quantum resistance roadmap, practical requirements for institutional custody operations, and how to introduce post-quantum security mechanisms to Bitcoin through new output types and other means. Participants agreed that rather than predicting when quantum computing will pose an actual threat to existing cryptographic systems, it is more important to establish thoroughly tested contingency plans in advance. Quantum computing does not currently pose an imminent crisis, but the earlier research and coordination begins, the better equipped the ecosystem will be to avoid rushed network upgrades and asset migrations under pressure in the future.However, no single post-quantum solution has yet reached consensus. Different approaches involve trade-offs in security, transaction data size, hardware performance, key management, and the difficulty of user migration. Participants noted that Bitcoin's quantum resistance cannot rely solely on protocol-level upgrades—it also requires simultaneous consideration of how individual users, institutional custodians, wallets, and hardware devices generate, store, back up, and migrate keys and assets.
According to Fortune, long-standing Ethereum infrastructure company Consensys announced it will spin off its flagship wallet product MetaMask into an independent company focused on consumer platform business; the remaining protocol and institutional software business will continue to operate independently under the "Consensys" brand. Company founder Joe Lubin will serve as CEO of the independent MetaMask entity, while also concurrently taking on the role of Executive Chairman of the new Consensys, and veteran executive Mike Kriak will lead the institutional business segment. Lubin stated that MetaMask's rate of value accumulation has significantly outpaced that of the other businesses, serving as the core driver behind this split. MetaMask recently launched its "Primary Account" feature, which allows users to hold both cryptocurrency and fiat assets within a single account and spend them via a Mastercard debit card, while also encompassing diversified revenue streams such as perpetual contracts and prediction markets. The company had previously planned to go public earlier this year, but the initiative was put on hold due to a significant downturn in the crypto market. Analysts believe that the now-independent MetaMask could seek an IPO as early as early 2027.
The Ethereum Foundation announced that Trezor now supports clear signing via ERC-7730. This feature aims to improve the readability of transaction content, helping users better understand what they are signing when transacting on Ethereum. Previously, the Ethereum Foundation's "Trillion Dollar Security Plan" detailed progress from the Clear Signing Working Group and encouraged more wallets and decentralized applications to participate in developing this standard.
According to monitoring by on-chain analyst Yu Jin, in the 70 days since Robinhood Chain launched, total on-chain revenue has reached $42.58 million, equivalent to approximately 17,171 ETH, with an average daily revenue of about $608,000. Robinhood Chain accounts for 90% of the revenue, totaling 15,454 ETH (approximately $38.32 million), while Arbitrum, as the technology provider, receives the remaining 10%, amounting to 1,716 ETH (approximately $4.26 million).
Odaily News, Tom Lee stated that during historical crypto bull market cycles, the ETH/BTC ratio typically rises as Ethereum's usage increases relative to Bitcoin. The ICOs of 2017-2018, the NFTs of 2020-2021, and stablecoins in 2025 have all served as significant catalysts driving Ethereum adoption growth.Lee believes that in the next cycle, Wall Street's tokenization of assets and deployment on blockchains, as well as Agentic AI's use of blockchain technology, could further push the ETH/BTC ratio higher.Lee noted that heading into the final months of 2026, the crypto market is facing several positive catalysts, including the anticipated CLARITY Act vote in mid-September, South Korean investors re-entering the crypto market and rotating from AI stocks, and the "four-year cycle" which he believes will bottom out in the coming weeks. These factors could pave the way for a significant influx of institutional capital in the last months of 2026.Lee also pointed out that since Q3 2026, ETH has been the best-performing macro asset, outperforming the S&P 500 by 5,430 basis points as of last Friday. The three best-performing assets since June 30 are ETH, BTC, and SOL. He believes that crypto assets' significant outperformance relative to other macro assets so far this quarter is likely to further attract institutions to increase their crypto allocations. (PRNewswire)
Odaily News, according to an official announcement, Gate has officially launched stock event contracts. The first phase exclusively features four popular stock underlyings: MU (Micron Technology), SNDK (SanDisk), SKHYNIX (SK Hynix), and Unitree Robotics, while simultaneously opening 5-minute and 15-minute short-cycle bullish/bearish trading markets.It is reported that Gate has become the first trading platform to support stock event contracts, further extending event contract trading coverage to both crypto assets and traditional stocks. Currently, the platform supports crypto assets such as BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, HYPE, and BNB, as well as stock underlyings including MU (Micron Technology), SNDK (SanDisk), SKHYNIX (SK Hynix), and Unitree Robotics. Users do not need to use leverage or pay margin, and only need to predict the price direction of the underlying within a specified time period to participate in trading. At present, users can access trading via the Gate App or official website by navigating to [Contracts] - [Event Contracts] and filtering by the [Stocks] category.