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According to three informed sources, the real-world asset tokenization platform Ondo Finance was recommended to potential buyers after founder and CEO Nathan Allman passed away this year. Two sources stated that the relevant contacts occurred after Allman died on May 25. However, it remains unclear who is driving the sale of Ondo Finance.In early August, Allman's estate management filed a lawsuit against Ondo's acting CEO Ian De Bode, accusing him of illegally seizing control and funds of the company, leading to a fierce battle for corporate control. Allman, who died at the age of 32 without a will, left uncertainty regarding the ownership of his controlling shares and a large number of ONDO tokens. After the probate process, his estate was awarded to his parents, Kathleen Allman (77) and Lawrence Allman (82). According to the current court order, De Bode continues to serve as CEO and is responsible for daily operations, but he is not allowed to make significant changes to the company until the control dispute is resolved. One informed source stated that the escalating control litigation is likely to put any sale plans on hold.An Ondo spokesperson denied that the company was seeking buyers, stating that the claims regarding a potential sale are completely false, and that no one in the company has pushed for a sale, participated in sale negotiations, or requested others to do so on their behalf. Ondo was founded in 2021 by former Goldman Sachs executives, is headquartered in New York, and offers tokenized U.S. Treasury bonds and stocks, with product scale exceeding $3.8 billion.

Writer and author of "The Price of Tomorrow," Jeff Booth, stated in a video interview with Bitcoin Magazine that the price target of $1 million for Bitcoin is "thinking too small." He believes that pricing Bitcoin in a constantly depreciating fiat currency is equivalent to valuing it within a system manipulated by currency devaluation, making such a target invalid. In his view, Bitcoin is not just a token or an asset, but the beginning of a decentralized, secure, and privacy-focused protocol stack, which will ultimately resemble the internet, and it is also the first true free market in human history.In the interview, Booth also discussed AI valuation and technological deflation. He believes that a free market will drive the prices of AI services toward zero, and this deflationary force brought by AI will conflict with a monetary system built on debt. He mentioned the United States' debt of up to $40 trillion, bond yields, and a financial system that is approximately $350 trillion in size and essentially insolvent, linking AI singularity theory, market fear, and monopolistic regulation.In the longer-term section, Booth talked about the adoption timeline of Bitcoin and emphasized that Bitcoin is not just an asset. He also discussed the global expansion of Bitcoin payments and the circular economy, as well as ideas such as private equity supported by Bitcoin and permanently held enterprises, outlining a deflationary future priced in Bitcoin.

The Central Bank of Russia has established market access procedures for digital custodians, cryptocurrency trading platforms, and digital rights information system operators, requiring relevant participants to be included in the corresponding registries.The regulations specify the qualification requirements for members of relevant regulatory bodies and specific officials, the list of application documents, and the registration procedures, while providing simplified access rules for existing market participants. The relevant regulations have been registered with the Ministry of Justice of Russia and will come into effect on October 5, 2026.

Ukrainian President Zelensky stated that the United States is promoting three measures to de-escalate the war in Ukraine, including a ceasefire in the energy sector, reopening the grain corridor, and a trilateral meeting involving the U.S., Russia, and Ukraine. The U.S. suggested holding a technical team meeting first and proposed Abu Dhabi as the location for the talks.Zelensky mentioned that the G20 summit in December could also be an opportunity for a trilateral summit. Putin's envoy Dmitriev will arrive in New York on Thursday to meet with the U.S. envoy to discuss the plan.

According to The Block, stablecoin infrastructure company HIFI has completed a $37 million Series A funding round, led by Left Lane Capital, with specific valuation yet to be disclosed.HIFI CEO Zach Walsh stated that this is the company's first priced funding round, and the platform currently processes an annualized transaction volume of approximately $7 billion. This round of funding will be used to expand stablecoin payment products and tokenized capital market infrastructure.HIFI currently supports the inflow and outflow of funds between the US dollar and stablecoins, facilitates payments through the US banking system and bank cards, and provides US dollar cash settlement services for tokenized repurchase agreements and US Treasury transactions. HIFI has also participated in the tokenized securities production trading tests of the US Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC).

B.AI announced that Xiaomi's latest MiMo-V2.6 series will launch exclusive discounts on September 25 at 15:00 (SGT): MiMo-V2.6-Flash will enjoy a 90% discount, and MiMo-V2.6-Pro will enjoy a 50% launch discount.This series supports 1M ultra-long context and multimodal understanding, covering high-frequency agents and complex reasoning scenarios, helping developers run API calls at a low cost.

According to GMGN data monitoring, the market capitalization of the Meme coin RuneScape Gold (GP) on the Solana chain briefly surpassed 30 million USD, reaching a historic high, currently reported at 27.4 million USD, with a 24-hour increase of over 101%. GP is themed around the classic game "RuneScape" gold and is paired with tokenized gold GLDx. A 3% tax is charged on each transfer of GP, and the accumulated fees are periodically converted by StonkFun and distributed in GLDx form to eligible holders proportionally, forming a mechanism of "holding coins to earn exposure rewards to gold prices." It is a highly volatile Meme asset that integrates nostalgic gaming narratives, trading tax dividends, and the concept of tokenized gold.ChainCatcher reminds users that Meme coins generally have no practical use cases, and price fluctuations are significant, so investment should be approached with caution.

PPP market prediction tool monitoring shows that the probability of "OpenAI's valuation reaching $975 billion before September 30" has risen to 63%, a 30% increase in 24 hours.If OpenAI's private market valuation published on Nasdaq Private Market reaches or exceeds $975 billion by September 30, 2026, it will be settled as "Yes"; otherwise, it will be "No". If OpenAI completes an IPO or direct listing during this period, the listing price and the public market valuation after listing will also be referenced. Subsequent modifications to historical data by NPM are generally not counted unless they correct obvious data errors.

The U.S. Treasury Department announced that it will repurchase up to $6 billion of longer-term government bonds on Thursday, which is three times the $2 billion limit announced in early August. The yield on 30-year U.S. Treasuries briefly rose to 5.38% during the session. In response to criticism of market intervention, Treasury Secretary Yellen defended that market prices deviate from equilibrium levels.The International Financial Association warned that this move does not address the structural issues of debt growth.

According to a report by TASS, Bogdan Shablya, head of the financial monitoring and foreign exchange regulation department of the Central Bank of Russia, stated that the Central Bank of Russia expects that after the implementation of laws related to digital currencies, the issue of illegal cryptocurrency exchanges will be resolved, and the related "gray area" should disappear before July 1, 2027.After that, the market will be clearly divided into "white" and "black" parts, with corresponding penalties implemented.

The founder and CEO of the decentralized lending protocol Aave, Stani Kulechov, responded to various statements regarding Aave V4. He stated that the Hub and Spoke of Aave V4 are by default isolated according to risk characteristics, allowing risk-adjusted markets to share liquidity within set limits through the Hub to support new use cases while avoiding unnecessary fragmentation of liquidity. He believes that completely isolating liquidity often splits funds, reduces utilization, and increases user costs, which becomes more apparent after the incentives used to guide liquidity end.Stani mentioned that in V4, Spoke represents the lending market, and the Hub can share liquidity between these markets, allowing isolated risk characteristics to utilize the capital pool, thereby improving utilization and capital efficiency. Unlike typical curation vaults that start with zero liquidity and require funds or incentives to guide them, V4 Spoke can rely on the entire Hub balance sheet from the first day of launch. He also stated that the V4 architecture is simpler and remains flexible, with the overall codebase significantly smaller than Aave V3.According to him, Aave V4 has secured $1.2 billion in deposits and is deployed across multiple networks, including Ethereum, Avalanche, and Arc. V4 has supported third-party curators like EtherFi, allowing curators to build and manage complete market structures and participate in the economic distribution of a broader lending market, rather than just charging fees for managing deposit scales.

According to The Block, Bitwise has officially launched the Lighter Staking ETP (ticker: BLIT), which is listed on the Deutsche Börse Xetra, providing investors with exchange-traded exposure to LIT tokens.The product tracks the Kaiko Lighter Reference Rate Index and plans to activate staking yield capture features once the assets under management reach a certain threshold.

The TCG card drawing and trading platform Pull.Fun, aimed at Pokémon card collectors worldwide, announced that its mascot token $TAKO has launched on the Robinhood Chain.According to GMGN data, its token market value briefly surpassed 4 million USD, with a current market value of 2.3 million USD.

Malicious iOS application FomoPeek has been found to contain multiple kernel exploit modules that can bypass Apple's sandbox and access sensitive wallet data from other applications, and is linked to a theft incident involving nearly $580,000 in cryptocurrency assets. Blockchain security company SlowMist stated that the application is distributed through the Apple App Store. The company noted that the affected versions were released on September 9 and September 12, and the application contains two malicious modules that can gain higher privileges and access Keychain data and files from other applications.Version 1.3, released on September 17, has removed the related malicious components. SlowMist and the OKX security team investigated and found that the related attack framework includes 8 types of attack methods, supporting iOS versions 12 to 18.7.2 and 26 to 26.1. On-chain analysis shows that a hacker address related to the incident received approximately 580,000 USDT, and the funds were subsequently transferred through multiple addresses and services, with some flowing to FixedFloat, KuCoin, and cce.cash.

On September 23, the B.AI platform announced that the Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 series of open-source native multimodal inference large models is fully online, with API and Web Chat both open for experience. This series is equipped with 1M Token ultra-long context and full-dimensional understanding capabilities for text, images, videos, and audio. Among them, the MiMo-V2.6-Pro adopts a sparse MoE architecture with a total of 1.02 trillion parameters and 42 billion active parameters, specifically designed for warehouse-level software engineering, long-cycle agents, and complex multimodal inference.The MiMo-V2.6-Flash, on the other hand, is based on an architecture with a total of 309 billion parameters and 15 billion active parameters, focusing on high throughput and ultra-fast response, aimed at high-frequency office automation and large-scale agent invocation scenarios. From now on, developers and users can directly call the two models through the B.AI platform.

The ongoing X-Agent AI MCP Hackathon has received nearly 40 projects, with some public works turning work decisions, capital management, and inter-machine trading into runnable products. X-Agent introduces three cases: BountyProof checks whether tasks are open, claimed, have relevant submissions, and the authenticity of rewards before the Agent accepts GitHub bounty tasks, with the core question being "Is this work worth doing?"Abstain empowers the Agent with the "do not trade" capability, returning execution, abandonment, or no trade based on preset rules before order execution. sumplus helps the Agent choose suitable model service solutions based on task context, output scale, model capability, and invocation costs, making the Agent an autonomous buyer of models, computing power, data, and API services.The three projects correspond to the foundational economic behaviors of the Agent: accepting work, utilizing funds, and purchasing services, pointing to work, capital, and trading primitives. X-Agent believes that a true Agent economy requires a complete cycle of "building, deploying, operating, discovering, invoking, paying, earning revenue, and distributing," positioning itself as the application layer of the Agent economy. This hackathon is still in the review stage, and the mentioned projects are only for public case reference, not representing shortlisted or award results.

According to Zhitong Finance, on September 23, the President of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Eddie Yue, stated in a speech at the Treasury Markets Summit that Hong Kong's stock, currency, and bond markets have matured, and digital finance is rapidly emerging.The Centralized Debt Instruments Settlement System (CMU) will launch new services by the end of this year, providing on-chain 24-hour real-time settlement, supporting digital Hong Kong dollars and central bank digital currencies (CBDC), and will also explore the acceptance of tokenized deposits and regulated stablecoins for settlement on the platform.

Huobi HTX Chief Analyst Cloud stated that Bitcoin quickly rebounded after hitting the bottom under the dual pressure of interest rate hikes and the obstruction of the Clear Act, with a weekly increase of about 16%, rising to $87,307 during trading on September 21 (Huobi HTX spot price), reaching a new high since January. This round of increase is driven by three forces: the net inflow of about $1 billion into the U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF on September 21, the largest single day of the year; short positions being liquidated for about $650 million within 24 hours; and falling oil prices leading to a cooling of inflation expectations. Compared to last week's rebound, which was mainly driven by passive replenishment, this week saw a relay of spot buying.Whether the trend can continue depends on two points: whether ETF inflows can shift from a single-day pulse to a continuous trend, and whether leverage can be maintained at a non-overheated level. Currently, the funding rate is about 0.01%, in a neutral range, but the open interest of Bitcoin contracts has risen above $61 billion. If the capital weakens, high leverage will amplify the pullback. Market sentiment has entered an extreme greed zone, which historically has often been a precursor signal for short-term trend reversals. Technically, $87,500 is the resistance above, while the first support zone is between $84,000 and $85,000. The trend has conditions for continuation, but the highest risk of short-term volatility also occurs during the hottest phase of sentiment.Note: The content of this article is not investment advice and does not constitute any offer, solicitation, or recommendation of investment products.

On Tuesday local time, U.S. President Trump stated at the United Nations General Assembly that all U.S. government documents will now refer to artificial intelligence as "superintelligence." Trump declared that the U.S. firmly opposes any attempts to establish a global mechanism to restrict artificial intelligence, stating that the word "artificial" makes intelligence sound fake, while it is not fake.Trump further stated that from now on, all U.S. government documents will adopt the more accurate term "superintelligence," and welcomed everyone to the new world of superintelligence, asserting that whoever wins the competition in this field will achieve victory, with the U.S. currently far ahead of other countries. He had previously initiated a poll on social media, proposing to rename artificial intelligence as "superintelligence," "extremely high intelligence," or "supreme intelligence."When discussing regulation, Trump mentioned that if necessary, the U.S. Department of Justice and other law enforcement agencies will manage the related risks, emphasizing that they will not stifle the development of a technology that will surpass the Industrial Revolution in scale. On the same day, United Nations Secretary-General Guterres called on world leaders to strengthen the regulation of artificial intelligence.

The public chain Arc officially announced that Circle's on-chain foreign exchange engine StableFX has now launched on the Arc mainnet. Arc is the public chain launched by Circle, aimed at stablecoins and payment scenarios.The global foreign exchange market has a daily trading volume of nearly 10 trillion USD, most of which still relies on traditional trading hours. StableFX supports round-the-clock settlement, allowing for near-instant or delayed settlement, where both parties can either receive funds simultaneously or not at all to reduce settlement risk. A single contract can trade with multiple vetted counterparties and obtain pricing through a unified RFQ model.