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According to Hongxing News, Hong Kong actor and singer Anthony Wong recently revealed his investment losses. He stated that he lost a lot of money from buying NFTs. "I dare not tell my family about the money I've lost. My wife asks me every day how much I've lost, how many digits. I haven't said anything; I've lost more than I did when I was trading stocks." He also warned everyone not to follow his example in stock trading, as he was always thinking about getting rich overnight, which led to such significant losses.Anthony Wong was born on February 26, 1980, in Hong Kong, China. He was originally a swimmer and entered the entertainment industry in 2001.

According to the Seoul Economic Daily, citing a substantial shareholding report submitted by SK on October 13, SK Group Chairman Choi Tae-won had previously agreed to sell shares of SK Corporation, with the buyer being a fund related to Michael Dell's family, the founder of Dell Technologies. Choi Tae-won signed a contract on October 2 to sell 972,493 shares of SK Corporation's common stock, accounting for 1.34% of the total share capital, with the counterparty being DFO Public Investments, L.P., established in Delaware, USA, for an amount of 544 billion Korean won. The fund is managed by DFO Management, which manages the Dell family assets and was formerly known as MSD Capital, established by Dell in 1998, and was restructured into its current structure at the end of 2022.Choi Tae-won has signed a total agreement to sell 1,653,924 shares of SK Corporation, with a total consideration of 944 billion Korean won, to raise funds for property division with Nabi Art Center curator Ryu Soo-young. Among these, 681,431 shares, accounting for 0.94%, were sold to Korea Investment & Securities, while the remaining 1.34% was sold to the aforementioned strategic investor. SK had previously only disclosed that the buyer was a strategic investor and stated that it could not specify the details of the private transaction. For the shares sold to Korea Investment & Securities, Choi Tae-won signed a three-year equity return swap, which will settle the difference between the actual disposal price and the agreed benchmark price upon maturity, with both the gains from price increases and losses from price decreases borne by Choi Tae-won.Reports indicate that Dell Technologies is a company specializing in artificial intelligence servers and data center infrastructure, and has business dealings in semiconductors with SK Hynix.

Executives from World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a cryptocurrency project supported by the Trump family, revealed at the stablecoin-themed roundtable forum during the Token2049 conference in Singapore that they plan to introduce USD1 stablecoin payments to large online merchants. WLFI CEO Zach Witkoff attended alongside co-founder Zak Folkman and Bam Azizi, co-founder and CEO of payment infrastructure provider Mesh. Azizi announced that Mesh has partnered with WLFI, allowing USD1 holders to spend the stablecoin within Mesh's merchant network, with related features set to launch this quarter.Folkman stated that in addition to World Liberty's own application, the team plans to promote the same technology to some of the largest Web2 enterprises in the market. USD1 is issued by BitGo, with reserves including cash, U.S. government money market funds, and other cash equivalents, designed to maintain a 1 dollar peg. According to CoinGecko data, its market capitalization is approximately 4.45 billion dollars.In August, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) granted conditional approval for WLFI to establish a national trust bank, which is intended for issuing dollar-backed stablecoins and custodial services for digital assets. Witkoff stated that this move will enable WLFI to assume the issuance responsibilities of USD1, which is currently managed by BitGo.

During a conversation with Cointelegraph's multimedia director Ciaran Lyons at the Token2049 conference in Singapore, Kevin Lee, Chief Strategy Officer of the cryptocurrency exchange BingX, stated that wealthy "old money" investors have a longer holding period for Bitcoin compared to many crypto-native traders. He mentioned that he has encountered a large number of "old money" clients seeking alternative investments, saying, "Their diamond hands are stronger than any of ours." Lee pointed out that Bitcoin has grown large enough that wealthy investors are increasingly viewing it as a tool for diversifying their portfolios rather than expecting it to "increase tenfold in two weeks."Lee sees wealthy investors as an underdeveloped source of crypto capital, believing that their buy-and-hold strategy could make Bitcoin a diversification tool for more investors. He cited examples where investors allocate 5% to gold and another 5% to Bitcoin, rather than chasing short-term quick returns. A survey released by CoinShares on Monday, targeting 2,230 investors with investable assets of at least $500,000, showed that long-term appreciation and diversification are the primary reasons for investing in crypto assets, while short-term speculation ranked last. Among the surveyed digital asset investors, 80% hold Bitcoin.However, crypto assets are still far from becoming a standard allocation for wealthy families. A survey conducted by JPMorgan in February, based on 333 single-family offices across 30 countries, revealed that 89% of family offices have no exposure to crypto assets, with an average allocation to crypto and digital assets of only 0.4%. Only 17% of respondents consider crypto and digital assets as key investment themes.

ChainCatcher live report, at the Token2049 conference in Singapore, World Liberty Financial co-founder Eric Trump stated that the era of paying salaries with stablecoins has arrived. He revealed that his family business, as a "super employer," has tens of thousands of employees in global hotel assets and is "undoubtedly researching" salary payments in stablecoins. He pointed out that it has become common for athletes to request payment in Bitcoin for contracts, and the appreciation of underlying assets often far exceeds the contract amount; for ordinary employees, check clearing takes 24-36 hours, while people want money "immediately in their accounts."

Salus posted on platform X, claiming that the project Revenue Family, which claims to be X Money's withdrawal bridge, involves malicious authorization. The perpetrators submitted user permit signatures to obtain unlimited USDG authorization, and then called transferFrom within the same transaction to transfer funds, with the funds flowing into two hacker addresses in an 80/20 ratio.On October 1, the project claimed that its social media account was stolen by internal reviewers, suspended exchanges, and denied that REV is the official token.

According to Arkham monitoring, about 14 hours ago, the Trump family's cryptocurrency project World Liberty Fi marked an address that transferred 25,997,000 WLFI to the cryptocurrency exchange Gate, valued at approximately 1.41 million USD, suspected of being a sell-off.

According to a report by Reuters, if the Democrats gain control of the House of Representatives or the Senate after the midterm elections in November, they are expected to launch investigations into business dealings related to Trump and his family, focusing on the cryptocurrency, prediction markets, and investment businesses involving the Trump family, as well as companies that funded projects for the White House.The report states that controlling either chamber of Congress will give the Democrats more resources for committee investigations and subpoena power, with some investigations potentially starting as early as February next year. The subjects of investigation frequently mentioned by Democratic lawmakers include the venture capital firm 1789 Capital, in which Donald Trump Jr. is involved, as well as cryptocurrency companies related to the Trump family, but a final list of investigations has not yet been established.Additionally, Republican Senator John Curtis has previously called for an investigation into some of Donald Trump Jr.'s business relationships, believing that the commercial activities of the presidential family should be subject to consistent congressional oversight.

According to the French newspaper "Le Parisien," a family in the city of Taverny, Val-d'Oise, France, was taken hostage by an armed gang. The victim's wife and 10-year-old child were bound, and the male head of the household was tortured with a stun gun. The suspects attempted to seize his cryptocurrency assets, ultimately stealing only a small amount of cash and items from the house.Six suspects were transferred to judicial authorities on September 11 and are under investigation for charges including organized armed robbery, extortion, illegal detention, and participation in a criminal gang.

A family in the northern French town of Vendin-le-Vieil was invaded and taken hostage by four masked men early Sunday morning. According to BFMTV, the suspects entered the house around 4 AM, binding the couple and their two children with tape, and held them for over three hours. The 40-year-old father, an IT expert in the local cryptocurrency industry, was taken to another room, beaten, and forced to give up access codes, resulting in approximately 40,000 euros (about 46,000 dollars) worth of cryptocurrency being transferred away.According to the Béthune prosecutor's office, the four suspects fled the scene by car and are still at large. The 12-year-old daughter was struck in the face with a car key during the incident, and the victims are in a state of shock; they have been sent for forensic examination and are receiving support from the victims' assistance association. The case has been filed under organized gang kidnapping and extortion and is being jointly investigated by the regional judicial police and the French Cybercrime Office.France is the country most severely affected by such "ransom attacks" globally. Records from the national prosecutor's office for organized crime show that over 70 kidnapping and illegal detention incidents related to cryptocurrency have occurred in the first eight months of 2026, with 88 people already prosecuted in earlier crackdowns this year. Previous similar cases often targeted wealthy individuals, including the father of a cryptocurrency millionaire, the wife of a co-founder of The Sandbox, and the CEO of Binance France, while the victim in this case is merely an ordinary IT professional. Chainalysis reported that global ransom attacks in 2026 resulted in approximately 30 million dollars in losses, while CertiK stated that losses over six months reached 124 million dollars, a 12-fold increase.

Donald Trump and his family business are continuing to expand their investments in artificial intelligence, data centers, power infrastructure, and related technology companies. Financial disclosures show that after Trump's return to the White House, his investment accounts have reported nearly 30,000 securities transactions, including buying and selling stocks of chip, server, and energy infrastructure companies such as Dell Technologies, Micron Technology, GE Vernova, Broadcom, Texas Instruments, Credo Technology, and Advanced Micro Devices. It is currently unclear whether Trump still holds these shares, as related transactions do not require real-time disclosure, and Trump has not placed his assets in a blind trust.Trump Media Technology Group plans to merge with the fusion company TAE Technologies, which intends to build power generation facilities amid the growing demand for electricity in AI data centers. Truth Social also plans to authorize platform data to AI labs through TruthAPI and has launched a search tool supported by technology from Perplexity. Donald Trump Jr. serves as a partner at 1789 Capital, which has completed fundraising for a $1.2 billion fund, focusing on investments in digital infrastructure such as data centers, and has invested in Cerebras, Perplexity, and xAI. Eric Trump, on the other hand, invests in defense, robotics, and AI data processing companies through American Ventures.The White House denies any conflict of interest, stating that Trump's investments are entirely managed by independent managers, with related assets held in discretionary accounts and automatically replicating indices such as Schwab 1000 through computer models, meaning Trump and his family cannot decide on specific investments and transaction timings.

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren delivered a speech in the Senate lasting over 10 minutes, calling for a vote against the CLARITY Act. She stated that Trump and his family profited $1.4 billion from the crypto business in 2025 alone, exceeding the revenue of any publicly listed crypto company in the U.S. last year, and that buyers of his crypto projects lost billions of dollars, with meme coin buyers losing nearly $4 billion.The Senate failed to pass the procedural vote with a result of 49-50, falling short by 11 votes of the 60 needed to begin debate, with no Democrats voting to advance it. Warren claimed that the bill would exacerbate Trump's corruption and criticized the ethical terms negotiated by the Republicans with the White House as a "tiny fig leaf," stating that it would not prevent Trump from continuing to profit from crypto.Warren also stated that the bill would create a huge loophole in nearly a century of securities law, allowing non-crypto companies to put assets on-chain to evade investor protections, and enabling banks to use customer deposits for crypto lending, trading derivatives, operating nodes, and selling related software.

According to POLITICO Pro, U.S. President Trump held a closed-door meeting with advisors on Friday regarding the ethical provisions for government officials in the Senate's proposed cryptocurrency bill, the Clarity Act. The bill is set for a crucial procedural vote in the Senate next Tuesday, with Senate Democrats demanding the inclusion of ethical constraints applicable to government officials to limit Trump's ability to profit from his family's cryptocurrency business. It is currently unclear who attended the meeting with Trump and what the conclusions were.Trump's senior cryptocurrency policy advisor Patrick Witt posted a positive signal on X on Saturday, stating, "Today is a bad day for the naysayers of the Clarity Act."The ethical provisions have been one of the key obstacles the Clarity Act faces in the Senate, with significant bipartisan disagreements over whether enforcement authority should be led by the Department of Justice or state attorneys general. The procedural vote next Tuesday will test whether the two parties can reach a compromise on this core dispute before the Senate recesses.

According to the disclosure by Family Office New Intelligence, data service provider FINTRX tracking shows that in August, family offices participated in a total of 109 transactions, with the total disclosed financing amount reaching 16.9 billion USD. Among these, follow-on financing rounds, where family offices continued to invest in companies they already hold, accounted for 27% of the transaction count. This indicates that, compared to continuing to invest in existing projects, family offices are more active in seeking and investing in new projects. The most active institution in August was a16z Perennial.a16z Perennial was established in 2022 and is a joint family office under the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, providing wealth management and investment services for its core partners Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, as well as the entrepreneurs they support. As of the end of 2025, a16z Perennial manages approximately 2.74 billion USD in regulated assets. In August, a16z Perennial participated in a total of 17 transactions, ranking first; the total disclosed scale of the related financing rounds reached approximately 10.45 billion USD.Ranking second is YZi Labs, founded by Binance founder Changpeng Zhao. YZi Labs manages over 10 billion USD in assets globally, with investment coverage including Web3, artificial intelligence, and healthcare, and invests in startups at various stages of development. In August, YZi Labs participated in 10 transactions, second only to a16z Perennial; however, the total scale of the financing rounds involved in these transactions was 42.1 million USD, largely appearing in large financing rounds of several hundred million or even several billion USD.It should be noted that the amounts mentioned above refer to the total financing scale of all investors in the related financing rounds, rather than the actual investment amount of the family offices themselves. Due to the strong privacy of family office investments, it is usually difficult to obtain the specific investment amount of a single family office in each transaction.

According to a report by The Wall Street Journal citing informed sources, Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family, is the backer behind StringZ Holding RSC, which holds a 49% stake in WLTC Holdings, the parent company of World Liberty Financial, associated with the Trump family, which is proposing a U.S. trust bank. It is said that entities linked to the Trump family hold an additional 38% stake in the company.The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) granted preliminary conditional approval to World Liberty Trust Company on August 14. The decision announced by the OCC confirms that StringZ is an investor in WLTC Holdings and has signed a commitment not to interfere with the bank, but does not specify Tahnoon as its backer or disclose his shareholding percentage. The trust bank must meet OCC's pre-operational requirements and obtain final approval before it can begin operations.Tahnoon previously supported the acquisition of a 49% stake in World Liberty Financial for $500 million, prompting U.S. Democratic senators to call for hearings on the deal and investigate whether it affects U.S. policy towards the UAE. Tahnoon currently serves as the UAE's National Security Advisor and is also the chairman of the artificial intelligence company G42. Cointelegraph reached out to the Trump Organization for comment, but had not received a response by the time of publication.

According to Bloomberg, the Hong Kong single-family office Anther Capital Ltd. has quietly established an artificial intelligence-related investment portfolio worth billions of dollars. The institution was founded by hedge fund veteran Larry Chen.According to the U.S. 13F filings, as of the end of the first half of this year, Anther Capital's exposure to U.S. listed stocks reached at least $3.9 billion. The institution began disclosing related holdings for the first time in the previous quarter.

According to Caixin, the UAE investment firm Aqua 1 Foundation has invested $100 million to purchase WLFI tokens issued by World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency project of U.S. President Donald Trump's family, surpassing the total investment of $75 million by Sun Yuchen, becoming its largest buyer. The actual controller of Aqua1 was previously a mystery, but recently Zhou Guren, born in Shanghai, China in 1984, has come to light as the largest financier of WLFI tokens, with many questions surrounding the source of the funds.Zhou Guren is still listed as a dishonest person subject to enforcement on China's information disclosure website, with a total debt amounting to tens of millions across six cases. A recent indictment provided by the UK Crown Prosecution Service shows that Zhou Guren is also involved in a money laundering case that occurred in the UK. A Shanghai timber company for which he serves as the legal representative was also involved in a smuggling case in China.

According to Bloomberg, the cryptocurrency project World Liberty Financial, supported by the Trump family, has received preliminary conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for a national trust bank charter, intending to establish World Liberty Trust Company. After final approval, the institution will be able to issue and redeem the stablecoin USD1 directly, manage its reserve assets, and provide digital asset custody services.This application comes at a time when the approval process for new bank charters in the United States has significantly accelerated. OCC data shows that 22 bank charter applications have been approved in the 19 months prior to Trump's second term, exceeding the total from the previous five years, with several being fintech and digital asset companies. World Liberty Trust Company is not a traditional commercial bank and cannot accept deposits insured by the FDIC or issue traditional loans.

According to Bitcoin News, the Duquesne Family Office managed by Stanley Druckenmiller has exited its positions in Intel and Micron Technology, and has established new positions in four publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies: Bitdeer Technologies, Riot Platforms, Hut 8, and IREN.