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0G launched Compute Finance (ComFi) on September 21, and introduced the liquid staking product Ascend, while also announcing that the computing power-based digital asset Infinite AI (iAI) will be launched on September 29. Users can stake 0G to receive a0G, use a0G to mint iAI, and then stake eligible iAI to earn computing power points, which can be used for supported 0G AI products such as 0G Private Computer.According to the initial parameters, eligible staked iAI can earn computing power points daily, with a calibrated use value exceeding 1 dollar in supported 0G AI services. When 0G Private Computer goes live, it will connect to over 130 AI models. Computing power points are only used for eligible AI services and do not constitute cash, cash equivalents, or any guaranteed financial returns. iAI is also expected to be launched on 0G's agent and token issuance platform Comfy.fun.

Samsung Electronics hired former Director of the Foreign Exchange System Division of the Ministry of Finance and Economy, Lee Hee-kun, for its IR team as an executive last month. Lee Hee-kun has held positions such as Director of the Foreign Exchange System Division and Director of the Capital Market Policy Division, responsible for foreign exchange systems and overseas investment responses. In April this year, he participated in the work of including South Korea in the World Government Bond Index and received special recognition. He is expected to be responsible for responding to overseas investors and the global capital market.SK Hynix hired former Director of the Strategic Economic Division of the Ministry of Finance and Economy, Jeong Yu-jin, as the Vice President under the Communications Division last month. Jeong Yu-jin has served as the Director of the Climate and Environment Budget Division, Secretary to the Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, Director of the Foreign Exchange System Division, and Director of the Foreign Exchange Fund Division. Both companies are advancing production investments in the United States, with Samsung Electronics planning to invest $37 billion to build a foundry in Taylor, Texas, and SK Hynix planning to invest $4 billion to build an advanced packaging factory in Indiana.

According to Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance has terminated its partnership with the prediction market Polymarket.It is reported that the two parties reached a cooperation agreement last November, and Polymarket had stated on social media that it had become Yahoo Finance's exclusive prediction market partner. The cooperation agreement included the establishment of a special section to display probability data related to "key economic, government, and market outcomes."

Binance will support the merger of Stargate Finance (STG) into LayerZero (ZRO). Binance will stop STG spot trading pairs on October 6, 2026, at 11:00 and will suspend deposits and withdrawals of the old STG tokens at 11:30.All STG tokens will be exchanged for ZRO tokens at a ratio of 1 STG = 0.08634 ZRO. Users should manage their positions and assets before the relevant time.

According to Blockaid monitoring, Flamingo Finance was attacked. The attacker borrowed approximately 18 million USDT through Morpho flash loans, staking Curve USDP LP into the Strategy during the transaction to inflate the price of VaultYUSDT shares, and then redeemed liquidity aUSDT.Currently, the attacker has realized a profit of approximately 345,900 USDT.

The Financial Services Agency of Japan announced the "2026 Fiscal Year Financial Administrative Guidelines," proposing to clarify the issues of on-chain finance in terms of technology, systems, and regulation through verification and dialogue between the public and private sectors, while ensuring user protection and the stability of the financial system, and to build a financial infrastructure that is both convenient and competitive.The Financial Services Agency of Japan will also promote the shortening and upgrading of securities settlement processes in conjunction with the development of asset tokenization, and plans to establish an on-chain financial forum aimed at the AI era to discuss the applications of digital finance, decentralized finance, and AI technology in the financial sector.

The Shanghai Financial Regulatory Bureau issued opinions on promoting the quality and efficiency of technology finance in Shanghai's banking and insurance industries. This includes leveraging new technologies such as artificial intelligence to innovate and empower technology finance, encouraging qualified financial institutions to build enterprise-level artificial intelligence platforms, and comprehensively utilizing digital technologies such as big data, blockchain, the Internet of Things, and quantum computing to empower product research and development, business decision-making, risk management, and other aspects, thereby enhancing the intelligent operation level of technology finance.Support financial institutions in strengthening the innovation of technology enterprise evaluation mechanisms, shifting from a traditional focus on financial indicators to an emphasis on innovation capabilities, relying on databases in the field of technology finance, making good use of "Shanghai Science Points," and constructing a dedicated evaluation system for technology finance to accurately portray technology talents and technology-based enterprises, accelerating the development of suitable technology finance products.

Honeypot Finance founder and early investor in RootsFi, Wilson, stated that Pons reached an annualized revenue speed of 100 million dollars within two months, ranking first on related lists. Wilson reflected on his experience meeting Ozzy at Berachain and investing in RootsFi, stating that Ozzy's sincerity, technical ability, and resilience were the reasons for early support.Wilson indicated that Pons is built on the Robinhood Chain, and its V2 design allows new tokens to trade on a bonding curve first, and after meeting conditions, enter the permanently locked liquidity Uniswap V4 pool, with the priced assets being either native ETH or ERC-20 approved by Pons. He believes this mechanism creates a convergence point for meme culture and stock tokens, and stated that he will continue to support Ozzy, optimistic about Pons's future development on the Robinhood Chain.

Some criminal gangs use "free credit card repayment" as bait to lure ordinary people into providing credit card and identity information. They then launder illegal funds from overseas gambling, telecom fraud, and other activities by fabricating consumption and other means, and subsequently contact currency dealers to exchange for virtual currency to transfer abroad.

Bitcoin ZK Rollup Citrea posted that after a comprehensive review, ctUSD, USDC, USDT, WBTC, and CTR cross-chain services have been restored, and some Solver-based routing is still being gradually restored.Previously, a security incident occurred with the third-party application Zentra Finance, and the team has confirmed the root cause and suspended the relevant contracts. Citrea stated that its protocol and cross-chain bridge contracts were not affected and will disclose the impact of the incident on ecological projects such as ctUSD Earn Vault and depositors separately.

The re-staking protocol Renzo Protocol announced its name change to Renzo Finance and launched its first on-chain structured yield product Renzo Basis, which will go live on Hyperliquid, initially supporting BTC and HYPE. Lucas Kozinski, founder of Renzo Labs, stated that basis trading earns funding rate income by simultaneously holding a spot long and a perpetual contract short. Since the long and short positions hedge each other, asset price fluctuations do not affect the yield, and users earn the fees paid by perpetual traders every hour.Renzo stated that the product achieves automation through a triple protection mechanism, including hedge protection, yield protection, and safety buffer. Currently, the product does not use AI automation but instead conducts trading and strategy monitoring through Hyperliquid's proxy wallet (API wallet) with user authorization, without holding user funds. The relevant protection parameters can be customized by users. Renzo emphasized that its product differs from competitors such as Ethena and Bitwise's Superstate in that it is fully on-chain, self-custodied, and allows depositors to choose their own assets, trading venues, and risk parameters.Renzo Basis plans to support all assets on Hyperliquid that have both spot and perpetual markets and expand to other DeFi platforms, with the next stop being Lighter on Robinhood, where on-chain stock perpetual basis trading will be introduced.

According to German media Golem, the Federal Ministry of Finance is preparing a bill to include cryptocurrency gains under capital gains tax. Speculative gains from digital assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum will be taxed at a rate of 25% starting as early as 2028, consistent with the current stock trading gains tax rate. Currently, selling crypto assets after holding them for more than a year is tax-free, while selling them within a year incurs a personal income tax rate of up to 45%.The bill proposes to retain the personal tax-free allowance (currently €1,000 per person) and allows crypto gains to offset losses from stocks and other securities; taxpayers with a personal tax rate below 25% can also apply for a "favorable assessment" to reduce their tax burden. This tax will apply to crypto assets purchased after January 1, 2027, and it remains to be clarified by legislation whether assets held prior to this date will enjoy transitional protection. The Ministry of Finance expects this move to generate approximately €350 million in additional tax revenue each year, and the bill has been submitted to other federal departments for consultation.

According to official website data, Trade.XYZ has launched its prediction market trading page, currently covering 26 trades across three sectors (Finance, Sports, and Others).Previously, on September 5, Trade.XYZ deployed its HIP-4 DEX on Hyperliquid. Trading records show that the deployment was completed at 21:15 Beijing time on September 5. Hyperliquid's HIP-4 is a specialized outcome/prediction market (event outcome contracts, multiple outcomes, settled to 0 or 1, no leverage liquidation, etc.), which is different from the HIP-3 perpetual.

According to Slow Mist's warning, two attackers have been detected replicating the recent Notional Finance vulnerability attack method on the BSC chain. The attackers have completed their preliminary preparations and created malicious fCash positions using the same vulnerability pattern. Currently, the attack has not been fully executed, and the malicious positions are awaiting expiration.Once expired, the attackers may settle the positions and withdraw assets from the protocol. Slow Mist strongly recommends that affected projects take immediate mitigation measures to complete protection before the positions expire.

Figure co-founder and Executive Chairman Mike Cagney tweeted that DeFi is more suitable for asset-backed finance (ABF), which can avoid double pledging, directly improve collateral, self-custody or autonomous venues, and liquidity collateral. He believes that Figure has brought ABF on-chain, but overall it is still in the early stages, with approximately $60 trillion of the market yet to migrate on a large scale.He also listed five reasons why traditional finance has been slow to enter on-chain applications: poor interface experience, which has allowed applications like Robinhood and SoFi to win on the retail side; the long-term difficulty of achieving qualified custody and recoverable self-custody; hedge funds and others requiring multiple wallets, multiple users, tiered permissions, and complete audits to be exported to fund administration and accounting; regulation is being streamlined, and the precedent for on-chain native securities is becoming clearer, with hopes for the CLARITY Act and guidelines; and KYC issues are easier to resolve than the outside world thinks, as on-chain programmatic screening and wallet-level permissions can be implemented.

The decentralized lending protocol Pencil Finance has announced the completion of a $1 million student loan portfolio on-chain, including fundraising, lending, repayment records, and fund returns, constituting a complete financing and repayment cycle. Animoca Brands, Open Campus, and NewCampus provided funding for this portfolio in July 2025.The education financing company ErudiFi issued most of the funds through Southeast Asian student loans and tuition financing, covering markets such as Indonesia and the Philippines. The portfolio operates for 12 months, supporting over 6,600 students across 118 schools and universities, of which approximately 1,050 students received funding directly attributable to Pencil Finance. Investors are divided into priority and subordinate shares, with the former providing fixed returns and enjoying repayment priority, while the latter has variable returns and bears the first loss from defaults. Pencil Finance claims this is the first fully on-chain student loan cycle, but has not disclosed interest rates, investor yields, default situations, or blockchain transaction records.

According to Bitwise CEO monitoring, there are currently 1,328 investors using the ATP. An important aspect of on-chain finance is providing participation opportunities for everyone.