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According to The Block, based on the seventh annual Geographies report by blockchain analysis company Chainalysis, during the 12 months ending June 30, 2026, the scale of global cryptocurrency economic activity shrank by only 1.6%, from $9.5 trillion to $9.4 trillion. During the same period, the total market capitalization of the cryptocurrency market fell by about 50%, shrinking by $2.1 trillion, marking the most severe cryptocurrency bear market since 2022. The report states that the decline in economic activity is much smaller than the decline in market capitalization.Capital flows showed divergence. Funds flowing into exchanges, DeFi protocols, and other cryptocurrency services decreased by 4.3% to $8.9 trillion; domestic P2P transfers surged by 302.9% to $228.7 billion; cross-border stablecoin flows grew by 77.5%, rising from $124.2 billion to $220.3 billion. Chainalysis noted that its cross-border statistics are somewhat conservative, as they exclude transfers where the sending and receiving countries cannot be confirmed, and pointed out that this growth comes from payments averaging about $3,000, which are far from institutional levels and more aligned with everyday use cases such as personal payments to vendors, cross-border remittances, or transferring savings.Stablecoins demonstrated better value retention during the market capitalization decline compared to other cryptocurrency assets, with global on-chain balances dropping from $860 billion in September 2025 to $440 billion in June 2026, while stablecoin balances remained between $98 billion and $109 billion during this period.

SharpLink CEO Joseph Chalom stated that as AI agents integrate with stablecoins, tokenization of real-world assets, and DeFi, the global financial services industry will face a revenue redistribution of over $1 trillion annually by 2030, potentially reaching $4 trillion by 2035.Chalom indicated that AI agents will become the automation layer of the new financial system, capable of continuously managing investors' financial activities, including finding lower banking, trading, and borrowing costs, optimizing savings returns, constructing portfolios, dynamic rebalancing, and managing loans and credit card debt. He anticipates that by 2030, AI agents could save investors about $350 billion annually by reducing fees, with this figure increasing to $1.4 trillion by 2035, equivalent to eliminating nearly a quarter of the costs in the global financial industry.Stablecoins, tokenized real-world assets, and DeFi will provide AI agents with 24/7 programmable financial infrastructure, enabling agents to view asset ownership, prices, collateral requirements, and lending opportunities within the same blockchain environment, and autonomously complete asset transfers, collateralization, lending, and settlement. He also mentioned that financial institutions including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, PayPal, Circle, Tether, Robinhood, Coinbase, Binance, as well as JPMorgan, Citigroup, and BlackRock are competing for the infrastructure and user entry points of the AI agent financial ecosystem. Whoever controls the infrastructure and agents may capture the value generated when agents trade on behalf of clients.Additionally, Chalom pointed out that the infrastructure such as the x402 machine-to-machine stablecoin payment standard launched by Coinbase and Ethereum's ERC-8004 agent identity protocol is forming a new open agent economy. More than 10,000 AI agents have completed registration within 10 weeks of the ERC-8004 going live.

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.

Elon Musk stated that in 7 days, the first Starship carrying Starlink V3 satellites will enter orbit, and these satellites will be put into actual operation.

SpaceX has confirmed the deployment of 27 Starlink satellites.

According to Bitcoin News, attackers accessed a small number of Blink hosted accounts and withdrew funds.Blink stated that the vast majority of funds remain secure, and non-custodial wallets were unaffected; the Bitcoin payment protocol Spark it uses supports multiple Lightning Network wallets, but it has not yet been confirmed that Spark is the source of this security incident.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Chainlink (0x9a7...9ec6) purchased 97,500 LINK, worth approximately 1.1 million USD, for strategic reserves.In the past 30 days, Chainlink's strategic reserves have accumulated a total purchase of 480,700 LINK, worth approximately 5.5 million USD; currently holding 5.96 million LINK, worth approximately 68.71 million USD.

According to CoinDesk, an attacker exploited a permission verification flaw in the Multicall contract authorized by the Safe multi-signature wallet, attempting to transfer approximately 2,900 rsETH (about 7.8 million USD). However, the automated trading bot Yoink discovered the transaction in the public trading pool, paid about 47,000 USD in fees to execute the transaction first, intercepted 2,882 rsETH, and transferred it to another address.BlockSec, Blockaid, Slow Mist, and AstraSec have all confirmed that the vulnerability lies in the components authorized by the user, rather than the core Safe contract. The issuer of rsETH, Kelp DAO, has implemented a 24-hour suspension on the receiving address.

Elon Musk stated that the Starlink V3 constellation will begin deployment this month, and the bandwidth ultimately provided will exceed more than 100 times that of the current constellation of 11,000 satellites.

Pump.fun announced that Ink chain token trading has launched on its App. Users can seamlessly trade Ink chain tokens using USDC without cross-chain transactions.

According to the official announcement from Chainlink, Bittensor's TAO token has landed on Robinhood Chain through the bridge Forever Money built on the Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), achieving a 1:1 native existence of TAO in the second major chain environment.

The first two batches of confiscated assets in the Singapore 3 billion Singapore dollars money laundering case have officially opened for auction, with an overall estimated value between 2.9 million and 3.9 million. The auction is conducted solely online, and bidders cannot place bids in person or via phone. Currently, the confiscated items are stored in the Le Freeport warehouse at Changi North, and interested bidders from Singapore and abroad can visit, but must make an appointment in advance, with limited slots available. Among the items, the most notable are the limited edition pumpkin bags from Louis Vuitton and Yayoi Kusama.It is reported that this case is one of the largest money laundering cases in Singapore in recent years. The involved person, Wang Shuiming's partner, Su Weiyi, has been confirmed as the mastermind behind the cryptocurrency platform scam Atom Asset Exchange. Another involved person, Su Baolin, had received illegal online gambling proceeds from abroad through USDT and exchanged part of the USDT for at least 463,000 Singapore dollars in cash in 2023. He also used USDT to purchase a Toyota Alphard.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the Grayscale GLNK ETF address (0xe33...0aA) received 203,810 LINK from Coinbase Prime a few minutes ago, worth 2.38 million dollars; over the past 18 days, this ETF has accumulated 1,050,000 LINK, worth 12.12 million dollars.

SpaceX plans to launch the first batch of V3 Starlink satellites into orbit during the Starship test flight mission as early as next week. The successful operation of Starship is crucial for SpaceX, not only to revitalize the Starlink communication network but also to launch commercial satellites and futuristic orbital data centers, tapping into the $26.5 trillion artificial intelligence market.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Chainlink (0x9a70...9ec6) has increased its strategic reserve by 91,100 LINK, worth approximately 1.06 million USD.In the past 30 days, Chainlink's strategic reserve has increased by a total of 511,000 LINK, worth approximately 5.52 million USD; the total amount of the strategic reserve has reached 5.86 million LINK, worth approximately 67.24 million USD.

According to The Block, the Ink Foundation, an Ethereum L2 network under Kraken, has jointly established the Charter Foundation with crypto market maker GSR, law firms Carey Olsen, Renno & Co, Cooley, Fenwick, and auditing firms ChainSecurity, Zellic, among others. The aim is to provide a standardized shared legal framework for crypto projects to reduce token issuance costs. A spokesperson for the Ink Foundation stated that the organization is unrelated to Kraken.Currently, crypto projects typically need to independently establish a "three-entity structure" that includes a research and development entity (Labs), a Cayman Islands foundation, and a British Virgin Islands (BVI) subsidiary for issuance. The setup and independent director fees before the Token Generation Event (TGE) often exceed $100,000.The Charter Foundation aims to reduce the initial legal framework costs for token issuance by more than half by establishing a dedicated Cayman Islands exempt company as the launch structure for each project, with governance involving professional offshore compliance experts. Once the token is successfully issued, the Cayman entity will convert into an independent foundation and separate from Charter, ensuring the project's long-term independence.

According to CoinDesk, the Algorand Foundation has officially appointed William Herkelrath as CEO, succeeding Staci Warden, who held the position for nearly five years. Herkelrath previously held leadership roles at blockchain data provider Chainlink and crypto custody company Curv, and co-founded the AI automation platform K3 Labs, officially taking office on August 31.Algorand stated that the new CEO will focus on driving institutional business expansion and post-quantum security initiatives. Currently, Algorand has introduced post-quantum accounts based on the Falcon-1024 cryptographic signature system in the v42 consensus upgrade and plans to achieve full quantum resistance by 2028. Additionally, the foundation's board has been adjusted, with Alex Fowler joining, while Rebecca Rettig and Michael Mosier have stepped down.

Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken announced that kHYPE is now live. kHYPE is a wrapped version of HYPE, fully backed by Kraken at a 1:1 ratio and can be verified on-chain.This asset can be used in DeFi on the Ink chain and can be redeemed back to the original asset at any time.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale deposited 620,420 LINK (approximately 7.6 million USD) into Coinbase.In the past three weeks, this whale has cumulatively deposited 2,410,000 LINK (approximately 26.04 million USD) into Coinbase, all of which previously came from Binance.