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Citibank stated in its official insights report "Digital Frontier: Collateral in a Tokenized World" that as financial markets accelerate towards continuous, around-the-clock operations, collateral management is undergoing a structural evolution. Institutional-level tokenization is moving beyond isolated proof of concepts to establish scalable operational tracks on global banking, custody, and market infrastructure, making collateral a continuous liquidity and optimization engine.Citibank mentioned that combining tokenized assets with regulated on-chain settlement currencies can achieve instant atomic cash-to-cash transactions, eliminating multi-day gap risks and expanding the range of eligible collateral to include tools like tokenized money market funds. Global asset managers and asset owners will unify traditional and digital collateral into a single, continuously optimized inventory over many years of hybrid operating models, covering counterparties, custodians, and settlement venues.

According to market news, the cryptocurrency exchange under the Lotte Group, Lotte Wallet, launched a new version of its Android app on October 14, integrating spot and margin trading, with the iOS version to be released later.The two existing independent applications are scheduled to cease operations in early 2027. The new version only supports Passkey login, includes an AI virtual assistant that can answer market information and operational questions, and supports the use of regular Lotte points to purchase cryptocurrencies.

According to PR Newswire, NFT Limited (stock code MI, formerly known as Takung Art), a company listed on the NYSE American, announced the proposed technical agreement RWAIX in Hong Kong on October 13 and released an open-source reference implementation on GitHub under the MIT license. The company operates an online trading platform for international artworks and collectibles, stating that the agreement is intended to allow buyers, sellers, AI agents, and robots to verify identities, confirm agreements, and ensure that deliveries actually occur, with the existing digital art platform intended to serve as the first real-world scenario.The company claims that internally managed test records show 50 tests passed with no failures, and it plans to launch a limited live pilot within 90 days after completing an independent security review and other conditions, targeting the first quarter of 2027. The reference implementation includes core protocol logic in Node.js, 50 automated test cases with expected outputs, schema and API documentation, as well as a browser demonstration using synthetic data. The company also stated that RWAIX has not yet been integrated into the production environment, and the related timeline may still be adjusted.The existing digital art trading platform is operated by its wholly-owned Hong Kong subsidiary, Metaverse Digital Payment Co., Limited. The pilot aims to first upgrade the consent purchase, delivery, independent verification, payment, and dispute resolution processes for an existing NFT order, using existing banking channels. CEO Yanying Wang stated that the company already has customers, orders, and payments, and plans to verify within the next 90 days whether the agreement can be used for real customer orders.

Tesla is downplaying the name Full Self-Driving to seek approval for its driver assistance system in Europe. Tesla has used the name "Tesla Assisted Driving" on its European website, while the U.S. website still refers to it as "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)."

According to GMGN data, the top 5 tokens with net inflow in the past 24 hours are as follows:HeeHaw (EEpn....ump): Net inflow of $5,000, with a 24-hour increase of 3830.6%, currently priced at $0.0045.Markodex (7jnN....9JJ): Net inflow of $3,000, with a 24-hour increase of 53.5%, currently priced at $0.0001.BORDR (6Mix....rdr): Net inflow of $2,000, with a 24-hour increase of 5.6%, currently priced at $0.0019.CLAUDIA (2j5S....2ZM): Net inflow of $2,000, with a 24-hour increase of 133.2%, currently priced at $0.001.FI (4At7....ump): Net inflow of $2,000, with a 24-hour increase of 2860.8%, currently priced at $0.0001.

ChainCatcher live report, at the OKX NOW Global Products and Ecosystem Conference (Singapore), the OKX AI team elaborated on its core philosophy, which is "AI and finance start with the user": AI needs to understand user intent, respect the boundaries set by users, and return to the user at decision points that require human judgment.Based on this philosophy, the team stated that they have built a complete set of capabilities to help AI entities scale from "intelligence" to "action": the Agent Trade Kit allows users' AI entities to connect directly to OKX exchange data and execute trades; the On-chain OS supports operating on-chain assets using natural language, the Agentic Wallet allows funding to be allocated to the AI within preset guardrails; the OKX AI entity marketplace supports subscribing to signals from professional trading entities and authorizing copy trading; developers can monetize their own models through the AI Builder program.

According to GMGN data, the top 5 tokens with net inflow from KOL in the past 24 hours are as follows:test (7cYa....wny): Net inflow of $4,000, with a 24-hour increase of 12793%, currently priced at $0.0005.NVDAx (Xsc9....qEh): Net inflow of $4,000, with a 24-hour increase of 0.7%, currently priced at $232.1706.LUCY (CnbD....tXa): Net inflow of $1,000, with a 24-hour increase of 3358.8%, currently priced at $0.0002.PUMP (pump....Dfn): Net inflow of $888, with a 24-hour decrease of -0.1%, currently priced at $0.0058.PUMPERS (HdHP....TKs): Net inflow of $717, with a 24-hour increase of 849.5%, currently priced at $0.0001.

Lloyds Banking Group and Visa completed their first stablecoin settlement test, settling a total of $750,000 in Visa payment obligations using USDC within 7 days, with funds arriving in as little as one hour.

According to The Defiant, the British banking group Lloyds and payment giant Visa completed a $750,000 USDC transfer in a cross-border settlement pilot. The test lasted seven days, with funds transferred from Jersey to the United States, taking less than an hour in total, and could also be completed over the weekend.During the settlement process, Lloyds used the Canton network, while Visa utilized another independent blockchain. The pilot completed cross-border fund transfers using the stablecoin USDC.

According to a report by crypto.news, Chainlink announced the launch of a connectivity framework that allows banks to access the SWIFT blockchain ledger through the Chainlink platform while retaining transaction signing keys.The framework coordinates the interaction between institutional systems and ledgers through the Chainlink runtime environment, allowing banks using a self-signing model to avoid handing over authorization keys to Chainlink. The SWIFT ledger supports 24/7 tokenized deposit payments, with final settlements still completed through existing real-time gross settlement mechanisms. Seventeen banks from six continents, including ANZ, HSBC, Citibank, Standard Chartered, and UBS, are preparing to pilot tokenized deposits on the SWIFT ledger.

Solana posted on platform X that it has gradually reduced the target Slot Time from 400 ms to 250 ms, during which the network's block skipping rate remained stable, and the downtime caused by continuous block skipping has also been shortened.However, the shorter Slot Time has led to an increase in voting delays, with nodes in Asia and South America being the most affected. Therefore, further reducing it to 200 ms before the launch of Alpenglow still requires caution.

According to GMGN data, the top 5 tokens with net inflow in the past 24 hours are as follows:SI (DEW9....WDP): Net inflow of $20,000, with a 24-hour increase of -20.1%, currently priced at $0.0053.NVDAx (Xsc9....qEh): Net inflow of $9,000, with a 24-hour increase of -0.4%, currently priced at $224.7415.GRASS (Gras....Xjs): Net inflow of $8,000, with a 24-hour increase of 0.5%, currently priced at $0.4477.CARDS (CARD....Yjp): Net inflow of $7,000, with a 24-hour increase of -0.1%, currently priced at $0.1675.COLLECT (nDZk....ump): Net inflow of $4,000, with a 24-hour increase of 23242%, currently priced at $0.001.

According to Bloomberg, the UK digital bank Revolut launched the UK's first facial recognition checkout system "Pay with Smile" on September 23, allowing customers to complete payments in-store through facial recognition.This feature operates on the Revolut Register terminal, where users can complete facial identity verification by clicking "Pay with Smile" on the screen during checkout, a process similar to unlocking a smartphone or accessing a banking app. Facial data is end-to-end encrypted, merchants do not store personal data, and users must actively choose to opt-in in the Revolut app settings, with the ability to withdraw consent at any time. Revolut charges a 0% processing fee for Pay with Smile transactions to alleviate the burden on independent merchants.The pilot will take place from September 24 to 26 at three Kiss the Hippo cafes in Bloomsbury, Chelsea, and Soho in London, with plans to roll out the feature to all 12 locations later this year. Sales promotion for the Revolut Register terminal will be launched at the appropriate time.

According to The Information, Microsoft (MSFT.O) will increase the discount on Copilot while launching an AI "super app."

The Bank of Korea (BOK) has launched the first 24-hour Korean won settlement network pilot, aimed at allowing foreign investors to settle won transactions outside of normal banking hours in South Korea. The central bank announced on Monday that its international wire transfer network has begun trial operations with four domestic banks: KB Kookmin Bank, Woori Bank, Hana Bank, and Shinhan Bank. Full operations are expected to start in January 2027, at which point participation will expand to other institutions and foreign banks.The network operates 24 hours a day on weekdays, excluding weekends and public holidays. Foreign investors can settle won transactions during their domestic business hours by registering a Foreign Institution (RFI-K) account for won services, without the need to open an account directly with a South Korean financial institution. The Bank of Korea stated that the network is expected to enhance the international status of the won by improving foreign investors' access to won settlement infrastructure.In addition, the Bank of Korea is also experimenting with tokenized settlement infrastructure through the Agorá project led by the Bank for International Settlements, which completed a cross-border payment trial using tokenized central bank reserves and commercial bank deposits, including the won, in July. The Bank of Korea is simultaneously advancing the Hangang project, a blockchain-based pilot that utilizes wholesale central bank digital currency to settle tokenized commercial bank deposits.

On September 18, Solana reduced the target slot time from 300 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds, marking the third acceleration since August. As the computation and data capacity per slot is proportionally reduced, the overall throughput of the network has not increased.This adjustment is the third phase of the SIMD-0525 four-phase plan, with slot time decreasing from 400 milliseconds at genesis to 350 milliseconds, then 300 milliseconds, and now to 250 milliseconds. The final step down to 200 milliseconds has not yet determined a mainnet activation date, provided that the validator block skipping rate remains stable.

According to Decrypt, Solana will shorten the target block time slot from 300 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds on Friday, increasing the block generation frequency by nearly 17%. The computational resources and data available for each time slot will be correspondingly reduced, while the overall transaction processing capacity of the network remains unchanged.This adjustment is the third phase in the four planned stages of the SIMD-0525 proposal. The block production permission window for validators over four consecutive time slots has been reduced from 1.2 seconds to 1 second, and the expected duration of the epoch fixed at 432,000 time slots has been shortened from about 36 hours to about 30 hours. The next phase aims to further shorten the time slot to 200 milliseconds, but the mainnet launch time has not yet been determined, with the implementation condition being that the block skip rate remains stable.

The Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Xu Zhengyu, stated at a press conference on financial development measures for the first five-year plan for economic and social development and the Chief Executive's 2026 Policy Address that digital assets and financial technology are new growth engines for Hong Kong, with digital bonds issued in Hong Kong accounting for about 50% of the global share.Before the end of 2026, a pilot program for the tokenization of Exchange Fund Bills will be implemented, and the Central Moneymarkets Unit (CMU) will establish a digital asset platform within 2026 to provide one-stop services for digital bond issuance and settlement. In terms of regulation and market development, this includes improving the licensing system for virtual assets, enhancing the regulatory framework for tokenized investment products, promoting the trading of regulated stablecoins on licensed platforms, and encouraging the expansion of compliant stablecoin application scenarios.

According to GMGN data, the top 5 tokens with net inflow in the past 24 hours are as follows:CARDS (CARD....Yjp): Net inflow of $20,000, with a 24-hour increase of 6.9%, currently priced at $0.14.NEAR (3ZLe....wBG): Net inflow of $2,000, with a 24-hour increase of 28%, currently priced at $3.3584.GP (HTmQ....gUQ): Net inflow of $2,000, with a 24-hour increase of 215.5%, currently priced at $0.0128.FAR (3u3T....3yZ): Net inflow of $2,000, with a 24-hour increase of 633.7%, currently priced at $0.0001.ZATOSHI (y2sC....fav): Net inflow of $1,000, with a 24-hour increase of 1323.9%, currently priced at $0.0001.