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According to French media reports, three masked individuals broke into the home of a couple in their sixties in Mont-de-Marsan, Landes, France, threatening the two to hand over their cryptocurrency. The 63-year-old husband sustained a head injury, and the assailants subsequently took a laptop and a mobile phone.After the two victims managed to escape, they called the police and were sent to the hospital for examination. Preliminary police investigations suggest that the case may be related to the couple's son, who works in the cryptocurrency industry. Following the incident, their son has been placed under police protection. Currently, the three suspects are still at large, and the case is being investigated by the Bayonne judicial police.

According to Cointelegraph, the Astana International Financial Centre Court (AIFC) in Kazakhstan has issued an injunction against six unlicensed cryptocurrency platforms, prohibiting them from providing digital asset services locally and expanding access restrictions to app stores. The Astana Financial Services Authority (AFSA) stated on Tuesday that the court made this ruling after the regulatory agency sued the operators of the relevant platforms for providing digital asset services without authorization.The order issued on September 15 specifically named BingX, Bitcoin.com, Huobi Global (HTX), BitMart, Coinbase, LBank, and WEEX; a three-day later amendment removed LBank from the list, as its operator had blocked access for users in Kazakhstan. Google and Apple, as app store operators, were also included and are required to implement regional access restrictions for the remaining platforms.AFSA stated that users of unlicensed platforms lack the protections that licensed institutions should provide, including asset protection, information disclosure, complaint handling, and dispute resolution. The National Bank of Kazakhstan is responsible for regulating digital asset service providers outside of the AIFC.AFSA CEO Evgeniya Bogdanova stated that this court ruling is the result of the agency's long-term efforts by its supervision and enforcement team to address the activities of unlicensed crypto platforms that advertise without authorization and provide digital asset-related services in Kazakhstan without a license.AFSA noted that it had issued warnings to over 20 platforms by 2025, nine of which voluntarily restricted app access in the country, and seven expressed intent to apply for licenses. The agency has withdrawn its claims against these nine, and the injunction will be enforced against the remaining six. Cointelegraph previously reported that the financial regulator in Kazakhstan had blocked nearly 1,000 unregistered cryptocurrency exchanges that were providing services to citizens of the country in 2023.

Turkish Minister of Justice Akın Gürlek confirmed on Saturday that Ethereum ecosystem token Hex and PulseChain founder Richard Heart were detained in Istanbul. Gürlek stated on the X platform that Heart, whose real name is Richard James Schueler, was detained along with his wife during an operation in the Beşiktaş district of Istanbul on Wednesday, and the police subsequently detained three individuals confirmed to be his bodyguards. The operation was carried out by the Istanbul Chief Prosecutor's Office in conjunction with the city's police intelligence and financial crimes department, with support from Turkey's intelligence agency MİT.Gürlek indicated that the police conducted searches at 15 addresses in the Beşiktaş, Üsküdar, and Sarıyer districts, seizing $7.15 million in cash, six cold wallets, 160,000 Turkish lira, 28 watches, 97 pieces of jewelry, 300 bags, and 19 graphics cards, while also confiscating four long-barreled rifles, three unlicensed handguns, and 1,400 rounds of ammunition. Gürlek stated that judicial procedures and the examination of seized items are still ongoing. Turkey's state news agency Anadolu reported separately that the police seized nine vehicles registered under Heart's wife's name. According to CoinGecko data, Hex has dropped about 14% in the past 24 hours.Gürlek linked Heart's red notice to the $1 billion cryptocurrency fraud charges involving the United States and Finland. The notice was issued in December 2024 at the request of Finnish authorities, who sought his arrest on charges of serious tax evasion and assault. In the United States, a federal judge dismissed the Securities and Exchange Commission's lawsuit against Heart in February 2025 on jurisdictional grounds, and the agency decided not to refile the lawsuit in April of that year.

According to official data from Bitget, the sixth batch of rewards for the platform's "Peer Program" has been fully distributed, with a total of 6,182,523 USDT awarded to 4,515,913 participants.In addition, users who enter the event page to claim their rewards will also receive an additional chance to participate in the 8th Anniversary blind box lottery. The event will last until October 26.

The speech by Federal Reserve Chairman Waller failed to boost the dollar, with the Bloomberg Dollar Spot Index dropping 0.4% on Friday, set to record its worst weekly performance since September 4. The dollar weakened against most major currencies, with the euro rising. Waller did not comment on monetary policy at the International Monetary Fund annual meeting, and investors reduced their bets on a rate hike by the Federal Reserve this month.

The world's largest asset management company BlackRock, under the BlackRock Investment Institute, has adjusted its asset allocation in the United States, ending nearly six years of an underweight position on U.S. Treasury bonds. The institution has upgraded the rating of short-term U.S. Treasury bonds to overweight, while the rating for long-term U.S. Treasury bonds has been raised from underweight to neutral. Additionally, the ratings for U.S. stocks and U.S. agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) have been downgraded from overweight to neutral.BlackRock strategists stated that current U.S. Treasury yields have risen to attractive levels, and the interest rate swap market's expectation of the Federal Reserve raising rates at least three times in the next 12 months, with each increase of 25 basis points, may be excessive. The downgrade of the U.S. stock rating is mainly to address potential market volatility brought about by the construction of artificial intelligence infrastructure and the recent risk of rising financing costs. However, the institution remains constructive on the long-term investment prospects in AI-related fields. Furthermore, BlackRock has also reduced its underweight position in Japanese government bonds.

The six-year vesting period for Filecoin is about to end, at which point approximately 68 million FIL tokens will be removed from annual releases. Based on the current mining rate, the annualized increase from vesting and block rewards will drop from about 89 million FIL to 21 million.After the vesting period ends, rewards for storage providers will continue to be distributed. Filecoin is a decentralized storage network, and FIL is its native token used to incentivize storage and retrieval services within the network.

According to Globenewswire, the U.S. publicly traded company Genius Group announced the restart of its Bitcoin treasury purchase plan. After liquidating its Bitcoin reserves in April this year, the company purchased 10 Bitcoins for approximately $854,000 between October 2 and 5, at an average price of $85,364 per Bitcoin.This purchase is part of its execution of a $1.2 billion "dual treasury" capital plan, which aims to allocate $827 million to Bitcoin and $800 million to AI assets, with a plan to increase the total asset size to $2 billion by fiscal year 2031.

The UK government has appointed Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Morgan Stanley, NatWest, and RBC Capital Markets as the joint lead managers for the first digital native government bond, the Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT), expected to be issued in the first quarter of 2027. The six banks will provide underwriting, investor communication, and distribution services.DIGIT will be issued through a platform within the UK's digital securities sandbox and will test the application of distributed ledger technology in government bond issuance and its entire lifecycle, including on-chain settlement. Lucy Rigby, the UK's Economic Secretary to the Treasury, stated that the project aims to explore the application of distributed ledger technology in the sovereign debt market and to promote the development of the UK's digital financial infrastructure. HSBC was appointed as the distributed ledger technology provider for the pilot in February and reached an agreement with the London Stock Exchange Group in July to develop a digital securities depository connection solution.

Bitcoin Magazine reported that the Chief Business Officer of the cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase stated that the company is working with advisors from six globally systemically important banks to increase exposure to Bitcoin.Coinbase Chief Business Officer: The company views this as an opportunity to expand the market and provide individuals with more ways to access Bitcoin. Globally systemically important banks are large banks identified by the Financial Stability Board that have a significant impact on the global financial system.

European stablecoin issuer AllUnity has launched the USD stablecoin USDAU, which is its fourth fiat-backed stablecoin. USDAU maintains a 1:1 peg to the US dollar through isolated reserves and has been launched on Ethereum, Solana, Base, Tempo, Arc, and Polygon.AllUnity is regulated under the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) and has previously issued the euro stablecoin EURAU, the Swiss franc stablecoin CHFAU, and the Swedish krona stablecoin SEKAU.

According to Cointelegraph, the prediction market platform Kalshi won an important ruling from the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, allowing it to continue operating its event contracts in Ohio and Tennessee.The ruling involves a dispute between Kalshi and the relevant state regulatory agencies regarding whether event contracts can continue to be offered. Cointelegraph stated that the court ruled to allow Kalshi's event contracts to continue operating in the aforementioned two states.

According to data from the Bitcoin financial service provider River, currently 81% of the circulating Bitcoin has not been transferred for over six months, indicating a stronger tendency for holders to withhold their assets, which is seen as a strong long-term holding (HODL) signal.

Elon Musk stated that SpaceX will accelerate the development of artificial intelligence, expecting to reach a leading position in the AI field in about 6 months.Although SpaceX's AI project has only been underway for about 3 years, it has the potential to catch up quickly. Musk emphasized that the key to AI competition lies in hardware and computing power, and SpaceX has demonstrated strong infrastructure building capabilities.

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.

The six major banks in Canada announced a joint exploration of a tokenized Canadian dollar deposit system, aimed at accelerating the transfer of funds between financial institutions and ultimately connecting with other digital asset programs. TD Bank announced on Tuesday that the Bank of Montreal, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, National Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Canada, Scotiabank, and Toronto-Dominion Bank Group have jointly formed this joint venture project, with the possibility of more banks joining in the future.The first phase of the project will focus on promoting the transfer of tokenized deposits among participating banks. The parties stated in a joint statement that the first phase aims to enable efficient circulation of tokenized deposits among Canadian financial institutions, with the long-term goal of connecting with other emerging digital asset programs. Tokenized deposits are digital representations of funds and assets already held by banks, differing from independent stablecoins issued by crypto companies; this system allows for 24/7 programmable payments within a regulated banking system.Canada's move comes as global banks compete to put deposits on the blockchain. In the United States, regional banks are building a shared tokenized deposit network, while JPMorgan, Citigroup, and Wells Fargo have also launched their own institutional products. Recently, Swift has begun testing cross-border payments for tokenized deposits. Additionally, the Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Canada, and Toronto-Dominion Bank completed the Project Samara test in March this year, issuing, trading, and settling CAD 100 million (approximately USD 71 million) bonds on a distributed ledger; in May, Shopify and National Bank of Canada also supported the launch of a regulated digital Canadian dollar.

According to data from Dune, the network transaction fees on the sixth day since the launch of Circle's Arc mainnet dropped to approximately $9,218, a decrease of 96.7% compared to the first day of launch.During the same period, the daily transaction fees for Robinhood Chain, Base, Arbitrum, and Sui were approximately $312,000, $139,000, $22,300, and $11,500, respectively.