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According to CoinDesk, the consortium Qivalis, supported by 37 major European banks, announced that the Dutch Central Bank (DNB) has granted it an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license, bringing it closer to issuing Euro-denominated electronic money tokens (EMT). The Amsterdam-based company still needs to meet the remaining requirements of the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA), including publishing a white paper, in order to issue the token in the coming months.This license enables Qivalis to provide a blockchain-based method for transferring Euros for banks and payment institutions. Qivalis plans to distribute its tokens through banks, cryptocurrency exchanges, and payment service providers, rather than directly to consumers. Since its establishment in September 2025, the consortium has expanded to 37 European banks, including BBVA, BNP Paribas, ING, and DZ Bank, and has chosen Fireblocks to provide digital asset infrastructure.According to MiCA regulations, EMTs are classified as stablecoins, but not all stablecoins are EMTs. EMTs are pegged to a single fiat currency and must be issued by authorized credit institutions or electronic money institutions, with holders having legal claims to them and the right to redeem them at face value at any time, and EMTs cannot pay interest.Qivalis CEO Jan-Oliver Sell stated that the currency in Europe should be carried on-chain by European rules, and Europe should have Euro-denominated on-chain settlement assets issued under European law and subject to European regulatory standards.

According to the Dutch police (politie.nl), the police in eastern Netherlands arrested two men suspected of using counterfeit EURC cryptocurrency to purchase multiple Rolex watches on the second-hand platform Marktplaats. The victims discovered that the tokens they received were counterfeit and worthless after the payment was made.After the case was exposed on the television program "Plaats Delict," the police identified the suspects through viewer reports. The two men are a 24-year-old male from Geleen and a 45-year-old male from Leiden. During the search, firearms and drugs were found at the residence of the former, who has been detained for 14 days; the latter has been released but remains a suspect in the case. The police remind the public to be cautious with cryptocurrency payments and to avoid using unfamiliar payment methods.

According to a report from the Public Security Bureau of Linwu County, Hunan Province, on August 19, 2026, the Public Security Bureau of Linwu County, Chenzhou City, Hunan Province discovered fraud clues during routine inspections and successfully cracked a virtual currency investment fraud case, arresting two criminal suspects.Upon investigation, on May 1, 2026, the suspect Li met the victim, Ms. Yue, through private messages on a social platform, falsely claiming to teach virtual currency investment skills with guaranteed profits. He induced her to download a certain app to purchase Tether (USDT) and then exchange it for a newly issued virtual currency manipulated by his "superior." Li, in collusion with his "superior," created the illusion of rising prices to lure the victim into increasing her investment; once the funds were in place, they quickly crashed the market, causing the virtual currency's value to drop to zero. Ms. Yue lost approximately 30,000 yuan, while Li illegally profited tens of thousands of yuan, which was collected by his friend Lei and squandered.On August 19, the investigating police arrested Li; on September 17, Lei, who was suspected of collecting the stolen funds, was also apprehended. Both have been criminally detained according to the law. The police remind: virtual currency is not legal tender, and there are no "guaranteed profit" projects. Recommendations for high returns made through private messages online are all fraud traps. Do not easily trust investment recommendations from strangers or transfer money to unfamiliar platforms.

The Standard Reserve, self-proclaimed as the "On-Chain Central Bank," will launch on September 14 and announce the genesis minting arrangements. The whitelist minting window for Genesis Charters is from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM Eastern Time (from 5:30 AM to 10:30 AM Beijing Time on September 15), with a liquidity fee of 0.15 ETH; after this period, the remaining Genesis Charters will enter a 30-minute descending Dutch auction mode, starting at a price of 1.25 ETH, with a minimum price of 0.15 ETH. 100% of the minting proceeds will go into initial liquidity and the protocol treasury, with no profit-sharing for the team.After the minting ends, the official will inject liquidity and open trading for the STANDARD token, with a temporary anti-sniping tax set for the first hour, starting at 90% and decaying exponentially, with most of it decaying in the first 5 minutes, and the tax fees going into the protocol; after 1 hour, regular trading fees will resume. At the same time trading opens, Charter emissions will be initiated, and 100 branch licenses will be auctioned (paid in STANDARD, via Dutch auction).

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated that regardless of the outcome of the U.S. Senate vote on the Clarity Act on September 15, the cryptocurrency industry will gain regulatory clarity. In an interview with CNBC, he mentioned that if the bill passes, the industry will receive legislative support; even if it does not pass, the SEC and CFTC have indicated their readiness to issue rules, and the industry will still gain regulatory clarity around the time of the vote.The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act aims to establish a federal regulatory framework for cryptocurrency exchanges, brokers, and stablecoins by dividing token regulatory authority between the SEC and CFTC. Armstrong noted that the bill has broad bipartisan and industry support, with law enforcement agencies, banks, and cryptocurrency companies all expressing their backing. Key issues previously raised by Coinbase have been resolved. The only outstanding matter is the ethical provisions concerning elected officials holding digital assets; the White House has proposed a plan that includes strong ethical clauses, while Democrats are pushing for further measures, including mandatory asset divestiture, with both sides nearing a resolution.In response to JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon's criticism regarding Coinbase's regulatory arbitrage using the bill's stablecoin provisions, Armstrong remarked that critics with large payment businesses are facing "competitive issues" and are "speaking for themselves." He also stated that Goldman Sachs, Bank of New York Mellon, and Fidelity all support the bill.

The core development team of Solana, Anza, posted on platform X stating that the mainnet Beta transaction V1 will begin activation at epoch 1035, expected around September 15 at 1:20 UTC.The ecosystem team indicated that more time is needed to test and integrate V1 support; V1 is currently live on the development network for integration testing. The computational budget in V1 is set through new transaction configuration settings; the computational budget instructions are still usable in traditional transactions and V0 transactions, but will not take effect in V1; application developers should check the impact of related changes on their applications even if they do not plan to send V1 transactions.

According to Bitcoin.com, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse pointed out that the Dutch Central Bank (DNB) has redeployed approximately 86 tons of gold from New York and Ottawa to London over several months, involving an amount of about 11 billion dollars. About 59 tons were completed through market transactions (sold in New York, bought in London), and more than 27 tons were physically transported.After this operation, DNB's gold reserves in London increased from 18.1% to 32.1%, while the total reserves remained unchanged at 612.4 tons. Garlinghouse stated that cryptocurrency has evolved from a 1.5 billion dollar experiment in 2013 to a 27 trillion dollar asset class, while the way central banks transfer value is still stuck in the 1940s, "this is precisely the ideal use case for cryptocurrency—instant, secure, and low-cost storage and transfer of value globally."

HyperliquidNews posted on the X platform that HIP-4 @Outcomexyz will launch a 15-minute cycle Bitcoin native "up and down" market.

According to data from loris.tools, the first HIP-4 custom prediction market of the Hyperliquid ecosystem, Outcome.xyz, has been online for a full week, with a trading volume exceeding 11 million dollars, 1500 independent users, and fees collected amounting to 7410 dollars.

Hyperliquid HIP-4 permissionless deployment has begun, and the first Outcome DEX based on HIP-4, "OUT," has been deployed. According to the Hyperliquid developer documentation, HIP-4 allows deployers to create YES/NO or multi-result Outcome markets permissionlessly based on templates approved by validator votes.

Sun Yuchen posted a response regarding recent related disputes, stating that it is an ordinary civil property dispute between both parties, which has now entered the judicial process. He respects the court, the judicial process, and all rights of the other party, and will accept the final outcome regardless of what it may be.Sun Yuchen also stated, "This matter ends with me," and expressed hope that Jing Tian's future life will no longer be affected by this issue.

According to Decrypt, the Dutch prosecution has sold the seized crypto assets from the bankrupt cryptocurrency platform Knaken, raising approximately $2.5 million to repay creditors.The bankruptcy trustee stated that the funds invested by clients are estimated to be between $12 million and $14 million, and the proceeds from the sale are currently the main available funds in the bankruptcy estate.

According to Jinshi, Elmar Voelker, a senior fixed income analyst at LBBW, stated in a report that investors may focus on the potential number of dissenting votes in the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision on Wednesday. He believes there could be as many as three dissenting votes, as there was already a camp of this size voting against the Fed's forward guidance as early as April.If the Federal Reserve unanimously decides to adopt a wait-and-see monetary policy stance, it would be an unexpected move favorable to the bond market, shaking market participants' general expectations for a rate hike in September.

Onchain Lens posted on the X platform that the Aurora (@auroraisnear) mainnet has been down since 02:16:11 UTC.

According to a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York, two Chinese citizens, Chen Zhuoying (also known as "Jolene," 27 years old, Brooklyn) and Zhang Haojie (also known as "Kevin," 38 years old, Queens), were formally charged on July 16 in federal court in Brooklyn with conspiracy to commit money laundering.According to the allegations, the two managed a money laundering network of over ten people in Queens and Brooklyn from 2020 to 2022, using approximately 45 shell companies and 140 business bank accounts to transfer at least $43 million in proceeds from "pig butchering" investment scams to accounts in China. The "pig butchering" scam contacts victims through social media or instant messaging software, gaining their trust with false high-return investment opportunities before absconding with their money. This case is being jointly investigated by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the FBI, IRS-CI, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service. If convicted, both defendants face a maximum of 20 years in prison.

According to TechCrunch, well-known investor Ashton Kutcher will leave the venture capital firm Sound Ventures, which he co-founded, and will co-found a new venture capital fund with former NFX partner Morgan Beller (who co-led Meta's Libra crypto project and served as a partner at a16z).It is reported that this departure is mainly due to differences in investment stage preferences. Sound Ventures tends to support more mature leading AI companies (such as OpenAI and Anthropic), while Kutcher's new fund will shift its strategic focus to underlying technologies, concentrating on early-stage investments in AI infrastructure, energy, and deep tech. The split is amicable, and Kutcher will continue to serve as an advisor to Sound Ventures in the future.

According to the official report, the Dutch Public Prosecution Service (OM) has applied to the Rotterdam court to declare the cryptocurrency trading platform Knaken Cryptohandel B.V. and its subsidiary Stichting Knaken Payments bankrupt.OM stated that the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM) had previously warned that the platform was illegally providing exchange and custody services for crypto assets without the necessary licenses. Although the platform claims to have ceased operations and is undergoing liquidation, it has currently completely stopped making payments to customers. OM is concerned that its liquidation process lacks order and may harm investors' interests, thus applying for bankruptcy, aiming to appoint a liquidator to take over and safeguard creditors' funds.In addition, based on the report from AFM, the Dutch Financial Intelligence and Investigation Service (FIOD) has launched a parallel investigation into the alleged criminal activities of the platform. Law enforcement executed multiple searches on June 29, seizing relevant digital storage devices and freezing some of the company's assets, with no arrests made so far.