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The derivatives exchange CME Group announced that after regulatory approval, it will launch Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Uniswap futures on October 19. The standard contract for BCH corresponds to 250 BCH, while the micro contract corresponds to 25 BCH.After the news was released, BCH surged by 30%, breaking through $340 and briefly touching $358, with a weekly increase exceeding 50% at one point. Bitcoin SV (BSV) also rose by about 20%, nearing its yearly high of $21; Bitcoin fell back to around $84,000 on Wednesday. Digital asset management company Grayscale has applied to convert its Bitcoin Cash Trust into a spot ETF listed on NYSE Arca.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for BTC has decreased by 5.32% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at 58.446 billion USD. Among them, Binance has an open interest of 11.681 billion USD, OKX has an open interest of 3.267 billion USD, Bybit has an open interest of 5.761 billion USD, and Gate has an open interest of 5.216 billion USD.

According to PR Newswire, the on-chain yield protocol infiniFi announced the completion of a new funding round exceeding $3 million, led by Electric Capital, with participation from New Form Capital, Generative Ventures, Fasanara Capital, 2Square, 4th Revolution Capital, DCFGod, The Rollup, and others. The token generation event will take place in the fourth quarter of 2026, and the funds will be used for protocol development, new integrations, multi-chain expansion, and product promotion.infiniFi ended its stealth mode in February 2025 and completed a $3 million pre-seed funding round, launching in June of the same year; the total raised from pre-seed and seed rounds exceeded $6 million. The protocol has expanded to Ethereum, Arbitrum, Katana, Base, and has collaborated or integrated with Ethena, Pendle, Morpho, Aave, FalconX, Curve, Euler, and others. Since its launch, it has generated over $9 million in revenue, with a historical TVL peak of $180 million, currently exceeding $50 million.Founder and CEO Rob Montgomery stated that this round of funding will continue to advance the mission of enabling ordinary people to earn dollar yields and expand distribution through the upcoming infiniFi Prime, enriching yield sources.

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.

According to Techcrunch, AI agent startup Ema has completed a $77 million Series B funding round, led by Creaegis, with existing investors Accel, Section 32, and Prosus participating in the round. To date, the company's total funding has reached $140 million, with a valuation that has more than doubled since the last funding round in 2024.Ema was founded in 2023 by former Google and Coinbase executive Surojit Chatterjee and former Okta executive Souvik Sen. The company deploys technology called "AI Employee," which is a system capable of coordinating multiple AI agents to help businesses execute multi-step business processes within existing applications, rather than handling one task at a time.It is reported that most of the new funds will be used to expand market operations, as the company had previously focused primarily on product development.

According to Fintech Global, Chicago-based AI startup Go.AI has completed a $85 million Series A funding round, led by Updata Partners, with participation from existing investors GFT Ventures and LAUNCH. To date, its total funding has risen to $90 million.Go.AI primarily provides locally deployed, auditable AI infrastructure for regulated entities such as banks. The new funds will be used to expand the engineering team and enhance marketing efforts, driving the company to expand from its core regulated industries to a broader range of compliance-oriented institutions.

According to AIM, AI-native operating system development company Brahma AI raised $150 million through the issuance of preferred stock, with Multiples Alternate Asset Management contributing $100 million.Brahma AI's clients include Warner Bros, NBA, Google, Hakuhodo, and DNEG as its strategic distribution partners. The company's platform focuses on enterprise content intelligence and media evaluation platform Brahma AI Core and creative production suite Brahma AI Studio, with technology covering areas such as visual AI, digital humans, voice, and multilingual performances.

According to internal information obtained by 404 Media and Reuters, after Meta expanded the Muse "Call for You" testing, it was revealed that some calls were actually completed by real people. Muse can transfer tasks to real contractors at call centers, who then make calls on behalf of users and fulfill requests. Some testers only realized there was human intervention after the call ended.Meta adopted this approach mainly to improve success rates. Internal testing showed that the success rate of phone tasks could reach 95% to 98% with human intervention, higher than pure AI. Some merchants hang up directly when they hear the other party is AI, and there are also testers in the community who reported that merchants hung up after Muse identified itself as an AI assistant.Human intervention raises privacy concerns, as users originally believed their information was only shared with AI, but it may actually be seen by outsourced personnel. Some people within Meta also questioned that providing privacy training to contractors does not equate to a real safety mechanism. A Meta official later admitted that failing to inform testers in advance about human intervention was a mistake, and this feature has been rolled back. Meta stated that the phone function is still in testing and will only be officially launched after ensuring safety, privacy, and clear communication.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "Bitcoin Breakthrough on September 23" on Polymarket, the winning probability of the sub-market "86,000" for the "Yes" option has experienced significant fluctuations, dropping from 57.15% an hour ago to the current 39.55% (a fluctuation of 17.6%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), a whale with a heavy investment of 4.5 million dollars in Robinhood Meme and DeFi leader has liquidated PONS tokens, with a selling pressure of 3.67 million dollars driving the price down by 4%, from 0.6968 to 0.6688 dollars.During the period from 14:21 to 15:17 today, the whale sold 5.338 million PONS at an average price of 0.6779 dollars, worth 3.67 million dollars. PONS was originally the largest asset on this address, with an acquisition price of about 0.7154 dollars, resulting in a loss of approximately 200,000 dollars from this sale.

According to monitoring by Arkham, Tesla currently holds 11,509 bitcoins, worth approximately $994.9 million. With bitcoin rising 14% this week, the value of its holdings has increased by about $122.6 million, just about $5.1 million short of $1 billion.The company has not transferred this batch of bitcoins in nearly 4 years.

Market data from Gate shows that GT has been active in the market recently, with a 30-day increase of 40.15% and a 90-day increase of 67.38%. As of now, GT is currently priced at 11.09 USDT.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the Polymarket event "Miami Marlins vs. Chicago Cubs," the "Miami Marlins" option in the sub-market "Miami Marlins vs. Chicago Cubs" has experienced severe fluctuations in winning probability, dropping from 31.5% an hour ago to the current 15% (a fluctuation of 16.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

The artificial intelligence research organization Epoch AI posted on X: AI is becoming cheaper at a faster rate than any other transformative technology in history. The cost has decreased by approximately 47% each quarter since 2023 at a given performance level.This speed is 4 times faster than DNA sequencing, 6 times faster than computing, 18 times faster than lithium batteries, and 54 times faster than electricity (as of 1973).

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the predicted market on Polymarket for the "Milwaukee Brewers vs. Philadelphia Phillies" event shows that the option "Milwaukee Brewers" in the sub-market "Milwaukee Brewers vs. Philadelphia Phillies" has experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 43.5% an hour ago to the current 16.5% (a fluctuation of 27%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

On September 22, OpenAI released two new models, GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna, just minutes after Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5. Both models are positioned below GPT-6 Astra and are cheaper and faster options aimed at everyday work. OpenAI also reduced the API prices for both models by 50% compared to the promotional price of GPT-5.6, with Sol's input and output prices set at $2 and $10 per million tokens, respectively, while Luna's prices dropped to $0.1 and $0.5.In terms of performance, OpenAI cited Zapier's AutomationBench benchmark, stating that GPT-6 Sol scored 33.2% under the highest inference settings, with a cost of $0.27 per task, while Claude Opus 5 scored 26.9% at its highest settings, with a cost over 11 times higher per task. In the Agents' Last Exam test, GPT-6 Sol achieved a top score of 56.4%. In the OSWorld 2 computer usage test, GPT-6 Sol nearly matched Claude Opus 5's moderate effort score at 60.5% to 60.3%, with costs approximately 80% lower.

SpaceXAI stated that the number of users of the Grok Bot intelligent entity has increased by 24% compared to the previous week.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the event predicting the number of tweets by Elon Musk from September 15 to September 22, 2026, on the Polymarket market, the "Yes" option in the sub-market "200-219" experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, plummeting from 70% an hour ago to the current 44% (a fluctuation of 26%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.