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According to Caixin, Ant Group CEO and Alipay Chairman Han Xinyi elaborated on systematic insights regarding the global exploration path of AI payments at the China Payment and Clearing Forum. He stated that AI payments have essentially formed four exploration paths:The first category is represented by payment technology and infrastructure platforms like Stripe. The second category is represented by cryptocurrency companies such as Circle and Coinbase, which mainly rely on stablecoins and their wallet systems, using cryptocurrencies as a payment medium to directly support automated payment scenarios between machines. The third category is represented by traditional payment networks like the two major card organizations (Visa, Mastercard). The fourth category consists of AI platform companies such as Google and OpenAI.

Anatoly Popov, Vice Chairman of the Executive Board of Russia's largest bank Sberbank, stated that the scale of compliant cryptocurrency trading in Russia is expected to reach at least 40 trillion rubles in its first year, approximately 46.43 billion USD. The bank anticipates that as investors shift to the official trading system, the scale will increase to about 75 trillion rubles, approximately 87.06 billion USD, by 2029.He noted that most of the cryptocurrency trading volume will still flow outside of the regulated exchange system, with about 20% of the trading volume in the first year, or 35 trillion to 40 trillion rubles per year, being completed through exchanges. The relevant system will take effect on September 1, allowing investors to legally purchase cryptocurrency assets through brokers. Non-qualified investors can purchase up to 300,000 rubles of cryptocurrency assets per year through a single licensed intermediary, and they must pass a risk awareness test; the investment limit for qualified investors is 3 million rubles. Currently, the official exchanges can only trade Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT, while other altcoins will be excluded; exchanges must complete registration by July 1, 2027.

According to BBX data, last weekend, global US and European listed companies disclosed the latest official accounts regarding digital asset treasury financing, SPAC mergers, and mining reserve strategies. The core updates are as follows:Capital B raised nearly 20 million euros in a private placement, planning to purchase an additional 270 bitcoins: French listed company Capital B (Euronext: $ALCAP) announced that it has conducted a targeted private placement of approximately 36.22 million shares with warrants (ABSA) to global institutional investors, with an issue price of 0.58 euros per share, raising a total of approximately 21 million euros (net approximately 19.9 million euros). This round of strategic investors includes Adam Back and the well-known asset management firm TOBAM, with Maxim Group serving as the exclusive placement agent. The company stated that the funds raised are intended for the purchase of approximately 270 bitcoins, which would increase its potential total bitcoin holdings to 3,415 BTC.XRP treasury company Evernorth's S-4 declaration takes effect, planning to list on Nasdaq under the code "XPN": XRP treasury company Evernorth Holdings announced that its S-4 registration statement related to the business merger with SPAC company Armada Acquisition Corp. II submitted to the US SEC has officially taken effect. Armada shareholders are scheduled to hold a special meeting on September 30 to vote. If the transaction is approved and meets the closing conditions, the merged company is expected to complete the closing by the end of the third quarter or the beginning of the fourth quarter of this year and will be listed on Nasdaq under the stock code "XPN."Bitdeer disclosed weekly mining data, maintaining a zero-holding strategy with full liquidation: Nasdaq-listed bitcoin mining company Bitdeer (NASDAQ: $BTDR) announced the latest holding data. As of the week ending August 28, its self-mining output totaled 273.5 BTC, and during the same period, it fully sold 273.5 BTC in the secondary market, resulting in a net addition of 0 BTC. The company's balance sheet continues to maintain a zero retention strategy, selling mined bitcoins immediately.

According to the "Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily," Apple will complete the CEO transition on September 1 local time. Current Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering John Ternus will succeed Tim Cook, who will become the Executive Chairman of the Board and continue to be responsible for communication with global policymakers and other matters.Ternus's primary tasks after taking office include presiding over the Apple Fall New Product Launch Event on September 9, where this year's new products include the first foldable iPhone and a smart display that can recognize speakers and adjust content according to users. He will also oversee a broader product line including camera-equipped AirPods, smart glasses, home security systems, robotic arm displays, and wearable cameras.

According to Front Office Sports, the prediction market platform Kalshi has signed an exclusive agreement with the United States Tennis Association (USTA) to become the exclusive prediction market platform partner for the US Open. The agreement is effective immediately and was finalized only after the qualification rounds ended last week, with the report not disclosing financial terms. Kalshi has not yet been listed among the official partners of the US Open, and a blog post analyzing the women's singles events released earlier by the company included a statement saying that the company "is not affiliated with the US Open or WTA."According to sources, as part of the agreement, the USTA is preventing other prediction market platforms from advertising at US Open venues and on television, including ESPN's broadcasts of the events, which is an unusual aspect of the agreement. Kalshi declined to comment, and representatives from USTA and ESPN did not respond immediately. The US Open is owned and operated by the USTA, and its CEO Craig Tiley took office on July 20 of this year, playing a significant role in facilitating this year's event agreement.Both Kalshi and Polymarket are official partners of the NHL, and Kalshi has recently partnered with several MLB teams. According to data from The Block, since August, the total trading volume for Kalshi, Polymarket, and Polymarket US has reached $41.2 billion, with Kalshi accounting for $33.7 billion.

The European digital currency market is forming a pattern of parallel development between the central bank digital euro and private euro stablecoins. Revolut has previously launched phased testing of EURR in Denmark, Poland, and Portugal. This euro stablecoin operates on Ethereum and is issued by Bridge Building, a subsidiary of Stripe.The ECB emphasizes that the digital euro will adopt a highly private design, with offline payment information only held by the transacting parties, and online transactions cannot be directly linked to individuals by the Eurosystem. Europe is advancing its digital payment system through public digital currencies and private stablecoins to reduce reliance on dollar stablecoins and non-European payment infrastructures.

The semiconductor and AI independent research organization SemiAnalysis released a deep security report on Neocloud (new cloud), revealing various cross-tenant security vulnerabilities discovered during the ClusterMAX 3 testing period. In a four-month test covering 25 vendors and 32 clusters, the team achieved multiple instances of cross-tenant remote code execution (RCE) solely by exploiting publicly known vulnerabilities and basic configuration checks. Affected entities included banks, telecommunications companies, universities, research institutions, AI laboratories, and even a national intelligence agency.Typical issues included: shared Kubernetes control plane leading to tenant metadata visibility, container escape, exposure of BMC/IPMI management networks, incorrect configuration of InfiniBand security keys (P_Key, SA_Key, M_Key), unfortified default trust mode of BlueField DPU, Grafana monitoring dashboards using god-level API keys, and lack of VXLAN isolation in front-end networks. The report specifically pointed out a cascading vulnerability case: a misconfiguration of shared vCluster combined with software versions being two years out of date ultimately completed the POC verification of cross-tenant RCE within an afternoon.Notably, the report questioned the mainstream narrative that "AI has fundamentally changed the pace of cybersecurity": statistics on CVEs for NVIDIA GPU drivers, CUDA, PyTorch, Kubernetes, Docker, and the Linux kernel showed that there was no significant increase in vulnerabilities after the popularization of AI coding models, with most data supporting the "no change hypothesis." The report also detailed the incident where an OpenAI-trained agent attacked Hugging Face, where the AI agent achieved cluster-level privilege escalation through a message board established via Artifactory, which went undetected from May to July. While building POC verification for existing vulnerabilities, the team found that Claude Fable and GPT-5.6 Sol frequently rejected security-related requests, ultimately relying on open-source models such as DeepSeek V4, Kimi K3, and GLM-5.2 to complete the task.SemiAnalysis stated that the core issue in the Neocloud (new cloud) industry is not the new risks brought by AI, but rather the long-term absence of basic patch management, tenant isolation, and security design. They recommended that vendors establish automated security announcement monitoring systems and rectify single points of failure that could expose all users' architectural patterns.

The Zcash full node client Zakura team has released Zakura Common, a set of cryptography and protocol libraries for the Zcash ecosystem. Official benchmarks show that the proof generation speed on mobile has increased by over 14 times (over 5 times on desktop), the Sinsemilla hash speed has increased by over 21 times, the decryption speed has improved by over 1.5 times, and the zk-SNARK verification speed has increased by 4 to 8 times; in many cases, the waiting time for wallet transactions can be reduced from over 3 seconds to under 200 milliseconds.This upgrade does not require a network upgrade and has been open-sourced under the MIT/Apache 2.0 dual license. Zakura 1.3.0 will switch to this technology stack.

According to the Vietnam News Agency, Vietnam is piloting a regulatory framework for the cryptocurrency market to strengthen investor protection while opening up financing channels. The government’s Resolution No. 05, released in September 2025, specifies that cryptocurrencies must be backed by RWA, excluding securities and fiat currencies, and will initially be issued only to foreign investors. Currently, five companies have undergone preliminary assessments through the exchange and must meet Level 4 security requirements and contribute at least 100 trillion Vietnamese dong (approximately 383 million USD). The decree No. 284, issued in July, will impose penalties on unlicensed platform trading activities starting from September 1, and domestic investors must wait six months after the first licensed service provider receives a license from the Ministry of Finance before they can trade through licensed providers.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong posted on X that Apple did not predict Uber, TikTok, or Coinbase, but the iPhone has spawned a whole new wave of companies. Tokenized assets on the blockchain will be similar, with known immediate benefits including global access, better utility, and 24/7 trading, but the unimaginable new financial companies will be built on this.

According to Crowdfund Insider, the Ethena Foundation has announced a series of adjustments to reduce the selling pressure caused by early investors unlocking their tokens. The foundation has repurchased some of the remaining locked ENA from large seed round investors through over-the-counter transactions and has agreed with major investors to end the remaining vesting arrangements early.Starting from October 5, there will be no investor tokens under lock-up, while team tokens will maintain the original lock-up and vesting terms.

According to News.bitcoin, the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), which has about 5,000 community banks, opposes the CLARITY Act, emphasizing that there is no room for compromise on the issue of stablecoin rewards. ICBA President and CEO Rebeca Romero Rainey stated that the "loopholes" related to stablecoin rewards must be completely closed, and there is no compromise solution. ICBA claims that stablecoins could lead to $1.3 trillion in deposits leaving the banking system and reduce local lending by $850 billion.Rebeca Romero Rainey indicated that there are no signs that cryptocurrencies will replace these deposits and reinvest them back into local communities. She also criticized the report titled "Impact of the Stablecoin Reward Ban on Bank Lending" released by the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) for downplaying banks' concerns about deposit outflows. The Senate plans to vote on the CLARITY Act on September 15; if it fails to gain the support of at least 60 senators, the bill will not proceed to further consideration and may halt progress for the foreseeable future.

The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), representing about 5,000 community banks in the United States, is opposing the Clarity for Digital Assets Act (CLARITY Act). ICBA Chair and CEO Rebeca Romero Rainey stated that the "loopholes" related to stablecoin rewards must be completely closed, with no compromise solutions. The ICBA claims that stablecoins could lead to $1.3 trillion in deposits leaving the banking system and reduce local lending by $850 billion.The association has prompted Republican Senators Josh Hawley and Jerry Moran to oppose the current version of the bill. Rebeca Romero Rainey indicated that there are no signs that cryptocurrencies will replace these deposits and reinvest them into local communities. She also criticized the report titled "Impact of the Stablecoin Yield Ban on Bank Lending" released by the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) for downplaying banks' concerns about deposit outflows. The Senate plans to vote on the CLARITY Act on September 15; if it cannot secure support from at least 60 senators, the bill will not proceed to further consideration and may halt progress for the foreseeable future.

According to a report by the Korea Herald, South Korea's largest mobile communication operator SK Telecom announced the spin-off of its Artificial Intelligence Data Center (AIDC) business into a new independent legal entity, SK Horizon, and plans to introduce a total of 3.08 trillion won (approximately 2.2 billion USD) in external funding.The spin-off transaction is expected to be completed on February 1, 2027, with global private equity firms KKR, as well as IMM Investment and Stonebridge Capital consortium, likely to participate in the investment.

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.

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission has listed Star Bridge Capital, Star Bridge Capital Group, SBCFX, Star Bridge Capital Group, Star Bridge Capital Pty Limited, and Topical Wealth International Ltd as unlicensed companies, prohibiting them from engaging in any regulated activities in Hong Kong or actively promoting their services to the public in Hong Kong (whether within or outside Hong Kong).Previously, it was reported that Star Bridge Capital experienced an abnormal liquidation incident in London gold trading, and after the incident, the Hong Kong office of the platform was empty. Due to some funds being deposited through USDT stablecoin, tracking the funds has become more difficult. The Hong Kong police have accepted the case and temporarily classified it as fraud, but no arrests have been made yet.

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.