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Payment company Block, founded by Jack Dorsey, submitted an application to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) on Tuesday to establish a non-insured national trust bank named Builders Bank & Trust, N.A. Block stated that if approved, the bank would offer custodial and other trust services, including Bitcoin and stablecoins, and the federal charter would establish a federal regulatory framework for some of the custodial services currently offered by Block.Block's application comes at a time when more and more fintech and crypto companies are seeking federal banking charters. Last week, Revolut received conditional approval from the OCC, following approvals for companies like Coinbase, Paxos, BitGo, Ripple, and Circle. The OCC also recently granted conditional approval to World Liberty Financial, supported by the Trump family, which has raised scrutiny in Washington regarding potential conflicts of interest.Since 2025, the OCC has received 40 applications for new bank charters, of which 21 have been approved and 2 have been denied.

The town of Plattsburgh, New York, held a public hearing to discuss a temporary land use moratorium on "high energy consumption computing facilities" such as cryptocurrency mining and AI data centers. If the proposal is approved, it will pause the approval of related operational applications that consume 300 kilowatts or more for 12 months. As of Tuesday, the mayor has not yet approved the moratorium, and the city council plans to meet again on September 17.Plattsburgh is one of the first areas in the United States to implement a ban on Bitcoin mining, having enacted an 18-month moratorium in 2018 due to residents' concerns about electricity costs. Now, with rising mining difficulty, increasing electricity costs, and falling token prices, many cryptocurrency mining companies have turned to AI and high-performance computing, prompting local governments to reconsider restrictions on high energy consumption facilities.

"New Bond King" Gundlach stated that the Federal Reserve's benchmark interest rate should be raised by 50 basis points.

According to Bitcoin News monitoring, Liquid Federation released an incident report stating that attackers exploited a cache vulnerability in the Elements range proof verification to mint approximately 4,000 unbacked L-BTC, which were then exchanged for real BTC through the authorized exit anchoring path via SideSwap. The Liquid authority considered the related transactions valid and released approximately 4,000 BTC from the federal reserve.Before the incident, Liquid held about 4,205 BTC, and the minimum reserve dropped to 197 BTC before operations were suspended. The self-identified white-hat attackers have since returned 3,400 BTC, with about 598.5 BTC still unreturned. No private keys were leaked, and the exit anchoring mechanism itself operated as designed. Liquid is currently still offline, and Blockstream is preparing to release an emergency version of Elements v23.3.4 and is working to restore the network with 1:1 Bitcoin reserve support.

DBS and Citibank's New York office completed a cross-border payment in US dollars between Singapore and the United States on September 5 using tokenized deposits through the Swift Digital Ledger. The transaction was executed over the weekend and took only a few minutes, while traditional cross-border payments typically take up to two business days, allowing businesses to avoid losing time due to time zone differences and weekend gaps. This is the second confirmed real-time application of the ledger, following HSBC and Standard Chartered's completion of the first real-time tokenized deposit cross-border transaction in August. Swift announced the ledger's preliminary availability on July 9, with 17 banks ready to pilot it, and DBS is the only bank headquartered in Asia among the 12 core design group members. DBS Group Chief Operating Officer Rachel Chew stated that the Swift Digital Ledger is connecting traditional banking infrastructure with emerging digital networks to drive the practical application of tokenized currency from experimentation. Citibank's Head of South Asia Services Mridula Iyer noted that weekend real-time transactions prove that around-the-clock cross-border payments have become a reality. DBS will launch DBS Token Services in 2024, offering 24/7 programmable instant value transfer services.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, the whale address 0xfc27 spent 280.5 ETH (approximately 696,000 USD) one week ago to buy 2 million PONS at an average price of 0.347 USD, currently with an unrealized profit of about 830,000 USD.In addition, this whale spent 575.2 BNB (approximately 431,000 USD) 3 hours ago to buy 12.12 million 4Stock at an average price of 0.0356 USD, currently with an unrealized profit of about 81,000 USD.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a trader on Hyperliquid had a total position of 1.15 million dollars in BTC and SOL that was liquidated a few minutes ago, resulting in a loss of approximately 42,000 dollars.This wallet has historically experienced a total of 7 liquidations, but its perpetual contract trading is still profitable by about 632,000 dollars.

According to Cointelegraph, the Attorney General's Office of the State of Mexico (FGJEM) reported that two suspects, Diego Sebastián and Gerardo, were arrested for allegedly murdering Jonathan Meléndez, the keyboardist of the rock band Camilo Séptimo, along with his pregnant wife, daughter, and an employee. The family's golden retriever was also killed.The suspects are accused of committing the crime to obtain a cold wallet that allegedly contained millions of dollars in Bitcoin, with one of the suspects being a business partner of the victim, using that relationship to gain access to the victim's home. The two will appear in court on Wednesday, where the judge will decide if there is enough evidence to continue the criminal proceedings. If convicted, each suspect could face a prison sentence of 25 to 70 years corresponding to each victim.Such violent robberies targeting cryptocurrency holders (known as "ransom attacks") are on the rise. According to CertiK data, there were 52 reported ransom attack incidents globally in the first half of 2026, a year-on-year increase of 33.3%; among them, there were 20 home invasions targeting cryptocurrency holders, compared to only 1 during the same period last year.Chainalysis estimates that in the first half of 2026, criminals stole over 30 million dollars in cryptocurrency through ransom attacks. In 2025, global ransom attack incidents increased by 75% to 72 cases, with France leading with 19 cases, accounting for about 40% of the total attacks in Europe.

Liquid Capital founder Yi Lihua stated that, reflecting on his observations since entering the cryptocurrency industry at the end of 2015, the choice of direction is crucial aside from personal efforts. He believes that the groups that can achieve long-term results more easily in the cryptocurrency industry mainly include three categories.One category is the holders of BTC / ETH / BNB, including mining, holding coins, and mining pools, which is a time compound interest return. Another category is those involved in trading infrastructure, including quantitative arbitrage, trading platforms, and stablecoins. The last category is projects and market makers, which belong to asset issuance and asset control.Yi Lihua also mentioned that investors and contract players overall experience more failures than successes; the model is similar to that of hunters, where one must go out to hunt every day to have something to eat, with low compound returns amidst high risks.

Circle announced that it has signed a final agreement to acquire Tazapay, a B2B cross-border payment infrastructure company headquartered in Singapore. The transaction is expected to be completed in 2027, subject to customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals, including approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore.Tazapay has an annualized payment volume of over $25 billion, more than 60 banking and fintech partners, and local payment channels covering over 100 markets. Approximately 60% of Tazapay's transaction volume includes stablecoins.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated that the supply ratio of long-term Bitcoin holders has significantly increased during this pullback, with many traders buying and holding for over 6 months during the dip.This is a common global behavior during bear markets or significant pullbacks, where long-term holders have much lower Bitcoin liquidity, helping to form a solid bottom support. This is a positive signal on a long-term level, slowly accumulating.

According to the report "RWA Perpetuals: State of the Market --- August 2026" published by CoinMarketCap, Gate ranks first on the reporting platform with 405 RWA perpetual contract underlying assets, while the second and third exchanges have 302 and 224 respectively. The report data shows that stock-type underlying assets account for 52.1% of Gate's total trading volume in RWA perpetual contracts, with SNDK, SK Hynix, and SpaceX leading in trading volume.The report states that Gate's products cover multiple core stock markets globally, having successively launched perpetual contracts for China's A-shares, approximately 300 USDT-denominated perpetual contracts for Japanese stocks, and perpetual contracts for stocks such as South Korea's SK Hynix; it also provided related perpetual contract trading on the same day as the listing of Yushu Technology.

According to the Korea Herald, a federal court in Washington, D.C. has ordered the seizure of a wallet asset involved in money laundering by North Korean overseas IT workers, including 158,123 USDC and 54,574 USDT, with a total value of approximately $212,700. The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to confiscate a total of $7.74 million in North Korea-related cryptocurrency assets.

F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun (@satofishi) pointed out that the current rise of Zcash is essentially a narrative-driven speculative behavior, rather than being supported by actual value. He listed several core issues: in terms of unfair distribution, 20% of the block rewards in the first four years were allocated as "founder's rewards" to founders, employees, advisors, and early investors, totaling 2.1 million ZEC, which accounts for 10% of the total supply cap. This was followed by a similar percentage taken under the name of a "development fund"; regarding privacy mechanisms, the privacy feature is optional rather than a default setting, and most tokens circulate in transparent addresses for a long time, criticized as a "marketing gimmick."In terms of governance, the Electric Coin Company (ECC) has long-standing management conflicts with the foundation, and in January 2026, the ECC team collectively left, claiming they were expelled. In terms of security, in May 2026, it was disclosed that the Orchard privacy pool had a serious vulnerability for four years, theoretically allowing the forgery of ZEC without on-chain traces. In July, the old pool was urgently closed and forced migration occurred, which was seen as a remedial action rather than a positive development. Wang Chun believes that Zcash being listed alongside Solana and Hyperliquid in market capitalization does not represent that it has the same actual application value; the current price reflects more of a "narrative short squeeze" rather than the network's fundamentals.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, the predicted market on Polymarket for the event "Counter-Strike: Alliance vs FaZe (BO3) - FISSURE PLAYGROUND Group B," the win rate of the "Over" option in the sub-market "Total Rounds on Map 2: Over/Under 21.5" has experienced significant fluctuations, soaring from 29.5% an hour ago to the current 50% (a fluctuation of 20.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to South Korea's "Cultural Daily," Samsung Electronics' wafer fab in Taylor, Texas, is expected to enter trial operation around the end of this month, as orders for 2-nanometer chips from Tesla, Broadcom, Arm, and others continue to pour in, with pre-production capacity nearing full load. The plant has accumulated an investment of $37 billion since 2022, with plans to begin trial operation early next month and mass production next year, with an initial monthly capacity of about 50,000 wafers, close to TSMC's approximately 80,000 wafers.The report states that the Taylor plant will produce Tesla's next-generation artificial intelligence chip AI5, Broadcom's new generation communication chips, and Arm's smart device AI chips, among others. Samsung's 2-nanometer yield has increased from about 60% earlier this year to around 80% recently. The company sent personnel for process, equipment, and yield to the plant in June, and began installing equipment in July. At a recent earnings meeting, Samsung projected that this year's 2-nanometer order volume would more than double compared to last year, and stated that NVIDIA's inference chip Grok3 began mass production last month; Samsung also recently raised the foundry price for 4-nanometer chips by up to 15%.The second Taylor plant is scheduled to start construction by the end of this year and begin mass production in 2030. Samsung has requested major partners to complete the relevant production equipment safety certifications in advance, and some partners are considering sending dozens of personnel to the local area. At the same time, Intel issued about $20 billion in new shares last month and expanded investments in 2-nanometer level 18A and 1.4-nanometer level 14A, while Japan's Rapidus completed its 2-nanometer factory in Hokkaido last month and entered the wafer trial production stage.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched the pre-market perpetual contracts for retail users, H100 and B200, which are linked to the rental price index of NVIDIA H100 and B200 GPUs, respectively, quoted in USD per GPU hour.Bitget's pre-market perpetual contracts further extend the trading targets into the AI computing power field. By tracking the GPU rental market index price, users can participate in the price discovery of global GPU rental prices and the AI infrastructure market in advance, capturing potential trading opportunities brought by changes in demand for high-performance GPUs such as H100 and B200. The product adopts a perpetual contract model settled in USDT, supports up to 10x leverage, and allows trading 24/7.

F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun (@satofishi) stated that six years ago, he banned all members of the Zcash team due to their continuous confusion between EST and EDT time zones, believing that the team lacked basic principles of understanding. He mentioned that this decision remains one of his most correct choices to this day.Wang Chun cited the BlockFi incident as an analogy—BlockFi mistakenly sent 701.4 BTC instead of the 701.4 USD that should have been sent to users, pointing out that "those who can't even distinguish between EDT and EST are likely to confuse BTC and USD."

According to monitoring by lookonchain, trader 0xbebb spent 4400 USDC to buy 18.6 million 4Stock in just 2 hours. The current value of the tokens held is approximately 780,000 USD, with a return rate of 177 times, making them the largest holder of this token.

According to the Financial Times, citing informed sources, Chinese memory chip manufacturers Changxin Storage and Yangtze Memory Technologies have purchased enough deep ultraviolet lithography machines (DUV) from ASML to meet their expansion plans for the next three years.