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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.

"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.

According to Gate market data, the Dow Jones Index closed down 626.72 points on September 8, a decrease of 1.17%, at 52,787.53 points; the S&P 500 Index fell 44.98 points, a decrease of 0.58%, at 7,673.62 points; the Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 85.58 points, a decrease of 0.32%, at 26,421.41 points.

According to official news, the Circle Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) now supports a fast transfer prepayment fee feature. Previously, the protocol fee would be directly deducted from the USDC transfer amount on the target chain; with this update, developers can pre-quote and collect fees using the native Gas token or USDC from the source chain before executing the transfer, thereby simplifying the fee handling for cross-chain transfers and ensuring that users receive the expected amount of USDC.It is reported that the prepayment fee mechanism mainly improves the predictability of fees in cross-chain applications. Users do not have to bear the reduction in the actual amount received due to additional deductions on the target chain; at the same time, the CCTP Quote API can uniformly calculate fees for different supported chains and integrate Fast Transfer and Forwarding fees into a single quote, so developers do not need to build systems to separately calculate multiple protocol fees. In addition, fees can be paid directly using the native token of the source chain, which will not reduce or affect the actual transferred USDC balance.Currently, the prepayment fee feature supports USDC transfers on all EVM chains covered by CCTP, but it does not support transfers initiated from Solana; transfers to Solana are still supported. Developers can obtain specific fee quotes through the Quote API and integrate this feature, and relevant developers can refer to the CCTP official documentation to build a more predictable cross-chain USDC transfer process.

According to Bitcoin News monitoring, Coldcard thieves are prioritizing the emptying of the largest portion of the third wave vaults. Galaxy Research indicates that these wallets have transferred out 97.09 BTC, worth approximately 7.7 million dollars, accounting for about 45% of the assets in this batch.The attackers created 293 2/2 vaults themselves, and had transferred some tokens through THORChain on September 2, subsequently moving them into multiple rounds of CoinJoin over the weekend. The vulnerability originated from a firmware flaw in 2021, which reduced the seed entropy to a minimum of 40 bits. Of the tokens stolen in this exploit, approximately 82% have not yet been transferred.

According to PR Newswire, the prediction market Polymarket announced today the launch of Squads, a brand new social feature within its U.S. version of the Polymarket app. Squads provides friends with a dedicated space for communication where users can discuss markets, share their prediction choices, and trade directly on Polymarket with friends.Squads brings market discussions that originally took place in group chats to the Polymarket platform, concentrating discussions and actual trading in one place, allowing friends to more easily participate and experience the prediction market together.

According to Gate market data, ETH/USDT is currently priced at $2449.9, with a 24-hour decline of 1.96%.

According to Gate market data, BTC/USDT is currently reported at $77990.3, with a 24-hour decline of 1.69%.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the "Genoa: Thiago Seyboth Wild vs Francesco Ferrari" event on the Polymarket is experiencing significant fluctuations in the "Over" option of the sub-market "Genoa: Thiago Seyboth Wild vs Francesco Ferrari Set 2 O/U 8.5", rising from 44.5% an hour ago to the current 69% (a fluctuation of 24.5%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

Bernstein analysts predict that Robinhood's blockchain network, Robinhood Chain, could generate up to $160 million in fee revenue annually by 2028. This forecast is based on the growing demand for tokenized stock trading, which currently accounts for about 27% of the total trading volume on the chain, while meme coin trading has decreased from 100% at its launch on July 1 to 36%.According to DefiLlama data, just over two months after its launch, Robinhood Chain has become the leading blockchain network by daily fees, generating $2.13 million in fees in the past 24 hours. On July 20, Bernstein raised the price target for Robinhood (HOOD) stock from $130 to $160 and maintained an outperform rating.However, Robinhood's on-chain stocks have recently faced criticism from AMC Entertainment Holdings CEO Adam Aron. Aron stated that the platform's tokenized stocks providing economic exposure to AMC shares are not affiliated with the company and called the move "outrageous," adding that AMC will request its external securities legal counsel to conduct an investigation.

According to Bloomberg, Belgian prosecutors stated on September 7 that a Chinese man, who also holds Belgian nationality, was arrested on May 10 at Brussels Airport while attempting to board a flight back to Beijing on suspicion of engaging in espionage activities against a Belgian semiconductor company. The investigation may point to the illegal transfer of specialized intellectual property and trade secrets related to gallium nitride chip production abroad.The investigation is related to the bankruptcy case of Belgan BV, which announced its bankruptcy in July 2024. Prosecutors indicated that there are signs suggesting that the man held a senior research position at the Belgian company while also serving as a director of a Chinese company engaged in similar manufacturing activities. This Chinese company was established a few months after he joined the Belgian company and was funded by a Chinese investment fund. This is the latest in a series of suspected espionage cases in Belgium.

CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. stated that in the past two days, the pressure from active buy and sell orders for Bitcoin has shifted to the sell side, with the price dropping from $79,900 to $78,700. Open interest has increased as prices fell, indicating that new positions are driving this trend.Data shows that the Bitcoin active order pressure oscillator is at +3.82, then fell below zero and remained in negative territory for 46 hours, with the latest reading at -3.19. Although selling pressure has eased from the phase low of -5.28, bulls have not yet regained control. The short-term outlook remains bearish, and a signal for improvement would be the oscillator consistently returning above the zero axis, accompanied by a price stabilization.

According to Coinglass data, the cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index is currently at 70, up 0 points from yesterday. The average over the past 7 days is 69, and the average over the past 30 days is 56.

The storage module manufacturer Jiangbolong (301308.SZ) today listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with the stock code 09976.HK, at an offering price of 236 Hong Kong dollars per share, forming an A+H dual listing structure.The company globally offered 26.0778 million H shares, of which 2.6078 million shares were for public offering in Hong Kong and 23.47 million shares for international offering, with an over-allotment option. Each lot consists of 50 shares, with an entry fee of approximately 12,151.32 Hong Kong dollars. Based on the highest offering price of 240.60 Hong Kong dollars, the net fundraising amount is approximately 6.02 billion Hong Kong dollars.The prospectus disclosed that in the first half of 2026, Jiangbolong achieved revenue of 24.088 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 136.3%, with a gross profit margin rising from 11.0% in the same period last year to 58.2%. The profit for the period was 10.718 billion yuan, compared to 0.041 billion yuan in the same period last year.

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."

According to Gate market data, BTC/USDT is currently reported at $78976.5, with a 24-hour decline of 0.95%.

Binance Wallet officially launches the TRC-20 USDT transfer fee payment feature. Starting today, users can pay network fees directly in USDT when using the Binance Web3 Wallet for TRC-20 USDT transfers, eliminating the need to hold TRX as gas fees, significantly simplifying the transfer process on the TRON chain.The operation method is also quite convenient: users only need to enter the wallet asset page, select send USDT, and then check USDT in the network fee payment method to complete the setup, easily experiencing one-click transfers.This feature update lowers the interaction threshold for stablecoins on the TRON chain and provides high-frequency transfer users with a smoother and lower-cost operational path, further promoting the usability and convenience of the TRON network in stablecoin application scenarios.

Cashmere Labs announced the launch of Goat Street's first practical features and products. Goat Street NFTs on the Robinhood Chain can now earn native ETH and on-chain stock yields, with the weight depending on the duration of NFT holding and level.

According to Bitcoin News, Blockstream has notified "white hat" hackers that the vulnerability has been fixed, and 4,000 BTC can be safely returned. The hacker, who previously extracted about 4,000 BTC from the Liquid network, expressed willingness to return the funds but needed to wait for the vulnerability to be fixed. The entire negotiation process was conducted publicly through Bitcoin OP_RETURN messages.The hacker initially proposed to return "most" of the BTC but later changed their stance, requesting that the vulnerability be fixed first: "Please fix the vulnerability first. The latest submitted code puts the chain at risk. Ensure that every node has been patched, and then we will confirm the fix and safely return the funds."The hacker also sent encrypted details of the vulnerability to Blockstream. About two hours ago, Blockstream responded with a PGP-signed OP_RETURN message: "The cross-chain bridge nodes have been patched and can safely return the funds." Currently, 3,998.5 BTC remains under the hacker's control.