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The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects that the United States will reimpose restrictions on Iranian exports and limit Iranian oil exports through sanctions, reducing its production.

According to Bitcoin News monitoring, the white hat hacker group behind the Liquid vulnerability exploitation incident accused Blockstream of spending only $1.5 million, or possibly not spending any funds at all, to secure assets worth $5 billion.In a new on-chain message, the group demanded that Blockstream pay a bug bounty equivalent to 10% of the related assets using its own funds, warning that refusal to pay would result in a 15% loss for holders.The group also stated that it would publish the private key used to decrypt previous conversations with Blockstream. Previously, the group had returned 3,400 BTC to the Liquid Federation, with approximately 600 BTC still not returned.

On-chain data analysis platform Glassnode stated that two cities produced more than half of the Solana blocks, with Frankfurt accounting for 33% and Amsterdam for 19%.These two cities have a total of 310 validators, which represents 46% of the total 675 network validators, and 53% when calculated by staking volume.

According to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Arbitrum (ARB) will unlock approximately 12.353 million tokens at 9:00 AM Beijing time on September 16, worth about 21.02 million USD.

Layer1 blockchain Linera posted on X that the LNRA community round commitment period has ended, failing to reach the minimum target of 1.5 million USDC. A total of 617 participants from 69 countries committed a total of 848,271 USDC.The related website will be updated soon to begin processing refunds, which will be returned to the same wallet used at the time of commitment. An announcement will be made once the refund process is live, and further updates will be released after the refund period ends.

Minara officially released the next-generation universal financial intelligence tool Minara Harness, which is now available for download by users worldwide. Minara Harness covers multiple asset markets, allowing for investment research 24/7 and operating automated trading within the scope authorized by users. Users can query financial markets using natural language, generate research reports, develop quantitative strategies, and handle daily tasks such as programming, web searching, and document processing. The platform supports users in selecting their own underlying large models.On the investment research side, Minara Harness can simultaneously call multiple professional AI Agents to analyze the same investment opportunity from perspectives such as fundamentals, valuation, market trends, and potential risks. Users can view the information sources and different judgments of each Agent and decide whether to execute trades based on the research results. Minara Harness also supports writing trading strategies in natural language, automatically generating code, and completing backtesting. Users can also subscribe to other traders' strategies, view strategy codes, historical performance, and real-time operating metrics. Minara also offers an optional decision review mechanism, which can verify past judgments against subsequent market results and assess which experiences can be applied to future research. At the same time, Minara announced the benchmark test results of Harness, which outperformed OpenClaw, Hermes, and Claude Code in multiple tests and demonstrated leading performance in tasks such as financial reporting, web research, and spreadsheets.

According to the token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, vana (VANA) will unlock approximately 2.57 million tokens at 19:00 Beijing time on September 16, worth about 2.45 million US dollars.

According to the token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, RollX (ROLL) will unlock approximately 10.83 million tokens at 11:00 AM Beijing time on September 16, with a value of about 1.26 million USD.

According to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, GoPlus Security (GPS) will unlock approximately 10.925 million tokens at 7:00 AM Beijing time on September 16, worth about 1.26 million USD.

According to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Alaya (AGT) will unlock approximately 16.417 million tokens at 0:00 Beijing time on September 16, worth about 2.8 million US dollars.

The official listing account of Kraken announced that TCS will soon be launched. TCS Blockchain is a blockchain-as-a-service platform aimed at the transportation industry, using ERC-20 tokens on Polygon to settle freight invoices without the need for traditional factoring intermediaries. The token trading will begin on September 9.

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.

Cronos confirmed in a post-mortem report that the attack on the lending platform Tectonic on August 30 involved $120.4 million in borrowing activities. The validators made the "difficult decision" to roll back the on-chain history, successfully recovering approximately $111.2 million (about 92% of the affected funds), while about $9.19 million flowed out before the network was paused and could not be recovered. The attacker leveraged weak DEX liquidity to inflate the price of Tectonic token TONIC by about 100 times within minutes and borrowed $120.4 million through a single transaction across nine markets. The validators paused the network about two hours later, restoring the chain to the last block before the suspicious activity, with block production resuming approximately 11 hours after the attack. The rollback involved reversing 1 hour and 54 minutes of on-chain history, totaling 10,961 blocks, with all transactions within that window being canceled, regardless of whether they were involved in the attack. Cronos stated that the alternative would have been to restart the network without restoring the previous state, which would have left the stolen assets in the hands of the attacker. This rollback closely followed Harmony's announcement of a similar plan, while Flow abandoned its rollback proposal last December due to community opposition. The validator cap for Cronos is 100, which facilitated quick coordination for the pause and restart, but also indicated that the network's finality in emergencies depends on validator consensus.

According to on-chain data, USDC Treasury has minted 250 million USDC on the Solana network.

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.

According to data released by SolanaFloor, Circle has minted approximately 3 billion USDC on the Solana chain in the past 24 hours.

According to Blockaid monitoring, it has detected that the DeFi risk management protocol Cozy on Optimism has been attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately $170,000.