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According to Cointelegraph, Tron founder Justin Sun stated on X that Tron’s post-quantum cryptography has been launched on the testnet. He mentioned that the team is closely monitoring the progress of quantum computing and AI, ready to deploy post-quantum capabilities to the mainnet at any time, and is committed to ensuring the security of user assets. Tron is expected to become one of the few mainstream blockchains to achieve post-quantum readiness before Q-Day. Q-Day refers to the day when quantum computing is powerful enough to break current security standards.Developers are increasingly focused on post-quantum cryptography, as sufficiently powerful quantum computers could eventually break the elliptic curve cryptography used to secure blockchain networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum. Earlier this year, a consortium led by Strategy pledged $15 million to fund Bitcoin quantum security research, the Ethereum Foundation released a proposal to migrate accounts to post-quantum cryptography, and Algorand plans to introduce post-quantum accounts by 2027.In addition, blockchain security company AmericanFortress previously announced a cryptographic solution that can protect crypto wallets from future quantum attacks without requiring users to transfer funds, rotate keys, or change wallet addresses. This solution has been published in the form of a technical paper on Cryptography ePrint Archive and has not yet been peer-reviewed.

According to Cointelegraph, data from the French Ministry of the Interior shows that from January to mid-August 2026, France has experienced 90 cases involving cryptocurrency-related kidnappings, extortion, and violent thefts, averaging one incident every 2.5 days.Blockchain analysis company Chainalysis reported that as of mid-2026, there have been 30 publicly recorded incidents of violent attacks involving cryptocurrency in France; security company Gart.io tracked 73 real-world attacks occurring in France this year, surpassing the 66 in the United States and 27 in the United Kingdom.Eric Jardine, head of research at Chainalysis, believes that the surge in attacks is likely related to large-scale data breaches. The leak of French tax data and the user data breach disclosed by the cryptocurrency tax reporting platform Waltio in 2026 may have allowed attackers to obtain the identities, addresses, and asset information of cryptocurrency holders.The report also noted that over 40% of related attacks in France involve relatives or acquaintances of the victims, with criminals potentially identifying targets in advance through social media, on-chain data, and leaked information. French authorities are coordinating investigations through a specialized organized crime judicial agency.

Analyst Murphy stated that when the BTC price drops, the liquidity provided by market makers naturally leans towards the Bid (buy side), while traders also place orders at lower prices waiting to take delivery. Data shows that the 5% depth difference in Binance's spot order book reached 80 million dollars when BTC fell to about 83,000 dollars, which is relatively higher compared to the pullback period from September 10 to 16, approaching the level during the bottom consolidation phase of BTC in July.At 83,000 dollars, the buy orders within the 5% depth range roughly cover down to 79,000 dollars, indicating that there is a thick support level in the range of 83,000 to 79,000 dollars, which may reduce the risk of the price being quickly breached. Meanwhile, the difference between the Taker's active buy and active sell transaction volume on Binance has continued to rise during the price decline, indicating an increase in active buying and a decrease in active selling. Murphy believes this shows that traders are not exhibiting obvious pessimism; not only is there sufficient passive support below, but the willingness to actively buy has actually increased during the price decline.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform, stating that AI-accelerated mathematical research may pose new security threats to existing cryptographic systems, especially lattice-based cryptographic schemes, including ML-DSA and fully homomorphic encryption (FHE). He believes that advancements in AI in the field of mathematics over the next two years could significantly undermine the practical security of lattice cryptography, and ECDSA may face the risk of being compromised sooner than expected.Vitalik pointed out that over the past year, the Ethereum Lean roadmap has gradually shifted towards pure hash cryptographic schemes, avoiding the use of lattice-based signatures and related zero-knowledge proof structures. He suggested prioritizing the use of hash cryptography whenever feasible and adopting more conservative security parameters for lattice cryptography; privacy protocols should avoid storing encrypted information directly on-chain, and multi-signature wallets should prioritize off-chain signature confirmations. Additionally, Vitalik advised users, when operationally convenient, to store funds in addresses that have not initiated transactions to reduce potential risks, but he does not recommend users immediately migrate assets on a large scale. He emphasized that the migration process itself also carries risks, and his own losses due to migration errors have even exceeded the losses from past hacking attacks.

Swiss cryptocurrency wallet provider Tangem announced the launch of its first physical Visa card, supporting offline and online spending as well as ATM withdrawals, with an initial issuance limited to 5,000 cards. Users can directly top up the card from their self-custody wallets and transfer funds back to the wallet when the card is suspended or closed. The card also offers cashback settled in USDC stablecoin issued by Circle, with Basic users receiving 1% and Plus users receiving 2% on qualifying purchases. Tangem plans to showcase the first batch of physical Tangem Pay cards at the Token2049 event in Singapore.Tangem told Cointelegraph that over 40% of Tangem Pay's payments come from Latin America, with over 30% from the United States, while the supply of physical cards remains limited in some markets. Andrey Ilinskiy, head of Tangem Pay, stated that the issue is not just where people want crypto cards, but rather where demand, regulation, banking infrastructure, and issuance requirements align, and these maps do not always overlap.Tangem stated that it is currently unable to ship physical Tangem Pay cards to about 20 countries, including China, Russia, North Korea, and Palestine. The company noted that these restrictions do not necessarily align with the rules of cryptocurrency itself, as KYC requirements, sanctions, local banking rules, and issuance compliance may all determine the availability of crypto-linked cards.

According to the South China Morning Post, former U.S. officials stated that Chinese semiconductor factories have stockpiled hundreds of immersion lithography machines worth billions of dollars in recent years and urged Washington and its allies to stop further exports. The Centre for Technology & Statecraft, established in August 2026, released a report in late September estimating that by early 2026, Chinese wafer fabs had acquired approximately 343 immersion deep ultraviolet lithography systems. The report was co-authored by former U.S. export control official Nicholas Brown and former White House and Department of Commerce technology policy advisor Saif Khan.The report estimates that about 270 of these are ASML Twinscan NXT:1980i. The authors claim that although these devices lag behind extreme ultraviolet lithography machines, they can be modified for the production of 7-nanometer logic chips and advanced memory required for artificial intelligence processors (including Huawei's Ascend series). Chinese wafer fabs spent over $13 billion in 2024 to purchase about 90 NXT:1980i units, and acquired another 89 units in 2025. ASML disclosed that, by destination, China accounted for 41% of its net system sales in 2024, 33% in 2025, dropping to 19% in the first quarter of 2026 and 14% in the second quarter.Since September 2023, the Netherlands has required export licenses for the NXT:2000i and more advanced immersion deep ultraviolet equipment, effectively banning these models from being shipped to China; a year later, the licensing requirements were extended to the NXT:1980i, but this model can still be approved for shipment on a case-by-case basis.

Micron Technology Chairman and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra stated that, in addition to data centers, physical AI will be the next huge incremental market. Autonomous vehicles are the first major deployment of physical AI, with memory capacities for Level 4 and above autonomous vehicles typically exceeding 200GB and storage capacities reaching several TB. Micron believes that physical AI will become an important driver of storage demand.

According to Businesswire, physical AI chip company SiMa.ai announced the completion of a $150 million Series C financing round, co-led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Amplify, with participation from Alter Venture Partners, Dell Technologies Capital, Maverick Capital, Point72, StepStone Group, and others.The company has raised a total of $500 million, with a valuation rising to $1.45 billion. SiMa.ai stated that the funds will be used to scale its physical AI platform Palette Neat and to develop the next generation of dedicated physical AI chips, which are planned to be launched in the first half of 2028, with computing power reaching up to 1000 TOPS.

Vitalik posted on the X platform, stating that he attempted to briefly explain the true meaning of the plans for Ethereum that forked after Hegota. Ethereum is no longer just a blockchain; it is a hybrid architecture that combines blockchain with modern cryptography, enabling more powerful features.Related plans include FOCIL, EIP-8288, streamlined consensus, state management, formal verification, memory pool improvements with privacy features, and long-term obfuscation techniques.

According to Cointelegraph, the European Banking Authority (EBA), the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) stated in a joint risk update that advancements in quantum computing could undermine the cryptographic systems that secure blockchain transactions, communications, and databases.Google Quantum AI researchers estimated in March that the number of physical quantum bits required to break the cryptographic techniques used by many cryptocurrencies is about 20 times less than previously estimated. There currently exists no computer capable of executing such an attack.Bitcoin developer Jameson Lopp and others proposed in February to gradually phase out the current signature scheme and to restrict the usage of untransferred funds five years after the proposal is activated; this proposal has not yet been adopted. The Ethereum Foundation plans to enable Ethereum's execution, consensus, and data layers to be resistant to quantum attacks by December 2029.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "St. Tropez: Murphy Cassone vs Clement Tabur," the "Yes" option in the sub-market "Completed Match" has experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 77.05% an hour ago to the current 97.45% (a fluctuation of 20.4%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, delivered a keynote speech at the 12th Global Blockchain Summit, stating that the blockchain was initially a primary tool. Although it has characteristics such as openness, neutrality, and security, it is not scalable and is completely transparent, lacking privacy protection mechanisms.Subsequently, privacy transactions and scalable verification brought by zero-knowledge proofs have changed this situation and have been transformed from planning into actual EIPs, included in the Ethereum roadmap. Technologies such as fully homomorphic encryption are also beginning to be applied, and indistinguishable obfuscation may also be applied on-chain in the future. Beyond privacy, the parallel construction and proof of blocks can make extreme scalability possible, and industry thinking has shifted from digital assets to digital assets plus information, from purely on-chain to user-end, transaction memory pools, a complete pipeline on-chain, and from who can send what to who can see what.Currently, blockchain has gradually evolved from a simple ledger to a cryptography-based secure computing network. With the development of AI, providing cryptographic rules to AI for automated formal verification can significantly enhance verification efficiency, allowing the chain to carry more possibilities.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the Polymarket event "St. Tropez: Murphy Cassone vs Clement Tabur," the "Yes" option in the sub-market "Completed Match" has experienced significant fluctuations in winning probability, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 77.85% (a fluctuation of 27.85%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Fitch stated that Tesla's rating reflects its strong market position as a global leader in battery electric vehicles, as well as its strategic focus on transitioning to a physical artificial intelligence company.

According to CoinDesk, the crypto technology provider Haruko was targeted in a cyber attack earlier this week, affecting 15 clients. The attack exposed clients' read-only exchange API details and trading data. According to insiders, some hedge fund clients with weaker security protections may have had a small amount of funds stolen.Adam Carlile, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Haruko, stated in an email sent to clients that this was a targeted attack initiated by an organization, and the affected clients were all non-whitelisted clients. The attackers exploited a vulnerability in one of Haruko's processes to extract user access tokens, thereby obtaining data such as read-only exchange API information stored in process memory; clients' login credentials were not compromised. Haruko has fixed the vulnerability and refreshed the server-side keys, and plans to release a complete technical review report.Based in London, Haruko provides portfolio, risk management, and trading data infrastructure for institutional digital asset companies. The platform connects centralized exchanges, custodians, blockchains, and DeFi protocols, currently serving over 80 clients globally and integrating with more than 100 centralized trading platforms, 30 blockchains, and 250 on-chain protocols. Its listed clients include Bitcoin Suisse, GSR, Flowdesk, 3iQ Digital Assets, M2, among others, with GSR stating that it was not affected by this incident.

The first federally chartered crypto bank in the United States, Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., began offering xU3O8 custody services for institutional clients on September 16, 2026. This token is backed by physical uranium concentrate yellowcake, with the related uranium materials stored at Cameco facilities and held in beneficial ownership by a UK trust structure.xU3O8 is issued by Uranium.io, with the UK regulator Archax acting as the trustee, and the underlying assets are mapped through the Etherlink network. Cameco is responsible for storing physical uranium in certified facilities and regularly publishes the results of reserve proof audits. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) regulates Anchorage Digital Bank N.A., allowing its clients to include xU3O8 in isolation and bankruptcy-remote accounts similar to those for Bitcoin and cash equivalents. Currently, the unit price of xU3O8 is approximately $5.66, with a total market capitalization of about $9 million.

At the All-In Summit, Jensen Huang assessed that China will be able to produce its own advanced lithography systems by 2030. He also believes that once the technology matures, China has strong mass production capabilities, and it is only a matter of time before domestic equipment enters local wafer fabs.This assessment is more optimistic than that of Zeiss. Frank Rohmund, the head of Zeiss Semiconductor, recently stated that it may take about 15 more years for China to produce its own EUV lithography machines. Zeiss is a core supplier of ASML's EUV optical systems. The host asked about advanced lithography systems, without specifically limiting it to EUV, and Jensen Huang did not further specify that it was EUV in his response.

Johann Kerbrat, head of cryptocurrency operations at Robinhood, stated on the X platform on Monday that physical redemption and voting rights are on the roadmap for Robinhood Stock Tokens. He mentioned that the first step is to expand the adoption of Stock Tokens, and the team is working on a 1:1 conversion of stocks and granting voting rights to eligible holders. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev subsequently retweeted the post.Currently, Stock Tokens are not stocks but tokenized debt securities issued by a Jersey issuer based on a prospectus, settled in cash upon redemption, and holders do not enjoy shareholder rights such as voting rights. According to the prospectus released on June 25, the issuer may lend the underlying stocks to major borrowers, during which the voting rights will be waived. Kerbrat emphasized that all Robinhood Stock Tokens are backed by real stocks in custody at a 1:1 ratio.In terms of data, Kerbrat stated that the TVL of Stock Tokens has exceeded $170 million, and the DEX trading volume on Robinhood Chain is close to $50 billion. Robinhood currently offers over 190 stock tokens, with Alpaca Securities as the custodian and Bitstamp Global as the authorized participant. The voting function will be realized through its shareholder participation platform, Say by Robinhood.

4D Labs announced that it has received investment from YZi Labs through the EASY Residency Season 2. The project aims to build a real-world embodied data layer for physical artificial intelligence, transforming real interactions into embodied data that can be used for training, supporting the expansion of artificial intelligence from language capabilities to action capabilities.