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The U.S. State Department has approved the sale of F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters to Saudi Arabia, with an expected transaction amount of $24.3 billion.

According to Axios, U.S. President Trump stated that the Iran war is approaching a critical juncture, and he needs to decide whether to resume large-scale military operations to push for an end to the conflict.

On September 17, 2026, the Market Participants Division of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that it has issued a no-action position to passive software providers, similar to Staff Letter 26-09, which is now broadly applicable to such providers.The letter states that, subject to several specified conditions, the Division will not recommend that the Commission take enforcement action against any such provider or its related persons for failing to register as a introducing broker or an introducing broker affiliate. This position only applies to those who provide and market software to users for trading with registered futures commission merchants, introducing brokers, and designated contract markets.This announcement came just hours after the sister agency, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), issued an innovation exemption.

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams retweeted a comment letter from U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce supporting autonomous decentralized systems, pointing out that the most favorable news for automated market makers (AMM) today is Hester Peirce's view that truly decentralized systems driven by autonomous software do not need to obtain exemptions, which corresponds to the permissionless nature of Uniswap.Adams stated that the SEC's innovative exemption applies to permissioned liquidity pools on Uniswap v4, providing a pathway for assets and users with relevant compliance needs to conduct transactions in the U.S., which is expected to promote the adoption of AMM. Uniswap will submit a comment letter with suggestions for improvements.

According to Solid Intel, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth stated that the Pentagon is advancing several confidential projects related to BTC and cryptocurrencies, having previously agreed that the U.S. should seek a strategic advantage in the BTC field.

According to Bloomberg, within months of launching its new semiconductor industry policy, India has secured approximately $12 billion in investment commitments from global and domestic companies, involving supply chain enterprises related to chip equipment, materials, and chemicals.This interest stems from India's announcement in July of an additional $13.4 billion semiconductor fund, which complements a previous $10 billion subsidy program to support companies, including Tata Group and Micron, in establishing wafer fabs and assembly and testing facilities locally. India's Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Ashwini Vaishnaw, stated that the related investments will materialize in the next 2 to 3 years, with some projects already in production and capacity largely locked in. Tata Electronics also signed multiple cooperation agreements with Nexperia, Fujifilm, and others at the conference, covering wafer manufacturing, assembly and testing, and localization of key materials.

According to Ethlabs, the Ethereum community is advancing the "Quick Slots" proposal (EIP-8198), which plans to remove the assumption of a fixed 12-second block time by restructuring once and first reducing the L1 block time from 12 seconds to 10 seconds, with further gradual reductions depending on network conditions.Ethlabs states that project teams such as DefiLlama, Doppler, Derive, Ondo, Railgun, Lido, Ethena, and infrastructure teams like Flashbots and Titan Builder generally believe that shorter slots will enhance DEX pricing efficiency, improve LP yields and user interaction experience, and strengthen transaction inclusion and censorship resistance when paired with FOCIL, while not significantly undermining geographic decentralization of nodes and the participation threshold for validators.

The Tesla team arrived in Ningbo on September 16 and launched a new round of mass production audit for the robotics business on September 17. This audit aims to review the exclusivity and consistency of the mass production of the Optimus robot, with plans to roll out approximately 50,000 Optimus robots by 2026.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) stated that tokenization is expected to reduce costs in market infrastructure aspects such as issuance, trading, transfer, settlement, and ownership records, while enhancing transparency and liquidity. The SEC approved a temporary, conditional "Innovation Exemption," allowing tokenized NMS stocks to be traded in a limited manner on certain on-chain venues—tokenized securities trading venues (TSVs).It is reported that TSVs meeting the exemption conditions can conduct approved trading through automated market makers and liquidity pools, but must meet requirements for public disclosure, trading transparency, circuit breaker coordination, record keeping, and technical safeguards, while also being subject to limits on the number of stock codes and trading volume.The SEC indicated that this move aims to observe the operation of on-chain trading venues and market participants, providing data for the formulation of long-term regulatory rules in the future.

According to Cointelegraph, CoinShares crypto researcher Luke Nolan stated on the Chain Reaction program that cryptocurrency adoption in Germany is making "very good progress" through family offices, wealth management institutions, and younger investors, while the UK is "still very behind," mainly due to regulatory lag. Nolan pointed out that the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) only lifted the ban on crypto exchange-traded products less than a year ago, and its digital asset market is still in the "nascent" stage.In terms of relevant data, Germany currently has 89 licensed crypto asset service providers, accounting for 25.5% of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) MiCA registered companies; in June this year, Germany also ranked first in the EU with 57 authorized crypto companies.Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank stated on Wednesday that it is awaiting regulatory approval to launch crypto custody services for institutional clients in Europe, expecting to obtain a license in October; Landesbank Baden-Württemberg is also set to provide crypto custody services in April 2024 through a partnership with Bitpanda.In contrast, the FCA released final guidance on Wednesday clarifying when crypto activities need to be authorized and plans to open license applications on September 30, with the new system set to take effect on October 25, 2027.Additionally, the FCA issued stop notices on Thursday to three London locations suspected of assisting illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading; the UK Parliament approved regulations in February to bring digital assets under FCA regulation and finalized a package of rules in June.

According to on-chain data monitoring, the address labeled Hyperliquid transferred 300,000 tokens to the Gate exchange address (0x85FA...C35c). Based on the on-chain price at that time, the value of this asset is approximately 23.97 million USD.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale opened a long position of 3,380 ZEC with 10x leverage on Hyperliquid, worth approximately 4.56 million USD, with a liquidation price of 1,275 USD.

Bitget announced an upgrade to its Proof of Reserves (PoR) system, expanding the covered assets from the original 4 cryptocurrencies to 19 major assets, including new tokens such as XAUT, SOL, BNB, and USDGO. This upgrade also expands the scope of platform-level reserve disclosures and personal asset proof verifications. Users can view the reserve ratios, scales, and on-chain distributions of various assets through the PoR page, and independently verify whether their personal holdings are included in the reserve snapshot using a Merkle Tree.Since December 2022, Bitget has been releasing monthly reserve reports, and by August 2026, it has released 45 issues consecutively, with the latest overall reserve ratio at 122%. Bitget CEO Gracy stated that as the variety of assets supported by the platform continues to increase, the transparency and verification capabilities of the reserves also need to be expanded simultaneously, allowing more users to independently verify their asset situations and further enhance the platform's transparency.

The GLM team disclosed the first engineering practice of recursive self-improvement, completed by the Infra Agent powered by GLM-5.3, which designed, debugged, and optimized the GLM-5.3-Flash inference infrastructure.This practice was completed on a domestic cluster with a capacity of one hundred thousand cards, and the team referred to it as the first recursive self-improvement practice for large models in the country.

On-chain data analysis platform Arkham stated that BlackRock has purchased $1.27 billion in ETH through ETHA over the past 20 days, and an additional $296.5 million in ETH through ETHB, totaling approximately $1.5 billion.During this period, there were no single-day outflows from ETHB.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the "Federal Reserve October Decision" event is currently the most actively traded on the prediction market Polymarket, with a cumulative pool size reaching $5,000,600. The option with the highest market consensus is "No Change," corresponding to an estimated probability of about 54.5%.

According to Ember Monitoring, the Salvadoran government currently holds 7,777 bitcoins, valued at approximately $594 million, with an average holding cost of about $55,718, resulting in an unrealized profit of approximately $162 million and a return rate of about 37%.Since March 16, 2024, the country has been buying 1 bitcoin daily for 916 consecutive days.

The U.S. Congress passed a bill authorizing President Trump to impose tariffs on countries purchasing Russian oil products. Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun stated that China conducts economic and trade cooperation on the basis of equality and mutual benefit, opposing extraterritorial jurisdiction not authorized by the United Nations Security Council.

Arthur Hayes posted on the X platform that the FLOP token on the FLOP Labs testnet will be exchanged for the mainnet FLOP token at a pending ratio, and it will support trading with real funds through its HTLC protocol.Incentives for miners, validators, or agents participating in the FLOP Labs testnet will increase.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, SYN's intraday increase exceeded 100%.The trader address "0x161C" opened a long position with a value of approximately $588,000 for 3.25 million SYN with four times leverage on the Aster decentralized exchange, currently realizing an unrealized profit of about $304,000, with a return rate of 207%.