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According to Jinshi reports, the US dollar against the Japanese yen (USD/JPY) has broken through 159, with an intraday increase of 0.03%.

According to Gate market data, the S&P 500 index briefly broke through 7,000 points during the session, marking the first breakthrough since January 28.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Division of Trading and Markets issued a staff statement providing guidance on whether certain user interfaces used to generate trading instructions for crypto asset securities (Covered User Interface) need to be registered as broker-dealers.The statement noted that under specific conditions, providers of such interfaces may not need to register as broker-dealers under Section 15 of the Securities Exchange Act. These conditions include: not actively soliciting specific trades, not providing investment advice, not controlling or executing trades, generating trading instructions solely based on objective parameters, and fully disclosing the fee structure, potential conflicts of interest, and associated risks to users.The SEC emphasized that such interfaces typically exist in the form of websites, browser plugins, or wallet applications, used to convert trading parameters set by users into on-chain executable instructions, while also providing market data such as prices, paths, and fees.Additionally, the statement clarified that such exemptions do not apply to activities involving trade matching, fund custody, order routing, or providing investment advice. The relevant guidance is a temporary opinion and will automatically expire in 2026 if no further action is taken. The SEC stated that this move aims to provide a clearer regulatory framework for activities related to crypto asset securities and continues to seek market feedback.

According to Gate market data, on Monday morning in the foreign exchange market, the US dollar index DXY broke 99, rising 0.45% during the day; the euro against the US dollar EUR/USD fell 0.5%, reported at 1.665; the US dollar against the Swiss franc USD/CHF and the US dollar against the Japanese yen USD/JPY both rose about 0.2%; the New Zealand dollar against the US dollar NZD/USD fell 0.7%; the Australian dollar against the US dollar AUD/USD plummeted 1%, falling below the 0.7 mark.

According to Jinshi reports, the US dollar against the Japanese yen (USD/JPY) has broken through 159, with an intraday increase of 0.31%.

According to Gate market data, the euro against the US dollar (EUR/USD) has broken through 1.16, with an intraday increase of 0.5%.

According to Jinshi reports, the USD/JPY has risen above 160, with an intraday increase of 0.22%.

According to Jinshi News, the USD/CHF has broken through 0.8, with an intraday increase of 0.25%.

According to a report by businesswire, Interactive Brokers (NASDAQ: IBKR) announced the expansion of its digital asset services to the European Economic Area through integration with Zero Hash. This service is provided by Interactive Brokers Ireland Limited, allowing eligible individual investors in the region to trade cryptocurrencies.Currently supported trading assets include a total of 11 cryptocurrencies: BTC, ETH, LTC, BCH, LINK, SOL, ADA, XRP, DOGE, AVAX, and SUI. Users can trade on platforms such as Trader Workstation, IBKR Desktop, Client Portal, IBKR Mobile, and IBKR GlobalTrader, while the platform continues to offer trading services for traditional financial products such as stocks, options, futures, forex, bonds, and mutual funds.In addition, Interactive Brokers currently offers cryptocurrency trading services in the United States through Interactive Brokers LLC and in the United Kingdom through Interactive Brokers (U.K.) Limited.

Musk stated on the X platform that the core of AI development lies in video understanding and generation, and claimed that "photons are the highest bandwidth form of communication," with related technologies becoming important tools for achieving general artificial intelligence. He also pointed out that xAI's image generation tool Grok Imagine has achieved positive gross profit and is not a loss-making project.This statement comes in the context of OpenAI's recent shutdown of the video platform Sora. Public reports indicate that since its launch, Sora has generated approximately $2.1 million in revenue, with an average daily operating loss of about $1 million. Musk did not disclose specific revenue figures for Grok Imagine but previously stated that he would continue to increase investment, believing it has significant strategic value.

Musk stated that Grok has begun to automatically translate and recommend posts in other languages. Compared to the previous method that required manually clicking the translate button, the new feature can actively identify foreign language content and translate it before directly pushing it to the user's feed. Some users have reported seeing a large number of translated foreign language posts in their timelines.

Elon Musk responded to the community on the X platform, stating that Grok Imagine will have a major update next week.It is reported that Grok Imagine is a video generation tool built by xAI around the Grok chatbot.

According to Tech in Asia, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has officially launched the paid subscription plan SuperGrok for the Grok chatbot. Free and basic plan users will continue to use Grok 3, but will face stricter limits on query volume and features.The SuperGrok subscription system is divided into three tiers: the entry-level SuperGrok Lite is priced at $10 per month and allows access to Grok 3.5; the standard version SuperGrok is priced at $30 per month, which is higher than OpenAI's ChatGPT Plus and Anthropic's Claude Pro (both around $20 per month); and the SuperGrok Heavy, aimed at heavy users, is priced at $300 per month. In addition, xAI also offers a corporate plan at $30 per seat per month.

X platform product head Nikita Bier stated that X will officially launch the complete algorithm recommendation feature based on Grok next week, and has characterized it as the "most significant change" the X platform has made to date.

According to a report by businesswire, Interactive Brokers announced the launch of a cryptocurrency portfolio transfer feature, allowing customers to directly transfer their platform-supported digital assets from external wallets or platforms into their cryptocurrency accounts associated with Interactive Brokers, without the need to first liquidate their cryptocurrency positions. This enables users to manage digital assets, stocks, options, futures, currencies, bonds, and other investments simultaneously.Interactive Brokers will provide a comprehensive solution that integrates digital assets and traditional investments on the same platform, thereby offering cryptocurrency pricing and a broader range of investment opportunities.

According to Jinshi reports, the USD/JPY has risen above 159, with an intraday increase of 0.2%.

Renowned on-chain investigator ZachXBT released a report today stating that a Russian over-the-counter (OTC) broker named Aleksandr (Aleks) Khinkis is suspected of assisting ransomware groups in laundering over $4.7 million since 2025 through a single cryptocurrency trading platform account.The related funds involve three suspicious ransom payments, totaling approximately 796 bitcoins (BTC). The investigation shows that these funds were transferred in batches to his trading platform's deposit address (0xa756) after being bridged between Bitcoin and Avalanche, completing a total of 75 transactions from 2025 to 2026. Additionally, approximately $16.6 million is currently still held in Aave and is being gradually liquidated.ZachXBT pointed out multiple ransom transactions: a ransom payment of about 72 BTC in September 2025 was bridged to the related address; a ransom of about 164 BTC was also discovered in October 2025 and converted to approximately $3.8 million. Some related addresses were blacklisted by Tether in November 2025, and the subsequently frozen USDT was destroyed three weeks ago, indicating that law enforcement and compliance agencies have intervened.Earlier in 2023, this account was also involved in a ransom transaction of about 560 BTC, which was circulated through multiple intermediary addresses and trading platforms before being bridged back to the Avalanche network in 2024. Furthermore, the investigation pointed out that the source addresses of the related bitcoins have a high correlation with multiple ransomware addresses, suspected of serving as payment transit nodes. Although some funds remain dormant, ZachXBT warned that they may still be laundered in the future and urged victims to report related addresses promptly to freeze the funds.

According to Gate market data, the US dollar against the Swiss franc USD/CHF broke 0.79, rising 0.28% during the day. Meanwhile, the British pound against the US dollar GBP/USD fell below 1.33, dropping 0.32% during the day.

Fidelity, in a letter to the SEC, suggested establishing a regulatory framework that allows broker-dealers to trade crypto assets through alternative trading systems (ATS).The proposal aims to promote the inclusion of crypto asset trading into the existing financial system, enhancing market compliance and institutional participation.

Users on the X platform discovered a feature switch named enable_grok_computer in the source code of the Grok web page, speculating that xAI is preparing to launch a computer control intelligent agent "Grok Computer," which is equivalent to the "trial version" of the previously announced Macrohard project. In response, Musk confirmed in a post sharing related content that it is "coming out soon."Macrohard is an AI automation system jointly developed by Tesla and xAI, using Grok as a high-level reasoning engine, paired with an AI agent to process screen images and mouse and keyboard operations in real-time. Previously, reports indicated that data collection work for this project was paused last month.