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Layer 2 network Blast announced that it will cease operations due to the ongoing maintenance costs of the network exceeding the revenue generated by L2. The team believes there is no credible path to achieve economic sustainability.Blast advises all users to withdraw on-chain assets and balances in the Blast PWA to the Ethereum mainnet and plans to shorten the withdrawal waiting time to 24 hours. However, the team will first process the withdrawal of Lido assets held by Blast, which is expected to take about a week, during which the withdrawal function will be temporarily unavailable.Users can complete withdrawals through the regular Blast interface before October 26. After that, assets can still be withdrawn, but it will require direct interaction with the Blast Bridge contract on Ethereum L1. The team will announce specific operational instructions before the deadline.

TRON DeFi Summer announces the latest arrangements for S3: the event will officially launch on October 4 at 08:00 (SGT) and will last for 60 days, with a total prize pool of 2 million USD, including a TRX pool of 1 million USD, a USDD pool of 600,000 USD, a JST pool of 300,000 USD, and a SUN pool of 100,000 USD.Users can enter JustLend DAO through Binance Wallet DeFi to participate in the Boosted APR incentives. Users who participated in S2 do not need to reapply; simply maintaining their holdings will automatically extend their eligibility for S3 rewards. New users can prepare their assets in advance to join as soon as it opens. More S3 gameplay will be announced soon.

The Ronin Waypoint wallet will soon cease operations, and users must complete asset transfers before the final migration deadline on October 16, or assets left in the Waypoint wallet may become inaccessible. This migration primarily involves users utilizing social logins, keyless wallets, or MPC wallets.Users can choose to migrate their assets to a Ronin Stash that supports email or social login, or they can transfer them to a Ronin Wallet protected by a mnemonic phrase. Users who only use mnemonic phrase wallets are not affected by this migration. Additionally, bAXS and Badges need to be handled separately through the official Axie migration page, and this operation can only be completed once.The official reminder for users is to confirm that the target wallet has received the assets after migration and to check if there are any missing assets in the Waypoint wallet.

Bitwise CEO posted on the X platform that the Bitwise Chainlink ETF has received inflows for three consecutive days, with assets under management exceeding 68 million dollars.

On Thursday, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed new regulations aimed at clarifying the requirements for investment advisors and regulated funds regarding the holding and custody of client cryptocurrency assets, as well as standardizing record-keeping, federal disclosures, industry operations, and audit requirements. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins stated that the current custody rules primarily focus on traditional assets, and the new regulations will provide a regulatory framework for the custody of cryptocurrency assets.The proposal is open for public comment for 60 days and intends to allow self-custody of cryptocurrency assets and the use of state-chartered trust companies as custodians under certain conditions.

Variant Fund investment partner Alana Levin stated in her market thoughts for Q4 2026 that the bottom of the crypto market likely occurred at some point in July. She wrote in early July that the bottom seemed close, with Bitcoin at $59,000, Ethereum at $1,600, and ZEC at $420. She mentioned that the question has shifted to whether the bull market is genuinely starting or if it's a false rally, and which projects will benefit the most in the early bull market, assuming the market is in the early stages of a new crypto bull market.Levin indicated that the increasingly formed consensus is that marginal funds are most likely to flow into value storage protocols as currency and protocols that can generate income. She believes Bitcoin is the dominant asset for digital value storage currently, while other competing assets may be valued based on their market capitalization relative to Bitcoin's market cap and its changes. For income-generating protocols, she expects investors to examine whether the income comes from crypto-native activities (like Pump) or traditional financial activities (like Hyperliquid), whether it persists during market downturns, and profit margins; projects with exposure to real-world assets and stablecoin growth, which are expected to attract institutional users and are still led by founders after surviving a bear market, are more likely to achieve higher multiples.She also categorized on-chain projects that can benchmark against non-crypto businesses as a third category, believing that most belong to narrative trading rather than long-term investment. Themes include routing, reasoning, computing power, data collection, and interface-related directions in artificial intelligence, and she is skeptical about whether most scenarios require blockchain; if such projects significantly outperform, she would view it as a signal of nearing the top.

Arkham stated that it has tagged Robinhood's wallets on 12 blockchains, covering the Bitcoin network and Robinhood Chain, with a total value of approximately 24.96 billion USD in related crypto assets. This includes 185,185 BTC, valued at approximately 15.59 billion USD, and DOGE valued at approximately 2.88 billion USD.

Asian stock markets are expected to have a volatile start on the first trading day of October, as fluctuations in Wall Street erased gains from lower-than-expected U.S. inflation data. Chris Osmond, Chief Investment Officer of Fifth Third Wealth Advisors, stated that economic growth in the second quarter was stronger than expected, consumer spending remained robust, the job market rebounded in September, and the Fed's preferred inflation indicator was below expectations, reducing the likelihood of an interest rate hike in October.

The regulated operator responsible for the registration, securities custody, and settlement system of the Brazilian financial market, CSD BR, has begun to record the ownership of shares in certain investment funds under BTG Pactual, mirroring them to the public XRP Ledger. CSD BR manages registered assets exceeding 22 trillion Brazilian Reais, approximately 4 trillion US dollars. Its existing database still serves as the official record for registration, custody, and settlement, and the relevant assets have not been transferred to the XRP Ledger; fund shares will be presented in token form on the XRPL.This blockchain copy aims to allow approved banks and institutions to verify ownership changes in real-time, replacing post-reconciliation, reducing the slow and costly verification process, while retaining identity checks and regulatory controls. Anyone can read the token circulation on the XRPL, but CSD BR still controls who has the right to hold and transfer these tokens. The tokens adopt the multi-purpose token standard of the XRP Ledger, allowing issuers to restrict participants and freeze assets or revoke transactions upon regulatory or court requests, while participants still need to pass identity and anti-money laundering checks.The project starts with real fund records, distinguishing it from previous pilots that used test assets or closed networks. CSD BR was established in 2018 and is authorized by the Central Bank of Brazil and the securities regulatory authority. After becoming familiar with the mirroring system, CSD BR and Ripple plan to test the direct issuance of assets on the XRP Ledger and allow approved participants to trade, with potential targets including Brazilian real estate receivables and agricultural receivables.

The leverage for cryptocurrency security warehouse, unified account model, and unified account professional version will add 7 types of bStocks tokens on September 30 at 20:00---PDD Holdings (PDDB), Forward Industries (FWDIB), SharonAI (SHAZB), Wendy's (WENB), Adobe (ADBEB), Hewlett Packard (HPEB), and Zoom (ZMB)---as eligible collateral assets. Eligible users can use these tokens as margin collateral.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has released the 47th Proof of Reserves (PoR). The total reserve ratio reaches 131%, covering 19 types of assets. Among them, the reserve ratios for BTC, ETH, USDT, and USDC are 142%, 110%, 107%, and 154%, respectively.Since December 2022, Bitget has been updating the Proof of Reserves monthly, and in September of this year, it expanded the coverage from 4 types of assets to 19, providing users with broader platform reserve visibility. Bitget's historical average reserve ratio has remained above 120%, exceeding the 100% coverage benchmark, fully covering insured user assets.

Pantera Capital released the latest "Tokenization Status" report, stating that the tokenization market size it tracked reached 332 billion dollars, covering 671 assets.The report pointed out that JPMorgan, HSBC, and Fidelity launched on-chain products this quarter; BlackRock's BUIDL fund saw on-chain transfers reach 441 million dollars in June, and it has a redemption arrangement of 1 billion dollars per day, which is currently accepted as collateral.In addition, Robinhood Chain's weekly trading volume of real-world assets (RWA) reached 888 million dollars in August.

According to Gate Europe CEO Dr. Giovanni Cunti's latest LinkedIn post, global business relies on efficient cross-border capital flows, but traditional international payments still face challenges such as multiple intermediaries, currency exchange, and limited operational efficiency.Dr. Giovanni Cunti emphasized, "Digital assets are opening up new possibilities for businesses in cross-market payments and value flows." He pointed out that stablecoins and blockchain-based payment networks can provide faster settlement speeds, higher transparency, and more flexible cross-border transaction capabilities. Beyond everyday payments, their application scenarios are rapidly expanding to areas such as vendor settlements, multinational payroll distribution, treasury management, and global value transfer.As this ecosystem continues to grow, a clear and defined regulatory framework is crucial. Europe is leading this transformation through MiCA (Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation), which provides a unified standard for crypto asset services across the EU region. Dr. Giovanni Cunti further noted that in the long run, the value of digital assets will transcend asset trading itself, further deeply integrating into the real economy and the daily operations of global enterprises. Relying on the compliance foundation of the MiCA and Payment Institution (PI) dual licensing system, Gate Europe is deeply integrating digital asset services with traditional payment capabilities, continuously exploring a new paradigm of a highly efficient and closely connected global economy empowered by digital assets.

According to RootData's popular stock CEX share data, as of the time of publication, among the popular stock assets with high trading volume in the last 24 hours, Gate ranks in the top three for market share in QQQ, SNDK, and SKHYNIX assets.Among them, Gate ranks second in the QQQ asset with a 24-hour trading volume of approximately 25.05 million USD and a share of 22.27%; ranks third in the SNDK asset with a trading volume of approximately 53.07 million USD and a share of 8.22%; and ranks third in the SKHYNIX asset with a trading volume of approximately 50.48 million USD and a share of 7.21%.

Aave founder and CEO Stani Kulechov tweeted that he measures Aave's potential market by the range of assets that can be used as collateral; the more types of collateral assets there are, the greater the lending market opportunities.He stated that Aave started with crypto assets and then expanded into securities through tokenized stocks on Coinbase and Horizon RWA, and in the future will further cover assets such as solar energy, batteries, GPUs, robotics, and space infrastructure. He categorized the last type of assets, such as solar energy, batteries, and GPUs, as abundant assets.

The Deputy Minister of Finance of Russia, Ivan Chebeskov, stated that at least 20 million Russians have invested in cryptocurrency products, holding a total of approximately 3.7 trillion rubles, equivalent to about 44 billion dollars. These assets are mainly used for foreign trade settlements, mining, and trading on overseas exchanges and savings.Russia is allowing qualified and non-qualified investors to hold and trade cryptocurrency assets on regulated domestic exchanges through a regulatory framework, while still prohibiting the use of cryptocurrency assets for everyday payments, and promoting the digital ruble as a payment tool directly regulated by the state.

According to the data panel on the ChainCatcher official website, regarding BTC wallet balances, in the past 7 days, among the top 10 exchanges by balance, only two had net inflows; Binance had the largest decline, at 2.95%.In terms of exchange asset transparency proof, the top three exchanges with net outflows of reserve assets were Deribit (-340 million USD), Bybit (-291 million USD), and MEXC (-99.5608 million USD); in terms of net inflows, Binance had the highest inflow, reaching 703 million USD, followed by Bitfinex (+321 million USD) and OKX (+40.4574 million USD).

According to documents submitted by Riot Platforms to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company voluntarily repaid all outstanding loans and accrued interest to Coinbase Credit on September 21, and terminated the previously established credit line of $200 million, without incurring any early termination fees or penalties.The loan had previously been fully drawn by Riot, with a fixed annual interest rate of 6.15%, and an original maturity date of April 20, 2027. As of June 30, Riot had pledged 5,821 BTC as collateral for the loan, valued at approximately $340.7 million, accounting for about 51% of the total BTC held by the company at that time; with the loan repayment, Coinbase's security interest in the related collateral assets was simultaneously released. Riot initially obtained a $100 million Bitcoin collateral loan in April 2025, increasing the limit to $200 million the following month. This repayment occurred approximately 7 months ahead of the revised maturity date.