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On October 1, Nasdaq-listed company OpenWorld, Inc. (stock ticker: OPNW) announced in Las Vegas its intention to acquire Blocksight Holdings Co. The transaction is subject to final approval by the OpenWorld board and the signing of final documents, with both parties finalizing the relevant documents. The company stated that it does not guarantee that the documents will be signed or that the transaction will be completed.Blocksight builds an artificial intelligence agent platform for putting real-world assets on-chain and continuously providing investor reports. The agent covers trade construction, asset data verification, investor introduction, daily reports, and ongoing services, operating across multiple chains and directly connecting to distribution platforms, with key decisions requiring human approval. The proposed acquisition aims to support the still-in-development OpenWorld Enterprise, allowing institutions to access, verify, and hold tokenized real-world asset opportunities, with OpenWorld potentially acting as a co-principal and co-architect.If the transaction is completed, Blocksight co-founders Patrick Kim and Peter Hong are expected to join OpenWorld to assist with technology integration. OpenWorld co-founder and CEO Matthew Shaw stated that the proposed acquisition is an important step for the company as it begins its journey as a publicly listed company and may strengthen its institutional-facing tokenized real-world asset platform foundation. The announcement was made in conjunction with the company and VerifyMe, Inc.

At 00:23:40 Beijing time, USDC Treasury minted an additional 250 million USDC on the Solana chain.

U.S. President Trump stated that the U.S. Navy is implementing a blockade, and no Iranian ships have been able to pass through the Strait of Hormuz for several months.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Jack Dorsey's payment company Block has announced the launch of its first Bitcoin consumer advertising campaign, aimed at encouraging people to use Bitcoin as a medium of exchange and to make Bitcoin "everyday currency." The campaign slogan is "Some things don't make sense. Bitcoin does." The advertisements depict scenes of Americans complaining about rising living costs and Wall Street bankers receiving government bailouts.Miles Suter, head of Block's Bitcoin business, stated that the company focuses on creating financial products that make everyday life more convenient, and this advertising campaign is the first large-scale showcase of a centralized financial system for Bitcoin. The campaign will run from Thursday on YouTube, X, Meta, Instagram, and Fox Sports television channels until December 31, and will be aired before select screenings of "Avengers: Endgame" and "Dune Part 3."Dorsey left Twitter in 2021 to focus on payment business and Bitcoin adoption, and has expressed a desire for Bitcoin to become a global currency. Block's Cash App allows users to buy, sell, and send Bitcoin, while Square accepts Bitcoin payments through the Lightning Network. The company also launched a modular Bitcoin mining machine last year to reduce costs for miners in maintenance and equipment replacement.

Zano disclosed that there is a validation deficiency in the Gateway Addresses introduced by Hard Fork 6, allowing attackers to mint approximately 18.4 million ZANO in a single transaction, and on September 25, they minted the same amount again, also minting fUSD in the same manner.The project team stated that the value of the related fraudulent tokens exceeds 200 million dollars, with potentially affected activities involving 117,941 outputs and 65,301 transactions. Zano has restored the chain state from block 3,833,000 and disabled the Gateway Addresses, and the affected balances will be fully restored, with the ZANO supply and issuance plan remaining unchanged.

According to The Defiant, the crypto data and research platform Blockworks has announced the launch of a managed MCP server, opening its entire dataset to AI agents. This server is built on the Model Context Protocol, allowing AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Cursor to access the datasets behind Blockworks Research and its Intel applications.Blockworks stated that this service is provided with every API package at no additional cost, allowing users to access it using the same key and permissions. MCP is an open protocol that enables AI models to connect to external data sources and tools, and this integration means that AI agents can directly call upon Blockworks' research and market data.

According to The Defiant, the Solana ecosystem liquid staking protocol Marinade stated that its governance committee consecutively rejected two proposals within six hours, thereby preventing an attempt to take over the DAO.Marinade stated that this incident did not result in any funds being transferred, and its staking services were not affected.

Swift CEO Javier Pérez-Tasso stated at Sibos 2026 that Swift's blockchain-based ledger is now live and being used by some of the world's major financial institutions.By the end of this year, at least 19 banks are expected to use this ledger, enabling round-the-clock payments through tokenized deposits covering five major currencies. Swift announced the development of this ledger at last year's Sibos conference.

According to CoinDesk, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed a significant update to the transfer agent rules on September 1, the first since the 1970s. Chairman Paul Atkins explicitly stated that the rules should cover the application of blockchain technology in securities issuance and equity transfer.Joris Delanoue, co-founder of Fairmint, pointed out that if ownership data is scattered among token wrapping layers, SPVs, broker-dealer internal ledgers, and off-chain databases, it will replay the historical "paperwork crisis" of the late 1960s. He emphasized that the tokens themselves should serve as the official ledger required by Section 17A of the Securities Exchange Act, rather than as off-chain securities wrapping substitutes. The article calls for the industry to integrate ownership data around unified open standards and suggests that the SEC distinguish between native on-chain registration and third-party wrapping models in Form TA-2, allow the use of cryptographic credentials and other modern identifiers, and incorporate pre-trade restrictions on smart contracts into compliance enforcement mechanisms.

The mediator is promoting an agreement between the United States and Iran and is expected to submit the latest draft of the temporary agreement to Iran. According to the terms, Iran will allow ships to pass freely through the Strait of Hormuz, while the United States will lift the blockade on Iranian ports.Subsequent measures include the United States restoring oil exemptions, allowing Iran to sell oil, and the return of International Atomic Energy Agency verification personnel to Iran.

The privacy public chain Zano team stated that a hotfix has been deployed in response to the inflation vulnerability that occurred last Friday, and the network is currently running stably on the updated chain. The chain previously rolled back the block height to 3,833,000, erasing the confirmed transaction records from the past 30 days.The Zano team indicated that third-party wallets, exchanges, and payment service providers must first update their nodes to the updated chain in order to safely resume transfers of ZANO and Zano issued assets. Service providers will announce recovery progress through official channels, and the recovery process for affected users is being prepared. The native asset ZANO saw a price drop of 32% this week and a decline of 40.6% since 2026. The official Zano X account stated that users can update their iOS, Android, and desktop wallets, and the team will soon announce more details on the recovery process.

a16z crypto stated that one of the core values of blockchain is "creating entirely new markets." By enabling permissionless issuance and global distribution, it breaks through the long-standing limitations of traditional financial markets, which are constrained by listing committees, legal frameworks, and geographic segmentation, allowing market supply to better match global potential demand.a16z crypto believes that almost all representative markets in the crypto industry benefit from this mechanism, ranging from perpetual contracts, spot DEX, prediction markets to lending, meme coins, NFTs, and the tokenization of real-world assets. Among these, perpetual contracts are the most direct manifestation of this trend. In July of this year, the on-chain RWA perpetual contract trading volume reached an annualized scale of $1.4 trillion, accounting for about half of Hyperliquid's trading volume. With mechanisms like HIP-3 and HIP-4 lowering market issuance thresholds, a16z crypto expects that on-chain markets will continue to expand into commodities, foreign exchange, indices, 24/7 stock exposure, as well as risk assets such as CPI, computing power, music, social trends, and sports, which previously lacked mature financial expressions.

Ari Paul, founder and chief investment officer of the cryptocurrency asset management company BlockTower Capital, posted on X that Coinbase "lost" $25 million of its company's funds years ago, and it was later discovered that the other party was actually covering up large-scale and repeated hacking attacks, and the relevant funds have still not been returned.Ari Paul stated that his team has tracked at least a dozen other affected institutions, with the concealed amount exceeding $1 billion. He mentioned that currently, they can only disclose this information because multiple legal proceedings are still ongoing.

According to Bloomberg, citing informed sources, the cryptocurrency exchange and wallet service provider Blockchain.com plans to complete its initial public offering (IPO) this year, aiming to raise approximately $500 million, with a target valuation range of $4 billion to $6 billion.Informed sources stated that if the listing process requires it, the company is also willing to accept a smaller issuance plan. Blockchain.com reached a valuation of $14 billion during the last peak of the cryptocurrency market, and this target valuation is significantly lower than that level. In May of this year, the company secretly submitted a draft registration document to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to pave the way for a potential IPO, at that time not disclosing the number of shares to be issued or the price range.This listing plan comes as the capital market environment for cryptocurrency companies is reopening. Since mid-August, when the U.S. Treasury announced a significant increase in long-term Treasury bond repurchases, the price of Bitcoin has risen by more than 30%, driving an overall rebound in the cryptocurrency market. However, market conditions remain challenging; according to Bloomberg data, the stock prices of recently listed companies Gemini, BitGo, and eToro have fallen by about 50% to 80% from their post-listing highs.

According to PR Newswire, Brazilian fintech company NG.CASH has completed a strategic financing of 15 million dollars, led by Blockchain Capital. Since its establishment in 2021, the company's total financing has exceeded 65 million dollars.It is reported that NG.CASH holds two licenses issued by the Central Bank of Brazil for direct credit companies and payment institutions, and is applying for a virtual asset service provider license. Since its establishment in 2021, NG.CASH has surpassed 10 million accounts, with platform transaction volume reaching several billion dollars.

Zano, the privacy blockchain, announced a network update stating that the core team discovered a serious vulnerability in the Gateway Address, allowing unauthorized ZANO and fUSD to enter circulation. Investigations show that the wallet's payment keys or the privacy of ordinary transactions were not compromised, and Zano's core consensus mechanism was also unaffected.The team has developed a solution to clear all unauthorized activities by coordinating a network upgrade. To ensure network integrity, the Zano blockchain has been restarted from block height 3,833,000 (i.e., before the 6th hard fork), affecting approximately one month of on-chain historical records. Nodes, miners, stakers, and related services need to adopt the emergency update as soon as possible.The team stated that they will work with affected projects to address the losses and will announce compensation and claims processes, striving to compensate the community. Technical reasons and related code review results will be disclosed in the follow-up.

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.

Israel will implement a "complete blockade" on the West Bank until next Saturday.