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AI startup Tavus released a new model called Griffin on October 1, referring to it as the first "human interaction model" that can understand and generate face-to-face conversations, paying attention not only to wording but also to expressions and pauses. Tavus stated that in tests, after a one-minute video call with Griffin-Lite, 26 out of 54 participants (48%) believed the other party was a real person; its previous generation system only convinced 1 out of 41 participants.Participants were told they would have a one-minute video call with another person to discuss things they were looking forward to this year, and only at the end of the call were they asked if they suspected the other party was not a real person. Tavus noted that those who became suspicious typically noticed within 20 seconds. This result comes from Tavus's own research page, where participants were recruited through a channel they call an independent research platform. Community comments on X pointed out that these results have not been independently verified and do not meet standard protocols.In the NVIDIA VideoFDB benchmark, Tavus claimed Griffin-Lite ranked first, with a generation dimension score of 3.83, the next best system scoring 2.8, and human reference scoring 3.92; the perception dimension score was 3.73, with the strongest baseline at 3.44 and human reference at 4.2. Tavus stated that NVIDIA independently conducted this evaluation. Griffin supports full duplex, allowing it to listen, see, and speak simultaneously, with an average audio-video delay of 0.43 seconds on the NVIDIA H100 chip. Tavus completed a $40 million Series B funding round led by CRV in November 2025.

The employment participation rate in the United States for September was 61.8%, higher than the expected 61.6%, and the previous value was 61.6%.

According to Finbold, the AI perpetual trading platform PERPTools developed by DEXTools has raised a total of 8 million dollars through two rounds of token financing, including 3 million dollars in the pre-seed round and 5 million dollars in the seed round. Investors include BigBrain Holdings, NEAR, Animoca Brands, Sfermion, and Shima Capital.The platform plans to conduct its Token Generation Event (TGE) in the fourth quarter of 2026.

AI native cloud platform GMI Cloud announced the completion of a new round of financing totaling $668 million, including $223 million in Series B equity financing and $445 million in credit financing, led by the investment company ARCHIV, with participation from NVIDIA.The company stated that its inference platform processes approximately 40 trillion tokens per week, with clients including Fireworks, Nous Research, OpenRouter, Trend Micro, and others.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin announced that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will lead the Pentagon's "Meridian Project" alongside Anduril founder Palmer Luckey and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, to study the future of warfare and next-generation military capabilities. The project is expected to deliver final results within 120 days.

According to CNBC, cryptocurrency trading company Raven has completed a new round of financing with a valuation of 90 million, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and CMCC Global.Raven co-founder Petar Kostov stated that Raven was established in 2023 to provide liquidity for cryptocurrency trading and has expanded into prediction markets since the second quarter of 2025.

According to Techcrunch, AI security startup Reco announced the completion of a new round of financing of $55 million, which is an extension round based on its $30 million Series B financing in February, with participation from AT&T Ventures, Forestay, and Quadrille Capital.After this round of financing, the company's total funding amount has reached $140 million. Reco co-founder and CEO Ofer Klein stated that since the initial announcement of the Series B round, the company's valuation has "more than doubled."

WEEX Exchange Announcement: The "Daily Gifts, Live Drawings, Trade to Win iPhone Duo" trading competition successfully concluded on September 27, and an online award ceremony will be held on September 29 at 19:00 (UTC+8), where the final rankings and reward distribution arrangements will be announced live.During the live broadcast, multiple rounds of lucky draws will also be held, with prizes including 4 × 4 Apple Watch Ultra, 5 × 5 Apple AirPods, and WEEX VIP experience cards.

The ruling Democratic Party of Korea and opposition party members, along with industry groups, jointly called for the postponement of the cryptocurrency tax plan scheduled to take effect in January 2027.A member of the Democratic Party's Policy Committee, Min Byeong-deok, stated that initiating taxation before the establishment of the Basic Act on Digital Assets lacks sufficient legal and institutional foundation, and the mechanisms for tracking income from overseas exchanges and loss carryforwards are still inadequate.

According to the official announcement, the Gate Yubi Treasure BTC limited-time benefit event is currently ongoing, with rewards including interest rate increases and experience gold.From September 28, 19:00 to October 7, 19:00 (UTC+8), new and existing users who complete registration and achieve a net recharge of 0.01 BTC or more, and use the recharged BTC to purchase the Yubi Treasure 7-day fixed-term product, can enjoy an additional 3% annualized interest rate increase. The interest rate increase amount for users will match the net recharge amount of BTC during the event. The interest rewards will be distributed in USDT, with a total prize pool of 100,000 USDT, distributed in the order of subscription time.In addition, during the event, users with a net recharge of BTC ≥ 0.1 BTC can also receive an additional 10 USDT contract experience gold (limited to the first 1,000 participants), and the rewards will be distributed within 5 working days after the event ends.

According to the Snapshot page, the proposal for the World Liberty Financial (WLFI) community to "Launch the WLFI Governance Participation Incentive Program" has concluded voting. Approximately 82.13% voted in favor, about 9.17% voted against, and around 8.70% abstained.A total of 2,306 addresses participated in the voting, with a total voting volume of approximately 2.114 billion WLFI, exceeding the statutory threshold of 1 billion. Holders of unlocked WLFI will lock their tokens for at least 180 days and participate directly in governance voting at least once every 90 days to receive dynamically calculated rewards; delegated votes do not count towards participation requirements.The program is scheduled to be launched before October 1 and will replace the original proposal passed on March 12, 2026.

FastBiz officially stated that the project has entered the continuous operation and ecological construction phase. As of now, FastBiz has accumulated a total construction amount of 15.9436 million USD, with over 37,000 participating users. Users can participate in ecological construction using USDT and UNI according to the agreement rules. As the scale of participation continues to expand, FastBiz is accelerating community building, ecological applications, and global market layout, promoting more users and business resources to enter its Web3 business ecology.It is reported that FastBiz is positioned as a new type of business infrastructure connecting real-world commerce and the Web3 value network, committed to creating the next generation of decentralized business networks that connect global goods, supply chains, payments, communities, and digital assets. The project connects real-world business scenarios with the Web3 digital asset system, exploring the integration of diverse scenarios such as goods circulation, supply chain collaboration, digital payments, community participation, and digital assets, further constructing an open value network aimed at global users and business entities.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao stated during his appearance on the podcast "When Shift Happens" that he does not oppose Hyperliquid and welcomes more centralized and decentralized trading platforms to participate in innovation, as the industry is far from saturated. He estimates that the proportion of the population holding some form of cryptocurrency is about 5% to 15%, but when calculated based on individual wealth allocation, the penetration rate of cryptocurrency assets may be less than 1%, indicating that the industry is still in its early stages.Changpeng Zhao mentioned that some members of the Hyperliquid community are trying to establish their own community by criticizing centralized trading platforms and Binance, but he views this as normal competition and does not oppose the project. Previously, Trump mentioned Hyperliquid, which is very good for the industry. Assets like HYPE, BNB, and Bitcoin could all benefit from the overall growth of the industry.Changpeng Zhao also pointed out that first movers do not necessarily become the long-term biggest winners. Google, Facebook, and Binance were not the first products in their respective fields, and later entrants can often further optimize based on the groundwork laid by the pioneers. Although he holds a significant amount of Binance shares and BNB, the centralized trading platform is just part of his asset allocation; rather than expanding a single platform, he hopes to promote the growth of the entire cryptocurrency industry.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has filed a lawsuit against Cash FX Group S.A. and its CEO Huascar Jose Lopez Castillo, The Conversion Pros Inc. and its CEO Ronald Pope, Justin Halladay, accusing the aforementioned defendants of operating a multi-level marketing Ponzi scheme that raised over $950 million from the public, including in the United States, claiming it was for retail foreign exchange contract trading.The CFTC stated that the defendants falsely claimed that funds were traded by professional traders, proprietary algorithms, and AI, promising returns of up to 15% per week; in reality, Cash FX conducted only a small amount of foreign exchange trading, and almost all participant funds were misappropriated, paying fictitious trading profits to other participants using funds from new participants, while paying millions of dollars to the defendants. The CFTC claimed that Cash FX also provided participants with false account statements to maintain the illusion of high trading returns, resulting in participants losing at least $406 million. The CFTC is seeking to order the defendants to pay restitution, recover illegal profits, pay civil monetary penalties, and impose trading and registration bans as well as permanent injunctions.

The Central Bank of Russia has established market access procedures for digital custodians, cryptocurrency trading platforms, and digital rights information system operators, requiring relevant participants to be included in the corresponding registries.The regulations specify the qualification requirements for members of relevant regulatory bodies and specific officials, the list of application documents, and the registration procedures, while providing simplified access rules for existing market participants. The relevant regulations have been registered with the Ministry of Justice of Russia and will come into effect on October 5, 2026.

Bitget announced the successful conclusion of the 2026 King’s Cup Global Invitation Tournament (KCGI). This tournament centered around "UEX Panorama Competition" and for the first time integrated crypto contracts, TradFi contracts, and stock spot (rToken) into the same event system. During the tournament, a total of 83,529 traders and 1,476 teams from around the world competed based on performance and multi-track trading challenges, sharing a total prize pool valued at 3 million USD.As a core part of the event, the UEX Arena set up five major leaderboards for team earnings, trading volumes in various tracks, and individual earnings, with a prize pool reaching 2 million USDT. The UEX Treasure Map provided participating users with a chance to win a 100% winning treasure chest reward of up to 600,000 USDT through a task key and track fragment synthesis mechanism.In addition, this KCGI set up a special incentive of 100,000 USDT for team leaders and 200,000 USDT in early bird benefits, and after the conclusion of the tournament, a glory live stream lottery was held, offering multiple rewards such as KCGI limited merchandise, gold-plated footballs, and cash vouchers.

Breed VC has raised $15 million for its second cryptocurrency fund, with investors including FalconX, Hutt Capital, Arrington Capital, as well as Nic Carter from Castle Island Ventures, Rob Hadick from Dragonfly, and Jake Brukhman from CoinFund.The fund primarily invests in cryptocurrency startups at the Day Zero, Pre-Seed, and Seed stages, with individual investments ranging from $250,000 to $750,000, focusing on open financial infrastructure and decentralized AI, with plans to complete deployment in the next 3 to 4 years. Breed VC's first fund was launched in 2023 and has completed its investments, with a portfolio that includes Monad, Ethena, Agora, MyPrize, and Nous Research.

Global payment and financial infrastructure Infini announced the completion of a $6 million seed round financing, with participation from SNZ, Reforge, Enlight Capital, NDV (NextGen Digital Venture), FORTWEST, Vernal, and others.Infini stated that the funds will be used to further strengthen its global payment and financial infrastructure, making it easier and more efficient for individuals and businesses to manage and use funds globally.