actions

THORChain announced that the ZEC liquidity pool is now live, and the network has completed a node rotation, with all nodes beginning to monitor the Zcash chain.THORChain stated that trading functionality will be the next step; currently, liquidity is shallow, and early traders should be aware of risks such as slippage. Previously, THORChain added native support for Zcash in the protocol upgrade, including UTXO handling, RPC logic, and ZEC price oracles, and continues to advance mainnet integration.

On-chain data analysis firm Bitquery linked the approximately $459,000 asset theft incident involving Tradewiz to a wallet that completed 27 transactions through the trading bot previously. Investigation statistics show that the incident affected 20,933 wallets, with losses involving SOL, tokens, and deposits recovered after closing token accounts; the valuation is based on a SOL price of $120.Bitquery discovered that major fund transfers began 41 minutes after Tradewiz's trading activity stopped; about 73% of the SOL in this round of transfers was moved afterward. Tradewiz stated that the incident involved the private key leak of the SOL PVP export function and promised to compensate users for their losses; subsequent updates indicated that the first batch of refunds had been issued, and claims need to be verified. Tradewiz also suspended EVM services for security checks and stated that the police are assisting in tracking the assets and have contacted exchanges for identity and account verification information.Bitquery traced some of the early funds coming from MEXC withdrawals, later shifting to Kucoin deposit addresses; these connections do not indicate that the two exchanges participated in the theft.

According to Cointelegraph, the European Central Bank (ECB) has announced the launch of a new round of applications for the digital euro innovation platform, inviting fintech companies, payment institutions, and other organizations to explore AI agents participating in digital euro payments.The project will be divided into two parts: practical testing and future application seminars. The practical testing will take place from January to June 2027, where participants will develop prototypes for electronic receipts, multi-party transactions, conditional payments, and more.The seminars will explore AI payments, micropayments, machine-to-machine transactions, and the application of the digital euro in public services. In addition, the ECB has selected 36 banks and payment institutions, including Revolut, Stripe, and Deutsche Bank, to participate in another 12-month digital euro pilot, which is scheduled to launch in the second half of 2027. The final issuance of the digital euro still requires EU legislation and subsequent decisions from the ECB.

Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of the cross-chain trading platform Relay, Jason Maier, stated that the team discovered an issue with the Relay API over the weekend, which exposed pending transaction information before trade execution. MEV seekers exploited the pending routing status to infer on-chain paths and front-run trades before order execution, resulting in worse execution prices for users trading through Relay.This activity occurred from September 12 to September 26, primarily concentrated from September 23 to 26. Seekers profited approximately $136,000 from this, affecting around 5,600 users, with a median impact of $11.88. Relay will pay a $50,000 bounty to Outputlayer for reporting the issue and will automatically compensate affected users without the need for applications; funds will be directly sent to wallets, with a total compensation amount of approximately $312,000.Jason Maier stated that MEV can arise through public mempool exposure, order detail inference, malicious participation in auctions, or data gaps between service providers, and protecting a single link in the transaction path is not sufficient. He mentioned that the team will continue to enhance the execution quality and privacy of the entire transaction path and called on security researchers to report vulnerabilities when discovered.

Bitget has officially opened BTC withdrawal services today at 16:00 (UTC+8). Bitget CEO Gracy shared the latest progress on the recovery during a community live stream: currently, the BTC withdrawal channel is running smoothly, and the first batch of applications has been processed and credited.According to real-time data disclosed during the live stream, as of 16:50 (UTC+8), the platform has processed approximately 7,683 BTC withdrawal applications, with a total amount processed of about 3,609 BTC, and there are no order backlogs. Among them, the first batch of about 6,946 withdrawal applications has received blockchain confirmation, and the related applications are still being processed in an orderly manner.According to the previously announced timeline, the ETH-related network will open for withdrawals on September 29 at 16:00 (UTC+8), and the USDT-related network will open for withdrawals on September 30 at 16:00 (UTC+8); withdrawals for other tokens, fiat, and C2C services will gradually resume starting from October 2 at 16:00 (UTC+8).

Analysis released by a16z crypto on September 23 shows that the total transaction volume of real-world asset perpetual contracts in August 2026 is $11.73 billion, with on-chain platform transaction volume accounting for about $10.1 billion, or 86%; centralized exchange transaction volume is about $16 billion, an increase of 44 times compared to the same period last year. A year ago, the on-chain platform transaction share was only one-third or lower.As of the end of August, the open interest size is $4.8 billion, expanding about 30 times from $161 million in July 2025. In terms of transaction volume, stocks account for 48%, commodities for 28%, and indices for 18%, indicating a shift in transaction structure from being commodity-dominated previously. a16z states that the HIP-3 protocol launched by Hyperliquid in October 2025 simplifies the creation of new perpetual markets and enhances liquidity sharing.

ARK analyst Lorenzo Valente stated that Uniswap completed approximately 140 million transactions in August this year, surpassing the total number of transactions on both the Cboe BZX and NYSE American trading platforms. NYSE American, a subsidiary of the New York Stock Exchange, has been operating since 1908, while Uniswap was launched in 2018; five years ago, Uniswap's monthly transaction volume was only about 2 million transactions.Valente noted that in terms of transaction volume, the next target for Uniswap to catch up with is NYSE Arca, which completed approximately 232 million transactions in August.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated that a recent paper explored the possibility of implementing privacy transactions on Bitcoin, characterized by the ability to achieve this directly on Bitcoin L1 without the need for a soft fork, making privacy transactions a native feature.Darkfost mentioned that he is not a developer and lacks the relevant technical background, but this idea is quite appealing. He believes it could be an important direction for Bitcoin's evolution according to Satoshi Nakamoto's original vision, while potentially diminishing the appeal of privacy projects like Zcash and Monero.

According to CoinDesk, Barclays, HSBC UK, Lloyds, Monzo, Nationwide, NatWest, and Santander have completed the world's first interbank tokenized pound deposit customer transaction through the UK's tokenized deposit scheme.Among them, Lloyds, NatWest, and Barclays completed two remortgage transactions, with funds automatically released upon completion after being locked; three banks, including HSBC, completed peer-to-peer payments simulating online shopping.The platform was built by Quant, with EY responsible for project management, and Yearn Finance drafting the rules. The project plans to establish a company and create a rulebook, intending to issue three digital bonds that can be traded using tokenized deposits in the first quarter of 2027.

IBM announced that customers of its digital asset management platform IBM Digital Asset Haven can now connect to permissioned blockchain networks, including the blockchain-based shared ledger from Swift. A new beta version of the ISO 20022 message adapter allows financial institutions to initiate tokenized deposit transactions through this ledger using standard payment messages. IBM stated that financial institutions participating in Swift-related programs have tested tokenized deposits on this ledger using Digital Asset Haven. The ledger supports tokenized deposits issued by banks, enabling participating IBM clients to transfer digital assets around the clock, with final settlement still completed through existing systems.Swift first announced this ledger at Sibos 2025, based on a prototype developed in collaboration with Consensys, with over 40 financial institutions involved in its design, 17 of which are participating in the tokenized deposit pilot. Swift currently connects over 12,500 financial institutions across more than 200 markets worldwide. The aforementioned message adapter allows banks to continue using existing payment message formats and operational processes without adopting blockchain-specific workflows.IBM is also expanding Digital Asset Haven to a localized deployment beta version, which can be installed on IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE in the client's own data center for managing digital assets such as stablecoins and tokenized deposits, without relying on public cloud infrastructure. IBM stated that the platform and key management layer are fully retained within the client's own environment, with keys protected by IBM Crypto Express hardware security modules.

StarkWare stated in an update on September 23 that the estimated GPU computing cost for preparing a quantum secure Bitcoin (QSB) transaction has dropped to below $67, a decrease of about 79% compared to the approximately $320 computing expenditure for the first similar mainnet transaction in August. According to StarkWare, the first QSB transaction was packaged and confirmed on August 26, with the engineering work completed by Tomer Giladi, and submitted directly through MARA's Slipstream service. The preparation process consumed about 3100 GPU hours, utilized around 100 GPUs, and incurred a computing cost of approximately $320, excluding Bitcoin network transaction fees.This cost reduction resulted from the quantum secure Bitcoin optimization challenge initiated on September 16 by StarkWare, Yukon Research, and Eigen Labs. The challenge invited developers, researchers, and AI agents to optimize transaction construction software, ultimately resulting in 62 adopted improvements across two computational tasks required to prepare a QSB transaction, with benchmark tests showing an estimated computing cost reduction of about 79%. The relevant dashboard currently indicates that the estimated cost has further decreased to $66.The QSB proposal was released by StarkWare researcher Avihu Levy in April, introducing hash-based quantum attack protection for transactions without altering Bitcoin's consensus rules. Due to limited cost, complexity, and applicability, he described it at the time as an emergency measure while continuing to advocate for adjustments at the protocol level.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, in the past half hour, USDC Treasury has minted a total of 750 million USDC in three transactions.

Documents disclosed on Tuesday local time show that accounts under Trump completed 1,156 securities transactions in July, with a total scale ranging from 79 million to 270 million dollars, buying at least 43.6 million dollars and selling at least 35.6 million dollars, indicating a large-scale portfolio adjustment.On July 20, the account sold between 5 million to 25 million dollars of Microsoft and Amazon stocks, marking the largest single transaction of the month. On the same day, it sold between 1 million to 5 million dollars of Oracle stocks and bought between 500,010 to 1 million dollars of Nvidia stocks. Three days later, the account slightly replenished its positions in Microsoft and Amazon. Additionally, Trump also traded related assets of SpaceX and Tesla under Musk that month.

Jurrien Timmer, Global Macro Director at Fidelity Investments, stated on platform X that trading in the AI sector has been in a "dead money" state for over three months, with the token spending and GPU rental rates he tracks remaining flat or declining, while only memory (DRAM) prices continue to rise.Timmer believes that AI will change life in the long term and may unleash a productivity miracle, raising the non-inflationary speed limit of the economy to a level sufficient to sustain global debt. However, before that, the current construction is inflationary, and the returns on the trillions of dollars invested in computing power remain uncertain, with corporate equity and debt capital demand growing at a rate of $3.3 trillion.

The ongoing X-Agent AI MCP Hackathon has received nearly 40 projects, with some public works turning work decisions, capital management, and inter-machine trading into runnable products. X-Agent introduces three cases: BountyProof checks whether tasks are open, claimed, have relevant submissions, and the authenticity of rewards before the Agent accepts GitHub bounty tasks, with the core question being "Is this work worth doing?"Abstain empowers the Agent with the "do not trade" capability, returning execution, abandonment, or no trade based on preset rules before order execution. sumplus helps the Agent choose suitable model service solutions based on task context, output scale, model capability, and invocation costs, making the Agent an autonomous buyer of models, computing power, data, and API services.The three projects correspond to the foundational economic behaviors of the Agent: accepting work, utilizing funds, and purchasing services, pointing to work, capital, and trading primitives. X-Agent believes that a true Agent economy requires a complete cycle of "building, deploying, operating, discovering, invoking, paying, earning revenue, and distributing," positioning itself as the application layer of the Agent economy. This hackathon is still in the review stage, and the mentioned projects are only for public case reference, not representing shortlisted or award results.

According to The Wall Street Journal, traders on the prediction market platform Kalshi have executed nearly 1 million trades of nearly identical amounts in a single market since August, an unusual activity that has drawn the attention of federal regulators and traders. Kalshi stated that these trades represent normal activity, and the company does not disclose the identities of traders in its public data.The Wall Street Journal's analysis of publicly available trading data found that in recent weeks, more than one-third of trades in the Ethereum price speculation market consisted of rapid trades around the same order size of approximately $5,500. These rapid trades, all close to $5,500, occurred in a single Kalshi market, totaling about $5 billion.

According to Bloomberg, South African digital asset companies have suspended transactions worth billions of rand due to regulatory adjustment plans.The proposed revision will incorporate cryptocurrencies into South Africa's foreign exchange control system and restrict their use in cross-border transactions.

According to Blockworks data, the Solana network reached a record high of 5.218 billion on-chain transactions in August.