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Market news reports that hackers have infiltrated the propulsion system of a tanker heading to the United States.

According to Cointelegraph, former commissioner of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Brian Quintenz stated at the Korea Blockchain Week 2026 that the Clarity Act is not the only way to achieve regulatory certainty for cryptocurrencies. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and CFTC can use their exemptions to fill this regulatory gap.

Iranian Foreign Minister Amir-Abdollahian stated that the opening of the Strait of Hormuz depends on whether the conditions proposed by Iran are met, and Iran will not make concessions to the United States on established conditions.Amir-Abdollahian mentioned that Iran has been informed of the preliminary response from the United States regarding the proposal to reopen, but has not yet received specific information from the mediators.

According to Caixin, poker master and seasoned cryptocurrency investor Hu Zheweng made significant bets during the three waves of cryptocurrency frenzy involving ICOs, algorithmic stablecoins, and AI tokens, but faced consecutive failures. Hu Zheweng claimed to have invested in the blockchain project Stratis, achieving a return of "over 1000 times."According to disclosed information, Hu Zheweng invested approximately 80 million USD in algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD (UST) and its sister token LUNA from May 2021 to May 2022, with the peak market value of his holdings exceeding 800 million USD, but the price of LUNA subsequently nearly dropped to zero.In addition, Hu Zheweng has filed a lawsuit in Chicago, USA against the globally renowned quantitative trading firm Jump Trading and its related companies and executives in the cryptocurrency business, seeking at least 500 million USD in damages. After experiencing Stox and Terra, Hu Zheweng has not left the cryptocurrency market; last January, he bet on a new project by a Chinese computer professor Zhang Yongfeng. Zhang Yongfeng entered the Computer Science Department of Tsinghua University in 2007 and is currently a tenured associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Rutgers University in the USA. He has been sued by Hu Zheweng on multiple charges including "securities fraud." It is reported that the tokens issued by the organization founded by Zhang Yongfeng, in which Hu Zheweng invested millions of dollars, have fallen over 99.6% from their peak in 2025.

KelpDAO stated on platform X that it has filed a lawsuit against LayerZero and its co-founder Bryan Pellegrino, seeking accountability for the rsETH cross-chain bridge attack incident that occurred earlier this year. The lawsuit claims that LayerZero failed to adequately disclose its inherent technical weaknesses and risks; failed to prevent its security infrastructure from being compromised; and that LayerZero had previously reviewed and approved Kelp's deployment and configuration in writing.Officials stated that LayerZero has publicly attributed responsibility to itself in recent months. Since the occurrence of the attack, the team has taken action to ensure the safety of user assets, including migrating the rsETH cross-chain bridge to a more secure cross-chain standard.LayerZero co-founder and CEO Bryan Pellegrino tweeted that KelpDAO's related claims lack basis and that he will respond and defend in Vancouver.Previously, LayerZero released an incident report indicating that on April 18, 2026, the KelpDAO rsETH cross-chain bridge built on LayerZero was attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately 116,500 rsETH, valued at around $292 million.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk stated that China's AI large models perform excellently overall, with unit computing power output performance nearly at the top globally. He believes that China will solve the computing power issue faster than expected, anticipating that within two to three years, it will close the computing power gap relying on lithography technology and chip manufacturing.

The Tianyancha App shows that recently, the associated company of Zhipu AI, Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd., has undergone a business change, with registered capital increased from approximately 46.56 million RMB to approximately 48.76 million RMB.The company was established in June 2019, with Liu Debing as the legal representative. Its business scope includes the development of basic software for artificial intelligence, the development of application software for artificial intelligence, data processing and storage support services, information technology consulting services, etc., jointly held by Tang Jie, Tianjin Sankuaike Technology Co., Ltd., Guangxi Tencent Venture Capital Co., Ltd., and others.

According to Forbes, a warning jointly issued by multiple agencies including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National Police Agency (NPA) of Japan indicates that the North Korea-linked hacker group WaterPlum (also known as Contagious Interview) will launch attacks on global IT developers from December 2025 to July 2026 by disguising itself as companies in the AI, cryptocurrency, or NFT sectors and offering fake job positions.Attackers contact job seekers on social media and recruitment platforms, luring them into downloading malicious files under the pretext of technical interviews or programming tests. They successfully infected over 30,000 devices, covering more than 100 countries and regions, and stole data from over 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets. Related funds of at least $10.71 million have flowed into wallets controlled by the attackers.

According to The Wall Street Journal, an independent security research team used Anthropic's Claude software to breach a ChatGPT account belonging to an OpenAI employee, allowing them to access and modify the internal code system associated with that employee.The researchers first used Claude to analyze a vulnerability in Discourse, which is used by the OpenAI developer community, and generated executable attack code. They then obtained an authentication token and, due to a permissions configuration issue, accessed a ChatGPT account belonging to an OpenAI employee, while also gaining limited read and modification suggestion permissions for some private GitHub repositories.

Former Sonic CEO Michael Kong posted a response to Sonic Labs' recent statement of "immediate termination of cooperation." He stated that the company still sought his assistance on the same day and expressed hope for his well-being, but the announcement did not specify the reason, leading to the misleading impression that "he may have been dismissed due to misconduct." Kong indicated that this departure was not voluntary; after working at Fantom/Sonic for over eight years, he negotiated and signed a severance and release agreement with Sonic Labs and its affiliates.Kong mentioned that for the past two and a half months, Sonic Labs repeatedly promised to fulfill the agreement but is currently refusing to do so, and the existing contractual agreements have also not been honored. The release agreement stipulates that both parties shall not publicly disparage each other, yet matters that should have been handled internally were made public by Sonic Labs, causing damage, which is why he chose to respond publicly. He noted that he had almost single-handedly won the company a lawsuit in South Korea worth approximately $150 million, which was described as one of the largest cryptocurrency disputes in South Korea, and cited a written evaluation from David Richardson, the owner of Fantom and Sonic, stating that his work should be appreciated by the foundation.Kong stated that he reserves all rights to make any claims against Sonic Labs and its affiliates.

According to a report by Sina Finance, Lin Junxian, a former client manager of China Construction Bank (Asia) Corporation Limited, admitted to conspiring with an employee of a financial technology company and his accomplices to accept bribes, totaling over 470,000 US dollars in cryptocurrency "Tether." They illegally certified multiple false documents without the bank's authorization to secure several insurance-related investment transactions.An internal investigation by China Construction Bank (Asia) uncovered the incident, which was subsequently reported to the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) along with full cooperation. Judge Lin Jianhong has postponed the sentencing of the case to September 18, during which the defendant will remain in custody under the Correctional Services Department.

File sharing platform LimeWire announced that the Web3 ecosystem BabyDoge has acquired LimeWire, with the financial terms of the deal undisclosed. Co-founders Julian Zehetmayr and Paul Zehetmayr, who have rebuilt LimeWire's technological foundation over the past five years, officially hand over the reins to Abel Czupor and BabyDoge.Abel Czupor stated that Julian and Paul built the infrastructure used by approximately 8 million people monthly. As part of the acquisition, LMWR will become the native utility token of the LimeWire platform, used for decentralized file storage and platform AI tools among other services. The updated LimeWire Network product roadmap is expected to be announced in the coming weeks.BabyDoge claims its community has over 3 million users and has set a Guinness World Record related to animal charity donations. LimeWire was rebuilt and relaunched in 2022, stating that it has no affiliation with the original Lime Wire LLC or Lime Group LLC.

Filecoin's official statement says that once the allocations of Protocol Labs and the Filecoin Foundation end in October this year, the new supply of FIL is expected to decrease by 75%. After that, block rewards will become the only new supply source, and burn and staking locks will determine the subsequent situation.

According to a report by Reuters, U.S. Senate negotiators are discussing legislation that would require artificial intelligence companies to demonstrate that they are taking reasonable precautions to prevent their tools from causing harm. The proposal aims to grant the U.S. Secretary of Commerce the authority to require developers to provide proof of reasonable steps taken to prevent harm, referred to as "duty of care," and to authorize the dispatch of government auditors to test relevant products. Reuters was unable to immediately determine what constitutes "reasonable," and the related legislation is still under discussion.Even if Congress passes the measure, its prospects of becoming law still face significant resistance. U.S. President Donald Trump stated on Monday that existing authorities are sufficient to regulate and prosecute technology companies, suggesting that he would not sign a bill that sets new rules for artificial intelligence. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz, and Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar, who is involved in the negotiations, are discussing the proposal. Thune told reporters on Monday that Congress could set safeguards against more significant threats without compromising the U.S.'s leading position in the artificial intelligence race.Klobuchar stated in a statement that she is continuing to push for bipartisan legislation to oversee the greatest risks posed by artificial intelligence models, including requiring developers to work with government experts to validate and test models to ensure safety. Senior Democratic member of the Commerce Committee Maria Cantwell is also involved in the discussions. Reuters reported on Friday that negotiators are also discussing the possibility that if the government determines that certain artificial intelligence models are unsafe and wishes to prevent their release, it could be brought to federal court, where companies could challenge that decision. The portion of the measure involving federal courts would also prevent states from enforcing their own laws regarding specific risks associated with artificial intelligence models.

According to NBC, North Korea is utilizing remote IT workers from third countries such as Iran and Lebanon to assist in infiltrating American companies and obtaining funds to finance its weapons programs. Alerts issued by the U.S. and several foreign agencies in July indicated that North Korean IT workers "seek to sign contracts with the intention of remitting salaries back to relevant North Korean agencies," while also posing internal threats to companies, involving data leaks, cryptocurrency theft, and sensitive information theft.As governments like the United States increase countermeasures, North Korea is increasingly leveraging third-country IT workers to secure job interviews, and after obtaining work contracts, the relevant positions are typically taken over by North Korean agents. Reports indicate that these foreign IT workers are scouted on LinkedIn, with some earning about $500 per month in cryptocurrency to work part-time as "interview assistants."Cointelegraph reported in May, citing data from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, that state-affiliated North Korean hackers and threat actors caused cryptocurrency losses exceeding $2 billion in 2025, a 51% increase year-on-year. The Bank of Korea estimates that despite facing global sanctions, North Korea's GDP will still grow by 3.5% in 2025.

According to The Block, Citadel Securities urged the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in a letter dated September 9 to reaffirm the SEC's regulatory authority over products related to U.S. publicly traded companies and their securities.The letter responds to the CFTC's self-certification process for event contracts. Citadel believes that event contracts associated with publicly traded companies should fall under the SEC's regulatory scope to ensure a clear and consistent regulatory framework for related products.

According to the official statement from Osmosis, the proposal for the solution regarding the previous Nomic chain nBTC incident is now online and has officially entered community discussion.According to the proposal, the Osmosis governance community will consider confiscating the previously frozen assets of the attacker and using the accumulated BTC in the community fund pool to cover the remaining collateral gap, in order to restore the full collateral support for Alloyed BTC. Currently, this plan still needs to go through governance discussion and voting, and the asset confiscation or collateral replenishment has not yet been completed.

According to Akchabar, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan, Ulan Niyazbekov, stated that since 2026, the country's internal affairs agency has initiated 90 criminal investigations related to cryptocurrency, involving cases of online fraud, theft of funds, money laundering, and the transfer of criminal proceeds.Niyazbekov revealed that during a 2025 investigation into a transnational online fraud gang, police discovered a TRON wallet holding over 3 million dollars in digital assets on a suspect's device and used blockchain analysis tools to trace the related funds.

According to DeFiLlama data, as of September 9 at 13:30, Huobi HTX had a net capital inflow of approximately 447 million USD in the past 24 hours, ranking first among the centralized exchanges in their statistics. During the same period, the platform's total assets were approximately 4.232 billion USD, Clean Assets were about 4.218 billion USD, the 24-hour spot trading volume reached 1.036 billion USD, and the contract open interest was approximately 3.948 billion USD.As of September 8 at 9:00, Huobi HTX had a net capital inflow of approximately 437 million USD in the past 24 hours, also ranking first among CEX.