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Galaxy Research released a report titled "The Behavior of Polymarket Traders," with data compiled by Stork, based on approximately 2.9 million retail accounts defined by trading frequency on the Polymarket international platform. The report states that since its launch in 2020, the platform has facilitated 1.27 billion orders, involving 3.07 million wallets, with a nominal amount of 82.8 billion USD. 125,429 accounts that placed more than 50 orders on active days were excluded, accounting for 4.1% of accounts but contributing 80.8% of orders and 41% of nominal trading volume.The report shows that 69.2% of retail accounts are below breakeven, with total losses of 338.9 million USD. The median retail account lost about 3 USD, with half of the accounts falling between -36.64 USD and +0.40 USD. The proportion of accounts that did not trade again within 30 days after a loss is 15.2%, while after a profit it is 6.1%. The excluded automated accounts collectively made a profit of 246.8 million USD. The median position for profit-makers is 13.96 USD, while for loss-makers it is 10 USD.44.1% of traders concentrated over 60% of their activity on a single theme. Sports specialists account for 47% of all specialists, with a profit ratio of 25.1%, the lowest among all themes; technology and science specialists have a profit ratio of 41.2%. The report covers the entire history of the international platform and mentions that the platform will introduce taker fees in early 2026. At a price point of 50 cents, crypto market takers pay 1.75 USD for a position of 100 shares or 50 USD, accounting for approximately 3.5% of the invested capital.

According to Bitcoin.com, Microsoft's official X account was hacked and used to promote a meme coin themed around its classic Clippy assistant character, CLIPPY. The related violating content has been removed, and Microsoft has confirmed to the media that the account was subject to unauthorized access and stated that it is continuing to investigate the incident.

ZachXBT posted on platform X that UPay may allow the sanctioned illegal market Xinbi to issue its Visa crypto card and requested UPay to clarify the situation.ZachXBT stated that Xinbi is mainly involved in pig butchering scams, fraud, money laundering, and human trafficking.

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 Catcher Predict monitoring, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "LoL: T1 Academy vs Galions World Star Challenger Invitational Playoffs," the "Game 4 Winner" sub-market option "T1 Academy" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 59.5% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 30.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to the Star newspaper, police in the central region of Perak, in collaboration with the National Energy Company (TNB), launched an operation in Seri Iskandar to dismantle an illegal cryptocurrency mining site and arrested two local men.The individuals involved are suspected of illegally connecting wires to power Bitcoin mining machines. Police seized 30 Bitcoin mining machines, routers, desktop switches, and a roll of wire at the scene. The case is being investigated under Section 427 of the Penal Code and Section 37(1) of the Electricity Supply Act 1990.Police emphasized that stealing electricity for mining is not only illegal but can also cause significant losses to the power company and pose a fire risk.

ENS Labs, the developer of the Ethereum Name Service, is exploring with the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) how institutions can associate their ENS names with verifiable Legal Entity Identifiers (vLEI), thereby creating a continuous and verifiable identity on the blockchain.ENS is the domain and identity system of the Ethereum ecosystem, allowing users to replace long addresses with human-readable names. GLEIF is responsible for managing the global Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) system, and vLEI is its verifiable version used to confirm the legal entity identity of organizations. The direction of this collaboration is to connect on-chain names with regulated legal identity credentials, but the specific product form and launch time have not been disclosed in public posts.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event on Polymarket for "LoL KT Rolster Challengers vs Galions World Star Challengers Invitational Playoffs," the sub-market "Game Handicap: KT.C (-1.5) vs Galions (+1.5)" option for "KT Rolster Challengers" has seen a dramatic fluctuation in win rate, rising from 40.5% an hour ago to the current 59% (a fluctuation of 18.5%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the Polymarket event "Bengals vs. Steelers," the "Bengals" option in the sub-market "2H Spread -4.5" experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, plummeting from 35% an hour ago to the current 19.5% (a fluctuation of 15.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to monitoring by the head of Galaxy Research, the COLDCARD Seed Entropy theft incident has resulted in 1,830 BTC being stolen, involving three rounds of attacks and over 30 smaller related signs.A total of 256 victims have reported their situations to GLXY Research, with a median loss of 1.1 BTC, and the tracking of the attackers is still ongoing.

Galaxy Digital, a Nasdaq-listed digital asset company, has incorporated $100 million in Sky Protocol interest-bearing savings tokens sUSDS into its corporate treasury and included them in the collateral range for institutional business facing over 1,600 counterparties. Galaxy also purchased an undisclosed amount of SKY.Galaxy clients can use sUSDS as collateral for loans and continue to earn Sky Savings Rate yields during the loan term. The average loan size in Galaxy's institutional lending business is approximately $1.4 billion; the Sky ecosystem's Prime Agent Grove had previously provided a $500 million warehouse loan limit to it.

According to Bloomberg, the New York State government has filed a lawsuit accusing the prediction market platform Polymarket of operating an illegal gambling business. Specific allegations in the lawsuit and the remedies sought by New York State have not yet disclosed further details.

According to BBX data, yesterday global publicly listed companies in the U.S. stock market announced their latest accounts regarding digital asset treasury allocation, targeted private placements, and stock repurchases at a discount. The core updates are as follows:Galaxy Digital (TSX: GLXY) invested $100 million to purchase sUSDS and increased its holdings in SKY tokens: The well-known cryptocurrency financial services firm Galaxy Digital announced that it has utilized $100 million of its own funds to officially incorporate the interest-bearing stablecoin sUSDS from Sky Protocol into its corporate treasury. At the same time, Galaxy has approved sUSDS as compliant collateral for its institutional trading business, allowing institutional clients to apply for loans by pledging sUSDS while continuing to enjoy Sky's savings interest rate benefits. Additionally, Greg Feibus, the global head of capital markets at Sky Frontier Foundation, confirmed that Galaxy also purchased an undisclosed amount of SKY tokens. The two parties have established a new tripartite lending arrangement and are discussing expanding the existing $500 million warehouse financing limit.Forward Industries (NASDAQ: $FWDI) plans to raise $25 million through a registered direct offering, fully allocated to increase its holdings in SOL: The publicly listed company Forward Industries, which is part of the Solana treasury, announced that it has signed a securities purchase agreement with institutional investors to sell 3.125 million shares of common stock at a price of $8 per share through a registered direct issuance, raising a total of approximately $25 million (expected to complete settlement around September 24). A.G.P./Alliance Global Partners is acting as the exclusive placement agent. Forward Industries clearly stated that the net proceeds from this offering will be fully used to increase its holdings in SOL in the secondary market, to expand its SOL treasury size and enhance the per-share fully diluted SOL content.Silvia (formerly ProCap Financial, NASDAQ: $SVIA) reduced its holdings by repurchasing 124 BTC, bringing total holdings down to 5,130 BTC: The Nasdaq-listed company Silvia, under cryptocurrency entrepreneur Anthony Pompliano, announced that since September 15, it has repurchased an additional 2.3% of its circulating common stock at a market discount below net asset value (NAV). Since the repurchase program began, the cumulative repurchase ratio has reached approximately 14.5%. As of the market close on September 22, the company's circulating shares have been reduced to 82,881,223 shares, with the treasury holding approximately 5,130 BTC (a decrease of about 124 BTC from approximately 5,254 BTC on September 15), and the NAV per share is approximately $4.27. The company reiterated its firm commitment to selling some assets to repurchase shares until the secondary market trading price is no longer below NAV.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale transferred 42,000 ETH to Galaxy Digital about an hour ago, valued at approximately 112 million dollars, intending to sell.This whale has accumulated these ETH through over-the-counter trading with Galaxy Digital over the past two months.

According to a report by TASS, Bogdan Shablya, head of the financial monitoring and foreign exchange regulation department of the Central Bank of Russia, stated that the Central Bank of Russia expects that after the implementation of laws related to digital currencies, the issue of illegal cryptocurrency exchanges will be resolved, and the related "gray area" should disappear before July 1, 2027.After that, the market will be clearly divided into "white" and "black" parts, with corresponding penalties implemented.

Galaxy Research Director Alex Thorn posted on X: The U.S. spot Bitcoin ETP saw a net inflow of $1 billion yesterday, marking the largest single-day inflow of 2026 so far.Alex Thorn stated that this inflow has pushed the net flow positive for the first time since April this year. The accompanying image title is "Bitcoin ETF Fund Flow Turns Positive This Year."

According to The Block, Galaxy Digital announced that it has incorporated $100 million of the yield-bearing stablecoin sUSDS from Sky Protocol into its corporate treasury and approved it as collateral for institutional trading operations. Galaxy's lending head Max Bareiss stated that this purchase was made using the company's own balance sheet funds; as of June 30, Galaxy held nearly $2.5 billion in cash and stablecoins.As part of the collaboration, Galaxy also acquired an undisclosed amount of SKY tokens. Clients can now borrow by pledging sUSDS through Galaxy and continue to earn Sky savings rates during the loan period. Galaxy's institutional platform serves over 1,600 counterparties, with an average loan book of $1.4 billion.Sky stated that the supply of sUSDS reached $5.52 billion at the end of the second quarter, a year-on-year increase of 149%. The two parties previously had arrangements such as $500 million in warehouse financing provided by Grove and are currently discussing expanding that limit.

Russian Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov stated that Russia will promote the establishment of a transparent and legal cryptocurrency market. The country has about 20 million cryptocurrency users, with a total investment of approximately 3.7 trillion rubles, and a daily trading volume of about 50 billion rubles.

According to CoinDesk, Taylor Lindman, the Chief Legal Counsel of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Crypto Working Group, stated at the CoinDesk Policy & Regulation event held in Washington that the SEC is advancing rules for the custody of crypto assets. The relevant proposal has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, covering investment companies and broker-dealers. She indicated that the rule aims to inform the market about how to hold non-securities crypto assets within broker-dealers without special registration and clarifies that investment advisors can store client assets in institutions such as state-chartered trusts.Once the proposal passes the review by the Office of Management and Budget, the SEC will formally present it and seek feedback from the industry and the public. Lindman also mentioned that the SEC will issue an employee statement in December 2025 as a transitional arrangement, guiding broker-dealers on handling crypto custody matters before the rules are implemented, and will allow investment advisors to store client assets in state-chartered trusts as qualified crypto custodians starting in September 2025.Lindman described the SEC's recent work as "laying the groundwork," including previously proposed rules allowing crypto issuance and exemptions for tokenized securities. She stated that the SEC is working to ensure that existing securities intermediaries and market participants can confidently use blockchain to hold and trade crypto assets. Previously, the SEC's attempts at custody rules under Gary Gensler in 2023 were abandoned, and a leadership supportive of crypto was appointed after the Trump administration took office.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin stated that the circulation of cryptocurrency within Russia has been legalized since September 1, and the relevant laws have been signed into effect by the president.