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Synthra Finance posted on X that it has directly repurchased nearly 2 million POLL from the market and completed the destruction.Synthra Finance stated that after this operation, the total amount destroyed is close to 7% of the total supply of POLL, and mentioned that the related repurchase comes from protocol revenue, marking another round of repurchase and destruction.

According to Decrypt, the European Union's law enforcement agency reported that Spanish police arrested a 16-year-old Romanian suspect in Alicante, suspected of being an administrator and main operator of the ransomware group KillSec.Two other suspects in their twenties were arrested in the UK and Romania, respectively; another developer who just turned 18 in August this year has been identified but has not been arrested due to some crimes occurring during their minor years.This operation, codenamed Operation KillSwitch, was led by the Hamburg State Criminal Police and the city's prosecution office, focusing on approximately 1,000 suspected attacks worldwide, with about 500 confirmed as successful intrusions.Law enforcement searched eight locations in Spain, Greece, Romania, and the UK, seized five central servers, and redirected related domain names to seizure announcement pages, while also confiscating at least 110 TB of stolen data.KillSec has been active since around 2024, exploiting software vulnerabilities and poorly secured cloud storage entry points to infiltrate corporate systems, copying internal data and naming victim organizations on dark web leak sites, threatening to publicly release documents to demand cryptocurrency ransoms, and if the target refuses to pay, they release the data for free.The Swiss Federal Police noted that the group also employed double extortion tactics, first encrypting servers and then applying pressure. U.S. prosecutors' charges indicate that a Dutch national residing in the UK, Fouad Eltibrizi (nicknamed Archduke), was indicted by a federal grand jury in Puerto Rico on September 16, subsequently arrested, and awaiting extradition, facing up to 10 years in prison. The European Cybercrime Centre, under the European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation, is assisting in tracing cryptocurrency funds and conducting digital forensics.

EIP-8363 co-sponsor Jérôme de Tychey announced the withdrawal of the application to include the proposal in the Hegotá hard fork, and the discussion on the related issuance policy will shift to an independent topic.

According to Bloomberg, global alternative asset management company Apollo Global Management will provide financing support for a $15 billion AI infrastructure project in Japan, further expanding its investment layout in the field of artificial intelligence.Apollo will act as a strategic investment and financing partner, participating in the project jointly promoted by UK developer RHAELM Holdings, Japan's largest power company Jera, and Dell Technologies. The project is located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan, and aims to build infrastructure to support AI computing needs.

The Polygon Foundation announced on the X platform that the PIP-92 proposal has been officially activated, and the staking rewards for the Polygon Chain will be increased to an expected 7.7%. This incentive will last until December 1, 2026.According to PIP-92, the 27.3 million POL priority fees accumulated by the network will be used to enhance the reward earnings for stakers over the next two months.

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.

Recently, the police in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, China, investigated a virtual currency money laundering case. The criminal gang used "free credit card repayment" as bait to attract ordinary users to provide accounts. They received illicit funds from overseas gambling and fraud through false consumption, then contacted currency dealers to exchange for virtual currency and transferred it to designated addresses abroad. Through financial and on-chain data analysis, the police identified nearly a thousand involved accounts, with suspects distributed across Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Jiangsu, Hebei, Chongqing, and other regions.The Digital Currency Research Institute of the People's Bank of China stated that it is currently using large model technology to analyze the flow of funds in virtual currency transactions, restore the gang's trading patterns, and uncover clues related to illegal industries. Upon investigation, it was confirmed that seven members of the gang were illegally engaged in payment settlement business without approval from relevant national authorities, constituting the crime of illegal operation, and were sentenced to imprisonment ranging from one year and two months to two years and six months, along with fines.Using virtual currency for money laundering is a new type of money laundering crime that has emerged in recent years. Lv Wei, the president of the Inner Mongolia branch of the People's Bank of China, stated that enhancing the monitoring and identification capabilities for abnormal fund transactions related to virtual currency trading has helped successfully crack down on a major money laundering case involving virtual currency pyramid schemes, dismantling more than ten money laundering and points-running dens, and confiscating illegal gains of approximately 130 million yuan. In recent years, there have been coordinated efforts to promote the conviction and sentencing of four cases involving money laundering using virtual currency, forming a strong deterrent against illegal activities such as money laundering with virtual currency.

According to a report by Fabien Arnaud from the French media Midi Libre, a resident in Saint-Jean-de-Védas near Montpellier, France, was the victim of a home invasion and extortion related to cryptocurrency. The police acted quickly after the incident and have arrested three suspects.It is reported that the victim had previously encountered a similar violent extortion related to cryptocurrency on April 11 of this year.

Federal Reserve Governor Barr stated that there is a need to recalibrate policy, and the basic situation may require further policy adjustments.

According to The Block, Polymarket has appointed former Goldman Sachs partner Lisa Mantil as Head of Institutional Growth.It is reported that Mantil will be responsible for products, infrastructure, and liquidity related work aimed at investment managers, banks, and corporate trading desks.

The Ethereum Foundation announced that the Ethereum network upgrade Glamsterdam will be activated on the Sepolia testnet on October 6 at 21:53:36 Beijing time, corresponding to epoch 353024 and slot 11296768. The activation date for Hoodi and the mainnet has not yet been determined.Glamsterdam combines the execution layer Amsterdam upgrade and the consensus layer Gloas upgrade. Key changes include the embedded proposer-builder separation and block-level access lists to enhance L1 throughput, as well as adjustments to gas billing to better reflect the costs of execution and state growth. Node operators must update their execution layer and consensus layer clients before activation. Contracts relying on fixed gas assumptions may need to be modified.

According to Bloomberg, OpenAI apologized on Tuesday for its artificial intelligence model's unauthorized access to Australian government websites and promised to establish a new task force for post-incident rectification.The San Francisco-based company stated that it would fund Australia's cyber defense and assist in managing the risks posed by increasingly powerful artificial intelligence. OpenAI provided some details about the June incident in a blog post, as well as the steps it plans to take to avoid similar situations in the future and restore trust.

The crypto media The Block reported that there are 36 days until the U.S. midterm elections. The cumulative trading volume on the U.S. presidential election market on the prediction market platform Polymarket US has surpassed $545 million, making election-related markets one of the largest by trading volume on the platform.Traders currently assign a 91% probability to the Democratic Party winning the U.S. House of Representatives, up from 73% in May. The aforementioned trading volume and probability are both derived from the U.S. election-related markets on Polymarket US.

The Polygon Foundation announced that the staking rewards for Polygon Chain are expected to increase to 7.7% on October 1. According to PIP-92, the accumulated 27.3 million POL priority fees in the network will be used to enhance staker rewards in the next two months.

Polymarket's Vice President Josh stated on platform X that the team is fully developing a complete Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) based on Rust, as the current CLOB is the root cause of most issues on the platform.According to the plan, the complete order lifecycle process, including trading, settlement, on-chain interaction, indexer, and engine notifications, will be completed in the testing environment in October; in November, all production traffic will be mirrored to the new trading cluster, and results will be compared with the existing system. At the same time, testing permissions will be opened to market makers, and the migration switch plan will be locked in, with two complete drills to be completed before the official switch.Josh also mentioned that if progress goes smoothly, the new system will be officially released, and the migration is expected to require little or no changes for market makers and developers.

According to QCP analysis, the global market opened under multi-asset pressure, with investors reducing risk exposure. The Nasdaq 100 index fell from 744.45 to 737.76 in pre-market trading, gold dropped from $4260 to $4147, Bitcoin decreased from $84500 to $82800, and the dollar index also declined, reflecting broad deleveraging rather than a shift to safe-haven assets.QCP stated that the main driving factor is geopolitical: the United States rejected a ceasefire condition proposal regarding the Strait of Hormuz last weekend, reigniting concerns over energy supply disruptions and driving a significant rise in Brent crude oil. This week, the U.S. macroeconomic calendar is packed. Following the recent interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve, the PCE price index and non-farm payroll report are key data points, and the market remains highly sensitive to data that could influence further adjustments in monetary policy. In terms of crypto options, front-end implied volatility remains high, with traders pricing for downside protection. Spot Bitcoin ETF fund flows show hesitation amid broader clearing. Bitcoin's recent technical strength faces dual pressure from geopolitical uncertainty and macroeconomic data risks, with key support levels being closely monitored.

Blockworks co-founder Jason Yanowitz shares the judgment of Apollo's chief economist: agents may trigger bank runs by aggregating household cash.The chief economist stated that agents could transfer household cash from accounts with a national average interest rate of 0.1% to accounts paying 3% to 5%, causing banks to lose a significant portion of their cheap deposits.

Polygon co-founder Sandeep posted on the X platform stating that the POL community has recently accumulated and permanently destroyed 100 million POL through on-chain revenue, accounting for about 1% of the total supply, and will additionally destroy approximately 25 million POL.Sandeep also mentioned that POL (formerly MATIC) is still "the most undervalued and overlooked project." According to him, Polymarket has launched perpetual contracts on Polygon, and with the recent upgrade, Polygon PoS is gradually evolving towards a more advanced blockchain, expecting to achieve a 1 millisecond confirmation time through block flow in the future. Additionally, OMS is about to enable Polygon to handle approximately 1 million new transactions daily.