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The artificial intelligence infrastructure company Nscale has hired a senior executive from Meta Platforms as Chief Operating Officer, aiming to prepare for an IPO.

The founder of Liebit Mining Pool, Jiang Zhuoer, posted on the X platform stating that the number of ETH queued for withdrawal from staking has risen to 850,000, with the waiting time increasing to 14.77 days, both of which are the highest within 2026. This indicates that a group of coin holders believes the current coin price is relatively high and needs to sell coins to lock in profits.

On-chain analyst Darkfost posted on X that the inflow of whale funds transferring over 1 million dollars in stablecoins to Binance has significantly increased recently.According to the 30-day cumulative calculation, the amount of stablecoins this group has transferred to Binance has risen from 21.7 billion dollars to 30.5 billion dollars over the past month, an increase of over 40%.Darkfost stated that the inflow of stablecoins to exchanges usually indicates that funds are preparing to enter the market, so this change may correspond to potential buying pressure. However, compared to last October when inflows once exceeded 61 billion dollars, the current deployment of whale funds remains relatively cautious.

Coinbase released a report indicating that the profit-taking scale of BTC has risen to its highest level of the year, while market demand has cooled. On September 22, holders realized a profit of 25,700 BTC in a single day, the highest daily level since 2026. At the same time, the unrealized profit margin for short-term traders rose to 33%, the highest since December 2024.Meanwhile, in the past 30 days, the apparent spot demand for BTC has decreased by 170,000 coins; the incremental speculative futures demand also dropped from 164,000 coins on September 14 to 16,000 coins on September 29.

ARK Invest's Director of Digital Asset Research Lorenzo Valente published a discussion on the synthetic dollar protocol Ethena: tokenized stocks are changing the landscape in which ENA operates. He stated that the supply of USDe had bottomed out at $3.8 billion and has now risen by about 30%, recovering to nearly $5 billion.Lorenzo Valente: The inverted or low funding rates in the crypto market have forced more USDe collateral to shift towards off-chain yields such as government bonds, with sUSDe's average annualized rate once approaching or falling below SOFR; the market capitalization has remained stable over the long term, and the open interest has also limited the pace of expansion. He noted that basis trading has rebounded to about 20% of the collateral and is growing rapidly, with the U.S. stock market size at approximately $70 trillion, averaging over 8% annual growth. Continued bullish demand is expected to bring sustained positive funding rates, with lower stock volatility and lower hedging costs.He believes this is the first clear path for USDe to expand its supply to over $20 billion, and reaching $30 billion to $40 billion in the next 12 to 18 months would not be surprising, as the upper limit has shifted from crypto open interest to tokenized stock open interest. He also mentioned that Ethena's infrastructure and operations have been validated, and it is expected that Ethena Pay will further drive USDe from the demand side, with the chains, protocols, and vaults supporting USDe's supply and circulation strategies becoming the main beneficiaries.

According to GlobeNewswire, Grayscale's Zcash ETF (ZCSH) announced that it has completed the previously announced "3-for-1" share split, which took effect before the opening of the U.S. stock market, and the fund shares will trade based on the split-adjusted basis from that day onward.Grayscale stated that shareholders registered as of the close on September 28 will receive an additional 2 shares for every 1 share of ZCSH held before the split, meaning each share before the split will convert into 3 shares after the split. This split will not change the total value of shareholders' investments, and the net asset value (NAV) per share will be adjusted to approximately one-third of the pre-split amount.After the split, ZCSH continues to trade on NYSE Arca, with the trading code and CUSIP number remaining unchanged.

According to Cointelegraph, data from Chainalysis shows that in the year leading up to June 2026, Singapore's cryptocurrency economic activity grew by 55.4% year-on-year, reaching a scale of $284 billion, reclaiming its position as the largest crypto economy in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania amid an overall contraction in the region.The increase was mainly contributed by institutional platforms, with such activities surging by 94% to $60 billion, concentrated among a few market makers, over-the-counter trading firms, and institutional brokers. During the same period, the total crypto economy in the aforementioned region declined by 6.8%.Chainalysis pointed out that the growth of Singapore's institutional ecosystem is highly concentrated, primarily reflected in large transactions on existing platforms rather than the entry of numerous new services. At the same time, Singapore is tightening cryptocurrency regulations while promoting tokenization, stablecoins, and digital asset settlements.In 2025, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) required local crypto companies providing services to overseas clients to obtain licenses or exit the market. StraitsX CEO Tianwei Liu believes this measure curbed speculative activities and increased the proportion of banks and large enterprises applying blockchain in production. MAS is also conducting compliance stablecoin and tokenized bank deposit pilots through the BLOOM program, with Ripple joining on March 25 to test cross-border trade settlements using RLUSD.The Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam excel in small P2P transfers. Chainalysis statistics show that the three countries collectively recorded 5.4 million domestic and international peer-to-peer transfers under $10,000, accounting for 14.4% of global similar transactions, but only representing 2.5% of the global crypto economy.

According to @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, Bitget has started to replenish the protection fund, which has now risen to a scale of 200 million USD. In the past 2 hours, Bitget transferred 2,000 BTC (worth 166 million USD) from its cold wallet to the protection fund address. The current on-chain balance is 2,484.71 BTC, worth 206 million USD. Previously, Bitget promised to "replenish 300 million USD within a week," and is in the process of fulfilling that commitment.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Grayscale Chainlink ETF purchased and received 159,500 LINK from Coinbase Prime 5 hours ago, worth 2.36 million dollars.This ETF has accumulated at least 629,100 LINK this month, worth 8.37 million dollars.

On September 24, Zach Pandl, the research director of the cryptocurrency asset management company Grayscale, published an article in the column The Stack stating that in the wave of artificial intelligence, the demand and supply paths for the computing power required to train, run, and operate models are diverging. Grayscale believes that this imbalance favors owners of already powered and operational computing capacity and brings growth-oriented investment opportunities.Zach Pandl stated that digital demand can expand instantly, but physical infrastructure such as electricity, data centers, chips, memory, and cloud services takes years to approve, access, and build. When artificial intelligence agents perform multi-step tasks, they may consume 5 to 50 times more compute tokens than typical chatbot interactions, and increased application layer activity will transmit to the underlying computing infrastructure.The article cites data from the International Energy Agency and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, stating that data centers are expected to account for about half of the growth in electricity demand in the United States by 2030, and new projects may take more than five years to connect to the grid. Even if electricity is secured, permits, specialized labor, electrical equipment, cooling systems, GPUs, high-bandwidth memory, and networks are still needed. Continuous value will flow to power producers, data center operators, and artificial intelligence cloud service providers that can convert electricity into computation.

CryptoQuant's Research Director Julio Moreno stated that with the recent rise in Bitcoin, the unrealized profit rate has increased to 33%, reaching the highest level since December 2024.Meanwhile, the scale of Bitcoin profit-taking has risen to 25,700 BTC, marking the highest level since 2026. Moreno believes that the simultaneous rise in unrealized profit rate and profit-taking scale typically indicates that the momentum of this rally is weakening, and the market faces the risk of a correction.

Market news reports that Nvidia has committed to invest 1 billion dollars in NScale, with the funds expected to be in place by mid-November.

According to Bitcoin.com, Grayscale's Zcash ETF (ZCSH) has reached a net asset size of 1 billion dollars, with a cumulative net inflow of 306.12 million dollars, accounting for less than 30%. The fund began trading on NYSE Arca on August 25, and its size exceeded 500 million dollars within two weeks.ZCSH was renamed from Grayscale Zcash Trust, which was established in October 2017 and already held ZEC at the time of listing; meanwhile, the price of ZEC has roughly doubled since the ETF's listing, driving the growth of the fund's asset size. Grayscale's parent group DCG International Investments exchanged approximately 100 million dollars worth of ZCSH shares for 85,705.32563297 ZEC, and after excluding this non-cash transaction, the external new funds amount to about 200 million dollars.Grayscale will implement a 3-for-1 forward split before the market opens on September 30, and holders registered as of the market close on September 28 will be subject to this arrangement. After the split, the net asset value per share is expected to drop to about one-third, the number of shares will increase threefold, and the dollar value of the holdings will remain unchanged.

According to Darkfost's analysis, during the recent rise of Bitcoin, Binance's BTC funds have primarily been flowing out, with an average net outflow of about 2,000 BTC per day over the past week. Among them, Binance experienced a single-day net outflow of over 13,800 BTC, setting the record for the largest single-day net outflow in 2023.In the past 4 days, the platform's BTC reserves have decreased from about 705,000 to 685,000, a reduction of approximately 20,000 BTC. Darkfost stated that the continuous outflow of BTC from exchanges usually indicates that some investors are choosing to transfer their assets to self-custody, which may correspond to a longer-term holding behavior while reducing potential selling pressure on the exchange. He believes that the recent large-scale outflow may reflect the FOMO sentiment of investors who had previously been waiting for Bitcoin to drop further.

Grayscale's research director Zach Pandl pointed out that the recent "Innovation Exemption" directive issued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is expected to fundamentally change the previous landscape where tokenized U.S. stocks primarily relied on offshore "packaged derivatives" trading, promoting the inclusion of real tokenized stocks with complete shareholder voting rights and dividend rights into the regulated financial system of the United States.This exemption order is valid for 5 years and specifically relaxes two core registration requirements: qualified tokenized trading venues do not need to register as traditional stock exchanges; qualified liquidity providers do not need to register as broker-dealers.Grayscale believes that this marks a significant step as on-chain trading infrastructure is proving to be fully compatible with regulatory compliance and investor protection, and it is expected to drive Congress to advance a broader bipartisan legislative process in the future.

According to data from RWA.xyz, the current tokenized stock protocols exhibit diverse characteristics in terms of asset management scale and the richness of underlying assets.In terms of asset management scale, the top five platforms are Ondo (approximately $882 million), bStocks (approximately $754 million), xStocks (approximately $576 million), Securitize (approximately $424 million), and Bitget's RWA protocol Reality (approximately $162 million).Additionally, in terms of the breadth of underlying assets covered, Reality currently supports 2,160 stocks and ETFs, making it the protocol with the most underlying assets in this sector. xStocks and Dinari follow with 1,028 and 692 underlying assets, respectively.

According to a post by Watcher Guru, the Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Mike Selig, stated that the agency is preparing for onchain systems, mass tokenization, 24/7 trading, and agentic finance.The preparation directions mentioned by Selig include onchain systems, mass tokenization, 24/7 trading, and agentic finance.

According to Grayscale's official announcement, it has renamed its Grayscale Bitcoin Miners ETF to Grayscale AI Compute ETF, with the New York Stock Exchange trading code changed from MNRS to GCPU, and the tracking index changed from the Indxx Bitcoin Miners Index to the Indxx High-Performance Computing Index.The fund will invest in companies that build and operate AI infrastructure, with about half of the holdings in native AI computing companies, and the remainder in digital infrastructure operators that have publicly committed to transitioning to AI businesses, including companies that have transitioned from Bitcoin mining.