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Morgan Stanley has reclassified NVIDIA (NVDA.O) as a preferred stock.

The SEC recently made public the comments submitted by Stove Finance regarding the exemption for tokenized stocks.The comments focus on the infrastructure issues after tokenized stocks enter the on-chain market, including asset conversion between traditional securities systems and on-chain ledgers, inventory replenishment, reconciliation, and how corporate actions such as dividends and stock splits maintain consistency across different systems.Stove suggested in the comments that registered broker-dealers be allowed to further participate in the construction of on-chain securities record, reconciliation, and delivery infrastructure, and that a unified standard for asset conversion, settlement status, and corporate actions be established collaboratively by broker-dealers, custodians, transfer agents, and on-chain trading venues.As tokenized stocks gradually enter DeFi scenarios such as AMM and liquidity pools, settlement, asset services, and cross-system interoperability beyond trading are becoming the next issues that the industry needs to address.

According to CoinDesk, Open Standard CEO Zach Abrams stated that the company is not an alliance where decisions are made collectively by hundreds of participants. The daily operations of the company are managed by the management team, and a smaller group of founding partners holds ownership and governance functions, while other partners are rewarded based on their contributions to driving the supply and trading activity of OUSD.Coinbase, Mastercard, Shopify, Stripe, and Visa have invested to become the first five founding partners, each receiving an equal proportion of initial equity. The five companies have also committed to investing over $1 billion in the coming months to establish liquidity for OUSD. The specific investment amounts and shareholding ratios of each company have not yet been disclosed.These five companies are currently the only investors in Open Standard. Abrams expects the number of founding partners to increase to about 10 to 12 in the future and plans to establish a board composed of founding partners. Meanwhile, the number of partners planning to integrate with OUSD has increased from over 140 in June of this year to over 200, with the latest additions including SBI Holdings, UBS, and the fintech company Jeeves.

Open Standard announces the official launch of the dollar stablecoin OUSD, allowing enterprises and developers to use OUSD to build internet-native financial services and products such as banking, cross-border payments, settlement, and institutional trading.OUSD currently offers 4 integration paths, with related APIs and tools covering services such as settlement, payment orchestration, trading, foreign exchange, wallets, and bank cards. All channels support free minting and burning of OUSD at a 1:1 dollar exchange rate. Enterprises can currently access it through the Mastercard, Stripe, and Visa Stablecoin Platform, with Coinbase integration set to open on October 1.OUSD will natively support Base, Ethereum, Solana, and Tempo, and will first launch on centralized and decentralized trading platforms such as Coinbase, Kraken, and Uniswap. OUSD is issued by Bridge, a subsidiary of Stripe, with reserve assets held at BlackRock, Lead Bank, and Bank of New York Mellon, with reserve proofs to be published monthly. Open Standard currently has over 200 financial institutions, fintech companies, banks, and global corporate partners.

According to a report by Reuters, the Japanese Ministry of Finance announced the establishment of the "On-Chain Correspondence Research Group," focusing on the feasibility study of real-time settlement for government bond transactions, with the first meeting scheduled for October 8.The research group will systematically analyze the advantages and disadvantages of blockchain real-time settlement around the current next-day settlement practice, with members including professors from the University of Tokyo, Waseda University, and other universities, as well as private strategists, and will involve the Bank of Japan and the Financial Services Agency for opinion exchange.Ministry officials pointed out that the United States already has MMF products that trade on the blockchain with government bonds as the underlying asset, which will serve as an important reference case. The research group plans to complete the organization of discussion points within the year.

According to the latest monitoring data from Arkham, Wall Street financial giant Morgan Stanley has continued to increase its Bitcoin holdings through its spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund MSBT. As of now, its total Bitcoin holdings have surpassed 10,000 coins for the first time, currently reaching 10,436 BTC, valued at approximately 875 million dollars.

According to The Block, the crypto advocacy organization supported by Coinbase, Stand With Crypto, has announced its first round of Senate candidate endorsements.The organization stated that it will endorse Ohio Republican Senator Jon Husted, whose opponent is the crypto-skeptical former Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown. Additionally, it will endorse Ashley Hinson from Iowa and Chris Pappas from New Hampshire.This endorsement comes after the Senate's procedural vote on September 15 failed to pass the Clarity Act, which aims to establish a federal regulatory framework for the industry.Senate Democrats stated that they could not vote for a bill that would allow President Trump to profit personally from the crypto industry. Stand With Crypto's Executive Director Mason Lynaugh mentioned that after the Senate's recent failure to advance the Clarity Act, the organization’s more than 3 million advocates are fully shifting their focus to ensuring the election of candidates who support crypto.In addition to the Senate endorsements, Stand With Crypto also stated that it will increase advertising spending in six House campaigns, including those of Democratic Congressman Don Davis and Republican Congressman Bryan Steil.These newly endorsed House candidates all voted in favor of the Clarity Act when it passed the House last year. The organization has also endorsed more House candidates, including Congressmen Shomari Figures and Mariannette Miller-Meeks.

According to a research report released by Geoff Kendrick, the Global Head of Digital Assets Research at Standard Chartered Bank, Standard Chartered has officially launched coverage research on Ethena (ENA), predicting that the ENA token will rise to $2 by the end of 2028.The report points out that Ethena is currently the fourth largest stablecoin issuer in the world (after Tether, Circle, and Sky), and its stablecoin USDe quickly became the fastest stablecoin to surpass a market capitalization of $10 billion after its launch at the end of 2023. Currently, yield-bearing stablecoins account for about 5% of the overall stablecoin market, and this proportion is expected to continue to expand as user demand for yield grows.In terms of sources of yield, USDe has gradually diversified from its early reliance on crypto basis trading (which once provided over 20% annualized yield) to include real-world assets (RWA) and stock perpetual contract basis. Standard Chartered predicts that the on-chain RWA scale will grow from the current approximately $40 billion to $2 trillion by the end of 2028, providing support for ENA's buyback plan and price increase.

According to "Du Jia" reported on September 30, ByteDance's Doubao has named its AI personal assistant product "Xiao Dou" and plans to launch an independent app version. This name was confirmed during this summer and is currently still in the internal testing phase, with the final external version possibly subject to adjustments. Sina Technology reported on September 29 that Doubao is accelerating the implementation of personal assistant direction products, planning to deeply integrate the exploration project codenamed "Spell" with Doubao's existing products, with the new product expected to be launched externally relatively quickly. As of the time of publication, Doubao has not responded.From the perspective of the domestic Personal Agent track, Xiao Dou is a part of ByteDance completing the track. The main Doubao app is responsible for general conversations, Doubao Work is aimed at enterprise office use, and Xiao Dou targets consumer-level personal assistants. Previously, it was reported that Tencent was secretly developing Handy Bot, and Alibaba's Qianwen team also proposed creating users' own Personal Agents. Currently, there are no mature mass-produced resident personal agent products in the domestic market, with most still in internal testing or gray preparation stages.

According to The Wall Street Journal, on September 30, Beijing time, U.S. President Trump had lunch with about 24 CEOs of technology companies and industry leaders, including Dario Amodei, CEO of AI company Anthropic, with whom he had previously had a strained relationship. Trump praised Amodei as "outstanding" and called NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang "a handsome guy," and Google CEO Sundar Pichai "an impressive figure."The two sides had previously clashed over the military use of Anthropic's AI models. Trump reiterated his stance on relaxed regulation, while Amodei criticized this position and had previously warned that AI could pose serious risks to humanity, calling for a slowdown in development. The two met face-to-face for the first time last Sunday; on Tuesday, Amodei attended a White House lunch after meeting with Senate Majority Leader John Thune at the Capitol a day earlier.Thune and Senator Amy Klobuchar are pushing for a bill aimed at preventing catastrophic harm from AI. Amodei stated on Tuesday, "If we get this right, if we work with the president and everyone here, we can succeed while ensuring safety."

According to BBX data, yesterday global publicly listed companies in the US stock market and well-known Web3 infrastructure providers disclosed the latest developments on expansion in the Asia-Pacific hub, institutional collaborations, and brand strategy restructuring. The core information is as follows:MoonPay established a subsidiary in South Korea as the Asia-Pacific hub, partnering with KakaoBank, Woori Bank, and KB Financial Group: Global cryptocurrency payment infrastructure giant MoonPay officially announced the establishment of a wholly-owned subsidiary in South Korea, planning to make it a comprehensive expansion center for the group in the Asia-Pacific region. At the same time, MoonPay has reached deep strategic cooperation with South Korea's three major mainstream financial institutions—KakaoBank, Woori Bank, and KB Financial Group. The scope of cooperation includes cross-border payment clearing, localization distribution of the Korean won stablecoin, digital wallet technology integration, and the establishment of compliant cryptocurrency fiat withdrawal and recharge channels, aiming to build a high-speed network for the flow of funds between South Korea and the global Web3.CEA Industries officially renamed to "BNB Standard," Nasdaq trading code changed to "BNC": Nasdaq-listed company CEA Industries, focusing on BNB reserve strategies, announced the completion of its brand transformation and strategic renaming, with the company name officially changed to BNB Standard. After the renaming, the company's common stock will continue to be traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market, and the securities trading code will be officially changed to "BNC." This renaming aims to directly highlight its strategic positioning of using BNB as a core treasury asset and promoting decentralized ecological investment.

The White House Artificial Intelligence Agreement shows that Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google will regularly discuss artificial intelligence safety standards.

According to GlobeNewswire, BNB Treasury Company CEA Industries Inc. (NASDAQ: BNC) today announced that it will officially change its name to BNB Standard Corporation starting September 29, 2026. The company's common stock will continue to trade on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker symbol "BNC," and its warrants will trade under "BNCWW" and "BNCWZ."BNC values interaction with the BNB community and inviting community participation in the selection of the new name was one of the company's earliest initiatives. The company submitted four candidate names for public advisory voting on the X platform, allowing the community to have a voice in the decision-making process.The five-day voting received a total of 5,799 votes, with "BNB Standard" leading with approximately 47% of the votes. Community members also shared their reasons and alternative suggestions in their responses, and the board approved the new name after review.

According to Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley has established a digital asset lab to test technologies such as stablecoins, tokenization, and decentralized finance (DeFi) applications. The Wall Street bank is exploring how blockchain-based systems can be applied to its various businesses.Megan Brewer, head of market innovation and labs at Morgan Stanley, stated in an interview that the initiative is part of the company's existing innovation lab network. This network provides employees with dedicated facilities to explore emerging technologies while avoiding risks to the bank's core systems.

On September 29, according to a report by Phoenix Technology citing Sina Technology, Doubao, a subsidiary of ByteDance, is advancing its product planning in the personal assistant direction. Insiders revealed that continuing the strategy of last year's Doubao mobile assistant in the personal agent direction, internal testing of related exploratory products began in April this year, codenamed Spell, mainly led by the Doubao mobile assistant team, but has not been officially announced due to reasons such as the release of the Doubao mobile phone.The insider stated that as personal assistant products like Muse and Instinct have gained attention overseas, Doubao is also accelerating the external release of personal agent capabilities, planning to integrate the Spell project more deeply with Doubao products. The new product will be jointly managed by the Spell project and the Doubao dialogue team, and it is expected to be launched externally soon. According to "Big Factory Daily," the Doubao product line has received a new task during the Mid-Autumn Festival, requiring a rapid reconstruction of a product that benchmarks Muse, with a beta version developed by September 30 for internal testing, involving the entire Doubao product line and multiple upstream and downstream teams in this holiday development.Previously, the technical preview version of the Doubao mobile assistant made its debut in December 2025, first launched on the ZTE Nubia M153 engineering prototype. In September 2026, the consumer version was officially released, landing on the Nubia NaviX Ultra model. Reports indicate that Spell can be seen as Doubao's extension of the personal agent capabilities accumulated on mobile devices into an independent application form.

Morgan Stanley interest rate strategists stated that after the Federal Reserve raises interest rates in September, it is expected to raise rates once in December and once in March next year. However, market pricing indicates a more aggressive rate hike over the next year.The strategists believe that the actual tightening by the Federal Reserve will not reach the level expected by the market, as key factors will only become clear later this year. The money market anticipates a cumulative rate hike of 100 basis points over the next 12 months.

On September 27, Doubao Mobile Assistant released a statement in the official community regarding the abnormal usage of the Nubia NaviX Ultra phone in Honor of Kings, stating that starting from the evening of September 24, they have received feedback from users that the Nubia NaviX Ultra equipped with Doubao Mobile Assistant displays an abnormal device environment prompt when logging into Honor of Kings or during matchmaking, and users are forcibly kicked offline.Doubao Mobile Assistant stated: Upon confirmation, they have not made any operations on the Tencent game system throughout the process, and there are no violations such as unauthorized clicks, cheats, or simulation behaviors by the AI. The team is still in communication with relevant parties at Tencent, and as of now, they have not received a clear response, for which they apologize. The assistant also advises users not to repeatedly attempt to log into Honor of Kings on this model. If the account has been banned, users can appeal through the official game customer service channels.Tencent has not publicly responded. On September 28, a reporter learned from informed sources that Honor of Kings ensures game fairness through various security risk strategies, and these strategies have been consistently used over the past period without targeted adjustments.

The government of Kazakhstan is promoting the use of associated gas to power cryptocurrency mining, in order to restore the mining industry affected by power restrictions. President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev signed a decree in July requiring the establishment of mechanisms for enterprises to conduct digital mining using associated gas.Daniyar Mubarakov, head of the Blockchain and Digital Mining Association, stated that the total amount of associated gas in Kazakhstan can be converted into 1.2 to 1.3 terawatt-hours of electricity, sufficient to support medium or large data centers or Bitcoin mines in some oil fields. The Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan estimates that there are up to 60 oil fields in the country producing associated gas. Oil companies can sell waste gas to miners, reducing disposal costs by millions of dollars, while miners can lock in electricity prices for years, reducing dependence on grid power.The government of Kazakhstan is developing a relevant legal framework to clarify the operational rules for enterprises and regulate the market. Gizzat Baitursynov, Deputy Minister of AI and Digital Development of Kazakhstan, stated that this mechanism will increase government tax revenue and improve the environment.