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South Korean investors are once again pushing to delay the cryptocurrency capital gains tax scheduled to be implemented on January 1, 2027, but regulators insist on proceeding as planned. According to the South Korean National Assembly's electronic petition system, a petition requesting a two-year delay of the crypto tax plan has garnered 50,000 valid signatures, reaching the legislative review threshold, and will be automatically submitted for consideration by the relevant standing committee.South Korea plans to impose a 22% tax (including a 20% basic tax rate and a 2% local tax) on the portion of annual income from digital assets exceeding 2.5 million Korean won (approximately $1,856), covering income from the sale, transfer, and lending of cryptocurrency assets. This tax has been postponed three times since it was first discussed in 2022. Petitioners argue that the majority of crypto investors are suffering significant losses, with major South Korean crypto companies experiencing a decline in operating profits of up to 90%. Implementing the tax at this time would kick young people's wealth ladder away and could push investors toward offshore platforms.In May of this year, a petition calling for the abolition of the crypto tax reached the 50,000 signature threshold within eight days of submission but did not advance further. Meanwhile, the government's stance remains firm, with the nominee for the Minister of Economy and Finance, Lee Heung-ik (phonetic), stating last weekend that the crypto tax plan is proceeding as scheduled, and the National Tax Service will announce detailed tax standards later this year.

Singularity Research posted on X that Citrini has been acquired by SemiAnalysis, with the terms of the deal undisclosed. The agency initially estimated the transaction price to be around 30 million USD, later updating that the actual amount could be close to 100 million USD, but emphasized that there is no insider information, and it is merely speculation.Citrini was founded in 2023 and has a Substack newsletter and institutional research products, with over 260,000 subscribers. Its annual revenue is estimated to be around 5.9 million USD. Citrini completed a 5.05 million USD SAFE round of financing in December 2025, and if calculated with approximately 20% dilution, the post-money valuation is about 25 million USD.

JPMorgan expects the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates by 25 basis points in September and December 2026, up from the previous forecast of a single rate hike in December.

The consumer version of the Doubao Mobile Assistant under ByteDance has been officially released. This assistant is based on the Doubao App and collaborates with mobile manufacturers at the system level, exploring the application of AI in mobile phones around core experiences such as interaction, task execution, local memory, and retrieval.Compared to the technical preview version launched at the end of last year, this consumer version emphasizes stability and everyday usability. The first consumer version will be equipped on the Nubia NaviX Ultra phone, which is currently available for pre-order and will be officially released on September 16.

The Standard Reserve, self-proclaimed as the "On-Chain Central Bank," will launch on September 14 and announce the genesis minting arrangements. The whitelist minting window for Genesis Charters is from 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM Eastern Time (from 5:30 AM to 10:30 AM Beijing Time on September 15), with a liquidity fee of 0.15 ETH; after this period, the remaining Genesis Charters will enter a 30-minute descending Dutch auction mode, starting at a price of 1.25 ETH, with a minimum price of 0.15 ETH. 100% of the minting proceeds will go into initial liquidity and the protocol treasury, with no profit-sharing for the team.After the minting ends, the official will inject liquidity and open trading for the STANDARD token, with a temporary anti-sniping tax set for the first hour, starting at 90% and decaying exponentially, with most of it decaying in the first 5 minutes, and the tax fees going into the protocol; after 1 hour, regular trading fees will resume. At the same time trading opens, Charter emissions will be initiated, and 100 branch licenses will be auctioned (paid in STANDARD, via Dutch auction).

The on-chain security platform Blockaid discovered a vulnerability in the Bitcoin bridge of the cross-chain protocol Symbiosis, where attackers minted approximately 2^62 syBTC to a newly created externally owned account, valued at about 46.1 billion dollars when calculated to 8 decimal places, and sold about 4.39 WBTC on Uniswap V4 on Ethereum, realizing a cash-out of approximately 336,000 dollars.Symbiosis stated that the attack occurred around 4:28 AM on September 11, and the team has suspended the BTC routing, while other routings remain operational and unaffected. The team has recovered about 15 Bitcoins and deposited them into a multi-signature wallet controlled by the team, while offering a 20% white hat bounty on the funds to the attackers, with a deadline of September 13.In recent weeks, Liquid Network, Nomic, and Symbiosis have all experienced security incidents involving the expansion of supply by minting tokens without real asset backing. As of September 13, Symbiosis has not publicly disclosed a technical review of BridgeV2, the final loss amount, or confirmation on whether the attackers accepted the bounty.

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.

After the CPI was announced yesterday, Ethereum briefly surged nearly 10%, quickly rising from $2433 to $2667. According to analyst alicharts, this short-term spike was driven by whales, during which the number of Ethereum transactions worth over $1 million increased by nearly 14%.However, alicharts also stated that Ethereum is now approaching a major resistance level. Previously, over 10 million ETH were traded between $2700 and $2800, forming a significant supply barrier. This is the key range that whales must break through for Ethereum to rise to $3000.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated that the recent rise in Bitcoin has pushed investor sentiment to its strongest level since March 2024. The market sentiment indicator he tracks once reached above 89/100, entering the "extreme greed" zone.This indicator combines several data points, including the Fear and Greed Index, with a range from -100 to +100, corresponding to extreme fear and extreme greed, respectively. Darkfost pointed out that when market sentiment is extremely optimistic or pessimistic, it often signals a potential turning point in trends.Currently, as the previous market frenzy gradually fades, the sentiment indicator is returning to more normal levels, while Bitcoin is still struggling to maintain its current price range.

The cross-chain liquidity protocol Symbiosis announced that it has encountered a security incident. Around September 11, 2026, at 04:28 UTC, attackers exploited a vulnerability in the Bitcoin bridge to carry out the attack. The BTC route has been suspended, while other routes are still operating normally.The official statement indicated that only the Bitcoin bridge was affected and has been isolated from other systems. The remaining routes, including EVM chains, TRON, TON, and components like Octopools, were not impacted. The team has recovered approximately 15 BTC, which is stored in a multi-signature wallet controlled by the team. The official has offered a white hat bounty to the attackers, amounting to 20% of the funds, valid until September 13, 2026; thereafter, an equivalent proportion will be offered to informants who can assist in recovering the funds.The final loss assessment is still ongoing, and confirmation data will be released later. The official is contacting affected liquidity providers one by one and developing a compensation framework. The relay group is still operational and ensuring network security.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, it predicts significant capital movements in the Polymarket market. A large whale invested $87,057.89 in a single transaction regarding the "Federal Reserve's September decision" event, targeting a "25 basis point increase." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this subject is 80.61%.

According to CoinDesk, Bitcoin formed a golden cross earlier this week (the 50-day moving average crossing above the 200-day moving average), but subsequently did not experience a sustained increase, instead retreating from around $80,000 to about $77,000. It is noteworthy that most of the recent rise occurred before the golden cross—Bitcoin had previously risen from $62,000 to $82,000.The article points out that similar situations have historically repeated multiple times: after the golden cross in 2021, BTC fell from $52,000 to $40,000; after the golden cross in February 2023, it retreated from $23,000 to $20,000; after the golden cross in October 2024, it slid from $70,000 to $67,000; and after the golden cross in May 2025, it corrected from $110,000 to $100,000. Analysts believe that while the golden cross is seen as a long-term bullish signal, it may essentially be a lagging indicator, as a significant portion of the gains often have already been realized by the time the signal appears.

The cross-chain liquidity protocol Symbiosis is currently under attack on the BSC chain, resulting in an actual loss of approximately $336,000 WBTC.

The Southeast Asian cryptocurrency industry is expected to double its funding to $680 million by 2026, with Singapore taking the lead.Japan's Metaplanet faces shareholder backlash due to the executive stock incentive plan.

Google (GOOG.O) announced the launch of the Google Cloud Developer Plugin, which is used for the artificial intelligence coding assistant.

According to official news, Spark will shut down its lending protocol SparkLend on Gnosis Chain on September 14. After the service termination, all outstanding loans may face liquidation, and users are advised to repay their debts and withdraw collateral before the deadline.

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 Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, it predicts significant capital movements in the Polymarket market. A large whale invested $56,235.86 in a single transaction regarding the "Federal Reserve's September decision" event, targeting a "25 basis point rate hike." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this asset is 46%.

The European Central Bank is expected to implement its second interest rate hike since the energy prices surged due to the Iran war, as inflation remains persistently above target.Institutional surveys show that, except for one analyst, the rest expect the deposit rate to be raised by 25 basis points to 2.5% on Thursday. Policymakers are responding to last month's consumer price increase that surpassed 3%.