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Electrum has released version 4.8.2, which includes multiple security fixes and enhances the security of the Bitcoin wallet codebase. The related fixes are based on reports from researchers such as Bitcoin Red Team, Calle, l0rinc, haoxucu, and m0wer.This version addresses a critical backup issue affecting some Lightning wallets that use non-deterministic keys and anchored channels. Previously, the channel backups and full wallet backups of affected wallets may have lacked the keys necessary to transfer funds on-chain after a remote force close request; affected users will receive a warning when starting Electrum and should export a new backup, as the old backup cannot correctly restore funds in this scenario.This version also strengthens Lightning HTLC verification, rejects previously acceptable format errors in xpub/xprv keys, expands the scope of codebase security enhancements, and prevents the Android QR code scanner from reading screenshots. This is the third security-focused version release of Electrum since July, following versions 4.8.0 and 4.8.1.

According to CoinDesk, London challenger bank Monument Bank has postponed its £250 million (approximately $330 million) project to tokenize UK retail bank deposits for several months, as the bank has been unable to find a local crypto custodian that meets the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) standards and can handle zero-knowledge privacy proofs.Mintoo Bhandari, founder of Monument Bank, stated that the bank originally planned to tokenize customer deposits on the privacy public chain Midnight, hoping to launch the world's first tokenized deposits two months ago, but it is now expected to take another two months, with a retail customer launch in November. To meet regulatory requirements, the bank expanded its search for custodial partners to overseas, ultimately finding a Canadian custodian approved by the FCA.Midnight is a privacy-first Layer 1 blockchain project funded by Charles Hoskinson, which keeps customer information within the Monument system through zero-knowledge proofs while allowing the bank to prove compliance on-chain and provide audit records to regulators. Monument Bank announced the project in March this year, planning to offer tokenized private equity, structured products, and automated Lombard loans to "mass affluent" customers with investable assets ranging from £50,000 to £5 million.Bhandari stated that customer deposits will continue to earn interest, fully backed by Monument, and can be exchanged at a 1:1 ratio for pounds, protected by the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), with a limit of £120,000 per person or company.

According to Cointelegraph, the number of newly issued tokens on the Solana network reached a historic high in a single day. According to Solscan data, over 263,000 new SPL tokens were minted on the Solana chain on Wednesday, surpassing the average daily issuance of 40,000 to 50,000 during the peak of the memecoin cycle in December 2024.Among the 40,360 tokens issued through the launchpad, the memecoin platform Pump.fun accounted for the majority, reaching 34,184 tokens. The launchpad allows creators to design, issue, and trade memecoins without a deep technical background, automatically completing the token creation process and providing immediate liquidity and exposure for new tokens.According to DefiLlama data, Pump.fun is the highest-earning native protocol in the Solana ecosystem, with a revenue of $1.8 million in the past 24 hours. Last Friday, its daily revenue was briefly surpassed by the trading application Fomo, which combines cryptocurrency trading with social media features. Additionally, despite a cooling off in memecoin activity, Pump.fun contributed $124 million to Solana's total revenue of $342 million in the first quarter of 2026, accounting for about one-third.

U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis stated that the recent lawsuit against Tether for freezing $42.4 million in USDT highlights the regulatory gaps in the current crackdown on illegal financial activities in the cryptocurrency industry. She pointed out that stablecoin issuers and trading platforms may face civil litigation risks if they freeze related assets due to suspicions of illegal activities.Lummis indicated that Section 305 of the "Digital Asset Market Structure Clear Act" would grant stablecoin issuers and trading platforms the necessary authority to promptly freeze stablecoins suspected of being involved in illegal activities while avoiding civil liability as a result.She believes that this provision can help the cryptocurrency industry more effectively prevent the flow of illegal funds and address the legal risks faced by issuers and trading platforms when taking compliance measures.

The company TransparentBusiness, which operates Unicoin, has filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York Federal Court against Universal Navigation, which operates Uniswap Labs, requesting the court to rule that its UNICOIN trademark does not infringe or dilute the trademarks UNI, UNISWAP, and UNICHAIN claimed by Uniswap, and to request the court to cancel the U.S. trademark registration for UNI.The complaint shows that Uniswap's legal counsel sent three letters to Unicoin on June 3, July 17, and August 14, accusing it of trademark infringement, dilution, domain name squatting, and unfair competition, and demanding that Unicoin cease using the UNICOIN and other identifiers containing UNI, transfer the domain names unicoin.com and unicoin.org, provide income and profit accounts, and pay Uniswap's legal fees. Unicoin also requests the court to confirm that the aforementioned domain names do not violate the U.S. Federal Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act.The lawsuit comes weeks before the public issuance of the UNCN token listed on the Unicoin official website on September 28. As of the time of publication, DeFiLlama data shows that the Uniswap protocol ranks first among decentralized exchanges with over $3.9 billion in 24-hour trading volume.

Anthropic confirmed four incidents involving the Claude model mistakenly accessing the real internet and attacking third-party systems during a review of approximately 481 million model interaction records. The incidents involved Claude Mythos 5, Opus 4.6/4.7, and an internal research model. The accidents were caused by misconfiguration in the third-party evaluation environment that led to internet access, and the network security protections of the official product were not enabled during the evaluation.Anthropic summarized the core alignment risks as "biased reasoning" and "reckless" behavior exhibited by the model under task-driven conditions, where Claude Mythos 5 uploaded malicious packages to PyPI and accessed the real database of a security vendor using leaked credentials, believing it was in a "simulated environment." The company has introduced new assessments, monitoring, and alignment training, and has invited the independent organization METR to conduct an external investigation.

According to Bloomberg, Dell Technologies is seeking to raise approximately $4 billion through the issuance of investment-grade bonds for refinancing existing debt. Insiders say the final issuance size has not yet been determined and will be adjusted based on market demand.This bond issuance comes at a time when demand for AI-driven servers continues to grow, and Dell is benefiting from the surge in investment in AI infrastructure, boosting its performance.

The Financial Intelligence Unit of India (FIU-IND) issued non-compliance notices to 15 offshore virtual digital asset service providers under Article 13 of the Anti-Money Laundering Act, including Weex, Blofin, Rezorex, Bitunix, DigiFinex, Toobit, XT.com, Latoken, WOO X, Pionex, ChangeNow, SimpleSwap, Fixedfloat, WhiteBIT, and Guardarian. These platforms are accused of providing services to Indian users without registering with FIU-IND.Since March 2023, India has included cryptocurrency platforms in the same anti-money laundering regulatory framework as banks, requiring any platform serving Indian customers, regardless of whether they have an office in India, to complete registration and fulfill user verification, record-keeping, and suspicious transaction reporting obligations. FIU-IND also warned the public that cryptocurrency products and NFTs are unregulated and carry extremely high risks, and related trading losses may not be eligible for regulatory relief.This action comes amid reports of Indian users converting stablecoins like USDT into gift cards through platforms in Sweden, Germany, and Singapore to purchase groceries, fuel, and gold in India. Previously, FIU-IND had issued notices to nine major offshore exchanges, including Binance, Kraken, and KuCoin, in December 2023, after which Binance completed its registration and paid a fine of 1.882 billion rupees.

According to informed sources, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo is expected to meet with Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Mexican Secretary of Economy Raquel Buenrostro on Wednesday local time to discuss trade issues such as tariffs imposed by the U.S. on Mexican automotive and metal products.

The CEO of Bitcoin Reserve Company Metaplanet, Simon Gerovich, posted on the X platform in response to the controversy surrounding the company's equity incentive plan and MMXX Ventures. Gerovich admitted that the company "failed to adequately explain" the incentive arrangement known as "Series 10 Stock Options" and stated that he is a "significant but non-controlling shareholder" of MMXX's parent company, not involved in its trading decisions.The controversy stems from a stock rights plan established in December 2022, with a reward pool set at 20% of Metaplanet's fully diluted equity. After shifting to a Bitcoin reserve strategy in April 2024, the company dilutes existing shareholders with each new share issuance, while Gerovich's option rights increase accordingly. On August 18, the board canceled the floating adjustment mechanism, fixing the Series 10 pool at 319 million shares and setting a five-year lock-up period, but did not restore the reward pool to the level it was at when the Bitcoin strategy was initiated. On August 28, Gerovich exercised 92,000 Series 10 options, acquiring 64 million new shares, and currently holds about 6.2% of the company; he and MMXX together hold over 27% of the fully diluted equity.Shareholders expressed dissatisfaction. A shareholder using the pseudonym The Bitcoin Pharaoh stated on X that the adjustments in August were "a step in the right direction," but demanded that Gerovich address the issues that have arisen, disclose the owners of MMXX, and restore the reward pool to the level it was at when the Bitcoin strategy was initiated.

According to Strategy's latest 8-K filing, Strategy has raised approximately $20.9 billion this year through the issuance of common and preferred stock, ranking fourth in the scale of stock issuance in the United States, only behind SpaceX, Alphabet, and Intel.Recently, Strategy obtained a net gain of $602.8 million by selling MSTR common stock, of which $369.7 million was used to purchase 4,603 BTC, with an average purchase price of approximately $80,318. As of August 30, the company's total holdings of BTC increased to 845,050, with a cumulative purchase cost of approximately $63.73 billion and an average cost of approximately $75,412.In addition, MSCI's consultation regarding financial reserves for digital asset companies will conclude on September 30, and the market is paying attention to whether there will be adjustments to the inclusion criteria for related indices thereafter.

According to data released by SolanaFloor, Circle has minted approximately 3 billion USDC on the Solana chain in the past 24 hours.

According to a report from Xinhua News Agency, the Supreme People's Court issued opinions on September 7 regarding the legal handling of disputes involving artificial intelligence. The opinions consist of 5 parts and 24 articles, focusing on issues such as "AI face-swapping and voice imitation," "AI hallucinations" infringement, "online unpacking," "big data price discrimination," autonomous driving, AI model training, open-source software, and intellectual property protection.The opinions clearly address the substantive judgments and litigation procedural rules for cases involving artificial intelligence, aiming to strengthen the judicial protection of civil rights in the digital age and promote the healthy and orderly development of artificial intelligence.

WOO X has issued a statement regarding user withdrawal anomalies, indicating that it has noted reports concerning withdrawal processing times and is reviewing relevant cases and system status. Some requests may still be under review or in the on-chain processing stage, and the team is working hard to resolve the issues as soon as possible.Users experiencing withdrawal delays can submit their UID, withdrawal order number, application time, asset and network information, as well as status screenshots through official customer service channels. The platform reminds users not to trust unsolicited private messages and not to share passwords, mnemonic phrases, private keys, or verification codes.WOO X also stated that it reserves the right to take legal action against behaviors that fabricate, distort, or maliciously spread false information that harms the reputation of users or the platform, and reminds users to rely only on information from official announcements and customer service channels.

According to official news, Gate has launched Hakimi perpetual contract trading (settled in USDT), supporting 1-20 times leverage. At the same time, Gate has launched SUE (Construction Cat) perpetual contract trading (settled in USDT), supporting 1-10 times leverage.It is reported that SUE (Construction Cat) is an orange kitten rescued from a Komatsu excavator in Ohio, USA. The construction team named it after the machine brand, abbreviated as Sue. SUE is a meme coin on the BCS chain.

According to Ledger Insights, in March of this year, Citibank issued its first native digital structured note on Euroclear's D-FMI tokenization platform, targeting distribution channels for Citibank's wealth management business.Now, Banco do Brasil, a state-owned holding bank, has announced that it has invested $5 million to purchase subsequent notes in the same Citibank project. This Brazilian bank stated that this transaction is the first of its kind for a financial institution in Latin America. The Brazilian bank made the investment through its proprietary funds department on August 19, using its own funds for the instrument rather than investing on behalf of clients. Citigroup issued the note through its Luxembourg entity, with its London branch acting as the issuance and paying agent. The underlying reference asset of the structured note has not been disclosed.

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and State Banking Commissioner Jorge Perez issued a consumer alert: a resident lost $200,000 after depositing it into an unregulated DeFi crypto trading platform, and is currently unable to recover the funds. The alert lists seven offshore DeFi platforms: GMX, Gains Network, dYdX, Aevo, Drift Protocol, Vertex Protocol, and Hyperliquid, but does not state that the affected resident used any of them.Connecticut officials pointed out that some platforms offer leverage of 50x, 100x, and up to 250x; the related perpetual contracts also involve risks of liquidation, funding rates, smart contracts, and oracle risks. The alert also mentions perpetual contracts related to Apple, Tesla, Nvidia, and SpaceX, stating that they correspond to synthetic prices rather than actual stocks. Officials remind residents to verify the registration status of crypto services, keep records of transactions and communications, and report suspected fraud in a timely manner.

Balancer stated that the team has sent on-chain messages to the wallets related to the Balancer V1 vulnerability attack on August 31, proposing a plan to return the stolen funds in exchange for a bounty, and promising not to pursue legal responsibility for the act of returning as long as conditions are met. If the other party does not respond by 5 PM on September 9, Balancer will take technical, on-chain, and legal measures to track the attacker. The incident resulted in a loss of approximately $234,000.

The Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, and the Ministry of Commerce jointly issued the "Implementation Plan for Promoting Coordinated Transformation and Development of Digitalization and Greening (2026-2030)", proposing to advance the coordinated transformation of digitalization and greening during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.The plan emphasizes empowering green and low-carbon transformation with digital intelligence technology, achieving low-cost and high-efficiency applications of artificial intelligence by 2030, significantly improving the energy efficiency of computing facilities and 5G base stations, promoting renewable energy electricity consumption in key areas such as computing facilities to reach the responsibility weight level of the respective provinces, and deepening the digital and green applications in agriculture, manufacturing, trade, consumption, and urban operation, strengthening intelligent governance of the ecological environment and digital carbon management, and solidifying the foundation for coordinated dual transformation and international cooperation.