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The tenth round of executive option pool at Japan's Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet continues to spark shareholder dissatisfaction. This option pool was originally designed to be 20% of the fully diluted equity and automatically expands as the company issues new shares to increase its Bitcoin holdings. Some shareholders are calling for the cancellation of the newly added 273 million shares and for greater transparency in future decision-making. On August 18, Metaplanet froze the option pool at 319.5 million shares, but critics argue that this actually amplifies the dilution for existing shareholders, as the option pool increased from 46 million shares to 319.5 million shares.Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich has committed to re-evaluating the company's governance and compensation policies and clarifying its relationship with shareholder MMXX Ventures, stating that it is merely a non-controlling significant shareholder of MMXX's parent company and does not hold an executive position. On August 31, Metaplanet disclosed that Gerovich had exercised 92,000 shares from the option pool. Matthew Sigel, head of digital asset research at VanEck, suggested freezing further exercise rights of the tenth round option pool, allowing holders to voluntarily waive excess rights, and replacing the tenth round option pool with a five-year incentive plan primarily linked to each share's fully diluted Bitcoin holdings, approved by shareholders.In its announcement on August 18, Metaplanet acknowledged that the decision to expand the option pool "amplified the dilution borne by existing shareholders." As of Wednesday's close in Tokyo, Metaplanet's stock price rose, narrowing the five-day decline to about 16.3%.

A British man named Chris has recovered 61 bitcoins, currently worth about 4.4 million dollars, after a 12-year legal dispute following the closure of the UK cryptocurrency exchange Intersango in 2014. Chris purchased the bitcoins in 2011 and subsequently left the assets in the exchange's custody, without transferring them to a self-custody wallet.Intersango, formerly known as Britcoin, was one of the first exchanges in the UK to offer bitcoin trading in pounds. Ryan Sweetnam, the financial litigation director at CEL Solicitors, assisted in recovering the assets. The law firm took 4 months to submit the necessary documents to a US court, ultimately completing the return through negotiation. Chris stated that he now opens the wallet where the bitcoins are stored about 20 times a day.

OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki published an article titled "An Alien Mind" on September 6, 2026. The article reviews the results of the RLSlow research project, which emerged in mid-2023, demonstrating the first scalable training of reasoning models. It states that three years later, reasoning language models have become part of rapid economic growth, beginning to push scientific boundaries, capable of operating computers and graphical interfaces, collaborating with humans and other AIs on research projects, while also changing the landscape of computer security and introducing new dangers.The author anticipates that the current pace of progress may continue towards recursive self-improvement based on internal results. If AI development continues along the current path, systems may experience equivalent or greater leaps in capability in the coming years, increasingly driving their own development. The author calls for extreme caution, believing that no one is prepared to deal with the consequences of the rapid rise of machine intelligence. OpenAI will continue to seek technical solutions for alignment and monitoring, build defensive systems, and unilaterally halt further scaling when necessary, but believes broader intervention is needed.The article states that machine intelligence is primarily driven by increased computational power, with AI growing more than being designed. In terms of alignment, it distinguishes between goal alignment and value alignment, with the core challenge being generalization. GPT-6 Astra shows significantly better alignment than GPT-5.6 Sol, but more progress is still needed. In monitoring, the focus is mainly on chain-of-thought monitoring, with assessments showing that reliance on capabilities is gradually weakening. In terms of scalable defense, models are becoming superhuman in breaking into computer systems, currently in a narrow window where using the best available models significantly enhances the security of critical systems.

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) released Working Paper 1374, proposing a technical solution based on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) to verify the source and integrity of official statistical data. This solution generates cryptographic fingerprints for SDMX datasets and records the hash values of batch data on the XRPL, while the original data itself is not stored on the chain.Users can verify the identity of data publishers and whether the data has been tampered with through digital signature credentials combined with a one-time on-chain query. Prototype testing results show that data publication takes about 3 to 5 seconds, while the verification process only takes about 1 to 2 seconds. The paper specifically notes that this system is currently only in the proof-of-concept stage and has not yet been put into a formal production environment.

According to market news, the UK-listed company B HODL has repurchased 1 Bitcoin, currently holding 167.487 Bitcoins, ranking 93rd in the Bitcoin 100.

According to a report by Reuters, Apple Inc. is facing a class-action lawsuit in London, with claims amounting to £2 billion (approximately $2.7 billion). The lawsuit was filed today in the London Competition Appeal Tribunal by Ann Pope, a former senior official of the UK's Competition and Markets Authority, representing app developers.The core allegation is that Apple's "App Tracking Transparency" (ATT) feature, launched in 2021, imposes stricter restrictions on third-party developers than on its own services, giving Apple's own advertising ecosystem an unfair competitive advantage. Ann Pope stated that Apple's policies "have caused very significant harm to businesses that rely on Apple as a gatekeeper."Since its launch, the ATT feature has been a focal point of concern for global regulators for several years. Apple's official stance is that the feature is designed to allow users to control whether to permit apps to track their activities across other companies and websites.However, the plaintiffs argue that the actual enforcement of this rule has a double standard—tracking requests from third-party apps require strict pop-up authorization, while Apple's own personalized ads and services can bypass the same restrictions. This lawsuit represents the latest legal challenge Apple faces regarding its ATT policy and is the first large-scale private antitrust lawsuit initiated in the UK market against Apple's app ecosystem rules following scrutiny from regulators in the EU, the US, and several other countries.

Market maker and investment institution DWF Labs announced that its affiliated group entity has obtained regulatory approval as a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) from the British Virgin Islands Financial Services Commission (BVI FSC).

On September 1, 2026, TCL filed a lawsuit against Samsung in the federal court in Los Angeles, accusing it of false advertising regarding some televisions using Mini LED technology. The lawsuit claims that Samsung marketed its M series televisions as Mini LED products, but these televisions actually come from a recycled standard LED product line and do not contain Mini LED-related technological advancements.TCL stated that it surpassed Samsung in Mini LED television sales in the United States between 2023 and 2025, while Samsung launched the M series at prices below TCL's lowest price and falsely labeled them, resulting in damage to TCL's market share. TCL seeks an injunction to prevent Samsung from using the Mini LED designation and unspecified monetary damages.Samsung stated that it will vigorously defend itself and insists on the quality and accuracy of its product descriptions. The report was written by Blake Brittain.

OpenAI Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki stated that he hopes to avoid a race towards "unmonitorability" of models due to misleading reports. He mentioned that current cutting-edge models, including Astra, have a computational graph depth that differs from GPT-4 by no more than a factor of two. Since the launch of the first inference models, OpenAI has been committed to preserving and utilizing chain-of-thought monitoring, believing that this technology helps observe how the model's alignment capabilities generalize from the training distribution.Pachocki also pointed out that chain-of-thought monitoring is relatively fragile, and the trend is not optimistic, but it can still be strengthened through research and has become a core objective of OpenAI's current research agenda. Previously, The Information reported that Astra uses recurrent depth, allowing the same set of Transformer layers to compute repeatedly. As a result, some inferences can occur internally within the model, without needing to be entirely expressed as a chain of thought, raising concerns about whether the model will become increasingly difficult to monitor.

The political action committee Protect Progress PAC, affiliated with the cryptocurrency industry supporter Fairshake, has spent approximately $189,000 on media advertising ahead of the primary election in Massachusetts's 4th congressional district, supporting Democratic Congressman Jake Auchincloss's re-election campaign. Records from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) show that this expenditure is Fairshake's latest move in the 2026 election, following over $130 million spent on advertising and media promotion during the 2024 election cycle.The Massachusetts primary is scheduled to take place on Tuesday local time. Democratic candidate Jason Poulos sent a letter to Auchincloss on August 16, requesting that he "publicly condemn" Protect Progress's involvement. Poulos stated that some of the funds were used to create "AI-generated spam" supporting Auchincloss, and pointed out that the latter has directly accepted $77,500 in donations from cryptocurrency industry sources since 2020. Auchincloss also voted in favor of the Digital Asset Market Structure Act in July 2025, which is currently under Senate review and has not yet been signed into law.In August, Fairshake and its affiliates invested approximately $3.6 million in congressional campaigns in Alaska, Florida, and Wyoming. Fairshake reported that it has about $122 million in cash ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. Massachusetts will be one of the last states in the U.S. to hold its primary this year, with just over two months remaining until the general election in November.

In 2014, British man Chris lost access to his digital wallet when the trading platform Intersango collapsed. At that time, the wallet contained approximately £4,000 worth of Bitcoin. The platform had over 5,000 accounts.It is reported that there may still be hundreds of millions of pounds worth of Bitcoin in the account of one of the company's co-founders, which former users may be able to reclaim if they can provide sufficient proof of ownership.After multiple failed attempts to contact the company over the years, Chris once gave up, stating that watching the price of Bitcoin continuously rise "felt like being punched in the stomach." However, earlier this year, he tried again and hired a lawyer to assist in proving his ownership of several dozen "lost" Bitcoins. Months later, these Bitcoins were returned to him—currently worth about £3.3 million.

OpenAI announced on Monday that its advertising business has reached an annual revenue run rate of $1 billion (approximately 6.736 billion RMB), stating that this is proof of the effectiveness of its "diversified business model."This business has developed over approximately 200 days and is another growth engine following enterprise services, consumer subscriptions, and APIs. Currently, ChatGPT Ads has been launched in over 40 countries and regions, primarily targeting OpenAI Go subscribers and free version users.

According to Decrypt, the British police confiscated 20.21 bitcoins along with other cryptocurrencies and bank funds, totaling a value of 1.4 million dollars. The individuals involved had previous convictions for money laundering and are now deceased.Investigators traced these assets back to dark web markets that operated from 2016 to 2019 and were later shut down by law enforcement. The police stated that these now-closed websites had facilitated various criminal activities ranging from drug supply to human trafficking, but did not disclose the specific names of the websites.

According to Decrypt, the financial investigation department of the police in Avon and Somerset, UK, has seized 20.21 bitcoins along with other crypto assets and bank account funds, totaling approximately $1.4 million (£1.03 million). Investigators traced the assets to dark web markets that operated between 2016 and 2019, all of which have now been shut down by law enforcement and were involved in criminal activities such as drug supply and human trafficking.This is the largest cryptocurrency seizure operation by the police since the introduction of the cryptocurrency wallet freezing order in the UK in April 2024. This power allows the police to freeze and seize cryptocurrencies without prior arrests, transferring them to wallets controlled by law enforcement, and seizing written passwords or storage devices. The individuals involved had previous money laundering convictions and are now deceased.The police pointed out that every transaction processed by these markets is permanently recorded on the blockchain, serving as a valuable source of evidence. The assets were seized earlier this year under the Proceeds of Crime Act, with the court determining that they represented proceeds from illegal activities, and the recovered funds will be used for community and policing projects.

According to a report by Reuters, British judge Samuel Goozee dismissed the extradition defense of former Saitama CEO Manpreet Kohli on August 19 and transferred the case to the UK government to make a decision on the US extradition request. Kohli can still appeal, and the extradition has not been finalized; he is currently released on bail set at £200,000 (approximately $272,400).US prosecutors have charged Kohli with wire fraud, market manipulation, and related conspiracy, as well as operating an unlicensed remittance business, involving the Ethereum-based token Saitama, which once had a market value of about $7.5 billion. Kohli defended himself by arguing that the US could not adequately handle his mental health and the risk of suicide during detention, but the judge believed that the transfer and the safeguards of the US prison system could reduce the risk to an acceptable level. Previously, a federal judge in Boston had also dismissed his motion to dismiss the charges.The case stems from the "Operation Token Mirrors" investigation initiated by the US Department of Justice in October 2024, involving fraud and wash trading. Prosecutors allege that 18 individuals, including Kohli, coordinated multiple wallets to purchase tokens and paid ZM Quant and Gotbit to conduct wash trading on several exchanges, with Kohli suspected of profiting about $20 million. Gotbit has admitted to manipulating token prices and trading volumes and was ordered to pay $23 million in June 2025, while its founder Aleksei Andriunin was sentenced to 8 months in prison.

BitcoinTreasuries.NET posted on platform X that BritishHodl will participate in the Bitcoin Treasuries Conference held in New York on September 28, and facilitate BlackRock's reduction of the minimum amount for converting Bitcoin to IBIT from $50 million to $2 million.BitcoinTreasuries.NET stated that this is a resource brought by top independent Bitcoin media figures participating in the live custody discussion.

Ukraine is seeking to use drones equipped with the Starlink system to strike missile launch silos within 200 kilometers inside Russia due to a shortage of air defense interceptors. This move requires approval from Elon Musk, whose position is uncertain.Communication has faced challenges since the dismissal of former Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. Military experts say Ukraine is struggling to obtain enough interceptors to maintain its air defense strategy.

Former NVIDIA research scientist Sanja Fidler announced the co-founding of VeedaAI with long-time collaborators ZGojcic and HuanLing6. The company is dedicated to building simulated realities for Physical AI, serving as a key infrastructure layer for robotic interactive learning and evaluation, allowing robotic intelligence to learn at scale through trial and error in virtual worlds.Fidler stated that real-world trial and error training for robots is unsafe, costly, and time-consuming, necessitating the use of simulated realities to achieve scalable interactive learning. The team believes that world models are the core technology, capable of learning from vast amounts of sensor and physical world data to generate simulated environments with quality, diversity, and physical realism. VeedaAI has received support from Khosla Ventures and Radical Ventures, and team members have years of experience in simulation, generative AI, 3D, robotics, and embodied intelligence.

Market news indicates that Apple will implement several adjustments across the EU, including changes to the advertising transparency consent tool, which was previously reviewed by the German competition regulator.