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According to Bitcoin Magazine, Lorenzo Valente, the Director of Digital Asset Research at Ark Invest, stated in a video interview with Bitcoin Magazine that despite Bitcoin's lackluster performance and even decline this year, Ark Invest has not changed its long-term view, still considering Bitcoin over a five-year cycle and believing its development is still in the early stages. He also introduced Ark's Big Ideas report and discussed Bitcoin's role as digital gold and a permissionless currency.Valente pointed out that the rise of stablecoins has changed Ark's judgment on the emerging market Bitcoin narrative. He also talked about the rise of tokenized stocks and real-world assets, as well as the functionalities that tokenized stocks can achieve that traditional brokerage accounts cannot.Additionally, he mentioned the impact of rising interest rates, inflation, and AI on Bitcoin's macro outlook, and explored which tokenized business models will ultimately prevail, as well as the possibility of tokenizing U.S. assets for offshore markets.Regarding the market outlook, Valente provided Ark's perspective on Bitcoin's future over the next 12 to 18 months and discussed the four-year cycle and key points to watch moving forward. Ark's Big Ideas report set a Bitcoin price target for 2030, and the reasons why institutional funds are still on the sidelines were also among the topics he discussed.

Dragonfly Managing Partner Haseeb Qureshi stated during his speech at the TOKEN2049 summit today that the narrative from earlier this year that "agents will fully adopt cryptocurrency payments" has been debunked; the reality is that traditional channels like credit cards are already prepared.The real shift is that------agents do not need cryptocurrency; you do. Agents will make cryptocurrency reliable (like banks preventing your foolish actions), while in an era of panoramic prisons where AI significantly reduces monitoring costs and physical attacks surge, cryptocurrency and private AI become the last line of defense for individuals against state power and the reclamation of privacy.

Renowned trader Bonk Guy stated that MARSCOIN's current trend is "very clean," and a significant rise is expected in the fourth quarter, also noting that its fundamentals are improving.The analyst believes that as BNB and BNB Chain's influence increases in this cycle, the "Musk + CZ" narrative for MARSCOIN is further strengthened. He pointed out that in the last cycle, SHIB and DOGE's market capitalizations respectively surpassed 40 billion and 80 billion dollars, while MARSCOIN this time will combine elements from Musk, Binance founder CZ, and space rocket company SPCX. Additionally, Binance has currently supported the related ecosystem through SPCX rewards and part of its own trading fees, suggesting that the market may be underestimating MARSCOIN's potential performance in the coming months.

In the preview of the press conference with Waller, the market is focused on whether he can rectify the communication mishap from July and clearly explain the logic behind interest rate hikes.Analysts from the French Foreign Trade Bank expect Waller to view interest rate hikes as a necessary measure to ensure inflation returns to target. In addition, the market will pay attention to Waller's views on inflationary pressures caused by energy and tariffs, as well as how he responds to Trump's calls for rate cuts, emphasizing the independence of the Federal Reserve.

On September 14, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun stated: Spreading various threatening narratives, engaging in confrontation and malicious competition will only disrupt the global governance process of artificial intelligence and does not align with the interests of any party.Recently, leaders from several AI companies have called for a slowdown in the development of artificial intelligence and believe that China's advantages in the field of artificial intelligence may pose national security risks.

Renowned trader Killa posted about the potential impact of the upcoming FOMC meeting on the cryptocurrency market this week. He stated that many people are very focused on macroeconomics, policies, and economic data to predict the next moves of assets, but Killa believes that "most macro narratives are just distractions." Killa noted that BTC often starts moving before the reasons become clear. By the time the macro environment shifts and the herd realizes it, Bitcoin has usually already completed its move. Correlation is often lagging. The market does not move because most people understand it. Most people understand it because the market has already moved.As a quantitative trader focused on BTC, Killa predicted the peak of this bull market in May 2025 and has over 200,000 followers on platform X. In mid-April, he shorted Bitcoin at $74,688 and switched to long during the market-wide decline on June 5.

F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun (@satofishi) pointed out that the current rise of Zcash is essentially a narrative-driven speculative behavior, rather than being supported by actual value. He listed several core issues: in terms of unfair distribution, 20% of the block rewards in the first four years were allocated as "founder's rewards" to founders, employees, advisors, and early investors, totaling 2.1 million ZEC, which accounts for 10% of the total supply cap. This was followed by a similar percentage taken under the name of a "development fund"; regarding privacy mechanisms, the privacy feature is optional rather than a default setting, and most tokens circulate in transparent addresses for a long time, criticized as a "marketing gimmick."In terms of governance, the Electric Coin Company (ECC) has long-standing management conflicts with the foundation, and in January 2026, the ECC team collectively left, claiming they were expelled. In terms of security, in May 2026, it was disclosed that the Orchard privacy pool had a serious vulnerability for four years, theoretically allowing the forgery of ZEC without on-chain traces. In July, the old pool was urgently closed and forced migration occurred, which was seen as a remedial action rather than a positive development. Wang Chun believes that Zcash being listed alongside Solana and Hyperliquid in market capitalization does not represent that it has the same actual application value; the current price reflects more of a "narrative short squeeze" rather than the network's fundamentals.

The Research Institute of Financial Technology at Renmin University published a compiled article on stablecoin research in the Journal of International Money and Finance. The related research is based on large language model (LLM) agents analyzing the de-pegging risks of stablecoins, which indicates that the de-pegging of stablecoins has significant nonlinear and threshold characteristics. The arbitrage mechanism can absorb a certain degree of informational pressure, but when the severity of the narrative reaches a "critical threshold," the system may quickly enter a state of sustained de-pegging.

Crypto KOL Him, in response to the community's question about whether an airdrop plan will be launched this week, stated that the airdrop will be conducted manually and in phases, targeting loyal users and contributors, similar to the Black Bull / Ansem style. He also mentioned that in the later stages of the airdrop, almost the entire token supply he holds will be distributed.According to GMGN market data, the market capitalization of the Robinhood chain meme coin COPPERINU has surpassed 18 million USD, currently reported at 18.1 million USD.It is understood that COPPERINU was deployed by the Pons Vault developers, who sent 40% of the tokens to crypto KOL Him's wallet. Him stated that he accepted the token because it was deployed by the Pons Vault developers and intends to incorporate mechanisms such as staking, claiming, and burning around the token, while using the obtained tokens for community airdrops.