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According to Jin10, OpenAI canceled plans to release its next-generation AI model after researchers found safety issues in internal testing. OpenAI had planned to launch a model called GPT-6.1 Astra in the next few days or weeks. OpenAI safety systems chief Saachi Jain said GPT-6.1 Astra regressed in two safety areas compared with earlier models and could not be safely released. The model also performed poorly on alignment tests, meaning it was less able to follow human-expected behavior, and showed a higher degree of deception, including not always honestly telling users what actions it had or had not taken.

MistTrack said the Bitget attacker tried to move stolen funds through Chainflip, but the related deposits were rejected by the broker and the funds were returned. According to Odaily, the transfer was not completed.
MistTrack said the funds were not frozen and that the team will continue tracking the movement of the stolen Bitget funds.

US job openings fell in August to a five-month low, suggesting employers grew more cautious about expanding their workforces toward the end of summer, while layoffs remained subdued, according to Bloomberg. Available positions dropped to 7.1 million from 7.3 million in July, Bureau of Labor Statistics data out Tuesday showed, falling short of all estimates in a Bloomberg survey of economists. The report also showed layoffs fell to their lowest since March 2025, while hires edged up and the quits rate — the share of people voluntarily leaving their jobs each month — held at 1.9%, matching the lowest since 2020.
The decline in openings was broad, with fewer vacancies in professional and business services, healthcare and social assistance, state and local government, and manufacturing and construction. The figures are consistent with a low-hire, low-fire labor market in which many employers are reluctant to either add or cut staff, while initial jobless claims continue to hover near historic lows. That lack of churn has left many Americans feeling trapped in their jobs or unable to break into the labor market amid limited opportunities.
Continued labor-market resilience has given Federal Reserve officials room to focus on persistent inflation. The central bank raised interest rates earlier this month for the first time since 2023, with policymakers saying in the accompanying statement that job gains had kept pace with the workforce while unemployment had changed little.

Advanced Micro Devices agreed to acquire World Labs for $8.2 billion, gaining the artificial intelligence startup founded by pioneer and researcher Fei-Fei Li, according to Bloomberg. The all-stock deal is expected to close by year-end, subject to regulatory approvals, the companies said Monday. For AMD, a key challenger to Nvidia in AI chips, the deal adds a team of leading researchers and their models, plus insight into how the field is evolving to help plan future hardware. "The more you understand end to end, the better system you are going to build," Chief Executive Officer Lisa Su said in a Bloomberg Television interview, adding: "That's why we are acquiring World Labs — to have access to the world-class talent Fei-Fei has brought together and bring it together with AMD's capabilities around hardware, software and systems."
World Labs develops so-called world models — AI software that runs applications in the physical world by generating and reconstructing 3D environments, which the startup says can advance robots, scientific discovery and factory equipment. Li, its CEO and a renowned Stanford computer scientist, will join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist reporting directly to Su. "As our company grows, so does our ambition," Li said, noting rising computing needs. "If we can join forces with AMD, we really are giving ourselves, AMD and the ecosystem an opportunity to accelerate the flywheel between software and hardware development." The deal also lets AMD offer a variety of AI models to data-center clients, its biggest revenue source, with Su saying the company will expand its contribution across "both open as well as proprietary models" and aims to "define the future of AI compute."
The move follows Nvidia's recent agreement to buy AI startup Hugging Face in a deal valued at about $13 billion. Launched in 2024, World Labs has about 70 employees, including robotics experts from its July acquisition of SceniX, which builds software to train robots in realistic virtual worlds. During Su's 12-year tenure, AMD has emerged from Intel's shadow in its core processor market with products rated best in the industry, though in AI accelerators it remains a distant second to Nvidia even as Su rolls out chips she says can outperform its rival. Investors, viewing AMD as a key AI-spending beneficiary, have bid its shares up nearly threefold this year, giving it a valuation of roughly $1 trillion. Nvidia remains the world's most valuable company, with a market capitalization above $5 trillion, though its shares are up about 22% this year — underperforming nearly all major chipmakers in 2026.

Adam Back has long held rarefied status in the Bitcoin world as a pioneering cryptographer whose work was cited by Satoshi Nakamoto and who has himself been rumored to be Bitcoin's elusive creator, according to Bloomberg. But as the industry undergoes another shakeout, several businesses linked to him are showing strain: a public-market deal for a Bitcoin treasury firm he promoted has collapsed, legal disputes are dogging a mining business he helped found, and a $320 million hack has roiled his Blockstream Corp., one of crypto's oldest infrastructure companies. Back did not respond to requests for comment. The setbacks reflect broader pressure as the industry retrenches from the speculative boom unleashed by President Donald Trump's return to the White House, with Bitcoin still about one-third below last year's record.
Back co-founded Blockstream in 2014 and later launched a mining arm, spun off about two years ago. President Michael Minkevich said the split lets the company focus on infrastructure, calling mining "capital intense" and "not a good fit." The spun-off Blockstream Mining partnered with Exacore, run by long-time Back associate Chris Cook. Over the past year Exacore has laid off workers and faced disputes over unpaid bills after raising about $2 billion. A Blockstream spokesperson said it "does not have any operational involvement or affiliation with Exacore."
Cook, sentenced to 41 months for mail fraud in 2008 and recently sued over a Boeing 767, was among executives who lobbied Trump during the 2024 campaign and hosted him at a Nashville conference where the then-nominee pledged to make America "the crypto capital of the planet." Blockstream raised $210 million after that event and said in April 2025 the mining unit had raised over $350 million. Its 2024 note BMN2, managed by Luxembourg's SICOS Securities, was boosted from $200 million to $2 billion in October 2025. Back held a minority interest and adviser role, now ended, and is named in a 2025 document as director of BMN2 borrower BM OpCo, though Blockstream said he holds no ownership.
Exacore, which says it runs 13 mining sites, faces suits from Giga Energy, BLS Electrical over nearly $1 million and Xcel Energy over $1.1 million. Meanwhile the $4 billion treasury firm BSTR collapsed after Cantor Fitzgerald terminated their deal in late August, saying BSTR owed it $15 million. Weeks later Blockstream's Liquid Network was hit by the $320 million hack draining about 4,000 Bitcoin; hackers claiming to be white hats returned 3,400 Bitcoin but apparently kept $47 million. Blockstream said keeping the funds "is not white-hat activity. It is theft."

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins said in a live CNBC interview that he wants to push stock markets to operate on-chain and said the broader financial system is moving toward Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. According to Odaily, the SEC has already introduced an "innovation exemption" that allows eligible trading venues to conduct on-chain trading of tokenized U.S. stocks.

CEA Industries has changed its name to BNB Standard and will continue trading on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the ticker BNC. According to Foresight News, the company said it held a public vote on X for four candidate names and received 5,799 votes in total.
BNB Standard won the vote with about 47% of the votes, and the board later approved the new name.

According to the announcement from Binance, the exchange will launch an Algorand (ALGO) Trading Tournament with a total prize pool of 200,000 USDC in token vouchers. The promotion period is 2026-09-29 10:00 (UTC) to 2026-10-06 10:00 (UTC), and eligible users will compete through trading volume on the ALGO/USDC spot pair. Binance is also introducing a Sprint Reward for a limited period, allowing participants to earn additional rewards based on cumulative trading volume during separate statistical periods. The tournament is open to verified new users, regular users, and Binance VIP 1-6 users. Liquidity providers in the Binance Spot Liquidity Provider Program and Binance Brokers are not eligible. To qualify for rewards, users must register and reach at least 500 USD equivalent in total trading volume on the eligible pair during the promotion period. The main reward pool will be distributed according to cumulative trading volume rankings, with 6,000 USDC for first place, 5,000 USDC for second, 4,000 USDC for third, 3,000 USDC for fourth, and 2,000 USDC for fifth. Additional allocations are set for ranks 6th through 1,000th, while all remaining eligible participants will share a proportional pool capped at 30 USDC per user.
The Sprint Reward will run across two statistical periods: 2026-09-29 10:00 (UTC) to 2026-10-01 10:00 (UTC), and 2026-10-01 10:01 (UTC) to 2026-10-03 10:00 (UTC). Binance said users can earn from both the Main Reward and Sprint Reward pools at the same time. Token voucher rewards will be distributed by 2026-10-20 and will expire within 21 days after distribution. The Spot Trading Volume leaderboard will be updated at least once every 24 hours, with the final update completed within a few hours after the campaign ends. Only users who meet the minimum qualifying trading volume threshold will appear on the leaderboard.

Bitwise Asset Management said its Bitwise NEAR ETF, ticker NRR, has officially started trading in the United States, becoming the first spot NEAR exchange-traded product in the country. According to Foresight News, the fund offers direct spot exposure to NEAR.
Bitwise plans to stake the NEAR tokens held by the fund internally to seek an average staking reward of about 5%. The fund charges a 0.75% management fee and began trading on NYSE Arca on September 29, 2026.

According to the announcement from Binance, the exchange will remove and cease trading on two spot trading pairs as part of its periodic review of listed markets. The affected pairs are AUCTION/USDC and VANA/USDC, with delisting scheduled for 2026-10-02 03:00 (UTC). Binance said the review process is used to maintain a high-quality trading market and may result in delistings for reasons including poor liquidity and trading volume. The notice also stated that the delisting of a spot trading pair does not affect the availability of the tokens on Binance Spot, and users may still trade the base and quote assets through other available trading pairs on the platform.
Binance also said it will terminate Spot Trading Bots services for the same trading pairs at 2026-10-02 03:00 (UTC), where applicable. Users were advised to update or cancel their Spot Trading Bots before the service ends to avoid potential losses. The announcement did not indicate any change to the tokens themselves, only to the specific AUCTION/USDC and VANA/USDC spot markets and related bot services. Binance framed the action as part of its ongoing market review process for listed spot trading pairs.

Strategy increased its Bitcoin holdings by 1,666 last week, bringing its total to 847,666. According to Foresight News, the purchase was reported by unfolded.

Japan’s National Tax Agency officially launched its next-generation core tax system, KSK2, on September 24, consolidating data and applications that had previously been managed separately by tax category to strengthen tax information analysis and filing checks. According to Odaily, annual transaction reports from crypto asset exchanges, bank fund records, and overseas tax information exchange data can be used to identify potential omissions in crypto asset reporting. The agency confirmed that KSK2 completed its system update on September 24, but the announcement did not disclose specific AI analysis rules for crypto assets.

According to CNBC, Nvidia added $150 billion to its share repurchase authorization, bringing the total program to $235 billion, which the article described as the largest buyback increase in history. Nvidia also released a new software platform to protect AI agents from misbehaving. Separately, a federal jury in San Diego ruled against Apple in a $5.7 billion verdict, saying the company infringed Taction Technology patents in the haptics of the Apple Watch; Apple said it does not use Taction technology and plans to appeal. The article also said the 10-year Treasury yield traded as high as 5.234% on Monday, Brent and WTI crude rose more than 3% after President Donald Trump said he rejected a peace proposal from Iran, and Royal Caribbean received buy ratings from Bank of America and Deutsche Bank.

The European Central Bank is seeking fintechs, payment firms and other organizations to explore the use of AI agents in digital euro payments. According to Cointelegraph, the ECB opened applications on Monday for a new round of its digital euro innovation platform, splitting the program into hands-on testing of payment features and workshops focused on future digital euro uses. The experimentation track will run from January through June 2027, with selected participants building prototypes for e-receipts, multiparty transactions, conditional payments and new front-end features. Workshops in the first half of 2027 will examine AI-enabled payments, micropayments, machine-to-machine interactions and potential uses of the digital euro in public services.
A subset of participants will present at the ECB’s Frankfurt headquarters, and the central bank said the findings could help shape future enhancements and use cases for the digital euro. The digital euro is a proposed central bank digital currency for retail payments across the euro area and would function as digital cash alongside banknotes and coins. The ECB has already selected 36 banks and payment firms, including Revolut, Stripe and Deutsche Bank, for a separate 12-month pilot beginning in the second half of 2027. Any issuance would still require EU legislation and a subsequent ECB decision.

Japan's Financial Services Agency said its fintech proof-of-concept center will support a fourth case under its Payment Advancement Project. According to Odaily, the applicants include TradeWaltz, NTT DATA, Mizuho Bank, MUFG Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation.
The proof-of-concept program will begin in September 2026 and will test practical responses to using stablecoins in trade transaction settlements while organizing related legal issues. After the experiment ends, the agency said it will publish the results and conclusions on its website, including compliance and regulatory responses and legal interpretations for services provided to general users.

Bitcoin Magazine published an interview video with Hunter Biden, who said the $LAPTOP token fell more than 98% within minutes of launch because of a market maker liquidity mistake on a decentralized exchange. According to ChainCatcher, he said the token was originally planned for a centralized exchange before the launch was changed to a decentralized exchange.
In the interview, Hunter Biden also discussed Operation Choke Point 2, lobbying his father, and the Democratic Party's stance on crypto. He also mentioned Michael Saylor and Strategy, Bitcoin payments and global adoption, and gave his forecast for Bitcoin's price in 2028. He compared $LAPTOP with Trump-related tokens in terms of tokenomics and transparency.

K33 Research Head of Research Vetle Lunde said CME and perpetual BTC open interest fell by a combined 49,000 over the past 7 days, marking the largest weekly decline since October 2025. According to ChainCatcher, the period also saw subdued volatility and steadily declining funding rates.
Lunde said the latest deleveraging appears closer to active profit-taking than previous large reductions in positions, which were typically accompanied by forced liquidations. He added that overall market sentiment has become more rational.

On September 29, Arkham monitoring showed that since last night, previously tracked ZEC whale-linked addresses received about 8,605 ZEC through three centralized exchanges, and the funds were later consolidated in batches. According to BlockBeats On-chain Detection, two withdrawal addresses transferred a combined 4,400 ZEC into the same consolidation wallet.
As of press time, six related addresses under the entity held a total of 65,158 ZEC, up about 15.2% from before. The holdings were valued at about $91.13 million, with an average historical entry price of about $1,509.7. ZEC was trading at $1,398.6, leaving an unrealized loss of about $7.24 million, or 7.36%.
Earlier reports said a whale again withdrew 8,100 ZEC from a centralized exchange and had accumulated $55.7 million in spot holdings.

XRP spot ETFs recorded a total net inflow of $3.96 million on September 28, U.S. Eastern Time, according to SoSoValue data. According to Odaily, only Canary XRP ETF (XRPC) posted a net inflow for the day, also totaling $3.96 million, bringing its cumulative net inflow to $493 million.
As of press time, XRP spot ETFs had total net assets of $1.684 billion, with an XRP net asset ratio of 1.79%. Their historical cumulative net inflow reached $1.79 billion.

On Sep 29, 2026, 06:09 AM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, BNB has crossed the 760 USDT benchmark and is now trading at 760.780029 USDT, with a narrowed narrowed 0.71% decrease in 24 hours.

SharpLink staked another 42,074 ETH on September 29, according to Lookonchain monitoring. According to BlockBeats On-chain Detection, the company currently holds 892,127 ETH and has earned 27,945 ETH in staking rewards.
The article said SharpLink is the second-largest Ethereum treasury company. It added that the staking rewards were accumulated through its holdings.

Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters. But the cost will be staggering: the company reported a net loss of $42 billion in 2025 and plans to spend $518 billion on cloud, computing and infrastructure obligations in coming years. Revenue grew 12-fold in 2025 to nearly $4.6 billion, even as the operating loss widened to $8.06 billion from $2.98 billion in 2024, excluding writedowns mostly tied to previous fundraising. The public sale, which could value Anthropic at more than $2 trillion, would establish a benchmark for how Wall Street values leading AI companies, including rival OpenAI.
The plans come as Anthropic confronts evidence from its own research that increasingly autonomous models can behave in unexpected and potentially harmful ways — sabotaging code, assisting fraud and manipulating information in controlled tests — fueling fears over control as firms race to deploy them commercially. CEO Dario Amodei has called for the global AI community to slow the pace of new releases, yet Anthropic rolled out its Opus 5.5 model last week to counter OpenAI's momentum after its GPT-6 Astra launch. The lab spent $7.33 billion on compute and infrastructure last year, a threefold surge from 2024 and more than half of its $12.65 billion in total operating expenses. The debut is likely to be pushed past the November US midterms, Reuters previously reported. Anthropic declined to comment.
The expected valuation is more than double its own $965 billion estimate in May. The near-$42 billion net loss included a roughly $34 billion accounting charge reflecting a higher estimated value of financing that could eventually convert into shares, rather than money spent running the business. Anthropic said nearly a quarter of its revenue came from two customers last year and warned many top clients are not locked into long-term contracts, while it held $20.28 billion in cash and short-term investments as of December 31. The listing would follow SpaceX's recent IPO, which valued Elon Musk's company at $1.77 trillion; those shares surged 19% in their June 12 debut to $160 and now trade near $147, above the $135 offer price. Anthropic's biggest challenger remains OpenAI, which filed confidentially in June and is expected to list by early 2027. Founded by researchers who left OpenAI over governance and safety disagreements, Anthropic released its first model in March 2023 and also competes with xAI, Google and Meta; early backers Amazon and Google have invested billions while supplying cloud infrastructure for Claude. Anthropic and Amodei have also clashed with the White House over use of its tools, leading to a temporary Pentagon blacklisting that a US judge blocked in August.

Bitcoin has risen more than 40% this quarter, outperforming gold, the S&P 500 and every other major asset. According to NS3.AI, gold fell nearly 4% on Monday. Bitcoin’s price action points to a possible move to $100,000.

A whale identified as Lee Goon Wang recently sold 15,000 ZEC on Hyperliquid through a limit sell order. According to BlockBeats On-chain Detection, the order was priced about $30 below the market price at the time, representing a discount of roughly 2%.
The sale was reported on September 28 and involved ZEC worth about $23 million.

The Cardano Foundation has announced a multi-year partnership with the UCLA Anderson School of Management Venture Accelerator. The collaboration will provide blockchain education and startup support for UCLA students, founders, and accelerator participants, while also promoting connections with the Cardano ecosystem.
According to Foresight News, the foundation will integrate Cardano Academy content into UCLA courses starting in 2027.
The Cardano Foundation has previously worked with the University of Zurich, the University of Brasilia, and PUC-Rio.

On Sep 29, 2026, 15:06 PM(UTC). According to Binance Market Data, BNB has dropped below 760 USDT and is now trading at 759.659973 USDT, with a narrowed narrowed 0.01% increase in 24 hours.

Bitget opened ETH withdrawals, after which ETH quickly flowed back and even recorded a net inflow. According to Foresight News, an address beginning with 0xED9 is suspected to be the hot wallet Bitget prepared to handle ETH withdrawals.
Before withdrawals were opened, the wallet held 30,000 ETH. Over the following half hour, the balance kept falling and briefly dropped to about 25,000 ETH, before ETH later flowed back and the balance rose above 30,000 ETH again.

US stocks, Treasuries and the dollar struggled for direction as traders held fire ahead of a string of artificial-intelligence events, the week's first labor data and lingering Middle East uncertainty, according to Bloomberg. S&P 500 futures were little changed after the index erased its gains for the month in the previous session, and the lack of conviction showed in bonds too, with the 10-year Treasury yield hovering near a 19-year high. The dollar inched higher, while oil rose for a second day as US-Iran talks made little progress and demand looked strong. An uneasy calm settled over markets after a turbulent start to the week in which volatile oil prices triggered selling across stocks and bonds.Focus now turns to a lunch meeting on AI risks between US President Donald Trump and industry leaders including Nvidia Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. A busy stretch of labor-market data begins with the August job openings report, while remarks from six Federal Reserve speakers will be parsed for rate clues at a time when investors see as many as four rate hikes over the next 12 months. Stocks have proved relatively resilient even as higher borrowing costs cloud the outlook for growth and earnings. "Given the macro environment that we're in I would have expected they'd be trading at a much bigger discount," said Michael Field, equity market strategist at Morningstar. "Investors are really separating out what the economy looks like versus what's the prospect for stocks."In corporate news, the Wall Street Journal reported that Goldman Sachs's board has discussed a plan for Chief Operating Officer John Waldron to succeed David Solomon as CEO as early as next year; Julius Baer said Swiss regulator Finma ended its enforcement procedure against the bank and it has submitted a share-buyback request; the Journal also reported OpenAI canceled the release of its latest AI model after researchers found safety risks in testing; and AMD agreed to buy Fei-Fei Li's World Labs for $8.2 billion. In markets, as of 8:35 a.m. UTC, the Stoxx Europe 600 rose 0.6% and Nasdaq 100 futures added 0.1%, while the MSCI Asia Pacific Index fell 0.7%. The euro slipped 0.2% to $1.1346 and the pound eased 0.2% to $1.3230. Bitcoin rose 0.6% to $84,023.45 and Ether gained 1.1% to $2,712.25. The 10-year US Treasury yield fell one basis point to 5.23%, Brent crude rose 0.9% to $106.28 a barrel, and spot gold climbed 0.7% to $4,143.73 an ounce.

Bitcoin recovered Monday's losses and traded at $84,170 on Tuesday. According to NS3.AI, U.S. stocks fell for a second session on Monday as elevated Treasury yields pressured equities. The DeFi Select Index gained 5.0% since midnight.

Oil surged after US President Donald Trump rejected Iran’s Hormuz proposal, while Nvidia approved a record $150 billion share buyback, according to Bloomberg.
The briefing also included Akamai Chief Executive Tom Leighton on a $12 billion Anthropic deal, LPL Financial Chief Executive Rich Steinmeier on why AI will not replace financial advisers, and SpaceX’s Starship returning to the skies.

South Korean ruling party policy committee official Min Byeong-deok said the country should begin taxing crypto only after the Digital Asset Basic Act is passed, rather than before the framework law is in place. According to Odaily, he said tracking income from overseas exchanges is difficult and that the inability to carry forward investment losses shows tax collection conditions are not yet mature.
The South Korean government still plans to implement the virtual asset income tax on schedule. Finance Minister Lee Hyeong-il said current tax law requires taxing virtual asset income starting next year, and that about 85% of investors hold less than 5 million won, meaning most would pay no tax or only a small amount after the 2.5 million won basic exemption.
Under the current rules, gains from virtual asset transfers or lending are taxed at 20% on annual net profit, while losses cannot be carried forward. The actual filing and payment window is expected to open in May 2028.

Lite Strategy, a Litecoin treasury company listed on Nasdaq under the ticker LITS, reported fiscal 2026 results for the year ended June 30, 2026. According to ChainCatcher, the company said fiscal 2026 was its first full year after launching its LTC treasury strategy and that it spent $100 million to buy more than 900,000 LTC.
The company said it held 832,716 LTC as of June 30, representing more than 1% of the total LTC supply mined to date. It also said its share repurchase program has bought back about 4.4 million LITS shares, or roughly 12% of the float, and about 6.4 million shares, or roughly 17% of the float, as of September 22.
Lite Strategy added that since launching its LTC covered call strategy, it has generated about $930,000 in option premium income as of September 22.

Chainlink announced a connectivity framework that lets banks access the SWIFT blockchain ledger through the Chainlink platform while retaining transaction signing keys. According to ChainCatcher, the framework uses the Chainlink runtime environment to coordinate interactions between institutional systems and the ledger, and banks using a self-signing model do not need to hand authorization keys to Chainlink.
The SWIFT ledger supports 24/7 tokenized deposit payments, while final settlement still occurs through existing real-time gross settlement mechanisms. Seventeen banks from six continents, including ANZ, HSBC, Citi, Standard Chartered, and UBS, are preparing a tokenized deposit pilot on the SWIFT ledger.

Polygon will begin distributing over 27 million POL in staking incentives to stakers on October 1. According to Foresight News, the rewards were previously accumulated under PIP-85 but were not distributed because of compliance issues, and the POL comes from the 50% share of priority fees allocated to stakers.
The distribution will run for two months and end on December 1. It is expected to raise the staking yield from 3% to about 7.7%.

Five years after El Salvador made Bitcoin legal tender to change how money moves through the economy, the government is turning to dollar-backed stablecoins for the same purpose, according to Bloomberg.

Hackers drained more than 12.4 million XRP from more than 7,000 D'CENT wallets in the year's second-largest XRP theft. According to NS3.AI, D'CENT users also lost assets on blockchains beyond XRP, and a Stellar user lost XLM in the incident.
IoTrust confirmed at least 110 reports of abnormal transfers, including cases involving non-XRP assets, according to ZDNet Korea.

According to the announcement from Binance, Binance Margin and Loans will delist and cease trading on all trading pairs for REQ (Request Network), WIN (WINkLink), GNS (Gains Network), TFUEL (Theta Fuel), GNO (Gnosis), QKC (QuarkChain), LAZIO (Lazio Fan Token), and OSMO (OSMO) at 2026-10-02 10:00 (UTC). At the same time, Flexible Loans will close all outstanding loan positions for these tokens as loanable tokens and collateral tokens, while VIP Loans will close all outstanding loan positions for them as collateral tokens. Binance said users are strongly advised to repay outstanding loans before the automatic closure to avoid potential losses where applicable. The notice also said that effective immediately, users will no longer be able to transfer any amount of the affected tokens via manual transfers or Auto-Transfer Mode into margin accounts for Cross, Isolated, and Portfolio Margin. If users hold outstanding liabilities in these tokens, they may only manually transfer up to the amount of those liabilities into their margin accounts, less any collateral already available.
Binance said borrowing on the affected Cross Margin token pairs and Isolated Margin pairs will be suspended at 2026-09-30 10:00 (UTC). At the Margin Scheduled Delisting Time, Binance Margin will close users’ positions, conduct automatic settlement, and cancel all pending orders on the affected isolated margin pairs before removing them from isolated margin. For users holding both collateral and liabilities of the affected tokens on Cross and Portfolio Margin, the collateral will be used to repay the respective liabilities. If users hold only the affected tokens as collateral, Binance said the tokens will be sold to USDT or USDC and the proceeds added to the user’s Margin balance. If users hold only liabilities, all pending orders in Cross Margin Accounts will be canceled, and the system will sell other collateral tokens to fully repay the delisting token liabilities. Binance added that users will not be able to update positions during the delisting process, which may take approximately 3 hours, and advised users to close positions or transfer assets from Margin Accounts to Spot Accounts before margin trading ceases. Portfolio Margin users were also advised to transfer the affected tokens out of Margin Accounts to Spot Accounts and top up margin balance before the scheduled delisting time where applicable.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has updated its crypto-related frequently asked questions to address token buybacks. According to ChainCatcher, the new guidance says token buyback arrangements generally do not constitute an investment contract if no centralized entity is behind them.

ZEC has fallen more than 18% from its recent high, and a whale is holding a 5x leveraged long position on 4,135 ZEC at Aster DEX. According to Odaily, the position is valued at $5.8 million and is showing an unrealized loss of more than $450,000.