SlowMist has confirmed that FomoPeek versions 1.1 and 1.2, disguised as a read-only whale tracking tool, contain an iOS kernel vulnerability framework that can decrypt sensitive credentials such as private keys and mnemonic phrases in the iOS keychain and receive remote commands in real time during investigations.

A Bank of America survey conducted from September 4 to 10 found that 53% of global fund managers still view being long global semiconductors as the most crowded trade, marking the fourth straight month at the top. According to ChainCatcher, 33% of respondents said related companies are overinvested, the highest share on record. Shorting government bonds rose to second place for the first time, with 18% of respondents naming it the most crowded trade. Only 7% said being long the Magnificent 7 was the most crowded trade. The semiconductor trade had previously ranked first for 23 consecutive months between 2023 and 2025 and reached a peak of about 70% in June 2024. Semiconductor stocks continue to draw investor attention.

Polymarket Engineering Vice President @devjoshstevens said Polymarket Perps is now live and open to all users. According to ChainCatcher, the product is a new exchange built from scratch in Rust, designed for retail and professional traders, and can be integrated through an SDK. The post also invited product feedback.

The probability of the "Yes" option in Polymarket's "U.S.-Iran ceasefire continues" event for the "September 30" submarket surged to 79% from 63.5% one hour earlier, according to Catcher Predict monitoring. According to ChainCatcher, the move reflected a 15.5 percentage point swing and came amid the impact of breaking news.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and his wife's trust donated a total of 438,000 company shares on September 17. According to Sina Finance, SEC filings released on September 18 showed that 292,000 shares went to the Huang family foundation and 146,000 shares went to a donor-advised fund. Nvidia shares rose 1.34% on September 18 to $222.27, giving the company a market value of $5.4 trillion. According to Sina Finance, the donated shares were worth about $97.35 million based on that price. The filings also showed that about 160,200 Nvidia shares held by five executives, including Huang, were withheld by the company on September 16 at $212.17 per share to cover taxes. According to Sina Finance, Huang was involved in 45,728 shares, worth about $9.7 million. The other four executives were Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress, General Counsel Timothy S. Teter, Executive Vice President of Operations Debora Shoquist, and Chief Accounting Officer Scott Gawel. Kress also separately sold 34,918 Nvidia shares on September 17 at prices between $217.42 and $219.865 per share, for proceeds of about $7.65 million, under a 10b5-1 trading plan set on June 16 this year.

Fetch.ai's Ethereum contract is under a continuing attack, according to Blockaid monitoring. According to Foresight News, the losses are about $2.01 million, including about $1.56 million in FET stolen from the token conversion contract and about $452,000 in NTX maliciously minted. Blockaid said the attacker used a valid conversion authorization signature in the conversionIn function of TokenConversionManagerV3 to drain the remaining FET held by the converter. The same wallet later minted a large amount of NTX from the NuNet deployer account.

SemiAnalysis expects revenue to exceed $100 million this year and has about 100 employees. According to ChainCatcher, the semiconductor and AI infrastructure research firm was founded by Dylan Patel in 2020 as a WordPress blog and reached seven-figure revenue in 2023. Subscription income accounts for less than 5% of total revenue, with most of the business coming from data models, its Core Research institutional research product, and consulting. The company now has 12 models covering networking, fab equipment, foundry, energy, and other areas, supported by about 50 analysts. Its clients include most major global technology companies, and its readers reportedly include Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, AMD CEO Lisa Su, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. SemiAnalysis said its CoWoS and HBM supply chain model had predicted Nvidia would ship 400,000 H100 chips per quarter, and OpenAI used its InferenceX as a third-party benchmark when unveiling its in-house chip Jalapeño at Hot Chips. Patel recently raised $500 million for SemiAnalysis Capital Fund I to invest in early-stage startups. The company also plans to expand into the energy sector, with analysts expected to work directly with grid and utility-related counterparties.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said middle powers have an important role in reducing the risks posed by artificial intelligence, according to Bloomberg. He also called for cooperation between the US and China.

Taiyuan Chengming Technology Co. sent a letter to Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co. over allegations that its ZCode client uploaded company data assets and trade secrets without authorization. According to PANews, Chengming Technology said it has reserved the right to pursue legal liability. Chengming Technology said Zhipu publicly apologized for the issue involving ZCode silently uploading users' local repository data and said it had fixed the problem, but its own evidence showed the uploads were automatically triggered and occurred in batches. It said the data went beyond code snippets and included complete source code, system architecture, version control history, database passwords, cloud service credentials, and employee personal information, exceeding the scope described in Zhipu's privacy policy. The company also said it detected upload activity in the early hours of the day Zhipu issued its public apology, even after the client was updated to version 3.12.3 on September 16, and questioned whether the fix was effective. It further said ZCode's network requests pointed to a Singapore entity, while the service agreement was signed by Beijing Zhipu Huazhang, and asked Zhipu to explain the responsible party and whether the data was transferred overseas or stored outside China. Chengming Technology asked Zhipu to respond in writing by October 10 and to stop processing and delete all uploaded data and related derivative data, caches, and backups; provide a full processing list; explain where the data went, whether it was shared with third parties, used for model training, or transferred across borders; disclose how encryption keys were stored and provide complete logs of access, downloads, and exports; clarify the scope of its earlier statement about destruction; issue proof of deletion; promise not to upload data without authorization again; provide access, copying, and explanation rights for personal information; designate an official contact channel; explain the responsible entity and cross-border data transfer status; and provide the text of its published remediation statement. Zhipu had not publicly responded to the letter at the time of reporting.

A Comparison of Compliance Paths for Smart Agent Payments in Hong Kong and Mainland China: The Complementary Logic of Self-Regulatory Conventions and Regulatory Sandboxes.

The SEC has issued the long-awaited "innovation exemption," paving the way for secondary market trading of tokenized stocks. While some provisions may require further adjustments, this is a serious policy development and a significant step towards a viable on-chain capital market.

Predictions: Polymarket, which has been undergoing a major reshuffle, has hired four senior executives in just one month. What is Polymarket worried about? Golden Finance reports that Polymarket's monthly active users have halved since the World Cup.

Jinse Finance launches its cryptocurrency and blockchain industry daily news bulletin, "Jinse 8 AM," issue 3187, providing you with the latest and fastest news on the digital currency and blockchain industry.

UBS has significantly raised its forecast for AI capital expenditures, with the sharp rise in memory costs being the core driver of this round of spending expansion, and its impact is profoundly changing the structure and economic logic of the AI ​​investment cycle.

Ethereum may have already become the settlement layer for tokenized finance. However, to truly support global financial markets, a key challenge remains to be solved: speed.

Artificial intelligence, technology—Chinese new energy vehicle companies all want to become AI companies. Golden Finance reports that they've poured all the chips they've accumulated over the past decade into the next game.

OpenAI is seeking to complete a new round of financing at a higher valuation, while also disclosing that its free cash flow will be deeply negative over the next five years, indicating significant long-term funding pressure.

Robinhood, Coinbase, and Circle have all entered the market – why is distribution the next battleground for tokenized assets? Jinse Finance reports that the three major issuers still face a distribution problem.