RippleX Head of Product Jazzi Cooper said using XRP as collateral for institutional credit is a “killer use case,” backed by the XLS-65 and XLS-66 lending protocol now live on the XRP Ledger. according to BeInCrypto, the protocol enables market makers and institutional traders to post XRP for credit lines without selling their holdings, while Single Asset Vaults add native fixed-term, fixed-rate lending. Bill Morgan said the use case became viable only after the SEC lawsuit against Ripple ended, and Ripple Prime already accepts XRP as collateral alongside Bitcoin, RLUSD, fiat, gold and treasuries.

According to The Korea Herald, finance minister nominee Lee Hyoung-il said Sunday that he is not considering a corporate tax cut, citing the restoration of the corporate tax rate that took effect this year. Lee made the remarks in response to a ruling party lawmaker’s question ahead of his confirmation hearing at South Korea’s National Assembly on Tuesday. He said discussions on a corporate tax cut are not under consideration.

A passenger train traveling from Kyiv to Warsaw was hit by a Russian drone just kilometers from the Polish border on Sunday morning, Ukraine’s foreign minister said, according to Bloomberg. Moscow’s airstrikes have been pushing closer to NATO territory.

Derivative (6893) said it sold Workshop Nos. 1 to 19 on the 5th floor of Block A, Shatin Industrial Centre, Nos. 5 to 7 Yuen Shun Circuit, Sha Tin, New Territories, together with the platform adjoining Workshops Nos. 3 and 4 and Parking Space No. L45 on the 2nd floor of Block A, for HK$98 million on Sept. 11, according to Ming Pao.

Zhipu (2513) said it will place up to 21.965 million new H shares at HK$714 each, a 9.96% discount to the previous close of HK$793, raising HK$15.683 billion, or HK$15.664 billion net, according to Ming Pao. The company also announced a US dollar-settled zero-coupon convertible bond issue with a principal amount of HK$20.14 billion due in 2027. Gross proceeds are expected to be about $3.01564 billion, or about HK$23.64844 billion, while net proceeds are expected to be $3.01077 billion, or about HK$23.61 billion. Combined net proceeds from the two financings are about HK$39.274 billion. Zhipu said the placement and subscription agreement carries a 60-day lock-up period.

Hansight Biotech (3378), which listed last December, said it plans to place up to 13.4 million warrants at an initial subscription price of HK$36 each, according to Ming Pao. The price represents a 32.7% premium to the previous close of HK$27.4. The company expects to raise up to HK$482.4 million, or net proceeds of HK$486.259 million.

Cathie Wood said on X that David Sacks believes recent reports about AI destroying humanity may have been orchestrated. According to Odaily, she said the claim originally came from a long-inactive X account belonging to an Anthropic employee who left the company after six weeks, and that the content quickly spread into mainstream media. Wood also said Sacks identified the parties involved and criticized The Wall Street Journal's role in the matter. She added that all technology can be used for malicious purposes and said people such as Elon Musk, who are not involved in political conspiracies but continue to stress AI risks, are playing a positive role.

Three GEM computing infrastructure ETFs from Tianhong, E Fund and China Asset Management have been established, with fundraising totals of 414 million yuan, 1.477 billion yuan and 332 million yuan, respectively, according to Jiemian News. Southern Fund also said its GEM computing infrastructure ETF ended fundraising early. The products track the GEM computing infrastructure index, and Jiemian News reported that the first batch of 10 products was approved for registration by China's securities regulator on August 28 after being filed on August 7. The fundraising pace has been uneven. Tianhong's GEM computing infrastructure ETF, code 158061, closed on its first day of sale and was formally established on September 9 with 414 million yuan raised from 4,976 holders. By contrast, Fullgoal Fund said on September 10 that the fundraising period for its GEM computing infrastructure infrastructure ETF would be extended to September 16 from the original September 4 to September 11 window, after consultation with its custodian, China Merchants Bank, and sales agencies. The article said the index focuses on GEM stocks involved in computing, networking, storage, operations and other computing infrastructure-related areas, covering data centers, communications equipment, PCB, storage and liquid cooling. Based on Wind consensus estimates, constituent companies' 2026 revenue and net profit are expected to rise 69.93% and 173.35% year on year. E Fund manager Xiao Wanyuan said global computing demand remains in a sustained growth phase, while Tianhong manager Hong Minghua said AI commercialization, token usage growth and rising agent penetration are supporting domestic AI infrastructure demand.

The market's pricing logic has changed: capital expenditures that cannot be converted into actual growth will be penalized, while investments that can drive AI revenue growth will receive positive feedback.

The Federal Reserve, Warsh, interest rate hikes—all eyes are on Warsh—will next week's "Super Week of Central Banks" see a wave of G7 interest rate hikes? Golden Finance reports that global monetary policy is at a new turning point.

Many people's impression of MoneyGram is still limited to traditional offline remittance scenarios.

For the first time in history, the three arch-rivals in the AI ​​field have joined forces—after a series of out-of-control events and doomsday warnings have impacted the industry, the heads of Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX have made a rare joint call to slow down the pace of artificial intelligence development.

Astra makes headlines every day. Yesterday they conquered A, today they conquered B, and tomorrow they might be tackling C, D, and E together… Their progress is so rapid it's dazzling. Even if you have exceptional eyesight, you might not understand what Astra is doing anymore.

Golden Weekly is a weekly blockchain industry summary column launched by Golden Finance, covering key news, mining information, project updates, technological advancements, and other industry dynamics.

Perhaps we should be a little more polite to the baby boomers who hold the reins of wealth. If they don't step in to take on this "hot potato," then we ourselves may be the ones who ultimately have to learn how to find joy in hardship and accept a (relative) impoverished life.

Golden Weekly is a weekly blockchain industry summary column launched by Golden Finance, covering key news, market and contract data, mining information, project updates, technological advancements, and other industry dynamics.

This week, 10 blockchain startups completed funding rounds, raising a total of $563.4 million.

OpenAI is opening up the underlying agent framework that powers its flagship programming assistant Codex to all developers, marking the formal productization of the company's accumulated agent engineering experience.