Foresight News reported that Solana liquidity protocol Meteora said its token launch tool DBC now supports any token pair. Stock tokens, RWA, and other Token-2022 standard assets on Solana can be used as paired tokens in DBC launch configurations. According to Foresight News, the update expands the range of assets that can be paired in the tool's launch setup.

According to the BBC, President Adama Barrow urged The Gambia's citizens to stay calm over prolonged power cuts and said the country was not alone in facing an electricity crisis affecting parts of West Africa. He said a new 24-megawatt generating unit was being installed at the Brikama power station and would be commissioned by the end of next month, while a contract had also been awarded for a 50MW solar power plant in Soma. Police used tear gas to disperse protesters in Banjul and surrounding areas on Monday night after residents took to the streets over blackouts that they said had sometimes lasted up to 48 hours. Barrow said the outages were a national security issue and an emergency, acknowledged shortcomings in planning, generation and maintenance, and warned against damaging public infrastructure. Nawec chief Gallo Saidy said reduced electricity imports from the regional grid and lower rainfall had contributed to the shortages.

Europe’s luxury-goods stocks are unlikely to improve soon, with HSBC Holdings Plc analysts saying the second half of the year looks harder to navigate, according to Bloomberg.

Amazon has launched its first pound-denominated bond sale, split into four parts. According to Sina Finance, people familiar with the matter said the bonds have maturities ranging from three years to 19 years, with initial price discussions for the shortest tranche around 70 basis points above U.K. government bond yields and the longest tranche around 110 basis points above. JPMorgan, Barclays, HSBC, and NatWest Group are managing the deal, which is expected to be priced later on Wednesday. This is Amazon's fourth debt sale outside the U.S. dollar market this year. In March, the company issued its first euro bonds in a record deal for corporate debt in that currency, later sold six tranches in the Swiss franc market at a record size, and completed the largest bond sale in the Canadian dollar market. Analysts Robert Schiffman and Suchi Trivedi said Amazon's first pound bond sale highlights a broader issue facing hyperscale cloud providers as AI investment drives repeated debt issuance.

Maintainers said four Docker image tags delivered unpatched binaries while still reporting v26.06.7 at startup. According to NS3.AI, the affected images were served between Aug. 28 at 16:04 UTC and Sept. 1. The maintainers said source disclosure is planned for Sept. 11 under a 14-day embargo. They asked operators to compare image digests and download corrected images if their local digests differ.

According to Jin10, Hang Seng Indexes announced that Baidu Group-W (09888.HK) will be added to the Hang Seng Stock Connect New Economy Index, the Hang Seng Stock Connect China Technology Index, and the Hang Seng Stock Connect Technology Theme Index after the close on October 23, 2026, effective from October 26, 2026, because it has been included in Southbound Stock Connect and meets the relevant fast-entry rule requirements.

According to Korea Herald, HKET and UDN Money, Asian equities closed mixed on Wednesday, with Seoul leading gains on chip strength while Hong Kong and Tokyo slipped and Taipei and mainland China edged higher. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 ended down 126.55 points, or 0.19%, at 65,142.78, easing after recent advances. Chip-sector names were softer, with Advantest off 2.84% and Tokyo Electron down 0.56%, while Sony fell 0.79%. Seoul's KOSPI rose 97.12 points, or 1.4%, to 7,051.64, as major chipmakers rallied on continued AI optimism. SK hynix jumped 3.51% to 1.86 million won and Samsung Electronics closed flat at 269,500 won. Battery makers advanced, with LG Energy Solution up 6.46% and Samsung SDI up 8.3%, while Hanwha Ocean gained 2.32% after being named preferred bidder for a Royal Thai Navy frigate project worth about $500 million. Daishin Securities analyst Lee Kyoung-min said OpenAI's launch of GPT-6 Astra renewed optimism over AI growth. The won firmed to a 23-month high near 1,336 per dollar. Hong Kong stocks eased, with the Hang Seng Index down 42 points, or 0.17%, at 25,274 on turnover of HK$204.95 billion, while the Hang Seng TECH Index fell 0.8% to 4,420. Lenovo rebounded more than 6% and lens makers Sunny Optical and AAC Technologies each rose over 3% ahead of Apple's product event, while Haidilao dropped 9%. Meituan fell 3.47% to HK$77.80 and Xiaomi lost 2.01% to HK$26.38. Taiwan's TAIEX added 77.58 points, or 0.16%, to close at 47,183.36 after touching an intraday high of 47,548.26, with domestic institutions net buying about NT$22 billion. Chip bellwether TSMC eased 0.2% to NT$2,465. In mainland China, the Shanghai Composite rose 0.28% to 3,951.51, extending gains to a third session, and the CSI 300 added 0.30% to 4,572.60. The Shenzhen Component gained 0.15% while the ChiNext slipped 0.14%.

Liquidity Arena 2026, an AI quantitative trading competition organized by global institutional prime broker LTP, will enter its dual-track main competition on September 9. According to BeInCrypto, the event has drawn hundreds of teams, with Track A Phase 1 producing more than 70,000 trades and 30 teams advancing to the final stage. Track B, Liquidity Pro, is open until 23:59 GMT+8 on September 23, 2026, and the competition offers more than $300,000 in total prize value.

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Polish prosecutors have charged a fifth suspect in the Zondacrypto fraud case, with Roman Ż. accused of helping an organised group misappropriate 7.8 million złoty ($2.1 million) from users.

In a time when technology is increasingly becoming nationalized, public blockchains stubbornly maintain their global reach: within this network system, capital, code, and users continuously converge.

OpenAI, Anthropic: Anthropic researcher resigns and publishes reflections on AI, garnering over 30 million views. What exactly did he say? Golden Finance: Heading straight for self-evolving superintelligence.

OpenAI, Anthropic, LLM, Computing Power, "Why are you ruining your career?": The OpenAI controversy behind a mathematical breakthrough. Golden Finance: A mathematical breakthrough tears open the hidden battle among AI giants.

Morgan Stanley believes that the release of GPT-6 Astra shifts the focus of the AI ​​narrative from "whether demand is excessive" to "whether physical supply can keep up." The leap in capabilities brought by Astra will trigger more AI revenue scenarios.

Strive bought 1,375 BTC for $109 million, taking its total holdings to 24,531 BTC worth about $1.9 billion. The purchase was largely funded through SATA preferred shares, whose outstanding value has now reached $999 million.

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meta, Zuckerberg, AI Agent, Artificial Intelligence, Zuckerberg "works hard" on Jarvis in the US, Golden Finance, for US users only (18+).

Visa is pushing blockchain-based credit deeper into traditional finance, connecting its massive payment settlement network with onchain lending infrastructure as stablecoin payments surge across its global network.