Faces are not fundamental, but they are the only signal that the community can quickly read when there is information asymmetry—which is precisely the cruelest part of the crypto market.

Saudi Arabia is nearing a restart of its oil pipeline as Houthi tensions rise, according to Bloomberg. The report did not give a timetable or additional operational details.

Justin Sun is putting up as much as $1 million for mathematical breakthroughs — and betting that the next generation of scientific discovery will be judged less by who makes a discovery and more by whether a machine can verify it.

According to the announcement from Binance, the platform will carry out an infrastructure wallet system upgrade at 2026-09-22 06:00 (UTC) to improve service experience. During the maintenance window, deposits and withdrawals across the Binance platform will be suspended starting from 2026-09-22 06:00 (UTC) and will resume once the upgrade is complete. The company said the upgrade is expected to take about one hour, while trading of token(s) will not be affected during the wallet maintenance. Binance added that deposits and withdrawals will reopen once the system is deemed stable, and no further announcement will be posted. The notice applies as a general announcement, and the products and services mentioned may not be available in all regions. The announcement did not indicate any change to trading activity during the maintenance period, but it confirmed that wallet-related functions will be temporarily unavailable until the system upgrade is finished. Binance said the suspension is limited to deposits and withdrawals on the platform and that access will return after the infrastructure update is completed and stability is confirmed. The company did not provide additional operational details beyond the expected duration of about one hour. The notice also stated that the platform will not issue another update when services are restored. The announcement was issued on 2026-09-17 and concerns only the wallet system upgrade and the temporary pause in deposit and withdrawal services.

BlockBeats reported on September 17 that data from the Hyperliquid ecosystem platform hl.eco shows USDC supply on the Hyperliquid network has surpassed that of Solana, making it one of the blockchain networks with the largest USDC circulation. According to BlockBeats On-chain Detection, the data indicates Hyperliquid has become a major network for USDC supply.

It seems that while the U.S. Department of Justice can't control the president's attempts to profit from the system, it can certainly control employees of compliance agencies who want to profit from the system.

Polymarket now shows a 38% probability that Arc will launch a token within this year. According to Foresight News, the odds of a token launch by September 30, 2026, are 1%, while the probability of a launch by June 30, 2027, is 43%.

Remi Olu-Pitan, head of multi-asset growth and income at Schroders, said Treasury yields could move higher over a longer horizon if the Federal Reserve is right and US growth remains strong, according to Bloomberg. He was discussing the outlook for Treasuries after yesterday's Fed interest-rate hike.

Oil prices fell, with WTI crude dropping below $96 per barrel and down 1.54% on the day. According to Odaily, Brent crude was at $100.4 per barrel, down 1.6%.

The predict.fun forecast for the LPL qualifier event "IG vs. TES" shows IG with a 55% chance of defeating TES. According to Odaily, the winner of the best-of-five match at 5 p.m. today will secure the LPL's third seed for the 2026 World Championship, while the loser will drop into the qualifier losers' bracket to face the winner of WE and JDG for the fourth seed.

Huawei rotating chairman Wang Tao said at Huawei Connect 2026 that the Ascend 960 chip is ready ahead of schedule and delivers twice the performance. According to ChainCatcher, the Ascend 960DT is now set for release in Q1 2027, three quarters earlier than planned, while the Ascend 960PR is scheduled for Q3 2027, one quarter earlier than planned. Wang said Huawei will continue its one-generation-per-year development pace. According to ChainCatcher, the Ascend 970 is planned for release in 2028, and the Ascend 980 is planned for release in 2029.

UBS believes that the Warsh policy response function has undergone a substantial shift compared to its predecessor, becoming more sensitive to inflation and supply shocks, significantly less concerned about the labor market, and setting higher thresholds for restrictive policies.

This does not mean that the Federal Reserve's influence on Bitcoin has decreased. The current price performance only indicates that short-term selling pressure has been controlled. What will truly determine the subsequent market trend is still the change in liquidity and market risk appetite.

Whether the stock market can withstand future interest rate hikes largely depends on oil prices. If the situation in Iran and oil prices ease, there will still be a large amount of capital waiting to enter the market, and interest rate hikes will be more of a precautionary measure. However, if oil prices remain high, market sentiment will inevitably be affected.

The agency said the intrusion began with an attacker exploiting a vulnerability in a VPN-connected device used by the Government Solution Service

Bitcoin mining companies shut down massively in the second quarter, which might seem like a surrender, but that's not the case. Many miners didn't completely withdraw from the computing power field; instead, they were redirected to AI infrastructure upgrades.

Anthropic, OpenAI, Nvidia, Google, XAI – Jensen Huang to the left, Amody to the right – Golden Finance: Giants are choosing sides.

Artificial Intelligence, AI Agent, Computing Power, Computing Power Spot Market: Separating AI Inference Computing Power from Subscription Packages (Jinse Finance)