World leaders are heading to the UN General Assembly as Gulf states seek renewed diplomacy to curb attacks, restore more predictable energy flows and move the Iran war away from active conflict, according to Bloomberg. Suzanne Maloney of the Brookings Institution said disruptions to Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline and other regional infrastructure are adding urgency to those efforts as Gulf economies face mounting pressure from the conflict.

A Hong Kong court jailed former China Construction Bank (Asia) relationship manager Lam Chun-yin for four years after he took more than $470,000 in Tether (USDT) to authenticate forged bank instruments with a stated value above $1.6 billion. According to BeInCrypto, the ICAC said Lam, 32, worked in consumer banking at a Causeway Bay retail branch and was never authorized to handle letters of credit; the case involved Vesttoo Limited, Yu Po Holdings Limited and a scheme to conceal bribe payments through cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin's market cap crossed $1.63T, surpassing Tesla and returning to the top 15 global assets — up 5% over 24 hours. The BOJ hiked to a 31-year high of 1.25% but the yen fell to 157.80 anyway as two board members dissented and guidance stayed vague — keeping carry trade funding cheap and removing the risk-off signal a hike was supposed to deliver. Morgan Stanley's MSBT ran 20 consecutive sessions without a single outflow day through one of the most volatile months of the year. XRP exchange reserves hit a 7-year low. The 21Shares Injective ETF amended its S-1, joining the growing queue of altcoin ETF filings.Bitcoin Market Cap Tops Tesla, Returns to Top 15 Global AssetsBitcoin's market cap reached $1.63T — surpassing Tesla's $1.438T (closed Friday at $364.27, -0.53%) — and returning to the top 15 global assets. The 5% 24-hour gain came against a week that delivered the Fed's first hike since July 2023, a CLARITY Act failure, oil at $106, and a BOJ hike. Blockware's Mitchell Askew's seller exhaustion read holds: Bitcoin is down just 1.5% in September — its historically worst month — after absorbing four simultaneous macro headwinds. Above price, 8% of supply was acquired between $80,000-$82,000 with the 50-week moving average at $81,081 — the ceiling that hasn't been cleared since September 4. Morgan Stanley's Bitcoin ETF Has Gone 20 Sessions Without an Outflow DayMSBT accumulated ~$51.5M over 20 consecutive sessions without a single redemption day — roughly $2.6M per session. The amount is a fraction of the $99.5B complex, but the consistency through a month that included a $731M single-day inflow, a $450M single-day outflow, and the CLARITY Act collapse is the signal. Steady, schedule-driven flows through volatility point to advisory or model-driven allocation rather than discretionary trading — consistent with Morgan Stanley's wealth management distribution. Bitcoin ETFs remain ~$1B negative year-to-date despite August's $3.52B surge, with the fee gap between GBTC's 1.50% and IBIT's 0.25% still the primary driver of complex-wide flow composition.The Yen Fell 1.2% to 157.80 in the Session After the BOJ Raised RatesThe BOJ hiked to 1.25% by a 7-2 vote — two dovish dissenters (Asada, Sato) — and the yen promptly fell to 157.80 rather than strengthening. SMBC's Hirofumi Suzuki: "The two dissenting votes conveyed a dovish impression and tempered expectations for further hikes." A currency weakening on a rate hike means the hike was fully priced and/or read as insufficient. For crypto, yen weakness at 157.80 keeps carry trade funding cheap — supportive for risk assets, opposite of what a hike typically delivers. European indices fell across the board (Euro Stoxx 50 -1.22%, FTSE -1.03%, DAX -0.94%). Silver outpaced gold 6-to-1: +2.32% to $66.47 vs gold's +0.36% to $4,364.SEC Receives Amended S-1/A for 21Shares Injective ETF as Altcoin ETF Race Heats UpThe SEC received an amended S-1/A for the 21Shares Injective ETF (proposed ticker: TINJ on Nasdaq), updating an October 2025 original filing. INJ staking rewards ranged from 9.3%-13.62% annually in 2025 — a yield dimension most equity ETFs cannot match. INJ's market cap sits at ~$488M, meaning even modest ETF inflows could represent a meaningful share of float. 21Shares already offers an INJ staking ETP in Europe. The filing joins a growing queue of altcoin ETF registrations covering SOL, XRP, LTC, ADA, and DeFi tokens since spot Bitcoin ETFs launched in January 2024. Custody arrangements remain unfinalized — a detail the SEC will want resolved before any approval.XRP Spot ETFs Record $5.15 Million Outflow as Exchange Reserves Hit Seven-Year LowXRP spot ETFs recorded a $5.15M outflow Thursday while remaining $9.60M positive for the week — with a 10th consecutive week of net inflows possible if Friday's data doesn't exceed that figure. More structurally significant: XRP exchange reserves fell to a 7-year low near 1.7B XRP. Low exchange reserves mean less immediately available selling inventory — the same supply squeeze dynamic that preceded Bitcoin's August breakout. CME's XRP futures share rose to 17% from 10% in mid-August as institutional positioning built on regulated venues. The CLARITY Act's failure removed the near-term legislative catalyst, but SEC and CFTC rulemaking under existing authority remains the open regulatory pathway.

According to CNBC, the S&P 500 fell 0.1% for the week and the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1.7%, leaving several stocks in oversold territory after a volatile stretch for markets. Boeing had an RSI of 25 after shares slipped more than 5% when CEO Kelly Ortberg said production of the company's 737 Max was taking longer than expected to stabilize. Bank of America fell into oversold territory with an RSI of 28 after shares slid 8% this week, as Chief Executive Brian Moynihan said investment banking fees for the third quarter are expected to fall more than 10%. Wynn Resorts was the most oversold stock on the list with an RSI of 17 after shares fell more than 5% to a new 52-week low just above $81. Las Vegas Sands, Carrier Global and TransDigm were also oversold. On the other side of the ledger, Marathon Petroleum had an RSI of 87 and topped the overbought list after shares rose more than 7% to a record high of $428. The stock has gained 161% year to date, while Valero Energy and Phillips 66 also appeared on the overbought list.

ChainCatcher reported that on-chain investigator Specter tracked an attack in which the perpetrators used YouTube videos to offer so-called arbitrage bot tutorials and code, then directed victims to compile and deploy contracts through a fake Remix-like development interface. According to ChainCatcher, the attackers registered ENS names containing "Uniswap" and disguised related addresses as legitimate DeFi revenue sources, making victims believe the deployed arbitrage bot was generating profits through Uniswap. After victims deposited their own assets into the contracts, the funds were transferred away by the attackers. The attackers also appear to remain active and are still holding a significant portion of the stolen funds across two addresses.

Solana reduced its target block slot time from 300 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds on Friday, increasing block production frequency by nearly 17%. According to Odaily, the change reduces the computing resources and data available in each slot, while the network’s overall transaction processing capacity remains unchanged. The adjustment is the third of four planned phases in the SIMD-0525 proposal. The validator block-production window across four consecutive slots has been cut from 1.2 seconds to 1 second, and the expected duration of a fixed 432,000-slot epoch has been shortened from about 36 hours to about 30 hours. The next phase would further reduce slot time to 200 milliseconds, but no mainnet launch date has been set. Its implementation depends on block skip rates remaining stable.

A former Vitol Group trader was sentenced to four years in prison for paying bribes to win oil deals in Latin America, according to Bloomberg. He is among the few people in the industry to receive significant jail time for corruption.

According to CNBC, Goldman Sachs economist Joseph Briggs said declining happiness may be helping explain why U.S. consumer sentiment has stayed weak even as other measures of the economy have held up. Briggs wrote to clients that low reported economic sentiment likely reflects a broader negative view of the state of the world rather than the economy alone, and he said inflation is also likely hurting confidence. He pointed to University of Chicago General Social Survey data showing the share of respondents who felt "very happy" fell to 23% in 2024 from 31% in 2016, while the share saying they were "not too happy" rose to 20% from 13% over the same period. Briggs also said lower trust in institutions has contributed to the decline in net happiness and warned consumer sentiment may not improve even if the economy keeps growing.

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.

Regulatory controversies surrounding the artificial intelligence industry are spreading from the policy level to the legal arena.

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Jinse Finance launches its cryptocurrency and blockchain industry daily news bulletin, "Jinse 8 AM," issue 3186, providing you with the latest and fastest news on the digital currency and blockchain industry.

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Uniswap captured 80% of the trading volume in tokenized US stocks, with cumulative turnover exceeding $10 billion, and UNI rose by more than 30% in a single day.