Blockchain analytics firm TRM Labs said groups posted YouTube tutorials claiming to show how to build AI arbitrage bots with tools such as Claude, then guided victims to deploy and fund smart contracts themselves. According to Foresight News, the scheme did not rely on phishing links, spoofed domains, or malicious prompts, leaving victims to deploy theft contracts on-chain and weakening traditional interception signals. TRM said that from February 2026 to August 2026, nine similar tutorials were linked to about 224 victims, with about 274.6 ETH flowing into six addresses. The videos often used AI-generated hosts and voiceovers, while the scripts and profit demonstrations were highly repetitive. Some tutorials directed users to fake compilation websites that replaced visible source code with malicious bytecode. The funds were then moved through DeFi, cross-chain bridges, and mixers.

Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceX AI, and Google have been sued over a call to “slow down” AI development. According to Odaily, the lawsuit was reported by Politico.

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.

YZi Labs Managing Partner and Head Ella Zhang will join the panel “Blockchain and the Tokenized Future: Sovereign Choices and Safeguards for Next-Gen DPI” at UN Digital Cooperation Day 2026. YZi Labs posted on X. The discussion will examine tokenization beyond digital currencies, including land, securities, and commodities, as well as how prepared countries are and what safeguards are needed before tokenized rails can be integrated into public infrastructure. The panel is scheduled for Monday, 21 September, from 13:30–14:30 ET in New York. YZi Labs thanked @ODET_UN and @PakistanVARA for the invitation.

The SEC has received an amended registration statement for the 21Shares Injective ETF, moving the proposed fund a step closer to becoming a publicly traded product, according to Crypto Briefing. The amended S-1/A updates the original October 2025 filing and would give traditional investors regulated access to INJ, the native token of the Injective Network. If approved, the ETF would list on Nasdaq under the ticker TINJ, passively tracking INJ via the FTSE Injective Index, with a twist: discretionary staking of a portion of holdings to boost returns. Structured as a Delaware statutory trust and sponsored by 21Shares US LLC, the fund's original S-1 landed on October 20, 2025, and the latest amendment keeps the registration active as the review continues. The preliminary prospectus notes shares have not traded publicly and no financial statements are included yet. INJ staking rewards ranged from 9.3% to 13.62% annually in 2025, giving the ETF a yield dimension most equity-focused products cannot match. As of September 1, 2026, INJ's circulating supply stood at about 92.8 million tokens, with a market capitalization near $488 million. 21Shares is no stranger to wrapping digital assets in traditional packaging, already offering a 21Shares Injective Staking ETP to European investors and having been among the first issuers of spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs via its ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF partnership. Since spot Bitcoin ETFs launched in January 2024 and Ethereum products followed later that year, asset managers have raced to file for funds covering Solana, XRP, Litecoin, Cardano and a growing list of layer-1 and DeFi tokens. Injective is a layer-1 blockchain built on the Cosmos SDK for decentralized finance, focused on decentralized exchanges, derivatives and cross-chain trading. Its low-double-digit staking yield offers a tailwind pure price-tracking products can't replicate. The $488 million market cap is notable: for comparison, Bitcoin's is in the trillions and Ethereum's typically above $200 billion, so an INJ ETF drawing even tens of millions could represent a meaningful share of the token's float. The choice of the FTSE Injective Index — from London Stock Exchange Group's FTSE Russell — is also notable as the firm expands its digital-asset indexes, while custody arrangements remain unfinalized, a detail the SEC will likely want settled before any approval.

Radix Foundation said an attacker used an undiscovered vulnerability in Radix Engine to withdraw assets from third-party vaults without owner authorization, then bridged them through Hyperlane to networks including Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Solana before selling them. According to Odaily, the flaw originated from a code cleanup in June 2023, and an independent security audit by Zellic in August 2024 did not detect it. About three hours after the incident, Radix validators took enough stake offline to prevent the network from reaching consensus and stop further exploitation. The affected assets included ETH, WBTC, USDT, USDC, BNB, and SOL. Radix said the fix has been completed and independently reviewed and tested, and network recovery is now underway.

From the Federal Reserve, the US dollar, and the Nasdaq to stablecoins: BTC is becoming an increasingly complex asset.

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.

The SEC has released detailed rules for innovation exemptions, clarifying that stock tokens must have full shareholder equity and be traded in a permissioned pool.

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

The SEC has released an innovation exemption document, setting entry thresholds for tokenized U.S. stocks while circumventing Congress to advance regulation.

The RMB exchange rate against the US dollar once broke through 6.7, reaching a new high since January 2023, and institutions are optimistic that the appreciation trend will continue.

The Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points and turned hawkish on its dot plot, suggesting that the era of low interest rates may have come to an end.

Hong Kong's first five-year plan has incorporated digital assets into its roadmap, shifting the policy focus from market building to integration into the financial system.

Ethlabs interviewed 20 ecosystem participants to gather their opinions on EIP-8198 (Quick Slots).