Junk-rated borrowers are lining up about €3.7 billion ($4.3 billion) in refinancing deals and accepting significantly higher rates, according to Bloomberg. They are moving now on bets borrowing costs will climb further if they wait.

Cynthia Lummis said Congress should pass the Clarity Act now as a bipartisan compromise. According to NS3.AI, she argued that unclear authority over crypto regulation makes consumer protection more difficult. Lummis said the bill would give the digital asset industry regulatory certainty and help keep companies in the United States.

Binance Wallet announced on X that it has introduced several updates across its web, app, and extension products. The new web homepage now brings key market trends into one view, while Meme Mode on Web now provides one-tap access to meme tools. Quick Buy now supports using Exchange Balance, and the app now allows users to create an Agentic Wallet directly from the Add Wallet option. The announcement also said the Agentic Wallet supports multi-chain functionality on Robinhood, Arbitrum, and Polygon. In addition, a new Signal Preview now displays signals on the Markets page, and Bitcoin Chain on Extension now supports asset management and signing.

Seattle-based AI company Nuance has raised $50 million in a Series A round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with participation from Accel, Nvidia's NVentures, South Park Commons, and Define Ventures. According to ChainCatcher, the company was founded last year by three former Apple researchers and is developing multimodal AI models designed to better understand emotions. Nuance previously raised a $10 million seed round led by Accel in July last year.

Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer has accepted NBA penalties over salary cap violations, according to Bloomberg. The source said Ballmer backed down.

According to Sina Finance, author Sean Williams said Tim Cook’s biggest legacy at Apple was leading a buyback program that permanently changed the company’s fate. Apple has spent about $878.5 billion on share repurchases since fiscal 2013, and its shares outstanding have fallen 44.5% under Cook. The article said Cook’s tenure at Apple lasted about 15 years, during which Apple’s stock, including dividends, rose about 2,720% and outperformed the S&P 500 by nearly 2,000 percentage points. It also said Apple remained the world’s most valuable listed company for many years. The piece noted that Apple’s annual buyback pace increased sharply after U.S. President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in December 2017, which cut the top U.S. corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%.

Strategy repurchased 1.42 million STRC preferred shares for around $139.3 million between Sept. 8 and Sept. 13. According to NS3.AI, the company did not buy or sell bitcoin last week, and its holdings remained unchanged at 845,050 BTC. Strategy said the repurchases were funded through its USD Cash reserve.

Kaiko has raised $110 million in a funding round led by S&P Global, with participation from BNP Paribas, Nasdaq, Royal Bank of Canada, Bpifrance and Susquehanna. According to NS3.AI, the company plans to use the capital to strengthen its data business and expand its product offering.

According to The Korea Herald, Posco International said its wholly owned U.S. subsidiary will raise 532.9 billion won ($396 million) through a rights offering to acquire shale gas assets in the United States. The funds will be raised by Posco International E&P USA, while the company did not disclose the assets or its partner in the deal. Posco International also said it will extend 266.1 billion won in loans to the U.S. subsidiary by March 15 next year.

Robinhood Chain 已跑出高交易量与收入，代币化股票、Launchpad 与 DEX 生态加速成型，而真正的零售用户红利尚未释放。

AI连破数学难题，陶哲轩与斯特罗加茨等数学家直面"失去人类理解能力"的边缘。

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6月25日，一名攻击者在未存入任何比特币作为代币担保的情况下，铸造了价值40.65 BTC的Nomic nBTC。随后，Osmosis平台——由于此次事件导致的缺口，使其allBTC储备中36%处于无担保状态——耗时74天才发现这一漏洞。

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