Odaily News: Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee stated that the company's total ETH holdings have now surpassed 6 million, a accumulation achieved in less than 15 months. Lee said Bitmine's holdings are approaching 5% of ETH's total supply, and the company has already seen the resulting synergies and network effects.

Lee also stated that the crypto market bull run began at the end of June, and there are still signs to confirm this; he believes institutional investors remain underallocated to crypto assets and are expected to increase their exposure in the final months of 2026. As of the third quarter to date, ETH has outperformed other macro assets by 6,728 basis points. (PRNewswire)

Odaily News: Cross-chain protocol Chainlink has released CCIP 2.0, allowing enterprises to add their own security checks for cross-blockchain transfers on top of its default network of 16 operator validators.

The upgrade comes after Kelp DAO suffered a $292 million hack in April, an incident attributed to a LayerZero cross-chain bridge setup using a single validator; Kelp DAO subsequently migrated its rsETH token to Chainlink.

Chainlink's risk management network no longer operates as a standalone security safeguard, and users who do not add their own validators will rely on one validation network rather than two. (CoinDesk)

Odaily News: According to an official announcement, Bitget has announced the launch of the "Peer Program," offering trading rewards, asset rewards, and exclusive benefits to different user groups in appreciation of users who continued to give their trust and support during recent security incidents.

For non-institutional users, Bitget will establish an exclusive reward pool using 30% of the platform's trading fee revenue. Within the pool, 60% will be distributed based on user trading volume, and 40% will be distributed based on asset value, with rewards issued in USDT.

In addition, Bitget will provide eligible V1 to V7 users with 30-day tier protection trial cards before October 1, which can be activated in the coupon center. The campaign period is from September 28 to October 26, divided into four cycles of 7 days each. Specific campaign rules are subject to Bitget's official page.

Odaily News: Ethereum treasury company Bitmine Immersion Technologies disclosed that it added 17,362 ETH last week. Its current crypto asset holdings include 6,001,302 ETH, 213 BTC, $115 million worth of Eightco Holdings equity, and $180 million worth of Beast Industries shares. Bitmine has currently staked 5,067,309 ETH (worth approximately $13.7 billion). (PRNewswire)

Odaily reports that Limited has announced the completion of an $18.5 million seed funding round, led by Third Prime, North Island Ventures (NIV), The House Fund, and Collab+Currency, with participation from ParaFi Capital, Pharsalus Capital, Digital Currency Group (DCG), 1982 Ventures, and Onigiri Capital. The project is a global financial platform for multinational enterprises, integrating local business accounts, Visa cards, payments, treasury and expense management, and crypto infrastructure.

Odaily News: According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Machi Big Brother opened a 40x leveraged long position of 99.7 BTC (approximately $8.31 million) at a price of about $83,007. The position currently has an unrealized profit of approximately $34,900, and the total value of his open long positions has risen to approximately $127.33 million. The position's current unrealized PnL is -$43,800, and his historical cumulative PnL is -$29.22 million.

Odaily: CoinMarketCap has officially announced the appointment of former Chief Product Officer David Salamon as its new CEO, succeeding Rush, who led the company for five years. During his tenure as Chief Product Officer, Salamon spearheaded the development of the AI product CMC AI and restructured on-chain data infrastructure through DexScan, a decentralized exchange data scanning platform. CoinMarketCap stated that it will further advance its product strategy for the AI-native era and continue to focus on building trusted data.

Odaily reports that F2 AI, a company focused on developing artificial intelligence for the credit sector, has disclosed a $5 million investment from private credit manager Golub Capital. As part of the equity investment, Golub Capital will gain access to F2 AI's AI agent suite to screen private credit investments, conduct due diligence, underwrite transactions, and monitor its portfolio using its own data. The two parties did not disclose the F2 AI valuation corresponding to this investment. (Bloomberg)

Odaily News: XRP treasury company Evernorth plans to list on Nasdaq under the ticker XRPN. Armada Acquisition Corp. II shareholders will vote on the business combination between the two parties on September 30. If approved, it will clear the last major hurdle for Evernorth's public trading. Evernorth intends to actively deploy XRP for yield strategies, infrastructure participation, and capital markets activities. Currently, the company holds approximately 473 million XRP, making it one of the largest identifiable corporate holders. In addition, Evernorth has agreed to refinance $30 million through 4% convertible preferred PIK notes, but the funds can only be accessed upon approval of the business combination.

Odaily News - Nasdaq-listed company DeFi Development Corp. (DFDV) announced that since September 21, it has increased its holdings by approximately 47,706 SOL, bringing its total SOL and SOL equivalents holdings to approximately 2,538,010, currently valued at approximately $309 million. This increase brought its SOL holdings up approximately 2% week-over-week, and up approximately 10% since the release of its second-quarter earnings report on August 12, during which it accumulated more than 226,000 SOL. (Globenewswire)

Odaily reports that Soluna Holdings has announced an amended agreement with Dory Creek, a subsidiary of Bitdeer Technologies Group, to increase the Bitcoin mining capacity of its Project Kati 1 in South Texas, USA by 7MW, bringing the total power allocation for the project between the two parties to 35MW and filling the K1BC phase capacity. This expansion adopts a joint mining model, with Bitdeer providing and retaining ownership of Sealminer A2 Pro Air miners, while Soluna is responsible for data center infrastructure, power, and operational management, with mining revenue shared between the two parties. The additional 7MW is expected to be fully deployed by November 2026. (TheEnergyMag)

According to The Data Nerd monitoring, approximately a few hours ago, a newly created wallet "0x80Fa" withdrew 17,500 QNT from Coinbase, worth $4.69 million

Odaily News: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)'s Division of Corporation Finance has updated its cryptocurrency FAQ, stating that when a network is already functional, announcing token buybacks does not constitute a commitment to "key managerial efforts."

The SEC further stated that maintaining, upgrading, or expanding a functional network, as well as promoting the network's existing functionality or making broad visionary statements that do not involve profits, do not satisfy the relevant conditions of the Howey test.

The SEC noted that if a network is not yet functional, an issuer promoting token buybacks as a source of income or returns for holders may still trigger the application of securities laws. (Decrypt)

Odaily reports that Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated that the security issues of AI agents are a solvable problem, and the top priority is to strip AI agents of their permissions. (Sina Finance)

Odaily News: According to Gate data, U.S. and Brent crude oil briefly plunged about $1, to $93.92/barrel and $99.82/barrel.

Odaily reports that Strive, a Bitcoin treasury company, announced that its CEO Matt Cole has purchased 1,107 BTC for $94.5 million at an average price of $85,396 per coin, bringing its total Bitcoin holdings to 27,462 BTC. In addition, $12.4 million was raised through warrant exercises; including this funding, 85% of Strive's total capital raised this time came from SATA.