Odaily News: Starcloud plans to build a space-based Bitcoin mining facility before the end of this year and activate ASIC miners dedicated to cryptocurrency mining after its second spacecraft enters orbit later this year. Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston stated that the team will become the first to mine Bitcoin in space.

Odaily News: Binance will close UAH deposit and withdrawal services via the fiat trading platform at 15:00 on September 28, and delist the USDT/UAH spot trading pair. Remaining eligible UAH balances will be automatically converted to USDT at a fixed rate of 1 USDT to 46.5 UAH before 00:00 on October 1. All times are in UTC+8.

Odaily News — Today, Qwen officially released the Qwen-Audio-3.1 series of large speech models. This upgrade not only brings comprehensive improvements to the three core models—automatic speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS), and real-time voice interaction (Realtime)—but also introduces two major new models: the audio creation model Qwen-Audio-3.1-TTS-Next and the audio understanding model Qwen-Audio-3.1-ASR-Next. With five new speech models released simultaneously, they form a complete audio capability stack covering "understanding–generation–interaction–creation." To further reduce user costs, prices have been lowered across the entire Qwen-Audio speech model lineup, with TTS down approximately 70%, Realtime down approximately 85%, and ASR down by as much as 95%. (Qwen Large Models)

Odaily reports that Jupiter has announced the launch of perpetual contract markets for HYPE, ZEC, SpaceX, SK Hynix, SanDisk, and JUP. Users who stake at least 69 JUP tokens will get priority trading access. These markets are currently in testing phase, with more markets to be launched in the future.

Odaily reports that Russian Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov stated that Russia has approximately 20 million cryptocurrency users, with citizens holding cryptocurrencies and related financial products totaling around $44 billion, and daily trading volume of about $595 million.

Russia is advancing comprehensive regulation to clarify the rights and responsibilities of service providers, intermediaries, and investors; it plans to pursue criminal liability for illegally organized cryptocurrency trading activities starting July 1, 2027, while ordinary individual transactions are excluded. The Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank are studying the operational models and application scenarios of domestic stablecoins; if assets such as USDT and USDC are frozen due to actions by foreign issuers and Russian custodians are not at fault, related losses will in principle be borne by investors.

Odaily News: WeChat will continue to crack down on illegal and criminal activities such as pyramid schemes and fraud organized by certain accounts. Such activities typically use the pretext of national asset unfreezing, national policies, national projects, blockchain virtual currencies, or stablecoins, luring users with high returns to join group chats and recruit others, then stealing WeChat account passwords through suspicious links, inducing downloads of fraudulent apps, or requiring participation in check-ins, meetings, courses, and other activities to carry out scams.

WeChat will take tiered measures against relevant accounts based on the severity of violations, including banning group functions, restricting certain features, and suspending accounts.

Odaily Report: Open interest on Hyperliquid has reached $18 billion, setting a new all-time high.

Odaily News: BVNK, the stablecoin payment infrastructure company under Mastercard, announced that clients can use the Stellar network through a unified API for cross-border payments, merchant payouts, and fund transfers. BVNK currently processes approximately $39 billion in annualized volume, covering more than 130 countries and regions; Mastercard completed its acquisition of BVNK in August of this year.

Odaily News: Reap, the payments company under Kraken parent Payward, has launched a virtual asset ledger that allows users of exchanges, wallets, neobanks, and fintech platforms to directly spend Bitcoin and other virtual asset balances via Visa cards issued by Reap. Payments are converted at real-time exchange rates without the need to pre-convert to stablecoins. Reap data shows that card spending funded by virtual assets reached $1.04 billion in July 2026.

Odaily News — The round was led by Variant, with participation from PayPal Ventures, Abstract Ventures, Road Capital, Mirana Ventures, First Commit, and Credibly Neutral. Atum does not issue stablecoins, operate a blockchain, or custody funds. Instead, it provides a cross-stablecoin, cross-chain coordination layer for global money flows, handling authorization, routing, and confirmation, and supports AI agent payments through protocols such as x402 and MPP.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a newly created address bought 269,500 UNI worth $2.84 million, while another address separately bought 138,400 UNI worth $1.23 million.

Odaily News: According to market data, the Hong Kong stock AI application sector continued to decline in the afternoon, with Zhipu falling over 10%, Kingdee International dropping over 7%, and Meitu, MINIMAX-W, and others following the decline.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a whale bought 788,000 UNI at $6.26 six days ago, worth $4.93 million, and later sold at $8.85.

Odaily reports that according to GMGN data, mainstream platforms and Meme coins in the Robinhood Chain ecosystem have rebounded, including:

1. musebook's market cap is temporarily reported at $35.3 million, up 62.6% in 24 hours;

2. MOO's market cap is temporarily reported at $17.9 million, up 47.3% in 24 hours;

3. MEME's market cap is temporarily reported at $36.2 million, up 29.3% in 6 hours;

4. BONER's market cap is temporarily reported at $53.3 million, up 22% in 24 hours;

5. PONS's market cap is temporarily reported at $483 million, up 20.2% in 24 hours;

6. AI's market cap is temporarily reported at $271 million, up 19.4% in 24 hours;

7. CASHCAT's market cap is temporarily reported at $172 million, up 8.6% in 24 hours;

8. ORBIO's market cap is temporarily reported at $70.5 million, up 5.5% in 24 hours.

Odaily reminds users that Meme coin prices are highly volatile, and investors should participate with caution.

Odaily News: Johnny Ng Kit-chong, a member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (Technology and Innovation constituency), stated in a keynote speech at the 2026 Shanghai Blockchain International Week and the 12th Global Blockchain Summit that new licensing regulations covering virtual asset trading services, custody, and other businesses are expected to be submitted to the Legislative Council for discussion in the second half of this year, with the aim of passing them in the second half of this year or early next year. By then, Hong Kong's digital asset-related licensing requirements will be essentially clarified.

Johnny Ng stated that the setback of the U.S. CLARITY Act is more beneficial to Hong Kong in the long run; currently, two licensed stablecoin issuers in Hong Kong are testing different application scenarios.