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.

Odaily News: The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has announced that it has added Vebit to its list of suspicious virtual asset trading platforms and listed five related websites. The SFC stated that Vebit claims to provide spot, futures, and futures copy-trading digital asset trading services through the related websites, but the company is not licensed by the SFC and is suspected of engaging in unlicensed activities.

Odaily reports that BigShort has announced the launch of a multi-chain, multi-platform airdrop covering Robinhood, BSC, and Solana chains. Historical traders on platforms including Flap, Pons, Four.meme, pump, and BigShort are all eligible to receive the airdrop, with the total number of airdrop addresses approaching one million.

1. After losing $35.44 million, Garrett Jin lost another $79,000 on his ZEC long position;

2. CFTC investigates Kalshi for wash trading, platform denies fraudulent transactions;

3. A whale bought $400 million worth of HYPE in the past month, and purchased another 373,700 tokens today;

4. Cambodia exposes its largest telecom fraud hub "Compound No. 8" for the first time: Huione Pay was once based there and has ties to Prince Group;

5. An address withdrew 1 million UNI, worth $10.07 million;

6. SoftBank launches massive junk bond issuance to fund AI expansion;

7. Holdings approach $1 billion, Tesla's Bitcoin position unchanged for 4 years.

Odaily reports that the Alpenglow upgrade for the Solana blockchain network has entered public testnet, with developers set to test reducing transaction finality from approximately 13 seconds to 0.15 seconds, or 150 milliseconds.

The upgrade will replace Solana's existing TowerBFT consensus system with Votor, allowing validators to confirm blocks through one or two rounds of direct voting, though the way users send funds will not change.

The initial testnet migration requires Agave 4.3, and Firedancer or Frankendancer are not yet supported. The September 28 mainnet update remains a tentative arrangement and is not a confirmed launch date for Alpenglow. (CoinDesk)

Odaily report: NEAR has been listed on the Hyperliquid spot market, allowing users to trade the NEAR/USDC trading pair. According to the Hyperliquid process, it will take several more days for NEAR to appear in the Strict List on the platform interface.