Odaily News: SoftBank Group has launched what is set to become one of the largest corporate junk bond offerings in history, as the Japanese conglomerate turns to debt investors to finance its massive investments in artificial intelligence. As one of the world's largest AI investors, SoftBank has begun marketing the multi-part deal, with initial price guidance for the dollar-denominated portion underway. The group aims to raise more than $11 billion through this issuance, including a $10 billion dollar-denominated tranche and a €1 billion (approximately $1.1 billion) euro-denominated tranche.

This offering is the latest in a series of moves by SoftBank in the bond market this year, designed to help fund its nearly $65 billion commitment to OpenAI and to finance further M&A in the sector. (Jinshi)

According to DefiLlama data, Gate recorded approximately $114 million in 24-hour net capital inflow, ranking second globally among centralized exchanges.

Odaily reports that Vitalik Buterin posted on X platform stating that blockchain in its early days possessed characteristics of openness, neutrality, and security, but suffered from issues of non-scalability, full transparency, and lack of privacy protection. Privacy transactions and scalable verification brought by zero-knowledge proofs have moved from planning into actual EIPs in the Ethereum roadmap, technologies such as fully homomorphic encryption are beginning to be applied, and indistinguishability obfuscation may be applied on-chain in the future.

He stated that parallel block construction and proving can achieve greater scalability, and the Web3 industry's focus has expanded from digital assets to digital assets and information, covering the complete pipeline from the user end, transaction mempool, to on-chain. With the development of AI, providing cryptographic rules to AI for automated formal verification can improve verification efficiency.

Odaily reports that according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi, UNI broke above $10 and hit a new high for the year. An address withdrew 1 million UNI from Coinbase two hours ago, worth $10.07 million, at a withdrawal price of $10.07.

Odaily News: Anthropic plans to lease up to 1 gigawatt of computing capacity from a data center developer majority-owned by Apollo Global Management, and is currently in early-stage negotiations. This is one of the major efforts by the AI company to reduce its reliance on cloud service providers.

According to people familiar with the matter, Anthropic has discussed entering facilities developed by Stream Data Centers as a direct tenant and deploying TPUs designed by Broadcom and Google therein. Anthropic is in talks with Stream Data Centers to lease a data center with up to 1 gigawatt of computing capacity. Anthropic seeks direct control over computing resources, which could reduce costs. Anthropic has also discussed the possibility of Google providing a credit backstop for the project. It is currently unclear which part of the project Google would provide the backstop for. (Jinshi)

Odaily reports, according to Coinglass monitoring, the Bitcoin contract open interest and past 24-hour data across various trading platforms are as follows: Binance open interest $9.233 billion, trading volume $13.792 billion, long/short ratio 0.9099; Hyperliquid open interest $4.044 billion, trading volume $2.667 billion, long/short ratio 0.994; Bybit open interest $5.226 billion, trading volume $5.82 billion, long/short ratio 0.9857; Bitget open interest $1.787 billion, trading volume $2.674 billion, long/short ratio 0.9814.

Odaily reports that according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a WLD multisig-linked address (0xd429...12FB) deposited 42.37 million WLD worth $19.59 million to Binance over the past 8 hours. This marks the address's first deposit in 5 months, and it has now fully liquidated its position.

Odaily reports: On September 23, according to SoSoValue data, the crypto market rose for three consecutive days, with the NFT sector standing out with a 24-hour gain of 8.85%. Among them, Pudgy Penguins (PENGU) rose 13.68%, and SuperVerse (SUPER) rose 10.14%. Bitcoin (BTC) rose 0.76%, and Ethereum (ETH) rose 0.21%, holding above $86,000 and $2,700 respectively.

In other sectors, the PayFi sector rose 5.47% in 24 hours, with Zcash (ZEC) up 8.45%; the Layer2 sector rose 4.17%, with Celestia (TIA) up 15.23%; the DeFi sector rose 3.53%, with Uniswap (UNI) up 14.79%; the Meme sector rose 1.35%, with MarsCoin (MARSCOIN) up 32.27%; the Layer1 sector rose 1.12%, with Hedera (HBAR) up 8.78%; the CeFi sector rose 0.12%, with NEXO up 2.30%.

In addition, the AI sector fell 0.44%, with Akedo (AKE), which had previously surged, dropping 18.20%.

Crypto sector indices reflecting the historical performance of these sectors show that the ssiNFT, ssiPayFi, and ssiLayer2 indices rose 9.59%, 5.38%, and 4.22% respectively.

Odaily News: Binance will gradually migrate crypto assets from users' funding accounts to spot accounts starting from September 29, 2026, with the process expected to continue until January 2027. Specific dates will be announced separately. After the migration is completed, the funding account will be renamed to a stock account, to be used solely for stock and stock options trading settlement.

Odaily reports that according to Lookonchain monitoring, ZEC broke through $1,600. An address on Aster DEX went long on 140 ZEC with 50x leverage, with a position value of $224,000. It currently has unrealized profits of $70,700, representing a 1,581% return and more than 15x in gains.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale bought 9,820 ETH from Coinbase Prime, worth $27.01 million, and subsequently completed the withdrawal.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi, a new address (0xF37…06143) withdrew 9,823 ETH from Coinbase 9 hours ago, worth approximately $27.03 million, at a withdrawal price of $2,752.14.

Odaily News: According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, 5 hours ago, a whale spent 2.28 million USDC on-chain to buy 6.64 million USELESS at a price of $0.34.

Odaily reports, according to Lookonchain monitoring, Garrett Jin (@GarrettBullish), after losing $35.44 million shorting ZEC, attempted to go long on ZEC 7 hours ago to follow the upward trend, but quickly closed the position and subsequently lost another $79,000.

Odaily News: A person familiar with the matter revealed that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is investigating Kalshi for suspected wash trading. Since August, Kalshi traders have executed nearly 1 million trades in the Ethereum futures market, with each trade being almost identical in size, drawing the attention of federal regulators and traders. Kalshi stated that there is no fake trading on the platform, and that the recurring quotes are fixed quotes posted by market makers, which faster traders seize upon. Kalshi co-founder Luana Lopes Lara said that attracting large traders to new markets to promote broader adoption is not uncommon.

Odaily news: Market data shows that at the opening of Hong Kong stocks, the Hang Seng Index opened down 0.09%, the Tech Index opened up 0.01%, and multiple stocks in the semiconductor sector opened higher. Montage Technology (06809.HK) opened up 3.36%, and Ingenic Semiconductor (03223.HK) opened up 3.07%.