Odaily News: According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the Trump official Meme team's allocation wallet transferred 8.73 million TRUMP to BitGo Custody, valued at approximately $17.99 million.

Over the past two weeks, the team has cumulatively transferred approximately 31 million TRUMP to BitGo, valued at approximately $70.64 million.

Odaily reports that according to GMGN market data, Solana ecosystem token STAMP's market cap briefly surpassed $14 million, currently at approximately $12 million, with an intraday gain of over 160x.

According to the project team, since Zcash has not yet completed the network upgrade to support asset issuance, STAMP attempts to achieve cross-chain asset mapping through NFTs and SPL tokens: users burn SPL tokens to obtain NFTs, and use these NFTs to redeem corresponding assets on Zcash.

Odaily reminds users that this token is subject to significant price volatility and is easily affected by market sentiment and trending events. Please be aware of trading risks.

Odaily News: The Central Bank of Russia published a draft on September 18 proposing two ratios, N31 and N32, to measure relevant exposures based on each individual credit institution's own funds and banking group consolidated capital, respectively. The scope of calculation includes direct investments, derivatives linked to crypto asset prices, and loans, bonds, and repos whose settlement or value depends on crypto assets; customer custodied assets for which a bank or a digital custodian within the group bears losses will be included, while assets for which no losses are borne will not be included but will still be subject to a 50% risk weight. Positions held in own accounts and customer positions for which the bank bears responsibility are subject to a 1250% risk weight; the draft is planned for official release in Q4 2026, taking effect 10 days after publication, with banks expected to report N31 and N32 values starting from January 2027.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Garrett Jin (@GarrettBullish) (0x92ea...050e9) closed a ZEC short position after holding it for 3 months, incurring a loss of $36.13 million; his cumulative historical loss stands at $12.77 million; he currently holds a long position of 1,330 BTC worth $108 million, with unrealized profit of $3.71 million.

Odaily News: Uniswap founder Hayden posted on X that the original owner of Uniswap.com had asked for a seven-figure price, and the Uniswap team refused to pay. Subsequently, SBF bought the domain for a seven-figure price and pointed it to a forked project; Hayden said that his malicious use of the domain prompted the Uniswap legal team to obtain the domain for free.

Odaily reports that Kraken joined X's U.S. Cashtag partner program on September 16. After users click on ticker tags such as BTC on X, in addition to viewing related posts and price charts, they can also follow a trading link to jump to the Kraken app or website, where they can log in or sign up to complete a purchase, with the transaction still executed on Kraken's side. A 2024 experiment by the UK Financial Conduct Authority involving more than 9,000 consumers showed that push notifications increased trading volume by 11%, while points and sweepstakes increased trading volume by 12%.

Odaily News — Ayo Akinyele, RippleX's head of engineering, said that commercial projects such as asset management institutions are preparing to use the XRP Ledger Batch V1.1 feature. This feature can package up to 8 transactions into a single operation and uses an "all-or-nothing" model. It can be used for delivery-versus-payment (DvP) settlement and can also allow exchanges, wallets, and markets to combine service fees with customer payments. Currently, 30 of the 35 tracked validator nodes support the proposal, exceeding the 28 votes required to enter the activation countdown. The countdown began at 14:06:41 UTC on September 15. If the support rate remains no lower than 80% within the 14-day window, activation is expected after the same time on September 29. Batch V1.0 was withdrawn in February this year due to a critical vulnerability in signature verification. It was not activated and caused no loss of funds; the fixed version was released with xrpld 3.3.0 on August 6.

Odaily reports, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, Wintermute (0xecb...2b00) currently holds $160 million worth of perpetual contract shorts, with unrealized losses of $3.57 million. Among these, ETH shorts are worth $53.05 million, BTC shorts are worth $26.66 million, SOL shorts are worth $17.84 million, and HYPE shorts are worth $11.62 million; the 30-day trading volume is $16.91 billion.

Odaily News: Evernorth has signed a note purchase agreement with NH Investment & Securities to issue convertible preferred PIK notes maturing in 2031 with a 4% interest rate. The transaction is contingent upon the completion of its business combination with Armada Acquisition Corp. II, Pathfinder Digital Assets, and Ripple Labs, and is expected to close in the fourth quarter; the combined new entity plans to list on Nasdaq under the ticker symbol XRPN, subject to exchange approval. Evernorth is an XRP treasury company.

Odaily News: The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has announced sanctions against Tehran-based crypto exchange BitBank, alleging that the platform transferred hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). According to OFAC, BitBank is controlled by Iranian financier Babak Zanjani, who was designated in January of this year, and who used the platform to complete transfers between June and July. The designation was made pursuant to Executive Order 13902. The sanctions also cover three executives of BitBank's software developer Pishtaz Simorgh and its parent company Dot One. U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent stated that using cryptocurrency to finance the Iranian regime does not fall outside OFAC's jurisdiction. OFAC also alleged that Hormuz Safe, a Tehran-based institution that sells safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz, has been transferring payments it received through BitBank since June; the institution was sanctioned in July. OFAC did not disclose the relevant wallet addresses.

Odaily reports that Solana lowered its target slot time from 300 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds on September 18, marking the third speed increase since August. As the computation and data each slot can carry are proportionally reduced, overall network throughput has not increased; this adjustment is the third phase of the four-phase SIMD-0525 plan, with slot time having been reduced from 400 milliseconds at genesis through 350 milliseconds and 300 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds. The final step down to 200 milliseconds has not yet been scheduled for mainnet activation, contingent on validator skip rates remaining stable.

Odaily: Visa is closing a checkout loophole supported by crypto payment infrastructure company Crossmint. The loophole previously allowed users purchasing Meme coins with credit cards to have transactions classified under a merchant category code intended for digital media such as e-books, movies, and music.

Visa has notified payment processors, including Checkout.com, that it will no longer accept that code for Meme coin transactions, giving processors a grace period to stop the practice, which is expected to end next week. Thereafter, Meme coin purchases must be processed as cryptocurrency transactions and are subject to Visa's corresponding rules.

Chase had disputed a Visa transaction that was not flagged as a cryptocurrency transaction, arguing that its merchant category code was incorrect and that it should not have earned credit card rewards. The New York State Attorney General's Office is also aware of and reviewing the matter. (Decrypt)

Odaily News: The European Commission, in item 66 of its MiCA review document, is asking whether Europe's current staking regulations are adequate; if insufficient, new requirements may be imposed on companies. Analysts believe that overly strict rules could weaken staking yields and impact network security.

Odaily reports: Gemini's stock price has fallen about 80% from its listing-day debut, with its market cap dropping from a peak of approximately $4 billion to $753 million. Its trading volume, revenue, and platform assets have all declined.

There are currently no signs of a takeover offer for Gemini. Its regulatory licenses, customer base, and custody infrastructure may hold acquisition value; Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss hold 94.5% of voting rights, and any sale would require their approval. (CoinDesk)