Odaily News: Japan's first licensed yen stablecoin, JPYC, was listed on South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit on September 17. The JPYC/KRW opening reference price was 8.81 Korean won, and it subsequently rose to 35.7 Korean won, reaching a high of approximately 37 Korean won, equivalent to over 3 yen.

JPYC minted 1.687 billion yen on that day, and its circulating supply grew from approximately 1.9 billion yen to over 4.2 billion yen within about 48 hours. After the new supply entered the market, JPYC's price gradually returned to its 1:1 yen peg. (Bitcoin.com News)

Odaily News: Trump posted that many people believe the name "Artificial Intelligence" is neither accurate nor elegant enough, and proposed three alternative names: "Superior Intelligence (SI)," "Extreme Intelligence (EI)," and "Supreme Intelligence (SI)."

Trump also launched a poll asking the public which name best describes this continuously evolving "revolution." A screenshot showed that 2,370 people had participated in the poll at the time, with about 1 day remaining.

Odaily reports that Binance Wallet has issued a security alert stating that iPhone and iPad users need to check whether they have ever installed the FomoPeek app. According to disclosures by security firms including SlowMist, FomoPeek versions 1.1 to 1.2 contain malicious code that can exploit iOS vulnerabilities to gain root access to devices and may access sensitive data such as private keys, seed phrases, login credentials, chat records, and files.

Binance stated that if a user's device is running iOS 26.x or an earlier version and FomoPeek was previously installed, it is recommended to immediately delete the app and upgrade to the latest iOS version. Self-custody wallet users should create a new wallet on a secure device that has never had the app installed and transfer their assets to the new address.

Odaily News: Rebecca Rettig, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Legal Officer of Jito Labs, pointed out that some banks mistakenly believe they must use permissioned networks to meet Bank Secrecy Act and sanctions legal requirements, but financial institutions can operate compliantly on permissionless blockchains. The relevant legal requirements call for reasonable controls proportionate to risk, rather than zero risk or control over the underlying infrastructure.

She stated that in November 2025, the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency confirmed that banks may pay network fees on blockchains and hold related crypto assets. Technologies such as zero-knowledge proofs and confidential transfers can enable institutions to prove compliance to regulators without disclosing client positions, which is consistent with the approach of the recently passed GENIUS Act in the United States that places anti-money laundering and sanctions controls at the application layer.

Odaily reports, according to GMGN data, the Chinese Meme project Niu Ma on the BSC chain briefly surpassed $4 million in market capitalization, currently at approximately $3.8 million. Its 24-hour trading volume reached $62,000.

Niu Ma was launched on the Flap platform, starting from the "Niu Ma" (overworked worker) culture familiar to workers, combining community narrative with tokenized asset mechanisms: Niu Ma pairs with BABA tokenized assets through a transaction tax mechanism, and token holders can claim corresponding rewards.

Odaily reports: A senior Iranian source said that Qatar and Pakistan, acting as mediators, have informed Iran that the United States is ready to negotiate and reach an agreement, and is serious about advancing this process. The source noted that, for its part, Iran is prepared to resume implementing the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding within days, provided the United States returns to it and fulfills its terms. However, Iran demands tangible and credible guarantees that it will not be attacked again. Once the United States implements the substance of the memorandum, including halting hostilities, lifting the blockade, and allowing Iran to export oil, Iran will immediately launch negotiations on the nuclear issue and the lifting of sanctions. Iran has reached a consensus with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz issue; however, as long as the blockade continues and no agreement has been reached with the United States, "Iran will not reopen the strait." (CCTV News)

Odaily News: Genius.fun launched on BNB Chain on the evening of September 17, allowing creators to transfer tokenized stocks such as bSTOCKS into an ownerless foundation and unpack them, in an attempt to exercise related equity rights off-chain. The platform's buyback amount was $303,100; among the tokens it issued, GSTOCK has the highest market cap, currently at $6.9 million, having reached $10 million after launch. GSTOCK is paired with BNCB, the on-chain token of BNB treasury company BNC, as its base pool.

According to an official announcement from Arc, Circle's public chain, agentic payments are now live. Its Facilitator Service provides a managed integration path for x402 developers, accepts USDC, and supports on-chain settlement on Arc, Base, and Polygon; this path requires no Relayer keys or separate Gas fee wallets.

Odaily reports that Bitcoin News posted on X that attackers accessed a small number of Blink custodial accounts and withdrew funds. Blink stated that the vast majority of funds remain safe, and non-custodial wallets were not affected; the Bitcoin payment protocol Spark, which it uses, supports multiple Lightning Network wallets, but it has not yet been confirmed that Spark was the source of this security incident.

Odaily reports: Galaxy's head of research posted on X that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has issued an "innovation exemption" establishing a pathway for on-chain secondary trading of tokenized stocks. The exemption will be in effect from September 17, 2026, to September 17, 2031, and applies to specific tokenized securities trading venues that offer permissioned automated market makers and liquidity pools; trading venues must be deployed on public, permissionless blockchains, but trading is limited to verified or authorized participants.

Eligible tokens must correspond to actual U.S. National Market System stocks and confer the same shareholder rights as traditional stocks; the exemption does not cover primary issuance, synthetic exposure, or products that do not carry legal or beneficial rights to the underlying stock. Galaxy stated that it is studying the next steps to enable on-chain secondary trading of GLXY.

Odaily News: U.S. Central Command Commander Brad Cooper stated that mine clearance has been completed in the main navigable channels of the Strait of Hormuz, with thousands of vessels having passed through. More than 1 billion barrels of crude oil have been shipped by Gulf region partners, and crude oil, cargo, and liquefied natural gas shipments over the past two weeks reached their highest level in six months.

Odaily reports that Ripple has stated that asset management firms and other commercial projects are preparing to use this upgrade. Batch V1.1 can combine up to 8 transactions into a single operation, ensuring that all transactions either succeed or are all canceled, preventing partial fills; the amendment has already received support from 30 out of 35 tracked validators. If the support rate remains above 80% over the next 14 days, the upgrade is expected to activate after September 29 at 14:06:41 UTC.

Odaily reports that according to Onchain Lens monitoring, this address's ZEC long position has an entry price of $517.68, with the current price at $1,534.70; this address also holds a short position of 3,550 ETH, currently at a loss of $2.6 million.

Odaily News: According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Hyperliquid bought back and burned 26,300 HYPE over the past 24 hours at a volume-weighted average price of $91.86, worth approximately $2.42 million. Its cumulative burn amount has reached 48.76 million HYPE, equivalent to approximately $4.5 billion, accounting for 4.88% of the maximum supply. Over the past 30 days, Hyperliquid's revenue was $64.34 million, with historical cumulative revenue of $1.26 billion.

Odaily News: According to on-chain analyst Ember, B2 rose 120% from $0.41 to $0.9 this afternoon. A suspected B2 proactive market maker transferred 13 million B2, worth $10.44 million, to Binance Alpha through multiple wallets.

This batch of B2 was withdrawn from Bitget and Gate about 1 month ago at a price of $0.47, currently yielding a profit of $4.27 million. One of the receiving wallets is linked to an address that previously operated SIREN; Ember believes that this proactive market maker may be the same party that previously operated projects such as SIREN, AKE, XPIN, and BTR.

Odaily: Solana shortened its target slot time from 300 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds on Friday, increasing block production frequency by nearly 17%. The computing resources and data volume available per slot are reduced accordingly, while the network's overall transaction processing capacity remains unchanged.

This adjustment is the third of four planned phases in the SIMD-0525 proposal. The window during which validators have block production rights for four consecutive slots has been shortened from 1.2 seconds to 1 second, and the estimated duration of an Epoch, fixed at 432,000 slots, has been reduced from about 36 hours to about 30 hours.

The next phase plans to further reduce slot time to 200 milliseconds, but a mainnet launch date has not yet been determined, and the implementation condition is that the block skip rate remains stable. (Decrypt)