Odaily reports: Federal Reserve Governor Bowman stated that the Fed will complete a reform plan within "the coming weeks" to improve the transparency and accountability of bank stress tests. The related adjustments will make stress tests more reliable and reduce the volatility of bank capital requirements. Fed supervisors failed to act promptly and decisively to require Silicon Valley Bank to reduce its risk exposure. In the future, when determining a bank's "stress capital buffer," the Fed will use the average of the bank's two most recent stress test results.(CLS)

Odaily News: According to MSX.COM data, at the U.S. stock market open, the Dow fell 0.07%, the S&P 500 rose 0.1%, the Nasdaq rose 0.35%, and the VIX fear index fell 13.1%. AI concept stocks rose broadly, with onsemi up 2.97%, Alphabet up 2.7%, Broadcom up 2.19%, AeroVironment up 1.81%, and Teradyne up 1.49%.

It is reported that MSX is a leading RWA trading platform and has cumulatively listed hundreds of RWA tokens, covering popular U.S. stocks and ETF token assets such as Nvidia, GOOGL, MSFT, AMZN, META, TSM, and AMD.

According to the latest data from Gate, the price of gold rose to $4,363.96 per ounce, up 0.36% intraday. The price of silver rose to $66.468 per ounce, up 2.32% intraday.

In the forex market, the US dollar fell 0.07% against the offshore Chinese yuan (USD/CNH) intraday, with the current exchange rate at 6.6986. The US dollar rose 1.18% against the Japanese yen (USD/JPY) intraday, with the current exchange rate at 157.796.

In global stock indices, the Euro Stoxx 50 Index (EUSTX50) fell 1.22% intraday to 6,238.23 points; the UK FTSE 100 Index (UK100) fell 1.03% intraday to 10,686.7 points; the German DAX 40 Index (GER40) fell 0.94% intraday to 25,396.2 points.

In commodities, WTI crude oil rose 1.08% intraday to $102.35 per barrel. Brent crude oil rose 0.4% intraday to $105.02 per barrel.

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Odaily News: According to DeFiLlama data, as of September 18, the on-chain real-world asset (RWA) management scale was approximately $34 billion, of which only about 11.3% was deployed in DeFi, corresponding to a total value locked (TVL) of approximately $3.84 billion, while the remaining approximately 89% has yet to enter DeFi.

Deployed funds are highly concentrated: private credit accounts for 58% with a TVL of approximately $2.22 billion; bonds, commodities, and equities account for approximately $817 million, $314 million, and $287 million, respectively. These four asset categories together account for nearly 95% of RWA DeFi TVL.

Odaily News: According to on-chain analyst Aunt Ai's monitoring, Loracle (0xefe...194b), the largest short seller of PONS on Hyperliquid, took profit 22 hours ago on a PONS short position held for over half a month, gaining $1.352 million; simultaneously closed a CASHCAT short position, gaining $1.026 million. Loracle has now reopened a PONS short position of nearly $330,000 and continues to add to it. mlmabc, the captain of the "Whale Hunting Squad Round Two," had previously published a post openly recruiting members.

Odaily reports: After the U.S. Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act this week, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is accelerating its push on cryptocurrency regulatory rules. The CFTC has submitted a new proposal aimed at regulating cryptocurrency trading and markets to the White House for review. Documents released Friday by the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) show that the proposal was received on Thursday. Had the CLARITY Act passed, the CFTC would have become the primary regulator of digital asset markets. (Bloomberg)

Monitoring by PPP prediction market tool shows that Polymarket's odds of a "25 basis point Fed rate hike in October" rose to 54%, up 7% in 24 hours; the odds of rates remaining unchanged fell to 46%, down 8% in 24 hours.

A senior government official previously said that if the Fed decides to raise rates again in October (on the eve of the midterm elections), Warsh could find himself under stricter scrutiny from Trump and his advisers. Trump's portrayal of a hostile Fed committee could leave investors wondering whether Warsh is leading the Fed or being swept along by it.

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Odaily reports: The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Border Patrol Predictive Intelligence Targeting Group (PITT) has been accused of collecting U.S. citizens' financial transaction records through the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) and providing "potential criminal suspect" leads to local law enforcement agencies. Multiple cases have shown that citizens were stopped and searched without having committed any criminal offense.

Coin Center researcher Laz Pieper criticized the practice as a violation of the Fourth Amendment and called on Congress to task the Government Accountability Office (GAO) with conducting an independent audit of DHS's data sources, targeting criteria, and error rates, while also demanding that federal agencies obtain judicial authorization before using sensitive financial records. (CoinDesk)

Odaily News: Coinbase posted on X that Coinbase Derivatives, LLC is a designated contract market registered with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Futures trading can be highly risky, and every investor must evaluate whether such an investment is suitable for them.

Odaily reports: Bitcoin News posted on X platform that the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on September 16 advanced the "American Reserve Modernization Act of 2026" by a vote of 28 to 21, which seeks to codify into federal law the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve established by Trump through executive order, and would require the government to hold confiscated Bitcoin for at least 20 years.

The bill would also require public proof of reserves, independent audits, and a study on increasing Bitcoin holdings without raising taxes, government borrowing, or the federal deficit; the bill still needs to pass the full House and the Senate. Arkham Intelligence estimates that the U.S. government holds approximately 324,500 Bitcoin, worth about $24.7 billion, but the exact size has not yet been confirmed by unified government disclosure.

Odaily News: Coinbase Global announced that it has submitted an application to regulators seeking to list perpetual futures contracts (Perps) tied to major U.S. stocks. Perpetual futures are leveraged derivative contracts with no expiration date, allowing traders to amplify gains or losses through leverage. This move marks Coinbase's further expansion into the traditional financial derivatives market. (The Wall Street Journal)

Odaily News: SoftBank Group is finalizing nearly $21 billion in potential new borrowing this week to expand its AI-sector financing capacity. People familiar with the matter said SoftBank has increased the size of a margin loan backed by shares of its chip subsidiary Arm Holdings by $5 billion to $25 billion, and added $450 million to an existing credit facility, bringing the total to $6.5 billion. In addition, SoftBank plans to raise another $10 billion to $20 billion next week through another mega bond deal. (Bloomberg)

Odaily News: The CEO of Strive posted on X that, as of September 11, 2026, Strive has $718 million worth of PIPE warrants with an exercise price of $27 that remain unexercised, with the exercise deadline set for 5:00 PM Eastern Time on October 13, 2026.

As October 12 was originally designated as Columbus Day, a federal bank holiday, the deadline has been adjusted, with all other terms remaining unchanged.

Odaily News: The nonprofit organization Ethereum Institutional posted on X expressing support for the Ethereum block time reduction proposal EIP-8198 ("Quick Slots") put forward by Ethlabs, stating that as more institutional activity migrates on-chain, it is necessary to improve Ethereum's speed. The proposal plans to initially reduce Ethereum's block time from the current 12 seconds to 10 seconds. Ethlabs previously stated that 20 DeFi founders have publicly supported the proposal, and it is merging its specifications with the Ethereum main codebase to push for its inclusion in the subsequent upgrade Hegotá. (Cointelegraph)

Odaily reports that Matt Cole, CEO of Bitcoin treasury company Strive, stated that as of September 11, the company still has approximately $718 million in PIPE warrants that have not yet been exercised, with an exercise price of $27 per share.

Due to the U.S. Columbus Day holiday, the exercise deadline has been extended from October 12 to 5:00 PM Eastern Time on October 13, with all other terms unchanged. According to the company's SEC filings, the unexercised warrants correspond to approximately 26.596 million shares, and full exercise could bring in approximately $718 million in capital.

Odaily: HSBC Holdings is reportedly planning a risk transfer transaction to hedge its loan exposure related to data centers. As the AI investment boom continues to heat up, more and more banks are also considering similar transactions. HSBC is in preliminary discussions with investors, considering a significant significant risk transfer (SRT) transaction for over $1 billion in loan arrangements used to finance AI infrastructure such as data centers. People familiar with the matter, who declined to be named because the information is not public, said that the terms, including the size of the transaction, may still be adjusted as discussions progress.