Odaily News: USDT-margined delivery contracts include BTCUSDT and ETHUSDT, with a maximum leverage of 50x. Coin-margined delivery contracts include BTCUSD CM, ETHUSD CM, BNBUSD CM, XRPUSD CM, and SOLUSD CM, with a maximum leverage of 50x, while some contracts have a maximum leverage of 20x.
Odaily reports that Kraken has been forcibly liquidating the balances of XMR, ZEC, DASH, USDD, DAI, USDS, and USDe held by UAE users since September 15, with the liquidation window continuing until September 25. Withdrawals of the relevant assets ceased at 14:00 UTC on September 14, and trading and deposits were closed on June 16, with no remedy available thereafter. Kraken stated that the delisting was based on a "routine asset review," did not mention any regulatory requirements, and said it could not confirm the denominating currency of the liquidation proceeds prior to execution.
Odaily: The Hong Kong Monetary Authority plans to launch a wholesale central bank digital currency for interbank settlement by the end of this year, as part of Project EnsembleTX, to enable 24-hour settlement of tokenized deposit transactions.
The project entered a real-transaction pilot phase in late 2025. Currently, cross-bank settlement still relies on a real-time gross settlement system that operates only during business hours; the wholesale CBDC is also planned for use in settling derivatives transactions during after-hours sessions on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with related real-money transactions targeted to go live within this year.
Odaily News: Cross-border payment network Partior has announced its integration with the London Stock Exchange Group's Digital Settlement House (DiSH), enabling its settlement banks to net and settle bilateral interbank balances with one another on a 24/7 basis. The solution is currently undergoing industry testing and is expected to go live in Q1 2027. Partior's existing settlement banks include DBS Bank, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, and Standard Chartered, supporting USD, EUR, and SGD.
According to Gate data, the US dollar against the Japanese yen (USDJPY) has risen above 157.5, currently at 157.504, with a 24-hour gain of 1.2%.
Odaily News: Helius co-founder Mert Mumtaz stated that privacy is often regarded as Zcash's ultimate goal, but its more important role is to help build a superior monetary asset.
Mert pointed out that internet-native currencies by default carry historical transaction information, which may affect the fungibility of the asset, whereas privacy mechanisms can free funds from the transaction history of previous holders, providing stronger fungibility and safe-haven properties for store-of-value assets. He believes that combining this with quantum resistance and performance upgrades will further strengthen Zcash's capability as a monetary asset.
Odaily reports: According to GMGN data, the market cap of Solana ecosystem token PAID briefly touched $36 million, now at $30 million, up over 38.7% in 24 hours. UsePaid is an automated fee-splitting tool for token creators' fees. Project teams can channel creator fees generated by meme coins into UsePaid, where 80% is converted to USD and paid to designated X users via X Money, while 20% is used to buy back and burn PAID.
Odaily News: Users can collateralize HYPE or BTC to borrow USDC and USDT, with a loan-to-value ratio of 65% for HYPE and 50% for BTC, corresponding to liquidation thresholds of 82.5% and 75%, respectively. Collateralized HYPE and BTC do not generate interest, while deposited USDC and USDT can earn interest but are not counted toward borrowing capacity; interest rates fluctuate with capital utilization and accrue on an hourly basis, with separate account and global caps. This feature is available for manual and unified accounts, while portfolio margin accounts use automatic borrowing; both share the HyperCore infrastructure.
Odaily reports that UNI is currently trading at $8.56, up 26.6% over the past 24 hours, returning to the price range seen before the "1011" crash, and rebounding 272.1% from its June low of around $2.3. A certain address holds a 10x isolated long position of approximately 265,200 UNI tokens, with an average entry price of $4.279, held for about 25 days, with a position value of approximately $2.26 million, unrealized profit of $1.125 million, and a return rate of 991.1%. Additionally, the same address holds a 3x isolated long position of approximately 267,000 LIT tokens, with a position value of approximately $1.33 million, unrealized profit of $466,000, and a return rate of 161.2%. The two long positions have a combined unrealized profit of $1.591 million, of which the UNI long position accounts for 70.7%.
Odaily reports that according to Gate data, South Korea's KOSPI index closed up 180.14 points, or 2.68%, at 6,895.55 on Friday, September 18; SK Hynix rose 6.41%, and Samsung Electronics rose 3.36%. Japan's Nikkei 225 index closed up 882.70 points, or 1.38%, at 65,018.95 on Friday, September 18; SoftBank rose over 1%.
Odaily reports that according to Lookonchain monitoring, over the past 3 days, 11 newly created wallets suspected to belong to the same whale sold 602 BTC and bought 18,800 ETH on Hyperliquid, with both transactions amounting to $45.83 million.
Odaily News: Solana has reduced its target slot time from 300 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds, increasing block generation speed by nearly 17%. The amount of computation and data that each slot can carry is reduced accordingly, while overall transaction processing capacity remains unchanged.
This adjustment shortens the epoch duration to approximately 30 hours and reduces the available time for offline signing and delayed approvals. A proposal to further reduce slot time to 200 milliseconds has not yet had its mainnet launch date determined. (CoinDesk)
Odaily reports that this batch of Bitcoin was worth approximately $126.69 million, withdrawn from Kraken in April of this year, and then redeposited into Kraken after being transferred through two new wallets. The relevant wallet balance has now been emptied, and the whale made a profit of approximately $15.21 million on this position.
