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🚨 UPDATE: Bitget says withdrawals remain temporarily suspended as Mandiant and SlowMist investigate the security incident.

⚡️ NEW: Researchers at Alloc Init propose "Shielded Bitcoin," a Zcash-style system using zero-knowledge proofs to enable private Bitcoin transfers without a soft fork. ct.com/news/shielded-bitcoin…

⚡️ WATCH: Solana maxi @KyleSamani thinks the bottom is in. “I think you’re going to see an explosion of social trading and just new, more sophisticated ways to trade, all built on top of crypto rails.”

🚨 LATEST: The APAC region accounts for half of the Global Crypto Adoption Index. Bitget suffers massive $351.6M loss and OpenAI forgets to mention its agents hacked the Australian Government. Asia Express this week: ct.com/magazine/asia-dominat…

🇺🇸 ETF FLOWS: BTC, ETH, SOL and XRP spot ETFs saw net inflows on Sept. 24. BTC: $190.65M ETH: $66.01M SOL: $32.81M XRP: $14.89M

🚨 NOW: Ethereum's exchange supply has hit a record low of 3.49% of total supply, with 1.16% moving off exchanges since June 1, per Santiment.

🇺🇸 LATEST: The White House has reportedly asked OpenAI and Anthropic to withhold new models from British testers until a US security review is complete, per Politico.

🚨 JUST IN: KelpDAO sues LayerZero and co-founder Bryan Pellegrino, alleging their security failures caused this year's rsETH bridge exploit.

⚡️ ELON MUSK: “I am cautiously optimistic that SpaceX will have a Fable/GPT-6 level model in 2 to 3 months.”

🚨 TODAY: Jack Dorsey's Block joins the x402 Foundation and contributes Bitcoin Lightning payments to the open standard for AI agent payments.

🚨 NOW: Bitget says its 5,500 $BTC Protection Fund, worth about $464M, will cover losses from the hot wallet hack, with the fund to be replenished afterward.

🇧🇷 REGULATION: Brazil's central bank mandates reporting for self-custody wallet transfers of $10,000 or more starting October 1.

🗞️ Need to catch up on the news? Here's our top 10 from today: 🔸 Bitget CEO Gracy Chen says North Korean hackers may be behind the exchange's $352M breach, citing IP addresses linked to VPNs used by a DPRK group. 🔹 US and Iran are reportedly exploring a phased deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for lifting the blockade on Iranian ports, Bloomberg reports. 🔸 CFTC updates its crypto guidance to let registered firms invest customer funds in tokenized assets and use blockchain for recordkeeping, just days after the Senate's failed CLARITY Act vote. 🔹 The US 10-year Treasury yield hit 5.18%, its highest since July 2007. 🔸 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth disclosed at least $3.1 million in cash and investments, including Bitcoin worth between $16,000 and $65,000. 🔹 Bitget confirmed unauthorized transfers from some of its hot wallets affecting approximately $351.6 million in assets and has temporarily suspended withdrawals. 🔸 The Fed is seeking public comment on GENIUS Act proposals covering stablecoin reserves, capital requirements and the approval process for Board-supervised issuers. 🔹 SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce says zero-knowledge proofs could verify compliance without collecting users’ personal data. She warns current KYC/AML practices create “data haystacks.” 🔸 Ondo and BlackRock partner to bring tokenized “Intelligent Portfolios” onchain, per WSJ. 🔹 IBM is connecting its digital asset platform to Swift’s blockchain ledger, letting banks move tokenized deposits 24/7.

🚨 UPDATE: Solana's Alpenglow consensus upgrade is now live on testnet, replacing TowerBFT with off-chain voting, with devnet up next and mainnet-beta to follow after an observation period.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 JUST IN: Iran has offered the US a "7-day" proposal that could reopen the Strait of Hormuz within a week and restart talks toward ending the war, per FT.

🔥 BIG: Tech leaders including Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Sam Altman, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg, Sundar Pichai, & Jeff Bezos attend Trump's White House state dinner for China's Xi Jinping.

🚨 UPDATE: Bitget CEO Gracy Chen says North Korean hackers may be behind the exchange's $352M breach, citing IP addresses linked to VPNs used by a DPRK group. ct.com/news/bitget-ceo-suspe…

🚨 NEW: Tether has funds stuck at offshore bank EQIBank, which faces liquidation risk after a US asset seizure, per The Information. Tether says the exposure is under 0.034% of its assets, or less than $64M based on its Q2 reserves report.

🔥 LATEST: Ark Invest's Cathie Wood is tokenizing the $1.3 billion ARK Venture Fund on Ethereum via Securitize, enabling 24/7 trading.