An attacker hacked into the X account of Andy Ayrey, the founder of Truth Terminal, and released the IB information of the new token, making a profit of $602,500 in less than an hour.

As BTC surged above $71,000, whales seem to be more bullish. In the past 17 hours, two newly generated wallets withdrew a total of 4,253 BTC from Coinbase. One of the wallets withdrew 3,653 BTC worth $259.66 million, while the other wallet withdrew 2,600 BTC worth $42.63 million.

Hurun Research Institute released the "2024 Hengchang Shaofang Hurun Rich List", and former Binance CEO Zhao Changpeng ranked 16th on the list with a wealth of 135 billion yuan. The article mentioned that although Zhao Changpeng was arrested in California in the past year and paid a total of more than 7 billion US dollars in fines, his wealth still increased by 90 billion yuan compared with last year (ranked second on the list with the largest wealth growth), reaching 135 billion yuan, mainly due to the increase in the total transaction volume of virtual currencies in the past year, as the price of Bitcoin rose 130% from the same period last year to 65,000 US dollars. In addition, the market value of the virtual currency exchange Coinbase has more than doubled from 19 billion US dollars to 46 billion US dollars.

Meta is developing a search engine that crawls the web to provide answers to conversations about current events to users using the Meta AI chatbot. The company is trying to keep up with OpenAI in artificial intelligence development. In doing so, Meta hopes to reduce its reliance on Google Search and Microsoft's Bing, which currently provide news, sports and stock information to users using Meta AI, according to a person who has spoken with the search engine team. It may also give Meta a backup option if Google or Microsoft withdraw from those arrangements, according to a person involved in the strategy.

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is discussing whether to shut down a pilot cross-border payments platform, mBridge, after Russian President Vladimir Putin cast the underlying technology as a tool to circumvent sanctions and potentially undermine the dollar’s dominance in the global financial system.

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson changed his stance on Bitcoin and announced that Cardano L1 will transform into Bitcoin L2.

The total market value of Solana’s liquidity staking tokens has exceeded US$5 billion and is currently approximately US$5.29 billion, a record high.

Compound founder Robert Leshner withdrew 500,000 EIGEN from FalconX 4 hours ago, worth $1.44 million.

At the current price of Bitcoin at $71,004.4, MicroStrategy's Bitcoin holdings have a floating profit of over $8 billion. According to previous news, as of September 19, 2024, MicroStrategy holds a total of 252,220 Bitcoins, with a total purchase cost of approximately $9.9 billion and an average price of approximately $39,266.

The X account of Andy Ayrey, the founder of AI robot project Truth Terminal, was hacked, and he posted that he would launch a new token IB.

One hour ago, a whale withdrew 570 BTC ($39.84 million) from Binance. In the past 5 days, the whale has withdrawn 2,150 BTC ($147 million) from Binance and currently holds 5,073 BTC ($354.5 million).

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said the company respects international sanctions and works closely with law enforcement, but acknowledged that it ultimately answers to U.S. authorities. "If the United States wants to kill us, they can kill us anywhere with the click of a button," Ardoino said. "We are not going to fight the United States."

In his latest article, BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes said that China's stimulus measures will inject trillions of dollars into financial markets and drive up cryptocurrencies. For those who believe that the market will immediately see future trends and push up Bitcoin prices accordingly, Hayes said these expectations may be disappointed. He pointed out that both the quantitative easing policy of the People's Bank of China and the re-acceleration of bank credit growth will take time to achieve their effects. In the initial stages of the policy, Chinese savers tend to buy domestic stocks and apartments that are undervalued by the market. But Hayes believes that given enough time, the long-term impact of these policies will be obvious.

Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital, which owns 16% of stablecoin platform Bridge, stands to receive more than $100 million from Stripe’s $1.1 billion acquisition of Bridge. People familiar with the matter said Sequoia invested $19 million in Bridge’s Series A round last year.