White House said that Wietekov has not yet divested his cryptocurrency assets, including shares in the "World Free Financial Company" related to the Trump family, which could raise conflict of interest issues for the envoy. A White House official said that Wietekov has completed financial disclosures and is currently working with ethics officials and legal advisors to ensure full compliance with government regulations, including taking all necessary legal steps to divest assets. The process of determining which assets appointees need to divest may evolve into a negotiation game with ethics officials. If there is a long-standing dispute over "which assets constitute a conflict of interest," Wietekov may face legal risks - especially if he is substantively involved in spec...

 QCP Capital's report pointed out that the Federal Reserve is expected to start a rate cut cycle tonight, cutting interest rates for the first time by 25 basis points to 4.00–4.25%. Although the market has priced in six rate cuts until 2026, investors are still paying attention to the dot plot and Powell's press conference. Despite the improvement in liquidity, the recent performance of the cryptocurrency market still lags behind traditional risk assets. It is worth paying attention to whether tonight's Fed statement can narrow this gap....

 the most anticipated FOMC meeting of this cycle will take place tonight. According to glassnode data, options traders are rapidly buying options to hedge or respond to soaring volatility, reflecting market uncertainty and expectations of major measures....

according to official sources, Binance announced the launch of the VIP Exclusive Plan. The plan aims to provide exclusive opportunities for VIP users to help them maintain and enjoy their VIP status in the long term. The VIP Exclusive Plan is only open to VIP users in the VIP trader plan. Users who have reached VIP5 or higher level through the VIP trader plan in the past 180 days, and have maintained it for at least 150 days, will be granted exclusive status....

 according to Coin Bureau news, BlackRock bought $209.2 million worth of Bitcoin and sold $20.3 million worth of Ethereum....

 Binance will open the recharge channel for Lombard (BARD) at 20:00 on September 17, 2025, and will launch BARD spot trading at 19:00 on September 18, 2025, supporting trading pairs of USDT, USDC, BNB, FDUSD, and TRY. Users who use BNB to subscribe to the guaranteed earning coins or on-chain earning coins products from 08:00 on September 9, 2025 to 07:59 on September 13, 2025 will receive BARD airdrop allocation....

 according to CryptoQuant analyst's chart, about 9 billion US dollars of stablecoins flowed into various exchanges within 1.5 days before the Federal Reserve (FED) meeting....

Yunfeng Financial Group, indirectly owned by Jack Ma, announced that its blockchain technology team successfully tokenized the physical assets of the FOF (Fund of Funds) shares invested by its wholly-owned subsidiary (Real-World Asset Tokenization, RWA), and issued the first RWA project independently completed by Yunfeng Financial, further promoting the deep integration of traditional finance and blockchain technology. It is reported that the FOF fund invested by the wholly-owned subsidiary of Yunfeng Financial Group mainly focuses on alternative assets (directly or indirectly investing in credit and real estate-related debt securities markets), and issues part of the investment shares of the fund in token form to enhance transparency....

 the Bitcoin ETF has seen fund inflows for 7 consecutive trading days, with a total of $292 million added; while the Ethereum ETF recorded $61.7 million in fund outflows, ending the trend of fund inflows for the previous 5 consecutive trading days....

Binance Alpha will be the first platform to launch Dill (DL) on September 19. Eligible users can go to the Alpha event page to receive airdrops using Alpha points after Alpha trading opens. Specific details will be announced separately....

 Lu Lei, Deputy Governor of the People's Bank of China, revealed at the 14th China Payment and Clearing Forum that important progress has been made in the interconnection of cross-border QR code payments. Today, Alipay and Ant International under the Ant Group have become the first batch of institutions to participate in the pilot operation of cross-border QR code unified gateway business. Lu Lei emphasized that the systemic risk in the current payment industry is increasing. The scale of cross-border fund flows is expanding and the frequency is accelerating, providing opportunities for risks such as cross-border money laundering and terrorist financing. Some overseas illegal platforms transfer funds through virtual currencies, underground banks, and other channels, forming a ...

Binance has completed the Maker (MKR) token replacement, incremental upgrade, and rebranding to Sky (SKY) on September 17, 2025, and has opened the deposit and withdrawal services for the new SKY token. Binance opened SKY/BTC, SKY/TRY, SKY/USDC, and SKY/USDT spot trading at 16:00 on the same day. Users can enable the new trading pairs through spot follow-up settings....

 according to the official announcement, ASTER is now online and users can claim airdrops. ASTER spot trading will be launched on Aster Spot at 20:00, and the withdrawal function will be available on October 1....

 Paolo Ardoino, CEO of stablecoin issuer Tether, announced on the X platform that the password management solution PearPass is about to be released, and the solution will be completely open source. It is reported that PearPass uses a fully localized open source password manager, without the need for cloud services or servers....

 according to on-chain analyst The Data Nerd's monitoring, half an hour ago, a certain whale deposited 50 million PENGU into Binance, worth approximately 1.67 million US dollars. 9 months ago, he received 322.32 million PENGU from an airdrop wallet (equivalent to 9.32 million US dollars) and sold 232 million tokens for 5.77 million US dollars. Currently, he still holds 90.32 million PENGU (approximately 3.02 million US dollars)....

 Jiachengye Capital (00936.HK) announced that the board of directors of the company has announced that the group has reached a cooperation with a virtual asset trading platform licensed by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission on September 17, 2025, to jointly promote the tokenization of real world assets (RWA) under the Hong Kong regulatory framework. In the future, the group will continue to promote innovation exploration and resource integration in the fields of financial technology, digital finance, and Web3.0....

the cross-chain trading protocol ParaSwap has officially been renamed Velora, and has launched a new governance token VLR to replace the original token PSP. With the launch of VLR, the functions of PSP in governance, staking, and rewards will be terminated immediately. The team stated that VLR will be integrated into a single asset model, adopt a gas-free mechanism, and directly link rewards and protocol income through a unified staking center on Base to achieve a more transparent and sustainable incentive model....

According to official sources, MGBX will launch EUL (Euler) spot trading at 17:00 (SGT) on September 17, 2025....

according to the Hong Kong stock market data, as of the close, the trading volume of 6 Hong Kong virtual asset ETFs today was 40.1441 million Hong Kong dollars, including: Huaxia Bitcoin ETF (3042.HK) with a trading volume of 13.71 million Hong Kong dollars, Huaxia Ethereum ETF (3046.HK) with a trading volume of 16 million Hong Kong dollars, Jiashi Bitcoin ETF (3439.HK) with a trading volume of 3.12 million Hong Kong dollars, Jiashi Ethereum ETF (3179.HK) with a trading volume of 0.6341 million Hong Kong dollars, Boshi HashKey Bitcoin ETF (3008.HK) with a trading volume of 5.14 million Hong Kong dollars, and Boshi HashKey Ethereum ETF (3009.HK) with a trading volume of 1.54 million Hong Kong dollars....

 according to analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, an address possibly belonging to the investment institution Maven 11 withdrew 4.03 million ENA from Binance 1 hour ago, worth approximately 2.76 million US dollars. This address has accumulated a total of 30.08 million ENA in the past two days, worth approximately 20.63 million US dollars. At the same time, an address possibly belonging to YZi Labs' ENA investor withdrew 5 million ENA 1 hour ago, worth approximately 3.4 million US dollars. They have transferred a total of 54 million ENA into Binance in the past three weeks, worth approximately 37.8 million US dollars....