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The Thai Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is conducting a public consultation on investment rules for overseas digital asset derivatives. It plans to allow locally licensed derivatives firms to provide, to retail investors, high-net-worth investors, and ultra-high-net-worth investors, overseas digital asset futures and other derivatives services that meet specified conditions.
According to the proposal, the relevant services must be provided by operators that have obtained a derivatives agency or trading dealer license, and this does not mean that Thai retail investors can directly use all overseas cryptocurrency exchanges. The underlying digital assets, contract tenors, leverage, and delivery or settlement methods for eligible products must be consistent with the specifications of digital asset derivatives in the Thai market; for contracts with fixed expiration dates, the tenor should generally not be less than one month.

SEC launches the largest reform in nearly half a century, with blockchain officially included in the transfer agent rules
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed a Transfer Agent regulatory reform proposal on September 1 to significantly update the regulatory framework that has not seen major changes since the late 1970s. The plan would incorporate emerging technologies such as electronic communications, blockchain, tokenized securities, and artificial intelligence (AI) into the rules.
Transfer agents are a key piece of infrastructure in the U.S. securities market. They primarily maintain shareholder records and ownership records of securities, while also handling corporate actions such as stock transfers, dividend payments, and mergers and acquisitions. They also participate in the securities clearing and settlement process.

Premier League €10 million sponsorship funds frozen; NCA investigates whether the money involves third-party crime
The partnership between cryptocurrency and the football industry is once again facing regulatory scrutiny. The UK National Crime Agency (NCA) has frozen approximately £10.02 million in the bank account of the English Premier League (Premier League), equivalent to about $13.6 million. The funds come from the blockchain fantasy football platform Sorare and were originally the first payment under a long-term cooperation between the two.
According to reports, as early as January 2025, the NCA obtained a freezing order issued by the Westminster Magistrates' Court under the Proceeds of Crime Act, involving funds totaling £10,024,041.33, held in a Barclays bank account opened in the name of The Football Association Premier League Limited.

Security firm Morphisec Threat Labs recently disclosed a Windows application disguised as “Claude Opus 5 Free Desktop.” In reality, it contains an information-stealing malware called RevStealer, which can collect crypto wallets, browser credentials, password manager data, and other sensitive information. Researchers have observed its distribution activities in a GitHub repository and on websites related to game cheating programs.
Claude Opus 5 is a real AI model officially launched by Anthropic on July 24 of this year. Attackers take advantage of the new model’s popularity and the promotion of “free use of a paid model” to package fake applications as official desktop tools, enticing users to download a compressed file of about 101 MB. However, after installation, the program does not display the normal Claude operating interface; instead, it prepares and executes malicious code in the background.

Micron Technology’s Taiwan union is preparing for a strike. Reportedly, employee support in the company’s plants in Taoyuan and Taichung is as high as 80%. The company issued a statement yesterday (September 1), announcing that this year it will award the highest performance bonus in its history, with the specific plan expected to be released in October. At the same time, CEO Sanjay Mehrotra appeared via a pre-recorded video at SEMICON Taiwan 2026, pledging that Micron will continue to build the global memory production capacity it needs in Taiwan, and that Taiwan is one of its most important manufacturing bases worldwide.
About 80% of employees support the strike, Micron’s crisis heats up
Driven by the AI wave, demand for DRAM and HBM has surged rapidly, while the memory supply shortfall continues to widen. In recent years, Micron Technology’s revenue and profits have repeatedly hit record highs. However, despite the company’s impressive performance, it has not been reflected promptly in employee compensation. Employees widely report that their bonus levels lag behind those at competitors such as Samsung and SK hynix in South Korea, and they have been increasingly resentful for a long time.

Ondo submitted a comment letter urging the United States to allow U.S. sustainable equity contracts
The tokenized asset platform Ondo Finance announced yesterday (9/2) that in recent days it has submitted three comment letters to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The letters address three topics: perpetual futures (perpetual contracts), portfolio margin, and market data.
Ondo argues that U.S. sustainable equity contracts can operate under the existing securities and futures regulatory framework and do not require new rules. The platform also stated in a product category letter that the statutory definition of securities and futures products does not require the contracts to have a fixed maturity date.

The Central News Agency launches an MCP to connect 5 million pieces of verified news to AI
Taiwan’s media industry’s first case! Taiwan’s public media organization (Central News Agency) has recently launched the “Central News Agency MCP” service and opened subscriptions (note), becoming Taiwan’s first news media to offer MCP for AI agents to access.
Users subscribed to the Central News Agency MCP do not need to change their original AI usage habits. By simply subscribing and attaching the tool to their AI, they can bring in (Central News Agency)’s accumulated news database of over 30 years and nearly 5 million items, enabling AI applications such as Claude and ChatGPT to instantly retrieve information when answering questions—and to require explicit source attribution.

SEC Chair optimistic about progress in September, with a key vote in the Senate on the 15th
The U.S. cryptocurrency market structure bill is approaching a critical moment. Paul Atkins, Chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), said he expects the (CLARITY Act) to see progress in the Senate in September, and hopes it will ultimately be submitted to President Donald Trump for signing into law.
Atkins said in a recent interview with (Fox Business) that the (CLARITY Act) will face a vote in the Senate on September 15, and he expects the bill to gain Senate support and ultimately reach the President’s desk for signature.

G20 finance and monetary leaders send out new signals: digital assets are seen as a driver of economic growth
New signals have emerged regarding major global economies’ policy stance toward digital assets. Finance ministers and central bank governors of the G20 recently said that digital financial innovation and digital assets have the potential to support broad economic growth. They also pledged to promote responsible and effective regulatory and supervisory frameworks, establishing a clearer development path for digital finance and digital asset innovation.
From August 31 to September 1, the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors held their second meeting of 2026 in Asheville, North Carolina, United States. After the meeting, the current rotating chair country, the United States, released a chair’s statement.

The U.S. is considering imposing new semiconductor tariffs, and Taiwan will announce investment of $20–30 billion in the United States.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said in an interview on the CNBC program “Squawk Box” yesterday (9/2) that the Trump administration is considering imposing a new round of tariffs on semiconductors. If companies commit to producing in the U.S., they could be exempted from the related tariffs.
He also revealed that Taiwan will announce a new round of investment in the United States next week, with a scale of about $20 billion to $30 billion, as part of the prior Taiwan-U.S. trade agreement.
Lutnick said that major chip manufacturers already know that the U.S. side is considering a new round of tariff proposals. If companies commit to producing in the U.S., they may be exempted from tariffs; if they do not produce in the U.S., they will have to pay a price to enter the U.S. market.

Apple is seeing a major executive reshuffle: Tim Cook, who has led the company for 15 years, will step down to become Executive Chairman of the Board, with John Ternus—an experienced senior vice president of hardware engineering who has been with the company for 25 years—taking over as CEO. CNBC analysis points out that this new leadership arrangement symbolizes a shift in Apple’s operating strategy: moving away from the China and overseas supply-chain focus emphasized during the Tim Cook era, and gradually returning to the product development, design, and hardware innovation path that Steve Jobs-era Apple once prioritized.
Apple’s new CEO, Ternus, has served Apple for 25 years and has long been responsible for hardware engineering

After surging 25% in August, it suddenly stalls—Bitcoin shows a “Simpsons pattern” again.
After Bitcoin’s ($BTC) strong rebound in August, it entered September but still failed to break through the $80,000 level. Over the past week, Bitcoin repeatedly tried to push into the $80,000 to $81,000 range but failed; the price then quickly dropped back to around $76,000 to $77,000. This also brought back to the spotlight the “Simpsons pattern” (Bart Simpson Pattern), familiar to many crypto traders.
Source: X/@benjamincowen Bitcoin’s continued inability to break through $80,000 has once again brought the “Simpsons pattern” (Bart Simpson Pattern)—familiar to crypto traders—back into focus

Standing out among 88 nominations from Asia, Liminal won the Financial Infrastructure Award.
First Answer, a Singapore company, and its virtual-asset wallet and governance infrastructure platform Liminal Custody announced that on September 1, at the 2026 Asia FinTech Alliance Awards (AFA Awards 2026) held in Taipei, they successfully won the “Financial Infrastructure Award.”
The AFA Awards are organized by the Asia FinTech Alliance (AFA). Connecting 16 member economies across Asia, this year there were 88 nominations. After initial screening and technical evaluation, the Top 30 were selected, and then an international judging panel chose the Top 10 to advance to the final round. Liminal progressed from the Top 30 to the Top 10, and became one of the final two competitors for the Financial Infrastructure Award, ultimately winning the award.

Nine sets of implementing regulations are being drafted in parallel, and the stablecoin regulatory framework will also be officially rolled out
Taiwan’s virtual-asset regulation is about to enter a new stage. On September 2, Peng Jinlong, chair of the Financial Supervisory Commission, said that the (Virtual Asset Service Provider Act) was completed for legislation at the end of June this year. The Financial Supervisory Commission is now actively drafting nine related implementing regulations, including stablecoin rules that the market is highly focused on. The earliest they will be formally announced and implemented is the first quarter of 2027.
The Asian Financial Technologies Alliance (AFA) and the Taiwan Association of Financial Technology held FinTechOn 2026 & AFA Summit on the 2nd, focusing on fintech topics such as AI, blockchain, and global supply chains.

21 financial giants form an alliance; the dollar-pegged stablecoin could be launched as early as 2027
Global large banks and asset management firms are preparing to team up to enter the stablecoin market. A group of 21 financial institutions, including Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Citi, Deutsche Bank, and UBS, announced plans to jointly establish a new company in the second half of 2026 and launch a dollar-pegged stablecoin in the first half of 2027.
The plan was first revealed in October 2025, when only 10 banks were involved. Now, the scale has more than doubled, with participants spanning North America, Europe, East Asia, the Middle East, and Africa.

Kraken parent company partners with the LSE; top 100 UK stocks will be tokenized on the blockchain in as little as a few weeks
Traditional securities exchanges are accelerating their expansion into the tokenization market. Payward, the parent company of the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, announced on September 1 its cooperation with the London Stock Exchange (LSE), preparing to bring the shares of the 100 largest companies listed in London onto the blockchain, and offering tokenized versions through the xStocks framework.
According to the plans by both parties, the first batch of UK stock xStocks is expected to be rolled out over the coming weeks, and trading will be supported via Kraken and other platforms in the xStocks Alliance. These tokens will be backed 1:1 with the actual shares, enabling investors to gain price exposure to the corresponding stocks via the blockchain.

Among the fastest-growing cities in the U.S., Helium is being adopted—existing Wi-Fi directly fills in mobile network coverage
Celina, a city in Texas, will connect existing public Wi-Fi to the decentralized wireless network Helium, allowing users of supported telecom carriers to directly offload mobile data through Wi-Fi without building new cell towers. After the announcement, Helium’s native token $HNT briefly jumped nearly 100% in a day, becoming one of the DePIN tokens drawing the most attention in the market recently.
Source: TradingView Helium native token $HNT surged nearly 100% in a single day at one point.

CXMT sues the U.S. government: You shouldn’t put us on the blacklist
Last Friday, China’s largest DRAM memory manufacturer, CXMT (Changxin Storage), filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Defense in federal court in Washington, D.C. The list of defendants included Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
According to a Reuters report, CXMT emphasized in its complaint that the company has no ties to the Chinese military. Its DRAM chips are designed and sold for civilian and commercial markets, not for military use.
The Pentagon initially added CXMT to the so-called “China military-linked enterprises” list in January 2025, and the Trump administration kept it on the list when it updated the roster in June this year.

Decentralized sustainable contract trading platform Hyperliquid is seeking to enter the U.S. market in a regulated manner.
Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reports that Hyperliquid Labs has held in-depth discussions with Kraken’s parent company, Payward, and plans to provide eligible U.S. traders with certain crypto perpetual futures related to the Hyperliquid market via Payward’s U.S. digital asset derivatives platform Bitnomial.
Under the structure currently under discussion, U.S. users will not directly connect to Hyperliquid’s native decentralized trading platform. Instead, they will complete account registration, identity verification, and trading through Bitnomial. Bitnomial will handle compliance-related areas such as product listings, customer onboarding, trading, and clearing, and will only offer specific contracts approved by regulatory authorities. At this stage, details have not yet been released on which assets are involved, the number of contracts, business terms, or the official launch timeline.

X users suddenly received a large number of password reset emails; encrypted communities also reported incidents.
The social media platform X recently suffered a large-scale “password reset” email incident. Many users, without having actively requested anything, suddenly received password reset verification emails sent by the official. Some users even received multiple emails in just a few minutes, raising concerns among the public about whether X has again experienced a data leak or been targeted by hackers.
The incident quickly gained traction on social media on September 1. Several people in the cryptocurrency industry received similar emails, and some users received as many as 10 password reset notifications within a few hours.