[Daily Hot Topics (September 20)]

1. U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellen said that the Fed's actions are a very positive signal for the U.S. economy, and the U.S. labor market is normal and healthy, similar to the state before the epidemic.

2. Standard Chartered Bank predicts that Bitcoin and digital assets will continue to rise after the Fed's recent rate cut, driven by favorable macroeconomic conditions.

3. After the Fed's rate cut, cryptocurrency prices rose across the board, and stocks linked to Bitcoin prices climbed, with Coinbase up 5% and MicroStrategy up 5%.

4. Ethereum developers confirmed that the hard fork Pectra will be split into two parts to minimize the risk of mistakes or errors. Pectra is expected to become Ethereum's largest hard fork to date.

5. Robert Kennedy Jr. said that Bitcoin mining is a powerful new tool to support renewable energy-intensive power grids, and miners actively participate in demand response projects to reduce consumers' electricity costs.

6. ZachXBT disclosed the details of the $243 million theft of crypto assets by Genesis creditors and the three masterminds, and more than $9 million in funds have been successfully frozen.

7. Commerzbank will provide BTC and ETH trading services through its Deutsche Boerse subsidiary to meet the needs of German customers.

8. The CFTC urged the appeals court to block election betting during the Kalshi dispute, believing that election gambling undermined the fairness of the prediction market case.

9. White House officials said that the Fed's interest rate cut clearly conveyed the signal that inflation has fallen, but believed that the economy is in good condition.

10. Due to concerns about Sun, DeFi lender Sky approved to stop supporting Bitcoin packaging and use packaged Bitcoin as collateral.

11. Two suspects were charged with stealing $230 million in cryptocurrency, and federal prosecutors formally filed charges.

12. The judge dismissed Consensys' lawsuit against the SEC for MetaMask and Ethereum claims, and stood on the side of the SEC.

13. The Banana Gun team confirmed that hackers may have attacked nearly 50 TG accounts and withdrawn funds, and the attack seems to have ended.

14. Arkham released the latest ranking of government Bitcoin holdings. The United States topped the list with $12.16 billion in holdings, and Germany's holdings fell to zero.

The above is a selection of hot spots in the past 24 hours.