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Bitwise News: According to the (Wall Street Journal), after a California woman lost more than $80 million in a cryptocurrency investment scam, she taught herself blockchain tracing and tracked the illicit funds to a wallet worth more than $100 million. She then pushed for the Turkish courts to seize related assets. Meanwhile, when investigating suspicious funds, the crypto exchange OKX identified 144 wallets and about 263,000 transactions, involving roughly $2.94 billion in fund flows, and submitted relevant leads to the U.S. Secret Service. U.S. law enforcement subsequently launched the “Operation Big Tuna” crackdown. In the end, about $225 million in crypto assets were seized, marking the largest cryptocurrency seizure operation in the Secret Service’s history. At present, hundreds of scam victims are seeking to recover their losses from the seized assets, but they must prove on-chain links between the funds they were scammed with and the relevant wallets. The final compensation plan has not yet been determined.

Circle launched Gateway Fast Deposit on September 9, integrating CCTP Fast Transfer into the Unified Balance Kit. According to official documentation, on supported routes that meet the criteria, developers can increase the speed at which USDC funds are accounted for in the unified Gateway balance by up to 40x. In the past, some source chains with slower finality might have taken about 15 minutes for users to see available balances; now, users can get usable balances within seconds, while finality on the source chain continues in the background. At launch, it supports fast transfer flows from 9 Fast Transfer source chains to two destination chains with faster confirmations—Avalanche and Polygon. In the future, it plans to support the Arc mainnet.

The ECB’s Governing Council on September 10 decided to raise all three key interest rates by 25 basis points. The deposit facility rate, the main refinancing operations rate, and the marginal lending facility rate will be increased to 2.50%, 2.65%, and 2.90%, respectively, effective September 16. The official explanation is that the ongoing conflict in the Middle East continues to put upward pressure on inflation, and inflation is expected to remain above the 2% medium-term target for a longer period. The decision signals a renewed policy focus on curbing price pressures, but the ECB also emphasized that it will not pre-commit to a future interest-rate path and will continue to make decisions at each meeting based on the data.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on September 10 that the August final demand Producer Price Index (PPI) rose 0.4% month over month after seasonal adjustment, exceeding July’s 0.1%, and reversing June’s 0.1% decline. The year-over-year increase without seasonal adjustment reached 5.4%. This data tracks price changes received by domestic producers when selling goods and services, and is commonly seen as an upstream window into supply-chain conditions and companies’ cost pressures. It does not automatically transmit to consumer prices in a mechanical, proportional way, but it can signal what pressures businesses’ profit margins, pricing, and decisions to build inventory are currently facing.
The most striking divergence this month is between goods and services. The final demand goods price index rose 1.1% month over month, while services increased only 0.1%. Energy prices rose 4.2%, including a sharp jump of 24.1% in diesel fuel prices, accounting for more than one-third of the rise in the goods index. At the same time, the core measure excluding food, energy, and trade services rose 0.3% month over month and 4.7% year over year. This suggests that August’s acceleration was clearly influenced by energy disruptions, but it was not solely a temporary spike caused by a single price item—broader underlying cost pressures still remain.

Google DeepMind released AlphaGenome Atlas on September 8. The platform has precomputed around 9 billion possible single-nucleotide variants in the human genome—meaning every possible single-letter DNA change—and the potential effects such changes may have on molecular biology processes. The platform is currently open to academic research via a free web portal, and it can also be accessed through the AlphaGenome API as well as skills in Google Antigravity. It is not a gene testing service, nor is it a clinical diagnostic system. Officially, it is clearly emphasized that these predictions are intended for research purposes only; they have not been designed, validated, or approved for direct clinical use.

On September 10, OpenAI updated its product log to add the Data plugin to ChatGPT Work and Codex. The official description is very restrained: users can ask questions about connected business data, track changes in key metrics, and generate interactive dashboards or reports. During the analysis, they can keep following up—adding their team’s own metric definitions and business context along the way. To enable it, install Data from the plugin directory, then call it in the conversation with “@Data”. Data sources may still need to be configured or authorized separately, and queries reuse the permissions of the connected account. In other words, it’s not a magic gateway that automatically shows all enterprise data, but rather a way to connect data retrieval, analysis, explanation, and presentation into a single ongoing conversation within existing access boundaries.