Odaily News: According to official information, Gate Europe officially passed the PCI DSS v4.0.1 Level 1 (highest level) compliance assessment on September 15, 2026, covering Gate Connect and Gate Card services and related systems. This certification provides independent third-party validation of Gate Europe's payment card data protection capabilities and adds an important security credential for its expansion of payment partnerships in the European market.PCI DSS is the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, applicable to organizations that process, store, or transmit cardholder data, covering encryption, access control, security testing, and other areas. Passing this assessment means that Gate Europe's payment data security controls have received authoritative independent validation: for users, it helps reduce the risk of payment information leakage and misuse; for partners, the Attestation of Compliance (AOC) provides a reliable basis for security due diligence.Dr. Giovanni Cunti, CEO of Gate Europe, stated: "Security and compliance are key to building trusted payment services in Europe. Achieving PCI DSS certification marks an important step in strengthening our payment infrastructure. As we expand payment services and partnerships in Europe, we will continue to invest in compliance development to build a trusted and sustainable digital financial ecosystem."

Odaily reports that BitMEX announced on X that the BitMEX exchange ceased operations today at 12:00 (UTC+8). User funds are safe, and login and withdrawal functions remain available. The platform strongly recommends that users withdraw their remaining funds as soon as possible. The platform has stopped accepting deposits, and users should no longer transfer assets to BitMEX addresses. Balances left on the platform will incur a monthly account fee, charged to KYC-verified users at the higher of an annualized 1% or the equivalent of $50. BitMEX previously announced in July that it would shut down the exchange.

Odaily reports that Vitalik Buterin posted on X platform stating that blockchain in its early days possessed characteristics of openness, neutrality, and security, but suffered from issues of non-scalability, full transparency, and lack of privacy protection. Privacy transactions and scalable verification brought by zero-knowledge proofs have moved from planning into actual EIPs in the Ethereum roadmap, technologies such as fully homomorphic encryption are beginning to be applied, and indistinguishability obfuscation may be applied on-chain in the future.He stated that parallel block construction and proving can achieve greater scalability, and the Web3 industry's focus has expanded from digital assets to digital assets and information, covering the complete pipeline from the user end, transaction mempool, to on-chain. With the development of AI, providing cryptographic rules to AI for automated formal verification can improve verification efficiency.

According to Bitcoin News on X, the U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned Iran's BitBank, alleging that the exchange processed Bitcoin payments made by ships under the Hormuz safety insurance scheme. The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) stated that, as of June, these payments had been transferred to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps; Babak Zanjani's network had used the exchange to move hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin. U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that Bitcoin payment channels are not exempt from OFAC oversight.

Odaily Report: Arthur Hayes posted on X platform stating that in his new article "Safety First," he claims Trump faces the choice of "printing money or continuing to print money." He believes that Anthropic, OpenAI, and SpaceX slowing down general AI development under the pretext of safety is not out of concern for human welfare, but because market demand for AI at current pricing is insufficient; the market prefers Chinese AI products priced at roughly one percent of that.

Odaily reports: SlowMist Chief Information Security Officer 23pds has stated that attackers are exploiting the Darksword vulnerability to bypass iOS security mechanisms through Safari, take control of devices, and extract private keys and other data from self-custodial crypto wallets. The vulnerability was previously used in attacks targeting users in Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Malaysia, and Ukraine.Google Threat Intelligence Group previously disclosed that Darksword initially only affected iOS versions 18.4 through 18.7. According to 23pds, attackers have now adapted it to iOS 26.5, though this assessment has not yet been officially verified.Attacks typically begin with social engineering. After users click on malicious links sent via social media or messaging apps, their devices may be rooted and wallet data extracted. Users should promptly update their phone's operating system and avoid visiting website links sent by strangers. Separately, three investors who lost nearly $1.8 million in Bitcoin after downloading fake wallet apps from Apple's official App Store have filed a lawsuit against Apple. (Bitcoin.com News)

Odaily reports: Bitcoin News posted on X that China launched a next-generation commercial cryptography algorithm initiative in 2025, aimed at developing and evaluating cryptographic standards capable of withstanding future quantum computers. Independent researcher @mjos_crypto, while analyzing the candidate algorithms, has discovered critical vulnerabilities in multiple proposed algorithms, including publicly reproducible private keys, easily constructible hash collisions, and signature implementations that accept invalid signatures. Bitcoin currently relies on well-validated elliptic curve cryptography, which quantum computers may pose a threat to its security model in the future; however, prematurely adopting insufficiently tested post-quantum cryptography schemes could also introduce vulnerabilities before quantum threats emerge.

Odaily reports, according to monitoring by Bitcoin News, security researchers have discovered that versions 1.1 and 1.2 of FomoPeek, distributed through the Apple App Store, contain an iOS exploit framework capable of escaping the app sandbox, enabling the extraction of keychain data, wallet files, and mnemonic phrases. SlowMist has linked the app to multiple theft incidents and traced nearly $580,000 in stolen USDT flowing into a primary address. Users who have installed either of the aforementioned versions should treat any keys accessible on that iPhone as compromised, generate new mnemonic phrases on a clean device, and immediately transfer their funds.

Odaily News: AI Agent onchain operating system (AI Agent Onchain OS) X-Agent has released its latest whitepaper, systematically introducing its product architecture, MCP ecosystem, business model, and the use cases of $XAGT.The whitepaper points out that the next phase of the AI industry is not just about generating text, images, or code, but about enabling Agents to understand user intent, invoke tools, execute tasks, and complete transactions. Centered around the philosophy of "Speak to Build, Share to Connect," X-Agent allows users to create AI Agents with context, memory, skills, API, and wallet connectivity capabilities through natural language, without writing any code.In terms of business model, X-Agent aims to connect the full chain of Agent creation, MCP capability integration, distribution, payment, and monetization. Developers can package APIs, data, and professional services into MCP capabilities and earn revenue through pay-per-call, subscriptions, or transaction commissions.$XAGT is planned to be used for computing costs of secure runtime environments, LLM and API calls, Agent transaction settlement, MCP service payments, Premium Agent template purchases, and developer deployment. In the future, it will also expand to service staking, multi-Agent settlement, and ecosystem governance scenarios.According to the project team, X-Agent currently has over 1 million registered users, has completed over 1.1 million autonomous tasks cumulatively, and has consumed over 84 billion LLM Tokens. In the future, the project will also advance Super-Agent, enterprise sandbox, decentralized Agent Store, and multi-Agent collaboration systems.

Odaily reports: According to data tracked by DefiLlama, Gate's platform assets have surpassed $7.394 billion, ranking sixth among global centralized exchanges (CEX), with its asset reserves reaching a new high. Currently, the top six global CEXs by asset size are: Binance, OKX, Bitfinex, Bybit, Robinhood, and Gate.As one of the first platforms in the industry to promote reserve transparency, Gate continues to demonstrate strong capital accumulation and comprehensive strength. As of August 19, 2026, its overall reserve ratio stands at 127%, consistently above the industry safety benchmark of 100%, covering nearly 500 user assets.