Odaily News: A HyperLiquid contract involving Chinese asset ChangXin Memory Technologies has drawn attention from the domestic market. Analysts believe that the cryptocurrency trading market is undergoing structural divergence, with traditional centralized exchanges facing regulatory pressure, while decentralized offshore trading platforms are entering a phase of rapid development through mechanism innovation, scenario expansion, and traffic growth.

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 Russian Deputy Finance Minister Ivan Chebeskov stated that Russia has approximately 20 million cryptocurrency users, with citizens holding cryptocurrencies and related financial products totaling around $44 billion, and daily trading volume of about $595 million.Russia is advancing comprehensive regulation to clarify the rights and responsibilities of service providers, intermediaries, and investors; it plans to pursue criminal liability for illegally organized cryptocurrency trading activities starting July 1, 2027, while ordinary individual transactions are excluded. The Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank are studying the operational models and application scenarios of domestic stablecoins; if assets such as USDT and USDC are frozen due to actions by foreign issuers and Russian custodians are not at fault, related losses will in principle be borne by investors.

Odaily News: Reap, the payments company under Kraken parent Payward, has launched a virtual asset ledger that allows users of exchanges, wallets, neobanks, and fintech platforms to directly spend Bitcoin and other virtual asset balances via Visa cards issued by Reap. Payments are converted at real-time exchange rates without the need to pre-convert to stablecoins. Reap data shows that card spending funded by virtual assets reached $1.04 billion in July 2026.

Odaily News: The fund was founded by Abu Dhabi-based investor and Further Ventures co-founder Mohamed Hamdy, with Thoro Capital Management serving as the manager and Mohamed Hamdy as Managing Partner. Thoro Capital Management will settle in USD via stablecoins and lend directly to digital asset institutions, with Hashed as the anchor investor. The fund employs a covenant-based underwriting approach, assessing borrowers' financial condition, cash flow, and management performance, aiming to alleviate the financing issues caused by traditional banks' regulated capital requirements and crypto lenders' reliance on asset-collateralized underwriting. Tokenized private credit has become the largest real-world asset (RWA) category by cumulative on-chain lending volume, with total loans exceeding $14 billion, while the traditional private credit market exceeds $3 trillion. Previously, Hashed obtained a financial services permission from the Abu Dhabi Global Market and signed a memorandum of understanding with the Abu Dhabi Investment Office.

Odaily News: The fund's investors include FalconX, Hutt Capital, Arrington Capital, as well as Nic Carter, Rob Hadick, and Jake Brukhman. The fund will primarily invest in Day Zero, Pre-Seed, and Seed stage crypto startups, with individual investments ranging from $250,000 to $750,000, focusing on open financial infrastructure and decentralized AI, and plans to deploy over the next 3 to 4 years.

Odaily News: Gnosis Pay has announced that it will discontinue its consumer debit card and web application on December 20, 2026. At that time, the card will no longer be usable for spending, the web platform will cease normal operation, and only fund withdrawal functionality will remain available. User funds are held in Gnosis Pay Safe and are unaffected by this adjustment, with no deadline for withdrawals.Gnosis Pay stated that since 2025, the company has shifted from serving consumers directly to providing card services for wallets, fintech applications, and neobanks, and recommends that existing users migrate to partner applications to continue using the relevant card products.

Odaily News: RWA platform Midas has introduced two tokenized investment products, mWIN and mGLOBAL, to Avalanche, offering an institutional fixed income strategy managed by Wellington Management and an alternative credit strategy managed by Fasanara Capital, respectively. Both products can be programmed and transferred on-chain and used in related financial applications; among them, mWIN is primarily linked to diversified fixed income portfolios, while mGLOBAL is linked to receivables and asset-backed credit strategies.

Odaily News: Infosys, a global IT services company with a market cap exceeding $40 billion, has entered into a strategic partnership with oracle network Chainlink to standardize the adoption of the Chainlink platform across the global banking and payment infrastructure it serves. Infosys supports critical banking and payment systems for over 1.7 billion customer accounts. The two parties plan to integrate the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), Chainlink Runtime Environment, Automated Compliance Engine, Proof of Reserve, Data Streams, and Data Feeds, and jointly lay the infrastructure pathway for connecting onchain markets for large global financial institutions.

Odaily News: This first sale of JUMP tokens will serve as its inaugural fundraising round, with no separate equity financing, and the token will be the sole means by which all parties hold rights and interests. Jumper is a cross-chain trading aggregator with cumulative trading volume exceeding $40 billion and over 100,000 monthly active users, aiming to build an on-chain financial super app. The specific launch date will be announced after the fundraising is completed.