In pre-market trading of US stocks, the semiconductor, storage, optical communications, and crypto-themed sectors all rose, extending yesterday's rally.

South Korean police spent five months identifying individual Polymarket traders via public blockchain transaction records and filed gambling-related cases. The Cyber Investigation Unit of the Gangwon Provincial Police Agency launched the probe in March, opened cases in May, while the Korea Communications Commission (KCC) only ordered the blocking of Polymarket on August 18. As of September 15, police have filed cases against 26 people, with 18 referred to prosecutors. The total amount involved in the case stands at $12.7 million, and the single largest trader invested $4.1 million. South Korean police noted that since Polymarket operates as a non-custodial peer-to-peer market and does not hold a list of South Korean users’ real identities, obtaining a user roster from the operator is not practical. However, on-chain transaction records are publicly available, so the police used open-source intelligence analysis to independently identify and track users.

"BTC OG Insider Whale" agent Garrett Jin has consecutively posted two screenshots of ZEC (Zcash) spot withdrawals from Binance, along with corresponding Zcash blockchain explorer links. Records show that on December 20, 2025, he withdrew 134,000 ZEC and 68,076.23 ZEC from his Binance spot account successively, totaling approximately 202,100 ZEC. At ZEC’s current price of around $1,560, this address’s holdings are valued at roughly $315 million. Garrett recently drew attention for holding a large-scale ZEC short position on Hyperliquid, which has incurred tens of millions of dollars in unrealized losses. This post is intended to reveal that his contract short position is more likely a hedge against his massive spot holdings, rather than a pure naked short. According to TradingBeats’ monitoring, the unrealized loss on the ZEC short position held by "BTC OG Insider Whale" agent Garrett Jin has reached $33.83 million, with the short position size at 37,999.54 ZEC, valued at $59.33 million, funding rate income of $660,000, and liquidation price at $4,790.

On September 18 local time, Trump signed the Lindsey Graham Russia and Iran Sanctions Act of 2026, authorizing the expansion of legal sanctions, tariffs and bans on Russia, and extending sanctions against Iran. The same day, Trump said he is weighing whether to take further military action against Tehran, remarking "We will see," and noted that the U.S. is in contact with Yemen’s Houthi movement. Additionally, Trump announced that the U.S. has reached an agreement with Denmark on security issues for Greenland, which will ensure Washington’s permanent capability to maintain local security. He also named three media outlets, including CNN, on social media, banning them from entering the White House, and claimed his approval rating among Republicans has hit 95%, a record high.

Singapore-based payment platform Dtcpay has closed its Series A funding round, bringing its total raised capital to $25 million. The round was first led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India in April, with Japanese financial group SBI Group joining as a strategic investor, while Genedant Capital and existing shareholder Kwee Liong Tek also participated. Dtcpay holds regulatory approvals from Singapore’s Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and an electronic financial institution license from Luxembourg, authorizing it to offer regulated services in the European Economic Area, plus operational credentials across multiple jurisdictions including Hong Kong, Australia, the United States, and Canada.

Shanghai-based Chinese embodied tactile technology firm Qianjue Robotics announced it has successfully closed two consecutive strategic financing rounds worth hundreds of millions of yuan. Prior to this, Qianjue had announced the completion of a 100 million yuan-level financing round, with investors including embodied intelligence industry players, Tianji Capital, and Jide Electric Appliance. The company’s current shareholders include financial investment institutions such as Hillhouse Venture Capital, Yuanhe Origin, and Futeng Capital, as well as industry players in the embodied intelligence and industrial sectors like Li Auto, Zhiyuan Robotics, and Jide Electric Appliance. The proceeds from this round will be primarily used for product upgrades, business expansion, and industrialization implementation, accelerating the iteration and large-scale delivery of high-precision visual-tactile sensors, improving real interactive data collection, tactile simulation, and dataset construction, and continuing R&D on tactile embodied models and tactile world models.

MultiversX (EGLD) official announcement: The team is investigating a potential issue detected on the MultiversX mainnet, and will release further updates within the next 12 hours or as soon as a clear conclusion is reached.