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Wednesday, 09/16/2026

Former CFTC Chairman: SEC and CFTC Will Formulate Cryptocurrency Regulations

Former Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chris Giancarlo stated that despite the CLARITY Act facing setbacks in the Senate, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and CFTC will still work on developing cryptocurrency regulations.Giancarlo, who previously served as CFTC Chairman, expressed this view regarding the progress of U.S. cryptocurrency regulatory legislation.Tags: #CFTC #SEC #Giancarlo #RegulationSource link: https://x.com/cointelegraph/status/2100075778507489376?s=46Confirm whether to publish?

SK Hynix, Union Reach Deal: Profit-Sharing Bonus Split Evenly Between Cash and Stock

Odaily News: SK Hynix and its union have reached a new wage and collective bargaining agreement, raising the cash portion of profit-sharing bonuses to 50%, with the remaining 50% paid in company stock. About 57% of union members voted in favor of the new agreement, after the company's previous proposal of a 40:60 cash-to-stock split was rejected by the union. The agreement ends roughly two weeks of renegotiations. SK Hynix agreed last year to scrap the cap on profit-sharing bonuses and to allocate 10% of annual operating profit to employee bonuses for 10 consecutive years. (Jinshi)

MEV robot Yoink intercepted a hacker and took away 2882 rsETH

According to CoinDesk, an attacker exploited a permission verification flaw in the Multicall contract authorized by the Safe multi-signature wallet, attempting to transfer approximately 2,900 rsETH (about 7.8 million USD). However, the automated trading bot Yoink discovered the transaction in the public trading pool, paid about 47,000 USD in fees to execute the transaction first, intercepted 2,882 rsETH, and transferred it to another address.BlockSec, Blockaid, Slow Mist, and AstraSec have all confirmed that the vulnerability lies in the components authorized by the user, rather than the core Safe contract. The issuer of rsETH, Kelp DAO, has implemented a 24-hour suspension on the receiving address.

Bitcoin Spot ETFs See $450M Net Outflow Yesterday, Fidelity's FBTC Leads with $215M

Odaily News: According to SoSoValue data, Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded a total net outflow of $450 million yesterday (September 15, US Eastern Time).

The Bitcoin spot ETF with the largest single-day net outflow yesterday was Fidelity ETF FBTC, with a single-day net outflow of $215 million. FBTC's total historical net inflow now stands at $10.121 billion.

Next was BlackRock ETF IBIT, with a single-day net outflow of $162 million. IBIT's total historical net inflow now stands at $63.977 billion.

As of press time, the total net asset value of Bitcoin spot ETFs is $95.717 billion, the ETF net asset ratio (market value as a percentage of Bitcoin's total market value) is 6.28%, and cumulative historical net inflows have reached $54.864 billion.

Ethereum Spot ETFs See $141M Net Outflow Yesterday, BlackRock's ETHA Leads with $97.97M

Odaily News: According to SoSoValue data, Ethereum spot ETFs recorded a total net outflow of $141 million yesterday (September 15, US Eastern Time).

The Ethereum spot ETF with the largest single-day net inflow yesterday was BlackRock's Staked ETH ETF ETHB, with a single-day net inflow of $12.3788 million. ETHB's total historical net inflow now stands at $857 million.

Next was the 21Shares ETF TETH, with a single-day net inflow of $2.4028 million. TETH's total historical net inflow now stands at $33.7738 million.

The Ethereum spot ETF with the largest single-day net outflow yesterday was BlackRock's ETF ETHA, with a single-day net outflow of $97.9738 million. ETHA's total historical net inflow now stands at $12.996 billion.

As of press time, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $15.42 billion, the ETF net asset ratio (market value as a percentage of Ethereum's total market value) is 5.25%, and cumulative historical net inflows have reached $13.37 billion.

Standard Chartered initiates coverage on ARB, predicting it will rise to $10 by the end of 2030

Standard Chartered Bank has initiated coverage of Arbitrum's ARB token, predicting it will rise from approximately $0.14 to $10 by the end of 2030, citing revenues brought in by networks such as Robinhood Chain.The bank also cautioned that ARB holders cannot directly share in Arbitrum's revenues, and highlighted risks such as a slowdown in the tokenization process and competition from peers.

CZ on CLARITY Act Vote Failure: Stablecoins Can Still Offer Yield, Tech Progress Won't Stop

Odaily News: CZ reposted on X the summary by Compound's founder regarding the CLARITY Act's failure to pass a Senate procedural vote, and stated that if there is a positive aspect, it is that stablecoins can still continue to offer yield.

CZ said setbacks are always encountered along the way forward, but technological progress will continue, "keep moving forward."

Two Robinhood Engineers Accused of Insider Trading on Hyperliquid Perpetual Contracts, Each Profiting Over $50,000

Odaily News: The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York has charged Robinhood engineers Hefu Chai and Huaisong Xiang with allegedly using material non-public company information to trade perpetual contracts of related tokens on Hyperliquid ahead of announcements. Both face charges related to commodities fraud and wire fraud.

According to the complaint, between 2025 and 2026, the two had access to non-public information about cryptocurrencies that Robinhood Crypto was about to add support for due to their job responsibilities, and repeatedly bought perpetual contracts for the corresponding tokens on Hyperliquid before Robinhood officially announced the listings. Each profited more than $50,000 from the related trades. Each faces one count of violating the Commodity Exchange Act and one count of wire fraud, with maximum penalties of 10 years and 20 years in prison, respectively. Prosecutors emphasized that the charges have not yet been proven in court and that both defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

Ave Fully Integrates Arc Chain Ecosystem, First to Support Cross-Chain Swaps and Twitter Monitoring, Now Connected to Over 22 Launchpads

Odaily News: On September 16, the Arc mainnet officially launched, and Ave completed integration with the Arc chain ecosystem at the earliest opportunity, becoming the first to support cross-chain instant swaps, on-chain trading, market tracking, and Twitter monitoring, helping users discover new assets faster, capture market trends, and complete transactions.

With the launch of the Arc ecosystem, on-chain launch platforms and MEME assets have quickly gained traction. Among them, the market cap of Argus.word platform token $ARGUS has surpassed $20 million, and Ave's market page will also launch a dedicated Argus leaderboard, making it easier for users to centrally track related trending assets.

Currently, Ave has connected to over 22 mainstream launch platforms, continuously covering new asset issuance scenarios across different public chains, providing users with a one-stop on-chain toolkit spanning information discovery, market tracking, cross-chain swaps, and trading.

Polymarket Launches In-House Indexing System, Making On-Chain Events Visible Up to 28 Seconds Earlier

Odaily News: Polymarket Vice President of Engineering Josh Stevens posted on X that the team has built its own indexing system using the open-source Rust tool rindexer, making on-chain events visible up to about 14 blocks earlier, roughly 28 seconds; the system can complete indexing within 0 to 10 milliseconds after a block is broadcast, approaching real-time.

The refresh speed for trades, positions, and balances will be further improved.

DefiLlama Launches 'Realized Perp Slippage' Metric to Track True Liquidity Across Exchanges

Odaily News: DefiLlama founder 0xngmi posted on X that a new metric has been launched for trading platforms — Realized Perp Slippage. The algorithm takes a snapshot of the order book just before a market order is executed, calculates the theoretical slippage at which the order should have been filled, and then compares it with the actual slippage at execution.

0xngmi added: "We track this metric because we initially focused on order book liquidity, but later found that due to mechanisms such as speed preference, orders often cannot be executed as expected because market makers withdraw liquidity before order execution. So we started tracking actual liquidity conditions."

ViaBTC Partners with Mempool to Expand BTC Transaction Acceleration Service

Odaily News: On September 16, ViaBTC announced a Bitcoin transaction acceleration partnership with Mempool. Leveraging its own mining pool infrastructure, block construction, and transaction processing capabilities, ViaBTC will provide acceleration support for qualifying transactions, allowing more users to access ViaBTC's transaction acceleration service through ecosystem partnership channels.

ViaBTC launched its Bitcoin transaction accelerator in 2016 and currently offers both free and paid acceleration options. As of today, ViaBTC has accelerated over 800,000 BTC transactions in total. This partnership does not affect the service entry points or usage methods of the existing transaction accelerator.

Since its launch in 2016, ViaBTC has accumulated ten years of mining pool operation and technology R&D experience. ViaBTC stated that it will continue to improve the security, stability, and operational efficiency of its mining pool infrastructure. While serving miners worldwide, it will expand cooperation with ecosystem partners such as block explorers and wallets to provide long-term, reliable infrastructure support for the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Viewpoint: The primary reason for the failure of the CLARITY Act is the launch of the TRUMP token by Trump

Overseas cryptocurrency KOL Brady Dale posted on X, stating that there are three responsible for the failure of the "CLARITY Act": first is Trump, due to his launch of the TRUMP token; second is Tim Scott, who insisted on having the Senate waste time drafting its own version, depleting the legislative momentum that remained after the passage of the "GENIUS Act"; third is Cynthia Lummis. Brady Dale mentioned that he believed last fall that the bill would be difficult to advance, and after Cynthia Lummis announced her retirement, the bill became completely hopeless.He believes that the Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Paul Atkins, will still alleviate the related impacts to some extent, but the movements of that day were not surprising, as the goal was merely to redirect the cryptocurrency political action committee Fairshake towards October.