Venus Protocol said it will stop supporting opBNB, Optimism and Unichain on Oct. 23, 2026, and told users with active positions on those three networks to close them and withdraw funds before the deadline.
Apple and Google post roles tied to stablecoins
According to Bloomingbit, Apple posted a U.S.-based opening on Aug. 26 for a head of financial product strategy for Apple Pay, listing stablecoins, tokenized deposits and blockchain technology as preferred qualifications. Google, for its part, is hiring a chief architect for the Web3 industry in Hong Kong, seeking experience in stablecoin payment networks, real-world asset tokenization and digital-asset custody.
The two companies appear to be looking at different areas. Apple’s opening is centered on consumer financial services such as Apple Card and Apple Cash, while Google’s role is aimed at institution-grade cloud infrastructure for digital assets. The report noted that Samsung had made similar moves earlier.
At the same time, the job listings do not prove that either company will issue a proprietary stablecoin or launch a specific product. For now, they point more to internal evaluation and positioning around possible payment use cases for stablecoins.
Whale positions and market moves
Garrett Jin-linked entity closes 1,333 BTC long
According to monitoring by EmberCN, after closing a ZEC short earlier in the day, a whale entity linked to Garrett Jin also closed a 1,333 BTC long that had been opened three days earlier. The position was worth about $112 million and realized a profit of $8.38 million.
The entry price was $78,057 and the exit price was $84,455. The entity currently has no open positions on Hyperliquid, though on-chain addresses still hold spot assets including BTC, ETH and ZEC.
HYPE long on Smartestmoney.hl sees unrealized profit rise to $78.94 million
Onchain Lens said the wallet Smartestmoney.hl still holds a 1.38 million HYPE long position with a current value of about $132.32 million.
Unrealized profit on the trade has increased from $54.97 million to $78.94 million, while the address shows cumulative historical profit and loss of positive $71.56 million. The position was opened at $38.68, the current price is $95.88, and the liquidation price is $73.26.
BTC tops $84,000
HTX market data showed BTC breaking above $84,000 and trading at $84,000.00, up 4.59% over the past 24 hours.
Morgan Stanley warns of a possible 7% near-term drop in U.S. stocks
Michael Wilson’s strategy team at Morgan Stanley said U.S. equities remain exposed to further increases in energy prices and heavier volatility in the bond market. In that scenario, the S&P 500 could fall as much as 7%.
The strategists said strong corporate earnings have so far helped stocks absorb the pressure from rising bond yields, but S&P 500 valuations have fallen over the past four months to their lowest level since March.
Wilson wrote in a report: 「If valuation correction worsens further in the near term due to tighter financial conditions and/or a sharp rise in energy prices, we think the S&P 500 could fall to 7100 before the bull market resumes by year-end.」 That level implies a 7% decline from last Friday’s close.
Wilson also said volatility is likely to increase before the November midterm elections, though he still expects strong earnings prospects to support a year-end rebound, with the index moving toward his 8,000 target. That would mean an increase of nearly 5% from current levels.
Zhipu, Kraken and Bitnomial updates
Zhipu says ZCode will be open-sourced and audited
Zhipu, the Chinese large-model company listed as 2513.HK, said its AI coding tool ZCode will soon be formally open-sourced. The company said the move is a first response to outside concerns over ZCode’s data handling. It also said it plans to push the product further toward community participation and welcomed outside developers to download and inspect the code and join improvements.
Kraken looks to list single-stock perpetual futures through Bitnomial
A filing disclosed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission showed that Bitnomial Exchange, which has been acquired by Kraken parent Payward, submitted a proposed rule change to establish generic listing standards and trading rules for cash-settled single-stock security futures.
Bitnomial plans to launch cash-settled security futures tied to individual stocks, including perpetual security futures with no fixed expiration date. The products would trade 24 hours a day, five days a week, or 24/5, and would use a funding-rate mechanism for payments between long and short positions.
The exchange also proposed a daily funding settlement process for the products and said each contract would represent 100 shares of the underlying stock, with a standard position limit of 200,000 contracts.
Payward separately said the initial rollout is expected to include perpetual futures linked to 10 U.S.-listed stocks, including Tesla, Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon.
Major token unlocks scheduled this week
Several tokens are set for large unlocks this week, including XPL, H and STBL:
- RIVER on Sept. 21, worth about $23.89 million and equal to 37.50% of circulating supply;
- ID on Sept. 21, worth about $2.45 million and equal to 4.56% of circulating supply;
- MBG on Sept. 22, worth about $2.43 million and equal to 5.04% of circulating supply;
- SOON on Sept. 23, worth about $3.82 million and equal to 3.62% of circulating supply;
- AERO on Sept. 23, worth about $2.65 million and equal to 0.30% of circulating supply;
- SOSO on Sept. 24, worth about $6.8 million and equal to 5.97% of circulating supply;
- BIGTIME on Sept. 24, worth about $2.68 million and equal to 13.34% of circulating supply;
- H on Sept. 25, worth about $19.38 million and equal to 7.34% of circulating supply;
- XPL on Sept. 25, worth about $157 million and equal to 63.20% of circulating supply;
- STBL on Sept. 26, worth about $7.4 million and equal to 77.79% of circulating supply.
Today’s market prices.
