Hermes Testing Solutions (7856) began trading on Taiwan’s OTC market on Sept. 22 after pricing its IPO at NT$2,250 per share, a level ABMedia said set a new record for the highest underwriting price in a Taiwan first-time listing. The stock opened at NT$4,400, drawing attention to its debut performance, share distribution and the read-through for other semiconductor testing names. Before listing, Hermes had traded as high as NT$5,445 on the emerging market. Its public subscription also drew massive demand, with frozen capital reaching NT$865.6 billion and the winning rate falling to about 0.29%, according to the report. Institutional bidding was also strong: qualified bids totaled 18,232 lots, locking in more than NT$41 billion, while the weighted average winning bid came in at NT$4,272.70. ABMedia linked the company’s premium valuation to demand tied to advanced packaging, CoWoS and co-packaged optics, or CPO. The report also cited analyst Tsai Ming-han, who compared Hermes with WinWay, MPI and CHPT, saying the listing had intensified valuation comparisons across Taiwan’s AI testing and semiconductor interface segment. Tsai added that investors should avoid chasing breakouts and instead wait for pullbacks while watching revenue momentum and 2027 earnings visibility.

TuringBitChain, or TBC, is making a case for a different path to Bitcoin-style programmability: keep the SHA256 proof-of-work and UTXO model, but extend what transactions and scripts can verify so state can move forward inside contract UTXOs rather than inside a global account tree. The idea is not to bolt an Ethereum Virtual Machine onto Bitcoin, and not to move execution to a sidechain or rollup. Instead, TBC uses components described as TuringTXID, TuringContract and BVM to let scripts inspect parent-child transaction relationships, validate selected historical fields, and constrain how successor outputs must be formed. The analysis argues that the real test is not the architecture diagram but whether outside developers can inspect code, reproduce benchmarks and verify audit trails. TBC has already published TBCNODE and a JavaScript smart contract SDK called tbc-contract, with support for on-chain data queries, UTXO retrieval, transaction building, signing and broadcasting, plus workflows for MultiSig, NFT, FT and Pool use cases. At the same time, the article notes that documentation consistency, local debugging, indexing services, testing frameworks and third-party tutorials still need work. It also cites two August 2026 audits of TBCNODE by CertiK and SlowMist, both of which disclosed findings and remediation status, while stressing that audits are snapshots rather than permanent guarantees of security or performance.

Feixiaohao is moving ahead with the Feixiaohao × GWDC 2026 Innovation Forum together with TuringBitChain, which will join the event as a co-organizer. The forum is scheduled for Sept. 29, 2026, at AT CENTER in Seoul, South Korea, and will focus on stock tokenization, Web3 and AI. TuringBitChain, or TBC, is described as an independent Layer 1 public blockchain built on Bitcoin’s UTXO model, using SHA256 PoW consensus and supporting Turing-complete smart contracts on a UTXO architecture through BVM and TuringContract. During the event, Marcus Cheng, APAC marketing director at TBC, is also set to speak. Organizers said the GWDC Korea stop is expected to draw 5,000 attendees, with representatives from government, business, technology and Web3 expected on site, including South Korea’s deputy prime minister and finance minister, Justin Sun, Microsoft, Bithumb and Animoca Brands. TBC said its participation will bring topics including UTXO Layer 1, asset tokenization, AI agents and high-frequency micropayments into a denser international exchange setting.

A South Korean woman in her 30s, who worked as an extra on drama sets, sent 35 million won over about eight months after believing she was in a relationship with actor Lee Dong-wook. The scammer claimed to be the actor, moved the conversation from social media to KakaoTalk, sent selfies, praised her appearance, and even talked about a formal family meeting. The money requests began after the impersonator said a package containing gifts worth 700 million won had been held at customs and needed repeated payments for clearance documents. SBS current affairs program News Hunters featured the case, and a lawyer on the show described it as a textbook romance scam: someone approaches a target through social media while posing as a romantic partner, then asks for money. The victim, according to the program, still believed the person was Lee Dong-wook. Lee Dong-wook’s agency, King Kong by Starship, later said on Instagram that its artists do not ask for money, valuables, or personal information through private messaging apps or social accounts, and do not privately contact fans to request payments for VIP fan events. The report also cited National Police Agency data showing 2,192 romance scam cases in 2025 with losses of 136 billion won, up from 1,265 cases and 67.5 billion won in 2024.

Taiwan’s central bank is working with the Financial Information Service Co. and 12 financial institutions on a tokenized gold passbook application that is scheduled to go on-chain before year-end, according to ABMedia. The project is part of a broader tokenized finance trial that began in 2024 and also involves the Taiwan Depository and Clearing Corporation in planning core infrastructure. Under the current setup, gold passbook customers cannot withdraw across banks and must return to the institution where the account was opened. Applying for physical gold takes about two weeks. In the proposed model, customers would use a Non-Fungible Token, or NFT, as a withdrawal certificate and go directly to a designated branch of a participating institution to collect physical gold. The reported target is to cut processing time from 14 days to 3 days. The central bank is also testing a Financial Blockchain Consortium that links with a Real World Assets Tokenization Platform. The goal is to place asset tokens, deposit tokens and interbank settlement tokens on the same platform. The 12 participating banks include Bank of Taiwan, Land Bank of Taiwan, Taiwan Cooperative Bank, Hua Nan Bank, Chang Hwa Bank, Mega International Commercial Bank, The Shanghai Commercial & Savings Bank, Taiwan Business Bank, SinoPac Bank, E.SUN Bank, CTBC Bank and NEXT Bank. Bank of Taiwan is set to lead the initial pilot.

Hanmi Testing System (7856), set to list on Taiwan’s OTC market in late September, drew more than 140,000 subscription applications on the first day of its public offering, freezing TWD 322.3 billion in capital and setting a new record for Taiwan equities. The public underwriting price was fixed at TWD 2,250, compared with an Emerging Stock Board price of about TWD 5,200, leaving a paper spread of nearly TWD 3 million per board lot. Before the retail subscription opened, the company had completed an institutional book-building style auction. The exchange’s disclosed results showed a highest winning bid of TWD 4,568.10, a weighted average winning price of TWD 4,272.70, and a lowest winning price of TWD 4,138.00. The report said CTBC Bank won 23 lots at TWD 4,174.13 per share, for a total transaction amount of TWD 96 million, based on a fairness opinion from Bosong CPAs and its own internal valuation model. The article also highlighted the regulatory rule that keeps the retail subscription price capped at 1.15 times the auction floor price, which in this case locked the public offer price at TWD 2,250. It also noted risks tied to liquidity in the Emerging Stock market, the opportunity cost of freezing TWD 2.25 million per subscription, and potential selling pressure when the stock starts trading.

MaiCoin Group parent Modern Wealth Holdings, listed under ticker 7903, has disclosed a broad set of risk and ownership details in its draft prospectus for a planned Taiwan Innovation Board listing. The filing says operating entity Modern Wealth Technology was fined NT$1.5 million by Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission on Nov. 25, 2024, over anti-money laundering control failures, including customer due diligence gaps, ineffective transaction monitoring, and reporting issues. The document also says AMIS operator Account Link Network Technology, a second-tier subsidiary founded in 2016, had accumulated losses exceeding paid-in capital and liabilities greater than assets as of June 30, 2025. Its board did not petition for bankruptcy under Article 211 of Taiwan’s Company Act, leading to a NT$20,000 fine. On ownership, Hi-Life International holds 6.26% and Far EasTone Telecommunications holds 4.73%, for a combined stake of about 11% as of Aug. 10, 2026. The top 10 shareholders together owned 69.98% of the company. The prospectus also outlines employee stock options totaling 5,112,428 units, with some tranches priced as low as $0.001 per share, and estimates MAX’s market share at about 68% based on trading volume compared with BitoPro.

MediaTek reported August 2026 consolidated revenue of NT$64.183 billion, up 32.41% from July and 44.08% from a year earlier, setting a new monthly record, according to ABMedia. Revenue for the first eight months of the year reached NT$413.991 billion, a 5.76% annual increase. The company is scheduled to unveil its Dimensity 9600 series at 14:30 on Sept. 15, with the Dimensity 9600 Pro described by the report as the first Android flagship platform built on TSMC’s second-generation 2 nm N2P process. The standard Dimensity 9600 will use an enhanced 3 nm process. ABMedia also said NVIDIA invested $3.5 billion as a strategic investor to subscribe to MediaTek’s overseas exchangeable corporate bonds, extending cooperation from smart automotive cockpit and AI PC projects to custom cloud ASIC development. The report added that Citi has set a target price of NT$6,800 for MediaTek shares. As of the Sept. 10 close, the stock stood at NT$4,720, up 21% over the past month, while analysts cited in the report said the company is close to clearing the low end of its third-quarter guidance.