Venus Protocol said it will end support for opBNB, Optimism and Unichain on Oct. 23, 2026, asking users with active positions on those networks to close positions and withdraw funds before the deadline. Elsewhere, Apple and Google have posted job openings tied to stablecoins and digital-asset infrastructure, according to Bloomingbit, though the listings do not show that either company plans to launch its own stablecoin product. In the market, BTC rose above $84,000 with a 24-hour gain of 4.59%, while monitoring accounts tracked a Garrett Jin-linked whale closing a 1,333 BTC long for an $8.38 million profit. Onchain Lens also reported that wallet Smartestmoney.hl still holds a 1.38 million HYPE long with unrealized profit swelling to $78.94 million. Morgan Stanley strategist Michael Wilson’s team warned that U.S. equities could face as much as a 7% short-term drop if financial conditions tighten further or energy prices jump, even as the bank still expects stronger earnings to support a rebound later in the year. The roundup also covered Zhipu’s plan to open-source ZCode, Bitnomial’s filing for single-stock perpetual futures, and this week’s major token unlocks.

Google Research’s release of a synapse-resolution wiring map for the complete central nervous system of an adult male fruit fly has quickly spilled into crypto-native experimentation. According to Foresight News, several Web3 projects have started building around the fruit fly connectome concept, but they are taking very different paths. The most visible market reaction came from FLYBRAIN on Robinhood Chain. GMGN data showed the token briefly reached a market capitalization of $55.94 million after launch, with an intraday peak gain of 1,500%. The project, launched by the account Fruit fly dev, says it simulates a fruit fly brain on GPUs using real connectome data and maps market behavior into sensory inputs, with buys treated as sugar, sells as bitterness, and large trades as dopamine or shadow. Other projects are interpreting the same idea in broader ways. MurMur on Arc Chain presents itself as an onchain autonomous economy made up of more than 40 digital fruit flies built with spiking neural networks, while “Jingxi” on BNB Chain is framed as an AI character experiment rather than a trading system. The discussion was amplified further after Binance founder Changpeng Zhao posted on X on Sept. 15 that it would be cool to see someone build “immortal fruit flies” on BNB Chain.

Web3 payments app Zappin has gone live on Robinhood Chain, according to Techub News, which cited Crypto Briefing. The launch includes an incentive program offering users up to 90% cashback in Ethereum. Zappin said the product is designed to speed up adoption and innovation around Layer-2 solutions by making the payment process simpler and adding direct user incentives. The update centers on two points: deployment on Robinhood Chain and a cashback offer tied to ETH. No additional rollout details, eligibility terms, or timing beyond the launch were disclosed in the source material.

Coinbase Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong said on X that the Coinbase Developer Platform, or CDP, is showing very strong growth momentum. In his post, Armstrong said every business should be able to connect to what he described as a new financial system through a single platform. He listed stablecoin payments, trading, custody, financing, intelligent financial agents, and even the ability to issue a company’s own stablecoin as functions that can be brought together in one place. CDP is positioned as a developer-focused platform designed to simplify the process of building Web3 applications. The remarks were attributed to Armstrong’s X account, @brian_armstrong.

Strategy and Strive disclosed fresh bitcoin purchases totaling 2,305 BTC, or $182.7 million, as BTC climbed above $86,000 on Monday. Strategy said in a filing that it bought 950 BTC for $75.7 million last week, its first purchase since August, while Strive acquired 1,355 BTC for $107.7 million. The buying came with bitcoin trading at $86,008, up 6% over 24 hours after touching an intraday high of $86,282. The report also said Strategy repurchased $174 million of its STRC perpetual preferred shares after spending part of the year pausing bitcoin accumulation to buy back stock and build cash reserves. Following a 10-week break, the company resumed purchases in the final week of August and now holds 846,000 BTC worth about $72.7 billion at current prices. Strive, which has kept buying every week, has climbed to fifth place among corporate bitcoin holders with 26,355 BTC valued at roughly $2.2 billion. Bitcoin Magazine said the rally came even after the Clarity Act was blocked last week and the Federal Reserve raised interest rates. The article was written by Mathew Di Salvo.

Sony’s court argument that players do not truly own the digital games they buy has reopened a broader debate over what ownership means online. In a report by Decrypt, executives, researchers, and blockchain builders said the issue reaches far beyond gaming, touching ebooks, film, television, and music streaming, where purchases often amount to revocable licenses rather than durable property rights. They argued that centralized platforms retain the power to delete, edit, or restrict access to digital goods after the fact. Several of the people interviewed said blockchain and Web3 still offer a technical route toward clearer digital ownership, but only if both the ownership record and the underlying content are handled in a decentralized way. They also pointed to major shortcomings in earlier NFT models, including reliance on company-hosted files, public metadata that exposes content to anyone, and weak integration with wallets and marketplaces. While the technology for private or encrypted NFTs already exists, they said mainstream adoption still faces a credibility problem after the speculative NFT boom damaged public trust.

Gate founder and CEO Dr. Han said the company is preparing a new product aimed at becoming a platform "everyone needs every day," expanding beyond digital assets and stock trading into more financial use cases such as foreign exchange and gold. He made the remarks in a video address during the Gate Voyage event in Bali, where he spoke to guests and partners about the company’s recent progress and its next phase. Looking back on Gate’s 13-year history, Han said the company’s ability to move through multiple market cycles came down to responsibility and resilience. He described this year as a difficult one for operating in the industry, while adding that crypto still offers opportunities and that the key is to stay in the game and keep executing on long-term strategy. Han also thanked creators at the event, saying their role has grown as the industry develops because they help connect the sector with the broader public and turn complex information into content that is easier to understand. He said Gate’s business now spans digital assets, stocks, wealth management, payments, wallets, and Web3, with those pieces expected to come together in a more complete product form. More details are expected during TOKEN2049.

Google and Apple have posted job openings that point to growing internal interest in digital assets, even though neither listing confirms a new cryptocurrency product. Google Cloud is hiring an Industry Principal Architect in Hong Kong to work with protocol foundations, exchanges, custodians and financial institutions across Asia-Pacific on real-world asset tokenization and blockchain infrastructure. The role calls for experience in blockchain networks, smart contracts, stablecoin infrastructure, tokenized deposits and custody technologies, and would also help shape Google’s Web3 product roadmap. Apple, for its part, is seeking an Apple Pay Financial Product Strategy Lead based in Cupertino, California, or New York. The position covers strategy for Apple Card, Apple Cash, peer-to-peer payments and other consumer financial products, with a focus on evaluating new products, partnerships and commercial models across wallets, payments and commerce. While the posting is less explicit about crypto infrastructure than Google’s, it still places digital-asset-adjacent expertise closer to Apple’s payments business. The hiring notices add to a broader pattern. CME Group said in March 2025 that it was expanding its partnership with Google Cloud to explore asset tokenization and blockchain payments, while Samsung has outlined plans to add stablecoin features to Galaxy smartphones through Samsung Wallet. Together, those moves suggest stablecoins and tokenized deposits are becoming relevant inside major technology and payments ecosystems, not only among crypto-native firms.