Abraxas Capital’s associated addresses continue to reduce ETH leverage, with long exposure standing at approximately $350 million.

According to Bitget market data, spot gold has crossed the $4,200 per ounce mark, its first time hitting this level since October 2, with an intraday gain of over 1.6%.

Japanese yen stablecoin issuer JPYC announced today that it submitted information to the Japan Fair Trade Commission on September 14, outlining the competitive landscape of cashless payments amid the growing adoption of stablecoin payments. Since its launch in October 2025, JPYC has been accepted at over 150 stores. As it enables direct value transfers via blockchain, it does not charge merchants merchant fees, resulting in significantly lower costs than existing cashless payment methods. Some stores aim to pass these cost savings to JPYC users, offering discounts, free shipping, and other perks, but worry this would violate credit card merchant agreements that prohibit surcharges, cash discounts, and inducements to use alternative payment methods. JPYC contends that accepting specific payment methods and setting pricing fall under merchants’ operational discretion, and passing on cost reductions to customers benefits both consumers and competition. The Japan Fair Trade Commission’s 2022 report also noted that blanket bans on such practices may in certain cases violate antitrust laws, a view that applies equally to stablecoin-related promotions.

Sources familiar with the matter said SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son is seeking to raise up to $100 billion from Gulf region investors to ramp up its large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) investments. Son has held talks with several senior figures in recent weeks, including contacts from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). SoftBank may use the proceeds to set up a fund to acquire other companies, then leverage AI to revamp their operations.

Justin Sun stated on Allen Shao’s podcast titled “How Can Young People Seize Opportunities in the AI Era?” that AI will drive explosive innovation across all industries, and the five promising tracks for young people right now are: Crypto, academic data, biopharmaceuticals, financial insurance, and AI infrastructure services. In the field of academic data derivation, Justin Sun believes disciplines like astronomy and biology—those relying on massive experimental or observational data—offer significant opportunities. Currently, there is abundant data but a lack of processing methods, making them suitable for AI handling. For biopharmaceuticals and genetic health management, he is highly optimistic about biopharmaceuticals and genetic sequencing analysis. Drug R&D yields high returns, and genetic data now has full sequencing capabilities, which can be combined with AI to predict future health management needs. Regarding algorithmic restructuring in the financial insurance industry, financial sectors closely tied to human life and health like insurance have outdated existing algorithms, waiting for disruptive innovation based on new logic and methods. For Crypto payments and low-precision computing, Justin Sun argues that Crypto, as a global payment system, is naturally suited for AI API calls, supports low-precision calculations smaller than traditional currency units, and enables instant settlement—closely linked to the AI sector. Justin Sun also values AI infrastructure services and data labeling, noting opportunities in LLM data cleaning and labeling. The fact that Scale AI’s founder sold the data labeling company to Facebook for a multi-billion-dollar price tag demonstrates the commercial value of this field. Justin Sun also mentioned that ages 20 to 40 are the most creative prime years, with abundant opportunities in the AI era, and young people should seize them.

Per TradingBeats’ monitoring, the previously tracked smart money address 0xc8b5 liquidated long positions in NVIDIA, SanDisk, and SK Hynix overnight, with total closing trades amounting to approximately $63.7119 million. The address currently holds no open positions, though no withdrawals have been made as of yet. This sell-off occurred amid a pullback in AI hardware-related contracts. Over the same period, 24-hour declines in contracts for NVIDIA, SanDisk, SK Hynix (SKHX), and Micron stood at roughly 1.86%, 3.70%, 3.84%, and 3.16% respectively. On the news front, elevated oil prices and U.S. Treasury yields, along with concerns over financing costs for AI infrastructure, continue to weigh on sentiment in the tech and semiconductor sectors. The liquidation included approximately $31.8144 million in NVIDIA long positions, $19.7988 million in SanDisk long positions, and $12.0987 million in SK Hynix long positions, with all three positions fully exited. The trio of positions had previously posted an unrealized profit of around $2.065 million; today’s final closing trades generated a realized profit of roughly $123,300, with a drawdown of about $1.9417 million, accounting for approximately 94% of the prior unrealized profit.

Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman told attendees at the TOKEN2049 Singapore conference that tokenizing Treasuries, stocks, money market funds, and capital flows could enhance collateral liquidity and unlock billions in trapped capital within the global financial system. She noted that institutional interest in tokenization has grown significantly over the past year, in part due to the U.S. GENIUS Act, which established a regulatory framework for stablecoins. If currencies can be tokenized, capital flows can be tokenized as well. Friedman added that institutional interest is converging with retail demand, which has long sought around-the-clock trading capabilities; the retail ecosystem is roughly a decade ahead in this space. She acknowledged that transitioning to a fully 24/7 market is a massive undertaking for the financial industry, with exchange infrastructure being the simplest part of the shift. Traditional financial institutions have historically used closed trading periods for system updates and risk management, but round-the-clock operations require continuous risk and collateral management, with everything needing to be real-time at all times. Friedman also emphasized that AI is critical for 24/7 trading, revealing Nasdaq has launched digital agents on its risk management platform that initially provide recommendations, with banks able to use them to take more direct actions in the future. Kraken co-CEO Arjun Sethi added that non-U.S. firms have strong interest in tokenization and accessing U.S. capital markets, including a roughly $25 million-revenue company and larger international entities. But Friedman cautioned, “Not all assets are sufficiently liquid to support a 24/7 environment.”