Spot XRP ETFs pulled in fresh investor demand this week, posting $18.98M of net inflows—virtually unchanged from last week's $18.96M. Month to date, the products have added $32.29M in net inflows in September 2026.

ChainThink reported on Sept. 13 that onchain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa) tracked addresses linked to prominent trader @XXAntiWar. The wallets have already closed three ZEC short positions, booking roughly $727,000 in total profit and maintaining a 100% win rate on settled trades. One additional 3x leveraged ZEC short remains open with a notional size of $4.5 million. The position was entered at $1,120.8 and is currently showing a floating unrealized loss of about $23,000. Breakdown by address: 0xfe55d850 opened two ZEC shorts around $1,273 and $1,181, generating about $693,000 in profit. 0x0c45d516 shorted $3.56 million of ZEC at $1,129, earning about $34,000. Address 0x9bb9bbf2 opened the $4.5 million 3x short at 5:00 a.m. today.

PANews, Sept. 13 — Circle data show that in the seven days through Sept. 10, the company issued about $6.7 billion of USDC and redeemed roughly $6.9 billion, cutting net circulation by around $200 million. USDC's total circulating supply stands at $74.1 billion, backed by approximately $74.2 billion in reserves. The reserves include $48.5 billion in overnight reverse repurchase agreements on U.S. Treasuries, $17.1 billion in U.S. Treasuries maturing in under three months, $7.9 billion in deposits at systemically important institutions, and $700 million in other bank deposits.

Revolut said an unauthorized party obtained sensitive customer information after submitting fraudulent data access requests from an email address using a legitimate government agency's domain. The company described the incident as a "sophisticated external impersonation scam" and said it has blocked the compromised email address. Revolut added that its systems and customer funds were not impacted. Potentially exposed data for a small number of customers may include names, dates of birth, postal addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, copies of identification documents such as passports and driver's licenses, identity-verification selfies, account statements, IBANs, withdrawal records, and full transaction histories—including Bitcoin transaction records. Mark Karpelès, the former CEO of Mt. Gox, said he was among those affected. Revolut has not disclosed how many customers were impacted, whether the incident was confined to a single market, or which government agency's domain was spoofed. The company said it has notified the relevant government agencies, law enforcement, data protection authorities, and financial regulators. Onchain investigator ZachXBT said the overall scale may be limited, though the targets may have included high-net-worth users. (Source: Huoxing Finance; Sept. 13)

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has urged the AI industry to slow the breakneck pace of progress in frontier model capabilities, outlining three areas he says would make continued development safer, according to a blog post cited by CoinDesk. Amodei argues that rapid capability gains have reignited the AI safety debate and intensified calls across the sector for stronger risk controls. Anthropic, he said, is moving ahead with a plan to strengthen compliance checks around existing safety commitments. The first proposal is to place independent "onsite evaluators" inside AI companies. Amodei says third-party organizations—akin to METR—could embed staff to verify whether firms are following their stated safety pledges and whether safety incidents are being reported quickly. These evaluators would receive company badges, desks and computers, and would have access broadly similar to internal risk teams, subject to limits driven by legal or contractual constraints. Anthropic plans to adopt the approach unilaterally while pushing governments to require other top AI developers to do the same. His second recommendation focuses on coordination among leading AI companies in "democratic nations" to align on shared safety and security standards and to curb uncontrolled capability leaps. Amodei says the U.S. government is best positioned to convene such talks, or at least provide narrowly tailored antitrust exemptions, given the risk that direct conversations about synchronized R&D slowdowns could trigger regulatory scrutiny. He argues government does not need to manage the process day-to-day, but should create safe channels for communication on specific safety issues. Addressing the frequent objection that a slowdown would allow China to catch up, Amodei contends the U.S. could extend its lead over the next three to five years if Washington and industry continue restricting the flow of high-performance chips and advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment to China, and if they also target practices such as model distillation. On that basis, he proposes a third track: limited global coordination. He suggests the U.S. and its allies engage authoritarian governments—including China—not to seek broad alignment, but to lock in agreement on a small number of highest-risk use cases first, such as restricting AI applications related to biological weapons development. Amodei's post lands amid heightened attention on Anthropic's own internal safety debates, after public criticism from some researchers about AI risks. While he did not address individual departures, he pointed to two developments that have pushed him toward greater caution: security incidents tied to OpenAI and Hugging Face, and what he described as a marked acceleration in AI's ability to build next-generation AI in recent months. The approach is likely to draw criticism from both directions. Pro-acceleration advocates say the focus on long-term catastrophic scenarios is overstated and can breed complacency. Others argue that safety messaging can be used by incumbents to entrench market power while downplaying harms AI is already causing. Amodei maintains that AI can materially improve quality of life, but only if development proceeds more carefully and the additional time is genuinely used to build stronger safety systems.

StonkFun, a Solana ecosystem launchpad, recorded $1.84 million in revenue over the past 24 hours, according to DeFiLlama data cited by Odaily Planet Daily. The figure places StonkFun third among protocols tracked by DeFiLlama, behind Tether at $16.58 million and Circle at $6.77 million.

On-chain data from @OnchainLens indicates a single large holder has accumulated about $41.6 million worth of @zcash in less than a week. The wallet has been withdrawing $ZEC from multiple centralized exchanges, including @Binance, @okx, @Gate and @krakenfx, signaling an aggressive accumulation drive.

Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is moving to tighten oversight of stablecoin flows, proposing a daily transfer cap of 5 million baht (about $151,000) per customer at each licensed digital asset operator. The SEC approved the consultation principles on Sept. 3. Under the draft framework, stablecoin transfers into and out of an operator must be conducted only between wallets or accounts verified as belonging to the customer. Third-party transfers would be banned. Transfer limits would be tailored to each customer's verified income and financial profile. Transfers between Thailand-supervised operators that comply with the Travel Rule would be exempt from the cap. Certain business transfers carried out by operators and entities authorized by the Bank of Thailand would also be exempt. The consultation is open through Sept. 25, 2026, and the rules are not yet final. The proposal follows concerns raised by the Bank of Thailand in July 2026 over abnormal trading volumes involving Tether's USDT, with the central bank warning that stablecoins could be used to bypass standard banking disclosure requirements. The SEC's approach also aligns with Thailand's upcoming Travel Rule regime for digital assets, which is scheduled to take effect on Feb. 27, 2027, and would require operators to share originator and beneficiary information for transactions. If adopted, the third-party transfer ban would significantly narrow common practices such as exchange-routed peer-to-peer payments and multi-entity treasury arrangements. The income-verification component would add a further layer of KYC, requiring users not only to prove identity but also to substantiate the financial basis for the transfer activity they conduct.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Fortune that the company does not plan to go public in 2026, saying AI safety concerns make an IPO premature. Separately, shares tied to a prospective SpaceX IPO pulled back sharply after a surge that pushed the implied valuation to $1.8 trillion.