The Bank of England kept the interest rate unchanged at 3.75% and abandoned the plan to sell long-term treasury bond bonds

The Zcash community has decided to retain the Bitcoin style halving mechanism with a support rate of 98.9%. A total of 2.4 million ZECs were used in the vote, accounting for 66% of eligible tokens. The community has also chosen to shorten the block time to 25 seconds, immediately abandon Sprout funding pool, and limit the NU7 upgrade scope to features that can be completed before September 30th. ZEC once reached $1388, a daily increase of 10.9%, with a market value of $22.9 billion, rising to the ninth place in the market value of cryptocurrency assets. Zcash's Ironwood upgrade was launched in July, adding anti quantum trading records; The token has risen by over 2500% in the past year. (Source: Decrypt)

S&P Global announces agreement to acquire blockchain security company OpenZeppelin. OpenZeppelin was founded in 2015 and provides security auditing, continuous monitoring, and institutional level on chain security services. It has accumulated over $30 trillion in contract value transfers and serves clients such as Circle, Uniswap, Aave, DTCC, Fidelity Digital Assets, WisdomTree, and more.

[Tom Lee: Most Investors Perform Poorly in Growth Investing] Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee stated that most investors perform poorly in growth investing, with the mistake being an excessive focus on the current state of projects rather than the long-term growth potential brought by new technologies. Tom Lee believes that growth investing requires establishing clear baseline scenarios and understanding the potential total market size. Investors often underestimate a project's potential by assuming future opportunities are limited to the current market and tend to focus more on the risks of new technologies rather than the opportunities.

[S&P Global Announces Acquisition of Blockchain Security Company OpenZeppelin] S&P Global has signed an agreement to acquire OpenZeppelin. OpenZeppelin's open-source smart contract library supports the transfer of over $37 trillion in value, has completed more than 900 security audits, and identified over 10,000 vulnerabilities. This acquisition aims to enhance S&P Global's on-chain technology risk assessment capabilities. OpenZeppelin will operate as an independent business unit, with CEO Demian Brener remaining in his role and reporting to S&P Global Ratings President Yann Le Pallec. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. (Source: PR Newswire)

On September 16th from 02:00 to 08:00 (UTC+8), during the CLARITY bill voting period, the social discussion volume of Bitcoin reached 890. On September 17th, during the same period, when the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points to 3.75-4.00%, the social discussion volume was 691. During the voting period, the price of Bitcoin fell by about 1.7%, with an emotional value of+26.9; During the interest rate hike, the price of Bitcoin rose by about 0.7%, with an emotional value of+52.4. （Santiment）