Near intent fixes vulnerabilities and plans to fully compensate users

The Sweat Foundation announced that due to the current model failing to achieve sustainable profitability, Sweat Wallet and SWEAT will terminate their current operating forms on December 30th, and subsequent arrangements will be announced in the first week of December. When closing the claim and Grow Jar contracts, any unclaimed SWEAT and savings balance will be sent to the corresponding NEAR account. The SWEAT token will still exist on the NEAR and bridged EVM chains, and the Sweatcoin application operated by an independent company will operate normally.

Lloyds Bank and Visa have completed a USDC cross-border payment settlement pilot, completing a transfer of $750000 in less than an hour, while the traditional process takes over a day.

BitMart has released a preliminary tentative plan to address the $319.5 million shortfall caused by the December 2021 hacking attack and recent liquidity pressures. After evaluating the $10 million liquidity plan, the management believes it is insufficient to cover the shortfall and plans to implement a court approved plan to convert user balances into weighted average prices from July 26, 2026 to the designated record point. Users can choose to allocate, exchange recovery tokens, or exchange continuation tokens on the front-end. The BitMart team will solicit opinions from the top 50 users in the next three to four weeks.

The final value of the US S&P Global Manufacturing PMI for September was 55.9, compared to the previous value of 57.

On September 29th, the Dutch Senate withdrew a bill imposing a 36% tax on unsold Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, which had been passed by the House of Representatives in February 2026. The purpose of the withdrawal was to prevent investor outflows, but the profits from self managed Bitcoin still need to pay a 36% tax. （Bitcoin Archive）