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2026-09-13 · 8 high-impact headlines

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  1. DashTape Morning News1. Sam Altman: OpenAI will not IPO this year, delayed until at least 2027; 2. Pump.fun introduces holder reward mechanism and cancels Cashback model; 3. Hunter Biden: 79 million LAPTOP airdrop tokens unclaimed, will be burned after October 9; 4. With $10 million in unrealized gains, Point Farm Capital achieves 10x return through STONK; 5. US SEC reviews Grayscale Litecoin Trust's application to rename as ETF and list on NYSE Arca; 6. AI safety concerns escalate as three major AI giants successively call for slowing frontier model development; 7. With cumulative historical losses of $28.64 million, Loracle sells $8.68 million worth of HYPE; 8. Crypto brokerage platform Cascade announces shutdown.
  2. Bonk Guy Responds to Buying EMBER: Started Building Position at Around $7M Market Cap, Bullish on Its Launchpad Data GrowthDashTape reports Crypto trader Bonk Guy posted on X platform responding to recent controversy surrounding his purchase of EMBER and explaining his position-building logic. Bonk Guy stated that he first noticed the project when EMBER's market cap was around $3 million but did not buy in. After observing for a day, he revisited his research due to the platform's rapid data growth and bought in from around a $7 million market cap all the way up to a $20 million market cap. Bonk Guy said that EMBER is a major Launchpad built on Meteora, supporting SOL, USDC, and over 150 tokenized stocks as pairing assets for token issuance. It utilizes Meteora Dynamic Bonding Curve technology and offers features such as token fee distribution, Daily Jackpots, and DAO governance. According to his disclosure, Ember has recorded approximately $51.7 million in trading volume, $561,000 in fees, and has cumulatively issued 2,041 tokens within 3 days of launch, with over 41,800 unique holder addresses and 149,000 Solana transactions. BonkGuy compared his Ember purchase to his previous PONS trade, noting that he first saw PONS when its market cap was below $1 million, similarly ignored it for a full day, and then started buying at around a $4 million market cap. Rather than whether a trending token has already emerged, what matters more is observing the real usage data underlying the Launchpad. Additionally, Bonk Guy stated that both Robinhood Chain and BNB Chain have multiple successful Launchpads, while Solana's Meme trading ecosystem has been developing for a longer time, so there is no reason to believe that Solana can ultimately only accommodate one successful Launchpad. He also stated that his trades are not based on market consensus. Some of his most successful trades in the past often came from discovering opportunities before the market formed a consensus; by the time everyone agrees, the asymmetric upside potential has usually already been significantly reduced. Regarding the recent controversy, Bonk Guy said that the claim of "EMBER having over 50% Bubblemaps address clusters" has been clarified by Bubblemaps; his earlier statement that Ember was "launched by Meteora" was also inaccurate—a more precise description is that Ember is built on Meteora-related infrastructure and has now been listed on Meteora's ecosystem page. Bonk Guy emphasized that he has no relationship with the Ember team, and EMBER is a personal trade for him.
  3. Spent $4.4 million, a whale bought 15.06 million STONKAccording to Lookonchain monitoring, the transaction occurred yesterday, with an average execution price of $0.295.
  4. Hunter Biden: 79 Million LAPTOP Airdrop Tokens Unclaimed, Will Be Burned After October 9DashTape reports that Hunter Biden posted that the LAPTOP first-round airdrop allocated 8% of the total token supply to newsletter subscribers, rather than to wallets specifically created to farm the airdrop. Of the 80 million LAPTOP tokens airdropped, 79 million remain unclaimed. The claim window will close on October 9, after which all unclaimed tokens will be burned.
  5. Newgenivf Discloses Crypto Asset Holdings: XRP Fully Sold, Holds Approximately 13,000 SOL with Losses of About $1.28 MillionDashTape reports Nasdaq-listed company Newgenivf has disclosed that the 146,400 XRP purchased during 2025 has been fully sold, generating a profit of approximately $10,800. During the same period, the company also bought and sold small amounts of BTC and ETH, retaining only approximately 13,000 SOL, with a year-end loss of about $1.28 million.
  6. Grayscale Says U.S. Crypto Regulation Can Advance Without CLARITY ActDashTape reports Zach Pandl, Head of Research at digital asset management firm Grayscale, said in an analysis on September 10 that even if Congress fails to pass the CLARITY Act this year, U.S. crypto regulation can still advance in areas such as stablecoins, token issuance, tokenized securities, and perpetual futures. U.S. President Donald Trump signed the GENIUS Act on July 18, 2025, establishing a regulatory framework for the issuance of payment stablecoins. The law requires issuers to hold full reserves and publicly disclose the composition of reserves on a monthly basis, and prohibits misleading claims that tokens are federally insured, backed by the U.S. government, or legal tender. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has proposed Regulation Crypto Assets, which would allow qualifying projects to raise no more than $5 million over four years, or no more than $75 million in any 12-month period. The related exemptions and investment contract safe harbor remain in the proposal stage, with the public comment period closing on October 20. The near-term procedural milestone for the CLARITY Act is a cloture vote on the motion to proceed scheduled for September 15. This procedural vote requires 60 votes to pass and is not a final vote. Grayscale said the bill would still help clarify the division of regulatory authority between the SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), but its failure to pass would not halt regulatory measures already underway. (Bitcoin.com News)
  7. Unrealized Profit of $10 Million: Point Farm Capital Achieves 10x Return Through STONKAccording to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, Point Farm Capital (Beqv6d...qeit) has invested a total of $1 million USDC to purchase 37.21 million STONK tokens at an average market cap of $21 million. STONK's market cap has now reached $240 million, with an unrealized profit of $10 million, approximately 10 times the invested amount.
  8. Bitcoin Suisse, Managing Over $3 Billion, Plans to Cut Up to Half of Swiss Staff and Shift Some Operations OverseasDashTape reports Bitcoin Suisse plans to cut up to 60 positions in Switzerland, approximately half of its local workforce, and relocate some software development and back-office work overseas. The company will close its Copenhagen IT development center, retain its Bratislava operations hub, and plans to establish a new center in Vietnam. CEO and co-founder Andrej Majcen stated that operating costs for related services in Bratislava and Vietnam are significantly lower, and that this adjustment stems from the company's international growth strategy and is unrelated to the crypto market environment. Bitcoin Suisse also plans to expand from crypto trading, custody, staking, and lending into wealth and asset management services for high-net-worth individuals and institutional clients. Its Liechtenstein subsidiary obtained authorization under the EU's MiCA framework in June.