Binance Pay lets visitors spend USDT at PayPay merchants in Japan

Binance Pay will allow eligible overseas users visiting Japan to spend Tether USDt (USDT) at the vast majority of PayPay-supported merchants starting Wednesday.  The service will run through HIVEX, a payment interoperability framework that connects overseas QR payment services to PayPay-supported merchants in Japan. Merchants will continue receiving settlement in yen.  Binance told Cointelegraph it is the first crypto payment service to access PayPay-supported merchants through HIVEX. Merchants will not need to opt in separately, it said.  PayPay is a Japanese cashless payment service accepted at millions of locations nationwide, including major chains, smaller retailers, vending machines, taxis and public transportation. It lists nine other overseas payment services supported through HIVEX, mainly from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.  Japan welcomed a record 42.7 million international visitors in 2025, according to the Japan Tourism Agency. In the latest comparable global ranking, based on 2024 data, it ranked ninth worldwide and first in Asia.  The country recorded 3.1 million visitor arrivals in August, down 9.6% from a year earlier, bringing the total for the first eight months of 2026 to 27.6 million, down 2.7%, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization.

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WikiBit Exchange Exit-Risk Ranking #37 — bitFlyer: Japan’s “King of Licenses,” So Why Do Users Say “Customer Service Doesn’t Exist”?

Introduction: The Two Faces of a “Compliance Ceiling”  In the first 36 editions, we dug into a series of exchanges ranging from HashKey to GXT. For #37, were looking at one of the most “serious” names on the list: bitFlyer.  Its résumé is arguably one of the most heavyweight in the entire crypto industry: founded in 2014; Japan FSA crypto exchange license No. 00003; the world‘s first crypto exchange to hold licenses simultaneously in the United States (48 states, including New York), Japan, and the EU; an EU MiCA license obtained in June 2026; Japan’s No. 1 Bitcoin trading volume for 10 consecutive years; total customer assets exceeding ¥1.4 trillion; no user-asset losses caused by hacking since its establishment; and EY ShinNihon LLC serving as its accounting auditor.  Sounds like “the most compliant crypto exchange in the industry,” right?  But there is another side to the story: a Trustpilot rating of just 1.9/5, with users saying that “customer service simply doesnt exist”; multiple complaints alleging that accounts were frozen without explanation and funds were withheld, including one user who claimed to have lost $2,230; co-founder Yuzo Kano publicly seeking a return to the CEO position and saying he wanted to “resolve management conflicts”; and,

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Sui Crypto Price Prediction – SUI Price Estimated to Drop to $0.881056 By Oct 04, 2026

Disclaimer: This is not investment advice. The information provided is for general purposes only. No information, materials, services and other content provided on this page constitute a solicitation, recommendation, endorsement, or any financial, investment, or other advice. Seek independent professional consultation in the form of legal, financial, and fiscal advice before making any investment decision.Sui Crypto is up 3.54% today against the US DollarSUI/BTC increased by 2.96% todaySUI/ETH increased by 3.13% todaySui Crypto is currently trading 31.44% above our prediction on Oct 04, 2026Sui Crypto gained 61.64% in the last month and is down -64.64% since 1 year agoSui Crypto price$ 1.16Sui Crypto prediction$ 0.881056 (-23.22%)SentimentNeutralFear & Greed index73 (Greed)Key support levels$ 1.10, $ 1.04, $ 0.943644Key resistance levels$ 1.25, $ 1.35, $ 1.41  SUI price is expected to drop by -23.22% in the next 5 days according to our Sui Crypto price prediction  Sui Crypto price today is trading at $ 1.16 after gaining 3.54% in the last 24 hours. The coin outperformed the cryptocurrency market, as the total crypto market cap increased by 1.45% in the same time period. SUI performed well against BTC today and recorded a 2.96% gain against the worlds largest cryptocurrency.  According to our Sui Crypto price

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Wikibit Crypto Risk Monitor — September 30, 2026

September 30 is unusually broad. The highest-priority new security event is not a large treasury drain but a transaction-privacy failure at Relay that exposed pending cross-chain order information and allowed MEV searchers to trade around user orders. Relay says approximately 5,600 users were affected between September 12 and September 26, with most activity concentrated from September 23 to September 26. Searchers generated approximately $136,000 in profit; the median impact per affected user was $11.88. Relay plans to reimburse affected wallets automatically for approximately $312,000 in total and paid Outputlayer a $50,000 bug bounty for reporting the issue.  The incident matters because it sits between “smart-contract exploit” and “normal MEV.” The vulnerable surface was the API / pre-execution information path: pending transaction and routing state became visible before execution, allowing searchers to infer intended routes and front-run or sandwich users. Protecting the contract itself was insufficient if information leaked elsewhere in the execution pipeline.  Read the Detail: Relay API Sandwich-Attack Incident  Bitgets operational recovery has advanced again. After BTC withdrawals reopened September 28, Bitget confirmed ETH withdrawals reopened at 08:00 UTC on September 29 across Ethereum, BSC, Arbitrum One, Base and Optimism. Bitget reported that the first hour after ETH reopening produced approximately 9,674

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Australian Dollar slides to six-month low vs Yen after Aussie CPI

The AUD/JPY cross remains under heavy selling pressure for the second consecutive day, falling to a six-month low during the Asian session on Wednesday following the release of Australian consumer inflation figures. Bears now await a sustained break and acceptance below the 109.00 mark before positioning for any further losses.  The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that the headline Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.4% in August, down from 1% recorded in the previous month. Meanwhile, the yearly rate accelerated from 3.5% in July to 4%, and the Trimmed Mean CPI held steady at 3.6% YoY during the reported month. Meanwhile, the data does little to revive bets for another interest rate hike by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) against the backdrop of a mild-dovish tilt by Governor Bullock at the post-meeting press conference on Tuesday. This, in turn, undermines the Australian Dollar (AUD) and continues to exert downward pressure on the AUD/JPY cross.  Meanwhile, Aussie bulls shrugged off China‘s official PMIs, which showed that business activity in both manufacturing and services sectors recorded growth in September. The Japanese Yen (JPY), on the other hand, draws support from looming intervention fears and hawkish Bank of Japan (BoJ) bets. Japan’s top

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U.S. House Expands Insider-Trading Probe to Hyperliquid, Crypto.com and PredictIt

U.S. House scrutiny of online trading and prediction-market platforms expanded on September 29 to include:Hyperliquid Labs;Crypto.com;Aristotle Exchange, operator/owner of PredictIt.  House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer requested information about how the platforms:verify customer identities;detect suspicious trades;investigate anomalous activity;report possible misconduct to regulators or law enforcement.  The inquiry extends an investigation that began earlier in 2026 with Polymarket and Kalshi.This is an inquiry, not an enforcement finding  The House letters seek documents and explanations.  They do not establish that:Hyperliquid facilitated insider trading;Crypto.com violated KYC law;PredictIt allowed illegal government-insider betting;any named trader possessed nonpublic information.  WikiBit classifies the event as:  Congressional Oversight / Developing  rather than an adjudicated enforcement action.Why Hyperliquid is a notable inclusion  Hyperliquid is not simply a conventional prediction market.  It is a crypto derivatives venue known for perpetual futures.  Its inclusion shows that congressional concern about nonpublic information can extend beyond event contracts into leveraged crypto trading when a position appears tied to a government decision.The large Hyperliquid short  Reporting on the House letter says it references a leveraged Hyperliquid short position valued at approximately:  $1.1 billion  that was opened shortly before a U.S. tariff-policy announcement in October 2025.  Reports say the trade generated around:  $150 million  in profit.  These are cited investigative facts/allegations about the timing and size of a trade.  They do not prove:who

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Trump Leaves AI Safety to Tech Giants: Inside the New AI Accord

President Donald Trump and six tech leaders signed a voluntary AI accord on Tuesday, asking companies to police their own AI systems as Trump rejects calls for federal guardrails.  Trump posted the one-page document on Truth Social. Data center opposition is growing, and AI agents, software that acts on a users behalf, have gone rogue in several high-profile incidents.  Sponsored  Sponsored  What the AI accord asks tech companies to do  The accord stacks four layers of oversight, Reuters reported. Companies would first build internal controls to watch how models behave from training through release, with hacking, biological, and chemical risks singled out. An internal team would verify that those controls function properly.  Beyond that, each company would partner with an outside auditor for independent testing. An independent board committee would review findings from both auditors and the control teams.  AP reported that Trump signed alongside Anthropic‘s Dario Amodei, Google’s Sundar Pichai, Meta‘s Mark Zuckerberg, OpenAI President Greg Brockman, Nvidia’s Jensen Huang, and xAI founder Elon Musk.  All the signatories to the AI accord. Image Source: Truth Social  “The participating companies will meet regularly to establish standards and best practices to improve the safety of their systems.”  White House accord, via Reuters  Sponsored  Sponsored  Why the AI accord may carry limited weight  However, the pledge

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ICON ICX to SODA Migration: Bitrue and OKX TR Delistings Tighten Access as Network Shutdown Approaches

ICON is now in the final quarter of its planned Layer-1 retirement, and September 30 concentrates several exchange-access risks for remaining ICX holders.  The most important current facts are:two-way ICX↔SODA migration already ended September 25, five days earlier than a prior schedule;only ICX → SODA migration remains;Bitrue ends ICX spot trading at 06:00 UTC on September 30;OKX TR removes ICX/USDC and ICX/EUR between 08:00 and 10:00 UTC;final ICX→SODA migration deadline is December 31, 2026;ICON Network is scheduled to permanently halt on December 31, 2026.Important timeline correction: two-way migration ended September 25  ICON Foundation had previously said two-way migration would remain available until September 30.  On September 24, the Foundation moved that cutoff forward to:  September 25, 2026  It cited:tightened technical/security requirements;greater ICX oracle-price volatility;thinning ICX liquidity.  Since then, only:  ICX → SODA  migration remains.  SODA can no longer be converted back into ICX through the official migration path.Final deadline remains December 31  The Foundation says the final migration deadline remains:  December 31, 2026  On that date:ICX→SODA migration ends;ICON Network permanently stops producing blocks;the network becomes a read-only archive for historical lookup.  ICX left unmigrated after the final cutoff will no longer have the projects migration route.1:1 migration  The official migration is designed as:  1 ICX → 1 SODA  through the SODAX migration process.  Users should confirm:official migration

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Router Protocol Shutdown: September 30 Target Reached, Treasury Burn Still Needs Execution Verification

Router Protocol reaches the date it selected for completing its orderly wind-down:  September 30, 2026  The project previously said all remaining operations would cease by this date and that it would permanently burn:  303,333,198 ROUTE  held in treasury.  At this reports publication cutoff, WikiBit has not identified sufficiently authoritative evidence confirming:the final burn transaction;every Router service has stopped;every integrator/relayer endpoint is offline.  The correct status is therefore:  Shutdown Target Today / Execution Verification Pending  rather than automatically declaring the wind-down fully executed.Why Router is closing  Router attributed the decision to long-term commercial pressure rather than one new exploit.  The project described:persistent Web3 liquidity scarcity;capital shifting toward sectors such as AI;compressed cross-chain bridge fees;infrastructure operating costs;demand concentrating on fewer chains.  It said efforts over the prior year to:commercialize technology;license technology;form partnerships;sell/acquire the business;  did not produce a sustainable outcome.More than four years of cross-chain infrastructure  Router built cross-chain infrastructure including:Router Nitro;messaging/execution tools;integrations across multiple networks;an earlier standalone Router Chain.  The shutdown therefore creates both:token-holder risk;infrastructure dependency risk for developers.The 303,333,198 ROUTE burn  Router says it will permanently destroy:  303,333,198 ROUTE  held in treasury.  This amount is roughly 30% of the approximately one-billion maximum-supply figure cited in project reporting.  But the burn must be understood correctly.Treasury burn is not holder compensation  The treasury-held tokens were not necessarily circulating in the market.  Burning them:does

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Australia ASIC Digital-Asset Licensing Deadline: No-Action Position Ends September 30

September 30 is the final day of the Australian Securities and Investments Commissions sector-wide no-action position for qualifying digital-asset businesses transitioning into the existing financial-services licensing framework.  ASICs latest “final call” says businesses relying on the position must have taken the required licensing steps by September 30 or risk operating in breach of financial-services law from:  October 1, 2026What the no-action position did  ASICs no-action position did not rewrite Australian law.  Instead, it provided enforcement discretion for certain digital-asset businesses while they assessed whether they:needed an Australian Financial Services licence;needed to vary an existing AFS licence;needed an Australian Market Licence;needed a Clearing and Settlement facility licence;could operate through authorised-representative or intermediary arrangements.  The transition followed ASICs updated Information Sheet 225 on digital assets.Why October 1 matters  ASIC says firms that actually need a licence or variation but have not met the no-action conditions can risk operating unlawfully from October 1.  Potential consequences can include:civil penalties;criminal penalties;injunctions;licensing/enforcement action.  ASICs latest reminder says applicable financial penalties can reach:  up to 10% of annual turnover  depending on the contravention.  That is a maximum legal exposure, not an automatic penalty for every firm.More than 45 applications  ASICs latest reminder says it has recorded:  more than 45 licence applications  from businesses seeking relevant digital-asset authorisations since INFO 225 was

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