US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has made noteworthy announcements for two new altcoins.
In its initial announcement, Coinbase Markets stated that the BLUE $CHIP (BLUECHIP) and Ritual (RITUAL) tokens have been added to the exchange’s listing roadmap.
However, just hours after this announcement, Coinbase released another announcement regarding BLUECHIP, stating that the token would be available for spot trading.
According to the exchange’s statement, spot trading for BLUE $CHIP (BLUECHIP) began a few hours ago.
Coinbase also stated that BLUECHIP will be accessible through Coinbase.com, the Coinbase mobile app, and Coinbase Advanced, while institutional investors will be able to access the asset through Coinbase Exchange.
Thus, BLUECHIP became one of the assets to receive a spot listing announcement just hours after being added to Coinbase’s listing roadmap.
No Transaction Announcement Yet for Ritual (RITUAL)
On the other hand, Ritual (RITUAL) has also been added to Coinbase’s listing roadmap, but so far, there has been no separate announcement regarding when trading will begin for RITUAL, as was the case with BLUECHIP.
Coinbase’s listing roadmap is used to publicly share the assets that the exchange has decided to list but for which trading has not yet begun.
The exchange states that sufficient market maker support and the necessary technical infrastructure must be in place before an asset can be launched for trading. Therefore, the launch date for an asset included in the roadmap is announced separately, and in some cases, the process may be postponed or changed.
In this context, investors are now watching for a possible spot trading announcement for Ritual (RITUAL) from Coinbase.
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Way up in the sky, a triangle glowed the same three colours over and over again: yellow, red and green.
Craning their neck to see it, mobile phone in hand, was a former RAF personnel member on holiday on the west coast of Bali in Indonesia.
The triangle wasn’t alone.
‘We saw three triangular-shaped objects in the sky,’ the personnel member, who asked to speak anonymously, tells Metro of the July 6 UFO encounter.
‘One was flashing red, pink and blue green lights and the other was showing three steady green lights.
‘The third was quite faint. They were not making any noise and were stationary.’
A UFO, a kite or just AI? Depends on who you ask (Picture: Gary Heseltine)
The sky was clear and the wind still as the objects hovered about 600ft above them and their partner’s heads for 20 minutes from 6.40pm, they add.
‘We moved briefly inside the apartment to get ready to go out. When we moved outside again, we noticed they had gone. That’s about it. Quite weird really.’
‘There are several things to suggest it’s a UFO’
Gary Heseltine, the editor of UFO TRUTH MAGAZINE, was sent the footage by a former colleague.
He says that at first glance, the objects in the clip appear to be drones.
‘But there are several things that suggest to me that they might be anomalous, or a UAP,’ Heseltine says, using the modern term for UFOs, unidentified anomalous phenomena.
‘They hovered above the hotel for 20 minutes in total silence and they have an unusual appearance, three objects with two distinct shapes.’
The objects don’t appear to be in a typical drone formation, though, and he location of the encounter, a hotel in Seminyak, is ‘unusual’.
‘All in all,’ the retired British Transport Police Detective Constable adds, ‘curious and for me unidentified.’
So… is it aliens?
Depends on who you ask. Metro shared the alleged close encounter with other experts in all things extraterrestrial.
Mark Christopher Lee, a UFOlogist and filmmaker, says that while the video is ‘impressive’, he’s not convinced it shows aliens coming to say hello.
Instead, he said the triangles could be Balinese kites fitted with ‘terrestrial’-looking LED lights.
The objects were seen at the height of the island’s kite-flying season, a centuries-old tradition where locals ask the Hindu gods for a good harvest.
Some kites, known locally as layang-layang, are fitted with green, blue and red lights, a Bali tourist website says.
‘For a brief few seconds my ancient alien head on was thinking ancient Vimāna [flying ships described in Hindu text] coming back!’ adds Lee.
‘But logic kicks in, especially with those lights – I guess at night you also can’t see the strings.’
Mick West, a science writer and UFO sceptical investigator, was blunter with his verdict.
‘They look like LED kites,’ he says.
Experts suggested the video was of a kite (Picture: Gary Heseltine)
Bali’s kite season runs from May to September each year (Picture: SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images)
Videos of UFOs over the decades are all too infamous for being low-quality. And we might be entering the modern-day version of that.
Kate Burns, VP EMEA of identifAI – a tool that detects if an image or video is AI-generated – says parts of the video appear to be edited.
She added: ‘The challenge with such videos, however, is that the lower the resolution they are, the harder it is to provide an entirely confident score.’
But exact figures on UFO sightings can be tricky, as police forces do not record them, leaving alien hunters to compile their own databases.
Nearly 100 sightings of orbs, colourful triangles and fleets of metal discs in UK skies have been reported to UFO Identified this year.
Almost all sightings can be explained away as hoaxes, Chinese paper lanterns or aircraft lights, according to Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs for the Ministry of Defence in the 1990s.
Speaking before his death in April, Pope told Metro nearly all callers to the ministry’s ‘UFO desk’ were ‘sincerely believed’ they saw a UFO.
‘In the end, we found about 80% or so of these sightings were misidentifications, 15% had insufficient data and 5% were unknown,’ he said.
‘That 5% doesn’t mean extraterrestrial, but as I always remind people, neither did we rule that out.;
The biggest risk in a crypto presale purchase is often a fake link or unsafe transaction, not the wallet itself. A copied website can look real, and a rushed approval can give a malicious contract access that a buyer never intended to grant.
Trust Wallet users should verify the official website, contract details, and transaction request before funding MemeToro or any other presale.
Start With The Official Website, Not A Social Link
Open the MemeToro website by typing or bookmarking the official address. Do not rely on links sent through private messages, search ads, comments, or accounts claiming to be support.
Compare the page with official project channels and the public GitHub repository where possible. A real crypto presale page should clearly show the purchase route, supported assets, and current stage terms.
Before connecting Trust Wallet, confirm:
The website domain is spelled correctly.
The browser connection uses $BNB Smart Chain when required.
The page shows the expected payment method.
No one has asked for your recovery phrase.
A recovery phrase is never needed to buy crypto presale. Anyone requesting it is attempting to take control of the wallet.
Review Permissions And Transaction Prompts
A wallet connection lets a site ask for a transaction. It does not mean every request should be approved.
Read the Trust Wallet prompt before signing. For a purchase, it should show the asset being spent, the amount, network fee, and a request that matches the official crypto presale screen.
Be especially careful with approval requests. An approval can allow a contract to spend a token from your wallet. If the amount is unlimited or unclear, stop and verify the contract through official project information.
MemeToro’s public fair-launch contract draft is designed without an owner, admin role, or upgrade path. It is intended to lock funding rules and limit contributor funds to refunds or the planned liquidity process.
The full production contract system remains unfinished. Buyers should not assume that every contract using MemeToro branding is official. Always use the current official portal and published project links.
Check The Wider Presale Rules Before Buying
Contract safety is one part of the review. Buyers should also check token allocation, claim rules, audit information, vesting, and the difference between live features and future plans.
MemeToro is in Stage 7 at $0.00430 under the supplied information. $MT is intended to support platform access, funding, staking, rewards, trading, and prediction markets.
The project has published 1,373 lines across 17 files for its early fair-launch system. It still needs testnet deployment, token execution, liquidity routing, and independent security review.
For a safer Trust Wallet purchase, fund a separate wallet only with the amount you intend to use, keep $BNB for fees, verify the official portal, and save the transaction hash after confirmation.
Wallet safety is a habit. Verify the link, read the prompt, avoid broad approvals, and never share the recovery phrase.
Artist’s concept of a Trans-Neptunian Object, a small, faint, icy body (Picture: NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI)/Cover Images)
Scientists have identified 27 mysterious new objects hovering at the edge of our Solar System.
Astronomers used the combined power of NASA’s Hubble and James Webb Space Telescopes for the first time to study the trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs).
TNOs are small, faint and icy bodies orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune.
Some are among the smallest and faintest objects ever directly observed.
In two complementary papers published in The Astronomical Journal, researchers analysed the colour, composition and size distribution of 27 newly discovered tiny TNOs.
They unexpectedly found fewer small TNOs than predicted by some models of planet formation. They also discovered that the colours of the smallest objects closely matched those of their much larger counterparts. Most TNOs are more than 100 million times fainter than objects visible to the unaided eye.
The TNO is orbiting the Sun beyond the orbit of Neptune (Picture: NASA, ESA, Leah Hustak (STScI)/Cover Images)
Scientists believe these small bodies offer a glimpse into an early stage of planet formation. At that time, a disc of dust and pebbles orbiting the young Sun began to clump together into city-sized ‘planetesimals’ – the solid building blocks from which planets eventually formed.
Beyond Neptune, the process stopped before these bodies could merge into full-sized worlds, leaving behind a frozen population of planetesimals. In what researchers describe as the deepest TNO survey so far, teams led by PhD candidates from the University of Victoria in Canada, working under the guidance of the National Research Council of Canada, and Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff studied the same region of sky using both telescopes.
Hubble observed visible light from the objects, while Webb detected their infrared light. By combining the observations, researchers were able to measure the TNOs’ colours, which provide clues about the composition of their surfaces. They also determined their sizes and traced their orbits.
The teams examined two populations of TNOs. The first, known as dynamically ‘cold’ TNOs, remain in relatively circular orbits close to the original plane of the Solar System.
The second, dynamically ‘hot’ TNOs, are thought to have formed between the present-day orbits of Uranus and Neptune before being pushed outwards as the giant planets migrated early in the Solar System’s history. These ‘hot’ objects now follow highly elliptical orbits and move in and out of the plane of the Solar System.
Astronomers had expected small TNOs in both populations to have experienced numerous collisions. Such impacts should have fragmented the objects and altered their surfaces compared with those of larger TNOs. But the observations told a different story. The smallest bodies appeared to resemble their larger relatives, suggesting collisions have not significantly altered their surfaces.
One possibility is that collisions occur less often than expected. Another is that the TNOs somehow preserve their original, pre-collision compositions. Researchers say the reason remains unclear.
The teams examined two populations of TNOs. The first, known as dynamically ‘cold’ TNOs, remain in relatively circular orbits close to the original plane of the Solar System (Picture: World History Archive)
‘You could imagine a scenario where getting knocked around and fragmented would change the surface composition, and then you would see a different surface colour for tiny TNOs compared to their larger siblings,’ said Northern Arizona University PhD candidate Anastasia Morgan, who led the study of colour and composition.
‘So it’s really fascinating to see that the smallest objects are somehow ‘remembering’ and preserving the history of how they were made.’
‘These dynamically ‘hot’ TNOs retain a signature of where they were born, even though they’ve been orbitally scrambled since then,’ said co-author David Trilling of Northern Arizona University.
Both the ‘hot’ and ‘cold’ populations appear to have retained the colours they had when they formed, with little change since the birth of the Solar System.
The researchers also found fewer very small TNOs than expected from some planet formation models. Webb identified 27 new, exceptionally faint TNOs. One was so faint that its brightness was comparable to standing on Earth and seeing a small swarm of fireflies on the Moon.
The smallest object observed was about 3 miles (5km) across. That’s roughly five times smaller than the size detectable by even the most sensitive ground-based telescopes.
The findings provide a rare look at the remnants of the Solar System’s earliest planet-building process – and suggest that some of these tiny frozen worlds have remained remarkably unchanged for billions of years.
MemeToro has published the first smart contract layer for its AI memecoin launchpad. The update adds 1,373 lines across 17 files while $MT continues through Stage 7.
This development reflects a wider shift in AI memecoin news from social-media personalities toward agents connected with documented rules and on-chain financial systems.
AI Memecoin News Moves Beyond Automated Social Posts
Early AI memecoins often became known through agents that posted online, replied to communities and developed recognizable digital personalities. This model showed that software could help manage attention around a token.
The next stage adds operational functions. Agents can collect market data, organize research, score risks and prepare structured proposals before a token launches.
MemeToro follows this second approach. Its agent scans collected news, social sentiment and market signals before creating a token concept.
The proposal includes a name, ticker, evidence, reasoning, supply and funding conditions. This makes the system useful for launch research instead of using AI only to promote a finished token.
The project’s news portal is planned to support this information layer. Users could follow relevant events while reviewing the evidence behind agent-generated launch proposals.
Deterministic Validation Controls the AI Agent
Generative AI can produce incorrect facts or links. MemeToro therefore sends every proposal through fixed validation code before allowing it to advance.
The validator rejects a URL when the trend connector never collected it. This prevents the AI from adding unsupported evidence to a launch manifest.
Other automatic checks reject:
Allocations that do not equal exactly 100%.
Insider allocations above zero.
Funding amounts that conflict across the proposal.
Missing or malformed launch conditions.
Payment rules that fail the approved format.
The AI agent cannot change these checks by writing a persuasive explanation. A proposal that breaks the rules receives a rejection.
This refusal system gives MemeToro a clear place in AI memecoin news. It treats choosing not to launch as a useful agent function rather than measuring progress only through token volume.
Smart Contracts Add Fair-Launch Enforcement
MemeToro’s recent code release introduced FairLaunchEscrow.sol, launch interfaces, tests and architecture notes. The escrow is designed to hold contributor funds during one fixed-rate $BNB Chain round.
Its terms are locked when the round is created. The contract has no owner, administrator or upgrade path.
Contributor and liquidity allocations must cover the full launch supply. This prevents the launch round from creating a separate founder or private tier.
Money can only return to contributors through refunds or move to the planned executor for liquidity. The contract can also store a fingerprint of the public launch manifest.
These rules connect AI research with verifiable funding conditions. The completed executor and automated PancakeSwap step remain future development stages, while the published code establishes their required boundaries.
$MT Connects the Agent, Trading and News Ecosystem
$MT is intended to power several parts of MemeToro. Its planned roles include launchpad access, memecoin funding, staking, prediction markets, trading and community rewards.
The news portal can help users discover market developments, while the AI agent turns selected signals into documented proposals. The trading dashboard is intended to help users follow and trade launched assets.
Creators may earn up to 1.2% of trading volume. Holders can also access staking rewards advertised at up to 35%, depending on the final pool conditions.
Users can purchase $MT through the official presale portal with $BNB, ETH, selected stablecoins or card. Stage 7 prices $MT at $0.00430, while $0.05186 remains a planned launch target.
MemeToro’s current AI memecoin news is therefore centered on product development. The wider sector continues moving toward agents whose decisions and financial rules can be checked publicly.
Indonesian Rupiah stablecoin IDRX has launched on the Celo blockchain. The token is issued by PT IDRX Indo Inovasi and is backed 1:1 by Rupiah reserves held as cash and Indonesian government bonds at regulated financial institutions.
Celo is a blockchain focused on payments and stablecoin use. Its ecosystem includes payment services, FX trading, remittances, and DeFi applications.
IDRX becomes the 20th currency token and the 33rd stablecoin available on Celo. The launch also gives the stablecoin access to onchain foreign exchange markets through Textile FX. Textile FX, a crosschain FX liquidity network, supports trading IDRX against Tether’s USDT from the first day. Institutional liquidity is provided by Tribeca Park Capital.
IDRX was already available on Lisk, an Ethereum Layer 2 network that plans to shut down on October 31. Lisk has recommended Celo as a new home for projects from its ecosystem.
Between 2012 and 2025, global mobile data traffic grew more than 50% annually while operator service revenue increased less than 1% per year, according to McKinsey figures cited by Iris.
Telecom operators bring something financial apps often spend heavily trying to build: customers, verified identities and distribution.
That can be particularly powerful in emerging markets.
“In the U.S. the operator is like one rail among many,” Ava Labs Chief Business Officer John Nahas told CoinDesk. In markets such as Bolivia, by contrast, “the mobile carrier is often the rail that people do everything on.”
That is why Iris expects its initial expansion to focus on Latin America and potentially parts of Africa and Asia rather than the U.S., Nahas said.
VIVA offers an early test of whether that model can translate into better economics for carriers. Nahas said a super-app product used by VIVA helped reduce churn among prepaid mobile customers by 33% while increasing their lifetime value by 35%.
“When you start to see numbers like this, it just starts making a lot of sense,” he said, adding that Iris now needs more real-world case studies.
Stablecoins behind telecoms
Iris runs on a dedicated Avalanche Layer 1, giving the network control over its settlement, operating and compliance requirements. USDi serves as the settlement asset, while also giving VIVA the option to hold eligible operating reserves in dollars.
In VIVA’s case, using U.S. dollar stablecoin for settlements also means having the option to hold eligible operating reserves in U.S. dollars, which is particularly relevant in markets with volatile local currencies.
The product launches with more than $40 million of leases committed, the firm said. Initially available in beta, thSLVR will be offered to institutions and whitelisted investors, with broader access planned later.
Tokenized silver remains a considerably smaller market than tokenized gold, which has grown to several billion dollars across multiple products. Existing silver tokens that offer returns typically distribute a portion of platform trading fees rather than income earned by lending the underlying metal.
Tokenized commodities
The tokenized real-world asset market has expanded rapidly beyond U.S. Treasuries and private credit into equities, funds and commodities. Tokenized commodities now represent about $4.9 billion in distributed value across 130 products, led by gold-backed tokens from Tether and Paxos, while the number of commodity-token holders rose 13% over the past month to almost 339,000, according to RWA.xyz
Silver leasing rates can rise sharply during periods of limited physical availability. Around 83% of the silver held in London vaults is locked in physically backed investment products, leaving about 136 million ounces available for trading and leasing, according to data cited by Theo.
London’s one-month silver lease rate briefly climbed to about 39% in October 2025, compared with a historical norm below 1%. Rates have since normalized, though the market is projected to record a sixth consecutive annual supply deficit in 2026, with the shortfall estimated at 46.3 million ounces.
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced it will delist some trading pairs currently traded on the spot market. The exchange stated that it regularly reviews all spot trading pairs to protect users and maintain a high-quality trading market.
According to a statement by Binance, following recent evaluations, trading on the BREV/$USDC, COOKIE/$USDC, LA/$USDC, and QNT/$USDC trading pairs will be terminated. These trading pairs are scheduled to be removed from the platform on September 18, 2026, at 06:00 AM.
The exchange stated that decisions regarding the removal of spot trading pairs were based on multiple factors, with low liquidity and trading volume being particularly prominent. Binance noted that it periodically reviews market conditions and user experience for trading pairs.
Trading in the delisted pairs will be halted on the specified date, after which no new buy or sell orders can be placed for those pairs. The announcement did not provide any further information on whether the removal of these trading pairs means that the tokens in question have been completely delisted from the Binance platform.
Binance’s periodic review of spot trading pairs is among its practices aimed at maintaining liquidity and trading volume on the platform. The exchange states that it may make similar decisions for other trading pairs in the future in line with changes in market conditions.
It is important for investors to check their open orders and positions in the relevant trading pairs before the changes take place on September 18th. While the removal of trading pairs will not directly affect the price of the tokens, it may limit trading options for the related assets on Binance.
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has announced it will support the network upgrade and hard fork on the Vana (VANA) network. According to the exchange’s statement, deposit and withdrawal operations on the VANA network will be temporarily suspended during the update process to ensure the secure management of users’ assets.
Binance will halt these transactions on September 21, 2026, at approximately 2:29 PM. The upgrade and hard fork on the Valve network is planned to take place at block height 10,229,958, at approximately 3:29 PM.
The exchange specifically stated that trading of tokens on the Valve network would not be affected during the network upgrade. Accordingly, users will be able to continue trading VANA on the Binance platform, even though deposit and withdrawal transactions conducted through the affected network will be temporarily suspended.
Binance also announced that it will handle all necessary technical operations for the upgrade and hard fork on behalf of users. Therefore, users will not need to take any additional action to support the network upgrade.
Deposit and withdrawal operations will be reopened once the Valve network is deemed to be operating stably and securely following the completion of the upgrade. Binance stated that it will not issue a separate announcement regarding the resumption of these operations.
Network upgrades and hard forks can cause changes to the technical infrastructure of blockchain networks. Binance’s recent announcement reveals that certain parts of the exchange’s services will be temporarily restricted during a planned technical change to the Valve network. It is important for users to take the specified times into account when planning their transactions.
