Monthly Column Report｜Foresight News Outstanding Content Creators List for September 2026

Foresight News has comprehensively evaluated the top 5 hottest columns, top 1 labor model, and top 2 newcomers for September 2026 based on the reading volume, content quality, and number of articles published by column authors:

🔥 Hottest Columns

Based on the reading volume and content quality of column authors' articles for the month, the top 5 hottest columns are:

01. 168X
168X delves into the frontiers of Web3 and AI, continuously interviewing top global investors and project founders, providing firsthand dialogues from the industry. Recommended article: "Mojo AI Founder Forest: Hyperliquid is nearing its endgame, the next increment in crypto lies in AI trading agents" - leaving dopamine and decision-making to oneself, while delegating dirty work to AI.

02. SoSo Value
SoSo Value is an AI-driven one-stop investment research platform for crypto, focusing on on-chain data, secondary market trends, and alpha opportunity discovery, aimed at professional crypto investors. Recommended article: "Why is Circle building its own chain? A complete breakdown before the Arc mainnet launch" - Circle's Arc mainnet is about to launch, a compliant public chain for clearing institutions, disrupting the industry while deeply mired in centralization controversies.

03. Daii
Daii is the curator of Zhihu's "Crypto Reference," focusing on popular interpretations of crypto foundational technologies, privacy, regulatory policies, and theories related to Vitalik Buterin. Recommended article: "Goldman Sachs predicts the RMB will appreciate to 5.5 in five years, what should you do?" - the exchange rate determines how you measure returns, while asset quality determines whether there is anything beneath the ruler.

04. Black Mario
Black Mario is a blockchain content editor and self-media author, specializing in the history of the crypto industry, hacking incidents, and in-depth reviews of CEX and public chain ecosystems. Recommended article: "The Notorious Lazarus Group: North Korea's Hacker Empire that Stole Nearly $7.8 Billion from the Crypto Industry" - a state-level gray industry hidden in the Crypto world.

05. CoinMarketCap
CoinMarketCap is a long-established global crypto market data platform, providing basic token data, market overviews, and industry foundational educational content. Recommended article: "Coinbase Obtains Clearing License, Perpetual Sector is the Weakest" - the trading venue wins regulatory approval, while the chains that support them rise. These two events occurred in the same week.

👷 Labor Model Leaderboard

The top labor model is evaluated from multiple dimensions such as the number of articles published and content readability:

Stablehunter
Stablehunter is a researcher focused on Web3 payments, stablecoins, and AI Agent finance, skilled in analyzing cutting-edge financial architectures like digital banking and Agentic Payment. Recommended article: "Everyone is talking about the endgame of Agentic Payment, but the real challenge is the path in between" - while the industry depicts the endgame of Agentic Payment, the real question worth studying is not what the future looks like, but how the path from "human confirmation" to "machine execution of payment" is gradually paved. Payment has never been about "can it be done," but rather "can it be authorized, constrained, and trusted."

🌟 Newcomers List

The top 2 newly joined column authors for September 2026 are evaluated based on reading volume, content quality, and publication situation:

X-Agent
X-Agent is a column author focusing on the intersection of AI Agent and Crypto, continuously providing industry analysis of on-chain AI Agent products and trading agents. Recommended article: "The Agentic Economy: Why Cryptocurrency Will Become the Default Payment Channel for Artificial Intelligence" - artificial intelligence provides intelligence, while blockchain provides the economic foundation.

BigTime
BigTime is a technology solution provider serving institutional clients in the Web3 market. Recommended article: "Crypto Market Making Industry Map: GSR and Its Competitors" - volume is contracting, and clientele is becoming institutional. The customer structure, service methods, and revenue sources of market makers are all changing with this backdrop.

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