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On September 28, the WEEX AI Trading Hackathon "AI Wars II: The Era of Algorithms" officially launched its fourth round of competition, which will run from 9/28 to 10/2. You can choose to join Team AI or Team Human. The AI team can access automated trading tools such as AI Agents through the WEEX API, while the Human team will engage in manual trading. Both sides will compete in a real market environment, vying for rankings and a prize pool of 25,000 USDT based on PnL%.AI Wars II consists of five rounds of competition, and so far, the Human team is leading the AI team 2:1. The real-time battle status on the WEEX official website shows that in the fourth round, the AI team's return is currently 7 percentage points ahead of the Human team. According to the event rules, the winning team can share 70% of each round's prize pool, while the losing team will still receive 30% of the prize pool share.

Binance will support SpaceX (SPCXB) airdrop plan for MarsCoin (MARSCOIN) holders, as well as Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQB) airdrop plan for Bullish holders. Effective holdings will be counted starting from September 2026, with the first distribution taking place in early October 2026. Users must complete identity verification (KYC) and be from eligible jurisdictions.

Trader degentrading (@degentradingLSD) pre-market analysis shows the following major signals in the current market:Macroeconomic Level: The 10Y yield has risen to 5.2%, and the 30Y has risen to 5.5%, approaching historical highs; the South Korean stock market opened down 2.5%, with the memory and semiconductor sectors (SK Hynix, Samsung, MU, SNDK) generally down 2% to 5%. It is expected that price movements will continue to fluctuate before MU's earnings report is released.New Cloud Computing: The investment payback period for computing projects is now less than a year, and market perceptions are changing. It is expected that the new cloud sector will undergo rapid revaluation, and the issue of power bottlenecks is also receiving increasing attention.Tech Stocks: META is weak pre-market, focusing on buying at the 690 support level or opportunities for breaking historical highs. If the large-scale data center sector breaks through as a whole, META, MSFT, and others will face paradigm-level repricing.Cryptocurrency Market: Mainstream coins and altcoins are generally weak, with BTC possibly testing the 82K support level; last week, TAO and DOGE were reduced, and CRDO was taken for profit to release risk capital. During the KBW period, crypto sentiment is usually somewhat positive, and this week's strategy focuses on finding short-term bullish opportunities.

JPMorgan Chase has lowered the target price for Tesla (TSLA.O) from $445 to $415.

Cryptocurrency trader Ansem stated that he is quite optimistic about the real recovery of NFTs in this cycle, and art-related NFTs may see a price increase again.Ansem mentioned that what is more noteworthy is the innovation surrounding the forms of NFTs, including AI agents, ownership mechanisms, new issuance methods, and different models of NFTs combined with on-chain products. He believes that as the broader rotation of on-chain assets is still in its early stages, there may be more new applications and design explorations in the NFT field in the future.

Binance Chinese posted on platform X that the Binance wallet now supports using USDT to pay for Gas fees, covering BNB Smart Chain, Ethereum, Solana, and Tron, with plans to support more public chain networks in the future.

According to a report by South Korea's Small and Medium Business News on September 28, industry insiders stated that SK Hynix has initiated the foundational engineering required for establishing a semiconductor factory in the Tohoku region of Japan. One insider mentioned that it is still unclear whether the project will be an independent factory or a joint venture with Kioxia, but local groundwork is underway, and SK Hynix has also requested domestic component suppliers in South Korea to expand their supply.The report noted that as of a month ago, SK Hynix's stance on building a memory semiconductor factory in Japan was still "under research," and they stated that "there are no specific decisions." In response to this news, SK Hynix indicated that the Japanese memory semiconductor factory is still in the research phase, with no further advancements at this time.The report also mentioned that SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won stated in August this year that they are studying the establishment of a joint venture memory semiconductor factory in Japan, with the Tohoku region subsequently seen as a strong candidate. The Tohoku region of Japan and Iwate Prefecture have gathered semiconductor and material component companies such as Kioxia's Kitakami factory, Japan Semiconductor, Ancor Technology, Denso, and Tokyo Electron.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, as the price of HYPE declines, HYPE long positions are facing liquidation. Address 0x1add had 11,796 HYPE (worth 1.06 million USD) liquidated an hour ago and currently still holds 47,184 HYPE (worth 4.24 million USD) in long positions. The new liquidation price is 88.5 USD.

According to SoSoValue data, last week's trading days (Eastern Time from September 21 to September 25) saw a net inflow of $2.386 billion into Bitcoin spot ETFs.The Bitcoin spot ETF with the highest net inflow last week was Blackrock ETF IBIT, with a weekly net inflow of $1.158 billion, bringing IBIT's total historical net inflow to $65.28 billion; followed by Fidelity ETF FBTC, with a weekly net inflow of $702 million, bringing FBTC's total historical net inflow to $11.06 billion.The Bitcoin spot ETF with the highest net outflow last week was WisdomTree Bitcoin Trust BTCW, with a weekly net outflow of $4.0161 million, bringing BTCW's total historical net inflow to $7.865 million. As of the time of publication, the total net asset value of Bitcoin spot ETFs was $108.42 billion, with an ETF net asset ratio (market value as a percentage of total Bitcoin market value) of 6.43%, and the historical cumulative net inflow has reached $57.55 billion.

According to Coinglass data, the current whale holdings on the Hyperliquid platform amount to 9.339 billion USD, with long positions at 4.38 billion USD, accounting for 46.91% of the holdings, and short positions at 4.958 billion USD, accounting for 53.09%. The profit and loss for long positions is 588 million USD, while the profit and loss for short positions is -651 million USD.Among them, the whale address 0x5b5d..60 has shorted ETH with a 5x leverage at a price of 2304.06 USD, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of -36.8541 million USD.

The head of the U.S. Affairs Department of the Ministry of Commerce interprets the results of the eighth round of China-U.S. economic and trade consultations. In this round of consultations, both parties agreed to establish an artificial intelligence dialogue led by Vice Premier He Lifeng and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen under the China-U.S. economic and trade consultation mechanism, and the first dialogue has already taken place, discussing the risks and benefits related to artificial intelligence.Both parties agreed to hold the next dialogue by the end of November this year. They also agreed to establish a communication channel for artificial intelligence incidents.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a "whale" address transferred out 4,500 BTC (worth 378.79 million USD) after being inactive for more than four years.

The trading platform Pear announced that the token PEAR will open the migration portal on October 12, allowing users to exchange PEAR on Arbitrum for new tokens on HyperEVM at a 1:1 ratio within the Pear app. The migration is a one-way operation; once completed, the old tokens will be locked and cannot be transferred back to Arbitrum. Users need to prepare a small amount of ETH on Arbitrum to pay for Gas and cross-chain fees. After migration, the tokens can be transferred between HyperEVM and Hyperliquid spot, with liquidity subsequently launched in both locations.Pear stated that users holding stPEAR do not need to take any action, as staking will be automatically rebuilt on HyperEVM; holders still in the vesting period can claim and migrate their tokens after they are unlocked. The portal will remain open until September 28, 2027, with a buffer period. Currently, the PEAR listed on Hyperliquid spot is unrelated to the official platform; users can only migrate through the official Pear website and should only trust the contract addresses published through official channels.PEAR will begin trading on September 27, 2024. Pear claims that the platform has expanded from a paired trading terminal to institutional trading desks, AI trading agents, and vaults, with a cumulative trading volume exceeding $2 billion and cumulative fees of $1.3 million. In January of this year, token holders passed PIP-3 with over 99% support, stipulating that 70% of Pear's total revenue will be used for repurchasing and burning PEAR and supporting liquidity, while 30% will go to the team.

Michael Saylor stated that as AI changes the way businesses are built, digital tokens can help 10 million new companies raise funds and reduce fundraising costs and delays. He advocates for simplifying issuance rules while retaining information disclosure and anti-fraud protections. Michael Saylor is the Executive Chairman of Bitcoin Treasury Company Strategy Inc.He proposed that companies could adapt rules for token issuance based on the type of issuance and set information disclosure requirements that match the risks, while reducing legal costs and retaining ownership protections and fraud accountability. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) also proposed a cryptocurrency issuance exemption plan, one of which allows qualified issuers to raise up to $5 million within four years, and another allows raising up to $75 million every 12 months; both are still proposals and come with disclosure and anti-fraud requirements.

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill prohibiting California public officials from issuing meme coins.

According to CoinDesk, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has released a long-term roadmap, referred to as Streamlining Ethereum. The vision proposes that by 2030, Ethereum will surpass a mere blockchain ledger and plans to completely restructure the protocol in the next three to four years.The transformation includes expanding transaction throughput by approximately 1000 times, introducing zero-knowledge proofs to enhance privacy and combat quantum computing threats. By 2030, the network is expected to accommodate 2TB of traditional dynamic state data, along with an additional 100TB of new scalable storage, to achieve underlying state separation and optimization. The vision also aims to establish Ethereum as an infrastructure driven by cryptographic validation, with applications extending from finance to social systems. Most developers support this plan, although some voices believe the implementation timeline is somewhat delayed.

Tom Lee, Chairman of Bitmine, stated that artificial intelligence and the cryptocurrency industry are gradually merging, with tokenization and AI agents likely becoming the two main driving forces of the next cryptocurrency market cycle.Tom Lee mentioned that BlackRock expects more assets to be tokenized, and financial settlement infrastructure is increasingly being built on cryptocurrency networks. Some fintech companies, such as Revolut, have already begun to build related businesses based on Ethereum. He also stated that AI is driving the formation of the digital economy, while cryptocurrencies provide the digital currency and blockchain infrastructure needed to support this economic system.