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The third-party AI inference infrastructure company, Silicon Flow, announced the completion of Phase II of its B+ round and C round financing. The company transforms computing power and models into directly callable Token services. By 2026, the cumulative equity financing amount has approached 2.9 billion yuan, and the amounts for these two rounds have not been disclosed.Based on the Token annual throughput in 2025, Silicon Flow ranks fourth among all Token suppliers in China, with a market share of 1.5%. The top three, Volcano Engine, Alibaba Cloud, and Baidu Smart Cloud, account for 42.7%, 32.5%, and 11.8% respectively, totaling about 87%. This round of investors includes the China Internet Investment Fund, Guoxin Fund, China Mobile Chain Long Fund, China Orient Asset International, as well as YaoTu Capital, Shengyi Capital, and Cathay Venture Capital continuing to invest.Silicon Flow's revenue in 2025 is projected to be 55.33 million yuan, with a net loss of 345 million yuan, and an overall gross margin of -24%. The company submitted its application to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange at the end of June and is currently applying for a main board listing under the 18C chapter "Uncommercialized Companies" rules. Beijing has just released the first provincial-level token economy special policy in the country, clearly proposing to build a "world-class token factory," and has listed inference engines, model and chip adaptation, and heterogeneous computing power as key directions.

A Bitcoin wallet created on November 2, 2011, transferred 100 BTC at a block height of 967732, valued at over 8 million dollars based on the price at that time. The wallet purchased Bitcoin at a price of 3.24 dollars, with a cost of approximately 324 dollars for 100 BTC, resulting in an unrealized return of about 2,469%.On the same day, four wallets created between February and March 2013 transferred 25 BTC each, totaling 100 BTC, into the cryptocurrency custody company BitGo wallet. On-chain characteristics indicate that this batch of Bitcoin originally came from block rewards in March 2013; the miner has been continuously transferring similar amounts of BTC to BitGo in batches since August 2025. The two transfers totaled 200 BTC, currently valued at over 16 million dollars.The new address of the 2011 wallet is a P2WPKH address, which has not been marked by major block explorers as an over-the-counter trader or centralized exchange address; whether the funds transferred by the 2013 miner to BitGo have been sold cannot be confirmed by on-chain information.

According to Decrypt, Solana will shorten the target block time slot from 300 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds on Friday, increasing the block generation frequency by nearly 17%. The computational resources and data available for each time slot will be correspondingly reduced, while the overall transaction processing capacity of the network remains unchanged.This adjustment is the third phase in the four planned stages of the SIMD-0525 proposal. The block production permission window for validators over four consecutive time slots has been reduced from 1.2 seconds to 1 second, and the expected duration of the epoch fixed at 432,000 time slots has been shortened from about 36 hours to about 30 hours. The next phase aims to further shorten the time slot to 200 milliseconds, but the mainnet launch time has not yet been determined, with the implementation condition being that the block skip rate remains stable.

According to the Financial Times of the UK, OpenAI is expected to consume nearly $280 billion in funding by the end of 2030. The company anticipates generating up to $278 billion in negative free cash flow between 2026 and 2030, with revenue expected to grow tenfold during this period, increasing from $36 billion this year to $350 billion by 2030.OpenAI expects to invest approximately $856 billion in computing power and infrastructure by the end of 2030.

According to RootData TradFi market data, as the U.S. SEC released the "Innovation Exemption," most U.S. stocks related to blockchain rose, but different sectors showed divergent performance.In terms of crypto assets, UNI rose 33.8% in the last 24 hours, ARB rose 24.96%, and BP (Backpack) rose 20.49%; RAY, AERO, and JUP rose 15.72%, 13.63%, and 12.74% respectively, while ONDO rose 9.61%.In the TradFi U.S. stock market, SECZ (Securitize) rose 14.93%, BLSH (Bullish) rose 8.82%, and CRCL, COIN, and HOOD rose 5.77%, 5.75%, and 5.16% respectively; GLXY slightly rose 0.04%, while BR (Broadridge) fell 1.66%.Previously, the SEC announced a temporary and conditional exemption for qualified tokenized securities venues (TSV), supporting the trading of tokenized U.S. stocks with equal shareholder rights through a licensed AMM.

Bankless co-founder David Hoffman posted on the X platform, stating, "We have now entered the altcoin season, and the real market moment has arrived earlier than expected." David Hoffman announced on May 21 that he had liquidated his ETH holdings and subsequently bought VVV, NEAR, ZEC, HYPE, and LIT, all of which have significantly outperformed ETH.

According to an analysis by Cointelegraph of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) MiCA registration data, the number of banks on the EU MiCA crypto service provider list has doubled from about 40 on June 26 to about 80 on September 16, with the proportion rising from about 17% to nearly 23%, approaching one-quarter. During the same period, the total number of registered Crypto Asset Service Providers (CASP) increased from 243 to 349, but the proportion of non-bank service providers decreased from about 84% to 77%, reflecting a relative shrinkage.Germany is the main driving force behind this round of bank expansion, with several cooperative banks and commercial banks recently appearing on ESMA's MiCA registration list, including Volksbank, Raiffeisenbank, and VR Bank. Germany's largest bank, Deutsche Bank, also announced on Wednesday plans to launch digital asset custody services for institutional and corporate clients in Europe. A spokesperson for the bank told Cointelegraph that regulatory approval under MiCA is expected in October.Unlike crypto companies that need to apply for CASP authorization, banks can provide crypto asset services through the notification procedure stipulated in Article 60 of MiCA, allowing them to bypass the standard CASP authorization process by simply submitting the required information to their national regulatory authority at least 40 working days before offering the service for the first time.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, trader 0x30af bought 5.14 million $NEAR two weeks ago with 10x leverage, with a position amount of approximately 18.95 million USD, and the unrealized profit has reached 8.9 million USD.

According to The Block, Charley Cooper, President of Ava Labs, stated that the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) has been testing Avalanche technology over the past year and is collaborating with Ava Labs to explore how it can be integrated with the exchange's existing systems.Cooper mentioned that a close working relationship has been established between the two parties, but it has not yet been confirmed whether the NYSE will ultimately choose Avalanche as the blockchain for its tokenized securities platform. The NYSE announced in January this year that it is developing a platform for the tokenization of U.S. stocks and ETF trading and on-chain settlement.

The general AI computing power chip unicorn EVAS Intelligence announced the completion of a new round of financing, amounting to nearly 2 billion yuan, with a post-investment valuation estimated to be close to 15 billion yuan.This round of financing brought together over 20 investment institutions, including Huatai Innovation, Zhongding Capital, SMIC Juyuan, Jiuan Medical, Renai Capital, Tongfu Microelectronics, Saiyi Industrial Fund, Heli Capital, Xinxin Leasing, Hengxu Capital, Shangqi Capital, Jiangguang Zhanlu, and Rongyi Capital. EVAS Intelligence mainly provides efficient and scalable AI computing acceleration solutions, promoting the widespread application of AI technology across various industries.

According to The Block, the total market capitalization of the dollar-pegged stablecoins on Robinhood Chain recently surpassed 1 billion dollars. Currently, USDG accounts for about 67% of the total size, making it the largest stablecoin on the chain; the market capitalization of USDe issued by Ethena is close to 30%.

According to BBX data, yesterday and in recent days, globally listed companies in the U.S. stock market disclosed the latest developments in digital asset purchases, business restructuring, and stock buybacks. The core information is as follows:MARA Holdings invested approximately $98.64 million to increase its holdings of 1,292 BTC: The global leading Bitcoin mining giant MARA Holdings (NASDAQ: $MARA) made a significant purchase of 1,292 Bitcoins yesterday through the crypto broker FalconX. Based on the average price during the purchase period, the total value of this increase is approximately $98.64 million, continuing its strategy of fully retaining output and actively allocating Bitcoin in the secondary market.Twenty One Capital (NYSE: $XXI) seeks business transformation, disclosing a five-step plan for a "Bitcoin operating company": Twenty One Capital's CEO Raphael Zagury stated in an interview with Coin Stories that the company is transitioning from merely holding Bitcoin reserves to becoming a deep "Bitcoin operating company." Zagury disclosed the specific five-step implementation path for the first time: First, improve corporate governance and professional structures in the middle and back office; second, introduce Bitcoin industry operating entities with self-sustaining and profit-generating capabilities; third, comprehensively promote horizontal industry mergers and acquisitions; fourth, flexibly use public capital market tools to continue increasing Bitcoin holdings at the appropriate time; fifth, focus on expanding and developing Bitcoin collateralized lending business.Circle minted 10 billion ARC genesis tokens, exploring a shift to PoS consensus in 2027: Stablecoin issuer Circle officially completed the minting of 10 billion ARC tokens this week. Circle clarified that this minting is merely a milestone for underlying technology verification and is not a commitment for public issuance. The core positioning of ARC is to serve as a security guarantee, practical function, and decentralized governance coordination mechanism for the Arc network, with the network's native gas fees still strictly settled in USDC. Additionally, Circle is proactively exploring a smooth transition of the network's underlying consensus mechanism from the current Proof of Authority (PoA) to Proof of Stake (PoS) in 2027.ProCap Financial (NASDAQ: $BRR) sold 50 BTC for a discounted buyback, holding over 5,250 BTC: Financial company ProCap Financial, focused on digital asset allocation, announced that starting from September 3, it repurchased an additional 2.2% of its circulating common stock at a significant discount of approximately 22% to the net asset value (NAV) per share, with the funds for this buyback sourced from the sale of about 50 Bitcoins on its balance sheet. Since the buyback plan was initiated, the company has repurchased approximately 12.2% of its circulating shares. As of the market close on September 15, its total circulating shares were 84,937,392, and the treasury still holds approximately 5,254 Bitcoins, corresponding to an NAV of about $3.62 per share. The company's management emphasized that it will steadfastly execute the stock buyback strategy until the secondary market trading price is no longer below the net asset value.

After the Federal Reserve announced an interest rate hike, the price of Bitcoin initially fell and then stabilized, remaining basically flat within 24 hours. According to Bitcoin Magazine, the Federal Reserve raised the target range for the federal funds rate to 3.75% to 4%, marking the first interest rate hike since 2023. Bitcoin briefly dropped to $75,355 within an hour of the announcement, before rebounding to nearly $75,813.Over the past 7 days, Bitcoin has cumulatively fallen nearly 4%. Traders had previously bet on a greater than 90% probability of an interest rate hike at the Federal Reserve's September meeting, which is why most Bitcoin trading occurred before the announcement on Wednesday. Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh stated that price stability is the Federal Reserve's top priority, and noted, "Inflation is too high and has lasted too long; the inflation data this summer does not indicate that the underlying trend has improved significantly."Warsh has publicly praised Bitcoin, and during his first major speech since taking office as Federal Reserve Chairman last month, he also emphasized that inflation is too high and must be reduced. The new chairman's stance contrasts with that of Trump, who has repeatedly called for interest rate cuts and threatened to fire former Federal Reserve Chairman who refused to cut rates. Last week, Trump posted on Truth Social, "We should have the lowest interest rates in the world." Bitcoin typically performs better in a low-interest-rate environment, as there is more liquidity in the market to buy the asset.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a newly created address purchased 99,834 HYPE through FalconX 2 hours ago, worth 7.72 million USD.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain whale closed a short position of 760 BTC one hour ago, making a profit of 266,000 USD. Subsequently, they went long on 900 BTC with 40x leverage, worth 69.2 million USD. This long position currently has an unrealized profit of 173,000 USD.

According to the latest data from Bitget, the cumulative trading volume of the platform's TradFi contracts has exceeded 530 billion USD, with a single-day trading volume peak reaching 7.39 billion USD. So far, Bitget supports a total of 309 stock perpetual contract underlying assets.

Circle's public chain Arc will officially launch on September 16. Following the previous launch of the Robinhood chain, tokens represented by CASHCAT achieved returns of thousands and tens of thousands of times. The market expects a similar trend to occur on the Arc chain. Therefore, on-chain funds are actively seeking opportunities for early positioning and front-running.Currently, third-party platforms have emerged in the market that offer USDC exchanges from the Ethereum mainnet to USDC on the Arc chain. Relevant data shows that the current USDC on the Arc chain is priced nearly double that of USDC on the Ethereum mainnet. Leading platforms have facilitated 11,660 exchanges, with a total transaction volume exceeding 5 million dollars, while the platform charges a 3% service fee for these transactions.Previously, several crypto-native platforms announced that they would support the Arc chain as soon as it launches, including the NFT trading platform Opensea and the meme coin platform fomo. In response to the announcement of fomo's launch, Circle co-founder Jeremy Allaire also made a positive response immediately, serving as a potential support hint for the crypto-native community. Whether Arc can successfully continue the on-chain boom after its launch still needs to be verified by the market at that time.

According to Ai Yi's monitoring, the Binance contract real-time whale address "Single Wife" has climbed to the profit list for nearly 24 hours, 7 days, and 30 days with a "Lobster" long position. Currently, this address has partially closed positions to take profits, realizing a cumulative profit of approximately 260,000 USD.As of now, this address still holds 18.29 million "Lobsters," valued at about 3.2 million USD, with an average opening price of 0.1316 USD. Based on the current price of 0.1751 USD, the floating profit is approximately 796,000 USD. The total profit from this transaction has reached about 1.056 million USD.

According to Bitcoin News monitoring, a miner from Braiins Solo discovered block number 966351, receiving a full block reward of 3.147 BTC, approximately equivalent to $244,900.Currently, the top five mining pools control 78.31% of the hash rate; the last independent block was produced on August 2, from Solo CKPool.