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According to CoinDesk, Bitcoin Core 32 entered its final testing phase on September 14, with the first candidate version marked, and the official release is expected on October 10. This version will not change Bitcoin's consensus rules but will mainly optimize fee estimation, accelerate block processing, and fix several security vulnerabilities.In terms of fee estimation, Bitcoin Core 32 introduces a new estimator based on unconfirmed transactions, which can quickly lower the recommended fee rate when network congestion eases, compared to the original estimator based on historical block fees. Regarding block processing, nodes can now use multiple threads to fetch transaction data from the database simultaneously, with a default of 8 threads, reducing the waiting time for nodes to catch up with the blockchain.For security fixes, developers have addressed a command execution vulnerability that has existed in non-Windows systems since Bitcoin Core 24. This vulnerability could allow authenticated users to execute commands on the node host through specially crafted wallet names when the walletnotify feature is enabled. Additionally, four commands used to create partially signed transactions will default to using PSBT version 2 format; the new web server was found to have a memory exhaustion flaw during auditing, where 16 unauthenticated REST connections could raise the node's memory from 46 MB to about 3 GB in approximately one minute, and this issue has been fixed before the official release.

According to CoinDesk, digital asset financial services company Two Prime has launched a Bitcoin lending vault on Pareto, targeting an annual yield of 1.5% to 2% for institutional lending, with a minimum deposit amount of $250,000 equivalent in WBTC.Two Prime has committed approximately $10 million as first-loss capital. Ice Digital Trust and Copper provide custody services, and the BitGo Earn platform plans to participate in distribution.

According to on-chain analysis platform Lookonchain, market maker Cumberland has continuously withdrawn 17.64 million $PONS from Gate exchange at an average price of $0.67 over the past two weeks and has recently started to sell off.In the past 5 hours, 1.5 million $PONS (approximately $877,000) have been deposited back to Gate.

GoPlus has issued a security alert, reminding investors to be vigilant against the imitation RUG on the Arc Chain. The Arc Chain launched explosively, with the first day's trading volume exceeding 144 million USD. While most users are still in the learning phase of cross-chain trading, the market has already seen imitation RUGs of the high market cap Launchpad tokens ARGUS and TOLLY.Please be very careful and verify the contract address carefully before trading.

The South Korean Deputy Prime Minister stated on Wednesday that South Korea must continue to advance artificial intelligence development without pause or delay, clearly expressing its stance in the global discussion about the pace of this technology's development.South Korea is home to memory chip companies such as Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, and is also one of the main beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence data center boom, with related demand driving vigorous procurement of the country's semiconductors and hardware. The country's population is approximately 52 million, and it cannot slow its progress in the direction proposed by Anthropic and OpenAI leaders, as suggested by American artificial intelligence model developers.

The founder of TRON, Justin Sun, announced the establishment of the "Justin Sun Award," which currently focuses only on mathematics. He stated that the award follows the problem rather than the individual, with no annual meeting, nominations, or age restrictions; each problem has two columns for signatures, one for the prover and one for the person who formalizes the proof and writes it into the machine. Both can be the same person, or they can be a person, AI, or a person using AI. The condition for triggering the prize is that the machine verifies the proof from the first line to the last line without error. Once verification is passed, the names in the two columns become the prize owners for that problem.The rules also include: before machine verification, if the mathematical community has accepted a human proof, it can be listed first, with the prize remaining unchanged, and the status being "Proven, awaiting formalization." The prize in the proof column is only awarded to problems that are solved after being listed; for problems that were already solved at the time of listing, the prover is still credited, but the prize is only awarded to the person who completes the formalization, not retroactively for the history of mathematics. The list of problems is determined by Justin Sun's signature for the listed problems and pricing; once listed, the price can only increase, and money can only be exchanged, not refunded. Mistakes in the problems will still be paid, and they will be re-listed afterward; beyond pricing, verification, payment, and naming, he does not participate in voting.Justin Sun stated that the focus of public welfare will shift to this award, with the initial prize pool already deposited into the blockchain, with the address and balance made public. He only retains the right to continue injecting funds; the award proof and prize distribution will also be made public on the chain. He mentioned that naming it after a person is to avoid name changes due to institutional changes and expressed that wealth comes from mathematics, hoping to "come from mathematics and return to mathematics."

U.S. Vice President JD Vance stated at the All-In Summit that U.S. AI data centers are facing increasing opposition, largely because the power supply has not kept up. Residents see data centers being built continuously while their electricity bills are rising, which naturally leads to backlash. He believes the solution is not to build fewer data centers but to increase power generation capacity accordingly.Vance mentioned that the U.S. has not built enough power facilities in the past generation, and in the future, it should pursue a state where "electricity is so cheap that it doesn't need to be metered." He also compared this to China, arguing that the slow growth of power generation in the U.S. in recent years has already affected the development of new industries like AI. "So cheap that it doesn't need to be metered" is an old slogan from the history of U.S. nuclear energy. In 1954, Lewis Strauss, the chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, used it to describe the era of cheap electricity brought by atomic energy.The IEA estimates that data centers will contribute to about half of the new electricity demand in the U.S. by 2025; the U.S. Congress is also advancing legislation this week to try to prevent the costs of expanding data centers from being passed on to ordinary households.

According to the Slow Mist security team, the BonfireSwap router contract suffered a loss of approximately $50,000 due to a lack of access control in the transfer function. This function did not verify whether the caller was the from address, nor did it check the caller's authorization for the assets of the from address. As a result, attackers could set users who had pre-authorized the router as the from address and themselves as the to address, thereby stealing the victim's TOKEN and exchanging it through the same token pool.Slow Mist stated that a total of 41 TOKEN holders who had authorized the router were affected; the vulnerable contract address is 0x17e801e17cefc6334059189c178d4783830e03d3.

According to a report by Reuters, informed sources say that South Korea's SK Hynix is in talks with Intel for a deal to produce memory chips in the United States for the first time. One possible option is for SK Hynix to lease part of Intel's long-planned chip manufacturing facility in Ohio; another option is to establish a joint venture with Intel and major cloud service companies eager to secure memory chip supplies.The deal would alleviate pressure on Intel and be a significant victory for the Trump administration. However, sources say that potential opposition from the South Korean side could be a major obstacle, as these technologies are considered sensitive. One source stated that the negotiations are still exploratory, emphasizing that no decisions have been made yet. If an agreement is reached, it is still unclear what type of chips SK Hynix would produce in Ohio.Its product line includes DRAM for servers, PCs, and smartphones, as well as NAND flash memory for long-term storage, and it is also a leading supplier of high bandwidth memory (HBM) used in AI processors.

Bitget launched the "VIP Summit" program on its 8th anniversary, opening a direct channel to VIP 7 for professional traders. Eligible historical high-level VIPs and newly promoted VIPs can apply for a 30-day VIP 7 experience card without needing to upgrade step by step. During the event, completing trading challenges can also extend the VIP 7 experience period to 4 months, with opportunities to receive limited gifts and exclusive dinner invitations.The VIP Summit program is centered around "Ultimate Rates, Ultimate Trading," targeting different types of professional traders such as newly promoted VIPs, other VIPs, and historical VIPs. It establishes three main channels: VIP upgrades, TradFi challenges, and peak privileges, further expanding trading rights and exclusive benefits. VIP benefits include discounts on trading fees, borrowing rates, advanced APIs, unified trading account (UTA) infrastructure, and exclusive VIP services, addressing the core needs of professional traders regarding cost, efficiency, and service.This program is based on research from over 300 VIP users, with trading costs and execution efficiency identified as the most important factors for professional traders, forming the core basis for the event's design. As a key initiative for the next phase of Bitget UEX, this program further focuses on professional and high-net-worth traders, continuously improving the platform's system in terms of trading rights, capital efficiency, and exclusive services. The participation period for the event ends on October 31, and more details can be found on the Bitget official platform.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a trader bought approximately 12.1 million ARGUS on Arc Chain for about $1,200, then sold 1.8 million ARGUS, making a profit of about $30,900, and currently still holds about 10.1 million ARGUS, worth approximately $332,000.Data shows that the cumulative profit of this address on ARGUS is about $361,000, with a return rate of 302 times.

CZ reposted a summary from the founder of Compound regarding the failure of the CLARITY Act to pass the Senate procedural vote on platform X and stated that if there is one positive aspect, it is that stablecoins can still continue to provide yields.CZ mentioned that there will always be setbacks in the process of moving forward, but technological advancements will continue to progress.

Tether posted on platform X that USDT has been launched on the privacy protocol Zama.

Polymarket Vice President of Engineering Josh Stevens tweeted that the team has built an indexing system using the open-source Rust tool rindexer, allowing on-chain events to be visible up to approximately 14 blocks (about 28 seconds) in advance, and completing indexing within 0-10 milliseconds after block broadcasting, approaching real-time.He stated that transaction, position, and balance refreshes will be faster. Goldsky continues to serve as data backup, and the main path has switched to self-built infrastructure.

According to Ars Technica, Mozilla's latest "State of Open Source AI" report states that the performance gap between the U.S. closed-source cutting-edge models and China's open-source weight models has narrowed to about 4.4 months. Open-source models represented by Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 are only three points behind Anthropic Fable 5 in the comprehensive score of the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, but the cost is only about 30% of that.METR calculations show that the strongest closed-source models can reliably complete human expert tasks lasting about 12 hours, while the strongest open-source models can currently reliably complete tasks lasting about 7 hours. It is expected that in about 4 months, open-source models will catch up to the current closed-source level. Mozilla believes that most organizations should default to using open-source models and only pay a premium for closed-source models in scenarios requiring specialized, high-intensity retrieval and long context. Paying for cutting-edge artificial intelligence models costs five times that of regular purchases, but it provides a 4-month first-mover advantage.

Shanghai Guotou Xian Dao recently led a new round of financing for Hello Robotaxi with approximately 100 million USD, with Min Jin Investment and Genesis Partners Venture Capital participating.After this round of financing, the valuation of Hello Robotaxi's business is close to 3 billion USD.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, with the launch of the Arc mainnet, the tokens previously allocated by address 0xE73...60BF2 have gained substantial unrealized profits. This address had already cross-chained CRCL from the Robinhood Chain to the Arc network through Long on September 8, and subsequently purchased three tokens: LONG, Bitcoin, and USDC.Among them, it invested approximately $487.6 to buy LONG at a cost of about $0.0000136, currently realizing an unrealized profit of about $578,000, with a return rate of approximately 118,483%.

The Financial Services Agency of Japan announced the "2026 Fiscal Year Financial Administrative Guidelines," proposing to clarify the issues of on-chain finance in terms of technology, systems, and regulation through verification and dialogue between the public and private sectors, while ensuring user protection and the stability of the financial system, and to build a financial infrastructure that is both convenient and competitive.The Financial Services Agency of Japan will also promote the shortening and upgrading of securities settlement processes in conjunction with the development of asset tokenization, and plans to establish an on-chain financial forum aimed at the AI era to discuss the applications of digital finance, decentralized finance, and AI technology in the financial sector.

Binance will launch trading pairs GPROB/USDT and RDDTB/USDT for bStocks tokenized securities GoPro (GPROB) and Reddit (RDDTB) on September 16, 2026, at 20:00, and will enable spot algorithm trading bots and smart position bot services. Users can exchange bStocks for BTC, USDT, or other supported tokens within one hour after the launch, with no exchange fees.

According to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Zora (ZORA) will unlock approximately 16.667 million tokens at 21:00 Beijing time on September 23, worth about 1.21 million US dollars.