pro

The Layer 1 blockchain Harmony, once a major competitor to Ethereum, proposed to shut down its mainnet on Sunday, citing threats from AI entities and nation-state actors as too severe. The Harmony team stated on X that since the mainnet launched in 2019, the community has experienced multiple attacks and transformations, and now it is time to completely discontinue the Harmony network. To mitigate the threats, the team proposed migrating the ONE token to Ethereum and redirecting the issuance of newly minted tokens to its new initiative "The Remix Economy for AI Video."According to the proposal, the migration will determine the allocation of alternative tokens received by each holder on Ethereum based on the ONE balance recorded at the final block of the network (i.e., a snapshot), covering wallets, staked tokens, validator rewards, smart contracts, and centralized exchanges. The alternative tokens will be airdropped to the same wallet address on Ethereum, and exchanges will also migrate to the new tokens. Although the proposal states that holders do not need to submit a claim, multi-signature vaults, liquidity pools, and on-chain applications cannot be migrated, and users are urged to exit all smart contracts by September 10, 2026. Harmony also proposed to pay eligible validators and their delegators in four installments from a pool of $1.372 million, provided that validators maintain their stakes, sign agreements, and serve governance roles.This migration proposal is the latest case of blockchain networks facing increased scrutiny due to attacks. In August of this year, Harmony confirmed it was attacked, with the attackers creating approximately 4 billion unauthorized ONE tokens, prompting the team to release a patch and consider a rollback.

According to CoinDesk, the Polish prosecutor's office has charged Roman Ż., a former business partner of the missing BitBay/Zondacrypto founder Sylwester Suszek, with two counts, including fraud.Roman Ż. was arrested last Saturday in the Silesia region of Poland, and his lawyer stated that he had assisted in managing the exchange before BitBay was renamed Zonda. Roman Ż. denies the charges and has provided a detailed statement to investigators, with police seizing valuable watches and documents related to Zondacrypto during the search.The prosecutor's office stated that the arrest was ordered due to concerns that Roman Ż. would flee upon learning of plans to travel to China, with his lawyer describing the trip as a business trip and stating that he held a return ticket for September 13. The court will decide whether to continue detaining Roman Ż. during the investigation.Previously, BitBay was renamed Zondacrypto in 2021, and the exchange ceased trading in April, following customer withdrawal freezes, with estimated losses of at least 35 million zlotys (approximately 9.4 million USD). The Estonian Financial Intelligence Unit partially suspended the license of the brand entity BB Trade Estonia OÜ. The Polish prosecutor's office has launched an investigation into suspected large-scale fraud and money laundering, receiving over 3,600 complaints as of June.The case is also related to Suszek's disappearance in March 2022, with the prosecutor's office merging the Zondacrypto investigation with the Suszek missing person case in August.

According to data from platform X, the official Twitter account and contract for the new meme coin project "LAPTOP" by Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, have been announced. The account is named Laptop (@Laptoptoken) and has also gained the official Twitter follow of Hunter Biden.The project description states "Coming to @base September 9" and discloses the relevant token contract address, consistent with previously disclosed information.ChainCatcher reminds users: The currently disclosed information is all community speculation and has not yet been officially confirmed. Please do not interact with any unfamiliar links to protect asset security.ChainCatcher previously reported that according to The Wall Street Journal, Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, will launch a meme coin named LAPTOP, named after his laptop incident, scheduled to go live on the Base network under Coinbase on September 9.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, Garrett Jin has just sold 114,000 HYPE, which he purchased in June at an average price of $72.5, for a price of $86.3, corresponding to a value of approximately $9.84 million, realizing a profit of about $1.57 million.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, BTC OG insider whale agent Garrett Jin has just closed a long position in BTC worth approximately 107 million USD, totaling 1,331 BTC. This position was held for about three and a half months, ultimately realizing a profit of around 1.02 million USD. Currently, his account only has a large short position in ZEC, holding approximately 39,760 ZEC, with a nominal value of about 47 million USD, and an unrealized loss of about 24 million USD.Previous data showed that Garrett Jin's short position in ZEC has been continuously suffering from significant unrealized losses. Notably, Garrett Jin had earlier added to his heavily losing short position in ZEC, and then completely closed out his long position in BTC that was in profit.Yu Jin humorously remarked that this kind of operation is quite similar to ordinary investors: quickly selling profitable positions while stubbornly holding onto losing positions and continuously adding to them.

Goldman Sachs significantly raised its industry forecast in the latest global optical module report, expecting the global optical module market size to reach approximately $67.7 billion, $131.4 billion, and $148.5 billion in 2026, 2027, and 2028 respectively, an increase of 33%, 81%, and 115% compared to previous forecasts.Goldman Sachs believes that this round of upward revision is not solely due to the increase in the number of AI servers; more importantly, the architecture of AI servers is continuously migrating towards high-speed networks, coupled with the increase in the number of optical modules required for a single GPU or ASIC chip, driving rapid growth in demand for 800G, 1.6T, and even 3.2T.

According to a report by Decrypt, Galaxy Research stated that the third wave of attackers on the Coldcard hardware wallet has recently transferred 97.09 BTC, worth approximately 7.7 million dollars at current prices, accounting for about 45% of the stolen Bitcoin in this wave.Among them, the attackers transferred about 20.5 BTC to Ethereum via THORChain cross-chain on September 2; subsequently, they moved some funds into the CoinJoin mixing process to increase the difficulty of tracking the funds. Currently, 11 of the 293 2-of-2 multi-signature addresses established by the attackers in the third wave have been emptied.The report indicated that this Coldcard security incident originated from a firmware vulnerability introduced in 2021, which significantly reduced the randomness of wallet mnemonic phrase generation, allowing attackers to potentially reconstruct private keys offline and steal funds. As of now, approximately 82% of the stolen BTC in the entire Coldcard attack incident has not yet been transferred.Galaxy Research believes that if the newly discovered suspected victim addresses are included in the statistics, the total amount of stolen BTC may reach about 1,806, worth approximately 144 million dollars.

According to data released by SolanaFloor, Circle has minted approximately 3 billion USDC on the Solana chain in the past 24 hours.

According to Caixin, the "Management Measures for Online Marketing of Financial Products" jointly issued by the central bank and eight ministries will officially take effect on September 30, 2026. The measures aim to clarify the boundaries between finance and technology, and do not completely prohibit the online promotion of financial products, but rather provide specific guidance and regulations for marketing activities. It is specified that marketing financial products through public accounts, live broadcasts, and short videos should be conducted on the self-operated platforms of financial institutions or on accounts legally established by financial institutions on third-party internet platforms.In addition, marketers must be employees of financial institutions, possess qualifications for engaging in related business, and obtain authorization and consent from financial institutions. This means that if Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) want to promote financial products, they must be certified to do so.

According to @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, the smart money that previously spent 20 million dollars to go long on ZEC has accumulated profits or expanded to 11.37 million dollars.On September 4, when the ZEC price was 985 dollars, the address had an unrealized profit of 8.465 million dollars. Currently, with the coin price up 22%, assuming the position remains unchanged, the unrealized profit will further expand to 10.34 million dollars. Adding the previously realized profit of 1.038 million dollars, this address has once again achieved a single coin profit exceeding 10 million dollars.

Malaysia is leaning towards relying on Huawei Technologies' artificial intelligence chips to power its sovereign AI program. The Southeast Asian country is seriously evaluating the use of Huawei AI hardware as the backbone of a 2 billion ringgit (approximately 494 million USD) initiative aimed at giving the country greater control over national data.Insiders say it is currently unclear how many chips Malaysia will purchase, and these individuals requested anonymity due to unauthorized disclosure. This move faces strong opposition from the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.

On the 7th, Huawei released the Mate XT 2 foldable phone in Guangzhou, equipped with the latest Kirin 9050 Pro chip, which is the first high-performance chip to use logical folding technology.The Kirin 9050 Pro layers the logical units within a single chip, adding vertical interconnection channels internally, resulting in shorter signal transmission paths, lower latency, and better performance. This is also the first time Huawei has launched a new Kirin chip at a flagship launch event in six years since the global release of the Huawei Mate 40.

Samsung Electronics' wafer foundry division has recently surpassed 50% in the allocation of production capacity for the sixth-generation high bandwidth memory HBM4 substrate chips in the 4-nanometer process. The industry states that this division will invest more than half of its 4-nanometer wafers into HBM4 substrate chip manufacturing in the second half of this year to expand supply to companies like NVIDIA, Broadcom, and AMD.Samsung initiated mass production and shipment of HBM4 in February this year and plans to increase supply starting from the third quarter, significantly increasing the related wafer input since mid-year. This chip is based on Samsung's wafer foundry 4-nanometer (SF4) process. As of last month, over 50% of its total 4-nanometer capacity has been allocated to HBM4 substrate chips. According to insiders, Samsung's 4-nanometer process is currently at full capacity, with HBM4 substrate chips accounting for about 50% to 60%, and this high proportion will be maintained in the second half of the year.Samsung's wafer foundry production lines at Pyeongtaek Plant 2 and Plant 3 are mass-producing processes ranging from 4 to 7 nanometers, with a monthly capacity of about 30,000 wafers for the 4-nanometer process. Based on this, the wafer input related to HBM4 substrate chips is estimated to be about 15,000 wafers per month. During the second quarter earnings call, Samsung stated that it expects HBM4 revenue to increase more than threefold quarter-over-quarter in the third quarter, with HBM4 revenue in the second half expected to exceed 60% of the company's overall HBM revenue.

According to on-chain analysis platform Lookonchain, an on-chain player accurately captured two targets, ZCAT and STONK, with a total profit of 3.78 million dollars.The address spent 1,300 dollars to buy 24.52 million ZCAT, has sold 8.96 million for a cash-out of 55,000 dollars, and still holds 15.57 million (currently valued at about 2.12 million dollars), with a cumulative profit of 2.17 million dollars and a return multiple of 1,626 times.The address spent 19,700 dollars to buy 44.43 million STONK, has sold 34.62 million for a cash-out of 411,000 dollars, and still holds 9.8 million (currently valued at about 1.22 million dollars), with a cumulative profit of 1.61 million dollars and a return multiple of 82 times.

According to Blockaid monitoring, it has detected that the DeFi risk management protocol Cozy on Optimism has been attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately $170,000.

Blockchain Rocket announced that an on-chain attack occurred on September 5, resulting in a loss of approximately $287,000 in funds. The attacker exploited dormant perpetual markets on Rocket, placing artificially inflated price orders through disposable accounts and trading with themselves, generating false profits on the accounts while causing the disposable accounts to go bankrupt. The attacker then withdrew approximately $287,000 in profits from the Bridge.Currently, all deposits, withdrawals, and trading have been suspended. The team is working with security firms and law enforcement agencies, coordinating with exchanges, cross-chain bridges, and stablecoin issuers to track and freeze the stolen funds. The official statement indicates that a recovery plan is being developed, prioritizing refunds for small accounts, with specific details to be announced as soon as possible.

Silicon Valley angel investor Liron Shapira posted on X this morning, stating: "I assert (with 50% confidence): due to AI shaking the security and stability guarantees that people once believed Bitcoin had, the price of BTC will plummet more than 50% within the next two years."Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin rebutted this, saying: "I hold the completely opposite view. My fundamental reason is that, in the long run, I am quite optimistic about network security, and I believe the main challenge is how to smoothly transition through the transition period. Moreover, I believe BTC can at least properly handle all issues that do not require social consensus to resolve (for example, upgrading clients, mining pools, etc., to deal with network layer attacks fall into this category). Additionally, I believe the probability of hash algorithms or proof-of-work mechanisms being truly compromised is extremely low. I wanted to make a bet with you, but considering my current asset allocation (I guess you have the same view on Ethereum ETH), I have already staked about 90% of my wealth on this bet."

In the past 24 hours, Fomo has surpassed Pump.fun to become the highest-grossing protocol on the Solana chain.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale deposited 620,420 LINK (approximately 7.6 million USD) into Coinbase.In the past three weeks, this whale has cumulatively deposited 2,410,000 LINK (approximately 26.04 million USD) into Coinbase, all of which previously came from Binance.