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According to the Central Daily News citing data from the National Tax Service, there were a total of 423 cases of inheritance and gifting of virtual assets in South Korea in 2025, amounting to 45.862 billion Korean won, which represents an increase of 2.4 times and 3.4 times year-on-year, respectively.Among these, there were 103 cases of gifting virtual assets to minors under 18 years old, totaling 4.034 billion Korean won, which is approximately 2.7 times the amount of 1.47 billion Korean won in 2024.South Korea plans to further strengthen tax regulation on virtual assets starting in 2027, incorporating VASPs such as Upbit and Bithumb into the unified inquiry scope for financial assets related to inheritance and gifting.

The Central Science Management Bureau confirmed on the 9th that TSMC's Central Science Phase II 1.4 nanometer factory expansion is fully accelerating. The first P1 factory has completed its steel structure and is expected to begin trial production in April next year, with mass production anticipated in the second half of next year, ahead of the originally scheduled mass production in 2028. TSMC has applied to the Central Science Management Bureau to set up two temporary offices at the site, which are expected to be completed in April next year, with the first batch of over 5,400 operational and outsourced personnel moving in.The advanced process new factory for TSMC's Central Science Phase II park broke ground last October, planning to build four 1.4 nanometer factories, with nearly 2,000 workers working day and night. The P1 factory is currently undergoing floor and exterior wall construction, with the factory building expected to be completed early next year. The P2 factory has begun basic construction and is scheduled to be completed in October next year, with both factories expected to start mass production successively next year. The P3 factory has obtained a construction permit, while the P4 factory is in the process of applying for a construction permit, planning to be built with a six-month gap. P3 is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2028, and P4 is scheduled for completion in the fourth quarter of the same year. After the P2 factory is completed in the second half of next year, an additional 1,000 operational personnel will be added, with the total number of employees expected to be between 9,000 and 10,000 when all four new factories in Phase II are completed and put into production.

Former Magic Eden community data analysis contributor and founder of Magic Lab, Ben Gruenbaum, posted on X, accusing the NFT market Magic Eden of changing rewards, governance, products, and strategic direction after users locked up $ME for the long term. He stated that $ME has a fixed supply of 1 billion, of which 225 million are reserved for active user rewards over four years and are unlocked linearly, with the longest lock-up period being four years and no early withdrawal allowed. After distributing 10 million $ME in Season 1, an additional 2.3 million was added due to issues, and the rewards for Season 2 increased from 8 million to 10 million.The community fund was launched with 5 million $ME. The proposal supported by Magic Lab requested 295,000 $ME (approximately $177,000 at $0.60), but the budget shrank due to price declines. Users continued to lock up during the shutdown of the Bitcoin and EVM markets, as well as the Runes infrastructure and wallet, with rewards shifting to USDC. Magic Eden promised $75 million to Dicey, and some top stakers reported issues receiving USDC and have filed lawsuits. Gruenbaum stated that this is not a story about the token's decline, but rather about changes in ecosystem factors after users made long-term commitments.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Bonk Guy (@theunipcs)'s portfolio has shrunk by approximately 3.5 million dollars in the past 24 hours due to a market correction.

According to a report by AML Intelligence, the European Commission has passed an authorization bill to expand the "Central Contact Point" (CCP) framework to include Crypto Asset Service Providers (CASP), granting regulatory authorities in member states the power to require local contact persons to be designated by institutions such as cryptocurrency exchanges operating in their countries.This framework previously only applied to electronic money institutions and payment institutions. After the revision, it will include crypto service providers in the anti-money laundering and compliance regulatory network, allowing regulatory authorities to have a fixed contact window domestically and enhance information sharing and law enforcement collaboration.

Research institution Shoal Research released a report stating that bots account for about 60% of HTML content HTTP requests on the Cloudflare network, while humans account for 38.2%. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince previously predicted that bot traffic would surpass human traffic by 2027, and later announced that the growth of agent traffic has already led to bots exceeding human traffic.The report states that AI applications keep users in chat interfaces and summarize content, rather than redirecting them back to the original site. AI crawlers have a much higher crawl-to-return ratio than Googlebot, with ClaudeBot averaging about 4,200 pages crawled per return visit over the past year. Pew research shows that AI summaries have reduced click-through rates from 15% to 8%.The robots.txt and content exchange traffic model are difficult to maintain. Litigation and private authorization are stopgap measures. Pay-per-request is divided into a closed market with keys and open protocols using HTTP 402 and stablecoins like x402 and MPP. Most websites still offer free access or block it.

Ethlabs stated that it has reviewed over 60 EIPs proposed for the Ethereum Hegotá upgrade and updated its priority recommendations, focusing on four areas: censorship resistance, transaction confirmation speed, native account abstraction, and performance optimization.Specifically, Ethlabs supports FOCIL to enhance Ethereum's censorship resistance and neutrality; it recommends shortening time slots for the first time in the Hegotá upgrade through Quick Slots and creating conditions for further reductions in the future; it supports achieving native account abstraction through Frame Transactions, introducing passkey wallets, transaction delegation, using tokens to pay Gas, batch transactions, as well as better privacy and quantum security support. Additionally, Ethlabs emphasizes that client and protocol design should continuously prioritize performance, using optimization results to increase L1 capacity, shorten time slots, and reduce node operation requirements.

OpenAI is pushing for mandatory national-level artificial intelligence safety requirements.

The Watchdog Committee of the Arbitrum ecosystem (composed of Entropy Advisors and others) submitted a proposal to the governance forum on September 3, requesting a permanent ban on the projects Good Entry, Limitless, and APX Finance, as well as their founders, prohibiting their participation in all future ArbitrumDAO initiatives. The committee determined that these three projects engaged in grant abuse within the STIP and LTIPP incentive programs, involving a total amount of 457,553 ARB (approximately $76,000).Specifically, Good Entry received 200,000 ARB in the first round of STIP, of which 142,839 ARB flowed to 1,032 ineligible users, and there is evidence of self-farming by associated addresses, with the team refusing to cooperate with the investigation; Limitless exchanged all 75,000 ARB for USDC and cross-chain to Base, being classified as suspected theft; APX Finance was approved for 525,000 ARB, of which 239,714 ARB involved issues related to funds being held in the treasury, delayed distribution, and witch cluster problems. APX later merged with Astherus and rebranded as Aster, with approximately 70% of its assets located on the BNB Chain.According to the proposal, the three projects may defend themselves in the forum post before September 10. If the explanations are not accepted and the funds are not returned, the committee will initiate three separate Snapshot votes to decide whether to permanently ban the relevant projects and founders.

Coinbase announced that it has collaborated with Stanford University cryptography professor Dan Boneh and Localhost Research to hold a closed-door "Post-Quantum Bitcoin Workshop" at Stanford University, gathering Bitcoin developers, cryptography experts, researchers, institutional custodians, and hardware wallet specialists to discuss the technologies and migration plans for Bitcoin to address future quantum computing threats.The workshop focused on assessing the progress of quantum computing, post-quantum cryptography, and various post-quantum signature schemes applicable to Bitcoin, as well as discussing Ethereum's anti-quantum planning, the practical requirements faced by institutional custody businesses, and how to introduce post-quantum security mechanisms for Bitcoin through new output types. Participants believed that rather than predicting when quantum computing will pose a real threat to existing cryptographic systems, it is more important to establish well-tested response plans in advance.Quantum computing does not currently pose an urgent crisis, but the earlier research and coordination begin, the better we can avoid hasty network upgrades and asset migrations under pressure in the future. However, there is currently no consensus on a single post-quantum solution. Different solutions involve trade-offs in terms of security, transaction data size, hardware performance, key management, and the difficulty of user migration. Participants felt that Bitcoin's anti-quantum measures cannot rely solely on protocol layer upgrades, but must also consider how individual users, institutional custodians, wallets, and hardware devices generate, store, back up, and migrate keys and assets.

According to CNBC, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev responded to AMC CEO Adam Aron's criticism of the stock token business, stating that after a company goes public, its stocks will become transferable property, and other financial institutions should be able to create financial products referencing the relevant stocks without needing the issuer's permission.Tenev stated that publicly traded companies have the right to control their own rights and obligations regarding the issuance of stocks, but cannot control other companies issuing securities that reference their stocks. Robinhood's stock tokens are issued by independent entities and are backed by the underlying stocks, so obtaining the consent of the publicly traded company should not be automatically required.Tenev also acknowledged that holders of stock tokens do not have voting rights in the underlying company. These tokens are designed as debt securities supported by the underlying stocks. As for how Robinhood will exercise the voting rights associated with the underlying stocks, the company has stated that it has not announced any related plans.

Liquid Network has released the latest update stating that the emergency version Elements v23.3.4 is now online. Functionary nodes have immediately begun upgrading and all Liquid node operators are advised to synchronize updates. This version addresses the previously discovered Proof verification cache vulnerability and strengthens the cache keys used for Range Proof.Regarding network recovery, Blockstream states that it is still formulating a recovery plan, which is expected to proceed in three phases: restoring block production while continuing to suspend Peg operations; replaying verified valid transactions; and restoring Peg operations after the network status is fully restored and funds are confirmed to be returned. Currently, the first two phases are being tested in parallel, and any phase will only advance once safety is confirmed. Liquid Network indicates that Elements v23.3.4 has completed multiple rounds of internal and external reviews, with participants including the Bitcoin Red Team, Alpen Labs, and other teams.At the same time, Liquid Network reminds users to be vigilant against fraudulent upgrade websites exploiting this incident. Information should only be obtained through official Liquid Network and Blockstream channels, and users should never send funds to strangers or disclose private keys or recovery phrases.

According to Hyperbot data, trader Based16z has just closed 7,650 VVV long positions, worth approximately $200,000, and currently still holds 83,290 VVV long positions, worth approximately $2.2 million.Data shows that this trader has realized and floating profits totaling over $600,000 in less than 24 hours.

The re-staking protocol Renzo Protocol announced its name change to Renzo Finance and launched its first on-chain structured yield product Renzo Basis, which will go live on Hyperliquid, initially supporting BTC and HYPE. Lucas Kozinski, founder of Renzo Labs, stated that basis trading earns funding rate income by simultaneously holding a spot long and a perpetual contract short. Since the long and short positions hedge each other, asset price fluctuations do not affect the yield, and users earn the fees paid by perpetual traders every hour.Renzo stated that the product achieves automation through a triple protection mechanism, including hedge protection, yield protection, and safety buffer. Currently, the product does not use AI automation but instead conducts trading and strategy monitoring through Hyperliquid's proxy wallet (API wallet) with user authorization, without holding user funds. The relevant protection parameters can be customized by users. Renzo emphasized that its product differs from competitors such as Ethena and Bitwise's Superstate in that it is fully on-chain, self-custodied, and allows depositors to choose their own assets, trading venues, and risk parameters.Renzo Basis plans to support all assets on Hyperliquid that have both spot and perpetual markets and expand to other DeFi platforms, with the next stop being Lighter on Robinhood, where on-chain stock perpetual basis trading will be introduced.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, 40 minutes ago, two newly created wallets received airdrop contracts for 4,276 LAPTOPs from Hunter Biden's Substack subscribers, then sold them for approximately $404,000 and $243,000 respectively, totaling a profit of over $647,000.On-chain data shows that there is an ETH transfer association between the two addresses. Among them, the address 0x8DA...4A18d has transferred the proceeds from the sale in USDC to the public tagged address of Safe architect FloB (@FloB_Safe).

Crypto KOL Rune posted that during the process of claiming the LAPTOP airdrop, a newly created wallet with direct fund transfers appeared. The new wallet 0x8DA...A18d claimed 4276 LAPTOP for free, then sold them and obtained about 400,000 USD.Subsequently, this wallet transferred 0.02 ETH to another newly created wallet 0xc27...b591. The latter also claimed 4276 LAPTOP for free and sold them immediately; due to the price drop since the previous address sold, this transaction only yielded about 200,000 USD.Rune described that the on-chain activities related to LAPTOP are becoming "strange," but it has not confirmed whether the two wallets are controlled by the same entity.

According to official news, the AGENT economic project Agentum has completed a $7 million financing round, with participation from MEXC Ventures, BingX Labs, Arca, Wave Digital Assets, BlockTower Capital, Echo3 Labs, Greenwood Global Capital, UZ Capital, and Vega Ventures.The funds from this round will mainly be used to accelerate the construction of the trust and settlement layer for the autonomous Agent economy, with Agentum deployed on the BNB Chain. The BSC testnet has registered 399 Agents, completed 218 transactions, and achieved a GMV of over 2.44 million MockUSDT.

Bonk Guy fiercely criticized the token project related to Hunter Biden's "LAPTOP," stating that after further observation of the situation following the token's launch, he believes the project clearly exhibits speculative behavior of "wanting to extract profits while knowing very little about the crypto industry."Bonk Guy particularly questioned the fully diluted valuation (FDV) of up to $100 billion after the token's launch, bluntly stating that this valuation is "absurd to the extreme," and questioned why Hunter Biden himself would become the narrative core of the crypto market. He pointed out that the public's attention on Hunter Biden largely stems from the numerous controversies he sparked during his father Joe Biden's presidency, while the Biden administration has generally taken a relatively tough regulatory stance on the crypto industry.Finally, Bonk Guy warned that investors buying the token at the current valuation face extremely high risks, stating that "anyone who buys it deserves to lose 100% of their funds."

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain trader spent approximately 378.23 ETH (about 936,000 USD) to buy 1.497 million PONS, and then sold all of them for approximately 473 ETH (about 1.17 million USD).This transaction made a profit of 94.77 ETH (about 234,800 USD), with a return rate of about 25.06%.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a certain trader made a profit of over 1 million dollars in just a few minutes on the Hunter Biden-related token LAPTOP. The trader 0xa5019 spent 100 ETH (approximately 249,800 dollars) to buy 9,124 LAPTOP, and then sold 8,480 of them for 472 ETH (approximately 1,180,000 dollars).Currently, the trader still holds 644 LAPTOP, worth about 110,000 dollars, with a total profit exceeding 1 million dollars.