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On September 9, the official price adjustment for Zhipu GLM-5.3-Flash will take effect. The AI model invocation platform B.AI announced a limited-time extension of free benefits, available from now until September 12 at 09:59 (SGT), during which the model can still be fully invoked for free on the B.AI platform.GLM-5.3-Flash has a total parameter of 320B and an activation parameter of 18B, supporting 1M context. Models such as Qwen3.8 Flash, Hy3, and MiMo V2.5 remain freely accessible on the B.AI platform.

According to Crypto Briefing, the Bank of Italy has warned cryptocurrency service providers that every cryptocurrency transfer, regardless of the transaction amount, must undergo sanctions screening, and no minimum transaction threshold may be set to evade automatic screening. This requirement stems from guidelines applicable in Italy from December 30, 2025, issued by the European Banking Authority, and is not a new sanction obligation.The Bank of Italy specifically pointed out that certain instant payment exemptions for payment service providers do not apply to cryptocurrency transfers. Cryptocurrency companies need to review their screening systems, update their sanctions lists, and alert procedures to ensure coverage of all applicable transactions. The MiCA authorization does not replace these independent obligations under the EU restrictive measures rules. This move will increase compliance costs for Italian cryptocurrency companies, requiring more complex systems to handle transaction alerts and potential sanctions matches.

According to Decrypt, the Mexican federal prosecutor, in conjunction with the Navy and Puebla state police, conducted a raid on a property in the remote mountainous area of Tlaola, Puebla, seizing approximately 300 cryptocurrency mining machines, as well as transformers, medium-voltage terminals, and satellite internet antennas.The investigation revealed that the mining operation illegally tapped into the grid of the Nuevo Necaxa hydroelectric power station, and authorities have filed charges for "theft of electricity." Currently, forensic accountants are tracing the source of the hardware funding, and money laundering suspicions have not been ruled out. Data from the Mexican Federal Electricity Commission shows that from January to July 2024, non-technical electricity losses reached up to 6,346 gigawatt-hours, valued at approximately 13.8 billion pesos (about 817 million USD).

CryptoQuant analyst Woominkyu pointed out that Bitcoin closed at $78,450 on September 8, continuing the rebound momentum from around $60,000 during the summer, while there was no simultaneous surge in large deposits at spot exchanges.Data shows that on September 8, the daily inflow of the top ten spot exchanges was 5,442 BTC, which is 4.4 times that of the previous day, but only 5.1% higher than the 30-day average. The seven-day average inflow was 4,678 BTC, lower than several peaks earlier this year. From a more macro perspective, the recent price rebound has not been accompanied by an abnormal increase in large deposit activity, providing limited evidence for assessing the ongoing selling pressure from large transfers.What needs to be focused on next is whether the seven-day average inflow will continue to rise while prices weaken. For now, the deposit rebound on September 8 seems more like a return to recent norms rather than an abnormal spike.

Pons founder and lead developer Ozzy responded on September 9, stating that modifying the tax rate after the token launch is not supported, and the claim that "Pons can adjust the tax rate after launch" is incorrect.Ozzy indicated that the initialized Uniswap V4 pool for Pons has a 0% tax rate and a 1% Hook fee, which is clearly disclosed in all transactions. Some terminals incorrectly routed buy and sell orders to high tax liquidity pools due to router configuration issues, including vampire pools created by malicious actors, resulting in abnormally high tax rates displayed, which is not a modification of the tax rate after Pons' launch.Ozzy has requested the relevant terminals to correct the erroneous routing and stated that if users see a tax rate higher than 1%, unless the deployer set a higher tax rate at launch, it is likely routed to the wrong pool.

According to German media Golem, the Federal Ministry of Finance is preparing a bill to include cryptocurrency gains under capital gains tax. Speculative gains from digital assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum will be taxed at a rate of 25% starting as early as 2028, consistent with the current stock trading gains tax rate. Currently, selling crypto assets after holding them for more than a year is tax-free, while selling them within a year incurs a personal income tax rate of up to 45%.The bill proposes to retain the personal tax-free allowance (currently €1,000 per person) and allows crypto gains to offset losses from stocks and other securities; taxpayers with a personal tax rate below 25% can also apply for a "favorable assessment" to reduce their tax burden. This tax will apply to crypto assets purchased after January 1, 2027, and it remains to be clarified by legislation whether assets held prior to this date will enjoy transitional protection. The Ministry of Finance expects this move to generate approximately €350 million in additional tax revenue each year, and the bill has been submitted to other federal departments for consultation.

The official account of Solana announced that the Solana Accelerate China four-city tour will be held from October 16 to 22 in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, and Beijing. The event is aimed at developers, entrepreneurs, and investors, featuring discussions and demonstrations, with the theme of exploring new trends in technology between China and abroad.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a whale holding 149,800 ETH worth $377 million through borrowing leverage sold 6,000 ETH four hours ago, exchanging it for 14.97 million USDe to repay a loan on Aave, with a selling price of $2,496.Currently, the whale holds 143,800 ETH worth $362 million and has a debt of $181 million on the lending platform, employing an overall leverage of 2 times.

According to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Arbitrum (ARB) will unlock approximately 12.353 million tokens at 9:00 AM Beijing time on September 16, worth about 21.02 million USD.

According to the official announcement, Gate ETF will launch MINIMAX3L/USDT, MINIMAX3S/USDT, CRWV3L/USDT, CRWV3S/USDT, AAOI3L/USDT, AAOI3S/USDT, KORU3L/USDT, and KORU3S/USDT at 16:00 (UTC+8) on September 9, supporting 3 times leverage for long or short positions on MiniMax, CoreWeave, Applied Optoelectronics AAOI, and the daily MSCI Korea 3 times bullish ETF KORU. Gate ETF currently supports trading of 420 types of tokens.Gate ETF has also launched a new trading challenge activity. Users participating in the above 3 times ETF trading can share a reward of 60,000 USDT. During the event, the first trade volume of no less than 200 USDT can receive a 10 USDT ETF transaction fee cashback voucher, limited to the first 1,000 participants; a daily trading volume of no less than 1,000 USDT can complete a check-in, with a maximum cumulative reward of 100 USDT; the total cumulative trading volume of all participants reaching the corresponding tier can unlock a maximum prize pool of 30,000 USDT, shared by eligible users based on their trading volume ratio, with a maximum of 200 USDT per person. Invite friends to participate in trading, with a total invitation prize pool of 10,000 USDT.

According to DeFiLlama data, as of September 9 at 13:30, Huobi HTX had a net capital inflow of approximately 447 million USD in the past 24 hours, ranking first among the centralized exchanges in their statistics. During the same period, the platform's total assets were approximately 4.232 billion USD, Clean Assets were about 4.218 billion USD, the 24-hour spot trading volume reached 1.036 billion USD, and the contract open interest was approximately 3.948 billion USD.As of September 8 at 9:00, Huobi HTX had a net capital inflow of approximately 437 million USD in the past 24 hours, also ranking first among CEX.

Bitget has launched EURUSD, USDJPY, and GBPUSD perpetual contracts. The above contracts are settled in USDT, support up to 100 times leverage, and allow for 24/7 trading.

According to monitoring by Solid Intel, Robinhood Chain's daily transaction fees reached a record high of 6 million dollars, weekly transaction fees increased 17 times to 25 million dollars, and DEX trading volume doubled to 12.4 billion dollars.

According to Gate market data, the Hong Kong stock market closed with the Hang Seng Index down 0.17% and the Tech Index down 0.76%. Youdi Robotics rose 153% on its first day of listing, Lenovo Group and Weichai Power rose over 6%, while Haidilao fell over 9%.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that Alby confirmed a critical vulnerability exists in Alby Hub v1.7.0 to v1.18.5. If the management API is exposed to the public network, attackers may gain unauthorized access and transfer funds. Currently, it is known that 1 user has been affected, and Alby Hub v1.19.0 and higher versions are not affected.Alby recommends that affected users restrict public access to the management interface, immediately update to v1.24.0, and change the unlock password after the update. Multiple issues reported by Bitcoin Team Red, Project Loupe, and other researchers have also been fixed in the latest version.

On September 9, WEEX TradFi market data showed that GameStop (GME) stock price slightly decreased by 1.41%, closing at $18.89. Its latest disclosed Q2 financial report shows an adjusted EPS of $0.27, revenue of $790.2 million, a year-on-year increase of 57% in collectibles sales, and an operating profit of $160.2 million, a record high. The adjusted EBITDA for the fiscal year 2026 has been raised to over $650 million. WEEX Labs believes that the weak GME stock price is due to twofold pressure: first, the overall core revenue is still showing a severe double-digit decline compared to the same period last year, and the traditional retail to digital transformation has not achieved a fundamental breakthrough; second, market expectations regarding equity swaps and potential follow-up fundraising have squeezed bullish sentiment.In addition, AeroVironment (AVAV) will announce its FY27Q1 financial report after the market closes today, with market expectations for EPS around $0.22 and revenue around $468 million. Its stock price volatility will depend on the ramp-up of drone order capacity, gross margin performance, and the fulfillment of warehouse delivery guidance. Trade stocks and gold with WEEX TradFi, and you can also open daily eggs, with a 100% chance of winning, to win up to 10,000 USDT in position airdrops.

On September 9, the cryptocurrency exchange WEEX announced that the number of participants in WEEX Auto Earn has exceeded 1 million. After users activate it with one click, the system automatically takes snapshots of the USDT balances in the fund account, contract account, and spot account, and combines them for interest calculation, without affecting normal trading and contract margin usage, and no need for locking assets.New users can enjoy a 100% APR on the first 200 USDT, while existing users can enjoy a 10% APR on the first 200 USDT, and all users can enjoy a 3% APR on amounts exceeding 200 USDT.

On September 8, 2026, at the Citigroup 2026 Global TMT Conference, AMD stated that AI-related opportunities could reach $2 trillion by 2030. The company expects its data center business to double by 2027, with sales reaching approximately $70 billion, of which AI GPUs will contribute about $40 billion, while the remainder will come from server CPUs. The server CPU market size has been revised up to $220 billion by 2030, previously estimated at $60 billion.AMD has secured procurement commitments of $29 billion to $30 billion, gaining the largest capacity allocation increase among all customers of TSMC, but still faces tight supply of wafers, HBM memory, advanced packaging, and substrates. The MI450 is expected to begin mass production and shipping in the third quarter of 2026, with further ramp-up in the fourth quarter. The gross margin guidance for the third quarter is 56%, as the MI450 ramps up, with a slight decline in gross margin expected in the fourth quarter of 2026 and 2027. Chief Financial Officer Jean Hu stated that the speed, scale, and rise of AI are unprecedented.AMD has announced three major anchor customers: Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, all involved in multi-gigawatt deployments and multi-generational collaborations. Helios is ramping up at the rack level. The acquisition of Taalas has been completed, and collaboration with Cerebras is underway to integrate the Helios system with its wafer-scale engine technology. Server CPU revenue is expected to grow over 80% year-on-year in the second half of 2026, with growth exceeding 70% entering 2027. Enterprise server revenue grew over 70% in the second quarter of 2026.

The Economist estimates that AI has created about 1 million new jobs in the United States so far, far exceeding the approximately 200,000 jobs cut due to AI since mid-2023. This conclusion is based on the employment data for August released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on September 4: the U.S. economy added 162,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate remained at 4.1%. The unemployment rate for young people aged 20-24 is now close to its lowest level in decades compared to the overall unemployment rate.Job growth mainly comes from high-skilled positions directly serving AI and blue-collar jobs driven by data center construction. Since 2022, about 730,000 jobs exceeding the trend line have been added for engineers, software developers, mathematicians, and data scientists. The chief economist at Burning Glass Institute estimates that currently about 1% of professional jobs in the U.S. can be classified as AI jobs, with that proportion reaching 4% to 5% in the fields of computer and life sciences. Spending on data center construction has increased by 60% within a year, leading to a rise in demand for electricians, HVAC technicians, and others. Data from Indeed shows that salaries for data center installation and maintenance jobs are about 40% higher than similar positions.Customer service positions have shrunk by about 10% since January 2023, and administrative assistants have decreased by about 15%. Microsoft and Meta have reduced staff while restructuring their businesses around AI, and companies like Block and Intuit have replaced some manual labor with automation tools. On average, U.S. companies announce about 16,000 layoffs related to AI each month. Economist Noah Smith points out that it is currently difficult to find occupations eliminated by AI in labor data.