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Anthropic stated that its chatbot Claude leads 26% of the company's artificial intelligence research and development work, a significant increase from nearly zero at the beginning of this year. The report released by the company on Thursday noted that this is one of the clearest signs to date that artificial intelligence can accelerate the development of future models.Anthropic mentioned that Claude also collaborates with employees to complete about 90% of the work. The company pointed out that more than a quarter of the artificial intelligence research and development is driven by Claude.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Matthew Sigel, the head of digital asset research at asset management company VanEck, stated in an interview with CNBC that quantum computing poses a risk to Bitcoin, but the community has recognized the seriousness of the issue. He pointed out that due to the decentralized nature of the crypto network, progress in addressing this issue may be slow, but the community is advancing related work.Sigel said, "This is a risk, but the community has already recognized the scope of the problem, and a large number of talents have gathered and proposed a framework for upgrading the system." He added, "Upgrades will not happen quickly because no CEO can tell developers 'do it now.' The governance process takes more time, and the process is more complex, but there are technical paths to achieve quantum resistance, and you will see more related progress in the coming years."Currently, quantum computers still have error rate issues and cannot crack Bitcoin's encryption algorithms. Some Bitcoin developers have begun testing quantum-resistant signatures on real-time sidechains. Coinbase plans to build a post-quantum signature pipeline using secure enclaves and threshold cryptography, and the Bitcoin Security Alliance, composed of BlackRock, Fidelity Digital Assets, Block, and others, is also supporting proposals like BIP-360 to reduce long-term quantum computing risks.

According to Cointelegraph, CoinShares crypto researcher Luke Nolan stated on the Chain Reaction program that cryptocurrency adoption in Germany is making "very good progress" through family offices, wealth management institutions, and younger investors, while the UK is "still very behind," mainly due to regulatory lag. Nolan pointed out that the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) only lifted the ban on crypto exchange-traded products less than a year ago, and its digital asset market is still in the "nascent" stage.In terms of relevant data, Germany currently has 89 licensed crypto asset service providers, accounting for 25.5% of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) MiCA registered companies; in June this year, Germany also ranked first in the EU with 57 authorized crypto companies.Meanwhile, Deutsche Bank stated on Wednesday that it is awaiting regulatory approval to launch crypto custody services for institutional clients in Europe, expecting to obtain a license in October; Landesbank Baden-Württemberg is also set to provide crypto custody services in April 2024 through a partnership with Bitpanda.In contrast, the FCA released final guidance on Wednesday clarifying when crypto activities need to be authorized and plans to open license applications on September 30, with the new system set to take effect on October 25, 2027.Additionally, the FCA issued stop notices on Thursday to three London locations suspected of assisting illegal peer-to-peer crypto trading; the UK Parliament approved regulations in February to bring digital assets under FCA regulation and finalized a package of rules in June.

According to The Block, Grayscale's research director Zach Pandl stated that the approximately $58,000 low reached around June 30 remains his assessment of the bottom of the current bear market phase, and Grayscale is currently advising clients to allocate Bitcoin.Pandl mentioned in an interview with The Block during the Avalanche summit in New York that they have maintained the view that $58,000 is the bottom of this bear market phase for the past few months. This assessment echoes the comments made by Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, who stated on September 10 that Bitcoin has bottomed out in the current cycle and expects a sustained upward trend for the next two years.Pandl stated that Grayscale uses a three-part framework to assess whether clients should allocate Bitcoin, including long-term structural trends, market cycle phases, and macro context. He believes that all three conditions are currently met, thus giving clients the "green light" to allocate Bitcoin. As of Thursday morning, Bitcoin was above $76,000, up 0.8% in 24 hours, but still down about 39% from its historical high of approximately $126,000.Pandl also compared Bitcoin with Zcash, noting that Grayscale has offered investment products for Zcash for about nine years. He believes that Zcash occupies an "underutilized and unexplored design space," rather than directly competing with Bitcoin, and pointed out that as artificial intelligence becomes more powerful, privacy issues are receiving more attention, with Zcash providing investors a way to express their views on personal and financial privacy.

Galaxy Research's latest report shows that after a cooling period in the first quarter, cryptocurrency venture capital activity rebounded in the second quarter of 2026. Venture capital firms invested approximately $5.6 billion in unlisted cryptocurrency and blockchain-related companies, involving 384 transactions. The total investment amount increased by 31% quarter-on-quarter, and the number of transactions grew by 10%, with the funding growth mainly driven by later-stage financing.Raising new funds remains challenging, with only 5 new cryptocurrency venture capital funds raising about $3.9 billion in the second quarter, marking the lowest number of newly established funds since the fourth quarter of 2019. Based on the investment pace in the first half of 2026, the total annual investment is estimated to be around $20.037 billion; this figure is slightly lower than the $20.3 billion for the entire year of 2025 but higher than most periods during the market downturn from 2023 to 2024.In terms of investment fund allocation, later-stage transactions accounted for about 77% of the share, early-stage transactions accounted for 15%, while seed and pre-seed transactions made up the remaining 7%. Startups based in the United States received 73.5% of the investment funds and accounted for 39.1% of all 384 transactions. Transaction, exchange, investment, and lending companies led with approximately $3.523 billion, comprising a total of 51 transactions.

Payments industry publication PaymentsJournal has published a deep-dive article, Navigating Latin America’s Complex Payment Ecosystem, examining the region’s evolving payments landscape, including domestic payment rails, cross-border settlement, stablecoins and payment orchestration. The article draws on PhotonPay’s research report, The Next Payment Infrastructure in LATAM, as a reference for its analysis. The article highlights the highly fragmented nature of Latin America’s payments market, where countries such as Brazil, Argentina and Mexico have developed distinct payment systems, currencies, providers and regulatory frameworks. At the same time, stablecoins are gaining traction in cross-border payments, offering an additional layer for liquidity and settlement, while local payment rails remain essential for reaching businesses and consumers in individual markets. PaymentsJournal argues that the next phase of payment infrastructure in Latin America may not be about creating a single regional rail, but about connecting diverse local payment systems, currencies and global liquidity through a more unified infrastructure layer. In this model, stablecoins can facilitate cross-border movement and settlement of value, while payment orchestration connects and manages the local rails, providers and fund flows businesses need to navigate. PhotonPay’s research explores these infrastructure trends and the changing dynamics of payments across the region.

Blockworks researcher Nick Carpinito stated: He holds a constructive attitude towards the GPU mortgage protocol USD.AI's sUSDai and has adjusted CHIP from underweight to neutral. sUSDai currently has a net yield of 6.98%, with loan interest currently accounting for about three-quarters of that yield, and gradual increases in custody will lead to mechanical adjustments.The deployed principal has reached $272.4 million, covering 17 loans, accounting for 46% of the protocol's $586 million TVL, with an additional $312.1 million signed in terms sheets. CHIP is trading at approximately $0.041, with a fully diluted valuation of about $408 million. He maintains a constructive view on sUSDai, with a net yield of 6.98% expected to rise above 8% with the transition of custody; he maintains a neutral stance on CHIP until the fee routing or the cliff unlocking decision in April 2027 determines the direction.

Recently, AI researcher Bilal Chughtai, who resigned from Google DeepMind, posted on X and LinkedIn on Monday, stating that humanity is running out of time to prevent artificial intelligence from causing widespread harm. He wrote: At Google, I witnessed the development of AI firsthand. I am also extremely concerned about the default trajectory of this technology. I sincerely believe that AI has the potential to kill us all.Chughtai stated that he worked on AI safety and alignment at the company under Alphabet. This is another employee expressing concerns about the direction of technological development. Google has not yet responded to requests for comments.

According to Arkham monitoring, Alameda Research transferred approximately 9.47 million dollars worth of SOL to Coinbase Prime last night, marking the latest in its ongoing two-year batch distribution.Currently, Alameda Research still holds approximately 270.15 million dollars worth of SOL on-chain.

According to TechCrunch, AI networking technology company Cornelis announced the completion of a $205 million financing round, led by IAG Capital Partners. The company was spun off from Intel in 2020 and develops networking technology that helps AI chips communicate more effectively. It has released a product called Active Compute Fabric, which addresses the issue of a significant amount of GPU time being wasted waiting for data to arrive by allowing chips to process and send information simultaneously.Cornelis competes with Nvidia using an open architecture, allowing customers to use various GPU and accelerator hardware on its network architecture. Although Nvidia chips can technically run on other network architectures, they are optimized for their own software, making customers more inclined to use the full Nvidia GPU stack. Cornelis has begun shipping products and is developing a new generation of products expected to be released later this year.

Ethlabs researcher Derek Chiang stated that the collaboration between Base and Ethereum regarding account abstraction around EIP-8130 and EIP-8141 (Frames) has broken down last week, with both parties advancing their respective AA standards.He pointed out that for a long time, the EVM has been a unifying force between L1 and L2, and sharing an AA standard could have ensured a consistent multi-chain experience for smart accounts, including future post-quantum accounts. However, as the industry evolves, L1 and L2 are beginning to differentiate in terms of value and use cases: L1 pursues censorship resistance and capture, open source, privacy, and security, while L2 focuses on scalability, customization, and compliance.Both sides agree on core use cases such as gasless transactions and passkey wallets, but there are significant differences in compliance requirements. Chiang believes that a lack of unified standards may not be a bad outcome, as both parties can maximize innovation according to their visions.He proposed two paths: establishing a governance mechanism for shared resources like the EVM that covers more stakeholders, or accepting that a lack of unified standards is inevitable and focusing on building wallets and applications that can mask differences, expressing greater optimism about the second path.

Zhiyu announced the completion of approximately 5 billion USD in financing, including 2 billion USD in equity placement and 3 billion USD in zero-interest convertible bonds. The funds will primarily be used for the next-generation GLM model, self-training systems, and computing power infrastructure construction.

According to CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost, the recent rise in Bitcoin has driven investor sentiment to its most optimistic level in nearly two years, with related market sentiment indicators briefly breaking 89, entering the "extreme greed" zone, the last time a similar level was seen was in March 2024.Darkfost pointed out that when market sentiment is excessively optimistic or pessimistic, it is often worth paying attention to potential market turning points. Currently, this indicator has started to retreat from its previous euphoric levels, gradually returning to a relatively normal range, while the Bitcoin price is attempting to hold its current level.

Security researcher Shou Chaofan stated that he just purchased about 6TB of Fable model invocation data from a leading Chinese model relay station, which included sensitive credentials such as SSH keys, VPN configurations, Alibaba Cloud keys, and GitLab tokens. He claimed that the keys in this batch of data were sufficient for him to access the servers or internal systems of 19 leading Chinese companies, as well as 7 Chinese and CIS government-related agencies, including Huawei, Xiaomi, NIO, and MiniMax.The model relay station is positioned between users and models like Claude, so requests and responses pass through it first, allowing it to see the complete plaintext. Once developers insert SSH Keys, API Keys, VPN configurations, etc., into the Agent context, if the relay station saves or even sells these records, the company's system keys will also leak out. This is not the first time Shou Chaofan has warned about the risks of relay stations. A paper he participated in tested 428 LLM relay stations in April and found that 9 actively injected malicious code, 17 actually used AWS test keys deliberately placed by researchers to call AWS, and 1 directly transferred ETH from the test wallet.Shou Chaofan is a co-founder of the blockchain security company Fuzzland and has long been engaged in vulnerability and supply chain security research. At the end of March, he also first discovered that the source map in the Claude Code 2.1.88 release package accidentally exposed about 500,000 lines of TypeScript source code.

According to CoinDesk, the latest paper released by researchers from institutions such as Theta Labs, the Ethereum Foundation, and StarkWare shows that the resources required for potential quantum attacks on Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) have decreased by more than 50% compared to the estimates previously published by Google's quantum artificial intelligence team.The quantum circuit design proposed in the study requires only about 1,151 logical qubits and uses approximately 1.3 million Toffoli gate operations to complete the relevant calculations, with a comprehensive score of about 1.5 billion, lower than the approximately 3 billion level previously published by Google.The research primarily optimized the point addition calculation in Shor's algorithm, which theoretically can use sufficiently powerful quantum computers to derive private keys from public keys. Jieyi Long, one of the main authors of the paper and CTO of Theta Labs, stated that quantum attacks are not imminent at the moment, but transitioning to quantum resistance will take years, and remediation cannot be done after an attack occurs.