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According to a report by ZDNet Korea on September 28, Samsung Electronics is accelerating the construction of the first mass production line (Ph1) at the Pyeongtaek Fifth Campus (P5) and is discussing with major equipment manufacturers to move the target for Ph1 equipment installation from the originally planned third quarter of next year to the second quarter of next year. P5 is the next-generation semiconductor production base aimed to be operational by 2028, and the construction of the Ph1 cleanroom began in the third quarter of this year.Samsung Electronics had previously advanced the completion of the P5 Ph1 cleanroom, originally scheduled for early next year, by about six months, so the equipment installation is expected around the third quarter of next year. Industry insiders say that the start time for equipment installation is planned to be moved up from July to August next year to around May to June next year; others have indicated that Samsung has even proposed to deliver equipment in the first quarter of next year for temporary storage at other locations, showing a strong willingness to invest early.Discussions on the investment for the second phase of P5 (Ph2) are also progressing. Currently, Ph1 is more likely to be built as a DRAM and HBM production line, while Ph2 is more likely to be built as an advanced NAND production line, including the tenth generation (V10). Equipment industry insiders say that formal purchase orders have not yet been placed, but Samsung has discussed building Ph2 as a NAND production line with partners, and due to the long equipment delivery cycle, they are requesting to prepare relevant components in advance. Reports indicate that large global tech companies are increasing orders for high-performance DRAM and NAND for AI infrastructure, while storage companies like Samsung have limited production capacity. Samsung stated during the second quarter earnings call in July that unmet demand this year will extend into next year, and the supply shortage next year will be more severe than this year, with shortages expected to continue until 2028.

Alibaba is accelerating the expansion of its data centers in Europe and the Middle East, driving its 20 gigawatt global infrastructure development.Alibaba will establish its first cloud regions in Turkey, Finland, and the Netherlands within the next 12 months, and expand its data center layout in Malaysia, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, France, and Hong Kong.

B.AI platform announces that the total number of registered users has officially surpassed 2,700,048, growing from 2.6 million to over 2.7 million, with strong growth momentum continuing.This growth is attributed to B.AI's ongoing optimization of model supply and pricing mechanisms, with multiple discounts and usage rights continuously reducing the cost of AI usage, making cutting-edge models more accessible; at the same time, the platform continues to expand the boundaries of Agent capabilities, pushing Agents from task execution towards payment, collaboration, and value creation.Each user milestone is a testament to more users and Agents joining the intelligent network and signifies that the AGI economic network is forming more active value connections.

California Governor Gavin Newsom stated that I have just signed an executive order to significantly accelerate independent oversight of artificial intelligence companies and promote the creation of an "artificial intelligence off switch."In the absence of leadership from Trump and Congress, California is taking action to ensure the safety of all Americans.

According to Cointelegraph, Bernstein analysts stated that after the failure of the CLARITY Act to pass the Senate procedural vote, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) are expected to "actively and swiftly" advance the formulation of digital asset regulations to make up for the time spent on previous bill negotiations.Bernstein anticipates that the new regulations may cover token classifications for financing, protective measures for DeFi and self-custody protocol developers, exemptions for stock tokenization innovations, expedited approvals for perpetual contracts of real-world assets, and revisions to rules related to sports event contracts and their swap classifications. Relevant agencies may provide additional regulatory clarity for the industry through administrative rules.Analysts believe that the CLARITY Act could have reduced the risk of the regulatory framework being adjusted with changes in the political environment through legislation, but due to limited remaining legislative time and controversies over ethical provisions, the likelihood of the bill being voted on again is low.The SEC had previously proposed a new framework applicable to certain crypto asset investment contracts, intending to allow entities to issue tokens not exceeding $5 million within 4 years, or tokens not exceeding $75 million within 12 months, and set up safe harbor arrangements. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins had also stated that if Congress fails to pass the CLARITY Act, the agency has the ability to formulate digital asset rules on its own.

Zcash holders voted overwhelmingly to support speeding up transaction times while retaining the Bitcoin-like halving mechanism. This governance vote was for Zcash's next major network upgrade, NU7, with nearly 2.4 million ZEC participating in the vote, accounting for about two-thirds of the approximately 3.6 million eligible ZEC at the time of the snapshot. The results were calculated based on ZEC weight, with each eligible ZEC representing one vote.Among them, 99.9% of participating ZEC supported reducing the block time from 75 seconds to 25 seconds, 98.9% supported retaining the Bitcoin-like halving mechanism, 96.6% supported postponing the fee reissuance of the Network Sustainability Mechanism (NSM) until February 20231, and 99.3% supported launching NU7 as soon as possible, giving up any unrealized features before the deadline of September 30.This vote was limited to holders of ZEC in Zcash's latest privacy transaction pool, Ironwood. The ballots were encrypted and split into 16 parts for counting, making it impossible for validators to reconstruct the specific holders' votes and balances. Previously, a sentiment survey in February for NU7 only attracted 7.25% of circulating ZEC to participate. The voting results themselves will not directly change the network; the relevant features still need to be implemented, tested, and included in the final upgrade.

TikTok's parent company ByteDance has signed a loan agreement totaling $29.6 billion with 28 banks, including HSBC and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China. The loan has a term of three years, extendable up to five years, with an interest rate 0.68 percentage points above the benchmark rate. This is the second-largest loan in Asia this year, following the $40 billion loan arranged by SoftBank in March.According to Bloomberg, ByteDance plans to use this loan for general corporate purposes to advance its artificial intelligence development goals. The company previously borrowed $10.8 billion from about 20 lenders in 2024, and the initial size sought for this loan was $20 billion. ByteDance was valued at approximately $550 billion in February this year, and Bloomberg reported in May that the company is considering investing up to $70 billion in data centers and other AI infrastructure by 2026.As the loan news was released, Elon Musk, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman called for a slowdown in the AI race, expressing concerns about safety issues. Additionally, a report from Bitcoin Suisse predicts that the largest hyperscale computing companies in the U.S. will spend over $800 billion this year, exceeding $1 trillion by 2027.

Lisk's Head of Business Development Leon Waidmann stated in a post on X that the inventory trends of ETH and BTC on exchanges are diverging sharply. The exchange supply ratio of BTC is 16.5%, while ETH has fallen below 12.7%, with a gap of nearly 4 percentage points.The supply of BTC on exchanges remains relatively stable, while ETH continues to flow out of exchanges. The liquidity supply of ETH on exchanges is experiencing structural tightening.

According to Bitcoin.com, the cryptocurrency industry in Brazil may enter a consolidation phase due to new regulations from the central bank. The new regulations require virtual asset service providers to meet higher capital, auditing, anti-money laundering, and ongoing reporting requirements, with capital requirements for certain types of institutions reaching up to 37.2 million reais, approximately 7.2 million dollars.

According to Taiwan's "Commercial Times" report on September 14, as the computing power of GPUs and ASICs continues to rise, traditional copper interconnects are gradually approaching the limits of power consumption and signal transmission. TSMC is accelerating its layout for co-packaged optics (CPO). The industry is optimistic that if CPO bandwidth continues to double every two years, it may form the "CPO Moore's Law" of the AI era. Industry analysis indicates that the upgrade of CPO bandwidth mainly has three paths: including increasing single-channel speed from 200G to over 400G, expanding the number of optical channels from 16 to 32, 64 or more, and introducing wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). By 2040, the theoretical value could reach about 128 times the current level, with long-term potential for development towards hundreds of T based on the current level of about 3.2T.TSMC's role in optical interconnects has extended from wafer foundry to system integration, gradually integrating computing, HBM memory, and high-speed I/O from 3DFabric, CoWoS, SoIC to silicon photonics and CPO. When high-speed electrical signals exceed 200G, signal attenuation increases after passing through longer copper paths such as ABF substrates, PCBs, and connectors, leading the industry to develop shorter copper paths and longer optical paths. In terms of packaging architecture, the optical engine is currently laid out on the substrate, and the next step is expected to place CPO in the intermediary layer, with future possibilities of using SoIC technology to achieve 3D vertical integration of photonic integrated circuits (PIC) and ASICs. Industry players indicate that CPO still needs to overcome challenges in packaging, optical coupling, and testing before mass production can be achieved.

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella stated that we need to accelerate AI development and expand the benefits brought by AI so that it can widely benefit different countries, communities, and businesses. This requires the establishment of a cutting-edge ecosystem that allows both closed-source and open-source models to thrive.

Jiang Zhuoer, the founder of the Liebit Mining Pool (B.TOP), stated that BTC has fallen as expected, with $76,500 being a key support level (the lower bound of the ascending channel, as well as the Fibonacci 23.6% retracement from the rise of about $57,000 to $82,000). If it falls below $76,500, the decline may accelerate, and the next focus will be whether the previous low of $75,500 can hold.He previously mentioned two possible scenarios: a) a rebound before reaching $75,000, which would make it more likely to rise back to $80,000, or even up to the high resistance area of $83,000 to $84,000, before starting a major correction; b) if it effectively breaks below $75,000, it will trigger a correction corresponding to the original rise from $64,000, expected to reach $70,000 to $72,000, before entering the next phase of a bull market. Jiang Zhuoer believes that the voting on the "Cryptocurrency Market Structure Act" (i.e., the CLARITY Act) next week and news from the Federal Reserve may become key catalysts, thus maintaining a neutral position of full BTC short positions + full ETH spot positions.

According to a report by Decrypt, a new report released by the Bank for International Settlements shows that advanced AI technology has shortened the time window for banks to fix vulnerabilities before attackers exploit software flaws. It warns that periodic security assessments and scheduled patch updates have increasingly become insufficient to meet the challenges, with the time window from vulnerability discovery to exploitation reduced from weeks to minutes.The report focuses on the banks' response capabilities, arguing that financial institutions must accelerate the speed of software fixes and expedite the related authorization decision-making processes.

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.

According to CoinDesk, the U.S. Department of Commerce has allocated up to $100 million each to three quantum computing companies: Rigetti, D-Wave, and Quantinuum, totaling up to $300 million, to expand hardware, manufacturing, and error correction systems, while simultaneously acquiring minority stakes in the three companies.Meanwhile, Bitcoin and Ethereum developers are accelerating the advancement of post-quantum cryptography upgrade plans. The Ethereum Foundation has set December 2029 as the deadline for the base layer quantum resistance upgrade, covering the execution layer, consensus layer, and data layer; although there is no unified timeline for Bitcoin, proposals BIP-360 (post-quantum output types) and BIP-361 (phasing out ECDSA and Schnorr signatures) have been accelerated, with researchers also viewing 2029 as a critical window for completing a trustworthy migration path.

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 the latest data from CoinGecko, Websea's global spot cryptocurrency exchange ranking has surged from 45th to 32nd, rising 13 positions in a single leap, successfully entering the global Top 35; the Trust Score safety rating continues to maintain 8/10, with overall strength and market recognition further enhanced.CoinGecko's exchange ranking covers core dimensions such as liquidity, cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, historical operations, and proof of reserves. This continuous rise in ranking demonstrates Websea's strong growth momentum in the global market and confirms that the platform is accelerating its move towards becoming a leading global cryptocurrency trading platform based on its products, services, and security capabilities.

According to Bloomberg, AI chip startup Celero Communications announced the completion of a $275 million financing round, with the company's valuation exceeding $3 billion. This round of financing was co-led by Atreides Management, Valor Equity Partners, and CapitalG, a venture capital firm under Alphabet.Founded in 2024, Celero primarily develops coherent digital signal processors (DSP) for optical data transmission in AI systems, which can enhance the efficiency of high-speed data transmission between data centers and among different server racks within a single data center, thereby helping to build larger-scale AI chip clusters. It is reported that Gavin Baker, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer of Atreides, will join Celero's board of directors.