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The independent Solana validator alliance Layer33 responded to the adjustments of the Solana Foundation Delegation Program (SFDP) rules. The alliance is composed of independent validators, aiming to push for independent operators to collectively hold at least 33% of the network's stake. Layer33 stated that it acknowledges the foundation's remarks that the network scale has exceeded the initial launch plan, the validator pool has matured, and it faces challenges that were not envisioned in the early stages, believing that the delegation mechanism should evolve accordingly. The organization indicated that the new rules replace long-term contributors with short-term participants for a duration of 12 months.Layer33 mentioned that the foundation, in subsequent statements, indicated that participants from the Alpenglow community cluster provided crucial assistance and should receive direct rewards; part of the related adjustments is to make such rewards possible. The organization stated that the SFDP currently holds over 10 million SOL in remaining delegation, and providing substantial rewards to cluster participants does not require dismantling the existing plan; the foundation expressed that the intended recipients of the rewards are precisely the group prioritized for exit. Layer33 also noted that validators remaining in the program will see their SFDP delegation decrease from approximately 85,000 SOL to 55,000 SOL, reducing by about 30,000 to 35,000 SOL; some operators have already shut down nodes and canceled their Breakpoint schedules.Layer33 stated that it does not demand the foundation to change direction but rather to advance in the correct order and update the requests made in the previous open letter: to suspend weekly exit batches until communication regarding not abandoning contributors improves; to supplement details on rewards for Alpenglow community cluster participants; to disclose the analysis behind the 300,000 SOL external staking graduation line, the cap of 100 validators, the 12-month term, and the 55,000 SOL delegation scale; to publish an impact assessment on the current validator pool, including how about 75% of members are identified as non-contributors; to conduct formal consultations with existing SFDP members with processes and timelines; to disclose contribution-based delegation standards and application processes, running parallel with discretionary delegation; and to explain why the program places more emphasis on new validators rather than contributors who have operated and improved the Solana network for many years.

Market news reports that the Russian delegation has arrived in Abu Dhabi, ready to begin talks with Ukraine and the United States on Tuesday local time.

According to The Defiant, developer nicolashw submitted a draft Ethereum Improvement Proposal on October 30, which aims to allow external accounts (EOA) to permanently disable the delegation feature of EIP-7702 while retaining the original address, regular transfer, and contract call capabilities.This operation is irreversible and, unlike simply clearing the current delegation, can prevent the account from authorizing smart contract code to run on its behalf in the future. However, it cannot prevent the transfer of funds after a private key leak, nor will it revoke existing token authorizations, and it may also affect account recovery and asset access that rely on the delegation feature.Currently, the draft has not been merged and has not received an official EIP number; if adopted later, it will still need to be activated through an Ethereum network upgrade.

According to Hard AI reports, Qianwen is about to launch the Personal Agent product "Qianwen Go!". In user-shared experience videos, the product can access flight booking platforms to find delayed flights and negotiate with customer service multiple times to secure a cash compensation of 70 yuan for users; it can also search through orders on Taobao that meet price protection conditions to recover a price difference of 52 yuan for users.Reports indicate that based on the Agent architecture, Qianwen Go has upgraded its scope of services, capable of handling tasks that require repeated checking, communication, and comparison. The initial application scenarios also include car maintenance inquiry appointments, sports venue bookings, and calculating the final price of refrigerators by combining subsidies, old machine recycling, and installation costs. The product operates in a cloud environment and can continue working even after the user closes the app. During task execution, it needs to determine the next steps based on results, such as changing entry points, platforms, or communication methods.Bank of America research on October 7 suggests that the Agent helps users complete tasks and purchases more smoothly, which is expected to expand overall online activities. Morgan Stanley estimates that the personal-oriented Chinese consumer AI monetizable market could reach approximately 300 billion yuan by 2030 and may reach 1.6 trillion yuan by 2040, with major revenue coming from advertising and transaction commissions. Citigroup raised its CPU market forecast on October 6, expecting the global CPU market size to grow from 29 billion dollars in 2025 to 300 billion dollars by 2030.

Aave has enabled LlamaRisk agents for Pendle collateral on the Plasma network. According to The Defiant, these agents can adjust the pricing and lending parameters of a certain collateral token, which currently has a supply of 36.72 million dollars.The adjustments to the relevant parameters are constrained by fixed step limits and cooldown periods. Plasma is a Layer 1 network aimed at stablecoin payments, Pendle is a yield trading protocol, and LlamaRisk is a cryptocurrency risk management agency.

According to official news, the credit delegation layer project Twyne announced the completion of its seed round financing, which was co-led by Cyber Fund and Ethereal Ventures. Twyne aims to build a Credit Delegation Layer that connects idle credit in the lending market with parties in need of credit, addressing the issue of collateral depositors' credit being locked and half of the market's credit being idle while the other half urgently needs credit.Twyne stated that in the current lending market, credit often remains with the party depositing collateral, leading to a mismatch between supply and demand. The project will promote the flow and efficient allocation of credit through the credit delegation layer.

According to a report from Xinhua News Agency citing Iranian media on the 21st, the Iranian delegation has protested to the U.S. side regarding President Trump's recent verbal threats and is currently formulating an appropriate response plan.

According to reports from Xinhua News Agency citing foreign media, a delegation from Iran, including the Iranian Foreign Minister, will visit Pakistan on the 14th.

According to CCTV News, on the 25th local time, it was learned that the Iranian delegation led by the Speaker of the Iranian Islamic Consultative Assembly, Ghalibaf, will return to Tehran tonight after concluding their meetings in Doha, the capital of Qatar.It is reported that the relevant agenda of the delegation in Qatar has now concluded.

According to a report by Xinhua cited by Jinshi, after the negotiations between the United States and Iran concluded, there are no longer any U.S. representatives remaining in Pakistan. U.S. President Trump's envoy Wittekov, Trump's son-in-law Kushner, and the U.S. technical team have all left the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad. U.S. Vice President Vance arrived at Ramstein Air Base in Germany before 7 a.m. Eastern Time on the 12th.According to previous reports from Pakistani media, Vance left Pakistan on the 12th local time.

According to a report from Jinshi citing CCTV News, on the 11th local time, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi stated on social media that the high-level Iranian delegation heading to Pakistan will fully uphold Iran's national interests and will negotiate with a courageous attitude.He emphasized that regardless of the negotiation results, the Iranian government's work in serving the people will never stop, and the Iranian government will always stand with the people.

According to a report by Jinshi citing Xinhua News Agency, a U.S. negotiating delegation led by Vice President Vance arrived on the 11th at the Nur Khan Air Base located in the city of Rawalpindi near the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad.

According to reports from Al Hadath, citing Arab media, sources say that the technical delegations from the United States and Iran arrived in Pakistan on Friday morning local time. The Iranian delegation will participate in negotiations on Saturday, despite having expressed some views on the events in Lebanon. Details of the Iranian delegation's arrival in Pakistan are kept confidential.

According to CCTV News, on the evening of April 10, Pakistan time, the U.S. delegation participating in the U.S.-Iran negotiations set off for Islamabad, Pakistan, and Vice President Pence has boarded the plane.Before departing, Pence expressed his anticipation for negotiations on the Iran issue and stated that President Trump has provided "quite clear guidelines" for the negotiations.

According to Iranian media, there will be no negotiations before the ceasefire, and the delegation will not go to Pakistan.

The Iranian ambassador to Pakistan, Mughaddam, deleted his earlier post on the social media platform X on the 9th regarding the arrival of the Iranian delegation in Islamabad, Pakistan, on the evening of the 9th.Mughaddam had previously stated that despite Israel's repeated violations of the ceasefire agreement, at the invitation of Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz, the Iranian delegation would arrive in Islamabad on the evening of the 9th to engage in serious dialogue on the 10 ceasefire terms proposed by Iran.

According to market news, the Solana Foundation announced that it will implement new validator delegation program requirements starting May 1, 2026, focusing on transaction ordering fairness, censorship prevention, stricter timing rules, and limiting ASN and data center concentration.This adjustment aims to enhance network performance and user experience, with the monitoring platform Ghost assisting in tracking and publishing network health metrics.

According to a post from Cysic's official X account, the @cysic_fdn account was hacked due to unauthorized delegated operations. The team is currently working to revoke related access permissions and fix account security, reminding users to ignore any suspicious content posted by the account during this period.

According to CoinDesk, DoubleZero, a crypto infrastructure startup co-founded by former Solana Foundation executive Austin Federa, will launch the second phase of its delegation program on March 9, reallocating 2.4 million SOL from its 13 million SOL pool to reward validators operating in underrepresented regions such as São Paulo, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.Each region will receive up to 600,000 SOL in additional delegated staking incentives, aimed at reducing the increasingly concentrated geographical distribution of Solana validators in Europe and introducing the "multicast" data transmission capabilities widely used in traditional finance.Federa stated that one of the unintended consequences of blockchain acceleration is that validators are more likely to co-locate, similar to how early high-frequency trading on Wall Street competed to place servers close to the New York Stock Exchange.

The Cardano blockchain split into two chains due to a software vulnerability triggered by a malformed delegation transaction.The transaction was validated on the new version of the node, but was rejected by the old version of the software, leading to a network fork. The Cardano ecosystem governance organization Intersect stated in an incident report that this "toxic" transaction exploited a flaw in the underlying software library, splitting the network into a "poisoned" chain that included the transaction and a "healthy" chain that did not. Co-founder Charles Hoskinson initially claimed it was a "premeditated attack," but later an X user, Homer J., publicly admitted responsibility, stating that he acted carelessly while trying to reproduce the "bad transaction" and relied on AI-generated instructions. The user claimed there was no malicious intent and no economic benefit gained from it. Intersect confirmed that there were no user fund losses, and most retail wallets were unaffected. The price of ADA tokens dropped over 6% as a result of the incident.