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Recently, the socialized Meme trading platform Baola, strategically invested by Gate Ventures, has entered the product internal testing phase. Baola is positioned as a socialized trading platform aimed at the Meme market, exploring the combination of social content and Meme trading around aspects such as hot topic discovery, market information tracking, community interaction, and trading participation.According to the official introduction, Baola's brand proposition is "Your next Meme is on Baola," aggregating information such as popular calls, KOL dynamics, on-chain trading data, and community interactions. Users can view Caller, the number of token mentions, market capitalization at the time of the call, and subsequent peak performance, and discover active market participants through features like KOL rankings and Callout boards, gaining insights into market hotspots and participant performance from multiple dimensions.In terms of community interaction, Baola supports users in independently publishing calls and market opinions, and allows them to continuously follow interested Callers through Follow. The platform also combines KOL public calls with on-chain trading dynamics, providing information on historical calls, recent performance, and buying and selling behaviors, further linking opinion sharing, hot topic discovery, and trading participation. Currently, Baola has entered the product internal testing phase and is continuously improving the socialized trading experience in the Meme field. Users can visit the official website (https://bao.la/) for more details.

MistTrack disclosed that following the $1.46 billion hacking incident at Bybit last year, where nearly $1.2 billion in stolen funds were transferred via THORChain, Bitget has recently experienced another significant security incident, with stolen funds suspected to have once again flowed through THORChain.In response, THORChain officials stated that their protocol, like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and BNB Chain, belongs to a decentralized and permissionless network.

CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. stated that the 30-day moving average of the adjusted MVRV crossed above its 365-day moving average on August 20, indicating that Bitcoin entered an early bull market phase, with a price at that time of $71,255. This phase lasted for 31 days, during which Bitcoin rose by 13%.

The Sui ecosystem decentralized finance protocol AlphaFi announced the initiation of an orderly shutdown procedure. It has now entered maintenance mode, halting new deposits and loans. Existing users can still close positions and withdraw assets.Previously, some loan positions in AlphaLend that used ALPHA as collateral experienced severe under-collateralization, leading to bad debts for the protocol. Currently, the related bad debts have been fully covered, and the protocol is solvent, ensuring user fund safety. AlphaFi will continue to cooperate with the Sui Foundation to investigate and recover related debts, and will officially exit the Sui ecosystem after the last user completes their withdrawal.

According to the official page, Binance Alpha has launched Gstock (GSTOCK) and BREW (BREW).

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Metalpha (0x2d2...E3A) withdrew 11,179 ETH from Binance 1 hour ago, worth 30.12 million USD.

Sources say that the United States and Iran are discussing a phased agreement to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and end the U.S. blockade.

On September 24, WEEX Exchange announced that it will hold TOKEN2049 Singapore · WEEX Alpha Suite from October 7 at 9:00 to October 8 at 18:30 (GMT+8) at Marina Bay Sands in Singapore, and registration is now open. During the event, WEEX will provide a dedicated communication space for global builders, traders, KOLs, and crypto enthusiasts to engage in in-depth discussions on topics such as market trends, industry innovation, and product development.The event will feature roundtable forums and selected AMAs, where leading crypto and tech teams will share insights on the future direction of the market. In addition, WEEX will showcase the WEEX AI real-time trading feature on-site, allowing users to experience AI trading tools and explore the WEEX Trading House. Coffee and tea breaks will be provided on-site, along with exquisite merchandise and customized souvenirs.

According to Binance spot market data, the market has experienced significant fluctuations. PHA has dropped by 17.42% in 24 hours, while VIRTUAL has risen by 27.16% in 24 hours, reaching a new high for the week.In addition, ALICE, FIL, FLUX, STG, HAEDAL, and ZAMA have all shown a "high pullback" status, with declines of 7.42%, 5.45%, 6.12%, 5.64%, 6.61%, and 13.02% respectively. Meanwhile, LDO has shown a "bottom rebound" status, with an increase of 6.3%, and TIA has slightly risen by 11.44% within 2 hours.

According to The Wall Street Journal, SpaceX plans to retire the "Falcon 9" rocket, prompting various parties to begin searching for new ways to launch payloads.

Bitcoin on-chain analyst Willy Woo stated that this round of movement seems to have room for growth in the next 2-4 weeks, after which it will enter an overbought phase and need to cool down.He also mentioned that from the end of August to mid-September, the oscillation indicator showed cooling while prices remained strong, indicating that buying demand overcame short-term profit takers.

The third-party AI inference infrastructure company, Silicon Flow, announced the completion of Phase II of its B+ round and C round financing. The company transforms computing power and models into directly callable Token services. By 2026, the cumulative equity financing amount has approached 2.9 billion yuan, and the amounts for these two rounds have not been disclosed.Based on the Token annual throughput in 2025, Silicon Flow ranks fourth among all Token suppliers in China, with a market share of 1.5%. The top three, Volcano Engine, Alibaba Cloud, and Baidu Smart Cloud, account for 42.7%, 32.5%, and 11.8% respectively, totaling about 87%. This round of investors includes the China Internet Investment Fund, Guoxin Fund, China Mobile Chain Long Fund, China Orient Asset International, as well as YaoTu Capital, Shengyi Capital, and Cathay Venture Capital continuing to invest.Silicon Flow's revenue in 2025 is projected to be 55.33 million yuan, with a net loss of 345 million yuan, and an overall gross margin of -24%. The company submitted its application to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange at the end of June and is currently applying for a main board listing under the 18C chapter "Uncommercialized Companies" rules. Beijing has just released the first provincial-level token economy special policy in the country, clearly proposing to build a "world-class token factory," and has listed inference engines, model and chip adaptation, and heterogeneous computing power as key directions.

According to Ember monitoring, after the AKE price briefly rose by 115%, it is suspected that its active market maker withdrew 216 million AKE from Binance Alpha 4 hours ago, worth approximately 13.83 million USD.This entity currently holds at least 1.24 billion AKE on-chain, valued at approximately 803 million USD, accounting for over 54% of the circulating supply. Ember speculates that AKE and the previously risen B2 may be operated by the same active market maker.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, B2 rose 120% from $0.41 to $0.9 this afternoon. It is suspected that B2's active market maker transferred 13 million B2 to Binance Alpha through multiple wallets, worth $10.44 million.This batch of B2 was withdrawn from Bitget and Gate about a month ago, when the price was $0.47, currently making a profit of $4.27 million. One of the receiving wallets is associated with the address that previously operated SIREN; Yu Jin believes that this active market maker may be the same party that previously operated SIREN, AKE, XPIN, and BTR projects.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched the ETF Wealth Management Zone, featuring five selected US stock ETFs in its first phase: SPY (S&P 500 ETF), IWM (Russell 2000 ETF), TLT (US Long-Term Treasury ETF), EWY (Korean Market ETF), and SOXX (Semiconductor ETF), covering themes such as broad US stocks, US dollar long bonds, and core technology.Through this zone, users can invest in a basket of assets without having to select individual stocks, allowing for a one-stop layout of global core assets and popular sectors. Additionally, the ETF assets (rToken) in the zone support flexible trading 24/7 and can be used as collateral, further enhancing capital efficiency.Currently, the zone page has intuitively integrated core data such as the yield, historical dividends, and holdings composition of each ETF. Users can visit the Bitget App and enter through "Wealth Management Overview → RWA → ETF Wealth Management" to experience it.

Anza announced that the second phase of the Solana account rent reduction proposal SIMD-0437 has been launched on the mainnet beta. In epoch 1033, the per-byte parameter used to calculate the minimum balance for rent-exempt accounts has been reduced from 6333 lamports to 5080 lamports, a cumulative decrease of about 27% from the initial level, lowering the SOL balance required to maintain rent-exempt status.Anza also shared instructions for reclaiming excess SOL: users with the appropriate permissions can use the WithdrawExcessLamports instruction to withdraw SOL from token accounts, token mint accounts, etc., that exceed the minimum balance for rent exemption, without needing to close the accounts, and it does not affect the token balance. There is no fixed timeline for subsequent phases; the third phase will only be activated after confirming that the on-chain status growth is within a safe range; adjustments can be made in reverse through SIMD-0438 if necessary.

According to the Financial Times, the UK cryptocurrency industry is entering the regulatory implementation phase. Zumo founder and CEO Nick Jones stated that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will open the application window for cryptocurrency asset authorization on September 30, with the new regulatory system expected to be officially implemented in October 2027.He pointed out that for a long time, regulatory uncertainty and counterparty risk have made financial institutions cautious about the UK cryptocurrency market, not due to a lack of interest in digital assets. As the regulatory path becomes clearer, traditional financial institutions such as the UK's largest retail investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown are beginning to enter the cryptocurrency market. The industry will gradually bid farewell to offshore operations, startup-style business processes, and unregulated models, and the importance of compliant infrastructure and local service providers will further increase.

a16z related project speedrun launches Alpha Fellowship, with the application deadline on October 11. This program is aimed at highly technical students, dropouts, and recent graduates, supporting builders in the earliest stages. The program takes place in San Francisco and is operated by the speedrun team in collaboration with EO Ventures.The founder track can receive up to $250,000 in investment, over $1 million in partner credits (AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, etc.), speedrun automatic final interview (up to $1 million investment), office hours, co-working space, and an 8-week in-person experience (from January 11 to March 5). The talent track offers a 4-week in-person experience (from February 8 to March 5), introducing portfolio companies, office hours, fireside chats, and co-working space.Speakers and mentors include a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen, Substack founder Chris Best, a16z general partner Andrew Chen, EO Ventures founding general partner Roland Fryer, among others. The investment terms are $150,000 for 5% SAFE plus a $100,000 follow-on investment within 18 months. This program is limited to software engineers, requiring authorization for full-time work in the U.S.; students may apply but must commit to full-time participation.

Quantus founder and CEO Yuvi Lightman posted on X that the anti-quantum blockchain Quantus mainnet will go live on September 9 (Wednesday). The only way to acquire tokens at the launch is through mining, and liquidity and tradability will be available a few weeks later.The team has merged Immunefi security work into the public code repository and completed all fixes from the audit competition. The chain supports ML-DSA-65 and ML-DSA-87, binding each signature to its context according to FIPS 204 standards, failing and closing multi-signature transactions that cannot be decoded, and strengthening the network stack to resist denial-of-service attacks. The team has completed a full-process drill on the global rehearsal mainnet covering the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Australia, producing signed binaries through an automated pipeline, deploying multi-region bootnodes and dedicated RPC nodes as infrastructure as code, and reducing indexer memory usage from over 90% to about 26%.In addition, Quantus has launched a registration page, completed a website redesign, Keystone hardware wallet supports multiple accounts, and released CLI v2.1.3 and miner v4.0.2. Quantum & Privacy Day will be co-hosted with NEAR in Singapore on October 8, coinciding with Token2049.