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Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko stated that the industry is "not ready" for the next major upgrade of the chain, Alpenglow.Previously, Anza engineers had migrated the Solana developer network to the Alpenglow consensus protocol, which will change the way blocks are processed, aiming to reduce the transaction finality time from about 12.8 seconds to 100 to 150 milliseconds.

Bybit co-founder and CEO Ben Zhou stated that the Bybit team is ready to assist in various ways regarding the recent hacking incident involving Bitget. Previously, when Bybit faced a hacking attack, Bitget provided support.Ben Zhou mentioned that Bybit is currently updating the LazarusBounty platform to assist Bitget in tracking the relevant flow of funds.On February 21, 2025, Bybit experienced the largest hacking attack in cryptocurrency history at that time (approximately $1.46 billion to $1.5 billion worth of Ethereum was stolen, later attributed to the North Korean Lazarus group). After the attack, Bitget quickly transferred 40,000 ETH (approximately $10.5 million to $10.6 million at that time) to Bybit, with the funds coming from Bitget's own reserves, not user assets. This support was an interest-free, unsecured loan with no fixed repayment deadline, aimed at helping Bybit cope with withdrawal runs and replenish liquidity.

Elon Musk stated that the SpaceX Crew Dragon 41 spacecraft has been moved to the launch pad at the interstellar base, ready for launch on Monday.

Michael Selig, the chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), stated that regulators need to prepare for "mass tokenization" and adjust existing markets for new technologies such as blockchain and artificial intelligence. Selig mentioned at the U.S. Treasury Market Conference held by the New York Federal Reserve on Tuesday that developments like tokenization, on-chain finance, and 24/7 trading could lead to changes in the financial markets over the next decade that surpass the sum of the past several decades.Selig noted that the entire Trump administration laid the groundwork for the U.S. market to maintain its global leadership by embracing innovation, encouraging competition, and implementing reasonable regulations. The CFTC will also seek more ways to encourage market participants, exchanges, and clearinghouses to responsibly adopt stablecoins. Over the past year, the agency has issued guidance and sought public input on 24/7 trading in the energy derivatives market; in February of this year, the CFTC included stablecoins issued by National Trust Bank in the list of eligible collateral.Meanwhile, the CFTC's sister agency, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), released the highly anticipated "innovation exemption" last week, creating space for on-chain trading of tokenized stocks. After a bill regulating the cryptocurrency industry stalled in the Senate, the two agencies are advancing their respective agendas.

Recently, discussions surrounding the shutdown of projects invested by a16z have intensified. According to RootData's investment and financing data, after deduplication by project, five institutions—Coinbase Ventures, YZi Labs, Pantera Capital, a16z, and Paradigm—cover a total of 993 independent invested projects, of which 216 are marked as shut down, accounting for a cumulative ratio of 21.75%.Looking at the institutions individually, Pantera has a shutdown rate of 24.76% (51/206), Coinbase Ventures at 22.69% (98/432), a16z at 20.09% (43/214), Paradigm at 19.49% (23/118), and YZi Labs at 13.56% (32/236).Although a16z is at the center of public opinion, it is not the institution with the highest shutdown rate in the sample. Among its 148 lead investment projects, 29 are marked as shut down, accounting for 19.59%, including Linera, which recently announced its closure, and Universal, which has announced its entry into the shutdown process, indicating that even leading institutions cannot eliminate operational risks for projects.

A senior Iranian official stated that Qatar and Pakistan, as mediators, have informed Iran that the United States is ready to negotiate and reach an agreement, and that it is serious about advancing this process.The official pointed out that for Iran, as long as the United States returns to the Islamabad memorandum of understanding and fulfills its terms, Iran is also prepared to resume implementation of the memorandum within a few days. However, Iran demands practical and credible guarantees to ensure it will not be attacked again. Once the United States implements the substantive content of the memorandum, including stopping hostile actions, lifting the blockade, and allowing Iran to export oil, Iran will immediately initiate negotiations on nuclear issues and the lifting of sanctions.Iran has reached a consensus with Oman regarding the issue of the Strait of Hormuz; however, as long as the blockade continues and no agreement has been reached with the United States, "Iran will not reopen the strait."

Jurrien Timmer, Global Macro Director at Fidelity Investments, stated that Bitcoin has started to rise after consolidating around the support level of approximately $60,000 for nearly a year, a duration comparable to a typical Bitcoin winter, leading him to conclude that a new four-year cycle bull market may have begun.Timmer mentioned that the Z-score of BTC/gold has changed from -100% to a positive value, a signal that historically confirms a bottom. He also pointed out that we are currently in a long-term new pattern with higher capital costs, and the government may respond with financial repression.

Robinhood Crypto Vice President Johann Kerbrat posted on the X platform, stating that the SEC's innovation exemption is a signal that tokenization is ready to enter the United States. This is an important step taken by the agency, which will allow the onshore development of the liquidity tokenized securities market.Johann Kerbrat mentioned that wise regulation will accelerate innovation and looks forward to the content that will be built next.

Bitcoin Magazine released a discussion video featuring Peter Schiff, Grace Remington, and Sean Hagan. Schiff stated in the program that the bond market did not just collapse recently, but had already collapsed in 2020, and the subsequent trend is merely a slow unwinding process. He connected topics such as the rise in U.S. Treasury yields, expectations for Federal Reserve interest rate decisions, the decline in the purchasing power of the dollar, and central banks around the world buying gold, believing that the Federal Reserve has already lost the war against inflation.Schiff also warned that if rising interest rates trigger a stock market sell-off, it would be deeply bearish for Bitcoin and the broader cryptocurrency market, while Washington's political capital has shifted to opposing crypto assets. He mentioned that the dollar crisis may be in its early stages and questioned the credibility of the symbolic interest rate hikes that the Federal Reserve might undertake. He also discussed how long the bear market in U.S. Treasuries might last, as well as the combination of fiscal spending cuts and higher interest rates that he believes is truly needed to lower inflation.At the end of the program, Schiff and the host debated whether Bitcoin has actual asset backing, comparing the differences between tokenized gold and Bitcoin in terms of counterparty risk and monetary endorsement. Schiff believes that gold has risen to $5,500 while Bitcoin has retraced 23% from its historical high, suggesting that Bitcoin priced in gold may have peaked in 2021.

According to market news, Mike Selig, the chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), announced that the CFTC is ready to launch its rules for the new financial sector.

Santiment posted that the open interest in BTC has decreased from 321,497 contracts on September 3 to 278,151 contracts on September 11, a reduction of 43,346 contracts, representing a decline of 13.5%. During the same period, the price of BTC dropped by about 5%, so the decrease in open interest was not caused by the drop in coin price.In this regard, Santiment stated that the current market open interest is about 20% lower than the level before the rise in mid-August. The open interest stopped declining on September 11 and has slightly rebounded for two consecutive trading days, indicating that the market's risk-off operations mainly occurred before the announcement of important events this week, rather than during the events themselves.

According to the Financial Times, Anthropic stated that it has blocked multiple attempts this year by scientists to use its technology for related research that could assist in the development of biological weapons. The company cited five cases, claiming that the relevant actors circumvented control measures and obscured the research purpose to evade safety protections. In a report about models being used for malicious activities, Anthropic expressed the hope that by sharing these cases, it would spark discussions within the AI industry and among governments regarding emerging biological risks and responses.The cases include a researcher from an "unsupported region" using Claude, spending weeks planning experiments involving avian influenza. Anthropic stated that the safety filtering mechanism restricted the research to the least capable models and emphasized that it could not determine whether the aforementioned scientist intended to cause harm, as the same information required for developing biological weapons could also be used for vaccine development. The company has banned the accounts mentioned in the report but did not disclose the name of the institution to which the researcher belonged or the country where the events occurred.

According to CoinDesk, world.xyz has launched a fully on-chain prediction market platform on Solana, with over 1 million users joining the waiting list. Chainlink provides support for market settlement, and contracts are settled in Phantom's CASH stablecoin.

According to South Korea's "Cultural Daily," Samsung Electronics' wafer fab in Taylor, Texas, is expected to enter trial operation around the end of this month, as orders for 2-nanometer chips from Tesla, Broadcom, Arm, and others continue to pour in, with pre-production capacity nearing full load. The plant has accumulated an investment of $37 billion since 2022, with plans to begin trial operation early next month and mass production next year, with an initial monthly capacity of about 50,000 wafers, close to TSMC's approximately 80,000 wafers.The report states that the Taylor plant will produce Tesla's next-generation artificial intelligence chip AI5, Broadcom's new generation communication chips, and Arm's smart device AI chips, among others. Samsung's 2-nanometer yield has increased from about 60% earlier this year to around 80% recently. The company sent personnel for process, equipment, and yield to the plant in June, and began installing equipment in July. At a recent earnings meeting, Samsung projected that this year's 2-nanometer order volume would more than double compared to last year, and stated that NVIDIA's inference chip Grok3 began mass production last month; Samsung also recently raised the foundry price for 4-nanometer chips by up to 15%.The second Taylor plant is scheduled to start construction by the end of this year and begin mass production in 2030. Samsung has requested major partners to complete the relevant production equipment safety certifications in advance, and some partners are considering sending dozens of personnel to the local area. At the same time, Intel issued about $20 billion in new shares last month and expanded investments in 2-nanometer level 18A and 1.4-nanometer level 14A, while Japan's Rapidus completed its 2-nanometer factory in Hokkaido last month and entered the wafer trial production stage.

Affected by the news that Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, is about to launch a meme coin named after his "laptop incident" $LAPTOP, popular meme coins in the Robinhood ecosystem have generally fallen.Among them, PONS fell nearly 9% after the announcement of the spontaneous coin, with a market value dropping to $726 million; CASHCAT fell nearly 10% after the announcement of the spontaneous coin, with a market value dropping to $190 million; AI fell over 10% after the announcement of the spontaneous coin, with a market value currently reported at $179 million; MEME fell over 20% after the announcement of the spontaneous coin, with a market value dropping to $91 million; microduck fell over 25% after the announcement of the spontaneous coin, with a market value dropping to $17 million. Price calculations are based on the announcement of the spontaneous coin disclosed at 22:50 Beijing time.

BitcoinTreasuries.NET indicates that SATA has completed the purchase of 200 bitcoins, with two hours remaining until the transaction closes; the funds raised this week are sufficient to support the purchase of over 1000 bitcoins.

According to Bitwise CEO monitoring, there are currently 1,328 investors using the ATP. An important aspect of on-chain finance is providing participation opportunities for everyone.

According to a Reuters report, Polymarket's new Global Head of Research and Intelligence, Shana Bautista (former analyst at Coinbase, former investigator at the FBI), stated that as the U.S. midterm elections approach, Polymarket has established a system to identify unusual trading activities and will continue to prevent U.S. users from using its international platform to comply with the settlement agreement reached with U.S. regulators in 2022.In addition, Polymarket plans to launch a new webpage to publicly disclose the operational details of market integrity review mechanisms such as machine learning, blockchain analysis, and trading monitoring, and revealed that it has referred over 100 cases to law enforcement agencies.

Renowned trader Killa stated tonight that data from several bull and bear cycles of Bitcoin indicates that the depth of the bear market is gradually becoming shallower, and the bottom of this cycle may have already formed. The expectation of some latecomers for Bitcoin to "drop to $50,000 in October" is almost impossible.However, Killa also pointed out that if Bitcoin were to drop to $61,000, the expected value of long position liquidations could reach $20 billion. Market makers have the motivation and possibility to liquidate long positions and re-establish them. Killa, as a quantitative trader focused on BTC, predicted the peak of this bull market in May 2025 and has over 200,000 followers on platform X. In mid-April, he shorted Bitcoin at $74,688 and switched to long during the market-wide decline on June 5.