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According to CoinDesk, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has released a long-term roadmap, referred to as Streamlining Ethereum. The vision proposes that by 2030, Ethereum will surpass a mere blockchain ledger and plans to completely restructure the protocol in the next three to four years.The transformation includes expanding transaction throughput by approximately 1000 times, introducing zero-knowledge proofs to enhance privacy and combat quantum computing threats. By 2030, the network is expected to accommodate 2TB of traditional dynamic state data, along with an additional 100TB of new scalable storage, to achieve underlying state separation and optimization. The vision also aims to establish Ethereum as an infrastructure driven by cryptographic validation, with applications extending from finance to social systems. Most developers support this plan, although some voices believe the implementation timeline is somewhat delayed.

According to the Financial Times, the South Korean Deputy Prime Minister recently stated, "Artificial intelligence should be regarded as a fundamental infrastructure like 'electricity,' and every South Korean citizen should be able to use it affordably without worrying about costs." Last year, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung stated that this technology has brought South Korea to "a significant historical turning point," and asked, "Are we going to continue to act as followers who may be left behind, or become leaders who can seize unlimited opportunities?" To answer this question, the government last month selected domestic telecom companies SK Telecom and KT, as well as internet service provider Kakao, to lead the implementation of the "Universal Artificial Intelligence" plan, aimed at allowing South Korea's 51.6 million citizens to use services similar to ChatGPT and personal AI assistants for free. The South Korean Deputy Prime Minister clearly stated on social media that despite concerns that technology may spiral out of control and lead to catastrophic consequences, South Korea remains determined to become "one of the top three countries in artificial intelligence." He wrote, "Currently, we have no room to slow down the pace of artificial intelligence development. We will accelerate, but we will do so more safely."

The cross-chain asset protocol Universal has announced its shutdown. The protocol will continue to operate normally for the next 60 days, until November 17, 2026. Universal was launched two years ago to build Universal Assets (uAssets), bringing assets such as SOL, XRP, and DOGE into a new ecosystem, supported 1:1 by underlying assets, and has supported over 80 types of assets.The team stated that the scale has not reached a long-term sustainable level, hence the decision to shut down. According to the tokenized asset data platform RootData, Universal announced last February that it had completed a $9 million financing round, led by a16z Crypto, with participation from Coinbase Ventures and others.

Minara officially released the next-generation universal financial intelligence tool Minara Harness, which is now available for download by users worldwide. Minara Harness covers multiple asset markets, allowing for investment research 24/7 and operating automated trading within the scope authorized by users. Users can query financial markets using natural language, generate research reports, develop quantitative strategies, and handle daily tasks such as programming, web searching, and document processing. The platform supports users in selecting their own underlying large models.On the investment research side, Minara Harness can simultaneously call multiple professional AI Agents to analyze the same investment opportunity from perspectives such as fundamentals, valuation, market trends, and potential risks. Users can view the information sources and different judgments of each Agent and decide whether to execute trades based on the research results. Minara Harness also supports writing trading strategies in natural language, automatically generating code, and completing backtesting. Users can also subscribe to other traders' strategies, view strategy codes, historical performance, and real-time operating metrics. Minara also offers an optional decision review mechanism, which can verify past judgments against subsequent market results and assess which experiences can be applied to future research. At the same time, Minara announced the benchmark test results of Harness, which outperformed OpenClaw, Hermes, and Claude Code in multiple tests and demonstrated leading performance in tasks such as financial reporting, web research, and spreadsheets.

According to official news, Gate CandyDrop will launch the public airdrop event 17.0 from September 8, 18:00 to September 23, 18:00 (UTC+8). Users can participate in sharing a 20 ETH super airdrop by completing event market transactions and invitation tasks. Those who sign up to participate can also receive 0.1 ETH. This event sets up an event market transaction prize pool and an invitation friend prize pool, containing rewards of 15 ETH and 5 ETH, respectively.It is reported that CandyDrop is an airdrop platform launched by Gate, where users earn candies by completing tasks such as trading or inviting others, and participate in token airdrop distribution based on the amount of candies they have. This series of events continuously provides users with low-threshold opportunities to participate in airdrops, further enhancing user activity and engagement on the platform through a rich task mechanism and quality project support.

Users can send supported tokens from networks such as Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and Sui to Jupiter without using bridging tools and directly receive USDC in their Solana wallet. This feature integrates routing, cross-chain bridging, and exchange processes, allowing users to avoid switching networks or executing additional transactions.Currently, the service adopts a uniform fixed fee rate, charging $0.30 per transaction, regardless of whether the transfer amount is $100 or $10 million, the fee remains unchanged.

DefiLlama has partnered with the Web3 investment banking and consulting platform Forgd to launch a universal token rating dashboard, which rates over 100 DeFi tokens with a score from 0 to 100 and assigns letter grades from AAA to CCC, mirroring traditional credit ratings. The ratings are continuously updated based on changing token-related metrics.The dashboard aims to standardize the assessment of crypto tokens, providing traders and investors with a transparent and unified measurement scale, enhancing transparency and trust in the context of inconsistent metrics in the DeFi sector.

BSC and 0G ecosystem's largest AI economic infrastructure project NeoSoul today announced the official launch of NeoTrade. NeoTrade is a universal intelligent trading workstation for traders, allowing users to directly define how the AI trading Agent operates and put it into action.Most existing automated trading products offer preset strategies. Traders seeking greater freedom typically need to develop and configure trading Agents themselves. NeoTrade brings this capability into a product interface designed for traders.Once the Agent is activated, it can process market information and execute trades 24/7. Fund usage follows rules pre-set by the user, and operations requiring approval will wait for user confirmation; users can also stop the Agent at any time.NeoTrade continuously displays the Agent's operational status and actual performance. Traders can adjust configurations based on market results, making each outcome the basis for the next adjustment.Kaelan, co-founder of NeoSoul, stated that the next step in Agentic Trading is to transform tasks that previously required engineering capabilities into products that traders can use directly. NeoTrade aims to lower this barrier, enabling more users with trading judgment to utilize trading Agents.As AI Agents move from assisting analysis to continuous execution, trading products are also transitioning from preset strategy tools to configurable intelligent systems. Those who can simultaneously solve for autonomous operation and fund control are becoming key competitors in the Agentic Trading product space.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong tweeted in response to the viewpoint "If you're in the cryptocurrency space, turn to AI," stating that this is a flawed way of thinking and a zero-sum game mentality. Brian Armstrong emphasized that cryptocurrency is a universal technology, an infrastructure, just like electricity or the internet. It does not compete with the next hot technology because it supports the latter. It is "both-and," not "either-or." Artificial intelligence, as a major trend, does not diminish the importance of cryptocurrency. On the contrary, it makes cryptocurrency even more important.AI agents require their own financial infrastructure, and ultimately their daily trading volume will far exceed the total of all human trading volumes. They cannot open bank accounts, cannot wait three days to receive remittances, and they cannot reside in just one country. They need real-time programmable money (which is exactly what cryptocurrency is). Agents need to hold funds and make payments themselves. Coinbase was the first to launch the x402 protocol, Base, and USDC, which now support the vast majority of payments for agents. Agents will also participate in trading and act as financial advisors. They will raise or borrow funds for ongoing new projects. They will also save users from the tedious tasks of tax planning, portfolio rebalancing, and bill payments.

According to Jinshi News, Comcast's stock price rose 10.3% in pre-market trading after the company announced the spin-off of NBCUniversal and Sky into independent companies.

Bitget announced the launch of the global football-themed event "Universal Cup," which transforms sports viewers into participants through interactive mini-games. Users can choose representative teams from 48 participating countries and engage in a penalty shootout challenge that integrates elements of cryptocurrency, stocks, and CFDs, competing for a total prize pool of 250,000 USDT. During the event, users' individual scores will contribute to the national rankings, forming a dynamic global leaderboard; even if the selected country is eliminated, users can switch countries to continue participating. The prize pool will be distributed through daily rewards, leaderboard rewards, lucky draws, and champion rewards, with the event ending on July 19.Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated that the Universal Cup combines the atmosphere of global sports events with the UEX panoramic exchange ecosystem, helping users intuitively understand multi-asset trading scenarios through engaging interactions. Bitget has signed a contract with Messi and is a multi-regional official partner of La Liga. This event continues Bitget's long-term layout in the field of sports marketing, promoting the synergy between sports narratives and the multi-asset trading system.

SUN.io announced the completion of the Universal Router contract upgrade, further optimizing system performance and on-chain transaction experience while keeping the contract interface calling method unchanged. After the upgrade, the new Universal Router contract will immediately enjoy a maximum energy subsidy of 99%, while the replaced old contract will gradually stop receiving energy subsidies, and the subsidy policies for other business-related contracts will remain unchanged. This upgrade does not affect users' normal usage, and SUN.io will continue to provide a more stable, secure, and efficient on-chain transaction environment.

According to NADA NEWS, ReYuu Japan, a company listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Standard Market, announced that, after mutual consultation, it has terminated the basic agreement reached with the Canadian investment company Universal Digital Inc. regarding a financing framework of up to $100 million (approximately 15 billion yen).The agreement was originally intended to promote external financing arrangements related to its cryptocurrency asset reserve (DAT) strategy, but it was not a formal loan contract, and the establishment of the financing framework or actual borrowing had not been completed. ReYuu Japan stated that the capital market environment for listed companies implementing cryptocurrency asset reserve strategies has changed, and investor attitudes have become more cautious; this termination does not mean that its cryptocurrency asset reserve strategy is halted, and it will continue to assess based on market conditions, financial stability, and shareholder value.

Particle Network today announced the next phase product roadmap for Universal Accounts, which will launch two new products in the coming months: 1. Universal Deposit SDK: Developers only need about 10 lines of code to allow users to deposit assets from any chain into the application, significantly lowering the threshold for multi-chain asset access. 2. Universal Agent Accounts: An API and Dashboard for AI Agents, enabling AI Agents to own and manage their own Universal Accounts.Previously, Particle released EIP-7702 Universal Accounts in March, supporting any EOA account to upgrade frictionlessly to a Universal Account. This roadmap further strengthens the infrastructure positioning of Universal Accounts in scenarios such as developer integration, AI Agent asset management, and multi-chain asset circulation. Overall, Particle is advancing Universal Accounts from "account abstraction capability" to a broader chain abstraction application layer infrastructure, which is expected to enhance its developer adoption and distribution capabilities within the on-chain ecosystem.

With the phenomenal success of applications like OpenClaw, AI Agents are rapidly becoming the core narrative of Web3. AI has transcended its role as a "chat tool" and evolved into an intelligent "butler" capable of autonomously executing on-chain transactions and managing digital assets. Applications represented by Bank of AI are dedicated to bridging on-chain payments and digital identity verification, promoting the transition of AI into the role of "on-chain butler." On March 10th at 8 PM, a deep Space focused on the "Era of AI Equality" will be held, where guests will discuss how the Web3 landscape will be reshaped after AI Agents gain automatic interaction and DeFi management capabilities, and look forward to the arrival of the era where "everyone has an AI Agent."Users are encouraged to follow the official accounts @sunpumpmeme and @Agent_SunGenX, retweet the post, and tag three friends. The official account will randomly select 5 lucky users from participants to receive a reward of 10 USDT each.

According to official updates, SUN.io has announced the completion of a new upgrade to its smart routing system, officially introducing the Universal Router and Permit2 protocols. After the upgrade, users can complete optimal path exchanges across multiple liquidity pools such as SunSwap V1/V2/V3, Curve, PSM, and HTX-SUN in a single transaction. At the same time, through Permit2's one-time high-limit authorization and signature validity period and limit mechanism, it significantly reduces the energy consumption costs of repeated authorizations and enhances security.The official Tron mainnet Permit2 and Universal Router contract addresses have been disclosed, reminding users to interact with the contract addresses disclosed by the official source to securely enable a more efficient trading experience.