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The Arbitrum Foundation announced the launch of the Arbitrum Security Program, providing smart contract audit subsidies for teams building projects on the Arbitrum platform, covering applications on the testnet, mainnet projects, projects migrating from other blockchains, and exclusive Arbitrum chains.

Stablecoin issuer Circle is hiring a "Senior Director, Ecosystem Growth, South Korea" in South Korea, responsible for developing market entry strategies, tracking regulatory dynamics, and establishing partnerships within the domestic financial and digital asset industry.The position requires candidates to have over 13 years of business development experience, familiarity with stablecoins, DeFi, and institutional financial liquidity, and fluency in both Korean and English. Circle previously stated that its strategy in South Korea is not to directly issue a Korean won stablecoin, but to collaborate with local Korean won stablecoin issuers to provide infrastructure connecting to the US dollar stablecoin.

According to Coingecko data, the token Rhea of the cross-chain DeFi project Rhea Finance in the Near ecosystem has surpassed $0.19, with a 24-hour increase of 131% and a 7-day increase of 466%.It is reported that the project offers services such as lending, yield, cross-chain bridges, and Perp on Near, making it the largest DeFi ecosystem project on Near at present.

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.

Zhao Changpeng posted that today is a difficult day for Bitget. He believes and knows that Binance, the BNB Chain ecosystem, and the community will do everything possible to provide assistance, and he calls on the community to stay "SAFU".

According to GMGN data, the market capitalization of the ETH ecosystem token VIBE has risen to over 36 million USD, currently reported at approximately 36.2 million USD, with a daily increase of over 66%. The market is recently focused on its follow-up project IMD's AI Agent collaboration network.Related community articles state that IMD allows users to contribute Claude Code or Codex runtime environments to participate in shared tasks, and forms an AI work network through 2,000 NFT-associated positions, capable of executing contract development, research, testing, and oracle data tasks. The IMD official website shows that the related Agent network has already executed multiple development and on-chain tasks. According to public information, VIBE will further restructure into IMD in May 2026. The token price is highly volatile and easily influenced by market sentiment and hot events, please be aware of trading risks.

MeshWallet, a gas-free USDT wallet headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, announced the completion of a $10 million private placement financing, led by several private investors and small family offices.MeshWallet operates on the TRON (TRC20) network, with the core function of eliminating the need for users to hold TRX to pay gas fees, with transfer fees settled directly in USDT, simplifying the dual-token operation process. This financing will be used to expand the product roadmap and build the user ecosystem.

According to GMGN market data, the market capitalization of the Solana ecosystem meme coin SI briefly surpassed 9 million USD, currently reported at about 7.5 million USD, with a daily increase of over 160%.It is reported that SI stands for Super Inu, issued on the Stonk platform, inspired by Trump's proposal to rename artificial intelligence as "Super Intelligence," and paired with tokenized Nvidia stocks under Backed Finance's xStocks framework as the liquidity pool asset. Meme coin prices are highly volatile and easily influenced by market sentiment and trending events, please be aware of trading risks.

According to GMGN market data, the Solana ecosystem meme coin Super Inu briefly surged over 3 times, with a current market value of 7.23 million USD. Super Inu was issued on the Stonk platform, inspired by Trump forcibly renaming AI to Super Intelligence, pairing it with the tokenized US stock Nvidia.During a recent speech at the United Nations General Assembly, Trump expressed his desire to rename artificial intelligence to "Super Intelligence," stating that all American documents will use "Super Intelligence." According to market news, the related token has a small market value, with significant price volatility; the bottom chips have already made substantial profits, and there may be considerable selling pressure in the short term, so users should invest cautiously.

According to official news from Kinetiq, the first L2 network of the Hyperliquid ecosystem, Elysium, has launched its testnet.It is reported that Elysium is a general-purpose, high-performance L2 network built specifically for Hyperliquid, settling to HyperEVM, and co-located with HyperCore, with HYPE as its native gas token. Elysium is currently running Conduit’s G2 sequencer on an architecture that meets SOC II Type 2 standards.

According to the Astana Times, Kazakhstan's regulated cryptocurrency market is expected to reach a trading volume of $10.58 billion by 2025, a significant increase from $320 million in 2023, with the number of users rising from 53,000 to 215,000.Meanwhile, Kazakhstan has ranked among the top ten globally in the number of applications for the international Solana hackathon, with over 8,000 people completing training through the Solana ecosystem and more than 2,000 receiving certificates. Additionally, the country has 57 Web3 startups that have received a total of approximately $262,000 in funding and plans to complete the tokenization of real estate and logistics projects worth up to $60 million by the end of 2026, to explore the feasibility of digital assets as a new financing channel for the economy.

Subnet Summer announced that the August edition of the SubConnect Bittensor Revenue Index shows that Bittensor has officially entered the "Revenue Era." Currently, 24 to 25 subnets are generating actual commercial revenue, and it is expected that by the end of the year, the number of revenue-generating subnets will increase to 35 to 40; the total annual ecosystem revenue is estimated to be between 28 million and 35 million USD, and it is expected to exceed 100 million USD by the end of 2026.In addition, revenue is beginning to provide direct financial support for the token economy. About 14 subnets have launched revenue-driven Alpha token buyback programs, which are expected to reach 20 to 25 by the end of the year. Business activities are concentrated in three major areas: infrastructure, enterprise-level AI, and applied AI. The report points out that the criteria for measuring subnet maturity are increasingly shifting towards customer adoption rates rather than benchmark scores. Token releases have provided funding support for the first phase of Bittensor, while customers are beginning to fund the next phase.

Feixiaohao collaborates with VITAL-X to promote the Feixiaohao × GWDC 2026 Innovation Forum. VITAL-X will participate as a co-organizer in this forum, which will be held on September 29, 2026, at AT CENTER in Seoul, South Korea, focusing on topics such as stock tokenization, Web3, and AI leadership.VITAL-X will participate in this forum as a co-organizer. The project is positioned as the next-generation Web3 business ecosystem platform, connecting decentralized merchants, e-commerce transactions, and DeFi contribution distribution, using VXD as a certificate for ecological development contributions to build a global business value network. During this conference, VITAL-X project guests Su Yaoran and Wang Yanmei will also deliver speeches; they are the Global Ecological Strategy Officer and the Co-Initiator of VITAL-X Korea, respectively.The GWDC Korea event is expected to attract 5,000 participants, with representatives from Sun Yuchen, Microsoft, Bithumb, Animoca Brands, MetaMask, BNB Chain, and others also present. VITAL-X has the opportunity to integrate Web3 business, merchant networks, and contribution distribution mechanisms into a more concentrated industry exchange through this event.

According to GMGN market data, the Solana ecosystem meme coin "+++++" briefly surpassed a market capitalization of 4 million USD, currently reported at approximately 3.9 million USD, with an intraday increase of over 79 times.On the news front, Crypto Waterman stated that Roaring Kitty logged into his "wizard account" today and wrote "+++++", attracting the attention of the GME community. The price of meme coins is highly volatile and easily influenced by market sentiment and trending events, please be aware of trading risks.

According to GMGN market data, the market capitalization of the Solana ecosystem token STAMP once exceeded 14 million USD, currently reported at about 12 million USD, with an intraday increase of over 160 times.According to the project team, since Zcash has not yet completed the network upgrade to support asset issuance, STAMP attempts to achieve cross-chain asset mapping through NFTs and SPL tokens: users can obtain NFTs by burning SPL tokens and use the NFTs to exchange for corresponding assets on Zcash. The price of this token is highly volatile and easily influenced by market sentiment and hot events; please be aware of trading risks.

According to official news, the AIA Ecosystem Fund announced four updates to the AIA ecosystem, including the official launch of products, alignment of token and equity value, execution of token burn and unlock as planned, and the invalidation of unallocated tokens for dismissed members.In terms of products, the AI Token Smart Router under DeAgentAI was officially launched to the public today, providing unified access to DeAgentAI's proprietary models and 38 mainstream third-party models, supporting model routing, API calls, and usage measurement. Since the internal testing, the platform has served 8 top domestic and international large model clients, processing over 54 million external model calls, with monthly revenue exceeding one million dollars.Regarding the alignment of token and equity value, the AIA Ecosystem Fund stated that all revenue generated from products and business lines under DeAgentAI, as well as related intellectual property and value, will exclusively belong to the foundation and be governed by $AIA holders, with equity investors no longer entitled to residual cash flow. Additionally, the previously disclosed buyback has been fully completed, and the repurchased tokens will be burned as planned.The AIA Ecosystem Fund also stated that the one-year lock-up period for investors, team members, and advisors has ended, entering a three-year linear release period, consistent with the arrangements disclosed at launch; community, ecosystem, and staking shares will still be executed according to the original schedule.The shares of former employees who left normally will be distributed as agreed, but some former team members previously engaged in serious illegal activities. The AIA Ecosystem Fund clearly stated a zero-tolerance policy for any actions that harm the interests of the project and community. Any team member dismissed due to misconduct or harm to project interests will have their unallocated $AIA immediately invalidated, and the company reserves the right to pursue criminal liability.

According to GMGN market data, the market value of the Robinhood ecosystem Meme coin WALLET has plummeted, reaching a low of 3.08 million USD, currently reported at 15.56 million USD.Market news reminds users that the price of Meme coins is highly volatile, and investors should participate with caution.

On September 16, the day Circle Arc's mainnet went live, the AI Agent quality assurance product DeepQA released the Arc Campaign, completing public QA for 11 ecological applications on the Arc testnet and publishing all 13 reports on the official website in a collection format. From the initiation of the project to the public release of reports for all 11 applications, it took about 16 hours.Real-time data from the official website shows that this event executed a total of 141 test scenarios, of which 117 passed, confirming 15 issues. The Critic Agent conducted real-time reviews 30 times, retaining 141 scenarios, 436 screenshots, approximately 2,200 model calls, and 16.9 million tokens. The covered applications include the Arc official testnet browser, Tower Exchange, AchSwap, Machina Bridge, OmniHub, ArcFX, SettleOne, Syn DAO, thirdweb Arc Testnet, ChainGPT Pad, and Karwan. All tests were conducted in real browsers on live applications, with the injected test wallets holding only testnet funds and no real funds used.The backend of DeepQA is powered by WORLD3 and Google Cloud Vertex AI. A group of AI Agents completed exploration, planning, testing, and reporting, with each issue accompanied by screenshot evidence, and only released after being audited and reviewed in real-time by the Critic Agent. The team stated that a decentralized QA network is also in progress, which will prioritize support for the Arc ecosystem.

Robinhood co-founder and CEO Vlad Tenev stated that Robinhood Chain is rapidly developing, with the new team launching products every week, and the ecosystem is becoming more integrated.Tenev expressed to developers that if they are engaged in on-chain development, Robinhood wants to hear their voices and welcomes more developers to join the construction of the Robinhood Chain ecosystem.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, with the launch of the Arc mainnet, the tokens previously allocated by address 0xE73...60BF2 have gained substantial unrealized profits. This address had already cross-chained CRCL from the Robinhood Chain to the Arc network through Long on September 8, and subsequently purchased three tokens: LONG, Bitcoin, and USDC.Among them, it invested approximately $487.6 to buy LONG at a cost of about $0.0000136, currently realizing an unrealized profit of about $578,000, with a return rate of approximately 118,483%.