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According to BeInCrypto, Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko posted on the X platform that he hopes to establish a giant routing on the mainstream trading aggregator Jupiter, converting tokenized Nvidia stocks into tokenized SpaceX (SPCX) via Fartcoin, and believes that this routing will become the national best bid and offer (NBBO) reference price for all brokers in the United States.Yakovenko pointed out that the Jupiter aggregator automatically selects the lowest-cost trading path, and meme coin pools typically have the deepest liquidity on the network, so the router may complete part of the stock trades through Fartcoin.

Imran Khan, co-founder of Alliance, stated that Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong and Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev are leveraging their respective backgrounds to carve out different tracks in the cryptocurrency market.Vlad has built Robinhood into a platform centered around retail trading, deeply understanding the psychology and trading motivations of high-risk tolerant retail investors, which will give him an advantage in controlling retail speculation and trading in the future; while Brian has dedicated the past decade to popularizing Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency value system, deeply rooted in the Silicon Valley tech startup ecosystem, which determines that Coinbase and Base are more inclined to build underlying financial infrastructure aimed at changing the real world.Imran believes that although there is overlap in their businesses, the market space is large enough, and one party's activity in speculative trading does not mean the other party will fail. Both will lead millions of new users into the on-chain world from completely different entry points.

F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun (@satofishi) pointed out that the current rise of Zcash is essentially a narrative-driven speculative behavior, rather than being supported by actual value. He listed several core issues: in terms of unfair distribution, 20% of the block rewards in the first four years were allocated as "founder's rewards" to founders, employees, advisors, and early investors, totaling 2.1 million ZEC, which accounts for 10% of the total supply cap. This was followed by a similar percentage taken under the name of a "development fund"; regarding privacy mechanisms, the privacy feature is optional rather than a default setting, and most tokens circulate in transparent addresses for a long time, criticized as a "marketing gimmick."In terms of governance, the Electric Coin Company (ECC) has long-standing management conflicts with the foundation, and in January 2026, the ECC team collectively left, claiming they were expelled. In terms of security, in May 2026, it was disclosed that the Orchard privacy pool had a serious vulnerability for four years, theoretically allowing the forgery of ZEC without on-chain traces. In July, the old pool was urgently closed and forced migration occurred, which was seen as a remedial action rather than a positive development. Wang Chun believes that Zcash being listed alongside Solana and Hyperliquid in market capitalization does not represent that it has the same actual application value; the current price reflects more of a "narrative short squeeze" rather than the network's fundamentals.

F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun (@satofishi) stated that six years ago, he banned all members of the Zcash team due to their continuous confusion between EST and EDT time zones, believing that the team lacked basic principles of understanding. He mentioned that this decision remains one of his most correct choices to this day.Wang Chun cited the BlockFi incident as an analogy—BlockFi mistakenly sent 701.4 BTC instead of the 701.4 USD that should have been sent to users, pointing out that "those who can't even distinguish between EDT and EST are likely to confuse BTC and USD."

According to a report by the Korean News Agency, Matthew Dawson, co-founder of Ethereum Institutional, visited South Korea for the first time and held meetings with local major banks, securities companies, asset management firms, and exchanges to establish cooperative relationships. Dawson stated that South Korea has strong financial institutions and a developer community capable of fully utilizing blockchain infrastructure, and pointed out that the recent policy direction on token securities released by the Financial Services Commission (FSC) provides a good opportunity for cooperation.He anticipates that South Korean institutions, which currently start with private chains, will eventually upgrade to public blockchains, and emphasized that Ethereum, with its security, liquidity, and neutrality, is the ideal infrastructure for carrying core institutional assets. In terms of organizational expansion, Ethereum Institutional plans to introduce a head of Asia within 6 to 7 weeks and recruit technical, business, and consulting talent in Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan.

Co-founder of Arbitrum Steven Goldfeder and co-founder of Solana Toly engaged in a debate over on-chain transaction fees, MEV protection, and the single sequencer model.Steven stated that one cannot simply compare surface-level fees. Arbitrum One and Robinhood Chain actively prevent front-running and most harmful MEV, while some chains that claim lower fees have higher MEV costs, including front-running against retail investors. He expressed a preference for paying clear fees upfront rather than incurring hidden losses from front-running, sandwich attacks, and other issues for the sake of lower fees.Toly countered that Arbitrum currently has a less favorable bid-ask spread and higher fees. The 10% cut taken from transaction fees alone translates to a cost in basis points that exceeds the loss rate from sandwich attacks, which he estimates to be about 10 times that of the latter, not accounting for the impact of the spread. He emphasized, "A single sequencer that pursues shareholder value maximization can never outperform permissionless competition."

Arbitrum co-founder Steven Goldfeder stated that there is a misunderstanding in the market regarding the supply of ARB, often including the tokens held by the DAO in the locked supply.He pointed out that the token unlock for ARB investors and team members is nearing completion and will be fully unlocked by March next year. Currently, the portion of tokens that have not yet been unlocked accounts for approximately 7.7% of the total supply.The Arbitrum DAO treasury currently holds 2.84 billion ARB, but these tokens are not traditional locked tokens; they are controlled by circulating token holders, and their transfer must be approved by a vote from other token holders.

The founder of Arbitrum, Steven Goldfeder, and Solana co-founder, Toly, engaged in a debate over the fee model of Robinhood Chain. Toly claimed that the 10% revenue share paid to Arbitrum by Robinhood Chain is sufficient to cover four times the transaction fees on the Solana chain, suggesting that if deployed on Solana, user gas fees could significantly decrease. In response, Goldfeder stated that Robinhood could retain about 90% of gas revenue under the Arbitrum architecture, thus choosing Arbitrum to "be the landlord, not the tenant."Toly countered that Robinhood could charge fees at the application front end while utilizing a lower-cost underlying network; Goldfeder, however, indicated that a large amount of on-chain activity does not go through the Robinhood front end, and if it were merely a "tenant" of the underlying network, Robinhood would not be able to capture the revenue generated from these peripheral activities.According to market news, Robinhood evaluated both Solana and Arbitrum during the product initiation phase and ultimately chose Arbitrum, which allows for independent chain deployment.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko stated that the revenue share paid by Robinhood to Arbitrum is sufficient to cover about 4 times its trading fees on Solana, allowing Robinhood to provide users with a completely gas-free trading experience on Solana.

According to GMGN data, the market value of the Meme coin SLINK on the Robinhood Chain briefly plummeted to 1.6 million USD and is currently reported at about 1.5 million USD.It is understood that the narrative of SLINK originates from the Neuralink-supported social experiment ShivoLink. This project connects multiple Neuralink implant recipients to the same X account, allowing them to publish content through a brain-machine interface. Neuralink co-founder Shıvon Zilis publicly expressed support for the project, after which Elon Musk responded to related tweets, attracting community attention. According to market news, the price of Meme coins is highly volatile, and the official relationship between SLINK and the ShivoLink project has not yet been confirmed. Users are advised to pay attention to asset safety and participate with caution.

According to Decrypt, the latest records from the UK Electoral Commission show that BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo donated £4 million (approximately $5.4 million) to the Reform Party of the UK twice in April this year, bringing his total donations to the party this year to £8 million (approximately $10.8 million), second only to Tether equity investor Christopher Harborne (who has donated a total of £15 million, approximately $20.25 million).These two donations accounted for 75% of the party's total donations for the corresponding quarter and were also the largest two single donations received by any political party in the UK during that quarter. The UK has prohibited political donations in the form of cryptocurrency since March, so all donations were made in cash.It is reported that BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo revealed in April that he had donated $5.4 million (approximately £4 million) to the Reform Party of the UK led by Nigel Farage, with the donations occurring before the new regulation setting a £100,000 cap on donations from overseas expatriates was introduced.

Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon and CEO of the foundation, stated that today he initiated a cryptocurrency campaign to support the people of Nepal and donate to the Nepalese Prime Minister's Disaster Relief Fund, with the donation link provided. This pathway utilizes blockchain technology to ensure that funds enter the government relief fund in the local currency.The campaign is supported by Polygon's Open Money Stack, Coinme, and Cross River Bank. Blockchain for Impact has pledged to donate $100,000. Nailwal mentioned that stablecoins are suitable for use when funds need to be quickly delivered to those in need.Nailwal stated that he was born in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, India, adjacent to Nepal, and his maternal family also hails from that area. Communities on both sides of the Indonesia border have been connected for generations through family, culture, faith, food, trade, and daily life. India and Nepal are often referred to as having a familial and shared life bond known as "roti-beti ka rishta." He hopes that people will participate in Nepal's relief and reconstruction using stablecoins.

According to Bloomberg, after NVIDIA acquired the AI platform Hugging Face for about $13 billion, the three French co-founders—38-year-old Clément Delangue, 42-year-old Julien Chaumond, and 41-year-old Thomas Wolf—each saw their net worth rise to about $1.8 billion, marking their debut on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.The deal is expected to be completed in the first half of 2027, and the three co-founders will continue to serve under a six-year retention agreement. NVIDIA has committed that Hugging Face will remain an open platform, allowing users to freely upload and download AI models and datasets. Hugging Face was founded in 2016, initially starting in Paris and now headquartered in Brooklyn.

According to the official account of UXUY, Mr. Xu Zhihong, co-founder of UXUY, passed away in his sleep last week.UXUY stated that Mr. Xu Zhihong played an important role in the establishment and development of the company, leaving a profound impact on brand building, team, and ecological development. Mr. Xu Zhihong's farewell ceremony will be held on September 12, 2026, at the OneX AI Entrepreneur Space in Chaoyang, Beijing.

Numa Lunah, co-founder of the crypto project Refi Hub, stated that he was hacked after installing a transcription application using a download link provided in the Claude chat window. The link pointed to a counterfeit website and bundled malware that attempted to steal all information from his device upon execution. Numa Lunah mentioned that he cleared and reinstalled the affected laptop and found no sensitive information leaked.Subsequently, he discovered a contaminated Claude Code skill file SKILL.md in his backup, which disguised itself as a style guide written by him and contained instructions to re-download the malware and steal credentials every time it was loaded. Microsoft Defender Experts had warned that attackers had shifted from search engine optimization poisoning to large language model response poisoning, with related tactics including recommending download links controlled by attackers, AI brand impersonation installers, and contaminated code libraries and proxy skills. Crypto industry practitioners may hold irrevocable credentials such as mnemonic phrases, private key files, hot wallet JSON, exchange API keys with withdrawal permissions, and deployer keys.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Barret Zoph, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, will join Google as Vice President of Research. Zoph suddenly left the startup to join OpenAI after a dispute with CEO Mira Murati earlier this year, and after a brief tenure at OpenAI, he changed employers again.Previously, Zoph served as Chief Technology Officer at Thinking Machines Lab and led efforts to sell artificial intelligence products to enterprises during his time at OpenAI. Google has confirmed this appointment. Recently, Google has lost several high-profile researchers in succession.

According to CoinDesk, Binance co-founder Zhao Changpeng (CZ) and He Yi used the cartoon characters from "The Simpsons," with the aliases "Homer" and "Marge," in company meetings and internal communications. He Yi currently serves as co-CEO of Binance alongside Richard Teng, and according to people who have worked with her at Binance, she still uses the alias "Marge" in meetings and chats. The skin color of the Simpsons characters is yellow, which coincidentally echoes the corporate primary color scheme of Binance's logo and marketing.CZ resigned as CEO of Binance in November 2023, after the U.S. Department of Justice charged him with violating the Bank Secrecy Act. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four months in prison in April 2024. In October 2025, President Trump granted him a pardon. According to Forbes data, Zhao Changpeng is the richest person in Canada, with a net worth of approximately $111.1 billion as of April 2026. He Yi previously served as Binance's Chief Marketing Officer for a long time and has been the head of YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs) since August 2022. Following the news, the crypto meme coin ecosystem quickly created a meme token in tribute to this "Simpsons alias" couple.

The Sui development team co-founder of Mysten Labs, Kostas Kryptos, stated that Havenex is undergoing Series A financing and is about to complete it. All necessary license applications and some additional license applications have been submitted, and the financing amount is also close to being fully allocated.Havenex is not positioned to become another Coinbase, Binance, Bybit, or Kraken, but rather to provide infrastructure for financial institutions, enabling them to offer digital assets and traditional financial assets to clients while meeting regulatory, custody, security, and transparency requirements. Havenex plans to support a multi-chain architecture, verifiable custody, continuous solvency proof, default multi-signature, quantum-resistant keys, hardware two-factor authentication wallets, as well as self-custody and key loss protection mechanisms; in regions where regulations allow, it will also support privacy assets and RWA. The project will use Sui technology in suitable scenarios while integrating assets, bridging protocols, and foundational components from other ecosystems.The concept of Havenex was proposed by him, and he will currently participate as an advisor, but Mysten Labs and Sui remain his main focus. He stated that the project aims to establish transparency and security standards different from those of FTX and Mt. Gox, and to reduce the serious vulnerability risks caused by code generated by large language models recently.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a wallet cluster suspected to be associated with Bitkub co-founder and former chairman Sakolkorn Sakavee has removed privacy protection and transferred a total of 34,100 ZEC to Hyperliquid in the past 24 hours, worth approximately 26.1 million USD.Subsequently, the address has sold 24,100 ZEC, worth about 18.5 million USD, and purchased 238 BTC. Currently, there are still about 10,000 ZEC on Hyperliquid, valued at approximately 7.6 million USD, with related sell orders priced around 780 USD.Note: This is currently just a speculation on wallet associations by an on-chain data analysis platform, and there is no official information confirming that these addresses belong to Sakolkorn Sakavee.

Towns co-founders Ben and Pat announced that after five years of collaboration with Brian, they have completed the transfer of protocol operations to the Towns Foundation located in Switzerland. The new experienced leadership team will continue to manage the protocol, drive the next phase of growth, and will gradually appear through official channels. The protocol will continue to operate as a decentralized communication protocol, supporting on-chain community ownership, end-to-end encrypted messaging, programmable identities, and native value transfer.According to reports, Towns has accumulated over 1.6 million users and over 400,000 communities, with users expected to earn over $40 million through the protocol by 2025, and has completed listings on multiple mainstream exchanges. The protocol also supports real-time messaging, payments, governance, and $TOWNS network incentives. The team pointed out that building a sustainable company and building a protocol are different challenges, and in response to changes in the market environment, they chose to hand over the protocol to the appropriate team for continuation rather than shutting it down.Both parties expressed their anticipation for the foundation to promote the development of Towns in the intersection of decentralized communication and AI. Pat and Ben will engage in new ventures while continuing to support the transition part-time, thanking the team, investors, node operators, exchange partners, developers, $TOWNS holders, and community members.