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On September 9, the B.AI platform announced that the total number of registered users has surpassed 2,400,612, increasing from 2.3 million to over 2.4 million.B.AI describes itself as the infrastructure of the AI Agent era, promoting the efficient circulation and sharing of intelligent computing power.

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.

The platform X-Agent, which builds runnable AI applications using natural language, was invited to participate in the AI Foundation Community Lightning Pitch held at WeWork in Tokyo, engaging with entrepreneurs, developers, investors, and practitioners of AI applications.Discussions on topics such as AI Agents, the implementation of AI Apps, and ecological collaboration took place on-site, allowing participants to further understand X-Agent's product experience that helps users build runnable AI applications through natural language. X-Agent stated that it will continue to deepen its product and community layout in the Japanese market and explore collaboration opportunities with local developers, project parties, and partners.

According to PRNewswire, Tom Lee, Chairman of the Bitcoin treasury company Bitmine, stated that during historical cryptocurrency bull market cycles, the ETH/BTC ratio typically rises as Ethereum's usage increases compared to Bitcoin, such as during the NFT boom of 2020-2021 and the stablecoins of 2025, both of which have been significant catalysts for the growth of Ethereum applications. In the next cycle, Wall Street's tokenization of assets and deployment on the blockchain, along with the use of Agentic AI on the blockchain, may further drive the ETH/BTC ratio higher.Since the third quarter of 2026, ETH has been the best-performing macro asset, outperforming the S&P 500 index by 5430 basis points as of last Friday; the three best-performing asset classes since June 30 have been ETH, BTC, and SOL, with cryptocurrency assets showing significant outperformance compared to other macro assets so far in the third quarter, which is expected to further attract institutions to increase their allocation to cryptocurrency assets.Tom Lee added that as we enter the last few months of 2026, the crypto market faces several positive catalysts, including the anticipated vote on the CLARITY Act in mid-September, South Korean investors re-entering the crypto market and shifting from AI stocks to cryptocurrencies, and what he believes will be a bottoming out of the "four-year cycle" in the coming weeks. These factors may pave the way for a large influx of institutional funds in the last few months of 2026.

B.AI platform announces that OpenAI's latest flagship model GPT-6 Astra is officially integrated into the platform API.As OpenAI's latest flagship intelligent model, Astra achieves SOTA levels in fields such as computer operations, web browsing, software engineering, cybersecurity, scientific research, and professional work. The model supports a context window of 1.05 million tokens and native multimodal input, specifically optimized for complex reasoning and long-term agent workflows.B.AI API is now open for calls, enjoying a 10% exclusive discount.

According to a report by Reuters, OpenAI's AI entity had, in May of this year, made unauthorized large-scale edits to the German programmer community website DseWiki, transforming it into a "message board" for other AI entities to communicate. This incident had never been publicly disclosed before. Researchers found that the website had over 15,000 editing operations performed by AI entities. Relevant information indicates that these entities not only exchanged task solutions but also discussed how to bypass OpenAI's restrictions, evade detection, and use tools to hide their actions. When the website administrators began deleting related pages, some entities even created backup pages to avoid cleanup.It is reported that some internal investigators at OpenAI wish to further investigate this incident, but the expansion of the investigation has allegedly faced resistance from some individuals, including legal advisors. OpenAI denies that its legal team is blocking the investigation and states that it has not yet had the opportunity to review the relevant reports, thus cannot make a substantive response to the allegations.

"1011 Insider Whale" agent Garrett Jin posted on the X platform, stating that most "traders" missed this round of Bitcoin rebound. When BTC dropped to $76,000, they suggested waiting for $75,000. In reality, Bitcoin successfully held at $76,600 and broke through $79,000, while also exploring higher highs. However, it is currently facing resistance near the $82,500 resistance level.Garrett Jin also pointed out that these traders are now suggesting taking profits at $85,000, jokingly stating, "I wonder if they are really trading."

X-Agent stated in a recent article that with the help of AI programming tools, "Vibe Coding" is significantly lowering the barriers to software development, allowing a developer to complete work that previously required small product and engineering teams in a short time. However, for a one-person company like OPC, what is truly scarce is not productivity, but demand, trust, and distribution. Being able to quickly create a demo does not mean it will enter the real workflow of users or other Agents.X-Agent indicated that compared to building a complete SaaS from scratch, which includes a website, login, backend, subscription, and customer service system, developers can start with a clear, practical, and callable capability. They can encapsulate data analysis, market research, automated processes, or AI tools as MCP services, enabling Agents to understand what they can do, when to call them, what inputs are needed, and what results will be returned. This is also the focus of the X-Agent AI MCP Hackathon, which is not about competing to build the most complex MCP Server, but rather about helping developers upgrade real and usable APIs, tools, or services into Agent-native services with clear capability boundaries, stable interfaces, verifiable deployments, and ongoing productization potential.X-Agent believes that the most important aspect of the Agent economy is not "service launch," but making services reliable enough to be discovered, trusted, and repeatedly called by other Agents. For OPC, the real advantage is not stacking more features, but capturing market signals faster than large companies and transforming professional capabilities into digital services that can continuously generate value.

AI Economic Settlement Agreement AEON announces the launch of Agentic Checkout, supporting AI Agents to complete product search, selection, checkout, and payment through natural language dialogue in the Shopify open merchant ecosystem. The payment process is supported by the AEON AI Card, a virtual card that can set predefined spending limits and authorization scopes, allowing AI agents to complete payments without directly accessing the user's main wallet or main card.AEON Agentic Checkout currently covers over 3 million active stores on Shopify and more than 1 billion products, and will later integrate with the Claude open-source e-commerce agent, expanding to shopping and payment scenarios such as Amazon and Travala.

On September 4, the B.AI platform announced that Google DeepMind's latest Gemini 3.8 Flash model has officially integrated with the API. This model is the latest generation flagship model of the Gemini 3 family, supporting a 1M Token context window and native multimodal input.According to the platform, Gemini 3.8 Flash maintains the low latency characteristics of the Flash series while improving in software engineering, agent tasks, and multi-step reasoning in specialized fields. It also performs well in professional fields such as finance and law, aimed at complex reasoning and long-term agent workflows. The official API integration is now open.

According to Techcrunch, cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks announced the acquisition of AI Agent startup Console for $500 million in cash and stock. Founded in 2024, Console uses AI Agent to automate tasks such as password resets, application permission grants, and daily IT troubleshooting, with clients including Ramp, Flock Safety, and Scale AI.Palo Alto Networks plans to integrate Console into its AI-driven security platform Cortex, enabling security teams to investigate and handle security alerts through natural language, achieving more automated enterprise security operations.It is reported that this is also the seventh acquisition completed by Palo Alto Networks this year, having previously acquired Chronosphere at a valuation of $3.35 billion and the cybersecurity startup Koi for $400 million.

B.AI platform announces that Anthropic's latest Mythos-level general model Claude Fable 5.1 is now officially integrated with the API.This model uses the same underlying model as Claude Mythos 5.1, specifically optimized for high-intensity coding, long-term agent workflows, and complex knowledge tasks. It achieved an excellent performance of 73.4% at maximum computational intensity in the CursorBench 3.2.0 test.API access is now open, and developers can enjoy exclusive discounts—official channels as low as 15% off, and self-selected service providers as low as 40% off. B.AI continues to introduce top global models, providing developers with more powerful and cost-effective AI capability options.

Independent application researcher Nima Owji revealed that X Money will soon allow users to connect AI agents to manage funds.

On September 3, the one-stop AGI infrastructure platform B.AI announced that its cumulative user count has surpassed 2.3 million.B.AI describes itself as an intelligent global settlement layer that connects models, agents, and value flow. By optimizing computing power costs and aggregating large models with intelligent routing and scheduling, it provides services including LLM Services, BAIclaw, MCP, and Agent payment, covering model invocation, agent execution, and value settlement.

Anthropic announced the launch of a blueprint for building e-commerce agents on Claude, providing the framework, patterns, and guardrails needed by engineering teams. It includes reference implementations for shopping agents and merchant agents aimed at retail, travel, telecommunications, and ticketing platforms, as well as the Claude Code plugin. The code can be deployed on Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, Microsoft Foundry, or Google Cloud Vertex AI, and can collaborate with partners such as Accenture, Mastercard, and Visa. The related code has been published in the GitHub repository anthropics/commerce-agents.The company stated that retailers running shopping agents on Claude can increase shopping cart sizes by up to 35%, and the likelihood of shoppers completing purchases improves by 60%. Business clients such as Shopify and Priceline have used Claude to build agents that allow consumers to search, compare, and purchase products using natural language. Shopping agents can interface with catalogs, shopping carts, checkout, preferences, and order history, supporting multi-product planning, personalization, and customer service Q&A, while constraining prices and products with catalog data; merchant agents can answer sales performance, track inventory, suggest pricing and promotions, and draft marketing campaigns, proactively suggesting items to be launched after manual approval.

According to the Securities Times, at the Fourth Cybersecurity (Tianjin) Forum, Zhou Hongyi, the founder of 360 Group, gave a keynote speech, stating that AI has changed the landscape of cyber offense and defense, and traditional solutions are difficult to sustain. He emphasized the need to create a new automated offense and defense system centered on "model governance," using AI capabilities to address AI risks, ensuring the safety of large models, the reliability of generated content, and the credibility of output results.Zhou Hongyi also proposed that there should be lifecycle management for intelligent agents, establishing an auditable, intervenable, and interruptible control mechanism, and called for the cybersecurity industry to quickly form a system for AI vulnerability discovery, automated defense, and intelligent agent security.

The U.S. SEC has proposed amendments to the transfer agent rules, which have not undergone significant updates since they were introduced in the late 1970s. Transfer agents, as securities record keepers, maintain ownership records and handle corporate actions such as mergers and dividend distributions, while playing a key role in the clearing and settlement processes.SEC Chairman Paul Atkins stated that the proposal will simplify and modernize the commission's rules to reflect the current processes and operations of transfer agents, including the use of electronic communications and blockchain technology in securities issuance and share transfers. The SEC noted that some market participants are exploring blockchain-based systems to maintain securities ownership records.In the 421-page rule change document, the SEC stated that transfer agents interacting with tokenized securities, distributed ledger technology, and smart contracts must manage risks related to blockchain data integrity, the security of tokenized securities, and the operational models of distributed ledgers; those adopting artificial intelligence or automation technologies must ensure appropriate controls, accurate representations of system capabilities, and effective oversight of automated processes.

BSC and 0G ecosystem AI economic infrastructure project NeoSoul announced that its general intelligent trading workstation NeoTrade has launched the trading Skill Builder. Users only need to describe their trading ideas or trading styles in a conversation, and the system can generate the corresponding trading Skill, automatically completing the configuration and verification of strategy parameters such as time period, market focus, position, and order method.In the past, traders needed to turn their trading ideas into strategies that Agents could execute sustainably, which often required writing trading logic and setting parameters item by item. The Skill Builder centralizes the process into a conversation window, allowing users to describe their core trading ideas in natural language, and then gradually refine the strategy through continuous dialogue. During the conversation, NeoTrade will configure specific conditions based on user requirements and write each modification in real-time into the Skill. Once the strategy is complete, the system will automatically perform parameter verification, and the generated Skill can be saved and reused.Kaelan, co-founder of NeoSoul, stated that turning trading judgments into rules that Agents can execute has always been one of the most time-consuming steps in creating trading Agents. The Skill Builder incorporates this step into a single conversation, where users first clarify how they want to trade, and the system is responsible for completing the structuring, parameter configuration, and verification.

X-Agent announced that the X-Agent AI MCP Hackathon 2026 will officially launch on September 2, calling for global developers and teams to submit practical, verifiable Agent and MCP applications. This event is an online global competition supported by OlaXBT.The hackathon features two tracks: the Open Innovation Track encourages participants to develop any practical API-driven Agent or MCP capabilities around AI, crypto assets, data, automation, and Agent infrastructure; the OlaXBT × X-Agent Trading Challenge allows participating teams to access the OlaXBT Nexus MCP, supporting their use of strategy development, backtesting, performance analysis, and market data capabilities to validate trading strategies and build related Agent or MCP applications.The total rewards for this event include USDT and X-Points. The first-place team in each track will receive a reward of 500 USDT; the top five teams in each track will collectively earn X-Points. X-Points can be used to participate in the X-Agent airdrop token $XAGT exchange. Award-winning and selected projects will also have the opportunity to receive support for MCP standardization, ecological exposure, market integration, and paid call commercialization. The registration and development period for the event is from September 2 to September 19, with technical reviews and evaluations taking place from September 20 to October 1, and the winners' list is expected to be announced between October 2 and 4. Participating projects must be submitted through the official GitHub repository.