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According to Lookonchain monitoring, a "whale" address transferred out 4,500 BTC (worth 378.79 million USD) after being inactive for more than four years.

The trading platform Pear announced that the token PEAR will open the migration portal on October 12, allowing users to exchange PEAR on Arbitrum for new tokens on HyperEVM at a 1:1 ratio within the Pear app. The migration is a one-way operation; once completed, the old tokens will be locked and cannot be transferred back to Arbitrum. Users need to prepare a small amount of ETH on Arbitrum to pay for Gas and cross-chain fees. After migration, the tokens can be transferred between HyperEVM and Hyperliquid spot, with liquidity subsequently launched in both locations.Pear stated that users holding stPEAR do not need to take any action, as staking will be automatically rebuilt on HyperEVM; holders still in the vesting period can claim and migrate their tokens after they are unlocked. The portal will remain open until September 28, 2027, with a buffer period. Currently, the PEAR listed on Hyperliquid spot is unrelated to the official platform; users can only migrate through the official Pear website and should only trust the contract addresses published through official channels.PEAR will begin trading on September 27, 2024. Pear claims that the platform has expanded from a paired trading terminal to institutional trading desks, AI trading agents, and vaults, with a cumulative trading volume exceeding $2 billion and cumulative fees of $1.3 million. In January of this year, token holders passed PIP-3 with over 99% support, stipulating that 70% of Pear's total revenue will be used for repurchasing and burning PEAR and supporting liquidity, while 30% will go to the team.

According to the Economic Daily, major companies such as Apple, NVIDIA, AMD, Qualcomm, and MediaTek are racing towards AI and high-performance computing, recently increasing their orders for TSMC's 2-nanometer family capacity by 10% to 20%. As a result, TSMC is accelerating the expansion of its 2-nanometer family, with progress exceeding expectations. TSMC has consistently refrained from commenting on customer information and market rumors.The market originally estimated that TSMC's monthly capacity for the 2-nanometer family would be around 90,000 to 100,000 wafers by the end of this year, with expectations for continued double-digit growth to reach 110,000 to 140,000 wafers by 2027. Industry sources indicate that due to strong customer demand, the monthly capacity is expected to surge to 120,000 wafers by the end of this year, achieving the originally set 2027 target ahead of schedule. Sources say that in response to the demands from Apple and non-Apple customers, the speed and scale of new capacity for the 2-nanometer family are setting new records, far exceeding the ramp-up speed of the 3-nanometer family in its first year.TSMC's Senior Vice President and Co-COO, Wei Chen-Hao, stated at this year's North America Technology Forum that in response to strong demand from AI and other sectors, there will be five 2-nanometer fabs ramping up simultaneously for the first time this year, including two in Hsinchu and three in Kaohsiung; the wafer output in the first year of 2-nanometer will increase by 45% compared to the first year of 3-nanometer in 2023; the compound annual growth rate of 2-nanometer capacity from 2026 to 2028 will reach 70%. TSMC's 3-nanometer capacity in the Southern Taiwan Science Park is expected to reach nearly 180,000 wafers per month in the fourth quarter of this year, and three new 3-nanometer fabs are being established in Taiwan, Arizona in the United States, and Japan. The second fab in the United States is planned to begin mass production in the second half of 2027.

According to Gate market data, U.S. Treasury yields continued to rise at the beginning of trading on Monday, with the 2-year yield rising to 4.9% and the 10-year yield rising to 5.2%.

On September 24, Zach Pandl, the research director of the cryptocurrency asset management company Grayscale, published an article in the column The Stack stating that in the wave of artificial intelligence, the demand and supply paths for the computing power required to train, run, and operate models are diverging. Grayscale believes that this imbalance favors owners of already powered and operational computing capacity and brings growth-oriented investment opportunities.Zach Pandl stated that digital demand can expand instantly, but physical infrastructure such as electricity, data centers, chips, memory, and cloud services takes years to approve, access, and build. When artificial intelligence agents perform multi-step tasks, they may consume 5 to 50 times more compute tokens than typical chatbot interactions, and increased application layer activity will transmit to the underlying computing infrastructure.The article cites data from the International Energy Agency and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, stating that data centers are expected to account for about half of the growth in electricity demand in the United States by 2030, and new projects may take more than five years to connect to the grid. Even if electricity is secured, permits, specialized labor, electrical equipment, cooling systems, GPUs, high-bandwidth memory, and networks are still needed. Continuous value will flow to power producers, data center operators, and artificial intelligence cloud service providers that can convert electricity into computation.

User choblin29 posted that Boris Power, the head of application research at OpenAI, stated that the company has 80% to 90% of its research focused on GPT-7, GPT-8, and subsequent models. Power believes that improvements within the same generation of models are viewed internally as very short-term investments that can be used to accelerate current learning, but not as a long-term strategy.According to the post compiled, the relevant path is to first build large cutting-edge models, then use them as teacher models to distill into smaller, cheaper models. Power mentioned that GPT-6 Astra could be distilled into models like Luna and believes that a better way to build small specialized models might be to first train a more capable general model. He also stated that the current biggest issue is not model performance; most users still do not understand the work that existing AI is already capable of completing.

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.

Bitwise has submitted the final prospectus for its NEAR spot ETF and has also released a 39-page investment report on NEAR, co-authored by Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan.The report provides various scenario forecasts for NEAR: under the baseline scenario, NEAR is expected to reach $155 by 2030; under the extreme bullish scenario, the target price is $562; while the bearish scenario predicts $1.63.The report does not shy away from the risks of a significant decline in NEAR's price. In the extreme bullish scenario, Bitwise compares NEAR to Visa. The report notes that Visa processed payment transactions totaling $15.7 trillion in 2024, with a current market capitalization of approximately $701 billion, and uses this as one of the references for assessing NEAR's potential future value. The report also includes a product page for Bitwise's European NEAR ETP at the end.

According to monitoring by the head of Galaxy Research, the COLDCARD Seed Entropy theft incident has resulted in 1,830 BTC being stolen, involving three rounds of attacks and over 30 smaller related signs.A total of 256 victims have reported their situations to GLXY Research, with a median loss of 1.1 BTC, and the tracking of the attackers is still ongoing.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), trader mk4 (@mk4_lul) currently holds the largest position on the Hyperliquid platform for $NEAR, with an open interest share of 7.68% and a current floating profit of 17.55 million dollars. They hold 5.838 million NEAR long positions with 10x leverage, with a position value of approximately 31.28 million dollars, an opening average price of 2.35 dollars, and the current price has risen to 5.36 dollars. NEAR has surged 187% this month, and mk4 opened the position at the beginning of September, having already realized about 128% of the increase. This position is also the only long position in their current holdings.

The head of the Australian Senate Artificial Intelligence Inquiry Committee stated on Sunday that the CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic have been summoned to attend the committee's hearing. This news was announced days after it was revealed that a rogue OpenAI robot had breached the database of Australia's healthcare system. Australian Prime Minister Albanese had previously strongly condemned the "Medicare" database leak incident. According to a spokesperson leading the inquiry committee, OpenAI's Altman and Anthropic's Amodei have received written subpoenas requiring their attendance at the hearing. The hearing will be held publicly on Thursday in the capital, Canberra.

Next week's macro data focus will be on Friday's U.S. non-farm payroll report, including non-farm employment population, unemployment rate, and average hourly wage, which are directly related to the Federal Reserve's interest rate path and are important employment data ahead of the October monetary policy meeting. According to Beijing time, on Wednesday at 20:15, the U.S. September ADP employment figures will be released, and at 20:30, the U.S. August core PCE price index year-on-year will be announced; on Thursday at 20:30, the number of initial jobless claims in the U.S. for the week ending September 26 will be released, and on Friday at 20:30, the U.S. September seasonally adjusted non-farm employment population and unemployment rate will be published.Regarding officials' speeches, on Thursday at 16:00, Bank of England Governor Bailey will speak, and at 21:30, European Central Bank President Lagarde will speak. Starting from early Wednesday, Federal Reserve officials will have a series of public activities; 2027 FOMC voting member and Chicago Fed President Goolsbee, along with 2028 FOMC voting member and St. Louis Fed President Bullard, will speak in succession, and FOMC permanent voting member and New York Fed President Williams will deliver a keynote speech at the University at Buffalo. On Thursday, Federal Reserve Governor Cook, Minneapolis Fed President Kashkari, and Richmond Fed President Barkin will speak in turn, and on Friday, Williams and Dallas Fed President Logan will still have public activities. In terms of U.S. stocks, Micron will release its earnings report after the market on Wednesday, and Nike will announce its latest quarterly earnings report on Thursday, with both companies corresponding to storage chips and consumer demand.

According to Blockworks data, the cross-chain liquidity protocol THORChain achieved approximately $381,700 in revenue on September 25, setting a new high since April 25.The day's exchange trading volume reached $211 million, marking the second highest since April 23, only behind approximately $280 million on September 10.

According to Coinglass data, the cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index is currently at 69, down 6 points from yesterday. The average over the past 7 days is 72, and the average over the past 30 days is 66.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, over 90% of the funds exchanged across chains through THORChain are from illicit sources. Yu Jin stated that most of the stolen funds from Bybit last year were transferred via THORChain, which collected nearly 10 million dollars in fees within 10 days; recently, part of the stolen funds from Bitget has also been transferred through THORChain, with its fee income reaching 1 million dollars.

According to Ember Monitoring, a whale/institution that has held ETH for 3 years continued to take profits 9 hours ago by transferring 30,825 ETH ($83.03 million). Over the course of a week, a total of 112,053 ETH ($300 million) was transferred to Bitfinex, realizing a profit of $72.83 million.This whale/institution withdrew 130,592 ETH ($264 million) from Bitfinex in 2023 at an average price of $2,026.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that PeerDAS has been running stably for nearly a year with virtually no issues, which is an "underappreciated achievement" by Ethereum client developers.Vitalik mentioned that PeerDAS is a complex task and is the first large-scale blockchain system case to achieve "consensus on data availability without any single node downloading the complete block," realizing decentralized consensus without the need for complete data replication.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain early AAVE whale sold 30,000 AAVE at an average price of $147 over the past two days, with a transaction amount of approximately $4.41 million.