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LayerZero announced that the South Korean digital asset custody institution BDACS has adopted LayerZero Labs' OFT (Omnichain Fungible Token) standard for the Korean won-backed stablecoin KRW1, achieving native cross-chain interoperability.LayerZero stated that KRW1 thus becomes the first Korean won stablecoin that can be natively transferred across major DeFi ecosystems, with its supply able to flow seamlessly across networks without the need for wrapped tokens, avoiding liquidity fragmentation.

According to Coinglass data, the cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index is currently at 70, up 0 points from yesterday. The average over the past 7 days is 69, and the average over the past 30 days is 56.

According to the Straits Times, Telegram experienced a service outage on the morning of September 8. Users in Singapore began to report issues around 10:20, with Downdetector reporting nearly 4,000 incidents shortly after 10:30, mainly related to the app and messaging features.As of 11:30, the number of outage reports had decreased to about 350, and Telegram services are gradually recovering. Currently, Telegram has not disclosed the cause of the outage.

According to market news, predict.fun posted on platform X stating that the predicted probability of Variational reaching a fully diluted valuation of 1 billion dollars one day after its launch has increased from 41% to 59%.

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang shared data from the computing power market Ornn. Ornn stated that the H100 has been a training GPU for several years, but the rental price has increased by 22% in the past month, now reaching $3.28 per hour per unit. Jensen Huang emphasized that NVIDIA's computing power can continuously generate rental income, making it a revenue-generating asset.Ornn's H100 index is calculated based on actual rental transaction prices. The daily settlement price on September 7 was $3.17 per hour, and the latest displayed price further rose to $3.28. NVIDIA stated in its latest earnings report that GPUs can be redeployed across different customers and workloads.

According to the Financial Times, citing informed sources, Chinese memory chip manufacturers Changxin Storage and Yangtze Memory Technologies have purchased enough deep ultraviolet lithography machines (DUV) from ASML to meet their expansion plans for the next three years.

Cronos lending protocol Tectonic released an attack incident report on August 30: the attacker manipulated the TONIC price by approximately 195 times and looped collateral, borrowing about $120.4 million from 9 lending markets. After Cronos paused the network and restored the status, most assets returned to their pre-attack state, but about $9.19 million has been transferred across chains and has not yet been recovered.The team plans to eliminate low liquidity collateral and set a market borrowing limit.

According to Coinglass data, the current whale holdings on the Hyperliquid platform amount to 7.95 billion USD, with long positions totaling 3.786 billion USD, accounting for 47.62% of the holdings, and short positions totaling 4.164 billion USD, accounting for 52.38% of the holdings. The profit and loss for long positions is 452 million USD, while the profit and loss for short positions is -518 million USD.Among them, the whale address 0x5b5d..60 has shorted ETH with a full margin of 5 times at a price of 2262.95 USD, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of -23.0186 million USD.

In response to netizens' claims on Threads that Google Taiwan's layoffs are at least 30% to 50%, with all senior executives being let go, Google Taiwan officially denied that the rumors are exaggerated. The official statement indicated that to make operations more efficient, reduce organizational levels, and prepare for the company's long-term development, the team has been continuously making adjustments to its workforce. As resources focus on core objectives and significant future opportunities, related adjustments will continue.Google has established its largest hardware R&D base outside the United States in Banqiao, New Taipei City. The official job vacancy website shows that there are 49 positions open in Banqiao and 32 positions in Taipei City. Recently, the AI infrastructure R&D center located in the Shilin District of Taipei City has expanded, with office space set to increase by 60%.

According to a report by the Korean News Agency, Kim Kyung-hoon, the General Manager of OpenAI Korea, stated at the Samsung SDS "Real Summit 2026" conference held at COEX in Seoul that the productivity gap between the top 10% of AI application companies and medium-level companies has expanded from 2.6 times to 8.6 times from January to June this year, with the gap in the manufacturing sector reaching 5.3 times.Kim Kyung-hoon pointed out that the core of widening the gap lies in "connection"—21% of employees in leading companies use AI plugins integrated with business systems weekly, while the figure for ordinary companies is only 9%. He proposed a three-stage methodology for corporate AI transformation: "Turn it on, Delegate it, Keep it" (Connection, Delegation, Retention), emphasizing business process redesign rather than merely introducing AI tools.

According to the Phoenix Veritas Foundation, the cultural token themed around Hunter Biden's laptop, LAPTOP, has been issued on the Base chain, with a total supply of 1 billion tokens. The initial circulation at TGE is 350 million tokens (35%). In terms of token distribution, the founders (including Hunter Biden) and the prediction mechanism each account for 30%, community airdrops account for 20%, liquidity and the foundation treasury each account for 10%, and charitable distribution accounts for 5%. The founders' tokens have a 6-month lock-up period and a 24-month linear unlock.LAPTOP has no utility and is positioned as a purely cultural digital collectible, with its value entirely driven by community sentiment. The token contract has been audited for security by Hacken in April 2026, with no major vulnerabilities. Regarding market makers, the foundation has signed lending agreements for a total of 20.5 million tokens with G20 and GSR.

According to Bitcoin.com, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse pointed out that the Dutch Central Bank (DNB) has redeployed approximately 86 tons of gold from New York and Ottawa to London over several months, involving an amount of about 11 billion dollars. About 59 tons were completed through market transactions (sold in New York, bought in London), and more than 27 tons were physically transported.After this operation, DNB's gold reserves in London increased from 18.1% to 32.1%, while the total reserves remained unchanged at 612.4 tons. Garlinghouse stated that cryptocurrency has evolved from a 1.5 billion dollar experiment in 2013 to a 27 trillion dollar asset class, while the way central banks transfer value is still stuck in the 1940s, "this is precisely the ideal use case for cryptocurrency—instant, secure, and low-cost storage and transfer of value globally."

Former U.S. President Biden's son Hunter Biden is about to launch the meme coin LAPTOP, and some cryptocurrency traders have questioned his personal experiences and motives for the launch. Hunter Biden was convicted in 2024 on three felony gun charges and admitted to nine tax charges, subsequently receiving a full pardon from his father, former U.S. President Biden.Hunter Biden previously testified under oath that he owed his former law firm Winston & Strawn approximately $17 million. The firm sued him last year for unpaid legal fees, and his lawyer stated in April that he resides overseas and is "unable to pay." Hunter himself had previously stated that he entered the cryptocurrency industry out of interest in the technology and "wanted to make some money."Recently, Hunter Biden has publicly supported the cryptocurrency industry multiple times, stating that "decentralized digital currency and blockchain are the inevitable future," and when asked about his views on cryptocurrency, he directly replied "Hyperliquid." He also expressed a desire to put his artwork on the blockchain and accept Bitcoin payments, mentioning that Andreas Antonopoulos's book "The Internet of Money" had "opened his eyes." Additionally, he stated that he has not yet decided whether to run in the 2028 U.S. presidential election, but said that if he receives support from billionaire John Catsimatidis, he "might have to run."

Supply chain sources revealed that due to the overall cost surge, Intel's PC CPUs have been gradually increasing in price over the past year, with a tentative additional increase of 10% expected in early October.In the context of a slight decline projected for the PC terminal market in 2027, Intel still chooses to raise CPU prices. Supply chain analysis indicates that if Intel sets low profit margins as an important threshold for product retention, some products will inevitably be forced to exit the market. Once this demand is released, it may provide opportunities for Arm-based operators like MediaTek and Qualcomm to enter, especially in the IPC, edge computing, and IoT markets, where Arm SoCs have advantages in high integration and low power consumption.

The CEO of Bitcoin Reserve Company Metaplanet, Simon Gerovich, posted on the X platform in response to the controversy surrounding the company's equity incentive plan and MMXX Ventures. Gerovich admitted that the company "failed to adequately explain" the incentive arrangement known as "Series 10 Stock Options" and stated that he is a "significant but non-controlling shareholder" of MMXX's parent company, not involved in its trading decisions.The controversy stems from a stock rights plan established in December 2022, with a reward pool set at 20% of Metaplanet's fully diluted equity. After shifting to a Bitcoin reserve strategy in April 2024, the company dilutes existing shareholders with each new share issuance, while Gerovich's option rights increase accordingly. On August 18, the board canceled the floating adjustment mechanism, fixing the Series 10 pool at 319 million shares and setting a five-year lock-up period, but did not restore the reward pool to the level it was at when the Bitcoin strategy was initiated. On August 28, Gerovich exercised 92,000 Series 10 options, acquiring 64 million new shares, and currently holds about 6.2% of the company; he and MMXX together hold over 27% of the fully diluted equity.Shareholders expressed dissatisfaction. A shareholder using the pseudonym The Bitcoin Pharaoh stated on X that the adjustments in August were "a step in the right direction," but demanded that Gerovich address the issues that have arisen, disclose the owners of MMXX, and restore the reward pool to the level it was at when the Bitcoin strategy was initiated.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, will launch a meme coin named LAPTOP, named after his laptop incident, scheduled to go live on the Base network under Coinbase on September 9.The founding team of the project, including Hunter Biden, will hold 30% of the total token supply (1 billion tokens), with that portion locked for 6 months and fully unlocked over two years; another 20% of the tokens will be airdropped in two batches to users who previously lost money on the Trump meme coin TRUMP, Hunter Biden's Substack subscribers and their friends, and users on the mailing list maintained by video journalist Andrew Callaghan; the remaining 20% will be used for charitable donations, liquidity, and distribution to exchange partners and market makers, as well as covering the accounting, legal, administrative, and compliance costs of the token foundation.It is reported that the founding team has also agreed on a destruction mechanism that includes 30 preset events; if the relevant events achieve the preset results within the designated time (such as the Democratic Party winning the 2028 presidential election, Bitcoin reaching a new historical high, LAPTOP's fully diluted valuation exceeding TRUMP, etc.), up to 30% of the token supply may be destroyed; if not achieved, the tokens will be donated to charitable organizations proportionally.The report notes that Hunter Biden has recently been frequently participating in podcasts, news programs, and writing Substack articles discussing his views on cryptocurrency, and has commented on the controversy between the Trump family's crypto project World Liberty Financial and Sun Yuchen.

According to Dealroom, the decentralized perpetual contract exchange in Singapore, Antarctic Exchange, has completed a $7 million financing round, with a valuation of $70 million. Investors include Valisa Capital Markets, Lucidity Capital, and Republic Crypto, as well as proprietary traders who are entering the crypto asset space for the first time.The platform targets retail derivatives traders and offers tools similar to centralized exchanges. The founding team consists of former executives from OKX, Binance, and MEXC.

Binance stated that in the first half of 2026, the Binance Wallet Security Center helped users avoid potential losses of approximately $540 million through real-time scanning of links, transaction signatures, and unknown tokens. During this period, the security center filtered approximately 206 million spam transfers, covering 2.6 million users; identified about 4.93 million high-risk transactions across 19 chains, and discovered approximately 996,000 malicious authorizations.Attackers are using AI to batch generate malicious code, counterfeit websites, and fraudulent identities, shifting on-chain attacks from large-scale fishing to precision attacks. The Binance Wallet Security Center is also using AI to analyze token behavior logic, website risk characteristics, and potential attack intentions to identify phishing domains, malicious contracts, and abnormal token risks earlier.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a trader used 50x leverage to go long on BNB and ASTER on Aster DEX, achieving multiple returns.Data shows that the trader went long on 230 BNB, with a position value of approximately $171,600, currently yielding about $13,000, with a return rate of 386.51%; at the same time, they went long on 275,674 ASTER, with a position value of approximately $217,600, yielding about $25,600, with a return rate of 589.60%.