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The Polkadot community has initiated OpenGov proposal number 1944, aiming to create a native decentralized stablecoin dotUSD and establish it as the main stable value asset of the Polkadot ecosystem. The proposal is currently undergoing governance voting. According to the proposal, dotUSD will adopt an over-collateralization mechanism, allowing users to mint dotUSD by locking DOT in the future; the system will also set up a stability pool, liquidation mechanism, and redemption mechanism to maintain its peg to the US dollar.The proposal plans to use funds from the Polkadot treasury to provide initial liquidity for the DOT/dotUSD liquidity pool, with 2.5 million USDT allocated for minting dotUSD, and an additional 2.5 million USD worth of DOT added to the liquidity pool, totaling an initial fund of 5 million USD. dotUSD is planned to be launched in phases, with the first phase using USDT as reserve support for minting, and the second phase introducing a complete DOT collateral treasury, oracle, stability pool, liquidation, and redemption mechanisms.

Quantus founder and CEO Yuvi Lightman posted on X that the anti-quantum blockchain Quantus mainnet will go live on September 9 (Wednesday). The only way to acquire tokens at the launch is through mining, and liquidity and tradability will be available a few weeks later.The team has merged Immunefi security work into the public code repository and completed all fixes from the audit competition. The chain supports ML-DSA-65 and ML-DSA-87, binding each signature to its context according to FIPS 204 standards, failing and closing multi-signature transactions that cannot be decoded, and strengthening the network stack to resist denial-of-service attacks. The team has completed a full-process drill on the global rehearsal mainnet covering the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Australia, producing signed binaries through an automated pipeline, deploying multi-region bootnodes and dedicated RPC nodes as infrastructure as code, and reducing indexer memory usage from over 90% to about 26%.In addition, Quantus has launched a registration page, completed a website redesign, Keystone hardware wallet supports multiple accounts, and released CLI v2.1.3 and miner v4.0.2. Quantum & Privacy Day will be co-hosted with NEAR in Singapore on October 8, coinciding with Token2049.

The head of government affairs at Paradigm stated that the external view that the Clarity Act is almost hopeless to pass is not credible. The related pessimistic rhetoric mostly comes from anonymous staff members who did not participate in the core negotiations (intending to guide public opinion), or from legislators using the media to voice their demands, pressuring the White House and Senate leadership to meet their own requests.Major banks plan to invest heavily in lobbying and advertising next week; if the bill is doomed to fail, the banks would not invest such resources. The time window is indeed tight: the Senate reconvenes on Monday, and the House will recess on Friday in five days. However, the bill is far from dead. Those who assert that the bill has no chance are either seeking attention or trying to create a predetermined narrative of "bill failure."

Pequity Research cited FundaAI stating that the training computing power used by GPT-6 is approximately 10 times that of GPT-5.FundaAI indicated that based on industry discussions, the total computing power consumed by experiments, reinforcement learning, synthetic data generation, and supporting infrastructure could be several times that of the main pre-training run, potentially reaching up to ten times. Once TPU 8t and Vera Rubin are shipped on a large scale, the next round of pre-training acceleration can begin, with large-scale interconnection and optics benefiting the most during this cycle.

The Canadian government's countermeasures against the U.S. tariffs have officially taken effect. Canadian Prime Minister Carney delivered a national video address, mobilizing the entire nation to unite in response to the Canada-U.S. trade war.Carney stated that Canada will reduce its dependence on the United States, although this will come at a cost, but it is negligible compared to the cost of stagnation.

The town of Plattsburgh, New York, held a public hearing to discuss a temporary land use moratorium on "high energy consumption computing facilities" such as cryptocurrency mining and AI data centers. If the proposal is approved, it will pause the approval of related operational applications that consume 300 kilowatts or more for 12 months. As of Tuesday, the mayor has not yet approved the moratorium, and the city council plans to meet again on September 17.Plattsburgh is one of the first areas in the United States to implement a ban on Bitcoin mining, having enacted an 18-month moratorium in 2018 due to residents' concerns about electricity costs. Now, with rising mining difficulty, increasing electricity costs, and falling token prices, many cryptocurrency mining companies have turned to AI and high-performance computing, prompting local governments to reconsider restrictions on high energy consumption facilities.

According to PR Newswire, Canaan Inc. (NASDAQ: CAN) announced its unaudited financial results for the three months ended June 30, 2026. Total revenue for the second quarter was $31.9 million, down from $62.7 million in the first quarter and $100.2 million in the same period of 2025, with product revenue of $13.6 million, mining revenue of $17.7 million, and other revenue of $600,000.Cost of revenue for the quarter was $61.2 million, resulting in a gross loss of $29.3 million, operating expenses of $40.1 million, an operating loss of $69.5 million, and a net loss of $97.6 million. Non-GAAP adjusted EBITDA loss was $74.9 million. Loss from changes in the fair value of cryptocurrencies was $9.3 million, impairment of property, equipment, and software was $9.2 million, and total inventory write-downs, prepaid expense write-downs, and inventory purchase commitment reserves amounted to $25.3 million.The company's self-operated installed mining capacity (non-joint venture) was 10.05 EH/s, an increase of 23.3% year-over-year, with an all-in electricity cost of approximately $0.043 per kilowatt-hour, mining 243 bitcoins during the quarter. Cryptocurrency reserves reached 1,915 bitcoins and 3,952 ethers. As of September 8, 2026, the company repurchased approximately 16.4 million ADS for a total of $7.4 million. The ABC project holds a 49% stake, with an installed capacity of 4.85 EH/s as of the end of July 2026.

Cobo co-founder and CEO Shen Yu recalled that he has a deep shadow over ZEC. When ZEC's mainnet launched in 2016, BitMEX set the price ceiling at 10 BTC, which also became the historical high point for ZEC.He stated that shortly after starting to mine on the night of the launch, the transformer of the GPU mining farm was struck by lightning, and since then, ZEC has not appeared in his personal wallet again.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China released the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of the Information and Communication Industry," setting the national intelligent computing power target at 9800 EFLOPS by 2030. According to data from the National Bureau of Statistics, as of the end of July, the national intelligent computing scale was approximately 2450 EFLOPS (FP16), indicating that it needs to expand by about 4 times in the next four years based on this standard.The plan proposes an orderly deployment of intelligent computing clusters with tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of cards, building inference computing power for different scenarios, and increasing the adaptation of domestic computing power chips. Currently, 52 intelligent computing facilities with more than ten thousand cards have been established nationwide. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology disclosed that the intelligent computing power scale at the end of June was 2185 EFLOPS, a year-on-year increase of 177%. The plan uses 1590 EFLOPS in 2025 as a benchmark, aiming to reach 9800 EFLOPS by 2030, which is an expansion of about 6.2 times. During the same period, the cumulative investment target for information infrastructure in the information and communication industry is 3.8 trillion yuan, which also includes communication networks and is not all allocated for AI computing power.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched the pre-market perpetual contracts for retail users, H100 and B200, which are linked to the rental price index of NVIDIA H100 and B200 GPUs, respectively, quoted in USD per GPU hour.Bitget's pre-market perpetual contracts further extend the trading targets into the AI computing power field. By tracking the GPU rental market index price, users can participate in the price discovery of global GPU rental prices and the AI infrastructure market in advance, capturing potential trading opportunities brought by changes in demand for high-performance GPUs such as H100 and B200. The product adopts a perpetual contract model settled in USDT, supports up to 10x leverage, and allows trading 24/7.

According to Bitcoin.com, the Swedish Tax Agency has issued tax reassessments and fines totaling approximately $56.5 million (around 540 million Swedish Krona) to six cryptocurrency mining companies in Boden, accusing them of disguising their mining operations through complex corporate structures and illegally obtaining tax benefits for data centers.This enforcement action stems from a comprehensive industry audit covering 2024 to 2026, with a total of nine mining companies nationwide being pursued for over $50 million in taxes, with the six companies in Boden accounting for the vast majority. Among them, Bikupan Datacenter, a subsidiary of Hive Digital, has initiated financial restructuring due to its inability to pay taxes and has appealed the tax ruling to the Supreme Administrative Court. A previous investigation by the public broadcaster SVT Norrbotten revealed that cryptocurrency mining companies have caused the Swedish government to lose approximately $100 million in tax revenue.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "Barranquilla: Julieta Pareja vs Lucrezia Stefanini" on Polymarket, the probability of the "Yes" option in the sub-market "Completed Match" has experienced significant fluctuations, soaring from 15% an hour ago to the current 42.55% (a fluctuation of 27.55%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to CoinDesk, a 22-year-old man from Singapore will plead guilty in one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts in the United States.The scammer posed as customer service representatives from Google and Gemini, tricking an investor into handing over Bitcoin worth $240 million.

According to Caixin, the "Management Measures for Online Marketing of Financial Products" jointly issued by the central bank and eight ministries will officially take effect on September 30, 2026. The measures aim to clarify the boundaries between finance and technology, and do not completely prohibit the online promotion of financial products, but rather provide specific guidance and regulations for marketing activities. It is specified that marketing financial products through public accounts, live broadcasts, and short videos should be conducted on the self-operated platforms of financial institutions or on accounts legally established by financial institutions on third-party internet platforms.In addition, marketers must be employees of financial institutions, possess qualifications for engaging in related business, and obtain authorization and consent from financial institutions. This means that if Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) want to promote financial products, they must be certified to do so.

Changxin Technology held a performance briefing for the first half of 2026. The company's independent director Chen Wuchao stated in response to investor questions that in the first half of 2026, the global DRAM product market improved, and prices increased.Currently, the company is still in a critical investment period for capacity expansion and technological upgrades, and it needs to gradually create returns for shareholders while ensuring necessary capital expenditures. As profitability continues to strengthen, the company will legally and in accordance with regulations timely initiate the verification of the dividend plan.

According to a report from Xinhua News Agency, the Supreme People's Court issued opinions on September 7 regarding the legal handling of disputes involving artificial intelligence. The opinions consist of 5 parts and 24 articles, focusing on issues such as "AI face-swapping and voice imitation," "AI hallucinations" infringement, "online unpacking," "big data price discrimination," autonomous driving, AI model training, open-source software, and intellectual property protection.The opinions clearly address the substantive judgments and litigation procedural rules for cases involving artificial intelligence, aiming to strengthen the judicial protection of civil rights in the digital age and promote the healthy and orderly development of artificial intelligence.

Citigroup released a research report stating that it has initiated coverage on Zhongji Xuchuang (03308.HK) H shares with a buy rating, based on a forecasted price-to-earnings ratio of 16.2 times for 2027, with a target price of 1,524 Hong Kong dollars.The bank expects the company's revenue and net profit compound annual growth rates from 2025 to 2028 to reach 129% and 149%, respectively, benefiting from strong demand for AI optical communication, bandwidth upgrades, rapid capacity increases, improved product mix, rising adoption of silicon photonics technology, and operational leverage. The bank believes that the company's comprehensive product portfolio, scalable production capacity, cutting-edge technological advancements and R&D capabilities, flexible and resilient supply chain, as well as solid relationships with leading global cloud service providers and AI clients, are likely to support its leading position in the AI era.

The Ukrainian police and the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) recently dismantled a scam network that used a fake investment platform to steal cryptocurrency. This network disguised itself as an investment platform website, luring users to connect their main cryptocurrency wallets and approve a small test transaction when withdrawing funds. Subsequently, it used a "wallet stealer" hidden within the website to automatically transfer user funds to wallets controlled by the operators, kicking victims off the platform. Investigators have currently confirmed 62 victims, with over 46 Ukrainian citizens involved, and the network could steal up to $1 million per month.The police stated that the false profits displayed on the platform are part of the scam, with operators manually creating transactions and adjusting user account balances to create the illusion of investment growth. In addition to cryptocurrency, the platform also collected victims' passport information, phone numbers, email addresses, login credentials, and photos during the registration and identity verification process. The main organizer of the network is a 25-year-old IT expert who recruited over 46 Ukrainian citizens and operated multiple offices in Kyiv and surrounding areas, with members responsible for building and maintaining fake websites, contacting potential victims, and providing security.Victims come from multiple countries, including Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Spain, France, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Israel. The police traced the gang's server equipment located in the Netherlands and obtained a database stored there, which included a list of victims, cryptocurrency wallet addresses, suspected stolen amounts, internal communications, and platform operation information. The Ukrainian police and SBU subsequently executed 34 searches in Kyiv and surrounding areas, seizing over 100 computers, more than 100 mobile phones, 79 SIM cards, documents, cash, and 15 vehicles.

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.