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According to official news, the AGENT economic project Agentum has completed a $7 million financing round, with participation from MEXC Ventures, BingX Labs, Arca, Wave Digital Assets, BlockTower Capital, Echo3 Labs, Greenwood Global Capital, UZ Capital, and Vega Ventures.The funds from this round will mainly be used to accelerate the construction of the trust and settlement layer for the autonomous Agent economy, with Agentum deployed on the BNB Chain. The BSC testnet has registered 399 Agents, completed 218 transactions, and achieved a GMV of over 2.44 million MockUSDT.

Bonk Guy fiercely criticized the token project related to Hunter Biden's "LAPTOP," stating that after further observation of the situation following the token's launch, he believes the project clearly exhibits speculative behavior of "wanting to extract profits while knowing very little about the crypto industry."Bonk Guy particularly questioned the fully diluted valuation (FDV) of up to $100 billion after the token's launch, bluntly stating that this valuation is "absurd to the extreme," and questioned why Hunter Biden himself would become the narrative core of the crypto market. He pointed out that the public's attention on Hunter Biden largely stems from the numerous controversies he sparked during his father Joe Biden's presidency, while the Biden administration has generally taken a relatively tough regulatory stance on the crypto industry.Finally, Bonk Guy warned that investors buying the token at the current valuation face extremely high risks, stating that "anyone who buys it deserves to lose 100% of their funds."

According to the official announcement, Tether has announced the joint launch of a $400 million private credit fund, StableFund, in collaboration with Fasanara Capital, aiming to attract third-party institutional capital to $3 billion.The fund will provide short-term, asset-backed credit financing to small and medium-sized enterprises in over 60 countries worldwide. Tether will provide USDT settlement infrastructure and financing opportunities, while Fasanara will act as the investment manager.Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated, "USDT is designed to be a frictionless global currency available around the clock," and through this fund, Tether's financing network will be transformed into a direct capital channel flowing to the businesses and communities that need it most.

According to a report by Sina Finance, AI 3D company VAST (Sanqi Wànwù) announced the completion of Series B and B+ financing, totaling approximately 3 billion yuan, led by Matrix Partners. Perfect World, BlueFocus Communication Group, Xindong Energy Investment, Yanqu Games, Zhongke Chuangda, 37 Interactive Entertainment, as well as Dinghui VGC, CICC Capital, CMC Capital and others participated in the investment, while existing shareholders Dachen Caizhi, Chunhua Capital, and Wengce Capital continued to invest.According to the official introduction, VAST has raised approximately 5 billion yuan in less than six months. It is reported that VAST also released the latest version of its flagship 3D base model Tripo P series, Tripo P2. The funds from this round of financing will be invested in the iteration of 3D native models and data capabilities, expansion of training and inference infrastructure, product development, and commercialization.

Jiang Zhuoer, the founder of the Liebit Mining Pool, posted on the X platform stating that Bitcoin is still operating within an upward channel, and a pullback is inevitable.If $82,300 is the previous high before the pullback, the pullback will show a "slow and back-and-forth wide fluctuation" trend. He is more optimistic about a rise to $83,000 to $84,000 before pulling back to $72,000.

According to CoinDesk, Citibank will launch an international transfer service based on tokenized deposits for Japanese companies by the end of the year, enabling 24/7 instant cross-border payments between five countries, becoming the first foreign bank to offer this service in Japan.

The official announcement from the Ton Network DePIN project PinGo states that the project has once again encountered a cyber attack, and the attackers have sold some of the involved tokens. Currently, the PinGo team has completed the consolidation of on-chain assets and is actively addressing this security incident.It is reported that Gate has temporarily suspended the recharge of PinGo tokens. The PinGo team stated that they will continue to disclose subsequent information based on the progress of the incident. As a result of the incident, the price of PINGO briefly surged by 70%, with the current quote at 0.03 USD.

The official account of Solana announced that the Solana Accelerate China four-city tour will be held from October 16 to 22 in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, and Beijing. The event is aimed at developers, entrepreneurs, and investors, featuring discussions and demonstrations, with the theme of exploring new trends in technology between China and abroad.

According to the official announcement, Gate has officially launched stock event contracts. The first phase includes four underlying assets: MU, SNDK, SK Hynix, and Yushu Technology, and opens a short-term bullish/bearish trading market with 5-minute and 15-minute cycles, without the need for leverage or margin. The cycle ends with automatic settlement, and early closing is also available. The trading times for each underlying asset align with the trading hours of US stocks, Korean stocks, and A-shares.This product supports trading on the web, and Gate App users need to update to version v8.36.0 or above. Users can enter Contracts - Event Contracts, select the stock category to view and trade related underlying assets. During the launch period, a special event with 60,000 USDT is also opened, including new user experience vouchers, first order rewards, as well as a 20,000 USDT check-in prize pool and a 20,000 USDT trading volume prize pool. Gate's event contracts cover both cryptocurrency assets and mainstream stocks.

After Apple Inc.'s market value soared to $570 billion, the new CEO Tim Cook will welcome the release of the foldable iPhone. Since the price increase announcement on June 25, the stock price has risen by 15%, but it is still 7% lower than the peak on July 28.Morgan Stanley estimates the starting price of the foldable iPhone to be between $2,300 and $2,500, with first-quarter shipments expected to be around 6.5 million units and sales of approximately $14 billion.

Bitget has launched EURUSD, USDJPY, and GBPUSD perpetual contracts. The above contracts are settled in USDT, support up to 100 times leverage, and allow for 24/7 trading.

Documents obtained by The Intercept through a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act show that the U.S. Department of Defense once requested OpenAI to provide a version of artificial intelligence specifically tailored for the military, with a "very low refusal rate" for commands. This statement appeared in the updated contract for the 2025 prototype agreement "P00003," which is a two-year agreement worth up to $200 million, covering logistics, intelligence decision-making, and operational uses. OpenAI, Google, xAI, and Anthropic all agreed to develop such militarized prototypes in 2025.OpenAI spokesperson Nate Evans stated that the company never agreed to contract terms that included a "very low refusal rate," and the relevant documents were early drafts from the Department of Defense, with the final executed contract not containing that statement. Department of Defense spokesperson Jacob Bliss also indicated that the phrase did not appear in any current contracts. The Intercept pointed out that the documents obtained were not marked as drafts; a Department of Justice lawyer representing the Pentagon once confirmed that the document was a signed executed version, but later requested to disregard that confirmation and stated that further investigation was needed.The latest contract signed on February 27 allows OpenAI services to be deployed on military classified networks, with similar delivery terms completely redacted. OpenAI stated that it has drawn a red line regarding autonomous killing and surveillance of Americans, but the contract text allows the government to determine any use as legal.

According to CoinMarketCap data, the RWA perpetual contract market, covering stocks, commodities, foreign exchange, and indices, has seen the total trading volume of centralized and decentralized trading platforms increase from $822 billion in May this year to $3.16 trillion three months later, approximately 3.84 times the previous amount. The market has a high concentration, with four platforms—Binance, Hyperliquid, OKX, and Bitget—accounting for 86% of the market share; stock perpetual contracts contribute over 60% of the trading volume.The monthly trading volume of the RWA perpetual contract market continues to reach new highs and is becoming a new source of business growth for leading platforms.

On September 9, the cryptocurrency exchange WEEX announced that the number of participants in WEEX Auto Earn has exceeded 1 million. After users activate it with one click, the system automatically takes snapshots of the USDT balances in the fund account, contract account, and spot account, and combines them for interest calculation, without affecting normal trading and contract margin usage, and no need for locking assets.New users can enjoy a 100% APR on the first 200 USDT, while existing users can enjoy a 10% APR on the first 200 USDT, and all users can enjoy a 3% APR on amounts exceeding 200 USDT.

The Economist estimates that AI has created about 1 million new jobs in the United States so far, far exceeding the approximately 200,000 jobs cut due to AI since mid-2023. This conclusion is based on the employment data for August released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on September 4: the U.S. economy added 162,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate remained at 4.1%. The unemployment rate for young people aged 20-24 is now close to its lowest level in decades compared to the overall unemployment rate.Job growth mainly comes from high-skilled positions directly serving AI and blue-collar jobs driven by data center construction. Since 2022, about 730,000 jobs exceeding the trend line have been added for engineers, software developers, mathematicians, and data scientists. The chief economist at Burning Glass Institute estimates that currently about 1% of professional jobs in the U.S. can be classified as AI jobs, with that proportion reaching 4% to 5% in the fields of computer and life sciences. Spending on data center construction has increased by 60% within a year, leading to a rise in demand for electricians, HVAC technicians, and others. Data from Indeed shows that salaries for data center installation and maintenance jobs are about 40% higher than similar positions.Customer service positions have shrunk by about 10% since January 2023, and administrative assistants have decreased by about 15%. Microsoft and Meta have reduced staff while restructuring their businesses around AI, and companies like Block and Intuit have replaced some manual labor with automation tools. On average, U.S. companies announce about 16,000 layoffs related to AI each month. Economist Noah Smith points out that it is currently difficult to find occupations eliminated by AI in labor data.

American billionaire and founder and CEO of Cardone Capital, Grant Cardone, posted on the X platform that he is selling his private jet for 1,025 Bitcoin (approximately 8.09 million USD).According to reports, the tweet's image shows that the aircraft is a 2024 model Bombardier Global 7500, and similar aircraft with comparable flight hours typically sell for between 7.5 million and 8.1 million USD.

On September 9, at the 2026 JD Global Technology Explorer Conference, the Chairman of the JD Group Technology Committee and President of JD Cloud, Cao Peng, announced the latest progress of JD in the three major AI infrastructures of computing power, data, and models.In terms of computing power, JD Cloud has collaborated with partners such as Moore Threads to create a domestic 10,000-card cluster and plans to build a 100,000-card cluster.In terms of data, JD Cloud's 10 million hours of the largest human-scale data collection initiative is progressing smoothly.In terms of models, JD has formed a JoyAI foundational model matrix covering multimodal models, world models, and embodied models, and has released the real-time interactive world model JoyAI-Echo WM.

JD Logistics released five new products and technologies of the "Wolf Pack" robots at the JDD JD Global Technology Explorers Conference, including the "Mother Wolf," which operates a 24/7 unmanned pharmacy, the "Smart Wolf" low-temperature version designed for cold chain scenarios, and the brand new embodied picking robot "Warehouse Wolf."Also released were the "Lone Wolf" sixth-generation intelligent delivery vehicle Plus version, which features L4 level autonomous driving capabilities, the industry's first logistics drone "Flying Wolf" L05 that supports fully unmanned operations, and the embodied agile arm "Strange Wolf," which has been scaled for application in sorting scenarios. JD Logistics is committed to building the world's largest army of embodied robot applications.

BlackRock strategists indicate that the impact of Japan's interest rate reset has transcended borders. Rising interest rates in the United States may weaken the yen and pressure the Bank of Japan to act more quickly; rising interest rates in Japan could attract more capital back home, weakening demand for U.S. Treasury bonds. Japan holds about 1.1 trillion U.S. dollars in U.S. Treasury bonds, and if 5% of that capital is repatriated, it would amount to 55 billion dollars.