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According to Bloomberg, sources have revealed that U.S. federal prosecutors are investigating whether Binance Holdings Ltd. violated U.S. sanctions against Iran by failing to prevent certain transactions on its platform.The investigation into Binance's compliance is being handled by the Manhattan U.S. Attorney's Office. One source also noted that the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington is involved in the case, and authorities are focusing on whether Binance knowingly allowed the relevant transactions to proceed.

The U.S. Department of Justice announced that Iris Rabaya Au, a 37-year-old woman from Irvine, Orange County, California, was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for failing to report over $2.6 million in illegal income to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). She was also ordered to pay $1.484 million in restitution and had multiple luxury cars, high-performance vehicles, designer handbags, and three "Godfather" sculptures confiscated. Au is the ex-girlfriend of cryptocurrency scammer Adam Iza.Prosecutors stated that between 2020 and 2024, Iza fraudulently obtained Meta advertising accounts and credit lines, selling account access and earning millions of dollars in unreported income. At Iza's direction, Au set up shell companies and opened bank accounts, using the related funds to pay approximately $1 million to Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD) officers and to purchase or lease luxury homes, cars, jewelry, and clothing. They also spent nearly $10 million on entertainment and purchased about $16 million in cryptocurrency for Iza. Between 2020 and 2023, Au transferred over $2.6 million into her personal bank accounts but did not accurately report it on her federal tax returns. She pleaded guilty to one count of false tax return in March 2025. Iza pleaded guilty in January 2025 to charges including conspiracy to infringe rights, wire fraud, and tax evasion, with a sentencing hearing scheduled for October 5. He was also sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for his involvement in an attempted Bitcoin robbery and kidnapping case in Connecticut in August 2024.

The founder of TRON, Justin Sun, announced the official establishment of the "Justin Sun Award" and revealed the first batch of winners. This is the world's first zero-trust, decentralized academic reward mechanism based on a "problem list," with significant breakthroughs in fundamental disciplines and machine formal verification as the sole criteria for awarding, with a maximum prize of up to 1 million dollars for a single problem.Justin Sun stated that the award aims to initiate a new scientific incentive paradigm centered on machine verification, powered by human-machine collaboration, and driven by decentralized rewards, striving to create a Nobel Prize for the AI era.The top prize of 1 million dollars was awarded to the OpenAI research team in recognition of their completion of the "Existence and Smoothness of the Navier-Stokes Equations" solution and formal proof. Other awarded achievements include the Sandorff Conjecture, Erdős Disjoint Subset, and other problems, involving a total of 66 mathematical problems.It is reported that the "Justin Sun Award" is open to all contributors, with no identity restrictions; both humans and AI can win, but only the first completer of the listed problems will be awarded. The problem list and proof materials are publicly available on GitHub, and the prize is recorded on-chain. The award covers mathematical progress made from January 1, 2026, onwards; those who complete formal verification of previously solved problems afterward can also win.

The founder of TRON, Justin Sun, announced the establishment of the "Justin Sun Award," which currently focuses only on mathematics. He stated that the award follows the problem rather than the individual, with no annual meeting, nominations, or age restrictions; each problem has two columns for signatures, one for the prover and one for the person who formalizes the proof and writes it into the machine. Both can be the same person, or they can be a person, AI, or a person using AI. The condition for triggering the prize is that the machine verifies the proof from the first line to the last line without error. Once verification is passed, the names in the two columns become the prize owners for that problem.The rules also include: before machine verification, if the mathematical community has accepted a human proof, it can be listed first, with the prize remaining unchanged, and the status being "Proven, awaiting formalization." The prize in the proof column is only awarded to problems that are solved after being listed; for problems that were already solved at the time of listing, the prover is still credited, but the prize is only awarded to the person who completes the formalization, not retroactively for the history of mathematics. The list of problems is determined by Justin Sun's signature for the listed problems and pricing; once listed, the price can only increase, and money can only be exchanged, not refunded. Mistakes in the problems will still be paid, and they will be re-listed afterward; beyond pricing, verification, payment, and naming, he does not participate in voting.Justin Sun stated that the focus of public welfare will shift to this award, with the initial prize pool already deposited into the blockchain, with the address and balance made public. He only retains the right to continue injecting funds; the award proof and prize distribution will also be made public on the chain. He mentioned that naming it after a person is to avoid name changes due to institutional changes and expressed that wealth comes from mathematics, hoping to "come from mathematics and return to mathematics."

Blockworks researcher Nick Carpinito stated: He holds a constructive attitude towards the GPU mortgage protocol USD.AI's sUSDai and has adjusted CHIP from underweight to neutral. sUSDai currently has a net yield of 6.98%, with loan interest currently accounting for about three-quarters of that yield, and gradual increases in custody will lead to mechanical adjustments.The deployed principal has reached $272.4 million, covering 17 loans, accounting for 46% of the protocol's $586 million TVL, with an additional $312.1 million signed in terms sheets. CHIP is trading at approximately $0.041, with a fully diluted valuation of about $408 million. He maintains a constructive view on sUSDai, with a net yield of 6.98% expected to rise above 8% with the transition of custody; he maintains a neutral stance on CHIP until the fee routing or the cliff unlocking decision in April 2027 determines the direction.

In response to the rumors of the "death" of Robinhood Chain in the community, Uniswap founder Hayden Adams stated that it is quite ridiculous to claim that Robinhood Chain "has died" based solely on the fee income chart. In fact, Robinhood has only raised the gas limit and lowered user fees to expand on-chain capacity and meet the huge demand for block space. Approximately 95% of the DEX trading volume on Robinhood Chain comes from Uniswap, and its overall performance is currently good.Dragonfly managing partner Haseeb also previously stated that after Robinhood Chain reduced fees, on-chain revenue significantly decreased, but DEX trading volume remains strong, currently second only to Solana. This strategy is clearly intentional; Robinhood values attracting RWA and on-chain financial activities through low fees and higher capacity rather than optimizing short-term orderer revenue.

The Batch V1.1 upgrade for the XRP Ledger is just one vote away from initiating the activation process. The RippleX team has fixed 11 software defects in the latest review. The Batch feature allows users to combine up to eight related transactions into a single operation, ensuring that both parties complete the transfer simultaneously when two people exchange tokens, thus avoiding the situation where one party pays while the other fails.In Tuesday's snapshot, the upgrade received support from 27 out of 35 trusted validators, accounting for approximately 77%, while changes to the XRP Ledger require an 80% support rate. Therefore, currently, one validator's vote can determine success or failure, and obtaining one more vote will initiate a two-week activation countdown. The support rate must remain above this threshold for 14 days, during which validators can change their votes.Previously, researchers discovered vulnerabilities in the original Batch proposal, allowing attackers to initiate transactions using others' accounts without authorization under specific conditions; this version was not deployed on the mainnet. The new version was released with xrpld 3.3.0 on August 6, and the latest review found 11 issues related to signatures, authorization checks, and server crashes. Among these, a serious vulnerability rated by the security company Common Prefix could allow attackers to reuse user signature permissions to execute transactions beyond expectations. RippleX stated that the review involved four senior engineers, audits from Halborn and Common Prefix, public security competitions, and automated testing, and mentioned that commercial projects using Batch have been signed or are in development.

According to Business Insider, Google has adjusted its internal policies to allow engineers across the company to use the Anthropic Claude model, including Anthropic Opus 5, through the internal development platform Antigravity. Google stated that Gemini remains the primary foundational model developed internally by the company, while third-party models like Claude will be provided according to user quotas, mainly for specific scenarios, as a supplement to Gemini.Previously, access to Claude was mainly granted to the Google DeepMind team and some high-priority project employees. Reports indicate that despite Google launching the Flash 3.8 model, its coding capabilities are still considered by some employees to lag behind those of Anthropic and OpenAI. Meanwhile, Google has also announced plans to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic.

According to Bloomberg, the U.S. Department of Justice is seeking to seize $61 million, claiming that the funds come from Iran's black market oil sales and were laundered through the cryptocurrency exchange Binance.The Manhattan federal prosecutor alleges in a civil forfeiture lawsuit that Iran used a network of cryptocurrency participants to launder over $1.5 billion in illegal oil funds. The prosecution states that the relevant entities used Binance trading accounts to transfer oil proceeds to Iran and its agents and affiliated organizations to fund military and terrorist activities.

Goldman Sachs stated that the renewed rise in expectations for Federal Reserve interest rate hikes may trigger traders to unwind their hedge positions, leading to a more severe adjustment in gold prices than usual.

The seasonally adjusted CPI for the United States at the end of August is 334.98, expected to be 334.85, and the previous value was 333.918.

According to Bloomberg on September 11, Chinese e-commerce company JD.com is preparing to offer improved relief measures to alleviate the European Union's concerns about its plan to acquire Ceconomy AG for 2.2 billion euros (approximately 2.6 billion dollars). Ceconomy is the largest electronics retailer in the EU.Insiders say that JD.com is holding meetings with regulators reviewing the deal under the EU's Foreign Subsidies Regulation and is committed to adjusting the original concessions aimed at maintaining the competitiveness of its logistics and technology businesses. The relevant individuals requested anonymity.

UBS strategist Phoebe White stated that UBS has abandoned its recent bullish stance on short-term U.S. Treasuries, raising its year-end target for the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield from 4.35% to 4.8%, and adjusting the 2-year target from 3.95% to 4.5%.The 2-year U.S. Treasury yield rose 2 basis points to 4.568%, the highest since July 2024.

According to The Information, SpaceX has disclosed that it will make significant adjustments to the construction methods of its AI data centers, which may slow the expansion rate of new data center campuses.According to insiders, Musk has recently assigned a group of rocket engineers to oversee the construction of data centers. Unlike his past emphasis on a "rapid action" management style, the new team has adopted a more cautious approach to construction. Two years ago, Musk built data centers for his AI business at a record pace, but this adjustment in construction methods may extend the construction timeline for the new campuses.

DeepSeek has adjusted the offline schedule for V4 Pro. Previously, the official announcement stated that once V4.1 Flash officially goes live, all V4 Pro requests would be automatically switched to the new model; the latest notification changes this to September 14 at 12:00, when V4 Pro will be taken offline, and all requests will be switched to V4.1 Flash, with billing based on Flash prices.The previous automatic replacement plan has sparked opposition from many developers. Many developers are concerned that their carefully tuned Prompts, Agents, and production processes around V4 Pro will encounter issues due to the backend directly switching models. Some have suggested that DeepSeek retain the old model for a period of time, allowing users to decide when to migrate.

Less than 24 hours remain until the new pricing for the DeepSeek V4 Flash series takes effect (September 10, 12:00 SGT). With upstream price adjustments imminent, B.AI has prepared an exclusive stacking benefit for global developers to ensure top-tier computing power remains within reach. This upcoming benefit aims to further reduce invocation costs and unleash greater productivity—whether for high-frequency API calls, Agent workflow construction, or large-scale production-level deployments, all can operate continuously and efficiently with a lower burden. Specific benefits will be announced soon, so please stay tuned to B.AI's official updates and don't miss this boost in computing power.

According to The Block, the U.S. Department of Justice reported that California man Adam Iza was sentenced to 15 years in prison for his involvement in a kidnapping conspiracy in August 2024.He assisted in planning and funding a kidnapping operation targeting the parents of a person involved in a multi-million dollar Bitcoin theft case, directing six men from Florida to carry out a violent carjacking and kidnapping in Connecticut via mobile phones and encrypted messaging apps. Currently, his brother and six participants have pleaded guilty, while the remaining conspirators are awaiting trial.