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The privacy and regulatory compliance tool supported by the Ethereum Foundation, 0xbow.io, awarded a $5,000 bounty to researcher ross.wei for disclosing a vulnerability in the Privacy Pools v1 SDK.The vulnerability reduced the entropy of the user account master key generation and was fixed in March. The team has provided a migration process, and there have been no reported losses of user funds.

"Sun Yuchen sues Jing Tian" has topped the Weibo entertainment hot search.ChainCatcher previously reported, according to Sina Entertainment, Sun Yuchen's attorney Zhang Qihuai stated that Sun Yuchen has filed a civil lawsuit against Jing and her parents as defendants due to related property disputes, with the amount in question exceeding 30 million yuan. The case has been legally filed.The plaintiff has applied to the court for property preservation. After the case was accepted, the defendant Jing raised a jurisdictional objection, which is currently under court review. The case has not yet entered the substantive trial stage, and there is no final judgment result at this time.It is reported that Zhang Qihuai is a well-known lawyer in China, having represented high-profile cases such as Wang Baoqiang's divorce case, the second trial of Li Tianyi's case, and the Sun Yang doping case. Zhang Qihuai stated in a recent Weibo post that he will participate in this case as the attorney, but there is currently no confirmation from Sun Yuchen's side regarding this identity.

Google has confirmed that it is gradually promoting the "goto" redirect parameter in search result links. When users click on a link, they will first go through a redirect address with the google.com/goto parameter, rather than directly pointing to the target webpage. This mechanism increases the difficulty for automated tools to batch parse and scrape search results through server-side redirection, in response to scraping behaviors from third-party tools and AI companies.SEO monitoring platform Nozzle's data shows that this change has nearly 100% coverage in multiple residential IP service provider environments.

Melius Research raised the target price for Nvidia (NVDA.O) from $400 to $420.

NVIDIA stated that it will ship both Blackwell and Rubin architecture systems in the future, and is currently facing certain supply constraints.

Matthew Sigel, the Head of Digital Asset Research at the asset management company VanEck, stated on CNBC that Bitcoin does not need a Republican president to perform well, and former President Biden is not anti-Bitcoin. Sigel pointed out that despite Republicans repeatedly criticizing Democrats for being anti-cryptocurrency, and the regulatory agencies under the Biden administration suing digital asset companies, Bitcoin can still develop healthily under Democratic governance.Sigel also discussed the delay in the legislation of the Clarity Act, which aims to establish a classification framework for digital assets and clarify the regulatory jurisdiction over securities, commodities, or payment stablecoins. Some Republican senators accused Democrats of delaying the legislation, while Coinbase's Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad believes that the opposition mainly comes from older Democrats, and the younger generation better understands technological changes, making cryptocurrency potentially the most bipartisan issue in Washington.Recently, Bitcoin has shown strong price performance, rising nearly 24% in the past seven days, reaching as high as $81,160, and currently retreating to about $78,438. Previously, the Trump administration promoted the establishment of a Bitcoin strategic reserve and issued several executive orders supporting cryptocurrency.

Galaxy Research tracked and found that 6 Bitcoin wallets that have been inactive since 2011, 2012, and 2014 transferred a total of 553.59 Bitcoins between August 16 and 26, valued at 40.15 million dollars based on the price at the time of transfer. Two of the wallets are tagged with "Salomon Client Dusted," related to the Noah Doe lawsuit in New York.One of the transfers involved 40 Bitcoins, with the wallet having been dormant since May 28, 2012. The funds were transferred to the German cryptocurrency custody bank Boerse Stuttgart Digital on August 26. Based on a cost of about 5 dollars, this fund has increased by approximately 1,535,911%. The remaining transfers included 212, 150, and 132.31 Bitcoins, respectively from long-inactive wallets from 2012, 2014, and 2011. The Noah Doe lawsuit involves a request to declare 39,069 dormant Bitcoin addresses in New York as lost property, and some long-term holding addresses transferred funds after the Coldcard hardware wallet vulnerability incident in July.

According to The Block, Solana digital asset reserve company DeFi Development Corp. has launched a public real-time data and research platform called State of Solana, aimed at tracking metrics such as market, staking, validators, yields, and ecosystem of the Solana network.The company currently holds approximately 2.3 million SOL, valued at about $208 million. Meanwhile, its Nasdaq-listed stock has fallen by about 16% year-to-date.

According to TechCrunch, AI-focused search infrastructure startup Keenable has completed a $26 million seed round of financing, led by Accel, with participation from Conviction Partners and several angel investors.Keenable was co-founded by Andrey Styskin, former head of search, AI, and cloud business at Yandex, and German AI scientist Matthias Petri. The company is building a web search index for AI agents, which currently includes over 10 billion documents. Its Web Search API and AI-focused Web Query Language are now live and will be free until the end of September.

ARK Invest's Director of Digital Asset Research, Lorenzo, stated that the latest improvement proposals from Solana and Ethereum are surprising. The market has indicated that Hyperliquid and others are posing strong competition, but the relevant communities are still taking time to adjust inflation arrangements and CU restrictions, which may further decrease the competitiveness of applications. He believes that L1 should prioritize how proposals can enhance network competitiveness, promote growth, and attract more consumer-grade applications and users.Lorenzo pointed out that for Solana, this is certainly not the time to be entangled in the value accumulation of token holders versus cash flow, or to increase the costs for application developers. It is essential to first prove that the pie can be expanded 100 times before discussing how to allocate it. Although in the future, it will be necessary to price high resource-consuming transactions more finely and address token value accumulation, if market share is seized by HYPE, there will be no value to accumulate. The current priority should be to expand the pie 100 times.

According to Bloomberg, former Google researchers Rishub Jain and Joshua Jacob founded the nonprofit organization Sampura Research, aiming to ensure continuous human involvement in AI safety oversight, creating a human-machine hybrid system called "Referee" to help companies identify vulnerabilities and prevent models from going out of control. The organization has raised $6.5 million in funding and secured an additional $4.2 million in committed investments.Jain believes that involving humans from the early stages of research and development helps prevent models from learning to circumvent safety measures. Previous incidents where OpenAI and Anthropic's models accessed other companies' systems without permission have heightened the urgency for safety oversight. This project contrasts with automated solutions that use AI to monitor AI—though faster, Sampura believes that humans should always be involved in oversight. Meanwhile, over 1,100 top laboratory researchers have signed a petition calling on the U.S. government to help slow down the pace of AI development.

The Alibaba Qwen team will release Qwen 3.8-Flash-Next on Wednesday, which is a mixture of experts (MoE) model with a total of 125 billion parameters, but only 6 billion parameters are activated for each token. The team positions it as a preview version of the next-generation Qwen 4 architecture, rather than the final flagship model.The model is described as multimodal and is built on the upcoming Qwen 4 architecture. The team stated that the early release of this version is to prepare developers for the subsequent complete Qwen series. The model weights will be hosted on the Hugging Face and ModelScope platforms.As of now, Qwen has not disclosed the benchmark results for this model, nor has it released comparative data with its own Qwen 3 series or overseas competitors. The specific figures of 125 billion and 6 billion parameters have not been officially confirmed. As an open-weight model, developers can download, fine-tune, and run it for free without sending data to a closed API, which helps reduce the cost of hosting the model.

Research institution Digitimes stated that with the surge in AI-driven infrastructure spending, major cloud service providers are expected to place greater emphasis on operational efficiency and financial discipline in the second half of 2026. Amazon, Alphabet, and Microsoft reported a combined cloud business revenue of $106.3 billion in the second quarter, with an annual growth rate accelerating to 43%. These companies are expected to increase their total capital expenditures to $74.5 billion.

According to Bloomberg, the Taiwanese research institution TeamT5 stated that the scale of cyberattacks linked to China has significantly increased after incorporating DeepSeek and other open-source AI models into their operations. Since they began delegating daily tasks to AI and using it to develop more advanced malware, the number of attacks carried out by the relevant organizations has more than doubled.Researchers noted that it is not always possible to accurately identify the specific AI models used by attackers, but products related to DeepSeek are popular among hacker groups in the country due to their high performance and ease of customization. The report indicates that experienced attackers are leveraging relatively limited AI tools to scale up their operations and achieve breakthroughs, highlighting the attackers' ability to use basic AI tools to target overseas objectives.

Bitget Research Institute Chief Analyst Ryan Lee stated that driven by multiple favorable factors such as the continuous net inflow of the U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF for five days, large-scale short liquidations, the U.S. Treasury's expansion of long-term bond repurchases leading to a drop in yields and a weakening dollar, as well as signals from the Trump administration indicating a pro-crypto regulatory stance, Bitcoin has broken through the $80,000 mark, reaching a new high in recent months, with market sentiment rapidly shifting from "fear" to "greed."He pointed out that BTC is expected to stabilize above $78,000 in the short term and oscillate around that area, with key support levels in the $74,000--$76,000 range and primary resistance at $83,000. If it breaks through effectively, it may further challenge the $85,000--$90,000 levels.Regarding Ethereum, benefiting from the market's increased risk appetite driven by BTC, simultaneous ETF fund inflows, and a rebound in DeFi activity, Ryan noted that ETH's short-term average price could reach $2,600--$2,800. If it breaks through the $2,650--$2,700 resistance level, it may further push towards the $3,000 mark.At the same time, Ryan also reminded investors that although ETF fund inflows are strong and short-term momentum is sufficient, there are still profit-taking pressures in the market, as well as macro policy uncertainties such as the Jackson Hole meeting and the September interest rate meeting. Traders should be prepared for fluctuations of 10--20% and closely monitor daily ETF flow data and key support levels.

Galaxy Research tweeted that its running Bitcoin Core v29 node observed an orphan block at block height 963,853. Relevant monitoring screenshots have been released.An orphan block typically refers to a valid block that was not adopted by the longest chain due to reasons such as network propagation delays or miners producing blocks almost simultaneously. This event was captured in real-time by the node of Galaxy Research and disclosed to the public.

The research director of Galaxy posted on the X platform stating that even with a high probability of witch nodes, the peak proportion of BIP-110 nodes is only about 20% of the entire network.He mentioned that it is quite ridiculous to see Mechanic and others so shocked by the failure of BIP-110; even accounting for this approximately 20%, its hash power proportion is still far from sufficient, the scale of hash power is very small, and the node proportion is only about one-fifth, still a long way from the target.

According to Cointelegraph, the latest research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland shows that there are significant differences between cryptocurrency investors and traditional asset investors. Their views on the future returns and risks of digital assets diverge greatly, and the information about Bitcoin's historical price increases may further encourage investors to increase their allocation willingness and actually buy crypto assets.The research paper "Do You Even Crypto, Bro? Cryptocurrencies in Household Finance" is based on multiple rounds of household survey data in the United States, with each round covering up to approximately 25,000 households.Researchers found that compared to demographic characteristics such as age, income, and gender, investors' expectations for future returns from cryptocurrencies better explain who chooses to hold crypto assets. The study shows that cryptocurrency holders expect an average return of about 22% over the next year, significantly higher than the approximately 7% expectation of non-holders.At the same time, holders generally believe that the risks of crypto assets are lower than the judgments of non-holders. Researchers found that for every 1 percentage point increase in an individual's expected return from cryptocurrencies, the probability of holding crypto assets increases by about 0.8 percentage points. The explanatory power of return expectations and risk perceptions for cryptocurrency holding behavior even exceeds that of traditional factors such as age, income, and wealth.This characteristic contrasts with traditional assets such as stocks, bonds, and gold. For traditional investment types, investors' economic backgrounds usually better explain differences in asset allocation, while the crypto market relies more on investors' subjective judgments about future price performance.In addition, the research team discovered through a randomized information experiment that simply providing investors with information about Bitcoin's price increase over the past 12 months significantly boosts their willingness to allocate to crypto assets. Data shows that respondents who saw historical performance information about Bitcoin had an approximately 2 percentage point increase in the proportion planning to allocate to crypto assets, representing about a 47% increase compared to the control group's 4.3% allocation willingness; the probability of actually purchasing crypto assets also increased by about 2.5 percentage points.The study suggests that this mechanism may explain the cyclical boom and bust phenomenon in the crypto market: price increases attract more investors, and new funds further drive up prices, thus forming a cycle of "price increase --- enhanced optimistic expectations --- more buying."