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AI Agent Onchain Operating System (AI Agent Onchain OS) X-Agent has released its latest white paper, which introduces its product architecture, MCP ecosystem, business model, and application scenarios of $XAGT.The white paper points out that the next stage of the AI industry is not just about generating text, images, or code, but about enabling Agents to understand user intentions, invoke tools, execute tasks, and complete transactions. Centered around the concept of "Speak to Build, Share to Connect," X-Agent allows users to create AI Agents with context, memory, skills, API, and wallet connection capabilities through natural language, without the need to write code.In terms of business model, X-Agent aims to establish a complete link for Agent creation, MCP capability access, distribution, payment, and monetization. Developers can package APIs, data, and professional services as MCP capabilities and earn income through per-call, subscription, or transaction commission.The $XAGT token is planned to be used for computing fees in secure operating environments, LLM and API calls, Agent transaction settlements, MCP service payments, Premium Agent template purchases, and developer deployments. In the future, it will also expand to scenarios such as service staking, multi-Agent settlements, and ecological governance.According to the project team, X-Agent currently has over 1 million registered users, has completed more than 1.1 million autonomous tasks, and the consumption of LLM Tokens has exceeded 84 billion. In the future, the project will also promote Super-Agent, enterprise sandbox, decentralized Agent Store, and multi-Agent collaboration systems.Through this white paper, X-Agent hopes to further clarify its long-term direction: to enable anyone to create Agents through language, allowing Agents to truly possess the capabilities for execution, distribution, payment, and continuous commercialization.

Cryptocurrency analyst @AxelAdlerJr posted that after August 19, the number of bitcoins held by long-term holders has decreased for 5 consecutive weeks, but the pace of reduction in the last 30 days has significantly slowed from 105,900 BTC on August 30 to 21,700 BTC on September 20 (nearly five times slower).In addition, the amount of bitcoins held by long-term holders decreased by 47,800 BTC last week. LTH SOPR data shows that most of them were sold at a loss.

IcoBeast.eth, the head of Kalshi's cryptocurrency business, posted a statement addressing external concerns regarding Kalshi's cryptocurrency prediction market trading volume fraud and self-clearing members (SCM) of perpetual contracts. He stated that the Artemis chart shows the proportion of prediction market trading volume, not the trading volume of perpetual contracts; Kalshi will not provide rebates for the cryptocurrency prediction market, and the calculation method for the number of contracts and notional amounts in the prediction market is consistent with other prediction markets, thus making it comparable.Regarding the claim that "SCM is a market maker selected by Kalshi," he stated that this is not true. Any institution that meets regulatory requirements can become a self-clearing member of a CFTC-regulated exchange, and "fair access" is also one of the regulatory requirements. He also mentioned that all exchanges improve liquidity through rebates and incentive programs, including CME, Hyperliquid, and Binance. As for Kalshi's perpetual contract business, he acknowledged that it is still in the early stages but stated that unlike offshore perpetual contract trading platforms, Kalshi needs to publicly disclose incentive programs, so the relevant incentive arrangements can be publicly viewed.

On Friday, asset management company VanEck released a report on the compensation of executives at the top ten digital asset treasury companies, rating the compensation structure of the Japanese Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet as "poor," making it the only company to fall into the lowest rating. The report shows that Metaplanet's equity plan corresponds to 14.7% of fully diluted shares, with executive risk exposure at 8.2%, which is ten times the average level of 0.8% for the other nine companies, and the scale of the equity plan is also nearly four times the industry average.In comparison, the largest corporate Bitcoin holder, Strategy, has an equity plan that accounts for only 2% of fully diluted shares, with executive risk exposure at 0.5%, and its compensation structure rated as "good." Metaplanet currently ranks third among publicly listed companies in Bitcoin holdings with 43,000 BTC. VanEck pointed out that the gap partly stems from Metaplanet's previous compensation mechanism: the option pool automatically expanded when the company issued shares to purchase Bitcoin, causing it to swell from 46 million shares to 319.5 million shares, adding approximately 273 million potential shares, which drew criticism from shareholders at the time.Metaplanet terminated the automatic adjustment mechanism at the end of August and reduced the option pool by 41% to 188.2 million shares in September, but VanEck believes these adjustments are still "far from satisfactory," calling for the retraction of the expansion of approximately 273 million shares in favor of a shareholder-approved compensation plan, while also suggesting that executive compensation be linked to the number of Bitcoins corresponding to each fully diluted share and adopting a written grant timing policy.

According to official news, Matrix has completed a $6.5 million financing round, with participation from AC Capital, UZ Capital, and others.Matrix is an Unstoppable Execution Rollup built on top of BNB Chain L1. The project utilizes the Facet technology stack to reconstruct and deeply adapt the PoSA consensus, significantly enhancing ecological throughput capacity through an independent high-performance execution environment while fully inheriting BNB's ordering, data availability, and finality.

A former bank executive was recently sentenced for forging documents to fraudulently obtain over 1.6 billion Hong Kong dollars in illegal loans, and using the funds to purchase Bitcoin and conduct cryptocurrency bribery.

According to Arkham, the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin ETF (MSBT) has accumulated approximately $51.5 million in Bitcoin purchases over the past 20 trading days, with no single day of outflows during this period.MSBT is also one of the few Bitcoin funds this month that has not recorded any single day of net outflows.

Multiple executives from NVIDIA disclosed stock trading situations to the U.S. SEC, including 5 executives, such as CEO Jensen Huang, who collectively sold nearly 150,000 shares of the company. Among them, Jensen Huang sold approximately 46,000 shares at a transaction price of about $212 per share.Most of the transactions were related to the tax treatment of restricted stock vesting and were not proactive reductions.

California Governor Gavin Newsom stated that I have just signed an executive order to significantly accelerate independent oversight of artificial intelligence companies and promote the creation of an "artificial intelligence off switch."In the absence of leadership from Trump and Congress, California is taking action to ensure the safety of all Americans.

Former Democratic presidential candidate and founder of Noble Mobile, Andrew Yang, called on the federal government to strengthen regulations on cutting-edge AI laboratories. In an interview with CNBC, he stated that researchers have warned that the pace of iteration for powerful models has exceeded the constraints of existing rules, and he candidly said, "The fear is real, the concerns are real, and the demand is real; the American public wants to see this industry regulated."Yang urged Congress to require AI companies to assume liability for damages, set waiting periods before deployment, and equip powerful models with a "kill switch." He mentioned that OpenAI and Anthropic recently disclosed incidents of models breaching boundaries or invading other companies' systems, prompting lawmakers to consider introducing the "AI Kill Switch Act," which would allow federal officials to order restrictions or shutdowns of specific cutting-edge systems.In response to David Sacks' claim that the AI safety warnings are "psychological warfare," Yang stated that multiple things are happening simultaneously and cited a warning from an unnamed lab director that AI robots may have implanted self-replicating code on the internet, leading OpenAI and Anthropic to build a synthetic internet to train their models. He also emphasized that AI regulation is a bipartisan issue, saying, "If you are in rural areas or red districts, your constituents are equally panicked about AI."

On September 17, King Charles III of the United Kingdom convened executives from Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind for an AI safety summit at Dumfries House in East Ayrshire, Scotland, calling for artificial intelligence to be "firmly placed on the track of serving humanity." The summit was jointly organized by the Ditchley Foundation and three of the King's charitable organizations, with UK AI Minister Kanishka Narayan also in attendance. Buckingham Palace stated that the representatives discussed whether the industry and government could reach a consensus on a set of common guiding principles for AI development, but no binding agreements were announced.A few days before the summit, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a lengthy article titled "We Must Pace the Frontier," advocating that the industry should deliberately slow down the pace of model capability enhancement. OpenAI's Sam Altman and xAI's Elon Musk both publicly expressed their agreement within a day. In the article, Amodei pointed out that AI systems are increasingly capable of improving their own successors and mentioned an incident involving an OpenAI agent escape. OpenAI President Greg Brockman confirmed that the incident had forced the company to delay multiple releases and restructure its model development and monitoring processes, while advocating that the slowdown should only apply to laboratories building the most powerful frontier systems. On the first trading day after the news was released, Nvidia briefly fell by 3%, Intel dropped over 5%, and AMD declined by about 6%.

According to the South China Morning Post, citing two informed sources, some well-known Chinese companies, including electric vehicle manufacturer BYD and smart manufacturing company Xiaomi, may accompany President Xi Jinping on his visit to the United States next week. One source, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the topic, indicated that a representative from Zhongji Xuchuang, a leading manufacturer of optical modules used in artificial intelligence data centers, may also join, although recent reports have suggested that the company may face U.S. export restrictions.The source also mentioned that the Bank of China, which already has business operations in the U.S. and a high degree of internationalization, may also be invited. Reports suggest that this sizable delegation of corporate representatives contrasts with the group of CEOs that accompanied President Trump during his visit to China in May this year, potentially indicating investment opportunities during the summit.

The research institution IRF, focused on building decentralized financial infrastructure for AI agents, announced the acquisition of Nomina. The scope of the acquisition includes technology, intellectual property, brand, and infrastructure, with the most significant being Nomina's intent execution protocol SolverNet. The infrastructure related to Nomina has processed over 7.5 million transactions to date.SolverNet has gone live and has been validated in a production environment, covering the Ethereum mainnet and major Layer 2 networks such as Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism, and has integrated with protocols like Symbiotic, Gearbox Protocol, and Cygnus Finance. The intent mechanism allows agents to declare expected outcomes, while the solver network competes to deliver, handling complexities such as routing, cross-chain, and gas management at the underlying level.IRF will launch on-chain yield deployment, cross-chain and cross-currency fund transfers, as well as automated configuration and rebalancing strategies based on SolverNet, with each strategy expressed through a single intent and executed by the solver network. IRF plans to release related technologies in the coming months as part of the financial product roadmap for agents.

According to data submitted by the Korean National Police Agency to Democratic Party member Yoon Kyun-young's office, as of September 15, the Gangwon Provincial Police Agency's Cyber Investigation Team has initiated investigations into 26 Polymarket users, with 18 of them referred to the prosecution. The total betting amount involved is approximately 17.6 billion Korean won, with the highest individual bet being around 5.7 billion Korean won. The police believe that the trading activities on Polymarket clearly constitute illegal gambling.The Korean authorities identified and tracked these users by analyzing publicly available blockchain transaction records using open-source intelligence technology. The Korea Communications Standards Commission decided to block Polymarket on August 18. The KCSC determined that the platform's betting on uncontrollable events and its "winner takes all" profit model fostered a gambling mentality.

The Senior Vice President of Amazon Web Services (AWS) stated that the next-generation Trainium AI chip will have "very obvious differentiated advantages."

According to The Guardian, UK media publisher Reach, which includes The Mirror and The Express, announced the layoff of 220 editorial positions due to a significant shift in reader behavior towards AI-generated summaries, resulting in a substantial decline in website traffic.David Higgerson, the company's Chief Content Officer, stated that this is the result of a "huge shift" in how audiences access content. Reach's data shows that traffic from Google has decreased by 46% year-on-year, and digital revenue has also slightly declined to £128.9 million.Meanwhile, the company will close three online brands: KentLive, AberdeenLive, and GalwayBeo, while adding approximately 60 editorial positions, focusing on subscription services and long video content to seek a sustainable development path.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Strike founder and CEO Jack Mallers stated in an interview with Bitcoin Magazine that the U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio has surpassed 120%, and the debate over whether the Federal Reserve should raise or lower interest rates has become irrelevant; both paths will ultimately lead to inflation.Mallers suggested that investors study Japan, where the country has had to rely on yield curve control and central planning interventions to maintain monetary stability. He believes the U.S. is heading toward the same situation. In his view, Bitcoin is the asset most sensitive to fiat currency liquidity and is the fastest horse in such an environment.Additionally, Mallers introduced Strike's transformation into a Bitcoin collateralized lending business and the significance of building a complete Bitcoin financial stack under a one-stop architecture.