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Market prediction protocol functionSPACE announced the completion of a $1.7 million Pre-Seed round of financing, aimed at building economic primitives for pricing numerical outcomes. This round of financing was led by Maven 11 Capital and Blockwall, with participation from Smape Capital.

According to Bloomberg, artificial intelligence infrastructure company Verda has completed a new round of financing of $189 million, led by Emergence Capital, with participation from MUFG Innovation Partners, computer manufacturer Super Micro Computer, Varma Mutual Pension Insurance, and Lifeline Ventures.It is reported that the company's valuation has reached at least $1 billion after the financing.

According to The Block, stablecoin infrastructure company HIFI has completed a $37 million Series A funding round, led by Left Lane Capital, with specific valuation yet to be disclosed.HIFI CEO Zach Walsh stated that this is the company's first priced funding round, and the platform currently processes an annualized transaction volume of approximately $7 billion. This round of funding will be used to expand stablecoin payment products and tokenized capital market infrastructure.HIFI currently supports the inflow and outflow of funds between the US dollar and stablecoins, facilitates payments through the US banking system and bank cards, and provides US dollar cash settlement services for tokenized repurchase agreements and US Treasury transactions. HIFI has also participated in the tokenized securities production trading tests of the US Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC).

According to a report by Reuters, the artificial intelligence startup Island announced the completion of a $400 million Series F funding round, led by Evolution Equity Partners, with participation from existing investors Prysm Capital, Sequoia Capital, Coatue Management, Cyberstarts, Insight Partners, and JP Morgan Growth Equity Partners.The company's valuation has reached $6.4 billion, and the new funds will drive the company into the next phase of growth and innovation, helping businesses expand the application scale of AI agents and modernize work methods.

MeshWallet, a gas-free USDT wallet headquartered in Tallinn, Estonia, announced the completion of a $10 million private placement financing, led by several private investors and small family offices.MeshWallet operates on the TRON (TRC20) network, with the core function of eliminating the need for users to hold TRX to pay gas fees, with transfer fees settled directly in USDT, simplifying the dual-token operation process. This financing will be used to expand the product roadmap and build the user ecosystem.

Federal Reserve's Williams stated that the downside risks to achieving full employment have diminished.

According to a report by The Information cited by Dongcha, two individuals with direct knowledge stated that the artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has an annual revenue of approximately $1 billion, up from less than $500 million a few months ago. The revenue primarily comes from model APIs, and the free chat application currently has no advertising or subscription revenue.The report indicated that part of the revenue growth is due to price increases, with some API prices raised by about 2.3 to 4.5 times. Liang Wenfeng recently told investors that the number of customers did not decline after the price increase, and demand remains strong. Previously disclosed financial data showed that the gross margin for the API business in the first seven months of this year was 82.9%.DeepSeek's second round of financing plans to raise approximately 50 billion yuan, with a valuation of about 500 billion. The company hopes to complete this by the end of October and is also preparing for an IPO on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's Sci-Tech Innovation Board. Liang Wenfeng stated that over 70% of the computing power is used for training new models, leaving less than 30% for inference; the company is trying to run more small models directly on gaming graphics cards, reserving high-end chips for training.

According to PR Newswire, the on-chain yield protocol infiniFi announced the completion of a new funding round exceeding $3 million, led by Electric Capital, with participation from New Form Capital, Generative Ventures, Fasanara Capital, 2Square, 4th Revolution Capital, DCFGod, The Rollup, and others. The token generation event will take place in the fourth quarter of 2026, and the funds will be used for protocol development, new integrations, multi-chain expansion, and product promotion.infiniFi ended its stealth mode in February 2025 and completed a $3 million pre-seed funding round, launching in June of the same year; the total raised from pre-seed and seed rounds exceeded $6 million. The protocol has expanded to Ethereum, Arbitrum, Katana, Base, and has collaborated or integrated with Ethena, Pendle, Morpho, Aave, FalconX, Curve, Euler, and others. Since its launch, it has generated over $9 million in revenue, with a historical TVL peak of $180 million, currently exceeding $50 million.Founder and CEO Rob Montgomery stated that this round of funding will continue to advance the mission of enabling ordinary people to earn dollar yields and expand distribution through the upcoming infiniFi Prime, enriching yield sources.

According to Techcrunch, AI agent startup Ema has completed a $77 million Series B funding round, led by Creaegis, with existing investors Accel, Section 32, and Prosus participating in the round. To date, the company's total funding has reached $140 million, with a valuation that has more than doubled since the last funding round in 2024.Ema was founded in 2023 by former Google and Coinbase executive Surojit Chatterjee and former Okta executive Souvik Sen. The company deploys technology called "AI Employee," which is a system capable of coordinating multiple AI agents to help businesses execute multi-step business processes within existing applications, rather than handling one task at a time.It is reported that most of the new funds will be used to expand market operations, as the company had previously focused primarily on product development.

According to Fintech Global, Chicago-based AI startup Go.AI has completed a $85 million Series A funding round, led by Updata Partners, with participation from existing investors GFT Ventures and LAUNCH. To date, its total funding has risen to $90 million.Go.AI primarily provides locally deployed, auditable AI infrastructure for regulated entities such as banks. The new funds will be used to expand the engineering team and enhance marketing efforts, driving the company to expand from its core regulated industries to a broader range of compliance-oriented institutions.

According to AIM, AI-native operating system development company Brahma AI raised $150 million through the issuance of preferred stock, with Multiples Alternate Asset Management contributing $100 million.Brahma AI's clients include Warner Bros, NBA, Google, Hakuhodo, and DNEG as its strategic distribution partners. The company's platform focuses on enterprise content intelligence and media evaluation platform Brahma AI Core and creative production suite Brahma AI Studio, with technology covering areas such as visual AI, digital humans, voice, and multilingual performances.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "St. Tropez: Murphy Cassone vs Clement Tabur," the "Yes" option in the sub-market "Completed Match" has experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 77.05% an hour ago to the current 97.45% (a fluctuation of 20.4%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to internal information obtained by 404 Media and Reuters, after Meta expanded the Muse "Call for You" testing, it was revealed that some calls were actually completed by real people. Muse can transfer tasks to real contractors at call centers, who then make calls on behalf of users and fulfill requests. Some testers only realized there was human intervention after the call ended.Meta adopted this approach mainly to improve success rates. Internal testing showed that the success rate of phone tasks could reach 95% to 98% with human intervention, higher than pure AI. Some merchants hang up directly when they hear the other party is AI, and there are also testers in the community who reported that merchants hung up after Muse identified itself as an AI assistant.Human intervention raises privacy concerns, as users originally believed their information was only shared with AI, but it may actually be seen by outsourced personnel. Some people within Meta also questioned that providing privacy training to contractors does not equate to a real safety mechanism. A Meta official later admitted that failing to inform testers in advance about human intervention was a mistake, and this feature has been rolled back. Meta stated that the phone function is still in testing and will only be officially launched after ensuring safety, privacy, and clear communication.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), a whale with a heavy investment of 4.5 million dollars in Robinhood Meme and DeFi leader has liquidated PONS tokens, with a selling pressure of 3.67 million dollars driving the price down by 4%, from 0.6968 to 0.6688 dollars.During the period from 14:21 to 15:17 today, the whale sold 5.338 million PONS at an average price of 0.6779 dollars, worth 3.67 million dollars. PONS was originally the largest asset on this address, with an acquisition price of about 0.7154 dollars, resulting in a loss of approximately 200,000 dollars from this sale.

The PermissionDelegationV1_1 upgrade of the XRP Ledger entered a 14-day activation countdown on September 21, having received support from 29 of the 35 trusted validator nodes. If the support rate remains above 80% during this period, the upgrade could officially activate as early as October 5 at 11:18 UTC; at least 28 validator nodes must continue to support it, or the countdown will reset.This feature allows accounts to split permissions by role. For example, a stablecoin issuer can allow a connected compliance system to approve customer accounts holding its tokens while keeping the keys with full control offline; operational accounts can gain payment permissions but cannot change keys or delegate authority to others. Each trustee can have up to 10 permissions, and the main account can modify or revoke them at any time.This is the network's second attempt to introduce this feature. The original version had vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit to make others pay transaction fees with improperly signed transactions, and by repeatedly submitting high-fee transactions, they could deplete the victim's XRP balance. This vulnerability was reported by community testers on September 15, 2025, and validator nodes were advised to reject the amendment, so it was never activated. The fixed version was released with xrpld 3.3.0, changing the way unauthorized transactions are rejected, ensuring that fees are not deducted before signature verification.

The web data infrastructure company Firecrawl announced on platform X that it has completed a $75 million Series B financing round, led by Smash Capital, and launched a knowledge base for AI agents called Alexandria, aimed at providing agents with unified access to real-time web, official data providers, and professional indexes.According to the official page, Alexandria currently integrates 82 data providers, 471 data capabilities, and over 113 million papers, READMEs, Issues, and technical documents, covering 28 categories including finance, government, code, shopping, and real estate, and supports access via MCP, CLI, and API. Firecrawl claims that its internal testing shows that Alexandria's answer quality on approximately 1,000 directory-type questions is 21% higher than that of built-in web tools.

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, delivered a keynote speech at the 12th Global Blockchain Summit, stating that the blockchain was initially a primary tool. Although it has characteristics such as openness, neutrality, and security, it is not scalable and is completely transparent, lacking privacy protection mechanisms.Subsequently, privacy transactions and scalable verification brought by zero-knowledge proofs have changed this situation and have been transformed from planning into actual EIPs, included in the Ethereum roadmap. Technologies such as fully homomorphic encryption are also beginning to be applied, and indistinguishable obfuscation may also be applied on-chain in the future. Beyond privacy, the parallel construction and proof of blocks can make extreme scalability possible, and industry thinking has shifted from digital assets to digital assets plus information, from purely on-chain to user-end, transaction memory pools, a complete pipeline on-chain, and from who can send what to who can see what.Currently, blockchain has gradually evolved from a simple ledger to a cryptography-based secure computing network. With the development of AI, providing cryptographic rules to AI for automated formal verification can significantly enhance verification efficiency, allowing the chain to carry more possibilities.

Atum, the open payment network, announced its exit from stealth mode and completed a $13.5 million financing round, with investors including Variant, PayPal Ventures, Abstract Ventures, Road Capital, Mirana Ventures, First Commit, Credibly Neutral, and strategic advisor Charlie Songhurst. The company connects payment companies, developers, and enterprises through a single coordination layer, does not issue currency, does not operate a blockchain, does not favor specific tracks, and does not hold customer funds.Atum stated that any integrator, developer, or application can submit payment requests, with settlement providers competing in the market to complete payments on supported chains and stablecoins, offering native authorization, revocable payments, and identity capabilities. The sender specifies the content to be sent, and the receiver obtains the content they request. The network is incentivized based on transaction volume, targeting issuers, acquirers, payment service providers, card organizations, stablecoin orchestrators, wallets, fintech, and enterprises.Atum supports financial institutions and stablecoin issuers, covering non-agent stablecoin payments, as well as agent-based payments conducted through protocols like x402 and MPP. Founder and CEO Pete Cooling previously led Visa's crypto product team and served as Visa's representative at the Linux OpenWallet Foundation. The company is now open to builders, with the website at atum.xyz.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the Polymarket event "St. Tropez: Murphy Cassone vs Clement Tabur," the "Yes" option in the sub-market "Completed Match" has experienced significant fluctuations in winning probability, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 77.85% (a fluctuation of 27.85%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.