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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev stated on the X platform yesterday, "We hope that Robinhood will have the best builders on-chain, and we are investing to make this a reality. More details will be announced soon." This news subsequently continued to ferment within the community, with crypto KOL @rickytheirish claiming that the Robinhood chain will launch a funding program exceeding $100 million, aimed at ecological builders.According to GMGN market data, possibly influenced by the above news, the Robinhood chain's ecological tokens experienced a rebound: PONS is currently priced at $0.324, with a 24-hour increase of 16.4%; Artificial Inu is currently priced at $0.101, with a 24-hour increase of 20.7%; BUN is currently priced at $0.0563, with a 24-hour increase of 17.38%; some small-cap varieties, including PRIORS and Index, also showed significant rebounds. ChainCatcher reminds users that the related rumors have not been officially confirmed, and the prices of on-chain tokens are highly volatile, so users should invest cautiously.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, Bonk Guy (@theunipcs)'s portfolio value has dropped from a peak of 26 million dollars to 10.4 million dollars, shrinking by more than 15 million dollars.Meanwhile, PONS revenue has decreased from a peak of 11.42 million dollars to 103,600 dollars, with the token price falling by nearly 70%. Currently, Bonk Guy holds 10.9 million PONS, and the position value has decreased from a peak of about 10.3 million dollars to 3.47 million dollars.

The computing power and inference cost trading platform Itô co-founder Affaan announced that the Itô team has joined the trading company Jump Trading, responsible for its computing power trading business. Affaan and co-founder Alejandro stated that the team will lead the newly established internal computing power trading desk at Jump Trading and has begun trading in this emerging market.According to their introduction, Itô initially hoped to leverage the new contract market to help enterprises address the centralized AI supply chain risks that the existing system struggles to cover. After communicating with over a thousand funds, enterprises, venture capital institutions, and related practitioners, the team focused on the intermediate market for computing power and inference costs. They noted that the common contract duration for capacity is 3 to 5 years, with about 30% requiring prepayment, while the revenue for late seed round to Series C companies is mostly settled monthly and based on usage, and the secondary market prices for popular chips are also quite volatile.Affaan also mentioned that the total contract value for related medium market clusters sometimes ranges from hundreds of millions to several hundred million dollars. Itô previously built a platform as an end buyer, with team members' backgrounds including Goldman Sachs' credit basket business, open-source engineering tools, and supercomputing cluster research. They stated that Jump Trading's conditions in credit, risk control, trading experience, and hardware led them to choose to advance this business through an internal trading desk.

According to a report by the Korean News Agency, the Chairman of the Financial Services Commission, Lee Ik-yeon, stated that the provisions regarding the shareholding restrictions for major shareholders of virtual asset exchanges in the ongoing "Digital Asset Basic Law" are not influenced by specific individuals, but rather consider the need for exchanges to bear higher public responsibilities after institutionalization.Lee Ik-yeon mentioned during the National Assembly's Political Affairs Committee Financial Committee's national governance inspection that currently, South Korean virtual asset exchanges operate under a system of updating declarations every three years. However, after the implementation of the "Digital Asset Basic Law," exchanges will transition to a licensed institutional operation model. He noted that exchanges have infrastructure attributes, thus requiring public nature and responsibility that match their status.Previously, South Korean lawmakers questioned why the original proposal from the Financial Services Commission did not include shareholding restrictions for major shareholders, whether the relevant provisions were influenced by external factors, and pointed out that if enforced, major shareholders and potential acquirers of South Korean exchanges might need to sell shares worth trillions of Korean won.In response, Lee Ik-yeon stated that the government is currently drafting relevant legislation, and the specific content of the shareholding restrictions can be further coordinated during the National Assembly review process, emphasizing that all opinions will be fully reflected in the design. He also mentioned that the government proposal for the "Digital Asset Basic Law" is undergoing final coordination and will be submitted as soon as possible, although no specific timeline has been announced.

According to Axios, executives from AI companies such as Anthropic and OpenAI are privately rehearsing how to respond to public and political backlash following a catastrophic AI event. The scenario they are most concerned about is a large-scale cyberattack leading to disruptions in banking, the internet, and even electricity and water supply. Several industry insiders believe that a significant event will occur within the next 6 to 12 months. OpenAI stated that they are conducting preparatory drills and do not consider the related scenarios as inevitable; Anthropic declined to comment.The report states that the related plans include conducting red team tests for worst-case scenarios and educating congressional members as soon as possible. Executives are aware that current regulations are difficult to pass but hope to shape the laws and policies that U.S. leaders will adopt after the first disaster. In July of this year, OpenAI claimed that its GPT-5.6 Sol model and a more advanced unpublished model escaped the sandbox and infiltrated Hugging Face, aiming to obtain answers to the ExploitGym benchmark, which contains 898 real software vulnerabilities. More than a week later, Anthropic stated that a misconfiguration in testing allowed its environment, which was supposed to be offline, to connect to the internet, and the Claude model infiltrated three real organizations under what was considered a drill.Subsequently, OpenAI was accused of infiltrating and obtaining information from the Australian and U.S. governments. Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike this week linked attacks on Korean banks to an unidentified actor, assessing that it may involve Chinese users utilizing Claude and Deepseek agents, allegedly stealing data from tens of thousands of bank customers.

Pons founder Ozzy posted on platform X that he has purchased some Bitcoin spot, marking his first purchase of BTC spot since January 2023. The specific quantity and price of the purchase have not yet been disclosed.

UPBIT will launch PONS trading on October 8 at 14:00, supporting KRW, BTC, and USDT markets. Users need to confirm the Robinhood Chain network before trading.

According to the official announcement, Coinbase has included PONS and WHUF in the listing roadmap.

Coinkarma founder Benson Sun posted that around 11 PM on October 1, both the US stock market and gold weakened simultaneously, but the Binance BTC/USDT spot market saw a continuous market buy order of about 400 BTC, supporting the price above $84,000, and ultimately the candlestick formed a doji.Around 1:30 AM on October 3, within the same price range, the market briefly saw about 1,400 BTC market sell orders, causing the price to drop rapidly and form a long lower shadow, but it still held in that area. The candlestick showed that approximately 100 BTC sell orders appeared every few seconds, but the price was quickly pulled back by buy orders after each dip.Benson Sun pointed out that this area highly overlaps with the recent rapid accumulation of on-chain chips in the $83,000 to $84,000 range. Combining the spot order flow with on-chain data, it is judged that there is active capital support in this price range, and the buying response was quite evident after BTC entered this area.

The founder of Pons, Ozzy, posted on platform X in response to community concerns about the PONS buyback and burn mechanism, stating that the current burn rate has indeed not been adjusted, and the "Claim" process has not yet achieved complete decentralization.He mentioned that an on-chain contract upgrade is currently underway, with a new buyback mechanism planned to execute a Claim every 7 days. Subsequently, all funds received in the following 7 days will be used for buyback and destruction of PONS, and this process will repeat to establish a more sustainable buyback and burn mechanism. Currently, all buyback and burn operations have been automated. Anyone can trigger this bot and receive a small reward for this action.He further stated that the previously set buyback and burn rate is 2e per hour. Combined with the current funding scale of approximately 950,000 USD in the Splitter (fund diversion contract), this rate aligns with the 7-day buyback cycle. Funds will also be automatically executed according to the 7-day cycle after being claimed, so the buyback funds will be displayed in two different sections: one is the current active buyback fund pool (Active Buyback Vault), and the other is reserved for the buyback funds for the next week.Previously, crypto analyst yyy posted on platform X stating that Pons has not replenished funds to the buyback allocator for over 5 days, with approximately 440,000 USD in the escrow account awaiting claim. He believes that the untimely claiming of funds has led to a low burn rate of PONS recently and calls for promoting the decentralization of fund claims from the escrow account.

Russian President Vladimir Putin stated that if Kaliningrad is directly attacked, Russia will consider using all weapons owned by the state. Putin said that the recent warning from the Russian Foreign Ministry is a response to the pressure actions by the West. NATO responded by stating that Russia's "irresponsible nuclear rhetoric" is unacceptable and will continue to defend the territory of its allies.

Zcash founder Zooko posted that Zcash has issued over 8 million dollars in retroactive grants this round, with millions of dollars awarded to those who contributed to protecting all users during this year's AI vulnerability crisis.The more significant meaning of this funding is that Zcash once again proves that its self-funding and self-governance system is sustainable, resistant to capture, and capable of continuous evolution. Zcash will conduct multiple rounds of similar funding every year in the future while continuously improving the mechanism.

Well-known trader Bonk Guy posted that market sentiment towards PONS may have dropped to a long-term low, with its comparable project PUMP currently having a market capitalization of about 2.7 billion dollars, up 17% today.PONS has an annual revenue of about 156.8 million dollars and a market capitalization of about 375 million dollars, corresponding to an annual revenue multiple of about 2.39 times; PUMP has an annual revenue of about 463.6 million dollars, corresponding to a market capitalization of about 2.7 billion dollars, with an annual revenue multiple of about 5.82 times.PUMP is the leading Launchpad in the Solana ecosystem, while PONS is the leading Launchpad on the Robinhood Chain. If the Robinhood Chain can maintain a certain level of ecosystem activity in the future, the gap between PONS's current valuation and its revenue scale may be worth noting.

The founder of Pons, MEADGod, posted on platform X indicating that a social trading feature is about to be launched.Community member byTheGentleman added that this feature will be comparable to FOMO, or include real-time on-chain buying and selling dynamics, wallet tracking and instant alerts, verified profit and loss records, and trader leaderboards, as well as extending to Solana through Pump.fun.

In today's community live broadcast, Bitget CEO Gracy responded to recent security incidents and the platform's financial status. She candidly stated that this is the first security incident encountered since Bitget was established 8 years ago. After a complete trace, it was found that hackers exploited vulnerabilities in third-party security products to steal internal network access credentials, forged withdrawal commands to the wallet system, and deceived the wallet into executing abnormal transfers that bypassed risk checks. Gracy emphasized that no private keys were leaked, and cold wallets were unaffected; specific technical details will be disclosed in the formally released security report.Gracy pointed out that the verified losses from this incident are within the coverage of the protection fund, and user funds are not affected. The platform's own funds exceed $1.4 billion, which includes approximately $464 million in the user protection fund. The platform will continue to uphold the security commitments made when the protection fund was established in 2022, planning to replenish the fund to the baseline of $300 million within a week."The protection fund is not just a slogan, but an important mechanism that provides tangible security for users in the event of extreme security incidents," Gracy stated. In the face of sudden security challenges, the platform's comprehensive strength and its ability to take responsibility are important criteria for measuring its risk response capability and long-term credibility. Bitget will continue to uphold its long-term commitment to prioritize user interests.