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Helius co-founder Mert Mumtaz posted on the X platform, stating that Zcash’s privacy features not only address privacy needs but also help build a more robust internet-native store-of-value asset. Because on-chain funds exposed on public ledgers carry historical transaction records, different tokens may not be fully fungible due to variations in their origins; privacy mechanisms can minimize the impact of fund history on holders, enhancing fungibility, liquidity, and safe-haven properties. He believes that, combined with quantum-resistant security and performance upgrades, privacy will become a critical foundation for Zcash’s monetary attributes.
According to official announcements, Binance Futures will sequentially list USDT-margined perpetual contracts for PATH, AMC, CYPH, ANET, HUT, APLD, and AGPU starting at 17:00 on September 18. The relevant contracts support 24/7 trading and multi-asset mode, have a maximum leverage of 20x, and settle funding rates every 8 hours.
Hyperliquid has launched a manual lending and borrowing feature, which shares the underlying HyperCore infrastructure with portfolio margin. The platform's total borrowed assets currently amount to $269 million. Users can collateralize HYPE and Bitcoin to borrow USD-denominated assets such as USDC and USDT; borrowers pay interest, asset suppliers earn interest, and interest rates are determined by the capital utilization rate.
Odaily News: Solana has reduced its target slot time from 300 milliseconds to 250 milliseconds, increasing block generation speed by nearly 17%. The amount of computation and data that each slot can carry is reduced accordingly, while overall transaction processing capacity remains unchanged.This adjustment shortens the epoch duration to approximately 30 hours and reduces the available time for offline signing and delayed approvals. A proposal to further reduce slot time to 200 milliseconds has not yet had its mainnet launch date determined. (CoinDesk)
According to CoinDesk, Ethereum plans to launch Glamsterdam upgrade testing on the Sepolia testnet on October 6. Developers have warned that attackers could exploit free testnet ETH and numerous temporary block builder identities to win block auctions at high prices and then refuse to submit transaction payloads, thereby disrupting the testing process. This risk will not affect mainnet funds, but could hinder upgrade verification. Glamsterdam aims to increase the block gas limit to approximately 200 million, with the mainnet launch date remaining undetermined.
Odaily reports: Ethereum developers have warned that attackers could exploit free testnet ETH and one-time builder identities to win Sepolia block auctions and withhold transaction payloads during the Glamsterdam testing period.This attack does not threaten mainnet funds, but it could disrupt infrastructure testing. The Sepolia public test is scheduled to launch on October 6, while the Hoodi test is tentatively set for October 27. The mainnet activation date remains undetermined. (CoinDesk)
Zhipu has officially announced the launch of GLM-5.3-FlashX. The model was previously made available to global developers under the name "Ox Alpha". According to Zhipu, leveraging inference compute from 100,000 domestic chips, the company has further increased infrastructure investment and optimized inference performance, achieving speeds of up to 200 Tokens/s. The GLM-5.3-FlashX API is now live, with the model identifier set to "GLM-5.3-FlashX".
Odaily News: Johann Kerbrat, General Manager of Robinhood International and Crypto, stated that dividend entitlements for stock tokens can now be automatically credited on the ex-dividend date, without waiting weeks for the dividend payment date. This mechanism has already covered most stock tokens and will be expanded to more products in the future.Robinhood stated that stock tokens are tokenized debt securities, are not offered to persons within the United States or to U.S. persons, and are restricted in jurisdictions including Canada, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.
The Zcash development team plans to activate the NU7 mainnet upgrade on November 5, 2026. The testnet is expected to launch on October 6, and the mainnet upgrade activation height will be finalized on October 20 based on testnet performance. NU7 proposes to reduce the target block interval from 75 seconds to 25 seconds, disable V4 transactions, and integrate the Network Sustainability Mechanism (NSM), while retaining the existing halving schedule. In the ZEC holder vote, 98.9% supported retaining the halving mechanism, and 99.9% of votes weighted by ZEC holdings supported shortening the block interval.
Odaily reports: The Zcash development team plans to activate the NU7 mainnet upgrade on November 5, after various organizations and engineering teams reached consensus on the upgrade content and expected timeline. Zcash developer Sean Bowe stated that the upgrade will activate on testnet on October 6.The team plans to evaluate NU7 testnet performance on October 20 before finalizing the mainnet upgrade and activation block height. The upgrade aims to reduce the target block interval from 75 seconds to 25 seconds, deprecate version 4 transactions, and integrate a network sustainability mechanism.The chosen network sustainability mechanism will preserve the Zcash halving cycle, with previously removed supply to be reintroduced starting February 2031. NU7 does not introduce new transaction formats and has limited impact on wallets, but full nodes, indexers, and block explorers may need adjustments. (Cointelegraph)
MetaMask has launched its "Added Protection" security feature, which sets transaction preview results as execution conditions to ensure that actual transaction outcomes in Ethereum and EVM applications match the previews; if they do not match, the transaction will automatically fail, and users will only incur network fees. The feature is enabled by default, is now available on MetaMask browser extension v13.45, covers 13 EVM networks supporting EIP-7702 smart accounts, and a mobile version will follow.
Bankless co-founder David Hoffman stated that ZEC primarily protects fund privacy through shielded transactions, while NEAR's privacy capabilities can extend to broader business activities. He views NEAR as a generalized version of ZEC's privacy concept.
Singapore-based payment service provider dtcpay announced the completion of a $25 million Series A funding round. Led by Vertex Ventures Southeast Asia & India, the round saw participation from SBI Group through its SBI Ventures Asset and the SBI-NTU-Kyobo Digital Innovation Fund. Genedant Capital and existing investor Kwok Leng Tat also joined. The funds will be deployed to expand stablecoin payment products, the merchant network, and footprint in regulated markets, while advancing feature upgrades for enterprise service portals and consumer applications.
Odaily News: Robinhood Ventures Fund I (NYSE: RVI) announced that it purchased approximately $25 million in preferred shares in AI infrastructure company Crusoe's $3.9 billion Series F funding round. The round valued Crusoe at $30.9 billion, and the related transaction was completed on August 31.Sarah Pinto, President of Robinhood Ventures Fund I, stated that Crusoe is building vertically integrated AI infrastructure, supporting AI computing through energy, AI data centers, and cloud platforms.
Odaily Reports: Neutrl announced on X that NUSD and sNUSD redemptions are now open, and holders can submit applications through the official redemption portal. According to the redemption plan, NUSD and sNUSD will be redeemed at a fixed ratio determined based on the liquid reserves previously disclosed by Neutrl. After completing the redemption, users will receive USDC, and the corresponding NUSD or sNUSD will be burned.The redemption plan is expected to remain open until November 14, 2026. Users need to connect a wallet holding the relevant assets and sign an on-chain message to verify ownership. Specific redemption information will be displayed before the application is submitted.Previously, Neutrl stated that in order to meet users' liquidity needs, it planned to open an early redemption mechanism for NUSD and sNUSD holders, expected to launch in early September.
OpenAI announced the launch of Astra for Law, integrating GPT-6 Astra with a legal search index, specialized analysis prompts, and governance tools for law firms and legal technology companies. The platform enables retrieval of U.S. case law, statutes, and administrative rulings; internal testing shows that its legal research accuracy improved by approximately 40% relative to GPT-6 Astra relying solely on web search. Initial access will be extended to select law firms through the trusted access program for ChatGPT and Codex. An API version is launching soon, alongside support for 26 legal industry plugins.
Odaily reports: Digital asset management company Grayscale stated in an analysis published on September 17 that the latest Federal Reserve rate hike is closer to a "mid-cycle adjustment" rather than a major monetary policy shift.The Federal Open Market Committee raised the target rate range by 25 basis points to 3.75%–4% on September 16, stating that the hike aims to bring inflation back to the 2% target in a more timely manner. Grayscale believes that this rate hike, along with a possible second hike later this year, is unlikely to cause major changes in the digital asset market.Grayscale noted that from March 2022 to July 2023, the Federal Reserve raised rates by a cumulative 525 basis points, with sustained tightening increasing returns on cash and yield-bearing assets and raising the opportunity cost of holding Bitcoin; the current environment, by contrast, is a single rate hike following years of hikes, cuts, and holding steady.Grayscale stated that the impact of rate hikes will vary by crypto business model. Stablecoin issuers could benefit from increased interest income on reserve assets, and higher yields on tokenized bonds and money market funds could also attract capital inflows into on-chain financial products. On September 17, Bitcoin briefly rose above $77,000, with short position liquidations in the crypto market reaching nearly $260 million during the rebound. (Bitcoin.com News)
Strategy CEO Phong Le stated that the five-year phase may ultimately become the long-term norm. Once investors experience a faster, more modern, and 24/7 market, there will be no returning to the old system, regardless of who leads the SEC, the White House, or Congress. Prior to this, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued an order granting a five-year temporary, conditional exemption to platforms for tokenized securities, allowing them to use authorized automated market makers and liquidity pools to trade tokenized U.S. National Market System (NMS) stocks.
Odaily reports: Anthropic stated on X that as AI system capabilities continue to improve, AI is increasingly participating in the development of next-generation AI systems. To enhance transparency in frontier AI development, Anthropic has released three metrics for tracking AI development: the proportion of AI R&D work completed by AI, the oversight of AI Agents, and the allocation of compute resources.Anthropic also disclosed interim data on these internal metrics and stated that other frontier AI developers could disclose the same metrics for third-party verification, in order to narrow the information gap between frontier AI labs and the public.
Odaily News: OpenZeppelin announced on X that S&P Global will acquire OpenZeppelin. Following the acquisition, OpenZeppelin Contracts and its open-source applications and tools will remain free, open-source, and publicly maintained on GitHub; its audit, engineering, and ecosystem projects will also continue to be operated by the existing team under the OpenZeppelin brand, while gaining support from S&P Global in research, market data, and institutional resources.OpenZeppelin stated that its smart contracts have facilitated over $37 trillion in value transfers, and that the vast majority of leading DeFi protocols, blockchain networks, stablecoins, and tokenized funds currently use its infrastructure.