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Clashes between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia intensify, with the US military claiming control over the Strait of Hormuz and redirecting 100 ships, as multiple countries engage in diplomatic mediation and border control measures.
Hey Wallet, a Solana-based social wallet, has announced the cessation of its product operations and reminded users to back up their wallets on the official website. Operating since 2021, the project previously supported users in making SOL transfers, tipping creators, minting NFTs, and trading tokens via social platforms such as X, Telegram, and Discord.
Bitcoin wallet Electrum has released version 4.8.2, fixing multiple security issues, including an issue where some Lightning wallet backups were missing the keys required to recover on-chain funds after a remote force close, along with strengthened HTLC validation and Android QR scanner protection.
Strategy has released the latest edition of its "Bitcoin Investor Guide," in which the report notes that as institutional access and market infrastructure gradually mature, Bitcoin is evolving from an early speculative asset into a foundational asset of digital capital markets. Its long-term value is built on scarcity, open access, global liquidity, and independent verification, and it may absorb some of the monetary premium currently attached to gold, real estate, equities, bonds, and art.As of September 4, BTC was priced at approximately $79,809, about 23.3% above its 200-week moving average of $64,715; its return over the past year was approximately -28.3%, with a 10-year annualized return of about 62.8%. During the same period, Bitcoin's 30-day average trading volume was approximately $28.3 billion, open interest stood at roughly $96 billion, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs collectively held about 1.27 million BTC, and total network hashrate was approximately 935 EH/s.On the risk side, Strategy cautions that Bitcoin remains a highly volatile asset and carries no principal repayment guarantee; different holding methods such as self-custody, third-party custody, ETPs, and derivatives each carry operational, legal, and counterparty risks. Strategy also discloses that the company itself holds a large amount of Bitcoin and has a financial interest tied to BTC's price.
Odaily News: Crypto asset management firm Grayscale estimates that Zcash mining rigs generate daily mining rewards roughly 2x those of Bitcoin mining rigs, and about 4x on a per-unit-of-electricity basis. Zcash mining activity has grown to more than 2.5x its level at the start of the year.Zach Pandl, head of research at Grayscale, said that at current valuations, Zcash mining profitability is relatively high, as token price gains have driven up mining rewards and encouraged more hash rate to join. Grayscale believes that more hash rate can support network security.The comparison uses the Bitmain S23 Hydro and Bitmain Z15 Pro as samples, assuming an electricity price of $0.05 per kilowatt-hour, full-load operation, and excluding transaction fees. Pool fees, cooling, other operating expenses, and equipment costs are not included in the calculation, and actual profitability is still affected by these factors.Bitcoin miners' total daily rewards are about $35 million, higher than Zcash's roughly $2 million. Grayscale's Zcash investment product assets under management surpassed $500 million on September 8 and recorded more than $70 million in cumulative external inflows. (Bitcoin.com News)
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called for slowing down frontier AI development, with OpenAI's Sam Altman and Elon Musk publicly voicing their support. They all agreed that safety guardrails must be established before capabilities spiral out of control.
Odaily Reports: Bitcoin News posted on X platform that Electrum has released version 4.8.2, introducing multiple security fixes and strengthening the security of its Bitcoin wallet codebase. The fixes are based on reports from researchers including Bitcoin Red Team, Calle, l0rinc, haoxucu, and m0wer. This version fixes a critical backup issue affecting certain Lightning wallets that use non-deterministic keys and anchor channels. Previously, affected wallets' channel backups and full wallet backups may have been missing the keys required to move funds on-chain after requesting a remote force close. Affected users will receive a warning when starting Electrum and should export new backups, as old backups cannot correctly recover funds in this scenario. This version also strengthens Lightning HTLC verification, rejects previously accepted malformed xpub/xprv keys, expands codebase security hardening, and prevents the Android QR code scanner from reading screenshots. This is Electrum's third security-focused release since July, following versions 4.8.0 and 4.8.1.
North Korea is using remote IT workers from third countries such as Iran and Lebanon to infiltrate US companies in order to obtain funding to support its weapons programs. After the relevant individuals pass interviews, their positions are usually taken over by North Korean personnel.The US government and multiple foreign agencies issued warnings in July stating that North Korean IT workers seek contracts and send salaries back to their affiliated North Korean organizations, while also posing insider threats to companies, involving data leaks, cryptocurrency theft, and the theft of sensitive information.Some third-country IT workers are recruited through LinkedIn, and some of them work part-time as "interview facilitators," earning $500 in cryptocurrency per month.Data from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike shows that in 2025, cryptocurrency losses caused by North Korea state-linked hackers and threat actors exceeded $2 billion, an increase of 51% year over year. South Korea's central bank estimates that North Korea's GDP grew 3.5% in 2025. (Cointelegraph)
According to Reuters, Mexican police discovered a clandestine cryptocurrency mining operation in the mountainous regions of Puebla state, seizing 300 GPUs, 80 medium-voltage power terminals, and eight satellite dishes. Four similar operations have been uncovered in the area since early last year. Authorities are investigating whether the site illicitly siphoned electricity from a nearby hydroelectric plant. Security analysts noted that the technical expertise and funding required for the facility point to the involvement of well-capitalized criminal syndicates. A Chainalysis Latin America expert stated that regional drug trafficking organizations are increasingly utilizing cryptocurrency transfers and mining operations for money laundering. Data shows that globally, crypto addresses associated with criminal activity received approximately $154 billion in 2025, more than double the $59 billion recorded in the previous year.
A report released by China Telecom Research Institute titled "Research Report on AI Infrastructure Development in the Era of Agents (2026)" shows that as the focus of the artificial intelligence industry shifts from competition in large models and computing power to the large-scale deployment and commercial monetization of agents, demand for tokens in China has witnessed explosive growth. The report indicates that AI is currently entering a new development stage characterized primarily by agents, which make complex AI technologies invisible and universally accessible, enabling the general public and enterprises to complete end-to-end complex tasks without mastering specialized technical skills. Rao Shaoyang, Director of the Industry and Corporate Strategy Institute at China Telecom Research Institute: "China's annual token consumption is projected to reach 10 quadrillion by 2026 and exceed 3500 quadrillion by 2030, with an annual compound growth rate approaching 12 times." (Jin10)
Odaily News: Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev published a long-form article this morning outlining Robinhood's vision of enabling global investors (especially non-U.S. users) to gain exposure to U.S. stocks and ETFs through blockchain, and focused on the question of whether issuers need to consent to their stocks being tokenized.Vlad Tenev argues that publicly traded company shares are freely transferable personal property, and owners should have the right to decide how to hold and use them. The company that issues the stock controls the rights attached to the securities it issues, but it does not control all third-party financial products built around those securities, and there is already precedent for this in financial markets: unsponsored ADRs, options, and structured products. Therefore, if a product changes the rights of the underlying shares, replaces the company's official shareholder register, or imposes new obligations on the company/transfer agent, then issuer involvement is required. If it merely creates an independent financial instrument that holds or references freely transferable shares on a 1:1 basis, without changing the issuer's rights, obligations, or authoritative shareholder records, then issuer consent is not required.Robinhood adopts a model of third-party issuance of independent instruments backed 1:1 by underlying shares. Putting stocks on-chain should not grant issuers veto rights they did not previously have, nor should it prevent new investors from entering simply because issuers do not understand new technology.Last week, AMC's CEO criticized the "synthetic equity market" established by Robinhood as potentially decoupling stock token trading from listed companies' financing arrangements, and demanded that Vlad Tenev and Robinhood voluntarily stop AMC stock token trading. The related debate sparked heated discussion in both the crypto and stock communities.
Odaily News: The Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) is Canada's banking regulator. The agency stated on Thursday that tokenized deposits are not legally distinct from traditional deposits, noting that the underlying technology used by a financial product or service does not determine its legal nature.OSFI stated that financial institutions may conduct tokenized deposit business under existing financial regulatory laws without the need for additional regulations. Financial institutions and third parties conducting related activities on their behalf must ensure that their operations comply with applicable laws and regulations.OSFI requires financial institutions to communicate with their responsible OSFI supervisors in advance before launching new products or services, and recommends seeking legal advice prior to launch. The agency oversees nearly 350 financial institutions and 1,200 pension plans. (Bitcoin.com News)
B.AI announces that a new round of benefits for its popular models is now officially in effect: exclusive 10% discounted API call privileges for high-concurrency flagship models DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash and GLM-5.3-Flash are now fully available, allowing users to invoke them at just 10% of the original price to meet high-throughput scenario demands with exceptional cost-efficiency. Simultaneously, Qwen3.8-Flash, Hy3, and MiMo-V2.5 continue to offer fully free API calls, providing developers with richer zero-cost options. This benefit adjustment delivers maximum value for high-throughput needs while leveraging a multi-model matrix to lower the exploration threshold for developers. B.AI continues to empower developers to build low-cost AI infrastructure through a diverse model lineup and inclusive pricing, eliminating prohibitive compute expenses and accelerating the rapid deployment of innovations.
Brian Armstrong posted on X that Coinbase Wallet has launched Pulse mode, and users can download the app to experience it.
Odaily News: In response to the discussion about "why Coinbase would consider Jesse Pollak its onchain savior," Cobie said that although he does not agree with all of Jesse Pollak's views, he believes this assessment is well deserved.Cobie pointed out that Jesse Pollak drove Base's launch from scratch, and argued that Base arguably pioneered the trend of enterprises building their own chains that later followed from companies such as Stripe and Robinhood. Base's development predated the 2023 Solana meme coin wave, and Jesse Pollak kept pushing the project forward through the bear market after the FTX collapse until it launched.Cobie also said that Jesse Pollak has indeed made some mistakes over the past year, but what deserves respect is that even after facing long-term criticism from Crypto Twitter, he still keeps showing up and putting in the work every day.
多家 AI 企业发布新模型与服务调整，Anthropic 拟引英伟达为 IPO 锚定投资者；英伟达 CEO 重申明年实现 70% 同比增长目标。
Swiss crypto company Bitcoin Suisse plans to relocate approximately 60 Swiss-based positions to low-cost overseas regions to support its international expansion strategy.
According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the Fireblocks custody wallet (9Ryc...G4xfCxk) deposited 19.4 million Trump-backed USD1 to Binance in the past hour. Over the past 13 days, this wallet has transferred approximately 149.8 million USD1 to Binance.
Anchorage Digital has announced support for the fUSD and sfUSD tokens issued by the Frgmnt Protocol, allowing institutional clients to directly conduct deposits, withdrawals, and staking through its custody platform. Frgmnt plans to open public access on September 15.
Odaily News: Stablecoin protocol Frgmnt has partnered with digital asset custody and infrastructure company Anchorage Digital to open fUSD and sfUSD infrastructure to institutional clients. Clients can hold, mint, stake, and redeem the related protocol assets within Anchorage Digital's existing custody environment without needing to establish separate custody arrangements.Frgmnt issues two related assets on Base, with fUSD minted from USDC and deployed to designated onchain lending markets; users can stake fUSD to receive sfUSD and earn rewards generated by the protocol's strategies. Related holdings and performance metrics can be monitored through Frgmnt's analytics tools, Dune, and DefiLlama.Anchorage Digital operates Anchorage Digital Bank, the first federally chartered crypto bank in the United States, providing custody, staking, trading, and settlement services to institutional clients. Frgmnt stated that protocol deposits will be opened in capped batches, with the next round of deposits planned for September. (Bitcoin.com News)