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Odaily News: The Ethereum Foundation has announced that zkAPI, jointly developed with the Open Anonymity Project, is now running on the Ethereum mainnet. The solution separates payment from identity through zero-knowledge proofs, allowing users to deposit ETH, USDC, and other assets into a vault contract in a single transaction and authorize AI API usage quotas without revealing their identity.Service providers can view request content but cannot know the payer's identity, while the payment service provider can only see the amount spent and cannot associate it with specific requests or users. zkAPI is initially aimed at AI inference scenarios and can also be used for pay-as-you-go scenarios such as blockchain RPC, image and video generation.
EIP-8363 co-proposer Jérôme de Tychey announced the withdrawal of the application to include the proposal in the Hegotá hard fork, with related discussions on issuance policy shifting to a standalone topic.
Ethena founder Guy Young stated that USDe backing assets currently have no direct exposure to stETH or other liquid staking tokens, and he expects this incident will not impact Ethena.
Odaily News: Open Standard has announced the official launch of its USD stablecoin OUSD. Enterprises and developers can now use OUSD to build internet-native financial services and products for banking, cross-border payments, settlement, and institutional trading. OUSD offers 4 integration paths, with related APIs and tools covering settlement, payment orchestration, trading, foreign exchange, wallets, and card services, all supporting free minting and burning at a 1:1 USD rate.Enterprises can currently access it through Mastercard, Stripe, and the Visa Stablecoin Platform, with Coinbase integration opening on October 1. OUSD will natively support Base, Ethereum, Solana, and Tempo, and will first launch on centralized and decentralized trading platforms including Coinbase, Kraken, and Uniswap. OUSD is issued by Stripe-owned Bridge, with reserve assets held at BlackRock, Lead Bank, and BNY Mellon, and proof of reserves will be published monthly.
European stablecoin issuer AllUnity has announced the launch of USDAU, a US-dollar stablecoin compliant with the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). The token maintains a 1:1 peg to the U.S. dollar through segregated reserve assets and is currently deployed across multiple networks including Ethereum, Solana, Base, Tempo, Arc, and Polygon, with plans to integrate additional blockchains by year-end.
Odaily reports: European stablecoin issuer AllUnity has launched the U.S. dollar stablecoin USDAU, its fourth fiat-backed stablecoin. USDAU maintains a 1:1 peg to the U.S. dollar through segregated reserves and is now live on Ethereum, Solana, Base, Tempo, Arc, and Polygon.AllUnity is regulated under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) and has previously issued the euro stablecoin EURAU, the Swiss franc stablecoin CHFAU, and the Swedish krona stablecoin SEKAU. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: DeFi protocol Sentora has initiated an ARFC proposal to operate an independently curated lending market on Aave V4. The initial deployment will be on Ethereum, supporting stablecoin lending such as RLUSD, PYUSD, and OUSD, with Aave DAO receiving 50% of the revenue from this instance.The Aave DAO governance short-term executor will retain structural ownership of the instance and hold the management roles for all hub-and-spoke contracts, configurators, and the native AccessManager.
Binance announced that its payment service Binance Pay has integrated with the QR code payment infrastructure of PayPay, Japan's mainstream mobile payment platform. Foreign tourists visiting Japan who have completed identity verification can directly scan PayPay merchant QR codes via the Binance app or present a payment code to complete transactions, supporting settlements using stablecoins such as USDT and USDC, as well as cryptocurrency assets including BTC, BNB, and ETH.
According to official announcements, Bitget has released its 47th Proof of Reserves (PoR). The total reserve ratio stands at 131%, covering 19 asset types. Specifically, the reserve ratios for BTC, ETH, USDT, and USDC are 142%, 110%, 107%, and 154%, respectively. Since December 2022, Bitget has updated its Proof of Reserves on a monthly basis. In September this year, it expanded its coverage from 4 asset types to 19, providing users with broader visibility into platform reserves. Bitget's historical average reserve ratio has remained above 120%, exceeding the 100% coverage benchmark and fully covering insured user assets.
Odaily News: Puffer has announced a partnership with Anchorage Digital, which will become the institutional-grade custody provider for Puffer UniFi on its launch day. The two parties will also collaborate in areas including stablecoin infrastructure, native settlement, institutional payments, and AI Agent payments.According to the announcement, the two parties will support the issuance and native settlement of stablecoins on Puffer UniFi, with Anchorage Digital responsible for providing institutional custody and related payment infrastructure, while Puffer UniFi provides high-throughput execution, real-time settlement, and access to Ethereum liquidity.Additionally, Anchorage Digital's AI Agent payment infrastructure for financial institutions and registered merchants will utilize Puffer UniFi for stablecoin settlement, enabling software agents to autonomously initiate payments and complete on-chain settlement within an institutional-grade framework.
Odaily reports: Aztec Network developer Aztec Labs has relaunched the self-custodial wallet zk.money. The wallet can conceal payment amounts, balances, and recipient information through Aztec Network, and supports transfers via readable names or links.Users can deposit DAI, USDC, or USDT from Ethereum, with USDC and USDT being converted to DAI. Deposit records remain publicly traceable, while subsequent transaction activity remains private.The early Alpha version limits individual deposits, payments, and withdrawals to under $2,500, and screens addresses in accordance with sanctions policy. The software has not yet undergone a full audit and carries security risks. (CoinDesk)
Bitget has launched multiple wealth management and reward campaigns. During the campaign period, users can subscribe to USDT and USDGO flexible earn products via "Simple Earn" to enjoy an APR of 10% for USDT and 12% for USDGO. The participation window runs from 22:00 on September 29 to 21:59 on October 9 (UTC+8). Meanwhile, Bitget has introduced the USDGO HodlerYield position reward campaign. Users holding USDGO in their Unified, Spot, or Futures accounts will automatically enjoy time-limited boosted yields of up to 8% APR without needing to register. Additionally, Bitget PoolX has simultaneously launched BTC and ETH staking events: participants in the BTC staking campaign can share a total pool of 100,000 BGB, while participants in the ETH staking campaign can share 500,000 USDT. Please refer to the official Bitget campaign page for full details.
Odaily News: Ethlabs stated that with the Ethereum fast confirmation rule, Chainlink's cross-chain protocol CCIP 2.0 can reduce Ethereum transaction confirmation time to 12 to 24 seconds. This acceleration is an optional setting that must be actively enabled, and its security guarantees differ from the default path; Ethereum's full finality guarantees and CCIP's default waiting time both remain unchanged.
According to an official announcement from the Ethereum Foundation, the Ethereum Glamsterdam network upgrade has been confirmed to activate on the Sepolia testnet at 13:53:36 UTC on October 6, 2026 (Epoch 353,024), with activation times for Hoodi and the mainnet yet to be determined. Glamsterdam combines the Amsterdam execution layer and Gloas consensus layer upgrades. Core changes include introducing embedded proposer-builder separation (ePBS, EIP-7732), incorporating the block building process into the consensus protocol to reduce reliance on middleware; adding block-level access lists (BALs, EIP-7928) to enable clients to read state in parallel and verify transactions in parallel, thereby improving execution throughput. Additionally, the upgrade adjusts the gas pricing mechanism (EIP-8037/8038) to more accurately reflect the actual costs of state creation and access, requiring application developers to test their contracts to adapt to the new rules. Currently confirmed client versions supporting Sepolia activation include: consensus layer Lodestar 1.49.0, Prysm 7.2.0, Teku 26.9.1; execution layer Besu 26.9.0, Erigon 3.7.0, go-ethereum 1.17.6, Nethermind 2.0.0, Reth 2.7.0. Node operators must update simultaneously before activation.
Bitget PoolX has launched an ETH lockup event, allowing users to lock ETH to share a 500,000 USDT prize pool. As of press time, the current ETH lockup pool yield stands at 37.11% APR. The individual lockup cap is 1,500 ETH, and the lockup channel will be open from September 29, 15:00 to October 5, 15:00 (UTC+8).
Bitget PoolX has launched an ETH staking campaign, allowing users to lock their ETH to share a 500,000 USDT prize pool, with a personal staking limit of 1,500 ETH. The staking period runs from September 29 at 15:00 to October 5 at 15:00 (UTC+8). This round of PoolX features a long-term holding bonus mechanism. The system will apply additional bonuses to staked amounts based on users' minimum ETH holdings over the past 15 days. For more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.
Odaily Report: Aave founder Stani posted on X that the Aave App now supports users depositing assets directly from Ethereum mainnet, and released a Ghost Pass code for users to try it out early.
Odaily News: According to monitoring by Bitget CEO, Bitget was hacked on September 24, with approximately $387.5 million in funds stolen, a large portion of which was transferred across chains and primarily consolidated on Ethereum. A report released by NEAR Intents shows that its risk intelligence layer SHIELD detected over $50 million in suspected money laundering transfer attempts; of this, $166,000 in funds went through, while $503,000 was frozen during execution. The frozen funds remain restricted pending subsequent legal and recovery proceedings.
According to the official announcement, Huobi HTX will open JPYC/USDT spot trading and grid trading at 21:00 (UTC+8) on September 28. JPYC deposits will open at 15:00 on September 28, and withdrawals will open at 21:00 on September 29. JPYC is a Japanese yen stablecoin issued by JPYC Inc., regulated under Japan's Payment Services Act, and classified as an electronic payment instrument. It is pegged 1:1 to the Japanese yen, with reserves held in bank deposits and Japanese government bonds. Users can mint or redeem JPYC through the JPYC EX platform after completing KYC, or use it for payments, transfers, DeFi, and other scenarios on blockchains such as Ethereum and Polygon. Its design aims to provide a compliant and transparent digital yen solution.
According to Odaily, Binance Chinese stated on X that Binance Wallet now supports paying Gas fees with USDT, covering BNB Smart Chain, Ethereum, Solana, and TRON, with more public chain networks to be supported in the future.