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According to the official announcement, Huobi HTX will launch spot and grid trading for POD/USDT on October 4 at 21:00 (UTC+8). POD deposits will open on October 4 at 18:00, and withdrawals will open on October 5 at 21:00. Dolphin is a decentralized AI inference network that aggregates idle consumer-grade GPU computing power to provide low-cost inference services for AI applications. It utilizes cryptographic signatures and verification mechanisms to ensure nodes execute designated models, and guarantees service quality through validator nodes, staking, and random routing.
据 Upbit 公告，Upbit 将上线 Dolphin（POD），支持 KRW、BTC 和 USDT 三个交易市场，预计于北京时间今日 15:00 开放交易。POD 仅支持通过 Base 网络充值和提现，充提服务将在公告发布后 2 小时内开放。 Dolphin 是一个 AI DePIN 项目，通过整合全球闲置 GPU 资源分布式处理 AI 推理任务，并提供 Web Chat、Telegram Bot 等产品。POD 代币主要用于网络质押及 Bonding。
According to PR Newswire, USD.AI, a stablecoin protocol facilitating AI lending, has announced a $128.9 million asset-backed GPU financing deal for an undisclosed borrower, marking the largest single loan to date on the platform. The funds will be used to deploy 32 Nvidia GB200 NVL72 systems in British Columbia, Canada. The operator is a publicly listed GPU cloud provider, and the equipment is secured under a multi-year agreement with an investment-grade counterparty. This financing surpasses the $98.1 million GPU financing project announced by USD.AI in June 2026.
Odaily — The financing will be used to support an undisclosed borrower in deploying 32 NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 systems in British Columbia, Canada. USD.AI is an on-chain lending protocol.
Global-leading digital asset exchange CoinW has launched perpetual contracts for the popular Meme token AINVDA, supporting up to 25x leverage. AINVDA is an animal-themed token focused on the convergence of artificial intelligence, NVIDIA, and on-chain culture. Featuring an Artificial Inu dog as its mascot, the project’s core narrative revolves around the growing demand for AI computing power, GPUs, and NVIDIA-related infrastructure. Risk Warning: Meme tokens are highly volatile, and contract trading may result in the loss of principal. Please participate rationally and bear all risks independently. CoinW has no affiliation whatsoever with any publicly traded companies mentioned herein. This service may not be available in certain jurisdictions.
The Zhipu GLM team has disclosed its first engineering implementation of recursive self-improvement. An Infra Agent driven by GLM-5.3 completed the design, debugging, and optimization of the GLM-5.3-Flash inference infrastructure. The practice was executed on a domestic 100,000-GPU cluster, which the team describes as the first recursive self-improvement practice for large models in China.
According to Bloomberg, Shanghai-based Biren Technology is considering a new round of equity sales to raise approximately $1 billion to support the expansion of its artificial intelligence business. As one of the GPU chip developers heavily backed by Beijing, the company has banks in preliminary stages, currently sounding out potential investors for interest.
According to TechCrunch, AI infrastructure company Cornelis announced the completion of a $205 million funding round led by IAG Capital Partners. The company also launched Active Compute Fabric networking technology, designed to improve communication efficiency between AI chips and reduce GPU idle time caused by waiting for data transmission.
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.
According to an official post from a16z crypto, a16z crypto has officially released Lattice Jolt, a new version of its open-source zkVM (zero-knowledge virtual machine) that fully transitions its underlying cryptography from elliptic curves to a lattice architecture, achieving post-quantum security while significantly boosting performance. Key highlights include: • Performance improvement: Proof generation speed increased by 2-3 times, reaching up to 2 million RV64IMAC cycles per second in CPU mode, and breaking through 10 million cycles per second with MacBook GPU acceleration (Apple Metal); • Smallest proof size: Proof footprint is under 100 KB, significantly outperforming other post-quantum zkVMs with sizes ranging from 200 KB to 600 KB; • Memory optimization: Memory consumption per cycle reduced from approximately 300 bytes to 200 bytes, supporting proof generation for millions of RISC-V cycles on mobile devices; • Security: Based on the standard Module-SIS assumption, providing a complete 128-bit security strength, sharing the same assumption framework as ML-DSA and ML-KEM; • New commitment scheme: The Akita polynomial commitment scheme, jointly developed by LayerZero in collaboration with institutions such as Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Southern California, replaces the original Dory scheme. a16z crypto also pointed out that hash-based SNARKs are widespread...
In a post, Cobo co-founder and CEO Shen Yu recalled that ZEC still casts a long shadow over him. When ZEC’s mainnet launched in 2016, BitMEX capped the price at 10 BTC, making it ZEC’s all-time high. He noted that shortly after he began mining on launch night, a transformer at his GPU mining farm was struck by lightning, and since that incident, ZEC has never appeared in his personal wallet again.
According to official announcements, Bitget has launched compute pre-market perpetual contracts H100 and B200 for retail users, which are linked to the NVIDIA H100 and B200 GPU rental price indices, respectively, with quotes denominated in USD per GPU hour.Bitget's compute pre-market perpetual contracts further extend trading underlyings into the AI compute sector. By tracking GPU rental market index prices, users can participate in price discovery for global GPU compute rental rates and the AI infrastructure market ahead of time, capturing potential trading opportunities arising from shifts in demand for high-performance GPUs such as the H100 and B200. The product adopts a USDT-settled perpetual contract model, supports leverage of up to 10x, and offers 24/7 trading.
According to Chaoxiang Research, Morgan Stanley's September 7 report states that the release of GPT-6 Astra is strengthening the AI infrastructure investment narrative. Large models trained on 1 million GPUs and expanded to encompass broad capabilities such as reasoning, engineering, and physical world tasks will expand the AI addressable revenue pool. Morgan Stanley believes that the current risk of underestimating AI investments now outweighs the risk of overestimating them. After investors significantly reduced their AI positions, the market pullback provides a window to reposition.
Odaily News NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stated in a post on Platform X that GPT-6 Astra was trained on over 100,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell NVLink72 units, with the journey from ChatGPT to o1 and then to Astra taking just 4 years. He stated that artificial general intelligence has arrived, congratulated the OpenAI team, and noted that 400,000 more GPUs are set to come online.
AI computing company Nscale has announced a multi-year strategic partnership with Figure, expanding the scale to over $6 billion. The deal represents the potential to deploy up to 100,000 NVIDIA Vera Rubin platform GPUs.
According to The Verge, Nvidia DLSS 5 will officially launch on September 3, currently supporting only the RTX 50 series desktop and laptop GPUs, along with the GeForce Now cloud gaming platform. The day-one launch title is NBA 2K27, which releases on the same day, while other previously announced supported titles (including Resident Evil: Requiem, Starfield, and Hogwarts Legacy) have not yet had their release dates confirmed. Nvidia positions DLSS 5 as "the most significant graphics breakthrough since real-time ray tracing in 2018," but the technology has been controversial since its March release, with early demos facing widespread criticism for drastic alterations to character appearances. In terms of performance, DLSS 5 incurs a significant overhead. According to Nvidia, the performance penalty is estimated at around 50% to 60%, meaning that even a mid-range RTX 5060 requires 6x frame generation to run smoothly at 1080p.
The European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking has selected French supercomputing company Bull to build the LUMI-AI artificial intelligence supercomputer, which will be deployed at Finland's CSC data center. The system utilizes AMD Instinct MI430X GPUs and sixth-generation 256-core EPYC processors, delivering 2x HPC compute power and 10x AI compute power compared to the existing LUMI system, and is expected to open for use in H2 2027.
: Blockchain technology company Starkware stated that on August 26, a transaction using researcher Avihu Levy's Quantum-Safe Bitcoin (QSB) scheme was mined on the Bitcoin mainnet, without requiring a soft fork, hard fork, or modification of consensus rules.The transaction consumed 10,000 sats and was processed through MARA Foundation's Slipstream service, as the non-standard format typically cannot propagate through Bitcoin's public mempool. The test consumed several hours of GPU computation, costing approximately $150 to $200.QSB employs hash-based quantum-resistant spending conditions and reduces quantum attack risks through signature trial mining, but still requires users to proactively migrate funds and cannot protect assets whose public keys have already been exposed. Starkware CEO Eli Ben-Sasson still supports introducing a protocol-level solution via a soft fork. (Bitcoin.com News)
According to Bloomberg, a fund under Blue Owl Capital led a $2.4 billion debt financing to support cloud computing provider Iren’s purchase of Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs for its Canadian data center campus. The financing consists of a $1.2 billion senior secured term loan and an equal amount of senior secured notes, with a structure that allows Iren to procure the equipment in phases over a set period. Pacific Investment Management Company is also one of the guarantors for the financing. Documents show the facility carries a 9% interest rate and has a tenor of two and a half years.
Bullish is providing a $100 million stablecoin debt facility to USD.AI under Permian Labs to support AI compute loans collateralized by GPU hardware, and plans to issue the sUSDai token.