Open accelerates the Open Web with information abstraction and compute abstraction to bring the Open Virtual Machine (OVM) to Arbitrum. OVM serves as a bridge between blockchain’s on-chain resources and the power of off-chain compute, enabling blockchain networks to run sophisticated applications like decentralized AI and secure automation.Built with a modular architecture, OVM combines Open Node’s data structuring and translation expertise with Arbitrum’s high-throughput environment to offer decentralized applications and scalable access to external computing power.
trade.xyz posted on X that it has launched Events, aiming to develop Hyperliquid into a unified trading system for trading financial assets and real-world outcomes. Users can deposit spot BTC into their unified trade.xyz account, borrow USDC through portfolio margin, open pre-IPO perpetual contract positions on SpaceX, use event markets to hedge against the upcoming SK Hynix earnings event, and pick the US Open champion. Events will cover sports, politics, economics, and financial markets; the initial Up/Down markets cover stocks, commodities, and pre-IPO assets, with liquidity provided by trade.xyz perpetual contracts on HIP-3, whose continuous price discovery mechanism serves as the source for contract settlement.
Odaily News: Decentralized lending protocol Pencil Finance has completed the fundraising, disbursement, repayment tracking, and fund return of a $1 million student loan portfolio entirely on-chain, constituting a full financing and repayment cycle. Animoca Brands, Open Campus, and NewCampus provided funding for this portfolio in July 2025.Education financing company ErudiFi disbursed the majority of funds through student loans and tuition financing in Southeast Asia, covering markets such as Indonesia and the Philippines. The portfolio ran for 12 months, supporting more than 6,600 students across 118 schools and universities, with approximately 1,050 students receiving funding directly attributable to Pencil Finance.Investors were split into senior and subordinated tranches — the former receiving fixed returns with priority repayment rights, while the latter earned variable returns and bore the first losses from defaults. Pencil Finance claims this is the first fully on-chain student loan cycle, but did not disclose interest rates, investor yields, default rates, or blockchain transaction records. (Decrypt)
According to Chaohiang Research, JPMorgan's September 2 investor meeting minutes for NVIDIA indicate that NVIDIA is "comfortable" with its guidance for 70% year-over-year growth in FY28, and this guidance is supply-constrained rather than demand-constrained; with sufficient supply, the business could grow more than double. Inference has become the largest and expanding segment of the data center business. Eighteen months ago, inference and training each accounted for roughly half, but currently inference exceeds training and will continue to rise. Advanced wafers and memory are the two major supply bottlenecks, and NVIDIA maintains close cooperation with TSMC and the three major memory suppliers. The customer base continues to broaden, with OpenAI and Anthropic currently accounting for approximately 20% of end-user demand, which may approach 25% by FY28; new cloud providers now account for over 50% of AI computing infrastructure. Open-source and closed-source models will coexist, and gross margins for model developers are improving. NVIDIA supports long-term demand through revenue sharing, the PORTS-Pike campus, and a $500 billion private capital financing platform. Morgan Stanley maintains an Overweight rating with a price target of $320, based on approximately 20x the expected CY2026 EPS of $15.87.
Odaily News Student loan real-world asset (RWA) protocol Pencil Finance has completed its first fully on-chain student loan cycle, deploying $1 million in capital to provide financing for approximately 6,600 students across Southeast Asia. After borrowers repay their funds, capital providers receive both principal and returns.The financing portfolio was funded in July 2025 by Animoca Brands, Open Campus, and New Campus, and is structured into senior tranches with fixed returns, as well as junior tranches that carry floating yields and bear first-loss risk. The loans cover 118 schools and universities across Southeast Asia, with approximately 1,050 students receiving direct funding. Among borrowers, women account for 50%, and 93% come from low-income families. (Cointelegraph)
According to analysis by BIT's official Chinese account (@BITofficial_CN), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)'s proposed crypto asset regulatory rules may provide securities registration exemptions for qualifying crypto asset financing activities, thereby lowering the compliance threshold for token offerings and improving the industry's financing environment. Under the proposal, eligible issuances may qualify for two types of exemptions: a one-time fundraising exemption capped at $5 million over four years, and another that permits issuers to raise up to $75 million within any consecutive 12-month period. Both categories must fulfill disclosure obligations, while the latter is also required to submit financial statements and make ongoing disclosures.
Odaily News: According to the official announcement from MSX, the platform has officially opened redemption applications for Phase 2 Pre-IPO projects, Anthropic and Polymarket.Official data shows that as of the latest valuation, the Polymarket subscription price has risen from $152/share to $202.67/share, representing an unrealized gain of 33.3%. Anthropic's latest valuation also exceeds its subscription price.With this redemption window now open, users can choose based on their own needs to either apply for redemption at the latest market price and settle in USDT, or continue holding until the underlying projects complete their IPOs.Previously, MSX had already completed the full trading cycle for Phase 1 Pre-IPO projects, $CBRS.M and $SPCX.M, from subscription to listing. Users can log in to the MSX platform to view specific redemption rules and asset status.
NVIDIA has officially released the open-source AI agent runtime platform OpenShell 0.1.0. The platform is designed to establish security boundaries and runtime controls outside the workload without modifying the AI agent's own code. OpenShell integrates technologies such as kernel-level sandbox execution, external oversight services, external credential injection, and formal policy verification, enabling fine-grained interception of HTTP, GraphQL, and MCP network traffic (such as permitting data reads while blocking writes) to prevent sensitive credentials from leaking.
Odaily reports: Since August, the Ethereum perpetual contract market on prediction market platform Kalshi has seen nearly 1 million trades of nearly identical amounts, with notional trading volume exceeding $5 billion over the past month. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is reviewing the related activity and has not yet decided whether to open an investigation.In the 24 hours up to Wednesday 12:17 UTC, the market recorded 136,474 trades, with a trading value of approximately $584 million. More than 73,200 of those trades were concentrated at roughly $5,426 each, accounting for 54% of the trade count and 68% of the trading value. Open interest stood at $6.6 million, with single-day volume about 88 times the size of open interest.Kalshi said the repeated amounts came from fixed-size orders placed by market makers and involved hundreds of different traders, and were not wash trading. The platform said its system blocks self-trades and that the related transactions are monitored. As of now, regulators have not announced any enforcement action. (Bitcoin.com News)
Bitget Chief Legal Officer Hon Ng has released an open letter on the occasion of the platform's eighth anniversary. As the platform continues to evolve into a Universal Exchange (UEX), Bitget has further upgraded its Proof of Reserves (PoR) system, expanding the scope of verifiable assets from four original cryptocurrencies to 19 major assets. Data shows that as of September 2026, Bitget has consecutively published 46 PoR reports. In his letter, Hon Ng noted, "Growth and responsibility are never two separate pursuits." As the platform's scale, asset categories, and market boundaries continue to expand, security, transparency, and compliance standards must also be upgraded in tandem. "Making trust visible and verifiable remains a cornerstone of Bitget's commitment to long-termism." On the security front, account-level protections cover 2FA, FIDO2, WebAuthn Passkeys, and anti-phishing codes, while platform security mechanisms integrate withdrawal protection, anomaly detection, and anti-fraud systems, providing backend safeguards for every user interaction. The Market Order & Token Responsibility Framework introduced this year further strengthens continuous monitoring and risk management of listed assets, project teams, and market makers. By continuously optimizing mechanisms and enhancing transparency, it maintains a fair and orderly trading environment. From a compliance perspective, Bitget has secured corresponding registrations, licenses, or regulatory approvals in multiple jurisdictions, including Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, and holds
Bitget Chief Legal Officer Hon Ng has published an open letter on the occasion of the platform's 8th anniversary. As the platform continues to evolve toward a Universal Exchange (UEX), Bitget has further upgraded its Proof of Reserves (PoR) system, expanding the scope of verifiable assets from the original 4 cryptocurrencies to 19 major assets. Data shows that as of September 2026, Bitget has published 46 consecutive PoR reports. In the letter, Hon Ng noted, "Growth and responsibility have never been two separate things." As the platform's scale, asset categories, and market boundaries continue to expand, security, transparency, and compliance standards must also be upgraded in tandem. "Making trust visible and verifiable has always been an important cornerstone of Bitget's commitment to long-termism."On the security front, the account level covers 2FA, FIDO2, WebAuthn Passkeys, and anti-phishing codes, while the platform's security mechanisms integrate withdrawal protection, abnormal behavior detection, and anti-fraud systems, providing back-end safeguards for every user operation. The "Market Order and Token Responsibility Framework" launched this year further strengthened continuous monitoring and risk management of listed assets, project teams, and market makers. Through ongoing mechanism optimization and transparency initiatives, the platform continues to maintain a fair and orderly trading environment.On the compliance front, Bitget has obtained corresponding registrations, licenses, or regulatory approvals in multiple jurisdictions, including Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, and continues to improve its compliance systems, including KYC, KYB, AML, CFT, and sanctions list screening, to adapt to the regulatory requirements of different markets and asset categories.
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)
According to the FCA website, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) released new guidance on crypto asset regulation on September 16 to help businesses understand the scope and licensing requirements of the UK's future crypto asset regime. The regime will officially take effect on October 25, 2027, and the authorization application channel will open on September 30, 2026. The guidance covers activities such as issuing qualified stablecoins, operating crypto asset trading platforms, trading and matching, and crypto asset custody and staking arrangements. FCA Executive Director David Geale stated that the guidance aims to provide businesses with clarity, enabling them to confidently prepare for regulatory compliance. The government has also made targeted amendments to relevant legislation, introducing certain exemptions and further clarifying specific technology service providers. In October, the FCA will launch a dedicated consultation on these legislative changes, covering topics such as qualified stablecoins, proprietary trading and market making, decentralized protocols, and financial promotion.
Bitget Chief Legal Officer Hon Ng has released an open letter on the occasion of the platform's eighth anniversary. As the platform continues to evolve into a Universal Exchange (UEX), Bitget has further upgraded its Proof of Reserves (PoR) system, expanding the scope of verifiable assets from four original cryptocurrencies to 19 major assets. Data shows that as of September 2026, Bitget has consecutively published 46 PoR reports. In his letter, Hon Ng noted, "Growth and responsibility are never two separate pursuits." As the platform's scale, asset categories, and market boundaries continue to expand, security, transparency, and compliance standards must also be upgraded in tandem. "Making trust visible and verifiable remains a cornerstone of Bitget's commitment to long-termism." On the security front, account-level protections cover 2FA, FIDO2, WebAuthn Passkeys, and anti-phishing codes, while platform security mechanisms integrate withdrawal protection, anomaly detection, and anti-fraud systems, providing backend safeguards for every user interaction. The Market Order & Token Responsibility Framework introduced this year further strengthens continuous monitoring and risk management of listed assets, project teams, and market makers. By continuously optimizing mechanisms and enhancing transparency, it maintains a fair and orderly trading environment. From a compliance perspective, Bitget has secured corresponding registrations, licenses, or regulatory approvals in multiple jurisdictions, including Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, and holds
Bitget Chief Legal Officer Hon Ng has published an open letter on the occasion of the platform's 8th anniversary. As the platform continues to evolve toward a Universal Exchange (UEX), Bitget has further upgraded its Proof of Reserves (PoR) system, expanding the scope of verifiable assets from the original 4 cryptocurrencies to 19 major assets. Data shows that as of September 2026, Bitget has published 46 consecutive PoR reports. In the letter, Hon Ng noted, "Growth and responsibility have never been two separate things." As the platform's scale, asset categories, and market boundaries continue to expand, security, transparency, and compliance standards must also be upgraded in tandem. "Making trust visible and verifiable has always been an important cornerstone of Bitget's commitment to long-termism."On the security front, the account level covers 2FA, FIDO2, WebAuthn Passkeys, and anti-phishing codes, while the platform's security mechanisms integrate withdrawal protection, abnormal behavior detection, and anti-fraud systems, providing back-end safeguards for every user operation. The "Market Order and Token Responsibility Framework" launched this year further strengthened continuous monitoring and risk management of listed assets, project teams, and market makers. Through ongoing mechanism optimization and transparency initiatives, the platform continues to maintain a fair and orderly trading environment.On the compliance front, Bitget has obtained corresponding registrations, licenses, or regulatory approvals in multiple jurisdictions, including Argentina, Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, and continues to improve its compliance systems, including KYC, KYB, AML, CFT, and sanctions list screening, to adapt to the regulatory requirements of different markets and asset categories.
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)
BitTorrent's native token BTT is now officially listed on Binance US, with deposits now open. The BTTC/USDT trading pair will officially commence trading at 7:00 AM Eastern Time on September 10. BTT is the native cryptocurrency of the BitTorrent protocol built on the TRON blockchain, primarily designed to incentivize the decentralized file-sharing ecosystem. Users can earn BTT by seeding, and can also utilize BTT to accelerate downloads, pay for decentralized AI compute and storage space, and across multiple other scenarios, creating a closed-loop value system. This listing on Binance US marks a further expansion of BTT's reach in the North American market and delivers a more convenient circulation and usage experience for global users.
CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler Jr. stated that over the past two days, Bitcoin's active buy and sell order pressure has shifted to sellers, with prices falling from $79,900 to $78,700. Open interest rose during the price decline, indicating that new positions are driving this move. Data shows that on the morning of September 6, the Bitcoin active order pressure oscillator was at +3.82, before breaking below zero and remaining in negative territory for 46 hours, with the latest reading at -3.19. Although selling pressure has eased from its local low of -5.28, bulls have not yet regained control. The near-term outlook remains bearish, with improvement signaled only when the oscillator consistently returns above the zero line, accompanied by price stabilization.
CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated that as BTC climbed back to approximately $82,000, Binance Bitcoin futures open interest increased by nearly 8% over the past 24 hours, surpassing $10 billion and reaching a near six-month high. Open interest denominated in BTC also rose to 125,830 coins.
Yuga Labs Blockchain VP Quit posted on X that the NFT theft claims portal currently being built is expected to go live within the next few hours, and a dedicated address nftsaresafu.eth has been created to accept donations in ETH and other tokens.Quit stated that in addition to investing significant time, they paid approximately $7,500 in gas fees last night to handle related matters, and thanked the community for its support through channels such as X Money.Earlier reports indicated that NFT marketplace Magic Eden appears to have suffered an NFT security vulnerability, with white-hat hackers moving 3,832 NFTs from hundreds of wallets, worth approximately $1.5 million.
Odaily reports: Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis has released a report stating that hackers are increasingly leveraging open-source artificial intelligence (AI) to implant malware control instructions into on-chain transactions and smart contracts, with such cases surging approximately 440% in less than a year. Data shows that these incidents have risen from roughly 2 per day to approximately 11 per day. Attackers write malicious instructions on-chain to manipulate infected devices into stealing passwords and funds, and redirect assets to designated wallets; since on-chain records cannot be deleted, defense and interception are becoming increasingly difficult.The report notes that state-sponsored hackers from countries such as North Korea and Iran have become the primary drivers of such activity. Open-source models support local independent operation and modification, allowing them to directly bypass cloud-based defenses. However, the public and transparent nature of blockchain also leaves critical evidence for tracing attack infrastructure. (Bloomberg)
According to Cointelegraph, AnchorWatch CEO and Bitcoin Red Team founder Rob Hamilton stated that after integrating OpenAI Trust & Cyber capabilities into the Bitcoin Red Team's security research work, he faced access restrictions the next day and was forced to switch back to using Chinese open-source AI models to continue research. The Bitcoin Red Team has currently discovered 1,288 critical and high-risk vulnerabilities in the Bitcoin ecosystem, and research work significantly accelerated after the Coldcard hardware wallet was hacked (over $100 million in Bitcoin stolen). Hamilton commented on this: "Black-hat hackers face no restrictions, while white-hat researchers dedicated to reducing risk are excluded."
According to BeInCrypto, ARK Invest founder Cathie Wood recently expressed a view that overturns the market's traditional perception of open-source AI. She pointed out that the capabilities of open-source models such as Meta, Mistral, and DeepSeek are continuously enhancing, which instead expands the cybersecurity attack surface, forcing enterprises to continuously procure frontier AI as a defense layer, thereby driving revenue growth for OpenAI and Anthropic rather than harming them. Data from the UK AI Safety Institute shows that the cyber attack capabilities of open-source models have caught up to the level of frontier models from 4 to 7 months ago. Wood named OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceXAI as the three companies most likely to capture the bulk of AI model revenue; ARK currently holds positions in all three companies. Currently, Anthropic has already submitted an S-1 filing at a valuation of nearly $1 trillion, and OpenAI is expected to go public in September 2026.
According to TechCrunch, the Open Safety AI Alliance (OSAA), led by Nvidia, has exceeded 120 member companies just one week after its establishment, including tech and financial giants such as Adobe, BlackRock, Cisco, Intel, Microsoft, and Visa. During the Black Hat Cybersecurity Conference held in Las Vegas this week, the alliance established a working group named "Shared AI Findings Exchange" (SAFE) and has submitted multiple proposals open for public comment, managed by the Linux Foundation. The proposals cover confidential reporting mechanisms for AI cybersecurity incidents, alert processes for affected parties, and no-fault attribution analysis frameworks. Meanwhile, member companies are also actively contributing open-source technologies: Nvidia open-sourced the LLM vulnerability scanning tool Garak, Amazon contributed the agent building tool Strands Agents and authorization language Cedar, and Okta and Red Hat are advancing agent identity authentication and governance technologies respectively. Notably, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have not yet joined the alliance, although OpenAI and Google previously co-signed the open letter that spurred the creation of the alliance.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has responded to the controversy over open-weight models, stating that the company has never advocated for a total ban on open models. Previously, companies including OpenAI, Google, and SpaceX joined the open-source coalition, while Anthropic was the only major frontier model company not to sign on.Amodei acknowledged that open-weight models can lower costs, promote competition, and support customer self-deployment. He stated that open models without dangerous capabilities can be considered a "public good."However, he believes that open models are not necessarily safer, nor do defenders necessarily gain more advantages over attackers. Once model weights are made public, security restrictions may be removed and cannot be revoked.Anthropic proposed three alternative measures, including restricting the flow of advanced chips and manufacturing equipment to China, cracking down on industrial-scale model distillation, and requiring all models that reach a certain capability threshold—whether open-source or closed-source—to undergo testing for cyber attacks, biological risks, and alignment.
The Ethereum Foundation, in collaboration with the Open Anonymity Project, has launched zkAPI, which is now live on the Ethereum mainnet. zkAPI allows users to first deposit assets such as ETH and USDC into an on-chain Vault, and then use zero-knowledge proofs to authorize API usage quotas, without exposing their specific payment identity to service providers.
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.
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.
Odaily News: According to official sources, Gate has listed Concrete (CT), with CT/USDT spot trading opening at 18:00 (UTC+8) on September 30, and flash swap trading opening at 19:00 (UTC+8).Concrete is a full-stack institutional-grade operating system for on-chain finance, covering the underlying infrastructure from crypto assets to real-world assets (RWAs), providing unified technical support for on-chain financial scenarios including treasury, strategies, custody, risk control, and distribution.Meanwhile, Gate Launchpool Round 381 for Concrete (CT) officially commenced at 22:00 (UTC+8) on September 30 and will run until 22:00 on October 21. The event offers a total of 1,000,000 CT in airdrop rewards. Users can stake USDT, GT, or CT to participate, with the USDT pool offering 600,000 CT in rewards, and the GT pool and CT pool each offering 200,000 CT. Airdrop rewards will be automatically distributed to spot accounts on an hourly basis proportional to staking share. According to the current event page, the estimated APR for the USDT, CT, and GT pools is 104.29%, 69.52%, and 6.25% respectively. Actual yields will vary dynamically based on participation.
Odaily reports: Josh, Vice President of prediction market Polymarket, stated on X that the team is fully developing a Rust-based full central limit order book (CLOB), and the current CLOB is the root cause of most of the platform's issues.According to the plan, October will see the completion of the full order lifecycle process in the testing environment, including trading, settlement, on-chain interactions, indexer, and engine notifications; in November, all production traffic will be mirrored to the new trading cluster and results will be compared with the existing system. At the same time, testing access will be opened to market makers, and the migration and switchover plan will be finalized, with two full drills completed before the official switchover. Josh also stated that if progress goes smoothly, the new system will be officially launched afterward, and the migration is expected to require no changes or only minimal changes for market makers and developers.
NVIDIA has officially released the open-source AI agent runtime platform OpenShell 0.1.0. The platform is designed to establish security boundaries and runtime controls outside the workload without modifying the AI agent's own code. OpenShell integrates technologies such as kernel-level sandbox execution, external oversight services, external credential injection, and formal policy verification, enabling fine-grained interception of HTTP, GraphQL, and MCP network traffic (such as permitting data reads while blocking writes) to prevent sensitive credentials from leaking.
The Ethereum Foundation, in collaboration with the Open Anonymity Project, has launched zkAPI, which is now live on the Ethereum mainnet. zkAPI allows users to first deposit assets such as ETH and USDC into an on-chain Vault, and then use zero-knowledge proofs to authorize API usage quotas, without exposing their specific payment identity to service providers.
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.
Odaily News: Sui posted on X that, as a new member of LF Decentralized Trust, Sui will partner with OpenAssets Inc. to extend open tokenized asset standards to the Sui ecosystem, helping to establish shared standards between institutions and markets.
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.
Odaily News: According to official sources, Gate has listed Concrete (CT), with CT/USDT spot trading opening at 18:00 (UTC+8) on September 30, and flash swap trading opening at 19:00 (UTC+8).Concrete is a full-stack institutional-grade operating system for on-chain finance, covering the underlying infrastructure from crypto assets to real-world assets (RWAs), providing unified technical support for on-chain financial scenarios including treasury, strategies, custody, risk control, and distribution.Meanwhile, Gate Launchpool Round 381 for Concrete (CT) officially commenced at 22:00 (UTC+8) on September 30 and will run until 22:00 on October 21. The event offers a total of 1,000,000 CT in airdrop rewards. Users can stake USDT, GT, or CT to participate, with the USDT pool offering 600,000 CT in rewards, and the GT pool and CT pool each offering 200,000 CT. Airdrop rewards will be automatically distributed to spot accounts on an hourly basis proportional to staking share. According to the current event page, the estimated APR for the USDT, CT, and GT pools is 104.29%, 69.52%, and 6.25% respectively. Actual yields will vary dynamically based on participation.
Glassnode posted on X platform that Bitcoin (BTC) is rising with lower leverage levels. Since the August low, the BTC price has risen 35%, while BTC-denominated open interest (OI) has declined by nearly 20% over the same period, currently at its lowest level since March. Glassnode believes this suggests the current rally may be less susceptible to leverage-driven liquidations.