News linked to both this project and an event.
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.
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.
LayerZero has announced that due to low activity on certain blockchains, it will gradually cease providing off-chain support for them, and affected chains will no longer be able to use LayerZero's Decentralized Verification Networks (DVNs) and executor services. In the next 30 days, Aurora, Taiko, Japan Open Chain, LightLink, Viction, Animechain, XPLA, Merlin, Gnosis, Zora, Otherworld Space, XAI, and opBNB will be affected. Some chains will also lose Stargate Hydra support, and Stargate users should redeem their Hydra assets from these chains, including USDC.e, wETH, and Hydra USDT.
According to official announcements, U (United Stables) and Binance Wallet have jointly announced the official launch of the pPOLY Trading Competition. The event will run from September 24, 22:00 to October 8, 22:00 (UTC+8). During the event, users who trade the pPOLY/U pair via Binance Wallet on BNB Chain (BSC) — with both buying and selling counted toward their activity — will be eligible to share a 100,000 U prize pool. Trades executed on Day 1 will benefit from a 3x early bird multiplier bonus. How to Participate: Open the Binance App, navigate to Wallet, and click [Join] on the event page to take part. Important Notes: Only trades conducted through Binance Wallet (Keyless) on BSC qualify. Alpha and third-party dApps are not included in this promotion.
Four.meme posted on X platform stating that Four.Meme has now opened direct conversion between BNC4 and BNCB, supporting two-way conversion at a fixed 1:1 ratio.
According to official announcements, the DeFi Hold to Earn Leaderboard Tournament co-launched by $U and Binance Wallet has officially begun, with a total prize pool of 150,000 $U. Key Participation Steps: 1. Register to participate: Navigate to the event page and click “Sign Up”; 2. Swap assets: Use Binance Wallet to swap at least 100 $U on BNB Chain (BSC); 3. Hold assets: Maintain a continuous balance of at least 100 $U in your wallet; 4. Activate earnings: Activate your $U assets in the DeFi flexible yield module to participate in the prize pool distribution. Event Period: September 24, 2026, 08:00 – October 24, 2026, 07:59 (UTC+8) Participation Entry: Open the Binance App, go to the [Web3 Wallet] homepage, and click the event banner to join and secure your reward share.
the B.AI platform has announced the official launch of Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in the Claude 5.5 series released by Anthropic, with simultaneous access now available via both API and Web Chat. The model is purpose-built for long-horizon agentic coding and complex knowledge work, matching Claude Fable 5.1 performance on most tasks while reducing operating costs by approximately 40% compared to Opus 5. It supports a 1M Token ultra-long context window and up to 128K output, and demonstrates leading capabilities in Computer Use and multi-step automation scenarios. Starting today, developers and users can directly access Claude Opus 5.5 through the B.AI platform.
B.AI has announced the full launch of Xiaomi's open-source, native multimodal reasoning large models in the MiMo-V2.6 series, with simultaneous access via both API and Web Chat. The entire series features a 1M token ultra-long context window and comprehensive understanding capabilities across text, images, video, and audio. The MiMo-V2.6-Pro utilizes a sparse MoE architecture with 1.02 trillion total parameters and 42 billion active parameters, specifically engineered for repository-level software engineering, long-horizon agents, and complex multimodal reasoning. The MiMo-V2.6-Flash, on the other hand, is built on an architecture with 309 billion total parameters and 15 billion active parameters, prioritizing high throughput and rapid response for high-frequency office automation and large-scale agent invocation scenarios. Starting today, developers and users can directly invoke both models via the B.AI platform. Visit chat.b.ai/chat to experience them now.
The Qwen team has open-sourced Qwen-Image-2.1, unifying text-to-image generation and image editing into a single model. Its visual generation component contains only 7B parameters and natively supports generating and editing transparent images. The model supports up to 10 reference images, enabling localized edits through circles, scribbles, or individual masks. Architecturally, the model adopts mixed-granularity attention and reuses KV caches to enhance inference efficiency, while also improving text rendering, portrait lighting, and subject/product fidelity across tasks such as panoramic imagery, infographics, and storyboarding.
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)
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 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.
Odaily News — The Ethereum Ecosystem Summit, jointly initiated by Sharplink, BlockUnion, and ETH HK Hub, and co-organized by Lido Institutional, will be held on October 8, 2026, in Singapore. The summit is aimed at Ethereum ecosystem builders, financial institutions, investors, and on-chain infrastructure teams, and will focus on discussions around Ethereum's long-term value, institutional adoption, and the development direction of agentic finance.Ethereum co-founder and Consensys founder Joe Lubin has confirmed his attendance and will hold a fireside chat with Sharplink CEO Joseph Chalom, reflecting on Ethereum's development over the past decade under the theme "Ethereum's Ten Years: From an Idea to the Future of Open Finance," and discussing the next phase of open finance.As one of the high-profile events focused on the Ethereum ecosystem during TOKEN2049, the summit will center on three core topics, including Ethereum's long-term value, infrastructure, and credible neutrality; institutional treasuries, asset tokenization, and on-chain infrastructure; and the agentic finance technology stack composed of stablecoins, tokenized assets, instant settlement, and autonomous commerce.The conference is also supported by ecosystem partners including SNZ, EthSystems, EthLabs, Ethereum Institutional, HashKey Capital, and Ethereum Singapore, and will invite representatives from fields such as Ethereum infrastructure, liquid staking, digital asset custody, payments, and on-chain finance to participate in discussions. More guests and the full agenda will be announced soon.