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- Ether Trades Lower as Glamsterdam Sepolia Fork Nears Oct. 6
Ether’s Sept. 24 trading range ran from $2,628.57 to $2,703.57. Ethereum’s mainnet target is the fourth quarter of 2026, with no confirmed date.
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- Mesmo Extends Cardano Client Lib With Native Language Bindings
The pre-release library exposes selected wallet, cryptographic, transaction and governance functions through native files without requiring a Java Virtual Machine at runtime.
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- SlowMist Warns Malicious Code Hit MemoryOS and AI-Agent Packages
Affected releases include MemoryOS 2.0.34 on PyPI and three npm versions of an OpenClaw plugin, with possible prompt exposure.
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- Supply-Chain Attack Hits Two MemTensor Tools, Developers Warned
Affected releases include MemoryOS 2.0.34 and OpenClaw npm plugin versions 0.1.21, 0.1.23 and 0.1.25.
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- Duelbits Hot Wallets Lose $4.2 Million Across Three Networks
The outflows included 836 Ether, 1.62 million Tether and other assets, with most later exchanged for Ether.
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- Bitget Expands GetAgent 2.0 to Stocks, Gold and Crude Oil
The AI research assistant now offers deeper analysis, regular reports, event reminders and conditional tracking across crypto and traditional markets.
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- Neutron DAO Proposal 9 Passed as Astroport and Drop Incident Estimates Totaled $9.3M
The vote transferred control of 11 contracts to the attacker. The final amount permanently lost or recovered remains unconfirmed.
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- AI Optimization Cuts Estimated Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Cost to $66
The estimate fell from about $320 after a weeklong open-source challenge, but the improved code has not yet prepared another transaction confirmed by Bitcoin miners.
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- Sui Testnet Release Adds Protocol 137 Features for Validators
Version 1.80.1 expands validator controls, archival gRPC access and GraphQL capabilities while introducing execution changes for developers.
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- Oracle Expands Digital Assets Platform for Banks to Process Stablecoins
The update supports central bank digital currencies, tokenized deposits and other assets through existing ISO 20022 payment systems and Oracle Banking Payments.
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- Shopify and PayPal Enable Muse Checkout as Amazon Blocks Shopping
Shopify plans Shop Pay access for Meta’s AI agent, while PayPal’s Store Sync currently covers a narrower set of U.S. merchants and products.
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- Ondo’s USDY Builds Existing Footprint Across Solana DeFi
The yield-bearing token is used for collateral, lending and cross-chain transfers, with more than $170 million in Solana TVL as of May 1, 2025.
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- Estimated Cost to Prepare Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Transaction Falls 79%
Optimization work cut the estimated GPU cost from about $320 to $66. The experimental design uses hash-based protection without changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules.
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- Jason Aten Says Meta’s Muse Accessed 187,000 Messages After He Refused Permission
Aten said Muse accessed his Mac’s private Messages database and incorrectly described the data it obtained.
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- Aptos Releases Mainnet Node v1.49.1 for Validators and Fullnodes
The open-source release includes changes to execution, consensus, storage, state synchronization and the Move environment after a private hotfix issued Sept. 17.
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- Polygon Foundation CEO Says 100 Million POL Tokens Were Burned
Sandeep Nailwal said the permanent burn represents about 1% of POL’s total supply.
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- Polygon Permanently Burns 100 Million POL Tokens, Cutting Supply 1%
Polygon Foundation CEO Sandeep Nailwal said the tokens were permanently removed. The community may consider conducting POL burns every quarter.
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- Binance to Support Injective Upgrade, Halt INJ Deposits Sept. 24
Deposits and withdrawals will pause at 10 a.m. ET, with the upgrade expected to finish around 11 a.m. Spot trading will continue.
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- AI Data Center Demand Could Strain U.S. Power Markets by 2027
U.S. data-center power demand is projected to reach 66 gigawatts in 2027 and about 108 gigawatts by 2030, while some grid connections can take seven years.
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- Cardano Governance Proposes 55.9% Cut to Minimum Pool Fee
The live proposal would lower the minimum fixed fee from 170 ADA to 75 ADA, potentially improving rewards for delegators using small pools.
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- South Korea’s Lee Vows to Double Memory-Chip Capacity in Five Years
The target is tied to a roughly $520 billion investment plan by Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, including four new memory fabs.
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- Google DeepMind Begins Post-Training Work on Latest Gemini 4 Model
The company plans to publish an early post-training result quickly and continue rapid iteration before a hoped-for launch well before the end of 2026.
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- Switchboard Will End Oracle Support on Sept. 25, Forcing Migrations
The protocol has stopped maintaining its implementations and is directing users to alternative data providers including Pyth and RedStone.
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- Nano Labs Says Founder Jack Kong’s X Account Was Compromised
The account was used to post false crypto project information, creating a potential market-manipulation and investor-safety risk.
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- Cosmos Hub Restarts After Neutron Governance Attack Drains $4.4 Million
Validators halted the network for nearly 25 hours and moved about 1.227 million ATOM from an attacker-linked address for planned recovery.
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- France Places Six Suspects Under Investigation After Crypto Home Invasion
The mother and her 10-year-old child were restrained, while an electric-shock device was used on the father. The family held about €100 in cryptocurrency.
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- FBI Recruitment Website Taken Offline After Unauthorized Activity Detected
The FBI said it detected unauthorized access to FBIjobs.gov and began an internal investigation after the group posted screenshots and personnel lists.
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- Replit CEO Warns AI Application Companies Against Dependence on a Single Model Provider
Amjad Masad said Replit uses models from multiple providers and sometimes builds its own as pricing, performance and capabilities change.
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- 52.37 Bitcoin Linked to Coldcard Exploit Moved Into Recovery Trust, Portal Opens Claims Check
The funds were consolidated into a Crypto Recovery Trust address after an earlier rescue effort. Users must verify ownership before any repayment.
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- Arc Blockchain Surpasses $700 Million in First-Week On-Chain Assets
USD Coin (USDC) trading volume topped $7 billion during the network’s first week.
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- ByteDance Subsidiary Gains Access to 2,304 Nvidia B200 GPUs
Spring used Nscale’s Norway data center for GPU computing capacity, contributing about $24 million to Nscale’s 2025 revenue of roughly $33 million.
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- FomoPeek iPhone App Carried Malicious Code as Wallet Received $580K
Versions 1.1 and 1.2 included modules that could target data from other apps, while version 1.3 removed them.
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- Bitcoin Miners Shift Power to AI Data Centers as Costs Rise
Listed miners’ pretax cash costs reached about $75,500 per Bitcoin in the second quarter, while June hash prices fell to a record low of $27.70 per petahash per second per day.
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- Tron Nears 100 Million Weekly Transactions as Stablecoin Use Expands
Tron processed 1.1 billion transactions in the second quarter, with $2.08 trillion in stablecoin settlement volume and $89 billion in stablecoin supply.
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- Claude Identifies CRISPR-Like Enzyme System in Bacteriophage DNA
Anthropic’s AI system found a previously uncharacterized structure called ART, but its biological function and gene-editing potential remain unknown.
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- Cloudflare Executive Says Ethereum’s Original Sharding Plan Could Work for Payments
Will Papper said Cloudflare is exploring blockchain infrastructure for stablecoin micropayments and may eventually launch its own blockchain.
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- Cosmos Hub Resumes Blocks After 24-Hour Halt as 1.23M ATOM Moves
Voting power was purchased for 20,199 USDC and staked 12 minutes before an expedited Neutron proposal closed.
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- Australia Says OpenAI Agent Accessed Medicare Statistics Portal
The agent reached a Services Australia health-statistics system in June. Officials said no personal data is believed to have been accessed.
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- Coinbase Develops Post-Quantum Custody Plan for Roughly $250 Billion
The exchange is preparing custody systems that can support multiple signature standards as Bitcoin and other blockchains address quantum-computing risks.
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- Cardano Joins x402 Payment Network as XRP Gains 24% in Six Days
Cardano’s developer portal lists support for payments by websites, APIs and AI agents. XRP closed at $1.6094 on Sept. 23 after reaching $1.6532 intraday.
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