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AMC CEO Adam Aron once again criticized Robinhood's stock token business in a post, raising several questions to Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev and Chief Legal Officer Dan Gallagher. Aron stated that stock tokens violate the fundamental concept of stock ownership and questioned why Robinhood continues to heavily promote stock tokens on its U.S. site when it cannot provide relevant products to U.S. users.Aron also questioned whether stock tokens might lead buyers to mistakenly believe they have the same rights as actual shareholders, as well as the 1:1 stock support mechanism: if some of the underlying real stocks used to support the stock tokens are simultaneously lent to short sellers, can the related tokens still be considered truly 1:1 supported? Aron further criticized Robinhood for conducting related business through a Jersey entity, stating that while stock tokens may represent innovation in Robinhood's view, in his view, "it will only bring shame to Robinhood."Yesterday, Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev published a lengthy article outlining Robinhood's vision of enabling global investors (especially non-U.S. users) to gain exposure to U.S. stocks and ETFs through blockchain, and he focused on the question of whether issuers need to agree to the tokenization of stocks.

Electrum has released version 4.8.2, which includes multiple security fixes and enhances the security of the Bitcoin wallet codebase. The related fixes are based on reports from researchers such as Bitcoin Red Team, Calle, l0rinc, haoxucu, and m0wer.This version addresses a critical backup issue affecting some Lightning wallets that use non-deterministic keys and anchored channels. Previously, the channel backups and full wallet backups of affected wallets may have lacked the keys necessary to transfer funds on-chain after a remote force close request; affected users will receive a warning when starting Electrum and should export a new backup, as the old backup cannot correctly restore funds in this scenario.This version also strengthens Lightning HTLC verification, rejects previously acceptable format errors in xpub/xprv keys, expands the scope of codebase security enhancements, and prevents the Android QR code scanner from reading screenshots. This is the third security-focused version release of Electrum since July, following versions 4.8.0 and 4.8.1.

Bonk Guy fiercely criticized the token project related to Hunter Biden's "LAPTOP," stating that after further observation of the situation following the token's launch, he believes the project clearly exhibits speculative behavior of "wanting to extract profits while knowing very little about the crypto industry."Bonk Guy particularly questioned the fully diluted valuation (FDV) of up to $100 billion after the token's launch, bluntly stating that this valuation is "absurd to the extreme," and questioned why Hunter Biden himself would become the narrative core of the crypto market. He pointed out that the public's attention on Hunter Biden largely stems from the numerous controversies he sparked during his father Joe Biden's presidency, while the Biden administration has generally taken a relatively tough regulatory stance on the crypto industry.Finally, Bonk Guy warned that investors buying the token at the current valuation face extremely high risks, stating that "anyone who buys it deserves to lose 100% of their funds."

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that Alby confirmed a critical vulnerability exists in Alby Hub v1.7.0 to v1.18.5. If the management API is exposed to the public network, attackers may gain unauthorized access and transfer funds. Currently, it is known that 1 user has been affected, and Alby Hub v1.19.0 and higher versions are not affected.Alby recommends that affected users restrict public access to the management interface, immediately update to v1.24.0, and change the unlock password after the update. Multiple issues reported by Bitcoin Team Red, Project Loupe, and other researchers have also been fixed in the latest version.

U.S. Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis has once again criticized the Democrats for delaying the much-anticipated Clarity Act. Lummis stated in response to a Semafor report on the X platform that if the bill fails, the responsibility lies with the Democrats for failing to join Republicans in supporting this bipartisan legislation. She pointed out that the Democrats' continued demands for amendments could lead future regulatory agencies to "stifle the crypto industry." Lummis added that if the differences can be bridged, she believes the Clarity Act could pass, but this requires further compromise from the Democrats, rather than concessions from the White House. Lummis had previously stated that if the bill fails, it will be due to the Democrats. The U.S. Senate is set to hold a procedural vote on the bill next week, and Lummis warned that if it does not pass next week, there will be no realistic opportunity within this decade. The Clarity Act aims to formally delineate the responsibilities of regulatory agencies and distinguish whether digital assets are classified as securities, commodities, or stablecoins. The bill was passed by the House of Representatives last July but was shelved due to conflicts between banking lobbyists and crypto companies over customer stablecoin yield issues. A new draft circulating in July prohibits government officials from promoting or profiting from crypto, with Democrats criticizing the Trump family for venturing into this area, yet still deeming the bill insufficient and calling for amendments.

F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun (@satofishi) stated that six years ago, he banned all members of the Zcash team due to their continuous confusion between EST and EDT time zones, believing that the team lacked basic principles of understanding. He mentioned that this decision remains one of his most correct choices to this day.Wang Chun cited the BlockFi incident as an analogy—BlockFi mistakenly sent 701.4 BTC instead of the 701.4 USD that should have been sent to users, pointing out that "those who can't even distinguish between EDT and EST are likely to confuse BTC and USD."

The Research Institute of Financial Technology at Renmin University published a compiled article on stablecoin research in the Journal of International Money and Finance. The related research is based on large language model (LLM) agents analyzing the de-pegging risks of stablecoins, which indicates that the de-pegging of stablecoins has significant nonlinear and threshold characteristics. The arbitrage mechanism can absorb a certain degree of informational pressure, but when the severity of the narrative reaches a "critical threshold," the system may quickly enter a state of sustained de-pegging.

AMC Theatres CEO Adam Aron criticized the AMC stock token launched by Robinhood on the X platform on Thursday, stating that AMC has no association with this product and does not endorse it. Aron indicated that Robinhood is clearly pushing a plan involving the "tokenization of real-world assets related to AMC (including stock tokens)" and called this practice "despicable" and "outrageous." AMC will request an investigation into this matter by external securities legal counsel.Robinhood's stock tokens are derivatives that provide holders with economic exposure to U.S. stocks but do not confer ownership of the underlying stocks. Other tokenization models include custodians holding traditional stocks and issuing tokens as endorsements, as well as issuers authorizing the direct on-chain registration of stocks. This conflict comes at a time when tokenized stocks are attracting the attention of crypto exchanges, brokerages, and Wall Street institutions, as blockchain tracks enable round-the-clock trading, faster settlements, and broader distribution.Robinhood has made tokenization a core part of its crypto expansion, launching tokens last year that track hundreds of U.S. stocks and ETFs, and is building its own blockchain to support tokenized assets. Previously, OpenAI also publicly denied the tokens related to it launched by Robinhood, stating that they do not represent OpenAI equity and that it has not collaborated with or endorsed Robinhood. AMC's opposition brings this controversy to the level of publicly traded companies.

OpenAI stated that its upcoming Astra model can autonomously discover previously unknown software vulnerabilities and convert them into usable attack vectors without human intervention, making it the company's first model to reach the "Critical" cybersecurity capability level threshold. In a blog post released on Tuesday, OpenAI mentioned that according to its Preparedness Framework, reaching this level means the model can discover zero-day vulnerabilities and develop usable exploit code in hardened real systems without human involvement, or design and execute attacks based solely on a high-level objective.In testing, Astra achieved a 100% score in benchmark tests for developing exploit code based on known vulnerabilities and discovered two previously unknown vulnerabilities in another internal test. Additionally, the model successfully broke through a hardened browser sandbox and executed commands on the host machine, while gaining root access by exploiting multiple weaknesses in the operating system. OpenAI stated that it has delayed some of Astra's development progress to enhance security measures and plans to make its advanced cybersecurity capabilities available only to selected testers.This capability is particularly relevant to the cryptocurrency industry, as software vulnerabilities can be converted into financial losses within minutes. CoinDesk reported in June that increasingly powerful AI models can compress the process of searching code, discovering misconfigurations, and assembling attacks from days or weeks to machine speed. Security researchers noted at the time that the significant change was not the emergence of new categories of attacks, but rather the dramatically increased speed at which existing vulnerabilities are discovered and exploited.

OpenAI has notified SpaceX that it will terminate the contract to provide models for the AI coding tool Cursor it acquired, with a suggested termination date of November 12, stating that this is the longest notice period stipulated in the contract. OpenAI expressed that the decision was difficult, as it values the widespread use of its models by developers, but due to Musk's past breaches of contract, it does not trust SpaceX to use the technology as agreed, and mentioned issues related to the use of OpenAI models during xAI training and contract problems when acquiring X.Musk stated on X that he does not care at all and referred to Sam Altman and Greg Brockman as frauds, accusing them of stealing from an open nonprofit organization. Musk was a co-founder of OpenAI but later filed a $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI and lost due to exceeding the deadline. OpenAI had attempted to acquire Cursor's developer Anysphere but was unsuccessful, while SpaceX acquired Cursor for $60 billion, with the merger completed on August 15.Michael Truel, co-founder of Cursor and now an executive at SpaceX, stated that Cursor views the OpenAI platform as neutral infrastructure and is negotiating with OpenAI, noting that OpenAI models account for 5% of Cursor's user traffic. Tom Brown, co-founder of Anthropic, stated that they will continue to expand computing power to provide the Claude model on Cursor.

ARK Invest's Director of Digital Asset Research, Lorenzo, stated that the latest improvement proposals from Solana and Ethereum are surprising. The market has indicated that Hyperliquid and others are posing strong competition, but the relevant communities are still taking time to adjust inflation arrangements and CU restrictions, which may further decrease the competitiveness of applications. He believes that L1 should prioritize how proposals can enhance network competitiveness, promote growth, and attract more consumer-grade applications and users.Lorenzo pointed out that for Solana, this is certainly not the time to be entangled in the value accumulation of token holders versus cash flow, or to increase the costs for application developers. It is essential to first prove that the pie can be expanded 100 times before discussing how to allocate it. Although in the future, it will be necessary to price high resource-consuming transactions more finely and address token value accumulation, if market share is seized by HYPE, there will be no value to accumulate. The current priority should be to expand the pie 100 times.

Tencent Group Senior Executive Vice President, CEO of Cloud and Smart Industries Group, Tang Daosheng, published an article in Tencent's internal publication, responding to external doubts about "Tencent being slow in AI." He stated that it is impossible to be completely untroubled; the Hunyuan large model has undergone multiple reconstructions, and Hunyuan Hy3 has shown outstanding performance among large models with equivalent parameters. However, due to the company's overall lack of computing power, the training of models and product development has been significantly slowed down, resulting in a considerable impact.Tang Daosheng mentioned that waking up early may not be the most critical factor; the second half of AI has just begun, and enduring longer provides the opportunity to seize the continuously emerging new opportunities.

Decred announced that the mandatory patch version v2.1.6 has been released, which includes a fix for a critical security issue related to consensus, preventing potential periodic de-anonymization mixing attacks.In addition, this patch also addresses several possible network-related denial of service (DoS) attack issues and improves the expiration duration of mixing sessions. The official urges users to upgrade as soon as possible, while noting that the Windows version of Decrediton has not yet been released and is expected to be launched the following day.

According to Digital Asset, Park Soo-young, a member of the Korean National Power Party, criticized the government's plan to tax virtual asset gains, stating that it is "a threat of a tax bomb if one does not invest in the domestic stock market," and demanded an immediate withdrawal.Member Park Soo-young stated on her YouTube channel: "I hope this punitive tax plan that puts 13 million digital asset users in danger can be withdrawn immediately." She added, "This does not mean that people will invest in domestic stocks; on the contrary, it will only accelerate the outflow of national wealth." She cited that approximately 124 trillion won flowed into overseas digital asset exchanges from January to September last year.

The PoW blockchain Ravencoin tweeted that its network has a critical consensus vulnerability that has been exploited, causing weak nodes to accept invalid blocks. The first known invalid block appeared at height 4,487,776. Currently, the majority hash power holders 2Miners and RavenMiner have stated that they are mining a chain that excludes the exploited branch starting from height 4,487,776.If this chain becomes the dominant chain, it may lead to approximately three days of deep chain reorganization. The official recommendation is for CEX to temporarily suspend RVN deposits and withdrawals until the network stabilizes; transactions confirmed after height 4,487,775 should be considered at risk. The official also emphasizes that this notice aims to increase transparency and risk awareness and does not represent an endorsement of any rollback or recovery plan.

According to South Korean media NATE, the Korea Regulatory Reform Committee has proposed amendments to the enforcement decree of the Specific Financial Transaction Information Act, excluding minor violations from the qualification restrictions for major shareholders of Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP).This move has sparked discussions in the market regarding exchange mergers and acquisitions, the entry of new businesses, and the fairness of regulation. The proposal to relax restrictions also involves issues related to the boundaries of the enforcement decree's authority.

According to CoinDesk, the controversial BIP-110 soft fork proposal officially entered the mandatory signaling phase at around 3:35 AM Beijing time this Sunday (UTC 19:35) at Bitcoin block height 961,632, marking the start of the signaling window. This proposal aims to temporarily restrict non-financial data from being written to the Bitcoin blockchain, but the current miner support rate is extremely low, with the proportion of supporting miners far below the 55% activation threshold required by the proposal. The market is concerned that this fork chain may expand its influence in the future as more nodes join, forcing miners to compromise, or it may gradually lose vitality due to a lack of computing power and ecosystem support. Meanwhile, several key figures in the Bitcoin industry have publicly opposed this proposal, including Strategy Chairman Michael Saylor and Blockstream CEO Adam Back. Opponents believe that BIP-110 could undermine consensus in the Bitcoin network and bring unnecessary risks of division.It is reported that the BIP-110 signaling period will last until Bitcoin block height 965,664, expected to conclude in about four weeks. At that time, the community will face a critical decision on whether to activate the proposal.