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Bitget launched the "Newcomer Gold Digging 2.0" contract event, which runs from September 14 to September 21. During the event, both new and existing users can complete specified net recharge, contract trading, and friend invitation tasks to receive tiered mystery box rewards, with a maximum of 18 mystery boxes available.The mystery box prize pool includes physical gold gifts such as XAUT airdrops and Lai Cai gold coins, with a winning rate of 100%. Users who meet the cumulative trading volume criteria can also receive an additional 5g gold ingot. For more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.

According to Gate market data, Nasdaq futures fell 1% at the beginning of trading on Monday, and S&P 500 index futures dropped 0.5%.

Polymarket data shows that traders expect a 64% probability that Bitcoin will reach $80,000 in September, and a 68.5% probability that it will drop to $75,000. Market pricing indicates a higher likelihood of a downward scenario. The market stipulates that if the Binance BTC/USDT 1-minute K-line highest price reaches or exceeds $80,000 before September 30, it will be determined as "Yes."The market was created on September 7, and prices before creation are not counted; Bitcoin reached $81,265 and $80,329 on September 4 and September 7, respectively. Polymarket data shows that the total trading volume for the September price event is $5.17 million, with liquidity of about $1.46 million; Bitcoin's intraday high reached $79,505, just $495 away from triggering conditions. The probabilities for $90,000 and $100,000 are 8.5% and 1.75%, respectively, while the probabilities for $72,500 and $70,000 are 40.5% and 22.5%.

According to Reuters, Mexican authorities discovered an illegal cryptocurrency mining operation in a remote mountainous building in Tehuacán, Puebla, where 300 GPUs, 80 medium-voltage terminals, and 8 satellite antennas were found on-site. Authorities are investigating whether the operation is stealing electricity from a nearby hydroelectric power station.This is the fourth similar crypto farm discovered in the area since early last year, with three others found near a hydroelectric power station in northern Puebla last year. Local residents reported that the noise from the equipment can be heard from a kilometer away. Mexican security analyst David Saucedo stated that drug trafficking groups seem to have reached a new level of sophistication, as establishing such operations requires technical expertise and support from well-funded groups.Chainalysis Latin America expert Caio Motta pointed out that such operations are usually located in areas with extremely low electricity prices or within the reach of organized crime to steal electricity and establish large-scale mining infrastructure.

According to official news from Fortune Protocol, the third phase of the Fortune prediction trading competition officially started on September 10. Users can accumulate ecological contributions by participating in Fortune prediction trading and gain airdrop weight for the official token after the TGE.Previous reports indicated that Fortune has completed the aggregation of prediction liquidity with multiple platforms such as Predict.fun and Polymarket, and continues to promote brand visuals and product UI upgrades, further enhancing user fluidity, simplicity, and operational experience during the prediction trading process.This event aims to encourage more users to experience Fortune's prediction trading products, participate in the construction of the prediction derivatives ecosystem, and provide corresponding ecological incentives for early participants in the Pre-TGE phase.

The research institution Sage Road Research released an executive summary of "The AI Trade," stating that since the beginning of this year, the Magnificent Seven has underperformed the Russell 3000 index by about 8 percentage points and the MSCI ACWI by nearly 9 percentage points. In July, the CBOE NDX volatility index relative to the VIX reached its highest point since the internet bubble, and after entering a correction, the Nasdaq index saw a 5% rebound over four days. As of the writing of the report, AI company stock prices have dropped 20% from their 52-week highs in June.Companies are struggling to achieve returns on investment amid soaring AI costs, with Uber, Amazon, Meta, and Walmart implementing restrictions on employee AI usage. Model homogenization limits pricing power, and Chinese open-source models have become a cheap alternative to OpenAI and Anthropic. AI capital expenditures have exceeded expectations, with the consensus for 2026 rising from $527 billion at the end of 2025 to about $800 billion by mid-year. Capital expenditures for hyperscale cloud providers in 2027 are expected to account for 3% of U.S. GDP, more than double the peak of 1.2% during the late 1990s telecom fiber construction. Allianz Research calculates that there is nearly a 46% growth gap between AI investment and sales, worse than the 32% during the 2001 telecom bubble.As of June, hyperscale cloud providers and related entities like Nvidia issued $225 billion in bonds, a year-on-year increase of 973.7%. The off-balance-sheet liabilities of tech giants have increased eightfold over four years to $1.65 trillion.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, 40 minutes ago, two newly created wallets received airdrop contracts for 4,276 LAPTOPs from Hunter Biden's Substack subscribers, then sold them for approximately $404,000 and $243,000 respectively, totaling a profit of over $647,000.On-chain data shows that there is an ETH transfer association between the two addresses. Among them, the address 0x8DA...4A18d has transferred the proceeds from the sale in USDC to the public tagged address of Safe architect FloB (@FloB_Safe).

Crypto KOL Rune posted that during the process of claiming the LAPTOP airdrop, a newly created wallet with direct fund transfers appeared. The new wallet 0x8DA...A18d claimed 4276 LAPTOP for free, then sold them and obtained about 400,000 USD.Subsequently, this wallet transferred 0.02 ETH to another newly created wallet 0xc27...b591. The latter also claimed 4276 LAPTOP for free and sold them immediately; due to the price drop since the previous address sold, this transaction only yielded about 200,000 USD.Rune described that the on-chain activities related to LAPTOP are becoming "strange," but it has not confirmed whether the two wallets are controlled by the same entity.

According to GMGN data, the Meme coin LAPTOP issued by Biden's son went online for 40 minutes, with its FDV peaking over 300 billion dollars, then dropping to the current 5 billion dollars, with a trading volume of 6.89 million dollars in 40 minutes.

According to GoPlus alerts, the meme coin LAPTOP issued by Hunter Biden, son of Biden, is about to launch an airdrop. A large number of phishing websites for fake LAPTOP airdrop whitelists, eligibility checks, and claims have appeared on Twitter, and there are also lookalike versions on multiple chains, with risks such as unverified contracts, high taxes, and trading suspensions.GoPlus reminds users to refer to the official website and Twitter for accurate information, to be cautious when participating in lookalike trading, and to use Token security checks to confirm contract safety. Remember the four principles: do not click, do not install, do not sign, do not transfer.

FinChip and AgentOn today announced a merger agreement, and the two parties will integrate into a unified operating company, branded as Finch, while also announcing the completion of a pre-A round of financing.Finch is valued at 50 million USD in this round, with participation from Waterdrop Capital, Peer VC, and other institutions. Previously, the company had received investments from Longling Investment, ME Group, and X INFINITY. The funds from this round will primarily be used to expand the supply of agents and skills in four major markets, develop enterprise clients and task demand sides, and promote the implementation of skill standards in the industry.

User chris__lu posted that they compiled all 236 companies and 470 founders from the YC Summer 2026 batch, categorizing each company into an AI technology stack layer and comparing it to the Spring batch using the same criteria. This batch still has 91% related to AI. The model companies increased from 8% to 20%, the application layer decreased from 55% to 39%, horizontal applications dropped from 58 to 32, and vertical applications remained at 25%.In the Spring, 45% of companies delivered autonomous agents, while in the Summer, it was 33%, with "agent" in a one-sentence introduction dropping from 27% to 19%. 21 companies are engaged in computational infrastructure, 11 focus on inference costs, and there are also companies for training data and reinforcement learning environments. Scale AI is listed as an alternative target by 8 companies. The industrial category increased from 12% to 24%, with 45 companies delivering physical products, 24 being robots or physical AI, and 21 companies operating their own businesses rather than selling software.This batch is the youngest, with 37% of founders being students or graduates in the last two years, 59 teams are entirely student teams, the dropout rate increased from 3% to 9%, and repeat founders decreased from 32% to 23%, with 84% having a technical background. 39 from Berkeley, 32 from MIT, and 25 from Stanford. Amazon is the largest source of talent. Sales and marketing AI decreased from 18 to 6. Only 19 founders come from AI labs, accounting for 4%. 8 founding teams come from the same previous employer.

According to Decrypt, the Mexican federal prosecutor, in conjunction with the Navy and Puebla state police, conducted a raid on a property in the remote mountainous area of Tlaola, Puebla, seizing approximately 300 cryptocurrency mining machines, as well as transformers, medium-voltage terminals, and satellite internet antennas.The investigation revealed that the mining operation illegally tapped into the grid of the Nuevo Necaxa hydroelectric power station, and authorities have filed charges for "theft of electricity." Currently, forensic accountants are tracing the source of the hardware funding, and money laundering suspicions have not been ruled out. Data from the Mexican Federal Electricity Commission shows that from January to July 2024, non-technical electricity losses reached up to 6,346 gigawatt-hours, valued at approximately 13.8 billion pesos (about 817 million USD).

The meme coin LAPTOP, launched by Hunter Biden, the son of former U.S. President, announced the airdrop details on social media, with 20% of the total supply of LAPTOP tokens to be distributed for free to the community. Among this, 2% is reserved for users who incurred losses in Trump-related meme coins and other designated groups, 8% is allocated to Hunter Biden Substack subscribers as of September 6, 2026, and another 10% is set aside for future community airdrops.Claims will open on September 9, 2026, at 8:00 AM (Eastern Time), and community users will have 30 days to claim from the launch date. LAPTOP is a meme coin created for entertainment and community engagement purposes and does not represent any equity, ownership, or other economic interests.

According to official news, Gate CandyDrop will launch the public airdrop event 17.0 from September 8, 18:00 to September 23, 18:00 (UTC+8). Users can participate in sharing a 20 ETH super airdrop by completing event market transactions and invitation tasks. Those who sign up to participate can also receive 0.1 ETH. This event sets up an event market transaction prize pool and an invitation friend prize pool, containing rewards of 15 ETH and 5 ETH, respectively.It is reported that CandyDrop is an airdrop platform launched by Gate, where users earn candies by completing tasks such as trading or inviting others, and participate in token airdrop distribution based on the amount of candies they have. This series of events continuously provides users with low-threshold opportunities to participate in airdrops, further enhancing user activity and engagement on the platform through a rich task mechanism and quality project support.

Goldman Sachs executives stated that the refined oil flow through the Strait of Hormuz is at 35% of pre-war levels, while crude oil is at 70%. The impact of the Middle East supply shock on refined oil is greater than on crude oil, especially for heavy products like diesel.Kpler data shows that last year, approximately 2.2 million barrels of refined oil were exported daily through the Strait of Hormuz, while crude oil was 14.95 million barrels per day.

On September 8, domestic GPU leader Moore Threads opened lower, quickly plummeting in the early trading session, at one point dropping over 10%, with the stock price hitting a new low of 371.17 yuan. As of the time of writing, it has fallen over 8%, reported at 380.76 yuan, with a latest market value of 179 billion yuan.Moore Threads hit a 20% limit down yesterday, with its market value falling below 200 billion yuan. According to the announcement, on September 7, 25.7745 million shares from the initial public offering's offline placement faced a lifting of restrictions.Regarding the reason for the limit down on that day, a reporter from Yicai called the securities affairs representative of Moore Threads as an investor. The staff member stated that it was a large lifting of restrictions day for the offline placement shares, and advised investors to view it rationally, noting that the company's fundamentals are normal.

Arthur Hayes released a new project FLOP white paper on social media. FLOP is a proof of useful inference (PoUI) blockchain and native currency aimed at the agent economy, where AI agents can use FLOP to pay miners for inference fees. The network adopts an architecture that combines PoUI with account-based chains, where agents submit session requests to the memory pool containing model weight hashes, maximum latency, computational load, confidentiality flags, and fees. Miners complete the inference and return proofs, which validators incorporate into blocks to complete settlements.The initial supply of FLOP is approximately 2.48346 billion tokens, all allocated for airdrops, with no VC pre-mining or auctions. The first phase of reward distribution allocates 75% to miners, 10% to validators, 10% to agents, and 5% to regular stakers. The average block time for the network is 1 second, with a roadmap goal of sub-second block times. The initial block reward is 96 FLOP, halving every 730 days, for a total of five halvings, after which it will permanently remain at 3 FLOP.The maximum number of validators is capped at 1,000, with approximately 50 rotating monthly based on verified workload and online rates. Miners and validators must stake FLOP, and malicious behavior may face penalties of up to full forfeiture and bans. Governance is conducted through FLOP improvement proposals, requiring a two-thirds approval from active validators in most cases.

On September 7, domestic GPU manufacturer Moore Threads (688795.SH) hit a 20% limit down during trading, with a market value falling below 200 billion yuan. According to the announcement, on that day, 25.7745 million shares of Moore Threads' initial public offering's offline placement restricted shares were unlocked.A reporter from Yicai called the securities affairs representative of Moore Threads as an investor. The staff member stated that it was a significant unlocking day for the offline placement restricted shares, and urged investors to view it rationally, noting that the company's fundamentals are normal.

According to GMGN market data, the market capitalization of the BSC ecosystem token BREW has now rebounded to 12.5 million USD. This morning, the market capitalization of BREW briefly rose to about 28 million USD, and then quickly fell by about 80%, reaching a low of 2.2 million USD.On the news front, Flap is testing a new token pairing mechanism and has launched a new liquidity pool with BEN as the test token, which has attracted market attention to the narrative and capital flow related to BREW, possibly one of the reasons for its previous significant volatility. Please be aware of trading risks, as the prices of related tokens are highly volatile.