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Micron announced today that it will distribute 2026 fiscal year bonuses to over 60,000 employees worldwide to acknowledge the company's achievements this year, marking the highest bonuses in Micron's history. Taiwan is a key hub for Micron's global technology leadership, with approximately 15,000 employees and a cumulative investment of over NT$1.6 trillion.In Taiwan, the 2026 fiscal year bonuses include a NT$1 million cash bonus for each employee who joins before August 29, 2025, with subsequent hires receiving bonuses proportionate to their duration of employment; an annual performance bonus that can reach up to 500% of the basic target; and additional stock awards. Production line employees in Taiwan will receive total compensation equivalent to 35 to 68 months of salary. The cash compensation for Micron's employees in Taiwan for the 2026 fiscal year will start at NT$1.7 million; entry-level engineers will have an average cash compensation of NT$2.9 million, with an average total compensation of NT$3.4 million after including stock awards calculated at grant value. The annual performance adjustment stock awards will cover 100%.Regarding Micron's announcement without reaching a consensus with the union, the union stated after collecting member opinions: grassroots members demand institutional reform and equal negotiation, calling for a change in the IPP profit-sharing system to a 15% profit-sharing system, stating that one-time bonuses cannot resolve the issue, and expressing the hope to establish a calculation basis directly linked to the company's actual profits. If there is no response, the union will continue to move towards a strike. The Ministry of Labor stated that it has fully grasped the relevant information and is maintaining close contact with the Taoyuan City Government, the Central Taiwan Science Park Administration, and the Taichung City Government.

The Watchdog Committee of the Arbitrum ecosystem (composed of Entropy Advisors and others) submitted a proposal to the governance forum on September 3, requesting a permanent ban on the projects Good Entry, Limitless, and APX Finance, as well as their founders, prohibiting their participation in all future ArbitrumDAO initiatives. The committee determined that these three projects engaged in grant abuse within the STIP and LTIPP incentive programs, involving a total amount of 457,553 ARB (approximately $76,000).Specifically, Good Entry received 200,000 ARB in the first round of STIP, of which 142,839 ARB flowed to 1,032 ineligible users, and there is evidence of self-farming by associated addresses, with the team refusing to cooperate with the investigation; Limitless exchanged all 75,000 ARB for USDC and cross-chain to Base, being classified as suspected theft; APX Finance was approved for 525,000 ARB, of which 239,714 ARB involved issues related to funds being held in the treasury, delayed distribution, and witch cluster problems. APX later merged with Astherus and rebranded as Aster, with approximately 70% of its assets located on the BNB Chain.According to the proposal, the three projects may defend themselves in the forum post before September 10. If the explanations are not accepted and the funds are not returned, the committee will initiate three separate Snapshot votes to decide whether to permanently ban the relevant projects and founders.

The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) announced a new round of funding exceeding 60 million satoshis (approximately $472,800) to 16 projects worldwide through its Bitcoin Development Fund, with the funded projects distributed across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. These grants aim to strengthen the Bitcoin protocol, expand the practical use of Bitcoin, and provide secure communication and community infrastructure for dissidents. This is HRF's second round of funding in 2026, following the organization's announcement in April to support 26 projects.The funded projects cover multiple areas. In terms of Bitcoin payments, BitSpenda plans to expand its mobile currency to a Bitcoin bridging tool to reduce cross-border transfer costs in Africa; Project Island Resilience, based on Jamaican developer Dread's Flash wallet, plans to add offline payment features using Bluetooth, NFC, and ecash; Bitzed helps Zambian users purchase Bitcoin directly through mobile currency. In Bitcoin development, Libbitcoinkernel, Floresta, BDK-Dart, and WalletScrutiny focus on reusing core code, lightweight nodes, cross-platform wallet tools, and wallet auditing, respectively.In the Nostr ecosystem, projects such as Vector, Flotilla Chat, OpenAlert, and 0xchat received support to provide censorship-resistant encrypted communication tools.

According to CoinMarketCap, the Ethereum Foundation has allocated a total of $5.5 million in grants in the second quarter of 2026, covering areas such as ecosystem development, research related to zero-knowledge proofs, and security audits.The related grant arrangements aim to support the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade, focusing on strengthening network infrastructure and technical security capabilities, and continuously promoting the development of the Ethereum ecosystem.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the Ethereum Foundation Grants address (0x9eE...313D) transferred 566.27 ETH to a certain address, worth approximately 1.09 million USD; another 2.62 ETH was transferred to another address associated with the Ethereum Foundation, which had previously transferred funds to Upbit.

The Hyper Foundation announced that it will provide approximately $10 million in grants to developers affected by the USDH exit, to cover migration costs and support an orderly transition of the ecosystem. This round of funding will be allocated to affected HIP-1 spot deployers, HIP-3 perpetual contract deployers, HyperEVM protocol, USDH:USDC cross-chain bridge, and other ecosystem participants.Among them, migration grants are aimed at teams migrating USDH-related markets or deployments to USDC; while exit grants are for projects that choose to terminate USDH-related businesses, with amounts lower than equivalent migration plans, to encourage a smooth conclusion of the ecosystem. HIP-1 and HIP-3 grants are based on auction deployment cost estimates, while HyperEVM grants are assessed based on the scale of USDH TVL affected. All beneficiaries must complete migration or business closure by the end of July.On the user side, USDH holders need to operate according to the guidelines of each protocol and can complete the exchange to USDC through the spot market or HyperEVM path. The official has provided support for asset conversion with no fees or spot trading channels. The Hyper Foundation also stated that the USDH migration is progressing smoothly, thanks to the active cooperation of developers and the community, and expressed gratitude to the relevant builders.

According to CoinDesk, Moody's has awarded the highest rating of AAA-mf to the tokenized money market funds of Fidelity and BlackRock, marking that the products of both institutions meet the highest standards in credit quality, liquidity, and capital preservation.Fidelity's FILQ fund was launched on May 6, built on Sygnum's Desygnate tokenization platform, supporting on-chain real-time cash settlement, and introducing infrastructure support from JPMorgan, Apex Group, and Chainlink; BlackRock's BUIDL fund is set to launch in March 2024 and currently accounts for about 15% of the tokenized government bond market.

The Ethereum Foundation stated on the X platform that today it will exchange 5,000 ETH for stablecoins through CoWSwap's TWAP feature, as part of ongoing funding for research and development, grants, and donations.

According to Cointelegraph, the Thane District Court in India ruled on March 23 that there was no preliminary evidence of a crime involving CoinDCX co-founder Sumit Gupta and Niraj Khandelwal in a fraud case involving 7.1 million rupees (approximately $75,000), and granted bail to the two.The court investigation revealed that the fraudulent activity actually occurred on the counterfeit website coindcx.pro, which has no connection to the official CoinDCX platform. The main suspect, Rana, has fully refunded the victims, who also confirmed in court that the two founders were not the parties they met at the café.CoinDCX subsequently issued a statement characterizing the incident as "third-party impersonation" and reminded users to verify domain names and interact only through official channels to guard against the increasingly rampant impersonation and phishing scams in India's cryptocurrency industry.

Quantoz holds an electronic money institution license issued by the Dutch central bank. The three electronic money tokens it issues, USDQ, EURQ, and EURD, are all subject to the electronic money regulations of the European Economic Area. The reserves are stored in a dedicated account under a bankruptcy-remote fund structure at a 1:1 ratio and must additionally maintain at least a 2% reserve buffer on the balance sheet.

Global leading full-stack Web3 security company ExVul has established a long-term strategic partnership with high-performance financial public chain Pharos, jointly setting up a $1.25 million security audit Grants to support the development of early startup teams within the Pharos ecosystem.The Grants are aimed at early projects in the Pharos incubator, providing complete security audit services for core smart contracts and key system modules, along with funding and ongoing security advisory support. The collaboration between Pharos and ExVul fully reflects a high level of trust in their professional capabilities and highlights the close binding of both parties in the long-term construction of the ecosystem. Through this cooperation, ExVul will build a sustainable, secure, and compliant infrastructure for Pharos's early projects, solidifying the foundation for the ecosystem's long-term development.

The Ethereum Foundation ecosystem support project teams announced the list of funded projects and individuals for Q4 2025. The total funding amount granted in the previous quarter reached $7,385,528.84. The funded projects and individuals mainly involve areas such as: protocol growth and support, overall growth and support, developer experience and tools, execution layer, cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs, consensus layer, community and education, and others.

DeSci & AI Asset Protocol Orama Labs announced the establishment of a $5 million ecological fund to support the development of cutting-edge technology projects. The first batch of Grants has officially been issued, with Kingnet AI receiving $1 million in $PYTHIA token incentives, and the space intelligence project ZENO receiving $200,000 in $PYTHIA token incentives.It is noteworthy that the ZENO project is pushing "space intelligence" from theory to practice, and its constructed mirror world platform responds to the industry judgment made by Stanford AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li that "the next wave of AI is space intelligence."Kingnet AI, as an AI-driven game creation engine, significantly reduces game development costs through natural language technology, and this reward will deepen the cooperation between the two parties in terms of technology and ecology.The Orama ecological fund will continue to select projects with innovative technologies and clear business models, providing funding, resources, and full-chain support, with a focus on cutting-edge fields such as DeSci, AI, and DEPIN.

According to The Block, the U.S. Senate Agriculture Committee has released a draft legislation for regulating the cryptocurrency industry, granting new powers to the CFTC.Previously, the House had passed the Digital Asset Market Transparency Act in July, and the Senate subsequently began drafting its own related legislation. The draft proposed by the Republican-led Senate Banking Committee aims to delineate the jurisdiction between the SEC and the CFTC, introducing the new concept of "ancillary assets" to clarify which cryptocurrencies do not fall under the category of securities. Given that the Senate Agriculture Committee has jurisdiction over the CFTC, the draft it proposed is particularly crucial. This 155-page draft defines digital commodities and establishes a regulatory framework for the CFTC.Draft author Cory Booker stated that more work needs to be done, particularly concerning concerns about CFTC's insufficient resources and potential regulatory arbitrage due to bipartisan committee issues, as well as issues related to public corruption and the adequacy of regulatory measures. The Agriculture Committee's draft provides new funding sources for the CFTC, indicating that the CFTC should charge unspecified cryptocurrency entities. The parentheses in the draft reflect "unresolved issues" that still need to be negotiated by both sides. Additionally, Democrats face obstacles related to conflicts of interest in Trump's cryptocurrency business, and the Agriculture Committee's draft already includes provisions regarding conflicts of interest.

On October 31, the U.S. SEC granted a temporary exemption for several compliance dates of the National Market System Rules (Regulation NMS). This exemption provides a precedent for exchanges that enforcement actions should be paused when rules are in flux and regulators cannot provide clear guidance, until the regulators establish practical standards.The announcement mentioned the interruption of funding and the need to "facilitate orderly market operations" after the court dismissed the request for a stay. Cryptocurrency exchanges such as Coinbase, Kraken, and Binance may also apply the same logic.

ChainCatcher message, the Ethereum Foundation (EF) tweeted that it plans to exchange 1,000 ETH for stablecoins through CoW's TWAP feature to fund research, grants, and donations.

ChainCatcher news, Arthur Hayes' family office Maelstrom announced a one-year Bitcoin development grant to Spherostrat, which will focus on P2P network privacy, block validation optimization, and the development of DLEQ proofs for Silent Payment addresses.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, the Ethereum Foundation announced on the X platform on Tuesday that it plans to sell 10,000 Ethereum through centralized exchanges in the coming weeks. The proceeds will be used to support research and development work, ecosystem funding, and related donations; these Ethereum will be exchanged in multiple small orders rather than a single large transaction.Previously, the Ethereum Foundation announced a new funding management policy in early June, stipulating an annual operating expense cap of 15%, establishing a multi-year reserve buffer, and setting a long-term gradual reduction in spending pace. In July, the foundation sold an additional 10,000 ETH to SharpLink Gaming, making it the first publicly traded company to purchase ETH from the Ethereum Foundation.