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According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the Alameda/FTX address has recently unstaked and transferred 202,700 SOL, worth 20.62 million USD, in the past half hour.Based on past records, similar transfers may be used for FTX creditor payments.

Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison has joined the nonprofit organization Manifund. Manifund co-founder Austin Chen stated that Ellison will be responsible for developing the organization’s donation platform and enhancing its charitable work. Ellison has been on a trial basis at the organization since July, transitioned to full-time in August, and has been posting work updates under the alias "Carol."Ellison pleaded guilty in December 2022 to fraud and conspiracy charges related to the collapse of the FTX exchange in 2022, which resulted in billions of dollars in customer losses. She cooperated with prosecutors and testified against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Ellison is set to begin serving a two-year sentence in November 2024 and will be released early in January 2026 for cooperating with the investigation.Chen stated in a post, "I believe in redemption. Caroline has acknowledged her mistakes, is working to repay creditors, and has served time in prison. I hope the world can recognize that too." Ellison expressed excitement about her new position, apologized for her past actions, and thanked Austin for giving her a second chance, stating that he judges her based on her current work performance rather than her past. According to its website, Manifund focuses on artificial intelligence safety and effective altruism projects.

According to Anza's monitoring, the second step of the Solana proposal SIMD-0437 rent reduction will take effect on the mainnet at approximately 21:15 UTC, corresponding to epoch 1033. At that time, the lamports required per byte will decrease from 6333 to 5080, a cumulative decrease of about 27% from the initial level, and the deposit required for on-chain storage such as creating token accounts will be further reduced.There is currently no fixed timetable for subsequent steps; the third step will be initiated once the growth of on-chain status is confirmed to be safe. If any anomalies occur, SIMD-0438 can serve as a fallback mechanism to revert the rent parameters. Currently, three steps remain in the five-step plan.

According to a report by Christine D. Kim, Ethereum developers confirmed at the ACDC #186 meeting that the Glamsterdam upgrade will be activated on the Sepolia testnet on October 6 at 13:53 UTC. However, there is significant uncertainty regarding this upgrade—currently, the latest private testnet Glamsterdam-Devnet-9 is not stable, and a serious vulnerability has been discovered in the consensus layer that could cause the entire network to stop producing blocks. The execution layer EIP-8037 also has bugs that need to be fixed.Developers will launch Devnet-10 in the coming weeks, and if Devnet-10 remains unstable, the Sepolia upgrade date may be postponed. The activation schedule for the Hoodi testnet and mainnet is currently undetermined, and whether the goal of launching the mainnet by the end of the year can be achieved remains uncertain.

According to Iranian media Fars News, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Navy stated that the Strait of Hormuz has been blocked by Iran and is under intelligence monitoring and smart control, and any hostile actions will be struck.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard stated that any vessels passing through the restricted area of the Strait of Hormuz without coordination from Iran will face sanctions.

According to DeFiLlama data, as of September 9 at 13:30, Huobi HTX had a net capital inflow of approximately 447 million USD in the past 24 hours, ranking first among the centralized exchanges in their statistics. During the same period, the platform's total assets were approximately 4.232 billion USD, Clean Assets were about 4.218 billion USD, the 24-hour spot trading volume reached 1.036 billion USD, and the contract open interest was approximately 3.948 billion USD.As of September 8 at 9:00, Huobi HTX had a net capital inflow of approximately 437 million USD in the past 24 hours, also ranking first among CEX.

According to Apnews, a young cryptocurrency scam gang stole over 4,100 BTC in August 2024 through "social engineering" attacks, which was worth over $240 million at the time.After the theft, gang members quickly began extravagant spending, including purchasing sports cars, renting luxury homes, flying on private jets, and hiring security personnel. Among them, the alleged mastermind, a 22-year-old Singaporean named Malone Lam, reportedly spent over $569,000 in one night at a nightclub in Los Angeles.Investigations revealed that the suspects impersonated employees from Google and the cryptocurrency trading platform Gemini to trick victims into giving up their Google Drive access and security codes, allowing them to transfer the victims' bitcoins. They then moved the funds through multiple trading platforms and money laundering intermediaries. Their lavish lifestyle eventually drew the attention of law enforcement.One suspect was exposed when their IP address was revealed while hiding nearly $30 million in stolen cryptocurrency assets, leading police to trace it back to the luxury home they rented in California. Another suspect was found with $37 million worth of stolen cryptocurrency assets. Lam was accused of using the stolen funds to purchase a $2 million watch and over 30 vehicles including Porsches, Lamborghinis, and Ferraris.Currently, 18 defendants have been charged, and Lam is expected to attend a plea agreement hearing this Tuesday. The U.S. Department of Justice has already issued rulings against several accomplices, and related cases are still ongoing.

On September 2, Curve DAO approved proposal 1492, appointing yRisk as the risk provider for crvUSD and Llamalend, concluding the selection process that began in July. The proposal passed with 621 million veCRV votes in favor, with only 5.33 votes against, and was executed 87 minutes after the voting ended. yRisk will receive a one-year revocable grant, including a principal of 125,000 frxUSD (held in sfrxUSD) and 568,000 CRV, while their previously requested annual funding amount was $250,000.yRisk consists of two members, who claim to be the main developers of Resupply, as well as core developers for Yearn and Resupply. Resupply is a stablecoin and lending protocol built on crvUSD and CurveLend, which lost $9.6 million in June 2025 due to a donation attack vulnerability, although this incident was not mentioned in the proposal. The reviewer, Swiss Stake, confirmed yRisk's experience with Curve but expressed concerns about their limited two-member team and the workload required to cover multiple Llamalend market monitoring scopes.LlamaRisk, which previously held the position, announced the early termination of its cooperation with Curve on May 29, ceased related work on June 30, and returned approximately 270,000 crvUSD of unallocated funds to the treasury. Curve founder Michael Egorov initiated a proposal solicitation on July 7.

According to DeFiLlama data, the top three centralized exchanges by net inflow of funds in the past 24 hours are Binance at $113 million, Bitget at $86.83 million, and Bybit at $67.52 million, with a total net inflow exceeding $267 million.

DefiLlama has partnered with the Web3 investment banking and consulting platform Forgd to launch a universal token rating dashboard, which rates over 100 DeFi tokens with a score from 0 to 100 and assigns letter grades from AAA to CCC, mirroring traditional credit ratings. The ratings are continuously updated based on changing token-related metrics.The dashboard aims to standardize the assessment of crypto tokens, providing traders and investors with a transparent and unified measurement scale, enhancing transparency and trust in the context of inconsistent metrics in the DeFi sector.

According to Arkham monitoring, the U.S. government recently transferred a small amount of Bitcoin. This Bitcoin was seized three years ago from Alameda's account on Binance US.This transfer only involves a small amount, and the market is paying attention to whether the U.S. government will begin liquidating Alameda's remaining Bitcoin assets.

The Ethereum Foundation issued a reminder that the Glamsterdam upgrade will include adjustments to Gas fees (EIP-8037 and EIP-8038), involving changes to the costs of state creation and access. Most contracts will not be affected, but some contracts that rely on hard-coded Gas values and other old assumptions may need to be updated; otherwise, they may fail or experience performance degradation.

According to TrendForce, at Hot Chips 2026, Micron emphasized that the progress of AI computing power is faster than storage improvements, and the challenge of the "storage wall" is becoming increasingly prominent. Micron Fellow Raghu Sriramaneni pointed out that the computing power of AI accelerators increases approximately threefold every two years, while the bandwidth of HBM increases by less than double during the same period, and the gap may further widen. The deepening reliance on HBM also brings reliability issues; Micron cited Meta Llama 3 data indicating that HBM failures account for about 17% of unexpected training interruptions. New designs that blur the boundaries between computing and storage may help break through the bottleneck.The expansion of HBM also brings area and supply pressures: the latest generation of packaging integrates two GPUs with eight 12-layer HBM4 stacks, with storage accounting for about 90% of the semiconductor area, more than eight times the area occupied by GPUs; achieving equivalent capacity with HBM requires about three times the wafers of standard DDR5 DRAM. Thermal management has also become a key constraint, with solutions such as liquid cooling and ultra-thin chips being explored.Micron is advancing innovations in interconnect, packaging, and cooling, including SerDes and die-to-die PHY optimized for storage, larger size SiP and advanced packaging with glass substrates, as well as liquid cooling and hybrid bonding, and is developing fusion bonding to reduce thermal resistance and enhance data throughput.

According to informed sources, AI cloud service provider Lambda, supported by Nvidia, is negotiating a financing round of up to $3 billion, which could pave the way for its IPO next year.The company's revenue is expected to exceed $1.5 billion this year, with a financing valuation potentially reaching $12 billion.

According to the latest report from DefiLlama, Gate's trading activity remains at the forefront of the industry, with a total trading volume of approximately $9.5 billion in spot and derivatives over the past 24 hours, ranking third globally and exceeding some mainstream trading platforms by about 40%. DefiLlama pointed out that Gate's trading structure is clearly biased towards derivatives, and the continuously growing scale of related trading has become an important support for its market competitiveness, creating a distinct business advantage among centralized exchanges.In addition to ranking third globally in trading volume, Gate's open interest also ranks among the top three worldwide, currently reaching $12.48 billion, further reflecting the scale of its derivatives business and market participation. DefiLlama noted that compared to its reserve size, Gate demonstrates a more outstanding trading performance, supporting a large derivatives trading volume with a relatively streamlined asset scale. The simultaneous entry of trading volume and open interest into the industry's top three core indicators reflects Gate's leading performance in capital capacity, user participation, and overall market competitiveness.

According to the official announcement from the CFTC, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York has issued a supplemental consent order against former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and former Alameda/FTX co-founder Gary Wang. Ellison has been imposed a 5-year trading ban and a 10-year registration ban, while Wang has been imposed a 5-year trading ban and an 8-year registration ban, with the bans effective from the date of the initial consent order on December 23, 2022.Given that both individuals provided substantial cooperation in the CFTC investigation and related criminal proceedings—including pleading guilty in the criminal case and jointly bearing a $11.02 billion criminal forfeiture order—the CFTC stated that it is not currently seeking additional restitution, recovery, or civil penalties, and this supplemental order formally concludes the CFTC's enforcement actions against the two.

According to Curve.finance Governance, Swiss Stake AG submitted a progress report for H1 2026 stating that Llamalend V2 has passed the ChainSecurity audit and has launched on Optimism and the Ethereum mainnet, supporting LP Token and PT collateral while introducing new admin fee revenue for Curve DAO.FXSwap has entered the production optimization phase, focusing on research around liquidity concentration, price_scale, and dynamic fees. FastBridge has launched on Arbitrum, Optimism, and Fraxtal, reducing the time to withdraw crvUSD from Layer 2 to Ethereum from about 7 days to approximately 15 minutes. The team has secured the second phase of 8.725 million CRV and additional CRV and crvUSD funds to support operations until the end of 2026, and plans to submit a proposal to increase the DAO protocol fee share from 10% to 30%.

According to DeFiLlama data, the top three centralized exchange (CEX) net inflows in the past 24 hours are: Binance ($234 million), Bybit ($51.55 million), and Bitget ($17.56 million).

The Ethereum Foundation (EF) warns that changes to the Gas model in the Glamsterdam upgrade may cause some wallets, indexers, and Gas estimation tools to become ineffective. The EF Protocol DevOps team stated that tools relying on hard-coded maximum Gas limits will fail, and developers need to update relevant systems and test on the Plataberget public testnet.Plataberget went live on August 13 and is planned to run for several months. The Glamsterdam fork is scheduled to activate on the Ethereum network on Thursday, followed by deployment to the Sepolia and Hoodi testnets. EIP-8037 will introduce an independent state Gas dimension for operations that create new states. Transferring ETH to existing accounts will still require 21,000 Gas, while transferring to new accounts will incur additional state Gas; developers should also re-evaluate software that considers 21,000 Gas as the total cost for all ETH transfers or only uses a single Gas dimension to estimate transaction fees.