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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.

Google (GOOG.O) announced the launch of the Google Cloud Developer Plugin, which is used for the artificial intelligence coding assistant.

Less than 24 hours remain until the new pricing for the DeepSeek V4 Flash series takes effect (September 10, 12:00 SGT). With upstream price adjustments imminent, B.AI has prepared an exclusive stacking benefit for global developers to ensure top-tier computing power remains within reach. This upcoming benefit aims to further reduce invocation costs and unleash greater productivity—whether for high-frequency API calls, Agent workflow construction, or large-scale production-level deployments, all can operate continuously and efficiently with a lower burden. Specific benefits will be announced soon, so please stay tuned to B.AI's official updates and don't miss this boost in computing power.

The official account of Solana announced that the Solana Accelerate China four-city tour will be held from October 16 to 22 in Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, and Beijing. The event is aimed at developers, entrepreneurs, and investors, featuring discussions and demonstrations, with the theme of exploring new trends in technology between China and abroad.

Renowned Ethereum builder and investor Ryan Berckmans posted on X, stating that the idea that Robinhood "gives back very little to ETH" is nonsense. They pay on-chain users and new ETH holders, conduct marketing, attract new enterprise clients envious of Robinhood's success, and help mature L1 hubs radiate to L2. Half of Robinhood's active users come from other places in Ethereum and exert healthy competitive pressure on Base.He mentioned that Ethereum alignment is a real concept, but it is not portrayed as income maximization by Ethereum opponents. Helping to grow Ethereum and ETH is alignment, while threatening Ethereum or ETH is misalignment, such as during Lido's dominance. Robinhood is one of the most Ethereum-aligned entities globally. Buying large amounts of ETH or not selling order fees would be better, but this is just icing on the cake of an already huge pie.We do not rely on Robinhood to buy ETH to win. The next batch of Tom Lee will buy ETH, Wall Street Tom Lee, corporate Tom Lee, government Tom Lee, family office Tom Lee, sovereign wealth Tom Lee will be everywhere. ETH will reach trillions in value storage as Ethereum goes global. The two major indicators measuring the progress of value storage are L1 application capital and the number of sufficiently successful L2s, and Robinhood helps grow the latter. We like Robinhood as it is now.

The G7 Cybersecurity Working Group stated in its latest report that quantum computing poses security threats to both public and private institutions, as well as economic threats, and relevant organizations should begin migrating to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) immediately. The working group noted that the migration process could take several years, and attackers can currently collect and store encrypted data to decrypt it once sufficiently powerful quantum computers become available.Quantum computing may also break digital signatures, leading to identity theft and exposing businesses and their supply chains. The report did not mention cryptocurrencies, but similar public key cryptography is used for blockchain wallets and transaction authorizations. Currently, quantum computers are unable to break Bitcoin's cryptography, but developers are considering post-quantum solutions such as BIP-360. Ethereum researchers plan to replace several cryptographic components used by accounts, validators, and applications. The Solana Foundation has tested post-quantum signatures on its testnet and launched an optional hash-based vault. The G7 working group also urged governments to support relevant research, public-private collaboration, and national PQC strategies.

According to TechCrunch, AI data center developer Crusoe has completed a $3 billion financing round, achieving a valuation of $30 billion, led jointly by Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners, with participation from Mubadala Capital, a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund.Crusoe's clients include Meta, Microsoft, and OpenAI, and it recently signed a five-year, $13 billion GPU and AI infrastructure cloud contract with quantitative trading giant Jane Street. This financing comes just 10 months after raising $1.38 billion at a $10 billion valuation last October. Founded in 2018, Crusoe initially utilized stranded natural gas for Bitcoin mining and later transformed into an AI infrastructure and cloud service provider, known for developing ultra-large-scale data center campuses. Axios reported last month that Crusoe has met with investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to discuss a potential IPO in the near future.

According to a report by Reuters, Apple Inc. is facing a class-action lawsuit in London, with claims amounting to £2 billion (approximately $2.7 billion). The lawsuit was filed today in the London Competition Appeal Tribunal by Ann Pope, a former senior official of the UK's Competition and Markets Authority, representing app developers.The core allegation is that Apple's "App Tracking Transparency" (ATT) feature, launched in 2021, imposes stricter restrictions on third-party developers than on its own services, giving Apple's own advertising ecosystem an unfair competitive advantage. Ann Pope stated that Apple's policies "have caused very significant harm to businesses that rely on Apple as a gatekeeper."Since its launch, the ATT feature has been a focal point of concern for global regulators for several years. Apple's official stance is that the feature is designed to allow users to control whether to permit apps to track their activities across other companies and websites.However, the plaintiffs argue that the actual enforcement of this rule has a double standard—tracking requests from third-party apps require strict pop-up authorization, while Apple's own personalized ads and services can bypass the same restrictions. This lawsuit represents the latest legal challenge Apple faces regarding its ATT policy and is the first large-scale private antitrust lawsuit initiated in the UK market against Apple's app ecosystem rules following scrutiny from regulators in the EU, the US, and several other countries.

Predict.fun posted on platform X that it has launched the Predict Developer Dashboard, a self-service portal for creating applications, generating keys, and managing usage and rate limits. Through this interface, users can manually request higher usage-based tiers and import existing keys.Predict.fun has also implemented "trade burst" limits to restrict the number of calls for creating and canceling orders per second. New applications have this limit enabled by default, while existing applications will have this limit applied the next time the user requests rate limits.

Luke Dashjr, who has been engaged in Bitcoin development for a long time, has exited the mining pool Ocean, resigning from his positions as Chairman, Chief Technology Officer, and Director. The parent company Mummolin has repurchased all of his shares. Both parties stated that this separation was mutually agreed upon, stemming from differences regarding the future direction of Bitcoin mining and recent developments in agreements.Dashjr is a co-founder of Ocean and will establish a new mining project called Convoy after his departure. Ocean stated that it will continue to operate its transparent, non-custodial mining pool, directly paying mining rewards to participating miners.This departure occurred after he took a few weeks off due to the failure of the BIP-110 proposal. BIP-110 is a controversial proposal aimed at limiting the storage of non-financial data on Bitcoin.

GoPlus Security issued a security alert stating that a fraud gang has hijacked the realtrumpcoins[.]com website and the @realtrumpcoins1 account, maliciously issuing GOLD tokens. The gang inflated its market value to approximately $60 million before selling off and executing a Rug Pull, profiting over $8.2 million.On-chain data shows that the developers' initial funds trace back to a KuCoin-associated hot wallet, with another 15 trading wallets funded by Binance-associated hot wallets. These wallets all conducted transactions through the same malicious routing contract.GoPlus Security also pointed out that the gang deployed another malicious meme coin, Trump Digital Platinum (PLATINUM), whose contract can empty any holder's balance at any time, warning users to avoid purchasing and to be aware of the risks.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, realtrumpcoins (@realtrumpcoins1) has launched a token called GOLD, which is followed by @realDonaldTrump. The developers hold 600 million GOLD, and 15 newly created wallets spent $18,700 to purchase 224.5 million GOLD. The team currently controls 82.45% of the total supply of GOLD.

Ethereum developer nixo.eth revealed on the X platform that Ethereum core developers have decided to change the status of the account abstraction proposal EIP-8141 from "under consideration" to "scheduled," confirming that account abstraction will be promoted as a key feature of the Hegotá upgrade.This EIP was proposed in March as a flagship upgrade, and community consensus suggests that even though there are still controversies regarding the specific implementation, account abstraction should be launched in Hegotá. In recent weeks, another proposal, EIP-8130, has emerged as a competitor, planning to be deployed on Base in September, sparking discussions about avoiding a split in account abstraction standards between L1 and L2. The authors of both EIPs and core developers are working hard to reach a unified solution without delaying the upgrade. The status change means that this feature has officially entered the planning for the Hegotá upgrade, but the specific specifications may undergo significant changes, and it is common for implementation plans to change before the official launch.

According to CoinDesk, Ethereum researchers have proposed rebuilding the validator deposit contract to support a new cryptographic system and ultimately stop accepting deposits protected by the existing BLS signatures. This proposal targets the deposit contract, aiming to add a switch that prevents the network from accepting the currently relied-upon signature format.Currently, the contract only accepts BLS keys because their exact size is hardcoded, while the new draft allows for different key sizes, with each deposit tagged by the cryptographic system used, where BLS receives a tag of zero, reserving space for future schemes.If the proposal is approved, it will initially operate with BLS deposits, while other schemes can be registered simultaneously. Future decisions may permanently disable new BLS deposits, at which point validators who have staked using BLS keys will not disappear, but new validators will not be able to join using this method. Ethereum will ultimately need to change separately to inform validators how to check new signatures. This is part of the migration for validators, while another part is already in progress—EIP-8141 framework transaction proposals will allow regular Ethereum accounts to change the cryptographic method for approving transactions without changing their address.The urgency stems from research released in March by Google's Quantum AI research department, which outlined five quantum attack paths against Ethereum, putting over $100 billion in assets at potential risk. The Ethereum Foundation is advancing core protocol changes with a target around 2029. Currently, the amount of ETH staked in Ethereum is approximately 42.4 million, valued at about $10.4 billion.

According to The Block, the rescheduling date for Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm has been postponed to April 26, 2027, because the motion for his release on bail is still under review.Previously, U.S. prosecutors had pushed for the rescheduling to take place in October 2026. Tornado Cash is a mixing protocol in the Ethereum ecosystem, and Roman Storm, as one of the core developers, has faced judicial proceedings due to related charges. This schedule adjustment is directly related to the progress of his motion hearing.

NVIDIA is in deep negotiations to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a developer of power infrastructure for data centers. Cloverleaf primarily secures stable power supplies and land with power supply conditions for large data center projects, with a current project reserve scale exceeding 10 gigawatts. This potential deal will further expand NVIDIA's layout in the artificial intelligence infrastructure field to ensure the data center capacity needed for its chips in the future.Previously, NVIDIA has also invested in power developers such as Lancium and SB Energy, a subsidiary of SoftBank.

According to GoPlus monitoring, the VSCode extension Solidity Pro has been poisoned, and historical versions have malicious capabilities such as data theft and remote execution.It is recommended that developers immediately check the relevant extensions they have installed and increase their vigilance towards third-party plugins.

Solana developer Brennan Watt announced on the X platform that the Solana mainnet has activated the first slot time reduction, with the target decreasing from the current 400 milliseconds to 350 milliseconds, which will officially take effect in the 1020th Epoch.Watt pointed out that some SDK constants (such as DEFAULT_MS_PER_SLOT) have not yet been updated to the new values and will be pushed in subsequent versions. The transition period may affect applications that rely on SDK constants matching the mainnet reality, and developers are advised to manually determine whether the functionality is enabled based on Epoch boundaries when it takes effect. Watt explained that the long-term plan is to put these parameters on-chain for client queries, but currently, to launch the reduction feature as soon as possible, this transition period must be endured.