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David Robinson, an executive from OpenAI's safety systems team, left last week. Robinson was previously responsible for OpenAI's policy planning and played a significant role in enhancing model transparency, including the development of system cards.This departure marks another personnel change in OpenAI's safety department, as safety lead Johannes Heidecke also left earlier this year. The company announced on Thursday that it parted ways with three researchers for violating sensitive information sharing policies.Amid the backdrop of security vulnerabilities at Hugging Face and a series of abnormal behaviors in AI models, CEO Sam Altman stated at the developer conference on Tuesday that safety and alignment work must stay ahead of the development of model capabilities. Before his departure, Robinson publicly expressed concerns, believing that while OpenAI is undergoing significant changes, there remains uncertainty about whether the pace of transformation is sufficient to address the challenges posed by high-performance AI models.

European Central Bank Executive Board member Isabel Schnabel stated that central bank money must be on-chain; otherwise, the tokenized market will increasingly rely on private or foreign currency settlement assets.CoinDesk cited her viewpoint, stating that in the absence of on-chain central bank money, the settlement of the tokenized market will shift more towards privately issued assets or foreign currency-denominated assets. Schnabel believes that bringing central bank money on-chain helps maintain the settlement anchor role of public money in a tokenized environment.

The artificial intelligence infrastructure company Nscale has hired a senior executive from Meta Platforms as Chief Operating Officer, aiming to prepare for an IPO.

According to The Block, Lloyds Bank's tenth annual financial institution sentiment survey shows that 71% of senior executives at large financial institutions in the UK expect tokenization to reshape the financial services industry.The survey indicates that faster payment and settlement speeds are the most frequently mentioned advantages of tokenization by respondents, followed by collateral and liquidity management.

According to official news, TRON has officially released the GreatVoyage-v4.8.2.3 (Anaxagoras) version.The new version focuses on improving the smart contract storage access mechanism, enhancing the performance of BN128 pairing operations, and optimizing the parsing process of JSON data generated by nodes, further enhancing node operational efficiency and stability.This version is a mandatory upgrade, and TRON reminds node operators to complete the update as soon as possible to avoid affecting block synchronization. After the upgrade is completed, relevant nodes can promptly report their deployment status so that the community can continuously track the overall network upgrade progress.For specific version changes, GPG signature verification, and deployment methods, please refer to the official version release notes and upgrade deployment documentation.

According to the market information platform Liquid24/7.xyz, the Hyperliquid address 0xecb63c...2b00 currently holds a short position of 19,139.01 ETH, with a nominal value of approximately 52.1481 million USD.At the time of writing, ETH is quoted at 2,724.70 USD. The average opening price for the short position at this address is approximately 2,699.59 USD, and the current unrealized loss on this position is about 480,500 USD.

According to The Block, Robinhood's Senior Vice President of Cryptocurrency, Johann Kerbrat, stated during the 2026 Korea Blockchain Week that the company is still advancing work related to the "innovation exemption" with the U.S. SEC to support its tokenized stock business.Kerbrat mentioned that as the scale of stock token trading grows, its trading volume may reach the relevant limits set by the SEC.

HIVE Digital Technologies Executive Chairman Frank Holmes stated in an interview with Bitcoin Magazine that governments around the world will continue to print money, potentially reaching 100 trillion dollars, which makes him optimistic about Bitcoin and gold. He pointed out that Bitcoin miners already possess the electricity, land, and substations required for AI, and referred to Bitcoin mining as a "tier one data center."Holmes introduced that HIVE had previously used GPUs for mining Ethereum to enter the AI field, and he believes the next wave of AI factories will be built on mining infrastructure from Paraguay to Canada. He also discussed how ETFs can transform Bitcoin from "fear trading" to "love trading," as well as how players and the younger quantitative trading community are driving Bitcoin adoption.Additionally, he mentioned Binance's 19 billion dollar liquidation and 350 trillion dollars in money supply, 40 trillion dollars printed during the COVID-19 pandemic, global MMT risks, Bitcoin mining in China with 1.4 trillion dollars in loans, central banks purchasing gold, the Central Bank of Paraguay and Bitcoin mining exports, and computing power as a commodity, along with Canada's AI advancements and the electricity advantages of Bitcoin miners.

SpaceX executed the 13th long-term mission of the Dragon spacecraft, sending four astronauts to the International Space Station for a NASA mission.

According to a report by the Financial Associated Press citing local media on September 29, Samsung Electronics Executive Vice President Kim Taewoo stated that HBM is expected to account for nearly 30% of the total wafer capacity of DRAM manufacturers next year, up from the current ratio of about 20%. He mentioned that HBM competes with traditional DRAM for the same batch of wafer capacity, and increasing HBM output may squeeze the supply of traditional DRAM.TrendForce previously predicted that by the end of 2027, the HBM wafer input from the three major global HBM suppliers will account for about 30% of the total DRAM wafer input, but in terms of storage capacity, it will only contribute about 13% of the total DRAM supply. Additionally, according to media reports on September 20, Samsung began mass production and shipment of HBM4 in February this year and provided 12-layer HBM4E samples to customers including NVIDIA in May; the industry expects Samsung's monthly wafer input for HBM to increase from about 180,000 wafers this year to about 250,000 wafers next year.On the same day, TrendForce stated that the demand for AI servers continues, and HBM and general DRAM will still share limited advanced process capacity. The storage supply will remain tight in 2027, and the price expectations for HBM in 2027 have been raised, with an expected year-on-year increase of 121% in the mixed average selling price. Due to limited supply and rising system costs, 8-layer HBM is expected to become a priority evaluation option for several manufacturers in 2027, with its price per Gb expected to be about 10% to 20% higher than that of 12-layer products.

U.S. President Trump stated that he will sign a strong executive order regarding artificial intelligence, renaming artificial intelligence (AI) to "superintelligence" (SI), and will never suppress the growth of artificial intelligence.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Bitwise's André Dragosch stated that the fair value of Bitcoin is $197,000. He also provided a rule of thumb for assessing the risk of 10-year U.S. Treasury yield: when the yield rises by 80 basis points within 20 trading days, the market will enter a danger zone.Dragosch pointed out that the speed of the yield increase is more important than its absolute level. He believes that once the stock market experiences a correction, it may force the Federal Reserve to shift to an easing policy, and this shift could become the last domino before Bitcoin truly enters a bull market.

According to Axios, U.S. President Trump, House Speaker Johnson, and CEOs of technology companies will hold a meeting on artificial intelligence on September 29.

According to The Block, the Solana Foundation announced the appointment of Rachel Conlan as Chief Strategy Officer and Jamal Raees as General Manager of Payment Business to expand institutional adoption and payment operations. Conlan previously worked at Binance for three years and held senior management positions at companies such as OKX; Raees comes from Polygon Labs and will be responsible for collaborating with payment companies, enterprises, and ecosystem partners to promote Solana as a global payment infrastructure.The Solana Foundation stated that this year, Solana's stablecoin trading volume has exceeded $50 trillion, the on-chain real-world assets (RWA) scale has surpassed $4.5 billion, and the supply of tokenized stocks has exceeded $620 million.

According to Zhitong Finance, on September 23, the President of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Eddie Yue, stated in a speech at the Treasury Markets Summit that Hong Kong's stock, currency, and bond markets have matured, and digital finance is rapidly emerging.The Centralized Debt Instruments Settlement System (CMU) will launch new services by the end of this year, providing on-chain 24-hour real-time settlement, supporting digital Hong Kong dollars and central bank digital currencies (CBDC), and will also explore the acceptance of tokenized deposits and regulated stablecoins for settlement on the platform.

Frank Heemskerk, Executive Vice President of the Dutch lithography machine company ASML, stated that the company currently does not sell any chip manufacturing equipment on the European continent. He said, "We are not selling anything in Europe at all. This is because there has been no investment in Europe, and there are no new chip factories being built here."Data shows that in the second quarter of this year, Europe's contribution to ASML's net system sales was zero, and by 2025, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa will account for 1%. In the first half of the year, South Korea was the company's largest market for equipment. Heemskerk stated that other countries are rolling out the red carpet to invite investment in factory construction, and currently about a quarter of ASML's R&D work is conducted in the United States.The European Union is reforming the "Chip Act," which will take effect in 2023. In May of this year, ASML signed an agreement with Tata Electronics of India to assist India in building semiconductor factories.

AI Agent Onchain Operating System (AI Agent Onchain OS) X-Agent has released its latest white paper, which introduces its product architecture, MCP ecosystem, business model, and application scenarios of $XAGT.The white paper points out that the next stage of the AI industry is not just about generating text, images, or code, but about enabling Agents to understand user intentions, invoke tools, execute tasks, and complete transactions. Centered around the concept of "Speak to Build, Share to Connect," X-Agent allows users to create AI Agents with context, memory, skills, API, and wallet connection capabilities through natural language, without the need to write code.In terms of business model, X-Agent aims to establish a complete link for Agent creation, MCP capability access, distribution, payment, and monetization. Developers can package APIs, data, and professional services as MCP capabilities and earn income through per-call, subscription, or transaction commission.The $XAGT token is planned to be used for computing fees in secure operating environments, LLM and API calls, Agent transaction settlements, MCP service payments, Premium Agent template purchases, and developer deployments. In the future, it will also expand to scenarios such as service staking, multi-Agent settlements, and ecological governance.According to the project team, X-Agent currently has over 1 million registered users, has completed more than 1.1 million autonomous tasks, and the consumption of LLM Tokens has exceeded 84 billion. In the future, the project will also promote Super-Agent, enterprise sandbox, decentralized Agent Store, and multi-Agent collaboration systems.Through this white paper, X-Agent hopes to further clarify its long-term direction: to enable anyone to create Agents through language, allowing Agents to truly possess the capabilities for execution, distribution, payment, and continuous commercialization.

IcoBeast.eth, the head of Kalshi's cryptocurrency business, posted a statement addressing external concerns regarding Kalshi's cryptocurrency prediction market trading volume fraud and self-clearing members (SCM) of perpetual contracts. He stated that the Artemis chart shows the proportion of prediction market trading volume, not the trading volume of perpetual contracts; Kalshi will not provide rebates for the cryptocurrency prediction market, and the calculation method for the number of contracts and notional amounts in the prediction market is consistent with other prediction markets, thus making it comparable.Regarding the claim that "SCM is a market maker selected by Kalshi," he stated that this is not true. Any institution that meets regulatory requirements can become a self-clearing member of a CFTC-regulated exchange, and "fair access" is also one of the regulatory requirements. He also mentioned that all exchanges improve liquidity through rebates and incentive programs, including CME, Hyperliquid, and Binance. As for Kalshi's perpetual contract business, he acknowledged that it is still in the early stages but stated that unlike offshore perpetual contract trading platforms, Kalshi needs to publicly disclose incentive programs, so the relevant incentive arrangements can be publicly viewed.

On Friday, asset management company VanEck released a report on the compensation of executives at the top ten digital asset treasury companies, rating the compensation structure of the Japanese Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet as "poor," making it the only company to fall into the lowest rating. The report shows that Metaplanet's equity plan corresponds to 14.7% of fully diluted shares, with executive risk exposure at 8.2%, which is ten times the average level of 0.8% for the other nine companies, and the scale of the equity plan is also nearly four times the industry average.In comparison, the largest corporate Bitcoin holder, Strategy, has an equity plan that accounts for only 2% of fully diluted shares, with executive risk exposure at 0.5%, and its compensation structure rated as "good." Metaplanet currently ranks third among publicly listed companies in Bitcoin holdings with 43,000 BTC. VanEck pointed out that the gap partly stems from Metaplanet's previous compensation mechanism: the option pool automatically expanded when the company issued shares to purchase Bitcoin, causing it to swell from 46 million shares to 319.5 million shares, adding approximately 273 million potential shares, which drew criticism from shareholders at the time.Metaplanet terminated the automatic adjustment mechanism at the end of August and reduced the option pool by 41% to 188.2 million shares in September, but VanEck believes these adjustments are still "far from satisfactory," calling for the retraction of the expansion of approximately 273 million shares in favor of a shareholder-approved compensation plan, while also suggesting that executive compensation be linked to the number of Bitcoins corresponding to each fully diluted share and adopting a written grant timing policy.