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Applied Compute, which builds dedicated intelligent companies for enterprises, has completed a $80 million financing round, reaching a post-money valuation of $1.3 billion. Kleiner Perkins led the investment, with participation from Elad Gil, Lux Capital, Greenoaks, NEO, Hana Bicapital, among others, bringing the total financing to $160 million.Applied Compute's mission is to bridge the gap between "smart" and "useful" through "Specific Intelligence." These proprietary intelligent agents are trained based on the real operational conditions of the company and are designed for continuous self-evolution. They help enterprises unlock their institutional context, train agents for specific workflows and performance standards, and deploy them to the production front line.

Axe Compute, a Nasdaq-listed company (NASDAQ: AGPU) built on the Aethir decentralized GPU network, released its FY2025 annual report, becoming the first publicly traded company to disclose its decentralized computing power business progress to institutional investors in the form of annual performance.The report shows that the total amount of contracts executed in the past 30 days is approximately $12 million, with estimated monthly revenue of $835,000 for Q2 and over 20 enterprise clients. After the report was released, AGPU saw a maximum single-day increase of +152%, with a trading volume exceeding 900 times the 20-day average, totaling over $300 million in daily trading volume. All enterprise computing power deployments were delivered by the Aethir network, covering 94 countries, over 200 nodes, and more than 435,000 GPU containers, with a cumulative delivery of over 1.8 billion computing power hours.

Google's research shows that future quantum computers may only need 9 minutes to crack Bitcoin private keys, which is 1 minute shorter than the average block time of 10 minutes for BTC.The study warns that memory pool attacks could become a real threat and urges an immediate transition to post-quantum cryptography.

Users on the X platform discovered a feature switch named enable_grok_computer in the source code of the Grok web page, speculating that xAI is preparing to launch a computer control intelligent agent "Grok Computer," which is equivalent to the "trial version" of the previously announced Macrohard project. In response, Musk confirmed in a post sharing related content that it is "coming out soon."Macrohard is an AI automation system jointly developed by Tesla and xAI, using Grok as a high-level reasoning engine, paired with an AI agent to process screen images and mouse and keyboard operations in real-time. Previously, reports indicated that data collection work for this project was paused last month.

UPBIT will open trading for Internet Computer (ICP) on March 11, 2025, at 17:00, supporting KRW, BTC, and USDT trading pairs. Users are advised that the deposit service for ICP will be available 1 hour and 30 minutes after the announcement is made.

According to Cointelegraph, PsiQuantum has launched the construction of a fault-tolerant quantum computing facility in Chicago, aiming for 1 million quantum bits, using a photonic quantum computing approach that leverages mature semiconductor, fiber optic, and cooling technologies for scalability. The construction is progressing rapidly, with 500 tons of steel structure erected in just a few days. The first phase is expected to be partially completed around 2027, with the ultimate goal of becoming operational around 2028.The facility's computing power is equivalent to hundreds of billions of traditional computers, primarily serving the next generation of AI supercomputing. The crypto community is currently focused on its potential ability to crack Bitcoin. PsiQuantum co-founder Terry Rudolph has explicitly stated that there is no intention to use quantum computing to attack Bitcoin, and the company's scale makes it impossible to conduct such activities secretly. Recently, discussions about quantum threats have intensified, and the Bitcoin community is already discussing a hard fork as a response. Currently, the world's largest quantum computer has only 6,100 qubits, far from reaching the practical threshold, posing limited short-term threats to Bitcoin.

The DFINITY Foundation stated on platform X, "The economic model of the Internet Computer is changing: the old model rewarded node providers simply for running nodes. The new model allocates 80% of cloud engine revenue to nodes that provide computational support, with 20% used to burn ICP.Currently, the Node Provider Association has begun preparations to promote cloud engine services to businesses across Europe."

Vitalik Buterin posted on the X platform that Ethereum has increased the gas limit and the number of blobs in 2025, improved the quality of node software, and achieved a performance milestone with zkEVM.Ethereum is moving towards becoming a new and more powerful blockchain through zkEVM and PeerDAS. The challenge Ethereum faces is to achieve its established goal of building a world computer, serving as the core infrastructure for a freer and more open internet. Ethereum is developing decentralized applications that are immune to fraud, censorship, or third-party interference, and have the stability to operate even after developers disappear. To achieve this goal, Ethereum needs to realize large-scale usability and true decentralization at both the blockchain layer and the application layer.

According to Chainwire, Orion Compute, founded by early Bitcoin investor Nick Rose, has announced its entry into large-scale Bitcoin mining and artificial intelligence data center infrastructure construction, initially focusing on developing markets with abundant low-cost energy.Orion Compute stated that as global AI data center investments accelerate, North America and Western Europe are facing rising electricity costs, grid congestion, and power supply risks. The company plans to significantly reduce electricity costs and ensure continuous power supply by deploying computing infrastructure in energy-rich, underutilized areas. In the short term, Orion Compute will prioritize projects in West Texas, USA, and will expand to developing economies once regulatory and infrastructure conditions are mature.In terms of specific strategy, the company adopts a phased deployment model, initially using cost-effective AI hardware (such as Nvidia A100 GPUs) to lower capital expenditures and improve energy and operational systems; subsequently, it will upgrade to H100-level GPUs when conditions are favorable.At the same time, Orion Compute is building dual-purpose infrastructure that supports both AI computing and Bitcoin mining, and is introducing ultra-low-cost, flexible energy solutions through collaboration with Terra Solis.

Predictive Oncology announced its official name change to Axe Compute and will trade on NASDAQ under the ticker symbol AGPU. Axe Compute will operate as an enterprise-level operator, commercializing Aethir's decentralized GPU network to provide enterprise-grade computing power services with guaranteed capabilities for AI companies.According to official information, Axe Compute's enterprise computing power business plan will be supported by the Aethir Strategic Compute Reserve, aimed at meeting enterprise clients' needs for GPU reservations, dedicated clusters, bare-metal performance, multi-region deployment, and SLA contracts. Aethir has currently deployed over 435,000 GPU containers in more than 200 regions across 93 countries, supporting mainstream high-end computing hardware including NVIDIA H100, H200, B200, and B300.The listing of Axe Compute is seen as the first time decentralized GPU infrastructure has entered the mainstream enterprise market in the form of a publicly traded company in the U.S. The official statement indicates that Axe Compute will serve as the front-end delivery and contract entity for enterprises, while Aethir will continue as the underlying decentralized computing power infrastructure, introducing an enterprise-level computing power delivery model that complies with U.S. public company governance and compliance frameworks. With the official launch of the new brand and ticker symbol, the company expects to demonstrate the scalability of its infrastructure model in the future and further expand its enterprise client needs.

According to DL News, Blockstream researchers Mikhail Kudinov and Jonas Nick proposed in a revised paper published on December 5 that hash-based signature technology could be a key solution to protect the $1.8 trillion Bitcoin blockchain from the threat of quantum computers.The researchers believe that hash-based signatures are a compelling post-quantum solution because their security relies entirely on mechanisms similar to the hash function assumptions already present in Bitcoin's design. This scheme has undergone extensive cryptanalysis during the post-quantum standardization process at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), enhancing the credibility of its robustness.It is estimated that older Pay-To-Public-Key Bitcoin wallets created before 2012 (including Satoshi Nakamoto's holdings worth $98 billion) contain about $600 billion in Bitcoin, and these wallets will be the first to face the threat of quantum computers.

According to DL News, Blockstream researchers Mikhail Kudinov and Jonas Nick proposed in a published revised paper that hash-based signature technology could be the key solution to protect the $1.8 trillion Bitcoin blockchain from the threat of quantum computers.The researchers believe that hash-based signatures are a compelling post-quantum solution because their security relies entirely on mechanisms similar to the hash function assumptions already present in Bitcoin's design. This scheme has undergone extensive cryptanalysis during the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) post-quantum standardization process, enhancing the credibility of its robustness. It is estimated that older Pay-To-Public-Key Bitcoin wallets created before 2012 (including Satoshi Nakamoto's holdings worth $98 billion) contain about $600 billion in Bitcoin, which will be the first to face the threat of quantum computers.

According to a post by Slow Fog's Yu Xian (@evilcos), user Babur has encountered a theft incident involving $27 million worth of crypto assets.Analysis shows that the stolen assets mainly involve two addresses: the Solana address 91xu and the Ethereum Safe multi-signature address 0xD2, with the two largest stolen assets totaling over $18 million. The hacker addresses are 71fM (Solana) and 0x4f (Ethereum), and some funds have been cross-chain transferred to the Ethereum network.According to Yu Xian's analysis, this incident is suspected to be caused by computer infection, where the user's private keys were leaked after double-clicking to run a malicious file, including the two signature private keys of the Safe multi-signature, which may have been stored on the infected computer.

Slow Fog's cosine posted on platform X, stating that user Babur encountered a theft incident involving $27 million worth of cryptocurrency assets. According to analysis, the stolen assets mainly involve two addresses: Solana address 91xu and Ethereum Safe multi-signature address 0xD2, with the two largest stolen assets totaling over $18 million.The hacker addresses are 71fM (Solana) and 0x4f (Ethereum), with some funds already cross-chain to the Ethereum network. This incident is suspected to have been caused by a poisoned computer, where the user double-clicked to run a malicious file, leading to the leakage of private keys, including two signing private keys of the Safe multi-signature that may have been stored on the infected computer.

According to a report by Caijing Magazine, the main suspect in the laundering case involving 60,000 BTC, Qian Zhimin, escaped with a laptop that has a built-in cryptocurrency wallet. After several searches by the British police, multiple electronic devices, including phones, computers, and USB drives, were seized. One of the USB drives contained photos of pages from Qian Zhimin's notebook, while the relevant pages of the notebook were suspected to have been torn out before the police confiscated them.The photos of the pages recorded the startup password for the black computer and several mnemonic phrases, such as "number + love," and also included hints for the numbers, which made it possible to recover the previously seized bitcoins.

According to The Defiant, the satellite technology-based blockchain verification layer SpaceComputer has completed a $10 million seed round financing. This round was co-led by Maven11 and Lattice, with participation from Superscrypt, the Arbitrum Foundation, Nascent, Offchain Labs, Hashkey, and Chorus One. Individual investors include Marc Weinstein, Jason Yanowitz, and Ameen Soleimani.The funds will be used to build and launch the first batch of satellites and their onboard secure computing hardware. These satellite units, named SpaceTEE, will operate secure blockchain and cryptographic tasks from space, and develop network software, satellite coordination systems, as well as provide private computing and secure record services.

The National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center released a technical traceability analysis report on the LuBian mining pool being hacked and a large amount of Bitcoin being stolen, which pointed out that: a major hacking incident occurred at the LuBian mining pool, with a total of 127,272.06953176 Bitcoins (valued at approximately $3.5 billion at the time, now worth $15 billion) stolen by the attackers. The holder of this large amount of Bitcoin is Chen Zhi, chairman of the Cambodian Prince Group.After the hacking incident, the Bitcoins stored in the wallet address controlled by the attackers remained dormant for 4 years, almost untouched, which clearly does not align with the typical behavior of hackers eager to cash out for profit, but rather resembles a precise operation orchestrated by a "national-level hacker organization." It was not until June 2024 that the stolen Bitcoins were transferred to a new Bitcoin wallet address, and they have remained untouched since. On October 14, 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice announced criminal charges against Chen Zhi and stated that 127,000 Bitcoins belonging to Chen Zhi and his Prince Group would be confiscated.Various pieces of evidence indicate that the large amount of Bitcoin confiscated from Chen Zhi and his Prince Group by the U.S. government was indeed the Bitcoin from the LuBian mining pool that had been stolen by hackers using technical means as early as 2020.In other words, the U.S. government may have already seized the 127,000 Bitcoins held by Chen Zhi through hacking techniques as early as 2020, making this a typical "black eat black" incident orchestrated by a national-level hacker organization. The impact of the LuBian mining pool hacking incident in 2020 was profound, leading to the actual dissolution of the mining pool, with losses amounting to over 90% of its total assets at the time, while the current value of the stolen Bitcoins has risen to $15 billion, highlighting the amplified risks of price volatility.