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According to informed sources, Dark Side of the Moon has completed its final round of private financing, with a valuation of approximately 50 billion USD, and is advancing towards an initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong in the first quarter of next year.Sources say that the company has also begun preparations to understand investor intentions, with preliminary talks with investors potentially starting as early as this month. Informed sources indicate that discussions are still ongoing, and the timing of the IPO may also change.

Moonrock Capital's CEO and partner Simon Dedic posted on X, specifically criticizing the NFT market Blur and the Layer 2 network Blast founder Pacman. He stated that he cannot understand the choices made by founders like Pacman, as they have already established market positions through protocols like Blur and Blast, gaining support from top investors and significant attention.Simon Dedic mentioned that Pacman did not utilize the aforementioned conditions to create larger, more sustainable products for the long term, but instead chose to extract value and profit quickly in the short term. He noted that such situations are not uncommon, and therefore, more emphasis should be placed on honest builders who refuse to take the path of least resistance; if such individuals are found, they should be continuously supported.

According to BBX data, yesterday global publicly listed companies in the US stock market and well-known Web3 infrastructure providers disclosed the latest developments on expansion in the Asia-Pacific hub, institutional collaborations, and brand strategy restructuring. The core information is as follows:MoonPay established a subsidiary in South Korea as the Asia-Pacific hub, partnering with KakaoBank, Woori Bank, and KB Financial Group: Global cryptocurrency payment infrastructure giant MoonPay officially announced the establishment of a wholly-owned subsidiary in South Korea, planning to make it a comprehensive expansion center for the group in the Asia-Pacific region. At the same time, MoonPay has reached deep strategic cooperation with South Korea's three major mainstream financial institutions—KakaoBank, Woori Bank, and KB Financial Group. The scope of cooperation includes cross-border payment clearing, localization distribution of the Korean won stablecoin, digital wallet technology integration, and the establishment of compliant cryptocurrency fiat withdrawal and recharge channels, aiming to build a high-speed network for the flow of funds between South Korea and the global Web3.CEA Industries officially renamed to "BNB Standard," Nasdaq trading code changed to "BNC": Nasdaq-listed company CEA Industries, focusing on BNB reserve strategies, announced the completion of its brand transformation and strategic renaming, with the company name officially changed to BNB Standard. After the renaming, the company's common stock will continue to be traded on the Nasdaq Capital Market, and the securities trading code will be officially changed to "BNC." This renaming aims to directly highlight its strategic positioning of using BNB as a core treasury asset and promoting decentralized ecological investment.

Cryptocurrency payment company MoonPay announced the establishment of MoonPay Korea and is collaborating with South Korea's digital bank KakaoBank, commercial bank Woori Bank, and KB Financial Group to expand stablecoin payments and digital asset services in South Korea. MoonPay Korea will be responsible for local service development and will serve as the company's base for expansion in Asia. MoonPay's Asia-Pacific head Bugeon Lee stated that the stablecoin backed by the Korean won is expected to expand the coverage of South Korean financial institutions and provide new cross-border transaction methods for businesses, as the company hopes to build relevant infrastructure in South Korea with banking partners.The collaboration with KakaoBank focuses on blockchain-based overseas remittances, cross-border payments, and multi-currency stablecoin services. The two parties plan to initially conduct a proof of concept aimed at international students, testing the complete process of initiating transfers from South Korea, transferring via stablecoin, and converting to US dollars for deposit into a US bank account. The collaboration also covers the issuance and distribution of won-pegged stablecoins, payment settlements, as well as trading, custody, and conversion of stablecoins denominated in won, US dollars, yen, and others, with access to MoonPay's global distribution and payment network supported by assets and regions.MoonPay will collaborate with Woori Bank to provide global distribution for future won-pegged stablecoins and validate the cross-border payment settlement model for local businesses based on stablecoins. The partnership with KB Financial Group will explore card payments, global remittances, wallet custody, and stablecoin usage for individuals, institutions, and foreigners in South Korea. Founded in 2019, MoonPay claims to serve over 30 million customers in approximately 180 countries and supports more than 1,700 business clients.

Bitget has officially opened BTC withdrawal services today at 16:00 (UTC+8). Bitget CEO Gracy shared the latest progress on the recovery during a community live stream: currently, the BTC withdrawal channel is running smoothly, and the first batch of applications has been processed and credited.According to real-time data disclosed during the live stream, as of 16:50 (UTC+8), the platform has processed approximately 7,683 BTC withdrawal applications, with a total amount processed of about 3,609 BTC, and there are no order backlogs. Among them, the first batch of about 6,946 withdrawal applications has received blockchain confirmation, and the related applications are still being processed in an orderly manner.According to the previously announced timeline, the ETH-related network will open for withdrawals on September 29 at 16:00 (UTC+8), and the USDT-related network will open for withdrawals on September 30 at 16:00 (UTC+8); withdrawals for other tokens, fiat, and C2C services will gradually resume starting from October 2 at 16:00 (UTC+8).

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin announced today that the original novel "Snowmoon" has been completed, consisting of 32 chapters.The novel unfolds in a speculative science fiction setting, depicting a world that heavily relies on cryptography and decentralized governance. The story focuses on the ideological conflicts between societies such as Veridia and the Arctic Empire, involving elements like zero-knowledge proofs, second voting, privacy technologies, and content-oriented tax mechanisms, integrating themes of mechanism design and digital sovereignty that have long been of interest to Vitalik.The work is released under the GPL v3 license. Vitalik stated that adaptations into films, animations, and other derivative works are allowed, but requires the related production pipeline (including AI prompts, scripts, and other non-generic materials) to be open-sourced. He declared that all text was written by him, with AI assistance only used for spelling and grammar checks, consistency verification, and webpage formatting, and noted "Snowmoon was written with love."

On the 24th, the Tianyancha App showed that Kimi, an artificial intelligence company, has undergone a business change recently. The registered capital of its parent company, Beijing Dark Side of the Moon Technology Co., Ltd., has increased from 2.2385 million yuan to 11.5753 million yuan, an increase of 417.09%.The Tianyancha App indicated that Dark Side of the Moon was established in April 2023, with Yang Zhilin as the legal representative. It is currently jointly held by Yang Zhilin, Shenzhen Harmonious Growth Phase III Technology Development Equity Investment Fund Partnership (Limited Partnership), Zhou Xinyu, and others. The above information comes from a report by China News Network.

According to The Information, citing informed sources, China's National Internet Information Office has launched an investigation into AI companies DeepSeek and Moonshot AI, triggered by Anthropic's allegations that the two companies secretly routed sensitive user data to their servers. Reports indicate that regulators visited the offices of both companies, interviewing executives and employees, focusing on whether sensitive data related to law enforcement, military, and state-owned enterprises has flowed into U.S. servers.The trigger for this investigation was Anthropic's fourth threat intelligence report released on September 10. This 154-page document accuses seven Chinese labs—Alibaba, Moonshot AI, DeepSeek, Z.ai, MiniMax, SenseTime, and Xiaomi—of engaging in what it calls "illegal distillation," which involves using the outputs of large models to train smaller models. Anthropic states that distillation itself is a legitimate practice, but it opposes its implementation through fraudulent accounts. The National Internet Information Office initially summoned all seven companies named in the report, but later narrowed the investigation to DeepSeek and Moonshot AI. Anthropic claims that Moonshot AI routed over 23 million interactions to Claude through 5,380 fraudulent accounts, while DeepSeek generated over 12.1 million interactions within a 14-day window in July.The timing of the investigation is quite delicate for both companies.

According to Fortune, MoonPay announced the acquisition of North Capital Investment Technology, a brokerage service company based in Utah, USA, which provides custody, secondary market trading, and asset tokenization services for debt, equity, and other assets.MoonPay did not disclose the transaction amount, but sources familiar with the matter revealed that the deal is an all-stock transaction valued at over $60 million. North Capital holds several licenses related to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including broker-dealer, alternative trading system (ATS), transfer agent, and investment advisor licenses. MoonPay plans to leverage this to expand its tokenization business for stocks and more.

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, stated that he is working to restore smooth oil transportation in the Strait of Hormuz.

From September 22 to September 28, five major projects under TRON ECO—SUN, JUST, WINkLink, BitTorrent, and AINFT—launched the "Moonlight Tarot: Reveal Your Exclusive Identity" Mid-Autumn Festival themed event. Users can choose the tarot identity card that best fits them, tag the corresponding project, and include a reason that combines the characteristics of that project's products. At the same time, tag three friends and include the topic #TRONECOMoonTarot to participate.The event sets up 25 popularity awards for tarot (TRON ECO exclusive peripheral gift packages) and 10 lucky tarot signs (TRON ECO doormats), totaling 35 gifts. As the moon is full, the card array is open, and five identities await to be claimed—whether you are the "Trader" who excels in efficient trading, the "Alchemist" skilled in asset operations, the "Insightful" one connecting on-chain and off-chain, the "Communicator" enthusiastic about spreading information, or the "Architect" building AI Agents, you can find your role in this Mid-Autumn Tarot journey.Bring the topic and reveal your identity card, and celebrate a Mid-Autumn Festival with TRON ECO that is filled with cards, gifts, and surprises.

The Binance Futures platform will launch the MOONSHOTUSDT U-based Pre-IPO perpetual contract on September 22 at 16:30, with a maximum leverage of up to 20 times. This contract supports 24/7 trading and is settled in USDT.

Financial technology company MoonPay will collaborate with asset management company WisdomTree to expand access for U.S. investors to the WisdomTree Treasury Money Market Digital Fund (WTGXX). WisdomTree will leverage MoonPay's technology to develop an entry point for the fund, covering over 35 million accounts on MoonPay.MoonPay plans to incorporate the tokenized money market fund WTGXX, which has an approximate management scale of $1.2 billion, into its stablecoin reserve management system. WTGXX aims to maintain a net asset value of $1 per share, and MoonPay will launch its enterprise-focused stablecoin business in November 2025. WisdomTree manages approximately $176.7 billion in assets, and the collaboration may expand to other tokenized funds in markets outside the U.S. WTGXX has seen a net inflow of $466 million over the past 30 days.

FastLane co-founder Alex Watts announced that the team is building Moose, a product that serves as an on-chain aggregator, which is currently in public testing on Monad. Moose is described as the first on-chain aggregator and is currently the only router aimed at addressing the malicious quote manipulation issues from prop AMM and v4 hooks in TradFi and DeFi.Its tech stack is inverted, with quotes being instant and private, not passing through servers, TEE, RFQ, or simulation in the hot path, and routing decisions made using on-chain real-time status after the trade is included. Moose provides improvements in execution, speed, spot margin safety, and privacy by co-locating with various DEXs within the same transaction. Gas on Monad is higher but below one cent, and the upcoming threshold encrypted memory pool will offer end-to-end privacy.

Binance founder CZ commented on the smooth shutdown of the cryptocurrency CEX CoinEx, stating that at least during this winter's recent gradual closures of CEXs, users were able to withdraw their assets, which stands in stark contrast to the QuadrigaCX style from the previous cycle.CoinEx announced its shutdown after nine years of operation, with the withdrawal window open until December 22.

According to Taiwan's "Commercial Times" report on September 14, as the computing power of GPUs and ASICs continues to rise, traditional copper interconnects are gradually approaching the limits of power consumption and signal transmission. TSMC is accelerating its layout for co-packaged optics (CPO). The industry is optimistic that if CPO bandwidth continues to double every two years, it may form the "CPO Moore's Law" of the AI era. Industry analysis indicates that the upgrade of CPO bandwidth mainly has three paths: including increasing single-channel speed from 200G to over 400G, expanding the number of optical channels from 16 to 32, 64 or more, and introducing wavelength division multiplexing (WDM). By 2040, the theoretical value could reach about 128 times the current level, with long-term potential for development towards hundreds of T based on the current level of about 3.2T.TSMC's role in optical interconnects has extended from wafer foundry to system integration, gradually integrating computing, HBM memory, and high-speed I/O from 3DFabric, CoWoS, SoIC to silicon photonics and CPO. When high-speed electrical signals exceed 200G, signal attenuation increases after passing through longer copper paths such as ABF substrates, PCBs, and connectors, leading the industry to develop shorter copper paths and longer optical paths. In terms of packaging architecture, the optical engine is currently laid out on the substrate, and the next step is expected to place CPO in the intermediary layer, with future possibilities of using SoIC technology to achieve 3D vertical integration of photonic integrated circuits (PIC) and ASICs. Industry players indicate that CPO still needs to overcome challenges in packaging, optical coupling, and testing before mass production can be achieved.

According to CryptoSlate, the voting in the Zcash community regarding the NU7 network upgrade will close on September 14. The core issue is to replace the periodic halving with a smooth issuance curve, and another issue is whether to shorten the block interval from 75 seconds to 25 seconds.This proposal does not change the total supply cap of ZEC, only adjusts the pace of new coin release; the vote is advisory in nature, and even if passed, development and deployment still need to be completed. ZEC recently reached a new high since 2018, currently priced at $1,093.21, ranking 10th by market capitalization.

After meeting with Irish President Catherine Connolly in Dublin, when asked about the new concerns regarding Saudi Arabia and whether he could help with the traffic passage in the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. President Trump stated, "Everything will be resolved smoothly."

Chinese artificial intelligence company Moonshot AI aims to increase its annualized revenue to $2 billion by the end of this year, intensifying competition against rivals like Anthropic and Z.AI with breakthroughs from the Kimi K3 model.Insiders say the company recently informed investors that its annual recurring revenue exceeded $1 billion in August, up from $300 million in June. This leap was driven by the large-scale Kimi K3 model released in July, which ranked highly in performance benchmarks and is significantly cheaper than major competitors in the United States.

According to Cointelegraph, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has partnered with financial platform Moov to provide stablecoin infrastructure for over 1,000 community banks and credit unions within Moov's customer base. The two parties will combine Coinbase's regulated digital asset infrastructure with Moov's payment platform to offer stablecoin payment acceptance, settlement, and real-time funding services.This infrastructure will support use cases such as consumer stablecoin payments, merchant settlements, and payments, and will provide businesses and merchants access to Coinbase's custodial accounts. U.S. community banks typically have total assets of less than $10 billion, including state-chartered institutions and savings and loan holding companies.This collaboration comes as major U.S. banks are experimenting with stablecoin infrastructure. On Wednesday, U.S. Bank, the fifth-largest commercial bank in the U.S., completed a real-time cross-border payment using its proprietary stablecoin USBDC on the Stellar blockchain. Earlier this month, 21 financial institutions, including Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and UBS, announced plans to form a company to issue stablecoins. Additionally, Western Union also partnered with stablecoin infrastructure provider Rain in August to launch a digital wallet and Visa-branded card.