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YouTuber PewDiePie stated in his latest video that his account was banned twice by OpenAI while training the small local AI model Ajax. He mentioned that he originally hoped to distill reasoning tokens from OpenAI's flagship model GPT-5.6 Sol, released on July 9, and find a study that utilized OpenAI's own API to crack encrypted reasoning content. He claimed that he did not actually crack OpenAI but was still banned, and after appealing, his account was restored after some time.After the account was restored, he used Sol again to generate seed data and was subsequently banned for the second time. OpenAI's terms of service prohibit the development of competing models using its outputs. Ajax is a 9 billion parameter model built on Alibaba's open-source model Qwen 3.5, which will run in PewDiePie's free self-hosted AI application Odysseus launched in June, and it is not yet available for download.To prevent Ajax from being censored, he used the open-source tool Heretic to remove the model's built-in refusal mechanism, a technique known as abliteration. He stated that Ajax suffered a bit of brain damage as a result, but it has about a 90% success rate in tasks like organizing the inbox and browsing the web, and he continues to train it using the GRPO method. He mentioned that when choosing which refusal behaviors to remove, he draws the line at harming others or harming himself.

On October 3, TRON DeFi Summer announced that S3 will officially launch tomorrow (October 4) at 08:00 SGT, with a total prize pool of 2 million USD, including a TRX pool of 1 million USD, a USDD pool of 600,000 USD, a JST pool of 300,000 USD, and a SUN pool of 100,000 USD. The four major asset pools will simultaneously open a 60-day Boosted APR incentive.Users can enter JustLend DAO through Binance Wallet DeFi to participate. Users holding S2 positions do not need to take additional actions to automatically extend their S3 reward eligibility. New users can prepare assets in advance to seize the first day's earnings. With the S3 opening approaching, we sincerely invite both new and old users to join together and share in the 60 days of Boosted earnings.

Conway Research founder Sigil Wen announced the launch of Underdog, a private personal AI that can run on users' existing devices. Sigil Wen stated that Underdog has received support from a16z, Khosla Ventures, Hummingbird VC, Anthology (Anthropic and Menlo Ventures), as well as individuals and institutions in the AI field such as Patrick Collison, Naval, Guillermo Rauch, Noam Brown, Thomas Wolf, and Logan Kilpatrick.According to the announcement, Underdog's mission is to provide free, accessible, reliable, and private AI to billions of people. The team proposed Underdog's Law: that cutting-edge intelligence will reach users' devices within six months. The project will start with high-speed AI that can run on consumer-grade hardware, advancing capabilities, speed, power consumption, and data efficiency through collaborative design of models and reasoning engines.The announcement also stated that Underdog's research covers agent commerce, confidential reasoning, and how AI can reshape the internet economy, believing that privacy and capability no longer need to be mutually exclusive.

The GPU infrastructure financing platform Silicon Exchange has announced its launch, positioning itself as a financing method for artificial intelligence infrastructure. Users can hold real shares of GPU infrastructure, while the platform is responsible for deployment and hosting, and computing power clients use the related hardware.Silicon Exchange stated that users can visit its official website to view the first GPU vault. The official announcement has not disclosed the scale of the vault, hardware models, financing structure, or specific profit arrangements in this post.

The Solana token issuance platform Stonk has launched the "Community Coin." Holders of the Community Coin can now earn holder rewards from new Memes paired with it.Each Meme launched in community mode shares 33% of its holder rewards with eligible community holders, while the remaining 67% goes to the Meme's own holders. The first batch of Community Coins includes USELESS, PENGU, ZCAT, ANSEM, and NEET.

According to Gate market data, due to network revenue being unable to cover maintenance costs, the Layer 2 network Blast announced it will cease operations. Following this announcement, South Korea's two major cryptocurrency exchanges, Upbit and Bithumb, have placed BLAST on their trading watchlists. BLAST has cumulatively dropped over 40%, currently priced at $0.0002433, with a market capitalization of approximately $24 million.

The SpaceX team completed 3 Falcon rocket launches and 4 first-stage rocket landings in less than 13 hours, and docked the "Dragon" spacecraft with the International Space Station, completing SpaceX's 21st crewed space mission.

According to The Defiant, the asset tokenization protocol Centrifuge has confirmed that three tokenized funds JAAA, JTRSY, and HYB have been launched on Arc.These three funds cover U.S. Treasury and credit assets, and direct participation in fund investments is limited to non-U.S. professional investors.

The cryptocurrency trading platform OKX announced the launch of the QUANTUSDT global perpetual contract, and related trading is now open.OKX introduced that Quant Network builds a programmable currency infrastructure through Overledger and QuantNet to connect banks, blockchains, tokenized deposits, and traditional payment rails.

Layer 2 network Blast announced that it will cease operations due to the ongoing maintenance costs of the network exceeding the revenue generated by L2. The team believes there is no credible path to achieve economic sustainability.Blast advises all users to withdraw on-chain assets and balances in the Blast PWA to the Ethereum mainnet and plans to shorten the withdrawal waiting time to 24 hours. However, the team will first process the withdrawal of Lido assets held by Blast, which is expected to take about a week, during which the withdrawal function will be temporarily unavailable.Users can complete withdrawals through the regular Blast interface before October 26. After that, assets can still be withdrawn, but it will require direct interaction with the Blast Bridge contract on Ethereum L1. The team will announce specific operational instructions before the deadline.

Binance Chinese announced on platform X that it will release significant news.

NVIDIA launched the DGX SPARK 64GB configuration this month with major partners, supporting the operation of models with up to 100 billion parameters on the device.

According to the official announcement, Gate has launched the POD perpetual contract (settled in USDT), supporting 1-10 times leverage, and has simultaneously launched the POD trading bot and Order Tracking feature.POD (Dolphin) is a decentralized AI Inference / DePIN network, where users can utilize idle GPUs to provide inference computing power for Dolphin and other Open-weight AI Models.

According to a report by Businesswire, BNB Plus Corp. (OTCQB: BNBX) announced a strategic transformation, shifting from a digital asset treasury company focused on the BNB Chain ecosystem to an operational company providing open network infrastructure such as blockchain and Agentic AI for financial institutions and enterprises.In the future, the company will still participate in ecosystems like BNB Chain, with a strategic focus shifting from passive holding of digital assets to infrastructure, integration, and deployment services. BNB Plus, formerly known as Applied DNA Sciences, previously transitioned from a biotechnology business to a BNB treasury strategy, holding approximately 18,830 BNB as of July 30.

According to CoinDesk, Cboe is exploring the launch of perpetual futures linked to the VIX index, which is still in the early stages, with no contract specifications yet and no filing documents submitted. This news comes from Bloomberg.The VIX index measures the expected volatility over the next 30 days as reflected by the pricing of S&P 500 options. As investors buy options to hedge against sharp market declines, the demand for options during downturns surges, thereby raising the index, which is why it is regarded as Wall Street's "fear gauge." Perpetual futures were first proposed by economist Robert Shiller in 1993 and were subsequently commercialized by the cryptocurrency industry.A mature derivatives ecosystem has already formed around the VIX, covering futures, options, and exchange-traded products tracking the index. However, futures come with expiration dates, and when contracts terminate, traders must roll over their positions or shift their bets to the next available contract. This rolling operation is costly and erodes returns, which was a major criticism faced by Bitcoin futures ETFs when they debuted at the end of 2021.In contrast, perpetual swaps never settle and instead anchor contract prices to the spot index through a funding rate mechanism, theoretically providing investors with the closest investment channel to the actual VIX spot price. Martin Lee, Head of Market Insights at DWF Labs, told CoinDesk that traders do not need to worry about expiration and value decay, as they can focus solely on assessing the direction of the underlying asset. He expects a strong trend of "perpetualization" to emerge in the coming months.

THORChain announced that the ZEC liquidity pool is now live, and the network has completed a node rotation, with all nodes beginning to monitor the Zcash chain.THORChain stated that trading functionality will be the next step; currently, liquidity is shallow, and early traders should be aware of risks such as slippage. Previously, THORChain added native support for Zcash in the protocol upgrade, including UTXO handling, RPC logic, and ZEC price oracles, and continues to advance mainnet integration.

Bitget PoolX has launched a new locking activity, where users can lock XAUT, SOL, or XRP to participate in the distribution of 100,000 BGB airdrop.As of the time of writing, the yield rate for the SOL locking pool is reported at 47.12% APR, the yield rate for the XRP locking pool is reported at 38.39% APR, and the yield rate for the XAUT locking pool is reported at 23.88% APR.The locking channel is open from October 2 to October 9.

At 20:30 Beijing time tonight, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics will release the non-farm payroll report for September.Market consensus expects that 84,000 new jobs were added in September, the unemployment rate remains at 4.1%, and the average hourly wage year-on-year is 3.1%; the previous value for August was an increase of 162,000 jobs. The market is particularly focused on the extent of the decline in new jobs, wage growth, and whether the August data will be revised down.

UPBIT will launch Dolphin (POD) on October 2 at 16:00 and support KRW, BTC, and USDT trading pairs. Users should note that only deposits and withdrawals on the POD-Base network are supported.

According to the official announcement, Bithumb will launch the US Korean Won trading pair, with trading expected to open at 15:00 local time.