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Согласно отчету CryptoSlate, сеть Ethereum Layer 2 Silicon объявила о прекращении приема новых мостовых депозитов и запуске процесса закрытия с 2 сентября. Пользователи должны вывести все активы до 31 декабря, после чего сеть и блокчейн-обозреватель будут отключены, а оставшиеся активы не смогут быть восстановлены.На блокчейне все еще имеется около 9,75 миллиона долларов активов, включая USDC (2,66 миллиона долларов), WBTC (2,54 миллиона долларов), ETH (2,08 миллиона долларов) и USDT (1,85 миллиона долларов). Активы, мостовые с основной сети Ethereum, могут быть выведены напрямую в течение окна, но токены, выпущенные непосредственно на Silicon, не могут быть напрямую переведены через мост, и могут быть обменены только за счет оставшейся ликвидности на блокчейне, что может стать все более сложным по мере продвижения процесса закрытия. Веб3-кошелек Silicon также будет отключен.

Согласно сообщению Bloomberg, физическая AI компания Lyte объявила о завершении раунда финансирования C на сумму 165 миллионов долларов, который возглавил Maverick Silicon, а также в котором приняли участие Fidelity Management & Research, Atreides Management, Key1 Capital и Ora Global, после чего оценка компании достигла 1.6 миллиарда долларов.Lyte была основана в 2021 году бывшими инженерами Apple и PrimeSense и сосредоточена на предоставлении полного стека технологий восприятия для роботов, включая кастомизированные чипы, многомодальные сенсоры и пространственное программное обеспечение. На сегодняшний день общая сумма привлеченных компанией средств достигла 272 миллионов долларов.Эти средства будут использованы для расширения производства чипов восприятия и платформы LyteVision, а также для продвижения возможностей AI восприятия и коммерческого развертывания роботов.

Сообщение ChainCatcher, компания по инфраструктуре данных на рынке GPU Silicon Data объявила о завершении первого раунда финансирования в размере 30,5 миллиона долларов, который возглавил фонд Valor Atreides AI, а также в котором участвуют CME Ventures, DRW, Samsung Next, VanEck, Jump Trading, Wintermute и другие. Эти средства будут использованы для бенчмаркинга GPU, измерения производительности, институциональных и альтернативных данных, а также для инфраструктуры рыночных рисков производных финансовых инструментов, страхования и кредитования.В настоящее время Silicon Data собирает данные с примерно 100 платформ аренды GPU из более чем 40 стран мира, обрабатывая более 150 000 проверенных ценовых записей ежедневно. CME Group планирует использовать бенчмарк Silicon Data в качестве справочной цены для предлагаемых фьючерсов на GPU с денежным расчетом, ожидая одобрения регуляторов.

Сообщение от ChainCatcher, согласно рыночным данным, группа Чикагской товарной биржи и Silicon Data запустят фьючерсы на вычислительную мощность 5 октября.

According to Axios, Silicon Valley venture capital firm Playground Global has completed fundraising of $475 million for a new fund, which will focus on investing in startups in the fields of artificial intelligence, automation, advanced computing, and deep tech.Playground Global was founded by Android co-founder Andy Rubin and others, and has long focused on AI infrastructure, robotics, and hardware innovation. This new fund indicates that, driven by the surge in generative AI and automation, capital continues to pour into the frontier technology sector.Playground Global is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and previously completed fundraising of $410 million for its third fund in 2022. Its investment portfolio includes companies such as Agility Robotics, PsiQuantum, Skydio, Ultima Genomics, Virta Health, and Unconventional AI.

According to market news, Silicon Valley's Chuan sold 233,296 $HYPE at an average price of $41.46, totaling $9.67 million $USDC, with a profit of over $1.18 million. He currently still holds 8,529 $HYPE (worth about $349,000).

A leading polysilicon company in Xinjiang was fined and had illegal gains confiscated by regulatory authorities for supplying power to virtual currency mining activities, with a total amount exceeding 100 million yuan.The background of the relevant rectification shows that local authorities are intensifying regulation of virtual currency mining, requiring comprehensive inspections and strictly prohibiting companies from illegally transferring power in any form. Currently, Xinjiang has clearly classified virtual currency mining as an industry to be eliminated, and related law enforcement actions are ongoing.

According to market news, the U.S. Department of Justice has issued a statement indicating that three Silicon Valley engineers, including Samaneh Ghandali, have been charged with stealing sensitive mobile processor and encryption file secrets from Google and two other companies.According to the indictment, while employed at Google, Samaneh Ghandali allegedly transferred hundreds of files to a third-party communication platform. These stolen materials involved processor security and encryption technology, which were subsequently copied to personal devices and office equipment of other companies where the defendants were employed. Prosecutors allege that the defendants attempted to cover up their actions by deleting files, destroying electronic records, and submitting false affidavits to the victim companies. Currently, all three defendants are charged with conspiracy, theft of trade secrets, and obstruction of justice, with the obstruction of justice charge carrying a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

AIUSD announced the launch of "Agentic AI Money Infrastructure," a system that unifies asset management across multiple chains, exchanges, and types of stablecoins, allowing users to perform cross-chain scheduling, trading, and yield management with AI agents through natural language.According to reports, AIUSD's core trading and yield algorithm has achieved an annualized trading volume of $1 trillion over the past two and a half years, with zero monthly drawdown. Currently, the company behind this product, Generative Alpha, has completed nearly eight-figure pre-seed funding, with investors including several well-known Silicon Valley VCs, as well as members from a16z, Sequoia's Scout Fund, and Tesla's FSD AI team. The team stated that this infrastructure aims to provide a natively callable "smart capital layer" for AI agents, enabling cross-chain interoperability, unified balances, automated strategy execution, and idle yield management, while supporting derivatives trading, asset routing, and high-speed cross-platform scheduling.The founding team of AIUSD consists of former DeepMind researchers, hedge fund quantitative researchers, and other professionals, with engineering team members coming from top quantitative institutions, Binance, Bloomberg, and autonomous driving AI teams. The company stated that the AI-native monetary infrastructure will become the foundational capability for future autonomous AI financial systems.

1confirmation founder Nick Tomaino posted on the X platform, stating that Silicon Valley venture capital firms have been trying to dominate the entire cryptocurrency industry, and to some extent, they have succeeded. However, most venture capital firms failed between 2021 and 2023 because they invested a lot of money into zero-sum game projects that, while attracting retail investors' attention, provided no benefit to the world.Today, Silicon Valley venture capitalists are running out of steam, as evidenced by their overwhelming promotion and shoddy products. Bitcoin and Ethereum have never received investments from Silicon Valley venture capital, yet they have a total value of over $2.5 trillion and dominate the cryptocurrency market.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has granted "preliminary conditional approval" to Erebor Bank, which is backed by venture capitalist Peter Thiel, with plans to serve the cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence sectors.The OCC approved the application on Wednesday. Comptroller Jonathan Gould stated that Erebor Bank is the "first newly chartered bank to receive preliminary conditional approval" since he took office in July of this year.Erebor Bank aims to fill the market gap left by the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank in 2023. According to the Financial Times, the bank was founded in 2025 by Silicon Valley figures Palmer Luckey and Joe Lonsdale, and is supported by Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and Haun Ventures.According to the application documents, Erebor Bank will operate as a national bank, providing both traditional banking services and cryptocurrency-related products and services. The Financial Times cited anonymous sources stating that despite the close ties between Luckey, Lonsdale, and Peter Thiel with President Trump, the bank's application did not receive "special treatment."

ChainCatcher news: Kite AI product head Yusuke Muraoka, PIN AI co-founder Ben Wu, Virtuals Protocol growth and community head Christoper Johnson, and Momentum BD Wesley jointly attended the Silicon Valley 101 x RootData annual summit held in Silicon Valley on October 5. They participated in a roundtable discussion titled "AI+Crypto: Building the Future of the Digital Economy," where they delved into hot topics such as the integrated value of AI+Crypto, the future of decentralized AI, and killer applications.Virtuals Protocol growth and community head Christoper Johnson believes that the successful integration of AI and Crypto lies in simple applications that solve specific pain points. He is optimistic about the business model of autonomous collaborative agents and considers decentralization to be key to resisting monopolies by giants.PIN AI co-founder Ben Wu advocates that the future should allow users to fully control their personal AI. By building data wallets, he aims to break the data silos of centralized platforms, enabling personal AI to act as a "coordinator" that orchestrates various specialized AIs.Kite AI product head Yusuke Muraoka believes that the next generation of the economy will be driven by AI agents. The urgent task is to establish a secure and controllable payment infrastructure that enables trustworthy micro-payments between agents through verifiable authorization proofs.Momentum BD Wesley stated that the core of the next wave of digital assets lies in bringing trillion-dollar traditional assets (such as stocks) onto the blockchain, while the current main obstacle is the mismatch between slow regulation and rapid technological innovation.

ChainCatcher news, Alumni Ventures venture capitalist Bryan Liu, Turnkey Solutions engineering head Michael Lewellen, Crossmint BD business head Nick Wang, and Camp Network CTO Rahul Doraiswami jointly attended the Silicon Valley 101 x RootData Annual Summit held in Silicon Valley on October 5. They engaged in an in-depth discussion on hot topics such as the integration path of AI + Crypto and current challenges during a roundtable titled "Crypto: Next Big Thing."Alumni Ventures venture capitalist Bryan Liu stated that AI and blockchain are perfect complements: AI is efficient but uncontrollable, while blockchain is trustworthy but slow. The combination allows AI to accelerate blockchain, and blockchain to serve as a trust layer for AI. He is particularly optimistic about blockchain as the payment and trust infrastructure for the future AI agent economy.Crossmint BD business head Nick Wang focused on making crypto technology a payment channel for AI agents. His project is building the relevant infrastructure, with the current main challenges being the insufficient acceptance of stablecoins by merchants and the need to establish new security and accountability standards for agent transactions.Turnkey Solutions engineering head Michael Lewellen mentioned the security issues brought about by the integration of AI + Crypto, emphasizing the need to set strict permission limits for AI agents handling funds. He also foresees that the combination of "identity and payment" on-chain will give rise to disruptive use cases such as automatic real-time tax reporting and promote government adoption.Camp Network CTO Rahul Doraiswami is dedicated to leveraging the immutability of blockchain to provide IP provenance and trust computation in the AI field. He believes that enhancing user experience and adopting more advanced cryptographic technologies are key to driving development.

ChainCatcher news, the AI + Crypto themed annual summit co-hosted by Silicon Valley 101 and RootData is about to grandly open in Silicon Valley. The "Valley 101 Alignment 2025 Tech Summit" and "DeInsight 2025" forums will officially kick off at 9:00 AM and 2:00 PM (GMT-7) on October 5th, respectively. Global industry elites will gather in Silicon Valley to deeply discuss the integration and innovation of AI and Crypto technologies.The summit features a strong lineup of guests, including Jian Tao, Research Director at NVIDIA and Distinguished Scientist, Mu Li, Co-founder of BosonAI and former Chief Scientist at Amazon, Orion Parrott, Partner at Orange DAO, Sean Liu, Partner at Founders Fund, Salman Avestimehr, Co-founder of ChainOpera AI, and Ben Wu, Co-founder of PIN AI, among many top experts and opinion leaders in the fields of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency who have confirmed their attendance and will share cutting-edge insights and industry perspectives on-site.It is reported that the summit will set up two major forums: "Valley 101 Alignment 2025 Tech Summit" and "DeInsight 2025". Blockchain media ChainCatcher, the proxy crypto browser Donut, and the AI + Web3 investment accelerator AI101Labs will jointly host the "DeInsight 2025" forum.This summit aims to deeply explore the integration and innovation of the two cutting-edge technologies, AI and Crypto, gathering top professionals from the global crypto asset and artificial intelligence fields, providing participants with valuable opportunities to connect with international cutting-edge resources and integrate into the global innovation ecosystem.

ChainCatcher news, RootData co-founder Hunter He confirmed attendance at the annual summit hosted by Silicon Valley 101 x RootData on October 5 (GMT-7). RootData is a Web3 asset data platform that pioneers the encapsulation of on-chain and off-chain data for Web3 assets, with higher data structuring and readability, aiming to become a trusted data layer for the Web3 ecosystem.It is reported that the summit will feature two major forums: "Valley 101 Alignment 2025 Tech Summit" and "DeInsight 2025". Blockchain media ChainCatcher, the proxy crypto browser Donut, and the Al+Web3 investment accelerator AI101Labs will jointly host the "DeInsight 2025" forum.This summit aims to deeply explore the integration and innovation of the two cutting-edge technologies, AI and Crypto, bringing together top professionals from the global crypto asset and artificial intelligence fields, providing participants with valuable opportunities to connect with international cutting-edge resources and integrate into the global innovation ecosystem.

ChainCatcher news, RootData Chief Product Manager Ye Wang has confirmed attendance at the annual summit hosted by Silicon Valley 101 x RootData on October 5 (GMT-7). RootData is a Web3 asset data platform that pioneers the encapsulation of on-chain and off-chain data for Web3 assets, with higher data structuring and readability, aiming to become a trusted data layer for the Web3 ecosystem.It is reported that the summit will feature two major forums: "Valley 101 Alignment 2025 Tech Summit" and "DeInsight 2025." Blockchain media ChainCatcher, the proxy crypto browser Donut, and the Al+Web3 investment accelerator AI101Labs will jointly host the "DeInsight 2025" forum.This summit aims to deeply explore the integration and innovation of the two cutting-edge technologies, AI and Crypto, gathering top professionals from the global crypto asset and artificial intelligence fields, providing participants with valuable opportunities to connect with international cutting-edge resources and integrate into the global innovation ecosystem.

ChainCatcher news, Wesley, a member of the business development team at Momentum, has confirmed his attendance at the annual summit hosted by Silicon Valley 101 x RootData on October 5 (GMT-7). Momentum is an on-chain financial operating system designed for a tokenized future, unlocking composable markets that cover native crypto assets, cross-chain assets, and tokenized RWAs, reshaping the flow of capital and promoting the deep integration of decentralized finance with real-world value.It is reported that the summit will feature two major forums: "Valley 101 Alignment 2025 Tech Summit" and "DeInsight 2025." The blockchain media ChainCatcher, the proxy crypto browser Donut, and the AI + Web3 investment accelerator AI101Labs will jointly host the "DeInsight 2025" forum.This summit aims to deeply explore the integration and innovation of the two cutting-edge technologies, AI and Crypto, bringing together top professionals from the global crypto asset and artificial intelligence fields, providing participants with valuable opportunities to connect with international cutting-edge resources and integrate into the global innovation ecosystem.