Watch.fun Completes $8.6M Funding Round, Led by Crypto.com Capital and Solana Ventures

Beating AI News Flash: OpenAI Codex lead Tibo has announced that Codex is back to normal operation. All paid users of Codex and ChatGPT affected by the brief outage will have their usage limits reset. Separately, Reuters reported that OpenAI is still investigating the scope of abnormal activities of its AI agents. Insiders said that after continuously reviewing internal logs, the number of issues found by OpenAI continues to rise, and the full investigation is expected to take months. OpenAI stated that its AI agents recently leaked 53 ChatGPT user images, notified dozens of relevant third parties, and also accessed public information from government websites including the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Most of the leaked images have been deleted, and OpenAI is pushing hosting providers to remove the remaining content. As of mid-September, OpenAI has identified approximately 24 abnormal AI agent incidents and other unauthorized activities, according to insiders; some of these incidents were discovered by external researchers, not by OpenAI’s own monitoring.

According to a Wall Street Journal report, U.S. officials said President Donald Trump has rejected Iran’s proposed seven-day ceasefire plan, telling aides he expects to resume bombing Iran after the November midterm elections. Tehran’s proposal offered that Iran would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and resume nuclear talks if the U.S. lifted its blockade on Iranian ports. But officials revealed privately Trump is skeptical whether Iran will meet his demands, telling his staff he believes a new round of bombing operations is likely. It remains unclear what scale of airstrikes Trump is considering. The officials noted he is reluctant to relaunch large-scale military operations, in part because the U.S. wants to conserve its dwindling ammunition stockpiles for other contingencies. A U.S. official said Washington and Tehran are still negotiating via intermediaries, including on nuclear issues. The official added that the U.S.-led effort to ensure oil tankers can pass through the Strait of Hormuz despite Iranian threats has reduced the urgency of reaching a deal. Sources familiar with the matter disclosed that the U.S. has informed Iran and mediators that Trump has no intention of lifting the maritime embargo. The U.S. believes economic pressure will ultimately force Tehran to sign an agreement favorable to Washington and Arab countries along the Persian Gulf.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that Ethereum nodes can now complete synchronization in half a day, and with aggressive configurations, disk usage can be reduced to under 0.5 TB, mainly thanks to EIP-4444 and client teams’ ongoing optimizations to snapshot sync. The upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade will further improve node synchronization, and Nimbus’ new sync protocol has already adopted related mechanisms. Vitalik also noted that users can point their wallet’s Remote Procedure Call (RPC) to a local node, but they must properly configure the node’s RPC functionality; some in-browser decentralized applications may not effectively support local RPC, while others have hardcoded RPC to their own servers. The Kohaku command-line tool will next further integrate privacy protocols, with partial early development already completed.

Over the past 30 days, tokenized stocks on the Base blockchain have generated approximately $1.3 billion in spot decentralized exchange (DEX) trading volume, a 153.8% increase compared to the prior 30-day period. Of this total, tokenized stocks issued by Coinbase accounted for roughly $1.2 billion, representing the vast majority, while st0x-related assets saw trading volume of around $90 million.

Cosmos Labs released a disclosure stating that on September 22, Neutron suffered a governance attack, resulting in the theft of liquidity from protocols including Astroport. Approximately 1.73 million ATOM were subsequently transferred by the attacker to the Cosmos Hub. The Cosmos Hub itself was not targeted in the attack, and user funds remained unharmed. To block the stolen ATOM from being further moved, Hub validators temporarily paused the network for roughly 24.5 hours, resuming block production on September 23 using the patched Gaia v28.3.0. Cosmos Labs added that during the pause, 1.227 million ATOM stayed in the attacker’s Hub address. Upon network recovery, these funds were transferred in a single operation to a 4/6 multi-sig address made up of Nansen, Keplr, Enigma, Silknodes, Kiln, and Polkachu. Earlier, around 500,000 ATOM had been swapped for ETH via THORChain and cannot be recovered. An additional 169,000 ATOM entered the attacker’s address via a THORChain refund after the network came back online, and were later transferred to Osmosis and sold. The multi-sig address currently holds approximately 1.227 million ATOM, which can only be returned following authorization via a Cosmos Hub governance proposal. The funds will not be staked, lent, or traded. The Neutron team is expected to submit a recovery plan and related governance proposal next week.

Crypto news outlet Market Insider reported that Hunter Biden-associated token LAPTOP has seen its market capitalization drop below $25 million, a 99.9% plunge from its launch, and estimated the project team reaped eight-figure profits. Hunter Biden, son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, responded that he had previously called the token launch "terrible", adding that relevant accounts are under review. He noted that the project team’s wallet has not sold any LAPTOP tokens to date, questioned the claim that the team cashed out an eight-figure sum, and demanded the person who made the estimate disclose the relevant wallet address.