Visa, Mastercard, and Ant International join forces: AI Agent payments to require "identity credentials"

On-chain activity has plummeted today, but the Solana ecosystem remains the only hot spot on chain. According to GMGN market data, multiple meme coins paired with altcoin liquidity pools have stayed strong today. Among them: BATON, launched 7 hours ago, has seen its trading volume exceed $2,750. Its market cap briefly surged to $10 million before pulling back, and is now trading at $4.94 million. The token derives its name from an early pump.fun project and its parent company, with its liquidity pair being PUMP, the native token of the pump.fun platform. LEVERCAT is currently valued at $5 million, with a 24-hour gain of 277%. Its liquidity pool is paired with xSOL, a leveraged SOL token from Hylo. BlockBeats reminds users that most meme coins have no practical use cases, are highly volatile, and investors should exercise caution.

Four.Meme announced on X that BNC4 Daily Buyback has completed its first repurchase and burn operation, with a total of 10,169,329 4Stock tokens repurchased and destroyed from the market, valued at approximately $355,900. The repurchase funds came from all product revenues generated by BNC4 on September 8 and 9, including 115,057 USDT, 11,652 BNC4 LP fees, and 33,930 BNC4 Bonding Curve transaction fees. Additionally, Four.Meme stated that rankings will be reset daily moving forward, and 100% of BNC4’s daily product revenue will be used to repurchase the top-ranked eligible BNC4-paired community meme token each day, which will then be fully burned.

According to an official announcement, Upbit will list the REZ/USDT trading pair, with trading scheduled to open at 3 PM local time on September 10.

Beating AI Express (Dongcha) reports that DeepSeek has adjusted the shutdown schedule for its V4 Pro AI model. Yesterday, the company had announced that once V4.1 Flash launched, all V4 Pro requests would be automatically switched to the new model. The latest update now sets V4 Pro’s shutdown for September 14 at 12:00, with all requests transferred to V4.1 Flash at that time and billed at Flash’s rate. The earlier automatic replacement plan drew opposition from many developers, who worried that their carefully tuned prompts, agents, and production workflows built around V4 Pro would malfunction due to the backend model switch. Some developers suggested DeepSeek retain the old model for a period, allowing users to decide their own migration timing. DeepSeek did not clarify whether the adjustment was related to this feedback. However, compared to the original plan of switching immediately upon launch, the new schedule gives existing V4 Pro users at least several days for migration and testing.

Legendary trader Paul Tudor Jones published a provocative thesis in The Wall Street Journal today, claiming that artificial intelligence (AI) could become the third superpower alongside the U.S. and China. In response to recent warnings from employees at several major U.S. AI companies that rapid AI development threatens human society, Jones argues this threat is real and requires coordinated action from the world’s major powers. He stresses that the U.S. and China must commit to setting timelines to control AI development and proliferation in a safe, controllable, and understandable manner. “If an AI model repeatedly rewrites itself thousands of times, what is the chance it will make a single error, leading it to pursue a goal inconsistent with its intended target, thereby causing harm or even catastrophic consequences to humans? Now multiply that risk by tens of thousands of users,” Jones wrote. He notes that a new superpower—AI—is about to enter the global arena. It is unpredictable, endless, and could far outpace the scale of existing powers, whether individually or collectively. He calls on leaders of existing major powers to make AI safety their top priority for the remainder of their terms in office.

According to monitoring by Farside Investors, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs logged a net outflow of $120 million yesterday. Specifically, IBIT saw a net outflow of $19.5 million, ARKB $78 million, and GBTC $27.2 million. Separately, U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs posted a net inflow of $34.7 million yesterday, with ETHA and ETHB attracting inflows of $9.7 million and $22.9 million respectively.