DeepSeek even counts compensatory work days (make-up work for leave) as a low point, and its API remains half-priced today.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin responded in a post to Paradigm CTO Georgios Konstantopoulos’ question—“What room is there left for privacy going forward?”—stating that privacy only truly dies when one gives up on it. “I will not give up on privacy; instead, I will double down on it,” he added. Earlier reports noted that Vitalik updated Ethereum’s roadmap in August, with quantum security, privacy protection, and native Rollups identified as future priorities.

At the 2026 World Manufacturing Conference, Changxin Technology announced the official mass production of its fifth-generation technology platform. The company stated that it has achieved a 11.95-nanometer half-pitch for the active area of its memory array, a 45:1 aspect ratio for memory capacitors, and reduced the height of the core active region to 6762 nanometers. Meanwhile, the fifth-generation process platform has seen a significant improvement in storage density: under equivalent conditions, the yield per wafer has increased by more than 50% compared to the previous generation platform. The 24GB LPDDR5X products built on this platform have entered formal mass production and are now fully adopted in domestic mainstream flagship smartphones. (The Paper)

According to official announcements, Genius.fun has launched the "Genius Alpha" exclusive tag to provide projects with higher visibility. Projects that receive this tag will get a dedicated category and prominent placement on the platform, helping the community improve recognition amid the large number of tokens launched daily. Genius.fun noted that its launchpad has lowered the barrier to token issuance, but it has also made it harder for genuinely dedicated teams to distinguish themselves from projects seeking quick cash-outs. Genius Alpha uses a straightforward differentiation signal: project teams pay $300 to gain additional exposure. The platform also emphasized that the payment only represents the project team’s investment and does not guarantee the project’s quality. Genius Alpha is part of its roadmap, and the platform will later provide more tools to support project launches, organizational operations, and the advancement of business goals. The platform believes that making tokens easy to create is just the first step; helping the community use tokens to achieve longer-term goals will be the focus of its next phase.

According to The Wall Street Journal, prediction market platform Polymarket mishandled stolen debit card fraud issues amid the rapid expansion of its U.S. business. In February this year, the company processing debit card transactions for Polymarket’s U.S. platform discovered a large number of fraudsters binding stolen debit cards to accounts, attempting to place bets and withdraw funds to their own controlled accounts, with the total fraud amount reaching at least $10 million. At its peak, over 80% of deposits were deemed fraudulent, far exceeding the industry standard of roughly 1%.

According to TradingBeats monitoring, the ENA long position held by a whale address starting with 0xeadc has been ongoing for roughly 228 days. As of 10:34 Beijing Time, the address still holds approximately 10.0265 million ENA long positions, with an average entry price of $0.110537, position value of around $2.0849 million, and unrealized profit of about $976,600. ENA has risen around 88.12% from its entry cost. The position uses 10x full leverage, generating a return of roughly 881.18%. It currently holds a total of 41 long positions, with a total notional value of approximately $69.8481 million, and an overall contract leverage of about 4.65x. ENA accounts for only around 2.98% of its total contract exposure, but its unrealized profit ranks third among all current positions, trailing only NEAR’s ~$1.3695 million and AAVE’s ~$1.0225 million. It is reported that this address is an ETH OG who entered the crypto market in 2017, once holding nearly $90 million worth of ETH, all transferred to Hyperliquid. Previously, it held the largest HYPE long position on the platform.

According to Blockworks data, on-chain transaction activity on the Solana network reached a record high of 5.218 billion transactions in August.