Lily Liu responds to the Solana Shanghai event: Overwhelming sign-ups have led to excess attendance, so the event will be postponed to make adequate preparations.

OKX’s global managing partner and chief marketing officer Haider Rafique announced in a post that he will step down from his role and take a temporary break to focus on family and personal matters after nearly seven years at the crypto exchange. Insiders revealed Rafique plans to depart by the end of 2026. He joined OKX in March 2020, led the platform’s brand upgrade, and was involved in facilitating Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) $200 million strategic investment in OKX earlier this March.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, an address generated $10.1 billion in trading volume on the launch day of perpetual contract trading platform Papertrade, posting a $979,000 loss and receiving 252 million PAPER tokens. The address subsequently halted trading, staked the 252 million PAPER tokens to earn $1.73 million worth of USDC rewards, and has now netted a $762,000 profit.

Beating AI Express (Insight) – U.S. AI firm PrismML has rolled out three new models for its Bonsai 2 family: 2B, 4B, and 9B, all based on Alibaba’s Qwen3.5. The team restricted the language model’s core weights to only three values: -1, 0, and +1, cutting the model sizes to 0.43GB, 0.95GB, and 2GB respectively – roughly one-ninth the size of original 16-bit weight models. The new models retain support for inference, image understanding, and tool calling, and are primarily designed for local agents on devices like smartphones and personal computers. PrismML states that on the iPhone 18 Pro Max, the 9B model generates up to 34 tokens per second, while the 2B model hits 120 tokens per second. Official tests show the 9B model’s programming and instruction-following capabilities are nearly on par with the same-scale original Qwen3.5, though it lags significantly on complex tasks. In Tau2Bench, which assesses multi-turn dialogue and tool operations, Bonsai 2 9B scores 73.02, compared to the original model’s 85.25; its complex document parsing score is 73.8, versus 88.73 for the original. All three models have released their weights under the Apache 2.0 license.

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Upbit official announcement: Due to BitMEX terminating access to the travel rule solution VerifyVASP, Upbit will suspend digital asset deposits and withdrawals of 1 million KRW or more between the two exchanges starting October 16. Deposits under 1 million KRW will remain supported as normal. Manual deposits of 1 million KRW or more from BitMEX to Upbit will be discontinued from 14:00 on December 18. Any such assets received after that will enter a refund process, and users must retrieve them in accordance with the refund procedure.

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