Today's News Highlights:
Foreign media: TSMC plans to stop supplying chips to AI companies associated with Bitmain.
Coinbase partners with NBA's Golden State Warriors, with its brand appearing prominently at the Chase Center and on limited edition team merchandise.
The deployment address of the BAN token may belong to a Sotheby's vice president, who has profited over $1 million through internal wallet transactions.
Magic Eden: The test token TestME will be released on October 29, running for 3 days.
UniSat: LP rewards on PizzaSwap will be launched on November 6.
Vitalik responds to the foundation not staking ETH: does not want to be forced to make an "official choice" during a hard fork, is considering providing partial subsidies.
Arkham: Hackers have returned $19.3 million to the U.S. government.
Regulatory News
Foreign media: TSMC plans to stop supplying chips to AI companies associated with Bitmain
According to The Information, the U.S. Department of Commerce launched an investigation into TSMC earlier this month to confirm whether it supplied chips to Huawei, after which TSMC stopped supplying chips to the AI company Sophgo, associated with Bitmain. According to two informed sources, TSMC has cut off chip supplies to the relevant companies. Since 2020, Huawei has been banned from purchasing chips made with U.S. technology, including those produced by TSMC. TSMC stated that it uses U.S. technology in its chip manufacturing process and will comply with U.S. laws.
Earlier reports indicated that semiconductor research firm TechInsights claimed that after disassembling Huawei's current high-end AI accelerator chip Ascend 910B, it found that this chip may have been manufactured by TSMC, which could mean TSMC violated U.S. export controls.
The AI company Sophgo, associated with Bitmain, stated in a press release that it has never had any direct or indirect business dealings with Huawei. Sophgo has provided TSMC with a detailed investigation report to prove that Sophgo is unrelated to the investigation involving Huawei.
Earlier news reported that The Information stated that the U.S. Department of Commerce launched an investigation into TSMC earlier this month to confirm whether it supplied chips to Huawei, after which TSMC stopped supplying chips to the AI company Sophgo associated with Bitmain.
According to the Criminal Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security, the illegal organization "China International Plum Blossom Association" implemented fraud under the guise of high pension returns. Zhejiang police arrested 212 suspects, including the mastermind and fraud gang members. Investigations revealed that since July 2022, suspect Guo recruited Cheng, Zhang, Meng, and others, forged official documents, established the illegal organization "China International Plum Blossom Association," fabricated the "Zhou Haiqing Elderly Pension" national asset unfreezing fraud project, and used social networking tools to recruit and form teams. They adopted a hierarchical management approach, lured participants nationwide with high pension returns, and collected fees under various names such as "membership fees," "venue fees," "document fees," and "personal income tax," using virtual currency to launder money and illegally profit. The case has confirmed that the involved funds exceed 58 million yuan. The case is still under further investigation.
On October 25, the Ministry of Public Security held a special press conference in Beijing to report on the effectiveness of the nationwide police action against national asset unfreezing fraud crimes. In February of this year, the Ministry of Public Security deployed nationwide police to carry out a special action against national asset unfreezing fraud crimes. So far, 574 related cases have been solved, 247 criminal gangs have been dismantled, 4,385 suspects have been arrested, and involved funds amount to 12.95 billion yuan.
AI
According to The Information, AI search startup Perplexity is raising a new round of funding at a valuation of at least $8 billion, with X, Notion, and OpenAI all making acquisition offers of $150 million to $200 million, and Microsoft also expressing interest in acquiring.
Project Updates
Ordinals founder Casey stated on the X platform that if users send runes using ord, they should upgrade to ord 0.21.2. This version fixes a somewhat serious bug where "ord wallet send" does not create change outputs in certain cases, which may lead to rune loss. This bug has been fixed in this PR. When using "ord wallet send," the wallet must select an input UTXO containing enough runes to cover the amount sent. This release also includes: ord wallet sign can be used to sign messages through a wallet's address; if minting is currently open, the minting progress is only displayed on /rune; the minting progress was also displayed incorrectly, which has now been fixed.
Magic Eden: Test token TestME will be released on October 29, running from October 29 to October 31
Magic Eden announced on the X platform that the test token TestME will be released on October 29, running from October 29 to October 31. To claim the test token, users should:
- Ensure the wallet is correctly set up and linked to the platform.
- Familiarize themselves with the token claiming process.
- Help the team identify and resolve any potential issues before the official ME token claiming goes live.
Earlier news indicated that Magic Eden would conduct ME test token claiming at the end of this month, followed by the announcement of token economics.
UniSat: LP rewards on PizzaSwap will be launched on November 6
UniSat announced on the X platform that LP rewards on PizzaSwap will be launched on November 6, along with the first major version update since PizzaSwap's launch. In this update, PizzaSwap will open to all brc-20 tickers on Fractal and allow users to create any trading pair.
FB rewards will be generated in the specific liquidity pool for the FB trading pair within 14 days (details of the reward amount will be provided in the update).
In the first Epoch, PizzaSwap will support the following pairs: sFB > sBTC, and sFB > sSATS.
According to Decrypt, Coinbase has partnered with the NBA's Golden State Warriors. As part of the deal, the cryptocurrency exchange's brand will appear prominently at the Warriors' Chase Center and on limited edition team merchandise. The trading platform will also provide on-chain giveaways and game day activation activities for Warriors fans. Coinbase's Chief Marketing Officer Kate Rouch stated, "Our exclusive partnership with the Golden State Warriors provides fans with a simple and fun way to try it out." "We are excited to bring Dub Nation on-chain." Coinbase did not disclose the formal terms of the deal, including the cost and duration. According to CoinGecko, the number of sports-related deals made by cryptocurrency companies so far this year is three times that of 2023.
Coinbase launches new tool Based Agent, aimed at allowing users to build their own AI agents
According to Cointelegraph, Coinbase has launched a new tool called Based Agent, allowing users to set up their own AI agents using a crypto wallet in three minutes. Once created, the agent can handle various on-chain tasks, from trading to swapping and staking.
Coinbase developer Lincoln Murr explained in a video on the X platform, "The goal is to make it as easy as possible for you to start building your own AI agent." Murr explained that Based Agent is a template that allows users to build AI agents (robots designed to perform specific tasks) and can access various smart contract functions. Once set up, the AI agent can integrate with smart contracts to execute swaps, trades, and staking, and register its own base name. He noted that the template was built using Coinbase's software development kit (SDK), as well as OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, and the software creation platform Replit.
In response to community questions such as "Why doesn't the Ethereum Foundation stake all ETH like the Nobel Prize Foundation and only use the earnings to cover costs? Why do you insist on periodically selling ETH without considering market sentiment and everyone's voice? You have always claimed that Ethereum's POS is very secure, so why don't you stake ETH yourselves? Do you lack confidence in POS?" Vitalik responded that one internal reason is that the team does not want to be forced to make an "official choice" during a controversial hard fork. An interesting idea currently being considered is to provide some subsidies in the form of "you can stake our ETH, you can choose how to stake it, as long as it is ethical and maintains upside potential." Another way to address this issue is to spread legitimacy and resources more broadly so that people believe multiple organizations can reliably represent Ethereum. In this regard, our situation is much better than it was two years ago.
According to monitoring by Lookonchain, Sotheby's vice president Michael Bouhanna previously bought many types of meme coins but made little profit. Therefore, he launched a meme coin called BAN using his wallet "5W7U…b3cV," profiting over $1 million from BAN using just one internal wallet. Michael Bouhanna had publicly commented that the "5W7U…b3cV" wallet is his address (the post has since been deleted), and this address is also the deployer of BAN. Although he was pressured to destroy 37.36 million BAN in the wallet, he profited over $1 million by purchasing BAN with the internal wallet.
Important Data
Arkham: Hackers have returned $19.3 million to the U.S. government
According to Arkham monitoring, hackers have returned $19.3 million to the U.S. government. Currently, 88% of the damaged dollar value has been recovered.
Earlier reports indicated that a U.S. government wallet address was suspected of being attacked, with about $20 million transferred to the attacker's address. Shortly thereafter, hackers began returning funds to the U.S. government, having returned 13.19 million aUSDC and 2,408 ETH.
An independent miner mined block 867118, receiving over 3 BTC block reward
According to Bitcoin News, an independent Bitcoin miner mined the 867,118th block, receiving a block reward of 3.329 BTC, currently valued at $221,690. This reduces the storage requirements for clients and may even eventually declare; it lowers protocol complexity by eliminating unnecessary features.
According to monitoring by ai_9684xtpa, smart money FB17K…V18KR spent 2.97 SOL ($518) to buy 80.77 million meme tokens BAN, accumulating a profit of $1.25 million, with a return rate of up to 2414 times.
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