OpenAI Launches Dots, Loses Its Two Most Convenient Domains; dot.com Still Redirects Traffic to Grok

Per an official announcement, Coinbase is adding support for Concrete (CT). Users can now generate CT deposit addresses via the Coinbase website, Coinbase App, and Coinbase Exchange. Supported regions will be determined based on when trading opens. The CT deposit function will remain temporarily unavailable until the asset issuer activates CT transfer capabilities.

According to Farside’s monitoring, on September 29, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs posted a total net inflow of $66.2 million, broken down as: BlackRock’s IBIT: +$51.1 million; ARK’s ARKB: +$33.2 million; Bitwise’s BITB: -$18.1 million; while Fidelity’s FBTC, Invesco’s BTCO, Franklin’s EZBC, Valkyrie’s BRRR, VanEck’s HODL, WisdomTree’s BTCW, Morgan Stanley’s MSBT, Grayscale’s GBTC, and BTC saw no inflows or outflows. U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs recorded a total net outflow of $2.8 million yesterday, with details: Grayscale’s ETH: +$12.8 million; BlackRock’s ETHA: -$8.9 million; Fidelity’s FETH: -$6.7 million; and BlackRock’s ETHB, Bitwise’s ETHW, 21Shares’ TETH, VanEck’s ETHV, Invesco’s QETH, Franklin’s EZET, Morgan Stanley’s MSSE, and Grayscale’s ETHE had no inflows or outflows.

According to an official announcement, Binance Alpha will launch Concrete (CT) as its first-listed token on September 30. Eligible users can visit the Alpha event page to claim the airdrop using Alpha points after Alpha trading opens. Specific details will be announced separately.

The voting results of Zcash’s third-quarter token holder-directed retroactive grant program show that both bounty proposals for Taylor Hornby, the discoverer of the Orchard false coin vulnerability, have been approved. The two proposals cover Hornby’s requested $750,000 vulnerability bounty plus an additional $750,000 bonus nominated by community members, totaling $1.5 million. The recipient will still need to complete KYC and fund disbursement procedures before receiving the funds.

Oracle and NetApp have announced an expanded partnership, planning to launch a storage service natively integrated into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). The service is designed to help enterprises migrate and manage AI and other workloads while preserving their existing data management and protection capabilities. Per TradingBeats' monitoring, after the partnership announcement, ORCL was trading at $139.4, with a 24-hour gain of 4.8%. Oracle explained that the service enables enterprises to migrate to OCI while retaining their current storage operations and data protection mechanisms, cutting the need for application refactoring and facilitating the migration of AI, databases and other business workloads to Oracle Cloud.

Beating AI Express News: OpenAI launched the OpenAI Marketplace at its DevDay event. When enterprises sign large-scale contracts with OpenAI, they agree to a minimum spending commitment over the contract term. Now eligible clients can include a portion of their third-party software purchases toward this commitment, rather than spending all funds exclusively on OpenAI’s own products. The first batch of partners includes 32 companies, such as Adobe, Figma, Salesforce, ServiceNow, HubSpot, Harvey, Palo Alto Networks, and CrowdStrike. Enterprises can browse products on the Marketplace but cannot place direct orders yet. Actual purchases are still handled via contracts between clients and partners, with partners issuing invoices, and OpenAI crediting eligible amounts toward clients’ spending commitments. This model is similar to the cloud marketplaces of AWS and Azure. OpenAI can refer its existing enterprise clients to partners, while partners gain an additional sales channel. Sam Altman has positioned the Marketplace as part of OpenAI’s enterprise strategy, aiming to leverage ChatGPT’s user and client base for software distribution.