A whale transferred 1000 ETH to Binance after a year of hibernation

Beating AI Insight News: OpenAI releases ChatGPT Images 2.5. Compared to its predecessor, the new version cuts image generation latency by up to 50%, and better preserves the appearance and details of people and pets when editing photos. Editing is also more user-friendly: users can directly circle a specific area in an image and instruct ChatGPT on changes, such as replacing just one petal or modifying a single object’s color. When making multiple consecutive edits, it is less likely to alter unrelated areas by accident. ChatGPT now also supports drawing sketches to control composition, and has added common image templates for posters, merchandise, and more. Images 2.5 is now available to ChatGPT, ChatGPT Work, and Codex users. Two API versions, Flare and Sunburst, are also launched. Flare is faster, ideal for bulk image generation; Sunburst is more precise, suited for scenarios with higher visual standards. In the latest Arena benchmark, Sunburst ranks first and Flare ranks second, with both models taking the top two positions across all three categories: text-to-image, single-image editing, and multi-image editing.

Loracle, the largest PONS short seller on Hyperliquid, reached out to Robinhood founder Vlad Tenev via X, requesting his market makers boost liquidity for the PONS/USDG pair on the Lighter platform. Loracle previously drew market attention for its PONS short position, which once hit tens of millions of dollars and it kept adding to the bet. The community even launched a "whale hunting" campaign, executing reverse trades targeting its short position. Loracle later disclosed it has launched PONS-linked trading products. The fee routing function is not currently enabled but will be rolled out later; as it quickly hit the safe holding limit, new positions will be opened incrementally. It noted that the vault holds funds, uses a portion of profits and losses for buybacks, and authorizes off-chain keepers to execute trades via API keys. This move sparked heated discussions in the Robinhood Chain community, with some PONS bulls publicly calling for increased spot buying to squeeze Loracle’s short position, aiming to force its liquidation. According to Tradingbeats’ monitoring, Loracle currently holds a PONS short position worth approximately $21.83 million, with unrealized losses exceeding $3.37 million.

In its latest Real World Assets (RWA) report, CoinGecko notes that the synthetic pre-IPO market has emerged as an effective valuation indicator for traditional IPOs. On-chain perpetual contracts can provide continuous price discovery and market sentiment anchors for high-profile private companies ahead of their official exchange listings. The report cites SpaceX and ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) as examples: Ahead of SpaceX’s listing, perpetual contract prices across platforms fluctuated between $158 and $170 before gradually converging to around $157.40. When its first trade on Nasdaq hit $150.05, the price gap was approximately 4.9%. The deviation between CXMT’s pre-listing perpetual contract prices and its actual opening price was also around 4.6%. CoinGecko argues that even without real spot stocks serving as immediate arbitrage anchors, traders still form relatively concentrated quotes based on valuation, listing hype, and future liquidity. As a result, on-chain pre-IPO perpetual contracts will become an important reference price before traditional order books open, while also offering global investors a 24-hour channel to express bullish or bearish expectations.

Meme coin LAPTOP, launched by Hunter Biden, son of former U.S. President Joe Biden, announced its airdrop details on social media, stating that 20% of the token’s total supply will be distributed for free to the community. 2% of LAPTOP’s total supply is reserved to compensate investors who suffered losses from Trump-themed memecoins and other related projects. This portion will be allocated to eligible users via participating exchanges, with specific eligibility criteria set by the partners. Eight percent of the total supply is earmarked for readers who were subscribed to Hunter Biden’s Substack newsletter as of September 6, 2026. Another 10% of the total supply is set aside for future community airdrops, with distribution methods determined at the sole discretion of the Phoenix Veritas Foundation. The claim portal will open concurrently with the token’s launch, scheduled for 8:00 AM ET on September 9, 2026 (20:00 Beijing Time the same day). Community members can complete their claims within 30 days of the launch.

Hunter Biden, son of U.S. President Joe Biden, posted on social media to respond to community controversy, opening up for the first time about his mindset behind launching the token. He stated that the token’s name, LAPTOP, derives from the highly controversial "Hunter Biden laptop" incident, adding that the symbol once used to attack him will now stand for "resilience, redemption, and recovery". Hunter Biden bluntly noted that no one should expect him or anyone else to drive the token’s value higher, emphasizing that LAPTOP is not just about what you "own"—it is far more about what you "express".

Beating AI Express News: According to an announcement from DeepSeek Open Platform, DeepSeek will slash the call prices for its Flash series models starting at 12:00 Beijing Time on September 10. The maximum price reductions for cache hits, cache misses, and outputs are 60%, 33.33%, and 11.11% respectively.