The Bitcoin hardware wallet manufacturer Foundation has announced the completion of a $6.4 million fundraising round, with Fulgur Ventures leading the investment.

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.

Insight Beating AI News Flash: DeepSeek supplements its API peak-valley billing rules. Weekends with compensatory work arrangements and China’s statutory holidays will be charged at off-peak rates for the entire day. Today (September 20), a compensatory workday for the National Day holiday, the API still applies off-peak pricing. DeepSeek rolled out peak-valley pricing on August 17, with off-peak rates set at half of peak rates. Less than a week later, it adjusted all Saturdays and Sundays to off-peak rates. This update further clarifies billing standards for compensatory workdays and statutory holidays. Taking deepseek-flash as an example: per million tokens for cache-miss inputs, off-peak rates are 1 yuan, peak rates 2 yuan; outputs are priced at 4 yuan (off-peak) and 8 yuan (peak) respectively. Another National Day compensatory workday, October 10, falls on a Saturday and will also be charged at off-peak rates.

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.

Beating AI Insight News Brief: The ZCode code upload controversy from Chinese AI firm Zhipu AI has spread beyond developer communities to enterprise clients. Taiyuan Chengming Technology has sent a letter to Zhipu, alleging that ZCode automatically uploaded not just a small number of code snippets, but full project archives including complete source code, Git history, database passwords, cloud service credentials, and employee personal information. The company demanded Zhipu delete the uploaded data, disclose the data’s whereabouts, and provide proof of deletion. Zhipu AI had earlier apologized, attributing the issue to its "code repository indexing" feature, which was enabled by default during its initial rollout and could upload repository data when generating Repo Wiki pages. The firm noted that relevant data is destroyed immediately after use, the problem has been resolved, and it has pledged to open-source ZCode and invite third-party audits.