The U.S. state of Illinois has delayed the implementation of its crypto asset transaction tax by six months, with the originally planned tax rate being 0.2%.

SBI Digital Trust Co., Ltd. signed a basic agreement on October 1 with South Korean payment service provider NICE Information & Communication and South Korean blockchain infrastructure firm DSRV. The three parties will jointly verify the commercialization of cross-border transfers and payments between Japan and South Korea using stablecoins. The verification will take Japanese tourists making QR code payments at NICE Information & Communication-affiliated merchants during their trips to South Korea as the application scenario, aiming to explore stablecoin cross-border payment solutions. Key verification areas include fund flow mechanisms, transfer and payment instruction systems, and inter-system connectivity, with the project expected to be completed by the end of December 2026. Specifically, SBI Digital Trust will leverage its expertise in Japan’s regulatory and financial sectors to design the payment scheme; NICE Information & Communication will contribute its merchant network and payment operation experience; DSRV will handle blockchain technology-related research. The three parties noted that they will evaluate future commercialization directions based on the verification results, and continue to explore stablecoin-related application scenarios in consideration of changes to regulatory frameworks in both countries.

Beating AI Express (Dongcha) reports: Pi development team Earendil has officially launched Pi 1.0, alongside the experimental Pi Durable. Pi 1.0 primarily formalizes capabilities already rolled out recently, with the only newly added product line being Pi Durable. It is an underlying framework for building long-running agents, where task states are persistently written to storage, enabling execution to resume after process crashes, container restarts, or computer hibernation. Pi Durable splits model calls and tool calls into resumable tasks, saving checkpoints at every step. If a model request is interrupted mid-flight, it can be re-initiated. Tools will only automatically re-execute if confirmed safe to rerun. For tools that may cause duplicate operations, such as deployment or payment, when interrupted, the system passes the interrupted state to the model for handling. Beyond fault recovery, Pi Durable supports multiple concurrent conversations, saves queued messages and sub-agent states, and automatically compresses overly long contexts. Different clients can also connect to the same agent to view progress or send further instructions. Earendil has also clarified the two product lines: Pi Coding Agent will remain a personal terminal tool, while more complex persistent agent scenarios are handled by Pi Durable. Both products use the MIT license. Pi Durable is currently an experimental project, with its API subject to adjustment; once its design is validated as mature, it will also be integrated into Pi Coding Agent.

According to an announcement from Bithumb, the South Korean crypto exchange will launch a new Talus (US) South Korean won (KRW) trading market, with support limited to the Sui network; deposits on other networks are not currently supported. The announcement notes that Talus (US) deposits and withdrawals will open within two hours of the announcement’s release, with trading set to commence at 15:00 KST on October 2. The benchmark price is 37.85 KRW, and deposits require 20 confirmations. After the new trading pair goes live, buy orders will be restricted for the first five minutes.

According to OKX’s announcement, the crypto exchange will officially launch USD-denominated X-Contracts (X-Perp) between 17:00 and 17:15 (UTC+8) on October 2. Trading for ADBEUSD X-Contracts will open at 17:00, while APPUSD X-Contracts will go live for trading at 17:15 the same day.

Market data shows Talus (US) has surged over 60% since 9:38 AM Beijing time, currently trading at $0.037. BlockBeats previously reported that Bithumb, South Korea’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, announced at 11:14 AM Beijing time it would list Talus (US) with a South Korean won trading pair.

Automaker Porsche is shutting down its Web3 project launched in 2023. The company stated that holders can still retain their PORSCHΞ 911 NFTs, while the PIONΞERS Discord server will be switched to read-only mode and the @eth_porsche account will cease updates.