Odaily News — The round was led by Variant, with participation from PayPal Ventures, Abstract Ventures, Road Capital, Mirana Ventures, First Commit, and Credibly Neutral. Atum does not issue stablecoins, operate a blockchain, or custody funds. Instead, it provides a cross-stablecoin, cross-chain coordination layer for global money flows, handling authorization, routing, and confirmation, and supports AI agent payments through protocols such as x402 and MPP.

Odaily News: According to market data, the Hong Kong stock AI application sector continued to decline in the afternoon, with Zhipu falling over 10%, Kingdee International dropping over 7%, and Meitu, MINIMAX-W, and others following the decline.

Odaily reports that according to GMGN data, mainstream platforms and Meme coins in the Robinhood Chain ecosystem have rebounded, including:1. musebook's market cap is temporarily reported at $35.3 million, up 62.6% in 24 hours;2. MOO's market cap is temporarily reported at $17.9 million, up 47.3% in 24 hours;3. MEME's market cap is temporarily reported at $36.2 million, up 29.3% in 6 hours;4. BONER's market cap is temporarily reported at $53.3 million, up 22% in 24 hours;5. PONS's market cap is temporarily reported at $483 million, up 20.2% in 24 hours;6. AI's market cap is temporarily reported at $271 million, up 19.4% in 24 hours;7. CASHCAT's market cap is temporarily reported at $172 million, up 8.6% in 24 hours;8. ORBIO's market cap is temporarily reported at $70.5 million, up 5.5% in 24 hours.Odaily reminds users that Meme coin prices are highly volatile, and investors should participate with caution.

1. After losing $35.44 million, Garrett Jin lost another $79,000 on his ZEC long position;2. CFTC investigates Kalshi for wash trading, platform denies fraudulent transactions;3. A whale bought $400 million worth of HYPE in the past month, and purchased another 373,700 tokens today;4. Cambodia exposes its largest telecom fraud hub "Compound No. 8" for the first time: Huione Pay was once based there and has ties to Prince Group;5. An address withdrew 1 million UNI, worth $10.07 million;6. SoftBank launches massive junk bond issuance to fund AI expansion;7. Holdings approach $1 billion, Tesla's Bitcoin position unchanged for 4 years.

Odaily News: SoftBank Group has launched what is set to become one of the largest corporate junk bond offerings in history, as the Japanese conglomerate turns to debt investors to finance its massive investments in artificial intelligence. As one of the world's largest AI investors, SoftBank has begun marketing the multi-part deal, with initial price guidance for the dollar-denominated portion underway. The group aims to raise more than $11 billion through this issuance, including a $10 billion dollar-denominated tranche and a €1 billion (approximately $1.1 billion) euro-denominated tranche.This offering is the latest in a series of moves by SoftBank in the bond market this year, designed to help fund its nearly $65 billion commitment to OpenAI and to finance further M&A in the sector. (Jinshi)

Odaily Report: On September 23, the B.AI platform announced the full launch of Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 series of open-source native multi-modal reasoning large models, with simultaneous access now available on both API and Web Chat. The entire series comes equipped with a 1M Token ultra-long context and full-dimensional understanding of text, images, video, and audio. Among them, MiMo-V2.6-Pro adopts a sparse MoE architecture with 1.02 trillion total parameters and 42 billion activated parameters, purpose-built for repository-level software engineering, long-horizon Agents, and complex multi-modal reasoning; MiMo-V2.6-Flash, based on an architecture with 309 billion total parameters and 15 billion activated parameters, focuses on high throughput and ultra-fast response, targeting high-frequency office automation and large-scale Agent invocation scenarios. Starting today, developers and users can directly access both models through the B.AI platform. You are welcome to log in to chat.b.ai/chat to experience them right away.

Odaily reports that Vitalik Buterin posted on X platform stating that blockchain in its early days possessed characteristics of openness, neutrality, and security, but suffered from issues of non-scalability, full transparency, and lack of privacy protection. Privacy transactions and scalable verification brought by zero-knowledge proofs have moved from planning into actual EIPs in the Ethereum roadmap, technologies such as fully homomorphic encryption are beginning to be applied, and indistinguishability obfuscation may be applied on-chain in the future.He stated that parallel block construction and proving can achieve greater scalability, and the Web3 industry's focus has expanded from digital assets to digital assets and information, covering the complete pipeline from the user end, transaction mempool, to on-chain. With the development of AI, providing cryptographic rules to AI for automated formal verification can improve verification efficiency.

Odaily reports that according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi, UNI broke above $10 and hit a new high for the year. An address withdrew 1 million UNI from Coinbase two hours ago, worth $10.07 million, at a withdrawal price of $10.07.

Odaily News: Anthropic plans to lease up to 1 gigawatt of computing capacity from a data center developer majority-owned by Apollo Global Management, and is currently in early-stage negotiations. This is one of the major efforts by the AI company to reduce its reliance on cloud service providers.According to people familiar with the matter, Anthropic has discussed entering facilities developed by Stream Data Centers as a direct tenant and deploying TPUs designed by Broadcom and Google therein. Anthropic is in talks with Stream Data Centers to lease a data center with up to 1 gigawatt of computing capacity. Anthropic seeks direct control over computing resources, which could reduce costs. Anthropic has also discussed the possibility of Google providing a credit backstop for the project. It is currently unclear which part of the project Google would provide the backstop for. (Jinshi)

Odaily reports that according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a WLD multisig-linked address (0xd429...12FB) deposited 42.37 million WLD worth $19.59 million to Binance over the past 8 hours. This marks the address's first deposit in 5 months, and it has now fully liquidated its position.