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Odaily News, September 3 — WEEX Exchange announced that the WEEX Hackathon Season 2, themed "AI Wars II: The Algorithm Era," is now officially live. Global AI developers, quantitative traders, Web3 builders, teams, and individuals are invited to join Team AI or Team Human to compete in five rounds of live market trading battles, vying for rankings and rewards based on PnL% performance. The total prize pool stands at 600,000 USDT, with multi-tiered incentives designed to accommodate different participation methods.The early registration phase runs from September 3 to 6, during which the first 2,000 registrants can share in the 100,000 USDT Early Bird prize pool. Additionally, users who register early can complete event tasks ahead of time to accumulate activity points for the upcoming competition.
The self-proclaimed "White-Haired Stock Guru" Serenity posted that he recently observed a disappointing pattern: first attempting to compete for the same audience, then quickly funneling traffic toward paid communities or high-priced services. After he refuses to join or promote paid groups, they switch to personal attacks, framing them as "fundamental viewpoint disagreements." When he first joined X, financial content was saturated with luxury watches, private jets, options trading, and promotions for "Wall Street Secrets" paid communities and technical analysis charts. Consequently, he has always aimed to take a different approach by publicly sharing his research and investment logic, making it freely accessible to everyone so they can form their own judgments. Serenity added that although some had previously claimed he would eventually raise the subscription price to $100, his rate has consistently remained at $1 for months and will continue to be kept at the lowest possible price. He also outlined his investment perspectives on stocks such as AXTI, NBIS, AEHR, MU, and INTC. Serenity noted that some investment themes may not be verifiable until 2027–2028, covering subjects related to Sivers, Foci, and Shunsin. Finally, Serenity emphasized that not every investment thesis needs to be right, as uncertainty is inherent to research. Rather than seeing information increasingly trapped behind a $100 paywall or diluted by engagement-bait content, he hopes X will cultivate a new culture centered on openly sharing investment logic, enabling everyone to learn from rigorous research.
Odaily News - A study published at USENIX Security '26 reveals that researchers identified 65,340 high-risk cryptocurrency addresses involved in abuse on Ethereum and BNB Chain, with associated native token losses reaching 126,982.94 ETH and 17,726.7 BNB. The study estimates that total losses linked to these addresses exceed $574.8 million, of which two newly described active attack vectors directly caused approximately $15.7 million in losses (2.7% of the total). The first category involves contract account misuse and exploitation of deterministic contract addresses; the second leverages EIP-7702 to delegate accounts with exposed keys to malicious code that directly transfers deposits. The research team extracted over 16.3 million unique private keys by mining 63,004 GitHub repositories from January 2015 to May 2025, achieving an overall accuracy rate of 99.11% in detection results. (Cryptoslate)
: X platform product lead Nikita Bier announced that the platform is upgrading the anti-cheat mechanism of its Creator Revenue Share Program, targeting engagement baiting and content plagiarism.Bier stated that if an account posts "engagement baiting" content multiple times—such as "reply to me and I'll follow everyone" or similar actions to solicit engagement—cumulatively three times or more, it will be removed from the creator revenue share program and referred to the policy team for further action, including the risk of account suspension. Currently, X has identified such behaviors through the Grok AI system, and nearly 4,000 accounts have been removed from the revenue program today.Additionally, X's updated content identification model can detect duplicate content three times more efficiently than before. The platform stated that merely adding watermarks, intros, or making simple modifications will not qualify for revenue. The related commercial display revenue will be returned to the original content poster. This mechanism also applies to copying popular text posts, such as high-engagement content like "Twitter is the smoking area of the internet."According to Nikita Bier, during this detection cycle, X found approximately 1.5 million instances of stolen content. For accounts that repeatedly or deliberately attempt to evade detection, the platform will revoke their creator revenue eligibility.X stated that through these governance measures, it is expected that over $1 million in revenue will be redistributed to original content creators, aiming to improve the quality of the platform's content ecosystem.
According to CoinDesk, Ripple announced on Monday that it will share its internal intelligence on North Korean hackers with Crypto ISAC, a threat intelligence-sharing organization for the cryptocurrency industry, to help businesses identify coordinated intrusion campaigns. This move comes amid a recent shift in attack patterns targeting the cryptocurrency sector. The April theft of $285 million from the Drift protocol was not a traditional smart-contract vulnerability exploit; instead, North Korean hackers spent months building relationships with Drift contributors and installing malware on their devices before stealing private keys. Ripple stated: “The strongest crypto security posture is a shared one. A threat actor rejected by one company after background screening may submit resumes to three other companies the same week. Without shared intelligence, each company starts from scratch.”