Porsche is ending its PIONΞERS CIRCLE Web3 project and associated community.
The collection ended up with 2,363 NFTs, rather than the originally planned 7,500. They will remain on Ethereum and stay with their owners, but the official social presence will no longer be maintained.
Bitcoin hashrate is approaching 1 ZH/s again (1 ZH/s equals 1,000 EH/s)
On September 30, the daily Bitcoin mining power reached about 978 EH/s, up 6.5% from the end of August, while mining difficulty remains below its October 2025 record.
According to Financial Times, criminal groups are increasingly using AI to conduct cryptocurrency scams, impersonation, deepfakes and fraudulent websites.
Interpol estimates AI-enabled fraud can be 4.5 times more lucrative than traditional fraud.
NFT sales rose 55.6% over a recent seven-day period with an increase in buyer addresses - up about 20%.
However, transaction counts declined by about 15% during the same period, meaning the larger sales total does not necessarily represent a broad resurgence in activity.
Hot take: The physical collectibles do not need blockchain technology.
Unless the onchain component provides meaningful provenance, custody or transfer advantages, the blockchain layer risks becoming an unnecessary wrapper around an established collecting business.
European equities are near record highs despite the Iran war and higher energy prices.
The STOXX 600 has attracted $2.44B of inflows. Companies are expected to report 24.1% year-on-year earnings growth for Q2 - the strongest rate in almost four years.
OpenAI slows its own capability-development process in response to evidence that its models can behave in ways its existing controls did not adequately anticipate.
Apple has developed a proprietary large language model specifically for the Chinese market, with Alibaba supporting its training.
The company has reportedly received regulatory approval to deploy Apple Intelligence in mainland China, using Alibaba’s Qwen model alongside technology from Baidu.