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2026-09-12 · 8 high-impact headlines

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  1. Dormant Whale Returns After 8 Months: Drops $85.42 Million USDC to Buy 1,075 BTC in 4 DaysBlockBeats news, September 12th, according to EmberCN monitoring, a whale that previously liquidated 50,600 ETH at an average price of $2,921 at the end of last year, realizing a profit of approximately $19.02 million, re-entered the market to buy BTC after about 8 months of silence. This whale has recently been continuously conducting cross-chain swaps through THORChain, investing a total of $85.42 million USDC over 4 days to buy 1,075.6 BTC, with an average cost of approximately $79,412, including about $170,000 in swap fees paid to THORChain. Around September 9th alone, this address used $14.2 million USDC within 24 hours to buy 179.8 BTC, with an average transaction price of approximately $78,955.
  2. Long.xyz launches pre-market trading contracts for OpenAI and Anthropic, supporting up to 5x leverage.BlockBeats news, September 12: Meme coin issuance platform LONG announced the launch of Pre-IPO trading pairs for OpenAI and Anthropic, with the related contracts provided by Lighter's perpetual contract infrastructure. Long.xyz stated that the platform has established paired liquidity pools for OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia, with OpenAI and Anthropic each at 1x, and Nvidia at 3x. For the early market, the platform adopts a customized liquidity design to gradually expand liquidity with lower market depth. It should be noted that Pre-IPO contracts do not represent actual ownership of OpenAI or Anthropic equity, but rather track the valuation expectations of unlisted companies. Lighter's current OpenAI and Anthropic contracts support up to 5x leverage and use an internal pricing mechanism. Long.xyz emphasized that Pre-IPO trading is still in an experimental stage, and the platform will gradually adjust related products based on market performance. The recent rise in listing expectations for OpenAI and Anthropic has also driven a rapid increase in such on-chain pre-listing trading products. At present, a new form of tokenized long positions + Meme pairing providing speculative exposure has emerged on-chain, similar to an upgraded version of the previous gameplay of pairing stock tokens such as NVDA with Meme. However, the prices of related tokens are highly volatile, and there is significant uncertainty, so users should invest with caution.
  3. DeepMind suddenly rumored to achieve RSI: Three capital letters ignite the communityThe AI community is suddenly abuzz with rumors that Google DeepMind has already achieved RSI. RSI stands for recursive self-improvement, widely regarded by many as the most critical step toward superintelligence. AI can improve its own training methods, code, and models, creating a stronger next generation, which then continues to upgrade further. Once truly operational, AI research and development could enter a self-accelerating loop. The speculation began when the whistleblower account lyra sent Google DeepMind the message "huge congRatulationS Indeed!" — the three unusually capitalized letters spelling out RSI. Subsequently, Lentils posted what appeared to be an internal model list, in which rsi-model-liverl-le appeared. He also claimed that Google has 10 training model slots in the same series internally, but did not post corresponding screenshots. The rumor may not necessarily be false. Reuters reported in August that Google co-founder Sergey Brin has asked DeepMind to accelerate Gemini development and specifically push for recursive self-improvement. DeepMind's official report in June also listed "recursive improvement" as one of four potential paths from AGI to ASI.
  4. Meme coin ANTHROPIG's market cap briefly surpassed $4 million, paired with ANTHROPICx1L through the Long.xyz platform.BlockBeats news, September 12, according to GMGN market data, the market value of ANTHROPIG, a new Meme coin in the Robinhood ecosystem, briefly surpassed $4 million, and has now fallen back to $2.92 million. The core narrative of ANTHROPIG is "Anthropic Pig/Pigified Anthropic," directly riding the hot topic of Long.xyz's upcoming/already supported Anthropic tokenized 1x long position (ANTHROPICx1L). Through the Long.xyz platform, it is paired for trading with ANTHROPICx1L (Anthropic 1x Long tokenized position). Long.xyz is a meme coin issuance platform on the Robinhood chain, focusing on the innovative "coin-stock Meme" model, directly binding traditional Meme coins with tokenized US stocks, forming a dual-driven mechanism of "sentiment speculation + real asset anchoring." The platform allows users to issue Meme tokens and directly form trading pairs with on-chain US stock tokens (such as NVDA, TSLA, AAPL, etc.), rather than traditional USDT or ETH pairings, while part of the trading fees flow back to the community treasury to accumulate corresponding US stock tokens, creating a unique value capture model. Anthropic currently has high IPO expectations, but it is difficult to directly go long in the traditional market since it is not listed; on-chain, such tokenized long positions + Meme pairings provide speculative exposure. This is an upgraded version of the previous gameplay of pairing Meme coins with stock tokens like NVDA. BlockBeats reminds users that the prices of related tokens fluctuate greatly, there is significant uncertainty, and users should invest cautiously.
  5. Former Google chief scientist's startup aims for $50 billion valuation 5 weeks after foundingDiscovery Loop, founded by former Google Chief Scientist Jeff Dean after leaving Google, is now in talks for a new funding round. Business Insider, citing people familiar with the matter, reported that the company is seeking a valuation of about $50 billion this time. Just weeks earlier, it was in talks to raise $1 billion at a valuation of about $10 billion. The latest deal has not yet been finalized, and the company has not confirmed it. Discovery Loop was only founded in early August. All four founders come from Google. In addition to Dean, they include Sanjay Ghemawat, Quoc Le, and Oriol Vinyals. It aims to use AI to automatically complete the entire process of "proposing experiments, running them, reviewing results, and continuing to iterate," running thousands of experiments in parallel at once. The first step is to test it on machine learning research itself, and later expand to scientific and engineering problems such as drugs and chips. At present, the official website mainly still discusses the technical roadmap and hiring, and has not yet showcased a formal product. Alphabet, Google's parent company, is both a founding investor and cloud partner of the company, while Radical Ventures, Khosla Ventures, and others have also participated in investment. More than a month after its founding, with no public product yet released, its valuation target has already jumped from $10 billion to $50 billion. What investors are mainly betting on now is still this founding team.
  6. DeepSeek beta tests AI voice conversation, supports four voice tonesDeepSeek is conducting gray-scale testing of voice dialogue. Users who are included in the test will see a small speaker button in the upper right corner of the App. In addition, a "Reading Voice" option will appear on DeepSeek's settings page, allowing users to choose from four voice tones.
  7. Blockstream Refuses to Pay Ransom: Stolen Bitcoin from Liquid Will Be Tracked and Recovered Through Legal ChannelsBlockBeats news, September 12: Blockstream issued a statement regarding the recent theft of Bitcoin on the Liquid Network, stating it will not pay a ransom to recover the stolen funds and refuses to regard the unauthorized transfer of assets as a "white hat disclosure." Blockstream said it has engaged in good-faith communication with the relevant parties in hopes of recovering users' stolen funds, but will not accept the ransom conditions proposed by the other side, nor will it set a precedent requiring open-source software developers to pay exorbitant ransoms. Blockstream stated it remains willing to resolve the issue through responsible means; if the stolen Bitcoin cannot be returned, the company will work with law enforcement agencies, trading platforms, service providers, and blockchain forensics experts to track and recover the relevant assets, while also investigating those responsible. Blockstream emphasized that Bitcoin transactions are publicly traceable, and the flow of funds and on-chain evidence will not disappear. The company said: "We will not pay a ransom for the return of stolen assets, nor will we abandon our users." Previously, Blockstream had issued a security reminder about the incident, warning that scammers impersonating Liquid and Blockstream are exploiting the incident to induce users into transferring funds or providing mnemonic phrases, and stressing that the official team will never ask users to send funds to so-called "recovery addresses."
  8. Binance BTC reserves rise to 693,000, hitting a two-year high, Bitcoin faces $85,000 resistance level.BlockBeats news, September 12: Binance's Bitcoin reserves have risen to 693,000 BTC, a two-year high, an increase of about 77,000 BTC since the end of April, accounting for about 30% of Bitcoin reserves on major trading platforms. Amid the rapid increase in reserves, Bitcoin is facing strong supply pressure near $83,000 to $85,000. A rise in BTC balances on trading platforms means more Bitcoin is readily available for trading or sale in the market, but it does not mean these holdings will be immediately sold off. The market is also watching downside support. If BTC cannot hold $75,000, the risk of selling pressure may rise further; if it can break above $85,000 with volume, it would mean market demand has the capacity to absorb the newly added trading platform liquidity.