U.Today reports that a mysterious wallet related to the genesis block has appeared on the Bitcoin blockchain, and Galaxy Research has detected this unusual transaction.

On August 22, The Sandbox stated that a vulnerability was discovered in its SAND cross-chain bridge on Base and BNB Smart Chain. Attackers were able to mint tokens without the corresponding Ethereum SAND locking support. The team subsequently suspended the related cross-chain functionality and claimed that the vulnerability had been contained. The core issue of this incident is not merely the simple "minting" of additional tokens, but rather the disruption of the most fundamental accounting relationships between cross-chain assets: the mapped tokens on the target chain should correspond one-to-one with the assets locked or destroyed on the source chain; once unsecured minting occurs, the market can no longer assume equivalence between SAND on different chains.

Stacks has been activated at Bitcoin block height 960230, triggering a PoX-5 hard fork, and preparations are underway to implement the first batch of Bitcoin Staking arrangements. SIP-045 is designed to allow participants to pair their self-managed BTC time locks with STX locks in order to earn BTC rewards. At the same time, the staking process will be adjusted, and miners will receive 1000 STX of rewards per Bitcoin block during the launch phase. This attempt aims to address a long-standing challenge: how to generate on-chain profits for BTC while minimizing the need to entrust assets to centralized custodians.

Metaplanet CEO expresses opinions on Bitcoin's recent trend, stating that its price has been influenced by the traditional financial system.

Foreign media reports that after Bitcoin mining companies shifted to AI data centers, the correlation between stocks and BTC is weakening, with Strategy still being more closely aligned with Bitcoin as a benchmark.