GWDC 2026 KOREA has confirmed that Koo Yun-cheol, South Korea's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance, will attend the event and deliver the opening address. Koo is a veteran economic policymaker and a core decision-maker in the Seoul government, with a portfolio covering national fiscal policy, economic coordination and external economic negotiations. The organizer highlighted his record on innovation and openness, including efforts to stimulate domestic demand through policy innovation and to further integrate South Korea's tourism industry with the global economy, as well as his active engagement on the international stage. The conference is scheduled for September 29-30 at aT Center in Seoul. Koo will join political and business leaders, industry practitioners and developers to share frontier insights and help shape the future paradigm of Web3 and AI. Registration, the official event website and sponsorship channels are already open, and Techub News reported the speaker announcement.

Flow said depositors in MORE Markets and ankrFLOW did not lose funds in the exploit, and holders of FLOW were not affected. The project also said earlier reports from some media outlets that put WFLOW losses at roughly $9.3 million were inaccurate, adding that the actual value of affected tokens was about $410,000. According to Flow, Ankr and MORE Markets have suspended the relevant contracts, while some exchanges have temporarily paused FLOW deposits as a precaution. Flow Foundation said it will work with Ankr to refill the drained WFLOW reserves and rebalance the liquidity pool. AnkrFLOW staking and borrowing on MORE Markets will remain paused until Ankr completes a contract upgrade. Flow added that users will be able to withdraw funds once services resume and will not need to take any extra steps.

Odaily’s Meme Express tracker said DOLORES is drawing active discussion across the Robinhood community, with GMGN showing a current market capitalization of $1.3 million. In a post dated Aug. 26, Dolores Research described $DOLORES as a crypto-native research lab built for agent trading and said the project has launched on Robinhood Chain through Virtuals. Grok also noted that 2% of the $DOLORES token supply is allocated to $VIRTUAL stakers, with distribution based on veVIRTUAL holdings. Odaily added that its Meme Express feed uses an in-house AI model to identify tokens gaining attention in the community. The outlet said the item was compiled from public information and does not constitute investment advice, while warning readers about the high volatility associated with meme tokens.

Manifold founder Jae Chung says the firm’s early edge did not come from trying to beat established trading houses such as Jump, Tower, and Jane Street on their home turf. Instead, the company moved toward decentralized exchanges, where market structure, tooling, and talent requirements were different and where large firms were less aggressive at the time. Chung writes that he launched Manifold in 2021 at age 21 with no real quant background, after earlier years in crypto as a white-hat hacker, validator operator, and active participant during DeFi summer and the NFT boom. After a string of failed experiments across arbitrage, basis trades, statistical arbitrage, yield farming, and even deep learning, the team found a working path in CEX-DEX arbitrage. According to Chung, the first prototype was a simple TypeScript-based on-chain trading system that arbitraged prices between centralized exchanges and decentralized venues across the top ten chains by liquidity. The setup was crude and not latency-sensitive, but it still captured real opportunities after fees because on-chain execution lagged off-chain price discovery. Manifold later rebuilt the stack in Go and Solidity, expanded to more chains and DEXs, cut costs through gas optimization, adapted to MEV-style priority gas auctions, and improved capital efficiency through an in-house system called Hydra. Chung says the strategy at one point generated more than $10,000 a day with only a few million dollars deployed, and could make over six figures in a single day during periods of high volatility. By late 2025, however, competition had compressed the edge sharply.

The US Treasury’s decision to expand its buyback operations for longer-dated Treasuries has sparked a fresh debate over liquidity, bond-market stress, and the purchasing power of the dollar. Beginning Sept. 9, the Treasury will raise the cap on each repurchase operation for 10-year to 30-year US government bonds from $2 billion to at least $4 billion. Officials said the move is aimed at improving market liquidity and does not qualify as quantitative easing, stressing that only the Federal Reserve can expand the monetary base. Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, rejected that distinction. He argued that more Treasury buybacks still mean more dollar liquidity entering the system and described the step as another round of “fake” money creation. Kiyosaki also pointed to weakness in the US Dollar Index, saying the move reflects inflation concerns and leaves cash savers exposed as purchasing power erodes. He repeated his long-held call for investors to hold scarce assets such as gold, silver, and Bitcoin, while also mentioning quality real estate. The debate comes as US national debt has surpassed $40 trillion and market attention remains fixed on long-dated Treasury yields, the dollar’s direction, and inflation expectations.

Blockchain Life 2026 is set to take place in Dubai on Dec. 1-2, 2026, bringing together the Web3, cryptocurrency, mining, and AI sectors for another edition of the event. According to the event description cited by Foresight, the summit is expected to draw more than 15,000 attendees from over 130 countries, feature 200 speakers, host more than 200 brand booths, and run across three dedicated forum stages. A key addition this year is a new "AI Future" track, which will focus on next-generation artificial intelligence, emerging industry trends, advanced robotics, and the intersection of AI, blockchain, and business. The program also includes a two-day main forum, more than 100 side events, private business networking sessions, a startup pitch competition, the Blockchain Life industry awards, and an official party. Early-bird tickets are available, and the promo code FORESIGHTNEWS offers a 10% discount through the event's official ticket page.

Taurus, the Swiss digital asset infrastructure company, has completed a full-stack integration with the Hedera network after an 18-month implementation. The integration unifies the Taurus-PROTECT, Taurus-EXPLORER and Taurus-CAPITAL product lines and makes custody, staking, token issuance, node infrastructure and smart contract deployment available to more than 40 banks and regulated financial institutions. Deutsche Bank and State Street are among the clients covered by the integration. Taurus co-founder Lamine Brahimi said financial institutions need a single platform that supports multiple digital asset use cases, and the completed integration reduces the fragmentation that occurs when banks work with several vendors separately. The announcement was first reported by crypto.news.

OpenAI has released the GitHub repository for Codex Security under the Apache-2.0 license, but the open-source code covers only the tooling layer used to trigger scans, manage findings and integrate with CI. The underlying service that reads code, reproduces vulnerabilities in isolated environments and generates patches still runs on OpenAI’s own servers, so access still requires an OpenAI login and Codex Security permissions. According to the documentation cited in the source article, Codex Security remains in research preview and is available to ChatGPT Pro, Business, Edu and Enterprise users, with some enterprise accounts also needing admin approval. The article walks through environment requirements, install commands, dry-run validation, model configuration, SARIF export and CI usage, then highlights five common pitfalls: max-cost not acting as a hard cap, output directories being blocked if placed inside a repository, API keys taking precedence over ChatGPT login in non-interactive contexts, Python 3.10 needing tomli, and MCP being limited to read-only metadata rather than live scans. It also covers local scan history in SQLite, false-positive handling, scan comparison, batch scanning across GitHub repositories, and the related TypeScript SDK APIs.