Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin outlined EIP-8288, a proposal for a recursive STARK mempool, and said he hopes it will be included in the I-star upgrade that follows Hegota. The proposal moves signatures and proofs out of Ethereum’s core execution path and recursively aggregates STARKs in the mempool, with the aim of reducing on-chain computation and data costs. According to Buterin, the design could enable low-cost quantum-safe signatures and privacy protocols. He said the cost of quantum-safe private transactions could fall from roughly 10 million gas to tens of thousands of gas. The proposal is also designed to work without changes to the Ethereum Virtual Machine, allowing compatibility with newer signature or proof systems such as Falcon and ML-DSA while also supporting private account abstraction. Under the proposed workflow, nodes would periodically aggregate transaction dependencies and generate recursive STARKs, while block builders would create proofs for transactions selected for inclusion. The added on-chain overhead per block would be about one 100 KB to 300 KB STARK plus 96 bytes of data for each claim being proven.

Chinese GPU company Enflame Technology said its shares will begin trading on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's STAR Market on Sept. 11, 2026, according to an announcement cited by BlockBeats on Sept. 9. The company said it was still unprofitable as of the disclosure date and will be included in the STAR Market's growth tier from its first day of trading. After the offering, Enflame Technology will have a total share capital of 430 million shares. At the initial listing stage, 17.9003 million shares will be available for unrestricted trading, accounting for 4.1595% of the company's total post-offering share capital. The update was published as a brief technology news item and did not include additional financial details beyond the listing timetable, profitability status, and share structure disclosed in the announcement.

Odaily reported, citing Jin10, that DeepSeek has engaged CITIC Securities to prepare for an initial public offering on Shanghai’s STAR Market. The brief market update did not include a timetable, target fundraising size, valuation, or other deal terms. No additional background or official statement was provided in the source text. The report only stated that CITIC Securities had been entrusted with preparations for the planned STAR Market listing.

China’s AIGC labeling regime has reached its first anniversary with enforcement now clearly in place. On Sept. 1, the Beijing Cyberspace Administration said 68 key companies had completed mutual recognition of visible and invisible labels, with 597 billion pieces of generated information marked on the production side and more than 800 million AI items carrying labels on the distribution side. At the same time, a new technical challenge is taking shape. Reports from Sept. 2 said Fei-Fei Li-backed World Labs had launched Atlas in San Francisco, a system that can turn six photos into a one-minute 1440p video and posted a 94% win rate over Seedance 2.5 in an official blind test under a specified camera-motion setup. The article argues that current regulation was built for earlier AIGC formats such as text and images, where visible tags and C2PA metadata still offer traceability, while world-model video may erode both watermark visibility and machine detection after editing and transcoding. It also maps four possible business layers forming around the new rule set: provenance infrastructure, compliance audits, credit scoring inside platforms, and verification tools for reading labels after the fact.

Chinese GPU company Moore Threads fell to the 20% daily down limit in early trading on Sept. 7, its first such move since listing on Shanghai’s STAR Market in December 2025. By the midday break, the stock was at CNY 415.48, down CNY 103.87 from the previous session, with market capitalization slipping below CNY 200 billion to about CNY 195.3 billion. The immediate trigger was a large lock-up expiry. A total of 25.7745 million shares from the IPO offline placement tranche became tradable that day, equal to 5.48% of total share capital. Based on the Sept. 4 close of CNY 519.35, the unlocked shares were worth about CNY 13.386 billion. The company’s free float rose from 30.2255 million shares to 56 million shares after the unlock. In response, a company securities affairs representative told media that the event was a normal post-listing capital-market milestone and that the newly tradable shares were mainly held by public funds and offline investors that participated in the IPO subscription process. The representative added that production and operations are normal and that the company’s fundamentals have not seen any material change. Moore Threads’ latest interim report showed first-half 2026 revenue of CNY 1.736 billion, up 147.42% year over year.

LeBron James said on X that he has visited Polymarket’s headquarters and is set to partner with the prediction market platform, posting 「Coming Soon」 alongside the announcement. A video shared by James showed categories including crypto, sports, economy, culture, weather, and esports, with James selecting sports, pointing to a likely sports-focused collaboration. The day’s market roundup also highlighted comments from Bitmine chairman Tom Lee, who said roughly 20% of the top-performing Russell 1000 stocks since the start of the third quarter are crypto-related. He cited BMNR, MSTR, CRCL, and BLSH among the names near the top of the index leaderboard. Elsewhere, Washington state regulators moved against Coinflip and CEO Benjamin Weiss, seeking to revoke the company’s money transmitter license, bar future industry activity, and impose a $1.0296 million fine. Other developments included Donald Trump saying his administration is pushing Hyperliquid into the U.S. market in a fully compliant and lawful manner, Bithumb launching its new Bithumb AI service, and Offchain Labs co-founder Steven Goldfeder clarifying that remaining locked ARB will account for about 7.7% of total supply once investor and team unlocks are completed next March.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin said the Poseidon hash function family has created significant practical value in Ethereum and beyond. Modern privacy protocols rely on Poseidon to generate SNARK proofs quickly on the client side. Universal STARKs now achieve extremely high performance, with batch computation proof overhead down to three digits, and could drop to double digits or lower, exceeding early 2020s expectations.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that the Poseidon hash function series, after years of development, has generated significant practical value in Ethereum and other fields and will continue to play a role for years. Poseidon is a key reason modern privacy protocols can quickly generate SNARK proofs on the client side. Buterin also noted that general-purpose STARKs have achieved extremely high performance, with proof costs for batch computations reduced to three digits, and expected to drop to double digits or even lower, exceeding early-2020s expectations.