The Ethereum Foundation has opened Platåberget, an early public test network for the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade, and warned that the changes will break tools that rely on hard-coded maximum gas limits. The release points to a broad redesign across both the consensus and execution layers, including in-protocol proposer-builder separation, mandatory block-level access lists, coordinated gas repricing, and higher limits for deployable contract and initcode sizes. According to the foundation, Platåberget is designed to stay online for several months, giving developers, validators, builders, staking operators, DVT teams, and infrastructure providers time to test before Glamsterdam reaches longer-lived testnets such as Sepolia and Hoodi. The Glamsterdam fork on Platåberget is scheduled for Aug. 20. The gas repricing work is flagged as especially disruptive because it affects wallets, indexers, and gas estimators across the network. The foundation said ordinary ETH transfers will no longer always fit a single 21,000 gas assumption, since transfers to non-existent accounts can now incur additional state gas costs at runtime. It urged developers to use the early window to identify system assumptions that fail under the new model before the upgrade moves closer to mainnet.

MarsBit has published a Robinhood Chain market analysis originally written by Emiri at blocmates and translated by TechFlow, focusing on 15 utility-oriented protocols that have appeared on the chain in recent weeks. The piece argues that, after a long stretch in which almost every rally was treated as another meme-coin cycle, a set of projects tied to lending, tokenized equities, trading infrastructure, programmable launchpads, AI credits and yield products is starting to draw attention. Before the main list, the article briefly mentions established names including PONS, AI, CASHCAT, Index, SLVR, Arcus and Rialto. It then walks through projects such as Longdotxyz, which pairs meme coins with tokenized stocks; Netnet, which adapts Olympus-style treasury mechanics into code-defined rules; Longbow, a collateralized lending market; and Twofold, which uses Uniswap V4 DualPool design to let the same capital earn lending yield and DEX fees. The analysis also covers Mancer, Quotron, Hookr, Fables, Statics, Arrow Finance, Shroom, Clutch Markets, Orbio, Earn and Pare. Across these protocols, the recurring themes are tokenized stock exposure, protocol-owned liquidity, fee sharing, NFT-linked financial rights and new ways to split, route or monetize onchain assets. The author says the review is based on public information and documents and is not investment advice.

ChainFeeds’ Sept. 9 research digest pulled together several threads shaping the crypto conversation: a privacy-token rally led by Zcash, a watchlist of non-Meme projects, a document-based breakdown of Hunter Biden-linked token LAPTOP, a toolkit roundup for the Robinhood ecosystem, and a trading note on separating long-term and short-term positions. The market section cited glassnode data showing that, relative to Bitcoin’s October 2025 top, only the privacy segment has moved above prior peak levels. The report said the sector is up 213% over the period, with ZEC accounting for much of the move after a 2,496% one-year gain and a jump in market-cap rank from 82nd to seventh. Even so, the note added that the rally has not been limited to one token, as all eight privacy coins with one year of price history posted gains. Elsewhere, blocmates highlighted projects including DeepState, Chimpers, and TapeOut as examples of experimentation outside the Meme trade. Foresight News, meanwhile, traced LAPTOP’s setup across multiple entities, filings, token allocations, and legal terms, including a statement that the token has no utility. The digest also covered trading, monitoring, and analytics tools on Robinhood Network and summarized XinGPT’s view that the market remains in a pre-bull phase.

Early trading on Aug. 31 brought a sharp drop in crypto prices, wiping out part of the weekend gains in a range of on-chain hot tokens. GMGN data shows BSC meme coin Niu Lai has fallen below the $100 million market cap, now at $98.82 million. On Robinhood chain, the pullback was harsher, with only PONS and CASHCAT showing relative strength. PONS touched a new high of $400 million in the early hours and then slipped to $321 million, while CASHCAT briefly broke below $200 million before recovering to $201 million. Elsewhere, microduck's market cap declined to $14.67 million, down 18.2% in 24 hours. AI fell to $89.53 million, a 20.82% drop, and NET dropped 37.21% to $64.31 million. Not everything lost ground. STATICS, a newly launched DeFi protocol on Robinhood chain, has climbed sharply after only three days on the market, pushing its market cap above $40 million with a 24-hour gain of 455%. The mixed moves highlight persistent volatility across meme trade after the latest round of rapid appreciation.

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.

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South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb has placed AZIT, CUDIS, FANC, TEMCO, EGG and STAT under a trading caution designation starting today. The exchange said the move was based on the tokens failing to meet its standards for combined market capitalization and trading volume across domestic and overseas exchanges. Bithumb will suspend deposits for the six tokens from 16:00 on July 16. A follow-up notice on whether the designation will be extended, lifted, or lead to trading termination is expected in the third week of October. The update was reported by Odaily.