PA Daily’s latest roundup spans crypto markets, regulation, AI, funding, and whale activity. OpenAI formally introduced GPT-6 Astra and said the model may sit close to the point where artificial general intelligence becomes recognizable in hindsight. Nvidia, meanwhile, agreed to acquire AI platform Hugging Face for about $13 billion, a deal that would put its three French co-founders into the billionaire ranks while preserving Hugging Face’s open-platform model, according to the report. In crypto, spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $731 million in net inflows on Sept. 3 U.S. time, led by BlackRock’s IBIT at $454 million. Spot Ether ETFs added another $141 million. Polymarket launched perpetual contracts across crypto, equities, and commodities, while Ethena said its fee switch proposal passed unanimously, clearing the way for programmatic ENA buybacks. The report also tracks a sharp response from AMC CEO Adam Aron, who said Robinhood’s tokenized stock plan involving AMC and more than 190 companies was unauthorized and unregistered under U.S. securities law. Elsewhere, a Guangzhou court ruled that a virtual-currency lending contract was invalid and said losses should be calculated using acquisition cost. Binance Alpha listings, funding for Diameter Pay, Oura’s U.S. IPO filing, and a series of high-return meme-token trades also featured in the day’s developments.

Binance announced on September 4 that it will add monitoring tags to four tokens: AVA, GNS, SCR, and TOWNS. The monitoring tag is used to mark tokens with potentially higher volatility or risk, alerting users to exercise caution. The tags can be viewed on the Binance trading interface.

Towns co-founders Ben and Pat said the protocol they built with Brian over five years has completed an operational handoff to the Switzerland-based Towns Foundation. The protocol will continue to run as a decentralized communications network, supporting onchain community ownership, end-to-end encrypted messages, programmable identity and native value transfer. Towns said it has more than 1.6 million users, over 400,000 communities and over $40 million in user earnings through the protocol in 2025. The team also said the project has listed on several major exchanges. The new leadership team will keep stewarding the protocol and will appear through official channels in stages. Ben and Pat said they will move on to new ventures while continuing to support the transition on a part-time basis, and thanked the team, investors, node operators, exchange partners, developers, $TOWNS holders and community members. They also said they look forward to the foundation advancing Towns at the intersection of decentralized communications and AI.

Fresh market data shows Towns Protocol reached an all-time high of $0.08, while the token now trades 96.08% below that level. Circulating supply stands at 3 billion, with a maximum supply of 15.33 billion.

KuCoin data shows TOWNS reached an all-time high of $0.08 and is now 96.08% below that level, with 3 billion tokens in circulation against a maximum supply of 15.33 billion.

Towns Protocol's TOWNS token has dropped 96.08% from its all-time high of $0.08. With 3B in circulation and a max supply of 15.33B, the token currently trades near $0.003 despite a 32.94% rebound from its all-time low.

Coinbase has enabled USDC sends and receives on Base for New York users, plans to list WCT on Optimism, and added USELESS to its roadmap. Meanwhile, trading for ERN and FX will be suspended due to project-related technical and operational issues.

Coinbase enabled Base USDC transfers for New York users, plans to add WCT on Optimism, and placed USELESS on its roadmap. At the same time, the exchange will suspend trading of ERN and FX due to project-related technical issues.