Odaily News From May 2 to May 5, the "Build with AI" hackathon hosted by Google Developer Group (GDG) was held at Constructor University. Bitget participated in the exchange as a sponsor of the event to jointly explore the integration potential of Web3 and AI. During the three-day event, participants used Google development tools to build AI-based models and product prototypes, fully demonstrating technological innovation capabilities and practical results. Earlier news, Bitget launched a campus recruitment plan as part of Bitget's "Blockchain4Youth" corporate social responsibility (CSR) program, targeting top universities around the world, selecting outstanding graduates with international vision, innovative thinking and exploratory spirit, and is committed to cultivating more potential new generation forces in the Web3 field.

<p>Odaily News Ethereum’s Pectra upgrade was successfully activated on the Sepolia testnet on March 5, 2025, marking the final stage of the upgrade before the mainnet launch. The upgrade aims to improve Ethereum’s scalability, security, and usability. Key improvements include:<br/> Crypto wallet user experience and account abstraction (EIP-7702): Improve user experience and enhance account management flexibility.<br/> Increase the validator staking limit (EIP-7251): Increase the validator staking limit from 32 ETH to 2,048 ETH to enhance network security.<br/> Rollup scalability enhancement (EIP-7691): Improve the scalability of rollups by increasing the maximum number of blobs.<br/> The upgrade will further support Ethereum’s Dencun hard fork in March 2024, and the mainnet activation date is scheduled to be determined at the All Core Developers meeting on March 6, 2025. The mainnet launch is expected to take place in early April 2025. (TheBlock)<br/></p>

<p>Odaily News The Coinbase Developer Platform (CDP) AI Hackathon announced the list of winners, and the DeFAI project Mamoriko won the first prize. It is reported that the project is an AI agent that can find the best return for USDC on Base and safely optimize the return of users. The second prize was won by the AI-driven social media marketing protocol TweetBounty. The Best Infrastructure Award was won by BitMind, a decentralized reputation system that ensures trust, promotes transparency and accountability by verifying AI claims in real time.</p>

Odaily News At the 2024 Hong Kong SmartCon conference held by Chainlink, Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov released a series of new features of CCIP (Chainlink Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol): autonomous deployment, token developer attestation, programmable transfers, flexible developer control, deep defense security, no liquidity pool, and zero slippage transfers. Sergey Nazarov also emphasized how CCIP programmable transfers support one-click staking on Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism chains, making Chainlink a composable layer for LSTFi and LRTFi. &quot;The ultimate goal of the above upgrades and innovations is to establish a global contract network with CCIP and CRE to provide high-quality, high-security, and low-fee services to further increase adoption.&quot;

Odaily News The Stacks Foundation posted on X that core developers said the Nakamoto testnet hard fork planned for this week was successfully activated. Please note that the testnet may be reset over the weekend to eliminate some issues found by core developers. During the testnet upgrade, core developers found some bugs related to the way nodes communicate about the retention period extension. The testnet is mostly running normally, and core developers are working to eliminate the last few issues and hope to make slight adjustments to the mainnet hard fork blocks. Updates on the details of the hard fork are planned to be released before October 4.

Odaily News Arbitrum Developers announced on X that the ArbOS 32 upgrade has been completed on Arbitrum One, Nova, and Sepolia. If users are running nodes on these networks and have not yet upgraded, please upgrade your nodes to at least Arbitrum Nitro v3.2.0 immediately. For Validator nodes, please upgrade to v3.2.1. This upgrade was coordinated with the Security Council, which approved an emergency action to address (1) incorrect pricing issues in Arbitrum Stylus, which could lead to denial of service attacks; (2) issues that allow malicious contracts to cause node crashes; (3) incorrect pricing issues where Stylus contracts were overcharged for SLOAD operations. No funds are at risk. In addition, the team will soon release a full analysis report.

Odaily News Arbitrum Developers posted on X that the Arbitrum Security Council is planning to perform emergency actions to activate ArbOS 32 in the next few days. The v3.2.0 version contains security fixes activated by the new upgraded ArbOS 32. The source code will be provided at 10 am EST on Tuesday before the upgrade operation begins. Earlier news, Arbitrum Developers announced that Arbitrum Nitro v3.2.0 has been released and relevant parties need to upgrade to this version as soon as possible.

Odaily News Arbitrum Developers posted on X that the new Arbitrum Nitro v3.2.0 is now available and can be found at offchainlabs/nitronode:v3.2.0-f847be0. This version will include stability fixes and other changes, and does not include any configuration changes from v3.1.2. If users are running nodes on Arbitrum One, Nova, or Sepolia, they need to upgrade to Nitro v3.2.0 to avoid downtime. This upgrade is mandatory and should be performed immediately. Please try to upgrade to this version within 48 hours (as of 10:00 on September 24) to avoid node downtime. For RaaS providers, if you are running a chain on ArbOS 31, please upgrade to Nitro v3.2.0 and ArbOS 32 immediately.

Odaily News Coinbase Developer Platform announced on the X platform that it has launched a &quot;one-stop-shop&quot; platform for all Demo APPs, where developers can find examples built using the CDP SDK and other CDP tools, including Coinbase&#39;s AI wallet demo, automatic payments, etc.

Odaily News According to the Developer Report, Ethereum still leads in terms of the number of monthly active developers, with 2,788 full-time developers and more than 8,865 total developers as of July 1, while Coinbase’s Base blockchain ranks second with 889 full-time developers and 3,991 total developers. However, Ethereum’s annual developer count fell by 10%, while Base’s grew by 14%.