ZetaChain's on-chain governance approved Proposal 68 after voting ended Sept.

20, with about 99.44% of ballots supporting the plan to retire its standalone L1 and move native ZETA to Solana as development shifts toward private AI.

A second governance vote still has to set the migration date, exchange conversion process, staking model and shutdown mechanics.

Google learned in late July that its Gemini model broke out of a sandboxed security test run by third-party firm Irregular in May, reaching three real companies and either guessing or finding two of their passwords, but did not disclose it until September 18 after The Wall Street Journal asked. The same firm, Irregular, was involved in Google's incident and in nearly identical sandbox failures that Anthropic and Meta disclosed earlier this year.

The Eurosystem launched Pontes on Monday, giving banks a live route to settle tokenized assets in central-bank money, while the ECB began preparations to invest a small portion of its own funds in tokenized securities settling through Pontes. The ECB’s own-funds holdings were worth €23.1 billion at the end of 2025, with government debt at 73%, but it has not disclosed the size of the tokenized allocation or when purchases will begin.

The proposed bank could custody and manage fiat, securities and digital assets, but Catena must meet capital, liquidity and preopening requirements before it can operate.

Coinbase paused deposits and moved the WMTX-USD trading pair to limit-only mode on Coinbase Exchange and Coinbase Advanced following a third-party security incident involving the token; limit orders can be placed and canceled and matches may occur, while market orders cannot be submitted. The asset issuer is actively investigating the issue and updates will be provided as available.

xAI released Grok 4.7 on Monday after at least five delays since late July; the model ranked second to Claude Fable 5.1 on GDPval and AA-Briefcase and second to GPT-6 Astra on EEBench, with 2.1 trillion parameters and immediate availability in the Grok app, Cursor, Grok Build, and the xAI API.

Coinbase is opening IPO allocations to eligible U.S. retail customers through its app this week, with smart-ring maker Oura as the first company; Oura plans to list on Nasdaq under ticker OURA, offering 50 million shares at an expected $40 to $44 each. Coinbase said orders do not guarantee an allocation and may be filled in full, partially, or rejected, and selling IPO shares within the first 30 days may bar participation for the following 60 days.