According to CoinWorld, Google researchers and a team at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) are exploring mobile phone cluster computing, planning to repurpose the motherboards of 2,000 retired Pixel smartphones into a low-carbon cloud data center to provide low-cost, low-carbon cloud computing resources for faculty and students. The research team removed unnecessary components such as screens, batteries, casings, and cameras from the old phones, retaining only the motherboards to reduce hidden carbon emissions. They replaced the original Android user space with a general-purpose Linux distribution, bypassing memory limitations. Every 25 to 50 phone motherboards are divided into a self-managed cluster, using Kubernetes for containerized application scheduling. Preliminary experiments show that a micro-cluster of 20 phones can stably handle peak assignment submissions from over 75 students in a parallel computing course. The team estimates that the overall computing power of the 2,000-phone system is equivalent to approximately 50 traditional servers, and it is expected to officially launch in the fall of 2026.

According to CoinWorld, on-chain analyst AI Yi reports that a team from the University of Cambridge and the University of Chicago has open-sourced DecentMem, a multi-agent memory framework that uses decentralized private memory instead of globally shared memory. Traditional systems commonly use shared memory, causing agents to converge to similar decision paths, thus eliminating the advantages of specialization. DecentMem's core concept is that collaboration relies on cognitive differences, preserving private memory to maintain complementary paths. This framework allows agents to maintain their own dedicated dual-pool memory, using the e-pool to store historical experience and the x-pool to generate new ideas. An online decision-maker dynamically adjusts the dual-pool call weights based on the scores from a large language model, helping agents balance development and exploration. In tests with autogen, dylan, and agentnet, DecentMem achieved an average performance improvement of 8.6% compared to the centralized memory baseline, with a 23.8% improvement in optimal scenarios, while halving token consumption. Research found that the more collaboration relies on impromptu discussions, the more pronounced the advantages of decentralization become. In the dylan framework, which emphasizes free negotiation, the number of iterations required to achieve equivalent performance is reduced by approximately 60%, and the convergence speed is improved by approximately 2.5 times.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Markets Regulatory Division announced today that it has issued exemptions to Designated Contract Markets (DCMs), allowing them to convert existing "quasi-perpetual structure" digital commodity futures contracts into true perpetual futures contracts. This policy extends previous regulatory clarifications and explicitly applies to digital commodities such as Bitcoin, which have deep, active, and continuously traded spot markets. According to the document, DCMs can remove the expiration date of existing contracts and convert them into true perpetual contracts after meeting certain conditions, but must fulfill the following requirements: soliciting feedback from position holders, providing advance notice and closing opportunities, full risk disclosure, and ensuring that other key contract terms are not modified. Simultaneously, exchanges must submit amended documents in accordance with CFTC Rules 40.5 or 40.6 and complete compliance certification.

Odaily Planet Daily reports that India's 2026 tax season will impose stricter compliance requirements on crypto investors. While the tax framework remains largely unchanged, enforcement and reporting details have been significantly tightened, making the potential consequences of reporting errors more severe. India will implement the new Income Tax Act (2025) from April 1, 2026, replacing the original 1961 Act. For the FY2025-26 tax year, crypto assets (VDAs) will still need to be reported according to the existing framework, but enforcement requirements will be further refined. Scheduled VDAs require investors to report on a "transaction-by-transaction" basis, rather than just summarizing net gains, covering every transaction, exchange, and asset disposal record. For users involved in cross-platform trading, DeFi operations, and multi-wallet transfers, data integrity and consistency will be a key challenge. Analysis indicates that failure to fully report any crypto asset exchange or transaction could trigger a compliance risk review, and regulators are increasing their requirements for data matching and verification of on-chain/exchange records. (The Times of India)

According to CoinWorld, Databricks' open-source meta-deployment tool, Omnigent, has been released under the Apache 2.0 license, supporting cross-agent composition and security control. Omnigent runs on top of existing agent deployment tools such as Claude Code, Codex, and Pi, transforming agents from different frameworks into interoperable system components, addressing industry pain points such as incompatible tool interfaces and difficulties in collaboration and control. The system directly implements stateful control policies at the meta-deployment layer, eliminating reliance on cue words and supporting security controls based on dynamic states. To prevent sensitive information leakage, the framework integrates an operating system sandbox that intercepts and transforms network requests and provides URL-based real-time session sharing, allowing team members to collaborate within the same workspace. Users can interact with deployed agents via web, mobile, native macOS applications, and APIs.