According to Beating AI, Digua Robotics, incubated by Horizon Robotics, has completed a $400 million Series C funding round, led by Mirae Asset Management, with participation from Meituan and other strategic investors. Digua does not manufacture complete robots; it primarily provides robot computing chips and software/hardware development platforms. This is its third major funding round this year. In March and April, the company completed a $120 million Series B1 round and a $150 million Series B2 round, respectively, raising a total of $670 million in six months, with a cumulative publicly disclosed funding of approximately $770 million.

The company stated that cumulative shipments of its Sunrise series chips have exceeded 8 million units, with revenue in the first half of 2026 increasing several times year-on-year. The Sunrise S600, designed for embodied intelligence, has been adopted by more than 20 customers, including UBTECH, Independent Variable, and Qianxun Intelligent. When the company disclosed this in July, most projects were still in the real-device adaptation and scenario testing phase; this time, the company claims that most have entered mass production and shipment.

Sweet Potato's approach is more like that of a "shovel seller" in the robotics industry. A single chip and development platform serves different products, including humanoid, industrial wheeled, and consumer robots. This round of financing will not only continue to expand Sunrise Chip, but will also build a software platform covering data acquisition, model training, simulation verification, and edge deployment, completing the entire toolchain from robot training to installation.

BlockBeats reported on September 17th that the Arc team, a public blockchain under Circle, announced early this morning that the minting of ARC tokens has been completed, with a total supply of 10 billion tokens. The announcement stated that this is a technical milestone for the Arc mainnet, aimed at facilitating the future transition to PoS consensus.

The announcement also emphasizes that the ARC token is not yet listed, tradable, publicly available, or activated for staking, governance, fees, or utility functions. The Arc network currently still uses Proof-of-Authority. Future ARC features and activations are subject to change.

According to the previous white paper, the ARC token allocation plan is as follows: 60% to the ecosystem (token sale, developer funding, network growth); 25% to Circle (protocol development, staking and governance); and 15% to the long-term reserve (strategic flexibility and economic stability).

According to BlockBeats, on September 17th, LITE was trading at $922.59, up 9.31% in the last 24 hours; MRVL was trading at $233.22, up 4.98%. A whale holding two long positions in optical interconnects on Hyperliquid, starting with 0x45c3, currently has a total position value of approximately $2.3879 million. Its unrealized profit/loss improved by approximately $165,600 in the past 24 hours, narrowing its overall unrealized loss to approximately $24,900.

The LITE position turned a profit. The address held 1504.2 long LITE contracts with a 3x leveraged position, worth approximately $1.387 million, at an average price of $907. With LITE rising to $922.59, the current unrealized profit is approximately $23,400, representing a return of approximately 5.14%.

MRVL has not yet returned above the cost line. This address holds 4288.5 long positions in MRVL, worth approximately $1,000,200, with an average entry price of $244.4; the current price is $233.2, still showing a floating loss of approximately $48,000, representing a return of approximately -13.8%.

According to BlockBeats, on September 17th, on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa) monitored that GSR Markets is suspected of being a market maker for LSK, a cryptocurrency that has recently experienced wild price fluctuations. Six hours ago, the multi-signature address 0xCAa…B0C02 transferred 9.2 million LSK (US$6.52 million) to address 0x9c7…0C04D. Subsequently, 2 million LSK were deposited into the GSR Binance deposit address. A similar operation occurred nine months ago.

LSK briefly surged to $2.37 over the weekend, a nearly tenfold increase, but has since plummeted to $0.5084 (a 78.5% drop in market capitalization).