According to Beating AI News, a group of young women in Silicon Valley have recently emerged who use their selfies, good looks, and social charm to market startups. Among them, the most popular are the "Corgi girls" from the AI insurance company Corgi.

Corgi sells rather mundane corporate insurance, yet a group of young female employees responsible for community and growth frequently post selfies, organize events, and manage personal accounts on X. Community leader Brooke LeBlanc even directly calls herself "Chief Corgi Girl Officer," and Corgi's official account also reposts this content.

Corgi girls are not an isolated case. Mantis CEO Georgia Witchel recently dubbed this trend Silicon Valley's "Hot Girl Renaissance." She observed that more and more young women are using selfies to promote startups. She believes that Silicon Valley used to be about "geeks selling to geeks"; now, vibe coding has lowered the barrier to entry for software development, and simply being able to create complex products is no longer enough—you also need to be charismatic.

The AI dating app Known quickly validated this approach once again. It had initially approached the *San Francisco Standard* for coverage, but the publication wasn't interested. The founders then created a "San Francisco's Hot List," allowing users to nominate the most dateable people in San Francisco. Within 24 hours, it received over 15,000 nominations, and the media began reporting on it. Corgi's Brooke LeBlanc also made the list.

Silicon Valley used to say "the product speaks for itself," but now they've realized that whether a product can speak for itself is unimportant; the person speaking for the product should first and foremost be good-looking.

According to BlockBeats, on September 6, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin, a news trader preemptively bought in within one second after Binance announced the launch of the Hakimi contract, paying a total of 40.8 BNB (approximately $31,000) in node bribes and gas fees. He then sold most of his holdings, making a profit of approximately $378,000.

The announcement, posted at 13:55:12, stated that the trader paid a bribe of 35.3 BNB (approximately $26,800) to the BNB48 Club node within one second to purchase 9.89 million Hakimi for 264.7 BNB (approximately $200,000) via a private RPC channel, at a purchase price of approximately $0.02. Additionally, they paid a gas fee of 5.5 BNB (approximately $4,200).

Subsequently, other traders bought in, pushing up the price, and the trader then sold most of his position in batches at a price of about $0.058.

According to BlockBeats, on September 6th, data from defillama shows that amidst the Meme token hype, Robinhood Chain's protocol revenue reached $2.61 million yesterday and $22.45 million over the past 7 days. As an Ethereum L2 platform built on Arbitrum Orbit, Robinhood Chain is required to share 10% of its net protocol revenue with the Arbitrum ecosystem. Arbitrum, which provides the technology stack, received approximately $2.48 million in the past 7 days (DAO + developer fund). Meanwhile, Uniswap on Robinhood, a DEX, generated $609,234 in protocol revenue yesterday and $3.36 million over the past 7 days.

It's worth noting that the revenue the Ethereum mainnet receives from Ronbinhood as a settlement layer is minimal. According to growthepie data, Robinhood Chain paid $1,270 in settlement fees to the Ethereum mainnet yesterday, and a total of $3,550 in the last seven days.

This phenomenon has sparked heated discussions in the community. Renowned DeFi researcher Ignas pointed out that this structure, where the platform earns a large share while the settlement layer receives almost nothing, raises the question of whether it's a problem for Ethereum. Ethereum may currently be using low-rent fees to introduce TradeFi into its ecosystem, waiting for user migration costs to become high enough before increasing its commission. If the official roadmap truly includes a strategy of "first attracting a large number of L2 users, then monetizing to L1 after switching costs become high," this could be beneficial for ETH. However, this approach is not currently visible in Ethereum's roadmap.

Arbitrum co-founder Steven Goldfede stated that Robinhood chose Arbitrum to act as a landlord, not a tenant, allowing them to control their own sorting system and pocket the majority of the fees.