Topic: #finance
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Token Terminal puts tokenized real-world assets at $46.2 billion on 35 to 36 chains
Onchain real-world assets, excluding stablecoins, reached about $46.2 billion in late September, according to Token Terminal data reported by Crypto Briefing. Rival tracker rwa.xyz counted $38.61 billion.
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Drift opens DFX recovery token claims for users hit by April incident
Drift launched DFX, a Solana recovery token that gives April incident victims one token per verified USDT lost, each redeemable from a Recovery Pool holding about 3.1 million USDT, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Varys, Verda report: only 16 of 494 LATAM stablecoin firms focus on liquidity
A Varys Capital and Verda Ventures report mapped 494 firms in Latin America's stablecoin ecosystem and found only 16 focused primarily on wholesale liquidity, corporate treasury and credit.
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Strategy holds STRC Stretch preferred dividend at 12% for October 2026
Strategy kept the annualized dividend rate on its Stretch preferred stock (STRC) at 12% for October 2026, leaving the payout unchanged for a fourth straight month, according to Crypto Briefing.
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XRP open interest on Binance falls 15.3% from six-month high, CryptoQuant data shows
Open interest in XRP derivatives on Binance has fallen 15.3% from its six-month high, according to CryptoQuant data, as traders trimmed leverage on perpetuals and open interest settled near $485 million on October 1.
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Fidelity's FBTC Bitcoin ETF sees $125.58 million outflow on September 30
Investors pulled $125.58 million from Fidelity's spot Bitcoin ETF (FBTC) on September 30, 2026, Crypto Briefing reported, capping a month of sharp swings in US spot Bitcoin ETF flows.
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Solana Co.'s Joseph Chee says China will find a way to manage crypto
Solana Co. executive chairman Joseph Chee said at Korea Blockchain Week that China will eventually find a way to regulate or manage crypto, though mainland bans on trading and mining remain in force.
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MetaMask Staking exits its Lido validators, citing a security incident
MetaMask Staking is exiting its Ethereum validators in the Lido protocol to address a security incident, according to a post on Lido's research forum reported by Crypto Briefing.
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Swiss National Bank's Tschudin: large stablecoins could disrupt monetary policy
Swiss National Bank board member Petra Tschudin said in Zurich on September 30 that large stablecoins could interfere with monetary policy, and called for regulation that keeps central bankers in control.
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CFTC sends two prediction market rules to White House for review
The CFTC submitted two event contract rules to the White House OMB on September 30, per Crypto Briefing. One would widen the swap definition to cover event contracts. The other would exclude casino-style gambling products.
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HANetf lists bitcoin ETCs hedged against the dollar in pounds and euros
HANetf has listed bitcoin exchange-traded commodities on the London Stock Exchange, Xetra and Euronext Paris that hedge pound and euro exposure against the U.S. dollar, with HSBC providing the hedge.
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Pump.fun co-founder outlines near-zero-fee app for Solana and crosschain trades
Pump.fun co-founder Alon Cohen described a mobile and social trading app charging roughly 0% on Solana trades and about 0.1% crosschain, with access to tokens on every chain, per Crypto Briefing.
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Hyperliquid's Jeff Yan pitches on-chain private markets at Korea Blockchain Week 2026
Hyperliquid co-founder Jeff Yan told Korea Blockchain Week 2026 attendees in Seoul that on-chain markets for institution-only asset classes are "socially beneficial," framing the idea as one of access, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Bitget reports 131% reserve ratio days after $387.5 million wallet breach
Bitget's September 29 Proof of Reserves snapshot showed a 131% overall ratio across 19 assets, according to Crypto Briefing, five days after a $387.5 million breach hit its hot and warm wallets.
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Volmex lists Bitcoin implied volatility perpetual futures on Hyperliquid
Volmex Finance listed perpetual futures on its Bitcoin Volmex Implied Volatility Index (BVIV) on Hyperliquid, with up to 5x leverage, hourly funding and a $2 million open-interest cap, Crypto Briefing reported.
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Solana hits 7,699 monthly active programs as funded wallets climb 38.5%
Solana recorded 7,699 monthly active programs in September, Crypto Briefing reported, while Solscan data showed funded wallets rose 38.5% month over month to 16.10 million.
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State Street, Galaxy launch SWEEP tokenized liquidity fund on Solana first
State Street Investment Management and Galaxy Asset Management launched SWEEP, a tokenized fund for stablecoin holders backed mainly by short-duration Treasuries, starting on Solana with Stellar and Ethereum planned.
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Altcoin spot volume hits nearly 4x Bitcoin's, highest ratio since September 2025
Altcoin spot trading volume climbed to nearly four times Bitcoin's, the highest ratio since September 2025, according to Glassnode data reported by Crypto Briefing, as altcoin exchange deposits also rose.
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Robinhood's average daily crypto volume rose 24% in September, Crypto Briefing reports
Robinhood's average daily notional crypto trading volume rose 24% in September versus August, Crypto Briefing reports, though the report gives no full-month total and volumes remain well below 2025 levels.
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Iran crypto mining drains 14% of summer grid deficit, Majlis warns
Iran's Majlis Research Center found that cryptocurrency mining operations consume 930–1,200 megawatts of electricity, representing roughly 14% of the country's power deficit during peak summer months and draining $1.5 billion annually in diesel fuel costs.
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Payward Builds Unified Crypto-Equities Infrastructure With $2.65B in Acquisitions
Payward, Kraken's parent company, is transforming itself into financial infrastructure through $2.65 billion in acquisitions and major investments from Nasdaq and Deutsche Börse, aiming to bridge crypto and traditional equity markets—but regulatory and integration risks remain steep.
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Nomic Foundation launches slang-solx compiler with 5x speed gains for Ethereum
The Nomic Foundation released slang-solx, an LLVM-based Solidity compiler backend, on September 7, 2026, achieving up to 5x faster compilation speeds in via-IR mode. The Solidity core team followed with version 0.8.37, adding security fixes and support for the SLOTNUM opcode tied to the Amsterdam EVM upgrade.
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Binance lists Hyperliquid's HYPE token for spot trading
Binance has listed HYPE, the native token of Layer-1 trading protocol Hyperliquid, for spot trading. The listing follows perpetual futures contracts available since May 2025, though the token's rapid appreciation and large airdrop distribution present volatility risks for new investors.
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Xaman wallet hits 735,000 users, strains XRPL node capacity
Xaman, the XRP Ledger's primary mobile wallet, has grown to 735,000 active users—a 45.8% increase from the prior period—straining some node infrastructure and triggering a targeted fix from protocol developers.