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Source: CryptoQuant Crucially, $BTC-denominated OI also climbed to 125,830 $BTC, confirming traders opened fresh positions rather than merely benefiting from higher prices. As a result, this speculative increase in Open Interest propelled Binance’s overall OI dominance to 37.1%, thereby focusing even more leverage on one exchange, which will be capable of amplifying price movements via liquidations much faster. $BTC, however, fell under $80,000 after Binance’s OI cooled off to $9.67 billion. Thus, there may already have been some unwinding of excess leverage. Source: CryptoQuant That reset could improve the rally’s structure by reducing liquidation risk. Still, Futures demand cannot sustain…

Code ‘FRIDAY’ provides instant access while supplies last The mechanism is simple. Anyone who enters “FRIDAY” gets immediate entry into the Aave mobile app, but only until the available passes run out. That built-in scarcity is doing a lot of the marketing work — it turns a routine product update into something people feel they need to act on quickly, rather than a feature they’ll get around to eventually. Purpose and Promotion of the Ghost Pass Initiative Aave’s goal with the Ghost Pass push is to generate momentum before the mobile app’s official debut, turning early adopters into a kind…

“If every household used AI agents to optimize the return on their cash balances, banks could lose a large share of the cheap deposits they rely on to make loans, which would be a problem for the entire financial system,” he noted. Agentic finance refers to AI that acts rather than just answers. These agents can monitor balances in real time, compare returns across institutions, move idle cash into higher-yield accounts and move it back in time for bills. Estimates of the market’s size vary widely. Mordor Intelligence puts agentic AI in financial services at $7.78 billion in 2026 and…

What Lisk shuts down on October 31, 2026 and what keeps running Lisk is one of the oldest names in the industry. The project launched in 2016 with a network of its own, moved to a layer-2 architecture in 2024, and announced in August 2026 that it would refocus the business entirely on payment and treasury software for companies. A layer-2 chain is a network in its own right that bundles its transactions and writes the proofs for them into Ethereum; security therefore comes from Ethereum, while execution happens alongside it. That chain is now being closed. Three things are…

What’s Capping the Rally Soloway identified two separate bear flag trend lines from earlier price action that, when extended forward, converge right around where the current rally has stalled. He described the alignment as coincidental but notable, calling it the technical reason the rally has been “capped” for now. He was careful to note this doesn’t rule out a breakout, and said recent price action has looked “very, very good” overall. What a Higher High Would Signal If Bitcoin breaks above the $82,865 pivot, Soloway said that alone wouldn’t guarantee a bull market, but it would represent the first higher…

Lowered Fixed Asset Under Management Fee Under the previous model, EarnUSD charged a flat 1% AUM fee regardless of how the vault performed in a given period. That figure has now dropped to just 0.2%, a reduction that lowers the baseline cost of simply holding the asset. In practice, this means users pay far less in quiet or underperforming periods than they did before. Increased Performance Fee and Impact on Cost The trade-off comes on the other side of the ledger: the performance fee climbs from 10% to 15%. This matters because it shifts more of Lido’s revenue toward periods…

Tether and Shiga will address these challenges through ENTA and Pulse. ENTA will allow individuals, high-net-worth users and businesses to fund self-custodial wallets with local currency, U.S. dollars or Bitcoin, then hold and transfer USD₮, Bitcoin and XAU₮. Pulse will enable banks, fintech companies and other institutions to build digital asset products around specific payment corridors, treasury operations and settlement flows. Rather than providing a generic wallet interface, Shiga will tailor Pulse to the way each institution and market moves money. WDK will provide the open-source wallet infrastructure underlying both products. Through a single integration, Shiga can support the blockchain…

Price Action Breakdown Solana’s current price remains at $0 with no reported volume over the last 24 hours. Despite these numbers, the significant revenue generated by its applications points to a promising internal economy. Traders are paying close attention to Solana’s performance metrics, especially as they reflect broader market dynamics. The growth in revenue from Solana apps could lead to increased trading activity and investment interest in the network’s future. Solana is designed to provide high-speed and low-cost transactions, making it an attractive platform for decentralized applications (dApps). The network’s ability to process transactions efficiently places it in a competitive…

I take the opposite side of that.My basic reasons are that I am quite optimistic about cybersecurity in the long term and I see the primary problem as being getting the transition, and I expect $BTC to handle at least any issues that do not require social consensus well… — vitalik.eth (@VitalikButerin) September 7, 2026 Buterin sees transition risk rather than cryptographic collapse Buterin said he remains optimistic about cybersecurity over the long term. In his view, the main risk lies in managing the transition to a world where attackers and defenders both use increasingly capable AI systems. He separated…

Uniswap v4 hooks for AML/CFT and investor protection, inside the liquidity pool.That’s part of the DeFi Gateway. SMBC Nikko and Nethermind co-lead it and have signed an MOU with Uniswap, Base, and Nyx Foundation to build it for investors in Japan.https://t.co/Lyn2gVsh3t pic.twitter.com/w7uLL8s6j2 — Nethermind (@Nethermind) October 2, 2026 How will Japan’s DeFi Gateway work? The Oct. 2 release says the partners plan an open framework for liquidity pools using Uniswap v4 hooks. The proposed hooks would add anti-money laundering, counterterrorism financing and investor protection mechanisms around pool activity. Uniswap Labs introduced Permissioned Pools in July, using a v4 hook standard…