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Bitcoin BTC$111,480.33 miner CleanSpark (CLSK) ended September with record production and a growing BTC treasury as it wrapped up a transformative fiscal year, the company said in a press release Friday. The Las Vegas-based mining firm produced 629 bitcoin during the month, averaging nearly 21 coins a day, and sold 445 BTC for about $49 million at an average price of $109,568. Its operational hashrate averaged 45.6 EH/s with fleet efficiency reaching 16.07 J/Th. The company’s holdings rose to more than 13,000 self-mined BTC, underscoring its strategy of using bitcoin as a core treasury asset. Over the past year, CleanSpark…

Ethereum gaming metaverse The Sandbox will soon have its own creator-focused blockchain called SANDChain, an Ethereum layer-2 network built with the ZK Stack.  SANDChain aims to become the home for creators on-chain, enabling them to own their content, generate money from their identities, and manage their communities without losing out to the platforms they create on.  “By leveraging The Sandbox’s existing ecosystem, which includes over 8 million users, 400+ brand partnerships, and the SAND token, we’re laying the foundation for the ‘Creator Nation’: a decentralized economy designed to empower creativity at scale,” The Sandbox co-founder and SANDChain ambassador Sébastian Borget…

Decentralized exchange (DEX) PancakeSwap set a new quarterly record in Q3 with $749 billion in trading volumes, marking a 42% increase from Q2. In Q2, the platform recorded $529 billion, following $205.3 billion in Q1, marking the first time since its 2020 launch that PancakeSwap has posted three consecutive quarters of record growth, according to data from Dune. PancakeSwap Quarterly Volume The PancakeSwap team told The Defiant that the top token pairs by volume for Q3 included BR-USDT ($80.72 billion), USDT-WLFI ($72.20 billion), and KOGE-USDT ($66.52 billion). The DEX also reached a new all-time high of 11.8 million users in…

Starlynk, Changer.ae, and Quantoz Payments are partnering to launch cross-border stablecoin payment corridors, with Shanghai Tang joining the initiative as the first international retailer to accept EURQ and USDQ for in-store and online purchases. Summary New payment corridors span Europe, Asia, and the UAE for both retail and corporate clients. Changer.ae and Quantoz create the first regulated UAE-Europe stablecoin corridor with custody, conversion, and escrow services. Shanghai Tang becomes the first international retailer to accept EURQ and USDQ for physical and online purchases. Starlynk Group, Changer.ae, and Quantoz Payments have announced a series of strategic partnerships aimed at expanding global…

Fresh report recognizes KiteAI’s role in establishing synergy between Web3, blockchain and AI agent ecosystems. With $33 million in funding from PayPal Ventures and General Catalyst, KiteAI pushes the barriers of AI agents’ performance and interoperability. KiteAI builds an L1 for agentic economy: Report KiteAI, an EVM-compatible layer-1 blockchain, is building the next generation of infrastructure solutions for agentic payments. Its primary focus is enabling secure, high-throughput agentic payments using stablecoins, aiming to become a foundational financial rail for the machine-to-machine economy. We’re excited to share that @MessariCrypto just released their in-depth report on Kite AI: Building the Agentic Economy.Huge…

Pendle Finance is integrating with Plasma’s digital bank to bring its DeFi yield products to global users, including the unbanked, unlocking new opportunities for earning on stablecoins. Summary Five yield markets will launch on Plasma, with APYs ranging from 12.67% (USDe) to 649% (sUSDai). $900,000 in weekly XPL token incentives will support Yield Token holders and liquidity providers. Pendle Finance (PENDLE) has announced its integration with Plasma Foundation’s digital bank, giving global users direct access to its DeFi yield products. At launch, five yield markets will go live on Plasma, with start dates and indicative APYs as follows: sUSDe Pool…

In volatile markets, traders often find themselves caught between patience and impulse. Placing a single limit order at one “perfect” price is often more of a gamble than a strategy. Markets rarely align with exact levels, and a single missed entry can mean lost opportunity or forced decisions at unfavorable prices. Instead of relying on guesswork, professional traders build structured systems that account for multiple scenarios and adapt to volatility. Multi-limit orders offer such a system. By placing a series of limit orders at predefined levels, traders create a ladder of potential entries or exits. This approach distributes risk, reduces…

Circle (CRCL), the crypto company known for its USDC stablecoin, introduced on Wednesday its tokenized U.S. Treasury fund offering to Solana, expanding its footprint to the blockchain known for low-cost transactions and fast settlement times. The move expands the USYC token beyond Ethereum, Near, Base and Canton networks and the planned addition of BNB Chain. USYC is a tokenized version of a short-duration U.S. government money market fund. The fund is redeemable in real time into USDC, Circle’s dollar-backed stablecoin, and is available only to non-U.S. institutional investors who pass know-your-customer (KYC) checks. That makes USYC permissioned by design, in…

The decentralized finance (DeFi) derivatives market has already reached a historic high, as perpetual decentralized exchanges (Perp DEXs) are trading more than $1.143 trillion in September 2025, according to new data on DeFiLlama. It is the first time in history that Perp DEX activity every month has topped the trillion-dollar mark, a nearly 50 percent increase over the estimated August figure of 762 billion. Protocol Leaders in the Trillion-Dollar Surge The boom is symptomatic of a rapidly increasing transition between the centralized exchanges and the decentralized platforms. The numbers recorded in September equate to a daily average of approximately 38…

Ethereum has traded sideways all week, weighed down by renewed selling pressure and steady outflows from spot ETFs. Summary Ethereum price sinks to $4,100 as spot ETF outflows reach $141 million in a single day. Institutional redemptions pressure ETH with seven-day losses of about 7% from recent highs. Technical signals show key support around $4,120 as traders watch for a move below $4,000 Ethereum is trading at $4,180 at press time, down about 0.63% after a modest recovery from its low near $4,070 earlier today. Over the past few days, the second-largest cryptocurrency has moved mostly sideways, down roughly 8%…