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Decentralized perpetual trading volume is set for a massive month in October, having just passed a record $1 trillion with a week still to spare as traders place big bets on the crypto markets. The $1 trillion milestone has already beaten August’s record of $762 billion by a considerable margin, according to data from DeFiLlama. While Hyperliquid leads October with $317.6 billion in trading volume, Lighter, Aster, and edgeX have also fared well, seeing $255.4 billion, $177.6 billion and $134.7 billion, respectively, with the rest made up of smaller decentralized exchanges. Those platforms contributed to a record $78 billion in…

Ethereum ETH$3,973.03 emerged as the frontrunner in crypto’s third-quarter recovery, leaving bitcoin BTC$106,931.06 behind as capital flowed into altcoins, DeFi protocols, and a new wave of tokenized assets, a report by CoinCecko found. The broader market added over half a trillion dollars in value, its second straight quarter of meaningful growth, but this time, it wasn’t bitcoin leading the charge. Instead, investors looked to ethereum ETH$3,973.03 and other large-cap tokens to carry momentum forward, a report by CoinCecko found. At the start of July, it looked like bitcoin would again set the pace. Its price hit new highs early in…

If 2023–2024 saw tokenized Treasuries play the role of a “first stage,” then 2025 marks a clear shift, with capital gradually flowing into Private Credit and other higher-yield products. In 2025, on-chain capital is no longer just about stablecoins and staking. A new asset class — Real World Assets (RWA) — has taken center stage, as crypto investors seek yield from traditional financial instruments “wrapped” in token form. RWA 2025: The Big Picture According to the Dune x RWA 2025 report, the total value of tokenized assets continues to grow strongly, reaching approximately USD 30.26 billion. Among these, U.S. Treasuries…

Binance has been asked to tighten its risk and compliance standards following on-site inspections from the French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority. Summary French authorities have been conducting extensive compliance inspections on Binance, Coinhouse, and other registered crypto platforms to assess their anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing measures. The scrutiny adds to Binance’s long history of regulatory challenges, including past investigations in the U.S. and Australia over AML violations. According to a recent Bloomberg report, French authorities have been carrying out control checks on Binance and dozens of other exchanges since late last year. The effort was made to determine…

The US Secretary of Energy has urged the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to write new rules that will make it faster for large electricity consumers, such as AI data centers and Bitcoin mining operations, to directly connect to the power grid. In a letter released on Thursday, US Energy Secretary Chris Wright asked the FERC, the independent agency that regulates the interstate electricity grid, to grant expedited reviews and create standardized procedures for large electricity users to hook directly into the high-voltage transmission system, not just local power lines. The high-voltage transmission system has a higher voltage capacity than…

Velora, a cross-chain decentralized exchange platform, has announced its strategic partnership with Polygon Portal, a platform for users, developers, and validators to manage assets. Polygon Portal is a strong infrastructure tool developed by Polygon Labs. The purpose behind this partnership is to ensure the fast, secure, and gasless cross-chain decentralized finance (DeFi) trading across the world. 🚀 @VeloraDEX has integrated @0xPolygon Portal to offer native, trustless crosschain access to the Polygon PoS, zkEVM, and LxLy networks.#Velora’s integration with Polygon Portal brings faster, safer, and gasless crosschain trading and DeFi execution, expanding Velora’s… — 🟣 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐲𝐠𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐞 🟣 (@Polygon_Space1) October 23,…

Ethereum remains in a range phase following the recent market rebound, but continues to hold above key institutional demand zones. The market has entered a period of consolidation between structural supports and resistances, suggesting that the next decisive move will likely be driven by liquidity displacement from this range. Technical Analysis By Shayan The Daily Chart On the daily timeframe, Ethereum continues to trade between two major zones: the institutional supply area around $4.6K–$4.7K and the institutional demand zone near $3.4K–$3.5K. After losing the channel’s lower trendline support earlier this month, the asset has now retested it from below, confirming…

GM CT! 💙🌅Latest update: 👇👇👇@trylimitless brings the heat—0DTE markets, matching NASDAQ’s 80% volume, power $490M+ trades on Base. 🤯📈37K traders are crushing crypto and stock bets, no liquidations. pic.twitter.com/icyTd2LhNO — Deviled Meggs (@Deviled_meggs_) October 17, 2025 @trylimitless is creating huge traffic on Base. The traders carried out more than 490 million 0DTE trades. The site now competes with NASDAQ, 80% of which is 0DTE options. The boom illuminates the increased use of intraday trading techniques. According to analysts some 37,000 of the traders are trading actively without causing liquidations. This is because positions can be expired on the same day…

Decentralized finance (DeFi) is awash with stablecoins earning Treasury yields, while smaller players in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry struggle to raise capital for expanding data centers with new GPUs. A new stablecoin protocol called USD.AI wants to bridge that gap by turning crypto’s idle liquidity into loans for the machines that train and run artificial intelligence. The protocol, which now counts about $345 million in circulation, according to a Dune Dashboard, backs its synthetic dollar with short-term credit tied to NVIDIA GPUs housed in data centers rented out to AI developers. Those GPUs generate revenue by selling compute time…

Ethereum developer Federico Carrone says the growing influence of corporations such as Paradigm on the network could be “tail risk” for the Ethereum ecosystem. In a post on Sunday, the Ethereum core dev, who goes by “Fede’s intern” on X, argued that while Paradigm has “created valuable things for the community,” he is worried about the growing influence of a venture fund whose ultimate goals are driven by profit and influence. “I’ve been saying for the past two years that the influence of @paradigm within Ethereum could become a relevant tail risk for the ecosystem. I believe this will become…