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The Solana Foundation recently released an episode of The Stack podcast featuring Daniel Allon, Senior Product Manager at Fireblocks. This episode emphasizes the critical requirements institutions have for DeFi infrastructure and highlights Solana’s unique advantages for high-scale financial workflows. The discussion is particularly relevant as institutional interest in decentralized finance continues to grow and evolve. What Went Down In the past 24 hours, discussions around DeFi infrastructure for institutions have gained traction, reflecting the ongoing interest in how decentralized solutions can meet institutional needs. In the latest episode of The Stack, hosted by @nocircuit, Daniel Allon of Fireblocks provides insights…

Ethereum is hovering around $2,470 on Sept. 10 after a sharp late-August rebound, but the recent slowdown may be setting up a much larger move. A fresh Reuters technical analysis identified a bull flag after Ether rallied roughly 37% in 10 days and peaked near $2,564. Based on the height of that advance, the pattern points to a potential $3,050 target if $ETH breaks out of its current consolidation. The target is not completely arbitrary. Reuters noted that the $3,040–$3,060 region previously acted as resistance, giving the projected move a historical level traders are already familiar with. Ethereum has already…

Zcash Labs launched Aug. 6 to move Zcash deeper into business and institutional use. The independent group is focused on integrations, infrastructure, and adoption projects for companies that want to use $ZEC. Zcash Labs will front project costs and later seek retroactive reimbursement from $ZEC holders with a 20% markup. Its first supported project, zcashtocash, connects $ZEC with Venmo, Revolut, Cash App, Chime, Monzo and Zelle across more than 100 geographies. Ethereum and Solana are pushing confidentiality into larger financial networks. Zcash now has to compete on distribution as aggressively as it has competed on cryptography. Zcash is spreading adoption…

Hyperliquid has introduced a preliminary HIP-3 testnet upgrade that lets independent deployment teams control access to perpetual futures markets through deployer-managed on-chain allowlists. Hyperliquid co-founder Jeffrey Yan said in a testnet proposal that deployers will be able to create permissioned markets and manage their participant lists without handing access decisions to Hyperliquid’s core development team. In a future network upgrade, HIP-3 will support optinal deployer configuration for permissioned markets.This would, for example, allow U.S. investors to access certain markets, or institutional investors that have strict rules. pic.twitter.com/0Ezjtx00D5 — Hyperliquid News (@HyperliquidNews) September 3, 2026 Hyperliquid HIP-3 adds optional on-chain allowlists…

Bitcoin price held near $65,900 on Wednesday after briefly reaching an intraday high above $66,800. The move kept $BTC above the $65,000 level despite another escalation in the US-Iran conflict. President Donald Trump said Washington was not finished with its military campaign and threatened heavy strikes on Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site. Iran warned that any attack on the underground complex would widen the war and trigger further retaliation across the region. Reports of a proposed ten-day ceasefire have not stopped the exchange of attacks. Traders now watch whether steady institutional demand can protect Bitcoin from a risk-off move. Bitcoin…

LlamaRisk has proposed increasing borrowing costs for Ethena’s $USDe across five Aave V3 markets, tightening the economics for positions that borrow the stablecoin and recycle it into yield-bearing sUSDe. The Sept. 9 recommendation would increase $USDe’s base variable borrow rate from 5% to 6% on Core, Plasma, Monad, Mantle, and Avalanche. It would also reduce Slope1 by one percentage point on every deployment. At the utilization levels captured in the proposal, modeled borrower APRs would rise by 13 to 89 basis points across markets holding about $323.8 million of $USDe debt against $1.18 billion supplied. Infographic compares projected Aave $USDe…

Ethereum ($ETH) has slightly dipped below $2,500 on Thursday as modest buying activity in the spot market helped counter subdued demand across derivatives. Although $ETH maintains a bullish technical structure, declining futures participation and recent outflows from US spot Ethereum exchange-traded funds suggest traders remain cautious about the sustainability of the rally. Ethereum futures show limited leverage and weak conviction Significant leverage has yet to return to Ethereum’s derivatives market following the short squeeze that pushed $ETH toward $2,500 in late August. Open interest, which represents the value of outstanding derivatives contracts, has fallen by approximately 1 million $ETH since…

India’s stock market is currently facing a strange phase with significant pressure from an unusual source. While Indian investors continue to explore the market via SIPs and mutual funds, foreign investors are reportedly dumping shares. This growing gap between these two trends has raised questions about the future of Indian equities. Foreign investors are losing interest in Indian stocks According to recent reports, foreign investors are pulling back from Indian stocks. In the first half of 2026 alone, they have sold about a staggering $25.1 billion worth of Indian shares. A major portion of these funds has moved toward other…

Cardano’s Shelley upgrade, launched in July 2020, got one thing right from the start: it let $ADA holders earn staking rewards without ever giving up custody of their coins. Six years later, that design choice still shapes how the network runs, with 21.56 billion $ADA staked across 2,882 active stake pools, according to Cexplorer data cited in recent coverage. What Did Shelley Actually Change? Before Shelley, Cardano ran on the Byron era, which began at mainnet launch in September 2017. Byron was federated, meaning a small set of nodes run by IOG and its partners produced blocks. Shelley replaced that…

Revolut filed with the OCC and FDIC on March 4 to establish Revolut Bank US, an insured national bank that would take deposits, issue credit cards, make loans, and connect directly to Fedwire and $ACH. Nearly six months later, that application remains pending, while federal regulators have spent the same stretch conditionally approving or converting bank charters for Circle, Ripple, Coinbase, Paxos, BitGo and several other crypto firms. Revolut has not been denied, though its application sits under review, and comparing it directly to those crypto approvals misses what each company asked Washington for. A national bank wants more Revolut’s…