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Avalanche’s decentralized exchange (DEX) activity reached a huge milestone in September 2025. As shared by Marc Shawn Brown via X, the network hit $31 billion in DEX trading volume. Since it’s a huge number it shows how Avalanche is getting more traders and investors than ever before. The surge shows that more people are interested in AVAX and DeFi projects. 🚨 BIG: $AVAX saw $31B in DEX Volume in September. pic.twitter.com/z7YjGOacdi — Marc Shawn Brown (@MarcShawnBrown) September 27, 2025 Institutional Backing Adds Momentum Part of Avalanche’s growth comes from big institutional players. AgriFORCE Growing Systems is a company that switched…

Kentucky Sen. Brandon Smith (R-Hazard) is facing two separate legal cases related to a Bitcoin mining repair business he founded in Letcher County, Kentucky. Smith is the CEO and co-founder of Mohawk Energy, which in 2022 pivoted from coal cleanup operations to ASIC repair and other Bitcoin mining services. Local outlet, Lexington Herald Leader, reports that Ricky Dale Cole sued Smith in Letcher Circuit Court in January, accusing the lawmaker of misrepresenting the value of Mohawk Energy. Cole claims that he sold a warehouse to Mohawk, agreeing with Smith to sell the premises below market price in return for a…

Qatar National Bank adopts JPMorgan’s blockchain platform to enable instant 24/7 US dollar corporate payments. The Kinexys system processes $3B daily, signaling growing institutional adoption of blockchain in global finance. The move could boost market sentiment for crypto assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Chainlink. According to Bloomberg, Qatar National Bank (QNB), the largest lender in the Middle East, has taken a major step into blockchain-powered finance. The bank has adopted JPMorgan’s Kinexys Digital Payments platform to process US dollar corporate payments in Qatar, cutting settlement times from days to just minutes. The move marks one of the clearest signs yet…

Solana-based decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Solstice Finance has officially launched its USX stablecoin and YieldVault. USX is fully backed 1:1 by stable collateral, with real-time proof of reserves via the decentralized Chainlink oracle network. The YieldVault program allows USX holders to access delta-neutral, institutional-grade returns by locking their tokens in the protocol. Participants then receive eUSX, which represents their share of the fund’s underlying assets. The launch underscores a growing trend of projects building on Solana for on-chain yield, composability, and fast, low-cost transactions. It also reflects the ongoing competition in the stablecoin space. “Legacy stablecoins maintain majority market share,…

Ethereum may be trading below the $4,200 mark for now, but optimism around its long-term potential remains strong. BitMine Technologies chairman Tom Lee has doubled down on his bullish stance, predicting that Ethereum could triple in value by the end of 2025, reaching between $12,000 and $15,000. Despite recent price struggles, Lee believes that Ethereum is poised to surpass its previous all-time highs and enter what he calls “real price discovery” in the $12,000 to $15,000 range. According to Lee, this projected 200% rally will be driven by new technological trends. He highlighted the growing role of agentic AI and…

In a bold move that has captured the attention of both traditional finance and the cryptocurrency world, NYSE-listed CleanCore Solutions (ZONE) recently announced a monumental step. The company successfully raised an impressive $175 million through a private investment in public equity (PIPE) deal, specifically earmarked for establishing a Dogecoin treasury. This significant fundraise signals a growing trend of corporate adoption of digital assets, and it’s certainly making waves. What is Driving CleanCore’s Vision for a Dogecoin Treasury? CleanCore Solutions had previously disclosed its intentions to invest in Dogecoin (DOGE), and this latest funding round brings those plans to fruition. The…

Washington has a narrow window to deliver clear U.S. crypto rules, Ripple Chief Legal Officer Stuart Alderoty argues, urging lawmakers to “finish the job on crypto clarity.” In an op-ed published Monday on RealClearMarkets, Alderoty said the Securities and Exchange Commission has for the first time listed crypto clarity among its top priorities — signaling that “the time has come” for predictable oversight. He framed the issue as mainstream, not niche, pointing to consumer adoption and polling that shows broad support for stronger guardrails. Alderoty cited several data points to make the case. A National Cryptocurrency Association (NCA) survey with…

Decentralized perpetual futures exchange Hyperliquid has gone from being a market maker to one of the biggest crypto projects in the world. Hyperliquid has processed trillions of dollars in volume in its lifespan and is now the third-largest decentralized exchange in crypto—trailing only industry veterans PancakeSwap and Uniswap. It has been the talk of the town in 2025, but what exactly is Hyperliquid? Why do people care so much about it? And how did it grow to be one of the biggest projects in crypto? What is Hyperliquid? Hyperliquid is a decentralized exchange specializing in perpetual futures trading, built atop…

Soluna Holdings and Canaan Inc. signed a hosting deal to deploy 20 megawatts of Avalon A15 XP bitcoin miners at Soluna’s wind-powered Project Dorothy site in Briscoe County, Texas. Canaan’s Avalon A15 XP Rigs Head to Soluna’s Wind Farm in Briscoe County Announced on Tuesday, the agreement positions Canaan to place roughly 1 exahash per second (EH/s) of compute at the facility, which primarily draws behind-the-meter wind power and can fall back to the grid to maintain uptime. The companies said the installation is slated to begin in the first quarter of 2026. Soluna, a developer of renewable-powered data centers,…

Decentralized oracle network Chainlink is working with 24 of the world’s largest financial institutions to overhaul how corporate actions, such as dividends, stock splits, and mergers, are processed across global markets. Chainlink ran a pilot with SWIFT, DTCC, Euroclear and six other financial institutions. It leveraged a combination of its blockchain-based and artificial intelligence (AI) to ingest and validate real corporate action events in multiple languages. That led to the production of unified data containers, known as golden records, in near real time, according to a press release shared with CoinDesk. These records were distributed simultaneously to blockchain networks and…