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Spot Ether ETFs Shed $952M Over 5 Days as Recession Fears Grow

RegulationSep 30

Spot ether exchange-traded funds (ETFs) logged their fifth straight day of outflows this week, shedding $952 million in total and over $787 million in the four-day week alone. The withdrawals followed a record-setting August when spot ether ETFs pulled in $3.87 billion even as bitcoin ETFs saw $751 million in net outflows, according to SoSoValue data. Friday accounted for the sharpest decline, with $446.71 million leaving these ETH-linked funds. Spot bitcoin ETFs, in contrast, posted $246.4 million in net inflows over the past week. The contrast is notable, as funds investing in the flagship cryptocurrency saw $751.1 million in net…

Stablecoin Boom Fuels Crypto Industry Drive for Clear Tax Rules

LegalSep 30

Key Highlights: With the GENIUS Act gaining bipartisan support, lawmakers are now looking at clearer tax rules for crypto. The crypto industry expressed concerns regarding issue of double taxation for digital assets. Now, they are also questioining whether staking rewards should be taxed or not. Tax reform is now in the sights of lawmakers and digital asset proponents following the recent bipartisan passage of legislation (GENIUS Act) that would give banks and nonbank firms the power to issue stablecoins. Having already reached that milestone, the next thing on the agenda in Washington is how crypto transactions are to be taxed.…

TON, SERA seek to ‘democratize’ space travel with onchain astronaut voting

BlockchainSep 30

The US-based Space Exploration and Research Agency (SERA) and The Open Network (TON) Foundation have launched a new Telegram-based Mini App that will allow users to vote on who gets to fly to space aboard a Blue Origin rocket. The initiative, called Mission Control, is part of a broader effort to “democratize” space access by opening up astronaut selection to global users via onchain voting on the TON blockchain, according to a Tuesday announcement shared with Cointelegraph. According to the announcement, SERA has secured all six seats on a future Blue Origin New Shepard mission, currently scheduled for launch between…

What Is Aster? The Decentralized Exchange on BNB Chain That’s Taking on Hyperliquid

ExchangesSep 30

Decentralized exchange Aster has caught traders’ attention thanks to its eye-watering 1,001x leverage options, support from Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, and a soaring token. Due to its focus on perpetual futures trading, Aster is considered a rival to Hyperliquid—which has been one of the most successful crypto projects of the year. During its first week, it flipped Hyperliquid in daily revenue but remained behind in terms of trading volume. Thanks to its explosive start, according to CoinGecko, its Aster token surged to a $3.2 billion market cap as the 50th largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization—not bad for a week’s…

New zkVerify L1 blockchain wants to speed up and lower cost of crypto ZK-proofs

BlockchainSep 30

Horizen Labs, a zero-knowledge cryptography platform, is rolling out its dedicated layer-1 blockchain for private data verification. ZkVerify, a new L1 blockchain designed for zero-knowledge proof (ZK-proof) verification, announced its mainnet launch on Tuesday. “ZkVerify’s mission is to remove the economic and technical barriers to ZK adoption,” Horizen Labs CEO and zkVerify founder Rob Viglione told Cointelegraph. “Even though verification is typically seen as the ‘cheapest’ part of the ZK value chain, it is still far too costly and inefficient to support real-world scale,” Viglione said. What is ZKP verification? ZKP verification is a cryptographic method that allows one party…

Ethereum Max Pain Hovers Near $4K as Traders Crowd December Calls

EthereumSep 30

Ethereum woke up spicy Sunday as spot markets and derivatives desks steered the tone while spot price hovered near $4,014 after a $3,971–$4,031 intraday jog. Calls Rule the Board, Puts Rule the Day: Inside Ethereum’s Derivatives Mix Futures positioning stayed lively. Coinglass figures show exchange ether open interest (OI) elevated versus early summer, peaking in August and easing into late September, even as price cooled from the recent push above $4,500 back toward the low $4,000s and below that range. Futures exchange leaderboards are crowded ahead of the upcoming week. CME shows 2.19 million ETH in open interest (~$8.76 billion),…

JPMorgan Chief Analyst Reveals What Will Happen If the Fed Cuts Interest Rates

RegulationSep 30

JPMorgan Asset Management Chief Global Strategist David Kelly said in an interview with CNBC that the slowdown in the US economy is becoming increasingly evident and that the Fed's expected interest rate cuts will not change this picture. Kelly argued that the weak August employment report and other economic indicators pointed to further softening in the economy, saying, “The economy is not in recession, but it is slowing. All the data indicates that an economy that was already struggling is now nearing exhaustion.” Despite market optimism, Kelly argued that interest rate cuts won't boost growth, saying, “I saw the stock…

BabyDoge Perpetuals Goes Live on BNB Chain

ExchangesSep 30

BabyDoge has launched its perpetual futures platform, known as BabyDoge Perpetuals, allowing traders to speculate on the prices of major cryptocurrencies without owning the underlying assets. Available pairs include Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Solana (SOL), Toncoin (TON), Chainlink (LINK), and several others. The platform builds on BabyDoge’s decentralized exchange (DEX) on BNB Chain. BabyDoge PERPETUALS is LIVE NOW! 🔥 👉 Start trade here: https://t.co/AiEBHAR7Ky Which pairs are available, you ask?👇$BTC $ETH $TON $SOL $LINK - AND MANY MORE! Always bringing the freshest degen move in web3 for OUR pups! 😎 pic.twitter.com/exzMQoFWpB — Baby Doge (@BabyDogeCoin) September 28, 2025 What Are…

All NFT Strategy tokens go live on OpenSea

NFTSep 30

TokenWorks’ NFT Strategy tokens have been launched on the NFT marketplace OpenSea after gaining widespread market success with the ‘flywheel’ affect that lets traders combine DeFi with NFT. Summary All eight NFT Strategy tokens by TokenWorks have been listed on the OpenSea NFT marketplace. NFT Strategy tokens combine NFTs and DeFi, managing assets related to specific NFT collections through automated trading strategies. On Sept. 30, OpenSea announced that all NFT Strategy tokens are now available to trade on their NFT marketplace. The latest listings include the original Punk Strategy token, PUNKSTR, as well as several other well-known NFT collections tied…

Chinese Company Debuts $500 Million Ethereum Tokenization Fund

EthereumSep 30

China Asset Management Company (ChinaAMC), one of China’s largest fund managers with more than $400 billion in assets under management, has launched a tokenized money market fund on Ethereum. According to data provider RWA.xyz, the new product, ChinaAMC USD Digital Money Market Fund Class I USD (CUMIU), invests in short-term deposits and high-quality money market instruments. Its objective is to deliver stable returns denominated in Hong Kong dollars. ChinaAMC’s Fund Signals Cautious Embrace of Tokenization in China ChinaAMC developed CUMIU through the Libeara tokenization platform. Each token has a net asset value of $100 and a management fee of just…