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Ethereum continues to capture attention as social media buzz grows around new innovations, including Robinhood’s testnet faucet. Recently highlighted by commentator Hayden Adams, this faucet allows users to acquire 2.8 testnet $ETH for just $1. This development underscores Ethereum’s increasing utility and could entice more users into the ecosystem. The Story So Far Robinhood’s faucet for Ethereum’s testnet presents a unique opportunity for users to engage with the Ethereum network at a low cost. The faucet, priced at $1 for 2.8 $ETH, suggests a deliberate effort to enhance user interaction within the Ethereum ecosystem. As Ethereum continues to trail Bitcoin…

Longtime Shiba Inu community member and Shiba Eternity advisor Mazrael shared a quiet infrastructure shift involving the Shibarium explorer, ShibariumScan, in an X post. On August 12, Mazrael reported that the Shibarium explorer was back online and indexing again, but that branding and Shibnames support had been lost, leaving many wondering what had occurred. Clues about what happened can now be deduced from a recent X post by Mazrael. According to Mazrael, Shibarium’s explorer went behind Cloudflare on August 11. He noted a DNS change as being part of the outage story. https://t.co/aylRISIkA5 went behind Cloudflare on Aug 11. That…

OKX’s partnership with Hedera aims to enhance liquidity and trading access for $HBAR, benefiting over 50 million users on its platform. This collaboration is expected to strengthen the Hedera ecosystem by providing users with a reliable venue for trading and holding $HBAR. Such developments signal a growing interest in Hedera’s capabilities and could attract further institutional engagement. Source The Key Development The broader crypto market continues to exhibit mixed signals, yet Hedera is making strides through its partnership with OKX. The integration is expected to significantly improve liquidity dynamics within the Hedera ecosystem. With over 50 million users on OKX,…

Bitcoin surged past $66,000 for the first time since early June, extending a recovery that is beginning to repair some of the losses left by the market’s recent downturn. The rebound comes from a much weaker starting point than the price alone suggests. VanEck data showed that investors who sold Bitcoin over the past month were realizing substantially more losses than gains, while unrealized losses across the network were equivalent to roughly 16% of Bitcoin’s market value. Only 53% of Bitcoin’s circulating supply was sitting in profit, well below its four-year average of 76%. The move above $66,000 is now…

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…