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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Hyperliquid recorded about $1.40 billion in 24-hour perpetual DEX volume on September 21. The figure keeps Hyperliquid among the largest decentralized derivatives venues by trading activity. The metric is a 24-hour volume snapshot and should not be mixed with unrelated HyperEVM deployment claims. Hyperliquid generated roughly $1.40 billion in perpetual trading volume over the 24-hour period measured on September 21. The number keeps the platform firmly in the top tier of decentralized derivatives venues, where activity has increasingly concentrated around a small group of high-liquidity platforms.…

In brief CFTC market oversight staff said prediction market contracts settling on whether a named person says certain words should be presumed readily susceptible to manipulation. The presumption also covers contracts on attendance, handshakes, photographs and social media interactions. Exchanges can rebut it, but staff expect a heightened showing and detailed evidence of surveillance and controls. Prediction market contracts that settle on whether a named individual says particular words, turns up somewhere or interacts with someone else should be treated as presumptively open to manipulation, staff at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Division of Market Oversight said on Tuesday.The category,…

In brief Polish prosecutors have charged a former police officer with organized crime membership, fraud and money laundering linked to the case of collapsed exchange Zondacrypto. Police are searching the fuel depot where Zondacrypto founder Sylwester Suszek was last seen before vanishing in March 2022. At least five others have been charged since August in a case that has drawn several thousand complaints from clients of the exchange. Polish prosecutors have charged a former police officer over the collapsed Zondacrypto exchange, as investigators search the fuel depot where its founder was last seen before he disappeared four years ago.Officers from…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR EigenLayer TVL stood at about $11.02 billion on September 21. The total includes capital from native ETH deposits and liquid restaking tokens. Protocol TVL should not be confused with stake delegated to any single AVS. EigenLayer has moved back above the $11 billion mark in total value locked, with DeFiLlama showing approximately $11.02 billion on September 21. The milestone gives Ethereum restaking another large headline number at a time when the sector is increasingly being judged on how much economic security it can attract and retain.…

Europe’s central banks want the European Union to rethink a rule designed to make stablecoins safer, but that can also link a token run directly to the banking system.For reserve amounts tied to official currencies, MiCA currently requires issuers of non-significant tokens to keep at least 30% as deposits with EU credit institutions. The floor rises to 60% for significant tokens, according to the European Banking Authority’s technical standards.Reuters and Cinco Días reported Sept. 22 that the European System of Central Banks wants that fixed minimum removed. Deposits would remain eligible, while reserve safety would turn on how much could…

In brief White-hat actors moved 40.71 BTC (~$3.31 million) tied to the Coldcard exploit on Sept. 21 in a transaction carrying a “crypto recovery trust” message. Galaxy’s Alex Thorn said a broader sweep pulled 52.37 BTC from several attacker clusters into a fresh address flagged for the same trust—roughly 2.8% of the total exploit. The exploit, which peaked around $130 million, stemmed from a March 2021 Coldcard firmware flaw that made seed phrases guessable. Some of the Bitcoin stolen in the sprawling Coldcard hardware wallet exploit is being routed toward a recovery effort, with white-hat actors moving funds into what…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Sui network TVL stood at about $1.04 billion on September 21. Its 24-hour DEX volume was about $185 million. The data shows the network holding above the $1 billion TVL benchmark, not setting a new all-time high. Sui is continuing to hold more than $1 billion in decentralized-finance liquidity while onchain trading remains active. DeFiLlama showed about $1.04 billion in total value locked on the network on September 21, alongside roughly $185 million in 24-hour DEX volume. Sui Holds The Billion-Dollar TVL Line The useful part…

In brief Coinbase is developing post-quantum custody safeguards to support a wide range of signature schemes, according to Head of Cryptography Yehuda Lindell. Traditional Multi-Party Computation (MPC) relies on split keys, but many post-quantum signature schemes may be “non-MPC-friendly.” Coinbase is exploring a fallback architecture that combines post-quantum threshold decryption with programmable Hardware Security Modules (HSMs). If a cryptographically relevant quantum computer eventually becomes an active threat to Bitcoin’s security, Coinbase wants to have protections in place that are prepared for whatever direction Bitcoin and other digital assets take, according to Yehuda Lindell.In a recent appearance on MARA Foundation TV,…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Chainlink node software v2.64.0 was released on September 14. The update includes telemetry fixes, EVM log-poller improvements and OCR2 maintenance work. The release is not a new CCIP protocol launch. Chainlink node operators have a new production release to work with after version 2.64.0 shipped on September 14. The update is focused on the infrastructure that keeps oracle nodes observable and reliable rather than on launching a new consumer-facing product. Telemetry And EVM Log Polling Get Attention The v2.64.0 changelog includes core telemetry fixes, EVM log-poller…

In brief Four long-dormant Bitcoin wallets moved a combined 1,971.03 BTC (~$161 million) over the past two weeks, per Galaxy Research, led by a 1,260.78 BTC stash (~$100.63 million) untouched since 2016. The oldest coins posted staggering gains—one 2011-era wallet was up more than 8.38 million percent—while the most recent, a 600 BTC (~$51.9 million) transfer dormant since 2012, moved early Tuesday. Three of the four carried “Noah Doe” tags tied to a New York abandoned-property lawsuit, extending a 2026 trend of decade-old wallets reactivating. The steady procession of long-dormant Bitcoin wallets springing back to life is showing no sign…

In brief Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepSeek, and Moonshot are all set to address the UN Security Council on AI risks Wednesday. The briefing follows Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to slow AI development while urging continued U.S. chip export restrictions on China. The meeting lands two days before President Trump’s September 24 summit with Xi Jinping. The UN Security Council will spend Wednesday afternoon listening to the people who build the technology it’s most worried about.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, AI safety researcher Yoshua Bengio, and Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue are all scheduled to brief the 15-member…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure TL;DR Aave governance is reviewing a proposal to onboard Ethena’s USDe to the V4 core instance on Avalanche. USDe uses LayerZero OFT architecture with a 24-hour timelock and an Ethereum escrow model across 31 networks. USDe is not yet live on Aave V4 Avalanche under this proposal. Aave is moving closer to adding Ethena’s USDe to its V4 core market on Avalanche. The proposal is being handled through a direct-to-AIP path after risk review, putting the synthetic-dollar asset into Aave’s formal governance pipeline. USDe Would Extend Aave…

In brief CME Group plans to launch Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap futures on October 19, pending regulatory review, in both standard and Micro contract sizes. Bitcoin Cash futures will represent 250 BCH (Micro: 25 BCH), and Uniswap futures will cover 10,000 UNI (Micro: 1,000 UNI). CME’s crypto futures and options averaged 279,800 contracts daily in H1 2026, worth $8.3 billion in notional volume, the exchange said. CME Group is adding Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap to its regulated futures lineup. The exchange said Tuesday it plans to launch BCH and UNI contracts on October 19, pending regulatory review.Traders get a choice…