📈 DeFi lending protocols have grown over 72% since the beginning of the year, from $53 billion at the start of 2025 to >$127 billion at TVL. cointelegraph

📊 #ETH Ethereum hit 50M monthly transactions for the first time ever.

💰 Utila raises $22 million. coindesk

💰 #ETH Etherealize completed $40M in funding backed by Electric Capital Paradigm, Vitalik and others

🇪🇺💳 #MNT Bybit have started issuing debit cards in Europe. coindesk

🏦🙋‍♂ Bank of the United States resumes cryptocurrency custody services for institutional customers.

🤝💰 Solowin Holdings (#SWIN) , a publicly traded investment holding company, announced that it has completed its $350 million acquisition of stablecoin infrastructure provider AlloyX. coindesk

🆕💸 #ARB Arbitrum DAO unveiled the first season of its $40M DeFi Revitalization Incentive Program (DRIP), allocating up to $24M ARB to accelerate the growth of decentralized finance on the Arbitrum network. coindesk

🥳 #TWT #RWA Trust Wallet integrated tokenized stocks and exchange traded funds (#ETF) into its platform in partnership with Ondo Finance and 1inch.

🔝 Top DEXs by Trading Volume Growth in the last 30 Days

💰 #TON AlphaTON Capital (#ATON) has announced the acquisition of Toncoin (TON) for approximately $100 million dollars

🥳 #ONDO Ondo Finance have opened Ondo Global Markets to qualified users from Asia Pacific, Europe, Africa and Latin America, with plans to expand to 1,000 assets by the end of the year with support for BNB Chain and Solana.

🥳 #LDO Lido Ecosystem Foundation has announced the launch of GG Vault (GGV).
Users can now from the new Earn page with one click to automatically allocate #ETH, #WETH, #stETH, #wstETH and other assets across multiple DeFi protocols such as Uniswap, Aave, Euler, Balancer, Gearbox, Fluid, Morpho, realizing diversified strategies with high returns without having to manually manage multiple positions.

🇺🇸👀 #macro Number of open positions in the JOLTS labor market (July): 7.1810M (pre: 7.4370M).

📊👀 BitcoinMagazinePro: #BTC is on the brink of giving us another Active Address Sentiment Indicator (AASI) BUY signal.

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🙋‍♂️ #ETH xStocks is launching on Ethereum with 60 tokenized stocks including Nvidia, Amazon, Tesla, Meta and Walmart.

🇺🇸🗣 #macro Fed Governor Waller says "over the next 3–6 months we could see multiple cuts coming in."

🇺🇸👀 #RWA The Fed will hold a conference on Oct. 21 to discuss stablecoins, tokenization and #AI.

🙋‍♂ #TON SkyBridge Capital founder Anthony Scaramucci will advise AlphaTON Capital, a new Toncoin digital asset fund.

💎👀 #RWA The World Gold Council may develop a digital form of gold to reorganize London's $900 billion physical market for the yellow metal.

🖼👀 #TON #NFT Ton Foundation CEO Max Crown announces “Sending a digital collectible (NFT) or cryptocurrency is now as easy as sending a message in Telegram.”