Arc Layer 1 Ecosystem: DEXs and Payments
Circle's Arc goes live September 16. USDC-native L1 where gas is paid in stablecoins, backed by $222M from a16z, BlackRock and Apollo.
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Circle's Arc goes live September 16. USDC-native L1 where gas is paid in stablecoins, backed by $222M from a16z, BlackRock and Apollo.
So we mapped both sides. Every DEX building on Arc, from native venues like Tower, Synthra and Hibachi to the majors bringing liquidity in Uniswap, Aerodrome, Curve and Fluid. Plus the payments layer already moving real volume: Blockradar, Myaza and Avenia on the native side, Rain, Thunes, Wirex and Yellow Card on the major one. 20 teams, one chain, all before mainnet.
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Pump.βfun Launches Holder Rewards, Ends Cashback
Pump.fun launched Holder Rewards, a new token type that streams trading fees straight to holders, and retired Cashback Mode for every new launch on the platform.
Cashback Mode, added in February to reward active traders, is gone from standard launches after it kept favoring creators on abandoned projects. It now survives only on Custom Pairs, where creators still choose between a Creator Fee or Cashback.
Pump.fun launched Holder Rewards, a new token type that streams trading fees straight to holders, and retired Cashback Mode for every new launch on the platform.
Holder Rewards tokens route trading fees into a dedicated distribution wallet that pays out several times an hour, with bigger and longer-held positions earning more; any wallet above $20 qualifies. At launch there is no hybrid: creators pick either a standard Creator Fee token, where fees go to the team, or a Holder Rewards token, where fees flow back to holders. Existing Cashback and Creator Fee tokens can convert to Holder Rewards if they meet Pump.βfun's criteria, but the switch is permanent.
Cashback Mode, added in February to reward active traders, is gone from standard launches after it kept favoring creators on abandoned projects. It now survives only on Custom Pairs, where creators still choose between a Creator Fee or Cashback.
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CLARITY Act: How It Rewrites The Rules for US Crypto
We put it in one card: what crypto looks like now vs. what changes if it passes. 6 simple points β who regulates crypto, how tokens launch, DeFi, fundraising, exchanges, and custody.
The big shifts:
β’ Tokens can move from SEC to CFTC as they decentralize
β’ Developers and validators stop being treated as targets
β’ The old custody penalty (SAB 121) is gone
We put it in one card: what crypto looks like now vs. what changes if it passes. 6 simple points β who regulates crypto, how tokens launch, DeFi, fundraising, exchanges, and custody.
The big shifts:
β’ Tokens can move from SEC to CFTC as they decentralize
β’ Developers and validators stop being treated as targets
β’ The old custody penalty (SAB 121) is gone
EU Gives Wallet Makers 24 Hours to Report Flaws
The EU's Cyber Resilience Act now requires in-scope wallet makers to report exploited flaws within 24 hours, a rule that took effect on September 11.
These reporting duties are the first CRA obligations to bite, while broader product-security requirements do not apply until December 11, 2027. Wallet providers serving EU users now face disclosure timelines closer to those of regulated financial infrastructure.
The EU's Cyber Resilience Act now requires in-scope wallet makers to report exploited flaws within 24 hours, a rule that took effect on September 11.
The requirement covers commercial makers of connected hardware wallets and downloadable wallet software placed on the EU market. Beyond the 24-hour alert for an actively exploited vulnerability or serious security incident, manufacturers owe a fuller notification within 72 hours, a final vulnerability report no later than 14 days after a corrective or mitigating measure becomes available, and a final incident report one month after the 72-hour notice. Makers must also inform affected users, and where appropriate all users, about the steps they can take.
These reporting duties are the first CRA obligations to bite, while broader product-security requirements do not apply until December 11, 2027. Wallet providers serving EU users now face disclosure timelines closer to those of regulated financial infrastructure.
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Race to $50B Volume: which chain got there fastest?
We measured every chain from Day 0 (launch) to $50B in cumulative spot DEX volume. Same start line, same finish.
Robinhood caught the trend and brought new flow onchain, tokenized stocks and meme trading pulling in a crowd DeFi never had. That's the real signal: the next wave of volume may come from outside crypto-native rails.
We measured every chain from Day 0 (launch) to $50B in cumulative spot DEX volume. Same start line, same finish.
Here's the leaderboard:
π₯ Robinhood Chain: 84 days
π₯ Unichain: 195 days
π₯ BSC: 197 days
Robinhood caught the trend and brought new flow onchain, tokenized stocks and meme trading pulling in a crowd DeFi never had. That's the real signal: the next wave of volume may come from outside crypto-native rails.
Arc Launchpad Ecosytem. Mainnet Goes Live Sep 16
We mapped every Arc launchpad we could verify, sorted alphabetically, with a clickable X handle for each and flags on the ones still on waitlist, testnet, or running repurposed old accounts. This is Part 1 of the Arc Ecosystem series.
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We mapped every Arc launchpad we could verify, sorted alphabetically, with a clickable X handle for each and flags on the ones still on waitlist, testnet, or running repurposed old accounts. This is Part 1 of the Arc Ecosystem series.
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Kaiko Raises $110M Round Led by S&P Global
Crypto market-data provider Kaiko expanded its latest round to $110M in a strategic investment led by S&P Global, a sign of how far traditional finance is leaning into round-the-clock onchain markets.
Kaiko previously raised $53M in a 2022 Series B led by Eight Roads. Backing from the company behind the S&P 500, which roughly $10T in assets track, signals that institutional demand for reliable crypto data is accelerating.
Crypto market-data provider Kaiko expanded its latest round to $110M in a strategic investment led by S&P Global, a sign of how far traditional finance is leaning into round-the-clock onchain markets.
The round drew a heavyweight backer list alongside S&P Global: DRW, Susquehanna, Royal Bank of Canada, Nasdaq, BNP Paribas, Broadridge, Coinbase Ventures and Stellar. Kaiko, founded in Paris and now serving 200+ institutional clients from offices in New York, London and Singapore, supplies crypto market data, analytics and indices. The raise follows the September 1 launch of the co-branded S&P Kaiko Digital Asset Indices, a 4,000-plus index suite built for asset managers seeking structured exposure to digital assets, with Kaiko providing the data, calculations and market connectivity.
Kaiko previously raised $53M in a 2022 Series B led by Eight Roads. Backing from the company behind the S&P 500, which roughly $10T in assets track, signals that institutional demand for reliable crypto data is accelerating.
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Lisk Burns 100M LSK, Cutting Supply by 25%
Lisk burned 100M LSK tokens after a DAO vote passed, cutting the max supply from 400M to 300M in a single move.
With the cap now set at 300M, Lisk joins a wave of projects using large burns to reset supply, a step holders often read as a bullish signal heading into the chain's shutdown.
Lisk burned 100M LSK tokens after a DAO vote passed, cutting the max supply from 400M to 300M in a single move.
The 100M tokens were drawn from the DAO treasury's 2027-2033 allocation, so the burn removes a full quarter of Lisk's 400M max supply at once. The proposal cleared a community governance vote before execution. It also lands as Lisk winds down its original chain, scheduled to shut on October 31, and shifts toward a new enterprise focus meant to tighten tokenomics and support the LSK price.
With the cap now set at 300M, Lisk joins a wave of projects using large burns to reset supply, a step holders often read as a bullish signal heading into the chain's shutdown.
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Just Launched: 6 Activities Worth Your Time
Hundreds of "early" plays flood your feed every week. We kept only the ones with real backers. Six live right now:
β Antarctic: Perp DEX Β· Arbitrum
β N1: Layer 1 Β· Points
β Melee Markets: Prediction Markets Β· Solana
β 4Dlabs: Physical AI Β· YZi Labs
β Minara.Fun: Launchpad Β· Testnet
β Jumper: DEX Aggregator Β· RWA raffle
Full step-by-step breakdown for each π
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Hundreds of "early" plays flood your feed every week. We kept only the ones with real backers. Six live right now:
β Antarctic: Perp DEX Β· Arbitrum
β N1: Layer 1 Β· Points
β Melee Markets: Prediction Markets Β· Solana
β 4Dlabs: Physical AI Β· YZi Labs
β Minara.Fun: Launchpad Β· Testnet
β Jumper: DEX Aggregator Β· RWA raffle
Full step-by-step breakdown for each π
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Standard Reserve Launches Onchain ETH Reserve
The Standard Reserve went live today, an onchain reserve protocol built around ETH flows, using an OlympusDAO-style design with a hard-capped 1B STANDARD supply.
The model borrows from OlympusDAO, the 2021 reserve-currency experiment that peaked near a $4B market cap before collapsing roughly 98%, with the team pitching fixes meant to avoid the runaway inflation that sank it.
The Standard Reserve went live today, an onchain reserve protocol built around ETH flows, using an OlympusDAO-style design with a hard-capped 1B STANDARD supply.
The protocol routes ETH fees into vaults, protocol-owned liquidity and the team, and pairs STANDARD against ETH in a hooked Uniswap v4 pool. Access runs through Charters: only 1,000 Genesis Charters exist, minted free to the allowlist at launch, with further Charters and expansion licenses sold later through daily ETH Dutch auctions. Launch day is timed: the allowlist mint at 5:30 PM EST, a public Dutch auction at 8:30, then liquidity and Charter emissions from 9:00 PM. Post-mint trading opens with an anti-snipe tax that starts at 90% and decays on a five-minute half-life back to normal fees.
The model borrows from OlympusDAO, the 2021 reserve-currency experiment that peaked near a $4B market cap before collapsing roughly 98%, with the team pitching fixes meant to avoid the runaway inflation that sank it.
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DOJ Moves to Seize $61M in Iranian Oil Crypto Laundered on Binance
US prosecutors moved to seize $61M laundered through Binance, cryptocurrency tied to sanctioned Iranian oil sales, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said.
The move marks a fresh escalation of the DOJ's scrutiny of Binance over Iran-linked flows, reviving compliance questions the exchange has faced since its $4.3 billion settlement and founder CZ's 2023 guilty plea over lax anti-money-laundering controls.
US prosecutors moved to seize $61M laundered through Binance, cryptocurrency tied to sanctioned Iranian oil sales, the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York said.
The complaint alleges two China-based firms, Blessed Trust and Hexa Whale, used trading accounts on the UAE-based exchange to move oil proceeds. Blessed Trust posed as a digital-asset custody firm and Hexa Whale as a commodities broker, while their clients spanned China's oil and petroleum sector.
A cluster of wallets prosecutors call "Entity A" is said to have received and distributed more than $1.5 billion in illicit oil revenue, routing funds to money handlers tied to Iran's IRGC, other crypto addresses, and an Iran-based exchange.
The move marks a fresh escalation of the DOJ's scrutiny of Binance over Iran-linked flows, reviving compliance questions the exchange has faced since its $4.3 billion settlement and founder CZ's 2023 guilty plea over lax anti-money-laundering controls.
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Inside IMD: tokenomics, agent seats and the self-burning model
Most meme tokens do nothing. IMD tries to do the opposite: every sell burns its own supply, stakers earn from those burns, and the whole thing is meant to bankroll 2,000 AI agents running on-chain. It's Fren Pet, the old Base tamagotchi, reborn on Ethereum with a self-funding economy bolted on.
Structure is simple to read: 1 NFT = 1 agent (2,000 seats, free mint), fees route back to builders, and 85% of supply is aimed at burn, with the rest split across agent compute (6%), stakers and node operators (4.5% each).
Most meme tokens do nothing. IMD tries to do the opposite: every sell burns its own supply, stakers earn from those burns, and the whole thing is meant to bankroll 2,000 AI agents running on-chain. It's Fren Pet, the old Base tamagotchi, reborn on Ethereum with a self-funding economy bolted on.
Current footprint: ~$10.5M diluted valuation, $1.5M liquidity, $240K daily volume, $3.05 per token.
Structure is simple to read: 1 NFT = 1 agent (2,000 seats, free mint), fees route back to builders, and 85% of supply is aimed at burn, with the rest split across agent compute (6%), stakers and node operators (4.5% each).
Balancer Proposes Shutting Down and Paying Out Its Treasury to BAL Holders
A treasury council member moved to wind down Balancer, return treasury to BAL holders, capping five years of the veteran DeFi protocol.
The proposal also scraps a previously approved BAL buyback. It marks a quiet end for a DeFi pioneer that never fully recovered from a $128M exploit in November 2025, with Hardt conceding that a restructuring approved in April failed to bring sustained revenue.
A treasury council member moved to wind down Balancer, return treasury to BAL holders, capping five years of the veteran DeFi protocol.
The plan, put forward by council member and former Balancer Labs CEO Marcus Hardt, would halt business development, sunset the protocol in phases and legally close the DAO. Holders who burn BAL would receive a pro-rata, in-kind share of the treasury, which holds at least $9M in tokens.
A Snapshot vote runs September 25 to 29. If it passes, pools move to withdrawals-only by October 30, the first redemption window opens in late May 2027, and a final distribution follows roughly six months later.
The proposal also scraps a previously approved BAL buyback. It marks a quiet end for a DeFi pioneer that never fully recovered from a $128M exploit in November 2025, with Hardt conceding that a restructuring approved in April failed to bring sustained revenue.
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CoinEx Exchange Is Shutting Down After Nine Years
After nine years, CoinEx will wind down the exchange, blaming a prolonged market slump, thinning volume and rising compliance costs.
Yang framed the decision around mounting pressure on the business, saying the security and compliance risks of running a crypto exchange have become increasingly difficult to contain. CoinEx served millions of users across more than 200 countries.
After nine years, CoinEx will wind down the exchange, blaming a prolonged market slump, thinning volume and rising compliance costs.
The platform stops new registrations today and will halt most services on September 29. Withdrawals stay open until December 22, after which unclaimed balances may be converted to USDT.
Any remaining USDT then moves to independent custody carrying a 5% monthly fee on the original balance, with a custody-claims deadline of August 22, 2028. Founder Haipo Yang said the exchange will ensure users can withdraw their assets in full.
Yang framed the decision around mounting pressure on the business, saying the security and compliance risks of running a crypto exchange have become increasingly difficult to contain. CoinEx served millions of users across more than 200 countries.
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Zama Expands Confidential Vaults on Morpho, Launches Private Swaps
Confidential-DeFi builder Zama expands confidential vaults on Morpho, opening deposits into 16 vaults that let users earn yield while hiding their balances, positions and strategies.
Morpho co-founder Merlin Egalite called the confidential vaults an important step, as privacy-preserving infrastructure moves closer to mainstream DeFi. Integrations already span Utila, Zerion Wallet and Yieldβ.xyz.
Confidential-DeFi builder Zama expands confidential vaults on Morpho, opening deposits into 16 vaults that let users earn yield while hiding their balances, positions and strategies.
Twelve of the vaults route confidential access into existing Morpho vaults, while four were built exclusively for private deposits across assets including USDC, USDT, AUSD and TGBP. Strategies are overseen by curators Steakhouse Financial, Armitage by Wintermute, Flowdesk, RockawayX and Bitwise.
Zama's first vault, launched in June with Morpho and Steakhouse, pulled in $40M within seven weeks. Alongside it, the new Zama Swap Protocol lets users trade confidential assets on Ethereum without revealing transaction size or intent.
Morpho co-founder Merlin Egalite called the confidential vaults an important step, as privacy-preserving infrastructure moves closer to mainstream DeFi. Integrations already span Utila, Zerion Wallet and Yieldβ.xyz.
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Axis Robotics Opens a $1M AXIS Community Public Sale on Echo
Physical-AI project Axis Robotics opens its AXIS sale, offering 1% of the token supply for $1M at a $100M FDV through a proportional community round on Echo.
Axis Robotics is building a community-driven data engine for Physical AI, crowdsourcing robot-manipulation trajectories to train general-purpose robotics models, with its main product slated for Base.
Physical-AI project Axis Robotics opens its AXIS sale, offering 1% of the token supply for $1M at a $100M FDV through a proportional community round on Echo.
Pre-registration is live now, with the subscription window running from September 21 to 28 and settlement expected around September 30. Because the sale is proportional, each participant's final allocation depends on total demand across the round.
Tokens vest 10% at TGE, followed by a six-month cliff, with the remaining 90% released linearly over the following six months. Axis earlier closed a $12M seed led by Hack VC, with Nomad Capital, Pi Network Ventures and 10K Ventures joining.
Axis Robotics is building a community-driven data engine for Physical AI, crowdsourcing robot-manipulation trajectories to train general-purpose robotics models, with its main product slated for Base.
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Finβ.com Raises $20M Seed to Build Global Stablecoin Rails
Emerging from stealth, Fin.com raises a $20M seed led by Expa, building white-label infrastructure that turns stablecoins into payouts to local bank accounts and wallets.
The launch lands as stablecoins push deeper into mainstream payments, with startups racing to connect onchain dollars to everyday bank rails in emerging markets.
Emerging from stealth, Fin.com raises a $20M seed led by Expa, building white-label infrastructure that turns stablecoins into payouts to local bank accounts and wallets.
The round closed in August and was led by Expa, the venture studio of Uber cofounder Garrett Camp, with Coinbase Ventures, Tenet Fund, Second Sight Ventures, the founders of Figure, Mesh founder Bam Azizi, and sovereign and royal family offices across the Gulf and Africa.
Finβ.com was founded by Nabeel Alamgir, who previously built restaurant-tech firm Lunchbox, and Mustafa Dar. Its clients already reach a combined 800 million-plus users, and the team is targeting the last-mile problem of moving money across borders.
The launch lands as stablecoins push deeper into mainstream payments, with startups racing to connect onchain dollars to everyday bank rails in emerging markets.
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Binance Cuts Commodity Perpetuals to a 24/5 Trading Schedule
Starting today, Binance cuts commodity perps to 24/5, moving its commodity TradFi perpetual contracts off around-the-clock trading to match traditional market hours.
The move brings Binance's commodity derivatives closer to the rhythm of the assets they track, as the exchange keeps expanding a TradFi perps lineup that now spans equities, metals and energy.
Starting today, Binance cuts commodity perps to 24/5, moving its commodity TradFi perpetual contracts off around-the-clock trading to match traditional market hours.
The switch takes effect at 21:00 UTC on September 15 and covers commodity-based contracts spanning gold, silver, WTI and Brent crude, natural gas, platinum, palladium and copper. These pairs previously traded through weekends with a daily one-hour maintenance pause, which is now being removed.
Crypto perpetuals are unaffected, and equity-based TradFi perpetuals such as TSLAUSDT and INTCUSDT keep their 24/7 availability.
The move brings Binance's commodity derivatives closer to the rhythm of the assets they track, as the exchange keeps expanding a TradFi perps lineup that now spans equities, metals and energy.
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Π‘ryptomarket Check-In. Major Events & Headlines
A split-screen day: four names called it quits β CoinEx, Balancer, Cascade, Pixelmon β while Anthropic lined up a $965B IPO and BitMine's ETH stack crossed $15B.
Five that actually mattered:
β Balancer proposes winding down, returns its treasury to holders
β Coinbase reverts the rebranded Base App back to Coinbase Wallet
β CoinEx shuts down after nine years, most services stop Sep 29
β Pump.fun launches a Holder Rewards program
β Zama launches 16 confidential yield vaults on Morpho
A split-screen day: four names called it quits β CoinEx, Balancer, Cascade, Pixelmon β while Anthropic lined up a $965B IPO and BitMine's ETH stack crossed $15B.
Five that actually mattered:
β Balancer proposes winding down, returns its treasury to holders
β Coinbase reverts the rebranded Base App back to Coinbase Wallet
β CoinEx shuts down after nine years, most services stop Sep 29
β Pump.fun launches a Holder Rewards program
β Zama launches 16 confidential yield vaults on Morpho
CLARITY Act Stalls in Senate, Short of 60 Votes
The CLARITY Act failed to clear the Senate's 60-vote cloture threshold on September 15, stalling the crypto market-structure bill the industry had spent the year pushing.
With cloture failed, the bill is effectively dead for 2026, and the shrinking congressional calendar plus looming midterms make a near-term revival unlikely. Crypto's long-sought market-structure framework is back to square one.
The CLARITY Act failed to clear the Senate's 60-vote cloture threshold on September 15, stalling the crypto market-structure bill the industry had spent the year pushing.
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act needed 60 votes to advance to full floor debate. Republicans hold just 53 Senate seats, so supporters needed at least seven Democrats to cross over, but unresolved fights over stablecoin rewards, ethics rules and illicit-finance provisions kept those votes out of reach. The House had passed the bill in July 2025 by a 294-134 margin, yet Senate negotiations never closed the gap, and Galaxy Research had already cut its odds of the bill becoming law in 2026 to around 10% heading into the vote.
With cloture failed, the bill is effectively dead for 2026, and the shrinking congressional calendar plus looming midterms make a near-term revival unlikely. Crypto's long-sought market-structure framework is back to square one.
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AlphaNode is live: an app that mines crypto trading formulas
Our friends built the trading tool we always wished existed. AlphaNode doesn't sell you a dream, it breeds thousands of trading formulas, then tries to break them on data they've never seen before you risk a cent.
No exchange keys, no card to try, it mines public perp data on your machine. Their own words on profits: "Unknown, and anyone who promises otherwise is selling you something." That's why we like them.
Activation is 249 USDT / 30 days (99 per month after). Drop code DIFFER at checkout for 20% off your first month β 200 USDT instead of 249. Try now π alphanode.tech
Our friends built the trading tool we always wished existed. AlphaNode doesn't sell you a dream, it breeds thousands of trading formulas, then tries to break them on data they've never seen before you risk a cent.
How it works:
1. Mine: evolutionary search breeds formulas in a sim that charges real fees & funding
2. Validate: graded on locked, out-of-sample data. Read-only
3. Forward: survivors go to append-only paper trading. No do-overs
4. Trade: deploy target weights via local API into your own bots
No exchange keys, no card to try, it mines public perp data on your machine. Their own words on profits: "Unknown, and anyone who promises otherwise is selling you something." That's why we like them.
Activation is 249 USDT / 30 days (99 per month after). Drop code DIFFER at checkout for 20% off your first month β 200 USDT instead of 249. Try now π alphanode.tech
