🔔 Nasdaq invests $100 million in Kraken parent Payward at $21 billion valuation
⚠️ Nasdaq has agreed to invest $100 million in Kraken parent Payward as the two companies expand their work on tokenized equities, market surveillance and blockchain-based settlement infrastructure. The companies are working toward a second-quarter 2027 launch for Nasdaq Equity Tokens, or NETs, while Payward will deploy Nasdaq’s market surveillance technology across trading venues covering crypto, equities, tokenized equities, futures and options.
🔖 The investment builds on a partnership announced in March, when Nasdaq and Payward began developing infrastructure designed to connect regulated equity markets with blockchain networks through Payward’s xStocks ecosystem. Nasdaq Ventures invests in technology and market infrastructure that the exchange operator sees as relevant to the development of global capital markets. Its $100 million Payward investment gives the relationship a financial component alongside the companies’ existing technology work.
📊 Payward confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in November 2025. The company has not publicly disclosed a proposed ticker, share price, number of shares or exchange for a potential listing. Its latest financial results showed adjusted revenue of $508 million for the second quarter, up 17% from a year earlier. Adjusted EBITDA fell to $23 million from $80 million, while total platform transaction volume declined 18% to $310 billion.
⚠️ Nasdaq has agreed to invest $100 million in Kraken parent Payward as the two companies expand their work on tokenized equities, market surveillance and blockchain-based settlement infrastructure. The companies are working toward a second-quarter 2027 launch for Nasdaq Equity Tokens, or NETs, while Payward will deploy Nasdaq’s market surveillance technology across trading venues covering crypto, equities, tokenized equities, futures and options.
🔖 The investment builds on a partnership announced in March, when Nasdaq and Payward began developing infrastructure designed to connect regulated equity markets with blockchain networks through Payward’s xStocks ecosystem. Nasdaq Ventures invests in technology and market infrastructure that the exchange operator sees as relevant to the development of global capital markets. Its $100 million Payward investment gives the relationship a financial component alongside the companies’ existing technology work.
📊 Payward confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in November 2025. The company has not publicly disclosed a proposed ticker, share price, number of shares or exchange for a potential listing. Its latest financial results showed adjusted revenue of $508 million for the second quarter, up 17% from a year earlier. Adjusted EBITDA fell to $23 million from $80 million, while total platform transaction volume declined 18% to $310 billion.
⚠️ Aave TVL jumps 13.7% to $27.4B as loans hit $11.7B
⚠️ Aave has recorded $27.4 billion in average total value locked during August as active loans climbed to $11.7 billion and its share of tracked on-chain lending reached 47.8%. Token Terminal’sAugust 2026 Aave report showed TVL rising 13.7% from July, while active loans increased 12.9%. Both metrics advanced for a second straight month and reached their highest monthly averages since April. The figures remain well below year-earlier levels, with TVL down 57.6% and active loans down 56.9% year over year.
📊 The same report put August fees at $33.9 million, up 15.2% month over month, while DAO revenue rose 9.2% to $4.9 million. Interest produced $33.3 million, or 98.2% of fees, as outstanding borrowing increased across Aave markets. Aave’s $11.7 billion active-loan balance represented 47.8% of the lending sector tracked by Token Terminal. Its market share increased 1.2 percentage points from July after reaching 45.5% in June. The tracked sector’s loan book expanded from $22.2 billion to $24.4 billion during August, with Aave growing 12.9% against 7.5% for the rest of the group.
📣 Ethereum remained Aave’s main capital base, accounting for $22.9 billion, or 83.5%, of average August TVL. Ethereum active loans reached $9.6 billion, equal to 82.4% of the protocol total. Plasma ranked second by borrowing volume at $797.6 million, followed by Base at $328.2 million and Arbitrum at $316.6 million. Borrowing was concentrated in WETH and stablecoins. Token Terminal put WETH loans at $4.1 billion, or 35.3% of outstanding debt. USDT carried $2.7 billion and USDC $2.6 billion, while USDe and USDT0 contributed $732.6 million and $702.8 million, respectively.
⚠️ Aave has recorded $27.4 billion in average total value locked during August as active loans climbed to $11.7 billion and its share of tracked on-chain lending reached 47.8%. Token Terminal’sAugust 2026 Aave report showed TVL rising 13.7% from July, while active loans increased 12.9%. Both metrics advanced for a second straight month and reached their highest monthly averages since April. The figures remain well below year-earlier levels, with TVL down 57.6% and active loans down 56.9% year over year.
📊 The same report put August fees at $33.9 million, up 15.2% month over month, while DAO revenue rose 9.2% to $4.9 million. Interest produced $33.3 million, or 98.2% of fees, as outstanding borrowing increased across Aave markets. Aave’s $11.7 billion active-loan balance represented 47.8% of the lending sector tracked by Token Terminal. Its market share increased 1.2 percentage points from July after reaching 45.5% in June. The tracked sector’s loan book expanded from $22.2 billion to $24.4 billion during August, with Aave growing 12.9% against 7.5% for the rest of the group.
📣 Ethereum remained Aave’s main capital base, accounting for $22.9 billion, or 83.5%, of average August TVL. Ethereum active loans reached $9.6 billion, equal to 82.4% of the protocol total. Plasma ranked second by borrowing volume at $797.6 million, followed by Base at $328.2 million and Arbitrum at $316.6 million. Borrowing was concentrated in WETH and stablecoins. Token Terminal put WETH loans at $4.1 billion, or 35.3% of outstanding debt. USDT carried $2.7 billion and USDC $2.6 billion, while USDe and USDT0 contributed $732.6 million and $702.8 million, respectively.
➡️ ZETA Solana migration wins 99.4% support in vote
🔖 ZetaChain has moved closer to approving a plan that would migrate its native ZETA token to Solana and eventually shut down its own Layer 1, with 99.4% of votes supporting Proposal 68 ahead of its Sept. 20 deadline. ZetaHub’s live governance tally showed 58% participation, clearing the 40% quorum requirement, with 0.3% voting against and 0.3% abstaining. Voting is scheduled to close at 14:58:18 UTC on Sept. 20, after a standard 72-hour voting period.
📣 Proposal 68 would establish Solana as ZETA’s canonical network after migration. ZETA would become a native SPL token while retaining its existing ticker and total token supply. Each holder would receive an equivalent amount of ZETA on Solana through a 1:1 conversion. One technical adjustment involves decimals. Native ZETA currently uses 18 decimal places, while the proposed Solana token would use nine. Proposal 68 says balances would…
🔖 ZetaChain has moved closer to approving a plan that would migrate its native ZETA token to Solana and eventually shut down its own Layer 1, with 99.4% of votes supporting Proposal 68 ahead of its Sept. 20 deadline. ZetaHub’s live governance tally showed 58% participation, clearing the 40% quorum requirement, with 0.3% voting against and 0.3% abstaining. Voting is scheduled to close at 14:58:18 UTC on Sept. 20, after a standard 72-hour voting period.
📣 Proposal 68 would establish Solana as ZETA’s canonical network after migration. ZETA would become a native SPL token while retaining its existing ticker and total token supply. Each holder would receive an equivalent amount of ZETA on Solana through a 1:1 conversion. One technical adjustment involves decimals. Native ZETA currently uses 18 decimal places, while the proposed Solana token would use nine. Proposal 68 says balances would…
WhiteBIT Coin (WBT) Hits New All-Time High Above $86
📈 WhiteBIT Coin (WBT), the native coin of the WhiteBIT exchange, has reached a new all-time high of about $86. That is 18% above its previous record of $73 in August and more than 50 times its 2022 debut price of $1.62. WBT's market capitalization stands at $10.3 billion, with $180 million traded over the past 24 hours.
🌊 The move comes as the wider market climbs. Total crypto market capitalization is around $2.9 trillion, and Bitcoin is trading near $85,000 after closing last week above its 50-week moving average for the first time in 45 weeks.
⚙️ WBT is the coin that powers the WhiteBIT ecosystem, and holding it comes with practical benefits. Users who hold and stake WBT on the exchange get lower trading fees (up to 100% off maker fees, the fees charged on limit orders, depending on the holding level), free daily withdrawals of ETH and ERC-20 tokens, staking rewards, higher referral rewards and access t…
📈 WhiteBIT Coin (WBT), the native coin of the WhiteBIT exchange, has reached a new all-time high of about $86. That is 18% above its previous record of $73 in August and more than 50 times its 2022 debut price of $1.62. WBT's market capitalization stands at $10.3 billion, with $180 million traded over the past 24 hours.
🌊 The move comes as the wider market climbs. Total crypto market capitalization is around $2.9 trillion, and Bitcoin is trading near $85,000 after closing last week above its 50-week moving average for the first time in 45 weeks.
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🔖 Ethereum has begun moving toward what Vitalik Buterin calls a “cryptographic world computer,” with major changes planned to verification, consensus, privacy and state management after Hegotá. He expects future Ethereum architecture to combine blockchain consensus with zero-knowledge proofs, data sampling, privacy technology and decentralized off-chain computation.
📣 “Hegota — the fork planned for next year — is likely to be Ethereum’s last ‘normal’ fork,” Buterin wrote, referring to an upgrade whose technology would remain recognizable to developers familiar with Ethereum in 2015. The Hegotá upgrade remains in planning, and its complete scope has not been finalized. Two proposals are already scheduled. Frame Transactions, or EIP-8141, is the second scheduled feature. It lets Ethereum accounts decide how their transactions are authorized instead of requiring the same fix…
🔖 Ethereum has begun moving toward what Vitalik Buterin calls a “cryptographic world computer,” with major changes planned to verification, consensus, privacy and state management after Hegotá. He expects future Ethereum architecture to combine blockchain consensus with zero-knowledge proofs, data sampling, privacy technology and decentralized off-chain computation.
📣 “Hegota — the fork planned for next year — is likely to be Ethereum’s last ‘normal’ fork,” Buterin wrote, referring to an upgrade whose technology would remain recognizable to developers familiar with Ethereum in 2015. The Hegotá upgrade remains in planning, and its complete scope has not been finalized. Two proposals are already scheduled. Frame Transactions, or EIP-8141, is the second scheduled feature. It lets Ethereum accounts decide how their transactions are authorized instead of requiring the same fix…
🔔 Can Solana price hit $130 after Forward Industries buys 949K SOL?
➡️ Forward Industries has increased its SOL and SOL-equivalent holdings by 948,601 tokens during fiscal Q4, taking its total to 8.501 million as of Sept. 30, 2026. Forward Industries said the 13% quarterly increase came from a combination of SOL purchases and staking, with the newly added tokens carrying an average cost of $83. Its holdings rose from 7.553 million at the end of June to 8.501 million at the end of September.
📣 The company said the position represented roughly 1.4% of Solana’s circulating supply. Its definition of SOL holdings includes native SOL, fwdSOL and pledged SOL while excluding borrowed tokens. Forward’s treasury dashboard continues to show 8,501,298 SOL and equivalents as of Sept. 30.
📊 At a reference price of $118.06 per SOL on Sept. 30, Forward placed the fair value of its SOL treasury at $1.0037 billion. Other digital assets carried a reported fair value of $26.9 million, while cash stood at $7.3 million. The company calculated total net asset value at approximately $870.4 million after accounting for $167.5 million in institutional debt.
➡️ Forward Industries has increased its SOL and SOL-equivalent holdings by 948,601 tokens during fiscal Q4, taking its total to 8.501 million as of Sept. 30, 2026. Forward Industries said the 13% quarterly increase came from a combination of SOL purchases and staking, with the newly added tokens carrying an average cost of $83. Its holdings rose from 7.553 million at the end of June to 8.501 million at the end of September.
📣 The company said the position represented roughly 1.4% of Solana’s circulating supply. Its definition of SOL holdings includes native SOL, fwdSOL and pledged SOL while excluding borrowed tokens. Forward’s treasury dashboard continues to show 8,501,298 SOL and equivalents as of Sept. 30.
📊 At a reference price of $118.06 per SOL on Sept. 30, Forward placed the fair value of its SOL treasury at $1.0037 billion. Other digital assets carried a reported fair value of $26.9 million, while cash stood at $7.3 million. The company calculated total net asset value at approximately $870.4 million after accounting for $167.5 million in institutional debt.
⚠️ Can XRP price hold $1.40 as U.S. ETFs add $3.14M?
📊 XRP has fallen toward $1.45 after U.S. spot XRP ETFs added $3.14 million on Oct. 6, leaving traders focused on $1.40 support after a sharp market selloff. CoinGecko shows XRP trading around $1.45, down 4.3% over 24 hours and 3.9% during the past seven days. Trading volume stands near $2.24 billion, while roughly 63 billion XRP in circulation gives the token a market capitalization above $91 billion.
🌐 Tuesday’s ETF flows arrived before XRP dropped from roughly $1.52 to $1.46 during a fast crypto selloff early Wednesday. SoSoValue data U.S. spot XRP funds recorded $3.1404 million in net inflows on Oct. 6. Bitwise accounted for $10.5514 million of inflows, while Franklin’s XRPZ recorded a $4.0702 million withdrawal. Bitwise’s positive session lifted its cumulative XRP ETF inflows to roughly $688 million. Franklin’s fund retained approximately $501 million in historical net inflows despite Tuesday’s withdrawal.…
📊 XRP has fallen toward $1.45 after U.S. spot XRP ETFs added $3.14 million on Oct. 6, leaving traders focused on $1.40 support after a sharp market selloff. CoinGecko shows XRP trading around $1.45, down 4.3% over 24 hours and 3.9% during the past seven days. Trading volume stands near $2.24 billion, while roughly 63 billion XRP in circulation gives the token a market capitalization above $91 billion.
🌐 Tuesday’s ETF flows arrived before XRP dropped from roughly $1.52 to $1.46 during a fast crypto selloff early Wednesday. SoSoValue data U.S. spot XRP funds recorded $3.1404 million in net inflows on Oct. 6. Bitwise accounted for $10.5514 million of inflows, while Franklin’s XRPZ recorded a $4.0702 million withdrawal. Bitwise’s positive session lifted its cumulative XRP ETF inflows to roughly $688 million. Franklin’s fund retained approximately $501 million in historical net inflows despite Tuesday’s withdrawal.…
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📌 Ledger reveals how hidden chips stole wallet recovery keys
📊 Ledger has confirmed that an unauthorized hardware implant found inside a cryptocurrency signer sold by Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis can capture users’ 24-word recovery phrases and transmit them through a cellular network.
⭐️ Ledger disclosed the findings on October 13, following an investigation by its Donjon security team into cryptocurrency losses reported on October 9. The company confirmed the presence of an implant in one affected customer’s device on October 10 and said every fund loss it has verified in the incident involved devices purchased through CryptoBilis. The reseller has suspended Ledger signer sales while investigators examine the affected hardware.
⚠️ According to the company’s latest findings, the unauthorized component sits inside the wallet’s casing and monitors information displayed on its screen. During the initial setup process, a Ledger signer d…
📊 Ledger has confirmed that an unauthorized hardware implant found inside a cryptocurrency signer sold by Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis can capture users’ 24-word recovery phrases and transmit them through a cellular network.
⭐️ Ledger disclosed the findings on October 13, following an investigation by its Donjon security team into cryptocurrency losses reported on October 9. The company confirmed the presence of an implant in one affected customer’s device on October 10 and said every fund loss it has verified in the incident involved devices purchased through CryptoBilis. The reseller has suspended Ledger signer sales while investigators examine the affected hardware.
⚠️ According to the company’s latest findings, the unauthorized component sits inside the wallet’s casing and monitors information displayed on its screen. During the initial setup process, a Ledger signer d…
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Skins have long outgrown their in-game role. Analysts estimate the secondary CS2 skin market at $4.3–6 billion in 2025–2026. Cache Back adds a new angle: an introduction to tokenized gold through a purchase players already make. XAU₮ is divisible down to 0.000001 fine troy ounce of gold held in a Swiss vault.
Who can take part: users whose Steam accounts were registered before the campaign started. Sign in to white.market via Steam and connect your WhiteBIT ac…
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Skins have long outgrown their in-game role. Analysts estimate the secondary CS2 skin market at $4.3–6 billion in 2025–2026. Cache Back adds a new angle: an introduction to tokenized gold through a purchase players already make. XAU₮ is divisible down to 0.000001 fine troy ounce of gold held in a Swiss vault.
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🔔 The digital gold market is expected to grow to $160 billion to $170 billion by 2031, and new research suggests that the demand could be as high as $700 billion once there are no more obstacles to adoption. The World Gold Council (WGC) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) valued the digital gold market at $45–55 billion, which consists of tokenized gold and digital products secured by vaulted gold bullion. In its base case projections it projects growth of approximately 27% annually over the next five years.
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