Aave V4 went live on the Arc Layer-1 network on Sept. 16 and attracted USDC almost immediately. By Sept. 17, point-in-time Aavescan data showed roughly $76 million supplied, less than $100,000 borrowed, and utilization near 0.1%. Suppliers quickly filled the market’s initial capacity, but borrowers had put almost none of that liquidity to work. LlamaRisk…
In welcome news for the Ripple army, Anthropic’s Claude AI predicts XRP could hit $11 by the end of 2026 if certain conditions are met. The update comes as CoinGecko data shows XRP trading at $1.30, up a modest +0.4% over 24 hours but down -6.6% for the week, following a significant drop after the…
The SEC is giving tokenized stocks a regulated U.S. pathway, while keeping trading volumes, access and issuer rights tightly controlled.
Crypto.com is moving closer to launching single-stock futures in the United States after the SEC acknowledged a Form 1-N filing from North American Derivatives Exchange (Nadex). CEO Kris Marszalek revealed the company is now “authorized” to bring single-stock futures to the market through OG.com, which is its CFTC-regulated standalone prediction market platform launched in February.…
The Mark Zuckerberg Meta AI predicts Bitcoin could not only hit a new all-time high in 2026, but nearly double the $126,000 high from October 2025. Following that move, BTC then corrected roughly -47% to around $80,000 in November. It fell further to the low-$60,000s by mid-2026 before recovering back toward the $80,000s by late…
The estranged daughter of 77-year-old Kathleen Allman has petitioned a Hawaiian court to establish a limited conservatorship to protect her parents’ share of her brother’s stake in Ondo.
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has opened a five-year pathway for regulated US stocks to trade on blockchain-native venues. The Innovation Exemption came two days after the Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act, a broad crypto market-structure bill that sought to establish statutory rules for digital assets and clarify regulatory responsibilities. The…
Charles Hoskinson says the cryptocurrency industry is about to do to artificial intelligence what it once did to cryptography, and he thinks the spending spree behind today’s AI data centers is heading for a bust. In the September 16 episode of the Deeptech Insights podcast, the Cardano founder argued that blockchains could give AI payment…
XRP price trades near $1.30, going up by as little as 1%, even as open interest across its derivatives market has fallen from $1.128 billion in August to $871.22 million now, a decline of more than $250 million in under a month. That gap between a resilient spot price and a shrinking futures book forces…
Optimism approved Upgrade 20, moving its fault-proof system toward the architecture required for future Superchain interoperability. The Ethereum layer-2 network’s governance completed voting on Sept. 16, putting OP Sepolia, Ink Sepolia, Soneium Minato and Unichain Sepolia on course for a targeted Sept. 17 contract upgrade. Mainnet execution is scheduled for Sept. 24 if the new…