Crypto News. October 5, 2026

HyperLink raised $2.5M from Alliance, North Island Ventures, Reverie, Node Capital, Breed VC and Smart Money.

HyperLink@hyperlink_xyz

Hyperliquid built the exchange. HyperLink is building the broker. We raised $2.5M from @alliance @NorthIslandVC @hi_Reverie @Node_Cap @breed_vc @smartestmoney Lowest fees. Private flow. Best execution. Last month: $254M routed, 0.1% of Hyperliquid volume. Next: 10% of HL.

12:55 PM · Oct 4, 2026 · 47.4K Views

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Russia’s Ministry of Finance is now paying some state employees in a central bank digital currency

The Bitcoin Historian@pete_rizzo_

JUST IN: RUSSIA'S MINISTRY OF FINANCE JUST REVEALED IT IS NOW PAYING SOME STATE EMPLOYEES IN A CENTRAL BANK DIGITAL CURRENCY EVERY TRANSACTION SITS ON THE GOVERNMENT'S LEDGER PAYMENTS CAN BE BLOCKED, FROZEN, AND PROGRAMMED THE CBDC DYSTOPIA IS GETTING CLOSER TO REALITY TIME

4:40 PM · Oct 4, 2026 · 16.6K Views

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The New York Times published a feature on CZ’s life in Abu Dhabi since his release from prison

Wu Blockchain@WuBlockchain

In a new feature, The New York Times dispatched a reporter to Abu Dhabi to shadow @cz_binance following his release from prison. The report documents a wealth of previously unknown details—ranging from his life behind bars and royal diplomacy to little-known personal habits.

12:27 PM · Oct 4, 2026 · 21.7K Views

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Japan sanctioned 33 entities and nine individuals on October 2, adding Russian crypto exchange Garantex to its asset freeze list

Wu Blockchain@WuBlockchain

Japan Imposes New Sanctions on Russia, Adds Crypto Exchange Garantex to Asset Freeze List On October 2, the Japanese government announced a new round of sanctions against Russia, designating 33 entities and nine individuals—including Russian cryptocurrency exchange …

10:19 AM · Oct 4, 2026 · 20.3K Views

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TRUMP team wallets sent about 81.87M TRUMP ($249M) to CEXs over eight months, and still hold roughly 718M tokens (71.8% of supply)

余烬@EmberCN

TRUMP 代币团队在过去 8 个月里解锁套现了 $2.49 亿： 从团队钱包累计转出了 8187 万枚 $TRUMP ($2.49 亿)，这些代币以 $3.04 的均价进入了 Binance、OKX 等 CEX。 团队拥有 80% (8 亿枚) 的代币分配，套现 $2.49 亿他们也就才卖出了 8.2% 的代币，团队仍持有高达 71.8% (7.18 亿枚) 的 TRUMP …

7:32 AM · Oct 3, 2026 · 18.9K Views

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Blockaid flagged an ongoing exploit on an unnamed Base vault, with more than $6M drained so far

Blockaid@blockaid_

🚨 Blockaid detected an ongoing exploit on an unnamed vault on Base. A brand-new contract was added to the vault's whitelist, then borrowed aBaswstETH from the vault and sent the aTokens to the attacker's contract. ~$2.02M drained from the vault so far across ~4 txs. Attack…

9:20 AM · Oct 4, 2026 · 42.7K Views

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Aave V4 now lets users borrow USDC against Coinbase tokenized stocks, including Apple, Nvidia and Tesla, with deposits reportedly above $9M

WallStreetX@WallStreetXHQ

🔥WSX News: @aave V4 is expanding the use cases for tokenized equities by allowing eligible users to borrow $USDC against @coinbase tokenized stocks. Apple, Nvidia, Tesla and four other equities can reportedly now be used as collateral, with deposits in the market already …

2:12 AM · Oct 4, 2026 · 6.58K Views

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Arcus Points Season 1 is fixed at 250K per week, and the program ends no later than the end of H1 2027

Arcus@arcus_xyz

We owe the community a clear update on Arcus Points. Over the past few days, some of our own messages about the program were not as clear as they could have been. This post is the definitive version - nothing about the program itself has changed: 1. Weekly distribution: Season …

7:03 AM · Oct 3, 2026 · 239K Views

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Pumpfun flipped Hyperliquid in 30 day revenue

Pump.fun Ecosystem@PumpfunEco

NEW: Pumpfun flips Hyperliquid in 30-day revenue!

5:01 PM · Oct 4, 2026 · 19.3K Views

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Aave proposed an Aave Foundation, a memberless Cayman Islands entity to hold the Aave trademark and IP for the DAO

Stani@StaniKulechov

Proposal to establish the Aave Foundation to transfer Aave IP to the Aave DAO, in line with the Aave Will Win proposal. This strengthens Aave by unifying everything under one asset, $AAVE.

governance.aave.com

[ARFC] The Aave Foundation, Phase 1

4:21 PM · Oct 2, 2026 · 67.9K Views

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