Entropy[.]io is building perpetual futures markets for illiquid frontier assets like pre-IPO companies and private equity using a hybrid oracle model
Arkham data showed Lazarus Group linked wallets moved over $30M through Hyperliquid since converting BTC to ETH/SOL and routing through Tron, Solana, and Ethereum to KuCoin, LBank
Strategy acquired 4,603 BTC for $370M at $80,318 per coin, now holds 845,050 BTC and $6.71B in USD assets with 0% net leverage
OpenSea added support for Solana NFTs, letting users buy, sell, trade and bid on top Solana collections
Strive bought 1,800 BTC for $143M at $79,431 average, bringing holdings to 23,156 BTC worth nearly $1.8B
Japan’s FSA is looking to fix a tax rule that currently requires paperwork every time a stablecoin changes hands
Hyperliquid Labs in advanced talks with Kraken parent Payward to bring a subset of its perpetual futures to US users via regulated exchange Bitnomial, pending CFTC approval
ICE and tZERO signed agreements to build infrastructure for ICE’s NYSE-affiliated tokenized securities platform
Chainalysis filed seven claims against the US government alleging ICE improperly steered a $94.66M sole-source blockchain analytics contract to TRM Labs
Cashlink, a European tokenization platform with over €1B in transaction volume and clients including KfW and DZ Bank, is bringing its institutional securities infrastructure to Avalanche
Cronos Network is back online and producing blocks after halting earlier to prevent an exploit on the Tectonic protocol
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said banks opposing the Clarity Act don’t want competition from crypto companies or to pay higher rates to customers
Fomo acquired Mobula’s technology and team in a $17M deal to bring its data infrastructure in-house for Fomo’s social trading platform
Morpho launched in-kind redemptions for vaults, letting users redeem for underlying market positions even without available liquidity
Balancer is urging V1 liquidity providers to exit immediately after SlowMist identified a rounding bug draining roughly $234K from non-pausable legacy pools
Longshot, a new prediction market app, launched on Base with free and paid contests, available in eligible regions excluding the US
Mantle launched a DeFi Vault incentive program offering up to 10% boosted yield on Fluxion via USDT0/USDC deposits, with GROVE rewards through Merkl
LI.FI partnered with Centrifuge to expand distribution of tokenized assets across Jumper and LI.FI’s integrations
Robinhood Chain hit a record $875M in 24-hour DEX volume on August 30, led by Uniswap v4 ($432M) and v3 ($357M), alongside a record 5.52M daily transactions
AnkrFLOW exploit let attacker drain $410K from MORE Markets; Flow Foundation said the Flow network was unaffected and will reimburse losses.
Bipartisan former SEC and CFTC officials are pushing the US to move fast on derivatives rules as the CFTC looks to onshore the $90T perps market.
Solana treasury company DeFi Dev Corp is raising up to $20M via a CHAD Stock offering paying 13% annual dividends, with proceeds going toward more SOL purchases.
Lighter now allows ETH and XAUt to be used as collateral at 70% LTV.
Aave V4’s Core Hub on Ethereum is offering 2% USDC rewards for USDC borrowers against any available collateral.
Webull is expanding crypto trading into Canada with Coinbase handling custody and trading infrastructure.
The bigger picture here is clear: crypto is moving deeper into financial infrastructure. From tokenized securities and regulated derivatives to stablecoins and institutional custody, the focus is shifting from speculation toward real market utility. The regulatory framework will play a major role in determining how quickly that transition happens.