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Key takeawaysA new wave of DEX wars has shifted from token incentives to a focus on speed, leverage and sustainable infrastructure.Hyperliquid continues to lead the market with over $300 billion in monthly volume, strong liquidity and rising institutional adoption.Aster’s growth is powered by airdrops, Binance-backed credibility and leverage that attract professional traders.Lighter is gaining momentum through its Ethereum layer-2 speed, zero-fee trading model and exclusive points-based yield farming system.Platforms like SushiSwap, PancakeSwap and Curve leveraged yield farming and governance token incentives to attract liquidity. This approach catalyzed rapid capital formation, bringing billions of dollars onchain within a short time.Those early…

Quick take: The acquisition combines PayPay’s massive user base of over 70 million with Bianance’s global blockchain experience. The two companies want to make it easier for everyday users in Japan to access crypto. PayPay offers “seamless: cashless payments at a wide range of merchants, online stores, and for peer-to-peer transfers in Japan. PayPay Corporation, a portfolio company of SoftBank, has entered into a strategic partnership with Binance Japan to integrate crypto features into the PayPay Money wallet app. As part of the strategic partnership, PayPay has acquired a 40% equity stake in Binance Japan, the companies announced on Thursday.…

Yuma, a development studio and accelerator for decentralized AI (deAI) network Bittensor created by Barry Silbert of Digital Currency Group, has introduced Yuman Asset Management, to allow institutional and accredited investors easy access to the deAI ecosystem.Bittensor is a decentralized network for AI that rewards people for contributing data and computing power to a range of activities in the form of distinct use case-driven entities called “subnets,” that can include things like text translation, fraud detection, image recognition to more esoteric goals like predicting the structure of complex protein chains.Powered by its native token, TAO, Bittensor aspires to be the…

Arthur Hayes Says Bitcoin Cycles No Longer Matter

Ethereum is putting privacy back at the center of its roadmap.This November, during the Devcon conference in Argentina, the Ethereum Foundation will unveil Kohaku, a new wallet framework designed to let users transact without exposing unnecessary personal or transactional details.The project was introduced on Oct. 9 by Foundation developer Nicolas Consigny, who said the Kohaku demo and software development kit (SDK) will be ready for public testing at Devcon. The wallet is being built as both a browser extension and a reference implementation for developers who want to integrate privacy primitives directly into their applications.These tools are designed to let…

Austin, Texas, October 9th, 2025, ChainwireSymphony, audited by Thesis Defence, ensures high performance for MIDL network and secure data delivery for Bitcoin applications.Maestro, the leading enterprise-grade BitcoinFi infrastructure provider, is proud to officially release Symphony, the world’s first fully audited Bitcoin indexer, now open-sourced. Symphony is a battle-tested software stack, purpose-built by Maestro and optimized to power large-scale applications processing billions of transactions. Symphony’s industry-leading performance comes from its modular, mempool-aware indexing mechanism, capable of supporting any metaprotocol standards such as BRC-20s, Runes, and Ordinals.For years, Maestro has been developing in-house Bitcoin infrastructure rails designed to power global-scale financial applications…

So, gold just became the main character again. The world is a hot mess right now. There’s a new war starting every other day, the central banks are tweaking rates like it’s nothing, and the boomers are hoarding gold like it’s 2008. Add to this some inflation and a weak dollar, and boom, the gold price is now $4,000. Basically, the world is now Golum and gold is its precious. (Source: Tradingview) What we are seeing here is a domino effect taking hold. The first domino fell with the Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Gaza wars that drove investors towards gold as a…

Token2049Token2049 hosted 25,000 enthusiasts and crypto executives in Singapore.The industry revels in the world’s largest economy flipping bullish on crypto.Yet, it’s still navigating some of its more unusual use cases.Token2049 highlighted the state of flux the crypto industry finds itself in.Over the course of a week in October, some 25,000 visitors descended on Singapore for over 300 side events for a World’s Fair for digital finance. Token2049 attendees mingled with Wall Street banks, fintech giants, and sanctioned Russian entities, as well as actors from the Squid Game, influencers, former White House staff members-turned-crypto executives, and members of US President Donald…

The NFT project Mars Cat Voyage has secured a partnership with the Web3 gaming platform Nifty Island to launch a fishing competition for community members. The prizes to be won in this quest include NFTs, pearls, tokens, and the fish caught. According to a tweet from Nifty Island, the players with the biggest fish will win huge prizes and earn points to climb the leaderboard. Mars Cat Voyage will release the fish in Nifty Island’s waters. Nifty Island noted that the game also includes new fish from a far-off feline island.  The new fishing quest went live on October 6…

Coinbase is taking a huge leap into the world of decentralized finance (DeFi). The largest American crypto exchange just unleashed their own decentralized exchange (DEX), throwing down the gauntlet to Aster & Hyperliquid. These two currently mega-popular Perpetual DEX platforms contributed to the resurgence of meme coins on both BNB Chain & Base Chain. Check your phone – the wait is over.Explore millions of assets, moments after they launch, right from the Coinbase app.DEX trading is live for all U.S. users (ex. NY).Coming soon: more assets, more networks, more countries. pic.twitter.com/XryNvDXkdL— Coinbase 🛡️ (@coinbase) October 8, 2025 DEX functionality gives…