Key Highlights: London-based asset manager Abraxas Capital Management has been linked to two prominent wallets maintaining substantial short positions on the Hyperliquid decentralized exchange. Beyond major perpetual futures bets against Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), the addresses hold short exposure to Solana (SOL), Hyperliquid (HYPE), Ethena (ENA), Ripple (XRP), Sui (SUI), and Big Pump (PUMP). ...
Key Highlights The Sepolia testnet is set to activate a major fork on October 6 at 13:53 UTC, increasing its block gas limit from approximately 60 million to 200 million. Validators operating on client version v7.2.1 will automatically propose 200 million gas blocks to stress-test validator hardware and capacity. Findings from Sepolia will directly inform ...
Key Highlights: Ethereum developers released Prysm version 7.2.1 to ensure validators support a new 200 million gas limit on the Sepolia testnet. The update precedes the activation of the Glamsterdam upgrade scheduled for October 6 at 13:53:36 UTC on Sepolia. The testnet trial evaluates whether the network and node hardware can handle more than triple ...
Key Highlights Corporate treasury adoption expands as Strive adds 2,000 Bitcoin, bringing its total reserves to 29,462 BTC. Bitmine acquires an additional 15,112 Ethereum, boosting its balance sheet to over 6 million ETH—equivalent to roughly 4.9% of the circulating supply. DeFi Development Corp. boosts its Solana reserves to 2.564 million SOL, capitalizing on staking rewards ...
Key Highlights: The global market size for tokenized shares and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) expanded more than fivefold over a nine-month period, surging from roughly $719 million in January. BNB Chain’s market share growth has outpaced Ethereum and Solana, capturing around 1.8 million holding addresses—representing 45% of all tokenized stock addresses across the industry. Binance Research ...
Key Highlights: The Ethereum Foundation has detailed zkAPI, an experimental protocol designed to decouple user payment credentials from online service access. By utilizing zero-knowledge proofs, Poseidon hashing, and disposable API keys, the framework ensures AI providers see prompts without learning billing details, while billing servers never see user queries. Funds remain self-custodial onchain, allowing users ...
Key Highlights Ark Invest’s head of crypto research, Lorenzo Valente, highlighted that Ethereum Layer 1 currently sees almost zero traction in tokenized equities trading compared to platforms like Base, Arbitrum, and Robinhood. Industry leaders, including Aave Chief Strategy Officer Luigi DeMeo, warn that Ethereum risks falling behind on real-world assets without a coherent strategy defining ...
Key Highlights: Data Vintage Matters: On-chain data providers such as Coin Metrics, CryptoQuant, and Glassnode frequently restate historical metrics due to retrospective wallet attribution, necessitating rigorous tracking of data vintages for backtesting. Standard vs. Point-in-Time (PIT): Reconstructed historical metrics incorporating later entity discoveries can artificially inflate backtest performance compared to true PIT datasets reflecting only ...
Key Highlights: The Altcoin Season Index has climbed sharply above 50 with six consecutive weeks of higher highs, fueling expectations for an impending market rotation. Ethereum faces persistent resistance near the 0.03 level on the ETH/BTC pair, down over 2.33% from its September high, stalling broader altcoin momentum. Spot demand headwinds persist as Ethereum spot ...
Key Highlights: Ethereum is preparing an update to separate block proposers and block builders directly at the protocol level via enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS). The upgrade introduces block-level access lists, laying technical groundwork for parallel transaction execution and expanded Layer 1 capacity. Testing begins exclusively on the Sepolia testnet on October 6, with no required ...
Key Highlights: zkSync currently shows a recorded price of $0 with negligible trading volume ahead of anticipated project announcements. As an Ethereum Layer-2 scaling network, zkSync focuses on boosting transaction throughput, lowering fees, and advancing financial sovereignty. Market participants are monitoring community engagement and project timelines as potential catalysts for future price momentum amid broader ...
Key Highlights: Solana demonstrates accelerating transaction volume and user engagement amid mixed momentum across the broader cryptocurrency market. A notable surge in non-vote transactions highlights the network’s expanding adoption and footprint within decentralized finance (DeFi). Market participants are actively monitoring whether Solana’s low fees and rapid throughput will enable it to challenge Ethereum’s market dominance. ...