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What sparks could happen when pickleball meets Web3?

In a bear market, everyone has fallen in love with pickleball. This time, Team1 joined forces with Pudgy Penguins to host a one-of-a-kind pickleball gathering. Participants can not only sweat it out on the court, but also chat casually with friends from the crypto community. Could this innovative social format become a new trend in Web3?

In this KOL pickleball tournament, @traderwanwan, @woody168888, and @lazyeconomics_ stood out and emerged as the winners.🏆

Will this kind of model that blends sports and socializing become the new norm for future crypto events?

#加密货币 #Binance Square

Bitcoin Suisse will move 60 positions overseas! This long-established Swiss crypto financial services provider is restructuring on a large scale, mainly involving back-office and administrative functions.

CEO Andrej Majcen is frank: the costs are too high. By contrast, operating costs in Eastern Europe and Asia are much lower, so these roles will be relocated to Slovakia and Vietnam. The Swiss headquarters will focus on clients and compliance, underscoring its special role as a financial hub.

This reorganization reflects a new trend in cost control across the crypto industry, and may also offer a reference for other companies: how to reduce operating costs while ensuring compliance?

Do you think other crypto companies will follow suit and move jobs overseas?

#加密货币 #Macro economy

HyperEVM welcomes 1inch—why is @HyperliquidX attracting more DeFi infrastructure?

Decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch has announced the official integration of HyperEVM, the EVM network under Hyperliquid, supporting coverage across the 1inch App, 1inch Wallet, Aqua, and all APIs.

The focus of this integration is the trading experience. Users can complete gas-free swaps via @1inch’s intent-based trading, receive built-in MEV protection, and also take advantage of cross-chain swap functionality to swap into HyperEVM assets directly from other public chains—reducing the steps of manually finding cross-chain bridges, switching networks, and trading again.

BTC Falls Below $80,000, Yet Bulls Are Still Adding Longs. Is Liquidation Risk Piling Up?

Bitcoin is now trading at around $77,100, down nearly 2% in the past 24 hours, and has clearly fallen below the $80,000 mark. Since the early-September rally, BTC’s rebound highs have continued to move lower, and the market remains under pressure ahead of the U.S. CPI release.

On the leverage side, Binance @binance $BTC perpetual open interest stands at about $8.22 billion, equivalent to roughly 106,500 BTC at current prices. The account long/short ratio is about 1.52, with long accounts accounting for around 60.3%. While spot prices have weakened, long accounts have not shown any significant exit.

There is little suspense around the Bank of Japan’s rate hike—how high can interest rates go?

The Bank of Japan will hold its policy meeting on September 17–18, and markets expect a 25-basis-point hike to 1.25%, the highest level since 1995. Overnight index swaps show the probability of a rate hike has risen to 97%. After tightening clearly accelerated—when the rate was raised to 0.75% in December last year and to 1% in June this year—Japan’s policy tightening pace has noticeably quickened.

At the end of July, the USD/JPY pair briefly approached 164. After intervention, it returned to around 155, but the spread between interest rates is still what ultimately determines the exchange rate. Since September, the yen has appreciated by nearly 4%, and the yield on Japan’s 2-year government bonds has also risen to about 1.83%.

Goldman Sachs @GoldmanSachs has raised its forecast for Japan’s terminal rate to 1.75%. Meanwhile, the U.S. Federal Reserve will also hold its policy meeting on September 16. With interest-rate conditions on both sides changing at the same time, carry trades that have long relied on low-interest yen funding are facing greater pressure.

Dogecoin ETF listed for less than ten months, why did Bitwise choose to shut it down?

Bitwise @BitwiseInvest announced on September 10 that it would liquidate its Dogecoin ETF, BWOW, less than ten months after its launch. The fund will stop trading on October 14, and on October 22 it will distribute cash in net asset value terms. As of September 8, BWOW’s assets under management were only about $722,000, and its net asset value has fallen by roughly 45% since inception.

The reason behind it is not complicated. BWOW’s management fee rate is just 0.34%. Based on the current fund size, the annual management fee revenue is less than $3,000, making it difficult to cover the compliance and operating costs of a listed ETF. From a business perspective, continuing to maintain the <a>$DOGE </a>ETF no longer has much meaning.

$LAPTOP plunges 99% in two hours—do people really believe that none were sold?

Hunter Biden @HunterBiden’s Meme Coin @Laptoptoken went live and quickly went through extreme volatility. Because the initial liquidity was very thin, after the token opened, the price was rapidly pushed up. From the peak, the drop over a short period was nearly 99%

Data shows that multiple sniping bots bought in at low prices during the opening period, and after the price was pumped up, they sold off quickly. Some addresses reportedly achieved returns of dozens of times—or even over a hundred times. In response to market doubts about “dumping,” @HunterBiden said he did not sell the tokens, and that the 30% of tokens allocated to the founding team are also under lockup

Privacy narratives have pushed $VVV to a historic high, but can it truly support a $1.2 billion market cap just by destroying tokens?

The Venice token VVV has risen about 40% over the past 24 hours, topping $26 at its peak. It’s currently hovering near $24, with a market cap of around $1.2 billion. On September 8, Venice also completed its largest token burn since launch, worth approximately $391,000.

This surge is closely tied to OpenAI’s privacy controversy. Mathematician Buckmaster questioned whether its unpublished proofs may have entered the model improvement pipeline. OpenAI denied directly reading it, but it cannot be fully ruled out that de-identified data was used. The incident quickly brought AI users’ data boundaries from the background to center stage, giving Venice—which focuses on Private Inference—more attention.

However, the scale of the burn is not enough to support the current valuation for the time being. For every $100 in API credits, Venice sets aside $5 to buy back VVV. Based on $100 million in annualized revenue, the annual buyback would be about $5 million. Even if annual emissions drop to 2 million tokens, at the current price that would still be worth only about $50 million.

🐧 The Pengu Garden: Taipei Edition — A Perfect Ending!

This time, 0xMedia took part in planning the first stop of the Pudgy Penguins Asia tour—Taipei 🇹🇼

We’re honored to co-organize this event with @pudgypenguins @0G_labs @deepcoin_cn. In a quiet courtyard at a historic mansion in Taipei, we spent a relaxed and enjoyable weekend afternoon.

Thanks to every guest who showed up—braving the rain to meet with us, chat together, drink some珍奶 (milk tea), open card packs, and take photos with the adorable Pengu 🧋🐧

Thank you to all the partners who helped make this event possible. We look forward to seeing you again 💙

Dangerous signals? Pons family powers Robinhood Chain’s $6 million all-time high in single-day fees, yet user numbers are dropping rapidly

Robinhood Chain, under Robinhood @RobinhoodApp, racked up about $25 million in fees over the past 7 days—17 times the previous week’s $1.4 million. In the same period, DEX weekly trading volume doubled to $12.4 billion. What drove this surge is the chain’s largest token issuance platform $PONS . It allocates about 80% of protocol revenue to buyback-and-burn PONS, and so far has burned more than 28% of the supply

But daily active accounts are around 396,000, showing no growth but actually declining week over week. Fee revenue climbed from $0.13 in mid-August to $15.90 in early September—about a 120-fold increase. This fee milestone came from boosting the existing user base’s willingness to pay. For now, the chain’s main revenue base largely hinges on the issuance pace of Pons alone; once the creation of new tokens and new liquidity pools slows down, the fee base has essentially no second engine to pick up the slack

$2.0B in ZEC transaction volume, $65M in privacy TVL—Is NEAR becoming an important channel for the privacy renaissance?

The ZEC transaction volume completed by $NEAR Intents has already surpassed $2.0B. At the same time, the Confidential TVL within the ecosystem has also exceeded $65M. Compared with merely discussing privacy as a concept, these two numbers may better indicate that the privacy ecosystem is thriving.

The role of NEAR Intents is to add an extra layer of cross-chain liquidity for Shielded Assets. For example, the biggest advantage of privacy assets like $ZEC is that they can hide transaction information. However, once they enter more complex DeFi and cross-chain scenarios, liquidity and composability can easily be constrained. With Intent users, these assets can move between different networks and applications, expanding their use while preserving their original privacy attributes as much as possible.

The contrast between hype and reality—@world_xyz, this time it really perfectly captured it!

Solana prediction market @world_xyz recently staged what it called “the greatest hype-marketing experiment in history,” but the results were nothing short of laughable. The whole process went from a surprise teaser on September 2, to rumors of a $319 million airdrop on September 5, and then to a request on September 8 for users to submit their Solana addresses—drawing a huge amount of attention: one tweet reportedly got about 64,000 replies and 39,000 likes.

However, after the hype comes reality: the meme coins tied to the countdown trades crashed by more than 11% within 24 hours, leaving their market cap at only about $2.38 million. And @world_xyz’s official prediction market had already integrated with @phantom back in July—this press conference brought no real product updates.

Behind all this hype, @world_xyz may simply have wanted to test the market’s reaction—but the impact on market confidence is something that can’t help but make one think: in the future, how many people will still be willing to get lured in by “surprises” like this?

Do you think this kind of marketing strategy still has a place in the crypto world? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments!

#加密货币 #Regulatory Updates

Why Privacy Coins Can Outperform During a Bear Market?📈

Since Bitcoin topped, the privacy sector has risen against the trend by an astonishing 213%. Among them, the Shielded Pool of $ZEC has been a key driving force. The share of ZEC within the shielded pool of circulating supply increased from 23.1% last year to 28.8% now. These shielded ZECs effectively disappear from the view of high-frequency traders, instead boosting the appeal of privacy coins.

Meanwhile, demand-side factors are also accelerating the move. Grayscale converted the Zcash Trust into a spot ETF, ZCSH. The fund size has grown from $304 million to $463 million. This change has undoubtedly given $ZEC broader market exposure and increased capital inflows.

Privacy coins have performed remarkably well in this market cycle—does it mean investors’ demand for privacy protection is being revalued?

#加密货币 #行情分析

Oh my, the Biden family is actually launching a token too?!

Hunter Biden announced that he will issue a Meme coin on Base, with a total supply of 1 billion coins. On the first day, 100 million coins will be air-dropped, including 20 million reserved specifically for wallets with loss-making track records—perhaps the first time in the market has seen a political figure operate this directly through cryptocurrency. The team’s holdings account for as much as 30%; after a 6-month lockup, they will be gradually unlocked. This design makes people question the sincerity of its long-term commitment.

What’s even more interesting is the burn mechanism of up to 30%: events such as the Democratic Party winning the 2028 election, Bitcoin hitting new highs, and others could trigger it. Such aggressive design is rare in the crypto market. With the combination of political influence and market volatility, could this Meme coin become a new kind of investment target?

What do you think about political figures participating in the crypto market? Could coins like this change the current market landscape?

#加密货币 #macroeconomics

90%! Vitalik risks his entire fortune on the bet that AI cannot break Bitcoin within two years!

Silicon Valley investor Liron Shapira recently predicted that in the next two years, AI could weaken Bitcoin’s security through vulnerabilities and cyberattacks, causing $BTC to plunge by 50%. However, Vitalik Buterin doesn’t buy it. He believes AI is not just a weapon for attackers—it can also become a shield for defenders.

Vitalik explained that many risks in the Bitcoin network can be addressed through upgrades to clients, nodes, and mining pools, while the real challenge lies in how to coordinate these technical migrations. Although he didn’t directly take Liron’s bet, he has already backed this view with 90% of his net assets, suggesting that if AI manages to bring down $BTC , $ETH likely won’t be spared either.

Can AI really change the fate of the blockchain within two years?

#比特币 #cryptocurrency

From public chain to AI video? Harmony's major pivot is baffling!

After 7 years as a public chain, Harmony is actually closing its mainnet due to a security funding shortfall and migrating $ONE to ERC-20 on Ethereum. Behind this are not only the emergence of cross-shard vulnerabilities, but also the shadow of the earlier Horizon Bridge hack, which stole $100 million. Security costs became the last straw that broke the back of an independent L1.

Harmony's new plan is surprising: enter the AI video field and launch The Remix Economy, no longer focusing on blockchain. The original validator role is also being overhauled, transforming into a Governor or GPU Operator. This kind of drastic change in direction may be a move in step with market and technological developments.

The question is: can Harmony's pivot find a new growth point in AI, or will it become another failed adventure?

#山寨币 #cryptocurrency

Is Nike being kicked out of the S&P 100? That’s really unexpected! 🌀

Nike, once a consumer giant, has actually plunged nearly 80% since its stock price peak in 2021, shrinking its market value to about $58 billion. Even though it remains in the S&P 500, being removed from the S&P 100 shows that its market capitalization and liquidity no longer hold an advantage.

This adjustment is not only the result of changes in market-cap rankings, but also adds structural selling pressure on Nike, especially as its revenue has stagnated and the Greater China market remains under pressure. Meanwhile, companies such as Dell and Palo Alto Networks, along with other enterprise hardware and cybersecurity firms, have entered the index strongly, highlighting the rise of the tech sector.

Does Nike’s removal mean that traditional consumer goods companies are gradually losing ground in competition? #宏观经济 #regulatory_updates

Robinhood Chain's DEX trading volume has surpassed Solana's for the first time, and the reasons behind it are worth exploring in depth.

According to DeFiLlama data, on September 5, Robinhood Chain's daily DEX trading volume reached $1.89 billion, slightly exceeding Solana's $1.88 billion. This breakthrough not only put Robinhood Chain on the global daily leaderboard, but also marked the rapid expansion of its ecosystem.

Robinhood's strategy seems to be working: the wallet-side 90-day full Gas subsidy is crucial. Lower transaction costs have attracted a large number of users to participate, especially as meme token turnover surged, becoming the catalyst for the spike in trading volume.

What impact will such a zero-cost environment have on other chains? Can Solana take effective measures to defend its market position?

#加密货币 #macroeconomics