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Hyperliquid has taken a notably different approach to token listings. There is no committee, no back-channel negotiation, and no opaque approval process. Instead, the protocol runs a continuous Dutch auction every 31 hours, and whoever is willing to pay wins the right to deploy a spot token.
How the auction works
The mechanism, governed by the HIP-1 standard, is straightforward. Deployment is gated by a 31-hour Dutch auction that determines the gas cost. A Dutch auction starts at a high price and decreases linearly over time until a buyer steps in. If the previous auction completed, the new auction starts at twice the last winning price, and the price drops linearly down to a floor of 500 HYPE over 31 hours. If no one bought in the previous auction, the starting price resets to 500 HYPE.
The first bidder to accept the current price wins, the auction immediately ends, and a new one starts at twice whatever just cleared. Auctions occur every 31 hours, meaning a maximum of 282 spots are available for listing throughout the year. This passive cap indirectly filters listing quality.
The auction also acts as a sybil-resistance layer. Without a cost to deploy, the ticker namespace would be flooded. Even at the 500 HYPE floor, deploying a token requires meaningful capital commitment, enough to deter spam and low-effort projects.
What winning, and losing, the auction means
Winning the auction is what grants a token a front-end listing and an order book on Hyperliquid. A token can exist on HyperEVM without going through the auction process, but it will not appear on the platform's interface or have a tradeable market. Per @HyperliquidX's documentation, spot deployment auctions were originally payable in USDC, but since May 22, 2025, payments are made in the native HYPE token.
The HYPE paid in winning auctions is burned, permanently removing it from circulation. This buyback and burn mechanism involves permanently removing tokens from circulation, with the primary goal of reducing total supply over time, potentially increasing scarcity and value.
Through HIP-1, Hyperliquid has established a transparent decentralized token listing mechanism where the cost of listing is determined by market participants, eliminating the opaque listing processes common on centralized exchanges. The result is a self-correcting price discovery system: heavy demand pushes the next auction's starting price up, while weak demand pulls it back to the floor.
Sources:
Hyperliquid Official Wiki: Spot Deployments (HIP-1/HIP-2)
Hyperliquid Guide: Auctions Explained

Blockchains are deterministic systems: given the same input, they always produce the same output. That determinism is essential for consensus and security, but it creates a direct problem when an application needs unpredictable outcomes for fairness. Any value drawn from block data can, in principle, be steered by whoever builds the block, making on-chain lotteries, raffles, and NFT mints vulnerable to manipulation.
Chainlink VRF (Verifiable Random Function) is a provably fair and verifiable random number generator that enables smart contracts to access random values without compromising security or usability. The key difference from simpler approaches is the accompanying proof. For each randomness request, @chainlink VRF generates one or more random values along with cryptographic proof of how those values were determined. That proof is published and verified on-chain before any consuming application can use it.
Why the proof matters
This process helps ensure that results cannot be tampered with or manipulated by any single entity, including oracle operators, smart contract developers, users, miners, or block builders. The cryptographic structure means that attempting to alter the output would invalidate the proof, making manipulation detectable rather than deniable.
VRFs are needed for a range of on-chain purposes, including blockchain-based lotteries, GameFi NFTs with randomized traits, and node or validator randomization. The requirement cuts across sectors: any protocol whose fairness depends on an unpredictable outcome has an incentive to use a verifiable source rather than relying on block data or a centralized feed.
How requests are paid for
VRF v2.5 offers two methods for requesting randomness. Under the subscription model, a developer creates a subscription account funded with either native tokens or $LINK, then connects multiple consuming contracts to that account. Transaction costs are calculated after each randomness request is fulfilled and deducted from the subscription balance. Under the direct funding model, consuming contracts pay with either native tokens or $LINK at the point of each request. The flexibility on payment currency lowers the barrier for developers building on chains where $LINK is less liquid.
Chainlink VRF is currently the industry-leading VRF service for blockchain, crypto, gaming, and DeFi protocols, and the breadth of supported chains reinforces that position for teams building across multiple networks.
Sources:
Chainlink VRF Documentation (Official)
Verifiable Random Function Explained, Chainlink Education Hub

@meshsdk has shipped a combined $ADA and $BTC wallet SDK, giving developers a unified interface for building across both the Cardano and Bitcoin networks. The release, funded through Cardano's community grant programme Project Catalyst, marks a meaningful step in cross-chain developer tooling from one of the ecosystem's most active open-source teams.
What the SDK Includes
Mesh is an open-source, production-ready TypeScript SDK for Cardano blockchain development. The new wallet extension builds on that foundation by adding Bitcoin support through a single developer interface. The package includes headless wallets, Bitcoin primitives for address and script handling that mirror those already familiar to Cardano developers, and full support for transaction and data signing across both chains. All code is released under the Apache 2.0 licence, with documentation published publicly.
The SDK connects to Xverse and other Bitcoin browser extensions via a unified Sats Connect API. On the Cardano side, it provides wallets, transaction builders, data utilities, smart contract libraries, and blockchain providers in one SDK.
Catalyst Fund 14 Funding and Milestones
The work sits under Mesh's Catalyst Fund 14 proposal, budgeted at 100,000 ADA. Four of the five milestones have received approved proof of achievement, with the fifth currently awaiting closeout. A total of 76,000 ADA has been released to date.
Project Catalyst is a growth engine and grants programme for the Cardano blockchain ecosystem that has funding rounds every few months, with a set amount of funds ready to allocate to ideas. With 13 rounds of community voting already completed, more than 3 million votes cast, and over $100 million distributed to community-approved proposals, Catalyst has become a critical launchpad for Cardano builders.
For developers already working with Mesh on Cardano, the Bitcoin extension lowers the cost of building multi-chain applications considerably, removing the need to maintain separate toolchains for each network.
Sources:
Mesh SDK: About
Project Catalyst: All Funds

Senate Republicans have released a substitute amendment to H.R. 3633, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, just days before a critical procedural vote that could determine the bill's fate on the Senate floor.
The updated text preserves several existing pillars of the legislation, including its ethics division with a 2029 sunset clause, the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act, and a provision that bars interest and yield on payment stablecoins. Title I has been renamed the "Lummis-Gillibrand Responsible Financial Innovation Act of 2026," a nod to the long-running effort by Senators Cynthia Lummis and Kirsten Gillibrand to establish a comprehensive federal framework for digital assets.
DeFi Rules Tightened, Credit Union Authority Clarified
According to @EleanorTerrett, the substitute amendment introduces three notable changes. First, non-decentralized DeFi protocols would be required to register with the CFTC. Second, the DeFi provisions are scoped to spot or cash digital commodity transactions only. Third, the text clarifies credit union authority over crypto activities.
The registration requirement for non-decentralized protocols marks a meaningful shift. The updated bill draws a clearer line between truly decentralized platforms, which would remain outside the registration mandate, and those that do not meet that threshold and must come under CFTC oversight.
What Comes Next
The Senate's first procedural test, a cloture vote on the motion to proceed, is scheduled for Tuesday, September 15. Cloture is a Senate procedure used to overcome extended debate or a potential filibuster, and supporters generally need 60 votes in a fully seated chamber to clear it. Republicans currently hold 53 seats, meaning even a unified GOP caucus would still need at least seven Democratic or independent votes to advance the bill.
A successful cloture vote would clear a major procedural hurdle, but it would not mean the Clarity Act has passed the Senate. The bill would still face debate, amendments, and a separate vote on final passage. The most contentious provisions, including stablecoin rewards, ethics, anti-money laundering rules, and regulator jurisdiction, could still change.
The Clarity Act passed the House 294 to 134 on July 17, 2025, and cleared the Senate Banking Committee 15 to 9 on May 14, 2026. Senator Lummis subsequently released a combined market structure bill text, merging the Senate Banking's amended version of H.R. 3633 with the Agriculture Committee's Digital Commodity Intermediaries Act into a single package, marking a significant step toward a comprehensive U.S. framework for digital asset markets.
Tuesday's vote will be the clearest signal yet of whether the bill has the bipartisan support needed to move forward before the end of the 119th Congress.
Sources:
Bitget Academy: CLARITY Act Vote September 15, 2026
Crypto for Innovation: The Clarity Act, What Happened and What's Next
Congress.gov: H.R. 3633 Full Bill Text

@coinbasewallet has reverted to its original name after just 14 months as the Base App. Coinbase's experiment with the "Base App" branding is officially over, with the @coinbasewallet account confirming on September 10, 2026 that the app would revert to its original Coinbase Wallet name. Funds are unaffected by the change, and users can simply update the existing app on iOS or Android.
From Social Experiment to Trading Platform
When Coinbase rechristened its wallet as the Base App in July 2025, the ambition was clear: to build an "everything app" for crypto, blending trading, USDC-powered payments, social interactions through the Farcaster protocol, and a mini-app ecosystem into a single product. But the social features, the part of the product meant to differentiate the Base App from every other wallet on the market, never quite clicked with users, with reception ranging from lukewarm to openly skeptical.
In January 2026, barely six months into the rebrand, Base lead Jesse Pollak publicly acknowledged that the social strategy was not working and announced a pivot to a "trading-first" user experience. A leadership shake-up followed in July 2026, when Pollak stepped back from day-to-day leadership of Base, handing the role to Jordan Fish, better known in crypto circles as @cobie. Fish joined Coinbase after the exchange acquired his ICO launchpad Echo for approximately $375 million.
The name change prompted a telling moment online. Asked earlier on September 10 whether the Base App supported other chains, @cobie replied "Ok I'm definitely changing the name lmao," signaling how overdue the rebrand felt even to its own leadership.
A Multichain Trading Hub
Coinbase said the Base App had evolved into a broader, multichain trading platform, making it sensible to bring back the Coinbase Wallet name while retaining the best parts of the Base App. @coinbase is now pitching the app as the fastest way to trade tokenized stocks, memecoins, perps, and prediction markets. Coinbase Wallet will act as a "test kitchen" for products and assets that may not be available through Coinbase's centralized exchange, according to Ryan Kass, Head of Coinbase Wallet Product.
Coinbase Wallet supports Base, Robinhood Chain, Solana, Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB Chain, Monad, Optimism, Arbitrum, Polygon, and Avalanche following the rebrand, with plans to continue expanding. The wallet also gives users access to perpetual futures powered by Hyperliquid, prediction markets, and tokenized stocks. Users retain control of their funds, with Coinbase stating that the rebrand does not affect existing balances.
Sources:
The Block: Coinbase rebrands Base App back to Coinbase Wallet
Decrypt: Coinbase Wallet rebrands to chase multichain trading
CoinDesk: Jesse Pollak steps back from Base App leadership

The White House is pushing back hard against the banking lobby's latest effort to rewrite the stablecoin rewards language in the CLARITY Act, with crypto adviser Patrick Witt (@patrickjwitt) saying the industry's argument is already settled.
Witt was responding to community banker Jill Castilla (@JillCastilla), who had argued that deeper collaboration with community banks was the path to a passable bill. His reply was blunt: the framing from the bank lobby is misleading, and the terms of the debate were resolved long before the current protest campaign.
A Compromise Built Over Months
The stablecoin rewards provision at the centre of the dispute sits in Section 404 of the CLARITY Act. Senators Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-Md.) finalized a compromise to restrict stablecoin yield and rewards after months of negotiations between bank and crypto advocates. The compromise draws a line between passive yields on idle stablecoin holdings, which would be banned, and activity-based rewards, which would still be permitted.
Witt's position is that the outcome was not a surprise to any party at the table. Every major bank trade group and dozens of individual banks were included in the process, he said, and the changes now being demanded were considered and rejected. The crypto industry, he added, did not get everything it wanted either.
The compromise reflects months of negotiations involving the White House, Treasury Department, Senate Banking Committee Republicans and the two lead senators. The proposed compromise banned yield based solely on stablecoin balances but did allow companies to pay out yield based on activities. The crypto industry had some issues with the language. That both sides gave ground is, by Witt's reading, precisely the point.
Banks Push Back Ahead of Cloture Vote
The banking coalition is not backing down. In a letter to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Minority Leader Charles Schumer on July 13, 2026, the American Bankers Association and Independent Community Bankers of America joined 76 state associations representing thousands of community financial institutions, expressing genuine concerns with the Clarity Act and urging targeted changes to provide greater certainty that payment stablecoins cannot function as substitutes for bank deposits.
The associations urged targeted revisions to Section 404 that would clarify the prohibition on interest and yield, and also urged lawmakers to replace the bill's "functional and economic equivalent" standard with a "substantially similar" standard, and to remove language they believe could create ambiguity regarding rewards tied to stablecoin balances, duration or tenure.
With a cloture vote set for Tuesday, Witt's intervention signals that the White House sees the banking lobby's latest push as a step too far, and that the administration regards the current text as the negotiated endpoint, not a starting point for a new round of concessions.
Sources:
Senator Alsobrooks: Tillis-Alsobrooks Reach Compromise on Stablecoin Yield in CLARITY Act
ICBA: ABA, ICBA Join State Associations in Urging Senate to Strengthen Stablecoin Yield Provisions
ABA: ABA, ICBA Join State Associations in Urging Senate to Strengthen Stablecoin Yield Provisions in Clarity Act

KAS Breaks $1 Billion as Volume Surges
Kaspa's native token $KAS hit $0.03714 on September 10, up roughly 4% on the day and more than 25% over the prior week, pushing the network's market capitalisation to approximately $1.02 billion. The move marks a notable recovery for the asset. According to CaptainAltcoin, Kaspa has not consistently commanded a $1 billion valuation since the earlier part of 2026.
Trading volume reached $31.84 million on the day, a jump of nearly 119%, equivalent to about 3.08% of the total market cap. The spike in volume suggests renewed buyer interest rather than a low-liquidity drift higher.
On the supply side, 27.69 billion KAS are currently in circulation out of a hard cap of 28.7 billion, putting the fully diluted value at around $1.06 billion. As noted by Bitcoin Ethereum News, with roughly 96% of all coins already mined, new issuance continues to shrink, reducing the steady sell pressure that typically weighs on proof-of-work networks.
What Sets Kaspa Apart
Kaspa is a fair-launched, proof-of-work network that runs a blockDAG architecture rather than a conventional linear chain. Per the official Kaspa Wiki, its GHOSTDAG protocol does not discard blocks created in parallel but instead allows them to coexist and reach consensus, enabling the network to currently process 10 blocks per second with a target of 100 blocks per second under future upgrades. The project launched in November 2021 with no premine, no insider allocation, and no presale, with every coin in circulation mined openly from genesis.
Those structural factors, a tightening supply schedule and an upcoming scaling roadmap, are increasingly cited by analysts as reasons the current rally may carry more weight than a simple short-squeeze bounce.
Sources:
CaptainAltcoin: Kaspa Price Explodes 25% as KAS Closes In on $1 Billion Market Cap
Bitcoin Ethereum News: KAS Breaks the Pattern That Held It Down for Months
Kaspa Wiki: Official Protocol Overview

Uniswap Labs has launched StablePair Hook on Ethereum mainnet, introducing a dynamic fee structure for stablecoin trading pairs that adjusts in real time based on how far a pool's price drifts from its reference rate. The feature went live on September 10, 2026, with initial pools covering USDC/USDT and USDC/USDG.
How the fee mechanism works
StablePair Hook uses a dynamic fee rate instead of a fixed one, adjusting based on how far the pool price deviates from a reference price. When the price remains near that reference, the hook adjusts the fee for each transaction to maintain a fixed spread between the bid and ask prices. If the price moves outside this range, trades that push the deviation further pay no fees, as they effectively provide a more favourable price to the liquidity pool.
Trades that move the price back toward the reference rate use a Dutch auction. The fee starts high and falls with each block until a trader accepts it, which Uniswap Labs says allows liquidity providers to keep more of the value from bringing the price back. The design is a direct challenge to the arbitrage bots that have traditionally captured that corrective spread at the expense of LPs.
StablePair Hook is Uniswap Labs' latest v4 hook and its first upgradeable dynamic-fee hook. Pool parameters and fee logic can be changed through Uniswap governance without requiring liquidity to migrate to a new pool. StablePair Hook joins DualPool, Permissioned Pools, and LitePSM, with more on the roadmap.
A large and growing market
Stablecoin-to-stablecoin swaps on @Uniswap reached $43.4 billion in the second quarter of 2026, more than the next three onchain venues combined, according to Uniswap Labs. That scale helps explain the strategic priority: with stablecoin volume at this level, even a marginal improvement in how fee revenue is distributed can translate into meaningful gains for LPs.
By early September 2026, over 90,000 hook instances had been initialised across the Uniswap v4 ecosystem, reflecting how quickly developers have adopted the protocol's programmable pool architecture since v4 launched. Uniswap Labs describes the Uniswap Protocol as the world's largest decentralised exchange by trading volume, having processed more than $4.6 trillion in total volume.
Sources
The Block: Uniswap launches StablePair Hook to help LPs capture more stablecoin trading value
Uniswap Labs official press release via Bitcoin Ethereum News

A new approach to onchain privacy
Blockchains are transparent by design, which is ideal for auditability but creates a real problem for applications that require confidentiality. @dfinity has been working on that tradeoff for years, and its answer is now live in production: a feature called vetKeys, short for Verifiable Encrypted Threshold Keys.
vetKeys on the Internet Computer addresses the fundamental challenge of storing secrets onchain by allowing cryptographic key derivation without exposing private keys to anyone but the user. The mechanism works at the subnet level. When a canister requests a key, no single node handles the job alone. Each node in the network independently creates its own secret share of the final vetKey, then encrypts its own share using the user's transport key. A quorum of those encrypted shares is then combined, so neither the nodes nor the canister ever holds the raw key in the clear. Users can also verify that the key came out of the protocol correctly and was not tampered with.
Crucially, the key is never stored anywhere. It is rebuilt on demand from the same inputs every time, which means a user who signs in on a new device will receive the same key back without having to remember a password or carry a seed phrase. With vetKeys, users can benefit from end-to-end encryption without having to remember decryption keys or passwords, as the key management is provided by ICP.
Live on mainnet since July 2025
With the Niobium milestone, the Internet Computer Protocol took a significant step forward in bringing new levels of privacy to the blockchain, with the vetKeys feature now live and available for all developers building on ICP. Access control is handled entirely in application logic, not at the cryptographic layer. The app decides who may request a key through its own code, and each key request costs the canister a small fee in cycles.
With vetKeys, developers can build dapps where users' data is encrypted, addressing privacy needs on a public blockchain for the first time. vetKeys are built on a new verifiably encrypted threshold key derivation protocol, called vetKD, which lets canister smart contracts manage and request cryptographic keys that are securely derived and encrypted with a user's public key.
Many real-world applications rely on confidentiality, including messaging, identity, healthcare, finance, governance, and gaming. With vetKeys, developers can seamlessly integrate end-to-end encryption into their applications, ensuring sensitive data stays protected even on a public blockchain.
Sources
DFINITY: The Internet Computer's Privacy Era, vetKeys Unlocked
DFINITY vetKeys GitHub Repository
DFINITY Foundation Launches Niobium Milestone

A shared standard for AI agent identity
@Visa, @Mastercard, and @Ant_Intl announced on September 10, 2026 that they are collaborating on a Know Your Agent (KYA) interoperability framework, a set of common standards designed to identify and verify AI agents that make purchases on behalf of users. The framework would allow card networks, digital wallets, agent platforms, and online marketplaces to recognize trusted AI agents across different payment ecosystems while each network maintains its own approval and risk-management processes.
The centerpiece of the collaboration is a system designed so an agent that has already verified its identity with one payment provider does not have to repeat that process elsewhere. In practice, if an agent registers with Ant, it would not need to register again with Visa or Mastercard, according to Ant International Chief Innovation Officer Jiang-Ming Yang.
The three organizations have previously rolled out their respective protocols: Visa's Trusted Agent Protocol, Mastercard Verifiable Intent, and Ant International's Agentic Mobile Protocol, and will now explore opportunities to work toward common principles. Merchants and platforms currently face duplicated integration costs because every network expresses identity and consent differently.
Big projections, limited detail
Pablo Fourez, Chief Digital Officer at Mastercard, said that "interoperability across Know-Your-Agent frameworks is essential to making agentic commerce work at scale," stressing the need for a consistent way for merchants and payment processors to recognize which AI agents they can trust.
The companies are backing the initiative with ambitious market projections. By 2030, AI agents are projected to orchestrate $3 trillion to $5 trillion of global consumer commerce. Those figures, cited by all three companies, are attributed to McKinsey.
Despite the institutional weight behind the announcement, the framework is still in early stages. There are no technical specifications, governance bodies, or rollout timelines currently disclosed. The announcement describes a framework under development, not a technical standard already deployed across the three payment networks.
Consumer trust remains a substantial hurdle. According to the Product.ai Trust in AI Commerce Report from April 2026, only 14% of consumers trust AI to execute purchases without verification. That gap underlines why a credible, cross-network identity layer matters, but also why the absence of concrete implementation details will draw scrutiny as the initiative moves forward.
Sources:
CNBC: Ant International partners with Visa, Mastercard on developing AI payments
PYMNTS: Visa and Mastercard Team With Ant on Know Your Agent Framework
Business Recorder: Payment firms Visa, Mastercard and Ant International team up on AI agent trust framework

Two college programs go live on the same day
Uptop is expanding its Avalanche-powered fan loyalty network at pace. On September 14, Memphis Athletics (@TigersAthletics) will launch GoTigersGo Rewards, its new points-based program built on @avax. The launch lands on the same day Baylor's Bears Perks program goes live, making it a notable double signing for Uptop within a single 24-hour window.
Both programs follow the same basic mechanic. Uptop's platform uses open banking, digital wallets, and receipt-scanning technology, all secured by the Avalanche network, so fans can earn points simply by linking an existing debit or credit card and shopping at eligible locations. Points accumulate automatically, with no need for fans to interact with the underlying blockchain directly. Avalanche's infrastructure enables points, badges, and partner settlements to be issued and processed in seconds, while keeping the experience simple.
Fans connect with their favorite teams, earn at participating sponsors, and use their points for tickets, merchandise, and access. For Memphis specifically, the department also says it plans to go a step further by launching a co-branded prepaid card, giving fans another route to accumulate points at team venues and partner merchants.
A growing footprint in college and professional sports
Baylor Bears Perks is billed as a fan loyalty program designed to recognize and reward fans for the ways they already support the Bears. Pre-registration opened ahead of the September 14 launch date at BaylorBearsPerks.com.
The back-to-back signings follow a string of earlier Uptop deals across both college and professional sports. Uptop previously partnered with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Detroit Pistons before moving into college sports with LSU Athletics, where it launched the Geaux Rewards program. Powered by Uptop, Geaux Rewards is one of the first digital loyalty programs in college sports, allowing LSU fans to earn points from daily purchases through the athletics app.
Uptop also plans to launch a permissioned Layer 1 blockchain, the Uptop Network, on Avalanche to manage loyalty points ledgers and offer greater interoperability, establishing a unified platform that brings together teams, leagues, brands, and fans. For college athletic departments, the appeal is clear. For teams and sponsors, Uptop functions as a data platform, providing visibility into what the fanbase is buying, which sponsors are driving behavior, and where engagement is strongest.
Sources
Memphis Athletics and Uptop Launch GoTigersGo Rewards Program (GoTigersGo.com)
Uptop Leverages Avalanche to Transform Fan Loyalty (Avalanche Foundation)
Uptop Partners with LSU Athletics for Geaux Rewards (LSUSports.net)

The Cosmos ecosystem's USDC standard is moving to a new home. Circle now issues $USDC natively on @injective, which is replacing Noble as the ecosystem's primary issuance chain. The token routes across interconnected chains through IBC, and key players including @cosmoshub and @dydx are already signed on, with the full rollout set to unfold over the coming months.
A Coordinated Ecosystem Switch
@injective launched native $USDC on its mainnet via Circle's Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP), and @cosmoshub, @dydx, and the routing layer Skip:Go have all signed on, making Injective USDC the canonical stablecoin standard across a network of interconnected chains that previously relied on Noble for issuance.
Because @injective runs EVM and WASM over one shared state, that $USDC holds a single balance recognized identically by applications on either side. According to Injective, it was also Circle's first MultiVM issuance of the token.
The migration rolls out over the coming months, with @dydx going first and Cosmos Labs coordinating the rollout for additional chains and applications. @dydx plans to make Injective-native $USDC the sole trading collateral on dYdX Chain, with current balances remaining untouched until @dydx publishes a migration timeline. Following the migration, Injective $USDC is expected to become the recommended default denomination in Skip:Go.
@cosmoshub adopted Injective $USDC as the ecosystem's reference standard under a minimum four-year commitment, with Skip:Go set to treat it as the default $USDC denomination. Per Injective's announcement, the integration is also designed to generate fees that fund programmatic buybacks of ATOM, the native token of Cosmos Hub.
Why Noble Is No Longer the Answer
The shift follows Noble's earlier announcement that it would migrate from its Cosmos SDK-based chain to a dedicated EVM-compatible Layer 1, with the new network scheduled to launch on March 18, 2026, while the existing Cosmos SDK chain moved into maintenance mode.
With Noble now focused on its own EVM chain, Circle announced on September 10, 2026 that it is discontinuing USDC and CCTP V1 support on Noble. CCTP V1 burn limits will start declining on October 31, 2026, with a complete contract pause on December 1, 2026. Noble will not receive CCTP V2, the upgraded protocol Circle has been rolling out elsewhere. Developers currently integrating Noble $USDC are advised to begin migrating to Injective $USDC and set up support for pools and markets using the USDC.inj denomination ahead of that deadline.
Circle structured the wind-down in two phases: phase one begins October 31, when burn limits on CCTP V1 contracts start decreasing, and phase two arrives December 1, when the contracts pause entirely. Through CCTP, $USDC can move natively between supported blockchains without relying on wrapped assets, reducing liquidity fragmentation and simplifying cross-chain deposits and trading.
Sources:
Injective: USDC Adoption by Cosmos and dYdX
Circle: CCTP V1 Deprecation and CCTP V2 as the Canonical Standard
Crypto Briefing: Circle Discontinues USDC Support on Noble as CCTP V1 Winds Down

Pi Desktop 0.6.3 Brings SoloHost Improvements and a New Name
@PiCoreTeam has released Pi Desktop 0.6.3, delivering a set of meaningful upgrades to SoloHost, the network's framework for self-hosted applications. The release also marks a branding shift: Pi Network has released Pi Desktop 0.6.3 with several updates to SoloHost, and future software versions will use the Pi Desktop label instead of Pi Node.
SoloHost is the framework allowing Pioneers to run self-hosted applications directly from their computers. It is an open, permissionless framework on Pi Desktop where developers can build and list apps that help run local AI and, soon, distributed computing use cases.
On the user-facing side, SoloHost now ranks community applications based on how many people are actively running them, giving users a clearer view of which applications currently have the most activity across the ecosystem. A new readiness probe has also been introduced: the probe checks whether SoloHost applications respond correctly before users can access them, aiming to reduce errors linked to temporary connection problems or applications that are not yet ready.
Developer Tooling and AI Agent Compatibility
The update brings notable improvements for developers as well. Developers benefit from a newly created "My Apps" dashboard designed for streamlined management of published applications. Pi Desktop 0.6.3 adds improved Docker Compose support, which can help developers test, configure, and troubleshoot applications before wider use.
Importantly, the release extends native support for AI agents within the node environment. SoloHost was released in beta on Pi2Day 2026 as an open, permissionless framework where developers can build and list self-hosted apps, with the initial release supporting locally-run apps such as AI agents, while Pi continued to make progress in enabling distributed computing applications that make use of available Node resources.
This approach turns the existing Pi Desktop environment into a more practical foundation for utility creation, giving Pioneers new ways to use their computers for apps, AI utilities, distributed computing, and other compute-based use cases. Participating nodes can be compensated by third-party clients in Pi, in return for turning available computing capacity into a resource for real applications.
Taken together, the 0.6.3 release reflects a deliberate push by @PiCoreTeam to broaden the role of the Pi node well beyond basic blockchain validation, positioning it as a platform for self-hosted services, AI tooling, and eventually distributed computing at scale.
Sources:
CryptoPotato: Pi Network 0.6.3 Update Details
CoinCentral: Pi Network Update Reveals Bigger Node Ambitions
Pi Network Official Blog: Pi2Day 2026 and SoloHost Launch

@HunterBiden's $LAPTOP memecoin had one of the most dramatic debuts in recent crypto memory. Launched on September 9 on Coinbase's Base network, the token spiked sharply in its opening minutes before collapsing nearly 98% within the first hour of trading, per CoinGecko data. The market cap, which briefly touched the billions, has since slumped to below $300 million, leaving traders and observers questioning whether the token has any future.
A Brutal Launch Day
$LAPTOP opened at $190.81 before crashing to as low as $3.70 within the first hour of trading. The speed of the collapse was striking even by memecoin standards. For context, TRUMP needed 18 months to fall 97% from its peak. $LAPTOP managed a comparable loss in under 60 minutes.
The mechanics behind the crash were straightforward. The token briefly reached a fully diluted valuation near $144 billion while its liquidity pool contained only about $48,000, creating a massive gap between the token's implied valuation and the capital actually available to support trading. The LAPTOP order book was so thin that small sales, including from airdrop claimers, cratered the price.
The losses were real and painful for many. The crash saw several traders record massive losses, with one trader losing $197,000 within hours. Lookonchain also identified a wallet that spent about $200,000 buying 919 $LAPTOP near $218, while another wallet turned an initial $900 purchase into more than $250,000 after selling during the early surge.
Controversy Before the Coin Even Launched
The project faced headwinds well before trading began. Crypto traders sharply criticized the launch, prompting Kraken to delete a promotional post and a Coinbase Base executive to distance themselves from the project. Base founder Jesse Pollak confirmed the $LAPTOP team contacted his team, but said Base made a "conscious decision" not to assist with the token's design or promotion.
$LAPTOP is a fungible ERC-20 token on Base. As a memecoin, it has no utility, but incorporates two novel distribution mechanisms designed to promote long-term community growth. Part of that design involved reaching across political lines: 20% of the supply was allocated to airdrops, with the first group in line being wallets sitting on losses from $TRUMP, the memecoin Donald Trump launched days before his 2025 inauguration.
For now, price action has gone quiet. With no meaningful recovery and sentiment firmly negative, the central question is whether $LAPTOP can find a base of genuine holders, or whether it joins the growing list of politically themed tokens that burned bright and faded fast.
Sources:
CoinDesk: Crypto Traders Turn on Hunter Biden's LAPTOP Memecoin Before It Even Launches
CoinCentral: Hunter Biden's LAPTOP Price: 98% Crash in Under an Hour
Fortune: Hunter Biden Launches $LAPTOP Memecoin

GSmart Expansion Targets Enterprise Treasury Workflows
@Ripple has announced a significant expansion of GSmart, the AI suite embedded within its Ripple Treasury platform. Already in production across its enterprise customer base, GSmart embeds AI directly into the policies, data, and workflows treasury teams use every day. The expansion adds new policy-governed capabilities across forecasting, liquidity, risk, reconciliation, and reporting, helping finance teams make faster, more informed decisions while maintaining the controls and auditability required by enterprise organisations.
Early adoption figures reflect real traction: 60% of eligible customers have enabled Risk Insights, which surfaces exposure anomalies and policy breaches, while 44% are leveraging Forecast Insights, which compares forecasted and actual cash flows to identify emerging liquidity gaps.
GSmart Liquidity Management leverages AI to enhance cash forecasting by continually learning from past data, including cash flows, sales, and treasury information. It automatically evaluates multiple forecasting algorithms, selecting the most accurate model for each scenario. With full transparency, the solution reports which model was chosen and its expected error margin, and as it retrains on new data, forecast accuracy improves over time.
Governance and Human Oversight at the Core
A central design principle of the expanded GSmart suite is keeping human judgment in the loop. "Rather than asking customers to blindly trust an AI system, GSmart works within each organisation's own treasury policies to surface recommendations transparently, while ensuring humans remain in control of every decision. This isn't simply AI-native treasury, but rather treasury-native AI," said Renaat Ver Eecke, SVP of Ripple Treasury.
Every AI model in GSmart is applied to a specific treasury problem with full transparency into what model is used and how. Finance teams know exactly why each insight was generated, with no black box outputs and no guesswork about model behaviour.
The platform also supports unified asset management. Ripple's earlier launch of Digital Asset Accounts and Unified Treasury means CFOs and treasury teams can view, hold, receive, and manage both fiat and digital liquidity within a single platform, without separate custody relationships, parallel systems, or manual reconciliation between them. Following that launch of native digital asset capabilities earlier this year, GSmart now adds intelligence and predictive insights across the full treasury lifecycle.
The move reflects broader pressure on finance leaders to adopt AI while preserving compliance standards. Deloitte's Q4 2025 CFO Signals Survey found that 87% of CFOs expect AI to be extremely or very important to their finance department's operations in 2026.
Sources:
TreasuryXL: Ripple Treasury Brings Industry's First Governed AI for Enterprise Treasury
Ripple Treasury: GSmart Liquidity Management
FinTech Weekly: Ripple Treasury Launches First TMS With Native Digital Asset Capabilities

India's largest agricultural warehousing company has taken a significant step toward digitizing farm finance. Arya.ag is using the Avalanche blockchain to tokenize grain deposits, warehouse receipts, and loan status, giving lenders a more reliable way to verify the crops backing agricultural loans.
Nandan Nilekani, co-founder of tech giant Infosys and project leader of India's Aadhaar identity system, announced the initiative at the Global Fintech Festival in Mumbai. Arya.ag is setting up its own dedicated layer-1 blockchain built using Avalanche technology, and plans to open it up to other warehouse companies in the future.
How the System Works
Electronic warehouse receipts allow farmers and agricultural businesses to borrow against commodities held in storage instead of selling them immediately after harvest. Arya.ag and Ava Labs say the system is designed to give lenders a shared record showing what grain is stored, who owns it, whether it has already been pledged as collateral, and what debt is outstanding.
Finternet will combine farmer, commodity, warehouse, and insurance information into what Sanmesh Kalyanpur, a director at Finternet Labs, called a "composite token" that banks can use when assessing collateral risk. A separate group called Finternet is helping establish the rules for how warehouses and lenders communicate inside the system. Finternet provides digital infrastructure for connecting money and assets globally, a concept Nilekani proposed alongside Agustín Carstens, a former general manager at the Bank for International Settlements and former governor of the Bank of Mexico.
India already recognizes electronic negotiable warehouse receipts (e-NWRs) as instruments that can support loans against crops stored in regulated warehouses, and the blockchain deployment builds on that existing legal structure rather than creating a new ownership claim over the grain. Testing of tokenized e-NWRs began earlier this year, with three major banks joining the dedicated Avalanche layer-1 network.
Scale and Caveats
Arya.ag stores about $2 billion in agricultural commodities across its warehouse network and supports approximately $1.26 billion in loans annually, with its lending arm, Arya Dhan, issuing around $230 million in loans each year. These figures describe Arya.ag's existing business and do not represent assets or loans already brought onchain.
The initial focus is on improving the infrastructure behind warehouse-backed lending rather than claiming a specific impact on credit access, with faster approvals, lower costs, or greater access to credit seen as potential outcomes to be demonstrated as the system is deployed. In 2024, the Indian government launched a 10 billion-rupee credit-guarantee program intended to encourage financing against electronic negotiable warehouse receipts, particularly among small and marginal farmers.
Finternet Labs was co-created by Aadhaar architect Pramod Varma and Chief Executive Officer Siddharth Shetty, with backing from technology industry veteran Nandan Nilekani. The @finternet_org initiative is overseeing the communication rules between lenders and warehouses on the @Avax network.
Sources:
CoinDesk: Indian agri warehouse giant is putting $2 billion in grain-backed loans onchain
CoinTelegraph: Arya.ag Tests Tokenized Grain Ownership Records on Avalanche
YourStory: Finternet, Ava Labs partner to test blockchain lending for farm assets

@XStableAI, a portfolio company of YZi Labs, has announced a partnership with @SuiNetwork to bring precious metals trading, including gold, silver, and platinum, as well as foreign exchange markets, onto the Sui blockchain.
On-Chain Settlement for Traditional Markets
The integration is designed to replace the fragmented, multi-day settlement cycles typical of legacy financial markets with on-chain, programmable transaction rails. By moving these asset classes onto Sui's ledger, XStable aims to eliminate the opacity that has long characterized centralized precious metals and forex infrastructure, offering transparent, verifiable settlement in place of incumbent clearing processes.
According to XStable, the platform currently processes more than $100 million in daily trading volume and uses AI-native infrastructure for opportunity discovery, risk management, and trade execution.
Built for Autonomous AI Agents
A central focus of the partnership is enabling autonomous AI agents to operate in markets that do not observe traditional banking hours. By leveraging Sui's high-performance architecture, XStable aims to provide those agents with 24/7 liquidity access and instant settlement, allowing them to execute complex trades around the clock without dependence on conventional financial intermediaries.
The move fits squarely within the broader investment thesis of YZi Labs, the venture arm formerly known as Binance Labs. The firm backs founders working across AI, blockchain, and frontier technology, with a particular focus on rebuilding financial market structure on-chain and positioning AI as a first-class participant within it.
Sui's architecture has increasingly attracted institutional and infrastructure-grade projects. The network has previously partnered with Franklin Templeton Digital Assets and has been named a launch partner for Google's Agentic Payments Protocol, which allows AI agents to execute stablecoin transactions on behalf of users.
For XStable, the Sui integration represents a step toward a unified on-chain venue for assets that have historically traded in siloed, centralized systems, bringing gold, silver, platinum, and currency pairs under the same programmable settlement layer.
Sources:
XStable official platform
CoinDesk: YZi Labs investment thesis
YZi Labs Blog

Community Developers Eye a Pi Stablecoin
A conversation sparked by GCV ambassador Dimas (@2000Rocker) has reignited speculation around whether Pi Network could one day support its own stablecoin. According to Dimas, PiPay, a project developed by community contributor Mr. Kosasih (@Kosasihg88G), is being positioned as an evolving global payment platform designed to accommodate a Pi stablecoin. Kosasih has reportedly been responsible for earlier community coding efforts, including OnRamp Pi and Pi Oracle.
The idea has drawn attention partly because the broader $PI ecosystem is maturing. OpenPay, a third-party wallet and payment service within the Pi ecosystem, transitioned from testnet to live mainnet on August 27, 2026, and restored its cash-in feature on September 1, enabling users to convert PI and other altcoins into the OUSD stablecoin. That functionality offers a real-world glimpse of how stablecoin-adjacent payment flows could work on Pi, even without official Core Team involvement.
However, it is important to emphasize that there has been no official announcement from the Pi Network Core Team regarding the development or launch of any stablecoin. For now, the concept should be viewed as a technical possibility rather than a confirmed roadmap. Any stablecoin would also require regulatory clarity and genuine user demand, neither of which has been formally addressed by the project.
Protocol 27 Remains the Core Team's Focus
While community developers speculate about payment innovation, @PiCoreTeam is focused squarely on its next major infrastructure milestone. Protocol 27 is a major Pi Network mainnet upgrade scheduled for September 15, 2026, introducing smart contract authentication, an automated market maker decentralized exchange, and public RPC server infrastructure. The upgrade turns Pi from a transfer-only chain into something that could theoretically support decentralized applications.
Pi Network will activate Protocol 27 on mainnet September 15, 2026, completing testnet deployment that began August 21 and bringing automated market maker liquidity pools, smart contract authentication, and RPC infrastructure to production. Pi Launchpad already stress-tested the DEX on testnet through the SLICE token launch, drawing 242,000 Pioneers who committed 15.92 million Test-Pi across 17 days.
The distinction between official and community-led development matters here. Services like OpenPay and projects like PiPay operate independently of the Core Team, and their features do not carry Pi Network's endorsement. Community activity in coding and payments does reflect sustained grassroots interest in expanding $PI's real-world utility, but Pioneers should distinguish between what the Core Team has confirmed and what remains speculative.
Sources:
crypto.news: Pi Network ships Protocol 27 on a network with 14 million users and zero DeFi
FXStreet: Could Pi Network rally as OpenPay brings back cash-in feature?
Hokanews: PiUSD on Pi Network? New Analysis Explores the Stablecoin Potential for Pi Coin

@Kaspaunchained has announced the launch of Silverscript v1, a high-level smart contract language designed to bring readable, complex, stateful applications to the Kaspa ledger. The release marks a meaningful step forward for a network that has, until now, lacked an expressive developer language at the base layer.
What Silverscript Does
Core developer @OriNewman described Silverscript as "Kaspa's first high-level smart contract language and compiler," designed to enable "DeFi, vaults, and native asset management directly on Kaspa's L1." The practical impact for developers is significant: the language strips away the complexity of writing raw opcodes, condensing what previously required thousands of lines of low-level stack code into concise, human- and AI-readable scripts of around 60 lines.
Silverscript is Kaspa's high-level smart contract language and compiles directly to native Kaspa Script, with no virtual machine and no intermediate representation. The language draws inspiration from CashScript, a higher-level smart contract language originally developed for Bitcoin Cash, but adds constructs such as loops, arrays, and function calls to expand expressiveness within Kaspa's UTXO model.
Silverscript is the standard authoring path for Toccata covenants: developers write the state and transition policy, while the compiler handles low-level stack encoding, ABI layout, state validation helpers, and the repetitive covenant plumbing. This design allows developers to focus on application logic rather than low-level implementation details.
Context: Toccata and the Broader Kaspa Roadmap
The v1 release closes an eight-month development cycle that ran alongside the Toccata framework. Kaspa's Toccata hard fork went live on June 30, transforming Kaspa into a programmable Layer 1 blockchain with support for smart contracts and ZK applications. Previously, Kaspa's UTXO model only controlled who could spend coins. After Toccata, developers can create conditions that determine how and when coins can be spent.
Toccata does not turn Kaspa into an account-chain smart contract system. Instead, it makes UTXOs able to carry state, split into parallel lineages, merge when necessary, and prove the next step. Silverscript sits on top of this foundation as the primary authoring tool for covenant-based applications.
One caveat worth flagging for developers: the KCC20 token standard is still not live, meaning the full token infrastructure on Kaspa remains a work in progress even as the smart contract language itself reaches v1.
Sources:
Silverscript, Kaspa Official Docs
Silverscript Repository, GitHub
Kaspa Toccata Hard Fork Overview, Bitget News

A Launchpad That Outpaced the Market
@ponsdotfamily has emerged as one of the most talked-about protocols in the Robinhood Chain ecosystem since its launchpad went live on July 13, 2026. The platform quickly established itself as the dominant token launchpad on @RobinhoodCrypto's layer-2 network, capturing well over half of all launchpad volume on some days and processing billions of dollars in cumulative trades within weeks of launch.
Pons launched on July 13, 2026, meaning it took less than two months to become a credible threat to a platform that had a two-and-a-half-year head start. That platform is Pump.fun, long regarded as the standard-bearer for memecoin issuance. The launchpad out-earned Pump.fun in daily fees every day since August 29, having previously led for six days in late July before falling behind for approximately a month. Pons recently generated a record $5.95 million in fees over a single day.
Pons operates on Robinhood's layer-2 network, which keeps gas costs close to negligible for users executing trades. It takes a 1% fee on every trade, with around 30% going to the protocol and 70% going to the token creator. That creator-friendly split has been a key driver of adoption. Pons has claimed more than $4.5 billion in cumulative volume in less than two months.
$PONS Token Posts 50x Gains
The protocol's native $PONS asset has tracked the launchpad's rise closely. According to CoinMarketCap data, $PONS has surged 5,720% over the past 90 days, representing a more than 50x move from its lows. The token hit an all-time high of $0.9683 on September 5, 2026, having traded at an all-time low of $0.003783 in mid-July.
Several catalysts have fuelled the rally. The momentum pushed PONS into wider market exposure, including a September 2 addition to Binance Alpha. Shortly after, Uniswap Labs purchased PONS for what the launchpad called long-term alignment, though neither party disclosed the size, price, or structure of the transaction.
The tokenomics reinforce the demand side. The protocol directs 80% of its revenue to buy and burn PONS, having already destroyed 29% of the original one billion token supply. The 90-day gas waiver on Robinhood Chain ends around September 29, making that date a key test of whether platform activity holds up once free transactions come to an end. Risks remain significant. The founder is pseudonymous, the v2 contracts are still being audited, and the entire revenue model relies on memecoin demand that could disappear as quickly as it arrived.
This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Crypto assets are highly speculative. Always do your own research.
Sources:
Crypto.news: Uniswap Labs buys PONS as Robinhood Chain launchpad fees surge
Crypto Briefing: Pump.fun reclaims top spot in 24-hour launchpad revenue
CoinMarketCap: PONS price and market data