Tether has reportedly minted $500 million worth of USDT on Solana in less than an hour, adding a significant amount of fresh stablecoin supply to the network.
The timing is worth watching. Solana already holds around $16.4B in stablecoins, with USDC currently dominating the chain, while Tether’s USDT supply on Solana sits around $2.5B.
A large USDT mint doesn’t automatically mean $500M is about to flow into Bitcoin or Solana. Newly minted tokens can be used for liquidity management, exchange inventory, settlements or future market activity.
Still, half a billion dollars appearing onchain in under an hour is a notable liquidity signal. $USDC
Hyperliquid’s HYPE has surged toward the $90 mark, extending a sharp recovery that has seen the token gain more than 20% over the past week.
The move comes as activity around Hyperliquid continues to accelerate, with the platform processing roughly $240B in perpetual trading volume over the past 30 days.
HYPE is now trading just below its recent record high, with market data putting the previous peak around $89.6.
$ETH Ethereum transaction fees have reportedly plunged 87% from April’s $0.72 peak to around $0.095, even as ETH continues trading at significantly higher levels.
That’s an interesting shift for the network. Lower fees mean using Ethereum has become considerably cheaper, reducing one of the biggest complaints users had during periods of heavy congestion.
The catch is that lower fees also mean less fee revenue being generated by the network. Current data shows Ethereum’s average transaction fee remains far below the levels seen during previous periods of congestion.
The Moscow Exchange is set to launch perpetual futures linked to BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP and TRX on September 22, giving qualified investors regulated access to crypto price exposure.
The contracts will be cash settled in Russian rubles, meaning traders won’t receive the underlying cryptocurrencies.
This expands Moscow Exchange’s existing crypto derivatives market, which has already recorded more than 72,000 qualified investors and over 600 billion rubles in trading volume.
Russia is bringing more of the crypto derivatives market onto its regulated exchange infrastructure.