Orionx Halts Withdrawals and Winds Down After Alleged $7M Asset Transfers
Chile’s financial regulator says it does not oversee the exchange’s closure or have the power to order customer repayments.
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Liquid Attacker Broadcasts Return Of 3,400 BTC, Keeps 598
The transaction pays 3,400 BTC back to the Liquid federation wallet and 598.50 BTC to the attacker’s own address. It is unconfirmed and flagged replaceable, and neither side has published anything about the split.
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Hunter Biden Confirms LAPTOP Memecoin Launch On Sept. 9
The token deploys on Coinbase's Base network, with a fifth of a 1 billion supply set aside for airdrops that include wallets that lost money on TRUMP, according to The Wall Street Journal. At least 14 copycat LAPTOP tokens appeared on four other networks within an hour of the report, trading $6.9
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Arkham Links Wintermute to $2.4 Million PONS Position
Arkham said Wintermute appeared to be buying PONS gradually; its dashboard separately listed 3.43 million tokens worth $2.4 million.
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Router Protocol Plans Sept. 30 Shutdown and 303 Million ROUTE Burn
DefiLlama shows $9,879.92 locked and no bridge volume over 30 completed days; Router’s notice only instructs centralized-exchange holders to withdraw by venue deadlines.
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Liquid Sidechain Paused After 3,998 BTC Leaves Federation Wallet
Blockstream's Liquid disabled its bridge nodes on Sunday after almost the entire bitcoin reserve backing L-BTC was withdrawn to a single address, whose owner wrote “we are whitehats” into a bitcoin transaction.
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The AMC Fight Turned Into An Industry Argument Over Which Tokenized Stock Model Wins
Uniswap founder Hayden Adams compared Robinhood's and Ondo's stock tokens to early stablecoins on Friday, hours after Dinari co-founder Gabriel Otte called the same instruments "indisputably worse for the end investors than even common stocks." Three models are competing for $2.91 billion of
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Robinhood Chain Never Stopped But its Blobs Did Stop Reaching Ethereum For 14 Minutes
Blocks came every 101 milliseconds throughout the outage reported on Friday. The chain's transaction data went missing on Ethereum for exactly 14 minutes, across two gaps. Arbitrum blamed Ethereum's blob market, which fits the second gap and not the first.
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A Base Traffic Spike Crowded Robinhood Chain Out Of Ethereum's Blob Space
Robinhood Chain's batches stopped reaching Ethereum for 14 minutes across an 18-minute stretch on Friday, the longest single gap 8 minutes 36 seconds. Its own blocks never stopped.
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August Payrolls Knock Bitcoin Off $81,000
Bitcoin fell $1,430 in the five minutes after the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 162,000 August jobs, five times the average of the prior year. Polymarket traders moved a quarter-point September rate increase from 39.5 cents to the majority outcome inside 15 minutes.
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🟢 LIVE : Tokenized Stocks and Memecoins: Revolutionary Primitive or Retail Wipeout?
Join host Camila Russo live today at 12:30 PM as she sits down with Brian Huang (@BrianInCrypto) and Binji (@binji_x) to dig into one of the biggest debates in crypto right now: are tokenized stocks and memecoins a revolutionary new financial primitive, or are they setting retail traders up for the
The Defiant•Camila Russo4 SeptAMC's CEO Told Robinhood To Halt Its Stock Token. Robinhood Told Him To Send Lawyers
Adam Aron called on Robinhood to "CEASE AND DECIST" trading of AMC stock tokens and said the company's securities counsel is looking at whether it can force a halt. Chief Legal Officer Dan Gallagher answered "Send your lawyers and we'll educate them." The token's onchain supply grew from 157,844 to
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Uniswap Labs Bought Pons Token for 'Long-Term Alignment'
Pons said Uniswap Labs purchased its token "for long-term alignment" four weeks after Uniswap Labs put a rival launchpad on Robinhood Chain. Neither company disclosed the size of the purchase, the price paid, or the wallet holding it.
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Lighter Leads Perp DEX Token Rally
LIT rose 13% to $4.21 and has doubled in 30 days as traders position for a U.S. perpetuals opening that Lighter has not applied for. Robinhood order flow now supplies 17% of the exchange's daily volume, against 12% on a 30-day basis, while perp DEX volume across the sector fell 30% over seven days.
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Coinbase Files SEC Notices in Bid to Bring Single-Stock Perpetuals to US
The proposal would expand Coinbase’s U.S. equity-derivatives lineup beyond thematic stock indexes, while CFTC product approval remains the company’s stated next step.
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Revolut Says OCC Conditionally Approved Proposed US National Bank
The fintech says it still needs FDIC, Federal Reserve and final OCC clearances before a planned 2027 launch offering insured deposits, credit and crypto access.
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Trading Terminals Post First $1 Billion Day Since January 2025
Terminal volume crossed the mark on Sept. 2 with GMGN taking almost half of it, and 91% of GMGN's trades settled on Robinhood Chain. DEX volume across all networks rose 26% over 30 days. GMGN's Solana volume was flat.
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Robinhood Chain Gas Fees Jump 82-Fold In 11 Days To Top Every Other Chain
Users paid $4.45 million to transact on the network on Sept. 2, more than Ethereum, Solana and Tron combined, after the base fee rose 23 times off its 0.02 gwei floor. Robinhood absorbs the cost inside its own wallet app until Sept. 29.
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Polymarket Launches Perps With 20x Leverage
The prediction market listed 67 perpetual futures contracts on stocks, crypto, indices and commodities. Order placement is blocked from the United States.
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🟢 LIVE: Can RobinHood Chain Take This Boom? w/ ARB's Steven Goldfeder
Robinhood is surging on Arbitrum's stack, and today we're joined by ARB co-founder Steven Goldfeder to break down the boom.
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