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Bitwise Shuts Its Dogecoin ETF After Only 10 Months

Bitwise is liquidating its spot Dogecoin ETF, BWOW, roughly ten months after the fund began trading on NYSE Arca in Nov 2025.

Interest never showed up. BWOW did about $3M of volume on its debut and faded from there, with assets slipping under $1 million and NAV per share dropping from $19.21 at the end of 2025 to $11.84 by mid-year, a 38% loss in the first half of 2026.

The last trading day is set for October 14, and remaining holders will receive the fund's net asset value in cash around October 22.

The closure is an early casualty of the crowded altcoin-ETF wave that opened US markets to tokens like Dogecoin, and it raises the question of whether other thinly-traded DOGE funds follow.

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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT for Financial Services

OpenAI has launched ChatGPT for Financial Services, a tailored ChatGPT Work experience that pairs built-in premium financial data with GPT-6 Astra's reasoning, built alongside design partners Morgan Stanley and Evercore.

The product indexes and hosts premium datasets from Daloopa, PitchBook, LSEG News and Crunchbase directly on OpenAI infrastructure, covering earnings transcripts, financial statements and company fundamentals, so teams can start working without negotiating separate contracts or wiring up connectors.

Firms can also plug in existing subscriptions from S&P Capital IQ, LSEG, MSCI, Dow Jones Factiva and Moody's, on top of 50+ connectors including FactSet, Preqin and Datasite, all under enterprise security and governance controls.

OpenAI is starting with investment banking and equity research, the two areas its design partners flagged as the biggest pain points, and says it will use the work to expand into other financial services categories over time.

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Coinbase Reverts Base App to Coinbase Wallet

Coinbase is renaming Base App back to Coinbase Wallet, roughly a year after it rebranded the wallet as an all-in-one social, payments and trading everything app.

The July 2025 relaunch folded a Farcaster-powered social feed, mini-apps, chat, USDC payments and onchain trading into one Base-powered super-app. The social layer never landed: Coinbase pulled the Farcaster feed in February to refocus on trading, wound down its Base Creator Rewards program after paying out over $450K to about 17,000 creators, and Base lead Jesse Pollak stepped back from app leadership, calling the social bet "wrong." CEO Brian Armstrong later said the SocialFi features "didn't quite work."

The rename marks a retreat to Coinbase's core wallet identity and a trading-first product, a notable climbdown from the "everything app" ambition it pitched just over a year ago at its "A New Day One" event.

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Сryptomarket Check-In. Major Events & Headlines

The week the institutions stopped watching from the sidelines — a central bank, a $21B exchange bet, and the first staked TRON ETF all landed at once.

Five that actually mattered:
— Nasdaq's venture arm invests $100M in Payward
— MetaMask spins out of Consensys as an independent company
— First Staked TRON ETF Debuts in the US
— Bundesbank is testing ZKsync's open-sourced Prividium
— Etherscan launched Flow, mapping how funds move

UniLend Transitions To Maxi With 1:1 UFT Migration

UniLend has announced the next chapter for its community, transitioning from the UniLend Protocol to Maxi, a new decentralized, social-first crypto trading platform focused on asset discovery, research, and trading across major blockchain ecosystems.

All eligible UFT holders will be offered a 1:1 migration to MAXI, meaning 1,000 UFT can be migrated into 1,000 MAXI. The ratio refers to token quantity and does not represent or guarantee equivalent market value.

Maxi is designed to combine social-driven asset discovery with trading and AI-assisted research, allowing users to better understand projects and move from discovery to execution within a more unified experience.

The team said active development of UniLend ceased last year after the protocol failed to achieve sustainable traction.

No migration action is required from UFT holders at this time.

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Uniswap Launches StablePair Hook For Stablecoin Liquidity

Uniswap Labs launched StablePair Hook, a new Uniswap v4 tool designed to help liquidity providers capture more value from stablecoin trading pairs such as USDC/USDT and USDC/USDG. The hook uses dynamic fees that adjust based on how far a pool’s price moves from its reference price.

ℹ️ Stablecoin-to-stablecoin swaps on Uniswap reached $43.4B in Q2, exceeding the combined volume of the next three onchain venues, according to Uniswap Labs

When prices remain close to the reference level, StablePair Hook adjusts fees to maintain a fixed spread. If the price moves away from the reference range, trades pushing the price further away pay no fee, while trades restoring parity use a Dutch auction mechanism with fees that decline block by block.

The first StablePair Hook pools are launching on Ethereum for USDC/USDG and USDC/USDT.

Uniswap Labs said more than $38B in swap volume has already flowed through v4 hooks across 20 chains, with over 90,000 hooks initialized to date.

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Uniswap V4 Hooks: 4 Ways to Actually Earn

Uniswap V4 hooks turned liquidity pools into programmable money. A hook is a small add-on that plugs into a pool and rewrites the rules — fees, MEV, extra yield.

We mapped where the money actually flows. 4 ways to earn:
1️⃣ Launch and Earn: take a fee on every swap of your token
2️⃣ LP & Keep the MEV: arbitrage profit goes back to LPs, not searchers
3️⃣ Idle LP → Yield: your liquidity also lends and compounds
4️⃣ Run the Pool: win the manager slot, take the whole fee + MEV

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The Boring Company Raises $3B at a $23B Valuation

The Boring Company raised $3 billion in a Series D round at a $23 billion valuation, led by the United Arab Emirates, as Elon Musk's tunneling venture pushes to dig mass underground infrastructure across the Gulf.

The UAE and affiliated investment entities anchored the round, joined by Sequoia, a16z, Temasek, Vy Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Baron Capital, Human Capital and Shamal Holding. The capital funds more than 150 kilometers of tunnel across the Emirates, accelerates the Dubai Loop, and expands the Las Vegas Loop plus a new Music City Loop in Nashville. The Dubai Loop begins with a 6.4-kilometer pilot of four stations, with construction starting late 2026.

The Vegas Loop, the company's flagship system, already counts 123 entitled stations and has carried more than 4 million passengers. "Defeating traffic is the ultimate boss battle," Musk said, framing the raise as fuel for a global build-out that turns short tunnel pilots into metro-scale networks.

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Real Finance's $ASSET Joins ESMA's Interim MiCA Register

Real Technologies published a MiCA whitepaper for $ASSET, the token from tokenized-assets platform Real Finance, and it now appears in ESMA's Interim MiCA Register across all 30 EEA markets.

The whitepaper gives $ASSET a single, standardised MiCA disclosure for the whole European Economic Area, a formal reference that exchanges, institutions and other market participants can use to evaluate the token and support its admission to trading.

Real Finance pitches itself as institutional infrastructure for tokenized real-world assets, anchored by Austria's Wiener Privatbank and using Anchorage Digital for custody.

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PayPal Launches New Custom Stablecoin Issuance Platform

PayPal launched PYUSDx, a platform that lets businesses create custom stablecoins backed by PayPal USD (PYUSD), expanding PayPal’s stablecoin infrastructure beyond its own branded token.

PYUSDx was built with stablecoin infrastructure provider M0 and crypto payments firm MoonPay. The platform has launched with Saturn, Concrete and Cap, which collectively bring more than $100M in processed volume.

The platform combines M0’s stablecoin technology with MoonPay’s issuance and distribution infrastructure, allowing businesses to launch their own stablecoins while leveraging PYUSD as the underlying backing.

Additional projects including USD AI and Fairblock are also joining the platform.

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Jack Dorsey’s Block Applies for Federal Bank Charter

Block has applied to the OCC to establish Builders Bank & Trust, an uninsured national trust bank focused on custody and fiduciary services for Bitcoin and stablecoins.

If approved, the bank would provide a federally regulated framework for certain digital asset custody activities already offered by Block. It would not accept deposits or make loans, with Block’s digital asset strategy lead Lee Woolley set to serve as CEO.

Block joins a growing wave of fintech and crypto companies seeking federal bank charters as the U.S. regulatory environment becomes increasingly supportive of digital asset infrastructure.

Coinbase, Ripple, Circle and other firms are also pursuing or operating under federal banking frameworks.

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Nasdaq Invests $100M in Kraken's Parent at $21B

Nasdaq's venture arm is investing $100 million in Payward, the parent of crypto exchange Kraken, in a deal that values the company at $21 billion and expands a tokenization partnership the two struck in March.

The capital deepens a plan to build an equities transformation gateway powered by Kraken's xStocks, letting tokenized shares move between Nasdaq's regulated, permissioned markets and permissionless public blockchains in eligible jurisdictions. Under the arrangement, Kraken serves as the primary settlement layer for Nasdaq's planned equity tokens and as the distribution partner outside the US, while Payward Services handles KYC and AML onboarding. Nasdaq expects the equity-token design to go live in the first half of 2027, pending regulatory sign-off.

xStocks has already cleared over $40 billion in volume since June 2025 across more than 200,000 holders, and the London Stock Exchange plans to tokenize 100 London-listed companies on the same rails.

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Soul Protocol One-Pager. Omnichain Liquidity Layer for Lending

One lending position, every chain. Soul pools Aave, Compound, Morpho and Venus into a single market, so you borrow and lend across five networks without bridging.

Cross-chain actions settle through LayerZero, while staking SO boosts your yield on top. It's a single liquidity layer that makes multi-chain lending feel like one chain.

a16z Launches a Post-Quantum Jolt zkVM

a16z crypto released Lattice Jolt, a new version of its open-source Jolt zkVM that rebuilds the cryptography on lattices instead of elliptic curves, making it post-quantum without slowing down.

The switch replaces Jolt's old Dory commitment scheme with Akita, a lattice-based scheme built on Module-SIS, the same assumption family behind NIST's ML-DSA and ML-KEM standards, developed with LayerZero, Carnegie Mellon and USC, targeting a full 128 bits of security. Because lattices reach comparable security over 128-bit fields instead of 256-bit ones, the prover and verifier run 2 to 3 times faster: over 2 million RISC-V cycles per second on a laptop CPU, and more than 10 million on a MacBook GPU via Apple Metal. Its proofs are the shortest of any post-quantum zkVM, under 100 KB, which makes onchain verification cheaper.

Most post-quantum SNARKs in production today are hash-based; Lattice Jolt argues lattice-based ones can be both faster and more compact, mirroring how digital signatures have already shifted toward lattices. Jolt stays open-source, letting developers prove ordinary programs rather than hand-crafted circuits.

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Pump fun Debuts Custom Pairs With Stocks & Metals

Pump.fun introduced Custom Pairs, letting token creators launch coins paired with tokenized stocks, crypto majors and metals on Solana, not just SOL or USDC.

The feature brings 20 brand-new asset pairs to Solana through a partnership with Sunrise, spanning tokenized equities like BA, BABA, COST, DELL, DJT, HIMS, IBM, JNJ, LMT, LULU, MGM and PFE, alongside crypto majors and metals. Pump.fun pitches more variety, deeper liquidity and lower fees than rival launchpads. Pairing a token to a tokenized stock only mirrors that asset's price, though: holders get no claim on the real shares, no dividends and no voting rights.

The move pushes Pump fun past pure memecoins into the fast-growing tokenized-stock narrative, and lands amid a wave of stock-paired launchpads, from Robinhood Chain's PAIR and Long xyz to Solana rivals like StonkFun, all betting community tokens will trade against equities instead of gas coins.

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Renzo Steps Beyond Restaking Into Basis Trades

Renzo launched Renzo Basis on Hyperliquid, its first product beyond liquid restaking, an onchain basis trade that earns yield from funding rates instead of betting on price direction.

Renzo Basis runs delta-neutral strategies, automatically pairing spot and perpetual positions so directional risk cancels out and the position collects funding-rate payments as carry. It opens with BTC and HYPE and executes on Hyperliquid, the onchain perpetual exchange that has quietly become one of the highest-volume venues in crypto. Renzo, now rebranding to Renzo Finance, frames it as closing the gap on structured products, a multitrillion-dollar category in traditional finance that stays niche onchain because the strategies are hard to set up, monitor and manage by hand.

The move stretches Renzo well past its liquid-restaking roots, betting that packaging automated, market-neutral yield into one product will pull in DeFi users who want returns without taking a view on price.

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StoneX Sees Further Upside for Robinhood Amid Growing Crypto Expansion

StoneX analysts see further upside for Robinhood, raising their price target as the company continues expanding across crypto, equities and prediction markets.

The analysts highlighted Robinhood’s growing transaction activity, crypto adoption and expansion into new financial products as key drivers for future growth. The company’s blockchain strategy and increasing onchain activity also strengthen its position as it moves deeper into crypto infrastructure.

StoneX expects Robinhood’s broader product ecosystem and increasing user engagement to support continued revenue growth, with the firm maintaining a bullish outlook despite the stock’s strong recent performance.

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Pons Drives Robinhood Chain Fees to Record $6M Daily

Robinhood Chain generated a record $6M in daily fees on September 4, while weekly DEX volume reached $12.4B, more than double the previous week's total.

Chain fees totaled approximately $25M over the seven days through September 4, up from just $1.4M the previous week. Despite average daily active accounts falling to 396K, fees per active account surged from $0.13 in mid-August to $15.90 in early September.

The surge is largely driven by Pons, Robinhood Chain's leading token launchpad. Pons generated nearly $6M in fees on September 3, while its PONS token briefly reached a valuation above $970M.

Around 80% of Pons' revenue is used for token buybacks, with more than 28% of the token supply already burned.

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Consensys Splits MetaMask Into Independent Company

Consensys plans to split MetaMask into an independent company, separating its wallet business from its Ethereum infrastructure and institutional operations by the end of 2026.

Consensys Software Inc. will rebrand as MetaMask, with Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin serving as chairman and CEO. The new Consensys will retain the Consensys name and focus on Linea, Besu, Teku, and blockchain infrastructure for banks and other institutions.

The restructuring comes as MetaMask expands beyond its wallet roots into payments, savings and investing, while the new Consensys focuses on tokenized assets, stablecoins and institutional settlement infrastructure.

The company did not provide an update on its previously delayed U.S. IPO plans or clarify which entity could pursue a listing.

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Plume Opens Factor, a Tokenized Credit Vault

Plume opened its Factor credit vault, a capacity-limited pool on Plume Vaults that gives stablecoin depositors exposure to a curated book of invoice factoring and working-capital loans.

Built with Tradeable and New York credit fund Deep Ocean Partners, Factor is an actively managed book rather than a single wrapped fund: depositors get a FACTOR receipt token and hold exposure to short-dated, self-liquidating, asset-backed facilities like invoice factoring, receivables revolvers and floorplan lines. The targeted 14%+ net APY comes from capital efficiency, cycling each dollar four to twelve times a year against investment-grade obligors, not from reaching for riskier credit. Weekly liquidity is engineered from a liquid treasury sleeve, contractual collateral runoff, and a contractual buyback from the lender of record.

It targets the roughly $170 billion US factoring market and the underserved $2M to $20M ticket that banks find too small and big private-credit funds too large, turning an asset class that once needed an LP agreement and quarterly redemptions into a receipt token in a wallet. All APY figures are targets, not guarantees.

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