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Worth separating what these numbers actually measure: $30T is settled volume over ~8 years — the sum of every transfer, so a dollar moving through 50 wallets counts 50 times, not $30T of value created or stored. The figure that speaks to real usage is $94B in circulating USDT (the largest of any chain) sitting on $28B TVL, with roughly $25B in average daily transfer volume this year per Token Terminal. That gap between flow and stock is normal for a settlement rail — the same reason a card network's annual transaction volume dwarfs the actual money in circulation. The more interesting question is whether that daily flow keeps compounding once stablecoin issuers spread settlement across more chains. Not financial advice. x.com/BSCNews/status…

BSCN @BSCNews

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TRON just hit $30 TRILLION in transaction volume. The @justinsuntron-founder @trondao L1 has just crossed $30 trillion settled on its network - a milestone achieved in roughly eight years. The announcement also highlights some 405 million total Tron accounts, and 15 billion

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US AND CHINA SET TO DETAIL A $30 BILLION TARIFF CUT TODAY - WHILE A SEPARATE LAW GIVES TRUMP THE POWER TO HIT CHINA WITH 100% TARIFFS IN JUST 20 DAYS, HERE IS WHY BOTH ARE HAPPENING AT ONCE. After last week's Trump-Xi summit in Washington, the two countries agreed through a new "Board of Trade" mechanism to cut tariffs on about $30 billion of non-sensitive goods - US farm, fish, and seafood exports would get preferential treatment entering China, Chinese-made small appliances and toys would get preferential treatment entering the US. USTR Jamieson Greer told CNBC on Friday more details would come today, but would not say which products are covered, how much tariffs drop, or when it takes effect. The broader trade truce was also extended two months, which Washington calls a "compliance period" to check whether China follows through on soybean purchases and rare earth access. That carve-out is running alongside a much bigger lever. The Russia sanctions law Trump signed September 18 requires tariffs up to 100% on the top five buyers of Russian oil within 30 days of signing - a deadline that lands around October 18, just 20 days out. China and India together buy roughly 85% of Russia's oil exports. Five Indian refiners, about 65% of India's Russian crude imports between them, have already paused orders for December-arrival cargoes - the first concrete sign a major buyer is hedging before Washington has even confirmed how it will enforce the law. Perspective: the $30 billion carve-out is the easy part - a below-the-radar list of goods neither government treats as strategic. The number actually worth watching is October 18, because that deadline is the mechanism that could force China and India to change real behavior, not just describe a truce. Indian refiners quietly pulling December orders before any enforcement decision tells you more about how seriously buyers take the threat than any statement from Washington or Beijing. Easing tariffs with China on one track while threatening it with 100% tariffs on another is a contradiction that has to resolve somehow, and which way it breaks matters more than today's product list. For risk assets including crypto, trade friction with a top-five economy usually shows up through the dollar and global liquidity conditions rather than any direct channel, so do not expect it to move prices the same day it moves headlines. Not financial or investment advice - for informational purposes only. $BTC #China #Russia #Tariffs

US spot Bitcoin ETFs had their biggest week since October 2025: $2.4bn. Inside that week the daily bid fell 87% — $999m Monday, $134.5m Friday. - Binance's BTC perpetual book shrank 14.8% over the same stretch (110,573 to 94,167 BTC) and kept draining through the weekend. - Saturday's range was 0.81%, the 4th tightest of the last 179 days against a 2.74% median. A flat price was two bids cancelling, not calm. tradingprimer.com/market/2026-09…

California just became the first state to ban public officials from launching their own meme coins — AB 2409, signed by Gov. Newsom, passed 40-0 in the Senate and 78-0 in the Assembly. Effective Jan 2027. Regulation catching up to influencer-driven tokens.

Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru

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JUST IN: 🇺🇸 California Governor Gavin Newsom signs law banning public officials from issuing crypto meme coins.

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TRUMP-XI SUMMIT WRAPS WITH ONE REAL NUMBER: THE RARE-EARTH CLOCK JUST MOVED FROM NOV 10 TO JAN 10 Trump-Xi summit — Three days in Washington ended September 25, widely described as heavy on pomp, light on substance. The one concrete deliverable: the US-China trade truce, originally set to lapse November 10, was extended two months to January 10, 2027. Rare earths — That Nov 10 date was the real deadline markets were watching: China's pause on export controls covering five heavy rare earths (holmium, erbium, thulium, europium, ytterbium) was due to expire then. China refines roughly 90% of the world's rare earths. The extension buys time, it doesn't remove the leverage. Taiwan / AI / Iran — All three were on the agenda; none produced an announced breakthrough. Xi's language leaned on "no conflict, no confrontation" rather than specifics. EU vs Russia — Separately, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas confirmed Sept 21 new sanctions targeting organizers of Russia's Sept 18-20 State Duma elections in occupied Ukrainian territory, layering onto the US House's Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act passed Sept 16. Russia-China payments — Quiet but measurable: Russian banks directly connected to China's Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) rose from 76 in Feb 2022 to 210 by June 2026 — financial infrastructure being built independent of any summit's tone. Perspective: the headline from Washington was optics — panda diplomacy, cordial photos — while the one number that actually matters to supply chains just got pushed back nine weeks, not resolved. That's a punt, not a fix, and punts tend to reappear as deadlines with less runway left to negotiate. Europe is sanctioning Russia on its own timeline regardless of the tone Trump strikes with Xi, and the steady CIPS growth shows Moscow and Beijing building parallel financial plumbing that no summit changes. For risk assets including $BTC, this summit removed a near-term catalyst without resolving the underlying risk — expect the same headline-driven chop into January rather than a clean signal either way. Not financial advice — information only. #TrumpXi #RareEarths #Sanctions

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In January 2018 a friend of mine was up $93,000 on paper. Eleven months later his entire crypto portfolio was worth $2,100 — and he never used leverage once. Call him D. 31, software tester, two years of saving toward an apartment deposit: $38,000 sitting in a bank account earning nothing. September 2017 he put $6,000 into two ICOs. By December, with Bitcoin racing toward $19,700 and every group chat on fire, he moved the rest. Fourteen tokens in total: a payments coin, a supply-chain coin, a storage coin, a "blockchain for hospitals," a gaming token, a lending protocol… he kept a spreadsheet with a column called "sector." He wasn't gambling, he told himself. He was diversified. On January 8, 2018, the spreadsheet said $131,000. He took a screenshot. He did not sell a single token — "this is a five-year hold, and I'm spread across fourteen projects. What's the worst case?" The worst case arrived in three acts. Act one, February 2018: Ether slid from its $1,432 peak (January 13) to under $700. All fourteen tokens fell with it. Not some of them. All fourteen, on the same days, by roughly the same percentage. That was the first clue that fourteen was really one. Act two, spring: the tokens started falling on their own. Teams went quiet. Two got delisted from the only exchange that carried them. One project's Telegram admin posted "big partnership soon" for the last time in April. Act three, December 2018: Ether fell to around $83, down 94% from the January peak. D's spreadsheet: $2,100. Nine of the fourteen tokens could no longer be sold anywhere. The other five were down between 93% and 99%. He had lost 94% — the same as Ether. Because that's all he ever owned: one bet on "ETH goes up and people keep buying stories," chopped into fourteen slices so it wouldn't look like one bet. The industry numbers told the same story. A 2018 study estimated roughly 78% of 2017's ICOs were scams; an EY review found 86% of the 2017 class trading below listing price by mid-2018, with 30% having lost essentially all value. D had picked fourteen names from that pile and believed all fourteen were the exception. What that year taught him — and me: 1. Diversification means spreading across things that fail for different reasons. Fourteen tokens priced in ETH, bought by the same crowd, with zero revenue between them, is one position wearing fourteen hats. 2. Before you buy anything, ask the ugly question: if no one shows up tomorrow to buy this from me at a higher price, does anyone still need it? Demand from real use survives a crash. Demand from the next buyer goes to zero when the next buyer leaves. 3. "It's cheap" is not a reason. A second-tier asset in a market that has already run is cheap because it's second-tier — and when the leader turns, it falls hardest. 4. If you can't afford much of the best asset in a category, buy less of it. Lower the size, never the standard. 5. Paper profit is a screenshot. At 3.4x, pulling out the original $38,000 would have made everything else a free ride. Write the rule before the rally; you won't write it during one. 6. Base rates beat narratives. When most of a category is fraud, "mine is different" needs evidence you can count — users, revenue, working code. Each of D's fourteen was "different." Zero of them had any of the three. 7. "Long-term hold" is a plan only if you've defined what would prove you wrong. Without that line, it's a slogan for not deciding. 8. Position sizing is per theme, not per ticker. Fourteen "small" positions on the same theme added up to 100% of his savings. 9. Money with a deadline never belongs in something that can drop 90%. The timeline picks the asset, not the upside. 10. A 94% loss needs a 1,567% gain just to get back to even. The math doesn't care how convinced you were. 11. You saw the three 2017 ICOs that went 100x on your timeline. You never saw the several hundred that died quietly. Survivors advertise; the graveyard doesn't. D still works in software testing. He bought the apartment in 2023 — on a five-year plan, with boring money, and one rule taped to his monitor: a longer list is not a strategy. Shared from real experience, not investment advice. #crypto #investinglessons #riskmanagement #ICO

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TOKENIZED STOCKS JUST GOT A REAL SEC GREEN LIGHT — AND $UNI RIPPED OVER 30% ON THE NEWS, NOT ON-CHAIN DATA What actually happened this week in the crypto-meets-Wall-Street story, and what's signal vs. noise: • SEC "Innovation Exemption" (Sept 17): a temporary, conditional exemption letting approved venues trade tokenized versions of US-listed stocks — 24/7 trading, near-instant settlement, fractional shares, and the same shareholder rights (dividends, voting) as the real stock. Citi analysts estimate the tokenized-asset market could reach $5.5 trillion by 2030. • NYSE x Blockchain.com: six days later, NYSE signed a memorandum of understanding with Blockchain.com to explore exactly this — 24/7 tokenized trading of NYSE-listed stocks and ETFs for Blockchain.com's 44M+ verified accounts, plus a two-way market-data deal with NYSE's ICE Data Services. Still "pending regulatory approvals," no launch date given. • $UNI: Uniswap was the standout mover, up 30%+ in the days after the exemption dropped — the most direct on-chain bet that securities trading migrates to DEXs. CME also listed UNI futures the same week. • $SOL vs $BTC: away from the tokenization story, Solana ETFs just closed a 12th straight week of net inflows (~$1.4B total, $1.62B AUM), with Bitwise's staking ETF alone pulling in roughly 80% of that. Bitcoin ETFs, meanwhile, just had their quietest week on record. According to Steven Goldfeder (CEO, Offchain): "The exemption gives tokenized securities venues a real, workable path to operate in the US." Perspective: the number that actually moved markets this week wasn't a coin price — it's Citi's $5.5T 2030 estimate for tokenized assets, and it's doing more to lift $UNI than any on-chain metric. Worth noticing where conviction really sits: Solana ETFs are pulling steady weekly inflows while Bitcoin ETFs post their quietest week on record — that reads less like broad "risk-on" and more like money rotating toward yield/infrastructure plays over just holding BTC. Also worth flagging the gap between announcement and delivery: the NYSE/Blockchain.com deal is a non-binding MOU with no regulatory approval and no timeline, yet UNI already re-priced 30%+ on the memo alone. None of this changes market access today for anyone outside these specific pilot venues — it's a preview of a plumbing shift, not a live product. If the exemption holds and more venues sign on, the multi-year scenario is traditional finance settlement moving onto public blockchains — that's a scenario, not a guarantee, and it says nothing about where any single coin's price should sit tomorrow. Not financial advice — information only. #Tokenization #SEC #DeFi

OpenAI says this review of agents' internet access is still ongoing and being prioritized by severity, with transparency "subject to" what other companies decide to disclose about vulnerabilities their agents found. That caveat is the real story: an agent probing someone else's infrastructure creates a disclosure problem that has nothing to do with OpenAI's own transparency policy. As agents get more autonomy on the open internet, the harder policy question isn't just what a model did, it's who gets to decide whether the public ever hears about it.

Sam Altman @sama

5 days ago

There is an extensive and ongoing review related to our agents’ use of internet access during training and evaluation. We’ve been publishing summaries at the link below and will continue to. We have not been as fast as we would have liked but we are trying to balance our desire

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Timeline of events since Congress failed to pass the Crypto Clarity Act September 17: • SEC allows limited on-chain trading of tokenized US stocks. • CFTC allows developers to build passive derivatives software without registering as brokers, including for crypto markets. • SEC Chair Atkins says tokenization rules are moving toward a longer-term framework. September 18: • CFTC files new crypto market rules, moving them into White House review. September 23: • CFTC Chair Selig says the agency is establishing clear crypto market structure rules. • CFTC outlines plans for 24/7 on-chain, tokenized financial markets. • Trump administration considers promoting dollar-backed stablecoins internationally. September 24: • CFTC issues updated guidance on tokenized assets and blockchain recordkeeping. • Federal Reserve proposes rules for stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act. September 25: • SEC staff releases new guidance on how securities laws apply to crypto. • SEC Commissioner calls to end mass collection of sensitive KYC data.

TRUMP CALLS IRAN'S 7-DAY HORMUZ REOPENING PLAN "NOT ACCEPTABLE" - TANKER WAR-RISK INSURANCE IS STILL 12-40X PRE-WAR RATES Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi this week offered a seven-day roadmap: the US lifts its naval blockade, unfreezes Iranian assets and the war ends "on all fronts," in exchange for Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz to commercial shipping and resuming nuclear talks. Trump rejected the terms on Saturday, saying they were not "acceptable" and that Iran had "outsmarted themselves." The proposal largely mirrors a June memorandum that already collapsed once. The strait has been effectively closed to commercial traffic for roughly seven months. Independent tracking (IMF PortWatch, via straits.live) logged just 1 transit in the week to Sept 20 against the pre-crisis baseline, with hundreds of vessels holding position rather than risk the passage. War-risk insurance on a tanker crossing Hormuz is now quoted at 3-10% of hull value, versus about 0.25% before the war - a $100M ship that paid roughly $250K per voyage now pays $3-10M for the same trip. Brent eased to about $104-105/barrel Friday on hope of a deal. Also this week: Trump signed the Graham Act, the broadest US sanctions package on Russia and Iran yet (Sept 18), and the EU sanctioned officials tied to Russia's State Duma election. Separately, the Trump-Xi "Board of Trade" framework is due more tariff detail Monday, per USTR Greer. Perspective: the rejection matters less as diplomacy than as a data point on duration - every week without a deal is another week insurers treat this route as a one-off gamble, not a repeatable business, which is what actually keeps both the premium and the oil floor elevated. Iran's offer collapsing on terms it already tried once in June suggests this isn't stuck on details, it's two sides that still see more value in holding position than in a deal. The tell worth watching isn't the next statement from either capital, it's whether insurers start writing multi-voyage contracts again - that would mean underwriters expect this to actually hold. A sustained oil shock is one of the few macro channels that reliably spills into broader risk-asset sentiment, crypto included, though the transmission is usually slower and messier than headlines suggest. Not financial or investment advice - for informational purposes only. $BTC #Iran #Hormuz #OilMarkets

Worth unpacking the $17.3B headline: USDC alone is ~$8.4B, roughly half the total, and Solana wallets holding USDC grew from 8.1M to over 9.3M in six weeks - that's wider distribution, not one large depositor. About $1.26B of the latest 24h move came from fresh Circle/Tether minting rather than organic transfers, so part of this chart is issuance timing, not settled demand. Open question: is on-chain transfer volume and DeFi usage scaling at the same pace as supply, or is issuance running ahead of actual usage right now? Not financial advice. x.com/solana/status/…

Solana @solana

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JUST IN: Stablecoin supply on Solana hits a new all-time high of $17.3B

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North Korea's confirmed 2026 crypto haul just crossed $1 billion — and one hack got it there. Bitget, a top-15 exchange, was hit for ~$352M on September 24, detected at 18:31 UTC across three hot wallets and one cold wallet before the funds were consolidated into a single address (per Arkham analyst Emmett Gallic). DefiLlama now ranks it the largest single crypto hack of 2026. CEO Gracy Chen says this wasn't a stolen private key. Investigators believe attackers compromised a backend system and generated fraudulent transfer instructions that passed straight through Bitget's own authorization pipeline. Withdrawals stay suspended; the loss is covered by Bitget's $464M+ User Protection Fund. IP addresses tied to the attack matched VPN infrastructure previously linked to Lazarus-affiliated unit TraderTraitor. Bloomberg now puts North Korea's 2026 crypto theft total above $1B once this one is counted. Circle and Tether froze wallets tied to the stolen funds within hours — a response that's become almost routine for major exchange hacks this year. CertiK's Esme Pau called it "another wake-up call for the digital-assets industry." FailSafe CEO Aneirin Flynn said it "destroys the illusion that major exchanges have solved hot-wallet security." Perspective: the technical detail matters more than the dollar figure — no private key was stolen, the forgery happened inside Bitget's own backend authorization pipeline, a harder problem than the hardware-wallet bugs that dominated hacks earlier this year, because nothing a user does differently would have stopped it. Circle and Tether freezing wallets within hours shows stablecoin issuers have become a real backstop for exchange hacks in 2026, but that only works while stolen funds still sit in a stablecoin they control — once the laundering trail rotates and cross-chains, that window closes fast. A confirmed state-linked total above $1B for the year means this isn't opportunistic crime anymore, it's a funding operation running the same playbook hack after hack with a unit built for exactly this. For anyone holding assets on a centralized exchange, including in Vietnam, the read from 2026's numbers hasn't changed: platform risk and custody risk are separate risks, and self-custody where feasible keeps looking like the more resilient default. Not financial advice — information only. #CryptoSecurity #Bitget #NorthKorea

Twenty losing trades in a row at 1% risk per trade still leaves about 82% of an account. The same twenty losses at 10% risk leaves 12%. That gap is the entire case for position sizing. tradingprimer.com/tools/position…

QUANT JUST JUMPED 39% IN A DAY WHILE BITCOIN WENT NOWHERE - AND A BANK CONTRACT IS WHY. Bitcoin is consolidating near $84,000, roughly unchanged since midnight UTC Friday, after running from below $63,000 in August to almost $87,000 on Tuesday and stalling since. While BTC sits still, almost everything else is climbing: 93 of the CoinDesk 100's constituents were higher over 24 hours, and the altcoin season index reads 56/100, up from 45 a week ago and 38 a month ago - its highest level in more than three months. The single biggest mover is Quant ($QNT), up 39% in 24 hours to $98.93. The catalyst is not a chart pattern: The Clearing House, which processes over $2 trillion in daily transaction volume, picked Quant's Overledger as the interoperability layer for a tokenized-deposit network backed by 25 US banks, targeting launch in the first half of 2027. Ondo (+32%) and Lido (+20%) also led. The CoinDesk Computing Index (Chainlink, Internet Computer, Bittensor, Fetch.ai) rose 9.5% and the DeFi Select Index 8.7%, both more than three times the blended market's 2.5%. Underneath the rally, leverage isn't building up. Bitcoin futures open interest slipped back under 700,000 BTC, 24-hour liquidations fell 63% to $228 million, and Friday's $17 billion Bitcoin-and-Ether options expiry on Deribit passed with barely a ripple. Perspective: the interesting part isn't that altcoins rallied, it's that Bitcoin didn't need to for the rotation to happen - the classic pattern once BTC runs hard and stalls is capital moving into higher-beta names rather than leaving the market entirely. Quant's move is a reminder that today's single biggest crypto gainer was priced off a bank clearing-house contract, not a chart signal. None of this says where any one coin goes next - an altcoin-season reading at a three-month high has reversed before. The more useful signal is probably the derivatives data staying calm rather than the price moves: falling leverage and shrinking liquidations during a rally are a healthier setup than the same rally built on more borrowed money. Not financial or investment advice - for informational purposes only. $BTC $QNT #Crypto #Altcoins