New onchain activities from the past week, verified, with the exact steps to get in.

Six projects shipped something new this week: a waitlist, an Arthur Hayes airdrop, live RWA perps, a prediction app, an invite-only pre-IPO DEX, and a points program

1. GTE · Waitlist

Onchain exchange (orderbook + AMM + launchpad) on MegaETH. Backed by a $26M round with Wintermute and Maven11 among investors.

How to get in:

1. Go to waitlist.gte.xyz and enter your email.
2. Confirm with the 6-digit code sent to your inbox.
3. Claim a username, connect X and follow @GTE_XYZ, then link and verify Instagram, each action adds points to your position.
4. Share your referral link to climb the list faster.

Tip: if you traded the GTE testnet before, keep that wallet, early activity may be counted retroactively.

2. Flop Labs · Airdrop

Arthur Hayes' network where AI agents pay FLOP for compute, built on its own upcoming L1 ("Flop Network"). 100% fair launch, no presale, no VC.

How to get in:

1. Go to flop.finance.
2. Follow @flop_labs on X. The site states this is the eligibility signal.

That's the only action available right now. The airdrop is targeted for Q4 2026, with chain genesis in Q1 2027. No formal snapshot criteria have been published yet, so treat "follow to qualify" as an early signal, not a guarantee.

3. Meridian · Live

24/7 perpetuals on real-world assets, all settled in USDe. Meridian is the rebrand of Ethereal (Ethena-incubated) and a launch partner on Robinhood Chain.

How to get in:

1. Open app.meridian.xyz and connect a Robinhood Chain wallet.
2. Fund your wallet with USDe (buy on a CEX and withdraw, or bridge and swap in-app).
3. Deposit USDe and open positions on perps or prediction markets.
4. Optional: deposit USDe into the MLP Vault for yield plus a share of Meridian Points.

Used Ethereal before? Migrate your account, your existing Points carry over.

4. Sight · Waitlist

A social app for fast, 15-minute memecoin up/down prediction markets, built on Robinhood Chain.

How to get in:

1. Join the waitlist at sighthood.com.

Early access before the points system formalizes is the edge here. Product details are still rolling out.

5. Entropy · Invite

A perp DEX for pre-IPO and private-market assets (default market: Anthropic), built on Hyperliquid via HIP-3. Team-backed and still in stealth.

How to get in:

1. Sign up through the invite link: entropy.io/?r=cryptodiffer
2. Connect an EVM wallet (MetaMask or Rabby).
3. Fund USDC on Arbitrum and bridge into Hyperliquid.
4. Pick a pre-IPO market, set your leverage (~3x), and place your order.

Access is invite-gated, so getting in early is part of the point.

6. Rialo · Points

A real-world L1 where smart contracts read live data directly, no oracles. Backed by a $20M seed led by Pantera Capital.

How to get in:

1. Open playground.rialo.io and sign in.
2. Get devnet tokens from the faucet.
3. Run transactions across the devnet apps, returning on different days (activity is time-weighted).
4. Join the Discord and verify to earn community roles.

Points here are an early pre-airdrop signal.

Not financial advice. Early-stage projects carry real risk. Waitlists and points programs don't guarantee tokens, and unaudited apps can lose funds. Do your own research before connecting a wallet or depositing capital.

Bitcoin ripped back to $78K, up 22% on the week, risk appetite returned, and new token launches are firing again. Four to watch in the next 10 days: DGrid AI (DePIN AI), TermMax (fixed-rate DeFi), Umia (launchpad) and Ethos (onchain reputation).

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Circle and Tether have minted a combined $3 billion in stablecoins over the past two days, signaling accelerating demand for on-chain dollars.

Tether minted $2 billion USDT on TRON in two separate $1 billion batches, while Circle also expanded USDC supply. The combined circulating supply of USDT and USDC has now surpassed $250 billion, highlighting the continued growth of stablecoins as liquidity infrastructure for crypto markets.

The latest USDT mints come alongside flows toward Binance, fueling speculation that fresh liquidity could enter the market.

The surge in stablecoin supply points to growing demand for digital dollars and on-chain liquidity, while increase the amount of capital available for trading, payments, lending, and settlement across crypto markets.

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OpenAI has launched an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT on Mac, allowing users to search conversations, catch up on messages, draft replies, and send messages directly through ChatGPT.

Users can ask ChatGPT to find missed conversations, suggest follow-ups, identify birthdays, or draft replies based on their calendar availability. The integration is currently available to ChatGPT Work and Codex users on Mac through the public Plugins section.

The feature is opt-in, but enabling it requires granting ChatGPT access to on-device Messages history, contacts, automation tools, and Full Disk Access in macOS.

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BounceBit has decided to permanently disable BounceBit Chain after an attacker exploited an authorization vulnerability in the Evmos-based protocol, transferring 286.5M BB from nine mainnet accounts across 14 transactions.

The exploit was caused by a protocol-level authorization flaw and did not involve private key leaks, wallet compromises, or exchange breaches. BounceBit’s CeDeFi Strategy, Promo Vaults, Prime, and RWA products were not affected.

BounceBit will reissue BB as a BEP-20 token on BNB Chain, using a snapshot from block 20,697,260, taken immediately before the attack.

The stolen 286.5M BB will not be included in the new supply, while users’ liquid and staked balances at the snapshot will be restored automatically.

No action is currently required from holders. BounceBit says there is no claim or migration process, and users should avoid any links or messages asking them to connect wallets, migrate tokens, or verify their accounts.

The decision permanently ends BounceBit’s standalone chain, with the project citing stronger security, liquidity, infrastructure, and user activity on BNB Chain as key reasons for the move.

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The company holds 840,447 BTC at an average cost of $75,385, about $63.4B all in. It started 2026 more than $15B in the green, then spent most of the year underwater, as deep as $8.9B in the red by July, worth less than it paid for the first time in years.

Now, with BTC back above its cost basis, that stack is green again.

Crypto users are reporting tiny unsolicited USDT transfers from sanctioned HTX-linked wallets, and the micro-deposits are triggering compliance reviews and account freezes on Coinbase, Binance and other exchanges.

The freezes trace to UK and EU sanctions on HTX over alleged Russian sanctions evasion, which push exchanges to auto-screen any wallet touched by HTX addresses. Binance says it will restrict deposits and withdrawals involving HTX and other flagged platforms from August 23, so even a few dollars of tainted dust can lock a user out until they prove their funds are clean.

The intent behind the dust is contested. A viral post claimed Justin Sun was deliberately poisoning addresses to force exchanges and regulators to legitimize HTX, but Sun called the story fabricated, and on-chain analysts found the flagged 7.5 USDT went to Kraken, not the Coinbase account originally alleged. Attribution remains unproven.

The episode shows how address poisoning collides with automated sanctions screening: recipients have no control over incoming dust, yet can still be frozen, turning compliance tooling into an attack surface.

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Upbit, South Korea's largest crypto exchange, saw 24h volume surge about 250% to roughly $1.8B, its biggest day since mid-March, as local capital rotates back into crypto during the Bitcoin rally.

XRP was the most-traded asset with $418.9M, ahead of BTC, USDT and ETH. Rival Bithumb, the country's second-largest exchange, saw volume climb 132.9% to $934.9M, so the surge is market-wide, not Upbit-specific.

The rotation reverses a quiet stretch: through early 2026's crypto downturn, Korean attention and capital chased the KOSPI to record highs on the Samsung and SK Hynix AI-memory boom. With Bitcoin ripping, that money is circling back onto local exchanges.

For Korea, one of crypto's most active retail markets, a 250% single-day jump is a strong signal that domestic risk appetite is swinging back toward digital assets.

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Bittensor's TAO is now live on Base as a 1:1 bridged token, letting any wallet or app on Coinbase's L2 hold and swap TAO for the first time.

The TAO-USDC pool on Aerodrome, Base's largest DEX with roughly 70% of the chain's DEX liquidity, is now eligible for AERO emissions. That means liquidity providers earn AERO incentives, a common Base playbook to bootstrap depth for a newly listed asset.

The bridged token is a 1:1 representation of native TAO, so holders on Base get exposure without running a Bittensor wallet. It also opens TAO to Base's agent wallets, tying the top decentralized-AI token to the chain pushing hardest on onchain AI and agents.

For Bittensor, it is distribution: TAO steps off its own chain into one of the busiest L2 ecosystems and its incentive machine. For Base, it adds a marquee AI asset to its DeFi lineup as the AI-token narrative heats up.

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