Circle's Arc goes live September 16. USDC-native L1 where gas is paid in stablecoins, backed by $222M from a16z, BlackRock and Apollo.

So we mapped both sides. Every DEX building on Arc, from native venues like Tower, Synthra and Hibachi to the majors bringing liquidity in Uniswap, Aerodrome, Curve and Fluid. Plus the payments layer already moving real volume: Blockradar, Myaza and Avenia on the native side, Rain, Thunes, Wirex and Yellow Card on the major one. 20 teams, one chain, all before mainnet.

A full list of Major Upcoming Events, to be updated

Everyone chases live APYs. Smart money watches the opportunities before they open.

Three pre-launch yield opportunities on our radar:

→ Radiant Prime: market-neutral, 25% target, and the only one with independent position verification

→ Yelay: managed Pendle PT, 11–13% target

→ Firelight Phase 2: XRP coverage yield, $8M-backed

For each one we broke down where the yield comes from, the real exposure, and how transparent it is. Everything you'd want to know before deposits go live.

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

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.

9 fresh projects we caught on the radar this week. Not memecoins, not hype — early-stage with real products: from an AI agent you trade just by texting it, to perps on pre-IPO stocks.

The week AI stopped hedging and TradFi stopped waiting: OpenAI declared AGI, while banks and exchanges bought their way deeper onchain.

Five that actually mattered:

— Circle to acquire payments firm Tazapay for $400M

— OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, a model it calls the onset of AGI

— Revolut wins conditional US approval to form a national bank

— Cronos rolled back its chain to reverse a $120M Tectonic exploit

— Bitget launches 24/7 H100/B200 GPU-compute perps at up to 10x

What sets it apart — BTC cashback with no token to hold and no stake, plus 0% FX on stablecoins. The tradeoff is real: Wirex sends free, Kolo charges €1. But on rewards and FX, Kolo leads the table.

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Two ways to read top gainer, and they barely overlap. By price, the summer went to Akedo and Bitway. But a lot of that is just a small base moving. Rank by actual dollars added to FDV and the board flips: Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP.

One name shows up on both sides, Zcash, +182% in price and +$12.5B in value. Worth keeping both columns in mind before calling anything the "best" performer.

FOMO sells itself as social trading that levels the playing field. On-chain data says the opposite.

Dune analysis by MidCurveMortal tracked all 292,531 wallets that traded FOMO on Solana over 90 days. Only 6.16% ended in profit — the other 93.84% lost money or broke even. As a group, traders are down $1.26 billion. The median trader is down $120.

And the "winners" barely won: 88% of profitable wallets made under $100. Just 25 wallets cleared $10,000.

Meanwhile top 20 wallets took home $82.38M combined, one trader (Unipcs) alone banked $14.26M on a single 108x PONS position. The house always wins; everyone else funds the pot.

For perspective: sportsbooks let ~37% of users come out ahead. FOMO gave you roughly 6x worse odds than a casino.