DefiLlama Delists Aster Over Wash Trading Concerns

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Crypto News

• Bitcoin $BTC reaches new all-time high of ~$126K; Gold also reached a new all-time high of ~$3970.

• Grayscale enables staking for its Ethereum $ETH Trust ETF & Solana $SOL Trust; Grayscale Solana Trust is pending regulatory approval of an uplisting to an ETP.

• ⭐️ DefiLlama delists Aster $ASTER due to data integrity concerns; DefiLlama founder 0xngmi says Aster volumes mirror Binance $BNB perp volumes almost exactly.

• Delphi Digital releases new report on EigenCloud $CLOUD; explores the EigenCloud stack, economic model of EIGEN, roadmap, & much more.

• Jupiter $JUP launches Jupiter Wallet for Desktop; features gasless trading, integration with Jupiter products, & more.

• Digital Asset Investment Products saw ~$5.95B of inflows last week; Bitcoin $BTC ~$3.55B inflows, Ethereum $ETH ~$1.48B inflows, Solana $SOL ~$706M inflows, Ripple $XRP ~$219M inflows.

Alpha

• OpenSea to launch Shipment for Coinbase $COIN One subscribers; to take snapshot on October 8th; link Coinbase One subscription to OpenSea rewards account to be eligible.

• ⭐️ Rainbow launches Perps powered by Hyperliquid $HYPE; trade to earn points; to launch $RNBW soon.

• Cap to launch Epoch 3 of the Cap Frontier Program on October 13th through January 28th; Epoch 2 ongoing, earn up to 20x Caps.

• OpenEden's Pendle YT cUSDO Stability Vault reaches new TVL of 148M YT cUSDO; unlocks the vault's highest tier of 140K $EDEN daily emissions.

Airdrops

• Monad teasingly posts "airdrop claim loading ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓░░░ 80%" on X; to launch mainnet, TGE, & airdrop soon.

• ⭐️ MetaMask confirms upcoming MetaMask Rewards program; to distribute over $30M in token rewards; adds "we see you" to MetaMask OGs.

• MegaETH teasingly posts its Chain ID details: "4326, 10e6, 1,000,000, MEGA" on X; to launch mainnet, TGE, & airdrop soon.

• Aster to launch $ASTER Stage 2 Genesis (S2) airdrop on October 14th; to launch airdrop eligibility & allocation checker on October 10th.

• WalletConnect launches 2.5M $WCT airdrop; stakers with at least 100 WCT staked longer than two weeks are eligible for Wave 1; governance participants to be eligible for Wave 2.

Finance News

• Gold $XAU reaches new all-time high of ~$3970; Bitcoin also reach a new all-time high of ~$126K.

• Citadel Securities to reportedly explore prediction markets.

• Galaxy $GLXY launches GalaxyOne, a platform offering crypto, stocks, & up to 8% yields to US users; originally developed as Fierce which Galaxy acquired in December 2024 for $12.5M.

• Bitmine $BMNR buys an additional 179,251 Ethereum $ETH (~$842M); now holds 2,830,151 ETH (~$13.3B), at $4,535 per ETH.

• Solana Company $HSDT (formerly Helius Medical Technologies) buys additional Solana $SOL; now holds 2.2M SOL (~$513M).

• ⭐️ $AMD signs chip supply deal with OpenAI; to supply 6 gigawatts of compute capacity to OpenAI; also gives OpenAI the option to buy up to 160M shares (10% stake) of AMD.

Security and Exploits

• Scam Sniffer posts September 2025 Phishing Report; highlights ~$11.78M in losses from ~15,513 victims.

• Abracadabra $SPELL exploited for ~$1.79M $MIM due to solvency check flaw; vulnerability has since been mitigated.

• ⭐️ Signal to leave EU market if proposed CSAM regulation passes; requires service providers to scan users’ data on their devices before encryption.

Token Unlocks

• Ethena $ENA / ~$101M / OCT 05th
• Movement $MOVE / ~$6M / OCT 09th
• BounceBit $BB / ~$8M / OCT 10th
• Home $HOME / ~$8M / OCT 10th
Sourced from Tokenomist

Funding

• Bee Maps (Hivemapper) raises $32M in funding from several investors.

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