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Uniswap is a decentralized exchange protocol on Ethereum using automated market makers for token swaps without intermediaries; UNI governs it.
Spark Liquidity Layer has more than $3 billion deployed across SparkLend, Morpho, Uniswap and Anchorage loans, according to Crypto Briefing. The report calls it the largest on-chain allocator DefiLlama tracks, though the second-quarter average ran higher.
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A7A5 stablecoin transfers fell to 14 a day on Tron and 18 on Ethereum after Ukrainian drones struck Yandex data centers. Elliptic's Tom Robinson ties the two, though the issuer's own explanation so far is technical problems.
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Optimism's OP token rose 25.47% in a week to $0.1511 as Uniswap prepared to move Unichain's production operations to OP Enterprise. The mainnet cutover is set for October 29, and the trading data cannot say how much of the gain it explains.
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Robinhood Chain's 30-day DEX volume of $38.62 billion passed Base's $30.46 billion, according to Defillama data. Its third-quarter results will take in a September when Robinhood covered gas on some swaps, and none of the slower October.
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Fixed 21,000-gas ETH sends to EIP-7702 accounts made up 201 of 401 failed transactions in a dev.to block sample. Delegated code runs on receipt, so those sends could not succeed at that limit. The author's breakdown puts all 201 on one cluster of senders, so the half says little about the network at large.
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Robinhood Chain's daily transactions have fallen more than 40% since mid-September, barely three months after the network went live. Robinhood paid customers' swap fees through the whole slide, so the money users still keep parked on the chain is the better test of it.
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Uniswap v4 and v3 handled 47.2% of $161.4 billion in 30-day stablecoin trading on decentralized exchanges, Crypto Briefing reported. The newer version's lead in swaps between two dollar tokens comes from pricing far below v3, so the volume it gathers pays its liquidity providers very little per dollar.
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Ethereum's draft EIP-7906 lets transactions reject bad trade results, but only a floor set by someone other than the trade's builder protects users. What the proposal is worth to a trader depends on whether wallets and account providers write their own limits from prices the app does not control.
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Robinhood is exploring a Stock Token with T. Rowe Price, the $1.9 trillion asset manager, that would track an actively managed ETF. It would be Robinhood's first token on a fund whose holdings a manager picks, and board approval, regulatory clearance and filings still stand between the talks and anything an allocator can buy.
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Citrini Research's 79-page report argues fee-collecting platforms and protocols could gain more from tokenization than bitcoin or ether. Even if bitcoin and ether set new highs, the report says, there are better ways to bet on tokenization.
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OKXICE, a joint venture of OKX and ICE, plans to trade more than 63 tokenized US stocks in Uniswap v4 liquidity pools. Uniswap's pricing formula would stay unchanged while a compliance token gates access, all under a temporary SEC exemption.
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Standard Chartered has placed a dedicated DeFi research desk beside its ETF and stablecoin access, citing DeFi value locked that reached $114bn in 2025. The move makes on-chain research part of the access layer the bank sells, grouped with the custody and trading it already offers.
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Decentralized exchanges handled $48.7 billion of tokenized stock trades in a year, against roughly $3.2 billion to $4.4 billion of the stock in existence. Much of that trading ran through a few ETF-linked tokens, so the figure mostly measures churn in a small float.
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Coinbase opened OUSD transfers on four chains on October 1, a day after the stablecoin it co-owns went live. Because Coinbase is one of its owners, the speed mostly shows Coinbase's own incentive; the case against USDT and USDC depends on venues and businesses that hold no equity.
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Standard Chartered has initiated coverage on seven DeFi and onchain infrastructure projects since mid-June, with Ethena the latest. Each has its own revenue and token model, so clients still need a single yardstick to weigh the seven against each other.
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Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says the Senate's Sept. 15 failure to advance the Clarity Act helped crypto, citing Bitcoin's roughly 8% gain since the vote. Half of his case is the status quo outliving the bill, and the rest is SEC relief that future regulators can change.
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NEAR Intents' SHIELD blocked $50 million of Bitget hack funds while THORChain declined Bitget's request to stop the flow. Lawyer Yuriy Brisov says claimants can use that shown control against NEAR in cases far beyond this one.
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Crypto apps generated $3.3 billion in fees in the third quarter, $1.44 billion of it in September, led by Solana and Robinhood Chain launchpads. The fee-sharing tokens behind the jump were fading by month-end, so October's total will show how much of that cash repeats.
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Token Terminal data shows tokenized stocks deposited in DeFi protocols reached $262.4 million, nearly 18 times January's $14.66 million. About half of that total built up in September alone, which is too recent to show whether the deposits will stay.
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Bitget CEO Gracy Chen asked Thorchain to refuse service to the hackers behind a theft the exchange now puts at $387.5 million. After the Bybit breach, Thorchain's validators reversed a trading halt within 30 minutes, so recovery plans have little reason to count on the protocol's help.
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