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XRP began October trading at about $1.49, with a reported spot price of $1.4893 at 02:50 UTC on October 1. It had recently consolidated around that level and remained just below nearby resistance, without a confirmed breakout.
Ripple released 1 billion XRP from escrow on October 1 in four transactions of 400 million, 300 million, 200 million and 100 million XRP, according to Blockchain.News. That is a gross escrow unlock, not proof that the full amount immediately entered circulation; Ripple has explained that unused XRP can be returned to escrow.
For an XRP price prediction in October 2026, the focus is whether the bullish daily structure can carry price through the nearby resistance levels rather than treating the unlock as automatic selling pressure. XRP was above all eight tracked moving averages on the October 1 reading, and the 50-day average was above the 200-day average. The source classified the moving-average group as a Buy signal, while shorter-term momentum readings were less decisive.
XRP daily trend remains bullish, but momentum signals are not fully aligned
The broader daily setup remains constructive on the supplied readings. XRP was above all eight tracked moving averages at the October 1 observation, while the 50-day average stood above the 200-day average. The source classified the moving-average group as a Buy signal, a configuration consistent with a positive daily trend rather than a market in a broad technical breakdown.
That trend evidence matters because XRP is trading close to $1.49, where relatively small moves could determine whether it escapes its recent consolidation. A separate recent assessment likewise described a strong bullish daily bias, while stressing that price was still below nearby resistance and that RSI remained neutral.
Momentum does not yet give an unqualified confirmation. The daily RSI was 56.0 at 02:50 UTC on October 1, which places it in neutral territory rather than an overbought or oversold extreme. A September 30 reading from CoinDCX put RSI at 55.72, below its 57.89 signal line. In that assessment, momentum remained above 50 but the reported cross pointed to a bearish turn.
The intraday picture is softer still. Hourly MACD was reported at -0.002460, below its -0.001466 signal line, a bearish alignment that suggests short-term momentum had not fully matched the bullish daily moving-average structure.
These readings can coexist without contradiction. Moving averages tend to describe the underlying trend over a broader period, while RSI and hourly MACD can flag hesitation or a pullback within that trend. For XRP, that means the daily backdrop supports a bullish case, but an immediate advance still needs price confirmation at resistance rather than relying on the moving-average signal alone.
XRP levels to watch: $1.4852 support and $1.501 resistance
With spot at $1.4893, XRP was effectively positioned between its nearest quoted daily support at $1.4852 and first resistance at $1.501. That narrow interval is the initial decision area. A close above $1.501 would strengthen the bullish technical case, while a close below $1.4852 would weaken it.
LevelTechnical roleWhat it would indicate$1.4852Nearest daily supportHolding it preserves the immediate bullish setup; a close below weakens it.$1.456420-day EMA and nearby intraday-floor areaNext reported support if the first floor gives way.$1.4255Second daily pivot/supportA deeper retracement level within the supplied daily map.$1.501Nearest daily resistanceA close above would strengthen the upside case.$1.55Immediate swing-high/neckline resistanceA break is identified as the next important upside test.$1.6185Daily resistance clusterHigher resistance involving several reported technical references.
On the upside, $1.501 is the first hurdle, but $1.55 is the more consequential nearby barrier. Recent coverage placed XRP’s trading range around $1.48 to $1.55 and identified a break above $1.55 as a potential trigger toward the $1.60-$1.70 resistance zone. That area includes the separately reported $1.6185 daily cluster, associated with Fibonacci, upper Bollinger-band, upper Donchian-boundary and swing-high references.
Consequently, a move through $1.501 alone would improve the near-term chart, but would not by itself resolve the larger supply area. XRP would still need to clear $1.55 before the market could test the higher resistance cluster and the broader $1.60-$1.70 zone.
The downside map is equally clear. Failure to hold $1.4852 places $1.4564 in view, described as the 20-day EMA and a nearby intraday-floor support zone. Below that comes $1.4255, the second daily pivot/support level. The wider $1.25-$1.32 area is the supplied broader September daily demand zone, but it is not the immediate level for a market still trading near $1.49.
This stacked structure explains why the first few cents around spot matter. XRP has room for a bullish continuation only if buyers can turn the nearby resistance ladder into support; conversely, a loss of the first daily floor would shift attention toward the lower supports before any larger demand area becomes relevant.
XRP price prediction after the 1 billion-token unlock
The conditional near-term XRP outlook is cautiously constructive, not decisively bullish. Price at roughly $1.49 sits above a daily moving-average structure that is uniformly positive, with the 50-day average above the 200-day average. Yet neutral-to-mixed RSI readings and a bearish hourly MACD show that momentum has not provided a clean confirmation at the point where XRP must overcome resistance.
Ripple’s 1 billion XRP escrow release does not, by itself, settle that question. The release is a scheduled gross unlock mechanism, and Ripple has stated that XRP not used can be placed back into escrow. It would therefore be inaccurate to equate the 1 billion-token event automatically with 1 billion XRP of fresh market supply or assume that it independently determines the next price move.
For the title’s $1.49 scenario, the available evidence supports treating that level as XRP’s current consolidation area rather than a technical destination. Holding around $1.49 and defending $1.4852 would keep the constructive daily setup intact. A sustained move above $1.501 would provide the first improvement, while a break through $1.55 would offer materially stronger evidence that buyers can challenge the reported $1.60-$1.70 supply zone, including resistance at $1.6185.
By contrast, a close below $1.4852 would weaken the bullish setup and put $1.4564, then $1.4255, into focus. The daily moving-average alignment means the upside case remains credible, but it is conditional on price clearing resistance rather than merely remaining near $1.49. With short-term MACD bearish and daily RSI neutral, the chart still requires that confirmation.
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CSD BR announced on September 29 that the public XRP Ledger will mirror ownership records for BTG Pactual investment-fund shares. The blockchain representation is intended for use by approved institutions alongside the operator’s existing infrastructure.
XRPL is being added as a layer for querying, verification and auditing ownership data. CSD BR will retain the authoritative market record and continue handling registration, custody and settlement.
That division keeps the deployment controlled: the project introduces a blockchain record for the specified fund shares while established registry and regulatory processes remain in place.
BTG Pactual fund shares are mirrored on XRPL
The partnership with Ripple initially covers BTG Pactual investment-fund shares, according to Ripple’s September 29 announcement. The companies describe the deployment as a mirrored ownership record on the public XRP Ledger, not a transfer of the shares to a new official registry.
The mirrored shares use XRPL’s Multi-Purpose Token standard. Access is limited to authorised corporate and banking participants subject to know-your-customer and anti-money-laundering controls, making the arrangement a permissioned system rather than an open retail-facing market.
CSD BR’s conventional systems remain the official source of record for registration, custody and settlement, the operator said. The XRPL copy is intended to operate alongside those systems as a complementary querying and auditing layer, giving authorised users another point at which to check ownership changes.
CSD BR retains the official registry and settlement role
CSD BR’s systems remain the official source of record for registration, custody and settlement, the operator said. XRPL provides a complementary querying and auditing layer, with the blockchain copy giving authorised users another point at which to check ownership changes.
That does not make XRPL a replacement for CSD BR’s legal and operational recordkeeping, an alternative authoritative registry or a competing settlement venue. CoinDesk reported that approved institutions will be able to perform those checks against the copy in near real time, while CSD BR remains in control of official records and regulatory processes.
The launch therefore integrates audit and verification functions into existing market infrastructure rather than transferring them wholesale to XRPL.
The BRL 22 trillion figure describes CSD BR’s existing infrastructure
CSD BR said it has more than BRL 22 trillion in registered assets and can process millions of transactions within minutes. The figure gives a sense of the infrastructure operator’s existing scale, but it should not be read as the value of assets placed on XRP Ledger through this initiative.
The announced deployment begins with mirrored records for BTG Pactual fund shares. CSD BR’s broader registered-asset total refers to its overall infrastructure, not to a wholesale transfer of its asset base onto the blockchain.
That boundary matters when assessing the development. A mirror can make selected information available for institutional verification without changing the location of the official record or implying that all instruments registered by the operator have been tokenised.
Validation could lead to native issuance of receivables
CSD BR and Ripple said they plan to explore native issuance and trading of assets on XRPL after the mirroring phase has been validated. The assets identified for that potential later stage include Brazilian real-estate and agribusiness receivables.
No timetable or commitment for that next stage was included in the announcement. For now, the operative deployment is the BTG Pactual ownership-record mirror, with CSD BR retaining the official registry, custody and settlement functions as the parties test the verification and audit layer.
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Currency is the difference a player sees first, because it is the one on the deposit screen. It is also the least structural. The differences that decide what happens when something goes wrong sit further back: who issued the licence, who holds the money, whether the operator knows who you are, and who checked the games.
Beyond the deposit currency
A licensed UK casino can accept crypto. The Gambling Commission does not prohibit it. Its guidance says a licensee that adds a crypto payment method has to notify the change and show it has reduced the risk "to the same level that we would expect from other payment methods", which in practice means source-of-funds checks on the deposits. A crypto-native casino is one built so that it never has to ask where the bitcoin came from, and everything else about its architecture follows from that choice: an offshore licence that permits it, custody of balances on the operator's own terms, and fairness evidenced by cryptography as well as, or instead of, by an inspector.
The two are not exclusive; several large crypto-native operators hold licences of their own and stock the same certified supplier catalogues as the regulated sites. What varies is what they are obliged to do. Offering facilities for gambling to people in Great Britain without a Commission licence is an offence under section 33 of the Gambling Act 2005, and the regulator's disruption programme serves offshore sites with notices requiring geo-blocking within 48 hours, backed by test purchases from GB IP addresses. The Binance perpetuals litigation this site covered in July turns on the same question from the finance side: whether an offshore platform can be said to have kept UK users out.
Regulatory overhead vs Web3 anonymity
Looking at the regulated UK market, Betway casino has held a remote casino licence from the Gambling Commission since November 2014 under account number 39372. The obligations that follow form the legal baseline for any British licence - requirements that crypto-native casinos may not carry. Its own site states that customer money is held at what the Commission calls its high protection level, which means a formal trust account, legally separate from the company and verified by an independent trustee or external auditor. Anti-money laundering checks are a condition of the licence rather than a policy the operator adopted. "Segregated funds" means different things on each side.
The Commission's three-tier rating is explicit that funds which are merely segregated are "not protected": they sit in a separate account and still form part of the business's assets in an insolvency. Only the high tier puts the money beyond the company's reach. A proof-of-reserves attestation, the crypto sector's usual answer, shows that assets existed at a point in time; without a matching proof of liabilities it does not show solvency, and it does not put anything in trust.
On the other side, Curaçao, the jurisdiction behind many crypto-native licences, brought its online gaming under a new national ordinance that took effect on 24 December 2024, and the bar there is rising. The Financial Action Task Force counted 99 jurisdictions that had passed, or were passing, travel-rule legislation in its June 2025 update; the rule binds exchanges rather than a self-custodied wallet paying an operator directly, so it narrows the on-ramps rather than the rails.
Software auditing and RNG integrity
A remote casino licensee has to put its games through one of the Commission's approved test houses, and the testing is invasive: the test house reads the random number generator's source code, runs statistical tests on its output, then checks the game's maths and rules and measures the actual return to player against the theoretical figure. The report goes to the regulator before release. The question answered is whether the game, across its whole population of players, behaves as advertised.
Provably fair asks something else: was this specific round altered after the bet was placed? Before a round, the server commits to a hash of a secret seed; the player supplies a client seed; a nonce counts the rounds; the outcome is derived from all three, typically through HMAC-SHA256. When the server seed is later revealed, anyone can recompute the round and confirm the operator did not change the result after seeing the bet. The guarantee is real, and a licensed casino does not offer one at the level of the individual bet, though it covers RNG games only; live tables are the same certified studio feed under both models. It is silent on the house edge, the advertised return and whether the operator can pay out.
The friction trade-off
Every protection in the regulated model is a delay: identity verification before the first bet, source-of-funds questions past a threshold, a complaints route that runs through the operator and then to an independent adjudicator the customer does not pay for. Each is how a guarantee above gets delivered, so removing one removes a guarantee.
The crypto-native model removes them, and gets speed, privacy and a per-bet proof in exchange. What it gives up is recourse. Funds sit on the operator's balance sheet, a self-exclusion covers that site only, and while the licensing jurisdiction has a regulator and a complaints route on paper, a British customer pursuing it is enforcing against a company outside the reach of any court they can afford. Which trade is worth making depends on which failure the player thinks is likelier: an operator that cannot fund a withdrawal, or a dispute with no adjudicator to hear it.
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The Bitcoin price is still in a range from $83K up to $87K. Wednesday’s PCE inflation data is released later in the day. Could this change things for the $BTC price?
A hot or cool Core PCE print?
The PCE Price Index (Personal Consumption Expenditures) is what the Federal Reserve uses to measure inflation, hoping to see this figure come down to the Holy Grail of 2%. The index tracks the prices of U.S. household goods and services, with ‘Core PCE’ (excluding food and energy) the figure the Fed relies on most.
A hotter than expected Core PCE figure could lead to higher bond yields and a stronger dollar, while a cooler than expected print would likely spark a rally in stocks. Bitcoin bulls will be hoping for the latter outcome.
U.S. 10-year bond yields coming down
Source: TradingView
U.S. bond yields accelerated over the last week, with the 10-year yield hitting 5.293, thereby making a 19-year higher high in the process. It looks as though the 10-year yield may be on its way back down again now, with 5% a possible target, although the current volatile phase may not be over just yet. That said, if the support at 5.2% gives way, this could do wonders for stocks, gold, and the $BTC price.
$BTC price maintains narrow range
Source: TradingView
The 4-hour chart for $BTC illustrates that the price is maintaining within a smaller channel which it entered 9 days ago. After initially climbing to the top of this channel the price has since kept to the lower half, which has kept it in a narrow range for the last week.
Buffeted by the strong winds of rising bond yields over this time, the $BTC price has held firm - more so than has been the case for stocks and precious metals. The $82,840 horizontal support, also the bottom of the parallel channel, is very important here. If the bulls are going to continue their rally, this support floor has to hold.
A bearish descending triangle?
Source: TradingView
In the daily time frame it has to be acknowledged that the price action could be trading within a descending triangle. This would put the $BTC price into more of a bearish setup given that descending triangles break to the downside more often than not. Be that as it may, if the price does break to the upside, this will make the breakout even more bullish.
The daily Stochastic RSI has its indicators passing the halfway point so it may only be a few more days before the indicators hit the bottom and start to make their way back up again, signalling upside price momentum as they pass back above the 20.00 level.
The RSI has its indicator still finally balanced. Falling through the descending trendline would likely signal a breakdown in price action, while bouncing higher from the trendline would probably signal a breakout.
A huge inverse head and shoulders pattern could play out if price collapses to $73K
Source: TradingView
The weekly chart for the $BTC price shows that there is absolutely nothing to worry about at all - as long as the horizontal support at $83K holds. The price coming back to test this level is perfectly normal and a bounce into next week could be the next move.
If we theorise that the $83K level does break down and the price corrects to the big support level at $73,600, this would likely form the right shoulder of a huge inverse head and shoulders pattern - a king of bottoming patterns. If this played out, the measured move could send the $BTC price up to $108K. Whichever way you look at it, this is the early stages of the bull market. It just requires patience.
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How influencer Brez Scales went from a $132,000 losing week to one of the biggest single trades on fomo.
Four months ago, Brez Scales had never traded crypto in his life. No charts, no watchlists, no idea what a market cap even meant in practice. Like a lot of people, he'd just watched from the sidelines while everyone else seemed to be making money. So he decided to stop watching and actually put money in, on fomo, the social trading app where every entry, exit, and position is public and live for anyone to see.
It did not go well at first. At one point, he was down $132,000 in a single week. That's not a typo, and it's not a small dip, that's the kind of number that makes most people close the app and never open it again. A lot of traders would've called it there.
He didn't. He kept showing up, kept making trades, kept building a public track record even while it was ugly. And this week, that patience paid off in a way that's hard to script: one trade alone turned a $996 position into a six-figure win. It wasn't even his only big one.
The trade: Effective Accelerationism
On September 26, Brez Scales put $996 (basically the price of a nice used couch) into a token called Effective Accelerationism, at an average entry market cap of $116.3K. That's about as early as it gets. The token's market cap has since climbed to $18.3M, turning that $996 into a position worth roughly $109,500, an unrealized gain of +$108,497.31, up 10,897.70%. For context, that's turning less than a grand into more money than most people make in a year, off one trade.
Brez Scales' live Effective Accelerationism position on fomo: $996 in, +$108,497.31 unrealized.
Mid-trade, he left a note that says a lot about where his head was at: he'd add more to the position but didn't want to risk disturbing his own $100K entry. That's the moment a fun little bet turns into something you're genuinely careful with. A few weeks earlier, $996 was money he could afford to lose. Now it's a position he's protecting.
A second big winner: $PAID
Effective Accelerationism wasn't a one-off. Over the past week, Brez Scales also built a much bigger position in $PAID, investing $148,353.51 at an average entry market cap of $9.4M. This one wasn't a lottery ticket, it was a real, sized bet. $PAID's market cap has since risen to $38.1M, putting his position at $288,471.51, a gain of +$324,653.31 (+218.84%) in just 7 days.
Brez Scales' $PAID position on fomo: $148,353.51 invested, +$324,653.31 gain over 7 days.
Put the two trades side by side and you get a picture of how this actually works in practice: a small, early bet on a coin nobody's heard of, and a much larger, more deliberate one on a token that already had some traction. Different sizes, different risk levels, same trader, same week.
Where he stands now
Between those two trades, Brez Scales turned a rough, expensive start into one of the standout runs on fomo right now. He currently sits at No. 5 on the platform's leaderboard, with total profit of +$461,301.02, ahead of traders with far bigger followings and far longer track records.
The fomo leaderboard: Brez Scales (@brezscales) ranked No. 5 with +$461,301.02.
The part worth sitting with is that none of this is a screenshot pulled from some private Discord or a claim you have to take on faith. Every number here, the entries, the exits, the running P&L, is public and verifiable on fomo, updated live as it happens. You don't have to trust Brez Scales' word for any of it. You can just watch.
The takeaway
The traders worth watching aren't always the ones who never lose. Sometimes they're the ones who kept their feed public through the losing week and were still there for the winning one.
If you want to watch Brez Scales' next move, or just see how a trader actually builds a position in real time instead of hearing about it after the fact, his whole history is sitting there on fomo, open for anyone to follow.
Download fomo, search @brezscales and hit follow. It takes under a minute, and you'll see his next trade live instead of reading about it after.
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Tether says it supported the freezing of nearly $550 million in Iran-linked USDT during 2026. That total included more than $344 million across two addresses in April and more than $130 million across four TRON wallets in July, according to the company.
The number arrived alongside a sharper political challenge for the stablecoin issuer. Democratic staff on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations reviewed 846 Iran- and proxy-linked wallets and found that 84% transacted exclusively or almost exclusively in USDT, according to Reuters. Taken together, the figures expose a central tension in the debate over USDT: issuer-level control can immobilise identified balances, but the available figures do not say how much suspect value had already moved before a freeze.
USDT in the Senate sample
The 84% figure is striking because it points to the extent of USDT’s presence within the wallet set examined by Senate investigators. It supports the contention that USDT was an important rail for the Iran- and proxy-linked wallets under review. Sen. Richard Blumenthal’s investigation went further, characterising USDT as a major channel in Iran’s shadow-banking system.
That wording matters. The inquiry is not simply asking whether sanctioned actors held a stablecoin. It seeks records concerning Tether’s sanctions-compliance practices, wallet freezes, suspicious-activity reporting and dealings with Iranian exchanges. In other words, the scrutiny is directed at the operational relationship between a large dollar-pegged token and a network of wallets and venues that U.S. authorities have identified as a sanctions concern.
But the Senate staff statistic is a wallet-usage measure, not a measure of illicit transaction volume. A wallet that transacts almost entirely in USDT counts toward the 84%, irrespective of the size, direction or outcome of the transfers reflected in the underlying history. The figure therefore demonstrates reliance within the reviewed sample; it does not independently quantify the total value of sanctions evasion, financing or other activity conducted through USDT.
That distinction is more than technical. Wallet counts can reveal concentration in a particular asset, while dollar volumes answer a different question: how much value flowed through it. Neither should be substituted for the other. The evidence available from the inquiry nonetheless helps explain why attention has settled on Tether rather than on crypto markets in the abstract. The concern is focused on a token whose issuer can take action at the address level.
What the freeze total shows
The reported figures are specific: Tether said more than $344 million was frozen across two addresses in April and more than $130 million across four TRON wallets in July, forming the great majority of its approximately $550 million Iran-linked USDT total. The company gave those figures in a September 28 statement.
What the number records is balances that Tether says became immobilised after particular addresses were identified. An address freeze can stop the affected USDT from being transferred through the issuer-controlled system, making the intervention countable without making it a complete account of disrupted activity.
The missing dimension is what happened before the freeze. The balance on identification is a point-in-time measure; it does not show whether value had already passed through the address, moved elsewhere, or belonged to a wider set of related transactions. TipRanks accordingly distinguished the freeze total from the Senate’s wallet-reliance statistic: neither establishes the amount of illicit value moved before intervention.
That distinction leaves both measures limited in different ways. The freeze total cannot prove that every related flow was stopped; historic USDT use in linked wallets cannot prove that issuer controls failed. The central question is timing—when activity occurred relative to identification, reporting and freezing—and, beyond that, how quickly and comprehensively Tether used its address-level control.
Iranian exchanges and execution
The Senate investigation puts named exchanges at the centre of that question. Blumenthal’s June inquiry focused on Nobitex, Wallex, Bitpin and Ramzinex. The senator said the Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned those exchanges on June 2, 2026, for supporting Iran’s regime, sanctions evasion and money laundering linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Those allegations turn the matter into an execution test for compliance systems. The requested materials concern more than the eventual outcome of a freeze. They cover what Tether knew about dealings with the exchanges, its sanctions processes, its suspicious-activity reporting and the handling of wallet restrictions. A freeze after an address has been identified is one visible result; screening, escalation and reporting procedures determine how an issuer reaches that result.
The public record supplied with the inquiry does not establish a transaction-by-transaction chronology for the exchanges or the wallets in the Senate sample. It also does not set out a measure of how quickly individual addresses were identified and frozen. That absence leaves a meaningful gap between the investigation’s broad description of USDT as a major channel and any conclusion about the effectiveness of particular controls in a particular case.
Still, naming the exchanges narrows the policy issue. This is not solely a general argument about whether stablecoins can be used by bad actors. It concerns whether the entities operating a widely used stablecoin can detect, document and restrict exposure connected to specifically sanctioned venues. The records sought by the senator are relevant precisely because the public freeze total cannot answer those process questions by itself.
Partial measures and a minority inquiry
Tether said its worldwide law-enforcement cooperation has involved more than 2,900 investigations and more than $4.9 billion in frozen assets, including over $2.4 billion connected to U.S. authorities. The company-reported totals put the Iran-related freezes in a broader enforcement context, but they do not break down alleged conduct, jurisdiction, wallet history or the timing of restrictions. Because they provide no denominator for total Iran-linked USDT flows, they cannot show what share of that activity was frozen.
The Senate inquiry is also narrower in institutional terms: Democratic minority staff are conducting it, rather than presenting it as a bipartisan committee finding. The committee’s subcommittee library lists the September 28, 2026 report among the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations’ documents.
Its wallet finding and Tether’s freeze total measure different things. The former concerns Iran- and proxy-linked wallet activity; the latter concerns balances frozen after specific wallets were identified. Neither measurement alone reveals how much potentially illicit value moved before intervention.
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California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2409 on September 27, 2026, prohibiting California public officials from issuing memecoins and restricting companies from listing tokens that use an official’s likeness or image. The governor’s office confirmed the measure as part of a package presented as an anti-corruption crackdown.
AB 2409 targets public-official memecoins
The new law places a direct prohibition on California public officials issuing memecoins. It also reaches companies that list memecoins using an official’s likeness or image, according to the Office of the Governor of California.
The measure puts official-linked tokens at the centre of the state’s approach rather than imposing a general restriction on memecoins. Its practical reach extends beyond issuers because the legislation also sets conditions for digital-asset service providers serving California residents.
2027 listing restrictions for providers
Under AB 2409, digital-asset service providers are restricted from listing qualifying memecoins for California residents if the tokens are issued on or after January 1, 2027 and are offered by, or partnered with, a federal, state or local public official, Decrypt reported.
Civil enforcement and Newsom’s rationale
California’s attorney general, district attorneys, city attorneys and county counsels are authorised to bring civil enforcement actions under the law. Available remedies include injunctions and disgorgement, according to Decrypt.
Newsom framed the legislation as an anti-corruption measure, saying public officials should not profit from their office. In the announcement, his administration explicitly connected the bill to scrutiny surrounding President Donald Trump’s memecoin activities.
The law therefore combines a conduct rule for California officials with a platform-facing restriction for certain official-linked tokens. Its enforcement structure gives multiple state and local legal offices the ability to pursue civil cases rather than leaving oversight solely with the attorney general.
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As US 10-year bond yields broke out further to the upside, the US stock market saw a red day. In spite of this, Bitcoin was able to hold firm, with the bulls defending the key $83K level successfully. With the US 10-year bond yield moving ever closer to a 19 year high can the $BTC price continue to rise?
10-year yield in touching distance of 19-year high
Source: TradingView
The 4-hour chart for the US Government 10-year bond yield reveals just how close the yield is to reaching a 19-year high. The 5.29% level could be reached on Tuesday or Wednesday.
Up then back down for the yield?
Source: TradingView
Zooming right out into the monthly time frame the last high can be seen. Is the 10-year yield about to surpass this high? The answer is quite possibly yes, although would the yield continue to climb? The Stochastic RSI indicators have reached the top of their limit, plus we have the double top. Therefore, at least from a technical analysis perspective, a descent to at least the descending trendline, and perhaps to the top of the triangle pattern, would be a next logical move.
$BTC price funnels into a descending triangle
Source: TradingView
While the $BTC price is possibly in another channel, it also looks to be within a descending triangle. The price is currently being funnelled into the last third of this triangle and a breakout in either direction is probably going to happen soon. Given that the triangle is descending, it is generally bearish, although we will wait and see in which particular direction the price goes. It it’s to the downside, the top of the previous parallel channel will be support, while if it’s to the upside, first stop would be at the midpoint of the channel (dotted line), and then horizontal resistance at $86,700 and the opportunity to break out of the top of the channel.
If the 10-year yield continues its drive up to 5.29%, stock markets, gold, and risk assets like Bitcoin are probably going to suffer. Therefore, any trades would need to bear this in mind. In fact, trading in this environment would probably be a lot more unpredictable than usual.
$BTC at decision point for breakdown or breakout
Source: TradingView
In the daily time frame the triangle pattern looks more apt than another parallel channel, given the lack of touch points for the top of the channel. Therefore, the $BTC price is very close to the next decision point of a collapse through the strong support, or a breakout that heads back up to $86,700.
The Stochastic RSI indicators still have a way to go to come back down and fully reset. This is while all the lower time frame indicators are on their way back up.
The RSI is probably the best indicator here. As can be seen, the indicator line is holding above a descending trendline. If this trendline gives way, this could be the signal that price action is also going to fall.
$BTC tests $83K as new support
Source: TradingView
The weekly chart shows that the current weekly candle has come back down to test and confirm the previous resistance, which will be new support as long as the $BTC price holds above by the end of the week.
The question to be answered now is will bond yields come back down? If they don’t, this could be a difficult environment for risk assets to rise into.
It will be interesting to see how Bitcoin copes with this particular wall of worry.
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Strategy purchased 1,665 bitcoin between September 21 and September 27 for approximately $142.7 million, taking its total holdings to 847,666 BTC. The acquisition, announced September 28, came alongside a larger set of capital-management transactions: proceeds from a Class A common-stock sale were split between the bitcoin purchase and buybacks of STRC preferred shares.
The company paid an average of $85,681 for the latest tranche, according to Strategy’s announcement. While the purchase adds to one of the largest corporate bitcoin positions, the allocation of funds is notable because the STRC repurchases exceeded the amount directed to BTC during the period.
Strategy adds 1,665 BTC at an $85,681 average price
The latest 1,665 BTC purchase cost about $142.7 million. Strategy said the average price was $85,681 per bitcoin, a transaction-specific figure that differs from the average cost of its entire bitcoin position.
Following the purchase, Strategy held 847,666 BTC acquired for approximately $63.95 billion, inclusive of fees and expenses. That puts the company’s portfolio-wide average cost at $75,437 per bitcoin, according to its September 28 Form 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
The difference between the $85,681 paid for the new coins and the $75,437 all-in average reflects the accumulated cost of Strategy’s full holdings rather than a change to the terms of the latest purchase.
Common-stock sale funded bitcoin purchase and STRC repurchases
Strategy raised approximately $246.2 million in net proceeds by selling 1,469,165 shares of its Class A common stock during the period covered by the filing. It allocated $142.7 million of that sum to bitcoin and $103.5 million to repurchases of STRC, its preferred stock.
That division makes the BTC acquisition only part of the company’s concurrent financing and capital-return activity. The filing indicates that common-stock issuance supplied the funds for both uses, rather than presenting the bitcoin purchase as a standalone deployment.
Of the $246.2 million raised, the stated bitcoin allocation represented less than the amount Strategy spent in total on STRC buybacks. The remainder of the buyback funding came from the company’s USD Cash balance.
STRC buyback exceeded the bitcoin allocation
Strategy repurchased 1,534,530 STRC shares for approximately $151.7 million during the period, roughly $9 million more than the $142.7 million allocated to bitcoin.
Of the repurchase funding, $103.5 million came from Class A stock-sale proceeds and $48.1 million from Strategy’s USD Cash balance, according to the SEC filing. The buyback therefore combined equity-sale proceeds with cash already held by the company.
Strategy increased its bitcoin holdings while reducing outstanding STRC shares through the larger dollar commitment to the repurchase.
Holdings approach $70.6 billion in market value
Independent coverage by The Block put the value of Strategy’s bitcoin holdings at roughly $70.6 billion at the time of publication. That market-value estimate is separate from the company’s reported aggregate acquisition cost of about $63.95 billion.
With 847,666 BTC on its balance sheet after the latest purchase, Strategy’s reported position has moved closer to 850,000 bitcoin. The September 21–27 activity added 1,665 BTC while pairing the acquisition with a $151.7 million preferred-stock repurchase programme.
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Chainlink launched CCIP 2.0 on September 28, making the cross-chain protocol available to institutions and developers distributing digital assets across blockchains. The release adds Cross-Chain Verifiers (CCVs), which let issuers place their own cryptographic approval checks alongside Chainlink’s existing verifier network.
The design shifts CCIP toward an additive, selective verification model: an issuer can require an extra verifier for particular transfers instead of applying identical conditions to every transaction.
CCIP 2.0 also adds configurable transfer speeds and compliance functionality. Chainlink says those controls are intended to support institutional digital-asset distribution, where security, timing and eligibility requirements can differ by asset or transaction.
CCVs add issuer-controlled checks to Chainlink’s verifier network
CCVs independently verify and cryptographically sign transfers alongside Chainlink’s default verifier network, according to the Chainlink developer changelog. Chainlink’s example is an approval requirement for transfers above $1 million.
The CCV configuration is additive. The default verifier remains in place, while issuers can attach an additional approval layer and select checks for transfers meeting their own criteria.
The release does not establish a universal threshold or prescribe the checks every issuer must use. Instead, it describes a system intended to let issuers set transaction-specific security requirements; CoinDesk likewise reported that applications can implement custom security checks on top of Chainlink’s existing verifier network.
For developers, the result is a choice between using the baseline as the only approval path and combining it with an independent signer.
Default committee and transfer speeds
Chainlink said the default Chainlink Committee Verifier comprises 16 independent, security-reviewed node operators. CCIP 2.0 retains that committee as its standard verifier while allowing issuers and institutions to add supplementary verification and security controls selectively.
Those controls can require additional approval for transfers that meet a chosen threshold, such as $1 million, while leaving lower-value activity subject to a different policy. The $1 million example illustrates the mechanism rather than a network-wide operating requirement.
CCIP 2.0 also supports configurable finality speeds. Chainlink’s documentation says faster-than-finality transfers are available, while full source-chain finality remains the default security setting; verifier requirements and transfer timing are therefore separate configuration choices rather than one fixed policy for every asset and route.
Capabilities of CCIP 2.0, including additive security, configurable transfer speeds, and built-in compliance. — Source: Chainlink
Automated Compliance Engine
Chainlink said CCIP 2.0 includes built-in compliance functionality through its Automated Compliance Engine. According to a release carried by PR Newswire, the engine supports know-your-customer checks, anti-money-laundering controls, sanctions screening and transaction limits.
The compliance tooling is part of a broader package that combines a 16-operator default committee verifier, optional independently signing Cross-Chain Verifiers and configurable finality speeds.
Chainlink has described CCIP 2.0’s focus as the distribution of institutional digital assets across blockchains. Issuers can configure additional checks and transfer-speed settings, shaping the security and operational policies applied to their transfers.
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Bybit announced on September 28 that it has formed a strategic collaboration with Franklin Templeton to let eligible institutional clients use tokenized money-market-fund shares as off-exchange collateral for trading on the crypto exchange. The structure allows clients to pledge Benji-issued fund shares through ByCustody in return for USDT or USDC trading credit lines, rather than moving the underlying fund assets onto Bybit.
The arrangement places a tokenized investment product into the collateral workflow for institutional trading. The pledged assets remain in custody outside the exchange and continue generating yield, according to Bybit's announcement.
The service is limited to eligible institutional clients. Neither the announcement nor the information provided with the collaboration specifies the terms on which credit is extended, the amount of credit available, or the fund-share valuation parameters used in the collateral arrangement.
Benji fund shares become off-exchange collateral on Bybit
Eligible institutional clients can pledge Benji-issued fund shares through ByCustody as off-exchange collateral for trading on Bybit, receiving credit lines denominated in USDT or USDC. The shares are not converted into those stablecoins; they are pledged to support the credit facility while remaining in custody off the exchange.
Cointelegraph reported that institutions can use the tokenized shares as collateral without transferring them onto Bybit, expanding their use beyond holding them as an investment.
From idle collateral to yield-bearing collateral
The central feature of the structure is that institutions can seek trading credit without giving up off-exchange custody of the underlying Benji fund shares. Bybit said those assets continue to generate yield while they are pledged.
That distinction matters because collateral can otherwise sit apart from an investor's income-producing allocation while it supports trading activity. Here, the collateral and the credit line perform different functions: the fund shares remain the pledged investment asset, while USDT or USDC credit is supplied for use on Bybit.
For eligible institutions, the arrangement creates a different collateral pathway: tokenized money-market-fund shares can serve as the basis for collateral without an on-exchange transfer of those shares. The announced arrangement specifically concerns the shares issued through Franklin Templeton's Benji system and the ByCustody route; it does not claim that trading is risk-free or that collateral values are fixed.
It also gives tokenized fund units a role beyond a buy-and-hold position. Cointelegraph characterized the development as an expansion of tokenized fund shares into collateral use, with the off-exchange custody component preserving the distinction between where the assets are held and where trading takes place.
Franklin Templeton's Benji platform supplies the fund infrastructure
Franklin Templeton’s Benji Technology Platform is the infrastructure behind the collateral referenced by Bybit. It supports blockchain-based recordkeeping and transfer-agency functions for tokenized investment products, according to a Franklin Templeton release.
The product is the Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund, represented by the BENJI token. Franklin Templeton says it launched in 2021 as the first U.S.-registered mutual fund to use a public blockchain as its official system of record.
Under the Bybit arrangement, those Benji-issued fund shares are pledged through ByCustody for the exchange’s trading-credit mechanism. The fund assets stay in custody off Bybit and continue generating yield; the institution instead accesses USDT or USDC credit for trading on the exchange.
That makes the collaboration an extension of tokenized fund shares into institutional trading collateral, with the custody of the underlying assets separated from the trading-credit access.
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Coinbase and Citi have expanded their payments collaboration by connecting Citi’s Virtual Account Wallet to Coinbase Virtual Accounts, a product intended to give businesses bank-account-like functionality while automatically converting incoming fiat into stablecoins. Coinbase announced the arrangement on September 28, saying the initial rollout is planned for the United States.
Alongside Coinbase’s stablecoin-payment infrastructure, the release describes a bank-led account and settlement layer. Its stated aim for businesses is to support the receipt or acceptance of stablecoin-linked payments through familiar payment and fiat-settlement processes, without requiring them to operate a digital-asset treasury function.
Citi Virtual Account Wallet powers Coinbase Virtual Accounts
Under the newly announced integration, Citi’s Virtual Account Wallet will power Coinbase Virtual Accounts, according to Coinbase. The exchange said the product will provide businesses with functionality resembling a bank account, while incoming fiat is converted automatically into stablecoins.
Virtual accounts generally provide a way to organise payment flows through distinct account identifiers without requiring a separate traditional bank account for every use case. Coinbase’s announcement frames the integration around that operational model: businesses can use the accounts for payment functionality while the conversion between fiat and stablecoins is automated within the offered workflow.
The distinction matters because stablecoin payments have often required businesses to decide whether they will directly receive, store and reconcile digital assets. Coinbase and Citi are presenting their arrangement as infrastructure that moves those steps into an integrated payments process. The companies have not detailed additional capabilities beyond saying they are expected in the following months.
Coinbase said the first deployment is planned for the US. That is a rollout plan rather than confirmation of availability in other markets, and the announcement did not specify a timetable for further geographic expansion.
Spring by Citi keeps merchant settlement in fiat
Citi describes Spring by Citi as an end-to-end digital payments service for global e-commerce and business-to-business flows, including payment acceptance, settlement and reconciliation.
Institutional clients using Spring by Citi can accept stablecoin payments through Coinbase Payments, according to Bloomberg Law. The digital assets are automatically converted into fiat. Citi settles the funds as the bank of record.
Coinbase handles the stablecoin-payment component; Citi handles the banking and settlement role. Merchants do not need to hold or manage stablecoins under the described model.
In practice, the arrangement places stablecoin payments behind existing commercial payment operations while leaving the merchant’s settlement process fiat-based.
Official Coinbase-Citi partnership graphic. — Source: Coinbase
Expansion of the 2025 institutional payments work
The September announcement extends a Coinbase-Citi collaboration first disclosed on October 27, 2025. At the time, the companies said their work would focus on fiat-to-digital-asset conversion, stablecoin payment solutions and institutional payment infrastructure.
The new products closely align with those earlier priorities: Citi’s Virtual Account Wallet is being used for fiat-to-stablecoin conversion, while the Spring by Citi integration addresses stablecoin payment acceptance and fiat settlement for institutional clients.
Coinbase’s description of the initial US launch and planned additional capabilities suggests the companies view the release as a staged build-out rather than a finished global product. Whether the service expands beyond its first market, or adds features in the coming months, will determine how broadly the partnership reaches Citi’s institutional payments network.
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XRP’s near-term price setup is being tested by a mix of fresh institutional-flow data and network developments. U.S. spot XRP exchange-traded funds recorded about $22.65 million of net inflows on September 25, taking cumulative inflows to roughly $1.79 billion, according to Bitzo. That demand has arrived despite recent price weakness.
At the same time, XRPLF’s September 17 release of xrpld version 3.4.0 brought LendingProtocolV1_1 to the ledger, while Evernorth and Armada Acquisition Corp. II are due to put their proposed transaction to a shareholder vote on September 30. If approved and completed, the combined company is expected to list on Nasdaq as XRPN and run an XRP-focused treasury, according to the SEC filing.
Those catalysts frame the XRP price prediction question, but they do not amount to a technical breakout. XRP was near $1.48 on September 28, leaving it below the closest hourly resistance and inside a narrow range where the next direction still depends on whether buyers can recover nearby levels.
XRP indicators show balanced momentum near $1.48
The hourly and daily snapshot as of September 29 points to balance rather than a confirmed directional trend. On the one-hour chart, XRP’s 14-period RSI stood at 54.88, a neutral reading that indicates neither notably stretched buying nor selling pressure. The daily RSI was similarly neutral at 56.71, according to CoinLore’s technical data.
Momentum is therefore constructive enough to leave room for an upside attempt, but it has not supplied an emphatic signal. The one-hour MACD was listed at -0.003491, against a -0.005051 signal line, and was classified as neutral with no clear buy or sell indication. Traders looking for proof that the news backdrop is translating into price follow-through would need to see the market resolve this neutral condition rather than simply remain range-bound.
Short-term trend references reinforce that caution. The 20-hour EMA was $1.49, just above the reported $1.48 spot price. That puts XRP close to its short-term trend reference, rather than clearly above it. A recovery and hold around that area would improve the immediate structure; continuing to trade below it would leave the market without a clear short-term advantage.
The hourly Bollinger Bands also describe compression around current prices rather than an extreme move. Their upper band was $1.52 and lower band $1.47, with price inside both boundaries. The upper band sits close to the first explicit resistance at $1.53, so an advance through the $1.52-$1.53 area would be the first technical sign that XRP is moving beyond its recent contained range. Conversely, a move back through the lower band would draw attention to the established support levels below.
None of these readings independently determines the next move. Taken together, however, they show that the ETF-flow and XRPL headlines are meeting a market with neutral momentum, not one already in a fully developed breakout. That distinction matters for $1.55: it remains a level to be reclaimed rather than a destination validated by current indicators.
XRP support at $1.49 and $1.45 versus the $1.53-$1.55 barrier
The actionable XRP range is compact. With spot reported at $1.48, the supplied $1.49 hourly support is unusually close and also aligns with the 20-hour EMA. The price being marginally below that level highlights the fragility of the current position: XRP needs to recover it to restore the nearest support reference, rather than treating it as firmly secured.
LevelTechnical roleWhat it would signal$1.49Strong hourly supportA recovery and hold would reinforce the immediate range structure.$1.45Strong hourly support and lower edge of the immediate consolidation zoneHolding it would preserve the nearby base; losing it would weaken the short-term setup.$1.41Next strong hourly supportThis is the next supplied downside marker below the immediate zone.$1.53Strong hourly resistance and upper short-term range boundaryBuyers would need to clear it before a $1.55 retest is in view.$1.55Strong hourly resistance and recent consolidation ceilingThis is the title’s scenario level and the key barrier for an upside extension.$1.60Next daily resistanceIt becomes relevant only after a sustained move beyond $1.55.
On an upward path, $1.53 is the immediate hurdle. It is the upper boundary of the short-term range and sits just above the $1.52 upper Bollinger Band. Clearing $1.53 would not itself establish $1.55 as support, but it would open a direct test of the stronger $1.55 ceiling. A decisive move through that second barrier would shift attention to $1.60, the next supplied daily resistance.
The downside path is equally defined. XRP has the $1.45-$1.50 area as its immediate support zone, as Crypto Daily reported on September 28. Since $1.49 is the nearest cited hourly support, an inability to regain it would keep pressure on $1.45. A loss of $1.45, the lower edge of the consolidation area, would leave $1.41 as the next strong hourly support in the supplied map.
This structure makes the $1.53-$1.55 area more than a round-number objective. It is a two-step resistance sequence. For the $1.55 scenario to gain credibility, XRP would first need to reclaim the short-term range boundary at $1.53 and then overcome the consolidation ceiling, while avoiding a deterioration through the $1.49 and $1.45 support structure.
Can ETF demand and XRPL catalysts put $1.55 back in focus?
Yes, $1.55 can return to focus, but the available evidence supports it as a conditional retest scenario rather than a confirmed call. The $22.65 million of September 25 net inflows into U.S. spot XRP ETFs provides a supportive demand data point, particularly alongside cumulative inflows of about $1.79 billion. It does not, by itself, demonstrate that buying will persist or force a break through resistance.
There are additional event-driven reasons for market attention. XRPLF said its xrpld 3.4.0 upgrade adds LendingProtocolV1_1 features including closed-ended vaults and cash-basis accounting, and that node operators need to upgrade for service continuity, as set out in the release notes. Separately, the September 30 Evernorth shareholder vote is a defined corporate milestone; the proposed Nasdaq listing and XRP-focused treasury remain contingent on approval and completion.
For price, the technical confirmation threshold is clearer than the headline narrative. XRP would need to regain $1.49, clear $1.53 and then challenge $1.55. Neutral hourly and daily RSI readings leave that route open, while the price’s location inside the hourly Bollinger Bands suggests the market has not yet made the move. A sustained break of the $1.55 resistance would put $1.60 into view, but $1.60 is a separate daily resistance rather than an implied forecast.
The case weakens if the market cannot reclaim $1.49 and instead loses $1.45. That outcome would move attention to $1.41 and indicate that the catalysts have not been sufficient to overcome the immediate technical range. XRP was reported near $1.48, with $1.55 identified as the nearest resistance and consolidation ceiling, in Crypto Daily’s September 28 market assessment.
In short, ETF inflows, the XRPL lending upgrade and the pending Evernorth vote give XRP a timely catalyst backdrop. The chart still demands evidence: $1.53 is the initial gate, and $1.55 is the decisive test. Until those levels are cleared while $1.49 and $1.45 hold, the XRP price outlook remains a balanced range scenario rather than a confirmed upside breakout.
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission registered Coinbase Clearing LLC as a derivatives clearing organization on September 28, 2026, through a commission order. The registration allows it to clear fully collateralized futures, options on futures and swaps, according to the CFTC’s registration record.
Coinbase said its clearinghouse will use USDC collateral and support 24/7 settlement, describing the operation as a USDC-native clearinghouse within its US derivatives business.
CFTC Registers Coinbase Clearing as a Derivatives Clearing Organization
Coinbase Clearing’s registration is as a derivatives clearing organization, or DCO. The CFTC order covers fully collateralized futures, options on futures and swaps; it does not, on the information released, set out a timetable for particular contracts to begin clearing.
Clearing is the post-trade function that sits behind derivatives transactions. In this case, the regulatory permission is limited by the CFTC’s stated product scope and the requirement that the instruments be fully collateralized.
USDC Collateral and 24/7 Settlement
Coinbase described Coinbase Clearing as its first USDC-native clearinghouse, designed to support USDC as collateral and provide settlement around the clock.
That description sets out Coinbase’s intended operating model, not a broader CFTC finding on stablecoin use. The agency’s registration record authorizes Coinbase Clearing to clear fully collateralized futures, options on futures and swaps.
Coinbase said the DCO registration completes its CFTC-regulated derivatives stack, combining a futures commission merchant, a designated contract market and the newly registered clearing organization.
Official Coinbase Clearing graphic. — Source: Coinbase
Coinbase’s CFTC-Regulated Derivatives Stack
Coinbase said the DCO registration completes its CFTC-regulated derivatives stack. The company said that structure now combines a futures commission merchant, a designated contract market and the newly registered clearing organization.
The three components cover distinct parts of a derivatives operation: customer-facing futures intermediation, a regulated market venue and clearing. With Coinbase Clearing registered, Coinbase has added the clearing element to the framework it says it has assembled under CFTC oversight.
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A perpetual exchange is only as useful as the list of things you can trade on it. ApeX Omni's list has grown into one of the broader menus in self-custodial trading: as of mid-September 2026, the platform's public market configuration shows 86 live crypto perpetual contracts and 39 live perpetuals on stocks, ETFs, and commodities, 125 markets in all, every one of them tradeable from a single USDT-margined account with leverage that a trader dials per contract. This is what that menu looks like, and how the leverage behind it actually works.
The Crypto Side: 86 Contracts, Sorted by Sector
The crypto lineup starts where every perp venue starts, with BTC-USDT and ETH-USDT at up to 100x leverage, and then fans out across the sectors that define the current market. The platform's own categorisation groups the contracts into Layer 1s (SOL, BNB, XRP, ADA, SUI, AVAX, NEAR, APT, HBAR, XLM), Layer 2s (ARB, OP, MNT), DeFi (LINK, AAVE, UNI, ONDO, ENA, PENDLE), AI (TAO, VIRTUAL), infrastructure, gaming, and memes (DOGE, 1000PEPE, WIF, PENGU, FARTCOIN). Newer additions include HYPE, ASTER, ZEC, WLFI, PUMP, and PAXG, the tokenised-gold contract that gives crypto traders a hard-asset hedge without leaving the perp account.
Leverage is set deliberately rather than uniformly. Beyond the two majors at 100x, roughly three-quarters of the crypto contracts run up to 50x, while the meme cohort (DOGE, 1000PEPE, 1000BONK, WIF, POPCAT, MOODENG, SPX) is capped at 25x, a straightforward reflection of the volatility those markets carry. All of it runs on a central limit orderbook with up to 10,000 transactions per second of throughput and zero gas fees on orders.
The TradFi Side: 39 Markets, 22 of Them Around the Clock
The second half of the menu is what most perp DEXes do not have. Since November 2025, ApeX Omni has offered perpetual futures on traditional assets, priced by Chainlink's institutional RWA oracle feeds and settled in USDT. The lineup now spans major US equities (Apple, NVIDIA, Tesla, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Coinbase, Palantir, Micron, Intel), index and sector ETFs (SPY, QQQ, the South Korea ETF EWY, the 3x leveraged semiconductor ETF SOXL), commodities (gold, silver, WTI and Brent crude, natural gas, the USO oil fund), a memory-sector DRAM basket index, and a growing set of international and private-market names: Samsung, SK hynix, memory maker CXMT, Cerebras, robotics company Unitree, and SpaceX.
Every TradFi contract offers up to 50x leverage, and 22 of the 39 now trade 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including the pre-IPO names, the chip cohort, and the energy contracts, while the remainder follow a 24/5 schedule with weekend closures. Per platform data, TradFi perpetuals turned over more than $13.8 billion in their first nine months.
Leverage as a Dial, Not a Setting
The number on a contract is a ceiling, not an instruction. ApeX Omni lets traders adjust leverage per contract before or after opening a position: raise it for more exposure, or lower it at any time to widen the buffer to liquidation. Positions are cross-margined, so unrealised profit on one contract offsets unrealised loss on another, and risk limits scale the maintenance margin requirement up as position size grows, which keeps the largest positions the most conservatively margined.
Two design choices shape how that leverage feels in practice. Cross-Collateral means the margin pool can be funded with USDC, WBTC, WETH, ETH, cmETH, mETH, cbBTC, or USDe alongside USDT, each valued at its live index price, so a trader does not have to sell assets to take a position. And TradFi perpetuals live in a separate account with its own margin pool: a liquidation on a stock position can never cascade into crypto positions, or vice versa. High leverage on one side of the platform is structurally quarantined from the other.
The Order Toolkit Behind Every Pair
Breadth of markets is only useful with breadth of execution. Every USDT perpetual on ApeX Omni supports limit, market, conditional market, conditional limit, and take-profit / stop-loss orders, with the advanced flags professionals expect: time-in-force options (Good-Till-Time, Fill-or-Kill, Immediate-or-Cancel), Post-Only to guarantee maker status, and Reduce-Only to ensure an order can only shrink a position. TP/SL orders can trigger on last, mark, or index price and close positions in stages, and cancelling an unfilled order costs nothing.
Charting is powered by TradingView, so the analysis toolkit matches the one most active traders already use.
Beyond Perpetuals
The perpetual menu sits inside a wider set of instruments that share the same account. Prediction markets synced from Polymarket's order books add thousands of live spot markets across politics, sports, and crypto, with no leverage and no liquidation; the platform's Political Markets Season, running September 7 to October 4, 2026, is built around four of the most actively traded political contracts. Event adds short-window up-or-down markets on Bitcoin, Ethereum, gold, silver, and crude oil. A Grid Bot can automate range strategies on any of the 86 crypto perpetuals.
A Menu That Keeps Moving
The list is not static, and the platform treats listings and delistings as a discipline. New contracts arrive regularly, with recent additions on both sides of the menu, including TAO, CHZ, CHIP, and MEGA on the crypto side and oil, gold, and silver contracts on the commodity side. Delistings follow a published mechanism: advance announcement, phased trading restrictions, automated settlement at the average mark price over the final 30 minutes, and persistent trade history after removal. For a trader, that means the contract they are in today will not vanish without warning tomorrow.
Put together, the pitch is simple: one account, one margin pool per asset class, and more than 120 things to trade on it, from the most liquid asset in crypto to a robotics company that has not gone public yet.
About ApeX Protocol
ApeX Protocol is a decentralized, non-custodial trading platform for perpetual derivatives, incubated by Davion Labs. ApeX Omni is the protocol's flagship platform, consolidating crypto perpetuals, TradFi perpetuals, prediction markets, and yield products into a single multi-chain interface. Its mission is straightforward: deliver the speed and depth of a centralized exchange without asking traders to give up custody of their assets.
To explore the full market list, visit ApeX Omni or read the documentation at the ApeX Protocol GitBook.
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Aave’s V4 deployment on Base has opened an Equities Hub that lets eligible users post seven Coinbase tokenized technology stocks as collateral to borrow USDC. The market, announced by Aave Labs on September 25, 2026, is available only in eligible jurisdictions outside the United States.
At launch, the dedicated Aave market supports tokenized versions of Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla shares, but its design is deliberately narrow: USDC is the sole asset borrowers can draw, and the equity tokens can only be posted as collateral.
Aave’s Equities Hub lists seven Coinbase tokenized tech stocks
Eligible collateral comprises AAPLc, AMZNc, GOOGLc, METAc, MSFTc, NVDAc and TSLAc, which represent Coinbase tokenized stocks on Base. Aave’s announcement frames the launch as an extension of the V4 deployment’s lending market, not as a venue for trading the underlying equity tokens.
According to Aave’s governance risk assessment, the assets are Coinbase B20 certificates over shares held in segregated custody. That structure matters to the protocol’s treatment of the tokens: users are supplying certificates representing the listed equities, not depositing conventional onchain versions of a company’s stock issued by Aave.
Base has separately described Coinbase Tokenized Stocks as B20 tokens issued against 1:1 share backing in regulated custody. The availability restriction means the Equities Hub is not an access route for US users, even though it is deployed on Base.
The seven-name initial list is concentrated in large US technology and consumer-internet companies. Aave has not presented the launch as a broad tokenized-equities market; the listed tokens and the single available debt asset define the market’s initial perimeter.
USDC is the only debt asset in the collateral-only market
Chainlink provides the onchain price feeds for the tokenized equities, according to Aave.
Within the Equities Hub, users can deposit those equities as collateral and borrow USDC. AAPLc, AMZNc and the other listed stock tokens are not borrowable there, and the hub does not support equity-against-equity positions, Aave Labs said.
The arrangement places the tokenized shares entirely on the collateral side of the market and USDC on the borrowing side. It is narrower than the broader Base proposition for Coinbase Tokenized Stocks: Base says B20 tokens can be lent, borrowed or used as collateral across participating DeFi protocols, whereas Aave’s launch demonstrates only the collateral use case and does not make the stock tokens borrowable at launch.
Collateral factors and caps limit the initial rollout
Aave V4 on Base has launched a tokenized-equities collateral market limited to seven Coinbase tokenized equities for users in eligible jurisdictions. Users can deposit the tokens as collateral to borrow USDC, the market’s only debt asset; they cannot borrow the equities themselves or open equity-against-equity positions.
The Block reported an aggregate collateral cap of about $29 million, a $32 million cap on USDC supply and a $21 million cap on USDC borrowing.
The Block also reported initial collateral factors of 65% to 79%, depending on the stock, rather than one uniform setting across all seven tokens. Those caps and stock-specific factors define the size and terms of the initial phase.
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According to Visa Onchain Analytics, more than $272 billion in stablecoins are currently in circulation, with adjusted transaction volume over the trailing 12 months at roughly $10.2 trillion. Those numbers say something beyond market size: they show how actively digital assets move between users, services, and blockchain networks.
The user journey is shifting along with that scale. Receiving a digital asset is increasingly just the first step. Next comes holding it, verifying an address, sending part of it to another user, swapping one asset for another, waiting for the right rate, or checking past activity.
When each of those actions needs its own service, the hard part stops being any single operation. It becomes managing the whole sequence.
001k.bot is a crypto-financial platform for managing digital assets through web and Telegram interfaces. Its product logic is built around the connections between a user's actions, not around any single function.
One Workflow Instead of Several Services
Picture a user who regularly gets paid in USDT. Part stays in the balance, part gets converted to USDC for the next transaction, and part goes to a contractor. Before sending funds, they need to verify the address, and at the end of the month, they need to review the history and reconcile everything.
In that scenario, no single wallet, swap, or transfer solves the problem on its own. The value comes from moving through the entire route in one system.
Balance as a Starting Point, Not an End Function
Holding digital assets is only the first step in managing them. Users need to see more than a total figure; they need to see the structure of that balance: which assets they hold and what they can do with them next.
That's why a balance becomes more useful when it connects directly to other functions. On 001k.bot, users can move from their balance straight into a transfer, a swap, or another operation, without shifting assets between separate services.
Fast access to receiving addresses matters just as much, especially for anyone who regularly accepts assets from clients, counterparties, or partners.
A modern crypto wallet is no longer just a place where funds "sit." It's the starting point for whatever comes next.
Transfers: When the Same Action Becomes Routine
Transfers are one of the most common operations with digital assets, whether that means sending funds to an external address or receiving assets from someone else.
Before confirming a transfer, users need to understand the basics: which asset is moving, which network it's on, which address it's going to, and under what conditions. Double-check the network and the recipient's address before confirming, since a mistake at that level usually can't be undone.
For regular transfers, an Address Book helps: it saves the addresses users rely on so they don't have to re-enter them every time. That matters especially for contractors, freelancers, or partners, where the same details get used month after month.
Beyond transfers to external addresses, the platform supports internal transfers between 001k.bot users, a fast way to settle up within the same ecosystem without touching the blockchain.
Withdrawals to fiat are the natural next step: 001k.bot lets users withdraw digital assets when the end goal isn't a crypto balance but money they can spend directly. That covers a practical case where receiving a stablecoin is a step along the way, not the destination.
Swaps Without Leaving the Platform
A swap changes the makeup of a user's assets within the same workflow: instead of leaving the platform to exchange one asset for another, the user does it where their funds already live and move.
People swap for different reasons. Sometimes a user wants to shift part of their balance into a more stable asset. Sometimes they need to prepare funds for a specific transfer or withdrawal that calls for a particular token. Either way, the exchange terms (the rate, the fee, the amount received) must be clear before confirmation, not described vaguely as "a good rate."
A common example is swapping USDT for USDC. Both are dollar-pegged stablecoins, but they can differ in network availability, transfer fees, or compatibility with certain services. A swap between them inside 001k.bot lets a user move from one stablecoin to the other without withdrawing to an outside service, so there are no extra fees for withdrawing and re-depositing. For anyone who works with stablecoins regularly, that's mainly a way to save on fees.
Whatever comes out of a swap lands on the same balance, so the user can move straight into holding, transferring, or withdrawing it, without breaking the flow.
Limit Orders: Set a Condition Instead of Watching the Rate
A limit order is an alternative to swapping instantly at the current rate. A user doesn't have to exchange an asset right now; they can set the terms they want, such as the rate they're willing to accept, and wait for the market to meet those terms.
That removes the need to track rate changes manually. The user sets the condition once and comes back to the result.
A limit order doesn't guarantee execution or promise a profit; it only defines the condition under which a swap can happen. That's what turns the platform from a simple exchange tool into a system where users set their own terms instead of just reacting to whatever the rate happens to be.
AML Checks Before the Transaction
AML checks on addresses and transactions are another piece built directly into the platform's interface. They help assess the risk tied to a specific address or incoming assets: its on-chain history and any markers of suspicious activity.
Where assets came from and an address's history can matter before the funds are used further, which is why the check happens early rather than after the fact. It doesn't replace other safeguards like 2FA, Passkey, or access controls; it adds another layer alongside them.
Building AML checks into the interface means users don't need a separate external service. The check happens right where the transaction does.
A History That Shows Where the Funds Went
Transaction history tracks everything that's happened to a user's assets, not just a list of transactions.
A single history view covers the operation type, asset, amount, date, status, and address, which is enough to reconstruct any action without contacting support. Say a user receives a stablecoin, sends part of it to a contractor, swaps part of it, and holds the rest: the history lets them retrace that whole sequence in one place.
Clear status on every operation reduces uncertainty: users can see exactly where an action stands without waiting for support to confirm it. The more types of operations a user runs (transfers, swaps, limit orders), the more valuable a single unified history becomes.
When Volume Grows: Mass Payments and API
Telegram remains one way to access 001k.bot: fast and familiar for repeat actions.
The web version is built for more complex scenarios: reviewing balances, history, addresses, and operation details is simply easier on a larger screen. For business users managing multiple payouts, mass payments, or an API integration, the web platform offers more control than sending commands one at a time in a chat.
Both interfaces run on the same product logic: whatever a user can do in Telegram, they can do on the web, and vice versa. Users pick the format that fits the task at hand: a quick action in chat or focused work in a browser.
Who Needs a Platform Rather Than a Standalone Crypto Service
001k.bot is built primarily for people for whom digital assets have already become part of their regular financial routine.
That includes users who consistently receive and send stablecoins, freelancers and business owners who get paid in digital assets, and teams that need to organize payouts or fold crypto operations into their own processes.
Crypto market experience isn't the deciding factor here. What matters more is how many different tasks a user has to handle once a digital asset lands on their balance.
What Actually Defines a Connected Workflow
A modern platform for managing digital assets isn't defined by how many features sit in its menu. Its value shows up when individual actions come together into a coherent workflow:
Receive an asset → hold it → verify it → transfer or swap it → track the outcome in the transaction history.
001k.bot is a standalone crypto-financial platform, where web and Telegram aren't separate services but two ways to access one system for managing digital assets.
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According to The Block's analysis of SoSoValue data, U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs drew $2.4 billion in net inflows in the week ending September 25, 2026, their largest weekly gain since October 2025. The result returned the funds to positive territory for 2026, at about $934.1 million in the green. The last larger weekly intake came in the week ending October 10, 2025, when the funds recorded $2.7 billion of inflows; the latest total was concentrated heavily at the start of the five-trading-day period rather than spread evenly across the days.
Data Snapshot
MetricCurrentPreviousChangePeriodAs ofSourceU.S. spot bitcoin ETF net inflows$2.4 billion——week ending September 25, 20262026-09-25The BlockMonday net inflows$999.0 million——Monday, September 21, 20262026-09-21The BlockTuesday net inflows$714.7 million——Tuesday, September 22, 20262026-09-22The BlockWednesday net inflows$347.0 million——Wednesday, September 23, 20262026-09-23The BlockThursday net inflows$190.6 million——Thursday, September 24, 20262026-09-24The BlockFriday net inflows$134.5 million——Friday, September 25, 20262026-09-25The Block
September 21–25 inflows were front-loaded
Monday, September 21 accounted for $999.0 million of net inflows, the largest daily reading since October 6, 2025. That opening-day figure set the pace for the week and was followed by a smaller, though still substantial, $714.7 million on Tuesday, September 22.
Net inflows then eased to $347.0 million on Wednesday, September 23, before falling to $190.6 million on Thursday, September 24. Friday, September 25 brought a further $134.5 million, extending the funds' positive run to seven straight days.
Each day from Monday through Friday remained positive, but the descending sequence shows how heavily the $2.4 billion weekly result relied on Monday’s exceptional intake. The daily figures are net flow readings—money entering and leaving the funds over a period—not the value of their holdings.
Bitcoin ETF inflows news graphic. — Source: The Block
The $2.4 billion week reversed ETFs’ 2026 flow position
The week ending September 25 was the strongest for U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs since October 2025. It was surpassed only by the $2.7 billion recorded in the week ending October 10, 2025, based on the comparison reported by The Block.
The $2.4 billion addition also left the products about $934.1 million positive for 2026. That year-to-date position reflects cumulative net flows during 2026, while the weekly figure captures activity only for the period ending September 25.
Cumulative net inflows reached $57.6 billion
Cumulative net inflows since launch stood at $57.6 billion as of Friday, September 25, 2026. Net assets across the funds totaled $108.4 billion on the same date.
The two measures are not interchangeable: cumulative net inflows track net investor subscriptions since launch, whereas net assets represent the value held by the funds at a given time. The reported asset total therefore provides a current balance-sheet snapshot alongside the longer-run flow figure.
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An onchain investigation has linked 53 Robinhood Chain memecoin launches to a single alleged extraction operation that generated at least $18.43 million between July 10 and September 21, 2026.
The finding was published by pseudonymous onchain analyst Wazz and reported by The Block on September 27. The attribution is based on blockchain activity and wallet-funding patterns rather than a disclosed identity for the people behind the wallets.
53 Robinhood Chain launches tied to a single alleged operation
Wazz’s analysis links 53 Robinhood Chain memecoin launches during a little over two months of the network’s early life to one alleged operation, with a reported minimum extraction total of $18.43 million.
The alleged activity involved Pons V2 launches. Its anti-sniping charge applies to purchases made immediately after launch, and the configuration described by Wazz gave selected wallets an advantage at the opening of trading by exempting them from that charge.
Funding and transaction flows among wallets tied to successive deployments supported the alleged link, according to the report. The pattern therefore extended beyond similarities between token launches and was presented as evidence of recurring operations rather than an isolated token.
Pons V2 tax exemptions enabled concentrated opening supply
Pons V2’s documentation describes a 99% snipe tax on purchases made in the first seconds after launch; the tax decays during that opening period, and creators can exempt a limited number of wallets.
The Block independently matched the reported launch pattern in 10 tokens listed in Wazz’s research: creators exempted groups of wallets from the anti-sniping tax, then bundled purchases acquired most of the respective supplies.
That finding is distinct from the protocol feature itself. The allegation, as reported by The Block, is that coordinated exemptions and opening purchases were repeatedly used to concentrate supply among wallets connected through funding flows. In the reviewed launches, exempt wallets could buy without the stated tax, while linked buyers acquired a dominant share.
DEED funding trail shows wallets and proceeds being recycled
The Block reported that 179.88 ETH was swept from 98 wallets tied to an earlier launch, sent through intermediary wallets and used to fund 50 addresses before DEED launched 40 minutes later. After the opening purchase, the creator wallet and tax-exempt wallets held 86% of the token’s supply, according to The Block’s report.
The DEED sequence links an earlier launch’s wallet activity to buyer funding for a later launch, including proceeds routed through intermediary addresses and redeployed before DEED’s launch. The Block independently matched the launch pattern in 10 tokens, but that does not independently verify all 53 cases cited by pseudonymous analyst Wazz; the broader analysis alleges recurring funding flows, preselected tax-exempt buyers and concentrated opening allocations.
Memecoin activity became an early Robinhood Chain revenue driver
Robinhood launched Robinhood Chain on July 1, 2026. The network is an Ethereum layer-2 built with Arbitrum technology, according to Robinhood Markets investor materials.
The company’s materials said memecoin activity became a major driver of early trading and fee generation on the chain. That makes the alleged campaign relevant beyond the individual tokens: the launches occurred within one of the main sources of activity on a newly launched network.
Wazz’s reported timeframe begins nine days after Robinhood Chain went live and runs through September 21. The investigation therefore places the alleged activity across much of the chain’s initial period of memecoin-led trading and fee generation.
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In his September 27 essay, “The cryptographic world computer”, Vitalik Buterin describes Ethereum’s 2030 endpoint as a hybrid system rather than a larger version of today’s chain. Blockchain consensus would sit alongside cryptographic privacy and verification, while powerful decentralised components operate away from the base chain.
The shift would redefine Ethereum’s “world computer” ambition. Instead of requiring every participant to download and re-execute all computation, specialised computers would perform workloads and produce compact cryptographic proofs for others to check. Data-availability sampling and SNARK verification would support that model, allowing the network to establish that computation was performed correctly without making every verifier perform it again.
Proof systems and data availability are intended to weaken the link between the amount of computation being verified and the cost borne by verifiers. The unresolved issue is whether Ethereum can distribute trust across specialised infrastructure without concentrating operational control there, particularly while current rollups still rely heavily on centralised sequencers.
Proof-based verification over universal execution
In Buterin’s model, Ethereum moves away from requiring every node to download and re-execute transactions. Data-availability sampling and SNARK verification would allow specialized computers to execute workloads and produce compact cryptographic proofs that other participants can check.
The result is a different division of labour, not an abandonment of broad participation. Verification remains accessible without universal duplication of execution because participants need to establish data availability and proof validity, rather than reprocess the full workload. Blockchain consensus, privacy and cryptographic verification remain the architecture’s trust anchor for powerful off-chain components; Ethereum’s base layer settles the conditions under which their claims can be accepted.
That direction is already visible in Ethereum.org’s scaling roadmap: rollups have reduced costs through blob storage, and future data-availability sampling is intended to let validators check small portions of large datasets instead of downloading everything. The 2030 vision extends an architecture Ethereum is already pursuing, though Buterin says efficient, safe proof generation remains difficult and that managing and parallelizing access to very large state may be the more complex system-level problem.
A modular world computer
The technologies Buterin associates with the period after Ethereum’s planned Hegotá upgrade show how expansive this model is meant to be. He identifies recursive STARKs, automated formal verification, optimised proof-of-stake consensus, multi-party block construction and quantum-safe cryptography as defining elements of that post-Hegotá environment.
Recursive STARKs are central to the logic of compact verification. If proofs can themselves be aggregated and verified through further proofs, a verifier can assess a large body of computation through a much smaller object. In practical architectural terms, that creates a path for Ethereum to secure more computation than its individual nodes could feasibly run in full.
The other items on Buterin’s list point to a broader engineering programme rather than a single scaling upgrade. Formal verification concerns confidence in the systems producing and checking these cryptographic claims. Optimised proof-of-stake consensus concerns the network coordinating around them. Multi-party block construction addresses a part of the transaction-production pipeline where control can otherwise be concentrated, while quantum-safe cryptography speaks to the durability of the security assumptions behind the design.
That combination is why the phrase “cryptographic world computer” is more precise than a generic claim that Ethereum will become faster. A monolithic chain makes one execution environment the centre of the system. Buterin’s endpoint envisages a network in which specialised layers and machines can undertake differentiated tasks, provided their outputs can be verified under Ethereum’s security framework.
The modular design also makes data availability a first-order concern. A proof may attest that a computation produced a result correctly, but users and other systems may still need access to the underlying data needed to reconstruct or exit from a system. Ethereum’s roadmap places data-availability sampling at the centre of making that access verifiable at scale, rather than treating it as an auxiliary storage problem.
Privacy enters the verification architecture
Privacy is not presented as a separate application feature in Buterin’s account. He places cryptographic privacy alongside consensus and verification, making it a property Ethereum wants its underlying architecture to support.
The roadmap gives that objective several forms: shielded ETH and ERC-20 transfers, private proving, zkVM-based execution and research into fully homomorphic encryption, which would enable computation over encrypted data. Ethereum’s privacy roadmap therefore points to a system that can establish whether rules were followed without requiring every observer to see the underlying information.
Verification still has to be efficient and credible. Buterin’s framing leaves privacy-preserving systems carrying the added cost and complexity of proof generation, while the same infrastructure is expected to support scalable computation, private activity and decentralised participation. That combination increases the risk of a bottleneck at one layer.
Illustration explaining how a lightweight wallet could verify Ethereum’s cryptographic proofs without repeating all network computations. — Source: CoinDesk
State growth and sequencer control
In Buterin’s account, efficient and safe proofs remain difficult, while managing and parallelising access to very large state may be the more systemically complex challenge. Proof-based verification does not remove the need to maintain and access the state required by computation. As applications and rollups create more activity, safely organising that state and allowing concurrent access without breaking the system’s guarantees becomes a deeper design problem.
Rollups are a major route for Ethereum scaling, and blob storage has reduced their costs. Yet current rollups still rely heavily on centralised sequencers, according to the roadmap materials cited by Buterin.
Ethereum Foundation roadmap materials caution that timelines are targets rather than guarantees. The proposed 2030 architecture would shift Ethereum from universal transaction re-execution towards specialised computation verified through compact proofs.
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