📌 Vesu oracle incident triggers $3M in liquidations

🔖 Starknet lending protocol Vesu has reported that a faulty Pragma price feed triggered the abnormal liquidation of 47 positions holding $3 million in collateral on Sept. 4. Vesu said in a Sept. 5 incident disclosure that the liquidations occurred between 04:08 and 04:10 UTC on Sept. 4 after an upstream price source operated by Pragma supplied incorrect data.

📊 During the two-minute incident, the faulty prices reached several Vesu liquidity pools and made 47 borrowing positions appear eligible for liquidation. Automated liquidators then removed approximately $3 million in collateral before the feed returned to the correct value. According to the protocol, the price source corrected itself within two minutes and has operated normally since then. Vesu did not identify the affected assets or provide a pool-by-pool breakdown in its initial statement.

🔗 The company also did not disclose how far the incorrect prices differed from market rates, the amount of debt attached to the liquidated positions, or how much collateral liquidators retained. A technical report covering the incident is expected to provide more information about the affected markets and the sequence of on-chain transactions. Pragma has since worked with the relevant organizations to deploy a fix addressing the source of the error, Vesu said. Liquidity pool curators suspended affected pools as a precaution, with Vesu expecting them to remove the restrictions after reviewing the fix.

🔔 Nasdaq invests $100 million in Kraken parent Payward at $21 billion valuation

⚠️ Nasdaq has agreed to invest $100 million in Kraken parent Payward as the two companies expand their work on tokenized equities, market surveillance and blockchain-based settlement infrastructure. The companies are working toward a second-quarter 2027 launch for Nasdaq Equity Tokens, or NETs, while Payward will deploy Nasdaq’s market surveillance technology across trading venues covering crypto, equities, tokenized equities, futures and options.

🔖 The investment builds on a partnership announced in March, when Nasdaq and Payward began developing infrastructure designed to connect regulated equity markets with blockchain networks through Payward’s xStocks ecosystem. Nasdaq Ventures invests in technology and market infrastructure that the exchange operator sees as relevant to the development of global capital markets. Its $100 million Payward investment gives the relationship a financial component alongside the companies’ existing technology work.

📊 Payward confidentially submitted a draft S-1 registration statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in November 2025. The company has not publicly disclosed a proposed ticker, share price, number of shares or exchange for a potential listing. Its latest financial results showed adjusted revenue of $508 million for the second quarter, up 17% from a year earlier. Adjusted EBITDA fell to $23 million from $80 million, while total platform transaction volume declined 18% to $310 billion.

⚠️ Aave TVL jumps 13.7% to $27.4B as loans hit $11.7B

⚠️ Aave has recorded $27.4 billion in average total value locked during August as active loans climbed to $11.7 billion and its share of tracked on-chain lending reached 47.8%. Token Terminal’sAugust 2026 Aave report showed TVL rising 13.7% from July, while active loans increased 12.9%. Both metrics advanced for a second straight month and reached their highest monthly averages since April. The figures remain well below year-earlier levels, with TVL down 57.6% and active loans down 56.9% year over year.

📊 The same report put August fees at $33.9 million, up 15.2% month over month, while DAO revenue rose 9.2% to $4.9 million. Interest produced $33.3 million, or 98.2% of fees, as outstanding borrowing increased across Aave markets. Aave’s $11.7 billion active-loan balance represented 47.8% of the lending sector tracked by Token Terminal. Its market share increased 1.2 percentage points from July after reaching 45.5% in June. The tracked sector’s loan book expanded from $22.2 billion to $24.4 billion during August, with Aave growing 12.9% against 7.5% for the rest of the group.

📣 Ethereum remained Aave’s main capital base, accounting for $22.9 billion, or 83.5%, of average August TVL. Ethereum active loans reached $9.6 billion, equal to 82.4% of the protocol total. Plasma ranked second by borrowing volume at $797.6 million, followed by Base at $328.2 million and Arbitrum at $316.6 million. Borrowing was concentrated in WETH and stablecoins. Token Terminal put WETH loans at $4.1 billion, or 35.3% of outstanding debt. USDT carried $2.7 billion and USDC $2.6 billion, while USDe and USDT0 contributed $732.6 million and $702.8 million, respectively.

➡️ ZETA Solana migration wins 99.4% support in vote

🔖 ZetaChain has moved closer to approving a plan that would migrate its native ZETA token to Solana and eventually shut down its own Layer 1, with 99.4% of votes supporting Proposal 68 ahead of its Sept. 20 deadline. ZetaHub’s live governance tally showed 58% participation, clearing the 40% quorum requirement, with 0.3% voting against and 0.3% abstaining. Voting is scheduled to close at 14:58:18 UTC on Sept. 20, after a standard 72-hour voting period.

📣 Proposal 68 would establish Solana as ZETA’s canonical network after migration. ZETA would become a native SPL token while retaining its existing ticker and total token supply. Each holder would receive an equivalent amount of ZETA on Solana through a 1:1 conversion. One technical adjustment involves decimals. Native ZETA currently uses 18 decimal places, while the proposed Solana token would use nine. Proposal 68 says balances would convert from 18 to nine decimals and any amount below the supported precision would be rounded down.

⭐️ Existing vesting schedules would continue through their original dates. The project says no new tokens would be created, while each address would receive its corresponding balance based on the final migration snapshot. The project ruled out maintaining the new Solana asset as a wrapped representation backed by tokens locked permanently on ZetaChain. Its proposal states that a bridge would depend on the original chain continuing to operate, while the current plan eventually shuts that chain down.

WhiteBIT Coin (WBT) Hits New All-Time High Above $86

📈 WhiteBIT Coin (WBT), the native coin of the WhiteBIT exchange, has reached a new all-time high of about $86. That is 18% above its previous record of $73 in August and more than 50 times its 2022 debut price of $1.62. WBT's market capitalization stands at $10.3 billion, with $180 million traded over the past 24 hours.

🌊 The move comes as the wider market climbs. Total crypto market capitalization is around $2.9 trillion, and Bitcoin is trading near $85,000 after closing last week above its 50-week moving average for the first time in 45 weeks.

⚙️ WBT is the coin that powers the WhiteBIT ecosystem, and holding it comes with practical benefits. Users who hold and stake WBT on the exchange get lower trading fees (up to 100% off maker fees, the fees charged on limit orders, depending on the holding level), free daily withdrawals of ETH and ERC-20 tokens, staking rewards, higher referral rewards and access to Launchpad, where new projects offer their tokens to users. WBT is also the native coin of Whitechain, WhiteBIT's blockchain, where it is used to pay for transactions.

🏛 WBT has also gained recognition from traditional finance. In 2025 it was added to five S&P Dow Jones Indices cryptocurrency benchmarks, including the S&P Cryptocurrency Broad Digital Market Index, institutional-grade indices that track the performance of the digital asset market.

🔥 WBT's supply is shrinking. WhiteBIT regularly burns WBT, which means coins are permanently removed from circulation and destroyed. The burns are funded by 33% of the exchange's trading-fee income and 5% of its income from other activities. The full supply was unlocked in 2026, so no new coins will be released, and the total supply has already fallen from 400 million to about 293.5 million WBT. The burns continue until 200 million remain.

⚠️ Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum is becoming a cryptographic world computer

🔖 Ethereum has begun moving toward what Vitalik Buterin calls a “cryptographic world computer,” with major changes planned to verification, consensus, privacy and state management after Hegotá. He expects future Ethereum architecture to combine blockchain consensus with zero-knowledge proofs, data sampling, privacy technology and decentralized off-chain computation.

📣 “Hegota — the fork planned for next year — is likely to be Ethereum’s last ‘normal’ fork,” Buterin wrote, referring to an upgrade whose technology would remain recognizable to developers familiar with Ethereum in 2015. The Hegotá upgrade remains in planning, and its complete scope has not been finalized. Two proposals are already scheduled. Frame Transactions, or EIP-8141, is the second scheduled feature. It lets Ethereum accounts decide how their transactions are authorized instead of requiring the same fixed signature structure for every user.

📊 One of the largest changes concerns how network participants verify blocks. Traditional blockchain verification requires nodes to download blockchain data and execute transactions themselves. Buterin expects Ethereum to rely increasingly on SNARK verification and PeerDAS data sampling. His comparison of blockchain designs describes the transition as moving from “full re-download and recompute” toward “SNARK verification + PeerDAS for data availability.”

🔔 Can Solana price hit $130 after Forward Industries buys 949K SOL?

➡️ Forward Industries has increased its SOL and SOL-equivalent holdings by 948,601 tokens during fiscal Q4, taking its total to 8.501 million as of Sept. 30, 2026. Forward Industries said the 13% quarterly increase came from a combination of SOL purchases and staking, with the newly added tokens carrying an average cost of $83. Its holdings rose from 7.553 million at the end of June to 8.501 million at the end of September.

📣 The company said the position represented roughly 1.4% of Solana’s circulating supply. Its definition of SOL holdings includes native SOL, fwdSOL and pledged SOL while excluding borrowed tokens. Forward’s treasury dashboard continues to show 8,501,298 SOL and equivalents as of Sept. 30.

📊 At a reference price of $118.06 per SOL on Sept. 30, Forward placed the fair value of its SOL treasury at $1.0037 billion. Other digital assets carried a reported fair value of $26.9 million, while cash stood at $7.3 million. The company calculated total net asset value at approximately $870.4 million after accounting for $167.5 million in institutional debt.

⚠️ Can XRP price hold $1.40 as U.S. ETFs add $3.14M?

📊 XRP has fallen toward $1.45 after U.S. spot XRP ETFs added $3.14 million on Oct. 6, leaving traders focused on $1.40 support after a sharp market selloff. CoinGecko shows XRP trading around $1.45, down 4.3% over 24 hours and 3.9% during the past seven days. Trading volume stands near $2.24 billion, while roughly 63 billion XRP in circulation gives the token a market capitalization above $91 billion.

🌐 Tuesday’s ETF flows arrived before XRP dropped from roughly $1.52 to $1.46 during a fast crypto selloff early Wednesday. SoSoValue data U.S. spot XRP funds recorded $3.1404 million in net inflows on Oct. 6. Bitwise accounted for $10.5514 million of inflows, while Franklin’s XRPZ recorded a $4.0702 million withdrawal. Bitwise’s positive session lifted its cumulative XRP ETF inflows to roughly $688 million. Franklin’s fund retained approximately $501 million in historical net inflows despite Tuesday’s withdrawal. Other funds collectively accounted for the remaining outflows needed to bring the daily total down to $3.14 million.

🔗 Total cumulative inflows into U.S. spot XRP ETFs reached $1.794 billion, while the funds held roughly $1.697 billion in net assets. SoSoValue placed the XRP net asset ratio at 1.79%. The ETF data preceded the price decline. XRP fell from approximately $1.52 to $1.46 during the early-Oct. 7 market selloff, while Bitcoin slipped below $84,000. The move occurred during a period of heavy crypto long liquidations.

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📌 Ledger reveals how hidden chips stole wallet recovery keys

📊 Ledger has confirmed that an unauthorized hardware implant found inside a cryptocurrency signer sold by Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis can capture users’ 24-word recovery phrases and transmit them through a cellular network.

⭐️ Ledger disclosed the findings on October 13, following an investigation by its Donjon security team into cryptocurrency losses reported on October 9. The company confirmed the presence of an implant in one affected customer’s device on October 10 and said every fund loss it has verified in the incident involved devices purchased through CryptoBilis. The reseller has suspended Ledger signer sales while investigators examine the affected hardware.

⚠️ According to the company’s latest findings, the unauthorized component sits inside the wallet’s casing and monitors information displayed on its screen. During the initial setup process, a Ledger signer displays a 24-word recovery phrase that allows users to restore access to their cryptocurrency holdings. The implant contains a microcontroller that can read the information displayed during setup. When it detects recovery phrase screens, it decodes the words and transmits the information through an LTE connection using a provisioned eSIM. Ledger’s findings indicate that the component operates independently of the signer’s normal security systems.

📣 Digital gold market could reach $170 billion by 2031, WGC and BCG say

🔔 The digital gold market is expected to grow to $160 billion to $170 billion by 2031, and new research suggests that the demand could be as high as $700 billion once there are no more obstacles to adoption. The World Gold Council (WGC) and Boston Consulting Group (BCG) valued the digital gold market at $45–55 billion, which consists of tokenized gold and digital products secured by vaulted gold bullion. In its base case projections it projects growth of approximately 27% annually over the next five years.

🔗 However, the $700 billion figure represents a separate estimate of potential demand if existing barriers to adoption were removed. It is not a forecast of purchases by 2031, as the researchers clarify in their methodology. The report models a faster-growth outcome in which digital gold reaches $270–280 billion by 2031. The higher estimate assumes that restrictions involving investor confidence, distribution, product usefulness and pricing are addressed more quickly.

🌐 Researchers examined more than 70 digital gold products and surveyed over 12,000 retail investors across 12 markets. They conducted interviews with 20 industry experts, including representatives of banks, exchanges, asset managers and gold infrastructure providers. The market projections cover 96 countries representing 98% of global investable wealth. Their calculations combine the number of potential investors, average investable wealth, expected participation and portfolio allocations.

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🔔 VanEck launches Wealth Builder ETF with Bitcoin exposure at 0.26% fee

➡️ VanEck has launched its Wealth Builder ETF with Bitcoin exposure alongside stocks, bonds, and real assets, charging a 0.26% net annual expense ratio. The manager reported $244.1 billion in assets under management as of Sep. 30, including mutual funds, ETFs and institutional accounts.

🌐 Built from the company’s existing Wealth Builder model portfolios, WBMO makes an investment approach previously offered to financial advisers through third-party wealth management platforms available through an ETF. VanEck selects the underlying investments, manages their allocations, and rebalances the portfolio. The launch announcement describes an open-architecture approach using both VanEck funds and third-party ETFs. Its portfolio combines global equities and fixed income with real assets, including gold, while targeting long-term investment themes such as technological change and fiscal and inflation trends.

📈 “Our Wealth Builder strategy brings together the asset classes we believe are best positioned to perform over the next decade, with a disciplined approach to managing how they fit together,” David Schassler, portfolio manager and head of multi-asset solutions, said in the announcement. The Oct. 14 prospectus identifies NYSE Arca as WBMO’s principal U.S. listing exchange and sets long-term capital appreciation and current income as its investment objective.

📌 Cross River taps Arbitrum for loan tokenization ahead of 2027 rollout

🌐 Cross River Bank has teamed up with Offchain to tokenize loans on Arbitrum One, with a launch planned for early 2027. Arbitrum said its network would provide the infrastructure for tokenizing and servicing loans at launch. The project remains under development, as indicated in the graphic accompanying its announcement.

❗️ Offchain co-founder Ed Felten offered more detail in a separate post, saying engineers would work closely with the bank to build a proprietary tokenization engine. He identified Arbitrum as the settlement network and ZeroDev as the wallet infrastructure provider. Arbitrum’s announcement places easier loan transfers and new financing opportunities among the possibilities the platform could support. It describes programmable lending as groundwork for those services, without presenting them as products already available to customers.

🔗 The companies have completed a proof of concept demonstrating loan tokenization. Their next stated milestone is production deployment in early 2027. For borrowers, Cross River said applications, funding and repayments would continue through the customer interfaces they already use. ZeroDev’s embedded wallets would operate underneath those services.

🔔 Ripple’s XRP Ledger developers propose fix for loan repayment rounding issues

🔖 XRP Ledger developers have proposed a new lending protocol update that would correct how loan repayments are rounded, preventing small calculation differences from accumulating across scheduled payments. The correction addresses cases where rounding differences can leave the final installment slightly higher than the amount borrowers were originally scheduled to pay.

🆒 The proposal remains under review and has not been activated on XRP Ledger’s mainnet. Developers have included tests covering different vault accounting methods, existing loans and situations where borrowers pay more than their scheduled installments. At the center of the proposal is how the XRP Ledger calculates the remaining amount owed after borrowers make payments toward a loan.

💱 Under the existing calculation described by the developer, each installment’s value is worked out separately. Small rounding differences can accumulate as payments progress, occasionally leaving the final installment one unit higher than the rounded periodic payment. The proposed correction introduces a calculation method known as telescoping, which uses the remaining repayment schedule to determine the outstanding balance after each installment.

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