Hyperliquid tests allowlists that let operators restrict access to their own markets

In a Sept. 3 developer update, Hyperliquid API Announcements said the onchain derivatives exchange was adding optional wallet allowlists to builder-run perpetual markets. The testnet-only extension, called HIP-3*, would let a market deployer decide which wallets may trade on its venue without imposing the same access policy across Hyperliquid. HIP-3 is Hyperliquid’s framework for perpetual … Read more

CZ’s Kyrgyzstan visit highlights why state backing cannot guarantee a stablecoin exit

Changpeng Zhao’s September 5 visit to Kyrgyzstan’s crypto council came as President Sadyr Japarov set a three-month deadline for new regulations and officials discussed the risks posed by international sanctions. The decisions put the limits of domestic crypto policy in focus: approval at home does not ensure access abroad. Zhao, known as CZ, said in … Read more

Three DeFi projects face possible exclusion from future Arbitrum DAO programs

Arbitrum’s Watchdog Committee, a grant oversight body, has given three DeFi projects until a tentative Sept. 10 deadline to answer high-severity misuse findings and return funds it considers unresolved, or face separate votes on permanent exclusion from future DAO programs. The cases name Good Entry, Limitless and APX Finance, formerly ApolloX. Their cited figures add … Read more

Aave crypto lending proposal would let emergency tools freeze markets – but not unfreeze them

Aave DAO voters are deciding whether to delegate limited V4 risk controls on Ethereum and Avalanche to Risk Stewards, tools that let approved operators make constrained changes without taking every update through a full governance vote. The proposal would also assign no-delay emergency roles that the current steward software cannot use. The Snapshot vote opened … Read more

Zcash breaks $1,000 as its spot ETF crosses $400 million in assets

Zcash broke above $1,000 on Sept. 4, pushing the asset value of Grayscale’s recently listed ZCSH ETF past $400 million less than two weeks after its debut. ZEC registered an intraday high of $1,050.70, up roughly 20% over 24 hours and nearly 100% over the past month. The move lifted ZCSH’s assets to $414.7 million … Read more

A major outage and corporate backlash hit Robinhood Chain at the peak of its growth

Robinhood Chain’s rapid growth ran into two problems at once on Sept. 4 as the network briefly stopped producing blocks while AMC challenged its fast-growing Stock Token business. On Sept. 4, the Ethereum layer-2 network halted block production for at least 14 minutes, stalling transactions before activity began recovering. Robinhood had not publicly disclosed the … Read more

Bitcoin’s volatility ratio against gold collapses to 6-year low as traditional safe haven turbulence surges

Bitcoin and gold are trading more like each other than at any point since 2020, even as their latest divergence tests that relationship. Their 90-day correlation has climbed to about 0.55, the highest in nearly six years, while Bitcoin’s volatility stands at 36.2% compared with 25.3% for gold. That makes Bitcoin just 1.43 times as … Read more