Newdex is committed to leveraging the composability of DeFi to aggregate the depth of DEX across multiple chains.
Odaily News: Blockworks analyst Shaunda Devens posted on X that Polymarket's current FDV valuation of approximately $1.5 billion for Variational is somewhat overly optimistic. This pricing directly applies Hyperliquid and Lighter-level valuation-to-revenue multiples to a platform that still relies on points subsidies. By comparison, the median first-day "FDV / annualized revenue" ratio for recently launched Perp DEX tokens is only 6.3x (Variational is currently around 57x), and within the first month after TGE, trading volume typically drops sharply by a median of 54%.Shaunda added that if conservative assumptions based on historical precedents are adopted (using the median first-day "FDV/annualized revenue" ratio of 6.3x), Variational's fair valuation would be only $167 million, corresponding to a points price of $4.8–$5.4. Even using the highest recent ratio precedent (Lighter's approximately 21.1x), its valuation would still only be about $558 million, corresponding to a points price of $16–$18.However, Shaunda also explained: "To be clear, given that current market risk appetite is clearly in a Risk-on state, we do not believe Variational's valuation at TGE will fall to the extremely conservative range mentioned above. These historical multiples are listed to illustrate that current pre-market OTC pricing may be overly optimistic."
DeFi analyst Jordi in Cryptoland posted on X stating that historical data shows Uniswap's activation of the Fee Switch did not weaken its competitiveness—its market share not only held steady but even increased. Before the fee switch was turned on, Uniswap accounted for 21% of total DEX trading volume; immediately after the switch was flipped, its share remained essentially flat; now, with the onboarding of the Robinhood channel, its share has risen to 31%.Today, Uniswap's value capture capability is also stronger. Protocol monthly revenue started from zero and has now stabilized at around $7.2 million. Compared to its multi-billion-dollar valuation, this figure is not particularly impressive (the P/E ratio remains above 40x), but with market share increasing by 10 percentage points while monthly revenue jumped from zero to $7.2 million, this is absolutely a massive milestone.
According to CryptoRank data, the number of real-world assets (RWA) markets offered by decentralized exchanges providing perpetual contracts has reached 1,000, marking the further expansion of on-chain derivatives from crypto-native assets to traditional financial assets. Publicly traded stocks remain dominant, accounting for approximately 75% of all RWA markets, indicating that tokenized stocks are becoming a key entry point for traditional financial assets to access perpetual contract trading.
Odaily News: Standard Chartered Bank's Head of Global Digital Assets Research, Geoff Kendrick, stated that as the tokenization of Real World Assets (RWA) accelerates, the price of Chainlink (LINK) tokens could rise to $200 by the end of 2030, representing an increase of over 25 times from its current level of approximately $8.In his latest report, Kendrick predicts that the scale of tokenized RWA will reach $4 trillion by the end of 2028. As more traditional assets are brought on-chain, the demand for secure and reliable off-chain data is expected to increase significantly, which could further boost Chainlink's fee revenue and drive up LINK's valuation.The report also projects that by the end of 2030, the scale of tokenized assets and crypto-native assets deployed in decentralized finance (DeFi) will grow approximately 37-fold to reach $2.7 trillion. Kendrick believes these assets require trusted data, cross-network interoperability, privacy-preserving compliance mechanisms, and integration with the existing financial system—infrastructure that Chainlink currently has the capability to provide.Demand for RWA tokenization has continued to grow recently. Data shows that trading volume of tokenized RWAs on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) hit an all-time high of $14.1 billion in July, up 19.5% month-over-month, driven primarily by public market assets such as tokenized stocks.Currently, Chainlink remains one of the largest decentralized oracle service providers in the crypto industry, with a Total Value Secured (TVS) of approximately $34.4 billion—significantly higher than second-ranked Chronicle's $7.36 billion.However, Kendrick also noted that the prediction of LINK reaching $200 still faces risks, including institutional tokenization projects progressing slower than expected, intensified competition from specialized oracle service providers, and potential technical issues. (Cointelegraph)
Seb Audet, CEO of DeFi portfolio tracker Zapper, announced that after nearly seven years of operation, the company has decided to fully shut down. All functions, including the website, mobile app, and API services, will officially go offline on August 3rd. Founded in 2019, Zapper was a mainstream portfolio tracking tool in the DeFi space, with features encompassing liquidity pool monitoring, yield farming tracking, DEX aggregation, and NFT support. At its peak, the project had 2 million monthly active users and processed over $13 billion in transaction volume. Zapper previously raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Framework Ventures, with participation from investors including Mark Cuban. Seb Audet stated that after evaluating various options, the company believes an orderly shutdown is the best course of action at this time.
: According to official sources, Astarter, an autonomous AI Economy infrastructure on the BNB Chain ecosystem, has announced strategic support from institutions including Vega Ventures, UZ Capital, Go2Mars, and BitBT Ventures, further strengthening its AI ecosystem layout. Astarter had previously received lead investment from EMURGO, along with strategic support from other institutions such as MH Ventures, Avstar Capital, 316VC, CRT Labs, and Megala Ventures.It is reported that Astarter aims to build a full-stack infrastructure on the BNB Chain for AI agents, providing on-chain AI agents with dedicated computing power, runtime execution, on-chain settlement, and identity capabilities. Its products encompass the AI computing power node ABox, a decentralized exchange (DEX), a Launchpad, and the CORE agent layer, with the native token being AST. The Astarter mainnet and TGE are planned for launch in the third quarter of 2026. This strategic partnership is expected to further advance Astarter's development in computing power networks, products, and ecosystem.
Cosmos 生态 DEX Astroport 发文表示,Neutron 上发生的攻击事件可能已经导致 Astroport 合约的管理员权限被盗,Neutron 已暂停链运行进行调查。Astroport 建议用户从所有 Astroport 资金池中撤回流动性。
According to Odaily, an investigation into the security vulnerability exploit of the Cosmos EVM module reveals that the primary attacker (0x9AE7) purchased $250,000 worth of NES and bridged it to Nesa Chain, exploiting a balance vulnerability to inflate holdings to 200 times their original size, then bridged approximately $50 million worth of NES back to Ethereum. The attacker's initial funding for the wallet originated from Monero. Through multiple wallets, the attacker exchanged NES for ETH on DEXs and deposited the proceeds into centralized exchanges. Due to rapid liquidity withdrawal, most exchanges suffered extreme slippage, and the attacker ultimately sold for only $315,000, netting a profit of approximately $60,000 after deducting costs.
Odaily News, Blockworks analyst Shaunda Devens stated on the X platform that Kraken may be testing Hyperliquid's HIP-3 (Builder-Deployed Perpetuals) new compliant deployment feature, potentially becoming one of the first centralized exchanges to explore this mechanism. BlockworksData shows that a deployer named "Kraken HIP-3 test DEX" has enabled permission management functionality (Star gating) on the Hyperliquid testnet and went live for testing on August 19. Currently, this test DEX has completed whitelist settings for 10 wallets, tested 3 of the 5 compliance control features, and registered a "Kraken Exchange Validator."Shaunda Devens noted that Hyperliquid has been continuously adding testnet features to support regulatory-compliant HIP-3 deployments, including whitelist management, canceling user orders, closing positions via reduce-only orders, and moving collateral. These capabilities are similar to the risk control mechanisms required by traditional financial institutions' compliant trading platforms.Although this is still in the testing phase, and any user could deploy a test DEX with a similar name, making it impossible to confirm it definitively belongs to Kraken, combined with Hyperliquid's recent expansion of xStocks functionality and Kraken's parent company Payward's involvement in related business initiatives, analysts believe Kraken may be testing HyperCore's new infrastructure targeting institutional and compliant markets.HIP-3 is a third-party deployed perpetual contract market framework introduced by Hyperliquid, allowing eligible developers to create independent perpetual trading markets on HyperCore's order book infrastructure. It is considered a key upgrade direction for Hyperliquid to expand into traditional assets and institutional trading scenarios. If large compliant exchanges like Kraken enter the HIP-3 ecosystem, it could further drive the integration of on-chain derivatives markets with traditional financial trading systems.
Odaily News: CZ commented on the possibility that the Trump administration may push Hyperliquid to enter the U.S. market in a "fully compliant and lawful manner," stating that the significance of this development extends beyond Hyperliquid itself.CZ noted that in the future, a large number of perpetual contract DEXs and other decentralized services could become available to U.S. users, adding, "This would be a tremendous positive for all participants across the industry."
Odaily News: Blockchain data analytics platform Nansen released its "Starknet H1 2026 Report," stating that in the first half of 2026, Starknet completed its strategic transformation from a high-performance Layer 2 network to a "privacy-preserving execution layer." The launch of the STRK20 privacy framework and the Bitcoin asset strkBTC became the ecosystem's most significant upgrades.The report notes that as an Ethereum-based ZK-Rollup network, Starknet generates STARK proofs off-chain and verifies them on-chain, achieving high throughput and low transaction costs. Its smart contracts use the Cairo language, specifically designed for verifiable computation, and support native account abstraction functionality.In the first half of this year, Starknet launched the v0.14.2 upgrade, introducing the SNIP-36 protocol to lay the technical foundation for private transactions. This upgrade allows the network to directly verify off-chain execution proofs, enabling confidential state transitions without exposing account balances or counterparty information. Additionally, SNIP-37 adjusted the network's economic model, increasing storage costs while lowering base gas fees to optimize incentives for long-term state growth.In terms of privacy applications, Starknet launched the STRK20 privacy framework, which allows users to convert any ERC-20 asset into encrypted balances and conduct private transfers, trades, and DeFi interactions. The system is built on zero-knowledge proof technology and implements compliant auditing through an encrypted viewing key mechanism, protecting user privacy while supporting targeted information disclosure in regulatory scenarios.On-chain data shows that in Q2 2026, Starknet recorded an average daily transaction volume of approximately 239,000 and an average of about 50,000 daily active addresses. During the period, a total of 22.5 million transactions were completed, involving approximately 71,000 users. Among these, DEX aggregator AVNU contributed roughly 14 million transactions, accounting for 62.2% of total volume; gaming infrastructure Cartridge contributed 6.57 million transactions, with the two combined accounting for approximately 91% of transaction activity.
Odaily News: Standard Chartered Bank's Head of Global Digital Assets Research, Geoff Kendrick, stated that as the tokenization of Real World Assets (RWA) accelerates, the price of Chainlink (LINK) tokens could rise to $200 by the end of 2030, representing an increase of over 25 times from its current level of approximately $8.In his latest report, Kendrick predicts that the scale of tokenized RWA will reach $4 trillion by the end of 2028. As more traditional assets are brought on-chain, the demand for secure and reliable off-chain data is expected to increase significantly, which could further boost Chainlink's fee revenue and drive up LINK's valuation.The report also projects that by the end of 2030, the scale of tokenized assets and crypto-native assets deployed in decentralized finance (DeFi) will grow approximately 37-fold to reach $2.7 trillion. Kendrick believes these assets require trusted data, cross-network interoperability, privacy-preserving compliance mechanisms, and integration with the existing financial system—infrastructure that Chainlink currently has the capability to provide.Demand for RWA tokenization has continued to grow recently. Data shows that trading volume of tokenized RWAs on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) hit an all-time high of $14.1 billion in July, up 19.5% month-over-month, driven primarily by public market assets such as tokenized stocks.Currently, Chainlink remains one of the largest decentralized oracle service providers in the crypto industry, with a Total Value Secured (TVS) of approximately $34.4 billion—significantly higher than second-ranked Chronicle's $7.36 billion.However, Kendrick also noted that the prediction of LINK reaching $200 still faces risks, including institutional tokenization projects progressing slower than expected, intensified competition from specialized oracle service providers, and potential technical issues. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily Report: According to Lookonchain monitoring, ZEC has fallen more than 18% from its recent high. A whale opened a 5x leveraged long position on 4,135 ZEC on Aster DEX, worth $5.8 million, and currently has an unrealized loss of more than $450,000.
Odaily News: Blockworks analyst Shaunda Devens posted on X that Polymarket's current FDV valuation of approximately $1.5 billion for Variational is somewhat overly optimistic. This pricing directly applies Hyperliquid and Lighter-level valuation-to-revenue multiples to a platform that still relies on points subsidies. By comparison, the median first-day "FDV / annualized revenue" ratio for recently launched Perp DEX tokens is only 6.3x (Variational is currently around 57x), and within the first month after TGE, trading volume typically drops sharply by a median of 54%.Shaunda added that if conservative assumptions based on historical precedents are adopted (using the median first-day "FDV/annualized revenue" ratio of 6.3x), Variational's fair valuation would be only $167 million, corresponding to a points price of $4.8–$5.4. Even using the highest recent ratio precedent (Lighter's approximately 21.1x), its valuation would still only be about $558 million, corresponding to a points price of $16–$18.However, Shaunda also explained: "To be clear, given that current market risk appetite is clearly in a Risk-on state, we do not believe Variational's valuation at TGE will fall to the extremely conservative range mentioned above. These historical multiples are listed to illustrate that current pre-market OTC pricing may be overly optimistic."
well-known trader Bonk Guy posted in a TG channel stating that Arc is essentially a stablecoin public chain, and suitable use cases such as stablecoins may be found in the future. Although he has already bought Meme coins on the Arc chain, he plans to hold them for only a few days at most, and emphasized that if participating in Meme coin trading on Arc, it should be treated as a short-term opportunity.Bonk Guy further pointed out that for a long time, Arc has been one of the "best-executed" public chain launches. In the early stages after launch, the project connected to multiple key platforms such as FOMO and DEX Screener, with major launch platforms including Argus, Tolly, Lift, and Long. However, Arc is not the next Robinhood, BNB, or Solana, and users should participate cautiously, noting that treating it as a similar public chain may lead to losses.
DeFi analyst Jordi in Cryptoland posted on X stating that historical data shows Uniswap's activation of the Fee Switch did not weaken its competitiveness—its market share not only held steady but even increased. Before the fee switch was turned on, Uniswap accounted for 21% of total DEX trading volume; immediately after the switch was flipped, its share remained essentially flat; now, with the onboarding of the Robinhood channel, its share has risen to 31%.Today, Uniswap's value capture capability is also stronger. Protocol monthly revenue started from zero and has now stabilized at around $7.2 million. Compared to its multi-billion-dollar valuation, this figure is not particularly impressive (the P/E ratio remains above 40x), but with market share increasing by 10 percentage points while monthly revenue jumped from zero to $7.2 million, this is absolutely a massive milestone.
Odaily News: According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi, an address (0xC31...23fb) associated with early Ethereum contributor billΞ.eth withdrew 500,000 LIT from the Lighter protocol 2 hours ago, worth $2.07 million. Lighter is the Perp DEX built into Robinhood Wallet, and its trading volume has increased recently, with LIT up over 97% in the past month.
Perp DEX PopDEX, built for real traders, has recorded over $1.7B+ in trading volume and an LP pool size of approximately $61 million during its Closed Beta phase. Meanwhile, the platform has completed three rounds of cash reward distributions covering traders, feedback contributors, and community builders; in the latest round, single-address rewards reached up to 3,300 USDT. As the hype surrounding Robinhood Chain and BNB Chain memes continues to grow, PopDEX has launched popular meme perps including PONS, CASHCAT, and MARSCOIN, and initiated the Meme Gang War trading competition to provide traders with additional reward pool opportunities beyond standard incentives.
Cosmos 生态 DEX Astroport 发文表示,Neutron 上发生的攻击事件可能已经导致 Astroport 合约的管理员权限被盗,Neutron 已暂停链运行进行调查。Astroport 建议用户从所有 Astroport 资金池中撤回流动性。
According to the official ZKsync X account (@zksync), ZKsync has announced a security upgrade for its EraVM chain. Core measures include introducing an instant upgrade framework, extending the proving delay from 3 hours to 24 hours, and deploying a second prover, EraBender, to defend against AI-driven vulnerability attacks. Over the next six months, all Boojum/EraVM chains will gradually phase out the legacy execution environment, with each chain formulating and publishing its own transition schedule. Users who hold funds directly in EOAs do not need to take any action at this time. Users who hold funds through smart contracts such as multisigs, smart accounts, DEXs, and lending protocols must take action as required once the transition plans for their respective chains are finalized. The ZKsync Atlas chain remains unaffected by this upgrade.
Odaily News: According to monitoring by Galaxy's Head of Research, the COLDCARD Wave 3 attacker has moved stolen funds for the first time, exchanging them for ETH via the THORChain cross-chain DEX. This marks the first on-chain transfer of funds from the original hacker address across Waves 1, 2, or 3.
Odaily News: Between January 2025 and July 2026, a total of 245 security incidents were recorded. The top ten attack events accounted for over 72.5% of stolen funds. Supply chain and infrastructure vulnerabilities remain the primary security risks facing both CEXs and DEXs, with related losses exceeding $1.8 billion. Private key leakage is the most common risk for CEXs, while DApps lost approximately $546 million due to smart contract vulnerabilities. Among the 147 incidents involving platforms that had completed independent security audits, stolen funds accounted for 88.44% of total losses. Most attacks fell outside the scope of traditional audit coverage, with common causes including external infrastructure, unaudited code updates, and governance attacks. Only about 11% of incidents involved smart contract defects within audit scope.
According to Odaily, an investigation into the security vulnerability exploit of the Cosmos EVM module reveals that the primary attacker (0x9AE7) purchased $250,000 worth of NES and bridged it to Nesa Chain, exploiting a balance vulnerability to inflate holdings to 200 times their original size, then bridged approximately $50 million worth of NES back to Ethereum. The attacker's initial funding for the wallet originated from Monero. Through multiple wallets, the attacker exchanged NES for ETH on DEXs and deposited the proceeds into centralized exchanges. Due to rapid liquidity withdrawal, most exchanges suffered extreme slippage, and the attacker ultimately sold for only $315,000, netting a profit of approximately $60,000 after deducting costs.
据 Wanchain 官方 X 账号发文,2026 年 7 月 20 日,Wanchain Bridge Cardano 跨链桥遭到攻击,黑客盗取 NIGHT 代币。Wanchain 随即向攻击者发出公告,要求其在 8 月 6 日 UTC 12:00 前归还 90% 被盗 NIGHT 代币,可保留 10% 作为白帽赏金,并承诺不追究民事责任。 目前,有社区用户指出黑客已将 NIGHT 代币在 DEX 上完成兑换,NIGHT 代币价格下跌逾 30%,现报 0.0188 美元。
Robinhood on-chain DEX Fables has announced that FABLES will conduct its TGE on October 20 and simultaneously launch the ve(3,3) mechanism. At TGE, the PROLOGUE reserve, points claims, and liquidity FABLES corresponding to the initial liquidity pool will total no more than 75 million tokens, and team tokens will not enter circulation.The points campaign will continue at a rate of 250 million points per week until October 19; participants must choose between claiming liquidity FABLES or locking them as veFABLES between October 12 and 19, and wallets that fail to complete their selection will lose eligibility to claim. 25 million FABLES will be reserved for PROLOGUE holders, with the claim window opening at TGE and lasting for one month.
Odaily News: On September 30, Byreal, a DEX in the Solana ecosystem, saw its cumulative trading volume surpass $5 billion. Byreal fully launched to the public on September 30, 2025, and today marks the one-year anniversary of its launch.According to previous reports, Byreal's tokenized stock xStocks trading volume exceeded $100 million in the past 30 days, making it the DEX platform with the second-highest xStocks trading volume.
Odaily News: Blockworks analyst Shaunda Devens posted on X that Polymarket's current FDV valuation of approximately $1.5 billion for Variational is somewhat overly optimistic. This pricing directly applies Hyperliquid and Lighter-level valuation-to-revenue multiples to a platform that still relies on points subsidies. By comparison, the median first-day "FDV / annualized revenue" ratio for recently launched Perp DEX tokens is only 6.3x (Variational is currently around 57x), and within the first month after TGE, trading volume typically drops sharply by a median of 54%.Shaunda added that if conservative assumptions based on historical precedents are adopted (using the median first-day "FDV/annualized revenue" ratio of 6.3x), Variational's fair valuation would be only $167 million, corresponding to a points price of $4.8–$5.4. Even using the highest recent ratio precedent (Lighter's approximately 21.1x), its valuation would still only be about $558 million, corresponding to a points price of $16–$18.However, Shaunda also explained: "To be clear, given that current market risk appetite is clearly in a Risk-on state, we do not believe Variational's valuation at TGE will fall to the extremely conservative range mentioned above. These historical multiples are listed to illustrate that current pre-market OTC pricing may be overly optimistic."
Perp DEX protocol Variational posted on X: "With the Swap feature now officially live (and more trading markets continuing to roll out), our next major initiative is the Omni trading API. Previously, all trading could only be done through the frontend interface. Soon, traders will be able to programmatically trade across the 550+ traditional finance and crypto markets already available on Omni."
Odaily reports: According to Spartan Capital monitoring, Robinhood Chain launched its mainnet on July 1, 2026. By the end of August, on-chain TVL had grown to $711 million, with August on-chain gas revenue reaching $6.6 million. The majority of August trading volume came from Uniswap, and on August 31, single-day on-chain fees briefly reached $2.1 million.Robinhood operates the sequencer and receives approximately 90% of on-chain fees; after deducting Ethereum settlement costs and the 10% licensing share paid to Arbitrum DAO, August net revenue was approximately $6 million.Robinhood Earn users deposited USDG and borrowed through Morpho, with deposits growing from $9.5 million on July 1 to $456 million on August 31, accounting for 68% of TVL at the end of the month. Users' estimated annualized yield was approximately 7%, while the lending side yield was approximately 3.7% at the end of August, with the spread subsidized by incentive funds from Morpho and its lending partners.As of the end of August, more than 340,000 tokens had been issued on-chain; Meme tokens paired with Robinhood Stock Tokens recorded $518 million in trading volume in August. Currently, on-chain trading activity is primarily driven by crypto-native users, and Robinhood's 27 million funded accounts have not yet migrated to the chain at scale. Robinhood wallet gas subsidies will continue until September 29, and Earn yields are planned to be gradually reduced.
Odaily reports: a16z and the DeFi Education Fund jointly submitted a proposal to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce, recommending the establishment of a safe harbor rule that creates a "rebuttable presumption" that decentralized exchange (DEX) protocols and their front-end interfaces do not constitute "exchanges" as defined under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. On the same day, a16z submitted a separate letter calling on the SEC to establish a registration regime for centralized crypto trading platforms, modeled after the 1998 Alternative Trading System (ATS) rules. Both letters were dated September 14, and three days later, the SEC issued an "innovation exemption" for tokenized equity trading venues.
According to Lookonchain monitoring, an address went long on 2,900 ETH with 20x leverage on Aster DEX, with a position value of $7.97 million. It currently has over $1 million in unrealized profit, with a return rate of 251.68%.
Odaily News: Coinbase-issued tokenized stocks on the Base network reached $1.5 billion in DEX trading volume over the past 30 days, representing a 313% increase compared to the previous 30-day period. Of this, approximately $1.4 billion in trading volume occurred on Aerodrome, while Uniswap V4 saw approximately $83.8 million in trading volume.
The proportion of on-chain perpetual contract DEX trading volume in the global perpetual contract market rose from 0.11% in January 2023 to 12.33% in September 2026.
Robinhood on-chain DEX Fables has announced that FABLES will conduct its TGE on October 20 and simultaneously launch the ve(3,3) mechanism. At TGE, the PROLOGUE reserve, points claims, and liquidity FABLES corresponding to the initial liquidity pool will total no more than 75 million tokens, and team tokens will not enter circulation.The points campaign will continue at a rate of 250 million points per week until October 19; participants must choose between claiming liquidity FABLES or locking them as veFABLES between October 12 and 19, and wallets that fail to complete their selection will lose eligibility to claim. 25 million FABLES will be reserved for PROLOGUE holders, with the claim window opening at TGE and lasting for one month.
multi-chain DEX Jumper announced on X that Jumper Perps has been opened to the top 1000 XP-ranked holders, inviting eligible users to participate in early testing and provide feedback.
According to Lookonchain monitoring, an address went 5x long on 1.38 million ASTER on Aster DEX, worth $1.05 million, with an unrealized profit of over $137,000 and a return rate of 65.36%.