The CFTC has started writing rules for retail crypto trades involving leverage, margin or financing. The initiative could create a federal route for those markets, while ordinary cash crypto purchases would remain outside its reach.
Hyperliquid’s buyback model has received its first reported contribution from a source other than trading fees: yield earned on USDC reserves held in its ecosystem. The payment, worth about $14.58 million in USDC, is the first test of whether the protocol can turn stablecoin balances into recurring funding for HYPE purchases.
Crypto lending vaults held roughly $10 billion in deposits in September, according to S&P Global Ratings. Its new Vault Risk Assessment addresses a problem that on-chain data alone cannot solve: a visible pool of assets does not show how easily depositors could lose money or struggle to withdraw it.
Zcash’s public testnet began producing 25-second blocks on October 5, reaching NU7’s activation height a day before the October 6 date previously expected. The shorter interval will be visible to users, but the next few weeks are really about whether the services around Zcash can operate smoothly at the new pace.
Shiba Inu is testing resistance near $0.000006 after expanding its trading access through Solana, with the latest rebound bringing price back to the ceiling of its recent consolidation.
XRP has slipped below the $1.53 Fibonacci retracement, bringing the next two support zones into focus as the September recovery faces a deeper pullback.
Arbitrum’s dropped to $0.209 at the time of writing, down about 7.7% on the daily chart and returned to a former September breakout shelf, where the chart could show whether the wider rally can withstand renewed macro pressure.
XRP’s recovery has revived a $2 chart setup, but heavy Binance turnover and leveraged trading leave the rally facing a more demanding test.
PI traded near $0.0907 after rebounding from last week’s low, but the first test is a daily close through the $0.09-$0.091 resistance area.
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