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CoinShares has made its on-chain strategy available through Safe’s enterprise wallet platform. The launch is less about a new yield product than a new distribution model: clients can access managed strategies from the wallets where they already hold digital assets.

Solana’s Alpenglow consensus upgrade is expected to begin its mainnet rollout on October 21. It targets finality in roughly 150 milliseconds, but it will also remove validator vote transactions from blocks, meaning Solana’s total transaction and TPS charts may drop without any decline in user activity.

Interactive Brokers has added Ethereum staking to Client Portal for eligible Interactive Brokers LLC clients. Clients can now submit staking requests alongside their usual brokerage activity, though the ETH is held and staked through Zero Hash rather than by Interactive Brokers itself.

Ethereum is drawing a much more optimistic crowd response than Bitcoin after its rebound. CryptoQuant’s Binance data, however, points to a different contrast beneath the discussion: ETH’s leverage ratio has stayed elevated, while Bitcoin’s has eased from earlier 2026 readings.

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