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Arbitrum Jumps 25% on Robinhood Chain Fees as Bitcoin Holds $78,000
ARB led the 108 largest non-stablecoin tokens after chain fees on Robinhood's network doubled in a day, taking the Arbitrum DAO's contractual 10% cut to roughly $192,000 a day. Bitcoin fell 0.7% while Japanese and U.S. government bond yields rose and gold dropped 1.9%.

DeFi
Ethena Launches Pay App on Avalanche With Tiered Rate Up to 6%
The iOS beta starts with 400 users, while official terms cap boosted balances and put cashback at up to 5% — not 10%.
DeFi
Firelight Raises $8 Million to Backstop DeFi Vaults With Staked XRP
The Sentora-incubated cover protocol already holds $76 million in staked XRP on Flare. Its first cover integrations go live this month, into a market where onchain protection covers about 0.1% of DeFi.
DeFi
Securitize's HINC Becomes Collateral on Solana's Loopscale
Eligible investors can now borrow USDG against a fund holding high-yield corporate bonds and CLO tranches, collateral whose value moves daily with credit spreads.

Blockchains
Robinhood Chain Tops Ethereum In Daily App Revenue
Applications on the two-month-old Arbitrum network earned $2.66 million in 24 hours, ranking second behind Solana, with a memecoin launchpad as the biggest single source.

DeFi
Bloomberg: Hyperliquid in Advanced Talks With Kraken Parent on US Perpetuals Push
The reported plan would route U.S. traders through CFTC-regulated Bitnomial, while neither Payward nor Hyperliquid has confirmed a deal.

Tokens
A Memecoin Called BONER Has Cornered Half the Tokenized Hims & Hers Float
The BONER/HIMS pool on Robinhood Chain holds 31,198 of the 58,714 tokenized Hims & Hers shares that exist. With the NYSE closed on Sunday night, the tokenized stock printed $132.64 against an equity that had closed Friday at $28.84.

Blockchains
Ontology Halts Mainnet Block Production Over Potential Security Concern
The explorer’s last block was created at 4:24 a.m. ET, leaving transactions and Ontology-side bridge transfers unable to settle while validators review the network.
Markets
Traders Make a September Rate Increase the Favorite as Bitcoin Holds $78,000
Polymarket prices a quarter-point hike at 55.5% after Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole speech, against 28% on Friday afternoon. Bitcoin is down 0.7% on the day and 24.5% higher since the start of August, while 88 of the 125 largest non-stablecoin tokens fell.

TradFi & Fintech
BitMine’s Staked ETH Holds at 5.07 Million as Treasury Grows
The $12.7 billion staked balance was unchanged in four weekly readings, while BitMine added 53,501 ETH and reported $335 million in annualized staking revenue.




