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DeFi
Ondo Perps Adds Spot Trading for 12 Tokenized Stocks and ETFs
Traders can use purchased tokens as collateral for short perpetual positions. The venue is waiving spot trading fees for the first 30 days.

Hacks
Bitget Reopens Bitcoin Withdrawals After $387.5 Million Breach
ETH and USDT withdrawals remain paused, while CEO Gracy Chen pledges to replenish the protection fund above $300 million this week.

Markets
Bitcoin ETFs Draw Nearly $3 Billion in Seven Sessions as 2026 Flows Turn Positive
US spot funds finished Sept. 25 with about $1.02 billion in net inflows for the year, reversing a $1.96 billion deficit before the streak.

Security
Fake GIWA Layer 2 Bridge Drained of 766 ETH
DYORSWAP, which mistook the network for the Upbit-backed project, promises 40% reimbursement for eligible wallets that bridged less than 5 ETH.

TradFi & Fintech
Franklin Templeton Fund Shares Become Bybit Trading Collateral
Eligible clients can pledge Benji-issued money market fund shares for USDT or USDC credit lines while the shares stay in custody and keep paying yield. Franklin ran the same structure with Binance in February.

TradFi & Fintech
Bitwise NEAR ETF Clears Listing and Registration Hurdles
The NRR product plans to stake its NEAR holdings, with a 0.75% annual management fee and a separate charge on staking rewards.

DeFi
THORChain Pushes Back on Bitget’s Demand to Block Hacker Addresses
An address flagged by Bitget completed an XRP-to-bitcoin swap after the request, while OKX’s Star Xu challenged THORChain’s comparison with Bitcoin.

Blockchains
Buterin Maps Ethereum's Post-Hegota 'Cryptographic World Computer'
Hegota's scheduled changes target censorship resistance and wallet flexibility; the broader vision relies on proof aggregation and open research.

TradFi & Fintech
CleanSpark Closes $2.276 Billion Debt Deal for Sandersville Data Center
The 7.875% notes fund construction and reimburse earlier equity contributions to a Georgia project with a 20-year lease.

Blockchains
StarkWare Challenge Cuts Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Compute Estimate by 79%
The AI-assisted contest targets offchain GPU work, not Bitcoin fees. The experimental method still requires a direct path to a miner.





