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Standard Chartered Says Its $100 UNI Target May Be Too Low After Robinhood Chain Burns
Geoff Kendrick says UNI burns funded by Robinhood Chain trading have run at an annualized $90 million since Jul. 27. DefiLlama data puts Uniswap's protocol revenue at 2.4 times its prior level, with Robinhood Chain supplying about 60% of it.
Uniswap Founder Says Team Renounced Creator Fees From Employee Testing
TradePools said test tokens built while developing Pools no longer send creator fees to Uniswap Labs, with past and future fees redirected to an ETH-for-burn mechanism.
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Standard Chartered Says Its $100 UNI Target May Be Too Low After Robinhood Chain Burns
Geoff Kendrick says UNI burns funded by Robinhood Chain trading have run at an annualized $90 million since Jul. 27. DefiLlama data puts Uniswap's protocol revenue at 2.4 times its prior level, with Robinhood Chain supplying about 60% of it.

SharpLink Plans $200 Million ETH Allocation to Lido’s wstETH
Using Kraken’s displayed $1,889.84 ETH price, the planned allocation equates to about 106,000 ETH, roughly 12% of SharpLink’s reported holdings.

Neutrl Pauses Minting and Redemptions While Assessing Reserve Impact
Strata paused minting, redemptions and related functions on its Neutrl market contracts, whose two tranche tokens carried more than $1.7 million in displayed onchain value.
ether.fi Adds Tokenized Stocks, New Fiat Rails And Aave-Backed Borrowing
The Summer release lands a week after the protocol pulled restaking out of weETH. The release also introduces programmatic ETHFI buybacks funded from every revenue line.
Uniswap Founder Says Team Renounced Creator Fees From Employee Testing
TradePools said test tokens built while developing Pools no longer send creator fees to Uniswap Labs, with past and future fees redirected to an ETH-for-burn mechanism.
Pump.fun's Share Of Launchpad Fees Fell To 27% In July. Four Weeks Later It's Back Above Half
Two launchpads on Robinhood Chain cut pump.fun's share of launchpad fees from 80% to 27% in two weeks. Pump.fun's fees are up 30% over 30 days anyway, because the category grew 77% around it. Memecoin prices did not participate.
ENS Tokenholders Hand Endowment Control to a Staffed Foundation
The proposal passed with 1.27 million ENS in favor and 480,690 against. Co-founder Alex Van de Sande voted no after decoding the executable, arguing the DAO disappears from the endowment's control chain.

Two Prediction Markets Shut Down Hours Apart as Kalshi and Polymarket Take 93% of Volume
Trepa and Fireplace both told users to withdraw by Sept. 30. One published a post-mortem arguing crypto's active user base is far smaller than the industry reports.

Solana Perp DEX Flash Trade to Wind Down Unless It Finds a Buyer
Any proceeds from a sale of the exchange's tech stack, brand and IP go to FAF holders pro rata, with team tokens excluded from the distribution.
ether.fi Removes Restaking From weETH, Nearing A Full EigenLayer Exit
Restaking exposure moves into weETHs, a separate token built on Symbiotic. CEO Mike Silagadze: “End of an era. Sad.”

