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Crypto Gave Markets the Perp. Options Are Next.
Options are crypto’s next breakout market, bringing 24/7 trading, defined risk and traditional assets on-chain.

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THEO Goes Hybrid: Autheo Adds a MEXC Order Book to Its DEX Liquidity on Base and Robinhood Chain
THEO lands on MEXC as Autheo expands liquidity across CEXs, DEXs and tokenized equity markets.

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PERPTools Raises $8M to Develop AI-Native Perpetual Trading Infrastructure
The $8M round and expanded stakeholder base will accelerate PERPTools' mission to merge AI-native trading agents with institutional-grade decentralized perpetual infrastructure.

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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.

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Cross-Border Stablecoin Flows Jump 77.5% but Remain Concentrated
Chainalysis identified 4,708 new country-to-country routes, but they carried just $2.64 billion of the $220.3 billion measured total.

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Ondo Leads An Overnight Altcoin Bid As Bitcoin Holds Near $84,000
Ondo rose more than 20% after putting three BlackRock-designed portfolios onchain. Litecoin added 18% with no announcement behind it. Bitcoin and ether traded lower while 51 of 60 large-cap tokens screened on Kraken sat above their 00:00 UTC open. The 10-year Treasury par yield closed Wednesday at 5.11%, and Polymarket now prices an October rate increase at 68%.

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Bitcoin Falls Through the $86,000 ETF Cost Basis as the Whole Market Turns Lower
Total crypto market value fell 2.27% to $2.96 trillion. XRP dropped 5.8%, Dogecoin 8.3% and Hedera 9.9%, and Uniswap gave back the entire spike it took on Tuesday's CME listing. Perpetual funding at OKX turned negative on both the bitcoin and ether swaps. U.S. equities and gold closed lower alongside.

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Zcash Clears $1,600 After 21Shares Launches European ETP
The physically backed product trades in Paris and Amsterdam, while a 3:42 p.m. ET chain snapshot put shielded ZEC at 29% of supply.

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Brazil Tops Redesigned Crypto Adoption Index as Latin America Defies Global Slump
Chainalysis measured $593.8 billion in regional activity, up 9.8%, even as the global crypto economy contracted 1.6% during the same period.
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Bitcoin Cash Runs 27% on CME Futures Listing as Bitcoin Gives Up the Day
Bitcoin Cash gained 14% in the hour CME Group said it would list futures on the token and kept climbing through the afternoon, finishing the session up 27% on more than twice Monday's volume. Bitcoin SV rose 20% alongside it. Uniswap, named in the same release, spiked 11%, gave the whole move back within two hours, then recovered to close up 5.4%. Bitcoin ended lower. Of the 125 largest non-stablecoin tokens, 64 rose and 61 fell.





