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Robinhood Told AMC's CEO To Send His Lawyers
The AMC stock token printed $18 at midnight against a $2.54 stock, then 1.3 million new tokens closed the premium
Robinhood Chain Base Fee Climbed By 23x
Plus: Uniswap Labs bought PONS tokens
A Memecoin Ran A Nasdaq Stock Up 321%
Money Mushroom's 'tokenized Farmmi' has no issuer, no redemption, and a wallet running a contract called PoolRepricer
Pons Is Out-Earning Pump.fun Almost Three To One
Robinhood Chain settles $1.49B in a day, Cronos rewinds 11,000 blocks, and Fogo is still dark
Two Circuits Now Disagree About Kalshi
Nevada can enforce its gaming laws, an attacker drains Avici in real time, and Solana validators double disinflation after Kraken flips
Ethena Wants All Of Its Revenue Buying ENA
Plus: Moonwell loses $8.7 million to a MAMO price manipulation, and bitcoin clears $80,000
Core Lightning Tells Node Operators to Go Offline
The upgrade it wants you to install has not shipped, and what it fixes is under a two-week embargo
Cosmos Labs Tells All EVM Chains to Halt
A shared bug drained three networks in three days, and two of the three defects are still unfixed upstream
Bitcoin's Biggest Week Since the 2024 Election
A Sept. 15 cloture vote on the CLARITY Act put a calendar back in the market, and funding rates never moved
Trump Says the CFTC Is Working to Onshore Hyperliquid
HYPE rose 19%, its Nasdaq treasury company posted a record day, and CME and Cboe closed lower