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The Drift Foundation has opened DFX recovery claims for users affected by the April 1 exploit, with initial redemptions covering only about 1% of verified losses. The recovery pool currently holds roughly 3.1 million USDT against a fixed supply of 299,500,810.998 DFX tokens. Funding is added daily at 00:00 UTC from Velocity’s net protocol revenue under a tiered formula, and Tether and strategic partners have committed up to 127.5 million USDT and 20 million USDT, respectively, to support the relaunch and user recovery, according to the Drift Foundation.

Ripple President Monica Long announced XRP-POOLS, a setup that allows XRP to be used as collateral to fund customer payments from credit card institutions. The product is designed to run on the XRP Ledger and target a credit-card payments market measured in the trillions of dollars. The move signals deeper integration of XRP into institutional payments infrastructure and could expand on-chain locked value and real-world use cases.

In the week ended Sept. 22, leveraged funds reduced short positions in CME bitcoin futures by about 5,300 BTC-equivalent, while cutting longs by about 909 BTC-equivalent. As a result, their net short narrowed by 4,390.70 BTC-equivalent to 35,720.13 BTC-equivalent. In standard CME futures, shorts fell by 4,310 BTC-equivalent and longs rose by 1,175 BTC-equivalent. Over the same period, asset managers’ net long increased by 2,137.90 BTC-equivalent to 18,069.10 BTC-equivalent as longs rose by 573.10 BTC-equivalent and shorts fell by 1,564.80 BTC-equivalent.

On-chain data show Ethereum’s “Age Consumed” metric jumped to about 580 million token-days on September 30, signaling significant movement of long-dormant ETH. Over the same period, exchange supply rose by only around 18,000 ETH and then fell by about 21,000 the next day, leaving net inflows close to negligible. Santiment said the activity likely reflects wallet reorganization or internal reshuffling rather than a wave of profit-taking after ETH rebounded to around $2700.

In Q3 2026, spot decentralized exchange (DEX) trading volume on Solana reached $197B, ranking first among all blockchains for the fifth consecutive quarter. The figure points to Solana’s continued dominance in the decentralized trading sector.

Midnight (NIGHT) rose 13.2% to $0.04874 after the network said its mainnet now supports permissionless contract deployment. The change lets developers deploy contracts freely, expanding potential ecosystem development. NIGHT’s market cap climbed 13.28% to $809.47 million, ranking 72nd on CoinMarketCap, while trading volume fell 18.16%. Charts show the price rebounding from around $0.037 after sliding from about $0.04428, breaking back above $0.040, $0.042 and $0.045, and nearing $0.049.

On October 2, 2026, Amazon is seeking to sell about $8 billion of Nvidia chip assets to outside investors to strengthen its balance sheet, according to Catenaa. The structure would see Amazon offer up to a 10% equity stake and ultimately hold no ownership in the entity. Amazon has committed to invest about $83 billion in OpenAI and Anthropic, which use Nvidia Grace Blackwell chips to train models. Amazon expects capital expenditure of $220 billion this year, largely for AWS to buy advanced chips and expand AI data centers, and shares of Amazon and Nvidia rose 2% at Friday’s open.

A long-dormant Bitcoin whale address dating back to the Satoshi era has liquidated its entire BTC holdings after holding for 16 years, worth about $412.3 million. The wallet had not previously recorded any large transfers and has now been fully emptied. The move is being watched as a major sell signal from an early holder, raising concerns about potential selling pressure and a possible market-top signal.

Bitwise launched the first US spot NEAR ETF on NYSE Arca on Sept. 29, 2026, with shares trading under the ticker NRR. The fund directly holds NEAR tokens and is designed to incorporate staking rewards into its net asset value rather than paying them out to shareholders. Bitwise disclosed an annualized staking reward rate of about 5% as of Sept. 25, 2026, though it said the rate is not fixed. NRR charges a 0.75% management fee.

Crypto ETFs recorded $48.27M in net inflows on October 1, according to CoinMarketCap data. Bitcoin ETFs took in $96M, while Ethereum ETFs saw $55M in net outflows. Over the prior week, crypto ETFs posted $299.09M in net inflows. Over the past month, the category recorded $214.02M in net outflows.