Solana's app revenue reached $49.9 million last week, setting a new high since mid-2025

Vitalik Buterin stated that the Hegota upgrade planned for next year may be Ethereum's last regular hard fork, after which work will shift towards recursive STARK, automated formal verification, highly optimized consensus, and quantum security. Hegota is in the early planning stage and includes two changes: FOCIL and framework transactions. Ethereum's 2030 goal includes block generation in 4-8 seconds and final confirmation in 8-32 seconds. Nodes will verify encrypted proofs and adopt PeerDAS. (Source: BeInCrypto)

[OKX Launches XDP Trade-to-Earn Activity Product] OKX announces the launch of XDP Trade-to-Earn, officially going live on 2026-09-28 at 21:00 (UTC+8). Notes: - You must click 'Join Now' on the event page to qualify, and only the main account is eligible to participate. - The participation threshold requires an original spot trading volume of at least 4,000 USDT. - Zero/negative fee rate trades, simple buy, and quick exchange transactions are not counted as valid trading volume.

Bitcoin and Ethereum have been under pressure since their gains were blocked last Monday, but the options market has not shown that traders are eager to buy downside protection. Skewness indicators show that put options are slightly more expensive than call options, but have not reached historical levels. Laeviats referred to this as skewed regression, rather than centralized buying of put options. Bitcoin's 7-day skewed week over week ratio is at the 92nd percentile of the 52 week range, with downside protection at historically cheap levels. Ethereum call options are still more powerful than put options, but the premium has narrowed compared to a week ago. (Source: CoinDesk)

Artificial intelligence company Instinct has completed a $1 billion financing at a valuation of $10 billion.

Nvidia announced an additional $150 billion stock buyback program, with a total authorized amount of $235 billion.