Solana’s Alpenglow consensus upgrade has launched on its second public testnet, targeting a reduction in final confirmation time to 150 milliseconds.

According to HTX market data, AERO is currently trading at $0.89, with a 24-hour increase of 25.5%; VELODROME is priced at $0.038, up 22.1% in the same period. Aerodrome and Velodrome will merge into a unified cross-chain DEX named Aero, whose launch date has been set for October 21. The new DEX will cover Base, Ethereum Mainnet, OP, Arc, and Ink, plus newly added Robinhood Chain and Arbitrum. The AERO and VELO tokens will be consolidated into a single AERO token, with prior revenue allocated at a ratio of roughly 94.5% to AERO holders and 5.5% to VELO holders. Both communities and trading platforms will also migrate to Aero.

Trader 0xc8F7 opened a 15x long on 2.15M $ENA ($592K) on @Aster_DEX and is now up $310.7K — a massive 786.54% return!

Trader 0xc8F7 opened a 15x long on 2.15M $ENA ($592K) on @Aster_DEX and is now up $310.7K — a massive 786.54% return!

According to HTX market data, ENA (Ethena) has seen its 24-hour gain widen to 25.6%, hitting $0.28. On September 25, synthetic dollar protocol Ethena announced a partnership with Binance to expand USDe’s basis strategy from crypto perpetual contracts to stock perpetuals. The move involves spot buying tokenized stock certificates bStocks issued by Binance’s affiliate, while hedging by shorting USDT-denominated stock perpetuals on the same platform. For more analysis, see "Behind ENA’s Surge: How Significant is the Impact of Ethena’s Integration with US Stock Perpetuals?"

US-listed Bitcoin mining firm Bitdeer announced that in the week ending September 25, it mined 288.1 BTC, sold 288.4 BTC over the same period, resulting in a net addition of zero BTC, and currently holds no Bitcoin positions.

Former X product lead Nikita praised: "Paid’s token fee split to celebrity X Money accounts is a highly creative solution." However, if someone does not want to be associated with a particular token, they should be allowed to opt out or disassociate. I can imagine traders harassing users to promote the product and help send spam replies. Paid’s newly launched permissionless token fee split feature to X Money accounts has sparked widespread community discussion. The official states that 80% of fees will be sent to X users via X Money, while 20% will be converted to SOL for PAID token buybacks. Creators can add an X Handle to their project’s text description to send fees via X Money. Celebrities on X do not even need to register for Paid or provide consent to receive fund distributions through X Money; some have even joked their X Money accounts are under DDoS attacks from the constant fee split deposit notifications. PAID’s official announced today that it has successfully distributed $1.44 million to X Money users via its token creator fee auto-splitting tool. According to GMGN market data, PAID’s market cap on Solana has today surged past $40 million, with a 24-hour increase of over 360% and trading volume reaching $32.8 million in the same period. BlockBeats reminds users that related tokens are highly volatile, so investment requires caution.