CME to Launch Solana and XRP Futures Options

According to PayPal's Q2 2025 financial report, PayPal's average daily payment volume was $4.93B. And the $USDT transfer volume on #Tron reached $36.5B yesterday, more than 7 times that of PayPal.

On September 18th, as per Cryptoslate, the ETF issuer Defiance has submitted an application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for the launch of two ETFs centered around "Basis Trading", which are pegged to Bitcoin and Ethereum. The purpose is to profit from the spread between the spot market and futures contracts while essentially reducing the impact of significant price fluctuations.

On September 17th, Michael Egorov, the founder of Curve Finance, put forward a new "Yield Basis" plan today. He plans to issue a $60 million crvUSD stablecoin to support the operation of three Bitcoin trading pools. The plan will return up to 65% of the revenue to veCRV holders and allocate 25% of the "Yield Basis" tokens to the Curve ecosystem. At the time of this proposal, Michael Egorov is coming under scrutiny due to multiple CRV liquidation events, such as a massive $140 million loss in June and an $882,000 loss in December.

On September 18th, the world's first Web3 creative AI Agent officially launched its testnet in conjunction with the on-chain creative asset DAO—GaiAI. GaiAI integrates AI generation with on-chain attribution, enabling every creation to be attributed, circulated, and monetized, transforming visual content from "works" into "on-chain assets." The testnet is now available for participation by creators, developers, and community users.

On September 17th, based on the data from the Validator Queue tracking website "validatorqueue", the current exit queue on the Ethereum PoS network has once again reached a high level and is currently at 2.513 million ETH. Calculated at the current price, approximately $11.3 billion worth of ETH is exiting the PoS network, and the withdrawal delay is 43 days and 15 hours. It is worth noting that the current withdrawal delay includes a 9.1-day Sweep Delay. This is the additional waiting time for funds to be swept to the withdrawal address. This may be due to the large number of validators in the exit queue. Furthermore, the staking requirement queue for new validators activating on the Ethereum PoS network is 479,000 ETH, valued at approximately $2.15 billion. The current queuing time for admission is 8 days and 8 hours.

On September 17th, as monitored by Whale Alert, the USDC Treasury has just minted an extra 250 million USDC on the Solana blockchain.