AERO and Velodrome are on the verge of a merger, with both tokens surging over 20%.

According to Farside data, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a net inflow of $134.5 million yesterday, marking their seventh consecutive trading day of net inflows exceeding $100 million, with total net inflows over the seven-day period hitting $2.9783 billion. U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs saw a net inflow of $87 million yesterday, extending their streak of daily net inflows to six consecutive trading days.

Beating AI Express reports that Vercel has launched the anonymous large language model Pixel Canary on its AI Gateway, offering it for free for a limited time while the model’s identity remains confidential. Cline has also integrated with Pixel Canary for free. Vercel states that the model is primarily targeted at programming, front-end, and mobile app development, supporting both building new applications and refactoring existing code. In Vercel’s Next.js Agent Evals, Pixel Canary posted a baseline success rate of 90%, tying with GPT 6 Astra (high) and outperforming Kimi K3’s 84% rate. The success rate rises to 97% when supplemented with Next.js official documentation AGENTS.md. The evaluation uses real-world Next.js development tasks, with each task allowed up to 4 attempts, and is marked as passed if at least one attempt succeeds.

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!

Solana’s planned Alpenglow upgrade has been rolled out on devnet and testnet in succession, providing application teams with a testing environment ahead of the mainnet switch. The upgrade aims to cut transaction finalization time from the current ~12.8 seconds to around 150 milliseconds, drastically reducing the wait time for transactions to release deposits or for payment apps to notify merchants of completed trades. Solana development firm Anza announced on September 25 that the devnet had completed its switch; the testnet transition was finalized the day before, and the Solana Foundation’s upgrade page shows Alpenglow is active on both networks. Alpenglow changes how validators reach consensus on network records: validators will exchange votes directly instead of recording votes as transactions within blocks, condensing consensus into just one or two voting rounds. Removing these votes will also lower some Solana activity chart metrics: the total number of transactions including validator votes will decrease, even if actual payments and trading volumes remain unchanged.

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?"