Bitdeer mined 288.1 BTC this week and sold all of it.

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!

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?"

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.