• 21Shares files for Hyperliquid ETF 
• OpenAI's $1 trillion valuation and IPO buzz  
• Visa to adopt 4 stablecoins across 4 chains
• Macro updates: FOMC & Trump-Xi talks

• ETHZilla Sells $40M worth ETH
• Mt Gox repayments delayed by another year
• Bitcoin treasury companies add to their stacks 
• MegaETH ICO sees 9x oversubscription

• US-China tariff negotiations look promising
• Bitcoin selling decelerates 
• Pump acquires trading terminal Padre  
• Agent-to-agent transactions skyrocket
• Japan launches stablecoin JPYC

Bulletin Highlights

• Trump pardons CZ
• Robinhood continues listing spree, adds HYPE
• Stable deposit cap shenanigans
• Aave acquisition & aggressive buy-backs in the works

Topics:

• Polymarket & Kalshi eye deca-billion valuations
• A16Z "State of Crypto 2025" is released
• Kinetiq (LST provider on Hyperliquid) announces token & airdrop
• Jeff "finance as a whole" goes viral
• Bunni shuts up shop after recent $8 million hack

• Trump tariff talk spooks the market
• Coinbase's $375 million Echo deal
• Kadena blockchain's sunsetting plans
• Bitcoin whales and shorting  
• Jupiter and its Kalshi-powered prediction market launch 

It's our first time live-streaming the blocmates podcast and we're two weeks behind, so Nev's come along to catch up on what we've missed. 

Obviously we're stoked about Echo and Up Only, but there are headlines to talk about! And talk about them we shall!

• Coinbase buys Cobie's Up Only NFT for $25 million
• Is AI going to out-trade us? NOF1.ai competition heats up
• Will Bitcoin catch up with gold?
• New multchain memecoin launchpad to go live today
• Ethereum's Fusaka upgrade is nearing

Topics:

- Ethereum Foundation gets Danksharded
- Top Crypto execs to discuss market structure bill
- Bitcoin shows signs of recovery, weekly back in the range
- Who is selling Bitcoin? Onchain analysis

• Gold continues parabolic rise, Schiff's euphoric
• Robinhood and its listings
• Ripple and its upcoming $1B DAT 
• Regional bank trouble: Is the printer coming?

• Launchcoin to Believe migration 
• Paxos' $300 trillion onchain error 
• Binance's South Korean exchange acquisition
• Trump's announcement of an announcement  
• Ripple's African moves 

• QT is nearing its end with rate cuts ahead
• Binance issues more refunds
• MetaMask ties up with Polymarket
• Coinbase invests in India's biggest exchange

• Tariff talks continue
• Strategy's BTC accumulation spree resumes
• HIP-3 market debuts with Based's XYZ US 100
• ETFs record large outflows
• Monad airdrop checker goes live

• Trump and tariffs 
• Crypto crash and the 'oracle' drama
• Hyperliquid founder's response to 'underreporting' allegations
• HIP-3 upgrade breakdown 

• Binance's meme rush saga
• Roger Ver is off the hook
• Hyperliquid attracts whales
• Will dollar strength ruin the party?

Yu Hu, Founder of Kaito speaks with Alex about 2025 and the past 12 months of rapid growth for the business. 

Kaito is arguably one of the most talked-about names in the crypto industry.

Since last year, it has been on a journey, from being the hottest product on the market to often being vilified and misunderstood.

Yu discusses what it's been like adapting and building Kaito as a platform, why AI and bots are such a significant issue, some of the work they do with teams to ensure accurate incentive campaigns, and why he's bullish on launchpads. 

• CZ's YZi Labs rolls out $1 billion BNB fund
• Solana staking ETFs are on the way 
• Polymarket token soon?
• MetaMask rolls out perps trading; prediction markets integration to follow

Alex is out, the boys are in — and chaos inevitably follows.

This week on the Blocmates Podcast, Gaz, Grant and Mike rip up the script and dive straight into:
- Whether the bull market is actually back (for the fifth time this year)
- Why everyone feels broke even when Bitcoin’s flying
- Barron Trump’s rumoured $150M crypto bag (and what it says about privacy coins)
- PolyMarket’s $2B deal with the New York Stock Exchange
- FIFA’s blockchain ticketing scandal — innovation or straight-up gambling?

• $TRUMP DAT in the making 
• ICE's $2 billion investment in Polymarket
• BNY Mellon and its tokenization plans 
• Meteora and Monad TGE developments 

• Bitcoin's new ATH
• Binance season rings in
• Staking ETFs and their Wall Street debut

• Bitcoin claims new ATH 
• Is Saylor still stacking? 
• Aster airdrop details and data shenanigans
• Japan follows the US lead to run it hot
• MetaMask rewards program x LINEA token incentives 

• Trump to handout a Q4 stimulus?
• CME to launch 24/7 crypto futures trading 
• Perp DEX trading volume hits $1 trillion in September
• BNB hits new ATH 

• Plasma founder offers clarity amid Twitter criticism
• Pump.fun introduces mobile onramp improvements
• blocmates Solana validator goes live
• Stablecoin news from Sui (suiUSDe) and Solana (USYC)

• Tether and Metaplanet stack BTC
• Barron Trump earns $80 million from crypto investments
• Robinhood to take prediction markets worldwide
• US government shuts down, Bitcoin network stays up

Back from Korea and feeling grumpy. 

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We're talking about the Hyperliquid Hypurr NFTs and what it means for the ecosystem. That's as well as what we think of Andre's new project Flying Tulip and its $200m raise, and what it means for Sonic and DeFi.

And we finish on a low note, with the kids who put pump.fun on the Hollywood sign, and Professor Crypto is back with his second KOL of the Year award. It's hard to deny he's the goat at this point.