Top DeFi news to pay attention to this week 🧠 1. @extendedapp starts sharing full $XTEN tokenomics on Oct 31. 30% of the 1B supply goes to Points users, and the token is teased for Nov. 2. @Ripple hosts Swell 2026 in New York, Oct 27-29. Expect 1,500+ attendees and 80+ sessions. $XRP and RWA news often lands here. 3. @RobinhoodApp reports Q3 results on Oct 27 after the US close. The call streams live on X at 21:00 UTC. 4. @coinbase reports Q3 on Oct 29 after the close. Its live Q&A on X starts at 21:00 UTC. 5. @base hosts Base Day on Oct 26. The team is also teasing 200ms blocks on mainnet, but there's no date yet. 6. @soneium, Sony's Ethereum L2, introduced tokenized IP and a plan to issue $SONEIUM 7. @BNBCHAIN's Jenner hard fork hits BSC testnet on Oct 28. 8. @hedera upgrades its mainnet to v0.78.2 on Oct 28, 17:00 UTC. 9. @injective runs a second Stockdrop this week. If you joined the Oct 21 buyback, you can get a tokenized stock on Solana. 10. @Aster_DEX pauses its prediction market on Oct 27 for an upgrade.

Solana got 150ms finality. Hyperliquid builders shipped better ways to move size, and tokenized stocks DeFi is growing faster than ever. Here are some crypto apps worth trying this week: @hypurrdash: Trading terminal for Hyperliquid with private TWAPs, swarm orders and a liquidation heatmap. VWAP orders went live this week, pacing a big fill around the asset's usual volume curve. @silhouette_ex switched on perps RFQ this week. Market makers compete to quote you, and the fill prints on Hyperliquid's book without walking it. BTC and HYPE only, up to $100k per quote. @2FactorFinance: About 1.33x $BTC on @base with no liquidation price, financed by a senior tranche that earns yield instead of perp funding. Built to hold for years. Capped beta. @Trueo_ $TRUE: Permissionless prediction markets on @base where open positions earn yield in a Yearn USDC vault. @DefiLlama now shows Trueo markets on its dashboards, so you can bet on protocol revenue next to the data. @CatalystMkts_: Perps on whether an event happens, on Base. Listing markets went live this week and buy whichever token an exchange lists the instant it's announced. Size small in trenches. @paboxoxyz: Borrow $USDG against Robinhood Stock Tokens. Borrowing and liquidations pause while the stock market is closed. @Fluxion_network: @0xMantle's native DEX for trading xStocks 24/7 through AMM + RFQ. Worth watching for after-hours moves as Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon report this week. Anything we should test this week?

Top DeFi news to pay attention to this week 🧠 1. @aeroxyz unifies Aerodrome and Velodrome on Oct 22. Aero launches across Base, Ethereum, OP Mainnet, Arc, Ink, Robinhood Chain and Arbitrum. AERO converts 1:1; VELO at roughly 0.044 AERO. 2. @fablesfi TGE on Oct 20, the Robinhood Chain DEX launches $FABLES with ve(3,3) voting, staking and emissions. Airdrop claims open at TGE. 3. @fhenix's confidential computing launches on mainnet on Oct 21. 4. @Kinetiq_xyz's Elysium approaches mainnet. The Hyperliquid L2 targets Oct 20, subject to the governance outcome. It settles to HyperEVM and uses HYPE for gas. 5. @Lighter_xyz is expanding beyond perps with an upcoming options product. Investor Q3 call is on Oct 21. 6. @infiniFi unveils $INFI. Tokenomics are out, with 45% allocated to the ecosystem, including a community airdrop. TGE is coming soon. 7. @StandX_Official cancelled its token launch and will distribute DUSD instead. Trading switches to reduce-only on Oct 20. Allocation checker: Oct 26. Claims: Nov 1, with no lockup. 8. @jumperapp opens a trading campaign this week for 2,500 waitlist traders and the top 2,500 Jumper Pass users. $JUMP incentives and up to $232K USDC in weekly rewards. 9. @Starknet voting on whether to research becoming an independent, post-quantum L1 ends on Oct 22. 10. @osmosis's proposal to stop new $OSMO issuance and fund staking rewards from protocol revenue opens for voting on Oct 20. At the current burn rate, roughly 2% of supply would burn annually without new minting to offset it.

Agentic trading, privacy, tokenized stocks carried most of what shipped recently. Here are some crypto apps worth testing this week 🧠👇 @MNX_fi: A new futures DEX on @megaeth. Trading pre-IPO markets of OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, and Moonshot. Dated contracts that expire end of 2027, so no funding bleeding you dry. Max 3x leverage. @metricxyz: Most AMMs learn the price by getting arbed. Metric lets an oracle set it for tokenized stocks, gold, and FX, and parks liquidity around that price. If you LP, check the fee split first since curators can change it with no timelock. @UmbraPrivacy: Arcium-powered privacy layer shipped v2 this week. You can move tokens from your normal wallet into an encrypted balance, then send or swap from there, with transfers settling in under 5 seconds per the team. Deposits and withdrawals are still public, so the privacy covers what happens in between. @get_truenorth: Trading agents that scan markets, draft setups and babysit your positions, then execute on Hyperliquid, Binance or Bybit. This week they plugged OpenAI models into the router. Team says credit burn dropped ~50%. @superformxyz: Superform's stock vaults are now on Pendle. PT on superNVDA or the new superTSLA locks a fixed yield to April 2027. YT is the bet that vault yield runs hot. Under the hood, it borrows against the stock on Aave, so liquidation risk comes along. @orbiodotso $ORBIO: Discounted LLM credits through one OpenRouter-compatible key. Stakers earn $credit from $ORBIO trading fees and resell what they don't use, which is why Claude and GPT go for up to 60% off. @Zyfai_: Don't want a vault curator touching your funds? Zyfai spins up your own Safe, and an agent rebalances USDC, ETH, or EURC across approved pools on Morpho on Base, Arbitrum, and more. You pick the protocols, and you can revoke it anytime. @bordrlessdex $BORDR : Token-2022 (Solana's Token Extentions) transfer hooks can only approve or revert. Bordrless built its own Solana token standard where hooks run on every transfer, mint and swap and can take a cut, burn part of the swap or block it, with its own DEX, launchpad and bridge on top. Still early, so small size only. Anything good I missed?

What’s new in @aeroxyz? 🛫 On Oct 21, Aerodrome and Velodrome merge into one protocol under one token. 1 $VELO = 0.044 $AERO. The new Aero launches on Base, Ethereum, OP Mainnet, Arbitrum, Ink, Arc and Robinhood Chain. Voting becomes Predictive Allocation. veAERO and veVELO become sAERO. sAERO directs AERO Rewards to pools on any Aero supporting chain in one tx, gas paid on Base, and earns a pro rata cut of those pools’ revenue. A 47-hour cooldown between changes kills last-minute vote flipping. Don’t want to manage it? Autopilot allocates for you, with the first round on Oct 22. New emissions logic applies. Rewards are set in dollar value instead of a fixed token count, with gauge caps and mint-on-redeem limiting supply growth. Expected realized inflation is ~12% against a 20% ceiling. Incentives also change. Protocols no longer bribe per epoch, they stream rewards continuously. Aerodrome and Velodrome have done ~$487B in volume and $578M in lifetime revenue, and $508M of that revenue came from Base alone. That’s mostly 1 chain. Now Aero gets 6 more. Plenty of space to grow.

Crypto inference providers account for just 1% of OpenRouter’s daily token volume. That number undersells the edge they have over centralized providers, because they can tie model inference to tokenomics in many ways: - Model usage is connected with tokens. More inference means more token demand, whether through staking for API access, burns, or buybacks funded by revenue. - Emissions can subsidize prices, letting it undercut centralized APIs. - Compute supply is permissionless. Anyone with spare GPUs, or even a Mac, can plug in and get paid, which keeps costs down and capacity flexible. - Users and operators share the upside, so the people driving usage are the same people who benefit when the demand grows. Who's leading: > @AskVenice leads usage and revenue. Daily token demand is now >500B and annual revenue is huge, $150M > @PhalaNetwork is growing rapidly through confidential AI inference and third-party hardware. > @chutes_ai’s low prices are mostly funded by Bittensor token emissions. > @darkbloomai by @eigencloud runs AI on Macs without token subsidies, using EigenCloud’s Yukon to speed up its models. > AkashML by @akashnet offers inference on Akash’s GPU marketplace. Providers across 65+ data centers bid for workloads and push prices toward the raw cost of compute. > @near_ai lets you stake $NEAR and pay for private inference with the staking yield. Requests run inside Intel and NVIDIA TEEs, and Venice, Brave, and Phala are routing private workloads through it. > @ionet burns at least half of its post-payout revenue in $IO, and pays GPU suppliers. It’s now one of the largest DePIN inference providers on OpenRouter. > @flock_io links usage on its API Platform to tradable tokens on its launchpad. Every inference call on a model burns that model’s tokens. Users can stake tokens of the models they use for yield.

ETH is down 10% this week to $2,490. HYPE is down 14%. Want to buy the dip without catching a falling knife? Sell a put. Example on @DeriveXYZ: ETH $2,300 put, expiring Oct 23. You get paid $17.20 per ETH upfront. You lock $2,300 in USDC. Two outcomes: - ETH stays above $2,300: you keep the $17.20, about 0.75% in 10 days - ETH drops below $2,300: you buy ETH at ~$2,283, roughly 8% below today's price Either you get paid, or you buy the dip at your price. Like a limit order that pays you while you wait. It's also about the good timing too. After a dump, people pay more for downside protection, so put sellers get paid more. The catch is if ETH crashes to $1,900, you still buy at $2,300. Only do this on tokens you actually want to hold. Bullish instead? The $2,600 call costs ~$33. In the worst case, you lose $33, no liquidation. Other options venues to try: - @paradex: zero retail fees, options on gold, oil and the S&P 500 - @ryskfinance: not a trading exchange but like a vault, deposit HYPE, sell a covered call, get paid upfront - @SynapseProtocol: options on SpaceX, NVDA and the S&P 500 - @dreaming: prediction-market-like phone app, just pick up or down on the price. We broke down how each one works and what's still missing.

Crypto apps worth a click this week 🧠 @derivexyz Derive’s V3 is live, and the team retired Derive Chain to move V3 to the Ethereum mainnet with ZK-proven margin and settlement. You can cross-margin ETH and BTC or launch a fee-earning vault. $DRV hit an ATH as notional OI on Derive hit $4B. @papertrade_xyz Synthetic BTC and ETH perps on HyperEVM, up to 1000x with no fees or funding, priced off Hyperliquid’s mid. You trade against an LP funded by trader losses, and every $1 lost mints $PAPER, a claim on that LP’s revenue. Launch day pulled in 11.5k depositors with $137M deposited. LP dropped from about $5M to about $2.4M before recovering. $25M earned by stakers so far. Someone netted $1.28M by nudging Hyperliquid’s ETH price against that mid, so the team is now tightening OI caps; keep size small until they settle. @superformxyz Earn Stocks posts Coinbase tokenized NVDA as collateral on Aave V4’s equities hub on Base, borrows USDC against it and puts that USDC to work, so you keep the stock exposure and earn on top. Only superNVDA is live so far. It’s leverage under the hood, so liquidation risk comes with the yield. @VestExchange Vest is a perps prop firm built so it earns a cut of trader profits rather than living off failed evaluation fees. Pass an evaluation (or skip it with an instant account) and you trade ES, NQ, stocks, FX and crypto on Vest’s capital, keeping 80-95% of profits paid in USDC. Just raised $13M led by Portal Ventures. @prlnet Pearl is a Bitcoin-forked L1 where proof-of-work is matrix multiplication, the same math behind AI inference, so a GPU serving a model can mine on the side. Together AI is running a Pearl-backed inference endpoint priced 25%+ below its usual rate. @dreaming Dream is originally a mobile app for buying any token on any chain without gas or bridging, and V2 just shipped. Dream Options lets you take leveraged directional bets with no liquidations, which is the part worth testing. @TxFlow_L1 An L1 whose first app is a fully onchain CLOB perp DEX, listing stock futures next to crypto. Volume has been climbing fast, close to $1B over the past week. Worth a look if you want to find the next Variational. @ambire Ambire is a self-custody EVM wallet that relaunched on mobile, synced to its browser extension by QR. It runs EIP-7702 smart accounts on your existing address, so you get batched transactions and gas paid in 100+ tokens through the Gas Tank, with a plain-language preview of every transaction before you sign. Swap fees now scale from 0.5% down to 0% depending on how much $WALLET you stake.