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2026-10-24 20:10 10h ago
2026-10-24 13:58 17h ago
The biggest launch in LayerZero's history is coming November 30.
ZRO LayerZero
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LayerZero will launch its Zero Layer 1 mainnet and the lzATLAS exchange engine on November 30. Here is what it means for the $ZRO token and LayerZero's institutional ambitions.

LayerZero is set to launch its new Layer 1 network, Zero, together with its flagship application, lzATLAS, on November 30. The date leaves a little over a month before what the project is positioning as its largest release to date. @LayerZero_Core announced the timeline on October 20, according to TokenPost.

If the launch proves successful and draws real usage, it could give a meaningful lift to $ZRO and its community. That outcome is far from guaranteed, as the token's fortunes will depend on whether trading activity actually materialises.

What is launching on November 30Zero is LayerZero's own blockchain. Crypto Briefing reports that the network targets up to roughly 2 million transactions per second by splitting work into specialised zones covering EVM-compatible applications, trading and private payments, with verification based on zero-knowledge proofs.

lzATLAS is the first application to run on Zero. It begins with Open ATLAS, which is planned to support more than a dozen trading venues at launch, with more expected to follow this year. The mainnet is initially focused on open markets, while institutions are testing the app for larger markets such as U.S. equities and fixed income, per TokenPost. Venues are also integrating infrastructure and testing order execution and settlement ahead of go-live.

A plug-in engine rather than a consumer applzATLAS is notable for what it lacks. It has no consumer-facing frontend. Tron Weekly notes that ATLAS works as a "headless exchange" based on official documents, with third-party venues providing the access, distribution and trading interfaces. In practice, it is designed to sit behind other platforms and handle order matching, clearing, settlement and risk management while those platforms own the customer relationship.

The design carries a direct link to the token. According to Crypto Briefing, 75% of post-venue trading fees on ATLAS are planned to go toward buying back and burning $ZRO. The same report cautions that such a mechanism only matters if trading volume shows up.

The launch also follows institutional interest from earlier this year. CoinDesk reported in February that Citadel Securities made a strategic investment in ZRO when Zero was unveiled, and that DTCC, ICE, Google Cloud and ARK Invest were partnering or investing. The size of those investments was not disclosed.

Market watchers will focus on how many venues go live on day one and whether volume follows. According to TokenPost, ZRO was quoted at $1.846 on October 23, down 7.1% from an October 22 high near $2.

SourcesTokenPost: LayerZero Schedules Nov. 30 Debut for Zero Mainnet and lzATLAS
Crypto Briefing: LayerZero sets November 30 launch for Zero mainnet and lzATLAS
CoinDesk: Citadel Securities backs LayerZero as it unveils Zero
2026-10-24 18:30 12h ago
2026-10-24 11:23 19h ago
Initia discloses details of the MoveVM vulnerability attack, suffering losses of approximately $2.7 million, while the INIT token supply remains unaffected.
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Bitcoin Treasury Company purchased nearly 136,000 BTC via preferred stock financing, exceeding 0.5% of Bitcoin's maximum supply.

Fidelity data shows that as of October 5, 2025, bitcoin treasury firms including Strategy and Strive have used related preferred stock financing to purchase 135,979 BTC, accounting for over 0.5% of bitcoin’s total maximum supply. The market size of this type of preferred stock is approximately $120 billion.
Analysts note these firms face a balancing act between using perpetual preferred stock financing to buy bitcoin and sustaining dividend payments. Perpetual preferred stock has no fixed maturity date, easing refinancing pressure and attracting income-focused investors reluctant to hold bitcoin directly. However, as issuance scales up, dividend expenses will rise.
Analysts add that sustained financing for bitcoin purchases depends on preferred stock trading at or near par value; if it trades below par, new issuances will become less attractive, and firms may lean toward buybacks.
CoinShares Head of Research James Butterfill points out that Strategy’s latest weekly report shows the firm spent $193 million to repurchase STRC, bought only 267 BTC in the same period, and raised its preferred stock repurchase authorization cap to $30 billion. He says buybacks can reduce future dividend costs, but also compete with current bitcoin purchases for capital.
Bitwise Head of Research Ryan Rasmussen forecasts that ETFs will remain a larger source of bitcoin demand in the long run, while perpetual preferred stock caters to a distinct group of income-focused investors, providing a second stream of demand support.
Butterfill believes preferred stock could amplify market cycles: it supports bitcoin purchases when financing conditions are favorable, but that support weakens when market sentiment deteriorates.

2 hours ago

A crypto whale’s $214 million ETH long positions face liquidation risk, with liquidation prices set at $2256.45 and $2226.53 respectively.

According to Lookonchain’s monitoring, if the market continues to decline, a whale’s long position of 93,184 ETH (valued at approximately $214 million) may face liquidation, with liquidation prices at $2256.45 and $2226.53 respectively.

2 hours ago

Whale's $214M $ETH Long Position at Risk of Liquidation if Market Drops

Don't forget about this massive $ETH bull!
If the market keeps dropping, this whale's 93,184 $ETH ($214M) in long positions could get liquidated.
Liquidation prices: $2,256.45 and $2,226.53.

2 hours ago

Bitcoin fell below $80,000, altcoins saw sharp pullbacks, with Q plunging over 34% and PHA and CT both dropping more than 22%.

According to HTX market data, as Bitcoin pulled back below $80,000, altcoins saw sharp declines. The following tokens recorded notable 24-hour drops: Q is priced at $0.080162, down 34.35%; PHA at $0.0499, down 24.38%; CT at $0.1619, down 22.22%; SOPH at $0.001458, down 17.95%; FARTCOIN at $0.122, down 16.78%; "4" at $0.011367, down 14.99%; WLD at $0.462, down 12.80%; and PONS at $0.2239, down 12.30%.

2 hours ago

Machi Liquidated 5 Times in 1 Hour, Account Down to ~$5K

Machi (@machibigbrother) got liquidated 5 times in just 1 hour!
He now has only ~$5K left in his account.

2 hours ago

Ethereum falls below $2,300

According to HTX market data, Ethereum has fallen below $2,300, with a 4.31% decline in the past 24 hours.

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2026-10-24 10:40 20h ago
2026-10-24 02:35 1d ago
Initia Has No Restart Date After Attacker Mints Tokens and Bridges Out $2.7 Million
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Co-founder Zon's preliminary read points to a MoveVM flaw, while D2 Finance traced the payouts to LayerZero adapters on Ethereum.

Initia's chain stays halted after an attacker minted and bridged out tokens

Posted October 23, 2026 at 10:35 pm ET.

Anyone holding assets on Initia is waiting on a restart. Initia’s layer 1 and its rollups have been offline since 11:41 a.m. ET on Friday, when the team cited a “security incident,” and it had not said when they would come back as of 5:52 p.m. ET. Initia said in the same notice that it was working “to establish the full scope of any impact with security teams, validators, and exchanges.”

Co-founder Zon pointed to Initia’s own software, citing preliminary findings. He wrote that it was “a Day 0 bug related to Initia’s MoveVM on CosmosSDK that allowed the exploiter to mint additional tokens on the Initia L1 but does not apply to native INIT tokens.” The attacker managed to “mint and bridge out ~$2.7m worth of AUSD, ETH, and USDC before the chain was paused,” he added.

Pseudonymous researcher Spreek flagged the attack at 11:27 a.m. ET, 14 minutes before the halt, estimating $2.6 million cashed out.

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How the Funds Left D2 Finance, which published a breakdown of the transactions, said one transaction at 10:59 a.m. ET minted 2 million AUSD on the Initia side. By D2’s account, those unbacked tokens were burned and sent over LayerZero to Ethereum, where OFT adapters, lockbox contracts holding the real tokens behind Initia’s bridged versions, paid out. D2 wrote that “an OFT adapter cannot check whether burned tokens were ever backed.”

D2 said the attacker pulled 1.4 million AUSD, 71% of the AUSD adapter’s holdings, leaving about 576,000, plus 105 ETH, 96% of the native-ETH adapter. Another 1.08 million USDC arrived as new mints through Circle’s CCTP. In D2’s telling, $2.65 million had reached Ethereum within seven minutes and 21 seconds of the mint.

Agora Says AUSD Is Unaffected Agora, which issues AUSD, said at 12:57 p.m. ET that it “has no smart contracts deployed on Initia.” At 2:26 p.m. ET it added that “AUSD does not exist on Initia,” and that “AUSD is fully backed.” Agora’s statements indicate the token minted on Initia was a bridged representation rather than AUSD itself. D2 said the AUSD that left came from an Ethereum lockbox adapter backing that bridged token.

Onchain records show the 1.4 million AUSD sat in the attacker’s Ethereum address for about 84 seconds before it was traded away on the 1inch aggregator at 11:03 a.m. ET. Agora froze that address at 12:31 p.m. ET, roughly 89 minutes later and before its first statement, when the address held no AUSD.

The same address sent 1,135.5 ETH, which D2 valued at about $2.7 million, to a newly used wallet at 11:41 a.m. ET, the minute the halt took effect.

Initia’s own account has not confirmed Zon’s loss figure or published a post-mortem. It said it would post verified updates through its official channels.

Related Listen: Who’s to Blame for How KelpDAO’s DVN Was Set Up? KelpDAO or LayerZero?

AI-assisted content: This article was produced with the assistance of AI tools and was reviewed, edited, and fact-checked by a member of the Unchained editorial team before publication.
2026-10-22 13:10 2d ago
2026-10-22 04:00 3d ago
LayerZero rallies 10% as Zero mainnet launch nears – Will ZRO break $2?
ZRO LayerZero
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LayerZero [ZRO] has increased by about 10% to $1.98 in the last 24 hours, as investors and traders anticipate the November 30 launch of the Zero mainnet and ATLAS trading infrastructure. 

Renewed altcoin rotation and a surge in trading volume add support, signaling stronger market participation ahead of the launch.  Moreover, retail activity is surging as buyers dominate the token’s Futures market.

So, can sustained buying pressure push ZRO higher as the mainnet debut approaches?

LayerZero Mainnet launch lifts market sentiment
The upcoming November 30 launch of the Zero mainnet and ATLAS trading infrastructure has given traders a clear event to watch. The milestone appears to be supporting renewed interest in ZRO as investors position themselves ahead of the rollout.

In combination with the news impulsive buying pressure, the  broader altcoin rotation has also added to the recovery. The altcoin Season Index has once again spiked to 51 as of writing, suggesting that capital is rotating to the altcoin. ZRO stands out as one of the beneficiaries.

Besides, the network trading volume is also surging, suggesting that the move is attracting more participation. Over the last 24 hours the token’s trading volume has spiked by over 50% to $282 million.

However, increased volume alone does not confirm sustained spot accumulation, and traders will need to see continued buying to support further gains.

Source: CoinGlass
Futures buyers add more weights to the rally
On the derivatives side, retail activity data highlights an increased presence of many retail orders, with buyers dominating ZRO’s Futures market. This points to stronger bullish positioning as traders anticipate the mainnet launch.

Source: CryptoQuant
According to the recent Long/Short Ratio data, long positions account for 53% of all the total leveraged positions. This points to a slight buyer dominance as the token builds momentum in the meantime.

Source: Coinalyze
Can ZRO Extend Its Gains?
ZRO’s ability to hold its recent advance will depend on whether buying pressure persists beyond the initial reaction to the launch announcement. Continued volume growth and sustained demand could support another leg higher as the 30th of November approaches.

Conversely, fading volume or a reversal in Futures positioning could weaken the rally, particularly if traders begin taking profits ahead of the event. But as it stands, the positive reaction to the 20-day EMA at $1.9 on the daily chart leaves the psychological level at $2.0 as the next target.

If the momentum still lasts, chances for a continuation rally to test the resistance level at $2.50 are more likely to come into pass.

Source: TradingView

Final Summary

ZRO records significant gains over the last 24 hours as traders react to the confirmed November 30 launch of the Zero mainnet and ATLAS trading infrastructure.
The network’s rising trading volume, renewed altcoin rotation, and Futures-market buying support the rally.
2026-10-21 09:37 3d ago
2026-10-21 09:33 3d ago
LayerZero Sets November 30 Launch for Zero Mainnet and ATLAS Trading Platform
ZRO LayerZero
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TLDR LayerZero will launch its Zero mainnet and ATLAS trading infrastructure on November 30. Open ATLAS will debut with more than a dozen trading venues using a shared trading engine. Venues will get fee rebates of 20% to 65%, with the rest split between market makers and ZRO buybacks and burns. ATLAS is expected to handle about 200,000 transactions per second at launch. Anchorage Digital chose LayerZero’s token standard for bank-issued stablecoins, separate from the ATLAS launch. LayerZero has set November 30 as the launch date for its Zero mainnet and ATLAS trading infrastructure. The company said Open ATLAS will go live with more than a dozen trading venues at launch.

The date follows an announcement in August that moved the launch to later in the year. The plan brings order matching, clearing, and settlement together on one trading platform.

How ATLAS Will Work for Trading Venues Official documents describe ATLAS as a “headless exchange.” It does not offer a trading app for consumers. Instead, third-party venues handle user access, distribution, and trading interfaces.

The system splits trading into three roles. Venues bring in users, market creators set up markets, and market makers provide liquidity.

Supported assets include spot assets, perpetuals, equities, commodities, bonds, and prediction markets.

Open ATLAS is built for crypto use cases and for developers who want to build financial products. They can connect to existing markets or launch new ones. LayerZero said this removes the need to build a full trading backend.

An institutional version will run on the same trading engine and let institutions set market rules. However, the November release starts with Open ATLAS.

How ZRO Fees and Buybacks Will Be Split The token model ties ZRO to security, gas payments, and trading fee rebates. Venues can earn larger rebates by staking ZRO, through trading volume, or both.

Open ATLAS charges one trading fee. Venues receive rebates of 20% to 65% of that fee.

Of the amount left after the rebate, 25% goes to market makers. The other 75% is used to buy back and burn ZRO tokens.

For example, if a fee is $100 and the venue rebate is 20%, $80 remains. Of that, $20 goes to the market maker and $60 is used to buy ZRO.

LayerZero already runs a ZRO buyback program funded by Stargate revenue. According to a June token update, those purchases have taken place since April 2026.

The Zero network uses zero-knowledge proofs to separate transaction execution from verification. Block producers carry out the calculations, while validators check the proofs.

The network divides processing into separate environments called zones. ATLAS will run in its own zone, apart from payments and other uses.

LayerZero’s technical roadmap estimates each zone could support two million transactions per second. That figure is theoretical and has not been reached yet.

ATLAS documentation estimates a starting capacity of about 200,000 transactions per second. It also targets latency of under one millisecond in a public deployment.

Separately, Anchorage Digital recently chose LayerZero’s Omnichain Fungible Token standard. The standard will help bank-issued stablecoins move across different chains.

Anchorage said Tether’s USAT will be the first stablecoin issued on its platform with this feature. Its roadmap covers transfers among Ethereum, compatible chains, and Solana.

The bank partnership is separate from the ATLAS launch, which remains scheduled for November 30.
2026-10-21 00:31 4d ago
2026-10-20 17:09 4d ago
LayerZero sets November 30 launch for Zero mainnet and lzATLAS exchange engine
ZRO LayerZero
CoinGecko News
Original source text
LayerZero has picked a date. Its Zero mainnet and the lzATLAS exchange engine are scheduled to launch on November 30, 2026, according to an announcement the company made on October 20.

The pairing matters because lzATLAS is the first application built on Zero. It will arrive with an initial Open ATLAS setup supporting more than twelve trading venues.

What is actually launching
Zero is LayerZero’s own blockchain. The network targets up to approximately 2 million transactions per second.

It gets there by splitting work into specialized zones. Separate zones cover EVM-compatible applications, trading, and private payments.

Verification relies on zero-knowledge proofs. That’s a cryptographic method that lets one party prove a computation was done correctly without anyone redoing the whole thing.

Then there’s lzATLAS, the headliner. It’s an exchange engine that bundles matching, clearing, and settlement into one system.

In traditional markets, those three steps are often handled by different parties, sometimes over days. Matching pairs a buyer with a seller. Clearing confirms who owes what, and settlement actually moves the assets. lzATLAS aims to collapse all of that into a single pipeline.

The performance figures are aggressive. lzATLAS is initially provisioned for 200,000 transactions per second, with sub-millisecond latency recorded in testing.

At launch, the Open ATLAS configuration is set to integrate more than a dozen trading venues. LayerZero is also exploring institutional applications for lzATLAS in markets that see more than $1 trillion in daily activity.

The ZRO token angle
For holders of ZRO, LayerZero’s native token, the most consequential detail is the fee structure. Under the plan, 75% of post-venue trading fees on ATLAS will go toward buying back ZRO and burning it.

A buy-and-burn works roughly like a stock buyback with a shredder attached. The protocol uses revenue to purchase tokens on the open market, then destroys them so they leave circulation permanently.

The catch is that the mechanism only bites if volume shows up. A burn tied to trading fees is only as meaningful as the trading behind it. Twelve-plus venues at launch is a solid starting roster, but adoption, not integration count, will determine how much ZRO actually gets bought back.

How LayerZero got here
This launch has been building all year. Zero was first announced on February 10, 2026, with backing from major partners including Citadel Securities and Google Cloud.

ATLAS followed on August 25, 2026, when LayerZero revealed the engine alongside performance benchmarks. The October 20 announcement then locked in a timeline, giving the market roughly six weeks of runway before mainnet.

LayerZero built its reputation as an interoperability protocol. With Zero and lzATLAS, it’s moving from connecting other people’s networks to running its own, with a flagship trading product on top.

Disclosure: This article was edited by Estefano Gomez. For more information on how we create and review content, see our Editorial Policy.
2026-10-21 00:31 4d ago
2026-10-20 17:25 4d ago
LayerZero: Zero Mainnet and lzATLAS to Launch on November 30
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2026-10-21 00:31 4d ago
2026-10-20 18:05 4d ago
LayerZero sets Nov. 30 launch for Zero mainnet and ATLAS trading
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LayerZero has set Nov. 30 for the launch of its Zero mainnet and ATLAS trading infrastructure, with Open ATLAS expected to support more than a dozen trading venues at debut.

Summary

LayerZero has scheduled Zero mainnet and ATLAS for Nov. 30, with more than a dozen trading venues expected. ATLAS will handle trading and settlement behind third-party platforms, without its own consumer app. Open ATLAS plans to use 75% of fees remaining after venue rebates to buy and burn ZRO. LayerZero plans initial ATLAS capacity of 200,000 transactions per second. LayerZero announced that ATLAS will be the first application on Zero, starting with Open ATLAS and more than a dozen trading venues at launch, with more expected before year-end.

LayerZero ATLAS is the first application launching on Zero. This starts with Open ATLAS, which will support over a dozen trading venues at launch, with more to follow this year.

— LayerZero (@LayerZero_Core) October 20, 2026 The schedule follows the project’s August ATLAS introduction, when LayerZero described a backend that would combine order matching, clearing, settlement and risk management. As crypto.news previously reported, the company initially gave a launch window of later this year.

On Oct. 6, reporting on existing ZRO buybacks still described ATLAS’s timetable as “coming later this year,” separating the company’s published schedule from an analyst’s expectation of a launch within weeks.

LayerZero ATLAS will run behind trading venues LayerZero’s product documentation describes ATLAS as a “headless exchange,” meaning it has no consumer application or trading interface of its own. Customers will access the system through third-party venues, which manage their users, distribution, and interfaces.

In the company’s design, three groups perform separate jobs. Trading venues provide access to markets, market creators define the products available to trade, and market makers supply liquidity. The listed product categories include spot assets, perpetual contracts, stocks, commodities, bonds, and prediction markets.

Open ATLAS is intended for crypto-native applications and teams building open financial products, according to the August announcement. Operators can connect an interface, select existing markets or create their own, and use the underlying trading engine without developing the full exchange infrastructure themselves.

Institutional ATLAS uses the same engine, with institutions choosing the rules applied to their markets, the company says. Its documentation describes the two configurations separately; the reported November rollout starts with Open ATLAS.

During the August unveiling, CEO Bryan Pellegrino described ATLAS as infrastructure for a growing set of continuously traded assets.

“We built ATLAS to be the neutral, performant backend to power them all.”

ZRO rebates and burns depend on trading fees The planned token model assigns ZRO functions across the network and its trading system. According to LayerZero, ZRO will secure Zero, pay network gas fees, and give trading venues access to higher ATLAS rebates through staking.

For Open ATLAS, the company has announced a single trading fee, with venues receiving rebates ranging from 20% to 65%, based on their ZRO stake, trading volume or both. The remaining fees are then divided between market creators and token purchases.

LayerZero allocates 25% of that remaining amount to market creators and 75% to buying and burning ZRO. The burn allocation therefore applies after the venue’s rebate has been deducted.

Using those published percentages, a hypothetical $100 in trading fees would leave $80 after a 20% venue rebate, allocating $60 to ZRO purchases and $20 to the market creator. With a 65% rebate, $35 would remain, split into $26.25 for token purchases and $8.75 for the creator.

Those examples calculate the announced fee split; they do not represent actual ATLAS revenue or a forecast of token purchases.

Separate from ATLAS, LayerZero has already used Stargate revenue for ZRO buybacks. Its June token update said all Stargate revenue had funded purchases since April 2026, a policy covered in the October reporting on its existing token programs.

Zero separates execution from transaction verification In its February technical introduction, LayerZero described Zero as a blockchain that separates transaction execution from verification through zero-knowledge proofs. Block producers perform the computational work, while block validators check proofs of that work.

The design divides activity into concurrent environments called Zones. LayerZero’s ATLAS documentation says the trading engine will operate in its own Zone, keeping its workload separate from payments and general-purpose applications.

LayerZero’s technical paper describes a roadmap of 2 million transactions per second per Zone. The company’s ATLAS FAQ gives a smaller initial provisioning figure of 200,000 transactions per second for the trading system.

For latency, the same FAQ lists a median below one millisecond, with 1.418 milliseconds at the 95th percentile and 2.641 milliseconds at the 99th percentile in a public-deployment environment. Those figures are company-reported performance measurements, not independently established results from the November mainnet.

Stablecoin distribution has brought a separate bank integration LayerZero’s existing cross-chain business includes an Anchorage Digital partnership announced in September. Anchorage selected the company to connect stablecoins issued through Anchorage Digital Bank across blockchain networks, as covered in the October reporting on its bank stablecoin integration.

Anchorage’s announcement identifies LayerZero’s Omnichain Fungible Token standard as the mechanism for moving those assets between chains. The bank named Tether’s USAT as the first stablecoin issued through its platform to launch with that interoperability.

In the same announcement, Anchorage said stablecoins issued through its bank would be designed to move across Ethereum, other Ethereum-compatible networks and Solana.

Anchorage said its issuance platform serves institutions including Tether, Western Union, OSL Group and Falcon Finance.
2026-10-20 15:13 4d ago
2026-10-20 13:58 4d ago
LayerZero Sets Zero Mainnet Date
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LayerZero has set November 30 to launch its Zero blockchain and the lzATLAS settlement layer, with $ZRO fee burns and institutional pilots on the roadmap.

@LayerZero_Core has set November 30 as the launch date for the mainnet of Zero, its own layer 1 blockchain, alongside its native settlement layer, lzATLAS. The launch is a major step in LayerZero's shift from a cross-chain messaging protocol to infrastructure for financial markets, with the $ZRO token at the centre of the fee model.

What launches on November 30The first release will go live with Open ATLAS, which is set to integrate more than a dozen decentralized exchange platforms to support liquidity. ATLAS is short for Aggregated Trading, Liquidity and Settlement. The Block reported that it is built on the Zero blockchain and designed to combine matching, clearing, settlement and risk functions.

Institutions are expected to use the platform to test cross-chain transfers of traditional capital-market processes. These involve US equities and sovereign fixed-income markets, which together see more than $1 trillion in daily trading value.

Zero was announced in February. CoinDesk noted that the project has involved DTCC, Intercontinental Exchange and Google Cloud, along with a strategic investment from Citadel Securities. The chain uses zero-knowledge proofs to verify trades onchain, according to The Block.

How $ZRO fits inThe platform pairs a high-throughput execution layer with a deflationary sink for $ZRO. Under the fee design, 75% of fees are rebated through a spot-market buy-and-burn mechanism.

The details of the fee split were outlined when ATLAS was unveiled in August. According to The Block, ATLAS charges a single all-in trading fee. In Open ATLAS, trading venues receive rebates of 20% to 65% depending on their ZRO stake and trading volume. Of the fees that remain, 25% goes to market creators and 75% is used to buy and burn ZRO.

$ZRO also has a role in network security. The Block reported that it will secure Zero through delegated proof-of-stake, serve as the gas token and be used for governance. Trading venues can stake it to qualify for higher rebates.

Whether the burn mechanism has a meaningful effect will depend on how much trading volume ATLAS attracts. CoinMarketCap's analysis noted that the mechanism's effectiveness is untested until ATLAS and Zero go live.

Sources:

The Block: ZRO token surges as LayerZero unveils ATLAS exchange infrastructureCoinDesk: LayerZero unveils trading infrastructure for crypto and tokenized marketsCoinMarketCap: LayerZero (ZRO) price prediction and outlook
2026-10-20 04:48 5d ago
2026-10-20 04:33 5d ago
Cashmere Labs will launch its Mountain product and CSM token, with Goat LP opening to all users.
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$ZEC whale with $15M portfolio accumulates 3.69M $MASK tokens worth $151K in 3 days

A $ZEC whale is buying $MASK (Nullmask)!
This whale holds over $15M in assets, including 10,241 $ZEC ($11.69M).
Over the past 3 days, he has been accumulating $MASK, buying a total of 3.69M $MASK ($151K).

5 minutes ago

JPMorgan predicts Bitcoin will be the highest-return asset over the next decade, outperforming U.S. stocks and gold.

JPMorgan Asset Management released its "2027 Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions" report on October 19, including Bitcoin in its long-term return forecast for the first time. The report projects Bitcoin’s compound annual return over the next 10 to 15 years will reach 10%, outperforming 7.5% for U.S. large-cap stocks, 5.5% for gold, and 8.2% for U.S. real estate investment trusts (REITs). It also estimates Bitcoin’s arithmetic average annual return at 20.9% and annualized volatility at 55%. Matt Hougan, chief investment officer of Bitwise, noted that JPMorgan has ranked Bitcoin as the top-performing asset expected over the next decade, a move that signals a shift in traditional financial institutions’ attitude toward crypto assets.

5 minutes ago

After Anthropic disrupted IBM, OpenAI also posted a near-perfect score in COBOL migration.

Beating AI Express: In February this year, after Anthropic demonstrated Claude Code’s capability to modernize legacy COBOL systems, IBM’s stock price plummeted 13.2% in a single day. Eight months later, OpenAI released its latest results for the GPT-6 series on legacy programming languages, with a maximum success rate of 97.9% in COBOL code migration tests.
COBOL, created in the 1950s, remains widely used in banking transactions, ATMs, and insurance systems. Many programs have operated for decades, their original developers long departed, and some business rules exist only within the code itself. Rewriting these into modern languages requires not just making the code run, but also ensuring fully consistent calculation results. For instance, COBOL’s fixed-point arithmetic discards excess decimal places unless explicitly ordered to round; a new program using rounding instead could lead to financial account errors.
OpenAI specifically tested AI’s ability to convert COBOL programs to languages including C++, Java, Python, and Rust, requiring byte-for-byte identical output between the old and new programs. GPT-6.1 Sol achieved an 86.6% success rate at low inference settings, compared to just 5.4% for the previous GPT-5.6 Sol, with an estimated API cost reduction of 39%. Success rates climbed further to 97.9% when increasing inference settings.
OpenAI also open-sourced MultiLangBench, which tasked AI with building SQLite-compatible database engines from scratch in 20 different programming languages. GPT-6 Astra posted an average test pass rate of 87.4%, versus 26.8% for GPT-5.6 Sol. Between the two models, their scores on COBOL were 72.1% and 10.9% respectively – COBOL ranks as the most challenging of the 20 tested languages.

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Investors ramp up AI-related credit default swap trades to hedge against industry debt risks.

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2026-10-19 20:58 5d ago
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MemeCore Price Falls 30% in a Week Despite New LayerZero Bridge
ZRO LayerZero
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MemeCore’s M token has lost about 30% in a week and trades near its lowest level since early July. Price has broken down from its two-month range and is falling inside a narrow downward channel. RSI shows extreme selling pressure, but there is still no technical sign of a bottom. A new LayerZero and Stargate integration expanded M’s reach without changing the market’s direction. MemeCore price fell to $0.6706 on Monday, down 15.17% in 24 hours and 30.21% over the past seven days, according to CoinMarketCap. The drop cut the project’s market capitalization to $1.53 billion and pushed M into the bottom fifth of the rally it built over the summer. The sell-off has continued even after MemeCore connected its network to LayerZero and Stargate on October 16-17, a move that opened routes for M and stablecoins to BNB Chain and Base but gave buyers no reason to step back in.

M has handed back 85% of its 280% summer rally Between late June and September 20, M rose from $0.47 to $1.785, a gain of about 280% in 87 days. At current prices the token sits roughly 62% below that peak, which wipes out about 85% of the gains from the run.

Where M sits inside the summer rally

$0.47
Late June
$0.67
Now
$1.785
Sept 20

The $0.972 floor broke on October 12 and no bounce has held since The decline did not happen in one move. Through July, August and early September, M traded sideways between $0.972 and $1.282, two levels where buyers repeatedly stepped in on dips and sellers took profit on rallies. In mid-September the price spiked to $1.78. That breakout failed almost at once.

M/USDT daily chart. Source: Alexander Stefanov / TradingView By the end of September the 20-day average price had dropped below the 50-day average, a sign that short-term momentum had turned against holders. Around October 12 the $0.972 floor of the two-month range gave way. Since then M has slid inside a narrow downward channel and broken through $0.855 and $0.751 without a meaningful rebound at either level.

Monday’s daily candle is the largest of the entire move and is closing near its lows. Sellers remain in control. On the hourly chart the price has flattened, which points to a pause rather than to buyers returning.

Why an RSI of 21 isn’t enough to call a MemeCore price bottom The RSI reading of 21 is the lowest since late June. In practical terms it means the price has fallen unusually fast over a short period, and the last time M reached this zone, the July rally began soon after.

That parallel has limits. Momentum is still printing new lows together with the price, so there is no divergence that would show selling pressure fading. The RSI line also remains well below its own average of 31.9. A 30% weekly drop in a $1.5 billion asset leaves room for a sharp relief bounce, but rebounds inside a falling channel tend to fade unless the price reclaims the levels it has already lost.

M price map

$0.91-$0.97Trend decider

$0.855Lost in October

$0.751First hurdle

$0.6706Current price

$0.62Key support

$0.549July low

$0.47Rally origin

The $0.62 area is the most likely place for buyers to make a stand. It matches the early-July price zone, and the lower boundary of the channel reaches it within the next few sessions. If it fails, $0.549 is the next support, followed by a full return to $0.47.

Unlocked supply and trapped summer buyers cap every rebound Part of the pressure comes from supply. An unlock of about 56.11 million M took place on October 2, valued at roughly $57 million at the time, and the breakdown of the trading range followed ten days later. M launched with 5 billion tokens and has a maximum supply of 10 billion. Core contributors hold 13% of the allocation and investors 12%, according to the project’s official documentation, and scheduled releases to those groups tend to weigh on price when sentiment is already fragile.

Positioning matters too. Traders who bought anywhere between $0.97 and $1.28 during the summer range are now sitting on losses of 30% to 50%. Many of them are likely to sell into any recovery toward their entry price, which is why the $0.91-$0.97 zone carries more weight than the levels below it. A rally into that area looks more like an exit opportunity for trapped holders than the start of a new uptrend.

Only a daily close above $0.97 would mark the October breakdown as a false move. Before that, the first signs of a potential bottom would be a break above the channel’s upper line near $0.751 together with RSI crossing back above its average.

LayerZero routes to Base and BNB Chain opened during the sell-off MemeCore announced the integration on October 15 in a post on its official X account, saying the LayerZero and Stargate connection lets liquidity move on and off the chain. Stargate confirmed the same day that M now runs on the OFT standard and is live on its bridge. The post also lists the official M contract addresses on BNB Chain and Base, which is the reference point anyone bridging should use, since fake token contracts tend to appear around new listings. The scope is narrower than some coverage suggests: M itself moves only between MemeCore, BNB Chain and Base, while the bridged USDC and USDT versions can travel across the wider Stargate network.

MemeCore just went omnichain.🌐

We've integrated @LayerZero_Core and @StargateFinance, so moving liquidity on and off MemeCore is now seamless.

✅ $M: MemeCore, BSC, Base
• BSC: 0x22b1458e780F8fA71E2F84502cEe8B5A3cc731Fa
• Base: 0x491CC54c9C852Db1f1A720d8Fd46C8A77bDE9dA1

✅… pic.twitter.com/dp4uuvCu3Q

— MemeCore (@MemeCore_M) October 15, 2026

LayerZero is a messaging protocol that lets a contract on one chain send a verified instruction to another chain, with each application choosing its own verifiers through Decentralized Verifier Networks (DVNs). Stargate is the transfer layer on top, handling liquidity and routing for users, including tokens built on the Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT) standard. The two have been closely aligned since August 2025, when the Stargate DAO approved an acquisition by the LayerZero Foundation valued at about $110 million. MemeCore also already had a bridge, Ants Gate, so the new routes extend existing connectivity rather than mark a first.

For the price, the integration works in both directions. It makes M easier to buy for users on Base and BNB Chain, and it equally makes it easier for current holders to move tokens to deeper markets and sell. Over the past four days the second effect appears to have mattered more, although no route-level transfer data has been published to confirm the direction of flows. No independent audit of MemeCore’s specific bridge contracts has been released either.

$0.62 and Tuesday’s ZRO unlock set the near-term test In the short term, how the MemeCore price reacts at $0.62 will set the tone for the rest of the month. A hold there combined with a slowing decline in RSI would open room for a test of $0.751, while a daily close below it would put the July lows at $0.549 back in play.

Beyond the chart, the data that could change the picture is still missing: transfer volumes across the new routes, net stablecoin inflows to MemeCore, and any sign that M liquidity pools on Base and BNB Chain are attracting capital. The broader LayerZero market faces its own pressure point on October 20, when about 23.63 million ZRO tokens worth roughly $44.4 million are scheduled to unlock, equal to almost 6% of its circulating supply and split between core contributors and strategic partners.

Alex is a financial markets journalist and co-founder of Millennial Media Group, and he's spent close to ten years trying to answer one stubborn question: what's really driving this? It started in 2016, when Bitcoin refused to make sense to him - and rather than shrug, he stayed with it until it did. That patience became his method. He's less interested in what an asset is doing today than in the plumbing behind it: how liquidity flows, where risk hides, what a chart is quietly telling you that the headline isn't. That lens eventually stretched well past crypto into traditional markets, because the same forces - fear, leverage, incentives, timing - show up everywhere once you know how to look. Most coverage, in his view, insults the reader by stopping at the surface. Price up, price down, moving on. He'd rather leave someone genuinely understanding a move than merely informed that it happened. His path into markets ran through a Tourism degree at New Bulgarian University - proof, maybe, that curiosity beats credentials. With more than 200 deep analyses and over 10,000 articles behind him, he still walks away from most trading days having learned something he didn't know that morning.

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2026-10-19 16:43 5d ago
2026-10-19 14:00 5d ago
3 Token Unlocks to Watch in the Fourth Week of October 2026
ZRO LayerZero
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The crypto market will welcome tokens worth more than $793.6 million in the fourth week of October 2026. Major projects, including LayerZero (ZRO), Plasma (XPL), and Humanity (H), will release significant new token supplies.

These unlocks could introduce market volatility and influence short-term price movements. So, here’s a breakdown of what to watch.

1. LayerZero (ZRO) Unlock Date: October 20 Number of Tokens to be Unlocked: 23.28 million ZRO Released Supply: 607.45 million ZRO Total Supply: 1 billion ZRO LayerZero is an interoperability protocol that connects different blockchains. Its primary goal is to facilitate seamless cross-chain communication. Thus, it enables decentralized applications (dApps) to interact across multiple blockchains without relying on traditional bridging models.

The team will unlock 23.28 million tokens on October 20, representing 3.83% of the released supply. Moreover, the supply is worth approximately $43.54 million.

ZRO Crypto Token Unlock in October. Source: TokenomistLayerZero will award 10.99 million altcoins to strategic partners. Core contributors will get 10.63 million ZRO. Lastly, 1.67 million ZRO are for tokens repurchased by the team.

2. Plasma (XPL) Unlock Date: October 25 Number of Tokens to be Unlocked: 227.78 million XPL Released Supply: 4.53 billion XPL Total Supply: 10 billion XPL Plasma is a Layer 1 blockchain platform built to enhance the efficiency and scalability of stablecoin transactions. It enables zero-fee USDT transfers, supports custom gas tokens, enables confidential payments, and delivers the throughput required for global-scale adoption.

Plasma will release 227.78 million XPL on October 25. The stack is worth $17.50 million and accounts for 5.02% of the released supply.

XPL Crypto Token Unlock in October. Source: TokenomistThe team will direct 88.89 million XPL to ecosystem and growth. In addition, investors and the team will each receive 69.44 million tokens.

3. Humanity (H) Unlock Date: October 25 Number of Tokens to be Unlocked: 266.47 million H Released Supply: 3.90 billion H Total Supply: 10 billion H Humanity (H) is a decentralized identity protocol that utilizes biometric palm recognition, zero-knowledge proofs, and blockchain to verify the authenticity of real human users without exposing their personal data. It features a native Proof of Humanity (PoH) consensus mechanism.

On October 25, the protocol will unlock 266.47 million tokens. The tokens are worth $15.30 million and account for 6.84% of the released supply.

H Crypto Token Unlock in October. Source: TokenomistThe team will split the released supply six ways. Early contributors will take the largest share at 79.17 million H, while investors will receive 55.56 million altcoins.

Meanwhile, the ecosystem fund will claim 50 million H, and Humanity will direct 42.86 million tokens toward identity verification rewards. 

The Human Institute Strategic Reserve will get 26.39 million H. Lastly, the foundation operations treasury will receive 12.50 million.

In addition to these, other prominent unlocks investors can look out for in the fourth week of October include SoSoValue (SOSO), Kaito (KAITO), Bedrock (BR), and more, which will contribute to the total market-wide releases. 

Tokenomist has marked the LayerZero, Plasma, and Humanity unlocks as pending verification, so these figures remain projections.
2026-10-19 11:48 5d ago
2026-10-19 06:30 6d ago
Yeni Haftada 3 Altcoin’e Dikkat: Yüklü Token Açılışı Kapıda!
ZRO LayerZero
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19-25 Ekim haftasında kripto para piyasasında üç altcoin için önemli token kilit açılışları gerçekleşecek. LayerZero (ZRO), Plasma (XPL) ve Humanity (H) projelerinde milyonlarca tokenın dolaşıma girmesi bekleniyor. Toplamda yüz milyonlarca tokenı kapsayan bu gelişmeler, söz konusu projelerin arz dengesi ve piyasa dinamikleri açısından dikkat çekiyor. Özellikle kilidi açılacak tokenların mevcut dolaşımdaki arza oranı ve toplam piyasa değeri, yatırımcıların yakından takip ettiği göstergeler arasında yer alıyor. Token kilit açılışları doğrudan fiyat düşüşü anlamına gelmese de artan arzın satış baskısı üzerindeki olası etkisi, önümüzdeki hafta ZRO, XPL ve H fiyatlarında yaşanabilecek hareketlilik açısından önem taşıyor.

LayerZero İçin Milyon Dolarlık Kilit Açılışı
LayerZero (ZRO) için haftanın ilk önemli token kilit açılışlarından biri 20 Ekim’de gerçekleşecek. Proje kapsamında yaklaşık 23,28 milyon ZRO tokenının dolaşıma girmesi bekleniyor. Açılacak tokenların toplam piyasa değeri yaklaşık 43,3 milyon dolar seviyesinde bulunurken bu miktar, ZRO’nun mevcut dolaşımdaki arzının yaklaşık %3,83’ünü oluşturuyor. Söz konusu gelişme, özellikle kısa vadeli fiyat hareketlerini takip eden yatırımcıların odağında yer alabilir. Dolaşıma girecek yeni tokenların satışa sunulması durumunda ZRO üzerinde olası bir satış baskısı oluşabilir. Ancak fiyatın nasıl tepki vereceği, piyasa talebi ve yatırımcıların tokenları elde tutma ya da satma tercihleri gibi faktörlere bağlı olacak.

İlginizi Çekebilir: Bu Altcoin’de Yatırımcılar 2018’den Beri Zarardalar!

Plasma (XPL) için önemli token kilit açılışlarından biri 25 Ekim’de gerçekleşecek. Planlanan takvime göre yaklaşık 227 milyon XPL tokenının dolaşıma girmesi bekleniyor. Kilidi açılacak bu miktar, projenin mevcut dolaşımdaki arzının yaklaşık %5,02’sine karşılık geliyor. Tokenların toplam tahmini piyasa değeri ise 17,9 milyon dolar seviyesinde bulunuyor. Bu gelişme, XPL yatırımcılarının önümüzdeki hafta yakından takip edeceği başlıklar arasında yer alıyor. Dolaşımdaki token miktarının artması, özellikle satış yönlü işlemlerin yoğunlaşması durumunda fiyat üzerinde baskı oluşturabilir.

Humanity İçin 266 Milyon Token Kilidi Açılıyor
Haftanın önemli token kilit açılışlarından biri de Humanity (H) projesinde gerçekleşecek. 25 Ekim’de yaklaşık 266 milyon H tokenının kilidinin açılması ve dolaşıma girmesi bekleniyor. Söz konusu tokenların toplam piyasa değeri yaklaşık 15 milyon dolar seviyesinde bulunurken bu miktar, Humanity’nin mevcut dolaşımdaki arzının yaklaşık %6,84’üne karşılık geliyor.

Oransal açıdan değerlendirildiğinde H, bu hafta token kilidi açılacak üç altcoin arasında dolaşımdaki arza kıyasla en yüksek orana sahip proje olarak öne çıkıyor.

Bu nedenle yatırımcıların H fiyatındaki olası hareketleri ve işlem hacmindeki değişimleri yakından takip etmesi önem taşıyor. Artan token arzının satış baskısı oluşturup oluşturmayacağı ise kilidi açılan tokenların nasıl kullanılacağına, yatırımcıların satış kararlarına ve piyasadaki talep koşullarına bağlı olacak.

Token Unlock Gelişmeleri Altcoin Fiyatlarını Etkiler mi?
Token kilit açılışları, piyasaya yeni tokenların girmesi nedeniyle yatırımcılar tarafından yakından izleniyor. Ancak kilidi açılan tokenların tamamının hemen satılacağı anlamına gelmiyor. Fiyat üzerindeki olası etki; piyasa talebine, token sahiplerinin davranışlarına, genel kripto para piyasasının yönüne ve beklentilerin önceden fiyatlanıp fiyatlanmadığına bağlı olarak değişebilir. 19-25 Ekim haftasında ZRO, XPL ve H yatırımcılarının token arzındaki değişimleri takip etmesi önem taşıyor. Kilit açılışları tek başına fiyat düşüşü anlamına gelmese de piyasadaki oynaklığı etkileyebilecek gelişmeler arasında bulunuyor.

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2026-10-18 17:28 6d ago
2026-10-18 12:00 6d ago
Data: ZRO, XPL and other tokens to see major unlocks next week, with ZRO unlocking about $43.3 million
ZRO LayerZero
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PANews reported on October 18 that Token Unlocks data shows tokens such as ZRO, XPL and H will see major unlocks next week, including:

LayerZero (ZRO) will unlock about 23.28 million tokens at 7:00 pm Beijing time on October 20, about 3.83% of circulating supply, worth about $43.3 million;

Plasma (XPL) will unlock about 227 million tokens at 8:00 pm Beijing time on October 25, about 5.02% of circulating supply, worth about $17.9 million;

Humanity (H) will unlock about 266 million tokens at 8:00 am Beijing time on October 25, about 6.84% of circulating supply, worth about $15 million;

SoSoValue (SOSO) will unlock about 23.46 million tokens at 5:00 pm Beijing time on October 24, about 5.63% of circulating supply, worth about $6.9 million;

SOON (SOON) will unlock about 20.24 million tokens at 4:30 pm Beijing time on October 23, about 3.50% of circulating supply, worth about $6.3 million;

Kaito (KAITO) will unlock about 17.6 million tokens at 8:00 pm Beijing time on October 20, about 3.69% of circulating supply, worth about $5 million;

ChainOpera AI (COAI) will unlock about 19.55 million tokens at 3:00 pm Beijing time on October 25, about 6.36% of circulating supply, worth about $5 million.
2026-10-17 17:23 7d ago
2026-10-17 14:19 7d ago
ZRO Price Faces Its Biggest Test Since the 250% Rally Began
ZRO LayerZero
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ZRO price has fallen back inside the sideways range it has held since early October. Sellers have rejected every attempt to hold above the first major resistance level. Momentum has cooled from overheated to neutral while the broader uptrend remains intact. LayerZero’s new post-quantum research arrived without lifting the price. The ZRO price traded near $1.90 on October 17, down 12.2% over 24 hours and 3.5% over the week, after another failed attempt to break out of the range it has held for two weeks. The drop came a day after LayerZero Labs released Aerie, research showing post-quantum signatures can be bundled in under a second on a laptop, and the selling looks more like profit-taking after a stretched autumn rally than a reaction to the research itself. With a market capitalization near $760 million, ZRO now sits roughly $0.10 above the support level that has anchored its whole consolidation.

A 250% run meets a wall at $2.06 ZRO/USD daily chart. Source: Alexander Stefanov / TradingView The ZRO price climbed about 250% in ten weeks, from an early-August low near $0.71 to an intraday peak of $2.48 on October 12. Since early October, however, price has moved sideways between roughly $1.80 and $2.25, and buyers have repeatedly failed to stay above $2.06, the first Fibonacci retracement level of the rally, which marks a point where traders commonly expect a pullback to pause or reverse. Long upper wicks on October 12 and October 16 show sellers absorbing every push higher, and the October 17 session, which opened at $2.05, fell more than 7% intraday and pushed price back below that level. On the downside, $1.80 has done its job so far, and the October 15 low tested that level almost exactly before bouncing.

Momentum cools while the trend holds The 14-day RSI peaked near 83 around October 6 and has since dropped to 53.6, meaning the token has moved from heavily overbought to neutral territory without the uptrend breaking. A mild bearish divergence tempers that reading, as price set a higher intraday high on October 12 while RSI made a lower high, a sign that each new push carries less buying force behind it. Trading volume was heaviest during the late-September breakout and has faded since, with selling days dominating the past week.

The longer-term structure still favors buyers, with price about 29% above the 50-day moving average at $1.48 and more than 50% above the 200-day average at $1.24, while the 50-day line crossed above the 200-day in early October, a pattern traders call a golden cross.

Level Price Why it matters Resistance $2.48 October 12 swing high Resistance $2.20-$2.25 Top of the range Resistance $2.06 0.236 retracement Support $1.80 Range floor, 0.382 Support $1.59 Halfway retracement Support $1.38-$1.48 0.618 and 50-day average Levels based on the ZRO/USD daily chart

Why Aerie did not move the price According to the LayerZero Aerie announcement, the system, built with a16z crypto research, Carnegie Mellon University and Imperial College London, aggregated 32,768 Falcon signatures in 0.65 seconds on an Apple M4 Max laptop without a GPU. Aggregation means merging thousands of validator approvals into one proof the network checks once, something today’s BLS signatures do natively but quantum-resistant schemes standardized by NIST cannot, which is why the result matters for proof-of-stake chains preparing for quantum computers. The Aerie research paper reports verification 38x faster than Orthus, the closest prior lattice-based system.

New from LayerZero Research: Aerie.

A new system capable of aggregating 32,000 post-quantum Falcon signatures in just 0.65 seconds on a MacBook Pro.

ML-DSA, NIST’s standardized default, is already working inside Aerie at high performance.https://t.co/IXm2vLB00X

— LayerZero (@LayerZero_Core) October 16, 2026

Research of this kind rarely moves a token on the day because it carries no deployment date, no revenue effect and no direct change to supply or demand for ZRO. Its value for holders runs through Zero, LayerZero’s upcoming layer-1 blockchain, where Akita, the commitment scheme Aerie builds on, is already slated to secure the Jolt proving system. Until Zero has a firm mainnet date, that connection is too distant to offset short-term profit-taking, which leaves the chart in charge of the near-term direction.

ZRO price paths from $1.80 If $1.80 holds and ZRO closes a day back above $2.06, the two-week range would look like a pause after a strong leg higher, putting $2.20 to $2.48 back in reach, while only a move through $2.48 on rising volume would confirm the rally is resuming. A daily close below $1.80 would break the range floor and open the way to $1.59, which would still count as a routine halfway pullback inside the uptrend. The decisive zone lies at $1.38 to $1.48, where the 0.618 level, the late-September breakout area and the rising 50-day average overlap, and losing it would put the whole August-to-October advance in doubt.

The next fundamental test is the ML-DSA benchmark LayerZero has promised but not yet published, since that scheme, finalized by NIST as FIPS 204, is NIST’s primary post-quantum signature standard and the default choice for most institutional deployments, and a strong result there would speak more directly to the institutional users Zero is courting.

Alex is a financial markets journalist and co-founder of Millennial Media Group, and he's spent close to ten years trying to answer one stubborn question: what's really driving this? It started in 2016, when Bitcoin refused to make sense to him - and rather than shrug, he stayed with it until it did. That patience became his method. He's less interested in what an asset is doing today than in the plumbing behind it: how liquidity flows, where risk hides, what a chart is quietly telling you that the headline isn't. That lens eventually stretched well past crypto into traditional markets, because the same forces - fear, leverage, incentives, timing - show up everywhere once you know how to look. Most coverage, in his view, insults the reader by stopping at the surface. Price up, price down, moving on. He'd rather leave someone genuinely understanding a move than merely informed that it happened. His path into markets ran through a Tourism degree at New Bulgarian University - proof, maybe, that curiosity beats credentials. With more than 200 deep analyses and over 10,000 articles behind him, he still walks away from most trading days having learned something he didn't know that morning.

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2026-10-17 04:53 8d ago
2026-10-16 20:18 8d ago
LayerZero unveils Aerie with 0.65-second quantum-safe signature benchmark
ZRO LayerZero
CoinGecko News
Original source text
LayerZero Labs has introduced Aerie, a research system that its developers say can aggregate 32,768 quantum-resistant Falcon signatures in 0.65 seconds on an Apple laptop without GPU acceleration.

Summary

32,768 Falcon-512 signatures were aggregated in 0.65 seconds using 16 worker threads.
Aerie’s standard aggregate includes retained signature data, with a smaller shared-salt version requiring extra conditions.
The researchers report faster proof generation than leanVM, while leanVM’s proofs verified faster.
NIST lists Falcon as undergoing standardization, separately from its finalized ML-DSA signature standard.

LayerZero’s Oct. 16 announcement identifies researchers from its own team, a16z crypto research, Carnegie Mellon University, and Imperial College London as contributors to the project, which builds on the Akita cryptographic proof system.

The accompanying paper presents a way to combine thousands of digital signatures into one proof of their validity. Its authors frame the work around a problem facing proof-of-stake blockchains, where validators sign messages confirming the network’s state and other participants must check those signatures.

According to the paper, Ethereum currently uses BLS signatures to combine roughly 32,000 validator votes into a small signature. BLS does not withstand quantum attacks, while the post-quantum alternatives selected by US standards officials lack the same built-in aggregation capability.

Aerie cuts proof generation below one second
In the team’s Apple M4 Max benchmarks, Aerie processed the Falcon-512 batch using 16 worker threads and reached peak memory usage of 2.1 GiB. A second workload, comprising 16,384 Falcon-1024 signatures, took 0.63 seconds with similar memory requirements.

The researchers describe Falcon-1024 as the higher-security option, with larger signatures and more computation than Falcon-512. Their paper reports that producing a proof for either workload took roughly 4.3 seconds when restricted to one thread.

Checking the completed Falcon-512 aggregate took 54 milliseconds on one core, according to the benchmark table, compared with 519 milliseconds for checking the signatures individually. With 16 threads, the corresponding figures were 11.6 milliseconds and 42.9 milliseconds.

The paper describes the batch construction in direct terms.

“One proof covers the whole batch, with no recursion.”

According to the authors, avoiding recursion removes the need to create intermediate proofs and combine them through successive rounds. Their design allows another node holding the signatures to produce a replacement proof if the original aggregator fails.

Smaller proofs still carry signature data
Aerie retains a short random value, known as a salt, from each signature so that the verifier can calculate the associated hashes directly, the researchers explain. The proof handles the remaining mathematical checks, using Akita to support the construction.

For the 32,768-signature Falcon-512 workload, the paper reports an aggregate of 1,346 KiB, including salts and headers. Its proof component accounts for roughly 66 KiB, while the retained salts make up most of the remaining data.

The authors put the standard aggregate at 42.1 bytes per signature, approximately 16 times smaller than the padded Falcon signatures it replaces. Their size measurements exclude public keys and messages supplied separately to the verifier.

A shared salt could bring the complete aggregate down to approximately 66 KiB, according to the paper, but that estimate depends on a separate signing policy and security assumptions. The researchers explicitly state that the size estimate does not establish compliance with that policy.

Against Orthus, an earlier Falcon aggregation system, the team reports 1.5 times faster proof generation, 38 times faster verification, and proofs 1.7 times smaller on the same server. The paper qualifies that comparison by explaining that Orthus’s workload omits signature-format checks that Aerie performs.

Ethereum comparison involves different signature designs
The paper compares Aerie with leanVM, part of Ethereum’s hash-based aggregation work. As crypto.news previously reported, Ethereum researchers have been developing proof infrastructure to compress large post-quantum signatures for use on the network.

In Section 6.3, the Aerie authors report running leanVM on the same M4 Max and aggregating 900 XMSS signatures in 0.51 seconds using all cores. Their comparison puts Aerie’s Falcon-512 proving throughput at 29 times leanVM’s XMSS throughput under those conditions.

The researchers report a trade-off on verification. LeanVM proofs verified in 5.9 to 6.5 milliseconds on one thread in the cited configurations, faster than Aerie’s 54-millisecond single-thread result for its 32,768-signature batch.

Separate Ethereum work addresses how validators could adopt new signatures. An August draft proposed a post-quantum-ready deposit contract with variable-length cryptographic data and a mechanism to retire new BLS deposits.

The proposal’s GitHub record remains a draft submission. Its description identifies an irreversible BLS retirement mode, while discussion records show outstanding technical feedback and review requirements.

In its Sept. 7 priorities document, the Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol Cluster set a December 2029 quantum-resistance target covering execution, consensus and data. The Foundation called a quantum threat arriving in 2030 a deliberately aggressive planning assumption, with outside experts expected to help reassess progress beginning in January 2027.

US standards distinguish Falcon from finalized alternatives
The National Institute of Standards and Technology lists ML-DSA and SLH-DSA among the digital-signature standards finalized in August 2024. Its current program overview identifies Falcon as selected for ongoing standardization, a separate status from those completed standards.

NIST recommends that organizations begin migrating vulnerable systems and identifies 2035 as the endpoint for removing quantum-vulnerable algorithms from its standards, with high-risk systems transitioning earlier.

LayerZero says ML-DSA aggregation is working inside Aerie, but exact performance figures and implementation details remain pending in its announcement.
2026-10-17 04:53 8d ago
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LayerZero research tackles a big quantum problem for blockchains
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LayerZero Labs, with a16z crypto, Carnegie Mellon and Imperial College London, unveils Aerie, a system that bundles 32,768 quantum-safe signatures in 0.65 seconds in benchmarks.

Blockchains verify thousands of validator signatures by bundling them into a single proof, but today's method could be broken by future quantum computers. Quantum-safe signatures exist, but bundling them quickly has been hard. New research from @LayerZero_Core aims to close that gap.

The system, called Aerie, was developed with @a16zcrypto, Carnegie Mellon University and Imperial College London. So far it has only been tested in benchmarks and is not used on any live blockchain.

Why signature aggregation mattersProof-of-stake networks rely on validators signing messages that confirm the state of the chain, and other participants must check those signatures.

The wider migration is already under way. At the same time,

What the benchmarks show

There are trade-offs. Lattice-based systems also carry their own implementation challenges, and

For now, Aerie is a research result rather than a deployed upgrade. Its practical value will depend on independent review, real-world testing and whether networks choose to adopt it as they plan for a post-quantum future.

Sourcescrypto.news: LayerZero unveils Aerie with 0.65-second quantum-safe signature benchmark
Crypto Briefing: a16z unveils Aerie to improve quantum resistant signature aggregation for Ethereum
Blockchain Council: Post-quantum security in crypto after NIST standards
2026-10-17 04:08 8d ago
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MemeCore x LayerZero x Stargate
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MemeCore x LayerZero x Stargate
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LayerZero surges 23% – Why ZRO’s price rally faces THESE risks
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After losing $2 support and falling to a low of $1.8, LayerZero [ZRO] made a strong comeback amid a broader market trend reversal.

The altcoin successfully defended the $2 level and climbed to a local high of $2.25 at press time, after gaining 23% on the daily charts. 

Is LayerZero’s demand returning?
The market largely recovered, driven by renewed interest in the derivatives. Previously, ZRO, like most altcoins, saw a collapse in derivatives, which intensified downside pressure. 

Now, it seems the trend has reversed.  As a result, the altcoin’s Open Interest (OI) surged 31% to $275 million, while the derivatives volume rose 63% to $336 million as of writing. 

Source: Coinglass
The rising OI alongside volume implied increased market participation and steady capital flow into new positions. Meanwhile, the altcoin’s Long/Short Ratio rose above 1 across all tracked exchanges.

At these levels, the ratio implied that traders were overly bullish and largely opened new and expanded existing long positions. 

Two major hurdles remain for ZRO
Despite the recent gains, LayerZero faces both short and long-term risks. For short-term concerns, the altcoin is experiencing heavy profit-taking. 

After the trend reversed the past day, inflows into exchanges skyrocketed, with over $26 million entering exchanges. As a result, the Spot Netflow rose above $3.5 million. 

Source: Coinglass
An elevated positive Netflow implied that deposits outpaced withdrawals over the said period, a clear sign of aggressive profit realization. 

Typically, when profit takers dominate the market, it raises selling pressure, which usually precedes market weakness. 

Additionally, community chatters have raised concerns about the upcoming unlocks. On the 20th of October, LayerZero will unlock 25.7 million ZRO, worth approximately $56.5 million at the current price. 

Source: Coinglass
Proxonchain reported that previously, these unlocks have resulted in an over-double-digit slip. This raises concerns about the trend’s long-term sustainability, and given prior behavior, the market could drop. 

What do momentum indicators suggest?
Structurally, even with the recent price hike, the momentum is yet to confirm an upside. At the time of writing, the MACD sat below its signal line, suggesting that downward pressure remains strong.

Likewise, the Relative Vigor Index (RVGI) confirmed this trend of weakness, remaining in the negative zone and continuing to decline. 

Source: Tradingview
These two indicators suggest that bearish pressure is relatively strong and that bullish pressure is insufficient to prompt a trend reversal. 

Therefore, if the profit taking persists, we could see LayerZero fail to extend the rally and fall below $2. The upcoming unlocks will make things worse and intensify the downside, with $1.8 as critical support. 

For now, if the recent speculative demand holds, ZRO could clear the $2.4 resistance and target $2.5.

Final summary

LayerZero surged 24%, defended $2, and rose to a local high of $2.25 amid renewed demand.
ZRO’s rally attracted increased profit-taking, raising concerns about another pullback alongside upcoming unlocks. 
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2026-10-16 17:15 8d ago
LayerZero’s Aerie tackles the post-quantum signature bloat problem
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Post-quantum signatures have a weight problem. They typically run 10 to 100 times larger than the classical signatures that blockchains rely on today.

On October 16, 2026, LayerZero Labs unveiled Aerie, a system built to put those signatures on a diet. The research was developed with a16z crypto research, Carnegie Mellon University, and Imperial College London.

What Aerie actually does
Aerie is a signature aggregation system that combines large batches of Falcon signatures, which NIST has standardized as FN-DSA, into a single compact proof. Under the hood, it relies on a lattice-based polynomial commitment scheme called Akita.

The headline benchmarks are notable. Aerie aggregated 32,768 Falcon-512 signatures in 0.65 seconds, and 16,384 Falcon-1024 signatures in 0.63 seconds.

Those runs happened on an Apple M4 Max MacBook Pro using only CPU cores. No GPU acceleration was involved.

Throughput lands at roughly 46,000 Falcon-512 signatures per second. Peak memory use during processing came in at 2.1 GiB.

On size, the aggregated proofs work out to approximately 42 bytes per signature. The team says that is 16 times smaller than its predecessors.

Verification also gets quicker. Checking an Aerie proof is 10 times faster than verifying each signature individually on a single core.

How it stacks up against earlier work
Aerie is not the first attempt at this problem. The research compares it directly against Orthus, an earlier signature aggregation system, on comparable hardware.

It delivers 1.5 times faster proving, 38 times faster verification, and proofs that are 1.7 times smaller.

The research also says Aerie compares favorably to Ethereum’s leanVM approach in terms of network throughput.

Why signature size became the bottleneck
Most blockchains secure accounts and consensus with elliptic curve cryptography. Schemes like Ed25519 and BLS are compact and fast, which is a big reason they became the default.

The catch is that sufficiently capable quantum computers pose a serious risk to elliptic curve and RSA-based systems. That threat has pushed the industry toward NIST-standardized post-quantum alternatives such as ML-DSA and FN-DSA.

BLS signatures also have a party trick that most post-quantum schemes lack: they aggregate efficiently, letting many validators’ approvals collapse into one.

Falcon sits in an interesting spot. Among the NIST candidates, its signatures are relatively small, but it lacked practical aggregation capabilities until now.

What this means for blockchains planning a quantum migration
LayerZero frames Aerie as a migration path to post-quantum security that does not require specialized hardware.

Running on a consumer laptop’s CPU at sub-second speeds suggests that low-latency post-quantum consensus may be achievable without raising the bar for participation. The researchers present the results as a demonstration of that potential rather than a finished, deployed product.

Roughly 42 bytes per signature after aggregation is a far more manageable figure than the raw sizes that have made post-quantum migration look painful.

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Metis to End Support for Stargate, LayerZero Services to Cease on October 30
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LayerZero jumps 22% – Can ZRO beat THIS before its $62M unlock?
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LayerZero [ZRO] is up more than 22% in the past 24 hours, leading by gains among all top 100 cryptos by market cap. The main driver of the rally is a 184% uptick in volume to around $145 million.

This uptick in volume is as a result of network activity as confirmed by LayerZero’s Chief Business Officer (CBO), Simonas Baksys.  Here is how:

A look into LayerZero’s network activity! Speaking to John Gillen, Simonas Baksys outlined why LayerZero was among the most performant technology as it connects to most blockchains.

For instance, it controlled about 91.5% of the cross-chain volume in September. Baksys outlined this was measured in two ways, that is, the amount of value transferred across pure blockchains and cross-chain transactions or messages.

So, on any given month, Baksys says they do roughly $10-$15 billion of cross-chain value transfer.

They power some of the biggest asset issuers in the world like PayPal’s PYUSD, Global Dollar Network from Paxos, all Ethena [ENA] and Ether.fi assets, Tether and USDTO.

This is evident as User Application and Omnichain Fungible Tokens (OFTs) contracts have hit a new peak. The former reached 74,383 while OFTs hit 3,443.

Source: LayerZeroscan Can bulls clear the $2.50 resistance zone? ZRO was attempting to clear the resistance level at $2.50 which has been in place since June. The Accumulation/Distribution shows traders are buying the token with over 25 million ZRO purchased.

Prior to the ongoing breakout, ZRO was rejected eight times and this could be another one. However, the price has surpassed the level but it needs its weekly candle to close above.

But looking at the Trend Strength Index (TSI), it showed bullish with its reading at 0.75. With that, the next targets are at $3 and above $3.50. Otherwise, the price may dip back below the $2.50 zone.

Source: ZRO/USDT on TradingView However, from a bullish perpsective, the altcoin may face difficulties due to a routine monthly unlock in eight days. This creates selling pressure due to an increase in supply.

More than 25.71 million ZRO costing $62.21 million, equivalent to 4.04% of the released supply, will hit the open market on October 20th. Already over 63% of the maximum supply has been released.

Source: Tokenomist Altogether, ZRO remains bullish unless bears at the $2.50 supply zone win the battle against bulls.

Final Summary LayerZero rallied 22% in the past 24 hours as the altcoin recovers from mass exodus brought by recent exploits.  ZRO is attempting to break above a five-month resistance but upcoming unlock could cap the trend. 
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LayerZero price stalls below $2.50: Is $2.15 next?
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LayerZero price has retreated from $2.483 to around $2.29, leaving ZRO below daily resistance at $2.344 as traders approach a 23.63 million-token unlock on Oct. 20.

Summary

ZRO price traded near $2.29 after reaching $2.483, with its daily chart still showing an 8.27% gain. Daily resistance stands at $2.344, while the next lower chart level sits at $2.148. The 4-hour Supertrend sits at $2.089, with ADX measuring 24.31. DefiLlama lists 23.63 million ZRO for release on Oct. 20, equal to 5.92% of circulating supply. TradingView’s Binance ZRO/USDT charts showed LayerZero trading at $2.29 on Oct. 12 after a sharp advance followed by an intraday retreat. The daily chart recorded a low of $2.096 and a high of $2.483, placing the token roughly 7.8% below its session peak.

The daily gain remained positive at 8.27%, while the latest 4-hour reading showed a 3.42% decline. Across the two timeframes, ZRO had given back part of its advance without erasing the day’s gains.

The longer chart also showed a substantial recovery from September prices around $1. The latest move brought ZRO back into an area that contained several price peaks earlier in the year.

LayerZero faces a resistance test at $2.344 TradingView’s daily Murrey Math levels place the nearest resistance at $2.344, just above the latest $2.29 price. ZRO briefly traded above that level during its advance to $2.483 before returning underneath it.

LayerZero price daily chart — Oct. 12 | Source: TradingView The next higher plotted level stands at $2.539. A sustained recovery above $2.344 would put the session high at $2.483 back into focus before that higher resistance.

Beyond $2.539, the indicator plots another level at $2.734. Those prices form a conditional upside sequence on the chart rather than confirmed destinations for the current rally.

On the downside, the nearest lower Murrey Math level sits at $2.148, approximately 6.2% below $2.29. The session low at $2.096 lies beneath it, followed by another daily reference at $1.953.

The daily Chaikin Money Flow reading stood at 0.02. Its position slightly above zero showed a modest positive volume-weighted reading, although the indicator had eased from stronger positive readings earlier in October.

Analyst Limbo described ZRO as trading at an important resistance area on a higher timeframe and said a move through that area would prompt a purchase. Separately, Pentoshi acknowledged the resistance test while expressing a personal expectation that the advance would continue.

$ZRO update:

continues to move nicely.

Its going to have one of the best narratives out there as all the fee accrual mechanisms come alive while working together with the DTCC and ICE. Everything leads back to value accrual for the token, it's own L1, gas , staking, Atlas… https://t.co/iHicXaShwl pic.twitter.com/7zhXvibJS0

— 🐧 (@Pentosh1) October 12, 2026 Both comments place the immediate focus on whether ZRO can establish itself above resistance after the retreat from its session high.

ZRO’s 4-hour chart puts $2.09 support in focus TradingView’s 4-hour chart shows an ascending channel drawn across the advance from September into October. ZRO dropped below its lower boundary during the recent correction, then rebounded toward that boundary in the latest rally.

LayerZero price 4-hour chart — Oct. 12 | Source: TradingView At approximately $2.29, the token was trading close to the lower channel line. Holding that area would support a return into the drawn channel, while renewed weakness would leave the recovery attempt vulnerable to another retreat.

The 4-hour Supertrend reading stood at $2.089, below the market price. That level sits close to the daily low of $2.096, creating a narrow area of overlapping chart references around $2.09–$2.10.

ADX measured 24.31 after recovering from a recent trough. ADX measures trend strength rather than direction, so the reading alone does not establish whether the next move will favor buyers or sellers.

CoinGlass’s 24-hour liquidation heatmap showed a bright overhead concentration around $2.50. Additional bands appeared near $2.48–$2.49, close to the latest session high.

LayerZero price liquidation heatmap | Source: CoinGlass Below the market, visible concentrations appeared around $2.28–$2.29, $2.24, and $2.21. Lower bands extended toward $2.09–$2.10 and approximately $2.06.

The heatmap maps estimated liquidation exposure at different prices. Its bands identify areas where leveraged positions could face pressure if reached, rather than confirming executed liquidations or guaranteeing a price move.

An Oct. 20 unlock follows the STG merger DefiLlama lists an Oct. 20 release of 10.63 million ZRO for core contributors and 13 million for strategic partners. Combined, the 23.63 million tokens represent 5.92% of circulating supply and would be worth approximately $54.1 million at the chart price of $2.29. The schedule identifies when tokens become available; it does not establish how much recipients will sell.

The release follows exchange changes tied to Stargate Finance’s merger into LayerZero. Binance confirmed on Oct. 7 that it had completed the conversion at a ratio of one STG to 0.08634 ZRO and ended support for deposits and withdrawals of old STG tokens.

KuCoin’s Oct. 10 notice announced the same conversion ratio and scheduled the closure of STG trading and withdrawals. The exchange said holders would receive ZRO after completion, with a further announcement to follow.

On the institutional side, Anchorage Digital announced that it had selected LayerZero for interoperability supporting stablecoin issuance. The partnership connects the project with Anchorage’s U.S. federally chartered crypto bank operations, adding a U.S. institutional development alongside the token’s trading activity.

For the immediate technical setup, TradingView’s $2.344 resistance and $2.148 lower level frame the next test. Above resistance, $2.483 and $2.539 remain the next chart references; below $2.148, attention shifts toward the overlapping support readings near $2.09.

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Top 3 Altcoins to Watch For the Second Week of October 2026
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Starknet (STRK), LayerZero (ZRO), and NEAR Protocol (NEAR) are the top 3 altcoins of the week by CoinGecko’s seven-day gains. However, the biggest gainer now shows the weakest chart.

STRK rose 81.7% over seven days, ZRO added 21.7%, and NEAR gained 12.3%. Bitway (BTW) ranked second but trades on thin volume, and was recently covered by BeInCrypto’s weekly series.

Top 6 altcoins by seven-day gains. Source: CoinGeckoSTRK Price Faces Further Decline After 80% Weekly RallyLast week, STRK printed a weekly candle of nearly 110%. The rally stalled near $0.12.

Technical Indicators: Weekly RSI dropped from an overbought 77 to 65, showing that buying momentum is weakening. An October 15 token unlock of 127 million STRK could add selling pressure. Price Projection: If STRK falls below $0.083, the next downside target is $0.06. However, a recovery above $0.12 could push the price toward $0.151 and potentially $0.181. STRK weekly chart. Source: TradingViewZRO Price Targets $3 as Buying Momentum GrowsZRO trades at $2.40, up 17.8% in 24 hours. It has moved above the important $2.19 resistance level, which has repeatedly blocked rallies for more than a year.

Technical Indicators: Weekly RSI has reached 72, suggesting strong buying momentum but also a risk of overheating. Trading volume is at its highest since February, supporting the rally. Price Projection: A weekly close above $2.19 could push ZRO toward $2.54–$2.60. Breaking that resistance could open the way to $3.04. However, renewed selling could send the price back toward $1.84, followed by $1.41. ZRO weekly chart. Source: TradingViewNEAR Price Could Rally Another 18% if Support HoldsNEAR trades at $5.63, up 4.8% in 24 hours. Despite a roughly 5% decline this week, the token remains above its important $5.42 support level.

Technical Indicators: Weekly RSI has remained near 75 for four weeks, showing sustained buying strength but also an increased correction risk. Strong trading volume during September’s breakout supports the bullish trend. Price Projection: If NEAR holds above $5.42, it could climb toward $6.66, an approximately 18% gain. However, losing this support could trigger a decline toward $4.54. A deeper correction could take prices toward $3.10–$3.35. NEAR weekly chart. Source: TradingViewOverall, ZRO and NEAR show stronger bullish momentum, while STRK faces a higher risk of further correction after its sharp rally.

However, all three tokens are approaching critical price levels that could determine their next move.

For traders, the key will be whether buying volume remains strong enough to push prices above resistance or whether profit-taking triggers a deeper pullback.
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LayerZero Price Reaches $2.48, Faces Zone That Stopped It Many Times
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12 October 2026 | 12:48 LayerZero’s ZRO token rose more than 15% on October 12, bringing price back to a historical resistance area near $2.45-$2.60 after a sharp recovery from its summer lows.

Key Takeaways ZRO has moved into a $2.45-$2.60 multi-month resistance range. The range’s upper edge stopped many earlier rallies. $2.09-$2.15 is the first Fibonacci area beneath the advance. RSI above 75 shows strong but extended momentum. Testing a resistance range that has held since May ZRO traded near $2.44 after reaching about $2.48 on the daily chart. That brought it into the lower edge of the $2.45-$2.60 range, where price has encountered selling pressure before.

ZRO approaches channel resistance. The shorter-term structure has improved since mid-September. ZRO has broadly moved within a rising channel, with each meaningful pullback ending above the previous one. Several wicks have crossed its boundaries during volatile sessions, but the direction remains upward while that sequence of higher lows holds.

The wider chart places the current move in a more demanding context. ZRO reached the $2.58-$2.60 area three times since May 2025 and failed to hold above it on each occasion. Buyers have therefore pushed price back to a familiar supply area, but they have not yet shown that it can become support.

ZRO revisits multi-month resistance. Chart source: TradingView, ZRO/USD, October 12, 2026. Support levels show how much room the rally has A move deeper into the range would be progress, but a close through its upper boundary and a later retest would offer a more convincing breakout signal. If sellers take control first, the Fibonacci structure identifies the areas where the September recovery could try to stabilise.

ZRO’s price map

$2.45-$2.60: The current multi-month resistance range. A close above the upper edge would change the larger setup.

$2.09-$2.15: The 0.236 Fibonacci area and the first band that needs to absorb a pullback.

$1.85-$1.90: The 0.382 Fibonacci level and an early-October reaction area. Holding it would preserve the broader recovery after a deeper retracement.

$1.67-$1.70, then $1.50-$1.52: The 0.50 and 0.618 Fibonacci areas if selling extends further.

Momentum supports the advance, while volume still needs a close ZRO remains well above its 50-, 100- and 200-day moving averages, which form a deeper support cluster around $1.10-$1.40. That alignment supports the medium-term recovery, although those averages sit too far below price to decide whether the present move can hold over the next few sessions.

Daily RSI stood above 75 and remained above its smoothing line. The reading reflects the force of the rally, while also showing that price has advanced quickly into a difficult area. RSI can remain elevated during a strong trend, so the response at resistance carries more weight than the indicator alone.

Trading activity has increased during the recovery. The latest daily volume bar was still developing, however, meaning it cannot yet confirm broad participation in a sustained breakout. A completed close near the top of the range with firm volume would carry more weight than an intraday push.

Buybacks provide a separate backdrop for ZRO demand The chart sets the immediate decision, while LayerZero’s token economics offer a separate perspective on longer-term demand. The LayerZero Foundation’s buyback dashboard lists Stargate revenue-funded purchases as active, with about 2.54 million ZRO acquired at a cumulative reported cost basis of roughly $3.68 million.

The dashboard records 162,433 ZRO purchased in September. Those purchases show that part of Stargate’s revenue has been directed toward ZRO, but they cannot establish why the token rose on a particular day. Token unlocks and holder sales can still outweigh buyback demand, while LayerZero’s separate protocol fee switch remains inactive.

LayerZero is also developing financial-market infrastructure, including ATLAS. Our earlier look at LayerZero’s Anchorage connection and ATLAS plans explains how those products could broaden the network’s use cases. Their effect on ZRO will depend on adoption and fee generation rather than product announcements alone.

The close will show how far the rally has progressed ZRO has reached the lower edge of a range that contained several earlier advances. A sustained move above the range would give the rally a stronger foundation, while a retreat that holds $2.09-$2.15 would still leave the September uptrend in place. Losing that first band would shift attention toward the deeper Fibonacci zones.

This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment or trading advice. Technical levels are approximate and do not guarantee future price movements.

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Alexander Zdravkov is a market analyst and crypto journalist with interests in economics, broader financial markets and digital assets. His journey into crypto began more than four years ago, driven by a fascination with the rapid evolution of blockchain technology and the transformative potential of decentralized finance. He began analyzing market cycles and identifying emerging trends before they reach the mainstream. He holds a degree in International Relations - a background that helped shape his broader perspective on global economics, geopolitics, and the interconnected nature of modern financial markets. Whether covering the latest developments in the crypto sector or exploring broader macroeconomic themes, Alexander focuses on giving readers context rather than simply repeating headlines. During his career, he has authored more than 5,000 articles covering cryptocurrencies, traditional finance, and global market developments. His work spans everything from Bitcoin and altcoins to macroeconomic trends influencing risk assets worldwide.
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LayerZero price gains 24% in a week: What’s next?
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LayerZero (ZRO) has surged nearly 15% to $2.37 on October 12, 2026, as increased trading activity has pushed the cryptocurrency toward the $2.50 resistance level.

Summary

LayerZero traded near $2.37 on October 12, gaining 14.91% over the previous 24 hour period. ZRO gained 23.80% over seven days, while its market capitalization approached $940 million on Monday. Trading volume reached roughly $158 million, indicating increased market activity during the latest price rally. Technical analyst Crypto With Gopal identified $2.50 resistance and warned of potential downside below $2.00. LayerZero announced Blockaid security integration on October 8, introducing additional verification for cross chain messages. According to CoinGecko market data, ZRO gained 14.91% within 24 hours and 23.80% over the past week, with its market capitalization reaching approximately $940 million. The token traded between $2.01 and $2.48 during the daily session, bringing its price close to the upper end of its seven-day range of $1.89 to $2.48.

Trading activity increased during the rally, with the supplied market snapshot placing 24-hour volume at $158.67 million. A separate CoinGecko reading showed $144.65 million in volume, representing a 163.10% increase from the previous day. The different figures reflect changing market snapshots, while both readings indicate increased trading activity.

LayerZero price approaches $2.50 as trading volume rises The latest advance has brought ZRO closer to a technical resistance area that analysts are monitoring. Binance daily chart data supplied for October 12 placed the token at $2.373, with an intraday high of $2.483 and a daily gain of 12.20% at the time of observation.

Price action has continued recovering from the August lows near $0.75. Despite the recent rally, CoinGecko’s historical figures show ZRO trading nearly 68.4% below its all-time high of $7.47. The token remains more than 233% above its record low of $0.7071.

The price increase has drawn attention to LayerZero’s recent market performance, although the available trading data does not establish a single cause for the rally. Its circulating supply stood near 400 million tokens, placing the cryptocurrency around 83rd by market capitalization in the supplied CoinGecko snapshot.

Crypto analyst Crypto With Gopal identified a rising wedge formation on ZRO’s daily chart. The analyst reported that the token was trading around $2.396 while moving between two upward-sloping trendlines that had begun converging.

$ZRO is climbing inside a Rising Wedge on the daily chart 👀📈

Trading near $2.396, ZRO is up over 13% today, but the narrowing wedge warns that bullish momentum could be losing steam.

⚠️ A breakdown below $2.00 could trigger a pullback toward $1.20. A sustained breakout above… pic.twitter.com/mqWQUiZR1c

— Crypto With Gopal (@cryptowithgopal) October 12, 2026 Although the pattern developed during an upward move, the analyst warned that narrowing price action could indicate weakening buying momentum. The analyst identified a sustained move above $2.50 as a bullish signal, while a breakdown below $2.00 could, in that assessment, open the possibility of a decline toward $1.20. Neither target represents a confirmed future price.

ZRO technical indicators show strong buying momentum Technical readings from the supplied Binance daily chart showed ZRO trading close to the upper Bollinger Band at $2.394. The indicator’s middle band stood at $1.865, while the lower band remained near $1.337.

Bollinger Bands measure price movements around a moving average using volatility-based boundaries. In the supplied chart analysis, the expanding distance between the bands indicated increasing price volatility during the advance. ZRO’s position near the upper band showed that the token was trading toward the top of its recent price distribution.

LayerZero (ZRO) price chart, source: TradingView The Relative Strength Index provided another measure of the rally. The daily RSI reached 74.43, exceeding its moving average of 73.58 and the conventional overbought threshold of 70. The indicator suggested strong recent buying momentum, although an overbought reading alone does not confirm an immediate reversal.

Based on the same technical assessment, the 2.40–2.50 area represents immediate resistance, followed by a possible price barrier around $2.60. A sustained move above those levels would satisfy the bullish breakout condition identified in the analysis.

On the downside, the chart placed the first potential support area near $2.20, followed by the psychological $2.00 level. The Bollinger middle band near $1.865 provided another technical reference if selling pressure increased.

LayerZero’s cross-chain growth draws analyst attention Beyond the latest price action, crypto analyst Jus7Degen identified blockchain interoperability as a central part of the investment case for LayerZero.

In an October 12 assessment, the analyst described ZRO as “one of the clearest infrastructure bets” on the development of a multi-chain cryptocurrency market. The argument centers on LayerZero’s ability to support communication between applications operating on separate blockchain networks.

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— Jus7Degen (@Jus7Degen) October 12, 2026 LayerZero’s official technical documentation explains that its messaging infrastructure lets applications transmit information and instructions between supported blockchains. Developers can use the system for token transfers, governance instructions and other actions involving smart contracts on different networks.

The analyst identified Ethereum, Solana, Base, Arbitrum and BNB Chain among the ecosystems where users and liquidity operate. Jus7Degen argued that continued adoption of multiple blockchain networks could support demand for interoperable applications, while warning that competition and security remain risks.

The assessment rated LayerZero’s narrative, utility and adoption at 9/10 each, with medium-high risk and high potential upside. Those scores represent the analyst’s personal assessment, not independently verified measures of network performance or expected investment returns.

LayerZero has reported recent developments involving institutional digital assets. On September 21, Anchorage Digital selected LayerZero as its interoperability partner for bank-issued stablecoins, including Tether’s USAT. As previously reported in related coverage, the arrangement covers the use of LayerZero’s Omnichain Fungible Token standard for cross-chain functionality, with other Anchorage-issued assets identified for future support.

LayerZero expands security tools and sets token deadlines On October 8, LayerZero announced the launch of Bridge Sentinel, a security-focused Decentralized Verifier Network operated by blockchain security company Blockaid.

The company said Bridge Sentinel screens cross-chain messages using real-time threat intelligence before approving their execution. Its checks include suspicious source transactions, addresses associated with malicious activity, unauthorized changes to transaction routes and possible movement of stolen funds.

Asset issuers can require the verifier as part of their security configuration. Under that arrangement, a message cannot complete if Blockaid refuses to provide the required signature. LayerZero described the system as an additional security option for institutions and token issuers using its infrastructure.

Separately, LayerZero’s August 25 ATLAS announcement described plans for ZRO to serve several functions across its Zero blockchain and ATLAS trading infrastructure. The company said ZRO would support network staking and gas payments, while its proposed trading-fee model would allocate 75% of eligible fees remaining after venue rebates to ZRO purchases and burns, following the market creator’s allocation. The arrangement remains dependent on the relevant systems operating as described.

In its September 15 ecosystem update, LayerZero confirmed that Stargate token holders can continue converting STG into ZRO until December 15, 2026. The company said conversions would no longer receive support after that date, following its acquisition of Stargate in 2025.

The same update established the end of October as the target for phasing out support for lower-priority testnets, leaving roughly ten prioritized testnets. LayerZero scheduled the retirement of its V1 Relayer and the closure of its V1 bug bounty for December 15, while increasing its V2 bug bounty to $3.5 million.

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The cross-chain interoperability sector has rallied sharply, with W leading the gains, followed by ZRO, AXL, STG and others.
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Upbit to list RSR trading pairs with KRW and USDT.

According to official announcements, Upbit will list RSR trading pairs against the South Korean won (KRW) and USDT. Trading is scheduled to start at 14:05 local time in South Korea on October 12.

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RSR briefly rose to 0.0026 USD, with a 54.86% gain in 15 minutes.

According to HTX market data, likely driven by Upbit’s upcoming listing of RSR/KRW and RSR/USDT trading pairs, RSR briefly surged to $0.0026, is now trading at $0.0025, with a 54.86% gain in 15 minutes.

18 minutes ago

Analysis: Bitcoin remains in the early stage of a long-term bull market, and may continue to consolidate sideways in the short term.

Crypto analyst Willy Woo said in a post that the Puell Multiple indicator currently shows Bitcoin (BTC) remains in the early stages of a bull market from a long-term structural perspective, while the market is in a sideways consolidation phase from a near-term structural standpoint. The Puell Multiple is used to roughly gauge the selling pressure exerted by Bitcoin miners.

18 minutes ago

Wells Fargo is in discussions with Payward, the parent company of Kraken, over a potential partnership that would help it expand its cryptocurrency trading operations.

U.S. bank Wells Fargo is in discussions with Payward, the parent company of crypto exchange Kraken, for a potential collaboration under which Payward would provide liquidity support for the bank’s digital asset trading business. The partnership would see Payward offer market depth and trade execution support, helping Wells Fargo expand crypto asset trading access for its clients without building out a full trading infrastructure from scratch. The two sides are still in negotiations, no final agreement has been reached, and both parties declined to comment. Wells Fargo has previously offered Bitcoin spot ETFs to eligible wealth management clients, invested in compliance tech firm Elliptic and trading platform provider Talos, advanced a blockchain-based deposit initiative, and joined a U.S. dollar stablecoin-related consortium. In September 2026, Nasdaq announced a $100 million investment in Payward, valuing the firm at roughly $21 billion, with Wells Fargo serving as the exclusive capital markets advisor for the deal. Separately, Payward is reportedly in talks with asset custody and services giant BNY for a broader infrastructure partnership, covering areas including digital asset products, custody, wealth management, trading, and payments. Those discussions have also not yet resulted in a final agreement. Payward is steadily expanding its footprint in traditional finance. The firm is also reportedly pursuing a European banking license, with Lithuania as its target jurisdiction. In March 2026, Kraken Financial became the first digital asset bank to secure access to Federal Reserve payment infrastructure; Payward has also obtained authorization from the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority.

18 minutes ago

A certain whale took a 10x short position on ENA, with returns reaching 560%.

According to TradingBeats monitoring, a Hyperliquid whale address 0x45d2…4029 holds approximately 6.416 million ENA short positions, with a position value of around $1.54 million, using 10x full leverage at an average entry price of roughly $0.552. The address is currently sitting on an unrealized profit of about $2 million, translating to a position return of approximately 564.5% based on the initial leverage. This address has held ENA short positions since late September. As of press time, the ENA contract’s mark price is around $0.24, some 56.5% lower than the address’s average entry price.

18 minutes ago

Former Acting Chair of the CFTC: No congressional legislation is needed, as the existing framework is sufficient to regulate the crypto market.

Former acting Chair of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and current Chief Legal Officer and Chief Administrative Officer at MoonPay, Caroline Pham, stated that the Commodity Exchange Act grants the CFTC broad regulatory authority, meaning the existing regulatory framework can cover emerging commodity sectors like crypto assets without waiting for congressional legislation. Pham believes the CFTC’s recently proposed rules will help strengthen protections for U.S. retail crypto traders. She noted that integrating relevant transactions into strictly regulated trading platforms is more conducive to investor protection than separate regulation by individual U.S. state laws. On stablecoins and tokenized deposits, Pham said tokenized deposits are more suited for wholesale financial markets. If all trades in a single trading day were settled via real-time atomic settlement on a blockchain, the required cash volume could hit $15 trillion—an amount existing funds cannot support. Banks currently offset counterparties’ receivables and payables through net settlement, so tokenized deposits will play a key role in wholesale markets; stablecoins, by contrast, are better for scenarios where counterparties lack trust and need to mitigate settlement risk. Additionally, Pham projects that over the next two years, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq will begin listing genuine tokenized stocks and generate substantial trading volume. She stressed that real tokenized stocks should retain shareholder rights such as voting power, distinguishing them from synthetic tokens not approved by the issuing company.

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Sushi just brought $HYPE to Robinhood Chain.
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SushiSwap has deployed Hyperliquid's $HYPE token on Robinhood Chain for the first time, using LayerZero for cross-chain bridging as part of its broader multichain expansion strategy.

SushiSwap Bridges $HYPE to Robinhood Chain via LayerZero@SushiSwap has deployed @HyperliquidX's $HYPE token on @RobinhoodCrypto Chain, marking the first time the asset has been available for trading on the network. The integration was made possible through @LayerZero_Core, which serves as the cross-chain bridging layer connecting $HYPE to the growing Robinhood Chain ecosystem.

The partnership with @LayerZero_Core allows users to buy, trade, provide liquidity, and launch tokens using $HYPE directly on the chain. The move adds a notable DeFi-native asset to a network that has quickly become one of the more closely watched Layer 2 launches of 2026.

What Is Robinhood Chain? Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum L2 for tokenized stocks and real-world assets, built on Arbitrum Orbit. It launched a public testnet on February 10, 2026, and went live on mainnet on July 1, 2026. Tokens that track stocks like NVDA and AAPL trade 24/7 on-chain as Stock Tokens, settle in seconds, and plug directly into DeFi.

SushiSwap's presence on the chain is already well established. All new token launches on Robinhood Chain via RevShare now route exclusively to SushiSwap V3. The addition of $HYPE signals that $SUSHI intends to go further, bringing established DeFi-native assets onto the platform rather than limiting its role to new token issuance.

The launch forms part of SushiSwap's broader multichain strategy , and the team is expected to bring additional assets to Robinhood Chain in the coming months. For $HYPE, the listing represents its first footprint on the L2, opening up a new venue for traders and liquidity providers who are active on the network.

The LayerZero ecosystem includes DeFi projects such as SushiSwap, and these projects use LayerZero to overcome multichain challenges such as liquidity fragmentation. That infrastructure is central to this integration, enabling $HYPE to move across chains without requiring a new native deployment from scratch.

Sources:
TokenPost: SushiSwap Launches HYPE Trading and Liquidity on Robinhood Chain
Coinfomania: $HYPE Goes Live on Robinhood Chain
Dwellir: What Is Robinhood Chain?
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ZRO: Blockaid launches Bridge Sentinel, a new DVN bringing real-time threat intelligence monitoring to LayerZero's cross-chain infrastructure
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Blockaid’s industry-leading onchain security is coming to LayerZero. Bridge Sentinel by Blockaid is a security-focused DVN that proactively screens each message against Blockaid's real-time threat intelligence engine. Asset issuers will now be able to require transactions involving their assets to complete an independent security review designed to protect against malicious counterparties, stolen funds, or the lack of a real source event. Learn more at Developers or reach out to our team.

The most rigorous tokenized asset issuers in the world choose the OFT Standard because of the level of configuration and control that it provides. One example of this is in the verification and security of a transaction using LayerZero’s cross-chain interoperability protocol. When using the OFT Standard, each issuer chooses which verifiers, or DVNs, must attest to a transaction involving their asset, and how many of these DVNs must agree on the validity of this proposed transaction before it can be completed.

Blockaid now operates one of those DVNs, Bridge Sentinel, featuring built-in real-time fraud detection. An issuer that sets Blockaid’s Bridge Sentinel DVN as required will be forcing an independent security check that is binding: if Blockaid withholds its signature, the message does not complete.

The scope of this fraud detection provided by Blockaid represents a new paradigm in security for cross-chain infrastructure. LayerZero has been a pioneer in giving asset issuers the granular control to set security checks related specifically to token actions on cross-chain protocols, including KYC, AML, allowlists, blocklists, rate limiting, and others.

Blockaid now brings an additional layer of security by monitoring events that happen outside the interoperability mesh, like active exploits, sanctioned entities, and drainer infrastructure. For example, a message with no real source event, a malicious counterparty, or moving stolen funds will be refused before it lands if Bridge Sentinel is part of the required verification configuration.

How It Works A standard attestation confirms a message is authentic. Blockaid’s Bridge Sentinel also evaluates whether it is safe, in the seconds before it signs. Bridge Sentinel evaluates the following:

The event behind the message. It confirms the lock or burn happened on the source chain, and screens the originating addresses for ties to sanctioned entities, drainer infrastructure, and active exploits. The limits on the mint. It holds each mint to a per-message cap and a rolling-window cap, and can enforce a rate limit as issuer policy on routes that carry none at the token level. The configuration of the route. It monitors the verifier set and threshold, ownership and admin roles on both chains, and the addresses holding mint, burn, pause, and rate-limit authority. If any of them change, it stops attesting and notifies the issuer. The outcome of the call. Each message is decoded down to the contract it will call and the addresses that gain value from it, and issuer-defined policies set the response, approving the message, holding it for human review, or refusing to sign. The decision lands before execution, at the only point where a bad transfer can still be stopped outright. In addition, asset issuers will be able to opt in to Blockaid’s Cosigner, which allows Blockaid to proactively take additional actions to protect an asset across all chains, not just the chains related to the individual message in question.

Blockaid is the undisputed leader in onchain security, providing enterprise-grade security for everything onchain, including End User Protection, Onchain Monitoring, Crypto Fraud Prevention, and Cosigner.

Now, the best-in-class security of Blockaid will be available to all issuers whose assets use LayerZero's OFT standard.

For more information on how Bridge Sentinel works, see Blockaid.io.

Blockaid Joins a Marketplace of DVN Providers Featuring Leading Global Enterprises Bridge Sentinel joins a verifier marketplace that institutional issuers already use to build a security stack to their own unique requirements. Fidelity's Center for Applied Technology (FCAT) verifies tokenized assets across eleven chains, with Ondo Finance as its first integrator. Deutsche Telekom MMS runs EU-sovereign infrastructure in twin German and Dutch data centers for issuers building toward MiCA. Google Cloud has attested LayerZero messages since 2023. Alongside them are zk-based verifiers, hardware-attested verifiers, established node operators, and issuers running their own DVNs.

An asset issuer decides which of these DVNs must sign, and how many must agree on a transaction to be valid. Issuers building with regulators in mind cannot compromise on this degree of customization and control: a compliance organization gets to pick names its examiners recognize, a security team gets to pick methodologies it trusts, and a European issuer gets to keep verification inside its own regulatory perimeter. Adding a live threat intelligence review to that stack is one more configuration decision the issuer owns. Read more about enterprise DVNs →

That control is also critical to satisfying an issuer’s risk committee requirements. Institutions judge infrastructure through the frameworks they already use, like vendor security questionnaires, control attestations, independent verification before a listing. LayerZero is working with peers across the industry to codify existing risk standards and best practices, so issuers and their examiners have a consistent bar to evaluate against, rather than a different answer from every vendor. This launch with Blockaid is the first step towards a consistent framework of evaluation institutions and enterprises can trust.

Get started Start at Developers or reach out to our team.

About LayerZero

LayerZero connects the world's most important assets to the world's most utilized blockchains. Issuers use the OFT Standard to distribute assets to 170+ chains. Chains use LayerZero Endpoints to connect to those assets and users. Wallets and exchanges use the Value Transfer API to move them. Trusted by Tether, PayPal, Paxos, Ondo and Anchorage Digital, LayerZero is the standard for cross-chain interoperability.

About Blockaid

Blockaid is the onchain security platform trusted by the largest companies operating in Web3. Built by veterans of elite intelligence and cybersecurity units, Blockaid provides end-to-end protection for financial institutions, protocols, and end users, combining direct wallet and dApp integrations with real-time monitoring, detection, and response across smart contracts, infrastructure, and externally owned accounts. Since 2025, Blockaid scanned over 6.3 billion transactions and blocked 585 million attacks. Blockaid is the security infrastructure behind Coinbase, MetaMask, Uniswap, Safe, and dozens of the most widely used platforms in the industry.

Learn more at Blockaid.io, and follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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2026-10-09 12:13 15d ago
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Citrini Has Selected 13 Altcoins for Tokenization! Here’s the List
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Wall Street’in hisse senedi, tahvil ve diğer finansal varlıkları blokzincire taşıması, kripto piyasasında yeni gelir alanları yaratabilir. Citrini, 8 Ekim’de yayımladığı 79 sayfalık Breaking the Wall raporunda, Bitcoin ve Ethereum dışında bu dönüşümden faydalanabilecek kripto projelerini öne çıkardı.

Raporda Aerodrome (AERO), Maple (SYRUP), Ondo (ONDO), Pendle (PENDLE) ve Derive (DRV) gibi projeler dikkat çekiyor. Citrini, tokenizasyon büyüdükçe işlem, borç verme ve ödeme faaliyetlerinden ücret elde eden platformların daha fazla gelir sağlayabileceğini savunuyor.

Ancak önemli bir ayrım var: Blokzincir kullanımının artması, ilgili tokenın fiyatının da yükseleceği anlamına gelmiyor. Asıl mesele, oluşan ekonomik değerin hangi protokole ve ne ölçüde token sahiplerine yansıdığı.

Tokenizasyon Altcoinlere Nasıl Gelir Sağlayabilir? Tokenizasyon, hisse senedi ve tahvil gibi geleneksel varlıkların blokzincir üzerinde dijital tokenlarla temsil edilmesini sağlıyor. Bu tokenlar işlem görebiliyor ve bazı platformlarda kredi teminatı olarak kullanılabiliyor.

Citrini’ye göre asıl fırsat, bu varlıkların alım satımını ve finansmanını sağlayan protokollerde. Tokenizasyon büyüdükçe işlem ve borç verme faaliyetleri artabilir, bu da platformlara daha fazla ücret geliri sağlayabilir. Peki Citrini, bu fırsattan yararlanabilecek hangi altcoinleri öne çıkardı?

Listede Hangi Altcoinler Var? Citrini’nin değerlendirmesinde farklı iş modellerine sahip projeler bulunuyor. Bazıları işlem ücretlerinden, bazıları kredi faaliyetlerinden, bazıları ise finansal altyapı hizmetlerinden faydalanabilecek şekilde konumlanıyor.

İşlem platformları: Aerodrome (AERO) ve Uniswap (UNI) Aerodrome, tokenlaştırılmış hisse senetlerinin alım satımından ücret elde edebilecek merkeziyetsiz işlem platformu olarak öne çıkıyor. Uniswap ise farklı tokenların alınıp satılmasını sağlayan merkeziyetsiz piyasa altyapısı sunuyor.

Kredi ve getiri ürünleri: Maple (SYRUP), Aave (AAVE) ve Pendle (PENDLE) Maple, kurumsal yatırımcılara yönelik blokzincir tabanlı kredi ürünleri yönetiyor. Aave, merkeziyetsiz borç verme altyapısı sağlıyor. Pendle ise yatırımcıların faiz getiren varlıklardan doğacak gelecekteki gelirleri alıp satmasına olanak tanıyor.

Tokenlaştırılmış varlıklar: Ondo Finance (ONDO) Ondo, tokenlaştırılmış ABD tahvilleri ve hisse senedi ürünleri sunuyor. Proje, daha yakın dönemde sürekli vadeli işlem ürünleri alanına da genişledi. Citrini’nin tezine göre geleneksel finansal varlıklar blokzincire taşındıkça bu ürünlerin çevresinde daha fazla işlem faaliyeti oluşabilir.

Stablecoin ve finansal hizmetler: Ethena (ENA) ve ether.fi (ETHFI) Ethena, stablecoin ihracının yanı sıra dijital finans hizmetlerini genişletiyor. Proje; yüksek getirili tasarruf ürünleri, kartlar ve ödemeler gibi alanlara yöneliyor. ether.fi ise kripto tabanlı finansal hizmetler sunuyor.

Veri ve blokzincir altyapısı: Chainlink (LINK) ve LayerZero (ZRO) Chainlink, piyasa verilerini blokzincir uygulamalarına taşıyan oracle altyapısıyla öne çıkıyor. LayerZero ise farklı blokzincirlerin birbirine bağlanmasını sağlıyor. Tokenlaştırılmış varlıklar daha fazla platformda kullanıldıkça bu tür altyapılara duyulan ihtiyaç da artabilir.

Türev işlemler: Derive (DRV), Lighter (LIT) ve Variational (VAR) Derive, merkeziyetsiz opsiyon işlemlerine odaklanıyor. Citrini ayrıca sürekli vadeli işlem piyasasında faaliyet gösteren Lighter ve Variational gibi yeni platformlara da dikkat çekiyor. Bu platformlar, yatırımcıların bir varlığa sahip olmadan fiyat hareketleri üzerine işlem yapabildiği sürekli vadeli işlem pazarının büyümesinden pay alabilir.

Citrini, Hyperliquid’i (HYPE) de bu alandaki güçlü platformlardan biri olarak değerlendiriyor. Bununla birlikte rapor, Hyperliquid’e yönelik piyasa erişimini halka açık yatırım araçları üzerinden de ele alıyor. Bitwise Hyperliquid ETF’si (BHYP), raporun halka açık araçlar sepetinde yer alıyor. Bu ayrım önemli: ETF üzerinden sağlanan erişim, HYPE tokenının doğrudan kripto token sepetinde bulunmasıyla aynı şey değil.

Bu projelerin hepsi aynı fırsatı temsil etmiyor. Citrini’nin ortak tezi, tokenlaştırılmış finansal varlıklar yaygınlaştıkça bunların alım satımını, finansmanını ve risk yönetimini sağlayan protokollerin daha fazla ekonomik faaliyet çekebileceği yönünde.

Tokenizasyon Büyürse Altcoin Fiyatları da Yükselir mi? Citrini’nin raporundaki en önemli uyarı, artan işlem hacminin token sahiplerine otomatik olarak kazanç sağlamadığı yönünde.

Bir protokolün kullanıcı sayısı ve işlem hacmi artabilir. Ancak bu faaliyetlerden doğan ücretler doğrudan token sahiplerine aktarılmayabilir. Bu nedenle yatırımcıların yalnızca projenin ne kadar kullanıldığına değil, ne kadar gelir elde ettiğine ve bu gelirin nasıl dağıtıldığına da bakması gerekiyor.

Raporda likiditenin farklı blokzincirlere dağılması, güvenlik açıkları ve hukuki engeller de riskler arasında gösteriliyor. Bu sorunlar, tokenizasyonun yayılmasını yavaşlatabilir veya belirli platformların büyümesini sınırlayabilir.

Özellikle hisse fiyatını takip eden sentetik tokenlaştırılmış ürünler ayrı bir risk taşıyor. Bu ürünler, geleneksel hisselerin fiyat hareketlerine maruz kalma imkânı sunabilir; ancak yatırımcıya doğrudan mülkiyet veya oy hakkı vermeyebilir.

Citrini’nin değerlendirmesi, Bitcoin ve Ethereum’un değer kaybedeceğine dair kesin bir tahmin değil. Araştırma şirketi, Wall Street’in blokzincire geçişinden doğabilecek ekonomik faaliyetin farklı kripto projeleri için daha cazip fırsatlar yaratabileceğini savunuyor.

Yatırımcı açısından belirleyici olan, yalnızca tokenizasyonun büyümesi değil, bu büyümenin hangi protokollerde gerçek gelire dönüştüğü ve token sahiplerine ne ölçüde değer sağladığı. Bu nedenle Citrini’nin listesi kesin fiyat hedefleri olarak değil, iş modelleri ve gelir paylaşımı açısından incelenmesi gereken projeler olarak değerlendirilmeli.

Bu içerik genel piyasa verilerine dayanır ve yatırım tavsiyesi değildir. Kendi araştırmanızı yapmanızı öneririz.

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2026-10-09 04:21 16d ago
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LayerZero TVL surges +$4 billion in a single day.
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A Near-$4 Billion Overnight Jump@LayerZero_Core recorded one of the largest single-day total value locked (TVL) movements seen in DeFi this year. Between October 2 and October 3, the protocol's TVL climbed from $7.85 billion to $11.71 billion, an increase of roughly $3.9 billion, or just under 49%, according to data from DefiLlama.

The exact driver behind the move has not been confirmed, though the timing coincides with a broader period of renewed interest in the protocol.

A Challenging Year, but Momentum BuildingThe TVL spike is a welcome development for a protocol that has navigated a difficult stretch in 2026. Earlier in the year, a $292 million exploit on a LayerZero-connected application prompted the team to overhaul its security model, deprecating single-verifier configurations and moving to a minimum of multiple independent verifiers as a new default.

Beyond security, LayerZero has been building toward a broader expansion. In February 2026, LayerZero Labs unveiled Zero, a standalone Layer-1 blockchain targeting institutional financial markets, with a mainnet launch expected in fall 2026. The chain is designed to handle up to two million transactions per second per zone using zero-knowledge proofs, with horizontal scaling potentially pushing total throughput to five million TPS.

On the token side, $ZRO has recovered sharply from its lows. A recurring open-market buyback program, institutional partnerships, and growing ecosystem activity have helped the token gain over 100% across a 30-day window heading into early October, though a scheduled token unlock of 23.63 million ZRO on October 20 remains a near-term overhang for traders to watch.

The TVL reading, combined with the protocol's improving market position, suggests that confidence in LayerZero's infrastructure role is returning, even if the precise catalyst for the October 2 to 3 surge remains unclear.

Sources:
Phemex: LayerZero V2 TVL Surges 48.53% in 24 Hours to $11.7 Billion
DefiLlama: LayerZero TVL and Protocol Metrics
Crypto Briefing: LayerZero Announces Zero Layer-1 Blockchain
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Citrini reportedly discloses a crypto portfolio, including tokens such as DRV, LIT, ETHFI, and AAVE.
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Papertrade opens pre-deposits, official trading expected to launch on October 10.

Synthetic perpetual protocol Papertrade, built on HyperEVM, officially announced its pre-deposit feature is now live. Users can complete deposits and account creation within the next two days. The official noted that account creation and deposits will be significantly restricted once trading launches; depositing early helps avoid opening congestion, though there are no additional benefits for depositing during the pre-deposit period. Papertrade is a fully on-chain synthetic perpetual trading platform deployed on HyperEVM. It fetches prices from the Best Bid/Offer (BBO) mid-price of Hyperliquid’s order book, allowing users to trade directly against the protocol’s liquidity providers (LPs) instead of relying on traditional order book matching. The protocol’s key features include high leverage, zero slippage, and no funding fees. Its native token PAPER has an initial supply of zero, with no pre-mining, team, or venture capital (VC) allocations. The only source of token minting is user losses or liquidations. During the initial launch phase, the token cannot be freely transferred and is primarily used for staking. Per the official timeline, full trading will begin approximately one hour after the expected HyperEVM network upgrade on October 10. The exact time will be announced via Hyperliquid’s Discord. During the opening phase, trading must be conducted through the official website frontend and whitelist relays; direct contract interactions will be opened once congestion eases. For more related reading, see: "Hyperliquid Is Getting Its Own Layer 2: Key Details You Need to Know".

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The US stock storage sector’s decline has widened further, with Sandisk and SK Hynix ADRs falling more than 5%.

According to market data from BIT (bit.com), losses in the U.S. stock market storage sector have widened further, with individual stocks recording the following declines: Seagate Technology (STX) fell 3.94%; Western Digital (WDC) dropped 3.05%; SanDisk (SNDK) declined 5.4%; Micron Technology (MU) fell 4.21%; and SK Hynix ADR (SKHY) decreased 5.45%.

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The Nasdaq's decline widened to 1%, while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell more than 2%.

According to BIT (bit.com) market data, the Nasdaq’s decline widened to 1%, while the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell more than 2%. Intel and Marvell dropped over 4%, AMD and Micron declined more than 3%, and Nvidia fell nearly 2%. Earlier news: OpenAI’s annual revenue is $20 billion lower than previously reported, reaching $50 billion as of the end of September, compared to the widely cited $70 billion figure.

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OpenAI’s annual revenue is $20 billion lower than previously reported, with the latest figure standing at $50 billion.

Beating AI Express, according to the Financial Times, OpenAI recently disclosed to investors that its annualized revenue stood at nearly $50 billion as of the end of September, significantly lower than the $70 billion reported at the end of last month. Insiders said the discrepancy arises because investors tried to directly compare OpenAI’s annualized revenue with that of its rival Anthropic, as the two companies use different accounting standards: Anthropic includes sales revenue generated via cloud partners such as AWS and Google Cloud in its revenue, while OpenAI does not. Earlier, investors adjusted OpenAI’s revenue standard to arrive at a $40 billion figure for its August annualized revenue, then combined this with the company’s disclosed revenue growth of over 70% to investors to calculate the $70 billion number. OpenAI declined to comment.

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Federal Reserve Chair Walsh is scheduled to deliver a speech at the IMF Annual Meeting in Bangkok on October 16.

According to the official agenda for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Annual Meeting in Bangkok, Federal Reserve Chair Walsh has confirmed his attendance at the event and is scheduled to deliver a public speech on October 16 local time. His trip has been formally included in the meeting’s agenda by the IMF Bangkok Annual Meeting Organizing Committee. As the head of a leading global monetary policy-making institution, Walsh’s appearance has drawn significant attention. During the conference, his speech will focus on elaborating on the current macroeconomic situation and monetary policy framework. The IMF has now released the relevant schedule in accordance with established procedures. All speaking arrangements for participating guests have been posted on the official platform, and specific details of the speeches will be subject to on-site disclosures.

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Trump: Will not attack Iran ahead of midterm elections, US and Iran are holding productive discussions.

Trump stated, "We are holding productive discussions with the Islamic Republic of Iran. I want to make this clear to everyone: Even though Iran is in a very difficult economic and military situation, and sanctions will remain fully effective, oil is flowing through the Strait of Hormuz at record volumes—22 million barrels alone last night, none of which originated from or was bound for Iran! We will not attack Iran at any time before the U.S. midterm elections on November 3. Iran will not possess nuclear weapons!"

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3 altcoins rally up to 59% in a week: What comes next?
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3 altcoins rally up to 59% in a week: What comes next?
2026-10-07 11:42 17d ago
2026-10-07 08:00 17d ago
Binance Has Completed the Stargate Finance (STG) Token Merge to LayerZero (ZRO)
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Source: Binance EN

This is a general announcement. Products and services referred to here may not be available in your region. Fellow Binancians, Binance has completed the Stargate Finance (STG) Token Merge to LayerZero (ZRO). Please note: The distribution was conducted at a ratio of 1 STG = 0.08634 ZRO. Users may view their token distribution history here.Users may obtain their assigned ZRO token deposit addresses here. Deposits and withdrawals of old STG tokens will no longer be supported. There may be discrepancies between this original content in English and any translated versions. Please refer to the original English version for the most accurate information, in case any discrepancies arise. For more information, please refer to: Binance Will Support the Stargate Finance (STG) Token Merge to LayerZero (ZRO) Thank you for your support! Binance Team 2026-10-07
2026-10-07 11:42 17d ago
2026-10-07 08:12 17d ago
Binance completes STG-to-ZRO token migration, with an exchange ratio of 1:0.08634.
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Binance announced that it has completed the migration of Stargate Finance (STG) tokens to LayerZero (ZRO), with a distribution ratio of 1 STG for 0.08634 ZRO. Users can view ZRO distribution records and corresponding ZRO deposit addresses on Binance, while deposit and withdrawal services for the original STG tokens will no longer be supported.

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2026-10-07 06:21 18d ago
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LayerZero surges 11% as buyers retake control, but can ZRO keep rising?
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Over the past 24 hours, LayerZero regain its upward footing after falling to $1.7. The altcoin bounced back, flipped $2, and rose to $2.19 before retracing.

As of this writing, LayerZero was trading around $2.118, up 11.5% on the daily charts. This price hike was backed by a 45% jump in Spot trading volume.

LayerZero buyers retake the market Two days ago, LayerZero made notable gains after its cross-chain dominance drew renewed market attention. This price uptick, however, proved short-lived as the altcoin retraced to $1.7.

LayerZero [ZRO] primarily rallied because of the higher cross-chain transfer volume, but it faced higher profit-taking as a result.

Now, ZRO has seen a slowdown in profit-taking as well. In fact, after six days, exchange outflows finally outpaced inflows.

Over the past 24 hours, for example, Spot netflow fell 156% to -$1.03 million, marking a reversal from the $1.4 million recorded three days ago. The negative Spot netflow suggested that more tokens were leaving exchanges than entering them.

Source: CoinGlass Demand for the protocol has continued to rise. As a result, fees generated by the protocol have more than doubled.

Over the past 30 days, the network’s fees rose from $147K to $301K, according to Mithridates. Higher fees often translate to greater revenue, which in turn strengthens fundamentals.

Concerns around the token unlock remain Although some short-term concerns have cooled and market usage is picking up, investors are worried about the long-term outlook.

As such, community chatter has raised concerns about the upcoming token unlocks. In two weeks, an additional $50 million in tokens will be released.

Source: Comfy on X These token unlocks will likely add more pressure to the asset. Additional selling pressure could weaken the market’s long-term outlook, particularly the trend’s sustainability.

Can ZRO finally flip $2.2? Currently, LayerZero sits on a strong upward trajectory, continuously forming higher lows. In fact, the DMI Modified indicator confirms this view.

This momentum indicator has been positive for two weeks and is currently around 23. At these levels, it indicates that the altcoin is making higher highs more frequently.

Source: Tradingview Often, this setup has preceded the continuation of the upward trend. Therefore, if demand holds, LayerZero could hold $2, finally flip $2.2, and target a move above $2.5. However, if it fails to close above $2.2, ZRO could drop back to $1.7.

Final Summary LayerZero surged 11%, successfully held $2, and rose to $2.19 for the first time since March ZRO surged amid strengthening buy-side activity and increased protocol usage.
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METIS: Stargate Sunset and LayerZero Changes on Metis Andromeda: What You Need to Know
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Two changes affect Metis Andromeda this October:

• October 23, 2026: Stargate support for Metis Andromeda ends.

• October 30, 2026: LayerZero Labs' DVN (Decentralized Verifier Network) and Executor stop serving Metis Andromeda.

Most token holders don't need to do anything. Check the table below to see if you're affected.

Developers and OApp/OFT owners: the full migration steps, addresses and configuration are in the [Technical Migration Guide], also available under the Technical tab on the Metis website.

Do I need to act? If you... What to do Deadline Hold m.USDC, m.USDT, WETH or METIS on Metis Andromeda Nothing. These are issued by the Metis canonical bridge, not Stargate. None Provide liquidity to a Stargate V1 or V2 pool on Metis Unstake (if staked) and withdraw your liquidity. Oct 23, 2026 Hold METIS, HERA, QI or MTVT that you bridged to another chain through LayerZero V1 Bridge back to Metis Andromeda. See "Bridging back in" below. Oct 23, 2026 Run an OApp or OFT that sends messages to or from Metis Migrate, or get your pathways enabled on the new DVNs and Executor. Oct 30, 2026 Hold a LayerZero-bridged token issued by another project Follow that project's updates. Cross-chain transfers depend on the project completing its migration. Oct 30, 2026 What still works, and what doesn't Route Status Metis canonical bridge (Ethereum ↔ Metis Andromeda) for m.USDC, m.USDT, WETH and METIS Unchanged LayerZero V2: Metis ↔ Ethereum, Metis ↔ BNB Chain, Metis ↔ GOAT Network Supported on the new DVNs and Executor, for applications whose pathways have been enabled LayerZero V2: Metis ↔ any other chain Not covered by the new DVNs. Migrate before Oct 30 LayerZero V1 integrations (native METIS adapter, HERA, QI, MTVT) Cannot be configured on the new DVNs. Contact the Metis team Stargate V1 and V2 on Metis Andromeda Ends Oct 23, 2026 This change covers Stargate and LayerZero Labs' off-chain services. The Metis canonical bridge and other bridges are not affected.

Token holdersm.USDC, m.USDT, WETH and METIS on Metis Andromeda are issued by the Metis canonical bridge, not by Stargate or LayerZero. Minting and redemption through the Metis bridge continue as normal.

After October 23, 2026, these tokens can no longer be moved through Stargate. Stargate has never offered USDC on Metis Andromeda, and there are no Stargate Hydra assets (such as USDC.e) on Metis.

Liquidity providers: withdraw by October 23If you provide liquidity to any Stargate pool on Metis Andromeda, withdraw it before October 23, 2026.

Affected pools

• Stargate V2: USDT, ETH and METIS pools

• Stargate V1: USDT, METIS and MAI pools

Steps

1. Unstake first. If your LP tokens are staked, unstake them before withdrawing.

2. Withdraw in the Stargate app. Select Metis Andromeda and redeem your LP position.

3. Confirm. Check your wallet to confirm the underlying tokens have arrived.

4. Don't wait for the last days. Withdrawals depend on available liquidity at the time.

Stargate V1 pools close on every chain on December 15, 2026. On Metis Andromeda, cross-chain messaging stops earlier, so please withdraw V1 liquidity by October 23 as well.

Warning: Liquidity left in Stargate pools on Metis Andromeda after the deadline will become difficult or impossible to withdraw through the normal Stargate interface.

Pool and staking contract addresses are listed in the [Technical Migration Guide], Appendix A.

Bridging back inMetis Andromeda stays open in both directions. Here is how to move assets in after these changes.

Ethereum assets (USDC, USDT, ETH) → Metis Andromeda

Use the Metis canonical bridge. It issues m.USDC, m.USDT and WETH on Metis. It connects Ethereum and Metis Andromeda, so from other chains, bridge to Ethereum first. Stargate can no longer be used for this after October 23, 2026.

METIS, HERA, QI or MTVT bridged out through LayerZero V1

Bridge them back to Metis Andromeda before October 23, 2026, using the same route you used to leave. After that date these V1 routes are no longer supported. If you can't make the deadline, contact the Metis team.

Other LayerZero-bridged tokens (for example USDe, FRAX and others)

Whether you can bridge these in or out depends on whether the issuing project has enabled its pathway on the new DVNs and Executor. Supported pathways are Metis ↔ Ethereum, BNB Chain and GOAT Network. Check the project's official channels before bridging.

For developersIf your application sends LayerZero messages to or from Metis Andromeda, you have two options before October 30, 2026:

1. Keep supporting Metis Andromeda. Get your pathways enabled on the new DVNs and Executor, then update your LayerZero V2 ULN Send and Receive configuration.

2. Migrate your OFT or assets to another EVM chain that LayerZero continues to support.

 [Technical Migration Guide]‍

Key datesDate

What happens

Oct 23, 2026

Stargate support for Metis Andromeda ends. LayerZero V1 routes should be wound down by this date.

Oct 30, 2026

LayerZero Labs' DVN and Executor stop serving Metis Andromeda.

Dec 15, 2026

Stargate V1 pools close on all chains.

Need help?For pathway enablement, migration, or any Metis integration question, contact the Metis team on Telegram: https://t.me/MetisL2

Source: LayerZero Labs, Support Update [September 25, 2026].

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2026-10-06 21:11 18d ago
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LayerZero winning big this week.
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It has been a strong week for @LayerZero_Core. The protocol's native $ZRO token is up roughly 34% over the past seven days, outpacing most crypto majors and cementing LayerZero as one of the standout performers in the current market.

The broader rally has legs.

Arbitrum Brings Paxos' USDG Live via LayerZero Beyond the price action, a notable protocol-level development is adding further weight to the narrative. @arbitrum has announced that @Paxos' $USDG stablecoin is now live on its chain, with LayerZero's OFT (Omnichain Fungible Token) standard powering cross-chain transfers.

What This Means for LayerZero The Arbitrum integration is a tangible example of LayerZero's infrastructure being embedded at the protocol level in one of Ethereum's largest layer-2 ecosystems.

Should that pass, it would direct significant resources toward growing USDG liquidity on Arbitrum, a chain where LayerZero now serves as the cross-chain backbone for the stablecoin.

Together, the token buybacks, rising futures activity, and growing real-world integrations paint a more substantive picture behind $ZRO's weekly performance than momentum alone.

Sources:
CoinDesk: Arbitrum joins Paxos-led Global Dollar Network as USDG lands on Ethereum L2
Cointelegraph: Paxos' $3B USDG stablecoin launches on Arbitrum
Crypto.news: ZRO price up over 100% in a month
2026-10-06 21:11 18d ago
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ZRO price up over 100% in a month: Can it top $3 in October?
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LayerZero’s ZRO price has climbed more than 100% from its early-September levels to around $2.23 as traders assess its rising price channel, planned ATLAS buybacks, and an Oct. 20 token unlock.

Summary

ZRO price trades near $2.23, roughly 125% above its early-September price of $0.99. Daily resistance stands at $2.34, followed by $2.54, $2.73 and $2.93. The 4-hour RSI reaches 69.10 as ZRO holds above its $1.94 Supertrend support. About 23.63 million ZRO are scheduled to unlock on Oct. 20. TradingView’s Binance ZRO/USDT charts show LayerZero trading around $2.23 on Oct. 6, after reaching a daily high near $2.30. Compared with the roughly $0.99 level seen earlier in September, the token has gained about 125%.

The advance has included several pullbacks. ZRO broke above $1.40 in late September, moved through $1.60 and later recovered from the $1.72–$1.74 area to regain $2. The latest move places the token near price levels last seen during the first quarter.

At $2.23, ZRO would need another gain of roughly 35% to reach $3. Its daily chart places several resistance levels below that target, while the 4-hour chart shows the recovery continuing within an ascending channel.

ATLAS buybacks and bank stablecoins support the ZRO narrative LayerZero announced ATLAS in August as trading infrastructure built on its Zero blockchain. The system combines order matching, clearing, settlement, and risk management for trading venues.

Under the announced model, venues receive rebates of 20%–65%, depending on their trading volume and ZRO staking. Of the fees remaining after those rebates, 25% goes to market creators, and 75% goes toward buying and burning ZRO.

LayerZero also assigns ZRO a role as Zero’s gas and staking asset. Trading venues can stake the token to qualify for higher rebates, linking its planned use to both network operations and exchange activity.

Existing buybacks come through a separate revenue stream. In its June token update, LayerZero said 100% of Stargate revenue had funded ZRO purchases since April 2026. LayerZero Labs also disclosed a $10 million open-market purchase in November 2025, with future purchases dependent on its profitability.

The September institutional announcement came from Anchorage Digital, which selected LayerZero to connect stablecoins issued through Anchorage Digital Bank across blockchains. Anchorage identified Tether’s USAT as the first bank-issued stablecoin to launch with the integration.

The partnership connects LayerZero to a federally chartered U.S. crypto bank’s stablecoin issuance business. Anchorage said the integration would use LayerZero’s token standard to move assets across networks, including Ethereum and Solana.

ZRO price faces $2.34 before a move toward $3 On the daily TradingView chart, ZRO trades above the Murrey Math level at $2.148. The next marked resistance is $2.344, about 5% above the chart’s $2.227 price.

ZRO price daily chart — Oct. 6 | Source: TradingView A sustained move through $2.344 would put the next chart levels at $2.539 and $2.734 in focus. Above those sits $2.930, leaving another resistance test just below the $3 target.

The daily Chaikin Money Flow reads 0.10, above the zero line. That positive reading accompanies the price recovery and points to buying pressure under the indicator’s volume-weighted calculation.

The nearest marked downside level is $2.148. Below it, the daily chart places a pivot at $1.953, followed by $1.758 and $1.563. A retreat through $1.953 would return ZRO below $2 and interrupt its latest advance.

The 4-hour TradingView chart shows a sequence of higher highs and higher lows inside an ascending channel. Its Supertrend remains green at $1.943, close to the daily $1.953 pivot, making the $1.94–$1.95 area a shared technical reference across both timeframes.

ZRO price 4-hour chart — Oct. 6 | Source: TradingView The 4-hour relative strength index stands at 69.10, above its average of 62.43 and close to the conventional overbought threshold of 70. Momentum remains strong, although the reading leaves the rally near a level where short-term consolidation becomes a relevant scenario.

Liquidation bands sit below price as the unlock approaches CoinGlass’s 48-hour liquidation heatmap shows ZRO rising from below $2 toward $2.30 before pulling back toward $2.22. Visible liquidation bands above the latest price sit around $2.28–$2.32.

ZRO liquidation heatmap | Source: CoinGlass Below price, bands cluster near $2.17–$2.19 and $2.10–$2.12. A particularly bright band sits around $1.98, with additional concentrations near $1.88–$1.90. Those levels mark areas where leveraged positions could face liquidation if price reaches them.

The October supply calendar adds another event. DefiLlama lists an Oct. 20 release of approximately 23.63 million ZRO: 10.63 million for core contributors and 13 million for strategic partners. The tracker puts the release at about 5.93% of circulating supply.

Analysts favor the breakout, but $3 requires further gains In an Oct. 5 post, market commentator Pentoshi linked his bullish outlook to the weekly chart and ATLAS’s planned fee allocation. He described ZRO as having substantial upside potential, without giving a firm October price target.

Technical analyst Captain Faibik’s 3-day chart shows a breakout above a long descending channel. His accompanying post reported a 55% advance since that breakout, supporting his bullish assessment of the longer-term setup.

For an October move above $3, the daily chart’s bullish scenario requires ZRO to clear $2.344, $2.539, $2.734, and $2.930 while maintaining its rising 4-hour structure. A loss of the $1.94–$1.95 support area would weaken that scenario and bring $1.758 back into focus ahead of the scheduled unlock.

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2026-10-06 12:01 18d ago
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LayerZero has repurchased an additional 162,000 ZRO tokens, bringing its total cumulative repurchases to 2.538 million ZRO tokens to date.
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Binance updates its October reserve proof: BTC reserve ratio reaches 100.35%, USDT reserve ratio hits 103.88%

According to official website data, Binance has updated its October Proof of Reserves, with reserve ratios standing at 100.35% for BTC, 103.88% for USDT, 100.00% for ETH, and 100.47% for BNB. Compared to its September reserve report, the number of BTC held by Binance exchange users increased by 6,217.116 units from September, equivalent to approximately $536.7 million. Meanwhile, the number of ETH held by users decreased by 183,602.205 units over the same period, worth around $498.6 million.

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A crypto whale transferred 5,513 ETH to Kraken, worth approximately $14.97 million.

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Shell CEO: Middle East oil flows have recovered to over 80% of pre-war levels.

Shell CEO Wael Sawan said oil flows in the Middle East have now recovered to around 80% of pre-conflict levels, one of the most authoritative assessments of the region's energy export recovery to date. Sawan spoke at the Energy Intelligence Forum in London on Tuesday, noting: "Despite all that has happened, we have now recovered to over 80% of pre-war levels, which demonstrates that many countries in the region still boast strong resilience and can continue to fulfill their commitment to supplying energy to the global market." While several major banks and shipping data analytics firms also hold that Middle East oil flows are approaching pre-conflict levels, the market remains divided on the exact scale of the recovery. Accurately counting the number of vessels actually transiting the Strait of Hormuz and parts of the Red Sea is challenging, as many ships frequently disable their satellite positioning signals, making it harder for external parties to calculate the precise volume of cargo transported.

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Crypto-related stocks in pre-market US trading rose broadly, with HSDT gaining nearly 2%.

According to market data from BIT (bit.com), U.S. pre-market trading saw a broad rise in crypto-related stocks, with gains as follows: CRCL up 1.19%, MSTR up 1.05%, HOOD up 0.91%, BMNR up 0.85%, COIN up 1.11%, and HSDT up 1.89%.

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2026-10-06 12:01 18d ago
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Can LayerZero price hit $3 after ZRO buybacks?
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LayerZero price has climbed roughly 41% over seven days to around $2.13 as another reported ZRO buyback and rising derivatives activity coincide with the token’s strongest rally in months.

Summary

ZRO price has climbed roughly 41% in seven days as LayerZero’s latest buyback draws attention. LayerZero repurchased 162,000 ZRO worth about $347,000, lifting reported cumulative open-market purchases to 2.538 million. Weekly RSI near 68 shows strong momentum while ZRO trades above its upper Bollinger Band. LayerZero says ATLAS will direct 75% of post-venue fees toward buying and burning ZRO tokens. ZRO futures open interest stands near $279 million as leveraged trading activity rises across exchanges. CoinGecko data shows ZRO trading near $2.13 at the latest reading, up about 11.8% over 24 hours and 41.1% over seven days. The token has gained roughly 97% in 30 days, while its market capitalization stands near $840 million. Twenty-four-hour spot trading volume was around $158 million.

The rally has pushed ZRO back above $2 after spending much of recent months below that level. Its latest 24-hour range sits between roughly $1.91 and $2.18, making the 2.18–2.20 area the first resistance test before traders can assess a possible move toward $3.

LayerZero price now needs to clear $2.20 ZRO’s weekly structure has improved sharply after recovering from its July and August lows. On the latest weekly chart, price is trading around 2.10–2.13 after reaching roughly $2.19, leaving the token close to its current local high.

The Bollinger Bands show how quickly the move has developed. ZRO is trading above the upper weekly band near $1.84, while the middle band sits around $1.08. Trading above the upper band points to strong momentum, although it can leave price vulnerable to consolidation when buying slows.

Weekly RSI has climbed to about 67.6, up from much weaker readings during the earlier part of the recovery. The indicator remains below the traditional 70 overbought threshold, but it is close enough to show that momentum has become elevated.

LayerZero (ZRO) price chart, source: TradingView For the current breakout to extend, ZRO first needs to establish support above the recent 2.18–2.20 high. A sustained break would leave $3 as the next visible psychological level. Failure to hold the breakout would put the upper Bollinger Band near $1.84 back into focus as the first technical support area.

Crypto analyst Pentoshi described ZRO as a “great weekly chart” and said the project’s fundamentals had improved with ATLAS approaching. His comments are an analyst view, not a confirmed price target.

$ZRO, this is a great weekly chart, and the FA has clearly improved dramatically with Atlas coming in the next few weeks and 75% of fees will be going to buying the native token. These aren't small volumes either. There is a very high ceiling potential imo overall

Will take it… pic.twitter.com/L8hBb6C8pZ

— 🐧 (@Pentosh1) October 5, 2026 ZRO buybacks have returned as price moves higher On-chain monitoring reported another LayerZero purchase on Oct. 6.

BlockBeats reported that LayerZero bought roughly 162,000 ZRO worth around $347,000, taking the reported cumulative total to approximately 2.538 million tokens. The figure was based on on-chain monitoring from TradingBeats.

LayerZero’s own buyback tracker has not yet incorporated the latest reported transaction. The Foundation page currently lists 2,375,357 ZRO purchased at a cost basis of approximately $3.33 million through August. The additional 162,000-token purchase would bring that running total close to the 2.538 million figure cited by on-chain monitors.

Existing purchases are tied mainly to Stargate revenue. LayerZero said Stargate revenue funds recurring ZRO purchases, with revenue collected from cross-chain swaps and transfers used to buy tokens on the open market.

LayerZero has used buybacks before during periods of weak ZRO pricing. As crypto.news previously reported, LayerZero Labs bought $10 million worth of ZRO on the open market in November 2025, when the token was recovering from a sharp decline.

Not every recent on-chain movement points in the same direction. On Oct. 3, two addresses linked to a LayerZero strategic partner transferred 8 million ZRO, worth approximately $14.98 million, to Coinbase Prime. The addresses had received 40.57 million ZRO from a strategic-partner multisig roughly one year earlier.

A transfer to Coinbase Prime does not establish that the tokens were sold. Coinbase Prime can be used for custody and institutional transactions, and no public statement from the wallet owner has identified the purpose of the transfer.

ATLAS could create another source of ZRO demand Attention around ZRO has increased since LayerZero introduced ATLAS in August.

LayerZero describes ATLAS as a trading infrastructure system that combines matching, clearing, settlement and risk management for open and institutional markets. The product runs on Zero, LayerZero’s planned blockchain for financial-market workloads.

The fee structure gives ZRO a direct role. Trading venues using Open ATLAS can receive rebates ranging from 20% to 65%, depending on trading volume and ZRO staking. After the venue rebate is deducted, 25% of the remaining economics go to the market creator and 75% are allocated to buying and burning ZRO.

As crypto.news reported when ATLAS was unveiled, the design gives ZRO another fee-linked mechanism beyond existing Stargate buybacks. ZRO rose more than 16% following the original ATLAS announcement in August.

LayerZero has not published a firm ATLAS mainnet date. Its official website currently says the system is “coming later this year.” Pentoshi’s reference to a launch in the next few weeks therefore remains an analyst expectation, not a confirmed company timetable.

Futures traders are building larger ZRO positions The derivatives market has expanded alongside the spot rally.

CoinGlass shows ZRO futures volume near $308 million over 24 hours and open interest around $279 million at the latest reading. The derivatives price was near $2.11, up roughly 10.6% over the same period.

Open interest measures the value of outstanding futures positions. Its rise alongside price shows traders are adding leveraged exposure, although the figure does not establish whether the next move will be higher or lower.

Recent liquidation data points to pressure on bearish positions during the advance. CoinGlass data showed roughly $51,000 in short liquidations compared with around $29,000 in long liquidations in the latest snapshot, with Binance accounting for most of the short liquidations.

LayerZero perpetual liquidations, source: CoinGlass The amounts remain small compared with earlier ZRO liquidation events. The price move therefore appears to involve more than forced short covering alone, while growing open interest means liquidations could increase if volatility accelerates.

The next ZRO unlock arrives on Oct. 20 ZRO’s next supply event is scheduled for Oct. 20, giving traders another date to monitor if the price continues toward $3.

DefiLlama’s unlock tracker shows approximately 23.63 million ZRO scheduled to unlock across core contributors and strategic partners. At current prices, the tokens are worth roughly $50 million and represent about 5.9% of the circulating float shown by the tracker.

The scheduled release includes around 10.63 million ZRO for core contributors and 13 million for strategic partners. LayerZero previously bought back 50 million tokens from early investors, which reduced the strategic-partner release schedule.

A year earlier, crypto.news reported that ZRO faced selling pressure around its October 2025 unlock while Stargate-related buybacks were beginning to provide another source of market demand.

The Oct. 20 release is scheduled for approximately 05:33 UTC, according to DefiLlama, with 10.63 million ZRO allocated to core contributors and 13 million ZRO assigned to strategic partners.

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2026-10-06 08:01 18d ago
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LayerZero buys back another $347,000 in ZRO, cumulative buyback reaches $5.4 million
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2026-10-04 23:21 20d ago
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LayerZero claims 91% transfer share, hits 6 month high – 2 risks could cap ZRO’s rally
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After falling to $1.70, LayerZero [ZRO] bounced back, defended $2, and climbed to a six-month high of $2.14. At press time, ZRO traded around $2.03, up 15% on the daily charts.

Why is LayerZero rallying now? LayerZero rallied as its cross-chain activity drew renewed market attention.

Bitblaze observed that LayerZero accounted for 91.6% of transfer volume across six protocols over 30 days, totalling $12.4 billion. It outperformed protocols including Chainlink, Wormhole, and Socket, which collectively shared the remaining 8.4% with other competitors.

Source: Axel on X That dominance followed a single-day record of $4 billion in transfers. However, one wallet did much of the heavy lifting.

Another X user, Dami, noted that the wallet moved 4.46 billion WPAY, worth $3.6 billion, from Polygon to Arc. This represented 44% of Wirex’s WPAY tokens and approximately 90% of the daily transfer record.

The activity put LayerZero in the spotlight, although its concentration leaves a question: can broader usage sustain that momentum?

Are LayerZero’s large holders preparing to sell? As LayerZero gained, exchange transfers from strategic partners and large holders followed.

CoinGecko observed that addresses linked to LayerZero’s strategic partners transferred 8 million ZRO to Coinbase Prime.

Such movements can stir sell-off concerns, although transfers alone do not confirm sales. They could also serve custody or liquidity needs.

Source: Arkham On top of this, another LayerZero-linked wallet deposited 1.7 million ZRO, worth $3.6 million, to Binance.

The wallet had received those tokens barely a day earlier. That quick turnaround raised questions about a potential sale.

Meanwhile, CoinGlass data showed that LayerZero’s Spot Netflow had remained positive for four consecutive days.

Source: CoinGlass On the 3rd of October, Spot Netflow reached a recent high of $9.1 million. It remained positive at approximately $1.45 million at press time.

More tokens were entering exchanges than leaving, increasing the supply available for potential selling. Whether holders actually cash out could determine how much pressure the rally faces.

Can ZRO hold $2 and reach THIS? LayerZero’s price structure remained bullish, with higher lows forming along rising support.

The Relative Strength Index (RSI) reinforced that momentum, climbing to approximately 79, inside overbought territory.

Source: TradingView Buyers retained strong momentum, although an elevated RSI also leaves room for a pullback.

If buying persists, LayerZero could hold $2 and target $2.20, with $2.50 as a medium-term objective. However, exchange inflows could complicate that path if deposits translate into selling. A loss of $2 could bring the $1.70 support back into focus.

Final Summary LayerZero rallied 15%, while one large WPAY transfer accounted for approximately 90% of its daily cross-chain transfer record. ZRO’s bullish momentum faced growing exchange inflows, with $2 serving as the immediate level to hold.
2026-10-04 20:36 20d ago
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METIS: Technical Migration Guide: LayerZero V2 DVN & Executor on Metis Andromeda
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METIS: Technical Migration Guide: LayerZero V2 DVN & Executor on Metis Andromeda
2026-10-04 14:11 20d ago
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LayerZero surges 185%, Midnight hits new high, Pi Network trades sideways
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The cryptocurrency market remained steady over the weekend, with Bitcoin and other major tokens trading within a narrow range. This stability followed the release of a weak US nonfarm payrolls (NFP) report on Friday, which contributed to cautious sentiment across digital assets. Despite muted movements in the broader market, several altcoins drew increased attention due to sharp price actions and technical signals.

LayerZero soars past August highsLayerZero (ZRO) experienced a remarkable rally over the past few months, rising from $0.7097 in August to $2.02. This increase represents a gain of more than 185% from its August low. LayerZero’s market capitalization now exceeds $813 million, with a daily trading volume above $258 million following a 35% jump.

The token moved above the significant resistance level at $1.3378, which marked its highest point on August 25. Breaking through this threshold invalidated a previously established double-top pattern, commonly seen as bearish in technical analysis. Surpassing this pattern indicated renewed bullish momentum for ZRO.

LayerZero traded significantly above its 50-day Exponential Moving Average (EMA), reflecting strong upward momentum. On October 2, the token formed a golden cross pattern, an indicator in technical analysis observed when a short-term moving average crosses above a longer-term one, often signaling a bullish trend.

Technical indicators showed further strength: ZRO moved above the Supertrend indicator, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) continued to climb, and the Average Directional Index (ADX) reached 50.9, the highest in recent months. A rising ADX generally signals a strengthening trend.

LayerZero has demonstrated robust momentum, piercing through multiple resistance levels and technical barriers, with the ADX highlighting strong trend continuation.

Analysts project that a modest pullback to $1.3378 may occur before ZRO resumes its uptrend.

TokenAugust 2026 LowCurrent Price% ChangeMarket CapVolumeLayerZero (ZRO)$0.7097$2.02+185%$813 million$258 millionMidnight rallies after analyst predictionsMidnight (NIGHT), a privacy token launched by Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson, saw notable gains in recent weeks. Interest in the token increased significantly after Weiss Ratings named it a top project to watch, and Hoskinson commented that Midnight could exceed the achievements of Zcash, a well-known privacy-focused cryptocurrency.

From a low of $0.0150 in July, NIGHT soared to $0.0529, the highest since March 28. It surpassed the resistance level of $0.041, which had served as the ceiling since May 31, confirming a bullish breakout. The appreciation carried the token to the upper boundary of the Bollinger Bands, often a sign of overbought conditions.

Following key analyst endorsements and a strong price breakout, Midnight’s rally reached new yearly highs, yet technical signals now suggest increased volatility ahead.

The ADX climbed to 52, signaling a robust uptrend. However, the RSI jumped to 86, well into overbought territory, suggesting that a retreat to the $0.041 support level may soon materialize.

Mini dictionary: Bollinger Bands are chart indicators that plot bands above and below a moving average, providing a relative definition of high and low prices based on standard deviation.

Pi Network remains in a tight rangePi Network (PI) showed little momentum over the past months, lagging behind assets such as Near Protocol and LayerZero. The token reacted weakly to ongoing network improvements, including the upcoming Protocol 28 upgrade.

Price action remained confined within a narrow range, as shown by the token’s position near the 50-day EMA. The RSI dipped below the neutral level of 50, and the ADX moved lower, indicating that trend strength has faded.

Analysts expect PI to trade sideways, with downside risk towards the key support level of $0.0692, last reached on July 14.

Mini dictionary: Pi Network is a blockchain project claiming to enable mining via mobile devices, seeking broader adoption through accessibility, but has faced criticism regarding token liquidity and unclear mainnet launch timelines.
2026-10-03 10:41 21d ago
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Addresses linked to LayerZero strategic partners transfer 8 million ZRO to Coinbase Prime
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2026-10-03 10:41 21d ago
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Address linked to LayerZero’s strategic partner transfers 8 million ZRO tokens to Coinbase Prime
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Address linked to LayerZero’s strategic partner transfers 8 million ZRO tokens to Coinbase Prime
2026-10-02 16:20 22d ago
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LayerZero surges 12% – Will $9.07M in selling threaten ZRO’s rally?
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LayerZero [ZRO] was up 12% at press time, with Binance traders in the market driving the gains, as they remain critical to the asset’s next phase.

Still, this doesn’t eliminate the broader role of traders across the perpetual market who are actively positioning for more upside.

Rising perpetual market volume supports ZRO’s rally The broader gain in the market has been led by a surge in buying volume across the perpetual market for ZRO specifically.

The volume across the perpetual market for ZRO hit roughly $279 million in the past day, with the Long/Short Ratio staying at 1.56 as of writing. This indicates that the volume in the market is largely coming from long traders.

Source: CoinGlass The context of the buying becomes more insightful when weighed against the Funding Rate of the market. This metric shows whether long or short positions are dominant in a perpetual contract market.

CoinGlass data shows that Binance accounts for the majority of the positions, with the OI-Weighted Funding Rate reaching 0.0066%, suggesting bullish positioning remains dominant.

Source: CoinGlass Binance traders lead the bullish positioning Binance, among all other cryptocurrency exchanges, controls the most volume across other venues, with data from CoinGlass reporting it at $92.36 million.

The volume dominance shows that the majority of the activity, more than 32% of the total volume, is coming from Binance. Moreover, traders’ actions matter in influencing the price trajectory.

Data shows that Binance traders are fully bullish on the price outlook. Retail traders are accumulating, with buying volume at 1.57. Whales, who control large amounts of capital, are on the same side with a 4.47 Long/Short Ratio, while smart money, which makes profitable bets, is also extremely bullish.

Source: CoinGlass However, liquidation activity in the market warns that going bullish too soon carries a major risk of loss even as the price rallies. Binance traders in the past 24 hours have lost around $74,380, more than short traders’ $47,500 within the same window.

More broadly, losses across the broader market point to the same trend, as a lack of proper positioning has put longs at more than $141,281 in losses over the past 24 hours.

Selling pressure remains a risk to ZRO’s gains Sellers in the market remain a major concern for what could limit ZRO’s performance in the near term. As it is, spot market flow shows that traders have continued to cash out steadily from the market, with roughly $2.52 million in Netflow, indicating more selling than buying.

This trend has continued over the last ten days, with roughly +$9.07 million in Netflow, confirming that sellers remain active in the market.

Source: CoinGlass Final Summary ZRO’s rally is gaining support from strong perpetual market activity, with Binance traders playing a major role. Rising spot Netflow and liquidation data show that selling pressure remains a risk to ZRO’s gains.
2026-10-02 06:45 23d ago
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Bitcoin 86 Bin Doları Aştı: Uptober Etkisi!
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Kripto para piyasası ekim ayına güçlü bir başlangıç yaparken Bitcoin 86 bin dolar seviyesini yeniden aştı. Toplam piyasa değeri son 24 saatte yüzde 1,22 yükselerek 2,92 trilyon dolara ulaşırken, Bitcoin TSİ 09.04 itibarıyla yüzde 2,13 artışla 86.011 dolardan işlem gördü. Piyasadaki hareketlilikte ETF akışları, ABD düzenlemeleri ve istihdam verileri öne çıkıyor.

Ethereum yüzde 0,33 yükselerek 2.724 dolara çıkarken XRP yüzde 0,78 artışla 1,51 dolara ulaştı. Solana ise yüzde 2,18 değer kazanarak 121,93 dolara yükseldi. Altcoin tarafında LayerZero yüzde 10,42 ile günün en güçlü yükselişini kaydederken Quant yüzde 13,84 düşüşle en fazla değer kaybeden varlık oldu.

Bitcoin Yükselişini ETF Girişleri Destekliyor Mu? Bitcoin hareketinde kurumsal sermaye akışları dikkat çekiyor. 1 Ekim tarihinde spot Bitcoin ETF’lerine toplam 102,67 milyon dolarlık net giriş gerçekleşti. Aynı gün spot Ethereum ETF’lerinde ise 55,37 milyon dolarlık net çıkış görüldü.

Altcoin ETF’lerinde tablo daha karmaşık bir görünüm sundu. XRP ETF’leri 4,07 milyon dolar, HYPE 4,96 milyon dolar, LINK 2,62 milyon dolar, NEAR 8,08 milyon dolar, AVAX 267,84 bin dolar ve HBAR ETF’leri 2,10 milyon dolar net giriş aldı.

Buna karşılık SOL ETF’lerinden 5,91 milyon dolar, ZEC ETF’lerinden ise 28,26 milyon dolar net çıkış gerçekleşti. BNB, TRX, DOGE, LTC ve DOT ETF’lerinde ise herhangi bir net fon akışı görülmedi.

SEC Kararı Kripto Piyasasını Neden Destekledi? Ekim ayındaki olumlu havanın arkasında yalnızca fiyat hareketleri bulunmuyor. ABD Menkul Kıymetler ve Borsa Komisyonu, 1 Ekim’de yatırım danışmanları ve düzenlemeye tabi fonların kripto varlık saklama süreçlerine ilişkin yeni bir düzenleme önerisi sundu.

Öneri, dijital varlıkların saklanması için daha net ve özel bir çerçeve oluşturmayı amaçlıyor. Belirli koşullarda kripto varlıkların yatırımcılar tarafından kendi kendine saklanmasına izin verilmesi ve eyaletlerdeki tröst şirketlerinin saklama hizmeti sunabilmesi de düzenlemenin dikkat çeken unsurları arasında bulunuyor.

SEC Başkanı Paul Atkins, önerinin yatırım danışmanları ve fonlar için daha açık bir saklama çerçevesi oluşturacağını belirtti. Atkins’e göre mevcut kurallar ağırlıklı olarak geleneksel varlıklar dikkate alınarak hazırlandı ve kripto sektöründeki gelişmelere aynı hızda uyum sağlayamadı.

ABD İstihdam Verisi Bitcoin İçin Neden Önemli? Piyasanın kısa vadeli odağında ABD tarım dışı istihdam verisi bulunuyor. ABD Çalışma İstatistikleri Bürosu, eylül ayına ait İstihdam Durumu raporunu bugün TSİ 15.30’da açıklayacak.

Veri, Fed’in para politikasına ilişkin beklentileri doğrudan etkileyebileceği için Bitcoin ve diğer riskli varlıklar açısından önem taşıyor. Güçlü istihdam rakamları faiz politikasına yönelik beklentileri değiştirebilirken, daha zayıf bir istihdam görünümü farklı bir fiyatlama sürecini tetikleyebilir.

Bu nedenle yatırımcıların yalnızca istihdam rakamına değil, verinin ardından dolar ve faiz beklentilerinde oluşacak değişime de bakması gerekiyor. Kripto yatırımı açısından bu iki değişken, kısa vadeli piyasa hareketlerini anlamak için önemli göstergeler arasında yer alıyor.

Uptober Etkisi Ne Kadar Sürebilir? Ekim ayının başlangıcı kripto para piyasası açısından pozitif bir tablo ortaya koydu. Bitcoin’in 86 bin doların üzerine çıkması, spot Bitcoin ETF’lerine net sermaye girişi ve ABD’de kripto saklama düzenlemelerine yönelik yeni adımlar bu görünümü destekleyen gelişmeler arasında bulunuyor.

Bununla birlikte yükselişin devamı açısından ABD istihdam verisi kritik bir test oluşturuyor. Verinin ardından oluşacak Fed faiz beklentileri, Bitcoin başta olmak üzere altcoin fiyatlamalarının yönünü etkileyebilir.

Bu içerik kesinlikle yatırım tavsiyesi niteliği taşımamaktadır. Piyasalar yüksek risk içermektedir ve yatırım kararlarınızı almadan önce kendi araştırmanızı yapmanız önemlidir.

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