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US 2y pays 4.9%. 10y just hit 5.13%.
Aave USDC pays 3.72%.
most DeFi yields now pay you less than the US government - for more risk.
If you're going onchain, the spread is the only number that matters.
eEARN on @EmberProtocol is running ~10%.
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Zero-day remote code execution vulnerability in iPhone Safari. Click a link, and your crypto, passwords and everything else on your iPhone are gone.
Exploited in the wild by "DarkSword" malware.
"The DarkSword attack program has leaked, with its core capability being: extracting forensic-level data from iOS devices via HTTP interfaces. In actual attacks, attackers can combine social engineering or watering hole attacks to lure users into falling victim, thereby stealing data from iPhone / iPad devices and uploading it to servers controlled by the attackers."
Update iPhones immediately. Apple originally patched this, but rumours suggest even the latest versions are vulnerable, “pending confirmation,” across a wider range than the original 18.4–18.7 window.
From a Chinese security researcher, SlowMist CISO, @im23pds
nitter.net/im23pds/status/2101265…
Urgent security advisory for iOS users!
Install the latest iOS update immediately. Security researchers report that financially motivated attackers are now using a complete, in-the-wild exploit chain that can quietly steal cryptocurrency private keys and mnemonic seed phrases from iPhones.
The reported attack begins when a target is socially engineered into opening a malicious page in Safari. That page is said to abuse a memory-corruption flaw in WebKit / JavaScriptCore to gain arbitrary read/write access from JavaScript, then bypass Pointer Authentication Codes (PAC) to run native code, break out of the WebContent sandbox, and escalate to kernel/root privileges.
With that access, attackers can pull data from the device Keychain and from local crypto wallet apps.
The claimed impact range is iOS 13 through iOS 26.5; that range has not been independently confirmed in full. Until more is known, treat any unpatched device as potentially exposed and update as soon as a newer build is available. Also avoid untrusted links in Safari, especially if you keep wallet keys or seed phrases on the phone.
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Currently the top 1 vault by monthly returns:
DeFi COINoisseurs by @FLOAT_LOCKER
This small vault strategy focuses on discretionary Uniswap V3 LP positions. Last three months' absolute net returns are > 100%.
Launched in 2022, making the vault one of the most OGs of all time, it had a rough crypto winter. Now the vault is about to break back into the black.
The vault is pure DeFi: it takes positions on Uniswap and hedges on Aave.
This vault lives on the OG @enzymefinance vault protocol.
Because of data-collection limitations, we have data on this vault only since 2024.
tradingstrategy.ai/vaults/de…
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The @GrowiFinance OG vault on Hyperliquid is back in business.
After a quiet period, 3-month annualised returns are above 50%.
tradingstrategy.ai/vaults/gr…
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The major dynamic to watch for re btc strength is saylor reentering the market, or a strong debasement narrative forming. Without either, I don't think it's going to outperform unless the market draws down.
I think both catalysts have >33% probabilities over the next few weeks.
1. Saylor has almost repegged strc and bought back part of the pref stack, has raised significant cash, and the mstr mnav premium is expanding rapidly
2. treasury yields are rising rapidly. If they continue to increase, people will seek out the debasement narrative imo. The scenario where they start to fall is also somewhat positive btc and gold given the inverse correlation to real yields
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GSR analyses the "FTX playbook" of high-value, low-float token launchers.
Or, colloquially, "venture capital coins."
The result is what is expected.
In a collaboration between GSR's research and advisory teams, we’ve mapped every token listing on major exchanges since 2013, more than 2,300 launches, covering each launch's performance, float, FDV, sector, and more.
Read here:
gsr.io/insights/beyond-low-f…
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Steady Wealth Builder.
This public @Lighter_xyz vault does what it says on the tin.
Long only DCA/grid strategy.
- 100% CAGR (in favourable market)
- Sharpe 8.2
- Young, around 100 days or so
tradingstrategy.ai/vaults/st…
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HYPERLIQUID HLP IS BACK
@HyperliquidX HLP market-making vault has been flat this year. But something changed a month ago, around August 17th.
What change?
👉 HLP started to make stable profits again
👉 Drawdown stopped
For the last few months, average returns have been 2.8%, but for the last month, they are back to a reasonable 8%. Sharpe went ~4 -> ~8.
What changed?
On 13 August 2026, @chameleon_jeff said the next network upgrade would automatically move underused USDC in HLP into the vault’s lending sleeve. He said this because HLP yield had fallen close to zero. He said portfolio margin and HyperCore lending were already running at production scale and had been tested in live markets; the order book no longer needed HLP liquidity at large size; and idle cash should earn lending yield instead of sitting unused.
The upgrade went live almost immediately.
This changed how capital is allocated, not the market-making quoting model. The market-making and liquidator sleeves stayed in place. What changed is that most of the vault stopped sitting as unused cash. A snapshot around the announcement put HLP near $188.7 million, with about $148.7 million in cash and no open positions in the main account, and about $40 million across seven sub-strategies.
See the HLP performance here: tradingstrategy.ai/vaults/hy…
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Establishing a $10M GMX Market Making Fund
GM Labs is establishing a $10M market-making fund for the GMX token, funded from the treasury. The fund will use the protocol’s combined Open Interest across all chains as its reference...
Full details below⬇️
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🎙️ New podcast with @TradingProtocol on Atoma and why points on perp DEXs should come on top of profit, not at the cost of your capital.
Sat down with @theblue_panda from @TradingProtocol to talk about the thing most perp DEX users get backwards.
Points are supposed to be a bonus on top of profit. For most people they are a reward for slowly bleeding capital on oversized positions.
The way we run it at @atoma_fi:
> Long and short across perp DEXs at the same time, price exposure neutralized
> Yield comes from the funding-rate spread, not from directional bets
> Points come on top of that, never as the reason to size up
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Sat down with @theblue_panda from @TradingProtocol to talk about the thing most perp DEX users get backwards.
Points are supposed to be a bonus on top of profit. For most people they are a reward for slowly bleeding capital on oversized positions.
The way we run it at @atoma_fi:
> Long and short across perp DEXs at the same time, price exposure neutralized
> Yield comes from the funding-rate spread, not from directional bets
> Points come on top of that, never as the reason to size up
Listen to our Trading Strategy Podcast episode #12 with Atoma (@atoma_fi) and learn why points on perp DEXs should come on top of profit, not at the cost of bleeding your capital.
In this episode, Nertila (@theblue_panda) from Trading Strategy discusses with Anton (@T0nyCrypt0) from Atoma. Atoma is a delta-neutral USDC yield vault that opens long and short positions across perpetual DEXs at the same time, neutralizing price exposure while capturing funding-rate spreads.
👉 View Atoma vault data on Trading Strategy tradingstrategy.ai/vaults/cu…
👉 Listen to the podcast on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/7C2…
👉 Listen to the podcast on YouTube piped.video/PWNJyuylDv8
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Listen to our Trading Strategy Podcast episode #12 with Atoma (@atoma_fi) and learn why points on perp DEXs should come on top of profit, not at the cost of bleeding your capital.
In this episode, Nertila (@theblue_panda) from Trading Strategy discusses with Anton (@T0nyCrypt0) from Atoma. Atoma is a delta-neutral USDC yield vault that opens long and short positions across perpetual DEXs at the same time, neutralizing price exposure while capturing funding-rate spreads.
👉 View Atoma vault data on Trading Strategy tradingstrategy.ai/vaults/cu…
👉 Listen to the podcast on Spotify open.spotify.com/episode/7C2…
👉 Listen to the podcast on YouTube piped.video/PWNJyuylDv8
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If you count in the Robinhood chain, the @arbitrum stablecoin vault TVL has already surpassed its previous peak from December 2025.
And even without Robinhood, Arbitrum is gaining back the vault TVL it lost earlier this year.
Because we are counting only actively managed vault stablecoin TVL, it is a good proxy for real activity and is free from volatile BTC/ETH TVL skew.
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For the first time since 2023, Ethereum's market share in the stablecoin vault TVL, a good proxy for real onchain activity, is significantly decreasing compared to other chains.
Ethereum is down to 76% from the recent peak of ~90%.
Winners taking the share are @base, @arbitrum, @avax, @RobinhoodCrypto, @monad
tradingstrategy.ai/vaults/hi…
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New in curation: buying credibility from a brand
Seems like @SteakhouseFi recently branched out a separate brand for whitelabeled / co-branded vaults with specific and probably more niche partners - waterline.build
Curators have branched risk tiers into different vault names before.
But this is the first case I've seen of a curator standing up a separate brand for it :
Split between 'curation as a service' vs 'curation as a brand'.
However, the service version is not "curation" in the literal sense given asset list is mostly chosen by the client what is actually being sold is rebalancing and execution, not selection.
This makes a lot of sense from the curator's side to sell the operational work without putting your risk brand behind an asset list you didn't really pick.
Less clear from the issuer's side. Lending markets are mostly a capital formation vehicle and bringing in a curator is a credibility purchase.
Buying credibility from a brand with no track record is a bit questionable unless the bet is that the new brand accumulates one, in which case the first few issuers are paying to build it. ( if it's paid in any way )
app.morpho.org/curator/eco-v…
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Mainnet day 🫡
Proud to be supporting liquidity for @ekidenfi as the first CLOB-based derivatives exchange goes live on @CantonNetwork.
Time to make some markets 🤝
Ekiden Mainnet is LIVE at app.ekiden.fi
After months of building and thousands of traders putting Ekiden through its paces on Testnet, we’re officially live on Canton Mainnet.
A huge thank you to our community, partners, market makers, and everyone who traded, tested, gave feedback, and helped us get here.
Today, Ekiden becomes the first CLOB-based derivatives exchange on @CantonNetwork bringing a new piece of trading infrastructure to the network. We’re incredibly proud of what our team has built.
Mainnet launches with controlled access. The Top 100 traders from our Testnet leaderboard will be the first to trade. You’ll receive your access code and Mainnet link directly.
More traders will be onboarded in waves, with access expanding across the community soon.
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