Futures trading scratch one itch - a view without actual ownership. RealStocks go the other way, and honestly this was the product that caught my attention on @MEXC . > A range of 7,000+ stocks and ETFs, provided through MEXC's partnered licensed broker > You buy and hold the actual shares which is different from tokenised stocks > Eligible holdings can pick up applicable dividends or distributions > Available for specific jurisdictions so you may be the privileged one I can see how this benefits the user who wants to focus on crypto but still want to hold real stocks. This feature would work nicely since the barrier of entry is super low from 5 USDT, and you can DCA via recurring buys. There is still price risk exposure to the underlying stock as with all brokerages/exchanges. What's interesting is that even though MEXC started off as a crypto exchange, it has widened its reach to enabling crypto users to purchase actual stocks. More listings should be in the pipeline as the platform has to remain competitive, which means more digging to go... #MEXC0808#

Vlad (@vnovakovski) reveals that only two months after launch, roughly a third of @lighter_xyz's revenue already comes from its @RobinhoodCrypto instance. "What's interesting, it's not just a clone of Lighter core." "The markets that are more active there, you're seeing more of equity perps, like pre-IPO." "One interesting thing, for those pre-IPO probes, there's actually more activity on the Robinhood instance than the core." "We're seeing open interest trend up, and overall volumes and revenue trend up."

Vlad (@vnovakovski) reveals that only two months after launch, roughly a third of @lighter_xyz's revenue already comes from its @RobinhoodCrypto instance. "What's interesting, it's not just a clone of Lighter core." "The markets that are more active there, you're seeing more of equity perps, like pre-IPO." "One interesting thing, for those pre-IPO probes, there's actually more activity on the Robinhood instance than the core." "We're seeing open interest trend up, and overall volumes and revenue trend up."

Futures trading scratch one itch - a view without actual ownership. RealStocks go the other way, and honestly this was the product that caught my attention on @MEXC . > A range of 7,000+ stocks and ETFs, provided through MEXC's partnered licensed broker > You buy and hold the actual shares which is different from tokenised stocks > Eligible holdings can pick up applicable dividends or distributions > Available for specific jurisdictions so you may be the privileged one I can see how this benefits the user who wants to focus on crypto but still want to hold real stocks. This feature would work nicely since the barrier of entry is super low from 5 USDT, and you can DCA via recurring buys. There is still price risk exposure to the underlying stock as with all brokerages/exchanges. What's interesting is that even though MEXC started off as a crypto exchange, it has widened its reach to enabling crypto users to purchase actual stocks. More listings should be in the pipeline as the platform has to remain competitive, which means more digging to go... #MEXC0808#

Robinhood put the stock market on a chain. We built the dividend market next to it. What PARE is, why it wins, and what it could become. The mechanism, the market, the numbers, and the risks.

⚠️ 🚨 If you see this, you’re ONE click away from losing everything Over $1M has been stolen through random sites on Arc A fake Cloudflare verification tricks you into downloading a malware that steals passwords, private keys and more

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A new round of our Trading Competition is live on @Arbitrum. The last round saw tremendous growth in traders, as the prospect of an onchain marketplace for risk continues to resonate strongly across DeFi. Claim your free test BTC and ETH in the app, split them into RiskON and RiskOFF, swap between the two, and position for the market you expect. To qualify, you need $10,000 in testnet volume and should be active on at least three days. If you need Arbitrum Sepolia ETH for gas, the link is in the wallet dropdown on the dApp. You are scored 60% on P&L and 40% on Risk Control, so drawdowns count against you. A trader who made 20% with a 5% drawdown can rank above one who made 30% with a 25% drawdown. The top 100 earn RISK Points when the round closes on 14 October, and your rank determines how many. Every round you do well also adds to your Risk Championship total, the season-long standings that reward the top 10 traders who keep delivering round after round. Those still on the Championship table when the points program ends earn additional RISK Points on top of everything they collected along the way. For the thousands of you already in the competition, the new standings are out: see where you stand in the Risk Championship and who was promoted or relegated at the close of the last round.

Confidential DeFi at scale, live today. Zama is the fastest growing confidentiality protocol for onchain finance. Today, Zama expands confidential access to 16 curated yield vaults across 5 institutional curators and 5 assets: USDC, USDT, AUSD, WBTC, and tGBP, all deployed on @Morpho. The same trusted curators and strategies that institutional capital already uses, now with confidential entry. Alongside the vaults, the Zama Confidential Swap Protocol goes live. Swap between confidential assets without exposing intent or size. Curated by: Armitage by @wintermute_t, @Bitwise, @flowdesk_co, @RockawayX, @SteakhouseFi Access: @Morpho, @utila_io, @yield_xyz, @zerion Incentives: @pendle_fi, @merkl_xyz With support from: @Tether (USDT), @BitGo (WBTC), @tokenGBP (tGBP), @withAUSD (AUSD) Shield, send, deposit, earn, and swap, all confidentially at:

$ROCK is outyielding every coin in @Launch0nStonk's top-10 flywheel allocation right now. $10K in each of these tokens: → $ROCK: $220.00/day (1,315.2% APR, 40.85M% APY) → $NEARKAT: $159.00/day → $LEVERCAT: $129.00/day → $BTC(cat): $127.00/day → $RAYCAT: $121.00/day → $KNOTS: $111.00/day → $PURR: $97.00/day → $ZCAT (current #1# flywheel share, 59.85%): $32.00/day ROCK isn't even in the 10-flywheel group yet and is already paying more per dollar staked than all of them, at a fraction of their market caps. There's a clear opportunity here.

"How to bridge into Arc without the premium?" The common way is via official CCTP for USDC bridge but that's not open to retail yet. I've compiled some options you can take: 1) Expensive and usable What it is: > OTC desks selling native USDC at a markup > You buy genuinely native Arc USDC from a maker who already holds it, and pay a premium for the fact that they can and you can't. > Unstable OTC runs ETH USDC into Arc USDC at a 3% taker fee with a maker-set premium on top. Caveats: > Your real risk is maker delivery and the reclaim timeout. Use this bucket only when you need native USDC now and will accept paying for it. 2) Mid-premium and custodial What it is: > Claim bridges where trust sits with a team vault > Cheaper than a filled OTC clip, because the USDC you end up with is backed by an operator's vault rather than by Circle > The @Longdotsupply stock leg ( $CRCL, $NVDA and similar) uses a 1:1 claim bridge from Robinhood Chain at 1% each way. > The long ETH or WETH leg runs the same bridge with an all-in near 80%, useful mainly as a gas bootstrap since the first transfer over 20 dollars seeds 0.1 USDC of dust. Caveats: > The backing is on-chain but redeemable only if the operator honours it > The instability is operational rather than price-driven: RPC congestion, domain swaps, public vault-withdrawal claims > The premium should compress upon mainnet 3) Advertised cheaper What it is: > A route that advertises a 1:1 rate but settles through a shallow pool, so the pool's balance that hour decides what you actually get out > @ellipsefun ( $GLD, $USDT, $CRCL, $BTC) has you lock on Robinhood, claim on Arc, then sell the pair > There is a daily cap and a queue > Premium depends on pool liquidity - one public test put 150 dollars in and pulled 80 out, an effective 1.88x, with the rate depending on which asset was short at the time Caveats: > When the pool is one-sided the premium is very high, and it only beats the OTC desks when coverage happens to be balanced Across all three, the number moving is the premium, and the premium exists for one reason - which is the get to the trenches earlier. If you can wait, the cheapest bridge into Arc is the calendar. If you cannot, price the workaround honestly - you are paying for time, and you should know which one you actually need and see if its worth it.

Top 10 card programs ranked by 7D volume change [8th Sep to 14th Sep] 1) @EthenaPay +137.2% 2) @SafePal +25.5% 3) @bfinancepay +20.8% 4) @avici +16.1% 5) @KoloHub +9.6% 6) @KASTxyz +6.1% 7) @useTria +4.7% 8) @Karta_Personal +3.1% 9) @Plasma One +2.3% 10) @Gnosis Pay +0.6% The spread widened this week. @EthenaPay takes the top spot with +137.2% on 7D, more than 5x the next-fastest program on the board. The launch ramp we noticed last week continues to steepen. @SafePal, @bfinancepay and @avici each cleared double digits, which is a strong week in its own right. Below that the field compresses fast. From @KoloHub at +9.6% down to @Gnosis Pay at +0.6%, the bottom six are clustered in ordinary single-digit gains because that's what an established program looks like on a normal week, while @EthenaPay is still in the part of the curve where the numbers move.