🌀 Practical Tips for Funding Rate Arbitrage on Perpetual Decentralized Exchanges
① Three criteria for selecting an exchange: total value locked (TVL) ≥100 million, a stable number of trades, and no major oracle deviations; prioritize a combination of leading and relatively new platforms for diversification.
② Position sizing: hedge the same token and amount at a 1:1 ratio; only act when the annualized funding rate is ≥10%; after deducting borrowing costs and cross-chain bridge fees, a net annualized return of ≥8% is the bottom line.
③ Three-tier timing strategy: observe sudden funding rate ch

🔥 THE FED RAISED 25 BPS! THESE 4 ASSETS COULD CHANGE DRASTICALLY! via @YouTube
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Tokenizing silver isn’t particularly interesting by itself anymore.
Making silver productive is.
@Theo_Network just launched thSLVR with more than $40M of active institutional silver leases behind it. The structure is fairly simple:
> investors get silver exposure
> the underlying metal is leased to institutional borrowers
> borrowers pay a lease rate
> that income creates a yield layer on top of the silver exposure
So thSLVR isn’t just:
silver → token
It’s closer to:
silver → token → productive collateral
And I think this is where RWAs start getting more interesting.
Most tokenization simply

The rate hike has been implemented, but that does not mean the bearish pressure has been exhausted.
The Federal Reserve raised rates by 25 basis points for the first time in three years, bringing the policy rate to 3.75%—4.00%. What is really making the market nervous is not these 25bp, but the policy path ahead. The latest dot plot shows that among the 18 officials who submitted forecasts, 16 believe there should be at least one more rate hike this year.
Therefore, it is still too early to easily conclude that “rate hike implemented = bearish pressure exhausted.” U.S. stocks retreating, the d

$ETH bounced, bounced.

The most absurd story in crypto this year.
The moment an Indian appeared on camera = meme coins were completely dead!
This L1 blockchain, backed by institutions including Circle, BlackRock, and Goldman Sachs, touted as Wall Street-backed and focused on being stablecoin-native, did not fall to a technical exploit or lose to a market downturn—it triggered an outright ecosystem collapse because its founder appeared on a livestream.
The most impressive thing about ARC @arc is that it successfully proved you don’t need hackers, a bear market, or even a technical vulnerability—just one livestream by

I took another look this afternoon: roughly $21.42 million in transactions, 409k orders, and 440k Agents. The current order volume and registration count are already close to each other, and orders have continued to grow over the past few days.
I’ve actually started paying attention to that 2%.
The average order is about $52, so taking 2% amounts to just over one dollar. Jobs at this price point simply can’t support excessively high platform fees. TermiX isn’t relying on making a lot from each order, but on keeping orders flowing.
@termix_ai The logic is quite straightforward: quotes accept US

#Arc生态热门代币波动加剧 + #Gate广场中秋团圆局
ARC: Beyond The First Candle - Why Infrastructure Matters More Than Initial Volatility
The launch of Circle's Arc on September 16 marks a rare event in crypto - a new Layer-1 explicitly architected for financial operations, not general-purpose speculation. With USDC as the native gas asset, EVM compatibility, sub-second deterministic finality, and a core focus on payments, FX, trading, DeFi and tokenized real-world assets, Arc is attempting to solve settlement and cost-predictability problems that other chains have left unaddressed.
Circle confirmed more than 100

$BTC Tonight at 21:30, a special U.S. stock livestream session, plus exclusive giveaways for livestream fans. See you tonight! ‌

During an economic downturn
The notion that every grievance has its source and every debt its debtor has always been an ordinary person’s simple wish to keep to themselves, but it is not a code of conduct that those whose lives have spiraled out of control must follow.
Other people’s suffering has never, by comparison, been unrelated to me
Rather, everything in the distance is closely connected to me

The token price of ethereum:0x232ce3bd40fcd6f80f3d55a522d03f25df784ee2 rose from 0.7 to 4.9.
However, protocol revenue has not shown any significant growth.
It seems people have assigned a lot of expectations for future growth to its relationship with the FOMO and RH chains.

Bring him home
$BTC

High-Interest-Rate Trading May Have Only Just Been Repriced
The most noteworthy aspect of this Fed rate hike is that it did not signal that “once the hike is done, it’s over” to the market. The September meeting unanimously approved a 25bp rate hike, and the dot plot further showed that most officials expect tightening could continue this year.
This means market trading logic may be changing: in the past, everyone was discussing “when will rates be cut?” Now it has reverted to “when will the next rate hike come?”
In this environment, it is not surprising to see the US dollar and Treasury yield

Lockin is inevitable.

Some thoughts on solana:HcRLc9VDgjLeK154xDawfb1dmVJ98DoSqcwTHGqiDeJR:
Seems to be an incredibly strong memecoin at the moment.
It's been ranging 40% - 60% these last 10 days yet holdercount has increased by 25%. Holders have a strong incentive to hold as they get distributed tokens of zcash:native every hour.
I really like this idea as top whales have incentives to hold even through drawdowns but holder count going up means more accumalation.
Not really looking at the community side of things but from the charts perspective and the underlying narrative. It makes sense and looks good.
Not boug

How to pick small-cap Meme coins—stop blindly chasing pumps. I’m giving you my own screening criteria.
Four hard metrics—just copy them:
1️⃣ Trading pair age: over 24 hours
2️⃣ Market cap: below 50,000
3️⃣ Liquidity: above 10,000
4️⃣ Trading volume: above 10,000
Don’t rush in after screening them. Do your homework first, then wait for a pullback and find a clean entry. That’s a hundred times better than chasing the top.
I also watch for coins that previously pumped to 200,000 and later crashed back to 30,000–40,000. If the structure gradually recovers, with trading volume, liquidity, and buyer

The Fed really did hike rates: by 25 basis points, raising the target range to 3.75%–4.00%—the first hike since July 2023.
Interestingly, Bitcoin’s reaction—most people expected it to fall, but BTC instead surged. This kind of “rebound after the bearish news is realized” usually indicates that selling pressure was released in advance and the rate hike itself had been fully priced in.
But don’t rush to treat this as a turning point: the decision is only the beginning. Next, we need to watch actual interest rate levels and liquidity data.
Click the group link for my gate group below to join and

If this is real, how hellish must this kind of maternal love be;
if this is fake, how hellish must this kind of prank be.