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Moonwell says its proposed rate changes could cut monthly interest on bad debt from $338,785 to $50,273.
The change would only slow further interest accrual. It would not unlock USDC for suppliers, and no repayment schedule or reserve transfer has been confirmed.

Solana requires 18 top validators to reach 33.4% of voting power. Bitcoin needs only three mining pools to cross its comparable disruption threshold.
Solana’s separate risk is software concentration: about 92% of stake was running Agave/Jito in April 2025.

🗞 Top #CryptoGainers & Losers: Mon, Sep 7 (24H)
📈 Biggest Gainers
A Meme Coin (AMC) 125.95%
Pieverse (PIEVERSE) +22.95%
Kaspa (KAS) +19.00%
📉 Biggest Losers

MarsCoin (MARSCOIN) -16.25%
Pons (PONS) -14.82%
Arbitrum (ARB) -12.99%

Ethereum’s proposed 100,000-gas public validation floor is too small for the 190,628-gas Groth16 verifier tested in a new privacy benchmark.
Some nodes could accept heavier proofs locally, but that still wouldn’t guarantee they propagate across the network.

In a modeled XRPL loan book, one 100,000-token default leaves depositors with a 90,000-token loss. Split the same bad debt across ten loans and the loss falls to 4,500.
Same reserve, same settings. The cover cap resets with each default.

Solana’s 1M+ payments-per-second demo depends on off-chain vouchers that may vanish after a restart unless they’re stored durably.
If a customer starts closing the channel before a merchant settles its final voucher onchain, delivered service can go unpaid.

Ethereum may not need full RowDAS to cut duplicated blob-recovery work.
A 1,000-node simulation reduced estimated reconstruction work 11–18x by assigning blobs to specific nodes first. It still depends on high-custody nodes, and hasn’t reached devnet.

🔐 SECURITY: Liquid may have released ~3,996 BTC after federation nodes accepted transactions that other nodes rejected.
Researchers point to a validation-cache bug. One account says the functionaries were running code that had reached master but not a tagged release; Blockstream has not confirmed that rollout.

Hyperliquid is testing permissioned markets without making the whole exchange permissioned.
HIP-3* would let individual perp deployers allowlist wallets and manage limited user actions on their own venue. Existing markets stay unchanged, and there’s no mainnet date yet.

Vitalik Buterin sees a 60% chance that SNARKs, FHE and iO eventually run at less than 10x the cost of ordinary computation.
That could make private financial software cheap enough to reduce reliance on auditors, custodians and exchanges.

CZ praised Kyrgyzstan’s KGST stablecoin during a visit to the country’s crypto council. He did not mention the separate USDKG project.
USDKG’s issuer is state-owned and under UK sanctions. Retail holders cannot redeem directly; their exit depends on finding a buyer.

Coinbase Ventures-backed Router Protocol will shut down Sept. 30 after bridge fees fell too low to cover fixed operating costs.
The project raised over $4M in 2021 and launched its own Layer 1 in 2024. By Sept. 7, Router Nitro was processing about $677 in daily bridge volume.

🔐 SECURITY: Nearly 4,000 BTC left Liquid’s federation through a valid peg-out, with no reported key compromise.
The holders say they’re whitehats and will return most of it only after the Elements bug is fixed across the network.

Arbitrum’s watchdog gave Good Entry, Limitless and APX Finance until Sept. 10 to respond to incentive-misuse findings or face separate votes on bans from future DAO programs.
The cited 457,553 ARB is not one stolen or repayable balance. No ban has been approved.

Treasury is doubling selected long-bond buybacks to $4B per operation as the Fed considers another rate hike.
The buybacks are not QE. Treasury still expects $739B of private borrowing this quarter. One policy supports bond-market functioning; the other can still tighten financial conditions.

US spot Bitcoin ETF inflows fell 76% on Friday, from $730.8M to $174.6M. BlackRock and Fidelity accounted for all new money.
The other 10 funds recorded zero net flow. The next trading session is Tuesday after Labor Day.