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Technologies and protocols enabling communication and asset transfers between separate blockchain networks, often via messaging layers or bridges.
Helius CEO Mert Mumtaz has joined the NEAR Foundation Council, putting a Solana infrastructure founder on a rival network's oversight body. NEAR has promised to repay about $3.8 million lost to an October 1 deposit bug, Bankless reported.
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LayerZero's Oct. 20 unlock of 23.63 million ZRO equals 5.92% of circulating supply, about $54.1 million at $2.29, per DefiLlama. At September's roughly $1 the same tokens were worth about $23.6 million.
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Santiment counts new Ethereum LINK addresses up under 2% across a 24% rally that has since faded to about $13.35. That count covers one chain and mostly the weeks before CCIP 2.0, so it is an early, partial test of Chainlink's institutional push.
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LayerZero has spent about $3.7 million buying back 2.54 million ZRO, against roughly $279 million in open futures positions on the token. Its latest $347,000 buy was 0.2% of a day's spot trading, so traders and promised ATLAS fees are setting the price of a token up 41% in a week.
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A proposal opened on September 17 and closing September 20 would convert ZETA one-for-one into a Solana SPL token, leaving the 2.1 billion cap and the vesting schedules untouched, 79 days after the chain's interoperability features were switched off.
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The Stable Token Commission's September 14 memo opens with a $292 million North Korea-linked bridge theft and ends with two access-control lapses under Wyoming's own token, 149 days after the attack that started the review.
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Noble's exit left more than $100m of Cosmos stablecoin supply needing a new issuer, and the replacement puts dYdX margin and settlement on one chain's Circle mint for a minimum of four years. The fee rate funding the ATOM buyback is not public.
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Citadel Securities and DTCC are named on a blockchain exchange no retail user will touch. The work described so far is exploratory, and the launch window is fall 2026.
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