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🔎 NEAR's revenue dashboard says Intents buybacks "permanently remove NEAR from circulation". Its three revenue wallets hold 3.96M $NEAR DefiLlama's methodology says the same buybacks are made on the open market and are "not burned". The 3.96M is 0.30% of the 1.31B total supply. 🟣 buybacks.multisignature.near holds 2,036,316 $NEAR and fefundsadmin.sputnik-dao.near holds 1,922,573. A third wallet, 1csfundsadmin.sputnik-dao.near, holds 271. 🟣 NEAR's Feb 24 tokenomics post says in its disclaimer that governance "retains discretion over the deployment, holding, or redistribution" of accumulated assets. 🟣 On Hyperliquid's main perp dex, $NEAR is the fifth-largest market by 24h volume, $294M, behind $BTC, $ETH, $HYPE and $ZEC. So for anyone reading the buybacks as a supply cut, the 3.96M $NEAR is currently held in three wallets. Grey Ledger on X flagged the dashboard wording on Oct 20. We read the balances from NEAR's RPC on Oct 21. Our twitter post 👈🏻 CoinLaunch TG | CoinLaunch X

🧮 TxFlow's first Season 1 drop split 1,250,000 points across 5,858 accounts On Oct 12 we asked readers to weigh the weekly pool against the number of traders sharing it. Epoch 1, Oct 12-19 , now has both numbers 🔹 DefiLlama shows $338K of fees on TxFlow for Oct 12-18, about $0.27 per point issued. 🔹 Community members are split on what a point costs. Some say about $7 to earn one, and one who recounted his own trades got $0.17 🔹 Season 0 rewards for earlier activity are due by Oct 27. TxFlow had only said early traders "will be recognized along the way" 🔹 Our previous post cited up to 437,500 referral points a week. The docs, updated that day, now cap referral rewards at 152,000 a week, separate from the trader pool Epoch 2 would be credited on Tuesday next week, under the same schedule. TxFlow's terms bar people who live in, are located in or are citizens of the US How many points did you get? Our twitter post 👈🏻 CoinLaunch TG | CoinLaunch X

🔭 This week we're watching: Five things, all from the projects own posts 1. 🗓 Oct 22, 00:00: Aero launches on 7 chains: Base, Ethereum, OP Mainnet, Arc, Ink, Robinhood Chain and Arbitrum. Its Upgrade Hub is live, and 1 VELO becomes 0.044 AERO 2. 🗓 Oct 21, 3PM EST, as posted by Arcus: the Season 1 weekly points update, a fixed 250K points 3. 🗓 Oct 26: Hibachi grants Open points, and cash rewards follow within 48 hours 4. No date yet: papertrade's new $PAPER mint rule. The team says it will announce once the changes are queued into the timelock 5. No date yet: TxFlow's first points distribution. The team has not named one So only Aero has a launch time fixed to the hour. The rest depend on what the teams post next Our twitter post 👈🏻 CoinLaunch TG | CoinLaunch X

🚨 papertrade says its new $PAPER minting will "slowly dilute out older holders", and the token will stay non-transferable Each $1 traders lose will mint a fixed share of supply, about 0.1% per $1M lost. The team's Oct 20 note says the upgrade is not live yet 🔧 On Oct 19 we reported fees falling to $0.90M on Oct 17. DefiLlama now shows $2.34M on Oct 18 and $1.91M on Oct 19, below Hyperliquid's $2.47M and $2.49M 📊 🔹 Near insolvency, minting moves from a flat 100 $PAPER per $1 lost to a multiplier that grows over time 🔹 The team says a $PAPER perp would let attackers short the bankroll's solvency, so it does not plan to allow transfers 🔹 A new fee applies only to trades closed within 6 bps of entry (10 bps off hours). The team says it hits bot strategies about 15x more than normal traders These are the team's descriptions. The final mint rate depends on the rate when the contracts are upgraded 🔍 Our twitter post 👈🏻 CoinLaunch TG | CoinLaunch X

📈 Why does papertrade earn more than Circle? Over 7 days it made $49.73M vs Circle's $49.02M. Only Tether is ahead Per DefiLlama. papertrade charges a 2% fee, and its house pool keeps what traders lose to it 🎰 DefiLlama counts both, plus pool profit above the $5M cap 🔹 Circle's revenue is yield on the assets backing $USDC plus CCTP fees. It follows reserves and interest rates, while papertrade's follows trading and how traders do 🔹 Hyperliquid made $15.44M over the same 7 days, so papertrade earns 3.2x as much 📅 For $PAPER stakers, that ties part of the payout to traders losing. From Oct 17, 18:45 UTC the cap rises to $10M, so pool profit between $5M and $10M stops reaching them Would you count revenue made of trader losses the same as revenue made of fees? Our twitter post 👈🏻 CoinLaunch TG | CoinLaunch X

🏁 Extended's trading competition did $1.07B in week 1. Gold was its #2 market at $142.6M, ahead of ETH at $99.5M The Final Arc had 3,613 active traders and 200 first-time users. It closes on Nov 3, 00:00 UTC 🔸 Top markets: BTC $358.8M, gold (XAU) $142.6M, ETH $99.5M. RWA markets made 24.8% of volume 🔸 RWA taker fills count at 50% in the score and crypto taker fills at 100%. So $1M of gold volume counts like $500K of BTC 🔸 Score is PnL times weighted volume and open interest. A net loss scores below zero, and more volume makes it worse Cash goes to 500 places, from $25,000 for #1 to $100. The 750K Xpoints go to all qualified traders, by activity. Our twitter post 👈🏻 CoinLaunch TG | CoinLaunch X

📊 How fast do perp DEXs turn over their open positions? Per $1 held in them, Hyperliquid traded $27 in 30 days and Lighter $88 On Oct 13 we counted $81 traded per $1 of open interest on Lighter. Now it is $88. Open interest is the money held in live positions, and the figures are 30-day volume per $1 of it, per DefiLlama 📅 Oct 15: Hyperliquid 27 Aster 43 Variational 80 Lighter 88 🔹 Variational's 30-day volume is up 5.8% since Oct 13, to $80.1B. Its open interest is down 4.4%, to $995M. 🟣 Hyperliquid has 32% of 30-day perp DEX volume ($209.5B) and 58% of open interest ($7.70B). Volumes are venue-reported. DefiLlama's normalized 24h figure for Lighter is $2.0B against $2.7B reported, and it has none for Variational. Our twitter post 👈🏻 CoinLaunch TG | CoinLaunch X

🚨 StandX will not launch a token. The perp DEX is winding down and airdropping $DUSD with no lockup instead StandX runs perps on BNB Chain and Solana. It says it served 237K users and its TVL peaked above $200M. DefiLlama shows $22.46M now 🔹 Oct 15: all yield ends 🔹 Oct 20: perps go reduce-only. You can close positions but not open new ones 🔹 Oct 26: the airdrop checker goes live 🔹 Nov 1 to Dec 31: the claim window. Unclaimed $DUSD is forfeited 🔹 Jan 15, 2027: StandX closes every position still open at the mark price 🔹 Jan 31, 2027: last day for withdrawals and $DUSD redemptions All dates are UTC, as in the StandX announcement 🟣 The airdrop size is not stated. StandX says it depends on activity: trading, market making, referrals and early deposits. Our twitter post 👈🏻 CoinLaunch TG | CoinLaunch X

Finally, no invite code needed: PopDEX opens to everyone on Oct 19, 03:00 UTC PopDEX is a perp DEX on Arbitrum. The invite-only beta traded $915M in 30 days and held $37.8M in open positions, per DefiLlama 📊 That is about $24 traded for every $1 in open positions. On Oct 13 we counted $27 on Hyperliquid and $81 on Lighter 🟣 PopDEX has announced no token and no points program 🟣 Rewards so far were cash. In Round 5, traders with $300K+ volume qualified and the top trader got $8,000 USDT. We could not confirm this in a primary source 🟣 The team says the whole beta passed $4B 🟣 It raised $30M in a round led by Foresight Ventures, as reported in May We could not confirm whether US residents are blocked. Read the terms before you connect a wallet Our twitter post 👈🏻 CoinLaunch TG | CoinLaunch X

🚀 Papertrade out-earned Hyperliquid's full week 📈 papertrade, live since Oct 10, has earned $36.3M. Hyperliquid earned $14.6M in the last 7 days, per DefiLlama That puts it third in DeFi revenue, behind only Tether and Circle. Part of it comes from traders losing to the house pool 🟣 It earns a 2% fee plus the house pool's profit above $5M. The pool profits when traders, in total, lose to it 🟣 Last 24 hours: papertrade $3.75M, Hyperliquid $2.18M, Pump $2.12M 🟣 On Oct 12 we reported the team's claim that the pool hit $5M on day one. From Oct 17, 18:45 UTC, stakers get only profit above $10M For PAPER stakers, the payout depends on traders keeping on losing, and on how big the pool grows first Our twitter post 👈🏻 CoinLaunch TG | CoinLaunch X

Finally, no invite code needed: PopDEX opens to everyone on Oct 19, 03:00 UTC PopDEX is a perp DEX on Arbitrum. The invite-only beta traded $915M in 30 days and held $37.8M in open positions, per DefiLlama 📊 That is about $24 traded for every $1 in open positions. On Oct 13 we counted $27 on Hyperliquid and $81 on Lighter 🟣 PopDEX has announced no token and no points program 🟣 Rewards so far were cash. In Round 5, traders with $300K+ volume qualified and the top trader got $8,000 USDT. We could not confirm this in a primary source 🟣 The team says the whole beta passed $4B 🟣 It raised $30M in a round led by Foresight Ventures, as reported in May We could not confirm whether US residents are blocked. Read the terms before you connect a wallet Our twitter post 👈🏻 CoinLaunch TG | CoinLaunch X

🚀 For every $1 held in open positions, Lighter traded $81 in 30 days. Hyperliquid traded $27 Open interest is money that stays in positions. Volume counts every trade, so points and rewards can inflate it fast 🟣 Hibachi, in the middle of a points contest, is off the chart at about $394 per $1 🟣 High turnover often comes from points farming. On its own, it proves no wrongdoing Which do you check first on a new perp DEX: volume or open interest? Our twitter post 👈🏻 CoinLaunch TG | CoinLaunch X

🏁 Hibachi TGE soon? A Discord member says the token launch follows the last weeks of points Hibachi calls The Playoffs, its current points season, the final one. 76.5M points are out and the TGE has no date Points are an IOU for a future airdrop. Nobody outside the team knows how many tokens a point buys 🔹 Points out grew 1.31% in the week to Oct 12. If the airdrop pool is fixed, each new point shrinks every share 🔹 The hibachi open contest ends Oct 18, 23:59 UTC. Up to $20,000 in cash unlocks at $300M volume. It had $102.8M on Oct 12 🔹 Open interest is money held in open positions. Hibachi has $1.65M vs $649.57M traded in 30 days Are you still farming points? Our twitter post 👈🏻 CoinLaunch TG | CoinLaunch X

🔐 Ledger's security team found a hidden implant in a CryptoBilis device. It read the 24 words off the screen at setup > It sent them out over a mobile LTE link. Ledger has not confirmed how many people lost funds, or how much > The 24 words are the master key to a wallet. Whoever holds them can move the funds from any device 🔹 Ledger says the implant leaves the chip guarding keys and the software untouched, and alters no transactions 🔹 Set up a CryptoBilis device? Ledger's advice: move funds to a new 24-word phrase on a device bought from Ledger 🔹 A user in Europe says he found the same kind of implant in a device from MediaMarkt. Ledger has not confirmed it Buying on a marketplace? Check the seller against Ledger's list of authorized resellers first Would you buy a hardware wallet anywhere but the maker's own shop now? Our twitter post 👈🏻 CoinLaunch TG | CoinLaunch X

Variational traded $72.5B of perps in 30 days, second only to Hyperliquid's $199.8B DefiLlama lists it as reported volume only, with no fees tracked Its VAR token is due in Q4 2026 with a 32% airdrop Since Oct 9, its 30-day volume slipped 1.3%. Hyperliquid's fell 4.3% and Aster's 7.8% 🟣 Onchain perp traders new to Variational can get up to 3,000 points, and whoever refers them up to $15,000 🟣 Closed to US persons, it runs from Aug 12 until 150,000 points are paid out. Variational says 750+ traders have joined 🟣 On Ink, Nado traded $9.5B in 30 days and caps weekly cash rewards at $90,000 through October. INK has no TGE date confirmed Would points get you to move volume to a venue whose token has no date yet? Our twitter post 👈🏻 CoinLaunch TG | CoinLaunch X

📈 papertrade's LP went from $0 to $5M in its first day of trading the team says It also confirmed attempts to profit by moving BTC and ETH quotes on Hyperliquid At 1000x, a quote moved by 0.1% is worth a position's whole margin 🔹 An analyst says one wallet netted $1.28M by pushing Hyperliquid's ETH price, winning 296 of 305 trades 🔹 The team says an overnight winner gave "almost all his profit" back. We could not verify either account 🔹 The team says the attempts were possible only because open interest caps were loose at launch, and it is tightening them On Oct 17 after 18:45 UTC, the LP level above which extra funds go to stakers rises from $5M to $10M Would you trade at 1000x on a venue whose prices can be pushed on another exchange? Our twitter post 👈🏻 CoinLaunch TG | CoinLaunch X

⚠️ Researchers estimate $72M to $86M was drained from wallets bought via one Ledger reseller The reseller, CryptoBilis, sold in Southeast Asia and has stopped selling hardware wallets Ledger says all confirmed cases involve CryptoBilis devices and its own systems are unaffected 🔹 If you bought from CryptoBilis, Ledger says not to set up an unused device 🔹 For a CryptoBilis device already in use, Ledger advises moving funds to a new seed on a device bought from Ledger 🔹 Ledger says it will never call you, DM you or ask for your 24-word phrase. Treat any message that does as a scam Do you know which reseller your hardware wallet came from? Our twitter post 👈🏻 CoinLaunch TG | CoinLaunch X

Hyperliquid made $90.8M in fees on $208.7B of perp volume over 30 days 🚀 🟣 Lighter, Aster and edgeX together traded $153.2B and made $15.0M 🟣 That is $435 per $1M traded against $98 🟣 Variational is #2 by volume. DefiLlama shows only reported volume for it, $73.5B, and tracks no fees 🟣 Per $1M traded, Lighter makes $95, Aster $93 and edgeX $112 Hyperliquid's fee figure also counts spot and outcome markets. Its perps alone make $421 per $1M When you compare perp DEX tokens, do you start from volume or from fees? Our twitter post 👈🏻 CoinLaunch TG | CoinLaunch X

🔴 $1.09B in crypto positions was liquidated from Oct 8 to Oct 9, 86% of them longs > The 10/10 crash in 2025 wiped out $19.16B > Binance took $577M, 53% of the total. Hyperliquid was second at $144M, 13% > 180,928 traders were liquidated The largest single liquidation was a $19.98M ETH position on Hyperliquid The flush was also about a third of the $2.99B on Aug 19, 2026, eighth on CoinGlass's all-time list Our twitter post 👈🏻 CoinLaunch TG | CoinLaunch X