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Since its creation on невідомо, the project has demonstrated rapid growth, gathering an audience of 24 251 subscribers.
According to the latest data from 28 September, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by -369 over the last 30 days and by -19 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.
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- Post reach: On average, each post receives 1 179 views. Within the first day, a publication typically gains 885 views.
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- Thematic interests: Content is focused on key topics such as ecosystem, alpha, aggregator, ink, tge.
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“Daily analytics, news and insights on what's shaping big tech, AI & crypto. Follow for your daily Tech On Point
Proudly rooted in Ukraine 🇺🇦
Contact: @top7dan
X: x.com/top7ico”
Thanks to the high frequency of updates (latest data received on 29 September, 2026), the channel maintains relevance and a high level of publication reach. Analytics show that the audience actively interacts with content, making it an important point of influence in the Cryptocurrencies category.
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Claude Sonnet 5.5: Near-Opus Performance at Half the Price
Six days after Opus 5.5, Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5. The price is unchanged at $2 input / $10 output per million tokens, the same as Sonnet 5 and the same as OpenAI's GPT-6 Sol. That's half the cost of Opus 5.5.
The biggest jump is in terminal coding. Sonnet 5.5 scores 70.6% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, up from 10.3% for Sonnet 5, and it beats Opus 5.5's 66.4%. On everything else it sits a few points below Opus. On GDPval-AA knowledge work it's 2 points behind (1844 vs 1846), and on OSWorld computer use it scores 80.1% vs 81.8%.
Against GPT-6 Sol at the same price, Sonnet 5.5 leads on knowledge work (1844 vs 1487) and chart reading (61.6% vs 53.6%), while Sol comes out ahead on FrontierCode (49.3% vs 46.2%). Anthropic also says Sonnet 5.5 uses fewer tokens per task, cutting real costs by up to 30%. The company still recommends Opus 5.5 for complex, open-ended work.
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| 2 |  Top 10 Tokenized Credit Platforms by Total Value Onchain
About $6.1B in tokenized credit sits across the top ten platforms, and one of them holds a quarter of it:
• STOKR – $1.6B
• Maple – $958.7M
• Centrifuge – $638.0M
• Hastra – $610.8M
• Realiz – $500M
• Securitize – $426.4M
• Huma – $382.6M
• Bridgetower – $334.3M
• Re – $316.4M
• Chainlink CCIP – $296.2M
STOKR is the one most people haven't heard of. It issues securities on Blockstream's Liquid Network, and its $1.6B is almost all of Liquid's $1.61B in RWA, which explains why Liquid ranked #6 among chains last week.
The monthly moves split the market. The DeFi-native names are shrinking: Centrifuge -16%, Securitize -11%, Maple -7.8%. Meanwhile Huma is up 62% on payment financing and Re is up 23% on reinsurance.
Hastra (+1.6%) is the platform behind the PRIME token for Figure's home loans, which Plume just wrapped into its nPRIME vault.
🔗 RWA.xyz
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| 3 |  3 Upcoming Crypto Launches
Jumper $JUMP – Sale, Sep 29 – Oct 2
Jumper is the #1 cross-chain aggregator by bridging volume, with $40B+ in lifetime volume and 100K+ monthly users. It's spinning out of LI.FI as a standalone company. The Legion sale is its first-ever raise and it's skipping equity entirely, so the token is the only way to own a piece. 40M JUMP go on sale at $0.075, with 50% unlocked at TGE and the rest vesting linearly over 4 months.
Ethos $WHUF – TGE, Oct 8
Ethos is an on-chain reputation protocol. Its 20% auction cleared at $4.20 per token, a $42M FDV. Tokens become transferable on Oct 8, which also closes the 85% price-guarantee window for buyers.
Variational $VAR – TGE TBA
Variational is a P2P perps protocol doing $50.9B in 30-day volume with $980M OI, and it has raised $61.8M. It's giving 32% of supply to users in the genesis drop, with no vesting. Points farming ends with Q3, so there are only days left.
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| 4 |  FTX's $206B Missed Fortune
If FTX had held its venture portfolio instead of liquidating it in bankruptcy, the stakes would be worth over $206B today. That's roughly 25x the ~$8B in customer funds that went missing.
Anthropic makes up 83% of the total. The estate sold FTX's stake in 2024 for about $1.3B, and today the same position would be marked at $170.5B. Cursor is the most extreme multiple: a 5% pre-seed stake was sold back for around $200K in 2023 and would now be worth ~$3B, a 15,000x missed return. SpaceX ($15.1B), Solana ($7B) and Robinhood ($6.7B) are the other big ones.
Not every bet looks good in hindsight. Sui returned only 2.8x, and Aptos would be underwater at 0.5x.
Creditors were repaid in full at November 2022 prices, but crypto and AI have since repriced everything, so the gap went to whoever bought the stakes from the estate.
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| 5 |  +1Weekly Recap: AI, Tech & Crypto
September 21–27, 2026
Bitcoin hit an eight-month high at $87,397, closing out its second-best Q3 on record, and AMD joined the $1T club, while Bitget lost $351.6M in the year's biggest hack. In AI, Claude Opus 5.5 took #1 on the LLM Arena and OpenAI answered 90 minutes later with cheaper GPT-6 models. xAI cut Grok 4.7's price in half and Alibaba unveiled its own AI chip. The price war among the labs is now as loud as the race for benchmarks.
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| 6 |  $135.2M Is Sitting Unclaimed in Crypto Bridges
A new tool, Stuck Funds, has found $135.2M in bridge withdrawals that were started but never finished. The money is spread across 79 bridges and 522,000+ wallets. Most of it comes from L2-to-Ethereum withdrawals, where users never came back for the final "claim" step after the waiting period.
The team first contacted owners with $10K+ balances directly, and 27 wallets recovered ~$1.66M within three days. Then it opened a public checker. In 12 hours, it saw 130K+ lookups; 9K+ wallets found stuck funds, and bridge claims rose 83%.
The checker is free and read-only, with no wallet connection. You claim through the official bridge, and 100% goes to your wallet. Stuck funds attract scammers, though, so be careful: the team never DMs first, never sends claim links and never asks for keys or payment.
🔗 stuckfunds.eth.limo
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| 7 |  Top 10 Biggest Token Unlocks Next Week
September 28–October 4, 2026
$BTW → $138.5M on October 2
$2Z → $104.8M on October 2
$M → $65.0M on October 2
$FF → $26.8M on Sep 29–30
$SUI → $24.6M on September 30
$CC → $21.1M ongoing daily
$TRUMP → $12.6M ongoing daily
$CARDS → $10.9M on September 29
$ENA → $10.6M on October 2
$EIGEN → $9.42M on October 1
$424M+ in tokens hitting the market next week. October 2 alone accounts for $319M — 75% of the weekly total — with four tokens unlocking on the same day: $BTW, $2Z, $M, and $ENA. That's the most concentrated single-day unlock load we've seen in months.
September 29 opens with $FF and $CARDS, September 30 adds $SUI, and October 1 brings $EIGEN — every day has at least one cliff event before the October 2 cluster hits.
The real pressure points are $2Z (16.69%), $CARDS (3.02%), $FF (2.03%), and $EIGEN (1.99%) — four meaningful supply shocks across five consecutive days.
Data source 🔗 Cryptorank, Tokenomist, Defillama
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| 8 |  Privacy Landscape
The privacy sector is worth ~$41B, and 93% of it is privacy coins. Private DeFi, programmable chains and confidential compute add up to only ~$3B combined. The market is paying for private money today, while programmable privacy is still an early bet.
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| 9 |  Top Categories by Raised Amount for Last 6 Months
Roughly $10.78B across ten categories over six months, and the leaderboard has been rewritten almost entirely:
• Prediction Markets - $3B
• Payments - $2B
• Exchanges - $1B
• AI - $1B
• Blockchains - $771M
• DeFi - $489M
• Brokerage - $473M
• Mining & Compute - $433M
• Infrastructure - $364M
• Compliance - $250M
Prediction Markets at $3B isn't a category anymore, it's the category - nearly 30% of everything raised, more than exchanges and AI combined. A year ago this was a niche bet on election cycles. Now it's the single biggest line item in crypto venture, which tells you investors aren't betting on a product, they're betting on a new default interface for information itself.
Payments at $2B confirms the trend from earlier this year: distribution still beats infrastructure. Add exchanges' $1B and that's $3B chasing the front door, while the pipes behind it - blockchains, mining, infrastructure - split a smaller pool between them.
AI tying exchanges at $1B is the real shift. Six months ago AI was the second-smallest bucket on this chart. Now it's tied for third. The token story is turning into a venture story.
DeFi at $489M holds roughly steady, still below blockchains - the "new primitives" narrative hasn't returned, it's just no longer shrinking.
Compliance showing up at $250M is new too. Nobody was funding it as its own category before; now it's a line item, which usually means regulators, not builders, set this summer's agenda.
Data source 🔗 Cryptorank
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| 10 |  Bitget Loses $351.6M in the Largest Crypto Hack of 2026
Bitget confirmed that attackers drained ~$351.6M from its hot and warm wallets on September 24 in 19 transfers across Ethereum, XRP Ledger, Avalanche, BNB Chain and Arbitrum. The stolen assets include ETH, XRP, USDT, USDC, AVAX, and BNB, and $170M+ has already been swapped into ETH.
According to CEO Gracy Chen, no private keys were stolen. The attacker broke into a backend system in the wallet infrastructure, faked transaction data and got Bitget's own authorization process to approve the transfers.
It's the same pattern as Bybit last year: attackers go after the signing process instead of the keys. Bitget says it suspects North Korean hackers. For users: the $464M+ User Protection Fund covers the full loss, and Bitget has $1B+ in its own capital on top.
🔗 x.com/GracyBitget/status/2103235655879074084
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| 11 |  Top 10 Real World Assets Projects by FDV
RWA projects are pushing tokenized assets into the mainstream, connecting traditional finance with on-chain infrastructure. Here are the top 10 projects driving the narrative.
$LINK $XLM $ONDO $QNT $XDC $ALGO $INJ $HASH $RE $CARDS
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| 12 |  Plume Launches nPRIME: Real Estate-Backed Yield from Figure
Plume has launched nPRIME, a vault that gives crypto users yield from Figure's $30B home loan market. Figure issues home equity loans (HELOCs) that sit on its books for ~42 days before they're sold to long-term investors. Through Democratized Prime, DeFi users fund that gap instead of banks.
PRIME's base rate is around 7.5% APY, minus a 50 bps Hastra fee. The pool is over-collateralised with an average loan-to-value of 68%, and loans that fall 60+ days delinquent are removed from the collateral. The yield comes from real mortgage-style credit rather than token emissions, so it doesn't depend on the crypto market.
🔗 x.com/plumenetwork/status/2103147021066715485
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| 13 |  Top Perpetual DEXs by Open Interest
About $17.2B in open interest sits across the top ten perp DEXs, and nearly half of it is on one venue:
• Hyperliquid – $8.32B
• TradeXYZ – $3.88B
• Aster – $1.41B
• Variational – $909M
• Lighter – $834M
• edgeX – $613M
• Grvt – $470M
• Antarctic – $357M
• QFEX – $249M
• Pendle – $163M
The real concentration is higher than the chart shows. tradeXYZ is built on Hyperliquid through HIP-3, so together they hold ~71% of all perp DEX open interest. tradeXYZ's profile is different too. It has the second-highest OI on only $53.7B in volume, because traders hold its stock and commodity positions instead of flipping them.
Fees tell a similar story. Hyperliquid made $76.1M in 30 days, roughly 3x the rest of the list combined. It earns ~3.5 basis points on every dollar traded, while Aster, Lighter and edgeX earn about 1. Aster has the second-biggest volume at $69.1B but ranks only third on OI, which points to high-turnover, incentive-driven trading more than positions people hold.
🔗 Defillama
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| 14 |  Variational Dashboard: $VAR Tokenomics Revealed Ahead of Q4 TGE
Variational has published its tokenomics and put its TGE in Q4. The genesis drop is one of the largest shares handed to users this year:
• Team & Investors – 50%
• Genesis Drop – 32%, no vesting
• Ecosystem Reserve – 18%
Points farming runs until the end of Q3, so there's roughly a week left. Anyone with 1+ point is eligible, and unclaimed tokens get burned instead of returning to the treasury. After launch, 100% of protocol revenue goes to $VAR buybacks.
Variational does $48.2B in 30-day perp volume with $909M in open interest and $246M TVL, on $61.8M raised. Polymarket puts a $1B+ FDV at 76% and a $2B+ FDV at 36%. At $800M–1B, community estimates value a point at roughly $25–30.
🔗 x.com/variational_io/status/2102929439063765192
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| 15 |  Claude Opus 5.5 Takes #1 on the LLM Arena
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5, released this week, debuts at the top of the Arena leaderboard with a score of 1,818. It's 26 points ahead of OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra (1,792) and 63 ahead of Anthropic's own Fable 5.1 (1,755).
Anthropic now holds four of the top ten spots, and OpenAI holds two. The chasing pack is tight: from GPT-6 Sol at #5 (1,686) down to Meta's Muse Spark 1.3 at #10 (1,658), six models sit within 28 points of each other. Two Chinese labs are in that group, Alibaba with Qwen3.8-Max (1,671) and Moonshot with Kimi K3 (1,660).
Only three models clear 1,750, and a 26-point lead on Arena is meaningful but not decisive, since rankings there can shift within weeks as votes accumulate. Opus 5.5's position will firm up as it gets more matchups.
🔗 x.com/arena/status/2102952767614779403
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| 16 | ![Binance will list Hyperliquid [HYPE] at 11:00 UTC $HYPE will be listed on Binance today, at 11:00 UTC. Hyperliquid leads all](data:image/jpeg;base64,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){kind=small} Binance will list Hyperliquid [HYPE] at 11:00 UTC
$HYPE will be listed on Binance today, at 11:00 UTC. Hyperliquid leads all perp DEXs with $219B in monthly volume, $9.06B in open interest and $59M in 30-day revenue.
🔘Current HYPE price: $93.3 (+18.4% for last 7D)
🔘Current FDV: $89B
🔗 binance.com/en/support/announcement/detail/c2eaa763831745b2b1701dab45e20225
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| 17 |  Catalyst Opens Early Access for Its Outcome Markets
Catalyst, a "markets for moments" platform, is letting its first 1,000 waitlisted users in over the next 24 hours. The idea flips how prediction markets usually work: instead of picking from a list of pre-made events, you describe the outcome you want to trade, and the app spins up a market for it.
The waitlist itself is gamified: your spot moves up as you post on X, refer others and pre-deposit funds. In the team's demo, a $180 pre-deposit jumped a user from rank #1,551 to #441. A fifth step is still hidden, and the team says it "could shake things up".
Account launched in July, site is still gated, and there are no public details on fees, liquidity or a token. But user-created markets are the one corner of prediction markets that Polymarket and Kalshi don't serve, so it's worth watching once the doors open.
Early Access 🔗 catalyst.markets/fomo-3
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| 18 |  Crypto Buybacks in the Last 30 Days
Five protocols spent ~$112M buying back their own tokens over the past month, and Hyperliquid alone accounts for 56% of that:
• Hyperliquid – $62.5M
• Pump Fun – $24.3M
• Pons – $14.8M
• Stonk – $6.8M
• Lighter – $3.26M
The biggest buyer doesn't have the biggest impact. Annualise the 30-day pace against FDV and HYPE's buyback works out to under 1% a year, because $62.5M a month barely moves a $91B token. Pons does the reverse: $14.8M against a $475M FDV implies ~37% a year, and Stonk ~24%.
The small caps come with an asterisk. Pons' month came from the Robinhood launch frenzy, and a launchpad's best 30 days is the worst possible base to annualise from.
Hyperliquid routes ~99% of fees automatically and pump.fun has a contract lock to April 2027, while Lighter and Stonk buy back at the operator's discretion, so that policy can change.
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| 19 |  Top 10 Chains by RWA Active Market Cap
Roughly $36.6B in active RWA sits across the top ten chains, and for the first time the other nine combined hold more than Ethereum:
• Ethereum – $16.6B
• BNB Chain – $5.78B
• Solana – $4.49B
• Stellar – $3.36B
• Avalanche – $1.74B
• Liquid – $1.61B
• Arbitrum – $1.05B
• ZKsync – $971M
• Polygon – $509M
• XRP – $456M
Ethereum still leads by a wide margin, but its share has slipped to ~45%, down from ~48% last week, as it dropped from $17.3B to $16.6B. The issuers aren't leaving; the growth is simply landing elsewhere.
BNB Chain is the clearest winner, with bStocks tokenized equities pushing it well ahead of Solana. Stellar at #4 and Liquid at #6 are the quieter story.
Neither has much of a DeFi scene, yet both carry billions in fund and securities issuance. For RWA, being where the issuer is counts for more than DeFi activity.
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| 20 |  Claude Opus 5.5: Fable-Level Performance at Opus Prices
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in its new 5.5 family. The pitch is that it performs at roughly Fable 5.1's level while costing $4 input / $20 output per million tokens, versus $10 / $50 for Fable. It also runs 30%+ faster than Opus 5.
The coding gains are the largest. On Terminal-Bench 4.0 it scores 66.4% against 52.3% for Opus 5 and 57.9% for GPT-6 Astra. In one Anthropic test it audited and fixed a 200K-line codebase in under 3 hours, compared with 20+ hours for Opus 5. It also leads on CursorBench (57.8%) and GDPval-AA knowledge work (1846).
It doesn't win everywhere. GPT-6 Astra still leads on agentic scientific research (64.6% vs 58.7%) and edges it on business workflows (41.4% vs 40%). Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 are due in the next few weeks.
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