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TLDR CRYPTO 2025-09-11

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01MARKETS & BUSINESS

JPMORGAN: S&P 500 REJECTION OF STRATEGY A SETBACK FOR CRYPTO TREASURIES

The S&P 500 committee's decision to reject Strategy's inclusion despite meeting criteria is a “blow to crypto treasuries,” signaling reluctance to add firms that function as bitcoin funds. The move limits Strategy's ability to channel bitcoin exposure into major benchmarks, raising the risk that other index providers could also reconsider. Analysts warned that fatigue is growing around treasury-focused firms, with capital potentially shifting instead toward exchanges and miners with operating businesses.

links.tldrnewsletter.com2 min read

SEC CHAIR CALLS FOR CLEAR RULES TO UNLOCK ONCHAIN CAPITAL RAISING

SEC Chair Paul Atkins said entrepreneurs and investors should be able to raise capital onchain “without endless legal uncertainty,” reaffirming that most crypto tokens are not securities. He outlined “Project Crypto,” aimed at modernizing securities rules to enable onchain trading, lending, and staking under a unified framework. Atkins criticized the prior administration for driving innovation offshore and said the new SEC approach is to provide the “minimum effective dose” of regulation to protect investors while fostering growth.

links.tldrnewsletter.com2 min read

02INNOVATION & LAUNCHES

INTRODUCING THE X402 BAZAAR

Coinbase's x402 is an open payments standard that allows any online service to be monetized and paid for via crypto-based microtransactions. The x402 bazaar enables dynamic, self-improving agents that can browse before they pay, which unlocks complex workflows that previously required developers to directly sign up and pre-pay for services like LLM inference, financial analysis, and web scraping.

threadreaderapp.com4 min read

UPBIT EXCHANGE LAUNCHES ETHEREUM L2

Upbit, the largest South Korean crypto exchange, has launched its Giwa layer 2 on testnet. The layer 2 is built on the OP stack and aims for one-second block times and a friendly user experience. Details about the mainnet launch, ecosystem partners, and explicit purpose of the chain remain unclear, but this is the latest in a flurry of L2 announcements from major entities like Sony and Robinhood.

cointelegraph.com4 min read

03GUIDES & TUTORIALS

MARKETS NEED RULES, AND CRYPTO IS NO DIFFERENT

Crypto markets require clear regulatory frameworks to achieve broad adoption, countering both the "regulatory free-for-all" approach favored by some crypto advocates and the current hostile regulatory environment. There are four essential objectives for crypto regulation: predictability and stability, protection of property rights, transparency and information clarity, and fair competition. The SEC's approach of pursuing enforcement actions without first establishing clear legal standards creates uncertainty that stifles innovation while allowing bad actors to operate in regulatory grey zones. Crypto-specific regulation should recognize blockchain technology as both a financial system and a web infrastructure platform, requiring specialized frameworks like token taxonomy, decentralization standards, and guidelines that enable legitimate businesses to operate without fear of arbitrary prosecution.

threadreaderapp.com9 min read

THE BOROS FUNDING RATE TRADE

Boros is a new Pendle-built platform that enables direct trading of funding rates rather than underlying assets or perpetual contracts. The strategy, called "Optimistic Funding Rate Trading," involves longing rates when Binance's real-time funding rate rises above the market's implied rate and shorting when it falls below, attempting to capture both settlement gains and price movements from rate shifts. The approach relies on timing market sentiment cycles in funding rates, with traders earning the spread between actual funding settlements and their locked-in fixed rate, plus potential profits from correctly anticipating rate direction changes. This is high-risk in nature, and there is potential for significant losses from mistimed entries or misjudged market shifts.

threadreaderapp.com7 min read

04MISCELLANEOUS

FROM WORLD COMPUTER TO GUARANTEE MACHINE

A developer building a real-time fitness aggregator demonstrates why blockchains are fundamentally unsuitable for most applications by detailing how a simple Python app becomes impossible to implement onchain. The app easily handles continuous data streams, event-driven updates, external API calls, real-time processing, and hot deployments using traditional web infrastructure, but each capability is blocked by blockchain constraints like determinism requirements, oracle dependencies, gas costs, and sandboxed execution environments. Blockchain applications remain toy-like because they're designed around extreme blockchain limitations rather than actual user needs. A new approach is needed to bridge the gap between computational requirements and verifiable guarantees.

spjoleh.com11 min read

BASTION PROPOSES TO ISSUE HYPERLIQUID'S USDH STABLECOIN

Bastion, a regulated stablecoin issuer with a New York trust charter and broad MTL coverage, has submitted its proposal to issue Hyperliquid's native USDH. Unlike other contenders, Bastion doesn't run a competing chain or stablecoin, positioning itself as a neutral infrastructure partner with strong U.S. regulatory compliance. The proposal calls for USDH to be a full-stack stablecoin with segregated, bankruptcy-remote reserves, 95% of yield reinvested into Hyperliquid growth, and global on/off-ramp access via partners like Rain, LayerZero, and Securitize. Bastion argues USDH should serve as the base stablecoin for the ecosystem, with others built on top of it rather than as wrappers.

bastion.com3 min read