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LBank Market Depth: How It Compares With Six Major Crypto Exchanges
BeInCrypto examined how LBank compares with rival exchanges on trading depth, access to emerging tokens and tokenized products.
- Major trading pairs: LBank ranked first in five of six major USDT order-book tests against Binance, OKX, Gate, Bitget, MEXC and Bybit. Its displayed depth exceeded the six-peer median on every pair, although this does not guarantee execution quality.
- Early token access: LBank scheduled PONS trading 54 days and seven hours before Bitget. Selected tokens also recorded sharp price gains, but the sample does not prove typical customer returns or worldwide first listings.
- Robinhood-linked products: LBank led 9 of 22 selected tokenized-product depth comparisons. Its HOODON book held 4.42 times the competitor exchange’s displayed depth, while HOODX held 2.23 times as much. These are two separate products linked to Robinhood.
- Security evidence: LBank supplied an ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certificate and documented relationships with Elliptic and CertiK. These show defined security and compliance arrangements, but they do not independently confirm completed testing, guarantee protection from breaches, or establish customer-asset coverage.
Choosing an exchange involves two practical questions: can you trade the asset you want, and how much will the trade cost? LBank’s emphasis on early listings and tokenized products makes both worth examining alongside its established crypto markets.
Our comparisons cover spot markets, where users trade tokens themselves rather than leveraged contracts. An order book lists offers to buy and sell; its midpoint lies halfway between the best buying and selling prices.
We measure displayed depth by adding orders within 2% of that midpoint. More depth can help absorb trades, but a buyer needs available sell orders and a seller needs buy orders.
LBank Led Five of Six Major Pair Tests
Our 29 August comparison covered Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, BNB and Dogecoin, each traded against USDT, a stablecoin designed to track the US dollar. We compared LBank with Binance, OKX, Gate, Bitget, MEXC and Bybit.
Across three snapshots, LBank ranked first in five pairs and second in Dogecoin. Its displayed depth exceeded the median, or middle value, of the six rivals on every pair.
Table 1 Major pair comparison
USDT pair
LBank depth
Strongest rival
Rival depth
Rank
BTC
$52.16m
Bitget
$11.79m
1 of 7
ETH
$25.24m
Bitget
$8.15m
1 of 7
SOL
$11.10m
Bitget
$10.98m
1 of 7
XRP
$4.92m
Bitget
$4.36m
1 of 7
BNB
$11.23m
Bitget
$4.15m
1 of 7
DOGE
$4.47m
MEXC
$4.51m
2 of 7
Source: Public order books from LBank, Binance, OKX, Gate, Bitget, MEXC and Bybit. Three snapshots, 29 August 2026; first 100 price levels per side; combined depth within 2%. Dollar amounts are approximate USDT values.
Bitcoin showed the clearest advantage: $52.16 million against Bitget’s $11.79 million, the strongest competing book. Solana was much closer, at $11.10 million against $10.98 million.
The test capped each side at 100 price levels, which can exclude different amounts of depth on different exchanges. Orders can also disappear before a trade executes. These results therefore describe the sampled books, rather than full market capacity or guaranteed execution prices.
| What this means: LBank showed competitive capacity in its core markets, particularly Bitcoin and Ethereum. That gives traders and trading partners a reason to compare its quotes for major assets, while testing the relevant side of the book at their intended order size. |
Early Listings Gave Access to Tokens With Large Gains
LBank nominated NIULAI, PONS, Artificial Inu and The Index for a closer look. CoinGecko’s 8 September capture showed large monthly gains in three, while NIULAI fell over the available seven-day window.
Table 2: Price changes in the four nominated tokens
Asset
7 days
30 days
PONS
+49.47%
+2,226.07%
Artificial Inu
+50.12%
+7,921.56%
The Index
+23.03%
+212.59%
NIULAI
-2.37%
Unavailable
Source: CoinGecko captures, 8 September 2026: PONS, Artificial Inu, The Index and NIULAI. NIULAI’s 30-day change was unavailable. Selection: LBank, not a representative sample of its listings.
These are changes in token prices, not returns earned by every LBank customer. Entry time, exit price and trading costs determine individual results. Artificial Inu appears as AI on CoinGecko and AI1 on LBank; we matched asset identities rather than relying on symbols alone.
The listing history does support a specific access advantage. LBank scheduled PONS trading for 15 July at 07:00 UTC; Bitget scheduled it for 7 September at 14:00 UTC. LBank’s launch was 54 days and seven hours earlier.
What this means: LBank offered access to PONS well before that particular rival, giving users an earlier opportunity to trade it. The evidence does not establish a worldwide first listing, typical customer profits or consistently successful token selection.
Small Token Books Limited Larger Purchases
The next question is whether traders could transact at the prices they saw. Three direct order-book captures per comparison on 8 September found much less nearby depth for several nominated tokens.
Table 3 Nearby depth in the same smaller tokens
Asset
LBank depth
Matched rival
Rival depth
NIULAI
$82
Gate
$17,011
PONS
$288
Gate
$113,214
Artificial Inu
$5,792
Gate
$2,660
The Index
$9
MEXC
$1,194
Source: BeInCrypto direct exchange captures, 8 September 2026. Median combined buy and sell depth within 2%; approximate dollars from USDT values. AI1 uses the later matched LBank and Gate capture; Gate names the same token AINVDA.
PONS illustrates the difference between an attractive quote and enough orders behind it. LBank’s spread, the gap between its best buying and selling prices, was only 0.011%, narrower than Gate’s 0.081%. Yet a simulated $1,000 purchase on the captured LBank book paid an average 2.23% above the midpoint, against 0.06% on Gate.
Source: Median simulated buying premium across three captures per comparison. Rivals: Gate for NIULAI, PONS and Artificial Inu; MEXC for The Index. No trades were placed. Calculations use displayed sell orders and exclude fees, delays, cancellations and new orders.
Artificial Inu needs a further distinction. LBank had more combined depth than Gate in the matched capture, but only about $96 consisted of sell orders, against Gate’s $1,396. Most of LBank’s depth was buying interest, offering little help to someone buying the token.
Its combined depth had also risen sharply between capture rounds. That change shows why a single snapshot cannot establish persistent liquidity.
What this means: Early access did not consistently translate into capacity for larger purchases. The simulations show why retail users need to inspect sell orders before buying; for listing partners, the weakness is the amount and balance of available liquidity, not simply the number of tokens offered.
bStocks Accounted for Most Tokenized Trading in the Sample
LBank offers tokenized products across bStocks, Ondo and xStocks. Our 8 September CoinGecko screen covered 22 selected products across those three families.
Tokenized products provide exposure linked to an underlying asset through a digital token. Two tokens referencing the same company can have different issuers and terms, so we compared the exact product and USDT spot pair across exchanges.
Table 4: Reported activity across the selected tokenized basket
Product family
Products
24h volume
Basket share
bStocks
8
$14.39m
63.91%
Ondo
6
$4.43m
19.67%
xStocks
8
$3.70m
16.42%
Total
22
$22.51m
100%
Source: CoinGecko ticker captures, 8 September 2026; selected LBank basket. Totals use unrounded figures. Share means share of this basket’s reported volume, not global market share. Ticker data and depth fields.
The basket covered eight reference names: Apple, Amazon, Circle, Nvidia, Robinhood, Tesla, SK Hynix and SpaceX. Including SK Hynix and SpaceX-linked products takes the comparison beyond ordinary US-listed shares. This is a selected product sample, not a measure of the whole US stock market.
xStocks represented just 16.42% of the basket’s $22.51 million in reported daily trading. The broader total reflects added product coverage, not evidence of a sudden increase in activity.
We also checked six overlapping xStocks pairs against completed one-minute trading records over nearly aligned 24-hour windows. CoinGecko showed $2.61 million; the reconstruction gave $2.64 million, 1.08% higher. Valuing the reconstructed quantities at CoinGecko’s latest prices narrowed the gap to 0.07%, suggesting pricing explains most of the difference.
Both calculations ultimately use exchange-reported activity. Agreement supports consistency between the two methods, but does not independently audit the trades.
What this means: bStocks contributed almost two-thirds of this sample’s reported activity, so an xStocks-only view would miss much of the trading covered here. Traders and partners should assess each product’s liquidity and terms separately.
Robinhood Products Had the Largest Depth Advantages
LBank led nine of the 22 exact-product depth comparisons. Its two largest leads over the strongest available rivals were HOODON and HOODX, two different products linked to Robinhood shares.
Source: CoinGecko, 8 September 2026. Combined upward and downward 2% depth; Gate was the strongest valid matched rival in both cases. Four valid venues, including LBank, returned for each product.
HOODON held $1,096,872 on LBank against Gate’s $248,125, a 4.42-fold difference. HOODX held $564,324 against $252,804, or 2.23 times as much. Both reference Robinhood, so these are two product strengths tied to one company.
Table 5: Other product comparisons show where the result changes
Product
Family
LBank depth
Strongest rival
Rival depth
HOODB
bStocks
$613,791
Binance
$499,816
TSLAB
bStocks
$548,588
Binance
$927,889
NVDAX
xStocks
$881,259
Gate
$597,711
NVDAON
Ondo
$312,474
MEXC
$885,850
Source: Selected examples from the 22-product CoinGecko capture, 8 September 2026. Each row compares the same token against USDT. Product sources: HOODB, TSLAB, NVDAX, NVDAON.
Results also varied across issuers. LBank led 9 of the 22 tokenized-product depth comparisons in the September 8 snapshot: four of eight bStocks products, four of seven xStocks products and one of seven Ondo products.
The table below lists every product where LBank led. Each comparison matches the same token and USDT trading pair against the strongest qualifying rival. Depth measures the combined value of buy and sell orders within 2% of the market midpoint.
Robinhood stood out across all three product families, accounting for three of LBank’s nine leads. HOODON held 4.42 times Gate’s displayed depth, while HOODX held 2.23 times as much—the two largest percentage advantages in the sample. HOODB also exceeded Binance’s depth by 22.8%.
The other leads ranged from 1.8% for Nvidia’s bStocks product to 47.4% for Nvidia’s xStocks product. The narrow advantages in NVDAB and CRCLX could reverse with relatively small changes in displayed orders.
These rankings cover valid returned matches in an 18-exchange screen. Missing markets were not counted as zero, and the number of qualifying rivals differed by product.
What this means: LBank’s strongest result was the consistency of its Robinhood lead across three separate tokenized products. Its other wins give traders and partners a wider set of markets to consider. These books showed more combined buying and selling interest near the market price than their strongest qualifying rivals, although actual execution still depends on order size, the side of the book and whether those orders remain available.
LBank Documents Security Controls and Partnerships
LBank supplied evidence of security controls and external partnerships that deserves consideration alongside trading performance. The sources establish different things, from a certificate’s stated scope to announced testing arrangements.
Table 6: What the security evidence supports
Evidence
Documented scope
Limit of the evidence
ISO/IEC 27001:2022
LBK EXCHANGE FZE; platform, infrastructure, applications and AWS security management. Stated validity 13 Feb 2026 to 12 Feb 2029, subject to periodic audits.
Names Prescient Security LLC as issuer. Issuer confirmation remained incomplete in this review.
Elliptic
Provider confirms transaction and wallet screening and fund tracing.
Partnership announcement; no measured control outcomes.
CertiK
LBank announces simulated attack testing and rewards for finding vulnerabilities, 10 Aug 2026.
Announcement does not establish completed tests or fixes.
Source: Certificate supplied by LBank and reviewed 1 September 2026; Elliptic announcement; LBank CertiK announcement. Elliptic’s page is dated 12 March 2025.
LBank also told BeInCrypto that SlowMist joined its security initiative. This review did not independently confirm that participation or its scope.
Access depends on jurisdiction as well as technical controls. Historical notices from Japan’s FSA on 14 June 2024, Spain’s CNMV on 9 September 2024 and India’s FIU on 1 October 2025 addressed registration or compliance. Those records alone do not determine today’s legal status.
| What this means: The documentation gives users and partners specific controls to investigate. It does not measure how reliably every control operates, guarantee protection from breaches or replace checking the legal entity and permissions relevant to a user’s country. |
What the Research Can Establish
Table 7: Research scope and dates
Test
Capture date
Basis
Major pairs
29 Aug 2026
Seven exchanges; three snapshots; first 100 levels per side.
Nominated tokens
8 Sep 2026
CoinGecko prices; listing notices; three direct books per comparison.
Tokenized products
8 Sep 2026
22 products; 18-venue screen; exact USDT spot matches; stale or anomalous rows excluded.
Volume check
8 Sep 2026
Six xStocks pairs; 1,440 completed one-minute records per pair; nearly aligned windows.
The observations describe two dated research windows, not live rankings or a controlled before-and-after comparison. Reported turnover is not independently audited. The nominated tokens and selected tokenized basket cannot establish exchange-wide market share or typical investment returns.
Public wallet trackers cover different address sets, and no complete current reserve package was supplied in the reviewed material. This study therefore cannot establish whether assets cover everything owed to customers; that does not demonstrate a shortfall. Verification requires dated assets and liabilities, a way for customers to check inclusion, and a defined independent review.
What this means: The findings support comparisons of specific markets and documented arrangements. They cannot establish the exchange’s overall financial condition or guarantee what a future trade will cost.
LBank Makes a Stronger Case for Some Trades Than Others
Table 8: Where the evidence is strongest
Use case
Finding
Condition
Major crypto trades
Led five of six sampled books
Depth must persist until execution.
New token access
PONS available earlier than Bitget
Large gains did not ensure deep sell books.
Tokenized products
Led nine of 22 comparisons
Choose the exact issuer and pair.
LBank’s strongest evidence concerns its major crypto markets and selected tokenized products. The sampled Bitcoin and Ethereum books compared favourably with large rivals, and the Robinhood-linked products showed substantial depth advantages. Its earlier PONS listing adds a separate benefit for traders seeking new assets.
The smaller-token tests qualify that case. Access to a rising asset can coexist with a thin sell book, making a larger purchase more expensive than the headline quote suggests. LBank has demonstrated reasons to consider individual markets; this research does not establish consistent leadership across its full catalogue.
For a retail trader, the practical conclusion is to compare the exact token, the relevant side of its book and the intended order size before choosing a venue. For partners, the strongest next test is whether LBank sustains the observed depth and delivers comparable execution over time.
Sources
- LBank public API documentation
- Binance official spot API documentation
- OKX market data API documentation
- Gate API documentation
- Bitget order-book API documentation
- MEXC spot API documentation
- Bybit order-book API documentation
- Dune xStocks query 6512755
- DefiLlama LBank profile
- Arkham LBank entity profile
- Japan Financial Services Agency warning
- Spain CNMV warning
- India Financial Intelligence Unit notice
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China has three new criteria for humanoid robot IPOs. Few, if any, meet them
Humanoid robots box during the 5th Global Digital Trade Expo on September 25, 2026 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province of China.
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BEIJING — China’s securities regulator is raising the bar for public listings of humanoid robot startups, according to three sources familiar with the CSRC’s thinking.
It’s a sign of how one of the hottest sectors of the market is cooling, as investors globally assess whether artificial intelligence stocks are in a bubble.
The Chinese regulator wants local “embodied AI” startups seeking to go public to meet three specific criteria, according to the sources, who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation.
They are:
- The “window guidance” requires that the humanoid applicants have sustainable revenue and commercial orders.
- Losses must narrow, with one source saying a three-year forecast is needed.
- The company must possess core technology such as robotic brain or hands.
Even if a startup only has to meet two of the three criteria, as one source indicated, it’s unclear which, if any, of the companies can do so.
That’s lowered expectations to just a handful, or none, of these startups making it to public markets, the sources said.
At least two dozen humanoid-related embodied AI companies have filed to list in Hong Kong alone, according to two of the sources. Hong Kong in May 2025 started letting tech companies file confidentially for IPOs.
The Hong Kong stock exchange declined to comment. The China Securities Regulatory Commission did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Mainland China companies wanting to list in Hong Kong also need the CSRC’s blessing.
Unitree IPO impact
Scrutiny on China’s growing number of humanoid robot startups and their fast-growing valuations — supported by a mix of government and private sector funds — has grown over the last several weeks.
The industry’s posterchild, Unitree, got a regulatory fast-track to its listing in Shanghai on Aug. 19 as the World Robot Conference kicked off in Beijing.
But in a keynote a day later, founder Wang Xingxing cautioned that commercialization beyond dancing robots remained years away. It accentuated a debate that picked up in subsequent weeks on what humanoids can actually do — and whether industry startups were actually making money.
China now has well over 100 humanoid companies, which fall under the national push for “embodied AI.” The term received Beijing’s support in the last two annual government work reports, although authorities have warned of a bubble in the humanoid robot industry.
Reflecting a rapid surge in interest, investment in the sector hit 47.09 billion yuan ($6.95 billion) in the second quarter, more than double that of the first quarter — and up over six times versus the same period last year, according to industry data provider Xiniu.
Unitree raised about about 6.1 billion yuan ($905 million) in its IPO on Aug. 19 with Shanghai-listed shares skyrocketing more than 460% in their debut to close at 845 yuan.
The stock had nearly halved in price as of Monday, at 459.65 yuan a share.
Hong Kong-listed Ubtech has also tumbled more than 40% so far this year. The company, which went public in December 2023, still reported an operating loss for the first half of this year of 279 million yuan.
The share price decline contrasts with the flood of capital pouring into humanoid robotics companies over the last 12 months or so. The tech, often called “physical AI” in China, has been seen as a way for early-stage investors to benefit from the surge of interest in artificial intelligence models.
However, Rhodium Group analysis this month found that China’s AI companies only make about 10% the revenue of Anthropic and OpenAI. The ratio of valuation to revenue — especially for Chinese AI startups Moonshot and DeepSeek — was far higher than their U.S. rivals, the report said.
While expectations grow for the U.S. AI giants’ IPOs, chipmaker AMD said Monday it is acquiring World Labs for $8.2 billion in a stock deal. The startup, founded by AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li, is building AI models for creating virtual 3D environments frequently used in humanoid robot development.
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A SpaceX Starship Rocket Officially Reached Orbit. Why That’s So Significant
The launch this morning was both imperfect and stripped down to its orbital essentials. On the way up, one of the Starship’s six engines failed to burn properly, requiring the other engines to compensate for the missing thrust to get the ship in orbit.
In addition, the return to Earth was simplified. SpaceX has made itself famous for safely landing the first stage of its Falcon 9 and Starship boosters—with 641 out of 688 Falcon 9 launches featuring this kind of recovery, allowing the boosters to be reused and make flying cheaper. Starship’s first stage, meantime, performs what has become known as a chopstick recovery, with the booster navigating its way back to the launch tower where two giant metal arms pluck it from the sky. For the current mission, the chopstick recovery was done away with to simplify the flight objectives; instead the first stage made a soft, engine-assisted splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. The Starship spacecraft was planned for a six-orbit, 10-hour mission, with the ship’s engines set to fire around the dinner hour Monday to bring the spacecraft down for a similar gentle, watery landing.
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Goldman Sachs Explains Why Not to Buy the 5%+ Bonds and Rather Stick to AI
Goldman Sachs’ Anshul Sehgal says bonds yielding 5% or more are not the best trade right now. He still favors AI infrastructure, which he sees as a far more asymmetric bet than the long bond.
Sehgal, a global co-head of Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) at the bank, laid out the view just a few days after the Federal Reserve raised interest rates.
Why Goldman Sachs Is Passing on 5%+ Bonds
On Goldman’s The Markets, Sehgal said the 30-year Treasury, known as the long bond, had hovered around 5% for weeks. He noted that clients want to buy it at 5% or higher, yet he still sees little upside.
The yield has kept climbing since the recording, reaching 5.56% on September 29, a new 52-week high. Sehgal blamed structural pressure for the strain on the long end. Retiring baby boomers are buying fewer long bonds, and heavy long-dated borrowing tied to AI is crowding the market.
Those pressures explain why the selloff can persist even without a fresh inflation shock. Fewer retirees buying long bonds and a steady flow of long-dated borrowing tied to AI both weigh on prices, and neither fades quickly.
Sehgal adds that fear over US debt sustainability makes investors less willing to hold the long end, which feeds on itself.
The takeaway is that a rising yield does not necessarily break his thesis. It may instead show why he sees limited reward in owning the bond, while the risk to his AI trade is that costlier long-term borrowing squeezes the levered companies he favors.
AI Compute Is the Asymmetric Trade
An asymmetric trade offers far more potential gain than risk. Sehgal applies that label to compute (AI computing power), data centers, and Neoclouds, which are cloud providers built to rent out that capacity.
“I think the asymmetric expression is being long compute.”
Anshul Sehgal, Goldman
The catch is leverage. Savers collecting higher interest have effectively financed the AI build-out, leaving equities more indebted than a year ago. Sehgal admits these are levered bets. Still, he thinks they can multiply in value, while the wider stock market looks less certain.
Tighter Policy Hits Spenders, Not Capital
Sehgal says the Fed frames its September 16 hike as catch-up after five years above its inflation target. Schwab counts 16 of 19 Fed officials expecting another increase this year. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh also stressed three times that the Fed is easing back some stimulus rather than turning restrictive, Sehgal adds.
He argues that government interest payments flow to capital rather than workers, so higher rates curb household spending, a risk for the broader stock market.
He also rejects the debt-sustainability fears weighing on long bonds.
“For me, that’s a red herring.”
Anshul Sehgal, Goldman
Meanwhile, BlackRock’s Rick Rieder is cutting equities for bonds paying 7% to 8%, though his high-grade bond call still cautions against rushing into the 10-year Treasury.
Sehgal names the Middle East conflict as the top driver of policy and markets in the weeks ahead.
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BTC, ETH price news: Bitcoin slips to $83,000 as ZEC drops 12% and oil climbs again
“Bitcoin has pulled back to $83K, testing the lower boundary of last week’s consolidation range,” Alex Kuptsikevich, chief market analyst at FxPro, said in an email to CoinDesk. “As with the market as a whole, a retest of the $82K region, where peaks were formed in May and early September, is entirely to be expected under current conditions.”
“Looking ahead, a sustained return to prices below $80K would be an important signal that the market is not ready to move higher for some time yet. If, however, this consolidation is soon followed by a new bullish momentum, it could send the leading cryptocurrency well above $90K,” he added.
The pressure is coming from bonds and oil.
Treasuries steadied in Asia after tumbling during U.S. trading, with the 10-year yield up one basis point to 5.25% after reaching its highest level since 2007 on Monday. A higher guaranteed return on government debt raises the bar for holding assets that pay no income, bitcoin among them.
Brent rose more than 1% to nearly $107 a barrel, its second straight gain, as hopes for an imminent diplomatic breakthrough with Iran faded.
Pricier oil feeds into inflation, and traders have been adding to bets that the Fed will raise rates again. MSCI’s All Country World Index fell to its lowest since Sept. 18, and Nasdaq 100 futures slipped 0.3% after Monday’s tech-led selloff on Wall Street.
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Tether is a ‘lifeline’ for Iranian regime, Senate Dems say in new report
U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin Tether is a go-to tool for the Iranian government to bypass sanctions, a new report from a group of Senate Democrats said.
Democrats on the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s Permanent Subcommittee on Intelligence published a report Monday laying out the argument that Tether plays a key role in allowing Iran to conduct transactions that skirt international sanctions.
“Iran’s cryptocurrency-based shadow banking network has processed significant volumes of funds and implicates various Iranian interests,” the report said, adding that Tether has “repeatedly failed” to block Iran-connected wallets.
“USDT has become a significant financial lifeline within Iran’s shadow banking network,” the report said.
When Tether does freeze wallets, it sometimes takes weeks, but the company also sometimes responds to requests without actually blacklisting wallets, the report claimed.
“Prior to 2024, Tether did not comprehensively and consistently freeze wallets designated by counter-terrorism agencies and continues to fail to proactively block clearly illicit wallets,” the report said. “This absence of deterrence invited abuse: terrorist organizations such as Hamas shifted from transacting in Bitcoin and a mix of cryptocurrencies to promoting USDT.”
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Grok AI Predicts XRP Could Hit $40 in 2026 With Landmark Event
Elon Musk’s Grok AI predicts an extremely bullish price for Ripple (XRP) by January 1, 2027, that will blow the minds of even the most dedicated members of the Ripple Army.
If you’re holding a sizeable bag of XRP USD, you may want to sit down before reading this. Grok claims that $25–$40 is achievable by 2027, with a stretch target of $50+ under the assumption of a full-blown crypto bull market returning and being supercharged by an unprecedented institutional catalyst.

XRP currently trades near $1.50–$1.52 as of September 28, 2026, down nearly -3% over the past 24 hours and with a daily trading volume of $3.5Bn, up from $3.2Bn the day prior.
This outlook is extreme and leans far beyond standard institutional forecasts. It assumes not only a strong late-2026 bull market driven by liquidity and risk-on conditions, but also a once-in-a-generation catalyst.
What is the Catalyst that Grok AI Predicts Could Spark an XRP Run Toward $40
Major central banks (including the Fed, ECB, Bank of Japan, and PBOC) announcing that the XRP Ledger will serve as a primary settlement layer for cross-border CBDC and tokenized asset flows, combined with large commercial banks being incentivized or required to hold XRP as a liquidity buffer, and revelations of massive sovereign wealth fund accumulation.
Under this highly speculative scenario, forced institutional demand collides with retail FOMO in a classic late-cycle mania, allowing XRP to move from the current ~$1.50 range through previous-cycle highs and into the mid-to-high double digits by early 2027.
This remains pure speculation and entertainment, not a base-case or even high-probability outlook. Crypto markets are extremely volatile, and the catalyst described above would require multiple extraordinary policy and institutional developments.
However, with Ripple’s case against the SEC dropped and its subsequent rise as a highly favored US-based digital asset company under President Trump, anything could be on the table for XRP if the perfect scenario aligns.
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Technical Analysis Supporting the Insane Grok AI XRP Price Prediction
On the higher timeframes, XRP has already established a constructive recovery base after reclaiming key moving averages from the mid-September lows near $1.25–$1.30. Price is consolidating in the $1.45–$1.55 region after testing highs near $1.63–$1.66.
In a normal bull market, a sustained break above $1.70–$2.00 would open the door to the prior cycle high near $3.65. Under the extreme institutional adoption scenario outlined above, that prior high would likely be cleared with significant force, triggering a series of measured-move and Fibonacci extension targets far beyond historical levels.
Aggressive projections from the multi-year base, combined with the kind of vertical price discovery seen in previous mania phases, could theoretically extend into the $25–$40+ zone if volume and momentum expand dramatically. RSI and momentum indicators would almost certainly reach deeply overbought levels during such a move, which is typical of parabolic advances.
Key nearer-term supports remain in the $1.40–$1.45 and $1.30 zones; holding those would keep the broader recovery structure intact while the market waits for (or prices in) any extraordinary catalysts.
Overall, while the current chart supports continued upside in a standard bull market, only an extreme surge in institutional demand and narrative intensity could justify the kind of multi-thousand-percent extension implied by the $25–$50 targets.
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Maxi Doge Targets Early Mover Upside as XRP Tests Key Levels
While the Grok AI prediction of a potential 30x run for XRP is exciting, presale plays have a stronger track record of producing such returns. It does explain why attention keeps drifting toward presale-stage plays with smaller denominators.
Maxi Doge ($MAXI) is one of those plays. It is an Ethereum-based meme token built around a 240-lb canine mascot and a “1000x leverage” trading-culture identity. The presale has raised $4.8M at a current price of $0.0002841, with dynamic APY staking live for holders.
Standout features include holder-only trading competitions with leaderboard rewards and a Maxi Fund treasury earmarked for liquidity and partnerships.
The meme-first, gym-bro marketing angle (“never skip leg day, never skip a pump”) is endearing. The accumulation numbers suggest plenty of traders are picking a side.
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Trump Rolls Back Fuel Economy Standards. Will Cars Really Get Cheaper?
When it was first proposed in December 2025, the rule was divisive, drawing ire from environmental advocates while garnering praise from auto-industry trade groups. The Administration finalized it last week with a signoff from President Donald Trump.
The President commented on the forthcoming rule Sept. 26, saying the new standards would “take the waste out of building cars in America.”
“That means LOWER PRICES, saving families thousands on a new, beautiful, and safe car,” he wrote on Truth Social.
The claim that the revisions will pass down cost savings to American buyers, however, relies on several factors, including automakers’ pricing decisions, fuel costs, and broader economic conditions.
What changes under Trump’s new fuel economy rule?
Former President Joe Biden’s regulations were put in place in 2024 to reduce car-based greenhouse gas emissions, decrease dependence on fossil fuels, and spur a transition to electric and hybrid vehicles. The Trump Administration has claimed that its revisions are more focused on bolstering the auto industry and making safer, newer cars more accessible.
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The restaking gold rush is over, and top protocols are barely making a profit
EigenLayer held $19.7 billion at its peak and liquid restaking tokens grew more than 1,000% in the first six weeks of 2024. But the services buying security never paid enough to cover both the base staking yield and a premium on top, so the second yield restaking promised never materialized.
On Sept. 8, DefiLlama’s restaking category held $10.02 billion and generated $99,977 in fees over the prior week. The liquid staking category, on $51.87 billion, generated $27.35 million. Per dollar secured, ordinary staking earns roughly 53 times more.

Two developments then removed what was left of the incentive to restake. Points programs subsidizing deposits wound down through 2025, and slashing went live in April 2025. Slashing is the penalty that confiscates part of an operator’s staked ETH when it misbehaves, by going offline or signing conflicting messages, for example. So restaking suddenly carried a real, priced downside where before the risk had been theoretical. There was no extra yield to compensate.
Set ether.fi aside and the rest of the sector is small. Renzo, Kelp, Swell, Puffer Finance and Bedrock, the five largest remaining liquid restaking tokens, made $953,350 in combined gross profit in the second quarter of 2026. Three quarters earlier the same five made $2.18 million. Puffer, which raised $23 million, recorded $21,590 for the quarter. Swell recorded $22,370.

The income statements also show which part of these businesses was ever profitable, and it was not the restaking. On Kelp’s books, EIGEN token rewards appear at $460,600 in gross revenue and $460,600 in cost of revenue: they arrive and pass straight to depositors, leaving nothing with the protocol. Puffer and Swell book staking rewards the same way. Whatever profit these companies made came from the orinary staking fees charged underneath the restaking layer.
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Goldman Sachs brings $100 billion Treasury fund into crypto’s institutional plumbing
“There’s a convergence now that you’re seeing between traditional market participants and digital asset market participants as well,” Lynq CEO Jerald David said in an interview with CoinDesk TV.
For firms using Lynq, FTIXX gives them somewhere to put cash between trades rather than leaving it sitting around. They can earn yield on the money and pull it out when they need it again.
That was a product Lynq’s clients had been asking for, David said. The network works with firms including B2C2, Wintermute, Galaxy ·, FalconX, Crypto.com and Fireblocks, whose businesses can require moving large amounts of money between trades. They wanted another option for putting that cash to work in the meantime.
“We needed to demonstrate that there was client demand,” David said. “Our clients were looking for a treasury asset on the platform that may have had a different yield profile than the other instrument that’s on there right now.”
Getting FTIXX onto the network required some work. Lynq had to modify its technology, restrict access to U.S. clients and integrate with Mosaic, he said. Customers also need a relationship with tZERO Securities and must meet the required onboarding and eligibility checks.
Lynq itself runs on a private, permissioned Avalanche (AVAX) Layer 1 blockchain. Its network has more than 30 institutional digital-asset firms onboarded and more than $89 million in assets, according to the company.
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Crypto’s Widening Net: From Fed Bets to Blackjack Tables, Digital Assets Keep Blurring Old Boundaries
If there is one throughline in this week’s crop of crypto headlines, it is that the industry has stopped pretending it is only about buying and holding coins. Across a handful of stories making the rounds, digital assets are shown pushing into territory once reserved for central bankers, casino floors, brokerage accounts and pre-IPO investors alike — a reminder that “crypto news” increasingly means finance news, gambling news and macro news rolled into one.
Take the growing chatter around prediction markets and Federal Reserve policy. Traders have been flocking to on-chain betting platforms to price the odds of late-2026 rate decisions, effectively turning monetary policy into a tradable asset class alongside Bitcoin and Ethereum. That such markets exist at all is notable: a decade ago, speculating on FOMC outcomes required options contracts or futures desks.
Now it can happen peer-to-peer on a blockchain, with odds shifting in real time as economic data lands. The rise of these markets suggests crypto infrastructure is becoming a genuine alternative venue for hedging and speculating on the traditional economy, not just a parallel casino for digital tokens.
Speaking of casinos, the sector itself continues to evolve in ways that mirror shifts in consumer taste rather than technology alone. Reports on crypto gambling lobbies note that live-dealer blackjack tables are increasingly outnumbering roulette wheels—a seemingly small detail that says more about what crypto-native gamblers want.
Live blackjack offers a sense of skill and control that pure-chance games like roulette can’t match, and operators appear to be responding by stacking their lobbies accordingly. It’s a small but telling sign that crypto casinos are maturing into product-driven businesses competing on experience, not just novelty.
Meanwhile, the boundary between crypto trading and traditional equities markets keeps eroding. New developments around Aave’s lending protocol reportedly let users borrow stablecoins against tokenized versions of tech stocks issued through Coinbase and built on the Base network.
If that model gains traction, it would mark a significant step in bringing real-world assets fully into DeFi’s collateral system — letting someone hold a tokenized slice of a Nasdaq darling and borrow against it the same way they might borrow against ETH or Bitcoin today. It’s the kind of integration that regulators, banks and crypto-native builders have all been circling for years, and its practical rollout matters more than the concept alone.
On the trading-platform side, perpetual futures exchanges continue to expand what counts as a “market.” One report describes a platform offering more than 120 perpetual contracts spanning everything from Bitcoin to pre-IPO robotics companies, letting traders apply leverage to assets that, in many cases, aren’t even publicly listed yet.
This kind of expansion into speculative, illiquid corners of the private market — wrapped in crypto’s leverage-friendly perpetual format — raises real questions about price discovery and risk, even as it satisfies demand from traders hungry for exposure beyond the usual crypto majors.
Finally, there’s the steady drumbeat of token listings that keeps the broader ecosystem churning. A gambling-focused token tied to the Dexsport platform recently landed on the MEXC exchange, a move that typically brings a token more liquidity and visibility, if not necessarily more fundamental value. Listings like these remain a bread-and-butter event in crypto markets — routine, but still closely watched by holders hoping for a price bump and a wider trading audience.
Individually, none of these developments is likely to reshape the industry overnight. But together they sketch a familiar pattern in crypto’s ongoing evolution: infrastructure built for speculative tokens is steadily being repurposed for macro bets, tokenized equities, private-company exposure and gambling products alike.
The technology is proving flexible enough to wrap around almost anything with a price — which is exactly why regulators, investors and casual observers alike keep struggling to say where “crypto” ends and the rest of finance begins.
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