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September 10, 2025

Your Daily Digest of the 🔥Hottest News in Crypto

Today's top stories

👉 Africa's crypto glow up

📈 1.2B XRP hit exchanges in one day

👀 11 people built a $330B DeFi exchange in 1 year

📰 Keep reading for today's biggest headlines & stories

Africa's Crypto Growth Story

Sub-Saharan Africa is now the world's third-fastest growing region for crypto adoption — and it's not hype. From collapsing currencies to broken banking rails, Web3 is filling gaps that traditional finance won't touch. Chainalysis says the mix of retail demand and institutional momentum could make Africa one of the most important crypto test beds of the decade.

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The Co-Founder Time Forgot

Vitalik got the Time cover. Gavin Wood didn't. The man who gave Ethereum its programming language — Solidity — is also the one quietly building Polkadot into a next-gen ecosystem. In a rare interview, Wood admits he noticed the snub but says recognition was never the point.

His real obsession? Shipping products that outlast the hype.

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XRP's Exchange Surge

On Sept. 1, XRP exchange reserves swelled by 1.2 billion tokens in a single day. The price topped $3 right after. But is this quiet accumulation ahead of an ETF approval — or a ticking sell-off waiting to dump on retail? With Binance, Bybit, and OKX all posting sudden jumps, the answer matters.

Preview: 1.2B XRP hit exchanges in one day — bullish hoard or
bearish dump?

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BTC's Bollinger Squeeze

Bitcoin's Bollinger Bands just hit their most extreme level ever — the kind of setup traders say precedes a violent move. Analyst Matthew Hyland is calling it: an "explosive expansion" could be next, with targets as high as $300K on the table.

Whether it's up or down, volatility is about to roar back.

Hyperliquid's $330B Lean Machine

Eleven people. That's the entire team behind Hyperliquid, which cleared $330 billion in trading volume in July. No VC sugar rush, no big headcount — just a self-funded layer-1 exchange eating market share in DeFi's perpetuals game.