gm Web3 explorers,

With Q3 2025 almost ending, we're seeing a new wave of NFT adoption thanks to the rise of NFT Strategy and their leading product PunkStrategy. Also, a reminder that you can now claim your .radar domain name for free, once your account hits level 40. This and so much more in the last industry newsletter of September.

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📡On Your Radar: Industry headlines

🔵 Swift, the bank protocol for international transfers, has announced its own blockchain to integrate global payments. They partner with ConsenSys and over 30 banks for this initiative, benefiting cross-border retail payments at a global scale. (Source: Swift)

🟦 Chainlink has been around as an oracle for onchain data for a few years already, and it has become a household name. It can now grow into becoming a foundational layer for traditional finance, bringing real-world data onto the blockchain for trading benefits. As tokenization accelerates, LINK will benefit. (Source: Yahoo! Finance)

🔷 Prices down? The Bitcoin bull market isn't over yet. Price recovery above $112,000 pushes BTC back up again, and in October we expect final decisions about 16 crypto ETFs. Some approvals could bring a fresh inflow of institutional money, and this could mean the return of Uptober!

🟦 SharpLink Gaming has invested $3.3 billion into $ETH, and is now looking to tokenize their stocks. Their SEC-registered common stock will be tokenized through Superstate's Opening Bell platform. TradFi and DeFi are slowly merging more and more. (source: Sharplink)

🔷 Top-down action RPG Eternal League is pausing its development after the team failed to secure funding. The action RPG will remain available to play until the end of the year, and if funding isn't secured by then... the project will follow a long list of games that already perished during the Web3 gaming bear market that's still ongoing.

🔵 Gaming infrastructure platform OpenLoot is moving into a new direction, focusing on in-house development of games. Four games will depart OpenLoot; Boss Fighters, Shatterpoint, The Desolation and Kokodi. Big Times Studios - the team behind OpenLoot - will keep supporting their online game BigTime. In addition, WorldShards and Moonfrost are also mentioned as games that remains part of the OpenLoot ecosystem. (source: OpenLoot)

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DappRadar x Freename: Your own .radar domain name

DappRadar is excited to announce the integration of Freename domain names, meaning that holders can search their domain names on the DappRadar platform. In addition, any DappRadar community member whose account reaches level 40 can claim their own .radar domain name.

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🔵 PunkStrategy: 300% value increase in just one week

PunkStrategy is becoming a wonderful flywheel that pumps the entire CryptoPunks ecosystem. Users can invest in $PNKSTR tokens, which creates a funds to purchase floor priced CryptoPunks from the open market. A part of the money gets burned, and the punk NFT gets listed with a 20% price hike.

This mechanic can singlehandedly revive trading volumes for the NFT market. While also adding a mechanic to make the assets much more liquid. Now users have a variety of ways to invest into CryptoPunks, or some of the other supported collections.

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Universal Execution Protocol +396% in 7 days

PC gamers now on mainnet, trading volume up 302%

Sudden demand for Cryptoadz, 588% in number of traders.

🪙 ZEROBASE puts your stablecoins to work

ZEROBASE is a DeFi platform where you can stake your stablecoins to help and secure zero-knowledge proofs. They've also launched a Booster Program in collaboration with Binance Wallet for their upcoming TGE. There's no date yet for the launch of $ZBT, but Binance communicates that 20 million ZBT will be distributed during the TGE through an airdrop.

The platform attracted over $427 million in staked coins already, coming from over 75,000 wallets. Those who are interested in this airdrop, have to be fast. Binance's campaign ends on October 8th with a 16% APR on staked coins. However, a Season 2 campaign is already being teased.

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