RaaS #519: VanEck Files for Lido Staked ETH ETF!

Polymarket Releases Accuracy Dashboard, Dankrad Joins Tempo: GM Web3!

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October 17, 2025

Tether’s Open Source WDK, Tydro Crosses $124M in Deposits, and Moar!

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Farming strategies are rotating back in. Avant offers over 20% APR on senior tranches even without leverage. As stablecoin yield compression fades, fixed-rate DeFi primitives are regaining favor.

The Virtuals team sat down in Seoul to unpack their agentic roadmap. From ACP to personalized agents to robotics deployment, they’re betting that crypto infrastructure will power the next wave of intelligent systems. Interview worth watching.

On The Radar’s latest episode, our host Luki hosted Abhz (Growth at Sophon), Tradinglord (Founder of club), and Oli (Growth at Radarblock) to dive into the Monad airdrop meta, unpacking the MegaETH ICO launch, and critiquing the wave of copy-paste UX trends across new L2s.

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Buy the pump, sell the dump, or whatever they say.

Perps are essentially never-ending crypto bets. You can long, short, hedge, or farm yield using funding rates. They’re liquid and flexible but carry margin risk and hidden complexity; they can be a great tool, or risky crutch.

Wish we didn’t ignore the signs. From TV memecoins and luxury reality shows to Elizabeth Holmes joining CT, the same absurd late-cycle indicators appeared. Is it over?

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  1. Polymarket releases an accuracy dashboard showing 95.2% accuracy 4 hours before resolution and 91.1% at one month.

  2. Tydro crosses $124M in deposits in its first 24 hours. Built on Ink, powered by Aave, and fully non-custodial.

  3. Dankrad leaves the EF to join Tempo after five years of shaping Ethereum’s core roadmap, including consensus research and Danksharding.

  4. VanEck files S-1 for a Lido Staked ETH ETF, bringing liquid staking exposure to TradFi rails for the first time.

  5. Orochi Network raises $8M, bringing its total funding to $20M to build a verifiable data infrastructure for RWAs and stablecoins.

  6. Ink sees 80% daily transaction surge, crossing 916K txs and 71K active addresses, now one of the fastest-growing chains in the OP Superchain.

Tether has open-sourced its Wallet Development Kit. The WDK enables anyone, from devs to AI agents, to build secure, multi-chain, self-custodial wallets across Bitcoin, Lightning, EVM chains, and IoT devices.

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Top Gainers: XPIN, ZKC, NOCK, ZBT, PTB.

Kamino Multiply adds directional leverage for SOL, BTC, and more. Users can now loop volatile assets like SOL or cbBTC with Kamino’s one-click UX, soft liquidations, low penalties, and borrow incentives. Marks a shift from yield loops to directional trading on Solana, eliminating CEX friction.

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  1. Andre Cronje’s new protocol fuses spot, perps, lending, and stablecoin into one capital-efficient stack, backed by a $1B round and a redemption-protected token model.

  2. Crypto cards now serve over 100M users globally. Most rely on custodial models with weak on-chain links and are not true drivers of on-chain commerce.

  3. Health Protocol puts health data on-chain. Users earn points for actions, posted as anonymized scorecards on ZKsync. Donors fund top communities.

  4. Prediction markets expose truths that institutions prefer to be hidden. By pricing collective belief, they strip narrative control, making them a threat not because they fail, but because they work too well.

  5. Monad launched its airdrop portal and is nearing mainnet. Built with parallel EVM, Monad achieves 10K TPS and sub-second finality. We’re sharing some apps worth trying.

ETHGlobal offers free housing for Buenos Aires hackers and will host 150 builders at a dedicated Hacker House from Nov 21–24. Builders get free accommodations during the hackathon.

Yunus turned 2 SOL into ~$30K via DLMM farming on Meteora. After rejoining crypto in 2024, he studied Meteora’s YouTube guides, joined EnclaviumFNF, and scaled GOAT-SOL positions using bin step tuning and token filters.

That’s all for today, see you next week!