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Hey Empire reader!

Maybe you didn’t catch our other emails this week. So, just to let you know, Blockworks Editorial is in deep learning mode until Monday. Which means this email is shorter than usual.

We’re back to our scheduled programming soon. Until then, enjoy these stories from us and around the web.

• Validators are signaling early support for Native Markets to launch Hyperliquid’s USDH stablecoin.

• China-based holding company Pop Culture, which specializes in hip hop events, has bought 300 BTC for $33 million.

• Cboe is looking to roll out continuous futures markets for bitcoin and ether, starting in November.

• Scoop: VanEck plans to file for Hyperliquid staking ETF alongside a European ETP, reports Blockworks’ Jack Kubinec.

• Italian artist Valentina Picozzi has debuted another Satoshi Nakamoto statue, this time in Hanoi, Vietnam.

• How Byron Gilliam stopped worrying and learned to love a politicized Fed.

• From Base to Robinhood: Why trading apps are going social.

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