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first_img Grayscale Research Director: Computing power is becoming a new scarce digital asset

On September 24, Zach Pandl, the research director of the cryptocurrency asset management company Grayscale, published an article in the column The Stack stating that in the wave of artificial intelligence, the demand and supply paths for the computing power required to train, run, and operate models are diverging. Grayscale believes that this imbalance favors owners of already powered and operational computing capacity and brings growth-oriented investment opportunities.Zach Pandl stated that digital demand can expand instantly, but physical infrastructure such as electricity, data centers, chips, memory, and cloud services takes years to approve, access, and build. When artificial intelligence agents perform multi-step tasks, they may consume 5 to 50 times more compute tokens than typical chatbot interactions, and increased application layer activity will transmit to the underlying computing infrastructure.The article cites data from the International Energy Agency and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, stating that data centers are expected to account for about half of the growth in electricity demand in the United States by 2030, and new projects may take more than five years to connect to the grid. Even if electricity is secured, permits, specialized labor, electrical equipment, cooling systems, GPUs, high-bandwidth memory, and networks are still needed. Continuous value will flow to power producers, data center operators, and artificial intelligence cloud service providers that can convert electricity into computation.

Robinhood Chain Research Report: In August, on-chain Gas revenue reached 6.6 million USD, and DEX trading volume rose to 1.5 billion USD

According to a report released by Spartan Capital, Robinhood Chain will launch its mainnet on July 1, 2026. By the end of August, the on-chain DEX trading volume had risen to $1.5 billion, with a TVL increasing to $711 million, and on-chain gas revenue in August reached $6.6 million.The report shows that most of the trading volume in August came from Uniswap, with a single-day on-chain fee reaching $2.1 million on August 31. Robinhood is responsible for running the sequencer and receives about 90% of the on-chain fees. After deducting Ethereum settlement costs and the 10% licensing fee paid to Arbitrum DAO, the net income for August was approximately $6 million. Regarding Robinhood Earn, users deposit USDG and borrow through Morpho, with the deposit scale increasing from $9.5 million on July 1 to $456 million on August 31, accounting for 68% of Robinhood Chain's TVL at the end of the month. Users can earn an estimated annualized yield of about 7%, while the yield on the loan side was approximately 3.7% at the end of August, with the difference subsidized by reward funds provided by Morpho and its lending partners.Meanwhile, the Meme ecosystem of Robinhood Chain is growing rapidly. By the end of August, over 340,000 tokens had been issued on-chain, with application layer transaction fees reaching $114 million in August. The report states that the trading volume of Meme and tokenized stock trading pairs is also growing rapidly, with the trading volume of Meme tokens paired with Robinhood Stock Tokens reaching $518 million in August. The report points out that the current trading activity on Robinhood Chain is still mainly driven by crypto-native users, and Robinhood's own 27 million funded accounts have not yet been migrated to the chain on a large scale. The gas subsidies in the Robinhood wallet will continue until September 29, and the Earn yield is also planned to be gradually reduced.

first_img Apyx postponed the APYX token TGE, and the Season 2 allocation was raised to 9%

The digital credit protocol Apyx announced on September 23 that the TGE of the governance token APYX has been postponed to after the originally scheduled date of October 13, 2026, when rewards were planned to be distributed to Season 1 and Season 2 participants. The reasons for the delay are twofold: the core reserve asset STRC has experienced the deepest and longest drawdown in its brief history, the protocol has not been interrupted, and the Chainlink on-chain NAV, proof cadence, minting, and redemption are still operating under existing terms, but the volatility of digital credit exceeds the range shown by its short history, requiring more time to address; multiple institutions have proactively reached out, hoping to use their infrastructure to bring their assets on-chain.The additional time will be used to strengthen the core protocol and to build a broader RWA platform V1 before the TGE. Digital credit remains the reserve anchor and source of yield for apyUSD, with custody, proof, on-chain NAV, redemption, and compliance frameworks being opened to other issuers and asset types. Apyx stated that the zero-fee, instant redemption, government bond-backed aptUSD has been launched, making it the first asset in the ecosystem not derived from digital credit. The Pips plan will continue, and Season 2 will no longer end on the originally scheduled date of October 11; the accumulation under the existing multiplier will remain uninterrupted, and positions, commitments, Curve and Pendle positions, and lending positions will continue to score without any action required.Due to the extended accumulation period, the airdrop allocation for Season 2 has increased from 6% of the total supply to 9%. The new end date will be confirmed along with the new TGE date, and it will not end without prior notice. The allocations for Season 1 and Season 2 will still be fully unlocked at the TGE.

HTX Research Analyst WZ: The pricing of the cryptocurrency market is extending outward, with regulation and macro liquidity becoming key variables

In the seventh live broadcast of the Huobi Expert Lecture, HTX Research asset analyst WZ pointed out that in the past, people were accustomed to explaining Crypto with Crypto, but today, the variables that determine the next phase of Crypto are increasingly occurring outside of Crypto. This marks a new pricing cycle that Crypto is entering.On the policy level, WZ believes that although the Clarity Act, which has systematic characteristics, is hindered in the Senate due to the need to secure bipartisan votes and issues involving the Trump family's interests and stablecoin profit distribution, U.S. crypto regulation has not stalled. For instance, the SEC recently released an "innovation exemption" plan that allows compliant institutions meeting certain conditions to tokenize specific stocks, accelerating the integration of traditional finance and crypto.On the macro level, WZ stated that the situation in the Middle East and the blockage risk in the Strait of Hormuz have raised the "risk premium" of crude oil. Rising oil prices can trigger inflation expectations, which in turn affect U.S. Treasury yields and global liquidity. When energy prices remain high and interest rates stay elevated, the upward potential for risk assets like Bitcoin may be constrained.WZ also pointed out that in this cycle, the direct inflow and outflow of ETF funds have changed the traditional logic of capital overflow, making a "general rise" pattern for altcoins difficult to achieve. However, in the new cycle, assets with a "new narrative" and strong consensus will still experience independent upward trends.
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