AQUA

ChainCatcher

2026-09-30 06:00:00

GMGN data shows top five tokens by smart-money net inflows over the past 24 hours

GMGN data tracked the top five tokens by smart-money net inflows over the past 24 hours, according to a ChainCatcher newsflash. SI, AQUA, JEANPHIL, and GARP each recorded net inflows of $2,000, while NUTFLEX posted $1,000. Price action varied sharply across the list. SI rose 98.1% in 24 hours to trade at $0.0415. AQUA fell 29.5% to $0.0015, and JEANPHIL slipped 9.2% to $0.0035. GARP posted a 24-hour gain of 4,897% and was quoted at $0.0002, while NUTFLEX climbed 3,528% to $0.0002. The ranking is based on GMGN data cited by ChainCatcher and reflects smart-money net inflow performance within the latest 24-hour window.

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BlockBeats

2026-09-21 03:47:41

BlockBeats and Hyperliquid Chinese community launch 7-day HYPE trading story campaign

BlockBeats said on Sept. 21 that it has teamed up with the Hyperliquid Chinese community to launch a HYPE community campaign centered on trading complaints and personal market stories. The event will run for seven days, from Sept. 21 to Sept. 28, and offers users a chance to earn HYPE rewards by posting original content about their trading experiences. The total prize pool is 28.88 HYPE, with the top individual reward set at 9.99 HYPE. According to the announcement, participants must quote the campaign promotional post, publish an original topic-based tweet, and follow the Hyperliquid Chinese account. The campaign does not limit story direction and lists sample topics including missed trades in Robinhood $PONS, liquidation during late-night moves in crude oil compared with BTC and ETH, whether users held $ZEC when it was at 40U around the same time last year, and whether traders still hold $ASTER after new highs in $HYPE and $LIT. The event is exclusively sponsored by ecosystem project Aqua, with support from TradingBeats, CoinAnk, HyperEVM Chinese community, and Hyperliquid Fengrenyuan.

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1inch

2026-09-10 09:12:17

1inch has routed more than $814 billion, but its co-founder says DeFi is still too small to support the business

1inch has processed enormous on-chain volume without turning that scale into profit. Since launching in 2019, the decentralized exchange aggregator has routed more than $814 billion in total swaps, including $214 billion in 2025 alone, up 39% year over year, according to figures cited in the report. Yet co-founder Sergej Kunz said the company still has not become profitable, arguing that the issue is not product demand but the limited size of DeFi itself. The report describes a structural problem in the aggregator model. 1inch helps users find better prices across decentralized exchanges, split orders, reduce costs, and add features such as gasless execution, MEV protection, and intent-based routing. Those tools make the product more useful, but they also make revenue harder to capture: charging more can push users to route directly through venues such as Uniswap or Curve. The article also points to the market’s skepticism. The 1INCH token is quoted at about $0.07 to $0.09, down roughly 99% from its 2021 peak, with a market capitalization of about $100 million to $130 million. Against that backdrop, 1inch is looking at three possible revenue paths: Aqua as a shared liquidity layer, tokenized real-world asset routing through its Ondo Finance partnership, and business-facing API and infrastructure services.

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1inch

2026-09-10 08:47:47

1inch says it has processed $809 billion in swaps since 2019 but is still not profitable

1inch co-founder Sergej Kunz said the decentralized exchange aggregator has handled about $809 billion in token swap volume since its launch in 2019, yet the company has not turned a profit. Kunz said the current size of the DeFi market is still too small to support large-scale revenue generation through value extraction, and that 1inch would rather keep building infrastructure than chase short-term profit. He pointed to Aqua, 1inch’s newly launched shared liquidity protocol, as the company’s latest effort to address liquidity fragmentation in DeFi. A Dune study commissioned by 1inch found that in the first half of 2026, about 85% of concentrated liquidity on major decentralized trading platforms was underutilized. Of the $1.84 billion in liquidity tracked, roughly $1.6 billion was not being used efficiently, with an estimated $150 million in annual fee revenue going uncaptured. According to Kunz, Aqua lets liquidity providers support multiple trading pairs directly from wallet balances instead of depositing assets into liquidity pools, while compliance-screened market makers handle trade settlement. The protocol drew about $25 million on its first day, alongside incentives of 10 million 1INCH tokens and 500,000 USDC.

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1inch

2026-09-10 08:44:46

1inch Has Processed $809 Billion in Volume Since 2019 but Is Still Not Profitable, Co-Founder Says

1inch co-founder Sergej Kunz said the DeFi aggregator has handled about $809 billion in token swap volume since its launch in 2019, yet the company still has not turned a profit. Kunz said the current size of the DeFi market is not large enough to support meaningful revenue extraction at scale, and argued that building infrastructure matters more right now than chasing near-term profit. He pointed to Aqua, 1inch’s newly launched shared liquidity protocol, as the company’s latest attempt to address fragmented liquidity across DeFi markets. A Dune study commissioned by 1inch found that in the first half of 2026, about 85% of concentrated liquidity on major decentralized trading platforms was underutilized. Of the $1.84 billion in liquidity tracked, roughly $1.6 billion was not being fully used, with an estimated $150 million in annual fee revenue going uncaptured. Aqua drew about $25 million on its first day and launched with incentives of 10 million 1INCH tokens and 500,000 USDC.

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quantitative

2026-09-01 16:04:31

Princeton, Ant Group, and Stanford Researchers Introduce AQuA for Autonomous Factor Discovery in Quantitative Finance

A research team from Princeton University, Ant Group, and Stanford University has proposed AQuA, a two-part agentic framework for autonomous factor discovery and model development in quantitative finance. The framework separates research agents from a fixed evaluator to address reproducibility issues in backtesting. Part one focuses on discovering symbolic alpha factors on 5-minute cryptocurrency data via a six-agent pipeline, achieving a Spearman IC of ~0.190 after 20 research cycles. Part two targets intraday U.S. stock data, forecasting 30-minute returns using a hybrid model architecture with a multi-scale 1D convolutional frontend and a configurable backbone. The team describes the design as "asymmetric freedom."

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1inch

2026-08-27 09:26:23

1inch received 1,055 bug bounty reports in the first half, with 32 rewarded

1inch has released its first-half bug bounty report in partnership with security platform HackenProof, outlining activity across six core bounty programs. The report said the programs received a combined 1,055 submissions, with 32 reports qualifying for rewards. By category, 1inch smart contracts received 267 reports and three rewards were issued. The wallet segment logged 85 reports, including six rewarded submissions, while the web segment received 68 reports and one report earned a bounty. In other areas, the Business segment received 111 reports, nine of which were rewarded. Infrastructure recorded 52 reports with four rewards. Aqua, the shared liquidity layer, had the highest submission count at 472 reports, with nine receiving payouts. According to the report, all issues covered by the rewarded and reviewed submissions have already been fixed.

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1inch

2026-07-28 16:33:10

1inch Pledges 10M 1INCH and 500,000 USDC for Aqua Liquidity Rewards

1inch has opened its Aqua liquidity protocol to the public and paired the release with a new incentive campaign funded by 10 million 1INCH from the 1inch Foundation and 500,000 USDC from the 1inch DAO. The program, called 1inch Network Incentives, is distributed through Merkl and led by Degensoft Ltd, a British Virgin Islands entity. Aqua is now live across 13 EVM chains, including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, BNB Chain, and Robinhood Chain, after a developer-only launch in November 2025. The protocol uses a self-custodial shared liquidity model that lets providers quote from wallet balances instead of depositing assets into pools. 1inch says this structure can improve capital efficiency while keeping assets in users’ wallets until execution. The launch also comes with a broader critique of pooled DEX liquidity: research by Dune commissioned by 1inch found that 85% of concentrated liquidity on major DEXs was underutilized in the first half of 2026. Aqua has undergone eight independent audits, though 1inch says providers still face market and smart-contract risk, and fees are not guaranteed.

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