Saturday bitcoin eased. The CoinGecko snapshot fetched at 00:23 UTC on October 3, 2026 put Bitcoin at $84,524, down 0.36%, ether at $2,669.08, down 1.36%, and Solana at $118.70, up 0.05%. Global market cap sat near $2.89 trillion, bitcoin dominance about 58.7%, and 24-hour volume about $122.2 billion. Strategy kept the STRC coupon at 12.00% and declared $0.50 semi-monthly dividends. Hyperion DeFi repaid about $8.6 million of Avenue Capital debt after selling 200,000 HYPE in the quarter. AVAX One bought 333,500 shares in September. Aave posted a Cayman foundation ARFC and a GHO borrow-rate bump. Spark’s October 8 spell would stand up a Diamond PAU on Arbitrum. Gauntlet wants borrow collateral factors at zero on five deprecated Compound comets. Uniswap’s Arc fee expansion cleared another FOR from L2BEAT. Kraken Prime has a one-hour API maintenance window at 07:00 UTC. Map the tape with Bitcoin history, Ethereum history, and How to read a crypto market snapshot. Keep DeFi, stablecoin, and USDC notes nearby if treasury coupons, GHO, and Circle Arc fees are the day’s stack.
Crypto brief: October 3, 2026
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Strategy holds the STRC coupon at 12.00% and declares $0.50 dividends
Strategy Inc's October 1 8-K (accession 0001193125-26-409863, accepted 08:01 ET) says the board will keep the Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock (STRC) regular dividend rate at 12.00% for semi-monthly periods starting on or after October 16, 2026. Management still wants that 12.00% coupon until STRC trades near $100 in a sustained way. The same filing declares $0.50 cash dividends per share for the periods ending October 31 and November 15, 2026, payable October 31 and November 15, with the November 15 payment contingent on Daily Dividend Amendments at a special meeting scheduled for October 28, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern. Item 7.01 only points investors to the strategy.com dashboard. This is a coupon and preferred-stock clock, not a new bitcoin purchase print.
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Hyperion DeFi repays $8.6 million after selling 200,000 HYPE
Hyperion DeFi's October 2 8-K says it repaid about $8.6 million to Avenue Capital on September 28, 2026, ending a loan originally sized up to $15.0 million, with no early-termination penalty. The payoff used proceeds from HYPE token sales plus cash on hand. In the three months ended September 30, 2026 the company sold 200,000 HYPE and HYPE liquid staking tokens, and it held 1.85 million Gross HYPE plus about $14.5 million in cash, cash equivalents, and USDC as of that date (unaudited). Exhibit 99.1 adds a 240,124-share buyback at a $3.21 weighted average gross price and 15,442,482 shares outstanding. The HYPE sales funded the debt wipe, not a separate treasury add.
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AVAX One buys 333,500 shares in September at $5.36
AVAX One Technology's October 1 exhibit 99.1 says it bought 333,500 common shares in September 2026 at an average $5.36 including fees. Split-adjusted, that brings total buybacks since November 2025 to 836,743 shares, with about $33.9 million still available under the $40 million program (one-for-twelve reverse split on June 15, 2026). Interim CEO Pete Wylie called the gap between the share price and what the company thinks it is worth a reason to keep buying. AVAX One is an Avalanche treasury name that also runs bitcoin mining and modular data centers. The filing is a repurchase update, not a new AVAX purchase print.
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Aave ARFC would incorporate a Cayman foundation for the trademark
On October 2, 2026, Aave governance posted an ARFC to incorporate a memberless Cayman Islands foundation company in Phase 1, with an independent director and supervisor, to hold the Aave trademark and related IP for the protocol. Later phases would move the mark, domains, and codebase IP, each returning to a separate vote. Phase 1 asks only for reasonable incorporation, legal, and officer-appointment costs. The post argues a DAO cannot register a trademark or hold a domain, so paid work has sat with vendors. One reply asked governance to compare a Swiss foundation before locking Cayman.
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GHO Stewards propose 4.50% Core borrow after the USDC GSM ran dry
TokenLogic's October 2 GHO Stewards post proposes lifting the GHO borrow rate on Aave V3 Ethereum Core from 4.25% to 4.50% APR and the Prime base rate from 2.75% to 3.00%, with the GHO Risk Council executing under the existing mandate. Core would then match the 4.50% Aave Savings Rate after USDC and USDT borrow costs printed 4.39%. GHO traded below $0.999 for most of September and closed October 1 near $0.9993. The USDC GSM is depleted. The USDT GSM held about 22.5 million USDT. This is a steward rate tweak, not a new GHO listing.
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Spark's October 8 spell would add a Diamond PAU and CCTP V2 on Arbitrum
Spark's October 8, 2026 spell post lists seven changes across Arbitrum, Ethereum, and X Layer, including bringing a Diamond PAU parallel controller into service on the existing Arbitrum ALM Proxy and opening a CCTP V2 USDC route from Arbitrum to Ethereum. The intended end-state limits cited are 5,000,000 USDC per route and 50,000,000 USDC per day. Item 3 would return idle USDS from Arbitrum to Ethereum, leaving a 1,000,000 USDS float in PSM3 and sending about 98,326,628.11 USDS at the September 24, 2026 read block. Items 1 through 6 go to SPK Snapshot polls then the Sky executive. Item 7 is a recurring SparkLend reserve claim. Payloads live in spark-spells pull request 204. This is a proposed spell, not an executed mint.
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Gauntlet would zero borrow factors on five deprecated Compound comets
Gauntlet's Compound forum post asks to set the borrow collateral factor to 0 on every collateral in every Comet on Linea, Ronin, Mantle, Scroll, and Unichain. Those markets are already deprecated, each with less than $500,000 of outstanding borrow, and supply caps are already 0. Existing borrowers would not become liquidatable from this change, but they could not add borrow against posted collateral. Polygon comets are excluded because borrow there is above $1 million. A later reply said a broader deprecation framework is still pending SSP, Foundation, and WOOF signoff.
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Uniswap Arc protocol fees get another L2BEAT FOR on October 1
Uniswap's Temp Check extends protocol fees and the UNI burn path to Circle's Arc Layer 1, which the post dates as mainnet live September 16, 2026, with v2, v3, v4, and UniswapX already deployed. Fees would follow the same TokenJar and Wormhole NTT burn path used on Polygon and BNB Chain. L2BEAT's governance team posted a FOR on the offchain vote and, on October 1, 2026, a FOR on the onchain proposal after a research review. This turns on protocol fees on Arc. It does not list a new UNI token.
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Kraken Prime schedules API maintenance at 07:00 UTC October 3
Kraken scheduled routine Prime maintenance on October 3, 2026 from 07:00 to 08:00 UTC for the REST, WebSocket, and FIX APIs. Existing logged-in sessions should keep working, and order activity is described as uninterrupted. New session logins may fail intermittently. The status page tells users to wait a few minutes and retry. This is a one-hour login window, not an exchange halt.