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Wave evidence — US government paid federal employees $9.5bn not to work amid Doge cuts – report
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Claims
- GAO report GAO-26-108477 states that agencies spent $9.5 billion on salary costs for paid administrative leave in 2025, a sixfold increase from 2023.
“Agencies spent $9.5 billion on salary costs for this leave in 2025, a sixfold increase from 2023.”
· source - National outlets carried the $9.5bn idle-pay figure on 2026-09-16, the day after the GAO report, making it a live multi-outlet story.
“The federal government spent an estimated $9.5 billion paying employees to not work last year”
· source - On Arc, transaction fees are paid in USDC and there is no separate volatile gas token.
“Fees are paid in USDC, with no volatile native token required.”
· source - Arc mainnet is live and Blockscout is its official block explorer from day one.
“Arc mainnet is live, and Blockscout is its official block explorer, powering the chain from day one.”
· source - The Blockscout Pro API exposes programmatically everything the Arc explorer displays.
“The Blockscout Pro API gives you programmatic access to everything the explorer shows”
· source - Synthra's own documentation states its perpetual markets are powered by Hyperliquid and merely presented inside the Synthra terminal.
“Perpetual markets are powered by Hyperliquid and presented inside the unified Synthra terminal.”
· source - Synthra's Arc-native deployment tracked by DefiLlama is a V3 spot DEX (plus a bonding-curve launchpad), not a perpetuals contract.
“Synthra V3 spot dex, listed on Arc only (the same factory is deployed on Robinhood Chain but has created no pools yet).”
· source - Hyperliquid rejects orders whose value is below $10, so a $5-notional perp position cannot be opened there.
“Order must have minimum value of $10.”
· source - Hyperliquid lets a master account approve API (agent) wallets that sign actions on its behalf, which is how a bot can trade without being the account.
“A master account can approve API wallets to sign on behalf of the master account or any of the sub-accounts.”
· source - Hyperliquid's only scheduled-time primitive is a cancel-all of resting orders, limited to 10 triggers per day; it does not close positions.
“The max number of triggers per day is 10. This trigger count is reset at 00:00 UTC.”
· source - edgeX has launched on Arc with more than 150 perpetual pairs, a USDC-native venue where gas, margin and settlement are all denominated in USDC.
“edgeX has launched on Arc with more than 150 perpetual pairs”
· source - edgeX publishes a public metadata endpoint returning each perpetual contract's minOrderSize, stepSize, tickSize and maxLeverage, so the minimum legal position size is readable without auth.
“GET /api/v2/public/meta/getMetaData”
· source - Creating an order on edgeX requires both private REST authentication and an EIP-712 L2 signature.
“Order creation requires both private REST authentication and EIP-712 L2 signing.”
· source - edgeX private REST requests are authenticated with an API key, passphrase, timestamp and HMAC signature header.
“X-edgeX-Signature”
· source - edgeX API credentials are minted by logging into the edgeX platform UI and opening API Management, an interactive step only the account owner can perform.
“Log in to EdgeX platform”
· source - edgeX documents exactly three order types for perpetual trades — limit, market and conditional — none of which is triggered by elapsed time.
“Limit Orders, Market Orders, and Conditional Orders”
· source - GAO pushes notifications when new publications, including its administrative-leave reports, are posted, giving a dated official trigger feed.
“GAO email updates notify you when publications are posted to our website.”
· source - Hyperliquid fees are volume-tiered and assessed daily, so each cycle's realised PnL is net of a per-fill fee that varies with the account's rolling volume.
“Fees are based on your rolling 14 day volume and are assessed at the end of each day in UTC.”
· source - Retail participants already trade US federal government process outcomes publicly at scale, with Polymarket aggregating gov-shutdown odds over millions in volume.
“real-time odds based on over $3.7M in trading volume”
· source - A $10-notional short is actually accepted end to end on an edgeX Arc perpetual market (open, then reduce-only close 24h later) without a min-size rejection.
“GET /api/v2/public/meta/getMetaData”
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