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VanEck and Securitize have teamed up to launch a tokenized fund for U.S. Treasury investments. The VBILL fund is on Avalanche, BNB Chain, Ethereum, and Solana, with Wormhole enabling cross-chain functionality. To buy VBILL, minimum investment of $100,000 is needed for Avalanche, BNB Chain, and Solana, and $1,000,000 for Ethereum.

Derivatives protocol Synthetix proposed to acquire Options protocol Derive through a SNX for DRV token swap deal valued at $27 million worth of tokens.

Derive is backed by Synthetix and Infinex founder Kain (via Bodhi Ventures), who is mostly likely acquiring Derive to power options and perps on Infinex.

Plume draws closer to mainnet as they launched Plume Alpha, aimed at projects, partners, and liquidity providers to test their infrastructure. Then what comes next is Plume Genesis, offering public access for trading tokenized real-world assets like gold, GPUs etc