Seven Senate Democrats signal willingness to revive the CLARITY Act in a bipartisan push before year end
SEC granted temporary conditional exemptive relief allowing tokenized securities venues to trade tokenized NMS stocks onchain via permissioned AMMs and liquidity pools
CFTC cleared software developers to build tools connecting users to registered futures firms and exchanges without registering as brokers, including for crypto markets
$807B New York Life Investment Management brings its first tokenized fund to Avalanche via Centrifuge
Bloxtel brought private 5G infrastructure onchain with Avalanche via its AP 201 unit and dSIM subscriber authentication tech
S&P Global agreed to acquire OpenZeppelin, the security standard for onchain finance
Russia’s largest stock exchange MOEX to launch crypto perpetual futures on BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP and TRX on September 22, open only to qualified investors and settled in rubles
Former Hut 8 CEO Jaime Leverton to take over Zcash miner Fortitude as it preps to go public via merger with HeartSciences
A New York federal court heard arguments in a $15M loan dispute against Ostium, the onchain perps exchange that lost $23.75M in a July exploit
Upbit parent Dunamu signed agreement with Kazakhstan’s Alatau City Authority and Alatau City Bank to develop RWA tokenization, security tokens, stablecoins and digital payments infrastructure
Galaxy became a vault curator on Kamino, running USDC and USDT lending vaults for the Nasdaq-listed firm with $7B+ in AUM
Sunrise usedLayerZero’s OFT standard to bridge assets like INJ to Solana for trading
Merkl added support for Zama’s confidential token standard ERC7984, letting reward campaigns compute on encrypted balances with hidden positions and leaderboards
Bottomline, a top three Swift service provider moving $16T+ annually, launched Global Pay Connect with Chainlink, giving 600+ banks onchain payment connectivity
Peaq and Doosan Robotics put industrial robots to work on Solana using peaqOS
NEAR launched confidential perpetual futures trading powered by Hyperliquid, letting users open positions without publicly linking trades to their accounts
XRP Ledger released version 3.4.0 with new lending protocol amendments, ledger history fixes, and peer protocol hardening
Backpack now allows all stocks and ETFs with corresponding perp markets to be used as collateral across its unified portfolio
Genius[.]fun launched on BNB Chain as a launchpad where tokenized shares can be unwrapped to take over real public companies
The Ethereum Institutional Forum relaunched as a closed door event series under Ethereum Institute, with EIF III set for London on November 12 covering Ethereum’s technical roadmap, post-quantum security and native issuance
MoonPay and WisdomTree partner to bring tokenized mutual funds to US investors, with WTGXX purchasable via stablecoins later this year
Privy launched Treasury Management, a workspace for onchain treasury transfers, multisig approvals and automated workflows
JPYC halted Ethereum and Polygon issuance reservations for its yen stablecoin after a glitch, investigation ongoing
LI[.]FI integrated into Tether’s Wallet Development Kit, letting WDK developers add swaps and cross-chain functionality
Ducat integrated with TRON, letting users settle in USDT and access wUNIT, the TRC-20 version of its Bitcoin-backed dollar UNIT
Concrete launched the Concrete Foundation and native governance token CT, with the ecosystem holding $1.2B in deposits, $23B+ cumulative volume and 54,000+ depositors
Hyperliquid leads all chains in 30-day perpetual futures volume with $240B, ahead of Arbitrum at $47.2B, Solana at $46B, Lighter at $45.6B, Ethereum mainnet at $44.9B and edgeX at $42.3B
Circle launched Arc Studio, an AI powered workspace for building onchain apps on Arc from idea through smart contract deployment
